【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Ever since Robin took out a bag of gems she got from Crocodile and gave it to Nami, Nami's attitude changed completely and she was no longer as hostile as at the beginning. Usopp and Chopper were convinced by Robin's tickling at the beginning, even though he did not trust Robin at first.

Well, Zoro still remained vigilant, although he didn't show it very obviously.

"Is it raining?"

Nami felt something tiny falling from the sky, she looked up curiously to see if the weather conditions were consistent with her predictions, she was shocked to see a huge sailboat falling from the sky!

"Turn the rudder quickly! Turn the rudder!!"

"It would be strange if such a big wave was useful!!"

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaah!!"

After a period of chaotic and rapid operation, their ship finally managed to escape from the vortex created when the huge sailing ship fell.

"Why...why is there a ship falling from the sky!" Luffy said in surprise, looking up at the sky.

"That's weird!" Sanji asked in confusion.

"Now there is nothing in the sky again." Zoro said doubtfully

"There shouldn't be any hurricanes recently." Nami said as she subconsciously looked at the record pointer on her wrist. When she saw it pointing to the sky, she screamed in horror, "Everyone! The record pointer... is broken! The pointer is pointing upwards and won't move!!"

"No, the record pointer is not broken. It was taken away by another island with stronger magnetic force." Robin looked up at the sky in astonishment. He didn't expect that the legend of the sky island was true. "The pointer is pointing upwards, which means there is an island in the sky."

"Is it Sky Island?" Qi said, "Recent newspapers seem to have reported a pirate with wings. There are reports that he is from Sky Island."

"So Sky Island is real?" Nami said in disbelief.

"What is that!?" Luffy asked in confusion.

"It should be an island floating in the air?" Sanji guessed.

"No, to be precise... it should be the sea that is floating up!" said Robin.

"Sea!?" everyone shouted in surprise.

"There's actually a sea floating in the air!" Luffy shouted excitedly while standing on the bow, "Let's go now! Brothers, turn the rudder upwards!!"

Sanji blew out a smoke ring and said helplessly, "Captain, the rudder cannot be pointed upwards."

"Maybe we can get some information from the wreckage of the sailboat that fell from the sky." Qi looked at the place where the sailboat fell before. "But, that ship seems to be sinking."

"Okay, I want to explore the galleon before it sinks!" Luffy shouted happily, "Zoro, Sanji, let's go on an adventure!" As he said that, he stretched out his arms and prepared to jump towards the slowly sinking galleon.

"Idiot! Let go!" Killian grabbed Luffy's collar to stop him from jumping over. "The ship is going to sink. I don't want to go into the water again today. Zoro and the others are enough."

"I want to go too!" Luffy muttered, then looked at Zoro and Sanji, hoping they could help.

With a faint smile on his face, Zoro said, "Captain, leave it to us." After that, he and Sanji jumped onto the wreckage that had not yet completely sunk.

"Wait a moment, Luffy, wait until you are ready before going down." Qi said helplessly.

"Is there any way for me to get down?" Luffy asked curiously.

"Of course, wouldn't it be better to have an underwater adventure?" Qi looked at Usopp and asked, "Usopp, can you make a diving suit?"

"I am the great Captain Usopp!" Usopp said confidently.

While waiting for Usopp to make a temporary diving suit, Robin had repaired the skeleton that Sanji and his team brought up from the wreckage that never sank. They also obtained a map of Sky Island from the wreckage. Robin learned some things about this person's life through the repaired skeleton. Through Robin's speculation, they learned that this ship was originally an exploration ship that set out from the Blue Sea 200 years ago.

If they could find something like a logbook on the expedition's ship, they would be able to obtain more intelligence and perhaps some records about Sky Island.

"It's done! I designed a makeshift diving suit!" Usopp proudly showed them several diving suits made of buckets on the ground. "Don't worry, the diving suit I designed is absolutely watertight!"

Luffy, Odd, Zoro and Sanji quickly put on the makeshift diving suits made by Usopp and prepared to dive into the water to salvage some useful things from the sailing ship.

The four men were lowered into the water by a long rope with a device to provide them with air.

Shortly after Luffy and the others went down, a huge ship approached Merry. The bow logo of the ship was a huge monkey. At the same time, the people on it kept clapping cymbals and shouting loudly, "Salvage, salvage!"

"What is that?" Usopp looked at the large sailing ship that was getting closer and closer in shock. He saw a man who looked like an ape standing on the ship, constantly shouting something.

"It looks like they are a salvage team specially assigned to this area of ​​the sea." Robin said, "Maybe we can ask them to help us salvage the ship directly."

"Hey, what are you doing here!?" The ape-like guy on the opposite ship shouted rudely, "All the sunken ships in this area belong to our Ape Pirates, don't even think about it!"

"That means this is an opportunity." Nami understood what Robin meant, so she turned to look at the ape on the opposite ship and asked, "Ape, are you going to salvage the ship that sank to the bottom of the sea?"

"Ah... you can tell at once that I'm an ape! Do you mean you think I'm handsome?" The ape, who was serious just now, suddenly looked happy. "We are preparing to salvage it, do you want to see it? Whether it floats up or sinks, there is no ship in the world that we can't salvage!" After saying that, the ape arranged for his crew to put down the salvage basket and start the salvage work.

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At the same time, several people were searching underwater, but they didn't find many useful things. Sanji took some beautiful shells and some jewelry because he thought Miss Nami would like these jewelry very much.

Luffy took some strange things from everywhere in there, but most of them had decayed due to being there for too long. Zoro then found an octopus and an old sword. Although the octopus was lying on his head and the sword would break into pieces as soon as it was pulled out... Zoro looked at the hilt of the sword in his hand and felt a little annoyed.

Qi Ze finds a treasure chest, but it's locked, so he just puts it in his bag, and a moment later, they gather in the middle of the ship.

"Have you found anything related to Sky Island?" Qi asked.

The three of them shook their heads, somewhat disappointed, as none of them found what they were looking for.

Suddenly the large sailing ship they were on shuddered violently, and a moment later the ship was filled with air.

"We don't need this bucket suit anymore," Luffy said happily, before stretching his arms out and pulling his makeshift diving suit off.