"Let's begin the culling shall we?"

Those words echoed back to Tani as she watched her friends, foes and this bastard stand off (though Enel was floating so is that a float off?).

Chopper clutched in her arms, Tani slowly stepped backwards. She wouldn't keep her eyes off of Enel. The man was far too dangerous, and she didn't think she'd be as lucky as the man struck by lightening 7 times, in terms of survival.

Then she heard it.

A bells singing called her. It wasn't the three that Zoro had on his swords, not the one Robin had dangling from her neck, not Chopper's which hung from his healthy antler.

No.

This was Nami, who was shaking the bell as hard as she could when she caught sight of Tani. The tracker had to keep her smile from widening at the sight of the navigator. She didn't want to give away her nakamas presence.

"Who's it going to be? Which two of you will lose this survival game?" Enel chuckled. Tani found herself staring in awe at the sight of her companions plus Wyper, pointing their weapons at their common foe. Enel gave an eye roll, his hand curling under his cheek while he looked at them with boredom.

"Foolish mortals, you couldn't defeat me if you tried. I'm the only one who can guide you to Fairy Vearth, to salvation," he sighed. Bobbing in the air. Tani shuffled towards Nami while Enel looked away from her. She was going to hand Nami, Chopper so she could make a run for it. A feeling in Tani's gut told her that she had no reason to fear Enel's wrath.

"Take care of him," Tani whispered. Carefully exchanging the doctors care to that of Nami. The red head nodded. Her brown eyes screaming at Tani to not be dumb. Tani gave a nod and left her. Walking back to the semi-circle of people. Enel was still monologuing.

"People living in the sky? It's unnatural, mortals shouldn't be walking among the Gods." the god claimed. Eyes scanning them all, as if picking out who he's going to remove. "It's my duty to set the natural order," he smirked. Eyes landing on the twitching of Gan falls lance.

"You don't get to decide that!" Gan fall declared angrily, charging forward with his metal lance! Metal that conducted electricity. The man was as good as fried. Enel didn't even flinch, just lifting a finger and pointing a concentrated stream of electricity into the old man. He dropped down smoking and charred. Tani let out a strangled gasp, her hand covering her mouth to shut herself up. Enel turned his gaze back to her with a smug look.

"You should all be honoured that I'd even consider bringing you to the promised land." Enel boomed. He twirled a finger around one of his... Oh my lord are those his ear lobes?! Gross!

"One down, one more to go. Who's it going to be?" the electric demon questioned. He floated closer to the group. Robin straightened her back, taking on a nonchalant persona, though Tani could feel the tension in her voice, Zoro looked just as aware of this change.

"Kami-sama," she said gracefully. That was a title Tani had never heard of. Kinda sounded like something from Dragon ball... God? She couldn't remember it's been a while since she watched any of the episodes.

"It wouldn't be wise to destroy the sky islands, you still need the golden bell after all," she reasoned. Enel narrowed his gaze at her, floating close to her. His nose practically touching hers. Though she kept her cool. Tani and Zoro tensed up, ready to strike at the bastard if he laid a finger on her.

"You know," Enel said coldly. His fingers shot forward and wrapped around the woman's throat, Robin gasped and sputtered for air. Enel sent a powerful volt into her neck. Her body spazzed out, limbs twitching as she felt the electricity course through her body. Robin passed out before she could hear him finish. "I hate manipulative women like you," he snides before dropping her still twitching body to the ground.

Tani screamed, frozen on the spot. Zoro wasted no time charging at the lightening God. Swords drawn by his sides. Though a blur of tan and red passed him.

Wyper took action, shooting past Tani on his waver shoes. He kicked forward, landing a blow on Enel! How?! How did he hit him? Was he made of electricity in the same vain as Smoker was made of smoke? Or Ace was made of fire. Was this a devil fruit or was he really a God?

Wyper wrapped his legs around Enel's waist. His palm being held out towards the gods chest. Wyper's other hand held the base of his wrist. Bracing for the recoil of the reject dial in his palm. A dial that was so powerful that he wouldn't survive the blow.

"Not even a god like you could survive this," Wyper glared. Enel gave him a challenging gaze. "Seastone and the full force of a reject dial, this game of yours is over,"

"A reject dial? You know you'll die too?" Enel teased. Wyper smirked.

"For my ancestors, it'll be worth going down in history as a god killer" Wyper remarked before pressing the dial into Enel's chest and filling the world with white. Tani flew backwards at the wind force that erupted from the dials impact. Enel and Wyper flew away from one another. Wyper landing beside Tani in a heavily injured state. While Enel laid further away, still as a board.

Tani crawled over to the now unconscious Wyper, her head quickly lowering to his chest. A very very unsteady heart beat could still be heard. She sighed with relief. Then noticing his very disfigured arm, looking away before it made her ill.

