Hello my fellow Law lovers! Like I mentioned in the last chapter I'll be going on a trip so today is two chapter day! This is just one chapter and hopefully the next one will be out later today. Now for the review replies!
MsWildLuck: Thanks, I had to really think hard about it because Nightmare wouldn't be the type to always scream from her nightmares if she just watched her friend die. Her villagers are indeed crazy though.
Girl-luvs-manga: Well you're about to find out :) *Epic fighting scene warning*
Dhalmi93: Yes! Couldn't have said it better myself :D
10th Squad 3rd Seat: Indeed, very insane stuff.
Shiningheart of ThunderClan: I'm not sure if you just forgot or read over it but she did mention his name once. It's Axel. Mizuki is her name but remember that she covered up the Dear Mizuki part with a piece of paper so Law wasn't able to see it so he still doesn't know her name.
Okay now on with the chapter! We'll finally be able to see Nightmare in action so woohoo!
Chapter 11: A Strange Bounty and a Swimming Mystery
It all happened so quickly. All she needed was two minutes. Her movements were swift and graceful. When she fought it was like she was a completely different person. It was almost as if a transcendent being took over her when she began. Once the battle finished the girl was left unscathed with nothing left but a bloody boomerang. Everyone was stunned. Yes, they expected her to be good, but not that good. Let's start from the beginning though.
"Fire!" the man who seemed to be in charge called. The marines all shot at once but this time it wasn't only towards Nightmare; it was towards everyone. The Heart Pirates readied themselves to dodge. Their captain did nothing. He only watched the girl who had stepped in front of him, waiting. She glanced to her left and then threw her boomerang to the right with her right hand. What happened next seemed completely impossible. As the boomerang passed each bullet they were sliced in half. When the boomerang rounded it passed in front of the marines and sliced the bullets to Nightmare's left. Every bullet was sliced in half and once the weapon returned to its owner as she caught it with her left hand. Right when the boomerang was successfully caught every gun that the marines held revealed to be sliced in two with the barrel of the guns sliding off to the ground.
"See what I mean. It's disappointing because without those you're just too easy to kill," Nightmare stated bluntly.
"Who is she!" one marine yelled. Other murmurs filled the air about who Nightmare was. Soon enough someone quite familiar yelled it out.
"T-That's the crazy girl that was being held at the base I was working for! She escaped not long ago!" he yelled while pointing at Nightmare. Nightmare looked at him for a moment. That's when she realized who it was.
"Mister Rookie, what a pleasant surprise. I must thank-you for that mistake you made of leaving my door open, it helped quite a lot in my escape," Nightmare said and he gulped. "I'm getting tired of this talk so let's just finish this now." Without another word Nightmare threw the boomerang, this time with her left hand. As it whirled towards the marines Nightmare spoke to her fellow crewmates. "If any of you are disturbed by gory scenes I suggest you look away." The boomerang was fast; incredibly fast. It looked as if it had disappeared in thin air when she threw it. The marines couldn't react when the boomerang cut through their necks. One by one the bodies fell to the ground with each head rolling beside its matching corpse. Nightmare's eyes were closed when she caught the boomerang with her right hand. She opened her eyes and sighed.
"I got rusty over the past five years. Only ten down in one throw," Nightmare mumbled. She shrugged and then smirked. "I guess I'll practice close combat then," she sighed once again and narrowed her eyes. She ran forward and jumped into the air when she was in front of a marine. She flipped in the air and kicked the back of the marine's head knocking him to the ground. She stabbed and slashed each marine with such ease that it looked like child's play. Someone called for a retreat from the marine ship but none returned. Not even the devil fruit user. He was stabbed in the heart before he could even transform with his zoan type abilities. The marine ship sailed away with the men that never boarded the submarine and it was over.
"You sure got an interesting one there captain," Cain noted while standing next to Law. Law wasn't sure if he should be amused or upset that there was so much blood on the deck.
"Interesting indeed," Law said as he watched Nightmare just stand there. Next she did something that he didn't completely expect but at the same time seemed justified by her. She walked forward, jumped up on the railing, and threw her boomerang towards the marine ship. One scream was heard before the boomerang came back.
"A parting gift," Nightmare stated while turning around on the railing. "Damn this is a bloody mess," she said once she realized all the blood on the ground.
"I will never anger Nightmare again," Shachi whispered to Penguin nervously and his companion nodded in agreement. No one spoke directly to Nightmare as she began to throw the bodies and severed heads overboard. When all the bodies were disposed of Nightmare watched the water as she saw several sharks eat each body turning a section of the water red.
"Miss Nightmare I hope you clean up all this blood and make sure the deck is spotless by the time I get back here," Law said and turned to go back inside. He was still tired. Even though he had fallen straight asleep when he got into his room he woke up an hour later and couldn't sleep for another four hours.
Nightmare looked down at her shoes. They were covered in blood, which would only leave footprints of blood if she walked in the sub to get stuff to clean the blood away. She looked around and spotted Cain. "Cain, can you do me a favor," she called to him. Before she said anything else she saw that everyone else was still here. "They're all dead now, there's no point for all of you to stay around here," and with that everyone left other than Cain.
