A/N: This is the first of three of a "Another (blank) Blue Adventure" chapters, they won't be the only purely original chapters in season 2 (I'm planning for two other chapters, one about Sabo and one about Ace). This is also the weirdest... I did use actual One Piece lore (or at least Word of Oda) as a little inspiration of for this chapter, and an actual South Blue character does appear. But other than that this is a weird one... hell it's only one of the three "Another (blank) Blue Adventure" chapters that wont' be a wham episode in some way... I wont' say how they will be... so yeah... this is going to be a bit off compared to them... so yeah... Either way enjoy!
Chapter 30: Another South Blue Adventure
It was a sunny day on a warm island when a portal opened up. Star, Marco and Luffy exited the portal.
"All right! Let's go explore this random island!" cheered Star.
Then they noticed a town in the distance.
"Looks like people live here." Said Luffy.
"Maybe we'll make a new friend here too." Said Star.
"I don't know if we could consider that Law guy a friend." Said Marco.
In town a man with red hair wearing purple lipstick suddenly got a weird feeling, telling him to avoid a kid in a straw hat, a blonde girl and a kid in a red hoody.
He shrugged it off but decided to listen in case he saw them.
The trio got to the town and explored it.
It was a normal if not lively town. With shops and other things.
They did get some food a few times as well, because of Luffy's expandable stomach.
However one thing they didn't expect was that the circus was in town.
"Oh cool the circus." Said Star.
"I'll treat!" said Luffy taking out a small wad of cash.
"Where did you get that money?" asked Star.
Before Luffy could explain they heard a woman crying at what appeared to be one of the circus workers.
"Please! Come home!" cried the woman.
"I'm sorry I don't know who you are." Said the worker who seemed to be in a daze.
The three looked at each other and shrugged, deicing not to get involved.
And so they went to see the circus, which of course was a circus. It had the standard acts. Trapeze clowns that sort of stuff.
Though the Ring Master did have a strange thing on his forehead.
However during the circus Luffy of course pigged out on carnival food.
Someone working in the circus noticed the way that Luffy's cheeks were bulging as he pigged out.
He took a picture of Luffy.
"Looks like a Devil Fruit eater… interesting." Said the person working for the circus.
After the circus the trio walked around the town.
"So you guys want to do a little sailing!" said Star.
"Yeah, considering the last time I was in the South Blue it was for that, minds as well explore a bit more." Said Marco.
Luffy laughed at that it was Marco who agreed to the idea.
As they continued to walk the red headed man saw them, remembering that weird feeling he had, walked away to avoid them.
It was probably for the best he didn't get involved, it would just made the next series of events complicated…
"Hello there kids!" said one of the clowns from the circus showing up.
Marco stared at the clown. Then began to push Luffy and Star away from the clown.
"Nope! Nothing good ever came from a clown approaching people saying stuff like that!" said Marco.
"Seriously!" yelled the clown.
Marco in safe kid mode, continued to push them away when a strong man blocked their path, the strange thing unlike the clown he had a blank expression.
"So kids want to join the circus?" asked ringmaster making his presence known.
"Let me guess… you saw Luffy pig out." Sighed Marco.
"I could use a Devil Fruit user." Said the circus ringmaster.
"That answers the question." Sighed Star.
The circus ringmaster took out a pendulum.
"I have a special hypnosis power." Said the ring Master.
The clown covered his eyes, "If you're wondering he didn't eat a Devil Fruit."
"What?" asked Star.
"He ate a very rare mushroom but it has a higher price than never being able to swim again." Said the clown.
"Kevin… stop…" said the Ring Master.
"His dignity…" said the clown.
"Kevin! I'm warning you!" yelled the Ring Master.
"He had to stop bathing in order to obtain the mushroom." Said the clown.
"Rafe!" yelled the ringer master.
The person how saw Luffy showed up and punched the clown with a honk.
"Right in the nose!" yelled the clown.
"Your name is Kevin?" asked Star.
"That's not my clown name obvious…" muttered the clown, "The pain hurts a lot…"
"Look I don't know much about this uh… place… so are you pirates?" asked Marco.
"Oh so I'm clearly evil I must be a pirate!" said the ringer master, "I can't just run an evil circus where I hypnotize people into joining, no I have to be a pirate!"
