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Chapter Two: The Being Who Casts A Shadow Upon Darkness Itself

Alucard stated "Hmm, what a strange place to be in. One minute, it's raining, the next it's gone, suddenly the waves start to rock very fast and then some more rain comes. Where the hell did I end up to anyway?"

After a few minutes of just staring into the dark ocean, he noticed two ships up ahead, one was dark and spooky but for some reason sadness surrounding,the other was something he never seen before, but that didn't matter to him for he was about to make a surprise entrance.

Sanji was cooking up the shark, Luffy and Usopp caught this morning, though he's not sure how quickly nighttime came to be so quick. As he does that, Usopp and Chopper sat away from Brook, both of them held their crosses as protection from him. While the rest of the Strawhats were watching him suspiciously as if he was some sort of monster ready to prey on them.

Only Luffy and Robin were sitting near him, not out of fear, but out of curiosity. Brook was staring around him in awe, as he exclaimed "Oh, what an amazing singing room, you have," he said excitedly, "I've never seen such a place before! It's very wonderous! Yohohoho!"

Franky proudly stated, after hearing Brook admire the kitchen, "Of course, "Super" Franky made this ship. Say you really have good taste."

Sanji warned "Don't be so friendly with him, Franky."

Brook explained "But it would be nice if we could start eating." With a miserable SIgh, he laid down his bony head on the table and stated "It's been decades since I've had a decent meal. Every day I've been living with this, as though the slim of my belly and my back were stuck to be together."

Then he sat back up and pulled his jacket back so that they could see his ribcage and he added cheerfully "But of course, I don't have akin on my belly, or on my back! Yohohoho! Skull joke!"

Luffy clapped his hands and cheered while laughing "Hahaha!" He repeated "Skull joke!"

"Since I'm a gentleman," he straightened himself a bit, "I'll wait for my meal, patiently." As soon as he said that, and unbeknownst to the rest of the Strawhats, a strange, seep of fog started to enter the dining room.

Nami shivered "Bruuuhhh... did someone open up a window?"

Robin looked at her and asked "Something wrong, Nami?" Then she felt a strange breeze of cold air enter the room and shivered like her.

Zoro asked "Oi, what's with the cold air all of a sudden?"

Usopp exclaimed at Brook "See! You are a demon from hell! You brought freeziag cold air in here to freeze us to death!" He and Chopper held their crosses even tighter than before, as Brook raised his hands up in defense and stated "What? No, no, you must believe me. I'm not the cause of such of an action. I don't even have the power to control air."

"Yeah, right! Explain where this cold air came from?" He exclaimed angrilly. Sanji stated "Calm down, Usopp. It might be something going on outside."

Nami shivered "P-please do!"

Sanji was about exit the door, while also trying to pretend the cold air doesn't affect him at all, Chopper could be heard in the back saying, "Before, Sanji." He took that gratefully and silently thinking Chopper for worryingly about him. As he closed door behind him, a powerful wind blew as his cigarette out smoke. He took it out from his mouth, muttered "Damn it," then he threw it on the ground and stomped on it. He walked on ahead through the powerful wind, he really couldn't see anything through this wind. But he didn't let that bother him, as he raised his hands up to let the wind blow on his face so much, and he continued on moving forward.

As he continued moving forward, he noticed that the wind somewhat stopped its powerful blow for some unknown reason, and the fog was still here. "What's going on here?" He asked himself.

That's when he stopped and noticed something coming.

"What's taking the cook so long?" Zoro asked impatiently.

"Be patient, Zoro. He'll come back." Robin stated.

Outside, they could hear "Guys, come out here!" Franky added "That was Sanji!"

Chopper proclaimed scared "Eeeh! Maybe, something did happen to him."

Usopp and Brook shrieked, until Nami shouted at them "Stop screaming! We don't even know what happened to him."

Usopp and Brook sighed, but then Usopp shrieked again at Brook because he was right next to him and he held his gold cross even tighter. However, everyone ingnored him as they stepped outside.

"The cold air is gone." Nami muttered as she did noticed that, while exiting outside to meet up with Sanji.

"What's wrong, Sanji?" Robin asked.

Sanji pointed out at distance a shadow of an another strange ship started to appear.

