Chapter 54- Fight or get captured! The General Zombies attack!
Absalom looked excited after the General Zombies, who made their way towards the mansion. "Stay alert and hunt them down, no matter where they might try to run! They aren't even enemies for the likes of you, General Zombies! Garurururu!" He shouted after them and began to laugh. Suddenly, he heard someone hiccupping next time him. "Hmm?! Oi, don't be such a slow pock Captain John! Your infamous, lifetime reputation all over the world is crying! Now go and remember to capture the Princess mostly unharmed okay?!"
"Aye, aye… I'm going huehehe..." The General Zombie Captain John replied easily before strolling after the other general zombies.
"…Damn he's so hopeless." Absalom just sighed while looking after them. Just then, he suddenly stiffened as a dark shadow towered above him.
"Ab-sama~❤" The shadow with glowing eyes raced towards him.
"Eehhh?! Lola?!" Absalom shouted in shock and began to sweat as he turned around to a warthog zombie in a wedding dress.
Meanwhile, Luffy and Co were wandering through the mansion…
"OOOOIIIII! OOOOIIIIIIII!" Luffy called loudly for somebody. "Huh." He turned angrily around to Franky, who was carrying the pig head zombie as their guide. "Oi, Buhi! You did something again, right?! SPIT IT OUT!" Luffy shouted as he bored his fist into Buhi's cheek.
Juli just walked after them with narrowed eyes, getting a more and more dreading feeling the further they went. 'I don't like this at all… First, we get to know Gecko Moriah is on this island and then Sanji disappeared… It has to be connected! Did he get captured?! And why didn't I notice anything…?'
"I told you from the start, I don't know anything! Buhihihi!" The pig head zombie replied to Luffy and laughed darkly.
"Aren't you laughing?! You shameless fellow…!" Franky told him in annoyance.
Juli ripped herself out of her thoughts and glared at Buhi. "Your laughing makes everything here seem even more suspicious." She informed him seriously. "If you want to be sneakier about it, you shouldn't always laugh like you know something we don't."
"Eeek! Well, in some sense that makes sense…" Buhi suddenly said thoughtfully but then began to chuckle again.
"That's weird… There aren't any voices…" Robin noticed. "Maybe they were strangled to death…"
Franky just sweat dropped at her. "Why are you circuits always wired so ominously?!"
"That's definitely weird… So Buhi here really was lying to us and our nakama aren't here…" Juli spoke seriously up and then began to widen her sense. Her eyes widened utterly shocked and she stopped dead in her tracks. "Wha?! Zoro isn't here….?!"
"What?!" Luffy looked at his sister in surprise and then turned around. "Huh… Zoro now disappeared as well… That's weird… Mhm… Did he got lost again?" He asked in confusion but then smiled as he spotted something on the side of the hallway.
"No… I don't think he got lost…" Juli spoke up worried. 'This is not good. It's as they want us to get separated… But why? To capture us? Or for something else?' She shook her head and continued walking. "Lu, are you coming-" Juli looked back to him and sweat dropped in fondness as she saw how Luffy was now fully dressed in an armor.
"Where the hell… did those fellas disappear to?!" Luffy said as he walked by his sister's side and then lifted the lid of the helmet to see better. "Where the heck are Zoro and Sanji, huuuuuh?"
"What are you doing at a time like this?!" Franky snapped at him and hit him over the head, his hit being blocked by the helmet of the armor Luffy was wearing.
"OIII! If an armor is just laying around isn't it a man's romance to wear it?!" Luffy huffed at Franky angrily. "When you got an iron body… Did you lose that kind of heart too?!"
Juli couldn't help but giggle at her brother's antics and shook her head in fondness.
"WAAAH! ROMANCE?! NO WONDER… Forgive me I didn't intend to go as far as my heart when changing to iron!" Franky apologized in distress.
He sat down on a stool and began to play a song on his guitar as they entered a big hall. "To lose such an important thing~ A draft is blowing in my heart~ Please listen to this song: 'Cyborg's steely traveler's heart.'"
