Chapter 31

Just a few minutes after Eneru's battle with the warriors was concluded, Luffy, Aisa, and Pierre were able to escape the fried snake through her open mouth.

Once they're safely outside, Luffy grins at the exciting new place as he climbs up the pyramid. Aisa skittishly looks around the ancient city before she follows Luffy along with the bird.

When they reach the top, Luffy can't stop the excited grin from forming on his face. "Whoa, this place is awesome!"

Pierre remains speechless at the sight while the little Shandorian girl gets taken aback by her new surroundings of the ancient city. "No way, is this my homeland?"

Luffy ignores the question as he looks around for the gold, but he sees a broken plaza instead. Not being able to see who's there from the great height that they're on, he runs ahead to see if his friends are there.

Pierre flies after the pirate alone, since Aisa wants to run after them to get as much of a feel of her homeland as possible.

As she runs through the town, Aisa grows more amazed at the ruins as she takes in the view. When she's almost to the plaza, she stops when she sees a light blue glow from the window of a nearby building.

She hums in curiosity as she gets a closer look at what's inside and spots a pair of shining, two colored, gems on the table for a moment before she hears Luffy's distressed shouts. "ZORO, ROBIN, CHOPPER, KNIGHT GUY!"

The child follows his yells to the square and looks in horror to see that not only were the pirates and the knight were unconscious from electrocution, but her tribe's strongest warrior as well. "WIPER?!"

She runs up to her fellow Shandorian to see that he's still breathing. Tears start forming in her eyes as she tries to wake him up, but he won't get up.

Luffy goes next to Zoro and grabs him by the shoulder to try to shake him awake. "Zoro, what happened?!"

Zoro stays unconscious, with the only way for Luffy to see that he's alive is the rising and falling of his chest.

The captain furrows his eyes at his friends' conditions as he grows angrier by the minute. "Who the hell did this?"

"It has to be Eneru!" Aisa says as she lets Wiper rest.

Luffy lays Zoro on the ground as he turns to her. "Is Eneru the god?"

Aisa nods as she looks back at the fried snake that they were trapped in. "My mantra couldn't reach outside when we were eaten, so I don't know what happened, but I'm sure it was him!"

They stop when they hear Robin stirring, so Luffy runs up to her and gently lifts her torso up. "Robin, what happened?!"

Robin weakly looks up to her captain as she speaks up, barely loud enough to whisper. "W-we fought Eneru... He took navigator-san and wind-chan..."

"He did what?!" Luffy asks in fury.

"Listen to me." Robin weakly says as both Luffy, Aisa, and Pierre listen. "Eneru plans to destroy everything. Both this island and the people on it... We need to..."

She couldn't finish her sentence when her consciousness fades away.

"Robin, hey!" Luffy tries to wake her up, but it's no good.

Aisa gets up and focuses her mantra until she senses Rose, Nami, and Eneru's auras. "I know where they're going. I can hear their voices."

Luffy nods as he gently sets his crew mate down. "Tell me which way to go..."

Aisa silently agrees as she points in the direction that his friends are heading, so he can run off on his own. Aisa rushes to get on Pierre's back and flies off to guide the pirate in finding the god that's caused this island so much grief.

Nami quietly follows Eneru through the island as she drags her waver with her. She looks nervously to Rose, who's still sleeping on Eneru's shoulder, and hopes that she'll wake up before she has to put the sea stone on her, so they can escape.

She tries to stall for time by looking around their surroundings. "S-so, how long until reach the ship?"

"Not long." Eneru says as he leads them through a cavern entrance without missing a step.

She swallows a lump in her throat when she looks at Rose and comes up with a way to distract him. "Umm, about Rose, is her mantra really that strange?"

Eneru stops and looks at her in confusion before he glances at the teen on his shoulder. "Is that what her name is? Not very godlike, but we can always change it."

He chuckles to himself as he looks to his frightened follower. "As for your question, yes it is different. It completely stands out in comparison to an average human."

"Why is that? Have you sensed any others like that?"

He only smirks at the constant questions as he starts walking again. "This is my first time meeting someone of my caliber, and that's because gods like us are rare. I'm surprised none of you pirates figured out what she is when she used her abilities."

Nami forces herself to tolerate his arrogant attitude as she continues to follow him and tries to distract him more. "Well, she hasn't been with us for long, but we had our doubts. There was always something weird about her."

Eneru scowls at the remark as he looks at the path ahead. "It seemed that way because she pretended to be someone she isn't. When we get to the dream world, I'll take her under my wing so that she'll realize her potential as a goddess."

Nami raises an eyebrow at the plan to act as a mentor to her crew mate. "Is it really worth it? If she ever gets free, she'll fight you."

He narrows her eyes at the redhead, who flinches at the look, but he still answers her because he truly believes that one day Rose will thank him for doing this to her. "Unlike humans, my kind is worth saving. You should be grateful that I'm sparing you."

"O-of course." Nami gives him a completely fake grin as they reach a clearing in the deepest part of the cave where the ship is being held.

When the navigator looked at the magnificent wooden ark with a golden face in on the middle of the ship, she was shell shocked. What she truly can't believe though, are the propellers and paddles that are surrounding the ship. "Don't tell me..."

Eneru grins at her surprise as he moves towards the vessel. "Surprised, aren't you? Well you should be. This flying ship is the only one suitable for and can only be controlled by me. This is the Ark Maxim."

Nami tenses up at the flying ship then looks at Rose, whose eyes are clenched shut in her sleep as she's being taken to the ship. *This is bad...*

"Don't dawdle." Eneru says which snaps her back to reality. She timidly looks at the sea stone on the waver, that Eneru will have her use on her friend. She knows that she can't toss it or else she'll get electrocuted, so she reluctantly follows him aboard with a heavy heart.

All the while, Rose has been starting to breath heavily as her situation unknowingly gets worse by the minute.

"Pathetic!" The sounds of someone getting shoved is the only thing that can be heard in the empty, middle school staircase as thirteen year old Marie, Laura, and four girls, who are a year younger, corner two girls with shoulder length red hair.

With school having ended twenty minutes ago, the pale thirteen year old, that's getting harassed, knows that help won't arrive, so she glares at the bullies as she gets in a fighting stance in front of her younger sister. "We're not paying you, so go away."

Marie chuckles at the bravery as she looks to her twin. "Did we ever say that this was about money Laura?"

The blonde girl shakes her head as she narrows her blue eyes on the younger ginger. "Not this time sis, we just wanted to give the newbie a proper welcome to the school."

The scratched up sixth grader nervously shifts behind her sister to try to hide herself. "Sarah..."

