I don't know how to write coup de burst, did I spell it correctly?
I hope that you enjoy the chapter below, and I hope my writer's block leaves soon.
Also, if you have any questions about what is happening in the story, please write it, I will try my best to answer it, and I hope the story won't get too confusing.
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Normal
In the twenty minuets that it took for Sunny to dock on the island, Luffy has had five nervous break downs (Which no one other then Law noticed) tried to slingshot himself to the island ten times, asked if they could use the coup de burst three times (Which ended up with both Usopp and Chopper hitting him in the head and asking him if he wanted to kill them), and asked to use the paddle boat once (At the time they were already there though). All while keeping his carefree, unworried mask on.
But try as he might, there was no way that he was able to keep it that way forever. There were times when how he really felt showed, when his care-free mask fell off as he was staring at the island, but his crew all thought that he was worried for Zoro. Even though they all knew about the man, they apparently thought that Luffy wasn't that afraid of him. They did, however, acknowledge his strength for being on par or stronger then Zoro. Except for Law who knew the truth.
The moment the ship docked, Luffy jumped off and started running on the island. Law quickly followed. "You try and see what people you can find", it was a message to Nami, 'I will follow Luffy, see if you can find the man in question on your own'. At this Nami swore at Law silently for giving her such a hard task, as if finding the man would be enough. Considering how scared Luffy was, there was no way that simply finding him and demanding release of Zoro was enough. The rest of the crew didn't understand what Law was talking about, and waited for Nami to tell them what he had meant.
Nami elaborated for the others, mean-while, Luffy was searching the island for the tallest building around. This time around, it was a light house on the other side of the island. He immediately started racing in that direction, narrowly missing a lamp post in his path. Law was having a difficult time following him, not knowing where Luffy was going was irritating him to no end, since to him, knowledge meant power.
Law avoided colliding into a women who was holding a bag of groceries, but avoiding people was getting harder and harder as more people started to come out for their shopping, "Mugiwara-ya, where in the five seas are we going?" Luffy didn't reply, he didn't even seem to notice Law was there.
Law sighed, but he could tell where they were going once the light house came into view.
The circular walls were painted completely white with a red tiled roof. at the bottom was a brown door, closed with a lock, and many small windows on the walls in a circular motion, obviously mirriring the stairs on the inside. The ever spinning light at the top was turned off to conserve battery since it was around ten o'clock on a cloudless day.
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Law
Once, I had jumped up onto the roof after Luffy-ya, I searched the surroundings for our 'Mystery Man', but to no avail. Not that it was my fault, there wasn't really much more up on the roof other then a few seagulls that had flown away once we got up, and the presents that they left behind. And since there wasn't any room for him to hide, I was sure that he wasn't here.
"Now what, Luffy-ya?", he turned his head to look at me. His smile no where to be found, instead there was a irritated expression on his face. His mouth squeezed in a tight line, and his mask of innocence and happiness nowhere to be found.
"Now, I have to wait for it to become twelve o'clock for him to appear" he started to crack his knuckles, that wasn't good for his body, once he gets older, his fingers will become crooked. "I would suggest you leaving, I have no wish as to explain to your crew why you will not be joining them". He thinks I will die?
"But if I leave, won't you die as well?" his body stiffened. "After all, if together we have less then five percent, then you alone would be...", I felt that I did not need to elaborate further.
"...he will not kill me...", Luffy-ya said that with a strange sense of certainty, and he clenched his fists together. So much that his nails impaled his skin and small streams of crimson colored blood flowed from his palm. But his face betrayed nothing, not of the pain, confusion, worry, nothing. He simply sat there and waited, only concentration and determination on his face.
I was confused (Understatement of the century) at what he was saying. Why wouldn't the man kill him? He was going so far as to threaten him to leave his crew, kidnap a hostage, and send one of his nakama to the edge of insanity, yet he didn't want to kill him? What... what was the man's objective?
I couldn't find any words to use to voice my concerns, partially because he was talking as if he would rather have been killed then to fair... whatever it was that the man was going to do to him if he should lose. Lufy-ya didn't do anything to start any conversations, so we waited in silence for the clock to strike twelve.
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Zoro
My mind was a sheet of blackness, the thing that you see for the first few minuets when you hover form being awake and falling asleep. The weird thing was, that my consciousness wasn't at all hazy. It was clear and sharp, it felt that if I pinched myself, it would actually hurt, which didn't make sense.
But even though I was thinking clearly, no matter what I do, I can't seem to make myself want to do anything. Like all I wanted to do was lie around all day. Even the ever present drive to train and become stronger became dimmed. However, things like my dreams soared. Now, more then ever O wanted to become the best in the world. But I simply wanted to reach it, I didn't want to do anything else.
