Syluk: I doubt you'll be able to read this reply since I don't think you'll continue the story up to this point, but I write in this way because I genuinely really dislike when a story is just line after line after line of one sentence dialogue. It looks bad to me and so I don't write like that. This style still gets the story and dialogue across. I've read many stories like this, but I've also read many stories that are simply dialogue after dialogue. I won't say everyone has different writing styles because that's just not true, but this is just what mine is. I hope you continued up to this point, but it's fine if you didn't. Everyone has reading styles they do and don't prefer to read.
Wishfull-star: (o^▽^o)
Jeez, so since I ended up catching up to the manga a long time ago, my story line has completely been derailed by the canon story! I honestly don't know how to realign back with the story! I will, I'm not giving up or anything, but I just don't know how to get back to it. But there's still a ton of story left before we get to Wano, so don't worry about catching up and having me stop posting! Enjoy~
He slid down a long, long throat and it was full of animal skeletons and a lot of animal blood. He made sure to pull his shirt off and wrap it around his mouth. Ingesting animal blood had been a terrible experience. He couldn't really hear or smell anything other than inside this long creature. The blood all around him gushed around, soaking him in it. Gross.
He walked to the front, and climbed through the throat and up the tongue. It really was huge. He probably wouldn't be able to punch its mouth open without killing it, and for some reason, he didn't want to kill it. So he pulled the tongue backwards, making it gag and open its mouth, tossing him out into a tree.
He turned around, dripping in animal blood, and saw the creature really was a long serpent. Only it was white with black markings and red eyes. Another animal that was like him! It hissed at him, and he glared back, letting out a growl. It hissed back, and both were in a standoff. Luffy had no idea where he was now.
To find anyone else, he needed to wash off. The stench of all types of old blood was blocking his sense of smell completely. He shouted at it to go away, and threw a rock at it, hitting it in the eye. "Shoo! Go away!" he shouted, making a lot of loud noises. It hissed and then left. Now he had to find water. Or maybe some cloud roads to wipe off on.
He listened for running water. It would be cloud water, but that was still wet. He found some by following the sound and rinsed off. He squeezed the blood out of his shirt and shorts, and gingerly rinsed his poor hat off. Once he was clean of blood, he had to leave behind his backpack because it was soaked with blood, too. The smell was too strong, and all the food and his lunchbox that had been inside were ruined and bloody as well.
At least he still had his stick. Time to go looking for people or the poneglyph. Well… he wouldn't be able to read it, though.
Instead of either of those things, he found a bag with dirt in it, just thrown over a tree root. He inspected the bag, and pulled out a little stone. It was red with black markings. It smelled weird. But he then could smell the same smell in another direction. It looked awesome! He took the stone and shoved it in his pocket and ran after the heavy scent.
After a good ten minutes of running, he found the source. A huge, red stone with black markings on it. What's weird was that it kind of smelled like some sugary, grainy blood. But not normal blood. Sort of like it was fake blood flavoring. The scent.
He inspected it, and sniffed closer. The captain found a jagged piece, and was able to pull it out. It was really pretty. He stuffed it into his pocket, and decided he definitely was hungry and needed to find his crew. Sanji had to be making dinner, whether Luffy was there or not. He'd never let anyone starve.
He followed the source of food to the coast of the Upper Yard, and heard the sounds of his crew. Worrying and quiet. "Guys! I found you!" he cheered.
"Luffy!" they screamed back. Zoro grabbed him in a hug. "Are you okay? You got eaten by a snake! So much happened."
Luffy said he was okay. He couldn't follow them back because he was covered in animal blood, and that smell was too obstructing, so he had to wash off first. "Hey, I found a really cool, really big stone!" Food was cooking now and everyone looked so much more comfortable and happy. Ingredients had already been gathered.
"Luffy?" Chopper and Usopp asked shyly, full of shame. The others looked bothered, too. He asked what was wrong. "The Merry is really damaged. Giant animals attacked and the mast broke off. It caught on fire, too. We can't set sail with her like this," Usopp said, face crumpled.