"I didn't expect you to kill so easily," Cain commented.
"Thank-you," she took it as a compliment. "Anyways can you go get me some cleaning supplies from inside the sub? My shoes are all bloody and if I go inside it'll just give me more stains to clean," she said.
"And what if I don't?" he questioned.
"You did just see all this right?" she asked him. "Actually I can see that you don't care for that. Well why not I just say that it'll make me forget your move on me from earlier," she then said noticing that he didn't really care for how she had just taken out those marines.
"Got it," Cain said and then went inside the submarine. When he came back out with the supplies Nightmare got to cleaning. She hummed an old tune that she made up some time ago as she cleaned.
"He is no more, blood has stained the floor, and I'm falling… down," she sang. It took about thirty minutes to completely get rid of all the blood. She had to take off her shoes and clean them off before walking back inside and into the laundry room for more laundry duty. The submarine began to leave Ezdial when Nightmare entered the room. When she finished with the laundry she just aimlessly walked around the sub.
"Nightmare," the polar bear of the sub called to the girl. She turned around and the bear immediately apologized for no reason.
"Don't apologize, you didn't do anything. So what is it?" Nightmare said trying to calm the bear down.
"Captain says he wanted to see you in his room," Bepo told her and she nodded. The girl turned back around and headed for Law's room. What did he want now? When she got to the door she knocked and waited for the come in. Nothing came. She knocked once more and still there was nothing. So she walked in. He was sitting in his desk chair with his head down on his desk, asleep.
"At least stay up long enough to tell me what you needed to see me for," Nightmare mumbled under her breath. "I guess I am at fault though since I did keep him up," she sighed while watching him sleep. Her eyes wandered around the room and stopped at the bookshelf. She glanced back at Law before happily strolling over to the shelf. She grabbed a random book and then sat on Law's bed to start reading. It figures that his bed was so much comfier than her own.
It was an hour later now and Law had finally woken up. He sat up to realize that he had fallen asleep in his room. He heard movement from the side and turned to see Nightmare. She was asleep on his bed with one of his books laying on her chest. Oh that's right, he told Bepo to bring her here. But that still didn't give her an excuse to come into his room and start reading one of his books only to fall asleep on his bed. He was about to wake her up, mostly for payback for this morning, but he didn't. Something was different about her sleep this time. She was quiet.
"Quit pretending to be asleep," Law mumbled. Nightmare turned on her side and opened her eyes to look at Law.
"I wasn't pretending, I was just thinking about stuff. So did you have a nice nap?" she questioned in more of a mocking intent.
"It was delightful," he grumbled. "Anyways Miss Nightmare I had called you here to tell you to never wake me up like that ever again," he was dead serious.
"And here I thought that every man would love to be woken up by a woman," Nightmare mused and then sat up. "Fine, I'll just use a bucket of water next time," she shrugged.
"Let me rephrase my last sentence. Never wake me up again," he ordered.
"Whatever, I'm going to my own room," Nightmare sighed and then hopped off Law's bed. "I'm borrowing this by the way," she said while waving the book behind her and then left his room.
"Interesting indeed," Law mumbled to himself once again.
It was a few days later now. Since the day the Heart Pirates left Ezdial and nothing exciting really happened. Nightmare resumed her chores daily along with everyone else. Whenever she had time for herself she'd either stitch up torn clothes, read, or just think. She hadn't bothered Law all that much either. Nightmare just finished stitching up some clothing and walked out on deck for some fresh air.
"Hey Nightmare come look at this," Damien said when he realized that Nightmare came outside. He was looking at something in the paper along with Shachi and Penguin. Nightmare looked at him for a moment before walking over to see what they were looking at. "I've never seen anything like it," Damien mumbled while handing Nightmare the paper. It was a wanted poster.
"Neither have I," Shachi also mumbled. Nightmare looked down at the paper in her hand. At the top in big bold letters it read 'WANTED'. Underneath that was a picture of Nightmare holding her bloody boomerang with her bangs covering her eyes. The picture seemed to be taken when Nightmare fought the marines on the sub. That wasn't the strange part though. Under the picture it said this:
Alive
Nightmare
99,999,999 Beli
"Not only do you have an odd bounty but they want you alive. Usually a person who ruthlessly killed marines would be wanted dead or alive," Damien explained. Nightmare didn't speak. She looked annoyed. "Um are you mad that you got a bounty?" he nervously asked.
"I hate pictures," she grumbled and then crumpled up the page and tossed it to the ground. "The reason they want me alive is first to torture me and then use me like they did back on my old island. The marines that saw me from the ship probably got information from my island and found out about me that way. The bounty is most likely mockery saying that I'm not good enough for a hundred million. Like I care about that shit anyways," Nightmare mumbled to them and then jumped up on the railing.
"But still 99,999,999 beli for your first bounty is still really good," Shachi said. Nightmare looked out at the sea as the wind whipped her ponytailed hair around.
"I don't care about that. Let the marines give me whatever bounty they want," Nightmare said as she walked along the railing.
"N-Nightmare if you fall into the ocean you'll drown," Penguin warned worriedly.
