"How confident are you that there is something below us?" I ask, tossing around a perfect square piece of cloud.

"I'm fairly confident that there will be something down here though."

I nod, "We'll be able to settle the debate once and for all. No more wondering if he actually found a golden city. We will be able to see it with our own eyes."

As Robin descends in the hole she's making through the clouds, she makes arms appear in order to brings the cloud blocks up and out of her way. She's expending energy to keep the arms present, and she's working hard to slice through the solid fluffy that is the sky clouds.

In order to keep watching, I scoot closer to the opening, letting my legs dangle down into the hole. It reminds me of the times I would sit at the docks and let my feet dangle into the water. The longing to be out at sea grew with each passing day until finally I was able to set sail with Luffy.

"Akari!" Robin calls out. "There's a way underneath!"

I look down to see her make a few more cuts to create an opening that will drop us down into another room. "You were right!"

"Grab my bag, and I'll use my arms to get you down here," she glances up at me before jumping through the opening she's made.

I pick up her bag, looking at the hands sticking out of the way of the shaft she's made. Then I carefully start walking down the hands that are palm up. Once I reach the bottom of the shaft, I do my best to gently jump down into the room below. A room that seems to be the interior of a large temple that above was simply the top. "It's huge," I slowly turn around to take in the ornately carved walls.

"Just as I thought," she slips her backpack on her shoulders. "This site's deeper than it looks. Even though it is a Blue Sea ruin, the land around it is an island cloud. I knew something wasn't right."

"Sky clouds have taken over this area."

"Exactly. They're just the top layer. We can go deeper."

"We could if stone wasn't below our feet. At this point I feel like we need to get out of here. We need to see what is outside."

"You're right. There's plenty of exploring that could be done out there."

With no map to help us out of this place, Robin leads the way with only the engravings and understanding of a temple like this to get us out. She uses her knife to cut through any vines in our way, which are all over the place. It is clear that people haven't been here in many hundreds of years. We're walking the halls of a place that hasn't had a person in centuries.

This place is darker than the other tunnel we walked through earlier, so I'm keeping as close to Robin as possible. She hasn't teased me this time, but I think we are both too focused on trying to get out of this place. We have to remember where we've been in case we have to backtrack.

"Is that a light up there?" I ask as we make it through a particularity thick wall of vines.

"I think that it is."

Our pace speeds up as we rush to finally get back out in the sun and see if we've made it to the place that we've been searching for all this time. If below the clouds is where the lost city of El Dorado has been all this time. The only way to prove this is to see it with our own eyes.

"Whoa!" I blurt out as I almost fall off the edge of the opening we've made it to.

Robin stumbles, grabbing my arm to pull me back before I plumet over the edge. "Easy there."

"Thanks," I breath out, taking a step back before looking out at what we've stumble upon now. "Holy shit." My eyes widen at the amazing sight before us.

"Eight hundred years ago, the city of Shandora suddenly disappeared," Robin takes a seat at the edge of the ledge. "Yet here it is in all it's glory."

"I'm not sure what I expected, but this is far greater." I sink down to sit next to Robin. "This is truly it."

"It is. This is Shandora."

"The Lost City of Gold!" Both of us blurt out as one.

I burst into giggles. A part of me can't believe that I am looking at the place that used to be back down in the sea below. That this is the great city that Noland found, and the reason that he was executed when it wasn't there when he returned. The other part believes is so wholeheartedly that the only way I can express it is through giggles.

The two of us are at the top of a large pyramid that must have served as some kind of temple back when people lived in this area. Large buildings are scattered on the ground with trees growing wherever they can. Moss and vines have taken over everything in sight.

"There's kind of a lack of gold here, though," I tilt my head to the side. "Everything down there looks like it is just stone."

"I've noticed that too," she takes a deep breath. "This is for sure Shandora, which means someone has taken the gold that used to adorn everything here. I'm not sure why."

"I have a feeling it has to do with that damn Kami Eneru." My nose scrunches up as anger rushes through me. "He's up to something obviously. Why else would we have been attacked?"

"It is interesting to see you hate a person when all I've really seen is how much you love others."

"He's made life for these people hell. I can't stand someone who sits at the top and uses fear to get what he wants. Arlong, Crocodile, all the others we've seen on this journey, and now this asshole. It makes me sick. You're born a god. You don't wake up one day and decide to be one. Gah, or some other bullshit like that."

"How about we head to the ground and look around for what should be in the center of town?"

The anger washes away as a wide smile takes over my face. "The Poneglyph, right?"

"If it's here, down there is where it should be."

With no steps to get us down to where there are steps on the outside of the pyramid, Robin uses her Devil Fruit power to carry us down to the level where we can then head down the stairs. Even without the gold, this place is spectacular. Walking down the streets of a city that lost everything eight hundred years ago is amazing in a strange way. To think that people used to be rushing around here all the time, but now it has been left to ruins. A historical site that holds all kinds of treasures for us to find.

"Robin, look!" I point at a smooth portion of the pyramid wall that has a script that I can't read at all carved into it. "I have no idea what any of it means, but that looks important."

