To say that Nami was fuming would be an understatement. From the stress of Luffy and Tani cutting it close with their arrival, to the new wanted posters, and the injuries that Cricket and CO sustained dampening their ability to work on the modifications to Merry. It was all a bit much for the young woman, so she took it out on her favourite punching bag Luffy.

Tani was too busy being panicked over by Sanji, the man had a heart attack when he saw she had a bounty (he was also very jealous he didn't have one yet, but she didn't need to know that) so he made declarations to keep her safe from all bodily harm, which was sweet.

The sun had begun rising, the warm glow making the world look a tinge golden. The smell of a storm brewing wafted through the air, it's time.

"You crazy kids be careful now," Cricket wished, the sack of gold that Luffy retrieved was resting in his arms. Nami was ushering everyone onto the boat, goodbyes and well wishes were shared. Cricket called out his final request before the newly modified Merry was to make her maiden voyage.

"Keep to the centre of the knock up stream! Or it'll be certain death! Good luck!" he called out. Usopp's legs wobbled with fear, Sanji and Chopper gave the cowardly sniper an encouraging pat to the back. Tani was slowly feeling a pit form in the centre of her stomach... A realization dawning on her clouded thoughts...

Sky is up, up is high, Tani doesn't like high, Tani was going to sky which is up and up means high. Her normally healthy brown glow diminished on the spot, leaving her as ghostly white as possible with her skin tone. She felt her hands clasp at her hair with a deathly grip, legs shaking so fast it would give Usopp a run for his money.

"Alright boys let's get this show on the-hey Tani? are you alright?" Nami questioned, Tani lifted her head and stared with widened eyes as tears filled her fear fueled panic.

"Sk-sk-skah-sky!" she stuttered, catching the attention of everyone. How embarrassing... Chopper was the first to respond.

"WE FORGOT SHE HAS A FEAR OF HEIGHTS?!" He squawked with flailing limbs. The crew all looked bug eyed at the realization, panic ensued.

"Should we turn back?!"

"No we've already made it this far!"

"Why didn't she say anything?!"

"How could we forget!"

"Tani dearest would you like me to-"

*twack*

"Shitty cook don't do anything weird you pervert,"

"Shitty marimo!"

"Will you two quit it!"

*thwack*

Through all the commotion it was Luffy who remained calm and collected, he poked at his hat with a tilt of his head. You could almost see steam pouring out of his ears as he scrunched his eyes together in thought.

He beamed as a thought finally entered the empty grey matter he called a brain. He rolled his shoulder, akin to how he would ready a gum gum pistol. Only instead of of punting Tani off the boat, his arm was thrown towards her and looped around her waist about seven times. Holding her tightly within his grasp, a literal life line.

"I got her! Let's set sail for the stream!" Luffy declared, leaving his arm to stretch as he ran around doing his own thing. Leaving Tani stunned in a mix of "Holy shit I'm going to die" and "I'm gonna fall to my demise". The rest of the crew had that equally worried sentiment towards their fearful nakama but their captain wouldn't let her fall. They all knew this, but it didn't make it any less scary.

"Follow the south birds direction," Nami ordered, Sanji instantly changing the ships direction. The wind picked up, Merry sped towards the darkening patch of ocean that was dead ahead. Tani's deathly grip on Luffy's safety line only tightened.

"Nami I can see it!" Usopp called from atop the crows nest. He zoomed his goggles in on the growing dark ocean, fingers freezing. "It's ah.... It's ah! It's a whirlpool!" he shrieked. Nami ran to the front of the boat, and found that the sniper wasn't lying. They were approaching a spiralling vortex that only grew faster as they got closer.

The skilled navigator let out a deep breath, she had to be quick about this or the whole boat was going to collapse with them on it. The whirlpool would have to be where the knock up stream would appear, so it's only common sense (well pirate common sense) that the centre of the whirlpool would be where they need to be.

"Head straight for the whirl pool! Don't resist it, let it carry Merry to the centre!" she called out to Sanji and Chopper, who were both struggling to turn the rudder. Both men looked at each other with surprise, but did as their trustworthy navigator stated.

Merry had a mind of her own, floating towards the spinning pool. Turning this journey into a water park ride, zooming down further and further. Until all the little crew could see was walls of towering blue sea that raged around them.

