"Heaven huh? You know I always thought I'd end up in the other place to be honest with you" Zeus said as he rubbed his chin. Ussop fell over and fainted. Robin giggled and the rest of the crew just smirked. An old lady came over with what seemed like a camera in her hands, she had wings, Zeus looked over and said "Is that an angel? We're definitely in hell then." Sanji nodded, and the old lady said "Im Amazon, the gatekeeper." Zeus shuffled over to Robin and whispered "Seems like we didn't get reincarnated this time." Robin laughed and put her hand over her mouth and slapped Zeus' shoulder. Amazon continued "State your purpose, touring, permanent living, looting, pillaging, warmongering..." She kept going on and on, finally Zeus interrupted "Oi old lady! What was that last one?" Amazon blinked and said "Creating havoc to the economy by releasing better products at extremely low prices?" Zeus slapped himself and said "No the one before that" Amazon said "Oh, destroying the ecosystem?" Zeus said "In between those two you damn old hag!" Amazon said "Beat the shit out of God" Zeus nodded and snapped his fingers "Exactly that old lady, you know you sure do know a lot of things." Amazon said "Well I AM the gatekeeper, I need to know your intentions, and charge the fee, or not really it doesn't matter, I don't really care." Zeus said "Of course because we're criminals anyway so it really DOESN'T matter." Amazon nodded and snapped a few pictures, and a huge lobster grabbed their boat and sped off, Zeus waved at Amazon as they left.
Zeus turned to the crew, who were glaring at him and Nami screamed "WHAT WAS THAT!" Zeus looked confused and said "I was waving at that old cat-lady" Nami seethed and said "Why did you say we were going to beat the shit out of their god?!" Zeus gave her a 'are you serious' look and said "First of all Nemo, look around you mosshead is sharpening his swords with a psycho grin on his face, love-cook is already thinking about the angels, and Luffy's favorite thing to do is beat the shit out of people, second of all, we're here to steal their gold, do you think this 'god' is going to let us waltz in and steal from him? Even if he doesn't care about gold, it's about the principle normally people don't like being stolen from, last time i took a single beri from the floor and almost died." Nami's eyes went to beri signs and said "You're right! Luffy time to kick god's ass!" Zeus smashed his head into a wall and said "Robin please help me out here." Robin was in a daze, Zeus walked up and poked her and said "Uhh are you alright?" She turned to him and said "Do you think there's a lot of ruins here?" Zeus nodded and said "I don't know but I guess so I mean it used to be part of Jaya, if my theory's correct so there should be old buildings and books and stuff." Robin stared at Zeus and kept muttering something about history, it's all mine Zeus sighed and sat next to Chopper and said "Doc, I think I'm losing my damn mind, you got anything for that?" Chopper kept mumbling about new medicines, Zeus sighed and gave up.
A while later, the group landed on a beach. Zoro dropped anchor and Luffy jumped off the boat and said "WOAH IT'S SO SOFT!!" Zeus went into Robins room to switch out his mask, and came back on to the deck, Robin turned to him and said "Why did you change it?" Zeus rubbed her hair and said "Just in case, I don't want it to be damaged. That's my treasure you know." Robin smiled warmly and jumped off the boat with Zeus. Zeus and Robin walked towards the beach and sat down on some clouds, while Luffy was trying to figure out how to open some kind of coconut-like fruit, Zoro stumbled on to a white fluff ball and picked it up and said "What is this?" the white fluff ball opened and revealed that it was actually a fox-like creature, it said "Suuu" and hopped from Zoro's hand on to Zeus' head. The crew looked at him and Luffy said "It thinks you're it's MOM SHISHISHISHISHI" and fell on the ground laughing while holding his stomach, Zeus angrily grabbed it and said "Oi you stupid dog get off me." Everybody looked at him and said "Dog?" Zeus deadpanned and pointed at the thing on his shoulder sleeping and said "Yea are you guys stupid or something? Look, it has a tail, big nose, long ears, and its drooling right now." Nami literally slammed he head into the coconut thing Luffy was holding and everybody else's face faulted, Zeus turned to Robin and winked as he said "Help me out here Robin." she hesitated for a second and sighed saying "Yes it does look like a dog" Zeus started laughing and fell off his cloud-chair, while Robin's face reddened, Zeus said "It's okay Robin, sorry for making you do that and turned to the group and said seriously "I know it's not a dog, it's obviously a snake." Everybody fell, when they got up they heard music and turned their heads.
A woman was walking towards them playing a harp, when she was close enough she stopped playing the harp and said "Heso" Zeus got up and said "Heso" She blinked and said "I'm Conis, aren't you from the blue sea?" Zeus nodded and said "I only said it, because you said it." Nami slammed his face into the ground and said "Hi Conis, yes we are from the blue sea , i'm Nami nice to meet you" Conis decided to ignore the man who's face was stuck in the dirt, and was now dealing with Sanji, who had hearts in his eyes and was saying something about angels, she smiled at him causing Sanji to collapse, and said to Luffy "would you like to drink that pointing at his coconut thing, Luffy nodded and Conis pulled out a pocket knife from nowhere and cut a hole in the bottom and put a straw through it, handing it back to Luffy saying "Enjoy!" Luffy took a sip and said "WOW SO GOOD!" Conis giggled and said "They sure are tasty aren't they" Nami turned to the sea and said "Hey somethings coming." Conis turned to look and said "Oh that's probably just my father" Indeed it was, the man was riding the same contraption that Zeus found on the St. Briss, and slammed right into a tree. He got up and said to the group "Heso! Is everyone alright?" Zoro snapped "Ask yourself first!" and Conis said "Heso father!" the man replied "Heso Conis!" Zeus opened his mouth and said "Hes-" Before he could finish Nami slammed him to the ground again and said to the man "Hello, what was that you were riding on and how could it move without wind?" the man said "My name is Pagaya and this is a waver it uses dials." Nami blinked and said "Dials?" Pagaya said "Yes dials, they're what we use as everyday equipment up here." Nami nodded and said "Can I try your waver?" Pagaya said "Sure" Nami shot off into the white sea on the waver and was strangely good at it, Pagaya offered to take the rest to him house for a meal and they agreed, Zeus waved at them and said he was gonna stay at the beach and watch the boat, "Just in case another lobster-cat comes to take it or something." Robin gave him an look and he smiled as he took out a cigarette and lit it with lightning causing Conis and Pagaya to flinch, something Zeus noticed, he put on a serious face and looked at the two before saying "Alright you guys have fun!" and turned back to look at the sea, the group left but Robin stayed behind and Zeus said without turning around only loud enough for Robin to hear, "Watch those two." Robin nodded and followed after the group, and whispered to Zoro, who nodded.