"Yaaay~ Play that song~~" Luffy cheered and clapped his hands while his armor rustled.
"We got into a hall…" Robin said seriously.
"Do they actually understand their situation…?" Buhi sweat dropped.
Juli looked around the hall and suddenly broke out in sweat as it felt like the dreading feeling was suffocating her. She had to lean against a wall and gasped for air.
Buhi just began to chuckle darkly and mischievously.
"Juli-nee!" Luffy ran towards her, what took longer than usual with his heavy armor and then supported his sister. "What's going on?"
"…I-It's okay Lu. It's alright now." Juli took a deep breath and walked towards Robin.
"Are Usopp and the others in this hall?" Luffy asked Robin while slowly walking towards her.
"…Well, not in the slightest." Robin spoke up while looking around the big hall. "The inside of this hall rather resembles the outside."
"WHAT IS THIS PLACE?!" Luffy shouted in confusion while staring around the hall.
"It looks like an arena…" Franky noticed in surprise.
Juli narrowed her eyes suspiciously and her eyes widened as she felt a weird presence.
"Buhihihi… It's not as simple as that!" Buhi, the pig head zombie, spoke up in glee.
"Watch out Franky!" Juli shouted in warning just as somebody jumped down towards Franky while trying to impale him with his sword.
"Wha?!" Franky shouted in shock and just jumped away in time to dodge the huge sword that bored itself into the ground as an armor wearing zombie appeared.
"Franky!" Luffy shouted in surprise and shock.
"WHO THE HELL…" Franky shouted as he saw how the armored zombie slowly stood up straight again.
"Wuooh!" Luffy shouted in awe. "A moving armor!"
"…Surely it's a zombie…" Robin said seriously. "And it's even moving with spears stuck inside it's body…"
Juli narrowed her eyes and bit on her lip. 'Something's going on right now… But what…?' She tried to widen her senses again, but it was just weird… On this island she felt like she couldn't really sense much or feel the emotions of people without strongly concentrating on that.
"Those zombies are so heavily armed… Was to be expected tho." Franky said utterly serious and ducked down as the armored zombie tried to hit him with his shield. "Strong Right!" He shouted and just as he wanted to aim a punch at him, the armored zombie took a step back, pulled out another sword and tried to slash Franky with his two swords.
"Wuooh!" Franky shouted in surprise and ducked down in the last moment, just as the wall behind him was slashed. "…The wall…" He said in surprise and then narrowed his eyes angrily as he took aim at the zombie with his left hand. "But not that much better than a normal swordsman. Weapons Left!" He shouted and then fired at the zombie.
The zombie flew a bit back from the impact of the shot but then stood up again and appeared quickly right before him. Franky just blocked the sword with one of his arms, but then was hit with a slash from the zombie.
"Uwaah! Franky got…!" Luffy shouted in shock and surprise.
Suddenly, Franky appeared behind the armored zombie, glaring at him dangerously while grabbing onto his head. "I won't just die from getting hit… BY A CORPSE LIKE YOU!" He shouted angrily and threw the zombie at the wood fence, that was surrounding the 'arena'.
"He's getting up again…" Luffy noticed seriously how the zombie stood up again.
"That ring fence is pretty useless…" Franky grumbled while rubbing the spot where he just got hit. "And he's totally different from the zombies we met until now!"
Suddenly, Juli's eyes widened in shock as she noticed what was going on and spun around to Buhi in shock. "Uh no! IT'S A TRAP! WE'RE GOING TO GET AMBUSHED!" She shouted utterly shocked.
"WHA?!" Luffy shouted in shock as he looked at his sister.
"Oink! Oink! Oink! She's right! You will now get what you deserve!" Buhi, the pig head zombie shouted towards them from the hallway they just came from. "That's the fearsomeness of true zombies! Even if they break apart it doesn't hurt or even tickle! During their lifetime, every single one of these armed general zombies had made a name for themselves with being rigorous warriors! Buhihihi! One Country's knight group leaders, Fiendish Felons A legendary Samurai! A Pirate! A Gunslinger! And now imagine these guys being immortal! There's no way you guys could possibly win! Buhihihi! Actually, not a single one of your friends is safe! That's what you get, Buhihihi!"
