Authors' Note: Hey guys, it's been a while! We've got both Foo and Lu here today/tonight...depending...hope you enjoy the chapter!
Review Responses
Shellina123: Once again, thank you so much for your kind words! Lu's got a lot of school work but still finds time for the fun things (like writing haha) Don't worry, we will definitely finish this story regardless of how long it takes! Yes, writing the four animal-now-human parts was hilarious and extremely enjoyable for both of us. You'll get to know the new character in this chapter. He's a wonderful creation...As always, thanks for the review! XD
Mangamolly1991: Hello again, yep, poor Law...he suffered much. No one wants to see Doffy naked ever.
myzmsandraa99: Lu (aka rikuai12) says hello and welcome...this is basically a KataxLu story. They are very cute and I think you will like this chapter especially. (Foo says hello too)
yukino76: Yep, Katakuri was quite angry, and for good reason! Most everyone is back as humans now and the rescue mission begins!
Final Syai Lunar Generation: Always happy to see your reviews! Yeah, Kuri really gave them a piece of his mind and he intends to protect Luffy forever...which also means much more cuddles. (We're not complaining lol) See ya next time!
Warnings:
- All of the misunderstandings...again
- Human/Animal Experimentation
- Original Character
- Violence
- ...Doffy has lost it...
- HOA's
LUFFY'S POV
Luffy groaned, slowly coming to his senses as pain shot up his spine. He attempted to open his eyes only to be met with unnecessarily bright light that had him regretting that action. After a few seconds, Luffy tried again. This time he was successful, blinking as an unfamiliar ceiling came into focus.
"What happened?" Luffy thought, "...it smells weird in here…"
He turned his head to look at the room itself but found his vision blurred again as a wave of dizziness washed over him.
"Woah...is this...is this what being drunk feels like?" he wondered, trying to lift a hand to his head, only to realize that he couldn't move. Luffy lifted his head to look down at himself, eyes widening as he took in the restraints pinning him to a metal table.
"Wow, this is just like those movies Ace likes!" Luffy thought, mildly amused, "Kinda lame though...thought the straps would be...thicker and not made of rope…"
Luffy shifted experimentally, ignoring the stiffness in his muscles in favor of seeing how far each of his limbs could move.
"I wonder if I could break these…" he mused, tugging on the rope restraining his right wrist since it seemed to be a bit looser than the rest.
"ZEHAHAHAHA!" The loud noise interrupted Luffy's thoughts before he could attempt to escape,
"What kinda laugh is that?" he wondered, just before the door flew open to admit a large man who must be the inept kidnapper.
"Ah! Monkey D. Luffy, I see you've finally woken up!" the man exclaimed, "We have so much to discuss!"
Luffy merely stared at the man, unimpressed, and went back to tugging on his restraints as the man continued talking.
"You have no idea how long I have wanted to meet you, ever since I learned of your existence from Ace. And now here you are! Trapped like a rat or, in your case, a cat!"
"You're not very good at this, are you?" Luffy put in, squirming on the table, "Look how much I can move around in your cheap restraints!"
It was the man's turn to stare, confused by the complete lack of any of the reactions he'd expected.
Luffy thought back to the last time he'd been kidnapped, by the Bird guy. He'd tried to leave the Colosseum before his contract was up, tired of fighting in the ring and wanting to spend time with Sabo while he was in town. The very tall mob boss had predicted his escape attempt and cut him off at the train station. He'd been cut off and surrounded by several of the Bird Guy's personal guard while multiple snipers took aim from various really didn't have much of a choice but to stop fighting and allow the mob boss to drag him back to the Donquixote mansion so that they could keep a closer eye on him. He spent part of his time there strapped to a bed, unable to move an inch thanks to sturdy leather restraints. Law had not been happy with him. But still, he'd come to judge a kidnapper's worth by the quality of their equipment.
"Zehahaha! You're one weird brat aren't ya?" the man said before turning back to the door to yell, "Caesar, get in here!" Luffy's ears perked up at the familiar name.
"Don't order me around!" Caesar protested as he entered the room, "I am the greatest scientist who ever lived!"
"Oh, it's you," Luffy said dryly.
"Brat." Caesar replied, "Nice ears."
"Thanks!" Luffy exclaimed with a smile, "Kuri thinks so too!"
