Here is the next chapter guys, enjoy!

"That's a very low thing to do!" Vivi screamed at Mr. Wax.

"I will increase the speed of my Candle Service!" Mr. Wax cried suddenly, a large blob of wax coming out of his hand. "So you will become my candles sooner!"

I squeezed my eyes closed; ducking my head, I heard the spinning pumpkin on top of us spin faster, the flakes of wax seemed to come down faster. I felt a few warm pieces land on my thick fur, seeping in. It was so itchy and uncomfortable.

I heard Nami coughing next to me as she gasped, "I can't breathe!"

My eyes snapped back open, flicking in her direction in concern. Wasn't there any way we could get out of this? I wasn't just going to sit here watching myself and my friends turn into wax candles!

"If this candle mist goes into our lungs, we will become candles completely!" Vivi informed us.

"Hahahaha! That's right! If possible, I want you to suffer!" Mr. Wax laughed in maniacally. "Because the pieces of art that I want should represent suffering and fear! Just become my candles with fear in your hearts!"

By this time I had stopped struggling altogether, sending an evil glare in the direction of Mr. Wax.

"A piece of art! That's really disgusting!" Nami began to scream at him. "And you also did that to Mr. Brogy!"

"Hahaha, just say whatever you want!" Mr. Wax taunted us as I began to growl softly, trying to run through plans in my head. How could I get out? I couldn't! Not unless I knew some way to create fire, which I don't. I could try throwing my knife, but it would any take out one of them. And if Mr. Wax was made of wax, it wouldn't kill him. There was nothing I could do.

"Zoro! Mamori! Do something!" Nami begged of us causing my eyes to squeeze closed in shame. What could I do?

"Hahaha! Look at your faces!" Mr. Wax continued to taunt us as more wax covered us. I could feel it coating me slowly. My back was already partly covered by a layer of Wax. "That's very good emotions! Sadness and suffering! Torture! This will become my best piece of art! Hahahaha!"

"Don't we have a better plan!" Nami cried desperately, on the verge of becoming hysterical. "I can't move my arms!"

"Our bodies are becoming harder!" Vivi exclaimed as she stared at her hands.

No! I had to do something! I REFUSE to accept this! I'm not going to sit here and watch them die! I'm not going to wait for any of the others to show up, and I don't even know if they will! I HAVE to do something!

"Hey!" Zoro called to Brogy suddenly, causing me to jump slightly as my gaze swiveled in his direction. "Can you still move? If you can lose your arms and legs, it's better than dying and doing nothing. I will try to move too."

"I will cut both my legs off," Zoro devised, pulling out his sword as he did. "Don't you want to come and take care of those people with me?"

"Cut off your legs! Are you kidding! This is not a stupid joke!" Nami screamed at Zoro as I watched him silently. Cut off his legs to escape…?

"Because it's not some stupid joke, that's why I said that. What about you?" Zoro snorted, asking us.

"What about us? That's worthless! If you do that, they will be able to catch you anyway!" Vivi argued with him.

I was silently mulling over what he had said. A way to get out… No feet? Fuck. But I needed a way to get out. I wasn't going to leave this just up to Zoro, I wanted to help. But my feet… Did I really want to cut them right off!

'To never live a day in my life that I will regret!' The words echoed hauntingly through my head, teasing me. I said that, didn't I? Yes, I did. And would I regret it if I didn't cut of my legs when Zoro did? Yes. Of course I would. But… I was scared. Really scared. What would I do without my feet? How painful would that be? I'm not a saint; I was scared, really scared. My mouth had gone dry. Hadn't I asked for a way out? I did. And I got one, and now I was too cowardly to do it…

"If you've never tried you'll never know," Zoro said. "Anyway, we are going to die. Why don't we try our best? I don't want to die because of those pieces of trash. Am I right?"

"Did you hear that? Is he really going to do it?" Mr. Booger muttered as he considered what Zoro had said.

"He's just boasting," Mr. Wax snorted although he didn't sound that sure of himself. "Who is crazy enough to do that?"

"GABABABA!" Brogy's voice suddenly rung out. "You are very brave young man. I was about to give up too. Okay, I will do it!"

"ARE YOU KIDDING? IS YOU LOSE BOTH OF YOUR LEGS, HOW CAN YOU FIGHT THEM!" Nami snapped, she wanted to be saved and now she was arguing. I was still debating what to do…

"Well," Zoro decided to point out. "With the hearts that never give up."