Everyone was on deck now, spread out over the area as they tried to remain calm. Well everyone that wasn't Luffy, he was practically glowing with excitement. Tani on the other hand was ready to curl into a ball and perish.

"We're almost there!" Nami encouraged, everyone put on their brave faces and feigned calmness. The Merry was now floating much more calmly into the centre of the whirlpool. The south bird (which Tani had completely forgotten about in her panic) was now flapping it's wings and crying aloud. Chopper gulped.

"He says 'hold on to something'!" Chopper quoted before jumping and clinging to Zoro's head. The swordsman groaned with surprise but didn't pry Chopper off like he normally would have. Sanji stood beside the women, expecting them to fall into his arms but got an Usopp instead. All in all this was gonna be one hell of a trip.

The whirling stopped, everything was so silent... Except for the massive wave of water that was now rushing towards them. Chopper, Usopp and Tani let out some very feminine screams. The ground below the ship bubbled and rumbled, making it difficult to stay standing without toppling over one another.

Tani's eyes darted around wildly, unable to focus on anything as her fear heightened. Sound blurred into white noise, preventing her from hearing any further instructions.

Though she did notice a rouge boat floating towards the centre of the soon to erupt stream... Those poor bastar-

BANG!

The world stopped for Tani, her feet left the ground and left her floating in slow motion. Watching as the ship was launched high into the sky. The roaring sound of the stream screaming in her ears, making it impossible to hear her very own terrified wallows. So here she was... Dangling in the air with her mind completely blanked out as the need to get back on the boat was her only instinct.

She didn't hear Nami call out her commands, or Zoro complaining about all the people clinging to him, not even Luffy's elated cheers of excitement as he retracted his arm with her attached back to himself. The world was a blur of dark and glowing blues, she was surprised she hadn't blacked out yet... Or maybe she had? Hell she might have died and gone straight to heaven because the ship was flying one minute, and sailing on clouds the next!

"We.... We did it!?" Usopp's voice broke Tani from her trance. They made it? They survived? Was this not heaven? Tani shook her head and tried to smack at her cheeks but her arms were still wrapped up in the coiled embrace of Luffy the life line. She was at his side without even knowing it. Her brain was frazzled beyond belief... Maybe she should just take a nap... Yeah... That sounds nice...

...

"-AKE UP!" Tani was violently shaken by the raging red head. Tani threw her body forward and smacked her head into Nami's unintentionally. Nami groaned in pain while Tani dizzily recalled what the hell was happening... Oh right the sky islands!

Tani stared at the environment around her, nothing but clear skies and pure white oceans. Yeah the oceans were made of clouds. How Tani wasn't having a breakdown she didn't know, maybe it was the headache talking. Though she didn't feel any pain in her head, maybe she really had died. At least she had her nakama with her.

"Tani! Are you even listening to me?" Nami sighed. Tani looked up at the woman and stared dumbly at her. Nami called for Chopper, who trotted over. "Is there anything you can do to make her... Her again," Nami motioned. Chopper did a once over, before shaking his head.

"She's under a high level of stress, the best thing for her will be lots of water to replenish her body of all the water she's lost through sweat." he concluded. Sanji decided to chime in with his own remedy.

"Why don't we just-"

"Finish that you stupid love cook and I'll have your head," Zoro threatened. Sanji glared aggressively but continued.

"Stupid moss for brains, I was going to say we let her know she's safe through acts of security. What happens everytime she's afraid? She gets clingy, let her clinge to someone. I volente-"

"Oh! Oh! Pick me I'll do it!" Luffy called out while waving one of his arms excitedly. Before Sanji could protest and offer his service again, Zoro was already pushing a thoroughly confused Tani into Luffy's arms. The captain was quick to loop his arms around the girl, she melted into the embrace (her fear melting away with it) Sanji tsked and crossed his arms with a pout. Zoro smugly grinned.

Usopp let out a strangled breath, mentioning that he felt light headed. Nami and Chopper were feeling the same effects. Tani knew it had something to do with air being thinner in the sky but she was too busy hugging Luffy to explain it. Robin waltzed forward with an army of arms bloomed around the ship, picking up anything that toppled over during the flight up.

