AN: Hope everyone had a great Spring Break, I know I enjoyed mine. Sorry it's taken so long to get this posted but my Muse had a temporary leave of absence and I hit a small snag on where exactly I wanted to take this. But not to worry I have sorted it out and hopefully will be returning to a more weekly basis of shooting out chapters. Although it might pause a little to the end of April and beginning of May due to finals and the completion of two research projects.

Chapter 19

Welcome to Skypiea

Harry slowly regained consciousness and noticed all of his girls standing near him, but looking outward as if waiting for something to happen. Sulfr was the first one to see the signs of wakefulness and quickly started berating him, while licking his face. Don't you ever do that again, you worried all of us half to death, and nearly killed yourself. What would happen to us if you died, hmm?

Harry had no response to that and was quickly set upon by the other girls as they noticed his wakefulness as well and laid kisses all over his face similar to what Sulfr had just done, taking turns saying things similar to what Sulfr had just ran off in his head.

Once they had assured themselves that he was fine, they sat him up so that he could see what was going on around him. Harry finally got his first sight of a sea of clouds, quite literally, and was awestruck by how wonderful they looked. Tearing his eyes away from the sight he turned towards Cloud.

"So what happened while I was out of it?" Harry asked

"Well once we made it through the clouds Ussop wanted to take a swim in the clouds …

(Cannon until right after leaving heaven's gate)

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"AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Juno's scream of rage could be heard on the next island over as she exclaimed her displeasure at hearing that she had missed Harry by mere hours.

It hadn't taken long for people to recognize the man in the picture and had even gained some information about what they knew about the group. She now knew that he had left with another rookie, but the worst piece of news she had heard was how close the Thunderstorm Pirates seemed to be as they walked around. Those girls were encroaching on territory that Juno wanted all to herself and now she had lost the trail so that she couldn't capture and keep him. It was highly unpredictable on where that particular piece of Skypiea would be when they finally got off of it which put a huge wrinkle in her plans.

She had been able to alleviate a bit of her frustration on the two crew's that were left from the confrontation with Harry and Luffy, which had put a smile on her face for a small bit, but her frustration had quickly returned.

"Captain! We are heading to the nearest Marine Base with all the fucking speed you can bloody muster out of this piece of drift wood! I want to know our best estimations on where that particular cloud plans to be at any given point and to be in that vicinity well before it is. Got it!" Juno screamed at the captain.

The captain threw up a hasty salute and scrambled to get his men working overtime, which wasn't all that hard after watching the crazy woman completely decimate two pirate crews single handedly.

You will be mine Potter, even if I have to follow you to the end of the New World. Juno thought to herself as she stood aboard the prow of the ship.

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" … then we came up this spiral cloud being carried by a crab. It's been pretty boring without you around." Cloud finished.

Harry just looked at her with a look of sarcastic disbelief. "I'm sure it was."

With that Harry finally got to his feet a little unsteadily, and was soon being supported by the girls.

"No more doing something like that until you've trained it as much as you've trained the other aspects of yourself. We don't need to lose you." Jennifer told him as she once again checked him over to make sure he was truly recovered, all Harry could do was nod his head.

Looking around again he sees the Strawhats running to the shore of the island in the sky.

"Let's catch up with them and find out what we are doing next." Harry stated, and waited as the girls quickly made sure that he did nothing while they took care of everything.

Their ship quickly made it to where Luffy's ship was anchored and they followed the other crew's lead in disembarking onto the land. Harry decided to take it easy and sat down on the clouds while the rest joined in on the shenanigans of the Strawhat crew. Unbeknownst to him, Robin was watching him closely, still trying to figure him out.

She was half tempted to go someplace and use the Den Den Mushi and contact him through the Miss All Sunday persona and see how long it took for him to figure out it was her. A slight smirk settled across her lips as she considered the hours of amusement that could bring if he was half as foolish as the rest of the crew as they bounced around her.

Shaking her head she noticed that while she had zoned out a young woman with minute wings on her back had joined them. She was showing Luffy how to eat one of the fruits he had found. She had a very charming demeanor and was quickly drawing the rest of the crew.

"My name is Conis by the way, and this little beauty is Sue." Conis said as she reached down and pet the little fox at her feet.

Sulfr stalked over to the little fox at roughly the same size as it and started sniffing around. Sue sniffed a little before reaching out and licking Sulfr on the nose. Sulfr froze in astonishment as this was entirely unexpected for her. Sue then turned swiftly swatting Sulfr with her tail before dashing off. Perplexed and strangely excited at what was happening Sulfr took off after the agile little fox.