"Oh. Well, we'll just fix it, right?" Chopper asked if he was angry. "How can I be angry at that when I got eaten by a snake and lost for hours? Besides, the Merry is strong. She'll be okay." Chopper hugged him, and Luffy hugged him back.
They ate while Nami explained that there was supposed to be a ton of gold there, based on Noland's story. The map of Jaya and Upper Yard complete the skull. "We're going gold hunting tomorrow," Nami decided with a grin. Luffy beamed, too, excited. They had a party all night, and then went to bed, looking forward to a day of hunting for gold and treasure. Nobody else found all of it, there had to be a ton for them!
He was sleeping on top of Zoro, a blanket thrown over them, when Luffy felt his leg burning. He jerked up and looked down to see his pocket glowing. Zoro was still sleeping soundly as Luffy got off and pulled the stone out of his pocket. It had blood on it. Well no, it was dripping blood. But not his own.
He got off of Zoro to go to the fire and look at the stone closer. He wiped it on his shorts, and saw there had been a burn on his leg. An imprint of the rock. He was lucky his short pocket wasn't stuck in the burn. He walked to Zoro and shook him awake. "I got a burn, will you go to the ship with me to get some blood?"
"I'm right here, just do it now." Luffy asked if he was sure. "Go ahead, easier than walking all the way back." Luffy nodded and bit down on his arm and only took about a mouthful before he felt his leg heal. Then Zoro went back to sleep. Luffy put the rock away, not in his pocket anymore. He went back to sleep as well.
Luffy was shaken awake by his doctor and looked around in surprise, not expecting to be woken up like this. "Luffy, what's with your arm?" He frowned and looked down. He saw the rock had somehow made it to his arm, and now a huge portion of it was inside the skin of his arm. He grew very uneasy and fearful. He grabbed it and Chopper told him to do it gently.
He pulled it out, everyone around him. Blood came out with it, and soon the sliver of rock was no longer in his arm, but he had an open wound. Zoro gave him his arm. "C'mon, just drink. You know it doesn't bother me even when you aren't hurt, Luffy," Zoro said. He stayed stoic as Luffy took some more blood.
Instead of healing over, black marks splintered up and around Luffy's forearm. The wound did heal over, but left a black mark. They were speechless, and Luffy was worried. "How do you feel?" Chopper asked. Robin was inspecting the rock, poking at it with a stick and not touching it herself. She got a large vial from her bag. It originally had some sort of liquid, but she got the rock inside.
"I feel okay." He flexed his arm and clenched his hand a few times. It felt fine. Chopper looked confused and concerned.
"Can you tell me where you got this fragment?" Robin asked. "It's not a natural rock at all. It seems to be melting slowly. And it looks like blood." Luffy nodded and stood, stable on his feet. Sanji was making breakfast, going back to it, though looking very bothered and worried. Luffy was kind of wary to move his arm, but did so slowly.
Chopper kept telling him to keep it moving, keep the blood flowing. "Can you feel all of your fingers?" Luffy nodded. He felt fine. "You now have this wound, Zoro said you had a burn last night?" Luffy nodded and lifted his shorts up. Robin asked what happened then.
"I felt a burn, and removed it. Then stuff was dripping off of or out of the stone. I don't think it's a rock either." After a quick meal, Robin, Chopper and Luffy went to check out the stone. Zoro insisted he come as well. Luffy was glad he didn't seem paranoid. Concerned but not terrified. Luffy easily followed the scent of fake blood.
They found the clearing with the large stone inside, and saw multiple creatures at it. Some were likcing, others chewing on it like a bone. All of them were black with white markings or the reverse, with the same red eyes. They were all sort of what Luffy was. They stayed in the shadows, all of the creatures so distracted with the stone that they didn't notice four humans watching them.
