I was inspired by Pokepika's Haunt's Fem!Lu Mythical Zoan stories, and decided to try my hand at it. Some (quite large) changes to the canon story, of course.
Luffy ate the Kamu Kamu no mi. Why? All the Mythical Zoans I found were bird types, which is boring. Not all mythical animals are birds, you know.
By the way, sorry about the bipolar line breakers. I'm having trouble with them.
Update- 1/22/14
Please skip this arc because I reread it and realized just how much my writing skills sucked.
Seriously, skip this thing, I'm ashamed of it.
Disclaimer- I don't own One Piece.
Marco was excited. Very excited. Which is unusual, since the phoenix tended to not show any emotion whatsoever. But this man had beaten up one of his family, and he was this close to exacting revenge. Sure, Teach had started the fight, but no one hurt a member of his family, justified or not. He was snapped out of his murderous thought by a member of his division.
"Sir, the Thousand Sunny has been spotted."
Marco smiled. The Straw-Hats were going to be regret that fight with his nakama.
The first division had been chosen to invade the Straw-Hat's ship. Which is odd, considering that it was a member of the second division who was hurt. But for some reason, Ace flat out refused to fight. (A/N Canon Marineford hasn't happened, and the Whitebeard crew have no idea that Luffy is Ace's brother) Marco dropped onto the enemy pirate's ship, and dispelled his wings. Odd. No guard.
Suddenly, one of his men fell forward, as if punched. A slow, haunting voice echoed across the deck.
Tick tock, goes the clock,
The demon's rampage can't be stopped...
At the end of each line, a man pitched forward and collapsed, as if hit.
Nothing left but piles of bones,
Beaten, bloodied, bruised, and broken,
Lying shattered among the stones,
Death has come to claim us all.
Men began to drop quicker.
Tick tock, goes the clock,
The demon's rampage won't be stopped.
The flurry of dropped bodies began to slow down, and only ten men, including Marco, were left standing.
Cold has won and Life has ended,
Death now spreads its icy grip,
The pain in a heart won't be mended,
Death has come to claim us all.
Six people.
Tick tock, goes the clock,
The demon's rampage shouldn't be stopped.
Four people.
Life is a fragile thing,
Breaks at the merest touch,
Tortured souls cry out and sing...
Only Marco was left now. Everyone else was knocked out on the deck.
Death has come to claim us all.
Marco was hit in the chest, and then held in a sleeper hold, making him black out.
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The first thing I remembered when I woke up was the weird song. Then I noticed I was hogtied and held down with kairoseki. I also noticed that I was not on the Moby Dick, and assumed that I was on the Thousand Sunny. I then saw a raven haired woman sitting across from me, staring intently at me. She finally got up and said, "Captain-san, our guest is up."
A teen shimmered into existence next to her. "I noticed." he remarked.
I got a good look at him. He looked just like the bounty posters. Sandals, black shorts ending at the knee, open black cardigan, displaying an X-shaped scar, finger-less gloves, and his most obvious feature, a straw-hat perched on his skull. Yep. Straw-hat Luffy alright. "So, please explain, why exactly you're attacking us?"
I glare at him. "You hurt my nakama."
He laughs. "I like you."
I stare at him in shock. "I was trying to kill you!"
"Shishishi, so?"
I look at him in shock. This kid was... what's the word...
...Oh, that's right. Insane.
"So, Robin. Think we can get him to Whitebeard?" He asks the other black-haired person.
"Well, we don't have that much excitement. I suppose you could leave the ship for a couple hours." answers Robin calmly,
Luffy picks me up, and slings me over his shoulder (not really easy, since I'm more than a head taller than him), making sure not to touch the kairoseki. Oh, right. Apparently, no one knew what his devil fruit was. He then sprouted black bat wings, with blood red bone outlines. They extended a good two feet off his body. Well, I now know it's a Zoan. Probably a Mythical Zoan, seeing as he had other weird, unexplained abilities. He then took to the skies, carrying me with him. After about half an hour of flying, the Moby Dickcame in sight. He retracted his wings, and plummeted to the deck, landing gracefully with almost no noise. Of course, almost everyone on the deck noticed the human-bat hybrid free-falling onto the ship anyways,
They all stopped what they were doing, and stared. Then, almost simultaneously, they drew their weapons. Luffy calmly leaned back against the railing, and watched with a bored expression. Whitebeard finally broke the silence.
"So, brat, it was you dropped our first division over here."
"Yeah. I think that's all of them. You still missing anyone?" he answered, not caring that he was staring down the strongest man alive.
"Nope."
"I have a message for the second division commander, Ace. Can you bring it to him?"
I look at him and say, "I'll take it."
"Tell him that his brother didn't die." With that, he flew back to his ship.
Ace's brother? And what does he mean, dead? I think that the hot-head was getting supplies, so he'd be back in an hour. Well, that's enough time to figure out what was going on.