The older sister narrows her green eyes on the girls as she keeps her guard up. "You guys have the comet freak to mess with, don't you? Go keep your bully reputation up with her."

Carrie snickers at the complaint as she pushes her black hair back. "We would, but she already left-"

She's cut off when orange peels are chucked at the back of her head. She practically shrieks in disgust, as she wipes fruit fragments off her hair, while the others look to the top of the staircase to see twelve year old Rose casually standing next to a trash can.

The freckled girl smirks at her foster sisters' squad as she flips them off with one hand and grabs a banana peel from the trash with the other. "Score one for the badass otaku and zero for the priss squad. Which one of you bitches wants to be my next target?"

Peggy grits her white teeth at her as she storms up the stairs to avenge Carrie, but her reward is the banana peel being thrown at her face.

She nearly falls down the stairs when two other girls from Marie and Laura's crew catch her while Carrie, Marie, and Laura furiously go after the brunette.

Rose couldn't contain her laughter from their reaction as she runs off to the empty halls. The bullies completely forget about the redheads as they go after their regular victim.

"Get back here, you ugly psycho!" Marie calls out, but Rose only turns a corner.

Laura clenches her tan hands in fury as they keep going after the fast girl. "Don't think dad won't hear about this, you stupid orphan!"

Rose grits her teeth at her insult as she glares at them. "How about you fight your own battles?! That is, if you can actually touch me!"

The girls shiver from the frightening look in her purple eyes, but they won't let her have her way as they run after her.

When Rose sees the door to another staircase coming up, she's confident that she can lose them when she gets to the next floor because of the safe distance she made. She quickly takes them down to the first floor, but when she reaches the door to the hallway she finds it locked. *Are you kidding?!*

She hears the doors on the second floor slam open, she looks around for another way out, but she's trapped with her foster sisters and their top crony blocking her only way out.

"Looks like it's score three for the beauties, and now zero for the comet worshipper." Carrie says as all three of them surround her.

Rose clicks her tongue at them as she gets in a stance and starts to fight them off. While both sides were able to give damage to each other, Rose manages to end up the victor. Once the last of them were on the floor with bloody noses, the freckled girl remains towering over them as she catches her breath from the fight.

The brunette ignores the pain from the bruises and scratches on her pale face and body as she glares at them. "You guys can bully me all you want, but leave everyone else alone."

The three girls don't listen to her lecture as they weakly glare at her.

Marie smirks up at her and speaks soft enough for Rose to barely hear. "Do you get off on the pain or something? Your parents must be really disgusted with their failure. That is, if they were still alive."

Rose's fury overwhelms her as she picks her up by the collar, and punches her in the face, just when the door to the second floor opens.

"What did you do?!"

Rose looks over her shoulder, with her glare still intact, to see that the two girls that she helped, along with a teacher, are looking at Rose in fear of her frightening look and the collapsed girls.

Her anger quickly fades from the terrified stares, that she always hates receiving. It doesn't take long for her to see how bad this looks, and gently puts her foster sister down to ease the situation. "They were bullying those girls. I was trying to get them to stop."

"That doesn't mean you can beat them to a pulp, you dirty animal!" The teacher says as she rushes to the beaten girls while Rose goes up the stairs to get out of her way. When she gets closer to the redheads, the older one instinctively steps in front of her sister to protect her from the outcast.

The younger one stays quiet as she timidly stares at Rose, while Sarah glares at her with a hint of fear in her eyes. "Just get out of here before you cause more damage..."

Rose didn't need to be told twice as she runs up to the second floor. As she rushes down the long hallway, she tightens her fists in frustration as the frightened stares are fresh in her mind. *Dammit, why does something like this happen whenever I try to help?!*

"Because you're not human."

Rose stops at Eneru's voice and finds that her surroundings have changed from her middle school to the plaza of Shandoria.

She looks down to see that she's in her seventeen year old body, then sees that the whole crew's there and fully healed. "Guys, you're ok?! That's great, where's-"

"Shut the hell up!" She freezes when she sees Zoro glaring at her like she's their enemy. "How long did you think you can trick us?!"

Rose flinches at his tone and looks to see that she's not getting any better looks from the others as they give her looks of either hate or fear. "W-what do you mean?"

"We know that your mantra's different because you're not from this world. Don't try denying that you have knowledge about all of us either." Robin says as her cold blue eyes can practically turn her to ice.

Rose tenses up at the revealed secret as she nervously steps up and pleads her case. "Ok, it's true that I'm not from this world. But I've been trying to use what I know to help you guys!"

"Did your 'help' save Merry or did you just bullshit about that holy land crap to mess with me?!" Usopp asks as he stays in the back of the group with a frightened Chopper.

Rose widens her eyes at the accusation as she timidly shakes her head. "I wasn't trying to mess with you, I was-!"

"Save it, we can't believe anything you say!" Nami says as she drops her guitar case in front of her. "Go fly off to whatever world you want, but you can't stay with us! You're on your own!"

Rose's heart sinks to her stomach at the announcement as she watches them abandon her without another glance. However, when she sees Luffy still standing around, with his hat covering his eyes, she silently hopes that he's still on her side. "Luffy, I-"

"Shut up!" She flinches at the hateful command when she sees his dark eyes narrowed on her. "You should've told me that Alabasta was my last good time with Ace! You could've helped him more, but you were too busy protecting your precious secret! I wish I've never taken you out of Little Garden!"

Her heart completely shatters at his words as she watches him rejoin his crew and leave her without a single friend. "Luffy..."

"Yahahaha, what did I tell you little one? You were never one of them to begin with."

Rose turns around to the voice behind her to see Eneru smirking down at her from the top of a building.

He chuckles at her distraught as he hops off to approach her. "Now that you understand what you are, let's go to the dream world together."

She tries to fight him, but her wind doesn't work, so she runs off before he can touch her.

Eneru sighs in disappointment as he creates an electric dragon to go after her. "So you'll still resist? So be it then."

She looks back in horror of the terrifying beast as she jumps to fly, but nothing happens. *Why the hell isn't my wind working?!*

She lands on her feet and searches for any kind of help as she runs away from the monster, but she finds herself completely alone.

Just when she reaches the coast line, the view of the Going Merry leaving her behind, with the ship's captain glaring at her, is the last thing she sees before the dragon bites through her body, and her agonizing screams fall to her former crew's deaf ears.

Rose's tear filled eyes shoot open in fright as she sits up in a cold sweat and takes rapid breaths. As her heart rate begins to slow down, she takes in her new surroundings to find herself sitting on the deck of the Ark Maxim. *He took me too?! Wait, where's Nami?!*

She takes a deep breath to calm down as she goes to wipe her tears, but she finds that she can't move her hands up. She looks over her shoulder to see that her wrists are tied behind her back, with her arms wrapped around one of the bars that are holding the railing, to keep her in place. "What the hell?!"