It took Tani some time to finally let go of Luffy, her heart rate seemed to slow back to a normalish pace, though her adrenaline induced state had yet to really dissipate. Her senses on high alert everytime the Merry so much as rocked.

"Get down!" Zoro called out, his swords already flying from their scabbards. He stood in front of Robin, the swords in an X shape as he held off a masked figure that was.... Walking on the clouds? The man growled deeply and bounced off the swords. Flying high in the air like a bird! A large bazooka strapped to the bare chested man's back. Which he pulled out and fired at the innocent boat.

Luffy was quick to act, blowing himself up like a balloon to bounce the danger away. Though he seemed much slower in his actions. Sanji took on an offensive stance, launching himself at the unknown enemy with his leg extended to attack. But he too was far too slow compared to the flying man.

The straw hats main fighters were having quite a lot of trouble with this guy. This mystery man was practically destroying them without breaking a sweat. Tani went to grab her yo-yo's, when a bout of dizziness stunned her. Right... Thin air.

Tani lifted her dizzy head up to find the silhouette before the sun, a man brandishing a lance while mounted to a Pegasus. A picture from a fantasy cartoon, something she wasn't sure if her confused brain was hallucinating it or if this was reality... Which was possible because she's literally on a boat in the sky for crying out loud.

There was a clashing of metal, the lance against the massive bazooka. The lance overpowering said bazooka, leading to the retreat of the flying man. Lifting her head, Tani turned to find the Pegasus landing on the deck of the Merry. An elderly man sat atop the bright pink winged horse... That looked more bird like in the face but what did she know? Maybe that's how a real Pegasus was meant to look like.

The Pegasus morphed into a bird... Well that answers that question with more questions... The old knight wandered around, helping the fallen straw hats back to their feet.

All straw hats now standing, the knight stood before them and bowed respectfully. Tani could feel her dizzy spell wearing off.

"Greetings, allow me to introduce myself," the knight spoke up, all eyes on him. "I am Gan Fall, and this is Pierre." he introduced, motioning to the bird horse thing. Luffy laughed at it and asked some Luffy-centric questions about it. Which Gan Fall happily answered. Nami rubbed at her temple, then cut Luffy off with a question of her own.

"Who was that guy? Why did he attack us and why did you help us?" she asked with an edge to her voice. Gan Fall let out a sigh.

"That man that attacked you... He's part of the Guerrilla, a dangerous and savage group of people that attack everyone that isn't one of them," he explained. Tani felt a wave of Deja Vu, this sounded a lot like something from her history class...

"Here," Gan Fall tossed a little white whistle towards Luffy. The boy caught it and inspected it. "Normally I would charge for my services, however you lot appear to be new to this. So I'll let you have the first call free," he smiled sweetly under the helmet. He gave a gentlemanly bow before hopping back onto Pierre and with the rise of his lance, took off into the sky. Leaving the straw hats awestruck.

The beat of silence was broken with the excited cries of Luffy as he held the whistle close to his mouth. Cheeks puffed as he inhaled to blow the whistle. Nami dived and snatched it from the captains hands. Landing with a smack onto the ground, the whistle dangling carelessly in her grasp. Sanji delivered a swift kick to Luffy's head, sending him flying into Usopp. Who complained about being caught in the crossfire.

Robin helped Nami back to her feet, the younger woman dusted her pants off before clearing her throat loudly. The bickering boys all turned to her. She held the whistle up by the string, her other hand motioning towards it.

"This is for emergency situations only. I'd also like to exclude Luffy, Zoro and Sanji from being able to use it unless absolutely necessary. Since you lot can hold your own just fine," Nami declared. Luffy pouted, while Sanji whined that his name was said after Zoro's, the swordsman smugly grinned.

"How about I hold it? You know, for emergencies," Usopp suggested. Nami shook her head, she then placed the whistle on a small hook in the main mast that was meant to hold spare ropes.

"It's best that everyone who isn't a brutish monster of a fighter, has access to the whistle at all times." Nami explained. Then fanned at her face, her cheeks flushing a bright red. Everyone felt themselves panic. The last time that happened, she almost died of the plague! The red head saw their fright and gave a cheeky grin. "It sure is hot up here isn't it? How about we go get changed?" she suggested.

Everyone was about to head inside when Usopp called out that there was something ahead. Luffy whooped with excitement, finally something that wasn't just white clouds!