She stood up weakly, her side protesting her every move. Tani walked over to Zoro and Robin, Zoro was moving Robin into a more comfortable position. Nami peaked out of her hiding spot.

The red head peered over after the explosion of the reject dial. She placed Chopper in Robin's lap, the knocked out nakama all resting their injuries away. Nami had checked both their pulses, they were a little shaky but stable. Tani leaned against Nami with a tired sigh. Her heart racing in her chest, something electric in the air left her feeling uneasy.

*pulse*

Tani flinched, turning towards the still body of Enel... No it wasn't still...

*pulse*

His chest jerked upwards. Falling back down to the ground like he'd never moved. Nami stared with equal fear. Tani turned back towards Wyper. Zoro followed Tani.

*pulse*

She ran to Wyper's downed self, sliding on the ground, scraping her knees while her hands launched forward to unlatch his wavers. They were the only thing she'd seen actually make contact with Enel. They must have been laced with that sea stone stuff.

*pulse*

She ripped the unclipped shoes off, making work on her own. She had no time to waste.

"Give me one of those! Now!" Zoro yelled, Tani shoved one of the seastone shoes into Zoro's hand. The swordsman made a run for Enel.

The clicking of Nami's clima-tact assembling crossed Tani's ears.

*pulse*

Zoro's feet slammed into the ground. Tani removed one of her shoes.

*pulse*

Zoro jumped and let out an angered war cry, a choir of echoed cries followed. Tani slid the new shoe on.

"..."

The pulsing stopped. The air went static. Enel chuckled. Tani whipped her head around to find that Zoro was caught around the wrist, suspended in the air with the sea stone in hand. Enel looked up at him.

"That nasty little tricks not going to work this time," he smirked. Sending a powerful shock through Zoro's arm that sent the man into a twitching fit akin to Robins only moments ago. Zoro's eyes rolled back, his mouth agape as he twitched and smoked. Nami let out a whimper. Enel faced the two girls. Tossing Zoro to the side like a doll.

"It appears that there's only two of you left," he smirked. Like he hadn't literally just jump started his heart not even 5 seconds ago. Tani stalked up to Nami's side, her hands in her pockets to loop her yo-yo's around her fingers. She wasn't going down without a fight.

"Don't think you can defeat me mortal girl," he sneered at Nami, who was quivering on the spot. Tani blinked at that. That wasn't a plural. He was referring to Nami and Nami alone.

"Are you saying I can then?" Tani remarked with way more spunk than she probably should have. Enel instantly shifted his attention to her. She kept her hands in her pockets. Waiting for the right moment.

"Of course not, but you yourself aren't mortal are you?" he stated. Tani was taken aback by this. He continued, "That or you're lack of life force is a technique that you've learnt from the gods themselves," he whispered, floating ever so close to her ear that she felt her body shiver.

"I never would have thought someone would figure it out so soon," Tani snickered. What the hell was she saying?! She prayed she wasn't digging herself into a big hole, "Then again I never should doubt a future dweller of uh... Tatooine," she said smugly. Oh Luke Skywalker please protect her stupid ass.

"Tatooine?" Enel questioned. Tani gasped in fake shock. Turning to Nami.

"He hasn't heard of Tatooine. Can you believe it?" she directed to Nami. Who snapped into character flawlessly.

"And to think, he planned on taking us there," she joined. Tani put an arm around Enel's shoulder, kinda surprised she didn't phase through him. Then again she didn't phase through Ace in Alabasta.

"What was it you were calling it? Fairy Vearth?" Tani asked. Enel went to open his mouth but Tani interrupted him. "We actually call it Tatooine, Miss Nami over here is actually my assistant in guiding those back to the promised land. Isn't that right Nami?" Tani winked her way. Nami gave a nod. Enel was blinking with confusion.

"Of course I knew that! I was just testing you two," Enel pouted like a child. Tani had to hold back a snicker. Now she just needed him to lower his guard some more.

"We were just on our way back home, can we take you up on that offer? To take us back to Tatooine?" Tani asked. Batting her eyelashes. Enel huffed and turned from the two girls, walking away. The girls turned to each other, nodding to one another before following behind him.

"Oh hold on a second!" Tani called out, Enel and Nami turned to look at her. She ran over to Zoro, whispering a sorry to him as she took the sea stone shoe out of his unconscious grasp. "A gift for myself, I don't get to come to this world very often." Tani smiled sweetly. Enel narrowed his gaze at her while she switched the shoe in her hand with the non-matching waver. She gave a lazy salute and ran back to the pair.

"Let's continue shall we?"

...

"Did you have to bring that clunky piece of junk with you?" Enel groaned to Nami. The red head had brought her waver scooter, planning to use it to escape if the situation turned sour.

"It's a souvenir for my sister, she happens to like the sky islands very much, and since they're going to be destroyed I thought I'd bring home something nice," Nami huffed dramatically. Tani was glad the tunnelling cave they were in was dark because she was grinning like a cat.