She tries to turn her arm into air, but it doesn't work, so she frantically tugs at the tight ropes as her heart rate picks up. *This can't be happening!*

As her body feels twice as heavy, she barely gives in as she uses every ounce of the little energy she has to wildly struggle in the ropes and tries to use her power, but she can't make a single gust.

"Rose, take is easy!" The brunette doesn't listen to the command as she keeps struggling while Nami is running to her side, after she parked her waver on the side deck.

As soon as Nami makes it to her, she kneels in front of her, out of kicking range from her free legs, and doesn't try to touch the panicking girl in fear of her making it worse. "Don't struggle so much, your powers won't work!"

Rose finally returns to her senses when she hears this and starts catching her breath as she looks at Nami's eyes to see that they hold not only the truth, but also guilt and concern for her friend.

She pulls her knees to her chest, and buries her face in them to recompose herself as she rests from her struggling. While she wipes her face on her jeans to get rid of her tears, she realizes that there's something hard touching both of her raw wrists, and the inside of her forearms centered between her elbows and hands. She pulls her head up and looks over her shoulder, in between the bars, and sees a small, blue, rough edged, stone cinched in between the ropes, and bulges under her jacket sleeves to confirm her suspicions. "You tied sea stone on me..."

"Yahahaha, it didn't take long for you to figure it out." The girls look at the door to see Eneru coming outside to go sit on his golden throne with a satisfied look on his face. "Your friend there re-wrapped the bandages on both of your arms to keep the sea stone fragments on your skin, before she used the rope. When you can be trusted, I'll have her take them off you."

Rose scowls at the man then she looks down to see that her sword isn't on her belt. When she sees her weapon on Nami's belt, she mentally curses how slim her chances are.

Eneru smirks at her situation as he gets ready to power the ship, but he stops when he senses something approaching. "Now what's this?"

Both girls look at him in confusion as he goes to the railing on the other side of the ship with a scowl. "This can't be right. Why is there another mantra coming?"

Rose freezes at the question before she happily grins, as her fingers try to pull out the stone, that's tightly tied in between her wrists, and discreetly rubs her arms against the wooden bar, that they're wrapped around, to get the stone themselves to cut off the bandages that are holding them in place. "Sounds like Luffy's here."

Nami widens her eyes at what she said before she runs to where Eneru is to see that she's right, for Luffy's standing on the ground below them. "Luffy..."

Luffy glares up at the god as he cracks his knuckles. "What did you do to my friends?!"

Eneru scoffs at the question as he glowers down at him. "Show some respect, you're talking to god."

"Yea right, you don't look like a god at all!" Luffy says, as Aisa and Pierre stay hidden by the cavern entrance.

Eneru snickers at the disbelief as he watches the intruder run to the ship. "I'll show you soon enough."

Luffy stretches his arms to the railing to slingshot himself towards the deck.

The god hums in interest as he watches him get onto the railing. "Looks like you're not an average mortal."

He smirks at the new opponent as his body surges with electricity. "No matter, because god's judgement is final!"

Before Luffy could react a flash of lightning flies directly to the pirate.

"LUFFY!" Nami calls out worriedly as the lightning goes straight at Luffy and all the way to the cavern wall behind him.

Rose can't see her captain at all, with the golden face blocking her view, but seeing Eneru and Nami's shocked faces from when Luffy survived the blast keeps her entertained as she tiredly works to free herself.

Meanwhile, Nami and Eneru couldn't believe their eyes when they see Luffy with barely a scratch on him from the electricity.

Assuming that he only dodged the blow, Eneru powers up his electricity to a higher voltage. "You're better than I thought. Let's see if you can avoid 60 million volts."

He creates a dragon that's made entirely out of electricity and lets it fly at Luffy. The captain doesn't have enough time to dodge though, so he takes the hit.

Once the blast fades away, Eneru and Nami find Luffy still standing as if he wasn't struck by anything at all.

Eneru takes matters into his own hands by rushing to Luffy to grab his shoulder and blasts him with as much electricity as possible.

Nami steps back from the strong blast as she figures out that Luffy isn't getting hurt, because his rubber body is immune to electricity.

That is complete news to Eneru though, because when he stops his electricity, his enemy is still standing.

"You're being annoying!" Luffy says as he punches Eneru in the gut to send him flying backwards.

The electric man manages to catch himself before he fell off the railing, and sees Luffy running after him. He assumes that Luffy's attack was just a fluke, so he prepares his body to become electricity.

With Rose able to see Luffy running to Eneru now, she stops rubbing her arms to catch her breath from how draining the stones are, and sees Luffy furiously kick Eneru in the stomach. As Rose watches Eneru collapse from the badass move, her anxiety fades away for she knows for a fact that Luffy will win.

She sighs in relief of not ruining anything when she feels a pair of dark eyes staring at her.

She looks up to see her captain running up to her with worry about her electrocuted and imprisoned condition. "Are you alright?!"

Rose nods with a small grin and shrugs at his worries as she acts like this is a normal conversation. "I've seen better days, but I'll live."

Nami couldn't believe how casual she's acting, when she woke up in a panic attack just moments ago. Then again, waking up tied to a bar could send anyone in a frenzy. However, the way she's so calm around Luffy right now, it makes her wonder if she still remembers her situation.

Luffy on the other hand, doesn't find her calmness to be odd as he looks at the rope, that are holding her wrists together, and reaches over the railing for it. "Why haven't you used your wind to get out of-?"

"Don't touch, there's sea stone on me, and Eneru's getting back up!" Rose says before he could touch the rope and warily looks to see their enemy getting up.

Luffy pulls away as he remembers that Eneru's the one who's caused her so much pain, and wants nothing more than to kick his ass right now. As his blood begins to boil, he takes his hat off and pushes it onto his astronomer's head for safe keeping. "I'll get you out after I kick his ass."

Rose shifts her eyes up to his beloved hat, that he's trusting her with, before she gets back to trying to release herself with newfound determination. "Just focus on kicking the crap out of him captain."

He didn't need to be told again as he goes towards his opponent with fury in his eyes.

Eneru narrows his eyes on the boy as he tightens his grip on the golden staff in his hand. "What the hell are you?"

"I'm a rubber man." Luffy says as he charges the electric man.

Eneru raises an eyebrow at the explanation, for he's never heard of the substance before. "Rubber?"

"It means I'm immune to lightning!" He goes to punch Eneru, but he easily dodges before he clashes with the rubber boy.