It appeared to be a building shaped like a dock, with the same vibes as an amusement park entrance. This was gonna be something weird...

"Let's go!" Luffy commanded, everyone cheered in agreement.

...

"That'll be 8 billion extol to enter the Gates of heaven," the little old woman who looked more like a pug than a human, demanded. Nami's jaw almost smashed through the decking it dropped so low.

"What's an extol?" Tani chimed in for the first time in a while, she still felt sick to her stomach but surely this couldn't get any worse. Might as well deal with it now. "If it's foreign money then we don't have any... Except for my world's money but that has no worth here so I shouldn't have even brought it up-" she rambled, only stopping when the pug lady cuts her off.

"You blue sea dwellers don't have the extol? That's fine, I don't care if you pass through. Hurry up and go," she said, putting her hand in her bag, while the other shooed them away. Nobody really thought it was suspicious... Well the boys didn't, the girls gazes lingered a while longer before they started sailing towards the...

"Oh come on!" Tani cried, her loud exclamation drowning out the click of the ladies camera.

Before the crew was a massive incline. That disappeared into even more clouds. Tani felt like throwing up and dropping to the ground crying. Luffy latched onto her with both arms, the girl was pressed right into his chest. She was too busy worrying about the new height situation, to even think about blushing.

"Hurry up stupid gate, stop making Tani feel bad," Luffy complained. Tani only whimpered as the ground started to shake. Her eyes slammed shut, the speed with which the ship went flying upwards made her head feel dizzy. The pressure being too much on the already petrified girls stability. Luffy held her tight, his body being a comfort yes, but it wasn't enough. Tani felt her conscious brain shutting down.

And she was out like a light.

...

Tani opener her eyes groggily, the light brown wooden roof greeting her. She groaned a little as her body registered that she was indeed awake. Propping on her elbows to get a better look at where she was. Oh this was the closet that Chopper was using as an infirmary... Where's Chopper? Or anyone else in fact. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She didn't really hurt, other than the sore spot on the back of her head.

Getting up without a struggle, Tani wandered out of the room. She felt off though, her legs felt more exposed and her stomach was cold. She opened the closet door to the most blinding white light she'd ever seen. Her arms covered her unprepared eyeballs. The sound of laughter and chatter could be heard in the distance.

Blinking a couple times to adjust her eyes to the intense white light, she found herself looking at a picture perfect beach. The kind you'd find in vacation ads for Hawaii or Bali. Tani wandered towards the front of the Merry, spotting Luffy's iconic red vest and straw hat flinging around in the palm trees that had... Green pumpkins? In them? Weird.

"Hey!" Tani called out, her voice scratchy from the dryness of her throat. She coughs down into her hand, her eyes opening up to find her stomach exposed... And her legs... Oh dear god she was in her underwear... Why?!

Tani watched in horror as her crew mates and two new faces all turned to stare at her. Her cheeks flushing brighter than the sun that looked way too close in the sky.

"Tani's awake!" Luffy cheered brightly. Tani looked right at him, though their eye contact was cut short as a pair of hands bloomed on his shoulders and slapped over his eyes. The same being done to every other male within the vicinity. Robin gave Tani a soft smile and a wink. Thank you mother Robin, Tani is forever in your debt.

Nami came running to the over exposed girl, quick to explain what she had missed while being passed out.

"Your body went all feverish from the stress, so we had to strip you down as best we could or Chopper said you'd have some kind of stroke that could damage your brain," she explained vaguely, Tani opened her mouth to ask a question but Nami was already on it. "It was me that did it, don't worry," she assured sweetly. Tani sighed with relief, looking at what Nami was wearing. A bikini top and cropped pants. It was pretty humid up here wasn't it.

"Chopper said that you should be drinking a lot of water to regain all the sweat you lost, same as before," she informed. Tani nodded, her head felt heavy. "Let's get you changed into something more appropriate," Nami snickered. Ushering Tani towards the women's cabin to get changed.

...

"I don't plan on swimming though," Tani protested as she walked outside in her new attire. She wore the swim suit with swimming shorts combo, her long curly locks tied up in a high ponytail that pooled out the back of her cap. A cap which was now facing forward rather than the usual backwards fashion. Her denim jacket stayed on, she wanted to button it up to cover herself better, but it was way too humid for that.