The tunnel was a twist of branching pathways, forks in the road that the girls couldn't see properly in such a dark place. How would someone else find them? How would they escape if they too would get lost?

An opening at the end of the tunnel filled Tani's eyes with too much light. She squinted while her vision readjusted to the new setting. She found herself staring in awe at the sight before her.

A massive wooden boat, akin to the models she saw in collectors stores back home, or images of Noah's ark in biblical picture books. Actually it looked a lot like Noah's ark, the biblical parallels were uncanny.

The boat had a lot of gold on it, making Nami's eyes sparkle at the sight. Tani elbowed her so she would calm down. They had an act to keep up.

Enel zips onto the ark in a flash of electricity. Standing in a godly way while he waited for the girls to board the boat. Tani and Nami spoke in hushed tones.

"That boat is going to fly, look at the propellers on the sides." Tani whispered. Nami nodded in agreement, tightening her grip on the waver. "We're going to have to make a jump for it before the ark is too high up," Tani concluded.

"We should aim for the Merry, in terms of direction," Nami stated. "The closer we are to our ship, the faster we can escape," Tani nodded and the pair boarded the boat.

"Welcome to the Ark Maxim," Enel announced, his arm making a sweep motion of the boats massive deck. Tani gasped with 'awe'.

"What a magnificent boat! Where's the crew?" Tani questioned. It would take a crew to pilot such a massive craft, especially if it was flying. Enel simply chuckled and waltzed over to a massive generator found at the front of the boat, he placed his hands on it and crackled to life, powerful volts of raw energy lit the structure up. He was charging the propellers himself!

"Impressed?" he smirked. Nami started clapping loudly, Tani let out a whistle. The propellers started to whirl to life. Tani had to swallow the bile that slid up her throat... Nami was gonna have to drag her off this boat because she could not willingly jump.

Something suddenly changed in the air. It felt... Heavy? No that's not it... Scary? No no not that either...

The sound of slapping sandals were ever so faint, as was the roaring of a bell. Tani's smile grew.

"Oh! I almost forgot," Tani stalled. "It's Tatooine tradition to sing a song before take off," Tani smiled. Enel looked at her with tested patience.

"Oh don't worry, only the leading female must sing it before take off," she said, turning to face the tunnels mouth. She cleared her throat and in the nicest voice she could.

"The islands in the south are~!"

She projected her voice.

"Hot~!"

The slapping of sandals got louder.

"Heads all a swoon swoon~!"

His bell called out to her loud and clear.

"Buncha idiots~!"

She finished the verse, and Luffy appeared. The little red haired girl, Aisa was on his back. Tani's heart fluttered at the sight of Luffy. He was pissed off, but the relief at seeing Nami and herself was evident. Enel let out a growl.

"What is the meaning of this?!" he said angrily, zapping beside Tani with anger on his features. Tani blinked with feigned ignorance.

"My song must have been too powerful!" Tani gasped. Turning to Enel with apologies spilling from her mouth.

Enel's sceptical gaze didn't falter, he was towering over the girl. Her skin started to sweat while she spewed as many empty words to appease the God. He moved quickly, grabbing her around her throat and lifting her off the ground. She flailed and panicked, being suspended in the air setting her internal alarms into overdrive.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF TANI!" Luffy's angered roar bounced off the walls of the hollowed cave. Tani turned to stare at him, but he was gone in a flash. His arm whipping forward to throw him onto the ark.

Luffy landed with a thunk, fists crackling as he balled them. His face screaming murderous intent. Tani had to warn him about Enel's mantra. Yet all she could muster was garbled spit. Luffy's got even angrier. Enel laughed in the captains face, tightening his grip on Tani's throat.

"I don't need her, she's of no use to me." Enel said smugly. Tani could already feel a change in the air. Now Tani has never been tazed in her life, she's seen it happen to others and the experience looks about as pleasant as going to the dentist. Tani in all her panic, decided now would be the best time to open her mouth and chomp down on his still solid flesh. Her teeth sinking into his hand, clenching down as hard as she could.

Enel yelped at the bite. He lit up like a Christmas tree, sending a painful volt of electricity through Tani's body. She'd never felt anything like it. How would you even describe a feeling like this? Her limbs seized, twitching without her consent. She herself couldn't move, and everything hurt.

"I SAID GET YOUR HANDS OFF TANI!" Luffy screamed, running forward with his fists already trailing behind him. "Gum gum!" he started, Tani gasped out an agonised whimper. "BAZOOKA!" Luffy shot his hands forward.

Tani clenched her eyes shut. She didn't want to see her captain befall the same fate... So why the hell had the shocking stopped? Enel had staggered backwards, losing his grip on Tani. The girl dropped to the ground in a ball of fidgeting limbs. Nami ran to her side, while Luffy stood in front of them. Blocking the girls from Enel's path.