Nami stares at the fight in awe, before she looks at the brunette and widens her eyes to see her rubbing her jacket covered arms on the railing. She avoids the clash between the two warriors as she runs across the deck to her.

As she sits next to Rose, she looks to see that her fingers are struggling to pull off the stone in between her wrists, so she moves the sheath of Rose's sword in between the bars until it pushes the stone that's situated in between Rose's ropes closer to her hands, and softly speaks to her. "Try rubbing your arms horizontally. I had to add a few layers so Eneru won't be suspicious, but you might be able to slip them off."

Rose lightly pants from exhaustion, when she finally manages to pull the stone out of her ropes, and throws it away. As some of her energy begins to return, she slowly nods to the plan. "Ok, thanks."

She works on pulling her arms towards her then back out repeatedly in an attempt to slip them off as they observe the fight. What they see only worries them more, because Eneru is managing to dodge every one of Luffy's attacks with his mantra.

"Gum Gum Gatling!" Luffy jumps above Eneru and goes to give him a barrage of his fastest punches, but when the first attacks go towards him Eneru easily catches both his arms.

To say Luffy was surprised was an understatement as the electric man flips him over and pile drives him through the deck.

"Luffy!" Nami calls out worriedly when he doesn't come out of the hole yet.

Rose grits her teeth as she feels the stones on her arms not moving in the slightest from her struggles. *How tight did she freaking bandage them?!*

Eneru chuckles at the futile attacks as he abandons the hole to go towards the foot of the stairs to the throne where two golden poles proudly stand. "You shouldn't be surprised that I can predict your punches. I am god after all. Despite your futile efforts, I suppose you earned a chance to witness the island's destruction."

He grabs onto the two poles and releases the electricity onto them to activate the ship.

As Luffy climbs out of the hole, the girls are stunned to see that his electricity is working to activate the multiple propellers that are installed all around the ship.

When it goes outside, With Aisa following at a distance on Pierre's back, it stays at a height where it can travel freely, but not high enough to avoid plowing down every tree and boulder in its path.

Nami starts trembling from how their situation is getting worse, because if Luffy doesn't take down Eneru soon, she can't guarantee that there will be a sky island for them to return to.

"Luffy, hurry and-"

"Calm down." Luffy says as he glares at Eneru.

"But-"

"You're friends with the future king of the pirates, so stop worrying!"

Nami barely calms down at the reassurance while Eneru becomes intrigued with the title. "What country does the pirate king rule?"

"He rules over the sea."

The electric man snickers at the explanation as he infuses move electricity into the circuits and looks up with a smirk. "Interesting, we can see who would win as the island's being destroyed."

The pirates look up and widen their eyes at the large exhaust pipe at the top of the ship that's producing a dark smog.

Eneru chuckles at their shock as he explains the expanding thunder cloud. "This is called Death piea. This thunder cloud will produce enough currents to create lightning that's ten times stronger than mine. Allow me to demonstrate."

He lifts a hand up to manipulate the electric currents in the clouds until it sends a lightning bolt towards a group of trees in the forest to obliterate them to ash.

Nami lightly gasps at the powerful lightning when she sees more flashing in the direction of Angel Beach. "That can kill everyone..."

"WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU?! WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU?!" Luffy angrily yells out.

Eneru simply scoffs at his opponent's rage. "They didn't need to do anything. As god, I can do whatever I please because you're all in my mercy. That includes you."

He swings his golden staff at Luffy, with the rubber man dodging every swing.

Rose grits her teeth at the fight as she feels her bandages starting to stretch enough for the stones to slowly shift. A wave of relief comes over her as she keeps going. She sneaks a glance at the navigator to see her still being afraid of the outcome, so she nudges her with her knee.

Nami looks over at her in confusion to see her calmly grinning at her as she whispers. "Don't worry so much, Luffy can kick his-"

"Gum Gum Baka!" The girls look in confusion to see that Luffy has cleared his mind of all thought as he looks at Eneru as blankly as possible.

Eneru raises an eyebrow at the ridiculous face he's making before he goes to jab him, but every move he makes get avoided with the rubber man using his natural reflexes to dodge.

Nami immediately figures out that he's not thinking about his moves at all so Eneru can't predict them. "Wow, that's-"

Luffy jumps back to avoid the last attack and huffs in exhaustion as his face returns to normal. "Damn, I can't attack when I do that."

"I was going to praise you, you idiot!" Nami says when he avoids another one of Eneru's attacks.

Rose bites the inside of her cheek to keep herself from laughing before she looks towards the back of the ship to see a pair of grappling hooks connected to the rail. She widens her eyes at the hooks and looks over her shoulder to see Sanji and Usopp holding onto the ropes for dear life as they start climbing. *Crap, there's not much time!*

She feels the stone shifting further to her wrists and doesn't give up even when she feels like she's on the brink of passing out.

As Luffy dodges another of Eneru's strikes, he looks to the golden wall while he comes up with an idea. "I got it!"

He jumps towards the golden wall with Eneru going after him. "Nothing you can do will work."

"We'll see! Gum gum-!" Luffy stretches his limbs to punch and kick the golden wall so that his attacks will ricochet off the metal and towards the god. "Octopus Rampage!"

Eneru smirks at the attack as he begins to dodge, but with how random the attacks are going he can't avoid them all and begins taking the barrage of attacks.

As he's sent flying backwards Luffy doesn't hesitate to run after him as he pulls his arms back and pushes them at him. "Gum Gum Bazooka!"

Eneru stumbles onto the deck as he gets up but Luffy doesn't ease up as he pulls his fist back one more time and punches him straight in the gut.

As Eneru coughs up blood on the deck, Luffy and Nami stumble when the ship suddenly rises higher into the sky.

"What's going on?!" Nami asks, but Rose can't give her an answer as they watch Eneru stumble up.

He lightly pants as he narrows his eyes on the rubber boy. "Damn you, everything would be perfect if you weren't around! A god like me won't lose to a pathetic human like you!"

Electricity starts cracking out of his body as he smirks up at the thundercloud above them. "After all, no matter what you do, this island will be destroyed."

"Shut up!" Luffy stretches his fist at Eneru just as the fake god uses his electricity to manipulate the golden wall behind him to extract a large amount of melted gold off the wall.

When Luffy's hand gets close to him, he side steps to avoid the punch and manipulates the gold to harden into a golden ball around his rubber arm.

Luffy cringes at the heat coming from the hardened metal as his body gets pulled towards the metal ball. "What the hell?!"

Eneru chuckles at his situation as he watches him try to pull his arm free in vain. "Looks like it's over."

"Luffy!" Nami calls out worriedly.

Rose clenches her teeth in rage as she pulls forward, but the stones are still stuck on her arms. With her unable to use her devil fruit, and the ropes keeping her in place, she and Nami can only watch as Eneru kicks the golden ball off the ship.