Once it cleared out, as if it had been breakfast for them, the four approached it closely and carefully. "Don't touch it. Not only did it harm Luffy, but animals have been putting bacteria all over it," Chopper said. "Zoro, can you cut off a piece with your sword. Just a very thin sliver?" Zoro did so, getting the tiniest sliver that Chopper maneuvered into a tiny petri dish. "That's enough. I'm going to try and see what it is."
They left, with Robin very interested. Luffy could hear and smell other humans. "There are other people near." Luffy was holding his arm. It didn't hurt, and didn't feel different, but it was freaky. Then some of the people of the forest appeared, smelling of that camp he passed up.
"What are you doing in our homeland?" a woman demanded.
"Our ship was brought here by some sort of shrimp. Now, we're going back to our ship to try and find out what this rock has done to our crew member," Robin said smoothly. The people's eyes moved to Luffy, and his arm.
"He's not going to die. Are you Blue Sea people?"
"Yes. We have to be getting back now," Robin replied.
"Don't come back here, the animals will be upset with your smell."
"How do I become strong like you?" Luffy asked suddenly. "You're like me. But the people living here said that you're all strong and fast."
"That stone. Don't touch or approach it again." It wasn't much of an explanation, but they were glad to safely go back to the ship without running into the hostile guy from before. They swung back to the Going Merry, which Usopp was staring at in shock. She had been repaired, but the damage done was staggering.
Nami and Sanji were there, and asked what happened, if they found the stone. Chopper held up the petri dish. "Some animals were licking it. Those with Luffy's traits. Then some of the people who live here came over. Told us Luffy will be fine but not to go back. Luffy asked how to get strong like them, and they said it was the rock."
They went inside, Luffy looking at the Merry. It was sad. She was so broken and in pain. Luffy hoped she could make it back down safely or they were all screwed. Well, she was tough, she'd be fine. Chopper called him inside and to the infirmary. It was just a storage room with a bed and some supplies and a desk. Some books, as well. Chopper did well with very little.
"I want you to stay in here. Zoro, keep watch of him." Luffy didn't protest that he was feeling fine for once, even if he felt okay. Chopper looked at the stone under the microscope with gloves on. Robin was in there, looking at the rock in the vial she'd had.
"This is fascinating. I can't wait to know what it is," she said in an upbeat voice. Luffy didn't like everyone was worried. He hoped they could go searching for treasure again. "I do wonder, though. Is that stone related to your kind? It attracted many more, and had initially been attracted to you. Well, you went to it, correct?" Luffy nodded. Chopper gasped. They all asked what was wrong.
"This isn't just a stone. It's a crystallized mass of a mix of blood. I'll test what type it is in a bit. It makes sense it's not a real rock if it melted. But it wasn't frozen, either. It seems to be very old, though. So it probably only melted when it was removed from the main stone… I think." Luffy said it smelled like sweet blood. As if an artificial flavor. "This is confusing."
Robin agreed. She'd never heard or seen anything of the sort. Luffy wondered if he should be worried. "There's no point when we don't know what will happen. Now, they said they were strong from the stone, right?" Luffy nodded. "Maybe try to test any strength," the oldest suggested.
Luffy went out on deck and found Zoro's ridiculous weight, and lifted it with one arm with ease. But he usually could lift that up, so it wasn't something that could give much information. Zoro came out and knew that wasn't a good example. "Try to pin me down. Usually I can break free."
"You just want him to be on top," Nami teased. Zoro scowled. Luffy pinned Zoro down, hands holding his wrists. Zoro struggled to get out of the grip before Luffy licked up his neck, smelling the blood strongly. Zoro shuddered. Nami told them to get a room. Luffy let go of Zoro's wrists and moved them to his chest, sliding them under his haramaki and into his shirt, feeling his strong abs and the textured scar always there.
"I said get a room!" Nami said, throwing a shoe at them. "How do you feel?" Zoro asked, both ignoring Nami.