"Pshh, lucky shot," Enel sneered. Staring at Luffy with malice. Luffy bounced on his feet, fists up and ready to go. He whipped a kick. Enel stood there with a smug grin, his body frizzling with electricity.

Luffy hit him square in the chest, knocking the God to back. Enel's jaw dropped, eyes bulging out of his head as he stared in horror at the man that could actually hit him.

"How the hell is Luffy hitting him?" Tani coughed. Looking up at her captain. Luffy went in for another kick, this time Enel tried to send a volt of electricity up Luffy's leg. It just frizzled out and Enel was once again launched backwards.

"What are you?" Enel gasped, stepping back from Luffy. The younger man kept his stance.

"I'm a rubber man," Luffy spat. Going to take another swing, which Enel evaded.

Rubber... Rubber... OH RUBBER!

"Rubber nullifies electricity! Luffy's immune to Enel!" Tani whisper shouted to Nami. "We use rubber on power cords back home, because rubber doesn't conduct electricity,"

"Rubber?! What is rubber?!" Enel shouted. Dodging another one of Luffy's attacks with ease.

"It means I'm gonna kick your ass," Luffy stated with conviction. Tani's couldn't look away. Everything about Luffy just glowed, everything about him was amplified... Maybe Enel really did fry her brain...

"You may be immune to my electricity, but that doesn't mean I can't eradicate vermin like you through other means." Enel smirked. Zapping over to the golden throne and pressing his palm on the back, he fired up his devil fruit and super heated the gold. Pulling forth a massive staff.

Tani called bullshit on him being able to heat the gold up that much. This is an adventure movie though, plot holes and gaps in logic were expected... But seriously what the hell!

Enel was fast, he managed to smack Luffy around with the staff. Luffy would make to dodge but Enel would move to attack. Luffy was being overwhelmed with attacks.

"I can read your every move, see all your attacks before you even attempt it." Enel taunted. Luffy growled at him. Launching himself into the air and shouting.

"Gum gum gattling!" Luffy's fists launched into a flurry of attacks. Enel evaded and twirled around the incoming fists with the grace of an ice skater.

"Told you so," Enel smirked. Luffy was getting frustrated. He landed back on the deck with a thud. His next action being rather amusing. Luffy rubbed at his head, thinking hard about what to do next so he could kick this jerks ass. The veins in his head fit to burst from all the strain. Steam practically poured from his ears until...

*pop*

Luffy's entire face went blank, his eyes lazily lidded. His body floating like paper whenever Enel made an attack. Luffy dodged Enel with ease, his expression as blank as his brain.

Oh! He wasn't thinking. Utilising his natural instincts, Luffy could dodge all of Enel's attacks. Though he wasn't making any attempts at fighting back.

Tani thought this would be a great time to try an get back onto her feet... Emphasise on tried. She jittered and wobbled, Nami made to protest but Tani put a finger over her own mouth and motioned for the navigator to hush.

Enel was too up his own ass to pay attention to Tani, who was hyping herself up to make a move. The advice that Luffy had given her was set on loop in her brain.

"dont think too much, just act,"

So she did.

The girl launched forward, her feet in front of her so they'd make first contact. Enel was facing the opposite way, his attention all on hitting Luffy (and failing miserably). Tani's heels smacked into Enel exposed back. The man instantly dropped down, his body weakened at the presence of sea stone? That's what Wyper had called it.

Luffy snapped back to his regular self. He looked at Tani with awe as she wrapped her legs around Enel's torso. Her arms around his neck in a choke hold. Tani felt her side burst into pain, her tense muscles making it hard to hold the position she was in.

The captain wasted no time, he rushed forward. Keeping an eye on Tani's ever moving location as Enel squirmed to get her off. The straw hat boy didn't want to hit his nakama for a fourth time.

Luffy took aim, his arms flying behind him.

"Gum gum-"

He was interrupted by the sound of the ship rumbling to life. Enel gave a sinister laugh as the ark's propellers whirled quickly. Tani's complexion paled, her eyes instantly closed as her clothes and hair started to float upwards at the high winds. The ground shook and rumbled. She could feel the boat taking off, and she wasn't going to look.

Tani's mistake of closing her eyes however cost her, with Luffy staggered for a moment, Enel took this opportunity to use his golden staff. Slamming it in between his chest and Tani's interlocked limbs. Tani clutched tighter. Though her bruise screamed at her, she bit down on her tongue to stop a scream from bursting out of her throat.

The wind bellowed and shrieked passed the girls ears. Enel continued to pry the girl off of him. The gold of the staff digging into her wrist and ankle bones. It hurt! But she needed to distract him from Luffy.

"Bazooka!"