Zeus was relaxing on the beach, about to take a nap, when he noticed people in white berets crawling on the beach Zeus sighed and said "You do know crawling like that only works in thick foliage places right? Not on a flat beach, I saw you coming from a mile away." The man coughed and stood up, he walked over to Zeus and said "You were charged with-" Zeus cut him off and said "Yeah yeah class 11 crime not paying the gatekeeper I know, can you move out of the way so I can go back to looking at the sea please?" The man moved and said "Then you know you're under arrest." Zeus sighed and said "Yeah yeah, I'm under arrest or I pay 10x the entrance fee blah blah, what else?" The man blinked and said "Well what else did you do?" Zeus looked at him and said "You're like really bad at this you know?" The man was confused and Zeus said "You're supposed to charge with something stupid and I get angry and punch you then you charge me with assaulting a officer and sentence me to 'divine judgement', jeez follow the script man" the man blinked and said "Uhh you're under arrest for sitting." Zeus sighed and punched one of the officers and said sarcastically "That's bullshit! Ah i'm so angry right now!" and gave the man a thumbs up, the guy blinked and smirked "Yes you've assaulted an officer prepare for divine judgement!" Zeus clapped and said "Wow you're really good at acting, have you ever thought about becoming a movie star?" the man said "What's that?" Zeus explained what a movie was and that a star was the hero of the movie and usually saves the day or something along those lines "And a lot of people watch them act it out and give money to watch it." the man scratched the back of his head and said "You really think so?" Zeus nodded and said "Of course," he continued with a raspy voice and said "Ya gonna be star kid, i'll make ya a big shot!" the man nodded excitedly and Zeus said "Now let's practice of choreography! Follow my lead." Zeus got up and started doing moves and said "Oi fall in line and do what I'm doing all of you! And One and Two and Three and Four!" He started doing dance moves with the white berets following his lead, as Luffy and the crew came back and watched, Zeus said "Okay now take it from the top! One and Two and Three and Four!" he stopped and yelled at one of the men "NO Jim! What are you doing! It's jump, slide, spin, THEN punch to the left! You look like you're trying to hump a football!" the man rubbed his head and said "Sorry I though it was punch, spin, jump, then slide." Zeus sighed and said "This is your last chance and BOB I'M WATCHING YOU NO SLACKING OFF!" Luffy came and joined with Ussop and Chopper, as the rest stood next to Zeus and said "What are you doing?" Zeus put his hands up and said "What does it look like i'm doing GET IN LINE LOVE COOK! YOU TOO MOSSHEAD!" Zeus kicked Sanji and Zoro in line and started doing his movement from the top, after a few moments the leader of the white brerets said "Wait a minute! You're all under arrest!" Zeus snapped and said "THAT'S IT I GIVE UP! IF YOU AREN'T GONNA TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY THEN WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER!" he sat down in a chair in a huff, the rest of the white berets along with Luffy, Ussop, and Chopper, all glared at the leader and yelled "WE WERE GONNA BE STARS!" then they started to beat the leader up.
After they stopped the leader stood up and said "Like I was saying you're under arrest for illegal entry, sitting, assaulting an officer, and manipulating officers to dance and practice choreography." Robin turned to Zeus, who shrugged and said "Don't look at me I only committed 3 of those crimes,"He paused and said "Oh no wait all of them, nevermind." he waved and continued smoking, Robin shook her head and sighed as he held her forehead. Zeus watched as Nami came back and crashed the waver into the leader of the white berets, who said his name was McKinley. McKinley stood up and said "I sentence you to divine punishment!" Zeus laughed out loud and flicked him finger in the air, causing a lighting bolt to fall on McKinley's head charring him black, as Zeus sneered "Idiot." Conis, Pagaya, McKinley, and the rest of the white berets stepped back in fear as McKinley stuttered "Enel-sama?" Zeus snapped "Do I look like your shitty God?" Conis and Pagaya gasped and Conis said "You have the same powers as Enel-sama!" Zeus looked at her and asked "What do you mean there can only one fruit like mine." Conis said "He can control lightning just like you can and he can hear all over Skypeia with his mantra, when he hears someone blaspheming against him he-he-he sends 'divine punishment' on that person, and the person is gone forever." Zeus was confused and said "Sounds like a real asshole." Lightining crackled above him Zeus smirked and jumped up meeting the lightning head on and landing back on the ground patting his stomach "Yummy, his lightning tastes good though." Everybody gawked and Luffy yelled "COOOOOL!!!!" Zeus smirked and laughed with his hands on his hips "Of course I'm the mighty Captain Kurama!" Ussop yelled "Hey that's my gag!" Zeus promptly ignored him, and another lightning bolt hit him. Zeus sighed and said "Sorry guys looks like we're being targeted by 'God' now." Conis and Pagaya backed away staring at the sky, Zeus looked at them out of the corner of his eye and called Robin over. Luffy, Sanji, and Ussop went to Conis and asked if they could have some food/dials/spices Pagaya said it was fine and the trio walked to his house, as the rest got on the ship as Nami was saying that they needed to leave.
On the Merry, Zeus, Robin, and Zoro were sitting in the galley. Robin had her eyes closed, she opened them and said "She just called a lobster to take our ship" Zeus nodded and said "Yea I thought so, Zoro did you see anything else?" Zoro shook his head "Nope, not when we were in her house, but when you got struck by lightning the first time she made eye contact and nodded when that captain guy with the hat looked at her." Zeus nodded and said "Well that makes sense, she didn't look like a bad guy, anyway well go with the flow, let the lobster take us where ever and we'll react on the spot." Zoro and Robin nodded, as Zoro got up to leave, when he left Zeus spit out a lightning ball. Robin was shocked and said "What's that? Are you okay?" Zeus had a serious look on his face and said "I guess you can call it bad lightning, it's not as pure as mine and my body rejects it, I didn't want to say anything when we were with the rest by we might be in serious trouble." Robin turned serious immediately and said "What do you mean?" Zeus said "He might not be lightning like me but his control over Lightning itself is leagues above mine, when he hit me with the lightning bolt, I barely resisted his control. That's why I'm saying we might be in trouble... I hope i'm wrong but he might control lightning.." he paused and Robin's mind put the pieces together said gasped and said "You don't mean.." Zeus nodded and said "Exactly that, if i'm correct, he can probably control me as well." as soon as he said that, the ship started moving, and a figure moved from the galley door and back to the deck.
The ship flew backwards through the Upper yard and landed on an altar with a thud. Zeus and Robin walked out of the galley and onto the deck and looked around, Nami and Chopper were freaking out while Zoro was calm, thinking about something. Zeus said "Looks like a sacrifice thing." Robin nodded and said "These are old scriptures, they've been here a long time." Zeus said "We should look around first" and grabbed a vine and swung over to land, he turned around and called Zoro, Robin and Nami and told Chopper to guard the ship "Chopper if anything happens blow Gan Fall's whistle, we'll be back in a bit hopefully Sanji, Ussop, and Luffy are back by then." Chopper nodded and grabbed on to the whistle, as the rest walked into the forest.
In the forest, the four of them we walking along, looking around, Zeus remarked "Strange that there's dirt here." before he froze and said "Fuck!" the three others looked at him and he said "I forgot to bring dirt before we left Jaya!" The three were even more confused, Zeus explained "They live in the sky, there was only cloud before we came here, imagine how much money we could've sold the dirt for!" Nami eyes went wide and she slapped him "How could you forget something so important!" Zeus wept and said "It's not my fault! I was.. Distracted" he locked eyes with Robin and looked away, blushing. Nami facepalmed and walked away, Zoro looked at Zeus and narrowed his eyes a bit and said "Anything else?" Zeus looked at him and said "What do you mean?" Zoro said "I don't know maybe things that you're hiding from the rest of us but only telling her?" he pointed to Robin, Zeus narrowed his eyes and said "Think carefully about your next words, Roranoa." Zoro was unfazed by the threat and said "Maybe you should tell everyone else that you could potentially be an enemy at the drop of the hat around here, instead of keeping it a surprise that could potentially kill us." and walked away towards Nami. Zeus watched him go and sighed and followed "Let's go" he said and Robin followed him. They caught up to Nami and were all silent, until Nami pointed at a castle in the distance and they went towards it and Zeus said "It looks like the other half of that Chestnut guy's house" the rest agreed and confirmed that Zeus' theory about Jaya being blown into the air, and they returned to the ship after hearing noises.