"Hey, Ace!" I yell.
The pyromaniac turns around. "Yeah?"
"A pirate gave me a message for you." I look at him closely. "You brother isn't dead."
Ace stares at me in shock, before deciding to yell very angrily "WHAT THE HELL! Is this some kind of joke! They died years ago!"
After finally calming him down, and almost being throttled, I told him the whole story. He whispered to himself "Luffy."
I look at him carefully. "You know that he's a supernova as well, right? And his crew is the Straw-hat pirates? How did you not know that he was alive?"
"Well, he never gave me his last name, and I didn't know that he was Garp's biological grandchild. I thought Garp adopted him as well."
"You're not going to do anything stupid right?"
"Stupid? Do you know who you're talking to?"
I sighed. That's true. Ace was the stupidest man alive.
"I'm going to go see my brother again."
Well, might as well come with him. If only so I can convince people not to tie him to a stake (It's happened).
Ace and I were in town, when the same woman who was in the room on the Sunny caught my eye. I tapped Ace's shoulder and pointed to her. "I'm pretty sure she's a Straw-Hat."
Ace, abandoning all subtlety (I'm not sure he knows what it means), walks straight up to her. "Are you a member of the Straw-Hat pirates?"
"Yes. Why?"
"I want to meet your captain."
"Why?"
"Just take me to him."
"Captain-san is not in a very good mood right now. Someone has kidnapped our fellow crew-mate"
"We'l help find your friend." Ace responded, elbowing me. Hard.
"Ah, right. Whatever he said." I backed up.
A shrill scream pierced the air. The black haired woman froze, her normally impassive face gave way to shock. She turned around sharply, and ran int he direction of the scream. We followed her. "Nami!" whispered the Straw-Hat.
We ran through the woods until we found a clearing. In the middle was a tied up redhead, with several men laughing and whipping her. The raven haired woman whispered to herself "I almost feel sorry for them."
Ace looked at her in surprise. She then put her hands up resembling a lotus.
"Cinco Fleur!" She yelled. A hand sprang up on each man's body, around the neck. "Clutch!"
The men dropped to the floor, their neck's broken. The woman rushed towards the other woman, and began to untie her. Her gag dropped, and the red head gasped out "Robin!'
Soon the red-head, who's name was Nami, was free. For the time being. But then, several more people rushed forward, but didn't attack, as their obvious leader stepped up. Nami and Robin dropped into a defensive stance, Nami having grabbed a long metal blue pole out out nowhere, and Robin putting her hands up in the stance she used before. I held Ace back from attacking, as I wanted to see what they were capable of.
"Ah, so the weak link has been freed. You know, the straw-hats would be better off without you." mocked the leader.
"Weak link! I'll show you!" screamed an enraged Nami.
She held up the pole, and I kid you not, lightning flew out of it, electrocuting the other men. The ones Nami didn't get were quickly disposed of, by Robin. Only the leader was left standing. "You have a devil fruit!" He accused.
"No I don't." Nami smiled, and scared everyone else shitless. She zapped the leader, and Robin finished the job. Nami and Robin turned towards us. "So, who are you?"
Robin supplied the answer for us. "Whitebeard's first and second division commanders." Nami turned towards us, horrified, and slightly glaring. She was stopped from attacking as a powerful wave of Haki flew through the woods. Haoshoku Haki. The Haki that one in a million have. And Nami and Robin just turned towards each other, and nodded. "That's the signal." Robin clarified.
I heard the chink of swords, and heard a tree topple. Nami fired up her pole, and shot a blast of lightning into the sky, and then disappeared. Robin seemed totally unconcerned. Some dude jumped into the air using Geppo. Then a flare shot up and out of the woods. Robin resumed her signature stance, and a wave of arms flew out of the trees. She too, vanished. I heard gunfire, and another tree fell. Some violin music played out from somewhere, and then abruptly stopped. We looked around at the empty place where two people once stood. Then we felt someone grab us, and we flew away.
When we stopped moving, we were roughly thrown onto the ground in yet another clearing, and we shakily got to our feet. Ace groaned out. "What the.."
We looked around at the straw-hats. A small crew of pirates, who could make the marines shit themselves.
There was some sort of walking skeleton with an afro.
A cyborg with clunky bits of machinery attached to him.
A sniper who was chatting unconcernedly with said cyborg.
Nami.
Robin.
A blond haired man with long legs who was yelling at...
A swordsman with green hair and three swords.
Now, where was the captain. Finally, I noticed Straw-hat Luffy, leaning with his back against a tree, his eye's glued to Ace. Ace's eyes were glued to the skeleton and cyborg. I can't exactly blame him. Finally, Nami spoke up.
"Luffy, I still don't know where Cami is."
"I do!" the sniper grinned. "She's on her way to the auctions."