"What's wrong with them!" Mr. Wax suddenly cried, seeing that Zoro wasn't bluffing after all.

"Have they gone nuts!" Exclaimed Mr. Booger in shock.

It was now or never… What am I going to do!

"Wait a minute!" Vivi suddenly butted in. "I will fight with you too!"

"Vivi!" Nami yelped, looking at her with wide eyes.

"Okay," Zoro said simply.

'NOW OR NEVER!' My mental voice snapped at me. I felt myself snap, finally deciding what to do. My head snapped around and in one swift motion I swept up my knife in my mouth and faced forward yet again. A threatening growl rumbled in my chest as I stared at our adversaries. My tail, which had yet to go stiff with wax, swished back and forth angrily behind me as the loud growling sound continued to grow.

"Not you too Mamori!" Nami scream at me in despair.

"LET'S DO IT!" Brogy screamed as he began to pull at his pinned hands and feet.

Out of the side of my vision I saw Zoro starting to bring his two swords down towards his legs but my vision quickly narrowed down to my own predicament. Before I even had to time to think it over my head was driving down towards my leg in a sweeping motion, ready to cut my left leg.

"THIS IS CRAZY!" I heard Nami scream at us.

BANG!

At the same time I started to feel pain in my one leg, a loud sound caught my attention causing me to pause, my blue eyes flicking up. I felt my heart lurch in my chest as I saw Luffy, Usopp, and the duck break out of the bushes with a furious look on their faces.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" They cried as they charged forward.

A convulsing shiver went through my body and I looked down at my leg. I had sliced a nice cut through it, but it hadn't served any muscles or bones. They came just in time… Thank God. What was I thinking?

I looked up in time to see Luffy, Usopp, and the duck flying through the air because obviously they were running too fast they couldn't stop once they had broken out of the bushes.

"WE'VE COME TO CRUSH ALL OF YOU!" Luffy screamed at them as he went flying straight by, over to the other side of the clearing. They went flying so far that they crashed into some trees in the other side of the clearing, leaving everyone speechless for a few seconds.

"What's that…" Mr. Wax mumbled to himself in shock as they stared at where the others had crashed.

"LET'S TAKE OF THEM USOPP, DUCK!" Luffy chanted as he stood up, holding his hat on his head.

"AHA!" Cried Usopp as he also stood back to his feet.

"QUACK!" Chorused the duck.

"LUFFY! USOPP!" Nami yelped in obvious relief as Zoro and I stared silently on.

"CARUE!" Vivi added to Nami's cry.

"TEACHER BROGY! I WILL TAKE REVENGE FOR YOU!" Usopp called over to his 'teacher'.

"Usopp," Brogy stated in a state of obvious shock as well.

"JUST CRUSH THOSE GUYS TO THE GROUND AND KICK THEM OUT OF HERE!" Nami ordered Luffy and Usopp.

"Yes! I will take care of all of them because they have destroyed the pride of these giant's battle!" Luffy grunted as he cracked his fists.

"So, you are the man who's worth the most in East Blue?" Mr. Wax greeted him after he had finally recovered from his shock. "It seems the Marine's standards are going down."

"Look at his hair style, that looks really stupid!" Luffy pointed out in a goofy way.

"SHUT UP!" Snapped Mr. Wax.

"That's a number three on his head!" Luffy ignored him as he continued to point out how odd it was.

"JUST SHUT UP!" He snarled in reply to Luffy's comments.

"Luffy! First, can you destroy this pole before we all become candle dolls completely!" Nami called out to Luffy.

"Eh?" Luffy asked dumbly. "Are you in trouble too?"

"No, not really," Zoro said nonchalantly but my eyes were drawn to the blood pouring out of both of his legs and spreading across the wax. That was a lot of blood. A lot more than was leaking out of my one leg.

"There's a lot of blood coming out of your legs!" Nami pointed out to him.

"That's right," Zoro said with a shrug. "I cut off about half of my legs."

"AND YOU SAY THAT WE'RE NOT IN TROUBLE!" Nami yelled back at him. "And look at Mamori too!"

I looked back at my own leg, seeing that the blood was slowly seeping onto the ground. I then looked back up at Nami as flashed her a wolfish grin to let her know I was okay. It was my own stupid fault this happened anyway.

