Journey to One Piece

333. Future plans

Meanwhile Ken was back in his ship. The Straw Hats had been eagerly waiting for him all this time. The moment he arrived, Luffy and others barged Ken with questions. Ken spoke of how he found out that the kingdom was used as a base and an Admiral was here and also someone who was in the Navy for a long time and had a huge amount of respect. 

Ken then spoke of Zephyr's insistence on his justice and how he was kind of like Akainu but this guy at least had a heart. Ken spoke of the base being in place for scouting and finding out where Shiki was hiding. 

"Luffy.. You decide what do you want to do." Ken said as he didn't want to take the headache of decision. Luffy took his thinking cap on and started to think hard of what to do. Zoro asked if they could just use their disguises and infiltrate but Sanji refused as they would be caught. 

It wasn't Dressrosa. Navy were specifically looking for them. 

"Let's be in the air and follow the Navy. I will use my eyes." Luffy said after some silence. This surprised Ken because he didn't expect that Luffy had progressed on his clairvoyance. He was a God to begin with so he should have had clairvoyance. 

Ken didn't have that. Maybe Sanji and Chopper could have their hands on it but it was yet to be seen. It was nice to know that Luffy wanted to use his eyes to search for Shiki. The ship went high up in the air again and started flying around in a very wide spiral circle with the kingdom as the center, this would ensure that they covered as much distance as possible. 

While the ship did this Luffy was left to his own mechanism and his space in his room where he could just concentrate on to find Shiki. Ken had already told Luffy what he was searching for. Shiki looked like a "c**k". He did show him a picture and Luffy admitted that he did look like one. 

This would be easy for Luffy as he now had a face which he could relate to. But as Ken had expected Luffy to lose concentration and just want food so Ken asked Sanji for more food for him. 

"This guy just eats and shouts." Sanji complained. 

"Naa... Ken.. Has he always been like that. You don't even eat half of what he eats." Nami asked. 

"It's not that I can't eat, but if I do eat my brothers wouldn't get their belly full and yes he has always been like that just like the brothers." Ken replied as Sanji delivered him food while the rest just at some bits and pieces. 

"That must be one hell of a life." Jinbe laughed. 

"It was alright. We had fun." Ken reminisced about his past. They also randomly talked of what they would do after Luffy became the pirate king. There was no mistake or misunderstanding here. They would give their best to make their Captain the Pirate King and there was no other way out. 

"I would make spaceships." Franky said and this surprised everyone present. Even Ken, but it made Ken very happy. 

"Franky, after you make it, me and you, will go on a journey to the stars." Ken said. 

"Aoooo.. You bet we will." Franky said as he posed. 

This made Ken really happy. In his previous life he had always wanted to go to the stars and find out if anything was out there. But the distance between each system was way too large of a number to even allow one to travel but now it was different. Franky had both the knowledge and the energy to make spaceships that could travel in space. 

He just needed time and they had lots of it. 

This made everyone intrigued and though they didn't say it outright at the moment, Ken could tell that they did contemplate the fact of journeying to the stars heavily. While they talked of their future plans, the door of Luffy' room opened with a loud bang. 

Everyone turned around with hopeful eyes. 

"Oye.. Minna.. I found out the tori.." Luffy shouted. 

"Let's go."

Soon the ship turned it's direction of it perpetual spiral motion, and flew towards a certain direction pointed by Luffy. Ken knew that Luffy also has a pretty bad sense of direction, might not be like Zoro but it was there. 

They traveled for a day and one could easily notice that Luffy's eyes now had a different kind of glow and Ken also noticed a slight change in the graph of progress of Luffy's character. Luffy was still the same but his eyes had a glow that there was never before. 

They moved for and finally they could see very high up in the air multiple islands floating. These islands were huge and had the structure of downside cone with landmass above them. It was very beautiful as on the landmass one could see lush vegetation and beautiful landscapes. 

"This is beautiful."

"Sky island without any clouds? His devil fruit must be one of a kind." Robin said. 

"I would love to have a home of mine up here." Ken said. The ship went towards on the smaller floating islands as they didn't want to alarm anyone and being in a smaller island would be better. 

"Ken can you hear him?" Zoro asked. 

"No. This is weird. I thought he will be in his home. The only people here are his subordinates." Ken replied. 

"Sheesh. Thank god. See Shiki isn't here. Let's go somewhere else." Ussop said as he made a backward going motion only to see that all the Straw Hats had stepped on the land. 

"Oye.. Can you all just calm down? This guy can make islands float. This will not be good." Ussop said. 

"Chopper!!" Ussop shouted and Chopper replied. 

"Ken said that this person had made kind of drug that is harmful to people. I can't leave them."