Never Had a Dream Come True

Book One:

"Blind Ambition"

Chapter 9

"The power of True Love"

"Luffy what the hell is wrong with you!" Zolo snapped at his captain after they had woken up.

All 6 members of the crew we locked in the dungeon of Lord Niekan's castle where it was cold and dark and the only light was a few dim candles that burned on either side of the room just out of reach from anyone behind the bars.

Luffy was silent and his eyes darted to the corner of the black room where a guard stood watching them. The rest of the crew stood leaning against the stone walls.

"You could bust us outta here!" Nami yelled putting her hand up to whack him.

He grabbed it in mid air stopping the blow from touching him.

"Luffy" she growled.

"Come one captain at least say something!" Sanji joined in. "We know you're sad about your girlfriend betraying us and all but-"

"Girlfriend?" Luffy asked tilting his head to one side like a puppy.

"Now he talks" Zolo groaned.

"Yeah we saw you too the other night I didn't know you had it in you!" Sanji said stifling a laugh nudging Luffy in the side. Luffy didn't get it.

"Had what in me?" he asked.

The crew groaned and rolled their eyes.

"Never mind that I think we should focus on how we're gonna get outta here" Usopp cried.

"WE'RE DOOMED!" Chopper shouted.

Just then the handle of the door to the room began to jiggle and turned slowly as a figure appeared in the doorway. All anyone could see was the outline and it was hard to tell who it was.

"Lord Neikan said he needs you in the weapons room I'll take over from here" the voice said to the guard.

The guard shrugged and began to walk out.

"What's he gonna do with them? the guard asked the figure.

"Not what my father is going to do with them but what I'm going to do with them" the figure laughed harshly.

"You're so cold Rika" the guard smiled as he walked out of the room shutting the door behind them.

"RIKA!" Luffy cheered.

"Hiya Luffy-chan!" she giggled running over to the cage.

"Ok I'm confused" Usopp groaned.

"Can't you see her love for Luffy made her give up her evil ways and she came back to rescue us because she couldn't let their love die" Sanji answered. "It's beautiful" he said wiping a tear from his eye..

Rika and Luffy blinked "Wha?" the both said in unison.

"Shut up" Nami said bonking the cook on the head.

"So what are you doing here then?" Zolo asked.

"Welllllll last night I explained to Luffy that my father would never let me back in the castle unless I brought you guys back. He said that if I did her would free my town but I could never turn on you guys, though I um kinda plan to in the beginning" she coughed. "But I pretended to be evil so my father would believe me, and now I'm here to set you guys free so we can kill him yay!" she answered jumping around the room clapping her hands.

"But why didn't you tell us about your plan?" Chopper asked.

"Cause I don't know how good of actors you are so it would be better if you didn't know and it was believable! But Luffy-chan knew the whole time and he was a good boy and kept his mouth shut!" she winked at him.

Luffy gave his signature laugh.

"Soooooooo who wants to get out?" she asked holding up the keys to the cage.

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"Father!" Rika called from behind the throne room door.

"Come in my dear" Lord Neikan answered from the top of his throne.

"Daddy I'm bored! Can we kill them now?" Rika wined pulling Luffy and crew behind her. Their hands were bound by chains and each one was tied to the person behind them.

The evil Lord laughed and smiled at his daughter. "You're too much" he said.

"Is that a yes?" she asked standing against the door secretly locking it behind her back.

He nodded and sat up. "You may do the honors because you were such a good girl. And then when we're done you make take back your country for your own Kingdome so that you may terrorize them all you like."

Rika clenched her teeth and her eyes burned with hatred for this man.

"Is this what he thinks I want the money for?"

"I'm gonna make him regret it I'll shove those words back down his throat and make him pay" her head cried.

Her hands began to shake with anger which made the crew a little scared.

She pulled on the chain and walked them towards the center of the room lining them up shoulder to shoulder. She stood in front of them with her eyes to the ground. Usopp began to cry and his knees shook uncontrollably.

The rest of the crew dared not speak a word in fear of giving them away.

Just a few more seconds and it would all be over…at least that's what they hoped.

Rika finally lifted her head and smiled just like her father did before murdering his victim.

"Say goodbye" she whispered opening her mouth to scream.

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Authors Note: I know I haven't updated in a while school started and I've had so much stuff to do I hat it XP. So….will they be able to pull this off? Can they save her country? Has Rika really turned good? FIND OUT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER! (and it's got more Luffy/Rika fluff to come!)