"Anyway, can you destroy that pole Luffy? I will take care of the rest," Zoro told him with a smirk. I let a growl out to echo his opinion, my tail still swishing as I stared down at Luffy. I wanted to taste blood. My canine side was baying for blood, their blood. My teeth clenched around my knife as I finally got all antsy about getting out of here again, it was only a matter of time!

"Sure," Was Luffy's chipper reply as he flashed us a bright smile.

"I won't allow you to do that," Mr. Wax intervened before Luffy could do anything else.

"I don't know what that is, but I will destroy it," Luffy said as he clenched his fist. "Usopp?"

"Sure! Today, I'm not the same person I used to be!" Usopp called out as he jumped on the duck's back, his slingshot at the ready.

"Hurry up! Before we become candles!" Nami urged him, always the bossy one. I couldn't help but agree with her though. The sooner I get out the better; then I can tear them all a new asshole.

I saw Zoro move out of the corner of my eye causing me to turn my head in his direction. I tilted my head to the side in confusion at what I saw. Zoro had one hand on his hip, holding up his sword with the other like he was ordering a charge.

"What are you doing?" Nami sighed as she crossed her arms over.

"In case we become candles, I will have a nice pose," Zoro replied with a straight voice.

"This is not a time for playing," Vivi said with a frown on her face.

"Can you do something with your legs? I feel pain whenever I looked at them," Nami said and I could hear some concern in her voice.

"Then don't look," Zoro replied bluntly to her.

"By the way, your idea about cutting your legs to escape was so stupid," Nami pointed out to him before looking at me disapprovingly as well. I just folded my ears back against my skull with a guilty look.

"I cut my legs so that I could fight them, not escape," He pointed out.

"That's even crazier! And you got Mamori doing it to!" She snarled at him as her temper rose yet again.

"Shut up!" Zoro grunted. "And it was her decision to do that."

Hehe, he was right. It was. And you know what? It was stupid, but I don't regret it. Not at all.

"They're insulting us," Mr. Wax said darkly causing my attention to snap back to him. "That's very annoying because that kid doesn't look like a person who can fight."

"Mr. Three, we already killed him!" Mr. Booger man argued.

"Killed him?" Mr. Wax snorted as he got in a fighting stance. "Are you kidding? Look at him! It means that you suck! So, he can stand here in front of us! At least I know that he stronger then you. Why don't you just take care of the other scum? I will make that Luffy become one of my candle dolls!"

"I'm very annoyed by your babbling," Usopp hissed. "Don't worry, I will kill all of you."

And with that said, both him and the duck dove behind the cover of the trees.

"Luffy! I will help you from behind. Don't worry," Usopp called out.

"Quack!" The duck also called out.

"What did you say?" Luffy mumbled, turning his head around.

"Hey kid!" Brogy called to Zoro. "Are you going to quit trying?"

"There's someone else who's going to try for us," Zoro informed him whilst smirking.

"GOTCHA!" Mr. Wax cried as a blob of wax went flying at Luffy, locking around his ankles. "CANDLE LOCK!"

"He was caught!" Vivi cried in worry. I just silently watched on, having slipped my knife away seeing that I wouldn't get to use it any time soon after all. "Mr. Luffy!"

"What's this?" Luffy asked as he fell onto his back, legs in the air. "My legs look like a hammer!"

"What's that!" Usopp called from the background.

I felt something itching the back of my ears and the base of my tail as well as my chest. The wax was slowly spreading all over me… It wouldn't be long and I'd be covered. Damn.

"Hmm, it fits really well!" Luffy called out as he smirked dumbly.

"You really suck! Next will be your arms!" Mr. Wax called as he lunge towards Luffy, his wax shooting from his hand. "CANDLE LOCK!"

With a grunt Luffy managed to do some sort of awkward handstand to push himself off the ground to escape the attack. "OOH!"

One of Luffy's hands went up to clutch his shoulder as his other hand went flying towards a wax knife that was embedded into Grogy arms, stretching due to the Gomu Gomu fruit.

"Huh?" Mr. Wax mumbled dumbly

Luffy's arm wrapped around the hilt several times before clamping down into a proper hold, still in midair.

"I'm sorry Mr. Giant," Was the only thing Luffy said before starting to spin back around the hilt of the sword causing it to twist in the giant's hand as he grunted in pain, "GOMU GOMU NO…."

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" Zoro screamed angrily at him.

'LUFFY!' I mentally scolded him. How thick could he get!

"Huh?" Mr. Wax muttered dumbly as he adjusted his glasses.