When they got to the ship, they saw Chopper tending to Gan Falls wounds and that the mast was burned. Zeus grabbed the other three and jumped from land on to the Merry and asked "What happened here Chopper?" Chopper said "We were attacked by a guy who said he was a priest!" Zeus nodded and sat on the railings on the Merry, looking out towards the Milky road and rubbed the Merry. Chopper looked at Zeus and asked the rest "What's wrong with him?" Zoro snorted and said "Nothing, yet." and walked to an empty corner and fell asleep, while Nami and Robin were silent and Chopper was just confused. After a few minutes of waiting, Luffy, Sanji, and Ussop finally arrived. The trio jumped on to the Merry and noticed that the atmosphere wasn't right, "What's wrong?" Luffy said, Zeus chuckled and said "Chopper fought off a priest with Gan Fall but the mast was burned, but you should've seen Chopper he was super cool!" Luffy was amazed and said "No way Chopper! We fought a priest too!" Chopper rubbed the back of his head and said "Actually I-" Zeus cut him off and said "Maybe we should eat, I'm starving!" Luffy blinked and nodded and said "Yea, we'll have a campfire!" Zeus chuckled and walked off the altar into the forest following Luffy, while the rest of the crew was silent. Sanji lit up a cigarette and said "So what's actually going on?" Everyone was silent and Zoro spoke "We'll talk about it later, Mask boy is right we're all hungry." Sanji nodded and went to get food, as everyone else made their way to where Zeus and Luffy were setting up a campfire. Zeus shot a lightning bolt at the logs and started the fire, Sanji came over and started preparing the food.
Hours later, Luffy was dancing with Ussop and Chopper and a bunch of wolves, and Zeus was sitting by himself away from the rest of the crew and Gan Fall, who woke up and joined them. Zeus was silently drinking and watching them, staring at Robin as she was enjoying herself petting a baby wolf that was on her lap, he sighed and got up to get drink. As Zeus passed the group and joined the party to get a drink, Zoro spoke up, "Maybe you should say something before you kill us all." Time stopped, Zeus' hand that was about to grab the drink froze, everybody stopped what they were doing and looked at him, Luffy said "What do you mean Zoro?" Zoro looked at Zeus and said "Why don't you ask him?" Luffy turned to Zeus and didn't say anything, Zeus sighed and said "I think it's better if we separate now, at least until we leave Skypeia." Luffy was angry and grabbed Zeus by the collar and said "Why?" Zeus took Luffy's hand off of himself and said "Because you're probably going to have to fight me too and if i'm around anyone expect YOU they will get hurt and most likely die." Everyone was confused and Zeus explained "If i'm right and Enel can control lightning, he can most likely control me as well, because i AM lightning." Luffy was so angry, that he didn't connect the dots about what Zeus just said, and instead said "So we just have to kick that guy's ass and you won't be controlled?" Zeus nodded and said "Yeah basically." Luffy smiled and said "Don't worry then! You're basically Nakama anyway." Zeus was stunned, as was everyone else. Zeus looked at Luffy and said "What did you say?" as he started tearing up, Luffy just smiled and said "Yeah, we're Nakama we've been since the beginning!" Zeus had his mouth wide open as he grabbed his drink and sat next to Robin lost in thought. Robin smiled and rubbed his back, as Nami said "He's a marine!" Luffy waved her off and said "He's a good marine." Nami shook her head and said "And what if he is controlled by Enel?" Luffy waved her off again and said "Then i'll just kick his ass too." Nami facepalmed and Zoro and Sanji smirked, she turned to Zeus and said "What did you mean by only Luffy will be fine?" Zeus was still lost in his thoughts and said absentmindedly "Luffy is rubber, Enel and I are lightning, rubber is an insulator." Nami said "Right, why didn't I think of that" Zeus replied "Cus you're an idiot." clearly still in his own thoughts, Nami snapped and punched him in the head, Zeus snapped back to reality and said "Ow! What was that for?! and how do you keep hitting me?" Robin was intrigued as well, Nami said "You just called me an idiot!" Zeus had his eyes wide open "I said that out loud?!" Nami seethed and hit him again and screeched "You think that often?!" Everybody started laughing and the party continued, with Zeus joining in this time.
Hey guys! Hope you liked it added a little bit of Drama lmk what you think about it. Also SURPRISE! I bet some of you thought this would happen with enel but it's still a surprise none the less, also if you're wondering why he wore the fox mask well it is kinda, sorta, a little bit important? I can say for certain that the masks are his treasure and not just a wardrobe choice.
Also I just wanna say, I watched the Luffy & Katakuri fight on youtube cus I was bored Last night and I'll tell you right now Flambe will die 100% I don't care what you say and maybe more of Bigmom's kids (mostly the annoying ones)
Also, Also going forward second part of the grandline is going to go slower and maybe slower updates, why you ask? because to tell you the truth I skipped fishman Island and most of punk hazard when I was watching the anime/manga i also skipped basically all of Zou sooooo.... sigh* I have to go watch it again ONLY FOR YOU GUYS WOULD I DO THIS I SWEAR
BTW Sorry if this chapter was a bit boring, I actually hate the skypeia arc and im kinda anxious to move on so Next time probably gonna blow past Enel's retarded survival game pick up some gadgets get Zeus a weapon and leave for Long Ring Long island there's a surprise there too... well not too big of a surprise but i'll give you a hint, I absolutely HATE foxy and the davy back fight.
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Ussop suddenly stood up and said "I need to go to the bathroom. Zoro can you go with me?" Zoro gave him a look and said "Are you five years old?" Ussop said "It's all scary and dark" Zoro sighed and stood up, Zeus heard and said to everyone "You guys wanna see Merry?" everybody was confused, Zeus just stood up and said "Follow me." the group stood up and followed Zeus to the Merry, while they were walking Nami said "What do you mean see Merry?" Zeus stopped and pointed with his hand "Ahem* Let me introduce you to Merry." Everybody turned and gasped, Ussop screeched "GHOST!" Zeus smacked the back of his head and said "Oi Long-nose THAT'S the Merry!" he jumped and landed on the boat and hugged the ghost. Luffy wrapped his hand around everybody else and jumped on the boat as well.
