【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Idiot, I knew at first glance that this is a work of art." Usopp said proudly.

"That is 'the earth', the eternal dream of the sky dwellers!" Conis said with a smile.

"Ah? Are you looking forward to this? This is so strange!" Luffy said in confusion.

"Haha...yes, it must be hard for people from Qinghai to understand!" Conis said with a smile.

Luffy glanced at Conis in confusion, noticing that her body had been shaking since she left the house.

"Ah... we're at the dock!" Conis said as she looked toward the coast not far away where many ships were parked.

"Wow! Look! This dragon boat is so cool!" Luffy excitedly ran to a dragon boat with a bull's head-shaped bow, "Let's borrow this one!"

"Ah, your ship is here!" Conis pointed to another black duck-shaped ship and said awkwardly, "This is the Raven!"

Luffy ran over happily, then fell silent at the appearance of the ship, and shouted in disappointment "Ah! It looks so bad!"

"A crow...it doesn't even look like a water bird..." Sanji fell silent as he looked at the ship.

"This is the boat I used before I learned how to use the Viper. Although it's not as fast as the Viper, it also has twin wind shells installed!" Conis said with a smile, "Please feel free to use it."

"But... I think that one is better!" Luffy looked at the bull-headed dragon boat that he had taken a fancy to before, with stars popping out of his eyes.

"I'm sorry, don't you like it? But the boat is for rent... I don't have the money to rent it..." Conis said guiltily.

"You ungrateful bastard, apologize to Sister Conis!" Sanji kicked Luffy angrily.

"Ah, sorry." Luffy apologized obediently.

"It's okay." Conis said with a smile, "The exit is Gate 1. After you go out from there, there is a river that leads directly to the Cloud River. Just follow it and you will arrive directly..."

"Hey, Conis..." Luffy interrupted Conis.

"W-what's the matter..." Conis said nervously.

"Why have you been shaking non-stop since you left your house?" Luffy asked directly.

"Is... is that so? Do I look like that?" Conis forced a smile.

"Looking closely, you look pretty bad too... Since you're so scared, just tell us how to get there, and we can do the rest ourselves." Luffy said seriously with his eyes wide open.

"No!" Conis pursed her lips, turned her head away from Luffy's innocent and caring eyes, and said guiltily, "It's not like that..."

Conis bit her lower lip, and finally couldn't help kneeling on the ground, her face full of tears and she shouted in pain, "Please, can you run away?! I'm sorry! We planned all this, and it was me who called the Shrimp Express!"

"The shrimp that took Miss Nami and the others away was Sister Conis..." Sanji said in shock.

"Shut up! We'll all be killed!"

"Do you know what you are talking about!?"

"Catch that girl!"

The villagers shouted, trying to stop Cornis.

"Silly girl! Do you want to be executed? This is your duty!" The captain of the guard said gritting his teeth.

"This is our duty as a citizen! I'm sorry! Isn't this ridiculous!? All of this..." Conis covered her mouth and cried in pain.

"You idiot! You have no choice to do this, right!?" Luffy shouted.

"Then why... did you tell us?!" Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp shouted at the same time with gloomy faces.

Luffy grabbed Conis by the collar and shouted, "You will be killed!

Just as Luffy finished his words, a huge and thick white lightning column suddenly appeared above their heads.

Sanji and Usopp looked at the lightning pillar falling from the sky in shock. The sky above them turned an extremely bright blue, shadows appeared everywhere around them, and they were briefly blinded for a moment.

"No! It's too late."

"Heaven's punishment is coming!"

"Don't go near that girl!"

The villagers shouted loudly.

Before the lightning came down, Luffy quickly picked up Conis and rushed to the side, but the lightning column was too big and they couldn't completely avoid it. Before the lightning was about to fall on them, he instinctively hugged his new friend tightly under him, blocking her entire body.

"Hey! Luffy!!" Sanji and Usopp looked in horror at the place where thick smoke appeared after the lightning disappeared. They seemed to have just seen the lightning striking towards Luffy.

Luffy turned his head to look at the man who saved them and said calmly "Ah, it's the weird uncle!"

"Who are you calling weird?" the Sky Knight said dissatisfiedly, and then introduced himself again, "I am the Sky Knight... This time is also free."

"That's great, Luffy and the others are saved." Sanji and Usopp breathed a sigh of relief as they looked at Luffy and Conis lying on the horses' backs.

The air knight put Luffy down, and then said, "Leave this girl to me, I won't let Enel hurt her! You already know the nature of this country and the power of God Enel, what are your plans for the future?"

Luffy put the straw hat hanging around his neck back on his head and said calmly, "What does the country have to do with us! But we have our friends on the Island of Gods!"

"Really... Good luck to you!" The Sky Knight said and rode away on his Pegasus.

.......

The Living Altar of the Island of Gods

"Zoro!!" Chopper and Nami stared nervously at the sea of ​​clouds below. Zoro was fighting with a sky shark, but Zoro was soon taken into the clouds by the sky shark and has not come out yet.

"It hasn't come up yet...will it be eaten by a shark?" Nami shouted in horror.

"Ah! Zoro was eaten!!" Chopper shouted in panic.

"If it's eaten, the clouds should be dyed red," Robin said calmly.

"Don't talk so horribly, Robin!" Qi said with a smile, "Chopper was scared."

"You guys are so noisy!" Kongsha was knocked away by Zoro, flew out of the cloud and fell into the sea. Then Zoro landed on the stairs of the altar and walked towards the Merry above the stairs with some anger. "This is too bad, it seems that we can't just swim out."

"Isn't it obvious?!" Nami shouted angrily.

"Where the hell did that shrimp take us to?!" Zoro said as he took off his soaking wet shirt. "I don't know what they wanted to do by leaving us here!"

“Maybe being hungry here is God’s punishment?” Robin was also puzzled. Although it was God’s punishment, they did not encounter any attacks.

"The building below us looks a bit like an altar." Qi laughed and joked, "Maybe we are sacrifices to the gods. The gods of this island may be watching us in secret!"

"Who will be his sacrifice? Besides, who knows if he is a real god?" Zoro said disdainfully, "And I have never asked for God's blessing!"

"Wow! Zoro is so handsome!" Chopper shouted with admiration on his face.