The rest of the group watched this in amusement and Conis laughed. "You'll have to excuse Sue; she can be a tad mischievous from time to time."

"It's no problem, I'm sure it'll be good for Sulfr." Harry said as he finally stood up and entered the gathering around Conis.

Nami immediately latched onto their first friend they had made and quickly tried to grill her for as much information about this new island as she could, in a friendly manner of course (cough). Just as she was explaining some of the things that she did like her harp playing they heard a noise in the distance that Conis recognized as her father.

She quickly explained the concept of the wave rider that he was using to travel around and the importance of the dials that powered it when her father crashed into the beach and went headfirst into a tree.

"Father!" "Ah are you alright?" Conis, Chopper, and Jennifer asked as they all dashed towards the injured man. Shakily he got up under the care of his daughter and the two doctors.

"I'm quite alright. I didn't hurt anybody else did I?" He asked looking around to make sure the others were alright. "Are these your friends Conis dear?

"Yes father they are from the Blue Sea." Conis said excitedly

"Ooh, good timing. I just got done fishing for sky lobster. You are all welcome to come back up to our house and have supper with us."

They all nodded excitedly; on the way up they questioned both of them more about these dials that were so important for their culture, while Sulfr and Sue continued their game of tag in between their feet. Once they got to the top Conis' Father and Sanji headed to the kitchen to get the meals prepared while Conis displayed some of the various types of dials available with promises to show them where they could go and purchase some of their own.

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The group had fragmented slightly following dinner allowing for separate conversations to spring up. Luffy and Ussop were playing around with the dials. Cloud, Nami, and Robin were talking to Conis. Zoro was cleaning his swords. Sanji was helping clean up in the kitchen. Luciana and Titania were off in a corner whispering to each other. Harry was on the couch just enjoying watching everyone when he tuned into a conversation that was taking place between Jennifer and Chopper.

"So you're saying that with this ball you are able to turn your basic three transformations into something else entirely for 7 minutes?!" Jennifer asked astounded.

Chopper shuffled awkwardly while silently admitting that yes he could.

"What about for other non-zoan devil fruits? Do you think that you could find a way using a variation of the same formula to enhance those abilities? Or maybe even recreate something similar to a devil fruit for normal humans to use to gain superhuman abilities temporarily?" Cloud questioned, getting more and more excited as her mind started playing out the possibilities. "This could lead to that super soldier serum my father was working on, maybe even surpass it."

Chopper got a look of surprise on his face followed by intense concentration before he had her follow him back to the ship so that they could go over some of the details that he had outlined along with his notes on his experiments with the drug itself.

Harry sat in contemplation of this new information for a bit before Sulfr jumped up onto his lap. Looking down Harry thought to her, so did you have fun?

Yes, she is surprisingly fast for one so small. She then turned her big eyes on him whimpering slightly, it's been too long since we've played like we used to. I miss those days.

I do to. Harry agreed as he reached down and brought her up closer to his face so that they could nuzzle each other in their own show of affection. After a time Harry placed her back down on his lap and started scratching her behind her ears.

He looked up when he felt a weight settle onto the couch next to him, looking over he saw that Robin was the one to sitting down next to him. She's smiles slightly over at Sulfr before turning to look at Harry.

"You seem very affectionate with the little wolf there. Have you been together long?" Robin asked, fishing for more information about him.

"Yes, we've been together since her mother died. I took her in and raised her on that island for a time before we set off on the ocean." Harry replied, smiling in remembrance of those days they had spent back on that island.

"What made you leave?" Robin asked.

"Had someone to find." Harry replied.

"Have you found them?" she asked.

"Not yet, but I'm very close." He replied

As the last part of the conversation came around they both found themselves staring deeply into the others eyes. Searching for something indefinable within those sparkling orbs, with all of the emotion but no answers to the questions buzzing in their heads.

The moment was ruined by a loud bang as one of the dials Luffy and Ussop were playing with punched Ussop in the chest when Luffy threw it at him.

Conis then got everyone's attention to explain the need to stay away from Upper Yard, which was the home of God and that to enter, bore the punishment of Death.

AN: So here's the latest chapter, not a whole lot happened but, set up a couple of scenarios for down the road. Hope to hear your thoughts about the possibilities available with the expansion of the Rumble Ball. Not everyone will take a new rumble ball, but I plan to use it as a sort of leg up for the weaker members of the crew. We'll see what your thoughts are.

Anyways keep the review's coming.