41 Headquarter

Everyone from Ezio's crew was back on the ship. Besides Hina, Nojiko and Koza, the rest of the

'new crew members' were in prison. There were many other people that they had to catch, he didn't searched the people in the New World at this moment. He would get all these people after they would arrive at Sabaody.

„Well, I think our first recruitment was a success?", said Ezio and frowned.

The next mission was to conquer the new headquarter for their organization. Ezio thought long about the place where they should build their headquarter. With his most beloved crew member, Benson, he decided that his headquarter should be at a special place.

The ship stopped in the middle of the sea and Ezio smiled.

„We arrived at our destination"

The crew looked confused.

„Do you know the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk?"

The crew members never heard about this tale. It wasn't their fault, this was a different world.

„Reiju, it's time for you to shine"

Reiju smiled and then activated her devil fruit powers. Under the ship, a huge plant began to grow. Then the plant wrapped around the ship and grew bigger and bigger. The ship, that was on top of the plant, shot up into the sky. After several minutes, the ship arrived at a special place in this world - Skypia.

The crew didn't notice this beautiful land above the clouds. They were still shocked by this huge plant - never underestimate the plant plant fruit. Even Hancock watched at her rival with a frown.

Ezio was truly curious what happened to Skypiea. After he snatched the devil fruit of Eneru, he changed the story of this place. Was Eneru still the God of Skypiea?

In the end he didn't really matter what happened on Sky Island. The important thing was that Ezio would make his headquarter in this place. The Ancient City of Shandora - Ezio wanted to make this old city famous again. Well, it wouldn't become famous because this was a secret headquarter, but it would become the place that would change the whole world. Maybe this city was in ruins now, and he didn't know if Eneru would build his arc in this timeline. In the end it didn't matter, because he stole the ship from this crazy bastard Tesoro, so he had enough gold to build a new city.

Ezio noticed with his observation haki that the people on Skypiea had trouble at this moment. They were attacked by an annoying guy, but this was a good chance to show the citizens of Sky Island that they were good guys.

„The people are attacked by an annoying guy called Bellamy. Stop this guy and save the people. After that you have to bring everyone on this floating island, nobody can leave the island! This is important. Lily, Sid, don't be villains. Smile sometimes and be nice to the people!"

Ezio and Hancock flew away while the rest of the team played the hero and saved the people from this annoying Bellamy.

„What are you planing, Ezio?"

„Sky Island is a beautiful place, but we have to change this place a little bit. This should be the headquarters of the heir of the Blackflame family. Sky Island isn't special enough to represent me"

Ezio grinned. They arrived in front of an old woman. This was the Heaven's Gate.

„You have to pay to enter Sky Island", said the woman unfriendly.

„Old woman, how do people from the Blue Sea usually come up here?"

The woman pointed to the west.

„There is a bridge in this direction that connects Sky Island with the Blue Sea. It is the only way to come up here. Of course, if you can fly than that would change things"

„Thank you, old woman. Leave this place now. You will die if you don't. I think that after today you will lose your job. I'm really sorry about that"

After that the two arrived at the bridge that connected the Heaven to the Blue Sea. It was a bridge that was made out of clouds.

Ezio smiled and then the bridge burned in black fire. It took a while but after that the whole bridge that was formed out of clouds was gone. Nobody could visit this place with a ship anymore - the only way to arrive at Skypiea was to fly.

Ezio wanted to make his headquarter at a place that was far away from the World Government and the Emperors of the four Seas. With Bensons ability, he could bring all his people up here , but other people wouldn't have it so easy. The World Government knew about Sky Island, even Garp found it back then. The thing was that they weren't interested in this piece of land. There were so many islands in this world and these islands weren't as hard to reach as Sky Island. Besides this, there wasn't something that interested the World Government on Skypia. They didn't now that there was a poneglyph. So this land was free from marines and the influence of the World Government. The only problems the citizens had were people from the Blue Sea who would make troubles, but that were mostly pirates. This place was perfect for him.

„I think all people are on the Upper Yard now. Even the old woman listened to us. It's time to make this place into an unique piece of land - a land that is ruled by a Blackflame"

Ezio started to burn the clouds. For the people of Skypiea, these clouds were like the water for the people on the Blue Sea. Everything that surrounded the Upper Yard started to burn in black fire - it was like the Upper Yard was surrounded by a black sea.

All the people from Skypiea that were standing on the Upper Yard looked at this black sea of fire that was surrounding them. They were shocked. It wasn't only them, even Ezio's crew was shocked.

The heavens started to burn - the whole Upper Yard was surrounded by black fire, and this black fire started to burn more and more clouds.

After this day, the sea of clouds surrounding the Upper Yard was called the Burning Heaven.

This was a natural defense for one of the most troublesome organizations the world ever faced.

Every bridge that connected Sky Island with the Blue Sea was burned down, and everyone who wanted to reach this place by flying first had to pass this burning sea.

But in this world, there was no one who would survive this black fire.

You ask why?

Because this fire could burn everything in this world.