"Well, we have a slave auction to crash." Luffy grinned with a feral glint in his eye. He then looked at Ace. "Long time, no see."
Ace tackled him in a hug the sent both of them crashing down into the dirt, Ace punched Luffy after giving him a bone crushing hug.
"That was for making me think you were dead!" cried out Ace. "And how in hell did you survive!"
"To be fair, I thought you were dead too. Now come on. We've got a reindeer to save."
The blond man began spinning around singing "Mellorine! Mellorine! I can't wait to see Cami again!"
Ace and I stared at him, while the Straw-hat's ignored him like it happened on a daily basis. "So, aren't you going to introduce me to your crew?"
Luffy pointed to the swordsman "The one with green hair and no directional sense is Zoro, swordsman and first mate." Zoro grunted, having fallen half asleep.
"The orange haired girl with the staff is Nami, my navigator."
"The liar is my sniper, Usopp, also known as Sogeking."
"The lady with the book is Robin, archaeologist and informant."
"The blond guy who keeps singing is Sanji, my cook."
"The skeleton is Brook, my musician and also a swordsman."
"The cyborg over there is Franky, my shipwright, and former mafia boss."
Ace looked at them all, shocked. I smirked. "You have quite the crew, there, Mugiwara. They don't seem to get along very well, though." I observed, watching the cook and swordsman fight. Luffy waved me off.
"Eh, they always fight. We're all one big dysfunctional family. That tend to try to blow each other up."
"They're still rebuilding that Marine base, Luffy." Usopp rolled his eyes.
"HEY! That was Zoro's fault! Not mine!" Luffy whined.
"Do we even want to know?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, it was fun. We should do that again sometime." Zoro remarked.
"HELL NO!" Came the scream of Nami, Usopp, and Brook.
Luffy finally said "Found her."
The crew looked at him expectantly. "So, who's coming with me?" He asked, looking at the crew, Zoro stepped forward. "Come on, let's go find Chopper. Hachi's already at the auction."
"How can you tell?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"Devil Fruit and Haki. Now, coming with?"
He sprouted his wings, and so did I. We both picked up our respective lumps, his being his first mate, and mine being Ace. Luffy took the lead, and after about five minutes of flying, we touched down outside a large house.
"Hey, take care of Ace for me." Ace had had a narcoleptic fit, and was now sleeping, propped against me. Luffy opened the door and disappeared inside the auctions. I heard Zoro go "No punching another Tenyrubito, okay?"
Luffy just laughed and walked in. "I'm not making any promises."
He turned and looked towards me. "Coming?"
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Apparently, their doctor, Chopper, was abducted. He ate a devil fruit, so most likely, he would be displayed later on. Zoro, Luffy, and Ace began to wince. Every once in a while, Luffy vanished from view. He would come back about minute later, smiling. Zoro had fallen asleep (I swear the dude's narcoleptic) and Ace and Luffy were talking together, and clearing up matters. I heard words like "fire, Grey Terminal, Bluejam, Sabo" I decided to ask them later. Finally, they stopped. I took the opportunity to ask. "So, what exactly is your fruit? Anyone know what it is?"
"No one knows what it is except my crew. Not even Ace." He replies.
"Are you going to tell us?" Ace frowns, obviously unhappy that his little brother's crew was placed above himself.
"Well, it's Mythical Zoan. I think it's the only other Mythical Zoan beside's yours" Luffy answers. "Also, it's good for scaring the crap out of Marines." He smiled deviously.
"Does this have something to do with that Marine base incident?" Ace asks, raising an eyebrow.
Luffy laughs. "Well, that was when some bastards tried to kidnap my crew. Me, Zoro and Sanji destroyed the base, and then painted everyone inside pink." Luffy grins at the thought, while me and Ace are full blown laughing at the thought of pink Marines rushing about trying to fix their base.
Zoro, who apparently had woken up, smiles. "I recall you throwing some glitter into the paint as well."
Luffy huffs. "Like you were any better."
Ace finally stopped laughing enough to gasp out "That explains the weird Marines on that island!"
"Oh, yeah! I just thought Thatch was bored or something and dyed them all pink!" I remembered.
"Oh yeah. Zoro, wasn't that paint permanent?" Luffy glances at his first mate.
By now, the sight of four pirates laughing their heads off had attracted many stares.
"Marco... we are so doing that!" Ace laughs.
"Don't forget to add glitter!" Luffy smiles. Then he disappears again.
I frown. "Where'd he go?"
Zoro looks over at me. "He's checking on Chopper."
Luffy materialized near me. "Chopper's next up. I'll get him, while you guys stay here. At the signal, start running. And don't get lost, Zoro!"
He disappeared again, while Zoro muttered something under his breath. Ace looked at Zoro. "What's the signal?"