"Come on, what if you have to dive into the clouds to save Luffy from drowning? You know the moron is gonna fall in at some point," Nami convinced humorously. Tani couldn't help but giggle... That is until the word cloud registered. The girl looked over the side of the Merry... Oh right they were in the sky islands. Tani turned around and walked back towards the cabins. Nami looked at her with confusion.

A hand gripped around the retreating girls jacket collar. The force with which it recoiled was so powerful for the unsuspecting woman that she went flying with it. A shriek escaping her throat as she flew passed a smirking Nami. Within seconds, Tani and collided harshly into a palm trees trunk and flopped face first into the crystal white sand. Where she laid for a solid ten seconds.

"Is she... Is she alright?" a voice that didn't register with Tani spoke, an airy woman's voice.

"She's just sleepy," Luffy's distinct voice assured. Tani was gonna smack him with a yo-yo when she got up.

*smack*

Nevermind.

"You shitty captain! You hurt Tani!" Sanji growled. The tapping of Choppers hooves grew louder.

"Someone call the doctor! She's out cold!" he squealed. Tani lifted her head with furrowed brows.

"Aren't you the doctor?" she asked before dropping her head back to where it was before. Chopper stopped panicking.

"Oh that's right, I'm the doctor... Wait you're awake!" he accused, before flipping her over and checking over her body for any injuries. Tani would answer if this or that hurt, Chopper just retold her to drink water. Did anyone mention that she needed to drink water? Because boy did she think that maybe she needed some water!

"Hey Usopp! Catch," Luffy called, before Usopp was smacked in the head with a whole ass pumpkin. Tani thought the interaction so absurd that she laughed rather obnoxiously. Failing to noti-

"Tani too," Luffy called before tossing the heavy fruit? Pumpkins are fruit right? Anyway the pumpkin was tossed at her head and she followed Usopp in suit.

Tani lifted her head groggily and stared out at the ocean of white, something only those who would see heaven could gaze upon. An ocean of clouds before her. Her eyes widened with awe, through all her terror she had failed to actually see the clouds... It was breathtaking.

"Straw hat, you're supposed to poke a hole in this soft spot here. The skins too tough to bite through," a soft spoken man chuckled lightly. Luffy had all if his teeth clamped down on the hard fruit. The man gently took the fruit and poked at a small spot with a straw, then handed it back to Luffy. The captain drank the contents of the fruit so fast Tani thought she saw the whole thing shrink.

The man handed a straw to Tani and Usopp, the pair following his previous example. Tani went to take a sip of her fruit, when Luffy slammed his used straw into the soft spot of hers and proceeded to start drinking from it. Tani had to be quick if she wanted to have any of it. Taking in one big gulp, the flavour was so odd to her, because she really was expecting a pumpkin flavour. Though she didn't have much time to think, because she had to drink fast to get anything more from the rather refreshing beverage.

Luffy turned his attention to Usopp's one after Tani's was drained completely. The girl gave Usopp a sympathetic expression before wandering over to Nami, who was inspecting a strange looking device.

"What's that?" Tani questioned. Nami shrugged.

"I found it among all the stuff that Zoro brought up with him. It looks like you can ride it?" Nami theorized. Tani stepped closer and examined it with a critical eye.

"It looks like a scooter without wheels? How would it move if it's got no wheels?" she questioned.

The young woman that Tani had only just now really gotten a good look at, wandered over with her soft angelic features.

"It's a waver, though it looks pretty old compared to the ones that papa works on," she explained. Tani and Nami looked at each other, the word waver didn't sound familiar. Tani crouched down to take an even closer look while Nami asked more questions.

"So what does it do?" Nami inquired. Tani clasped what looked like handle bars and twisted them, nothing happened.

"They can ride along the ocean, like a small boat. It's powered by dials," the angelic girl continued to explain. "The dials propel it froward with a burst of wind," she explained further. Tani had a light bulb moment.

"Oh! It's a jet ski!" she exclaimed excitedly. Nami looked lost at this, but she liked the idea of a vehicle that's basically a single person speed boat.

"Can it be fixed?" the navigator inquired. The blonde haired woman looked at it in thought, then smiled soft as a feather.