Luffy finally called out, Tani let go the second a syllable escaped her captains lips. Her back slammed into the wooden decking as Luffy's palms slammed into the Gods chest. Enel was pushed back into his golden throne. Luffy's palms still pushing against him with the might of an angry Luffy... What? That's the scariest thing Tani can think of! She would know!

Enel gave a gasped cough, his mind whizzing to life as it thought a million miles a second. A wicked grin spread wide on the foes face as he swiftly grabbed one of Luffy's hands and electrified it. Obviously it did nothing to Luffy... But that's not what he wanted.

Enel sank backwards into the gold, dragging Luffy's stretched arm in with him. Luffy let out a pained wince as the gold melted around his arm. Enel's laugh echoing around the strawhat crew. Tani didn't think, and ran towards the stretched limb. She grabbed hold of it and gave it a strong (well as strong as she could, the girls been electrocuted, bruised and a whole bunch of other stuff). The yank was enough of a shock to Enel that he let go of the limb.

Luffy's arm returned with a massive ball of gold attached to it. Yet his look of determination was still there.

Enel reemerged from the golden throne, a gold glob melting in his hands. He turned his gaze to meet Tani's own. The girl gulped, choosing to scoot next to Luffy.

"You alright?" Tani said, Luffy nodded. The gold wasn't burning him anymore. Yet she could tell that he'd have stretch marks after this... Can he get stretch marks? That's something Tani wants to know.

Nami stood frozen as she watched Enel charge towards her nakama. She couldn't do anything, clutching onto the handle of her waver while her heart pounded in her chest.

Enel made contact with Luffy's chest. His hand fanned over the young captain's top half, he shoved the straw hat captain backwards. Luffy flailed at the push, his backside landed on the railing of the ark. Tani watched in shared horror with Nami as Enel zoomed forward and swung his staff at their captain, handle-barring him so hard that he broke the wooden railing and began falling over the edge.

Luffy quickly clasped the edging of the ark with his free hand, his knuckles whitened, teeth clenched as he held back any sounds of pain. The massive golden weight pulled on his body, the ark tilted slightly at the imbalance of weight.

Enel in true Lion King fashion, stamped down harshly on Luffy's only hold of the ark. Luffy released involuntarily, his angered cries echoed through the sky. Tani and Nami watched as Luffy descended to Upper-yard.

"Now," Enel said. Tani and Nami looked up like deer's caught in the headlights. The molten glop of gold still danced between his fingers. Tani felt the urge to run... But where to?

The ship swayed, Tani found herself wobbling on the spot. Sickness bubbling up her throat as she remembered how high up she was.

"TANI LOOK OU-"

Electricity and gold filled Tani's vision. A burning sensation clamped around her wrists, cooling down just as quickly as it had appeared. Nami shouted angrily. The sound of her clima-tact clinking together mixed into the dizzying sounds that filled Tani's world.

"Thunder ball tempo!" Nami cast, bubbles of heated and cooled air danced around one another. The small electric balls managed to redirect all strikes that Enel happened to shoot towards the navigator.

Tani blinked the dizzy away and found herself staring at golden hand cuffs around her wrists. She could barely move her hands apart. Her yo-yo's would be out of commission, so really she was out of commission... Unless she could latch onto Enel again but the chances of that happening were slim if not impossible if he keep glaring at her like that.

"Deathpiea has already begun! It's best you two behave." Enel said with victory. His arms wide open, like wings spread from an eagle. He lifted his arms up higher and threw massive bolts of electricity into the air. The clouds grew angry and black, roaring with power that needed to be expelled.

There was no rain that came before the storm of power, exploded. Lightning struck down on both Upper yard and Angel island. Enel laughed manically, feeding the over stuffed clouds with more energy than they could possibly hold. Consuming the fluffy white clouds around them until the sky was nothing but an ocean of black that cried in pain.

Tani wouldn't just stand here and do nothing! What would Luffy do?... Well Luffy would punch the threat, but that wasn't really possible with Tani's current predicament... Luffy was adaptable though, if he couldn't punch it then he would kick it, and Tani did still have her legs.

"Psst"

But if Tani used her legs, she wouldn't be able to run away. She could jump him again but that wouldn't end well because she can't grab him.

"Psst, Tani... Oi,"

She could throw her locked arms around his neck so he can't get rid of her. But she'd need to loop her legs around his waist again in record speed-

"TANI!"

The girl turned around to find Usopp?! How did he get here? Waving at her with Nami beside him. The navigator had slapped a hand around the snipers mouth as he'd yelled a little too loud. Enel turned around with a bored expression.

"Another parasite on my ship," Enel rolled his eyes, but his focus was on Usopp and Nami. Tani took this as a sign from whatever other power there was out there, to make her move.

Nami mounted her waver, clima-tact held under her arm with a serious expression. Tani saw the calculations in her eyes. She was planning to make a break for it.