"You smell good," Luffy said. "And I feel okay, I don't hurt anywhere." Chopper came out after a while, Luffy resting on Zoro's chest, still sprawled out on the deck. They were at the altar while this was figured out. He called Luffy over.
They both got up and walked to the reindeer doctor. "The stone is not any blood type that humans have. It didn't register at all. But it is blood." Luffy wondered what type of blood it was, then. "I wish we could ask the people who know about it, but they seem hostile and we were lucky they didn't attack us, it seems. We'll just have to observe and wait to see if anything happens." Luffy nodded, and Nami asked if they could go gold hunting yet. Zoro scowled at her. "Hey, don't look at me like that, I'm worried, too!" Luffy finally said he didn't want anybody to worry. They should go gold hunting now.
Luffy looked up when he heard somebody coming towards them. It was a guy with long black hair and tattoos, holding a bazooka with the zoomies on his feet. "Get out of here, now."
"We're going gold hunting. Hey, do you know where it is?" Luffy asked.
"That doesn't matter. Leave or I'll shoot." The three weakest members hid behind the mast. This guy had a scary face on. Luffy said they were looking for the gold. They weren't leaving yet. They weren't going to bother them. "I don't know how none of you have been done in by the priests," he said flippantly. "Just because you're like some of us doesn't mean I won't kill you."
He aimed his weapon on the ship, and Luffy shot an arm out, grabbing the bazooka, surprising the guy with his devil fruit. He pulled it to him and crunched it. The man grew furious and Luffy threw it into the cloudy road. "Don't point weapons at us!"
The guy jumped and slammed his hand into Luffy's face, letting out something that made blood come from Luffy's face, shooting him into the railing, unconscious. They fought on the deck, and Nami blew the whistle from the Sky Knight. He didn't take long to appear, and deter the man, Wyper.
He chased him off with a fight. "Help, Luffy is hurt!" Nami shouted. "What did he do to him!?" Zoro was checking Luffy's face. It was damaged before Zoro dribbled blood into his mouth. He needed a lot to heal the damage. It was concerning. But his face healed, leaving only blood. Robin came over with a washcloth and wiped the blood off of his face under his nose and mouth.
"Wyper used an impact dial on him. It absorbs the damage of a blow, and then releases it at whoever it's pointed at. If he weren't what he is, he would most likely be in a coma with it right against his face. He's lucky."
Usopp demanded to know why they were targeting them when they'd done nothing wrong! "They don't like strangers being here. It's been a mess." He then explained the history. People lived in Upper Yard before they came here, and the people of Sky Island tried to drive them out to get to the Vearth, their word for earth/dirt. It was wrong.
Luffy was held in Zoro's arms before he woke up. "Hey, how do you feel?" Zoro asked. Everyone gathered. He said he felt okay, and asked what had happened. He was in pain and then everything went black. "An asshole attacked you for no reason other than not wanting us here, even though we're not doing anything to them," Zoro said sourly.
The captain wondered when they were going gold hunting. The Sky Knight told them it was best if they left instead. They all said a resounding no. They were getting that gold no matter what. The ship was already heading south in that direction. They would find them. Looking for things on their own had caused problems, so they were going all together, which gave Usopp, Chopper and Nami relief.
They didn't like those impact dials, though. How they hurt Luffy and he was made of rubber. And for them, they couldn't heal from it like he could. "Hey, are there bad guys here, Sky Knight?" Luffy asked. "That Wyper was surprised we haven't been attacked yet. But they took us to the altar regardless. Even when we were given free passage."
The Sky Knight was sitting down, seeming to need a break, or maybe staying to help them. Luffy was glad he wasn't bowing to him anymore. "It's because of the truce between your kind and Enel that you haven't been targeted. The Shandorians are the ones fighting with Enel and his priests."
"So it's Luffy protecting us?" The knight nodded. Sanji glared at him. "Well, then we'll all stay in the same spot!" Nami said happily. "But we have to watch out for the Shandorians, right?" The knight nodded. "Were you afraid of Luffy, before?"