Zoro simply replied "You'll notice it." He looked on stage, and his features darkened in rage. There on stage was a reindeer with an oddly blue nose. He clarified to us "That's our doctor, Chopper. He ate the Hito Hito no Mi, or the human human fruit."
The auctioneer (A/N I dunno what he's called) prodded him, and forced the poor reindeer to change into a more human form. Then he announced
"This fine slave is a human reindeer zoan! A pack mule, able hold tons of-" The announcer was cut off when he slumped over unconscious.
Several people started whispering, and wondering the same thing- What's going on?" They watched as the steel chains around Chopper were sliced to ribbons, and he was free. The room was engulfed in black smoke, and Zoro grabbed our hands, telling us "That's the signal."
We escaped from the smoke covered house, and so did Luffy, with Chopper slung over his shoulder in reindeer form. Ace glared at the house, and was about to set it on fire when Luffy stopped him. He was searching the fleeing people and then relaxed his death grip on Ace's hand. He pointed to two figures running towards us. One had green hair, not quite as vibrant as Zoro's, an the other looked... odd... with an elongated snout.
Ace sighed. "Where do you pick up these people, Luffy?"
Luffy smiled. He turned to the two figures. "Oi! Cami, Hachi! Come on!"
The two people started running towards us, and we all ran back to the clearing where the rest of the crew lay. The sniper immediately jumped up and hugged the reindeer, who assumed his half form, a small furry lump with adorable antlers. Robin looked up from her book, and smiled at the sight. She turned towards Luffy. "Rayleigh-san is still finishing the coating on the ship."
Luffy thanks her and turns. "I'll help guard Sunny. Ace, you take my crew to your ship or something, so they can catch up."
Ace nodded, and Luffy sprouted his wings again and disappeared.
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The other eight Straw-hats were sitting around Ace and me, who looked at each of them in turn. "Now, how did Luffy recruit you all?" Ace asks.
They shrugged their shoulders, and the cyborg, Franky spoke up. "Only Zoro-bro knows how we all got recruited."
I turn to Zoro. "How did Luffy get a former fearsome pirate hunter to join his crew?"
Ace snorts next to me "Luffy can get anyone to like him."
Zoro smiles at Ace. He turns to me and responds "Blackmail."
Everyone, Straw-hats included, stares at him in shock. Zoro laughs and shakes his head. "I protected a girl from some corrupt marine bastard's son, and he tied me up to a post and took my swords. He made a deal with me that if I survived one month without food and water, he would let me go. After about nine days, he decided to publicly execute me, and Luffy jumped in then. Luffy told me about the execution and then blackmailed me by making me join his crew if he got my swords." Zoro smiles nostalgically.
Nami looks up. "I guess, being the next to join, I'm next. I met him after he saved me from some Buggy pirates. Then we had an alliance, and I stole the ship from him. I needed to get 100 million beli to save my village from a cruel fish man pirate. He saved me by beating the fish man, Arlong. Even after I 'stabbed' Usopp, he never stopped believing in me."
Usopp takes over. "He told me about my father, on Shanks's crew. And even though he barely knew me, he defended my village from some pirates, and saved Kaya from them."
Sanji spoke. "He defended the Baratie, my home, from pirates. He could have run, but he didn't. He then pestered me until I finally joined."
Chopper smiled. "He held up my flag, and protected it, then rid the country of an evil tyrant. He had also dragged Nami and Sanji up the mountain we were on and forced me to treat them first."
Robin looked off at the sea. "He saved me when I wanted to die, and he gave me a place to belong."
Franky stated simply. "He took my pants." then glared at Robin, who was smiling slightly. Me and Ace didn't know what to make of this.
Brook grinned. "He beat up a Shichibukai and got my shadow back for me, even though I barely knew him."
Ace smiled back. "I guess I should tell you how I met him. His grandfather brought him to the mountain bandits we grew up with when he was seven." Everyone but Brook winced at the mention of his grandfather. Ace laughed. "I assume you've met Garp?" Everyone sans Brook sweat-dropped and nodded yes. "So anyways, Garp had adopted me, and Luffy was blood related to him, but I thought he was adopted too. I hated him at first, but he kept trying to befriend me." Every straw-hat pitied him, knowing just how determined Luffy could be. "I kept trying to kill him, but he always seemed to appear right next to me, and scare the crap out of me." I stared at Ace in shock. He had heard stories of Luffy from Ace, and it seemed that Ace was very overprotective of him.
"Well, it all came to a head when he finally found me and Sabo. We were hiding some treasure, and Luffy found us. He found out about our wish to be pirates, and he told us about his dream, to be pirate king. We tied him to a tree, but the pirates we had stolen from made an appearance. We didn't untie him, and they picked him up. He didn't seem scared or anything, and he didn't even attempt to lie, seeing as he's terrible at it. The pirate, I forgot his name, picked him up. He admitted he knew where the treasure was, but he refused to tell them where. They took him to their hideout. When me and Sabo got there, all the other pirates were beaten and unconscious. He was tied to the rafters, and he was being choked and hit repeatedly with a spiked glove. And apparently, he refused to scream or cry. He was just being beaten. Me and Sabo stopped them, and when we got away, we asked him why he didn't say anything. And then, the seven year old child, told me that being alone was worse than pain."