"You can keep the gold as a parting gift." Eneru says as Luffy's body gets dragged to the railing. He struggles to keep himself aboard the ship as he tries to pull the heavy gold, that's trapping his arm, back onto the ship. However, the gold is too heavy for him to stay on much longer as his free hand grips the railing so that he doesn't flip over.

Eneru smirks at the struggling pirate as he approaches him. "Now that you're out of the way, there won't be anyone to stand in the way of my dream world."

"That's not true!" Luffy says as he glares at the fake god. "No matter where you go, there are a lot of monstrous guys who can take you down!"

"Silence!" He swings his staff at Luffy's head and knocks him over the railing to fall to the island.

"Luffy!" Nami cries out as she runs to the other side of the deck to see Luffy falling with Aisa and Pierre flying after the captain.

"YOU BASTARD!" Rose calls out to Eneru as she gets on her feet, but the ropes still hold her arms back as the stones manage to reach her wrists. "You won't get out of this unharmed!"

Eneru chuckles at her childish behavior. "You're still worried about these humans? They need to learn their place. Just like this one."

He looks to Nami before he walks towards his throne. "She understands that the only way to survive is to side with the gods and that's what she's done. Now instead of dying like the rest of the island, she will have treasure along with hope for the future."

Nami clenches her teeth at what he said, as she starts walking to Rose. "I do have hope for the future, but I won't have one if I side with you."

Rose widens her eyes at what she said when she sees her reaching for the sword on her belt. With no idea on what she's going to do, she frantically rubs her arms to the bar until she feels her stones, starting to come out of the bandages on her wrists, just above the ropes.

As the wind girl reaches her fingers for the power sealing rocks, Eneru raises an eyebrow at her declaration. "What are you talking about?"

"What good is treasure without all my friends?!" Nami asks as she looks to Rose with remorse for putting her in this situation and unsheathes her katana. "I'd rather be dead than to betray them!"

She goes to cut the ropes, but before she could touch them, Rose gives her a low roundhouse kick to the shin so that she instantly falls on her butt, right before she ducks to avoid Eneru's lightning.

Nami sits up and looks in shock to see the brunette scowling at her.

Rose doesn't back down as her fingers reach for the tied on stones. "What the crap were you thinking to try something so crazy?!"

Nami twitches an eyebrow at the complaint from the most reckless girl she knows, as she drops the sword. "You're one to talk, you rival Luffy in craziness!"

"What was that?!"

"Now, now little one. If she wants to die, then who are we to deny her?" Eneru says with a smirk as electricity starts flying out of his body.

Nami widens her eyes at how much trouble she's in, but it's too late to back down so she reaches for her clima-tact.

The god sighs in fake disappointment of her intention to fight him. "You really are unwise. Even if you freed her, the result would be the same." His malicious smirk grows wider as he senses the two pirates who snuck onto the ship. "Or was it that you were relying on the two rats who snuck on board to save you?"

Nami looks at him in complete confusion. "What are you talking about?"

"Two idiots have snuck in while we were close to the ground. It seems like they're here to rescue you. Just foolish if you ask me."

*Good thing nobody asked you then.* Rose pulls her arms as close to her as possible to push the stones towards her hands, that are straining reach them.

Nami realizes that it's Usopp and Sanji that he's referring to, because they're the only ones who didn't lose in the ruins. However, she doesn't have a lot of time to think about it as she jumps to the side to dodge the attack. Eneru doesn't hesitate to strike her again, but this time she's prepared as she uses her weather weapon to create an electric bubble to redirect the electric current.

He chuckles in amusement as he doesn't let up. "Now that's a really interesting weapon."

Nami doesn't give in as she continues to block at every turn. He powers up his electricity for a higher voltage attack. "I'm sure your little trick won't work with an attack of this power."

Nami widens her eyes in fear of the attack, just as Rose's fingers grab the sea stones and drops them to the island. She immediately feels her body grow lighter as her powers immediately return, and blasts a hot gust of wind at Eneru to get his attention away from her friend. The trick works because he looks to her with an un-amused look and aims at her. "You shouldn't have taken the stones off."

Rose turns an arm into air to get herself out of the ropes just in time to avoid the blast.

Nami quietly sighs in relief that she's not fighting this mad man alone anymore, but as she looks at Eneru's face she braces herself for the worst.

The electric man doesn't waste time in creating another blast for his enemies, but he stops when he has to lift his hand to blast an explosive that was going straight at him.

The girls were stunned at the blast and look at where it came from to see that Usopp fired at Eneru with his whole body shaking in fear. "I-I'm sorry!"

"Don't be sorry for blasting him!" Rose says with Nami surprised that he made it.

Eneru chuckles in amusement for the futile attempt to surprise him. "Thank you for saving me the trouble of hunting you down when this was done."

Usopp flinches at the remark as he looks around to see that the chef that snuck aboard with him hasn't shown up yet. "Where's Sanji?"

"He came here too?!" Nami asks.

"You're saying he didn't get out here yet?!" Usopp asks with Rose calmly nodding.

"In that case..." With a look of determination, the sniper goes back inside and closes the door behind him.

"GET OUT HERE!" Nami yells at him.

When the sniper steels his nerves, he goes outside for a fight. "Bring it god!"

Eneru throws his lightning at him, and makes Usopp immediately regret going outside as he jumps out of the way to join the girls.

Rose steps forward and cracks her knuckles. "You two, find a way off this boat."

Her two friends couldn't believe what they're hearing as Rose tosses Luffy's hat to Nami and fires a blast of wind at the god.

He easily dodges and faces the wind girl without hesitation while Usopp and Nami get away from the battle.

As the navigator runs, she looks down at the hat in her hands that Luffy entrusted to Rose. The only reason that Rose would give his treasure to her is because she doesn't know if she could go back to return it herself. She clenches onto the straw hat, before she pins it to her belt, and calls out to the astronomer. "IF YOU LOSE AGAIN I'M FINING YOU!"

Rose flinches at the threat, but can't help but smirk at the untold message for her to win. "I'LL GIVE YOU MY OWN FINE IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF HERE!"

Eneru sighs in disappointment of Rose's resolve to protect the humans as he dodges her wind blasts. "You really are too stubborn for your own good."

He creates a lightning blast for her to dodge before she turns her arm into air. "That's the first time that you were right about me. Here's your reward!"

She blasts her wind to the right to and allows it to go in whatever direction it wants. Eneru jumps into the air before he could take the chance as he power's his electricity. "You're wasting your time!"

She flies out of the way while Eneru looks towards the pirates who found the waver on the side deck. "You won't get away!"

