Chapter 4 - Surprise!
The room was bathed in an eerie red glow.
The small demon who had escaped from Robin was kneeling in a corner.
A large throne stood in the middle of the chamber, it was draped with black vails and there was a being hidden behind them.
"Lord Bel." spoke the demon "There are humans in your world."
The being behind the curtains stood and walked towards the demon.
The demon was clearly terrified as he began to sweat and shake.
"Why did you not kill them?" asked Bel
"They were too strong." whispered the demon
Bel grabbed the demon by the throat and suddenly became very angry "You were defeated by a woman!"
"You read my mind!" exclaimed the demon "I have no use for a weakling like you!"
The demon shreaked in agony as Bel hand began to glow red, the demon was set alight, the fire burned through his body and left his bones a charred black.
"What should we do about this predicament?" asked a robed figure standing to the side of the throne.
"Summon the dark eight." answered Bel "Tell them to find these two and make them an offer."
Bel waved his hand and two piece of paper appeared, on had a picture of Franky and the other of Robin.
"What kind of offer." asked the robed man
"They can either join me or die!" replied Bel as he returned to his throne.
The robed figure headed for the door and vanished.
"This may be intresting." smiled Bel "The Dark Eight should be able to handle it, don't you think?"
A shadow fell from the roof and kneeled before Bel.
"They are only pathetic humans." answered the shadowed figure "The Dark Eight should have no problem."
"Indeed they are strong." agreed Bel "But they were stronger when they had their leader."
The shadowed figure smiled and then vanished into the darkness.
Bel walked to a large window and stared out at the sky, it lit as a large red lightning bolt struck the land in the distance "It's time for my ascension!"
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Sanji and Zoro had finally reached the mountain that Tiamat had pointed too them.
"Should we really trust that dragon?" asked Zoro
"Dunno." answered Sanji
"This place is boring." moaned Zoro "There's nothing but weak pathetic monsters."
Sanji sighed "Should we start climbing?"
"What other choice is there?" replied Zoro
Suddenly the ground began to shake, small rocks toppled down from the mountain.
"What the hell is going on now?" asked Zoro as he split a boulder in two.
"Try looking behind you." answered Sanji
Zoro turned around to see a twenty foot giant, he wore black armour and boots, his skin was fire red and he carried a huge sword that was lit in flames, his hair was also replaced with fire and he had dark black eye's.
"What is that thing?" asked Sanji
Zoro drew his blades and smiled.
The giant looked down "Humans!" he exclaimed
"Crap." moaned Sanji "He saw us."
"You looking to fight?" asked Zoro
"What is the point in fighting you two." answered the giant "There is no gain."
The giant moved on and left the two straw hats a little stunned.
"Let's just get outta this god forsaken place." snapped Sanji "I hate this stupid firey wasteland."
Suddenly a huge fireball struck the mountain and exploded, Sanji and Zoro vanished in the smoek and rubble.
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"STRONG RIGHT!" cried Franky as he swated some demons aside "Why are they always attacking us." he complained
"They probably want to eat us." answered Robin as her hands sprouted out of the ground, grabbed some demons ankles that were charging her and snapped them.
A demon appeared, he had human like features, but his hands were replaced with claws, he was wrapped in chains and had a dog like face.
"Why are there so many stupid demons in this world." moaned Franky "I wanna go home."
The dof demon pounced on Frankya nd forced him to the ground.
"Digger!" howled the monsters as he began to use his claws to shred at franky.
"That won't work." laughed Franky "As long as I'm on my back, I'm invincible!"
Franky grabbed the demon and threw him into the sky.
Franky then went to move, but he couldn't, he looked down to see that two grey hands had grabbed his ankles.
"Let go!" snapped Franky as he struggled to free himself.
The demon pulled so hard that Franky's feet broke thr ground and were now stuck.
"Shit!" spat Franky
Robin heard Franky complaing and turned to see him, a demon chose this time for a sneak attack.
It jumped onto Robin's shoulder and bit into her shoulder, Robin screamed as several hands sprouted arount the demon and pummled him.
Robin dropped to her knees and clutched her shoulder.
Franky was now knee deep in the ground "Stop pulling me underground you piece of shit!" he yelled
The demon began to laugh.
Franky felt as if the demon was mocking him "Why you!"
Franky slammed his fist straight into the ground, it cracked and he heard the demon laugh even louder
"You fell for it." shrieked the demon
"What?" asked Franky confused.
Suddenly the ground cracked and fell, with Franky falling too.
Robin watched as Franky fell down the hole that he had created.
She tried to sprout an arm rope to catch him, but her shoulder hurt too much.
The demon's surrounded her.
She looked around, stood up and prepared to face the demons.
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Franky awoke.
His head hurt.
"What happened?" he asked
He looked around as his vision slowly returned to him.
"Where am I?" he cried
He was alone in a dark cave, the only light was from above, he assumed it was from the hole he had fallen through.
"Robin!" he shouted
She didn't answer.
"Crap!" snapped Franky as he began to climb up the rocky cavern, he slipped, cut his foot and tumbled back down to the cavern floor.
"I'll need to find another way out now." he moaned
He limped down the nearest tunnel.
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Luffy and Nami arrived at a huge wooden gate, there was a large stone wall that surrounded the lizards demons camp.
"Cool!" laughed Luffy as the large gate opened.
"Visitors." hissed a demon from the top of the wall.
"They are here to see God Kurtulmak." answered the brown snake like demon.
"Really." smiled the demon on the wall.
The gate had fully opened and they trooped inside.
There were large green tents set up and a huge green tent right in the middle.
There was a large stone stadium like place to the far east of the camp and there were all sorts of multicoloured demons.
A large green demon appeared "Welcome back Shi. How was the hunt."
"We found these two." answered Shi the green demon who had greated them at the foot of the mountain.
"They don't look that strong!" snarled the brown demon
"As friendly as ever I see, slog." replied the large green demon.
Slog scouffed and wandered into the camp.
"So you have decided to join our army?" asked the large green demon as he turned to Luffy and Nami.
"What!" snapped Nami "We are only here to find out how to go home, We're not joining any army, right Luffy."
"Let's join Nami." grinned Luffy
"NO WAY!" snapped Nami as she smacked Luffy across the back of the head.
"We came here to see the god." said Luffy "And take a test."
"Let's go." said Shi as he grabbed Nami and Luffy and dragged them to the large tent in the middle camp.
"Kurtulmak is in here?" asked Luffy
"God Kurtulmak." snapped Shi
He opened the flap and Luffy and Nami entered the tent.
The tent was lit with green flameed torches.
A large chair sat at the back and a being sat there.
"welcome." spoke the being as he stood up and entered into the light.
Nami and luffy couldn't believe what they were seeing.
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To Be Continued...
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Chapter 5 Preview
Just who or what is Kurtulmak?
And what happens when Usopp and Chopper encounter a member of the Dark Eight!