'No, I need to get back to the Thousand Sunny, I need to get back to my captain, and to my crew' this new resolve burned brightly, and I forced the laziness to move out of my system,I needed to move to figure out how to get out of this mess.
I tried to move my arms, and I succeeded in lifting them up to my face. It was a weird feeling, looking at my arm in a dream. It seemed faded and wispy, yet solid and hard at the same time. I pinched myself, yup, it hurts.
I was swimming in the darkness for a while longer, when I was suddenly blinded by a bright light. It took a few moments for my eyes to adjust, but when they did, I found myself looking at me lying on the ground unconscious. It was the same as the dream I had the previous night, we were on the roof of a (Very wrecked) clock tower, and Luffy was fighting an unknown man. Looking down on the fight, I must admit, I looked very pitiful, I got knocked down without a fight, and was lying on the floor, probably unconscious.
But the thing that surprised me the most was when I saw what Luffy looked like. He had leathery wings like a bat, multiple spikes coming out of his arms, and a tail (Not to mention he was flying). The look he was looking at me and Sanji... Guilt? Wait... I remember that he was the one who made me lose consciousness... that bastard.
I could see Luffy's lips moving, his mouth was drawn in a tight line. Why couldn't I hear what he was saying? I could see his lips moving to form words, and I could see his facial expression just fine, so why couldn't I hear him?
I heard the man's voice echo in my head, 'I'm sorry, Sanji, Zoro,', and like the last time, each and every screeching word hurt my ears. I could very well assume that 'He' was translating for me. For why and what reason, that was what I was hoping to find out.
Luffy reached out his hand, grabbed Sanji's face like he did to mine and the shitty-love cook fell down as well. Luffy then turned to face him again, lips moving and a second later the man's voice echoed in my head again.
"Leave them out of this, I will make sure that they will remember none of this". The man facing Luffy pondered the question for a minuet, then a large smile spread across his face. He started to talk.
"Aren't you simply doing this for your own benefit? Luffy-san?" the voice was told arrogantly, and from the way that Luffy faltered, I could tell that what he said was true to some point.
The image faded as Luffy lunged at the man again, his fist changing to represent some sort of white blade, while the man just stood there with a smirk on his face, and I was floating in a sea of black nothingness.
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Normal
In the castle, a purple sphere seemingly appeared out of thin air, and a man stepped through. He briskly walked out of the room and down the blood soaked stairs, paying no attention to the green haired swordsman lying unconscious on the floor.
As soon as his feet stepped out of the huge doorway leading outside (The doors had a very disturbing red colored pattern on them) he walked into another purple sphere and vanished from the island.
In seconds he reemerged on the roof of a lighthouse with an angry Luffy and a shocked Law.
In the seconds before the man had seemingly stepped out of thin air, were the tensest seconds Law felt that he had ever lived through. The air around Luffy had gotten thick due to some unknown power or reason.
Law decided that he may as well try to get more information out of the straw-hat wearing captain and was about to ask some more questions, and then a man suddenly appeared, almost making Law fall down the side of the Lighthouse.
As Law once again got his composure back, the man started to talk in a sickeningly sweet voice.
"Well, it's nice to see you here early for a change, Luffy-san"
A quick reply came from Luffy, who didn't want to spend anymore time with the man then necessary, "What have you done with Zoro?"
"Nothing just yet... He is simply waiting for me to have my fun once I get back", the man licked his lips in anticipation, while Luffy bit down on his in suppressed rage.
No one said anything for a span of ten minuets, Luffy because he was too enraged, the man because he looked like he was thinking about the feelings (Joy?) that would come once he got back to his castle, and Law because he knew that if he said anything here, it could possibly become impossibly awkward for him and Luffy. He also knew that it wasn't his place to butt into the conversation.
The one who broke this silence, was the 'Mystery Man'. He once again talked in his smooth, sweet, wrong, voice. "Now what do you want to do, Luffy-san? You can't find him now that he is on my island, and I'm sure that you at least know where that is".
Luffy's fury increased dramatically. Law was almost sure that bloodshed was soon to be followed, but the man continued his taunting speech.
"However, it truly would be too boring for you to give up..." the man seemed to ponder his next words, "I got it! The next island I will leave a portal for you on the highest building" the man smirked again as he seemed to enjoy the thought of what he was going to do, "However... since I don't have the same log pose as you do, it will probably lead to a different island"
The air around the man shimmered as a purple sphere encased the man, Law was surprised at how close the gesture was to his 'Room', "All you can do, is leave it up to luck now..." and he was gone.
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Law
The man who had the room... it was that man right? The man that we had to defeat. But the book never said anything about teleportation, or the purple sphere... and that voice could not have belonged to that of a human. Those things should have nothing to do with the yume-yume fruit. So... what really was going on?
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