Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or drum roll plz (crickets chirp) hmm you will all soon fear me anyway I also do not own Oddworld all things go to Oddworld inhabitants.
As the night went on, all Straw Hats slept peacefully in their own dream clouds, from Nami and her mountain of money, to Luffy and his mountain of meat, all Straw Hats were having their regular dreams, except one member of the crew. Robin did not have the same dream of going from being lost in the dark, to seeing a distant flicker of light get closer and warmer until she felt she would give the world for that light to live on, and in truth she had all ready tried.
No, this dream was different, although there was a familiar darkness, there was ancient illuminated scripts flying around her, and this, unlike most, every text she could not read "This language must be an isolated one," she said to no one, but herself. Finally, the letters stopped hovering, and assembled in three places as they appeared to be solidifying, but not in the way she expected, they were merging into each other, making three humanoid figures. The three stood there, looking at Robin, as if questioning why she was there. While, in the same, Robin was examining them, and was shocked to see they were not human.
She couldn't quite make out their color, due to there illuminated skin, but their bodies were what intrigued her. Although they appeared to be bipedal, she wasn't quite sure, but there bodies both had similarities to humans and abnormalities as well. Such as their hands and feet which seemed to be consisted of three fingers and toes, their bodies were heavily tattooed, but their weirdest feature would have to be their turtle shaped heads and yellow eyes. They all wore tribal wear, from feathers in there hair, that they each had pulled back into a ponytail on the very back of there head, to their loin clothes that barely covered there legs, but managed to do their job covering their other parts.
She knew she was dreaming, but was desperately trying to remember their features, as something in her head told her this was important. As they finished giving her a look over, the three each seemed to have the same thing on there mind, "Who are you, and why have you summoned us here?" They all asked at once, each sticking there left finger out, pointing accursedly.
Before giving Robin the chance to answer, each of them came up with their own reason as to why they were brought here. "Ahhhh, she's a devil who has summoned us here to eat our eternal souls! Take their's first, I have done nothing wrong to deserve such punishment!" The one with the crown made of feathers said as he dropped into a fetal position.
"No, she has brought us here because we have finally been granted our pass to heaven, ain't that right, beautiful?" The one with the feathered shoulder and knee pads, stated as he hopped up and down out of excitement.
"No, you're both idiots, she must be the one who can help us. As to how she summoned us is beyond me," the one wearing the feathered cloak said as the other two gained control of themselves. The cloaked one took a step forwards.
As he stepped closer to Robin, she wasn't sure if she should step back as she was unfazed by their zany attitude, having people in the crew who would have said similar statements, but the way the approaching creature was slowly moving towards her, she didn't like it. It was as if he was going to attack. Robin had decided to stay were she was as the creature finally stood in front of her.
"Ahem, hello my dear, my name is Moloch, and do mind answering me this question: Why the hell would you wake me up in the middle of the fucking night?" The cloaked one known as Moloch screamed.
"Whoa, Moloch, calm down, there is no reason to harm such a perfect angel, and I doubt she summoned us here on purpose." The one with the crown said as he struggled to hold back the cloaked figure.
"Yeah, Moloch, Glutch is right. If she was a devil, she would have eaten our souls by now, or she is just prolonging our consumption, but she doesn't look like she would do that," The one with the feathered shoulder pads said. He still seemed to have a whim of paranoia in his voice.
"I know she isn't a devil, Fuku, but that don't mean I ain't pissed about the time of our arrival." Moloch said as he finally calmed down, the other two let go of his shoulders panting for air as they slumped to their knees.
"As I was saying before I lost it, my dear, my name is Moloch, and these two are my fellow ancients, Glutch and Fuku," Both of whom waved from their winded positions.
"We believe that you can help us in a mutual problem." Moloch finished as he looked at Robin who still stood there, stoically calm, awaiting the opportunity to talk.
"And what problem could we both possible share?" Robin spoke to those she had deemed the three weirdoes.
"Ah, I thought you would never ask. You see, your ship happens to be sailing towards our chain of islands, and once you get there; your ship will be slaughtered by your crew's strongest member…. Unless, we help that is," Moloch finished with a smug look on his face.
"No, that's impossible; we decided not to head to the Nocturne chain." Robin said as she didn't like how Moloch was looking at her.