"YOU-!" Luffy shouted angrily at him and then stormed slowly towards him because of the armor hindering him from moving faster.
"Wall zombie~" Buhi just shouted cheerily and suddenly a wall with a face appeared in front of Luffy.
"Waaahhh! The way is blocked!" Luffy shouted in surprise while the wall zombie greeted him.
Meanwhile, Juli just stared at something behind them with narrowed eyes. "Lu… Turn around…" She told him seriously.
"Why-" Luffy asked her and then turned around just to stare at an army of armored, strong looking General zombies. "WOAAH!" He shouted impressed. "It's full of armors!"
"If the way is blocked… There's just no going back." Robin said seriously while studying the zombies before them.
"If I was to speak from experience now… I would say… It's gonna be beyond 'tough'!" Franky spoke up seriously.
"Agreed…" Juli said utterly serious and took out her fan.
"Contrary to just a single one, an attack won't affect them in any way." Franky realized seriously. "If we try taking them on all at the same time, we're just gonna get annihilated."
"Yeah, you're right." Luffy agreed. "And this isn't even the last battle."
"If we directly escape the hall…perhaps we reach the courtyard." Robin concluded.
"So, what we can do is just fight our way through to the courtyard." Juli added with a grave voice.
"GET 'EEEMMM!" They General zombies cried out and went in to attack them.
"Okay, then let us four meet there later on. I kinda don't want yet another one of us to get lost." Luffy spoke up seriously.
The four narrowed their eyes and got ready to attack as well. "LET'S GOO!"
With a battle cry, Franky began to attack the general zombies with his cyborg powers.
Robin crossed her arms and let arms sprout from the general zombies to clutch them.
Juli had a bad feeling and decided to stay close to her brother, while she slashed through some general zombies with the help of her fan. But while she did that, she noticed in concern how the zombies didn't really seem to attack her fully like the others.
"Outta my way!" Luffy shouted and threw general zombies back with the help of his Bazooka attack.
Suddenly, Juli felt a familiar presence. 'Zoro?! …No… not exactly…' She narrowed her eyes.
"Ittouryuu: Sanjuuroku Pondo Hou…"Suddenly a voice could be heard.
"Huh?!" Luffy's eyes widened at that.
"Lu, watch out!" Juli shouted in realization and shoved her brother out of the way just as a flying sword slash cut through the wall behind them.
"That move?! Zoro?!" Luffy shouted in shock as he jumped back up.
Suddenly, a ridiculous looking general zombie swordsman with two swords appeared before them. "A Scar on the back is a shame for a swordsman!" He declared loudly. "Waah! But I'm full of scars!" The zombie swordsman realized all of the sudden.
"Eh?! Who're you?! Are you Zoro after all…?" Luffy shouted at him in confusion.
"Lu… Look closely!" Juli told him utterly serious. "This isn't Zoro… but a zombie that is acting exactly like him as well as having the same attacks as him." She said in a grave voice, slowly realizing something about Moriah's powers. Her eyes widened as she turned around. "Fan no Kaze: Kokyuu chikyuu- Furu pawā!" She shouted angrily and rammed her fan for stronger opponents into the ground. Just then, general zombies grabbed onto Luffy and tried to drag him away.
"Let go of me, dammit!" Luffy shouted at them while wailing in their grip.
"My name is Jigoroh." The swordsman zombie that was acting like Zoro, declared his name loudly.
Just then, Juli bit on her lip and sweat run down her brow as the earth beneath Luffy began to tremble.
"Huh?! Wha?" Luffy shouted utterly surprised and shocked as suddenly bright, wind columns shot out of the earth and threw the zombies that were trying to capture him into the air, while cutting them deeply. Luffy just blinked at that utterly confused. "What just happened?!"
"Lu… Take off that armor you are too slow with it…" Juli told him seriously as she pulled her fan out of the ground while panting heavily from using such a strong attack.
