Luffy grins boldly, watching as hundreds of thousands of lights shot cross the sky, the darkness making them brighter still, since most the lights in the city that been switched off; below him the people make soft sounds as the event continued on, enjoying the beautiful display in the heavens.
Suddenly a blinding flash caused him and everyone else to shield their eyes, gasping or crying out in surprise shock. Blinking Luffy found himself in total darkness, a purple glow floating in front of himself.
Reaching out he tries to touch this glowing thing, as he did it turns wildly and stops, seemingly looking at him.
Laughing at this weirdness he still makes a grab for it, taking it up with both hands. Holding before him now he watching as it appeared to be sucked into his chest. Then his life passed in through his mind, well his old life.
He halted his memories as it came to Ace's death, not wanting to see beyond then. He forces himself to awaken from this strange dream.
Blinking Luffy came around upside down, he quickly sat up and held onto the tree top. Glancing upwards, almost in a daze, he sees that the meteor shower had ended. Looking down his eyes went to Law, who was holding his forehead with one hand, while the other was gripped on a branch over head. Further down he could see Kid with both arms of the branch either side of him, hatching over slightly.
"What was that?" Luffy asks his room mates below, his memories of his past life was fresh in mind, he could even still feel the heat of the battlefield, the exhaustion his body had been under. Shaking it away he stares at them once again.
"I...I don't know," Law answers first, "I feel seasick."
"A pirate that's seasick? What a disgrace!" Kid cries out laughing, he turns to look up at them, "What is the last thing you remember?"
"Watching the meteor shower." Law answer roughly, but knew this was not what he was asking. Luffy nods his head in agreement.
Suddenly there was an uproar all around the park, in the darkness they could hear people screaming and shouting. Their voices mixed, nothing made sense.
"What's happening?" Kid hisses out darkly, looking to Luffy who had a better view of the people.
"People are... fighting, some are running away..." Luffy answers as he stands, under the dim lights from lamps or bonfires he could see the crowds trying to get away seemingly from each other.
"We should head back," Law calls to them as he stand to shimmy to the trunk, "The buses are running late tonight, so there should be no trouble getting back, if we can't looks like we're walking."
"Three mile trip up a slope." Luffy says grinning madly, "Should be fun walking through the forest like road way in the middle of the night."
"Not when you're tired." Kid huffs out, he reaches the trunk and looks down, the crowds were getting more and more wild, "I think we'll get spit up in this!"
"Just head to the exit!" Law calls out, it was getting loudly as well.
"We came in from the north side right?" Luffy asks loudly as he starts climbing down as well, "But we walked around for ages! Where is the nearest exit from here?"
"Does it matter?" Kid answers as he jumps the last part and steps back, Law lands kneed besides him, "Like I said we likely to get slit up, so go any way you can find!"
"Okay!" Luffy answers as he makes the jump, a little more higher than those two had, 'Ah. This is going to hurt.' he thinks as he falls down, he lands on his hands and knees, blinking as he could not feel any pain.
Standing he turns to the other two, who were looking through the crowds waiting to go in at an opening. They had not seen his jump, had not seen that he was just fine.
Stepping backward Luffy flattens himself against the tree he had made his seat for the evening, watching the madness unfold before him. People screaming, not making sense, however he could sees others trying to calm down their friends or families, like too not understanding what was happening.
Turning back to where his two room mates were, he stares blankly when he noticed that they had gone.
'Ah...' Luffy's mind cries out in mock panic, he did not mind, as the thought of walking was much more fun than getting on the bus. Pushing away from his tree he glances to the crowd, then grins.
Rushing forward he grabs hold of the first person he came across and lifted himself onto their shoulders. Then he began to leap and step onto the heads to those standing still long enough; their cries of shock only made him grin more.
Luffy kept this up for a good ten minutes before he realized that someone was following him, he did not bother to look around, he simply continue to leap, jump and step no the people's heads shoulders and backs.
The park's bounds came into view, instead of seeking out the path for entrance now, he jumps down and jumps through some trees and brushes. He comes to the metals bars that surrounded the park, grinning as he climbs onto the brick base and pulled himself up.
"Straw Hat!" A person shouts from behind, glancing over his shoulder he sees a young woman glaring at him, he blinked at her for a moment then continued on his way up, swinging one leg over the rounded top.
The woman rushes forward and slams her shoulder and side into the bars, causing it to shake, Luffy wobbles and falls the other side. As he fell the person on the street below saw him and came forward holding out their arms to catch him.
Luffy crushed into the kind person who caught him around his middle, but strangely enough he was still hanging over them, frozen almost in the air; pulling away from the man's neck he stare at his face, his mouth was open and eyes were widen, a shocked noise came from the back of his throat.
Frowning Luffy turns to look at the place from where he fell, his own eyes widen as he sees one leg still of the other side, trapped between two parts of the rounded top.
His leg was stretching.
Suddenly Luffy felt a old familiar tug, the man's arms losing their grip as he slowly slid out of his hold. In a moment he found himself sailing backwards hitting the top of the bars causing him to go spinning wildly into the air while still travelling upwards and returning to the grounds of the park.