He aims a bolt of lightning at the pirates so the two of them split up. Nami manages to reach the waver and begins to start it up.

However, Eneru fires electricity in all directions that are random for even himself and makes it difficult for them all to avoid.

Nami ducks to avoid the blast as she starts getting the waver running.

Usopp however is running around like a chicken with his head cut off as he avoids the blasts coming at him.

Rose is flying around to avoid the blasts before she aims her wind arm at him. "That's enough!"

She fires her wind arm directly at the god for him to jump to dodge. Usopp uses this chance to go to Nami as she spots the boat flying past the beanstalk.

She starts driving towards the railing, and reaches out to Usopp, who's running towards her. "Usopp, take my hand!"

Usopp reaches out to her, but before he can take Nami's hand a stray bolt of lightning strikes him down.

Rose grit her teeth as she slams Eneru down with her wind, before she flies to avoid his blast.

Nami misses her chance to grab Usopp, and gets ready to turn around for him, but before she could, Sanji runs outside and throws the sniper onto the waver.

"SANJI?!" Nami calls out, but he shows no signs of going after them as he watches them ride off the ship.

The chef sees Eneru about to blast him, but Rose uses her wind to lift him up to avoid the blast.

Sanji grins at the assist, but it quickly fades when he sees the wind taking him towards the falling waver. "Rose-chan, what are you-?!"

"This is payback for Drum Island!" Rose says as she throws him onto the waver for him to collapse on Usopp.

Eneru creates a thunderbird to go after them, but Rose flies in between them and creates a wind barrier to stop the bird.

"ROSE!" The pirates call out to their crew mate as they land on the cloud island on the beanstalk safely, but it fell to deaf ears as the flying ark sails off.

Rose cringes from the strong blast as some of the lightning in the barrier redirects at her, before she manages to destroy her cyclone along with the bird.

She lands on the deck to catch her breath as she darkly chuckles at her enemy. "Game over, you prick."

Eneru scowls at her cheekiness as he looks to the island. "Whether or not they're on the ship, I can still strike them with god's judgement."

"I meant with your ship. What do you think the blond was doing this whole time?" She points to the exhaust pipe, that's no longer creating the thunder cloud, and keeps a prideful smirk for Sanji sneaking inside to mess with the ship's mechanics.

He follows her stare and drops his jaw when he sees that the smog's no longer being created.

"What?!" He turns around to go inside, but before go fix his machines, he gets hit in the back by a strong blast of wind until his face slams into the golden face.

"You're not going anywhere." Rose says snaps her fingers three times with her right hand to create a group of tornadoes with a devilish smirk. "That is, unless you want me to destroy the rest of your ship."

Eneru narrows his eyes at the threat as electricity flies out of him. "Have it your way."

A little while after Luffy left to fight Eneru, Robin managed to regain her consciousness. With knowing that the island is in danger, she sprouted feet under Zoro, Wiper and the sky knight to have them bring her unconscious comrades with her as she carries Chopper up the beanstalk.

She brings them back to the island cloud and looks in horror at the flying arc that's soaring across the sky. When she sees tornadoes growing on the ship with lightning shooting at them, she can't help but worry about what's happening on there.

"Robin!" The archaeologist snaps out of it at Luffy's voice coming from below the ruins and looks down to see Aisa and Pierre are being thrown at her.

She sprouts a net of arms to catch the girl and the bird before she gently drops them.

While Aisa and Pierre are shocked about the extra limbs, Robin looks down to see Luffy climbing up with the giant golden orb still attached to his arm. "Is that a ball of gold on your hand?"

Luffy ignores the question as he climbs past her and goes further up the vine. "Eneru's going to where the golden bell is right?! Will this vine take me there?!"

Robin nods as she looks up at slowly moving ship. "Yea, but you don't have much time to get there."

Luffy rushes up there with determination, when the others hear a waver being used.

As it gets louder, Robin looks to see Nami riding towards them with Sanji carefully hugging her waist with a happy grin while Usopp holds onto Sanji.

When Nami sees Robin awake, she happily grins at her as she waves. "Robin! You're ok!"

"Robin-chwan! I missed you!" Sanji says as he gets off the waver.

Usopp follows him off and looks at the unconscious warriors in horror. "Everyone's down!"

"Nami, you're ok!" Aisa runs to the navigator and tackles her in a hug.

Nami quickly hugs back before she looks around for her captain. "Where's Luffy?!"

"He went up the vine to rescue you and the wind girl!" Aisa says as she points up.

Nami and the others look up and widen their eyes when they see electricity and tornadoes flying above the floating arc.

"Why didn't she fly off yet?!" Usopp asks as he looks up at the ship in fear of having to go back.

"Maybe to make sure that we don't get struck by lightning." Robin says as she looks up at the ship in thought.

Nami grips onto the handlebars of the waver before she turns to the others. "You guys get back on the ship. I'll help Luffy grab her and catch up with you guys."

The others were surprised about the plan, as they watch her ride up the beanstalk without any chance to argue.

Usopp nervously looks up at the large thundercloud that's beginning to strike different parts of the island. "We should listen to her-"

"Wait." The others turn to the raider's voice and look in shock to see that he, Gan Fall, and Zoro are waking up while Chopper is still unconscious.

Wiper slowly gets up before he turns to Robin. "Tell me what you know about the golden bell..."

Eneru grows agitated from the tornado fight for every time he destroys one, another comes in its place just as strong if not more to send him flying inside and to break down nearby pieces of the ship. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH!"

He turns his whole body into electricity and flies straight through every tornado until he goes towards the wind girl.

Rose flies up and turns her arm into air to fly at him, it holds him back just enough avoid his attack, but she collapses on her knees by the railing from the exhaustion.

Eneru re-materializes before her and scowls at the girl before him as he manipulates his staff to transform into a two-pronged spear. "I give you a chance to live like the goddess you are, and this is how you repay me?"

"What chance?! You kidnapped me, you psycho!" She grabs her sword on the deck and gets up just in time to block the spear as it comes at her. However, before she can fly off, the smearing hot weapon breaks the blade off the hilt and goes at her.

She only had enough time of blow wind off her body to cool down the weapon before it stabs the pieces of the railing on both of her sides and plunges into the wood to trap her in between the dull edges of the weapon. She drops the broken sword and tries to pull the weapon off with her free arms, but it's wedged her in tightly to the wooden rails.

Eneru sighs at her struggles as he looks to the island. "And yet, you haven't run away yet. What was it that you were trying to accomplish by fighting me? Keep me distracted from this country's destruction by any chance?"