"Cautiously respectful, more like it," he said honestly. Well, better than him being scared. "I see you've encountered the blood stone. At least, that's what we call it."
Chopper said, "Well, that's a pretty accurate description." Zoro asked what it did to Luffy.
"The people like you here are stronger than you were due to the influence of that stone. It is embedded in your arm, right? I can see the markings." They nodded. "That should boost your strength. If you aren't different from the people of Sky Island."
It was a big if. Besides, Luffy didn't want a cheat power-up from some stone that impaled him anyways.
They went on their way, going south easily. The knight ended up leaving eventually. Luffy wondered where he went.
When they reached the end of the cloud road to the south, they disembarked onto land. The ship weighed anchor, and nobody wanted to be separated from Luffy. Well, the other two stronger teens were fine going by themselves, but they would all go together to find the gold.
They found a place with a huge beanstalk first, and Luffy immediately wanted to climb it before Sanji told him not to. But then they heard fighting, and not just Luffy. The pirates peeked around or over a large broken building sticking out of the cloud ground.
It was Wyper versus some other people, with another guy outside of a barbed wire domelike net. Then there was a guy outside of them. He had weird things coming out of his back. They watched as a woman came out, and called for Wyper to stop fighting. Only the guy with things sticking out of his back, addressed as Enel, the god, electrocuted her, frying her and making her crumple, unconscious or maybe dead.
Nami put her hands over her mouth. "What the hell?" she asked.
"Hey, he's a logia," Luffy stated. "Smells like one. Cause Crocodile, Ace and Smoker all had a little scent similar." Enel looked over at the group, locking eyes with Luffy. He looked away, ignoring them. They really were ignored as long as they were with Luffy. Was Enel not good against them? Hmm…
Luffy wondered what actually happened here. The Shandorians were fighting Enel? For the Upper Yard, right? It was weird. Luffy thought Enel looked fun to fight, but he didn't want to put his crew in danger.
"You may want to get out here before I put divine punishment on you," he called, not looking at them. Robin had wandered away to the ruins a bit away from the beanstalk. Well, not a bit, it was far from it.
"L-Let's go, Luffy," Usopp said, pulling on Luffy's arm. The captain nodded, and they walked away, following after Robin. Luffy kept watching the guys inside the cage fight angrily. Wyper really was crazy.
He knew something was really wrong here. But it wasn't their job to solve the problems for them. There was no Vivi here, no incentive to save the island. Their goal was the poneglyph, treasure, and to find that Noland was right, there was a city of gold in the sky. Once they were out of sight, but not earshot, they found Robin looking at a simple shrine of some sort sticking out of the cloud.
Luffy was distracted, paying attention to their surroundings and if Enel came close. But he stayed away. "You might want to try to run, now. As soon as the game is over, in eight minutes, your search will be fruitless," he said, suddenly there. "It's unfortunate you came at this time, isn't it?" Enel asked cockily.
They all looked confused, Nami, Usopp and Chopper hiding behind the others. Robin came back, looking surprised. "What do you mean?"
"Judgement will fall upon this island soon." Zoro told him to stop being vague. "I'm not, you should realize what I mean. I hope you find what you're looking for before judgement is passed. Having regret is something nobody wants to perish with." Then he was gone.
"What? What's that mean?"
"I saw it! When I came to Upper Yard on the waver, somebody was shot down with a huge blast of lightning from above! He cried out about the 'judgement'! He died!" Usopp screamed that the island would suffer that way, too, then! "I would assume so."
Luffy frowned deeply. They didn't have even nearly enough time to get back to the ship, let alone get out in time. "So, we're gonna all die here?!" Luffy demanded. Sanji took a drag of his cigarette and Robin calmly confirmed that. Luffy heard something making a tearing sound, and looked down.
They all fell through the clouds, screaming, with Luffy cushioning their fall with a gomu gomu balloon. They bounced around and then landed hard. They looked around and found they were in a city, one overtaken with vines and roots, but made of gold! The golden city! Only now they would die for it.