"What are you my mother?" Nightmare questioned and then did a handstand on the rail. "I won't drown," she told him.
"If you fall in you will; you ate a devil fruit. You can't swim," Damien stated in a matter-of-fact tone.
"I suggest you listen to them Miss Nightmare," Law walked out onto the deck with his arms crossed. Nightmare glanced over to him and stopped her handstand and landed on her feet but still on the railing.
"Oh so now you care if I end up in the ocean?" she questioned with a smirk. Then, just to make this go on further, she jumped up and flipped and then landed back onto the railing.
"Never mind then, it was just a warning," Law shrugged and the three looked at their captain, appalled.
"Captain don't just say that! What if she falls?" Shachi exclaimed. At that moment no one was looking at Nightmare.
"Then she falls. It's not my problem," he said.
"Oops," they heard Nightmare say and they all turned to see that she was falling backwards. The boys rushed over to the railing and Damien, who was closest, tried to grab her hand. It didn't help all that much since Nightmare didn't really reach her hand out to him. She didn't really look like she cared at all as she fell to the water. A splash was heard when she landed in the water and she didn't appear to come back up.
Law just watched somewhat shocked that she didn't actually try. It is true that she always said she didn't care but to actually see it was something different. Before he knew it Damien jumped into the water to get her. Law looked to Penguin and Shachi to see that they were worried but also… upset?
"I wanted to rescue her," Shachi mumbled with crossed arms like a pouty little kid. Law sighed at their hopelessness and then looked back to the water. Something popped up. It was Damien with Nightmare but what happened next shocked everyone.
"I don't need your help! I know how to swim you idiot!" Nightmare pushed Damien away from her and swam by herself. No one spoke because they were shocked that she was swimming. Did she really eat a devil fruit? Now, back down to the water, Nightmare began speaking but wasn't loud enough for those on deck to hear. "I haven't gone swimming in forever," she mumbled.
"H-How can you swim?" Damien asked and swam up next to her. "You ate a devil fruit didn't you?" She turned to Damien and smiled.
"That's a secret," she told him and then swam past him. Soon enough a rope was spared to be sent down to retrieve the two but Nightmare didn't take it. "I'm going to swim for a little longer," she told Damien and he just looked at her for a moment but nodded. When Damien was brought back up he was handed a towel and then got questioned.
"How the hell is she swimming like that? Did you ask her?" Shachi asked while looking over the railing to watch the girl swim around.
"When I asked she said it was a secret. Then she told me that she wanted to swim a little longer. It may not look it but she seems to really enjoy swimming," Damien told them as he dried himself off. That's when everyone turned to their captain. "Do you know anything about this captain?" he asked. Everyone looked at him expecting for Law to be an expert on the girl by now.
"Why the hell would I know? I'm curious about this myself," Law told them and looked down to the water as well. He then turned to his crew so they could answer his question.
"You know the most about Nightmare out of all of us and you can't deny it captain," Shachi said and Penguin nodded in agreement. Law stared at them for a moment but then sighed. "See you know it yourself," Shachi then told him and Law turned to leave.
"Make sure Miss Nightmare doesn't get taken away by the current," Law said before walking back inside the sub. Right when he left Shachi and Penguin started laughing.
"Finally there is something that can make the captain shut up," Penguin laughed.
"You two do realize what that means don't you?" Damien questioned the two. They looked up from the ground with confused looks. "What you just told the captain is true, which means that he's the closest to her," Damien stated and their faces immediately fell. But a minute later they brightened up.
"That's impossible; this is the captain we're talking about. Like that'll ever happen," Shachi said trying to reassure himself.
"Like what will ever happen?" Nightmare asked from behind them causing the two to jump.
"N-nothing," Penguin said and Nightmare just shrugged. She took the towel from Damien to dry herself off and then walked inside. Droplets of water dripped from Nightmare's wet ponytail as she walked down the hall. She didn't really care if they knew she could swim or not. Telling them why would be too much work so she decided to just not to tell by saying it was a secret. It wasn't really that much of a secret in her eyes but what did she know. A normal human might actually want to keep that type of information to themselves. Actually she was surprised that someone hasn't come up to her to tell her that Law wanted to see her yet. Maybe he wasn't going to ask about it this time.
"Miss Nightmare do you have a moment?" That was more like it. He was right standing in front of her.
"I'm not going to tell you, you'll probably find out soon enough. By the way we should arrive at the next island tomorrow," she hadn't stopped walking when she said that and just passed him. She didn't like wet clothing. Wet clothes were always so clingy and annoying. Nightmare walked straight pass Law and into her room to change.
A/N: And there you have it. Nightmare is officially a wanted pirate! I really do hope you guys liked the fighting scene in the beginning. I do know that some people don't like overly powerful characters but come on, Nightmare is the exception beyond exceptions. I also bet you guys are wondering how she can swim but all I can tell you for now is that she did indeed eat a devil fruit just in case you are starting to doubt that.
Chapter twelve will be out in about 2 or 3 hours from when I publish this chapter (which is around 1:00pm EST) I want to wait a bit for the reviews so I can do review replies for this chapter as well.
Till next time,
~Zella