She steps up to me, intensely looking over the writing. "Can it be..."

"Is that what you're looking for?" I lightly skip closer.

She takes a few steps to be right up at the stone, running her fingers along the symbols. "The words that are casually written here, they are the same script as those that would be on a Poneglyph."

"But this is not a Poneglyph?"

"No, this one is not. However, that doesn't mean we haven't found something important here. The only people who knew how to use these symbols were the ones who created the Poneglyphs."

"Well, what does this one say?"

"Hold the truth in your heart. Keep your mouth silent. We are the ones who weave history with the reverberations of the Great Bell."

"Oh, like the golden bell from Noland's story, right? I remember something about a giant bell that was like the little one Cricket had found."

"Yes, I remember reading in Noland's papers that a huge solid gold bell is here." She turns around to look back at the city. "The town's books were all burned, and the city's history was erased."

"All that from the symbols on this stone?"

"From all that I have gathered since investigating this place, yes," she nods. "With all that I also know that the Poneglyph we're looking for was brought to this city." She motions for me to follow her as she starts heading off towards an area we haven't looked at yet. "There's no doubt there. This city fought against the enemy to protect the Poneglyph. The Golden City of Shandora was ruined because they were protecting it."

"If the wall mentioned the Golden Bell, does that mean we'll find the Poneglyph with it?"

"That's what I'm about to figure out. The Great Bell hangs in the center of the four altars."

"Easy enough to find then." I start looking around for four altars that will lead us to where the bell should be waiting.

Except in the place where a giant bell might be, is instead the giant vine that leads high into the sky. At one point, I'm sure that the bell sat right there, but nature had different ideas on where it should go.

"Okay, so, not easy to find," I frown. "You think the Great Bell and Poneglyph are together, right? Well, if they are, there's no hope of finding them here. Both have clearly found new resting places thanks to this," I motion at the vine.

"Even at the height of it's prosperity, the city did all it could to protect it's history!" Robin softly smiles, nodding her head over to where she wants to explore next. "What happened to the world in that distant past?"

"I bet Noland knew," I hum, looking around at all the buildings we pass. "That was back when this place was in the Blue Sea, though. Everything he knew would have changed when this place was sent flying." My foot catches on something, causing me to stumble forward.

"Oh, you've found some old cart tracks, Akari," she softly laughs.

"My foot found it before me," I grumble.

"Something was moved form here...recently." Her eyes narrow as she takes in the state of the tracks.

A deep laugh stops me from asking what she thinks could have been moved, but I think we both know what the cart tracks were being used for. It is now the interrupter that has taking our focus.

"Impressive, isn't it?" the man asks. "A city that continues to exist in such glory, even in the sky...Shandora. The legendary capital can't be admired if it is covered in clouds. I'm the one who discovered it. My idiotic predecessors didn't even notice it."

"Who are you?" Robin demands, turning enough to look at him but not fully face him.

"I am the Kami," he casually says, tossing an apple in his hand.

The anger that bubbles within me explodes from me in a growl as I full face the man I've been wanting to take out for so damn long. "You."

The Kami Eneru isn't really what I expected when imagining a man who has declared himself god, yet there are parts of him that give off a god-like aura. He's sitting on a ledge of a nearby building; no shirt in sight to showoff his toned upper body, and even from this distance he looks. He's quite pale even if he lives up here in the sky, and his slim face holds a confident grin with his grey-blue eyes half-lidded with prominent bottom lashes. His black eyebrows are thick, which is strange considering I can see his blond hair that is mostly hidden beneath a white close-fitted cap. His nose is slim like his face, with a flat bridge containing multiple horizontal lines across it. He has a couple gold bracelets on his wrists, a few gold anklets above his bare feet, a flowing purple sash around his waist knotted at one hip that is holding a turquoise fabric that is kind of like a skirt, and extremely baggy pants that are bright orange with a couple black sections containing orange dots. All of that is fairly normal, it is two other aspects of this man that kind of gross me out.

The first is his earlobes. They stretch all the way to his chest and are being weighed down by gold diamond-shaped earrings that have red gems in the middle. It makes my ears hurt just looking at them. The other thing that is making me uncomfortable is the large grey ring with four shime-daiko drums evenly spaced out either in line with his head or above it. Each drumskin has three black mitsudomoe symbols. Even though I can't see his back, I have a strong feeling that the ring is coming out of his body, and that grosses me out. Not that I really need any more reasons to hate him.

"I'm impressed," he takes a bite of his apple. "You must be an archaeologist from the Blue Sea, and you even have a cute little assistant." He glances down at me.

My eyes narrow as the anger is red hot within me. It can't be hard for him to see that I absolutely hate him, but I keep my mouth shut. He could reveal something that Robin wants to hear, and I don't want to be the reason she misses that opportunity.

"It took us several months to find these ruins. It's so much easier when you can read the symbols."

Robin and I stay silent.

"The gold you're looking for isn't here. You're a few years too late for that." His mouth is full of apple as he continues to talk with us.

