After leaving the home island of Usopp with their new ship the Going Merry, the new crew had rescued a young woman, called Michell D Iris, from the Ocean and join asks her to join the crew because he thought she was cool, however, one member of the...
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Iris didn't know much about ruins and such so all she really did was follow Robin around, listening to her and having ideas bounced off her. The entire time, she was writing and taken notes for her story. They had gone around the ruins heading to the centre of the city. "The City of Gold, Shandra. The Golden Bell which should have been here at the heart of the City is gone." Robin was saying as they were standing before the giant bean stalk which now grew where the bell should be. "There may have been a Poneglyph inscribed not the belfry which held it." "But it isn't here." Iris spoke as they took back into the city once again. "If the theory you came up with is correct, then it means the reason this city had fall was due to protecting the Poneglyph." She was reading through the notes that had been taken. "But the next question would be where is the belfry hidden?" "Yes, where is it?" Robin came to close her own notebook before something caught her eyes. "Oh, what's this?" "What's what?" Hearing this question caused the angel to follow suit and close her notebook to see what looked to be tracks. "Rail cart tracks?" There seemed to be slight confusion as to why they were there. "They were used to transport something. They're still new." Unlike the rest of the city, these tracks looked to have been not that long ago, maybe a few years ago, however, as if they had completely it's service they had rushed and moss was growing over it. "What was it that had been transported?" Iris had crouched down, but all of a sudden she felt someone's presence coming from behind. She had spun around with her sword draw. "Who's there?" "Oh, you noticed me." Sitting on the ruins a little away sat a pale-skinned man with a well-toned yet somewhat wiry build, he appeared to be impressed that Iris noticed him. He possessed a slim face, which appeared relaxed, half-lidded expression accentuated by a calm, confident smile. He had platinum blond hair that was tucked under a close-fitting, white skullcap. His eyebrows were contrastively black, rather thick, and top grayish-blue eyes with prominent bottom lashes. His nose was slim with a marked, flat bridge that has several lines run horizontally across it. The man's earlobes stretch all the way to his chest maybe due to being weighed down by gold earrings with diamond-shaped pendants. Upon his back, stuck centrally into his shoulder blades is a large, gray ring and attached to it four wooden shime-daiko drums set next to and above his head, each with cream-colored drum skin depicting a black mitsudomoe on the front. "Isn't it magnificent?" He was throwing an apple up and down in his hands while speaking. "Even after being shot into the sky, this ancient city still exists in all its grandeur. Shandra." By the way he was dressed, it was clear that he wasn't part of the Shandia. "But even a legendary city cannot display its splendour when shrouded by the clouds. I was the one who discovered it. My idiotic predecessors never even noticed it." Iris couldn't help but noticed the way he said that. "Are you... God?" This had been the only thing that came to her mind when she listened to him. "That's right." He was smirking at her, but she noticed that there was something in his eyes as he was looking at her. She recognised it very well, lust. Lust for power and something else. "You have impressed me." God, who was called Enel, began biting down on the apple he had as he spoke. "One of you seems to be like a Blue Sea archaeologist. We wasted many months simply locating these ruins. I see that they are easy to find, if you can read their script." He wasn't wrong, Robin had figured out the lay out and such by simply reading the scripts she found above and noticing strange formations of the buildings. "But, the gold you desire is no longer here. You are a few years too late." "Gold? Now that you mention it, I don't see any." Robin spoken up, having only notices just then due to her focus on the scripts and finding the Poneglyph. "So it was you who took it." "That is as it should be. That illustrious metal is befitting to one such as myself." He stated as if he was really God. "Would that mean you also have the Golden Bell as well?" Iris spoke up, asking this question to him. "Hm? Golden Bell?" He appeared to be confused by her question, as if he didn't know about it. Both women gave each other a glance noticing that he didn't know. Enel had then continued to eat the apple even the core. "That is very interesting. You! What did you learn by reading those glyphs?" He was clearly demanding them to tell him everything they found. "No, unfortunately, if it wasn't here when you arrived, then it never made it into the sky." Robin had stated, since this might have actually been the case. "The pride of Shandra. A gigantic golden bell and the Great Belfry which held it. I was interested in that belfry." She informed him of this fact. "No, wait. It is here. It is here, in the sky!" However, the man had spoken this, seem confident about this fact. "It was 400 years ago, the day this island came flying into the sky... that is, the day that God Island, Upper Yard, came into existence, the ringing of a giant bell could be heard throughout the land. The elders of this land called it... the song of the island." Listening to his words, it was clear that the people of that time had heard the bell that rang due to the shock caused by the island being sent flying into the sky. "So that's it! That bell was made of gold! Splendid... The game will soon be over. There are eight minutes left." He said this strange thing, which caused Iris' eye brows to frown. "While we wait, I suggest that we search this land... for the Golden Bell!" He had bursted into joyful laughter but suddenly came to a stop as if he noticed something. "I hear a maggot at the edge of the island." "Eh?" Both Iris and Robin seemed confused by his words and what he meant by that. The man began glowing blue as sparks began bouncing off his body, clearly he was doing something as he stood up from where he sat. "What are you...!?"