The 'ghost' was shocked by everybody standing there staring at her "Um... Hi guys. I'm Merry" Merry waved her small hands. Luffy had his mouth wide open and said "SO COOL!" and tackled Merry causing her to yelp. Everybody facepalmed and turned to Zeus, and Zeus just said "That's Merry's soul, the more former name is Klabautermann, basically the spirit of a ship that was well taken care of and loved, though they only appear when.." Zeus looked away and sighed, Ussop said "When what?" Zeus looked him in the eyes and said "When they're about to die." Ussop paled and the rest of the group had similar reactions, Luffy was still playing with Merry and Merry said "Thank you guys for taking care of me all this time" Luffy laughed and said "Shishishishi Don't worry about it Merry, you're nakama!" Merry teared up and started crying, Zeus walked up and held her face and said "Cmon Merry, don't cry, I told you I was gonna save you didn't I? I promised." Merry nodded and said "Yeah but-" Zeus hugged her and said "I promised." Merry just nodded and silently shed more tears as she whispered "Sorry for being useless." Zeus sighed and said "You're not useless, you've helped so much and will continue to help, trust me." Zeus let her go and backed off thinking about something as the rest of the group surrounded Merry and started smashing her with questions, Luffy said "Do you poop?" Nami smashed his head into the ground and Merry giggled and said "No" Nami asked a bunch of different questions and finally said "What did Kurama mean when he said he was going to save you?" Merry looked confused and said "Who?" Nami was also confused and said "Kurama the guy with the mask, that just talked to you and is standing over there?" She pointed at Zeus and Merry said "Don't you mean Z-" Robin cut her off and said "How did you even show up here Merry?" Merry said "Well I manifested myself, so I could fix my body, it's kinda tough since we don't have a shipwright and I don't have any memories of shipwrighting." The rest of the crew took that information in as Nami asked "You have all our memories?" Merry nodded and said "Yup everyone that Luffy considers nakama, and only those that love the ship, so I basically have all of yours. My personality is also made through all of your own." Sanji said "So you know everything about us?" Merry replied "Yup and A LOT more, Z-Kurama knows almost everything, including everything about you guys." Zoro narrowed his eyes and said "Everything?" Merry nodded and said "Everything," then added "Kuina" Zoro's pupils shrunk and Merry turned to Robin and said "As well as his feelings towards everyone on the crew." Robin reddened and Chopper said "What does he think about me?" Merry giggled and said "He thinks you're really cute like a stuffed doll, and sometimes he steals you when you're sleeping to use as a pillow." Chopper froze and said "No wonder I keep waking up in different places." Luffy said "What about me?" Merry hesitated and said "Well he loves you, and considers you family." Luffy wasn't satisfied and said "Aren't we all family?" everyone smiled at that, Merry said "Yeah, I guess but he's y-" Robin cut her off again and said "Merry-chan, do you need help with the ship?" Merry shook her head and said "I need to do this myself. I don't want to be a burden, think of it as one of my last requests." everyone took in the severity of that statement, even Luffy as the mood turned somber, Nami said "But didn't Kurama say he was going to save you?" Merry turned serious "He did but I can read his memories and even HE doesn't know if it's going to work." Nami said "What is it?" Merry said "It was something he read in a book one time and he's trying it out as it is pretty much our only option, but he wanted to keep it a surprise." the rest asked why and Merry said "If i told you that i could save your life, and failed wouldn't others hate me for giving them false hope?" they turned to look at Zeus who was sitting on the railing mumbling about something, and turned back to Merry, who smiled and said "Anyway I have to go and repair the ship or I won't have time to anymore, See ya guys!" Merry grabbed her hammer and started fixing the ship, everyone including Zeus jumped off the ship and headed back towards their camp site, and went to sleep.
The next morning, Zeus woke up with an arm around him, he looked and saw Robin was silently sleeping next to him and grabbed on to him during the night, he smiled and hugged her, while softly stroking her silky black hair, she felt him and snuggled up closer. Zeus was stroking her and smiling, thinking about all the time they spent together, it wasn't a long time but it wasn't short either, in fact, from their talk in the storage room to now, had only been around two weeks but they were a happy two weeks. Zeus sighed and said "Maybe while Robin's sleeping I'll just tickle her a little and see where her sweet spots are." Robin's eyes opened and she looked at him while pouting and said "At least let me pretend to be a sleep" Zeus chuckled and said "But I like it when you look at me, plus.." his hands started moving around her body and tickling her "I wasn't just saying that" Robin started laughing as she pleaded "Dereshishishi Please stop shishi I can't shishi I can't breathe shishi it hurts! shishi" Zeus laughed and hugged her close and took his mask off and kissed her, after moving away he smiled and said "You're cute when you laugh for real, you know that?" Robin caught her breath and smiled at him and said "Only for you." Zeus was in a daze and his face turned red, he stuttered and said "I-You-Uh-Wha" He was staring blankly at her and she giggled, the tent flap opened and Zoro poked his head inside and said "Wake up, we have to-" Before he froze, Zeus and Robin froze as well, they both turned to look at Zoro and Zeus said "Uhh Hi?" and put his mask on before he snapped "AND DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO KNOCK YOU SHITTY MOSSHEAD!" Zoro was still in a daze and walked away with his mouth wide open, obviously not expecting that. Zeus sighed and rubbed his forehead and Robin looked at him and said "It's okay I don't think he's gonna tell anybody." Zeus said "I hope so" as he got up and helped Robin up and said "Let's go." as they both walked out of the tent.
Zeus and Robin joined the crew and saw Nami looking at some maps, while Zoro was still lost, and the rest were doing something else. Zeus coughed and said "So what are we doing now?" Nami said "So me, Sanji and Ussop are going to take the Merry out of the Upper Yard while you, Robin, Zoro, and Luffy are going to find the city of gold." Zeus nodded and the crew separated.
Zeus' group was walking through the forest and was silent, until Zoro spoke up, "So you knew?" he said to Robin, who nodded and smiled, Zeus said "She's one of the few and now you are too congratulations." Zoro said "Who else?" Zeus rubbed the back of his head and said "My granpa, Nojiko, the old man at Gold Roger's bar in Loguetown, and Smokey." and he whispered "And Ace." Luffy turned around and said "What about those people?" Zeus said "Just a bunch of people I know." Luffy said "That old man at the bar was a really cool guy!" Zeus smiled and said "Yea really cool, he gave me a gift before I left Loguetown." Luffy complained "I didn't get one!" Zeus laughed and said "Maybe because he thought I was more handsome than you. He also said that I was going to be King of the Pirates instead of you." Luffy stopped and turned around and said "NO IT'S GONNA BE ME!" Zeus smashed his forehead with Luffy's and said "OH YEAH?!" Luffy said "YEAH!" Zeus and Luffy got into a dust brawl causing Robin to giggle, when they stopped Zoro was somehow pulled in again, as he complained "How does that keep happening to me?" Zeus and Luffy laughed and continued their journey.
While they were walking, a giant snake attacked them causing the group to separate, Zeus yelled to Zoro "OI MOSHEAD! If you see someone with a cloud sword grab it for me!" Zoro just put his thumb in the air and disappeared, leaving on Zeus and Robin. "Cloud sword?" she said, Zeus shrugged and said "Who knows maybe I get lucky?" Robin shook her head as they continued walking, she spoke and said "Merry said that you know everything last night is that true?" Zeus hesitated and said "Almost everything, but I know most of the crew's secrets and some other things like where some Ponegliffs are, I don't know anything about the void century or the will of D if that's what you want to ask." Robin nodded, and Zeus spoke again "I do know someone who does know though." Robin opened her mouth and Zeus continued "But I never asked him and even if I did I wouldn't tell you, wouldn't it be more fun to find out for yourself then to get told by someone who made the journey already?" Robin smiled and nodded, Zeus smiled and turned away and whispered "Plus if you knew you wouldn't stay with the crew anymore." and kept walking along not noticing the small smile on Robin's lips.