"Mr. Luffy!" Vivi cried out.

"ARGH!" The giant groaned on pain.

"TONKACHI*!" Luffy cried as he flung his legs out to slam into the top of the wax cake we were stuck in. I flinched, ducking my head as I squeezed my eyes closed.

"What the!" Mr. Wax cried out.

"HE DESTROYED THE POLE!" Nami called out happily.

"EEEEEEEEK!" I heard Nami scream causing my head to shoot upwards as my eyes snapped open. Luffy had managed to kick the large poll out from under the rotating pumpkin, and now the large pumpkin was falling directly on top of us!

"Great! The hammer on my legs was destroyed too!" I heard Luffy call from his place clinging to the hilt of the sword. "Huh?"

CRASH

The large pumpkin thing smashed down right above our heads, a lot closer to us then it was before

"I'm still alive…" Nami panted in relief.

"Nothing changed at all," Zoro complained.

"That was close," Vivi exhaled at the same time I let a large sigh slip out of chest.

"That was dangerous, why didn't you run away?" Luffy asked us.

"HOW CAN WE MOVE?" Nami screeched at him.

My chest started to feel like it was being squeezed together as the wax hardened on it; my tail no long able to move either.

"Why didn't you tell me about that?" Luffy questioned us. "You just told me to destroy that pole."

When I get out of here I am so going to nip Luffy!

"ARE YOU SURE WE SHOULD TRUST HIM WITH OUR LIVES!" Vivi shrieked at Zoro in anger.

After a short pause of silence Zoro retorted, "We have no choice; besides, I can't move my arms anymore."

"Wait a minute! My body is getting harder!" Nami started to panic as she coughed once. "I can't move anymore!"

"Hahahaha! As the candle gets closer, the sooner you will become candles!" Mr. Wax goaded us. "You idiots! Just become my candles! Hahaha!"

"What?" Luffy yelped as his eyes bulged. "You will become candles? Why didn't you tell me!"

"Anyway, just destroy the candle Luffy!" Nami pleaded with Luffy.

"Okay!" He replied.

"I WON'T ALLOW YOU TO GET INVOLVED!" Mr. Wax cried as he charged Luffy again, a blob of wax flying out of his hand as it began to shape to shape itself. "DORU DORU ARTS: MORI*!"

"KAYAKU BOSHI*!" Usopp's voice rang out at the same time as he shot something from his sling shot straight at Mr. Wax. Mr. Booger suddenly jumped in front of him, swallowing the explosive bullet.

"Hmph," Mr. Wax grunted at him, his attack still flying at Luffy. The wax harpoon smashed straight through the hilt of the sword Luffy was on as Luffy jumped up into the air before skidding to a stop on the ground.

My eyes flicked back to Mr. Booger as his stomach suddenly doubled in size, smoke coming out of his mouth. He burped out a mouthful of smoke, saying, "Tastes bad, you must use the low quality gunpowder."

"He ate my bullet!" Usopp whispered as he gritted his teeth in frustration, the duck that was beside him had dropped its jaw.

"This is bad! This thing is really quick!" I heard Nami cried from beside me causing my attention to snap back to our own predicament. I couldn't move my neck anymore, the wax had sealed over it and hardened. I would be in a lot of trouble soon.

"I'm lucky to have such a nice pose," Zoro said as he looked vainly down at himself. A growl rumbled in my chest at the comment, was that really the most important thing right now!

"MORON!" Nami shrieked at Zoro and I'm guessing she would have hit him if she could move.

"MR. LUFFY, PLEASE HURRY UP!" Vivi yelled out to Luffy is desperation.

"Okay!" He said angling himself to face us. "I have to destroy that pumpkin right!"

He flung his hands behind him mumbling, "GOMU GOMU NO…"

"That's not going to work!" Mr. Wax hissed as he flung his blob of wax out.

"BAZOOKA!" Luffy finished off his cry, launching his fists at the pumpkin above us.

"CANDLE WALL!" Mr. Wax called at the same time and a huge wax blockade came springing up to block Luffy's attack before it could break the pumpkin.

"YOU! Would you stop getting involved!" Luffy retorted at him as he finally started to get annoyed.

"I'm the one who's supposed to say that," Mr. Wax grumbled as he squared off with Luffy again. "You'd better not get involved in my art process."

"CANDLE LOCK!" Mr. Wax cried as he flung another blob of wax towards Luffy, planning to trap him.