The two men standing next to him exchanged confused glances before the big man shrugged and ordered Caesar to start running his tests.
After Caesar stuck Luffy with the first needle, everything became a blur. He could have been lying there for minutes or days as the scientist poked and prodded. Luffy only knew that he felt so tired and wanted nothing more than to sleep. Eventually, his wish was granted as he fell unconscious once again.
UNKNOWN POV
He looked up and growled as the guards approached his cell once more, standing as he prepared to attack any who would enter. This time, however, the guards were carrying what looked to be a human pup between them. One of the guards opened the cell to allow the others to toss the pup inside before slamming the door shut once again.
He looked at the guards with even more disgust than usual. Did they think to feed him one of their young? Despicable creatures, humans.
Somewhat concerned, he inched forward, sniffing at the limp body. He found himself confused at the pup's mix of human and non-human scent, moving forward a bit more to stand over the smaller creature.
He lowered his head and nosed the human pup, hoping to gain some sort of reaction from it. He didn't like the weird unnatural smells threatening to overwhelm the pup's natural scent. Perhaps he could wash it off?
He studied the small thing for a moment before laying down and proceeding to lick over the soft, fluffy ears. Using one large paw, he drew the pup closer so that he could properly clean its ears and head fur.
Once he was satisfied with how it now smelled, he curled around the pup so that it could rest in his fur and be warm. Surprisingly, the little one stirred and blinked up at him blearily.
"...you're warm, Kuri…" the pup murmured, nuzzling its face further into his fur. He lowered his head and gently licked the pup's face before quietly saying,
"Sleep, Little One, you're safe with me."
As the pup's breathing evened out, he couldn't help but feel protective over it obviously having been separated from its pack just like him.
"And apparently separated from its mate as well." he thought, knowing how horrible it was to be away from the one you truly cared for.
"Don't worry, I'll get you back to your mate, this...Kuri."
KATAKURI'S POV
Removing his glasses, Katakuri placed his head on his desk, feeling drained in every way. It was only eight in the morning and he really really needed to kill someone, specifically one of the Whitebeards. Not only had they trampled his birds of paradise, their damage had extended into one of the neighboring yards causing him to be fined $100 by the HOA.
"They had better be helpful...or else."
Katakuri shifted his head a bit to stare at the framed picture of himself and Luffy sleeping on the couch the night they had suffered through Cracker's blobfish documentary. He missed Luffy...a lot.
"If only he'd stayed with me, none of this would have happened."
His thoughts were interrupted by the door to his office opening a bit to allow Brulee to peek in.
"Brother?" she asked, "Are you alright?"
"Brulee I'm depressed and I need to impale someone on my trident," Katakuri answered honestly, not moving from his position on the desk. Brulee fully entered the room and shut the door behind her.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I just need this mission to start so that I can get Luffy back here where I know he's safe...and also to get rid of the Whitebeards. I'm not sure that the family reunion story that I gave to the HOA is going to cut it. The longer they stay here, the lower my reputation gets." he lifted his head to look Brulee in the eye as he continued, "They have eyes everywhere, Brulee! The HOA always knows…"
His sister approached him as he continued to mumble and suddenly whacked him with the rolled-up newspaper that had become her weapon of choice against the rowdy Whitebeards in the past six hours.
"Stop your moping, Brother!" she scolded, "Just think, with the forces we've gathered, there's no way we'll fail to rescue Luffy!"
Katakuri nodded and sat up, feeling a tiny bit better. That good feeling vanished thirty minutes later when he stood before the Whitebeard forces eyeing the muddy footprints they'd left all over his white rug.
"Bunch of hooligans…"
"When are we leaving?" Fire Fist shouted above the rest of the noise, "We need to leave soon, who knows what they're doing to Lu!"
"Silence!" Katakuri snapped, "All of you, SHUT UP!"
The room immediately became almost unnaturally quiet, all of the assembled commanders ceasing any idle chatter and turning their attention to him.
"Prepare to leave. We head out in ten minutes."
"Um...how is it that you know where he is again?" Katakuri couldn't see who asked that but he answered anyway,
"I had him chipped," he said shortly, "There is some interference with the signal preventing us from pinpointing his exact location, but we do have a general area to search. Any more stupid questions?"