He petered off smiling. "He was the second person, besides Sabo, to accept me for who I was."
Finally, Nami poked her head up. "Who's this Sabo person?"
Ace looked at Nami. "Sabo was our older brother. He was the son of a noble, and the polar opposite of us. The only thing me and Luffy had in common with him was the fact that we all hated our parents."
"Wait, Luffy hated Dragon? He seemed unconcerned with being the most wanted man's son."
Ace looked at Zoro, the one who spoke, "He never told you?"
"Never needed to." Came Luffy's voice from behind them. They all whirled around, and Ace grabbed him in a crushing hug.
"Gah! Ace! Stop doing that!" Luffy flailed as he hit the deck, Ace on top of him.
"You're never going to get out." I remarked lazily. Luffy stopped flailing and glared at me.
"You think I don't know that! Ace! You're breaking my ribs!"
He finally was let go of, and glared at Ace. Ace pouted. "I've thought you were dead for years! I'm hugging you if I want!"
Luffy rolled his eyes. "You should really keep up with the news. I knew you were alive, why didn't you know I was!"
Ace huffed. "I don't like newspapers! Plus, you look different from the little kid I knew!
Luffy tapped a tattoo on his right wrist. "Did this not clue you in?"
It was a tattoo that read ASL. The A was yellow, the S was blue, and the L was red.
Ace huffed again, but Sanji decided to but in. "What did he mean by hated your parents?"
Luffy looked at Sanji, who was giving Luffy a spill-or-no-meat-for-a-week look. Yes, there's a look. Luffy sighed. "Ace hates his dad because of his notoriety and Sabo because he could never be free."
"I meant you dumb-ass!" yelled Sanji. Luffy blinked. "Why does that matter?"
Ace poked Luffy. "If you're not telling them, I am." Luffy glared at him, then pouted childishly. "That's blackmail!"
Ace sighed. "I guess I'm telling you."
I watched interested. Luffy looked at me desperately. "Marco! Shut him up!"
I shrugged, and Ace smiled deviously. Luffy grumbled to him "I'm dying your hair purple again when this is over."
I look over at Ace. "Remind me not to let him meet Thatch."
Ace ran his finger through his hair and glared at him. "Were the chicken feathers not enough!"
"Anyways, I guess I'm telling you." Luffy sighed, downcast.
"My mom was persecuted for being Dragon's wife, and she was forced to marry him wen she had me. I was abused at home, and one day, someone tried to kill me by forcing me to eat a devil fruit and then drowning me." Ace looked on in realization.
"That's how you got your devil fruit!"
"Yeah, he had lot's of fruit on hand, and said something about wanting to know what it does before eating it. Anyways, I escaped, and I was treated as more of a freak. After a while, my mom snapped. She killed herself when I was five, and then, in her dying moments, shoved the knife into my hands. Her last words were to condemn me to a fate of being alone." Everyone looked at him in realization. His dark hair covered his eyes, and he was looking on the floor. He continued. "Everyone suspected me of being the murderer. Everyone but Makino and the mayor. So, I kind of stopped caring. I hated Dragon for pushing my mom to this. The only thing that kept me from suicide was the fact that Makino and the mayor would be sad. And then Shanks gave me a reason to live." Luffy smiled, holding his hat.
The other straw-hats looked on in expressions that ranged from horror, sadness, and sympathy. He looked up with a small smile. "But who cares about that now? After all, I just found my older brother!"
The other Straw-hats looked at him in surprise. Luffy turned to them. "Listen, don't let what you just heard change your viewing of me. I'm still the same person." He smiled and then got up, and dusted of his shorts. "Come on, Ace. Rayleigh say's he'll be finished in a few days. Guess we're staying on the Moby Dick for the time being. Now, I want to meet your new family!"
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Me and Ace took Luffy to Pops first. Luffy walked up to Pops and looked him straight in the eye.
"Thank you for giving Ace a family. He needs one."
Pops laughed. "Guarararara! He's always going to have a family with us! Why don't you join?"
Luffy smiled. "The future Pirate King can't have a captain, can he?"
I just stared shocked at his audacity, while Ace muttered "Same old Luffy."
"Guararara! Cheeky brat! You're just like Ace!"
"No, Ace has manners. Sometimes."
I couldn't help it. I burst out laughing. Ace was shaking to hold in his laughter. Whitebeard did no such thing.
"Ace. I like your brother." He turned towards Ace. "He hasn't tried to hurt me yet, unlike you."