"Amazing," Robin said.
"Now's not the time to be in awe! We have to do something!"
"If we beat up Enel, he won't destroy the island, right?" Luffy asked, pointing up. Nami said he was god! "So?"
Zoro and Sanji agreed that they needed to fight. Then Wyper fell through the cloud, as did the Sky Knight, which was strange. But they saw what had made their holes: they were burnt open. Lightning holes? Enel was there, suddenly. "So, you're all those left that want to defeat me?"
"If you're gonna kill us all, then yeah," Sanji said, lighting a new cigarette. Nami, Usopp and Chopper hid, while the other four stood their grounds. Wyper told them it wasn't their battle, and they needed to stay the hell out of it. "If he's gonna kill all of us, it is our problem, right?" Sanji asked in an annoyed voice. "Besides, how long have you been trying to off this guy and failing?"
Wyper turned around in anger and pointed another bazooka at him, since Luffy destroyed the first. Good thing he had two, then. "You're fighting amongst yourselves? Pitiful weaklings. You, boy. You're lucky. You won't die like they will. I'll avoid you, you're welcome." Luffy glared at him darkly. Wyper turned away. The fight began, the three fighters and Wyper going after Enel.
To Luffy's absolute annoyance, Enel paid little attention to him, dodging him every time while going against Zoro, Sanji and Wyper. "Fight me, bastard!"
"I'm not stupid! You'll be avoided no matter what you try! Yahahaha!" Zoro nearly got a slice in before Robin bloomed arms on Enel when he was distracted, and as Wyper was speaking about his drive to do this, to get revenge for his people for the last 800 years, she grabbed his head and jerked it back, trying to break his neck.
But instead, he pointed a finger at Robin, and nobody was fast enough to keep him from electrocuting her. "ROBIN!" Luffy screamed. "Damn you!" Luffy roared. Wyper was fried as well, in terrible, terrible condition but still fighting on. Reminding him of Zoro slightly. Only crazier. Maybe.
Nami and Chopper were fretting over Robin, the doctor trying to treat her. But then Chopper was attacked. "Nami, Usopp, run!" Luffy shouted. They did so, reluctantly, but ran into the ruins, out of sight for Enel.
"Good choice," Enel said conversationally. Nobody could get a hit in until Wyper rushed at him, not stopping when he was electrocuted a second time, maybe third, and pressing his bazooka at Enel's chest.
It said it had seastone in it, and Sanji yelled at him to stop monologuing and just shoot him. "Don't interrupt people when they're speaking," Enel said in entertainment, getting Sanji next. Luffy and Zoro were both panicking. They couldn't protect them and fight at the same time. "Zoro!" Luffy said desperately.
But then Wyper shot the bazooka at Enel point blank. It seemed like he'd died, and Luffy got to picking up Sanji and getting him away. It was so bad, and there was no Chopper to fix them! He brought him to the place Nami and Usopp were staying at, and then got Robin and Chopper. "Zoro!" he called before he heard another zap, loud like all of the other attacks, and Enel stood back up, completely fine. Wyper was shocked another time, finally falling. Luffy watched almost in slow motion as Zoro was the only fighter left. He started to attack, only to get the same treatment as the four others. "ZORO!" Luffy screamed.
Then the snake fell in through the hole, landing right on Luffy, stopping him from doing anything. The snake wasn't moving, as if it was dead or unconscious. Luffy struggled under the weight, fear and grief seeming to keep him from using all his strength, or that new amount of speed and strength that he hadn't tested out.
When he finally got out by crawling, unable to breathe by being squished, he found his crew were all unconscious. And Nami was gone. Wyper was still there, but Enel and Nami were gone. Usopp had been shocked, too. "Guys! Oh, no! Wake up!" Robin opened her eyes, skin charred and looking to be in pain.