She glares at the man, for he's hit the mark on her intentions, while he looks up at the giant storm cloud above them and starts manipulating the electricity. "Those worthless humans don't deserve compassion, don't you see? There's no way for you to blend in with them."

"I know that!" Rose says as a last resort to buy more time for Luffy to get here. It manages to get his attention, for he turns to her with a look that tells her to keep going. She clenches her fists as she remembers her nightmare about her past and crew, and looks down at the deck to try to hide her pain. "I've fucking known since I was a kid that people will always be afraid of me. No matter what I did for them, that fact would never change..."

He raises an eyebrow at the confession, but he believes every word of it. "Then why go so far to protect them?"

She chuckles at the question, as she remembers Nami and Luffy's kindness towards her when she was powerless as Eneru's hostage, and looks up at him with a small grin. "Because, there's still some kind people out there. I honestly don't give a shit if I'm not human by your definition, or the rest of the world's for that matter. As long as those few good ones can see me as a friend then I'm happy."

Eneru scoffs at the sentiment as he gets back to manipulating the electricity in the clouds above them. "You're even more delusional than I thought. There is no such thing as a good human. It's better if this entire island falls out of the sky. Like so."

Rose loses her smile when she sees him lift his hand to manipulate the thunder cloud above him before a large lightning bolt hits onto Angel Island and eradicates the abandoned town.

"YOU BASTARD!" Both Rose and Eneru freeze at Luffy's voice and they look down to see the captain storming up the plant.

"I thought I heard a rat coming up." Eneru strikes the stem of the beanstalk just below Luffy and sends him falling.

While the god was distracted though, he didn't see Rose starting to turn her arms into wind until she aims at him.

He manages to jump out of the way in time, but he widens his eyes when she's still using her wind until the piece of the railing behind her breaks off from the pressure.

Rose uses his chance to escape by jumping backwards with the spear around her waist. She turns her arms back to normal, pulls the oversized fork off her, and flips Eneru off with a mischievous smirk. "I'll be taking this spear with me as payback for breaking my sword! Later asshole!"

He drops his jaw at the insult as he watches her fall off the ship with his spear. He grows furious at the escape, but he doesn't find it worth his time to go after her when he's so close to his true objective, the golden bell. When he sees a small cloud island floating in the west, where his prize is waiting for him, he directs his ship there and leaves his enemies behind.

Meanwhile, Luffy manages to land on a small island cloud that's close to where the peak used to be. He catches his breath from the climb as he glares at the ship that's holding his friends. However, his glare instantly fades away when he sees a scrawny girl falling from the ship with a golden two-pronged spear in hand "ROSE?!"

As the brunette's falling towards his cloud island, she grins at the captain as she waves at him. "Hey Lu-"

She stops when Luffy stretches his free arm around her waist and pulls her towards him. He pulls her to him so fast that she couldn't stop in time for her to crash into him and tackle him on the cloud.

She groans at the rough landing as Luffy laughs in joy while he gets up with his free arm still around her. "You escaped! Did Nami get out too?"

She can only nod as she covers her face to hide her blush from being in his embrace. "Y-yea, I made sure she got out safely. Thanks for coming though."

He tilts his head at her red face as he watches her shyly pull away from him. He goes to ask her about her feverish look, when he sees that she's not wearing his hat anymore. "Hey, where's my hat?"

"I gave it to Nami for safe keeping while I fought Eneru." Rose says, as she recovers from the blush.

He nods in understanding as he gets back on topic. "Then why was your face red-" He cuts himself off when he suddenly gets hit from behind by Nami's waver.

Rose drops her jaw at the crash as she watches Nami stop the waver only after she finished running over Luffy.

Luffy sits up and rubs his aching head before he grins at Nami. "Hey Nami, what are you doing back?"

"I came to get you guys! Get on-!" She yelps in fright when a strong lightning bolt strikes next to the beanstalk.

Luffy scowls up at the flying ship that's holding the cause to this island's pain and sees the golden bell in the distance. "No."

"What do you mean no?! Are you still trying to fight Eneru because-!"

"I don't need to fight Eneru, I need to get to the bell!" Luffy says with Nami not believing what she's hearing.

"You can't be serious! I'm normally all for getting treasure, but it's not worth dying over!"

"It's not about that! I need to ring it for diamond head!"

Rose raises an eyebrow at the nickname as if she hasn't heard it before. "Diamond head?"

"It's Luffy's name for Cricket, the guy who helped get our ship ready for the Knock Up Stream." Nami says while Luffy glares at the distance between them and the bell.

"If I ring it loud enough then he can hear it and know that this place exists. I need to ring it loud enough for the Blue Seas to hear it."

Nami hesitates as Rose steps up. "Alright, let's get you there then."

The navigator groans in frustration of their stubbornness before she grabs a leaf, that's almost as big as them, from the beanstalk.

The devil fruit users look at her in confusion as she writes a message on the leaf. "We're going to need all the help we can get for this. Rose, when the beanstalk starts falling, I'm going to need you to use your wind to help speed the boat. Can you do that?"

Rose nods with a smirk and hands her stolen weapon to Nami. "You got it."

She returns the smirk as she stabs the leaf with the giant fork so that it doesn't get blown away with the wind, and drops the leaf towards the ruins in hopes for her friends to receive it.

As soon as Wiper learned that the golden bell could be at the top of the beanstalk he wasted no time in beginning to climb.

"ARE YOU CRAZY?! YOU CAN'T GET TO THE FLYING SHIP FROM HERE!" Usopp calls out but it only fell to deaf ears until he was forced to jump off to avoid the falling tip of the beanstalk.

As soon as the raider lands on the ground, he collapses on his hands and knees from straining his injuries.

Aisa rushes over to her fellow Shandorian and helps him get up. "You can't overdo it like this."

He grits his teeth as he glares up at the giant plant. "I can't just give up now. I need to ring that bell..."

Zoro stares him down for a moment before he follows his eyes up to where his determined captain is. "You're wasting your time. Luffy already has plans to ring the bell."

"What did you say?" Wiper asks with Sanji nodding as he takes a cigarette out of his pocket.

"Knowing our captain, he won't stop until he rings the bell."

Wiper's fury starts to reignite at the thought of a Blue Sea pirate ringing the bell that is his mission to reach. "He has no right to-!"

He stops when a shadow looms over him and they all look up to see a giant leaf, that's pinned to a weapon, falling towards them. The group gets out of the way just in time for the leaf to safely land without hitting anyone.

"There's something written on there." Gan Fall says as everyone looks at the Nami's note to see that it's telling them to cut down the beanstalk so that it falls to the west.

"They must want to bridge the ship." Robin says as Zoro gets his swords out.

"Wait, you're seriously going to do it?! This is crazy!" Usopp says in horror of this mission.