Usopp wasted no time, he ran and climbed onto the top of the power generator that Enel was using to power the ark. He stood on top of it with his arm held up like a super hero, his brave warrior of the sea persona taking control to mask his terror.

"Oi you big electric phoney!" Usopp taunted, poking his tongue out and pulling down on his eyelid. It was very childish and honestly something Tani would do so she couldn't judge. "Check out my ultimate technique! I can inflict damage on any foe without even moving," he threatened. Enel narrowed his eyes with boredom.

Nami waved Tani over, the girl snuck over. Name whispered the plan, and it was everything that Tani was dreading.

"We're going to jump, Usopp will distract Enel while I find the best angle to do this. There's a cloudy spot next to the massive bean stalk," Nami relayed.

"Bean stalk? What are we gonna find a goose that lays golden eggs?" Tani joked. Nami didn't get it, but that's expected of Tani and her otherworldly thoughts.

"We better get going," Nami said. Tani nodded, silently following behind her nakama while Usopp started to spout declarations and taunts. A rumble coursed through the ark, a stutter that shot Tani's anxiety up. Something was wrong and she knew it wasn't some bout of turbulence. She didn't have much time to think though, before Usopp started using his new technique to cause pain without lifting a finger...

"A needle digs under your toe nail and you kick a wall," Usopp says with no emotion. Tani, Nami and Usopp all shivered at the thought. Tani felt the phantom pains of that in her feet and she wanted to punch Usopp for saying it. At least his technique worked... Just on the wrong people. He tried again.

"Finger nails slowly screeching down a blackboard," Usopp says. Nami freezes to squeal about the simulated pain. Tani starts shaking her head as a means to remove such awful thoughts. Enel looked like he was about to fall asleep with how bored he is.

"USOPP YOUR TECHNIQUE ISN'T WORKING! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP!" Tani shrieks. Usopp does as she says because he wasn't fairing any better. Nami was in position anyway, Usopp just needed to jump down and they'd be out Scott free-

"But what about Sanji?" Usopp panicked with waving arms. He wasn't paying attention to Enel... Nobody was. What was Sanji doing here?! Nami was going to ask unanswered questions, only for Enel to grow impatient and start monologuing again.

"Are you mortals done with your little games? I grow tired of your childish attempts at stopping me," he spoke smugly. Tani rolled her eyes while another bout of shaking rocked the boat. Tani whined and dove for Nami, shoving her face in the girls cushion of a chest. Usopp jumped down to ground level with the girls, worried about their chef who had yet to show up.

"None of you pests are worthy of my generosity," Enel droned, lifting his already sparking hand upwards at the trio. While his other hand covered a yawn, his nonchalant attitude about this whole murder shebang being the reason he didn't notice Sanji casually walking out the only door on the main deck.

Sanji was covered in black grease and sweat that stuck his fringe to his face. A lit smoke was already resting on his lips, he walked towards the trio without even acknowledging Enel. The ship rocked violently, Nami almost toppled over if it wasn't for Sanji's sturdy arms catching her and Tani. Usopp clung to the blonde's arm nervously, Sanji smiled at the three softly.

Enel sneered in annoyance, confused about the ark acting up as well as the addition of one of the weaklings he'd defeated not even an hour ago. Sanji looked up at him with a smirk that could kill with how smug it was.

"Ship troubles?" he stated with a laugh in his tone. The simple phrase filling in the blanks that Tani had yet to answer. So he was inside destroying the ship. What a sneaky bastard, that's our Mr Prince after all.

To say Enel was enraged would be far to eloquent a term. The mad god was down right pissed, a look that rivals Luffy's on a bad day... Tani felt her heart flinch at the thought of Luffy being stuck somewhere with a massive golden ball melted to his arm.  Nami snapped her out of her thoughts.

"We all here? Let's go!" she shouted over the sound of something exploding in the bellows of the ark. Enel crackled to life, his whole body engulfed in the furious electricity of his undying hatred. Sanji pulled away from the group, what was that self sacrificing dumbass doing this time-

"Go. I'll distract him," he said, flicking the ash from the tip of his cigarette. Tani removed herself from the safety that was Nami's chest, to stand beside Sanji. He gave her a pleading look, but just like with Alabasta she wasn't going to move.

"Enel can't read my movements, plus I'm wearing shoes that null his electric fruit thingy." she whispered just loud enough for him to hear. The chef let out a sigh, ready to protest again before Tani to cut him off again. "Plus I can fly us off of here," she said absentmindedly, not realising that meant literally jumping off the god damn boat.

Sanji turned to look at Usopp and Nami, who had already boarded the waver. Engine purring to life, Usopp looped his arms around Nami's waist. He nodded at the woman and she nodded back, turning around to fly off.

