43 Sky Island

After his emotional fight, Ezio calmed down. There were a lot of things to do and tomorrow they had to go to Sabaody. Ezio was a little bit depressed because he had not much time.

After the fight on Paradise Island, Ezio got new inspirations and a lead to the second ability of his devil fruit. This was the reason why he trained for a long time until the fight between Ace and Blackbeard arrived. Sabaody was an important step in his future plans so the plans he had on Sky Island would be managed by his crew in the following days.

Ezio burned the clouds around the island only on the surface. This meant that when you look up from the Blue Sea, you won't see a burning sky. It was only a thin layer of fire that surfaced the sea of clouds, this was enough to defend against intruders. Ezio could control his fire like he wanted, so the fire stopped to burn more clouds after some time. It was like on Paradise Island, he only burned the island down, but when the fire arrived on the water, it stopped to burn further. Ezio didn't set this whole place on fire because it looked cool. He did it because it would boost his strength and was a natural defense. If he had so much fire around him he could use it to burn his enemies before they could do anything. He wouldn't admit that another reason for this fire was because he had a lot of prisoners on his ship…

The first thing Ezio did was checking the inhabitants of Sky Island. Eneru was still the God, it wasn't too surprising. Even without his devil fruit, this guy wasn't weak. The surprising thing was that this crazy guy wasn't the same like in the manga. Without the crazy power of the lightning fruit, this guy didn't think he was a true God that stood above everyone. He was a humble and nice guy that was concerned about the people of Sky Island. He still had his four priest under his command, and the relationship between the Shandia and the original inhabitants wasn't really good. This change in Eneru's character made Ezio frown. He had to be careful, if he would give someone the lightning fruit and this person would end like Eneru… The power of this devil fruit was just too amazing. Ezio really wanted to eat this fruit, it was good that he didn't do it in the end.

Luffy didn't do much when he arrived at Sky Island. The straw hats didn't pay the entrance fee of Skypiea, and because of that they were hunted down by Eneru and his people. In the end, Eneru lost, Luffy took a little bit of gold, and left.

The Golden City was still in gold, Eneru didn't build his ark and left the city like in the manga. The Shandia's were very supportive towards Ezio because he allowed them to live in this city. The first thing he ordered was to repair all the houses of this old city. Ezio had a lot of servants with many professions on his ship and now was the time he could use their wisdom.

The people on Sky Island could build islands on clouds. So the first think he asked was how they did it. After that he used this to his advantage. Above the island was now a huge cloud, and Benson used his ability to bring the ship Hancock stole from Tesoro on this cloud.

This impressive city was now floating above the ancient city. Ezio wanted to take the gold from Tesoro and build a new city full of gold, but after Ezio saw how ridiculous this city on a ship was, he didn't do it. You can say whatever you want about Tesoro, but this city was a masterpiece. Now this impressive city was floating on a cloud above the Upper Yard and would be part of his headquarter. This was the place where he would reside in the future. The bad thing was that everything on this island was for entertainment and this could distract his people, but this city was so impressive, Ezio could never build a city that would rival this place in a short amount of time.

The people of Sky Island feared Ezio like a devil. It wasn't their fault, Ezio arrived, set everything on fire, and proclaimed that this island was now his territory. He didn't has the time to talk with all the people, so for the moment he will be the evil guy. He wouldn't mistreat the citizens, and he would slowly gain their trust. Maybe these people didn't know it at this moment, but the arrival of this devil was only beneficial for this island and this place would change in the future.

Ezio had a huge map in front of him. Besides Shandora, he wanted to build two new towns. These places would grow in the future and if they were big enough, they would connect with the other and build one huge city. There was a lot of planning to do. As a citizens of modern earth, he wanted to create a place that resembled his old world.

Everything in this new headquarter was carefully planed. A good street network, a residential area, a district for trade, a district for industries. He even planed fields for wheat and fields for animals. First he had to find out how people lived above the clouds. Ezio thought that it wouldn't rain in this place, so it would be difficult to grow fields. Then there was the secret headquarter for Ezio's shadow force, and of course the most important place - Bensons headquarter.

Ezio was confused and didn't understand how far the technology was advanced in this world. On one hand, you had cyborgs and crazy weapons, these were things that weren't possible on earth. On the other hand, when you looked at the technology normal people would use, then it looked like this world was really underdeveloped. Cars, computers, all these things should be normal in a world were cyborgs could be build. The first cars he saw were on the ship from this rich guy Tesoro. He wanted to change this in his territory, and he wanted to bring some technology to this place that was normal for people on earth. Now he could use his knowledge from earth for the first time in this world. The only knowledge that was useful until this point was the knowledge he had from the manga. Ezio was an architect in his past life, so to build a city without limits was one of his dreams. On earth he could only build single houses, sometimes he was involved in building a skyscraper, but now he was a lord and had a huge island for himself. And he had no limits in resources. He started his plans for this city in his childhood when he was in the Holy Land, because he knew back then that this day would arrive.

Ezio released all the prisoners he had on the ship. The ones who had devil fruit powers that could create chaos had a seastone bracelet on their arm. Ezio had to calm those people down. In the first hour they all created chaos and attacked everything and everyone, but after they saw the huge sea of fire and heard that they were on an island in the sky, they were all depressed. And after they realized that the kidnapper was Blackflame Ezio, they nearly cried.

Ezio said to his people that they should give these prisoners a good treatment. Tonight, all of them would go to the city that was floating on a cloud and would celebrate the establishment of their new headquarter. Of course, Ezio only wanted to get Hancock in his bed, but his subordinates didn't care, they were happy.

After Ezio heard that Hancock stole not only the ship but also all the people that were on it, Ezio had a headache. Tesoro's servants were useful, they would help him to organize this city that was floating on a cloud now. And the rest… Well, what he lacked most was manpower at the moment, so maybe this wasn't so bad.

Ezio looked at all the people around him and was satisfied. He took advantage of everything he knew from the manga, and after the big war with Whitebeard, he wouldn't care about his knowledge from the manga anymore. Maybe it was helpful if he had to fight Big Mom or Kaido, but at this point he wouldn't relay on this knowledge. After he established his organization, he had enough power. Knowledge is helpful, but in front of power this knowledge is useless. And Ezio grew more powerful with each passing day.