【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Anyway, Chopper, find a way to fix the boat first. We can't sail with the bottom of the boat in this state." Zoro put on his wrung-out clothes again. "Luffy and the others should be here soon. Until then, this will be our temporary base. I'm going to the forest to see the god of this island!"

"Why are you going to see such a scary guy!" Nami shouted angrily, "And there are priests on this island!"

Zoro ignored Nami's yelling and noticed a vine that would allow them to swing to the opposite forest "That vine looks like it could work!"

"That's a good idea!" Qi said with a smile, "Then I'll go with you to see the guy who is called God!"

"I'll go with you too!" Robin said with a smile while touching the wall of the altar. "This altar has been built for at least 1000 years. Seeing such historical relics makes me want to try it. If we can find gems or something like that, it will be of some help to our current economic situation."

"Gemstones!" Nami's eyes instantly turned into money and she raised her hand excitedly, "I want to go too!"

"Then Chopper, you stay here and watch the boat, we will be back soon!" Qi said with a smile.

While they were discussing, Zoro had already grabbed the vines and tried to swing over. Before going over, he cleared his throat several times, then let out a monkey-like howl while grabbing the vines and jumping towards the forest opposite.

Except for Nami, everyone else grabbed the vines and jumped over calmly.

"This forest is really big!" Robin exclaimed as he looked around.

"Maybe we can meet a priest or something like that." Qi said with a smile.

"No, I hope we don't meet them, we will leave here after finding the gem!" Nami looked around fearfully.

"Luffy must be very excited to see this forest." Qi said with a smile as he looked at the huge trees and vegetation around him. "The vegetation on this island is very similar to the small garden. They are all equally huge."

"I hope he doesn't get in trouble again," Nami complained.

Zoro's mouth twitched, and for some reason he thought of their last experience. "I just hope he won't be swallowed by a dinosaur like last time."

"There shouldn't be any dinosaurs on this island." Robin chuckled and said, "But there are a lot of sky sharks. I hope Captain won't be eaten by the sharks on Sky Island."

"Robin, how can you say such horrible things so calmly!" Nami yelled at Robin.

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"Sanji~" Luffy complained loudly with a pout "Why can't we take away those two giant eels you just defeated! They look like they would be delicious!"

"Because..." Sanji lit a cigarette and explained, "Those two guys are as big as Merry. Do you think the Raven can pull them?"

"But I still want to eat them," Luffy said frustratedly.

"Everyone, there is a huge stone statue ahead!" Usopp pointed to the four huge gray buildings standing in front and reminded, "There is a huge stone statue and four different intersections!"

As they got closer, they recognized the words written on it: "Test of the Swamp, Test of Iron, Test of the Rope, Test of the Ball!"

"This feels like it's going to be fun! Let's choose the ball test!" Luffy said excitedly.

"I agree!" Usopp said nervously "I think that's the only one that doesn't sound so scary!"

"Okay, that's it, but be careful not to take it lightly. Miss Nami and Miss Robin are still waiting for us to rescue them!" Sanji said seriously while biting his cigarette.

The Raven slowly drove into the entrance, and what appeared before them was a long, dark tunnel.

After driving in silence in the dark for a while, Sanji spoke up, "Why does this tunnel seem to have no end? I'm beginning to suspect that maybe this entrance is a trap..."

Usopp heard Sanji's words, and then felt the darkness around him. His body began to tremble, and he said in a terrified voice, "We can't turn back now, can we?"

"Aren't there four entrances? Just like the story says, only one entrance is correct, and the others are wrong!" Luffy said with a smile.

"What!? Why are you saying it now? What if I'm wrong?" Usopp shouted angrily.

"What should I do... Maybe I'll just fall off Sky Island!" Luffy laughed, seeming to find the tense atmosphere he created amusing.

"How could this happen!" Sanji also joined in and refuted Luffy's words.

But a few minutes later, when they reached the end of the tunnel, they had to admit that Luffy was right, because the next second they were falling directly off a towering waterfall in a boat.

“You have got to be kidding me!!”

"what!!!"

"a ha ha ha!!"

"boom!!"

The moment the Crow Boat fell, huge splashes appeared on the water surface and the surrounding animals all fled away.

Usopp lay on the boat with lingering fear, recovering from the shock just now. "I really thought I fell directly from an altitude of 10,000 meters!"

"It's all your fault!" Sanji shouted angrily at Luffy.

"Ahahaha, I thought I was going to die!" Luffy said with a smile, not apologizing at all for the misunderstanding he caused.

"But where is this place?" Sanji took out a cigarette and lit it, looking at the floating balls around in confusion, and reminded, "The Cloud River will pass through this area. These balls may be traps, so be careful!"

"What kind of test is this?" Luffy looked at the island cloud balls floating around him in confusion.

"This must be a trap!" Usopp said nervously.

"In short, stay alert and keep moving forward!" said Sanji.

"Sanji~I'm hungry!" Luffy complained while touching his stomach.

"It's not time to eat yet!" Sanji said, then looked at Luffy's pitiful appearance and sighed, "We can only eat some pancakes first, and the bento can be eaten later!"

"Great, I want sky pancakes!" Luffy shouted excitedly.

"I...I want one too!" Usopp said excitedly as he got in front of Sanji.

"Fool, steer the boat properly!"

Sanji took out some pancakes from his backpack and said, "Okay, I'll steer the boat and you guys just keep an eye on the surroundings!"

Then Sanji and Usopp switched places. Just when he was wondering why the person who took the entrance test hadn't appeared yet, he turned around and saw Usopp and Luffy playing with one of the island balls on the boat. He immediately shouted angrily, "I told you to watch carefully!"

"Wow!!"

Usopp and Luffy were startled by something that suddenly appeared. A ferocious snake suddenly crawled out of the ball they were playing with.

"Woooaa!" Usopp quickly hugged his head and shrank down to avoid the snake that suddenly attacked him.

"Get out of here!" Luffy angrily kicked the ball and the snake inside it away. "Phew! I got scared!"

"Sanji, there's a huge ball blocking the road ahead!" Usopp hurriedly reminded, "Kick it away!"