Robin and Zeus made it to some ruins and Robin was ecstatic, before noticing the man standing in the middle of the ruins. The man turned to the duo and said "My name is Yama and-" Zeus cut his off and said "Yeah Yeah one of the priests, Enel sent you here to get us , can't you say anything else?" Robin giggled and Yama blinked before attacking Zeus and smashing one of the stones. Zeus saw that and gulped as he said "Oh boy you shouldn't have done that." Robin spoke up glaring at Yama "Why did you break the stones, don't you know these are the history of your people?" Yama sneered and said "I don't care for history." as he smashed another stone, Zeus was truly afraid now and he said "Dude, you're fucked, you really should not have done that." Robin was seething now as she crossed her arms causing arms to grow on Yama before saying "CLUTCH!" and snapping Yama in half causing him to fall to the ground, and Zeus to gulp and sweat, Robin smiled at Zeus and said "Let's go" Zeus nodded and said "Yes ma'am" and following her.
They arrived at more ruins and Robin found out that there was a ponegliff on the golden bell, and that the place they were currently in was in fact the city of gold, before they could find out more, a man with long ears and a ring of tomoe marked drums on his back. The man said "Hello, I'm Enel, or God." Zeus tensed up and Robin squeezed his hand and smiled at him, he smiled back and said "So you're the god everyone's been talking about?" Enel nodded and said "You're my lightning, I presume?" Zeus tilted his head and said "YOUR lightning?" Enel chuckled and said "Yes, as God of course I can control my lightning, now come with me, we're going to fairy vearth along with the rest of the survivors of my survival game." Zeus was silent and Robin said "Survival game?" Enel nodded and said "Yes, I designed a game with all the people in my territory and the remaining few will follow me to fairy vearth." Zeus said "You realize that nobody wants to go with you to 'fairy vearth' right?" Robin looked at Zeus and said "What's fairy vearth?" Zeus said "He's talking about the moon." Robin covered her mouth and giggled, causing Enel to be displeased "What is this 'moon' you speak of?" Zeus said "Ahem* Well the moon is the giant white rock you see in the sky, scientists theorize that the moon was formed when an asteroid smashed into the planet and tore a chunk off, through millions of years and gravitational orbit, that chunk has taken a somewhat rounded shape and circles around the earth, making a full cycle each day." Enel looked even more confused, Zeus sighed and said "It's the giant rock you see at night." Enel said "Yes that is fairy vearth!" Zeus turned to Robin and said "Is this guy an idiot?" Robin shrugged and threw her hands up while shaking her head. Zeus turned to Enel and said "Alright what's next? You took the gold and are going to fly to fairy vearth, and after that?" Enel rubbed his chin and said "Well I guess just live there?" Zeus deadpanned "What do you mean just live there? The space pirates don't take too kindly to strangers ya know." Robin looked at Zeus questioningly, he waved his hand and said "Interesting story about that actually, do you want to know?" She nodded and Zeus turned to Enel and said "Alright story time children gather around!" he cleared his throat and continued "All the people on all the sky islands, actually where not from our planet but were actually inhabitants of the moon, or 'fairy vearth', apparently they floated down to our planet through balloons, because they were running out of resources. They ancient moon people landed on the sky islands and decided to live there permanently, there were many tribes specifically Birkans, Shandians, and Skypeians." Robin was extremely interested and said "How do you know that?" Zeus said "I read it in a book" Enel was incredulous and said "The Birkan people were from fairy vearth? But that was just a folk tale!" Zeus said "All stories have varying amounts of truth to them, is the Sky people did migrate from the moon it would've been at least 1100 years ago, who's to say that what is said was the truth? Maybe someone made it up." Zeus sighed and said "Anyways back to your survival game? Actually hold that thought I have a question, Did you put that ring into your back or did someone do it for you and how does it stay up?" Enel blinked and said "Actually it just appeared when I ate my devil fruit really." Zeus rubbed the bottom of his mask and nodded his head and said "Devil fruit shenanigans." Enel snapped and said "Hey! Did you say all that nonsense to distract me and give your friends time to get here?" Zeus coughed and was embarrassed and said "Nonono You're overthinking it. Definitely did not do that." Enel said "Good otherwise the consequences would be severe." Zeus blinked and said "You believed that?" Enel's expression warped and Zeus gave a smug grin and said "Damn I must be a pretty good actor." Robin slapped her forehead, and Enel said "Foolish, now prepare for the consequences." He pointed at Robin and shot a lightning bolt at her, but Zeus flashed in the way causing it to hit him. Zeus growled "Watch it, Long-eared freak, you're treading on a thin fucking line." Enel sneered and said "You can't stop me." he flashed behind Zeus and stretched out his hands to grab Robin, Zeus turned and grabbed Enel and smashed him on the ground, he grabbed Robin and flashed a fair distance away before kissing her and saying "Stay here and be safe." Zeus flashed back to Enel and kicked him sending him flying. Enel stood up and said "You cannot hurt me, I am your owner!" Zeus snarled and said "I am nobody's property!" and charged at Enel before lunging on his hands and sending his heels towards Enels head, Zeus feet crackled with lightning.
"Thunder Dragon Crusher!"
Zeus' heels smashed Enel into the ground, Zeus kicked him in his side sending him flying in the air, as he jumped up and geppo's ahead of Enel and spun in the air before kicking Enel back down to the ground.
"Thunder Dragon slash!"
Enel flew towards the ground and Zeus flashed under him, he pulled back his fist and threw a punch towards Enel's stomach.
"Dragon breaker."
Enel curled like a shrimp and smashed into the rumble surrounding them, Zeus clapped his hands and walked away, he found Robin, who had her mouth wide open, and said "Looks like I was wrong, though I was expecting better, at least you're safe now" Robin smiled, before paling looking behind Zeus, Zeus turned around and protected Robin behind him. Zeus saw Enel and was shocked, he didn't look human anymore. Standing in front of Zeus was Enel but he now looked more like a demon, he had red skin, long sharp teeth with two on the top sticking out and two on the bottom sticking out, like Zeus' other mask, and huge white horns, the other things that were the same was his long earlobes and his ring of drums. Enel cracked his neck and said "I'd expect nothing less than that from my lightning, it even felt good." Zeus stood in front of Robin and said "What do you mean?" Enel chuckled and said "I ate the Hito-Hito no mi: Raijin (the thunder god) model, lightning and thunder can't hurt me and since you're made of lightning, I am completely immune to your attacks, also.." Enel lifted his hand and lightning crackled around it forcing Zeus to move away from Robin and walk to Enel's side, and forcing him to kneel "I can control ALL lightning." Robin paled, and Zeus was struggling to stop the control. Enel turned to Robin and said "Now for you" as he lifted his hand, Zeus shouted "NO STOP! I'LL DO WHAT YOU SAY LET HER GO!" Enel scoffed and said "Fine for your loyalty i'll leave her alive." He shot a lightning bolt at Robin and she fell to the ground, as Zeus shouted "ROBIN!" and glared at Enel "I already said i'll do what you want! Why did you do that!" Enel said "This is the consequences of defying me. Now let's go." Zeus got up and followed after Enel, who changed back into his human form, picked up his golden staff and walked away. Zeus turned to look at Robin and silently prayed that she would be okay before disappearing.