"But Juli-nee…" Luffy turned around to her and wanted to insist on letting it on as he saw how someone appear behind his sister. "JULI-NEE!" He shouted in warning and tried to get to her, but he was too slow with his armor.
"Wha?!" Juli's eyes widened in shock as she turned around to the General Zombie Captain John, just as he grabbed onto after hiccupping.
"You will have to come with me, Hime-sama." He spoke up and some other zombies suddenly wrapped something sticky around her wrists.
"L-Let go of me…!" Juli shouted and wailed in his grip as she tried to get the sticky substance off her wrists so she can reach her fans.
"LET GO OF MY SISTER, YOU JERK!" Luffy shouted pissed and just as he wanted to attack him, some strong general zombies grabbed onto him and dragged him away towards a coffin. "LET GO YOU ASSHOLES!" Luffy shouted at them as he wailed in their grip, the armor he was wearing hindering him more than helping him.
"LU!" Juli shouted in shock as she saw how her brother got wrapped up with this weird substance as well and then got thrown into the coffin.
Captain John hiccupped again. "Better be silent now, Hime-sama." He said as her mouth was wrapped up with this sticky but also unbelievable resistant substance, so she couldn't scream. Then, the pirate zombie threw her over his shoulder and walked towards the courtyard. "I will bring you to master now." He told her seriously as Juli still tried to wail in his grip, but she was hindered from doing anything because of her hands being wrapped up together.
"Once Fleur: Slam!" Robin shouted and slammed the zombies that just wanted to grab onto her with her sprouted arms on the ground.
"If it's zombies then…" Frank shouted and took a deep breath. "Fresh Fire!" He breathed fire towards them.
"Prepare for the buckets." The zombies just shouted while being on fire and then casually threw cold water over them, so making Franky's attack useless.
"WHAAAA?!" Franky's eyes bulged out at that.
A few minutes later…
Franky and Robin both reached the bridge that was connecting the two buildings instead of a courtyard while panting heavily.
"What about Luffy and Juli?!" Robin asked while breathing heavily as they finally escaped out of the hall and stormed on the bridge.
"Looks like they didn't make it out yet! I can't see them when looking back! Just because this klutz had to wear this fucking armor, he got stuck somewhere or something and his sister probably tries to get him free!" Franky said in annoyance as they turned back around to the hall entrance.
"But even when we wait here, they don't seem to be here." Robin said seriously while looking back. "And the zombies are going to catch up soon."
"Dammit… The two wouldn't get lost, right?!" Franky said in annoyance, getting slowly worried. "OIII, MUGIWAAARE! JUUULI!"
Just then, suddenly someone stormed past them. "Excuse me!" The zombie shouted as he raced past them.
"What the?!" Franky shouted in shock and turned around to look after the zombie.
Robin turned around as well and her eyes widened in shock as she spotted a pinioned Juli over the shoulder of the zombie pirate that just stormed past them. "JULI!"
"DAMMIT!" Franky shouted and just as they wanted to storm after them, a chain above them began to move and a coffin that was being hold close by some weird substance began to sear past them on the chain.
"DAMMIT! LET ME OUT! AND DON'T TOUCH MY SISTER!" A pissed off voice sounded from inside the coffin as it seemed to shake, looking like somebody was trying to break out.
Franky and Robin both froze at that. "That voice just now…!" Robin said in shock.
"OPEN THE LID DAMMIT!" Was the last thing they heard from that voice as the coffin entered the building.
"Luffy?!" Robin realized in shock.
"What?! YOU MEAN STRAWHAT WAS INSIDE?!" Franky gritted his teeth and stormed after Juli and the coffin, Robin following after him. "WHAT IS THAT MORON DOING?! LETING HIMSELF GET CAUGHT?!" Franky shouted utterly shocked.
"I won't let you…! Ahahahaha!" Somebody suddenly stepped into their way and blocked the entrance to the other building. "Heeeey! Heeeey! Monkey! Monkey Monkeeeey! The public rumored spider monkey, that's me!" A gigantic spider with the head of a monkey told them seriously.
"A giant spider…!" Robin said in shock.
