Book One: Treasure of the Heart (Zoro X OC)

Chapter Sixty Two ~ Further Up We Go

~Third~

The Going Merry and her crew busted through the clouds but instead of falling back down through the clouds the ship landed on it, the whole crew was coughing and out of breath except Luffy and Nicole "What the what just happened to us? Everyone alright?"Zoro asked "Hey guys look out there what is that?"Luffy asked, all around them there was nothing but white clouds yet they were somehow floating on top of them as if it were a sea.

"What in the world?"Sanji asked "It's solid white!"Luffy said "They're clouds!"Chopper said "But how? Why aren't we falling?"Nami asked "Clouds float boats float same thing"Luffy said "No it's not"Zoro, Chopper, Sanji and Nicole told him.

Usopp was down for the count "Oh no Usopp! He's not breathing!"Chopper said "Someone do something mouth to mouth!"Luffy said, Usopp woke up just then "He's alive!"Chopper and Luffy cheered "I am?"Usopp asked before screaming as he saw nothing bu white around them "Then where are we? What's with all these clouds? They're everywhere!"he yelled.

"Basically it's an ocean in the sky"Nami said "No way seriously?"Usopp asked, Nami checked her log pose "But look the log pose is still pointing up"she said "Seems we still have some way to go up then"Nicole said "Wait you mean we have to travel even higher?"Chopper asked "That's what the log pose says at least"Robin said.

Usopp jumped into the cloud going for a swim "Hey uh he's not coming back up"Zoro said "You know if he swims too far he just might fall out of the cloud"Nicole said "Say what?"Sanji asked "Idiot! Did that fool just fall through the cloud?!"Zoro asked "Usopp!"Luffy said stretching his arm out to fish the sniper out of the cloud and with Robin using her powers to actually see where the long nose had went they caught him just as he was falling.

Luffy had some trouble pulling up Usopp and when he did the sniper didn't come out alone luring out all manner of sky creatures, Zoro and Sanji dealt with them though but it was a lot harder then it should have been and the boys were out of breath after the fact.

"This air it's so thin it's hard to breath"Zoro said "Then maybe you shouldn't pant like that, just take it slow"Nicole told him "What do you make of this? It's the strangest creature i've seen i'm not even sure it's a fish"Sanji said "That octopus thing was more like a big balloon"Luffy said "Yeah except balloons don't have teeth"Zoro said "But how can there be fish up here in the clouds?"Nami asked.

"You said it best yourself basically it's an ocean in the sky"Robin said "So what's this big snake thing?"Chopper asked "I don't know a flat fish?"Luffy asked "But it wasn't flat until Sanji kicked it"Chopper said, Usopp woke up and tossed out a fish from his pants.

"Hold on do you know what this is? I think it's one of the sky fish Noland described in his log, it sounded pretty fantastic at the time but now that i see it looks like these creatures have somehow evolved to survive up here in the clouds" Robin said looking at the fish "They evolved? You mean they turned all flat and ballooned and stuff?"Zoro asked "Interesting"Nicole muttered jotting down notes in her notebook.

"To make themselves even lighter the buoyancy up here must be several times weaker here then the ocean below"Robin said as Luffy grabbed the fish out of her hands probably to eat it "And they grew scale like feathers and those weird carnivore like mouths"Nami said, Nicole hummed nodding along as she was studying the big fish now that the small one was turned into a dish by Sanji.

Then Chopper saw something in the distance that freaked him out "Say what's wrong Chopper?" Sanji asked the reindeer "What's the deal you see something out there?"the cook asked "Yeah a ship it was there but then it split"Chopper said "Split? What do you mean Chopper?"Nicole asked walking over but Chopper was still freaking out about whatever he saw.