A while later everyone who survived the survival game, except for those who were lost or hadn't got there yet, arrived at the city of gold, the strawhats minus Luffy, Wyper the Shandian, and Ganfall were all there. Chopper was treating Robin and the rest were looking around, eventually Robin woke up and looked around her, she saw everyone and didn't see Zeus, she remembered he willingly let Enel control him just so they she would be safe and silently shed tears. The rest Came over and Nami said "Robin what's wrong and where's Kurama?" Robin wiped her eyes and said "He's-" "Here." Enel cut her off and appeared with Zeus standing next to him, with a metal collar around his neck. Enel said "Welcome survivors, congratulations on being the last ones. You shall all come with me to fairy vearth." Zeus wanted to say something but Enel snapped his fingers and forced him to keep quiet, everyone only heard muffled grunts. Robin said nothing while the rest of the Strawhats were seething, Sanji said "What did you do to the mask freak?!" Enel chuckled and said "You mean my lightning? He works for me now, whether he likes it or not." Sanji snapped "You forced him?" Enel tilted his head and said "You could say that, but he gave in to save that woman." he pointed to Robin and continued "It was either her death or his submission, or I killed her and forced him to submit anyway." Gan Fall sighed, and Wyper said "So he's a slave." Enel shook his head and said "No he's my weapon." Enel flicked and Zeus sent out a lighting bolt towards Wyper, who rolled out of the way and drew his bazooka, pointing it at Zeus. Enel said "You see, he does whatever I make him do, therefore he is my weapon." The rest were horrified, and Zeus just looked at Robin and smiled trying to wave, Enel snapped his fingers, causing Zeus to move back next to Enel like a puppet, and said "Now, who's coming with me to fairy vearth, everyone looked at each other and attacked Enel. Enel stepped back and started making movements with his hands, Zeus shot out and started attacking, he dodged Wyper's bazooka and punched him sending Wyper flying, he turned around and ducked under Gan Fall's lance and kicked Gan Fall's side, taking him out, Zeus stood up and stopped moving, allowing the rest of the attackers to hit him. All their attacks passed right through him and they got electrocuted. Zeus didn't move and looked at Enel and said "Enough, you said you wouldn't hurt them." Enel said "You're right I did say that but it was them who attacked me first, so naturally I have to retaliate." Enel snapped his fingers and forced Zeus to move, Zeus growled and resisted "ENEL! They pose no threat, they didn't even touch you! Let them go!" Enel frowned and moved his hands faster, forcing Zeus to move, Zeus couldn't resist this time, as he turned to the crew and said "Sorry, please run." and he flashed like a ghost punching Zoro in the side sending him flying, he ducked under Sanji's kick and swung his legs in the air kicking Sanji in the chin, knocking him unconscious, he flashed and grabbed Chopper by the horns and knee'd him in the face and dropped him to the ground, before walking towards Ussop who fell on the ground, and was trembling, Zeus grabbed his nose and flipped him in the air and kicked him in the back sending him flying into the rumble on the side. Nami and Robin watched, shocked at the display of raw power, Robin stared at the bloody figure, who looked like a demon, but she felt the sadness he was feeling. Zeus stood there alone before turning to Enel and saying with no emotions in his voice "Are we done here?" Enel said "You forgot, there's two more." Zeus said "They didn't attack you" Enel nodded and said "You there, do you want to come with me to fairy vearth?" Robin denied and Nami hesitated, Zeus flashed over to Robin and whispered "I'm sorry" before chopping at her neck, lightly, knocking her unconscious. Nami saw that and said "Of course, i'll come!" Enel nodded in satisfaction and motioned for them to follow him, Zeus crouched in front of Nami and said in the same emotionless tone "Get on." Nami got on and Zeus flashed after Enel, shooting up into the sky going towards Enel's ship.
Back down on the ground Luffy finally showed up and saw everybody sitting on the ground bleeding and gathered them up, Zoro woke up and looked around seeing Luffy looking for more people. Zoro said "Luffy?" Luffy turned around and said "Zoro! What happened here?" Zoro was about to answer when the rest started waking up. Chopper go up from the ground and rubbed his nose, that was bleeding, before going and checking on everybody's wounds. While Chopper was checking on everybody, Robin sat up and rubbed her head before walking over to the group, Zoro said "It was Kurama, he beat us all into the ground and left with Enel, I don't know where Nami is though." Luffy said "Why did Kurama beat you up? He wouldn't hurt us." Robin said "Enel was forcing him," The group turned to Robin and she continued "Before, everyone else arrived it was just me, Zeus, and Enel. Enel forced Zeus to either watch me die, or submit to him, Zeus submitted and Enel said that he could control Zeus since he's made of lightning and forced him to kneel. After that, everyone showed up and attacked Enel, he controlled Zeus to fight against all of us, when Zeus was done he knocked me unconscious and took Nami and they left." Luffy looked at the group and said "Anything else?" Gan Fall said "He looked like a slave, Enel put a collar around his neck." Luffy's hat shadowed his eyes, he had his hands clenched and he said "Which way did they go." in a chilling tone.
Back in the air, Zeus and Nami landed on Enel's ship. Enel said "Welcome to the Ark Maxim." Zeus and Nami looked around and Zeus said "So I guess this is where all the gold went." Nami had beri signs in her eyes as she looked around, Zeus sighed and slapped the back of her head and said "Now is not the time." Nami glared at him and said "What's wrong with you?" Zeus looked at her and said "What do you mean?" Nami said "You look all depressed." Zeus snapped "I don't know maybe because I just kicked the shit out of all of my friends and the woman I love?! Not to mention I have a slave collar around my neck, and am literally being controlled?" Nami waved him off and said "So? Luffy's gonna come rescue us soon, and we'll be free then no worries. Plus nobody's gonna hate you for doing that, you had no choice, also you barely touched Robin." Zeus said "Still, I don't like hurting my nakama, makes me feel like shit." Nami patted his back and said "Yeah, I know." Zeus smiled at her before snapping his fingers and saying "Enel." Enel turned around and Zeus continued "I heard one of your priests has a cloud sword?" Enel nodded and Zeus said "I want it." Enel thought for a moment and said "Very well this shall be your reward for your performance from before." Enel flashed and reappeared with Ohm's sword in hand and threw it over to Zeus, who caught it and looked it over, Enel looked at him and went back to doing whatever he was doing. Zeus turned to Nami and whispered "This is for you." Nami looked at him, confused, and Zeus said "There's a dial inside that makes clouds, if Ussop can put it into your clima-tact-" Nami cut him off and stared at the sword "Then my tempos can improve exponentially!" Zeus chuckled and said "There it is, and the Weather Witch is born!" Nami glared at him and strapped the sword to her back. All of a sudden there was a scream, "ENEEEEELLLL!!!"
The trio on the boat turned to look and saw Luffy standing in front of Enel. Luffy said "I'm gonna kick your ass!" Enel sneered and shot a lightning bolt at him, Luffy ran at Enel and was unaffected by the lightning bolt and punched Enel, sending him flying smashing into a wall. Enel got up and snapped his fingers and started moving his hands, causing Zeus to fly out and fight Luffy.
Zeus stood in front of Luffy and said "Come to kick my ass too?" Luffy was silent, and Zeus spoke again "I mean I did beat the shit out of everyone in the crew, and I wasn't being controlled either." Nami looked confused 'he was obviously being controlled why would he lie?' she thought, Zeus continued, in an emotionless tone, as he walked forward and said "I beat them because I wanted to, do you have anything to say about that StrawHat?" Luffy was still silent and as Zeus cocked him fist back, Luffy spoke "If you were doing it yourself, then why were they only lightly injured?" Zeus' eyes were wide opened as he froze, he obviously held back and didn't seriously injure anyone but Luffy shouldn't have known that unless Chopper woke up, Zeus grinded his teeth and punched Luffy in the face and said "Shut up!" his voice cracking. Luffy took the punch and said nothing. Zeus stopped and looked at him, Enel said "Fight my weapon!" as he moved his hands like there were strings attached, and Zeus started fighting with Luffy, Luffy was dodging all the punches and kicks, as Zeus screamed "Fight back!" Luffy said "I don't fight nakama." Zeus said "He's not gonna stop controlling me until you defeat him and i'm much faster than you, you have to take me out first!" Luffy was struggling, Zeus continued "The only way is to knock me o-" Enel snapped his fingers and said "Enough drivel, you're a weapon." Luffy was enraged and swung his fist back making it stretch behind him, and snapped it back.