"What he's saying he's not a pirate he just runs an evil circus." Said Rafe.
The three looked at each other.
Even Luffy was weirded out by this satiation and he tended to laugh things off.
Granted this was his home dimension and almost all crime was done by pirates, bandits or pirate like groups.
Having an evil circus that kidnaped people via hypnotism was off their weirdness charts for sure.
Granted Marco was still a little new at this so his windiness charts were bit different than Star and Luffy's but, but the sheer fact it off Star and Luffy's weirdness charts.
"Strong man take care of them." Said the Ringer Master, "All of them knows too much."
"Gum Gum Pistol!" yelled Luffy.
He punched the strong man away.
"Look away from the evil hypnotist ringmaster." Said Marco, "Judging by the clown if we don't look at him then we won't be effected."
"Thanks a lot Kevin!" yelled the ringmaster kicking the clown.
"My spleen." Muttered the clown.
"Wait… did you really hurt your spleen or are you joking right now/" asked the ringmaster.
"Does it matter?" asked Kevin.
All three of them knew to look away from the hypnotist.
Hoping that they would be caught and hypnotized, it was weird power hypnosis so it would make them hurt each other.
The strong man got up.
"Gum Gum Gatling!" called Luffy.
"Thanks to my powers he will just get up no matter how hurt he is!" said the ringmaster.
"Okay… we need to figure out what to do." Said Marco.
"I have an idea… don't know if it work but I have to try." Said Star taking out her wand.
She pointed it at the Strong Man and thankfully it was glowing pink, which she didn't know meant that it would properly use magic.
"Anti-Hypnosis blast!" called out Star hitting the strong man.
"What the!" yelled the strong man, "I'm free!"
"It worked cheered Star glad that her wand worked for this spell.
However that was when the strong man collapsed.
"Sorry for punching you. Said Luffy.
"It's okay… I'm very much aware I was not in in control of myself." Said the strong man.
"Damn it!" yelled the ring master, "Rafe!"
Rafe went into attack him, however Marco got a good chop in the back of the neck, and it knocked the wind out of Rafe.
"Duck!" called out Luffy.
They knew what meant.
"Gum Gum Whip!" he called out.
He managed to kick the ringmaster without looking at him thankfully enough.
As the Ring Master was not used to taking hits he fell like a sack of bricks.
However that was when the island's cops showed up.
"We got a report of a clown approaching a bunch of kids or teenagers saying "hello there kids!" said one of the cops.
"Is that actually illegal?" asked Star.
"No it's just that nothing good ever came from a clown approaching people saying stuff like that." Said the other cop.
Thankfully due to being an evil kidnaping circus ringmaster who kidnaped people through hypnosis.
"I'm not a pirate!" yelled the ringer master as he was being integrated.
"So then you're a bandit." Said the cops who clearly wasn't getting the evil ringmaster was his own thing.
"I'm not a bandit either." Said the ringmaster.
The three were hanging around until they got the okay to leave since well… despite Luffy growing up to be a criminal they did good in this case.
"Thanks to you kids everyone is breaking out of their hypnosis state at the circus and their free." Said one of the cops, "You're real heroes."
"But I don't' want to share my meat!" yelled Luffy.
"What?" asked the cop.
"Don't ask…" said Marco.
"I don't get it either." Sighed Star.
"you know kids are free to go." Said the cop.
"Okay… awesome!" said Star.
They all left.
"So you guys still want to go sailing…" said Marco as it clear he didn't want to go again.
"No…" said Star.
"That was really weird." Said Luffy.
"Yeah…" said Marco, "Want to go back home for some nachos."
"Oh yeah!" said Luffy.
"To the nachos!" cheered Star.
They found a place to open the portal and went home to make nachos.
And so they faced and got weirded out by a an evil circus ringmaster! Grand if it was a pirate with a circus theme or an evil hypnotist that was also a pirate it wouldn't be that weird for them but a circus kidnaping people through hypnosis…. Yeah… that was just weird… On the bright side Star's wand worked during the trip so there's that…
Next Time: Marco takes Star and Luffy camping on earth. However River shows up to join in on the fun... however River... well he doesn't seem to be doing well. What will happen? Find out next time!