Enel fired a shot at the escaping duo, though Tani bolted to intercept the electricity with her shoes. She didn't really know if this counted as a part of Enel still but it was worth a shot. Sanji's cry of protest couldn't be heard of the the cackling of lightening striking Tani's foot, which charred the leg up until the knee in sooty black. The girl landed hard on her foot, dropping and rolling with a hiss as her leg twitched.

Nami and Usopp escaped safely, sailing towards the massive bean stalk that Tani was only really noticing now. Sanji stood in front of Tani with a deathly glare, Enel was clicking a spark of electricity to life. Tani smacked her locked hands onto the deck as a way to expel her need to scream bloody murder. She needed just a little bit of time for the shock to leave her system. They could escape soon just a little longer, don't do something dumb Sanji!

Tani's prayers must have been answered because Sanji don't aggro the god, instead he stood still and went the diplomatic route. Speaking to distract the villain before them while Tani recovered.

"Your plans are over, the ark is totally busted on the inside. The ships going down as we speak," he stalled. Enel gave a scoff. "Something funny?" Sanji questioned. An edge to his tone.

"You really thought that my ark would be that easy to destroy? You're more foolish than that creature you call a human woman beside you," he taunted, pointing at Tani. Who only glared while hissing a little at the small jolts that spasmed her leg. Sanji glared daggers at Enel for his insult. Oh for the love of god, don't go all white knight! Please. Come on leg stop twitching!

"What was that? Sorry I couldn't hear you over the bull shit that came dribbling out of your shitty mouth," Sanji sneered, dropping his cigarette on the ground and stomping on it so hard that he broke the wood of the deck. His hands firmly placed in his pants pockets. Tani willed her pain away, just to save her the hassle of hauling Sanji's ass off the boat... Oh shoot the boat!

Tani jumped up onto her feet, her leg still twitchy but she ignored it because she didn't want to be on a crashing sky ship that would hit the ground in god knows how long. She threw her cuffed arms around Sanji's torso, squishing him really close because she was small and small girls have small arms. Sanji was frozen in surprise, his body tensing up. Tani suplexed herself and Sanji over the edge of the boat. The girls eyes tightened shut to the point that it hurt her eyelids.

The pair free-falled towards the cloudy ground below, Sanji shouting over the roar of the wind that whipped their ears. Tani was drawing blanks, her fear locking her whole body up before she could smack her heels together. She clutched Sanji tightly, cutting off his breathing. He coughed and sputtered, trying in vain to get the girl holding onto him to snap out of it and save them both.

Closer and closer

The ground was coming towards them faster and faster. Sanji shut his eyes, awaiting the harsh impact, he's survived worse falls than this... Tani has not.

Tani was screaming internally, her brain commanding she hurry up and click her heels. Yet her body would not move, it refused every command her brain would scream. She was going to die, Sanji would die with her. Oh god she was going to kill Sanji too... Luffy would be so upset... She'd never see Luffy or the others again if she died... Her mum would cry too, she can't have her mother in tears. She has so much she needs to do... So why won't she move! Tears dribbled from her eyes, evaporating as soon as they touched the violent wind that broke their fall.

Sanji leaned back, his head resting on Tani's shoulder. He gave a smile, the kind that said he wasn't upset with her for her failure to act. Tani couldn't die! Not yet! She needs to see her nakama succeed in their dreams! She needs to see them alive and well so they can have a feast after this! So Tani did what she always did when she wasn't sure what to do.

She shut off her brain and let instinct take over. Just like Luffy told her.

Her legs snapped into action, colliding with each other in the heel. Her waver shoes burst to life, jetting the pair towards the cloudy floor faster. She tilted Sanji's weight towards the bean stalk, the man's extra weight pulled them closer at a faster rate. The chef stayed silent, trusting Tani with his life 100%. The girl glared at the base of the bean stalk. That was her target and you bet your ass she was going to survive this.

For her nakama.

She spotted the coloured blobs that were her entire crew plus some extras like Gan fall and Wyper.

For her mother.

They grew more defined, Nami's orange hair, Zoro's blue tank top and swords, robins cowboy hat. Her friends, her nakama.

For herself.

She let out a battle cry. Sticking her feet forward to break the speed of the fall. The crew scurried out of the way as Sanji called out for all of them to "Get the hell outta the way!"

Tani tripped and rolled with Sanji in her arms. It was painful as hell, boney limbs poking into places they shouldn't, flesh squishing into things painfully, the wind being knocked from lungs. All in all 1/5 stars, would never do again.

Sanji pulled himself out of Tani's hold while she was still stunned from the stunt. All her fear rushing back to her, she was mumbling to herself about falling and all that fun junk. Chopper came running to check on the new wounds, Sanji pointing at Tani for the reindeer to check on first.

Chopper instantly dove to examine the charred leg, wiping away the soot that coated it to only find red welts around her foot and the lower half of the calf. Her leg had stopped twitching though so that meant it was unlikely she had permanent damage in the leg.