"Gum-Gum Pistol!"
Luffys fist collided with Zeus' stomach, and Zeus backed off a step and coughed, Luffy swung both arms back and forth.
"Gum-Gum Gatling!"
Zeus was bombarded with dozens of fists, Zeus jumped back and stumbled a bit before flashing behind Luffy and kicking him in the back, sending up flying into a wall on the Maxim. Luffy got up and bounced off the wall smashing his forehead into Zeus' mask, Zeus flew back and hit the railing on the deck before getting up and dashing towards Luffy punching him, Luffy punched and connected his fist with Zeus' causing sparks to appear in between the two. Zeus and Luffy jumped back and Luffy threw arms arm back and twisted it shooting it back at Zeus' head, Zeus threw his arm back and turned it into lightning before sending it towards Luffy.
"Gum-Gum Rifle!"
"Thunder Dragon Spitfire!"
The two's fists caused cracks to appear on the Maxim, as they kept shooting punched toward each other blocking and meeting each fist equally. Zeus flashed behind Luffy and grabbed Luffy's waist and flipped, smashing Luffy on his head. Luffy twisted his legs around each other before wrapping them around Zeus' body.
"Gum-Gum Hammer!"
Spinning Zeus around sending him flying through the walls of the Maxim. Luffy got up and threw both his hands back really far and snapped them back at Zeus who just got up. Zeus caught his hands just before they hit his stomach, but his own hands smashed into him, causing Zeus to cough up blood, Zeus grabbed Luffy's hands and shook them up and down, making Luffy smash into the deck multiple times, before swinging them around over his head and throwing him back towards the railing. Luffy smashed into the railing and groaned, Zeus walked over him and said "You can't defeat me." Luffy glared at Enel and said "Watch me!" He kicked Zeus, who was caught off guard by his speed and flew into the railing of the ship and shakily got up. Luffy stretched both his hands back again, this time twisting them before sending them flying and spinning towards Zeus.
"Gum-Gum.. Rocket Rifle!"
Luffy smashed both hands into Zeus' face sending him flying off the Maxim, before turning to Enel, and saying "Now i'm really gonna kick your ass."
Zeus was falling towards the ground, and was staring at the sky with was blurry, before smashing into the ground near everyone else.
BOOOM*
Everybody on the ground came over and saw Zeus unconscious on the ground, Zoro said "There's the bastard, Luffy did quite a number on him eh?" Sanji, and the rest nodded, while Robin ran over to him and checked his body, she heard a cracking sound and looked to see his fox mask cracking down the middle along with the collar Enel put on him. She looked at Zoro and said "Everyone leave, I think he's still being controlled." Zoro, getting the message, brought everyone somewhere else as Zeus' mask and the collar finally snapped in half right down the middle revealing his bloody face, she chuckled and teared up, Zeus' face was not exactly handsome right now, he had his mouth wide open and was missing a tooth, his eyes were wide open and rolled up, while his whole face was covered with blood. Robin grabbed both parts of the mask and she called Zoro "Mr. swordsman, can you watch him? I'm going to get his other mask from the ship and i'll be right back." Zoro nodded and came to sit next to Zeus, as Robin went to go get his other mask. Zoro sat next to Zeus and sighed "This is so much more trouble than its worth." Chopper came over with some cloth and Zoro covered Zeus' face with his shirt, Chopper was confused but wrapped Zeus upper body in bandages, when he was done Chopper said "I need to check his face for injuries." Zoro said "He's fine." Chopper snapped "Looking at the rest of his body he is definitely not fine! His mask snapped in half! I'm pretty sure he doesn't want any scars, and you gonna take responsibility if he gets mad that he has any scars?" Zoro shivered and sighed as he took his shirt off of Zeus' face while saying "Don't tell anyone what you saw. I'm serious." Chopper nodded and turned to look at Zeus' face, and stared with wide eyes as he stuttered "He-he-he's Luffy?!" Zoro facepalmed and said "No you idiot! How can there be two Luffys?!" Chopper was scared and said "So who is he?" Zoro shook his head and said "I don't know I only found out this morning by accident, but I think Robin knows" Chopper nodded and went into doctor mode and cleaned Zeus' face and wrapped bandages around it, covering his mouth and going over his nose and forehead, when he was done Robin showed up, with the mask she bought for Zeus in hand. She saw Chopper and sighed, she walked over and took a look at Zeus' face and said "Thank you Mr. Doctor." Chopper nodded and said "Robin do you know who he is?" Robin nodded and said "When he wants to tell us, he will." Zoro said "He told you." Robin blushed and said "That was different." Zoro sighed and nodded, Robin put Zeus mask on his face and helped Zoro and Chopper bring him to the rest of the group.
A while later, Zeus woke up abruptly and sat up in a bed, he looked around and saw Robin sleeping on her arms, leaning on the side of the bed. Zeus took off his mask and sighed, he put the mask down and was confused, it was the demon mask Robin got him and not his kitsune mask that he was wearing. Zeus gave up and decided to ask later, as he put a hand on Robins head and stroked her hair lightly with a sad look on his face. He got off the bed, picked her up gently and laid her down on the bed, before grabbing his mask, putting it on and walking out of the tent he was in. When he left Robin opened her eyes and looked to the door before sighing.
Zeus walked outside and noticed everyone was partying celebrating their freedom. Zeus snuck away and walked around aimlessly before coming across a factory type building, he walked inside and saw Gan Fall sitting at a table with Wyper, on the table was Enel's golden staff. Zeus walked over, causing Gan Fall and Wyper to look at him, he sat down and said "I am truly sorry for what I did to you two." Wyper was silent and Gan Fall sighed and said "It's not your fault, there was nothing you could do." Zeus shook his head and said "I shouldn't have even been in the Upper Yard in the first place I should've hid when I thought Enel could control me. I thought I could beat him and as a result I hurt you two and all my friends, and was forced to help Enel." Gan Fall shook his head and said "You weren't at fault, truthfully speaking, you might have saved us from death at Enel's hands." Wyper finally spoke and said "I don't think I could've done any better against Enel, and he wouldn't have held back." Zeus was confused and said "How did you-" Gan Fall cut him off and said "That little doctor told us." Zeus chuckled and shook his head before saying "Still, I know your Skypeian laws, I wish to be punished with the priests for the crime of helping Enel. Whatever you give me, I will accept." Zeus stood up and pointed at the staff and said "I can help you destroy that, if you want." Gan Fall looked at Zeus for a few seconds and waved his hand "No need we have other uses for it." Zeus nodded and walked away, leaving Gan Fall and Wyper to look at each other, Gan Fall shook his head and said "What a stubborn child." Wyper said "He hurt his friends and us, I think he wants to atone, he's afraid to even face them now." Gan Fall looked at the staff and said "Enel affected more than just the Sky people." and sighed.