"AGAIN!" Luffy ground out as he threw himself back slightly.

"Ah! That's right!" Luffy said suddenly and stopped trying to dodge the attack causing my eyes to widen. Instead he pushed of the ground with one hand, letting the wax lock snap over only one of his arms.

"Haha! I got a hammer now!" Luffy called out as he smirked again. I think Luffy actually just showed some brains…

"GOMU GOMU NO," Luffy chanted as he threw back his arm with the wax on it.

"Damn it!" Mr Wax huffed as he brought up a shield of wax before himself. "CANDLE WALL!"

"TONKACHI!" Luffy cried as he flung his wax encased fist into the wax shield. I heard a slight crack before the shield shattered around Luffy's hand, his bare fist flying through the sucker punch Mr. Wax across the face and sent him flying across the clearing.

"MR. THREE!" Mr. Booger exclaimed in shock.

"This is crazy!" Ms. Umbrella Chick cried out from beside her partner.

"Great job Luffy!" Nami called out to Luffy and I echoed it with a yip. "Hurry and destroy this thing!"

"No," Luffy said simply, leaving me to blink. No?

"Stop fooling around!" Nami snapped at him. "Hurry up!"

"No," Luffy repeated.

"What?" Nami asked dumbfounded.

"Hey Luffy! This is not the time to play around!" Zoro snapped at him. Something was wrong with Luffy…

"Please Mr. Luffy!" Vivi begged him.

His eyes meet ours and I felt the hairs on the back of my neck pick up at how… Un-Luffy like they looked.

"What should I do? I don't feel like I want to help you," Luffy said in a somewhat confused manner.

"What are you talking about…" Nami mumbled breathless, her eyes as wide as mine at Luffy's behavior.

"Colors Trap," I heard a small feminine voice say quietly causing my eyes to flick towards miniature Dora the Explorer's way. I would have moved my head, but it was encased in wax.

"WE DON'T HAVE TIME LUFFY! HURRY UP AND DESTROY THIS STUPID PUMPKIN!" Zoro snapped at him yet again but I kept my eyes on Ms. Dora. Maybe I was the only one that heard it with my dog hearing but she was doing something funny.

"I know," Luffy said.

"IF YOU KNOW THEN DO IT!" Nami cried out as well.

"I know," Luffy said with an oddly blank face. "But I don't want to do it."

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" Nami shrieked loudly out him, spit flying from her mouth. "WE'VE ALMOST BECOME CANDLES! IT MEANS THAT WE'RE GOING TO DIE! DON'T YOU GET IT!"

"I understand, but I don't want to do it," Luffy stated and I could feel the others getting angry around me. My blue eyes were still glaring at Ms. Dora, a soft growling rising in my chest.

"THE PROBLEM IS NOT ABOUT IF YOU WANT TO DO IT OR NOT!" Nami raged in reply to Luffy's blankness.

BANG

My eyes flicked to the side to see Usopp and the duck dodging a bomb from Ms. Umbrella Chick and Mr. Booger. I watched silently as he jumped on the duck's back and took off running. Guilt ate away at me because I could nothing to help him this time. It was like last time I had taken my eyes off him at Arlong Park and he ended up almost getting killed by fishmen.

"Ms. Goldenweek!" Vivi suddenly called out snapping my attention back to the others. "It must be you!"

"Color Trap. Black is the color of betrayal," Ms. Dora said as she chewed on a rice ball. "If any person is painted with this color, he won't care about his friends' words."

"What does that mean? What happened?" Nami asked.

"She is a portrait painter. She can create feelings by her color," Vivi began to explain. She couldn't have told us this before, why? "The imagination of color that she has painted will effect a person's mind."

"Effect a person's mind?" Zoro grumbled as he groaned. "This is bad. Because hypnotism or something like that will completely effect an innocent person like him!"

"If he can step away from that sign he should be fine! Luffy!" Nami called trying to get Luffy's attention as she saw the black circle he was standing on. "Step away from that sign!"

"That's not going to work!" Vivi objected. "Mr. Luffy! Please don't step out of that sign! I beg you!"

"Why did you say that Vivi!" Nami gasped at her.

"I don't want to help you at all. I won't listen to you," Luffy said as he stepped back off the sign.

"So that's why…" Zoro mumbled from besides me.

"Eh? What happened to me!" Luffy yelped in a confused manner. "I will help you now!"

