Luffy's mind was rattling inside his head. His emotions were swirling about trying to grasp the sight before him. Anger, horror, disgust, fright. He didn't want to believe it. Three years ago he had set out to become a pirate. He had gathered Nakama and loved them more than anything. He had lost his brother and spent two years away from his Nakama. The grief that passed through him the day they confronted Kuma, the day that Ace died, were nothing compared to this. Here he was, feet away from all of his friends, unable to help. 'Damn sea stone!'
He watched as slowly they started disappearing. No, this wasn't like with Kuma, there was no coming back after training. The admirals were here along with the Five elders. Why were they here again? Wasn't it a simple coincidence. That's right, he had stumbled into what he thought was a restaurant and had walked into a meeting of the marines most powerful forces.
He stared forwards, pulling on the chains that wrapped around his entire body as Brook's bones were shattered, his tone dial flying and skidding across the ground. "BROOK!" Luffy felt tears cascade down his face and Brooks lifeless bones tumbled to the ground.
The others were sharing similar faces of pain and shock. "You shouldn't look away from your enemy, cyborg!" Franky looked back, too late, as a haki covered blade pierced through his chest.
"FRANKY!" Luffy struggled against the bonds, he needed to help his friends! He stared at his remaining Nakama. "RUN!" He screamed, a sense of Deja-vu rising in his dry throat. They all looked at him, while trying to keep from being killed, in desperation to save him.
A gunshot, which seemed louder for the straw hats, pierced through Robins chest and she collapsed on the floor. "ROBIN!" Luffy was breathing heavy. 'Three of my Nakama are dead!'
The others were freaking out, their moves began to become sloppy. One by one they tumbled. "CHOPPER! USOPP! NAMI!"
The only two that weren't dead or dying we're Sanji and Zoro, who were standing back to back. "Oi, marimo..." Sanji said, his voice shaking, lighting another cigarette.
"What, shitty cook!" Zoro replied, eying the barrage of opponents that surrounded them. Only those who knew them could tell they were holding back tears. They were both exhausted.
"I don't want to, but we don't have a choice here." Sanji whispered, tapping his boot on the floor shakily. "We're gonna have to team up if he's making it out alive. Even then, 'm not sure if we'll make it..."
Zoro turned his eye towards the cook. "So you're thinking the same thing as me?" Zoro gave him a halfhearted grin. "Oh how I've fallen..."
Luffy was on host knees looking at his two last Nakama trying to come and save him instead of run. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" He screamed, tears falling from his eyes. "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, CAPTAINS ORDERS!"
They ignored him trying to get to the side of the room his was on. One didn't make it. Sanji was flung into the opposing side of Luffy, landing with a devastating crack and didn't get back up. Zoro was feet away from him when he yelled out in pain, falling inches in front of Luffy, sword and bullet wounds in his back.
Luffy's eyes went even wider. "Zoro..." He whimpered. "Please, I don't wanna be alone..." He saw Zoro twitch then heave himself into a standing position. Their enemies seemed to freeze, unsure of what he was going to do, or uncaring, but knowing he was no real threat.
"Luffy," Zoro started, taking out the Wado Ichimonji. "Wounds on the back are a swordsman's shame..." He closed his eyes, coating his weapon in haki and concentrating. Luffy didn't understand what he was talking about. 'Why is he talking about this now?!' "But I'd gladly receive these wounds a hundred times over if it means you'll get out of here!"
Luffy knew what he was trying to say, they could read each other so easily after all. "You aren't going to just stay behind, Zoro! I won't run away and leave you!" Luffy glared at his swordsman, tears threatening to once again overflow.
"Think of this as your crews final will!" Zoro thrust his word forward. "Shishi Son Son!" The chains around Luffy fell to the ground as Zoro fell forward, blood poring from his mouth and wounds. Without thinking Luffy went into second gear and sprinted out of the building with the bleeding Zoro. Leaving shocked marines behind who were whispering about his cutting sea stone. 'Where to go!' He looked towards the harbor, where the Sunny was docked. 'Ill use coup de burst to get away then... Treat Zoro's injuries!' He bounded quickly towards the ship. As soon as he got on it he leaned Zoro against the wall and made the ship blast away.
