93 [92] Light of Shandora [2]
[2200 Words]
Bonus chapter.
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The Grand Line, Skypiea.
In The upper Yard.
[30 minutes ago]
-[Robin POV]-
Captain Ren grabbed me by the waist and began to fly through the air at high speed. I felt his strong hand touching my waist...
I felt embarrassed in this situation. It was strange for me; I had never been this close to a man in my life. But I assumed that even if I had to be in this situation, I wouldn't feel embarrassed. Well, I wasn't forced, but I still felt embarrassed...
Is it perhaps just because it's Ren? I knew the answer to this question, which increased my embarrassment.
"I see you're lost in thought, Robin," I heard Ren's voice and looked at him. Oh... has he become even more handsome? And why does he seem taller than before?! I've been with him the whole time and didn't notice that.
I was was very close to him. I could feel his warm breath on my ear, which made my cheeks blush even more...
Fuck.. , what's happening to me? This isn't like me!
I saw him looking at me with a small smirk before he smiled in realization. It seemed like he was waiting for me to speak, so I opened my mouth after calming down a bit and said:"O-oh..no... I'm fine, it's just a bit strange."
"What's strange? Don't you feel comfortable around me?" he said, smiling at me. Why was he teasing me like this?
"I didn't mean that," I replied, and I saw his smile widen.
"?! "
I felt his hand on my waist moving and teasing my body. I haven't been this flustered in a long time...
"Oh... What are you doing, Captain..." I let out a small moen and looked at him with a flushed face. I realized that my previous color was good for hiding my embarrassment, but this advantage was no longer possible.
"What do you mean, Robin?"
C'mon... Is he playing dumb? It's obvious that his hand is teasing my body and acting like it's nothing.
But the strange thing is that I didn't hate this, his touch... It was nice.
Oh... What am I thinking?! Wake up Robin!
But as I was lost in my thoughts, I heard Ren's voice again, causing me to freeze.
"Do you have a wish you want me to fulfill, Robin?"
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-[General POV]-
"Do you have a wish you want me to fulfill, Robin?" Ren looked at Robin calmly, and it seemed like he could read her mind.
Robin, who was between Ren's arms, froze, and her previous embarrassment disappeared, replaced by a calm expression.
No, she wasn't calm; she was just pretending to be, while her thoughts were like a raging storm.
The first thing she thought of was his mother, that woman...
Although she neglected her a lot and preferred her work over her, Although Robin had no fond memories with her, she still loved her. She was her mother after all.
Robin longed for family, as she became an orphan since she was a child, and was neglected by the people who "adopted" her, her mother's relatives...
Since she knew of Ren's ability to bring back the dead, she had this idea in her head, that she must ask him for it.
Even if it was just the ability to talk to her mother's spirit, it would be enough for her.
But this was not a simple matter, she didn't know the price Ren paid for this skill. Perhaps he harms himself? Or perhaps he has to pay a price she can't imagine? It was a divine ability after all!
So she didn't expect Ren to ask her such a question; to ask her to say her wish, it seemed like he knew from the beginning that she wanted to ask him to bring back her mother's spirit. Well, with his intelligence, he surely saw through her, right...?
"Robin."
"Huh?"
Ren's voice interrupted her thoughts and brought her back to reality. She looked at him in confusion for a moment before calming down.
"It seems you were too busy thinking, we've arrived at our destination." Ren pointed to the old ruins in front of them.
Oh, it seems she was thinking so much about her mother's situation that she didn't even notice the path ahead of her, bad.
Ren descended from the sky while holding Robin's waist. When she put her foot on the ground, she slipped away from him and looked at the scene in front of her.
"Is this the Golden City? I don't see any gold though..." Robin said.
"That's because it's been taken," Ren replied, looking at the old buildings covered in layers of grass and dust, the smell of decay wafting from this place.
"Was it Enel?"
"Yes, but there's no need to worry, I'll retrieve them." Ren answered, then continued speaking: "What you see now are the main remnants of Shandora... do you see that giant plant? It's called Giant Jack, and there are many interesting things there."
"The Giant Jack?" Robin asked in doubt. Ren hadn't told them about this when he shared his information about Skypiea.
Perhaps he considered it just details and decided to show it to them now? Well, that's good too.
"Yes, the Giant Jack is a large beanstalk, and it's the tallest thing in all of Skypiea, piercing through the clouds and reaching the summit, where the Golden Bell is located."
"So the Golden Bell you told me about is located at the top of this giant plant? That's truly intriguing." Robin clasped her hands over her chest and said with interest.
"Alright, let's climb up and see what's there."
He grabbed her again and climbed Giant Jack effortlessly.
Soon, they reached a giant cloud pierced by Giant Jack. He activated his Conqueror's Haki and found the Temple of the God.
The Temple of the God was the place where the god of Skypiea resided over the ages, and it was also seized by Enel.
Ren could see that the temple, which was like a luxurious palace, was almost empty. There were only some blonde servants who hadn't left yet. All the guards had either fled or been captured by the White Berets; they were Enel's followers after all.
As for how the White Berets managed to capture them so quickly, it was because they were also present in the temple for guarding and various tasks. So they quickly turned against Enel's original followers after knowing what had happened.