The room remained silent as he fixed them all with a glare.
"Well? What are you waiting for?! Get moving," he ordered before turning on his heel and stalking back to his room to collect his weapons.
DOFLAMINGO'S POV
Now that he was finally back, it was time to hunt down the man responsible for putting him through such horrors.
Thankfully, Vergo was a very competent subordinate and had taken the liberty of discovering both the identity and the location of the perpetrator. So, without telling Law or Corazon, Doflamingo had decided to take matters into his own hands.
He was going to murder Marshall D. Teach.
Unfortunately, he didn't fit in the front seat so he had to recline in the backseat but that was okay. It gave him plenty of time to contemplate the many ways to kill a man.
"I suppose I should rescue Caesar while I'm there...maybe take a look at the rest of the experiments…after killing Teach of course."
"We're a few blocks away." Doflamingo heard Vergo inform the drivers of the two following vehicles, "Prepare yourselves."
From his place in the backseat, Doflamingo stared ahead and cackled madly.
"This is going to be so much fun."
LUFFY'S POV
Luffy was startled awake by the distant sound of gunshots. He opened his eyes, only to be met by a face full of fur.
"Wha-"
"Hush, Pup, bad humans are coming." an unfamiliar voice said. Luffy shifted to get a look at the face of whoever it was that had spoken only to find himself staring up at a massive black wolf with silver eyes, the color so pale that they almost appeared to be white.
"Who are you?" Luffy asked, trying to sit up...and failing spectacularly.
"No, Pup, stay down." the wolf said, pressing him down with a paw to make sure he obeyed before continuing, "I am Torkai, Alpha of the New Moon Pack, Slayer of Titan the Terrible, Mate of Shakiba. And what are you called, Young One?"
"I'm Luffy!" he replied, "How can you talk? You...you're a wolf!"
"Yes, the bad humans have...altered me so that I may speak human-speech using this collar." Torkai growled, "Why do you not identify your pack or your mate? Are you an orphan? A lone wolf perhaps? One so young should not be alone."
"Uh...I have brothers?" Luffy said, "And as for a mate-"
Before Luffy could finish his sentence, the gunshots and screams outside grew louder before suddenly cutting off completely. He was pushed behind a snarling Torkai just before the door flew across the room and slammed into the opposite wall.
A tall figure appeared in the doorway, his shadow falling over the two in the cell.
"Well, what have we here?"
TORKAI'S POV
Sensing impending intrusion, Torkai shoved the pup, Luffy, behind him...though he wasn't quite sure what kind of name that was...he would ask him later.
The tall human who entered smelled...off...and Torkai did not like the way he was looking at the small pup.
"Well, what have we here?" the man sneered, tightening his grip on the head fur of the leader of the bad humans, "What a surprise to see the mighty Lashaka caught in a cage. How delightful!"
Torkai continued to growl at the human but glanced back at the pup thinking that that must be his true warrior name. Much more fitting than Luffy.
"Mingo...why are you here?" the pup asked, peering at the defeated fat-human and his captor.
"Just taking out the trash. You should be thanking me since I believe he wronged you as well."
The tall man, Mingo as the pup had called him, kicked the fat-human in the gut and threw him to the ground.
While Torkai didn't mind watching the defeat of the leader of the bad humans and might have otherwise enjoyed it himself, he did not like this new, wrong-smelling human. His instincts told him that this tall human was dangerous, much more so than the fat one.
"We did not part ways on good terms, Boy, why don't we take some time to reconnect."
"My contract is over! I'm not going back!" the pup protested angrily.
Torkai now understood what was going on. This alpha intended for the pup to be part of his pack but he already has a pack, therefore this bad human must be trying to steal the pup.
"Unacceptable! Such disregard for honor!" Torkai growled, "If you want the pup then you need to challenge his mate properly!"
He received a questioning look from the tall human after that, before he asked,
"Mate? What mate?"
"The alpha called Kuri." Torkai responded, "It is to him you must address your challenge, it is not right to simply take an omega!"
The pup looked confused and flustered, seemingly at a loss for words as he stuttered,
"Wh..what?!" The tall human laughed,
"You are somewhat entertaining, dog! Don't you worry, I'm sure the great Charlotte Katakuri will come for me soon enough," he assured them, "especially once he finds out I've taken his little...mate."