"He took Nami," she said, coughing. Luffy held her up. "Go after her. Nothing… you can do about us." Luffy was reluctant to leave, but she was right. He was freaking out and furious as he ran off. He was covered in blood from various wounds, small though they may be. Hopefully he might have enough to burn the guy.
He followed Nami's scent easily, climbing up the beanstalk and then running after her through the forest until he got closer to their scent. It was hard to find. He didn't teleport, he just moved as fast as lightning. He thought, at least. When he got there, he found it in a large cave. Well, it had no roof.
The whole thing smelled of metal, Nami and something burnt. He was panting when he got there. Nami was on the ship, and Enel was there, too. It looked very strange. Made out of gold with paddles and some sort of propellers? "How could you do that to everybody?!"
"And here I didn't want to fight you. I guess any truce is over."
"The truce was over the moment you told us we were going to die! And then you attacked my friends! You're no god, you're just some logia playing god!" Luffy shouted. Enel looked at him in disinterest and indifference.
He said, "What can you do? You don't even have mantra. You'd be no match for me." Luffy demanded to know why he avoided him then. "Did you honestly think it was out of fear? You're weak compared to others like you. I just had fun toying with you, boy." Luffy seethed.
Nami shouted at him to be careful, earning a cold look from Enel. Luffy shot his arm up and pulled himself up. "Hm, looks like you're not the usual freak."
"You're calling me a freak?! You have a stupid decoration sticking outta your back!" Enel was unbothered.
"I won't engage in pointless arguments with a weak child. I'm no longer going to treat you any differently than all the other mortals I've shot down before you." His calm immediately left when he happily shot a huge blast of lightning at him. What he thought was the "judgement" some spoke about before.
All they wanted to do was find answers and gold!
But the lightning only made him feel confused before it passed, and he was perfectly fine. He just stood there. He was sure the attack hit him. It even burnt his clothes a bit, but he was fine, it seemed. Enel and Nami thought he dodged, and Luffy stood there, mouth pressed in a line. "You're better than I thought!" Enel admitted, but still looked confident. "60 million volts, thunder dragon!" A lightning blast shaped as a dragon hit him hard, and then another follow up attack was made.
Luffy kicked him away. "Stop it, you're annoying!" he shouted, perfectly fine again. Enel's face went to one of absolute shock and disbelief. Also fear. It was priceless, and usually Luffy would think it was funny. But he was too angry about what the so-called "god" had done to the people he cared about.
Luffy kicked him in the stomach, and it hit! Even though he was a logia. "Since Enel's powers are lightning based, his attacks have no effect! The one man who can fight against lighting. Enel's probably never thought that existed!" Nami said. Luffy stood in front of the wounded Enel as he continued to lay on the floor of the deck.
"How dare you do that to my friends? To Zoro?!" Luffy roared, making Enel flinch. He stood up, though, and demanded to know what Luffy was. "I ate the gum gum fruit. I'm a rubber man."
"There's no point in getting upset. There's nothing you can do to help them here, can you?" Enel asked, sounding angry, too. Luffy felt his heartbeat speed up, and things around him were going red. His hands twitched, wanting to strangle him, kill him. He heard Nami run to the other side of the ship, and Enel looked at him with narrowed eyes.
Luffy saw the burnt bodies of his friends and lover. The screams they made. He launched at Enel, but he dodged, saying, "Mantra." Luffy did a roundhouse kick and caught him in the gut. He sped after him, but he was too fast as lightning. He was looking at Luffy in confusion. Maybe he was acting differently than the others like him. Enel and them never clashed.
He tried again, but he wasn't fast enough. He had to figure something out, how to get faster to keep up with him. Faster, he needed to be faster. He was strong enough, but he couldn't catch him. He wouldn't lose himself here. He couldn't be harmed by him, right? Nami could, he wished she could get off, but there was no way down for her without possible injuries.
Enel was behind him, and he barely dodged as a scalding trident was thrust at him. He'd changed his weapon. He fell to the deck with a bounce before dodging again. Luffy swallowed down his rage so he could try and think.