"Yes, that was true until one of our heroes snuck aboard your ship a few hours ago and changed the direction of the ship." He said calmly, not liking having to take advantage of a person, but hell, they were their only hope.
"What! Why would you do that! And how could a hero knowingly throw people into dangers way." Robin stated, trying to keep her cool despite her blood temperature boiling. The fact that her crew might have to deal with one of their greatest fears having to face off with Luffy was horrible.
"First, I was getting to that, and secondly, because he is unable to combat against the darkness that has been growing on the island alone. But with your guys' help, he can finally save the two lost in the dark." Moloch stated before getting quickly interrupted by Robin
"What if our crew says no? What if we sail away before we get there?" Robin questioned, not hiding the angry tone anymore.
"Well, by the time you and your crew wake up, you will be about two miles out and then, there are whirlpools, and coral reefs, and stuff like that. You guys have already passed them, and the water is so dark, it would be impossible to escape unless you already knew where the water traps were. Oh, and before you say it, the Coop de Burst won't work. I hear there going to be a few typhoons appearing around the island and stay for a few days." Moloch answered with a little chuckle behind his words.
"How can you do that? It's impossible to control the weather." Robin said, feeling helpless to fight against them.
"Oh, well, your little navigator controls the weather too with her weapon, doesn't she, so it's not impossible." Glutch said, quickly.
"And believe us when we tell you, when you have been alive as long as we have, this is pretty easy to do." Fuku finished, smirking.
"Looks like there's no way around it, how can we help?" Robin asked a defeated tone in her voice.
"Ahh, I knew you would see it our way. As you know, our chain of islands has a cursed history, oh ships sailing towards it only to be slaughtered by the crew's strongest member. Have you heard anything else by any chance?" Moloch questioned.
"Yes, of a mysterious hymn and a name, Ao Oni." The three weirdoes looked at each other, then back at Robin.
"He would be using our strongest Physic against us, dammit, I was hoping not to have to have to lift a finger. Ugh, but with the Messiah, it's to be expected. Woman, give me your hand, I wish to give you something to combat him." Moloch said, offering out his own hand. Robin was hesitant, these creatures were strong, and she could feel it their strength radiated off them, making her knees weak. But then, she thought of what would happen if she didn't take what they had to offer, and although they did trap them in this hell-like situation, they needed help too, getting back their heroes, whoever they were, and she didn't want any harm coming to the crew. Of course, she couldn't see Luffy getting hurt when she could have stopped it by shaking a dream beings hand. So without a moment's hesitation, she thrust out her hand to grip Moloch's three fingered, hand.
As their hands connected, Robin felt a sharp burning sensation that sent her to her knees, unable to cope with the pain, she screamed in pain as tears welled up in her eyes. "That man shall not Abuse the Mudoken race any longer, with this, you shall be able to protect anyone from the chant! The Nocturne chain shall finally be free, save the Mudokens, and free the saviors from their unknowing possession, you must stop Dread!" Moloch finished as Fuku and Glutch chanted around them, gathering light towards them until it went into Robin's left hand.
"Robin, wake up!"
Robin awoke from her dream, looking into the scared eyes of the navigator and the captain, as she looked to the left, she could see the rest of the crew. It was early, around five as far as Robin could tell, and the whole crew was either at her bedside, or in the room.
"Robin, you're awake! Are you alright? You were screaming for, like, ten minutes." Luffy said, a worried expression could be seen in his eyes, if you could see past his hung-over appearance.
"Yeah, I was sleeping, and then all of a sudden, you started screaming, and you woke everyone up, but we couldn't wake you up." Nami said, a worried look that could be seen clearly,
"What happened," was all Robin said before her memory came back. Her eyes shot open and looked to Nami.
"Nami-chan, check the ships direction, I believe that were heading towards the Nocturne chain." Robin shouted as she looked to the navigator, who had a look of a deer caught in the headlights. With that, the whole crew was in shock as most of them went out side to check the ship, but the islands were staring at them with no less then two miles away.
"How could this happen?" Nami asked in a state of shock as the fears from last night came back, and she slumped to her knees. Her eyes shot to the back of their captain, as fear and hurt filled her.
"No way, I checked the direction before we all went to bed, we were going a different way last night." Franky said as he tipped back his glasses, looking over the island.
"Yeah, no one move it, right?" Sanji asked, looking to the crew and getting no's.
"What do we do now?" Ussop asked as he began to tremble and back away from Luffy.