Luffy looked up at Whitebeard. "Oh, he tried to murder you too?" He turned towards Ace. "Ace, stop trying to kill people you just met. Makino would be mad."
Ace turned red. "SHUT UP LU!"
Luffy snickered, than ran out of the room as Ace started throwing fireballs at him. I sighed and followed the two siblings so Ace wouldn't burn down the ship. Again. The next person we ran into was Izo. Ace bowled him over yelling "Get back here Lu!" Izo carefully picked himself up and then asked the most pressing question on his mind.
"Ace, who are you trying to kill, and why?"
Ace started whirling around the room and stopped once his eyes landed on Luffy, who was leaning against the doorway. "Who's your friend, Ace?"
Ace threw a fireball at the boy, who simply disappeared and reappeared next to me. "Are you an okama?" He asked, looking at Izo. Izo yelled at him.
"I'm a CROSS-DRESSER! NOT AN OKAMA!"
He looked at Izo and then sighed. "Either way, Sanji's going to scream." He smiled and then dodged another fireball from Ace.
Ace suddenly realized. "Wait, why am I mad again?" Everyone in the room introduced their face to their palm.
Luffy looked at Izo. "So, you're his brother too?" Izo looked at him interested.
"You're Luffy? The kid he always talks about?" Luffy sighed and looked at Ace.
"I told you, you have a brother complex." Ace got mad again.
"I DO NOT HAVE A BROTHER COMPLEX!"
"Yes, you do" chorused Marco, Luffy, and Izo.
"Who has what now?" asked a voice from behind Izo.
"Hey, you're Luffy! I always wanted to meet you!" The voice was identified as Thatch.
"Hell no." I said, fearing the pranks the two could do together. "I heard the stories on what the kid did!"
Thatch looked at Luffy with an impressed expression. "Ace say's you dyed his hair purple and covered him in chicken feathers."
Luffy smiled innocently. "Ace said I could do whatever the hell I wanted with the inedible stuff. So I glued chicken feathers on him and a beak for good measure."
Ace looked at him in annoyance. "I still don't know what you did to my hair to make it purple."
"You don't want to know." Luffy grinned deceptively.
Ace shuddered. "Knowing you, it was animal blood."
"Wolf to be exact."
I look back between Luffy, Ace, and Thatch. "Why do I feel like the worlds about to end if the three work together?"
"Because it will." came Izo's reply.
"We're not going to get a good night of sleep while he's on the ship."
Luffy looked over at us. "Our ship will be finished in three days."
Marco and Izo groaned.
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Everyone in the third division woke up to find that they were now gender-bent. Well, not quite. Apparently, Luffy possessed a certain degree of control over hypnosis, though he said that it tires him out. He and Thatch sneaked into the third division cabin, and Luffy put a simple hypnosis command on them. They now believed they were gender-bent in their sleep. Luffy and Thatch were rolling in laughter as the shrieks of the third division were heard, and the other divisions were trying to convince them that no, they did not mysteriously change gender in their sleep. Jozu's reaction was definitely the funniest.
"OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME!" He yelled out.
Luffy only said "God's an asshole. He doesn't know Logia's aren't unbeatable."
Thatch stared at him. Luffy clarified "There's this guy on a sky island who calls himself god. He ate a lightning logia fruit, and I beat him up 'cause he took my friends.
Thatch nodded dumbly and resumed watching the show.
Jozu was freaking out at his new body, and a terrified expression crossed his normally stoic face.
Thatch clapped Luffy on the back. "Kid, you're devil fruit is awesome."
Luffy stuck his tongue out at Ace. "See! Even he agrees!"
Zoro, Luffy's first mate and apparently best friend just shuddered. Thatch smiled a bit. "Maybe I should get one... could be good for prank-"
"Hell no." Almost everyone said at once.
Jozu had been reduced to hugging his knees to his chest and rocking back and forth, whispering "I'm a girl, I'm a girl, I'm a girl."
Usopp looked over at Luffy. "Hey, I have enough footage. Want to release him from this nightmare?"
I looked at him curiously. He was holding some sort of shell with a viewing screen on the back. Usopp cleared up what it was. "It's a Memory Dial. I can take pictures and videos with it. And blackmail."
Nami grinned greedily. "We're selling the tape to the highest bidder!"
Luffy waved his hand, and Jozu instantly stopped rocking. He looked up with a WTF expression, and then his memory kicked in. He growled out "Thatch, so help me, you are dead!"
Thatch and Luffy hightailed it out of there, Jozu on his heels. Luffy took to the skies with his wings yelling down "Sorry Thatch, you're on your own!"
I walked out to see that the third division's mind affliction had been lifted. Several snipers were pointed at Luffy while Ace was making death threats to whoever touched his little brother. Of course, the death threats were soon directed at said little brother when he picked up Ace to use as a human shield.