Faster! He was behind him. Go faster! Anything! Again, he missed. He had an idea, knowing it was dangerous but it might work. He tried using his fast heart beating to his advantage, speeding it up. He was clumsy with it, but his skin turned red and started to steam. But it didn't last, and he was nearly stabbed again.
He tried again, and this one lasted twenty seconds, enough for him to keep up and pummel him before he could escape. "What is that technique?" the logia demanded. It made Luffy out of breath, and he was suddenly very hungry. He couldn't use that again, it burnt up a lot of the blood in his system, not to mention it seemed to burn off any food he ate as well.
He could use that. It had damaged Crocodile's hook, maybe he could damage the weapon that kept Enel at arms length. He bit his hands like he bit Zoro, but dragged it, bloodying his hands. "Have you lost your mind?" Enel asked, and attacked again with his hot trident. Despite how heated it was, Luffy still grabbed it and started rubbing his hands along the burning surface as he hurried towards Enel.
His staff rusted and started to flake away. The trident part was gone. His hands burned badly, and Nami called his name, watching from around the corner. He launched at him and grabbed his face, burning his cheeks with his blood, not the heat. Luffy was thrown off, but the damage was done.
"What did you do?!" Enel demanded as he winced at the handprint shaped burns all across his cheeks and forehead.
"Everything I can!" Luffy said. Enel smashed him into the deck of his ship, and Luffy climbed out before Enel invited them to watch him destroy the country before he started to lift the ship up with his lightning. Somehow it was starting to lift. "Luffy, what do we do?!" Nami called as the ship rose. Luffy told her to be quiet. "But-!"
"You are the future Pirate King's friend, so stop being such a worrier!" he said. Enel had never heard this before, of course, and thought he would rule over a country. "He is the king of the sea!" Luffy replied.
Enel just smiled. They were to finish this in the sky, not the sea.
He was fast, but Luffy was able to dodge if he kept his eyes closed and only reacted to his scent and sound. He dodged, but with his eyes closed, he couldn't exactly attack. And when he tried doing it directly, no matter how fast or how many punches he threw, Enel dodged all of them. It was annoying, this mantra. How did it work, anyways?
But with his predicting Luffy's moves, he had to make a way to attack without planning. He looked at the gold wall of the ship, and hurried there, starting to punch it. The rebounds were random and hard to track, and pummeled Enel with them. It worked, he shed blood and grunted at the powerful, randomized hits.
But the Death Peia ship, as he explained, was already working to destroy the island, forming a massive thunder cloud. Luffy didn't feel attachment to this island, but if that happened, his crew would die. He would, too, most likely. They'd plummet to their deaths, and Luffy thought even he couldn't survive the impact on the water. If he did, he'd go down, and Nami would be dead, too.
He had to stop Enel before he pulled it off.
With him distracted by the shocking rebound hits, Luffy unleashed a bazooka and a rifle into his gut, blood coughed out as Luffy didn't let up and didn't show any mercy. Luffy's attacks finally threw the enemy into unconsciousness, laying on the deck, helpless and very wounded. But who knew how long that would last?
But even with the false god out of action, the ship continued its work. Unfortunately, annoyingly, Enel woke again, but was severely injured. His plans were not foiled, just not pulled off perfectly. The cloud was still forming over the island, preparing to murder everyone there for fun.
Luffy could hear distant screaming. But he still couldn't hear his friends. He could only hope they were okay. He was about to get a punch in when the gold of his trident and some of the wall formed into a huge, super heated gold ball around his arm, and was thrown over the side of the ship. He tried holding on, but he fell over the side, barely holding on, leaving Nami there and screaming.
"Without you, I will rule the Blue Sea!"
"There are tons of guys down there, who can defeat you!" Luffy shouted as he barely hung on with a few fingers, the ball stretching him painfully. Enel kicked his hand away, and Luffy fell.