"I'll come back to claim that place for myself later," he said in his mind, then continued ascending.
He saw another cloud carrying different remnants of Shandora than before, although they were less than before.
Ren naturally ignored the remnants and continued his way, while Robin allowed him to carry her, blushing occasionally due to his touch.
"Here we are."
Ren looked at the white cloud they had arrived at; there was nothing in this place except for a giant golden bell.
He put Robin down from his arms. The woman looked at the giant golden bell in awe before her eyes moved to something familiar...
"T-this... is... Poneglyph!!" Robin's eyes widened as she looked at the familiar black stone. So that's why Ren asked her to come?
Robin knew he could read the Poneglyphs, so there was no reason for him to call her. But he knew that her dream was to read as many of these stones as possible, so he fulfilled her wish...
After twenty years of not finding any Poneglyphs, she now found two less than a week after joining Ren.
"Yes, it's a Poneglyph. You're very curious about the information it provides, aren't you?" Ren walked forward and stood in front of the golden bell, looking at the Poneglyph built around it.
Then he looked at the words written by Oden at Roger's request that day.
"I wrote this text here, so you can guide this text to the farthest lands, the pirate, Gol D. Roger."
"The Pirates King?!" Robin read the text and said in shock.
"So he came to Skypiea too?"
"Of course he went." Ren said calmly, then continued: "Now, read the contents of the Poneglyph."
After hearing his words, Robin suppressed her shock and placed her hand on the Poneglyph symbols.
"!!"
Her eyes widened in shock as she realized what this text was about; it was like the text in Alabasta, talking about an ancient weapon!
"This text refers to another ancient weapon's location... Poseidon!" Robin looked at Ren and wasn't surprised when she saw him calm.
He could read the Poneglyphs himself, so he may have read it before her or known what it was about in the first place. Robin became dizzy from knowing her captain's knowledge of the Poneglyph contents, which were supposed to be extremely secretive.
"Fish-men Island.." Ren said calmly and Robin nodded: "Yes, that's the place mentioned in the Poneglyph."
"Copy the contents of the Poneglyph if you want, it's time for the show."
"The show?" Robin said bewildered.
"Do you know what ringing the golden bell means?" He looked at the bell and walked towards it, with a small jump he was above the golden wall, ready to ring the bell.
"No... I'm not you to know." Robin said with fake annoyance.
He chuckled silently and then said: "It means that the duty of the Shandians to protect the bell is over, and that's what I want." He covered his hand with Armament Haki.
He used the sound of the bell, which could travel thousands of miles, to play the song known as "Shandora's Light!"
*Ding!*
*Ding!*
*Ding!*
*Ding!*
*Ding!*
And that's what happened; after a short journey in Giant Jack, Ren rang the golden bell after reading the Poneglyph, thus announcing the beginning of a new era for the Shandians.
An era where they didn't have to fight.
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In Jaya,
*Crying... Crying..*
"The Golden City exists... Noland was not lying!!"
Cricket let out a cry carrying mixed emotions, relief, happiness, and sadness. He was happy because his predecessor was not a liar, and he was sad because he was unjustly executed and his bad reputation haunted him for many centuries.
Cricket's tears didn't stop flowing as he listened to the sound of the bell, clearly coming from above. He didn't know how or why, but yes, this was the sound of the bell recorded in the memoirs of his predecessor Noland! There was no doubt about it!
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In the Shandia tribe,
An old man knelt on the ground and cried silently.
He was one of the ancient tribe elders, who went out to welcome the returning warriors and was shocked like all the other members of the tribe by the deaths of their strong warriors like Kamakiri and Wyper...
Sorrow descended upon the tribe, but what alleviated it was that Enel was dead, not before the survivors informed them that his killer's intentions were unknown. Would they be forced to fight again? And this time, the enemy is stronger than Enel! They felt despair.
Before the elders could hold a meeting, the sound of the legendary golden bell mentioned in the records rang out.
"There is no doubt, this is the sound of our golden bell!!" one of the tribe members said, tears in his eyes.
Everyone was moved and crying, finally... after a long wait!
It's been 400 years... 400 years of fighting after being expelled from Shandora by Skypiea god at that time.
"Shandora's light! I heard it before my death!" one elder cried more than he ever did in his entire life.
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Returning to Ren, he listened to the sound of the golden bell with Robin in his arms. She couldn't resist and was lost in the greatness of this moment, the moment the bell rang after 400 years...
The sound of the bell stopped after minutes, then Robin came out of her astonishment and looked at her current situation. She was between Ren's arms and could smell his wonderful body...
"It's time to go back." Ren pretended as if nothing happened, he was extremely happy with the reward he received, completing many tasks this time.
More than ever before.
In the next moment, a blue light appeared in his hand and spread throughout the structure of the golden bell.
Then it disappeared.
He took the Poneglyph too.
Robin had already returned to the cloud because Ren couldn't store anything as long as there was a living being inside or above it (except himself).
Ren had made his mark, so he used Moonwalk and grabbed Robin again and left.
The final presentation time had come.
And he was sure, there was still a hidden missions waiting for him.
Everything he did was truly worth it.
He smiled and increased his speed as he descended from giant jack.
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Author's gossiping.
2000 PS = Bonus chapter.