"Luffy! Put me down!" Luffy let go of Ace, who crashed onto the deck. Luffy had vanished again, but my Haki sense told me that he still was in the spot where he disappeared. Suddenly, my Haki was neutralized, and I couldn't sense where he was anymore. A large and intense blast of Haoshoku Haki hit everyone, and the third division fell down, foam coming out of their mouths. I turn to Ace, the only other person besides Whitebeard who I knew had Haoshoku. "Was that you?"
Ace looked at me, and responded. "No. And I doubt it was Whitebeard." Our minds reflected back on the Haoshoku blast we felt in the woods, and we came to the snap realization. "Luffy!" We spoke in tandem.
Luffy shimmered into view next to us. "Yes?"
Ace rounded on him. I noticed that whatever was blocking my haki was lifted. "You have it to!" He accused.
"What, Haoshoku? Yeah, I have it."
"The Haki that only one in a million have. And we both just so happen to be brothers, and both have it."
Luffy nodded slowly. "I've been training it for two years with Rayleigh."
"Oh, so that's what the Mugiwara's disappearance was. Training to enter New World." I mused. "I still want to know how you blocked my haki."
Luffy looked at me. "I used my devil fruit. When I disappear from view, my haki mixed with my fruit's powers to hide myself from haki users."
Ace looked at Luffy. "Hey, it might be fun to spar against you now. You seem to be actually able to control you powers."
Luffy hit him on the head. "Well, I don't disappear randomly."
Ace laughed. "Yeah, Dadan got real scared that time you randomly vanished at dinner."
Luffy smiled in remembrance, and took up a defensive stance. Ace stood carefully, and then suddenly attacked Luffy, who dodged the flaming fist by stepping to the right. He then went invisible, and I couldn't follow where he was anymore. Obviously, Ace couldn't either, as he just burnt everything he could, and kept a defensive stance. Luffy would appear randomly in different places around the ship, and Ace would send a fireball at him. Finally, Luffy appeared fully, crouched on the railing. Ace wasted no time in throwing a flame fist at him, and he jumped upwards, probably higher than a normal human being can. He jumped over Ace's head, who was sending fire bullets. Luffy twisted and turned his body, efficiently dodging each bullet. He gracefully landed on the deck, his hands curled, one in front his face, another behind his head (think weeping angel pose). Quickly, black energy gathered around his fingertips, changing them into claws. Ace drew his knife in retaliation. The black energy stayed around his fingers, making a smoke like effect. "Those are some new tricks." Ace commented.
Luffy grinned, and you could see dagger like teeth filling his mouth. "When we were kids, pretty much the only things I could do was go invisible and fly. Now I actually knowwhat I am. Obviously I have a few tricks up my sleeve."
Ace pulled back his arm. "Let's see you dodge this!" The entire half of the deck Luffy was standing on was engulfed in flame. I was very glad we decided to fire-proof the ship.
"Dodged." came Luffy's reply. He was standing next to Ace, and quickly kicked him in the ribs, sending him flying into the railings.
"You can teleport!" Ace's voice was full of enthusiasm, despite being sent flying.
"I wish." Luffy laughed back. Ace jumped up from the side, and sent a storm of fire at him. Luffy dodged them, but one clipped him in the arm, severely burning him. Luffy didn't even glance at the arm as black steam curled from it, restoring his arm to normal. Sort of like my flames.
Haruta had sneaked behind me and commented "Luffy has a very different fighting style. His seems based off of surprise, whereas Ace relies on brute strength."
I glance over at the fighting duo. Luffy had yet to get another shot in, and besides the burn Ace gave him, he still effortlessly dodged each attack. I decided to say "He seems to only attack when he know's there's a chance to land a hit. Tire out your opponent by dodging each attack, and then give him a devastating blow. But Ace isn't one to tire out very easily."
"Yeah, but he still isn't shifting to the offensive... never mind."
Just as Haruta made that comment, Luffy had suddenly appeared behind Ace, and raked his claws in four parallel lines below his neck, avoiding the tattoo. He had also kicked Ace as he made the cuts, and Ace pitched forward, but recovered his balance quickly, and whipped around with his foot. His attack just barely missed Luffy, landed in a crouch across from Ace. Seeing his opportunity, as Ace's center of gravity was shifted with the kick, he jumped forward, performing a forward handspring that ended with him sending Ace crashing into the deck back first, Luffy standing on top of him. Luffy pointed his claws at his brother's throat and smiled.
Ace grumbled as Luffy got off him, and helped him up. The claws retracted into normal fingers, and the black mist dissipated. "You got pretty good" Ace grudgingly admits. Luffy just laughs.
"Now you know how hard it is to fight with a new devil fruit!"
"At least I know what I am!"
"I do too! Now, at least..."
I look at him curiously. "What are you, anyways?"