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He didn't know what to do... All of his Nakama were dead, except Zoro. He did a poor job patching up the wounds and it had been three days of drifting randomly in the sea; he felt his hope draining away. "Dammit Zoro, wake up!" His watery eyes were pleading at the unconscious man sleeping in the infirmary, Choppers infirmary, his dead friends infirmary. He was still in shock, his brain refusing to believe the information being pumped into it. He was about to leave the infirmary when he heard a sputtered cough, hoping filling his wide empty eyes. "ZORO!"
Said man was blinking around. "So this is what hell is like? More comfortable than I expected..." He stared over at Luffy, who was beaming.
"You're awake..." Luffy smiled and hugged the swordsman. "Your awake!" The little teenager hopped up and dragged Zoro to the kitchen. They had a small meal, Zoro being surprised that Luffy hadn't gobbled everything down day one. Zoro also noticed that his body didn't have any energy, making Luffy have to practically carry him everywhere.
As the sun set and Luffy fell asleep next to him, Zoro looked over himself. He spotted, and felt, a wound that was still streaming a blood. 'Dammit, it won't stop!' He closed his eyes and thought back to, that. He was prepared to die there, still was. He opened his eyes and looked over the wound, which was still bleeding. He shook Luffy awake. "Na, Zoro..."
"What Luffy?" Zoro sat up with Luffy opposite.
"Is everyone really..." Luffy couldn't finish the sentence and he looked at his feet.
Zoro only nodded when Luffy looked at him with tears in his eyes. He shoved himself into Zoro's lap and cried. After Luffy had calmed down, aka stopped crying, Zoro tried to take his mind of what was happening by telling him strange tales. Luffy calmed down enough to start actually laughing, both at the story and Zoro's bad story telling.
They ate, and sung, and stared out at the sea. There was a small island, populated but small, that they were drifting towards. "Zoro! Do you think they have a doctor there?! One that can fix your wounds?!" He was jumping up and down on the railing.
"Luffy be careful! If you fall in I'm in no shape to be able to get you!" Luffy ran over to Zoro and sat in his lap excitedly talking about the new island. Zoro smiled at him, noticing that his eyelid was becoming heavy. 'Im not gonna make it to the island, huh. Stupid bandages won't stop the bleeding...' He looked down at Luffy, who was starting to drift off. The kid was still smiling, probably ignoring the fact that eight of his other Nakama weren't ever getting better in order to focus on making him better. His vision was getting blurry and he took one last gulp of booze before the sight of a woman's legs appearing in the corner of his eye. "Dont... Touch... Luff-"
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The woman looked at the dying man. "Don't... Touch... Luff-" his body slumped slightly, his one open eye slowly closing and his breathing fading away.
She closed her eyes. "Thank you, Roronoa Zoro, for protecting Luffy." She took the teen in her arms and laid him out on the deck, putting a blanket over him. "Luffy, my little Luffy. What are we going to do with you?"
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Luffy blinked himself awake. He was warm, but it was a different kind of warm. It wasn't the same as it was when he was with Zoro. 'ZORO!' Luffy bolted up, the blanket on top of him falling off his chest. "Luffy." He looked over at a tall woman. She looked to be in her mid thirties as had long, green hair that hung down to her middle back and she had bangs that hung on either side of her face. She was wearing a simple dress and apron. Her face held a serene smile and calm warming eyes.
"Makino?" Luffy was surprised until he remembered Zoro. "Ahh- I have to go to Zoro! He's in trouble if I-" Makino stepped in his way and pulled him into a hug.
"I'm sorry, Luffy..." She pulled him closer as she felt him trembling. He broke out crying and they sat on the floor, her holding him in her lap, rubbing his back as he cried for his lost friends.
The next morning they set him on a small raft and set it aflame while it drifted out to sea. "Makino." Luffy was staring out at the raft as it drifted away, his eyes empty. "What do I do now? All of my friends are de- gone." He stared at the green-haired woman, a pleading look on his face.
"Luffy, what if I could give you another chance?" She giggled at the bewildered look on his face. "It also explains why I'm here right now..."
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"Shortly after you left, I ate a devil Fruit." She was in the kitchen area, sitting at the dinner table. "Apparently it's called the Wish Wish Fruit. It allows the user to grant wishes." She rolled up the sleeves of her dress and Luffy saw a strange, black tattoo. It was like a figure eight but with five loops instead of two. There was an identical one on her right arm. Three of the loops had bright red swirls inside them.