Zeus walked on into the night and sat on a rock absentmindedly, and stared at the moon. Robin approached him and sat next to him, he didn't even notice. She looked at him before softly nudging him, he turned to look at her and snapped back to reality "Robin? How did you know where I was?" Robin said "I was awake before you left and I've been following you." Zeus gave a fake chuckle and said "That's kinda creepy don't you think?" Robin was not amused and was more worried than anything, she said softly "Zeus... I heard what you said to Gan Fall." Zeus was silent and Robin continued "It really wasn't your fault, most of the others aren't even hurt. If anything you saved them, and they aren't mad at you either. I saw Luffy looking for you after you left, when you were in the tent he came to see you 3 times." Zeus tensed up and said "Robin, did Luffy ever tell you the story when we we're kids?" Robin nodded and Zeus said "I used to hate him because I couldn't think about anyone in this life being a real person, everything was just gray, I felt alone. He probably told you how he almost died but did he tell you how many times I told him I hated him? How many times I told him he wasn't my real brother? Let me tell you before that day, it was countless times, everyday I ran into the forest and he would chase me, I thought nothing of it, 'he wasn't my real brother so why should I care?' until he saved me, I swore I would never hurt him ever again. I also told you that, and the crew, and I broke all those promises in one day." Robin retorted "But you were being controlled for the most part and you didn't have a choice." Zeus shook his head and said "I could've hidden, I could've stayed on Jaya, I could've wore seastone cuffs, but i didn't do any of that because I thought I could beat him." Robin was silent, he was right he could've done that but he didn't, she said "Nobody would've wanted that." Zeus sighed and said "I know, but if it puts them out of danger especially you, then it doesn't matter what you or they want i would do it without hesitation, even if I have to die" Robin gasped and Zeus continued "Therefore I will accept whatever the Skypeians punish me with, as a 'faux' Priest of Enel." Robin teared up and rested her head on Zeus' shoulder, as they sat silently together.
The next morning, The Straw Hats were ready to go and Zeus showed up standing next to Enel's priests, they looked at him and said "A new face eh?" Zeus growled "Watch it fatso." as lightning crackled around him, Satori yelped and shut up, shaking in fear. The rest of the priests were in chains watching Zeus warily. Luffy and the rest watched on silently, as one priest went after the other, Robin was getting nervous as several priests were sent to work in the mines as slaves, while some were executed, she turned to Luffy and said "Captain.." Luffy put his hand up and said "This is what he wants, if it makes him feel better then it's a good thing." Robin sighed and looked at Zeus, he was called and he turned his head to Robin and the others and lifted his mask to smile at them, he put it back down and walked up to Gan Fall, the rest of the Skypieans, and all the Shandians and slowly kneeled down with his head down, and said "I will accept any punishment." Gan Fall nodded and said "Weapon of Enel, Kurama, for your crimes of aiding Enel, you are sentenced to exile, forbidden on stepping on Skypeia, indefinitely." Zeus looked up and Gan Fall continued "You shall also bear the symbol of Enel, as a reminder of your crimes." Gan Fall stuck Enel's staff in the ground in front of Zeus. Zeus grabbed the staff and stood up, the staff was huge, as Enel was way taller than Zeus, it was around two heads taller than Zeus and was heavy, Zeus looked at Gan Fall and bowed as he said "Very well." he turned around and walked towards the rest of the crew and put the staff on his back, and said nothing, Robin sighed and rubbed his back. The ceremony ended and Conis and her father Pagaya, came and gave them the waver they found in the St. Briss but it was repaired and said that they would escort them to Cloud's End. Luffy and the rest agreed and went on to the ship, Nami and a few others had already taken the gold and stored it in the Merry, and Ussop had traded rubber bands for dials, so they set sail right away.
On the way to Cloud's End, Zeus was sitting alone holding the staff across his legs, when he heard Robin coming out of the galley in a huff, Zeus tilted his head and Robin said "They want you in the galley, I already told them you suffered enough but i guess-" Zeus cut her off and said "I'll go, thank you Robin" Zeus smiled and caressed her face, he turned and walked to the galley door, took a deep breath and walked in.
Inside the rest of the crew was sitting at the table, silent. Zeus sat down and waited for them to speak, Luffy said "I want you to know, it's not your fault." Zeus was silent and Zoro said "But we are going to have to punish you." Zeus tensed and Zoro continued with a demonic grin "I already know you have seastone cuffs, so were gonna beat the shit out of you, while you have them on." Zeus blinked and said "What?!" He looked at all of them, and they all had smiles on their faces, Zeus smirked and said "That's it? You bastards couldn't put a scratch on me before, what's different about now" as he stood up and went to get his cuffs, leaving the rest of the crew and Robin smiling aswell.
A few minutes later
"OI YOU DAMN LOVE COOK I SAID NOT THE FACE! YOU THINK THIS'LL MAKE YOU MORE HANDSOME THAN ME?! IN YOUR DREAMS!" Zeus screamed with his hands behind his back, he had his cuffs on but he had cut the chains so he could train in them, causing the crew to tie his hands with rope. Zeus kept getting hit by Zoro, Sanji, Chopper, and Ussop, sometimes Nami would hit him too, "What was that for witch!" Zeus cried, Nami giggled and said "cus I wanted to hit you that's why." Zeus grumbled something about her being stingy and something about her sister, Nami had an idea, she ran over to Robin and whispered in her ear, under Zeus gaze, Robin's eyes widened and she looked at Zeus, she gave him a look that made his spine shiver, he said "R-Robin what did she say?" Robin slowly crossed her arms and said "Something about you and her sister, you're quite the flirt huh?" Zeus' eyes were wide open and he shook his head like a rattle drum, as the other guys also shivered and slowly backed away, Zeus said "Hey um l-let's talk about this eh? It was one time, I-I won't do it again." Robin said "I know." as she fully crossed her arms and said "Clutch" as a hand sprouted from his leg and grabbed on top his balls and squeezed, Robin continued and said "I'll make sure of it" Zeus yelled and fell to the floor panting, he turned his head to see an apologetic Nami looking at him, he glared and hissed "I WILL get you back for this." Nami yelped and hid behind Robin and stuck her tongue out at him. Zeus cursed the shameless bitch 10000 times in his head and said "We're close to Cloud's End can someone unlock me now?" Robin walked over with the key and unlocked his cuffs, Zeus sat on the ground and rubbed his wrists as he said "You guys are real bastards you know that right?" they all just grinned and Zeus chuckled and stood up whispering something into Robin's ear making her face turn bright red, and smacked her ass sending a little current through his palm, making her whole body feel numb and walking towards the galley and said "I'm hungry!"
The Merry reached Cloud's End and fell off the edge before Conis whistled for a balloon like octopus, after the Merry landed back on the blue sea, the octopus flew away, and the crew set sail for their next island.
Hey guys! This one was a SUUUUUPER long one clocking in at exactly 7918 words. Finally done with Skypeia and moving on to one of the best arcs. If you're trying to find imagery for what happens this chapter look no further for I your loyal author has it for you!
Enel's Raijin form: look up raijin on google
Zeus' knocked out face: Luffy when he get's knocked out by Kaido in wano
Zeus' face with the bandages: Luffy when he's glaring at the guards sitting in his cell at Udon (wano)
Zeus' demon mask: Look up Hannya Mask on google it's basically that except for the colors
Also i tried a little bit of fighting and some chracter building for Zeus, let me know what you think.
Next time LONG RING LONG ISLAND and beginning of Water 7.
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