"We already noticed that lack of gold anywhere," Robin says. "You must have carried it away."

"It's a fine thing," he holds his hands out at his sides. "The glittering suits me."

"Was that also true for the golden bell that was here?"

"The golden bell?" He finishes off his apple before tossing away the core.

Robin lets out a small breath at his answer. If he can't read the symbols, then he must not know of the bell or the Poneglyph.

"I'm intrigued. You've read the symbols all over this place. What did you learn?"

"Oh, that's too bad," she fully faces him now. "If the Great Bell and it's tower, the pride of Shandora, weren't here when you arrived, then they must not have made it up here. I wanted to see the tower-"

"No, wait," he points down at us. "The bell is here! It's here. It came to the sky!"

I roll my eyes, getting fed up with his antics.

"Four hundred years ago, when Upper Yard was born. In other words, when this island came flying up, legend tells of a great bell ringing in the sky," he holds his chin in his hand. "The elders call it "The Island's Singing Voice." Hmm, so the bell was made of solid gold! This is wonderful! The game will soon be over. Only eight minutes remain. I might as well search the entire country while I'm at it." He breaks into laughter at whatever joke he's just made.

I look up at Robin with just my eyes. If she's thinking the same thing as me (which probably isn't the case with how much smarter she is), then he's just confirmed that the bell is somewhere here in the sky. If that is the case, then the Poneglyph must be with it as well.

"I sense a maggot on the edge of the island," he picks up a golden staff that has been at his side this entire time. For the first time since we've laid eyes on him, he looks like he might make a move.

"What!?" Robin blurts out.

"You're getting on my last nerve!" I scream.

"Oh, darling, I'm haven't even gotten started yet." He jumps to his feet, raising his fist to the air before an otherworldly lightning bolt ten times normal size slices up through the giant vine.

"What have you done!" Robin screams.

"Is he lightning, or did he make that happen!?" I take a staggering step back as my head tilts back to see the ruins above us starting to crumble.

Eneru lets out a loud laugh. "I invited them. Your friends! I brought them to Shandora!"

"He's destroyed all that history!" I clench my hands into fists. "All because he can! To bring us all together for whatever sick thing he has planned!"

Eneru is still laughing as the ruins above are falling through the clouds that were once holding them. "Let's move onto the finale!"

"Are they the ruins?" Robin gasps as she stares at the stone buildings falling down around us. "Why are they such huge pieces?"

"That son of a bitch," I growl.

"Gah!" a familiar voice that I haven't heard since we were all separated all that time ago.

"Zoro!" I happily call out as I turn towards his voice. "Zoro!" I anxiously call out when I see he's holding up a big slab of stone with one arm.

"Swordsman, did you come with the ruins?" Robin asks.

"I nearly died!" Zoro screams, shoving the stone away. In his other arm is an unconscious Chopper that does not look good at all.

"Yes, you would have died, if you were normal," she mumbles the last half.

"Chopper!" I whine, rushing over to grab the poor little reindeer out of Zoro's hand. "Oh, Chopper, I'm so sorry we couldn't protect you."

"I took out the one that did that to him," Zoro says. "I was just a little too late to make sure he didn't get hurt at all."

"You're also hurt," I point out all the injuries on his body.

"I'll live," he shrugs.

The loudest laugh that sounds like someone is being tickles makes me look towards the center of the city where temple Robin and I were in when we first came down here. It is there that the giant snake that separated us all that time ago. It doesn't seem as out to kill anything at the moment as it dances around while letting out its goofy laugh.

"What is the meaning of this!?" Eneru bellows. "What are you fussing about, Ruler of the Sky!? You annoying little snake!" He thrusts his arm out, turning it into a strong bolt of lightning heading straight for the snake. "How idiotic! El Thor!"

"No!" I scream, not even sure why I care for this snake that tried to kill us.

"Aisa!" a male voice nearby cries out.

"Oh no!" Zoro groans. "Nami!"

"Wait, Zoro?" Nami speaks up from behind a building.

"You're here!?" he angerly screams at her. "How did you escape!?"

"Escape what?" I look between the two. "Hold on, why are you even here?"

"Weren't you supposed to be with the ship?" Robin asks.

"That doesn't matter," Nami shakes her head, reaching out to grab Chopper from my arms. "I'm okay, but inside that thing...is Luffy."

"Luffy's in there!" I point at the fried snake that is smoking from being struck by lightning. "How do you know that!?"

"What's he even doing in there!?" Zoro shouts. "Why's he like this!?"

"I don't know!" Nami snaps. "He was just there!"

The snake falls with a thump that vibrates around us.

"I couldn't wound the Ruler of the Sky with multiple bazooka shots," the Shandia warrior I remember seeing back in the prairie area after the damn ball challenge. "Yet in one attack, he...that means Aisa's! Eneru!" he shots a bazooka round at the wannabe god, but Eneru easily dodges.

"Ball cloud!" Eneru uses a dial to create a ball for him to sit on. Then he's laughing once more. "What an awful thing to do," he swirls his golden staff around. "Here I was, nice