He looks at me. "I found out shortly after Ace left. I'm a vampire!"
He smiles, flashing his fangs.
Ace pokes him. "That's kind of creepy, Lu."
"So is being made of fire. Beside's my crew's used to it. Mostly."
Everyone looked kind of surprised, and a bit scared at the fact that Ace's little brother was a vampire. Me included. "So does that mean that all the myths about vampires are true?"
Luffy sits down cross legged on the deck. "Well, I do burn in sunlight in my full form, but if I use haki, all that happens is that I catch on fire. No, stakes don't hurt me, and I just hate garlic, it doesn't do anything to me. Neither does holy water. The fruit makes me much faster and slightly stronger, I control dark energy, and can hypnotize people to a certain extent, like what I did to the third division. Anything else?"
Thatch hesitantly asked "Do you... drink blood?"
"Animal blood, yes."
"I don't know whether to be creeped out, or thankful it's not human."
Ace just sighs and say "Be thankful. Just thankful."
"Well, I could drink yo-" Ace slapped his hand over his brother's mouth.
Thatch looked slightly green, and Ace glared at his brother.
"You're creepy, you know that?" I tell Luffy.
Luffy grins from behind his brother's hand.
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The fifth and twelfth division woke up tied to various objects around the Moby Dick, and several people were stuck on the mast. The entire seventh division had marker on their foreheads saying 'No division is safe', and their hair was dyed either black or red. Apparently, Luffy ran out of ink, since several people had the words written in some red liquid, which freaked out everyone even more. When questioned on how Luffy and Thatch had enough time to do this, it was revealed that Luffy never sleeps, being a vampire-human.
Luffy and Thatch were quietly whispering in the corner, and randomly giggling. The divisions yet to be pranked were very scared. So far, the third, fifth, seventh, twelfth, and fifteenth division had been 'hit'. The fifteenth division was found tied to a rope and dangled off the side of the railing, which severely freaked out the devil fruit users in that division. By lunch, the ninth division had been hypnotized into thinking they were chickens, and first division was temporarily (Luffy assured them) narcoleptic. To make things even worse, Ace and most of the Mugiwara crew had joined in on the efforts. Apparently, the Mugiwara crew had been involved in many prank wars, and they were all absolutely brutal in their pranks. By dinner...
Robin and Brook had stolen the entire sixth division's left shoe, left pant leg, left side of the shirt, etc. Nobody but the pranksters knew how they did it. It involved Robin mercilessly tickling everyone, while Brook cut everything in half.
The eighth division's floor had been taken out by Franky, and a mirage tempo was created by Nami, so anyone unlucky enough to step in there fell to the room under it.
Ace had convinced some of the Saboady islanders that the tenth division stole stuff, and it didn't help that Luffy randomly grabbed someone, and hypnotized them into stealing another thing. The tenth division was stuck in police custody for hours, tied up, while Luffy randomly appeared and laughed at them.
The eleventh division's food at dinner had been spiked with something or the other, thanks to Thatch, Sanji, and Chopper. The entire division now acted like kids on a sugar rush.
Usopp had sniped everyone in the thirteenth division with either rotten eggs, fish bits, or hot sauce.
The fourteenth and sixteenth division were very scared after that. The second and fourth were just glad for their respective protectors, Thatch and Ace.
When asked why they were participating in a prank war, most of the Mugiwara's replies were that prank wars on their ship usually ended in violent counter-attacks, and Luffy and Zoro teaming up. And you don't want Luffy and Zoro to team up. The rest of the crew decided not to ask, as many of the other Mugiwaras shuddered, obviously remembering a painful memory. The divisions resolved to never find out what happens when Zoro and Luffy unleash hell.
At night, the remaining two divisions were 'hit'. The entire fourteenth division was covered in glitter, and many of them were fixed with sparkling faerie wings of all things. And the costume wings were stuck on tight, too. The fourteenth division had to endure taunts from the rest of the other people who were hit. Although, the only problem was that none of the pranks had worn off yet, and the ominous message on the seventh division's foreheads was yet to wash off.
The sixteenth division's beds were made with some 'Pop Greens' in them, so when the division went to bed, they were promptly swallowed by a plant, which spit them back out. They were still covered in saliva as they trooped down to breakfast.
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Luffy and Ace were forced to go down to the island they were stopped on, seeing as they were both bottomless pits that ate everything, and that if they kept sparring on the ship, despite being fireproof, it might just fall apart. The two brothers were just walking to the city to get supplies, when someone yelled out.
"Mugiwara!"
Luffy turned towards the voice in confusion. A girl was rushing towards him with a knife.
"Die!"
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So, what do you think? Sorry about not posting Hatred, I haven't even started the chapter! I have a plot sketch for Recovery's next chapter, Different is halfway done, and...
...the plot bunnies won't leave my head.
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