"But first, let me laugh. Hahahahahaha!" Luffy's mood suddenly swung around again.

"WHAT'S WRONG NOW!" The others all yelped as their jaws dropped. I was left closing my eyes and sighing softly to help myself calm down. It would be best for all of us to keep a calm head so that we can help Luffy.

"Hahahahaha!" Luffy continued to laugh.

"Colors Trap," Ms. Dora said and I opened my eyes to see her standing behind Luffy with a paint board and a paint brush in both her hands. Her rice ball was now held in her mouth. "Yellow is the color of fun. He can't move now."

"She put color on his shirt!" Nami yelped. "Luffy, take off your shirt!"

I watched as Luffy fell backwards, literally rolling on the floor laughing. I went to fold my ears back in worry but I found that they wouldn't move. Panic hitched in my chest as I realized that the wax had made it's way all the way up there and had hardened.

"This is bad, we don't have much time left," Zoro said, stating the obvious.

"QUACK!" The duck suddenly called.

"AHHH!" Came Usopp's voice as well as they broke through the shrubs again, Usopp riding on the ducks back. My eyes widened as they ran straight at Luffy, running straight over him and knocking him away. Then Mr. Booger and Ms. Umbrella Chick broke out of the bushes, hot on their heels.

"Damn it!" Mr. Booger snarled as he panted. "They are really fast!"

Oh my… That's what Usopp is good at after all. Looks like the duck takes after him too.

"Look!" Nami butted in. "Usopp and Carue hit Luffy and made the sign fade away!"

"Ouch," Luffy whimpered as he crouched on the ground. "I was caught in a trap again."

Luffy then spun around to face the mini Dora the Explorer, "Hey you! This is enough!"

"Yellow is the color of fun. You must have had a good time right?" She asked him.

"Shut up!" He replied. "Are you crazy or something? Anyway, I have to destroy that pumpkin!"

With that said Luffy flung back his arm and he ran towards us yet again. "GOMU GOMU NO!"

"Colors Trap," Ms. Dora said as she painted a sign in the air. "Red is the color of a target."

"BAZOOKA!" Luffy cried out, but before his arms swerved the wrong way and slammed into the ground.

"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIT!" Nami screamed at Luffy.

"I can't let you destroy that thing or Mr. Three will be mad at me," She informed Luffy. "You will want to hit that sign just like a bull that always wants to hit a red target."

"I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!" Luffy yelled as he got lined up for another attack. "GOMU GOMU NO...!"

"BAZOOKA!" Luffy cried out as he launched his attack, but yet again it just swerved and hit the target on the ground.

"Is that fun?" Mini Dora asked.

"This is bad… He can't beat her," Nami panted, almost completely covered in wax like the rest of us. "His power means nothing to her."

"I will mix this color for you!" Ms. Dora called out, mixing another paint sign in the air. "Yellow, the color of fun mixed with blue, the color of sadness."

"Colors Trap," She said as the sign hit Luffy in the back. "Green is the color of peace."

Next thing we knew, Luffy and Ms. Dora were sitting on a picnic rug, sharing a cup of tea.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!" The three around me yelled at him as I stared on in worry. Could Luffy beat this chick?

"What will be the result if this?" Nami sighed seeming to think the same thing I did.

"Result?" Zoro snorted. "I told you to pose nicely. I feel sorry for you."

"This is not funny!" Vivi snapped at him. I sighed, my eyes closing for a few minutes again. Everything but my muzzle and eyes had wax covering it. It would only be a few minutes before I turn into a wax statue.

I kept my eyes closed as I felt the wax creeping over my eyes and muzzle now. Sucking in a deep breath I silently prayed for Luffy and Usopp. I hoped they would be okay. I felt bad about how this had ended. I hadn't managed to do anything to help them! I was useless the whole time. And now Zoro, Nami, Vivi, and I were all going to die. I don't remember this happening in the anime.

The sounds slowly muffled around me as the final bits of the wax sealed over, stopping me from being able to breathe. It took me a few more seconds before I slowly let go of my consciousness, slipping into darkness. Some part of me noticed the muffled sounds from outside my cocoon, but it too was muffled to make out any words.

'I'm sorry guys… I wish I could have helped. Sorry and thank you for everything… It was fun while it lasted, truly it was. I regret nothing,' I mentally cooed as everything around me got darker and darker….

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* Wax-Wax Art Harpoon

*Gunpowder Star