"I'm sure papa can fix it, he's a waver expert." she beamed. She turned away and wandered to her father to ask about the waver. Tani decided she wanted to examine the environment a little more.

There she stood on solid ground, sand to be exact. How could there possibly be sand in the sky? Well solid sand. It was just too hard for her to believe. She didn't consider herself a science kid but she knew how to ground herself in the facts, and this simply couldn't exist. Except that she's in a dimension where this place does exist so she can't really refute that.

What's most curious is the fact that Merry is floating on the clouds. Clouds that should be too thin for such a heavy boat to float carelessly upon. Tani's brain felt like it was fried just thinking about it.

Then she saw it... Luffy...

The boy was flying around on a device that looked a lot like that waver that Nami was investigating. Just a bit more not broken, maybe it belonged to Papa.

Anyway, the captain was swaying like a child when the training wheels are removed off their bikes. Tani could see the wipe out coming a mile away. His rubber limbs seemed to catch with the wind, his body was sent flying upwards like a morbid human kite. Tani couldn't help but laugh at the scene.

"He's gonna hit Merry!" Usopp wailed. Tani was watching Luffy flail around. She'd seen people crash their jet ski before, it was normally funny in an "at least that wasn't me" way.

"No wait, he turned at the last minute, but now he's gonna hit that cloud," Usopp continued his live commentary.

And it happened, Luffy went flying when the bottom of the waver skipped over a cloud that poked out. His grip was loosened, sending him flying into the pillowy cloud ocean... Ocean... Luffy can't swim... Oh wait!

She didn't even think as she ran to dive for the water, only for her brain to scream at her with a wave of panic as her foot entered the white ocean. A conflict that screamed at her to leave him in the ocean and let someone else save him, but another voice screaming that this is her captain, to get her nakama! She has to save him.

Luckily for Tani, Zoro and Sanji dived for not only their captain, but Chopper as well (who dived in to save Luffy, the silly goose). Tani scampered away from the panic inducing ocean. Hovering closer to Sanji and Zoro.

"Everyone," the kind old man's voice called out. All eyes on him and his daughter. "Please come with us back to our home, I'm sure it would be much more comfortable," he requested. Motioning towards the house that looked over the ocean.

"Mind if I mess around on the waver instead?" Nami asked, already mounting the device as if she knew exactly how to pilot the thing. Nobody would be surprised. She's a woman of many talents.

"Oh of course dear, go right ahead." the old man smiled sweetly, he held up a single finger. "Just don't go too far out, there's an island not too far from here that is forbidden to set foot on," he warns with a slight edge in his voice.

Nami nods and turns away from her crew and their new companions. Revved up the waver and sped off into the distance. Luffy looked on with a pout, muttering a "I could do that," while crossing his arms. Tani snickered and looped an arm around his shoulders.

"Next time gadget," she says. Luffy looks at her with confusion, but remembers her strange sayings and goes along with it.

"Well then everyone," the man spoke, "Let's head back home," he waves for them all to follow.

...

Conis lead the pirate crew towards the smallish beach house that belonged to her and her father. They all sat within the open living room, Tani found herself sitting on the couch next to Usopp. Luffy was on the floor leaning against that couch, Zoro and Robin sat on another couch, and Sanji decided to find the kitchen so he could prepare lunch.

"Is there a stove here?" Sanji called to Conis. The angelic girl snickered sweetly, hovering towards him and pointing towards a large redish-orange shell. She clicked the top and removed her hand before the burst of fire could nip at her pearly skin. Sanji wasn't the only one in awe at the sight.

"Is that one of those dial things? I thought they were only for wind propulsion?" Usopp asked with sparkling eyes. Tani could see the inventor in him singing with joy.

"Yes, there's many types of dial. They're used to make life more convenient. For example," Conis pulled out a dial that was a light cream colour. She pushed the button and spoke into it, "This is a repeat dial," she said. After the dial clicked, she pushed the button again and it repeated what she'd said.

"That's so cool," Luffy praised, his hand stretched over to grab the dial from Conis. He clicked the button and did as Conis had just before, "Usopp is stupid," he said. The sniper was not amused.

"There are also dials that work as lights," Conis continued, walking to a lamp and pressing the top of the yellow shell, which illuminated at the touch. Tani decided to ask questions of her own.