Next Chopper checked the bruising on her side. Peeling her sweat coated shirt up her ribs to see the massive bruise. It looked the same as before. The little doctor turned to the three who were on the ark with her to ask questions. "Has she put any pressure on the bruise?" he asked with seriousness. Nami nodded. Chopper groaned.

"Will she be OK?" Usopp asked with concern. Chopper turned back to look at the wound, then at the girl who was so freaked out she hadn't even noticed she was being attended to.

"Where's Luffy when you need him," Zoro sighed. Looking at the girl who had curled in on herself. Nami and Usopp looked at her sadly. Robin on the other hand...

The older woman walked over to Tani and crouched beside her. A calming smile on her face as she quietly spoke.

"You know that you've stopped falling right?" she stated. Tani continued whimpering. "So reacting this way is not only weak but it's also going to be your demise." Robin said. Tani didn't stop shaking. "It only gets harder, you have people who rely on you. If you falter once, it could mean the loss of someone who means a lot to you." her voice holding experience. That one sentence seemed to hit, as Tani slowly started coming back. Robin continued.

"Mr Captain and the rest of the crew. You could lose them all if you don't push your fears aside." she finished. Her brilliant blue eyes hiding her sympathy. Tani stared at her with shaking green eyes. The woman's words having an effect on the younger girls.

"I can't... I can't be weak... Everyone is s-so strong and I'm so weak," Tani wept softly. Robin gently placed a hand on her shoulder. "I'm tired of being a burden. I want to get better, I want to be better," Tani choked. Lifting her head off the cloudy surface below her. Shaking on her adrenaline fueled arms, pushing herself to get up.

Robin removed her hand, watching silently as the girl somewhat pulled herself back together. The rest of the crew watched silently. Not daring to ruin the moment.

Tani, now standing on her two shaking legs. Turned to look at her crew with a big grin, she was still terrified but she wanted to push that onto the back burner. Usopp and Chopper ran and hugged her tightly, only stopping when Tani squeaked at the contact on her bruise. Zoro and Robin were smiling. Nami on the other hand was staring in the direction of a very loud, angry and down right Luffy like roar.

All eyes followed in suit, staring at the birds flying away from the disturbance. Trees rattled or tipped over as the cry grew louder. The crew collectively grew excited as they felt their captain approaching. The little red haired girls voice could be heard calling for Luffy to calm down. An action that was in vain because this is Luffy.

Then he appeared.

His red vest and blue shorts were in tethers, holes and tears exposing his roughed up skin. Dirt smeared all over his arms, legs and face. Hat tipped back to rest on his back. Hair a mess of twigs and leaves. The expression on his face went from down right murderous, to angered but relieved at the sight of his beloved nakama. The golden ball was still melted into his arm.

That's our Luffy.

He charged towards them. The crew was ready to finally be back together again.

"Where earlobes guy? Did you guys kick his ass before I could?" Luffy asked as soon as he was within range to speak without shouting. Sanji responded for everyone.

"We didn't. Nami, Usopp, Tani and I had to escape. I destroyed the inside of the ark but I don't know if that was enough to stop the bastard," Sanji relayed. Luffy nodded, turning to face his other crew mates. Everyone was roughed up and tired, dirt and soot caked skin, bruises and scratches adorned them all.

"Enel won't leave without the golden bell," Robin spoke up. "He told me earlier in the lost city under the bean stalk." she confirmed. Luffy nodded.

"Ring the bell," a voice whispered to Tani again. Her eyes widened. Who was it?

"Then we need to kick his ass before he gets the bell," Luffy declared. The crew all agreed. Robin pointed to a spot in the clouds.

"Ring the bell," the other voice whispered to her. Tani grabbed at her hair. Was this the bell? Did she need to ring it?

"The bell is located up there. It's too far away from the bean stalks stem." Robin informed. Zoro huffed.

"Just cut the thing down, make a bridge, get the bell so Enel can't have it." he said as if it was as simple as that.

"Perfect! Zoro's so smart," Luffy agreed. Everyone with more than half a brain cell groaned. Yet that was the best plan they had.

Tani could hear the voices chanting at her to ring that bell. Ring the bell! She turned to Luffy, who stood with his free arm on his hip. Starring up at the bean stalk with a smile.

"Yosh! Let's cut this bean stalk down!"

"Aye aye captain!" the crew chanted back.

(A/N: Hello everyone! First and foremost I want to thank you all for sticking around with this story. My update schedule is atrocious and I only have my depression to blame for that.

Secondly I wanted to say that I appreciate every single comment and dm that I receive. All of you are so wonderful and kind and I can't express how much I love reading your messages and suggestions for the story. If you haven't sent a message but want to, please do. I want to hear what everyone has to say about my little adventure.

Thirdly!!! The most important message of all!!! Tani loves you<3)