"We will be fine." Robin said as she came out of the ladies' room. All the crew looked to her as she lifted her left hand, revealing a solid black tribal tattoo with smaller glowing purple symbols hidden within the tattoo.
"Robin-chwan, there is nothing more exotic than a woman with a tattoo. Oh, wait, when did you have the time to get a tattoo?" Sanji asked as he did his pose, ending it with a tilted look.
"Aah, Robin, you can't just give yourself tattoos, it could get infected, let me see it." Chopper said as he rushed over to Robin and grabbed her hand, inspecting the tattoo located on the back of her left hand.
"Huh, that's strange, it's completely healed, and the tattoo even has depth, the letters go about point two of a centimeter under her skin, this would take a long period of time to do, and would be incredibly painful. Robin, what happened last night?"
Robin took in a breath and wondered if the crew would actually believe, but before she managed to get a word out, "Three Glowing Weirdoes came by last night and said hi to me while I was out on deck watching, and then they knocked me out." Brooke said from his seat on the rail as he sipped his tea. The crew looked at the calmingly eerie skeleton as he chugged down the contents of the cup.
"What did you say?" Zoro asked, opening one eye from his napping position on the floor.
"What weirdoes?" The crew still had their attention on the skeleton.
"Oh, it was scary, so right after you had all gone to bed I stayed out on the deck to watch, and I guess I fell asleep for a minute, only to wake up to the sound of something splashing in the water. When I went to check, there wasn't anything there, then I turned around and there they were, three monsters arguing with each other about who had called them, and what they were going to do to them, and then they saw me, and said hello before we both freaked out about them being glowing ghosts, and me being a skeleton, they said hello and then they said I did not call them, so they beat me over the head until my brain came out, except as a skeleton I don't have one. Yohohohoho!" The crew looked at the skeleton like he was crazy.
"Brooke, what the hell are you talking about, you idiot?" Nami asked, finally recovering from her comatose.
"Nami-chan, there is no reason to yell, Brooke, is right I saw these three weirdoes as well, and it was by their hand that I came to have this tattoo, and they did not come to harm us, but to ask for our help. They gave me this in order to stop the chant of one of their possessed saviors." Robin said, hoping that she would calm down their fiery navigator, and seal her fear of losing Luffy.
"So what you two are saying is that three glowing ghosts floated aboard, fighting, and then knocked out Brooke, then entered Nico Robin's dream and gave her a mystical tattoo that will keep our captain from killing us, so that we could help them?" Franky questioned, trying to understand the situation, while Ussop and Chopper cowered in a corner after the mention of ghosts came up, for they did not want a repeat of Thriller Bark. The three monsters of their crew looked towards the upcoming islands as the large lands came up, making the Thousand Sunny look like an ant to an to a lizard. The only identifiable item that could be seen was a huge rock that protruded through the thick rainforest which filled the island to the brink, and thus only about thirty feet of shore could be seen. On the rocks, the same glowing symbols on that were on Robins tattoo were drawn.
"So, Luffy, what do we do? Head forward, or try and turn around?" Zoro asked, his voice now on edge due to the situation that they talked about the previous day.
"I trust what Robin and Brooke said, we head to the islands. I saw those weirdoes last night, as well; they told me about the Two Saviors and those who are controlling them." Luffy spoke, not taking his eyes off the island.
"What did they say about them?" Sanji asked, with his one visible eye on Luffy's back.
"I can't remember it, they said when the time came, I would know who they were, and that the two of them are unbelievably strong, one a protector, and the other a liberator. They said that their strength is something that should not be underestimated." Luffy said his voice dead serious.
"He said that the two were cheated by a group of demons who visited the chain, and have ruled them for the last twenty years. Ugh, I was scared at first of going to this island because of the whole 'I would kill my whole crew if I touched the sand', but now, that won't be a problem. I can't let this go on, so let's go!" Luffy said as he pumped his fist into the air, while the now fully motivated Straw Hats followed suit, and prepared to land on the island.
"Oh, Nami, Robin, I also found out the name of that island." Luffy said; now back to his light ditzy self.
"It's called Mudos. They told me that the rest will be revealed in time." He shined them both his signature goofy grin.
"Well, we will be at the island in a few minutes. That tattoo better work, Nico Robin." Franky said as the ship began to drift closer to the shore.
Edited by . Thanks Lluvia!