"So a dial is essential a shell that works as a modern convince? That's so cool!" Tani praised at the demonstrations Conis showed off. She'd missed modern luxuries like light switchs so much. Usopp was already muttering under his breath the kinds of upgrades he could do to his sling shot, Nami's clima-tact and Tani's yo-yo's, man Usopp is so cool.

"Lunch is ready," Sanji declared, handing out smallish lunch boxes around. The presentation was compact and cute, with small sausage octopus things, and rice balls. A meal that was common place for this world, it had a very Japan vibe to it. Looking like the display cases in that one Japanese store she walks past on her way to work... Oh speaking of home.

Tani tuned out the chatter around her to grab her bag. Hands digging down deep to find her bell. She really should add something like a ribbon or string to it so it's easier to find. Tani held the bell and began shaking it in different directions.

It remained silent.

Tani gave a pout, guess there's no stores around. Maybe they don't have service in the sky.

"Nami sure has been out for a while," Sanji worried. Scooping another bowl of rice and handing it to Luffy so everyone else would have 0.06 seconds to eat their own meals.

"She's enjoying the freedom of being away from you, love cook." Zoro smirked, Sanji's knuckles went white from his tightened grip. Luffy on the other hand, perked up.

"If Nami is missing... We have to save her! Let's go to the mystery forbidden island!" he vibrated with that spark of adventure. Conis and Pagaya both looked at each other with distress.

"No you can't! Anyone who steps foot on that land is to be judged by God Enel," Pagaya stressed, Zoro huffed a laugh.

"I don't believe in god," he declared. Conis and Pagaya dropped to their knees and prayed for the safety of their new guests.

Tani heard a humming noise come from outside. She got up from the couch and walked towards the balcony. An orange and brown blur came speeding towards the beach.

"Guys! Nami's back!" she pointed. Robin gave a soft smile.

"It appears that God has allowed our little navigator safe passage back to us," she said sweetly. Sanji was the first one out the door. Luffy was left to sulk at the lack of mystery forbidden island adventures.

"Let's go meet up with Nami, maybe she had an adventure?" Tani grinned. Luffy sighed even harder. Everyone moved to leave the house.

Tani followed behind Usopp and Robin. Luffy was still whining about the mystery island.

"It would be so cool, imagine all the mystery treasure we could find," he complained childishly. Tani gave a giggle.

"We could still explore it, you're the captain, and we're pirates so nobody can stop us," she started. Turning more serious with her next response "I would advise not doing that though, because it's a sacred land and desecrating it would be pretty disrespectful. At least it was back home for my people," she monologued. Luffy's eyes sparkled.

"You have mystery islands too?!" he beamed. His smile was brighter than the sun!

"Of course, there's this place called Australia that has this really weird animal called a platypus. It's like a fusion of a duck, beaver and snake! Plus it's a furry creature that lays eggs! Like that's so weird!" she explained. Luffy looked like he was gonna explode from how much he wanted to explore the place.

"Tani! We gotta go there! I wanna see a platepass!" he bounced on his feet. Tani snickered.

"It's platypus, and if we can figure out how to transport the whole crew back to my dimension, then we can think about exploring Australia," Tani said. Though she had her doubts that that could ever happen.

"Luffy! Tani! Hurry up!" Usopp called from beside Nami. The navigator looked shaken up, her hair standing up as if she'd been in a storm. Luffy instantly lost the jovial look and questioned her with seriousness... Well Luffy levels of serious.

"What happened?" he asked. The crew surrounded her like a bubble. She pulled on one of her pigtails nervously.

"I saw- I saw a ma-man get...get...get!" she speedily fumbled. Luffy grabbed her shoulders and looked her in the eyes.

"Breath," he ordered. A wave of calm seemed to strike everyone. The navigator took a deep breath and restarted.

"I saw a man get electrocuted... On an island not too far away from here," she sounded pained. Her arms hugged around herself. "I couldn't... I couldn't save him," she wept. Tani, Usopp and Chopper dropped to her side and hugged her tight.

Connis on the other hand, stared at them in horror.

"You went to upper yard?!" she shrieked with fear. Her father stood beside her with just as much fear. "You're in terrible danger," she said solemnly.

The Straw hats looked at her with curiosity. They're rainbow of eyes looking into her sky blue gaze.

"God Enel will punish you,"