"No! This one exceeds the scale of normal insects! It's a monster spider!" Franky shouted seriously.
"Ahhh…another one got captured and a surprising discovery was made…" The monkey spider said while staring after the coffin and Juli.
"Dammit…! The coffin went inside and we have to go after Juli as well…! What do you asses intend to do with them?!" Franky asked angrily.
"Relax." The monster spider told him casually. "Whatever we are up to with him will you experience in person yourself… If anything, you should be more worried about yourselves! Before you it's me and behind you there are the armed warriors- And with that, your crew is annihilated!"
Robin's and Franky's eyes widened at that utterly shocked.
Meanwhile on the Thousand Sunny…
"There's not a single Treasure chest on this ship?!" Perona huffed in annoyance at that.
"There were chests, but they were empty… There was just little money…" A zombie told her.
Perona sighed at that. "I'm appalled that we got no outcome with two ships… Is this really the ship of the man who brought down Crocodile?! …Well then, discharge just any rations!" She ordered the zombies.
"Aye, Lady Perona!" The zombies shouted and began to carry any rations down from the ship.
Just then, Hildon landed next to Perona. "Moriah-sama is calling for the Mysterious Three."
"Master did…? Why?" Perona asked him in surprise.
"He got your message… regarding a Princess and she was captured. And besides that, it seems he was able to arrest Mugiwara no Luffy! It is going to be the debut of No.900.!" He explained to her seriously.
"No.900?! Really?!" Perona said in surprise.
With Absalom…
"AB-SAMA!" Lola called for him loudly. "ABSALOM YOU BASTARD! COME OUT AND MARRY ME! You disappeared and ditched me again, didn'tcha?!"
"That's strange… There's no other place to run…" Absalom said in annoyance, hiding in Perona's room. "Oi, Bearsy!" He asked the favorite servant of Perona.
"Ah…Ah… Master Absalom, something terrible…! Something bad…!" Bearsy spoke up nervously.
"Oi, wait first it's my turn! Did by any chance three of the pirates came across here?" Absalom asked him in annoyance of having lost Nami, his 'future wife'.
"Ah…Ah…About that-" Bearsy said nervously.
"Absalom! What are you doing here?! This is my room!" Perona snapped at him as she entered her room.
"Perona…" Absalom looked at her in surprise.
"W-Welcome back, Lady Perona." Bearsy greeted her nervously.
"Don't talk Bearsy! How often should I tell you that?!" Perona huffed at him angrily.
"…But there's something important I have to…" Bearsy tried to inform her.
"Wtf! Don't make another sound!" Perona snapped at him angrily.
"As always you're so severe with Bearsy." Absalom scolded her.
"Be quiet. He's my subordinate. Besides, have you heard about it? Master is calling us together." Perona told him.
"Huh? Did something happen?!" Absalom asked surprised.
"Uhm…" Bearsy said nervously and just then, the zip on his back was opened a bit just for Usopp to pear out. Chopper, Nami and Usopp were all three hiding together in Bearsy.
'W-We need a miracle if we don't want to get found again!' Nami thought in slight panic.
'Why are we hiding in here anyways…?!' Chopper thought in annoyance of being squished into the little space with Name and Usopp.
'We can't help it! The beast man caught up to us too fast! Besides… I don't think he would come to be a zombie. Looking through this slit, seems we got away pretty well!' Usopp thought seriously.
"Master Absalom! So, you are here?" Hildon greeted him as he flew towards him. "There's something I would like to let you know of…"
"What is it?" Absalom asked him.
"It seems they has been one more intruder… entering among the Strawhats." Hildon informed him.
"Intruder?!" Absalom narrowed his eyes utterly serious.
"It's the 'Humming' Swordsman!" Hildon said seriously.
Absalom's eyes widened at that in shock.