"What's with the tattoo?" Luffy asked looking at it with genuine curiosity.
"With every wish I grant it comes with a ranking of sorts. The more it affects my surroundings the higher the ranking. The last wish I made was to come to you, Luffy." Luffy looked up at her, surprised but still confused.
"So?" She chuckled at his response and ruffled his hair before replacing his straw hat on top of his head.
"So~, I can grant any wish That anyone asks of me..." She sighed as he quirked and eyebrow and tilted his head to the side. "Luffy you want to see your Nakama again, right?"
Luffy's eyes lit up and he shook his head ferociously. "I can send you back, Luffy. You can become stronger and save your friends." He froze and stared at her. "Will you make a wish?"
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Luffy was fidgeting around, pacing on deck. He was nervous, but excited, but really nervous. What if he messed something up and didn't meet one of his nakama or they wouldn't join him... What if that barrel he jumped in at the beginning of his journey carried him somewhere else...
He bounced onto Sunny's figurehead and lay down on it. "Hey, Sunny... Merry too, should I go back? I'll miss you guys but, eventually we'll all sail together again! And this time I won't hurt you as much Merry! And- And..." He hugged the lion head. "We'll all be happy!" The only reply was the gentle lapping of waves against the side of the ship, but, for whatever reason it may be, he felt a little better about it.
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Makino stood in front of Luffy, who was smiling wildly. "Remember, only you and me will remember this, though I won't have my devil fruit. For everyone else it will be just as it happened the first time, kay? And I'm not sure, but I think this will hurt a little."
He nodded and she held out her hands. Her thumbs overlapped one another and her middle fingers touched while her pointer fingers crossed and rested on her middle fingers. Her ring fingers were bent forwards and her pinkies were pointed up.
"See you there, Luffy!" With that she shifted her hands so that her hands were like guns, one pointed at him and the other at her, and 'shot' them both. Almost immediately he felt an invisible bullet hit and everything went dark.
Darkness, he couldnt see anything. Pain. There was so much of it. He felt his body conform and shrinking. He felt a powerful burning all over his body. At the same time scars and muscles weakened leaving Luffy feeling tired.
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Then his eyes darted open and he was staring at a wooden ceiling, panting. Rough, wooden flooring was pressed against his back and he was covered in a small blanket. His body was much smaller than it had been before though he still had a faint X shaped scar on his chest, not nearly as bad as it had been before. He heard the small breaths of two children next to him and felt tears pooling in his eyes. 'Ace, Sabo!'
Luffy sat up, looking at the nostalgic view of Dadan's hut. Then he saw his two brothers, their bodies those of children, sleeping on either side of him. He stretched his arms and pulled them out of their dreamland with a hug. "Ace! Sabo!" He jumped up and down, his brothers struggling to catch their breath.
"Lu, I can't breath!" Ace croaked, just as Sabo choked out, "Luffy, 'm choking!" He immediately let go and laughed as they sat panting on the floor, holding their necks.
After a few seconds of recuperation they bonked him on the head, glaring. "OWWW!" Luffy glared back at them. "WHY'D YOU DO THAT?!"
"IDIOT YOU ALMOST CHOKED US!" Ace yelled.
Luffy blinked at him before looking to the side, rubbing the back of his head and saying, "I'm sorry. I won't do it again." in a dead pan voice.
'He's not sorry at all!' They both thought, sweat dropping.
A loud voice boomed from below. "Time for your marine training, you brats! Gahahaha!" The three children gulped, their faces turning blue.
They quickly looked at each other and nodded before turning to their room's window, all of them trying to squeeze through as Garp crashed into their room. "RUUUUN!"
)-(Author's Notes)-(
Hello my dumplings! Ok so I know that this isn't a completely original idea and there's a lot of these kinds of stories but I've been wanting to do my own one of these for soooo long that I couldn't resist!
Also starting next chapter, I'm going to have my titles spin offs of a movie/Book/Anime/Manga/etc title.
(Example:
Title; The ugly Bounty Hunter
Original Title: The ugly Duckling)
Everyone who manages to guess it correct gets a shout out in the next chapter along with the correct answer! Your only hint will be if its a movie title or manga title, etc. Please review, I love it when you do!
Till next time, my dumplings!