Chapter 47

Grandline, Paradise, Jaya

After Azul had made a new agreement with the strawhats concerning Robin, he returned back to her, telling her about it, which made the whitebeard pirates turn into his direction, holding a transpondersnail in there hands.

"We haven't informed the captain about the happenings yet and considering you are the one that is controlling everything at the moment, Robin and Teach that is, I believe you should call the captain yourself. Wait a second, we'll give you his number." Azul took the transpondersnail and after receiving the number, dialed Whitebeard, to tell him how things would proceed from here.

"Who is this?" came the voice of a young man on the other end of the line.

"My name is Azul. I'll need to speak to your captain. It concerns a problem of yours and a new crewmember." Azul spoke, waiting for a reply from the other end, which ended up being a different voice all together, much deeper this time.

"I heard you wanted to talk to me brat?" Whitebeard spoke in a bored voice.

"Ye. I've recently had the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e of meeting a former crewmember of yours. Teach, or Blackbeard as he calls himself now. Sadly he managed to escape." Azul answered with a grumble at the memory of the fights end.

Following his words silence was his answer, which brought a slight tick to Azuls forhead. He didn't have all day to chat around!

"What's your name?" the deep voice of Whitebeard rumbled through the mic, making Azul pause slightly. Didn't the young man tell him that already? No matter.

"Azul. Anyway, your subordinates got their asses kicked by Blackbeard so they'll be staying here in Jaya to recuperate from their injuries. Meanwhile I've struck a deal with Robin, though she hasn't fully agreed to it yet. If she agrees then I'll take her to the new world where you can pick her up yourself or you tell me your location at that time and I'll come to you. Either way is fine with me."

Azul spoke in an equally bored voice while sticking his finger into his nose. Always this itching!

"I see. Call me again when you reach the new world. And brat, thanks for helping my sons and daughters. I bet they charged Teach head-on like morons, gurararara" Whitebeards laughter echoed through the mic, causing Azul to laugh in turn at the faces the subordinates were making when hearing their captains words.

"Alright, I gotta go now. Smell ya later!" Azul said and hung the mic up, faintly hearing the beginnings of Whitebeards laughter once more shortly before hanging up the mic, shrugging at the subordinates dumbfounded expression at his words.

"I guess it's time to prepare the coming journey upwards..." Azul mumbled to himself, walking out of the pub, down the destroyed road towards his tiny ship, boarding it to take stock of his supplies before heading back into the pub to order some provisions for the days to come.

The strawhats meanwhile did pretty much the same, until both the flying lamb and Azuls miniature ship left the harbor together to sail towards a man that seemingly knew about skyisland from what Robin had found out by asking the barkeeper.

Soon afterwards they reached the shore where said man was sitting on a rock, smoking a cigarette, observing the arriving ship, until they both landed at the shore and walked over towards the man.

"Hey old man, we heard you knew how to reach skyisland?" Luffy grinned in exitement.

The old man exhaled the smoke from his cigarette before grinning in turn and said:

"Skyisland ehh? Well boy, let me tell you a story..."

Soon they came upon the topic of how to actually reach said island in the sky. The knockup-stream.

A giant stream of water, exploding upwards with such force that it ripped sh.i.p.s and even islands to shreds, making a few select crewmembers wail in fright, annoying Azul to no end.

Walking back to his tiny ship Azul realise that it probably wouldn't survive such a force, no matter how many wings would be installed at its sides and so he simply decided to run up there.

"Alright guys, I'll see you up there. Don't f.u.c.k this up!" Azul said, grinning at the workout he would soon get, igniting the flames at his feet.

"What do you mean up the-?" Nami spoke until she saw Azul igniting his feet, making her eyes widen in understanding. Before she could finish her sentence though, Azul grabbed Robin in a princess carry, making her yelp in surprise, and bending his knees pushed with a mighty crack the earth beneath his feet, jumping up into the air with a giant grin on his face, running with a passenger towards heaven itself...