"We have no other choice in this. He needs to get there now." Zoro says as he approaches the plant, but Sanji grabs the back of his shirt and drags him to the other side.

"We need to cut it from here to make it go west moss head." Sanji says with the others nodding.

Zoro groans at his annoying attitude, but he bites back his urge to argue as he runs to the direction Sanji told him to go. He takes out his three swords and slices a part of the plant's base before he has to jump to avoid a lightning strike.

Sanji runs to the tree as he scowls at the plant's summit. "Luffy had better not get Nami and Rose killed with this stunt!"

Jus managed to strike the plant to get it to start falling before a lightning bolt strikes him.

"SANJI!" The others call out worriedly when the chef falls unconscious from the blast. Another one follows after, but before it could hit him Zoro grabs him by the arm and throws him out of the way before he got struck.

"Guys!" Usopp calls as Pierre picks them up and brings them to the others.

Robin looks to see that the vine only moved slightly from their efforts. "We're going to need more power."

"Enough, that brat has no right to ringing the bell!" Wiper says as he staggers to them.

Usopp ignores his complaints as he goes off to blast the beanstalk with his explosives and jumps around so that he's not an easy target.

Wiper becomes furious at the efforts as he goes to stop him, before Robin speaks up. "Do you know the story of an explorer from the blue sea?"

He stops when he remembers the story of Noland and his ancestor Calgara's friendship. He can only stay silent as he listens to her.

"No one believed his story and called him a liar, but his descendant has been risking his life to clear his name by searching for the golden city. If I understand my captain right, he believes that ringing the bell will tell his descendant that the golden city has been up here this whole time. Even though he's risking his life to do so."

Wiper can only remain frozen as he processes this information before he asks her just one question. "What's the explorer's name?"

"Noland."

That name practically hits him like a hammer for he sees now that Luffy has been trying to help Noland's descendant this whole time. The sentiment moves him so much, that he wastes no time in getting his legs moving towards the beanstalk as Usopp keeps shooting at the plant.

"Out of the way!" He pushes the sniper out of the way before he runs to the vine with his reject dial in his hand. "REJECT!"

He blasts the base of the beanstalk with enough force to send him flying backwards.

"Did he just use a reject dial?!" Gan Fall asks as he runs to Wiper to see that he's still alive.

Aisa follows after, but stops when she sees that Wiper's dial did the trick, for the beanstalk is coming down. "He did it!"

She and the others take their wounded comrades deeper into the ruins for safety while the three pirates on the top of the beanstalk brace themselves.

Nami grips on the handlebars as she starts setting up the jet dial to the highest while Luffy holds onto Nami's waist with his free hand.

Rose holds onto Luffy's torso with one arm and holds the other one out behind her. "Whenever you're ready Nami."

She nods as she powers up the wavers and rides it up the beanstalk as fast as she can, with Rose's wind backing her up, while she avoids the falling lightning bolts. The handlebars begin to lightly shake from the pressure, but Nami does her best to keep it under control as she sees that Eneru's ship has stopped on a tiny cloud island.

When Luffy sees that Eneru's about leave his ship to approach the bell on the cloud island, he seethes in rage as the boat rides off the plant ramp. "ENERU! DON'T TOUCH THAT BELL!"

Eneru already knew that they were on their way to him, so he tiredly sighs as he gathers the lightning in the clouds above him. "You're just being bothersome now. I'll kill you with the rest of this island."

The three pirates widen their eyes when they see that Eneru's entire body has become electricity and has begun to gather the lightning from the thunder cloud above him.

"I'll take it from here!" Luffy says as Rose releases her hold on him so he can jump off the waver.

The waver lands on a tiny cloud island that can barely hold the girls as they watch the two warriors clash for the final time.

Neither side attempts to dodge the blows in the showdown as they take each other's hits.

As Luffy kicks Eneru and pulls back his right arm, that's holding the gold for a finishing punch, Rose chuckles at what's coming next.

Nami looks at her in confusion as she sees her watching the fight with excitement in her eyes. "What's so funny?"

"The gold on Luffy's arm is a strong conductor."

Nami is taken aback by the explanation as she watches Luffy winding back the golden covered arm, and realizes that the electric man accidentally gave Luffy a weapon to take him down.

However, he's not the only one with a weapon for Eneru managed to manipulate the golden face to forge himself two tridents for each hand while Luffy kicks him. Just when Luffy's about to throw the punch, he stops when his shoulder is stabbed with one of the tridents.

He pulls his arm free of the trident, but at the cost of him falling so fast that he goes past the girls without even a blink.

The two girls rush to the edge of the cloud and before either of them can do anything a rubber hand grabs the edge of the cloud.

They look down to see Luffy still winding up his right arm for the punch as he glares at the ship above them. "Get out of the way!"

Rose immediately does as she's told as she grabs Nami by the arm and pulls her away from the edge with her as Luffy slingshots himself back up.

Eneru glares at the rubber boy coming at him as he gets his weapons ready. "I'll skewer you this time!"

"No way you big eared freak! Gum gum-!" Luffy throws his arm forward and before Eneru could even react to the fast move, his fist along with golden sphere. "GOLD PISTOL!"

The attack immediately knocks out the fake god, but it doesn't stop there. The punch takes both his enemy and the giant orb off the ship and to the golden bell to hit it so hard that the gold on Luffy's arm breaks off. Once the attacks hit the bell, it finally moves so that it can ring its beautiful sound through the air for the first time in centuries.

As the bell plays its song, it falls off the cloud and towards the ground below with Luffy, the ship, and Eneru following.

While Rose gives her captain a soft landing on their cloud, she keeps her eyes on her kidnapper to make sure that he falls into the white waters with his ship, so that he will leave to his final destination. *I'm never going to the moon in this world...*

Nami doesn't notice her tension as she continues to listen to the bell's loud, yet beautiful, song. "This is amazing."

"You think this sound will reach the blue sea?" Luffy asks as he sits down.

Rose gives him a small grin as her tension fades away with each beautiful ring of the bell. "No doubt about it."

Nami gives Luffy back his hat before she looks down at the long way down from their cloud and grabs her waver. "Let's get back down."

Rose nods in agreement, but before she can move, Luffy gets up and wraps an arm around both girls. "Let's go!"

As he jumps off the cloud with his crew mates, Nami screams in fright of the fall.

Rose however, happily laughs from the adrenaline of the fall, but she has a feeling that her ordeal isn't over yet. Not just because Nami overheard Eneru saying that Rose's mantra is different, but because there's a high chance that Robin heard him as well.

Until the questions are asked though, she's going to allow herself to enjoy every moment she has left on Sky Island.

TO BE CONTINUED