Hey guys! So, that was this week's chapter. How did you like it? :) It doesn't look good for the Strawhats at the moment how it seems… And Juli got captured as well… How will Moriah react to her? And what is going to happen to her now as well as to Luffy? This and more will be revealed next chapter, so stay excited. ;) Anyway, I'm sorry for this shorter chapter, but my internet connection is getting really slow again. *sighs* And it will only get fixed by the beginning of next month, so I guess we have to deal with it that way until then. Well, I certainly hope you have a better day then me. XD See you next chapter! :3
attacks
Strong Right = Strong Right (Franky)
Weapons Left = Weapon's Left (Franky)
Ittouryuu: Sanjuuroku Pondo Hou = One-Sword Style: 36 Pound Canon (Zoro)
Fan no Kaze: Kokyuu chikyuu: Furu Pawā = Fan of the Wind: Breathing Earth- Full Power (Juli)
Once Fleur: Slam = One Flower: Slam (Robin)
Fresh Fire = Fresh Fire (Franky)
Reviews
'ZabuzasGirl': Wonderful!
Update immediately, please!
Thank you~ I will update as soon as possible. :)
'Strawberry bunny': I love chapter 54 it's awesome you make the best chapters ever and one question what's going to happen to juli in the next chapter will moriah in love with her and want as her his bride and will it be zoro or sanji that will be her knight in shinning armor by rescuing her from her fate please consider this idea and again I absolutely love your chapter 54 it's great
Thank you so much~ :3 Well, and what will happen to Juli will you get to know next chapter. I don't want to spoil it, that's why I'm not telling you this. ;) I will consider your idea, but the possibility that this will happen is relatively small.
'Totong': Oh boy! That's not definitely good. Luffy & Juli has been captured & is about to be sent to Moria. I wonder if Juli gonna get a zombie version of her just like Zoro, Sanji & Luffy. Anyways great update. Onwards true believer, excelsior!
Thanks~ :3 Yeah, definitely not good that Juli and Luffy got captured as well. And well, maybe Juli will have a zombie version of her. But I wonder how this zombie would be like...
'DinoZilla': If only Luffy doesn't wear the armor in the first place, he and his sister wouldn't be captured in the first place. And I hope Moria do not think of making a zombie version of Juli or else he's asking for big trouble.
Yeah true. If Luffy wouldn't have worn that armor, he would be fast enough to dodge the zombies and Juli wouldn't have had to save him. Oh well, but since Luffy is such a stubborn idiot sometimes, they of course got captured because of that. XD Anyway, if Moriah really should make a zombie version of Juli, he's asking for big trouble, because 1. Luffy wouldn't like this at all and 2. Think about how Juli's zombie version would be... Not attacking anyone without talking with them beforehand and so on... XD That would be a totally useless zombie for what Moriah is thinking a zombie should do.
'Fanboy 316': Finally we got to see Nami, Usopp, and Chopper in this chapter. And seeing Absalom being chased by Lola is funny and good way to punish for what he did to Juli. And it seems next chapter Brook finally show up!
Yeah, Absalom getting chased by Lola is one of the funniest things. XD Well, and of course Nami, Chopper and Usopp showed up. But I'm not quite sure if Brook will appear in the next chapter. He's definitely going to appear later tho. :)
'Mint Kitty': What is the Angel's path power and how does it work?
Well, I would love to tell it to you already, but I can't. It's a massive spoiler and everything to this power is going to be revealed later as well as how it works. So, please stay patient. :)
'princess bunny'(Guest): I would love to see coby and juli kiss someday
I don't think that's a good idea... *smiles nervously* Well, except you want Coby to die... XD If you mean a 'real' kiss... Yep, Coby would be dead. Garp would kill him... Or Shanks... XDD. But how about a kiss on the cheek? ...Well, he would still get beaten up by a furious Garp, but at least he would survive. XD
'Moon kitty' (Guest): I love to see smoker and juli kiss
Well, that might could happen. :3 But I guess Smoker is playing with his life then because who wants to mess with an overprotective Marine Hero, an overprotective Yonko and the future pirate king? XD Anyway, I guess we have some quite colorful ships at the moment: Juli x Zoro, Juli x Smoker and Juli x Coby as well... XD Well then, think of some shipping names fellows. :3 Juli x Zoro is already Juzo. But what about Soju? XD Or Juby? XDD