Usopp, Chopper, and Brook screamed "GHOST SHIP!" Robin looked at the three of them, reminded of the irony of how just a few moments ago, Brook was on a similar ghost ship scaring the hell of out of her friends.

Usopp exclaimed "I knew it! I knew it!" He turned to Brook "You are a demon!"

Again, Brook raised his hands in defense, "Again, I didn't bring that ship over here. I don't even know what it is doing here."

Nami muttered "Something doesn't feel right." As soon as she said a chill was sent down on her spine, she turned round and had the feeling that someone was watching them.

Sanji told Usopp "Usopp, enough. If he said he's not the one doing this spook-crap. Then let's trust on his word. Braided, it isn't safe to assume he's behind everything."

The shadowy ship started to move closer, as Franky started to ask "Are we just stay here? Or are we gonna attack? I don't like this one bit. And that ship is creeping me out."

"If it's an enemy, we'll defeat whatever is on that ship." Zoro stated, as he put his hand on his three swords.

The ship moved even closer that the Strawhats and Brook could see what it really looked like. Fog surrounding it and Usopp asked if anyone could hear ghoully moans.

Chopper and Brook shrieked even louder than before, until Nami and Sanji shouted at them to shut up.

Luffy stated "If that ship comes here I want to see whose on board."

Sanji, Nami, Franky, Usopp, and Zoro shouted "OH, NO, YOU'RE NOT! WE'RE NOT GONNA LET YOU GO BRING SOME STRANGER ON THIS SHIP!"

Robin chuckled a bit as Luffy pouted. Zoro stated "Listen, everyone. Unlike, last time when the skeleton arrived until some people," he stared at Sanji and Nami, who said they were sorry, "decided not to stop Luffy from doing that. So when it comes we're all going come a board it."

"I second that." Sanji agreed, even though deep down he didn't want to agree with the moss-head, but he had no other choice, what's to stop Luffy from bringing another stranger on the ship.

"I oppose this!" Usopp shouted he raised his hand, as did Chopper, Nami, and Brook.

Luffy asked "Why?"

"Because the ship is scary!" All four of them shouted.

"So? Like I said if it's an enemy we can take whatever's aboard that ship." Zoro claimed.

The ship moved closer even almost right next to the Sunny. Robin smelt the air and said "I smell something is burning. As if this ship was burnt."

As the ship was right near the Sunny, everyone said Robin was right the ship is burnt and the smell was still fresh.

Brook asked "What could've happened to this ship?" He noticed the powerful burning smell coming from the ship, then the Strawhats and Brook saw the ship had a darkness, depressing, monstrous feeling towards it, whereas Brook's ghost ship had a feeling of sadness and gloomy. Zoro looked towards Brook and answered his question, "We are about to find out."

Robin paused, feeling a chill in her spine as she looks and approaches the ship, even closer. She said, lookin fearfully in her eyes, "Anyone else feeling... death?" The feeling she felt was similar to that of the destrustion of her homeland of Ohara, when the Buster Call happened. She started shaking unevenly. Nami looked at her and asked "Something wrong, Robin?"

She turned round to Nami and replied "Yes, this ship. I'm afraid."

Nami exclaimed "You're afraid! Of what?!"

She replied "I don't know what it is that I'm afraid from this ship, but I know it's not good to aboard it."

Zoro walked and jumped onto the railing, and stated to Robin "I told you, guys. If we see an enemy, we'll take on whatever is on that ship."

Luffy also jumped onto the railing, "Come on, guys let's get on already," he whined.

Usopp retorted "Easy for you to say!"

Sanji explained to Usopp "Yeah, if we leave you alone, who knows what kind of an enemy will approach you if all us are gone."

Usopp shrieked and quickly jump onto the railing.

After a few minutes of jumping onto the railing, Robin made a bridge of her feet to walk across the gap between the Sunny and this other ghost ship. Brook was awed by her power and asked her "Wow, what kind of a power do you have?"

She chuckled and replied "Its the power of my Flower-Flower Fruit."

Brook repeated and muttered "Flower-Flower?" He was stunned "You mean... you ate a Devil Fruit."

"Why, yes, of course, I ate a Devil Fruit? Why did you ask? Did you eat one?" Robin asked him, as he replied "Why, yes. Yes, I did."

Robin asked, now very curious "Really, what was it?"

Brook replied "It is the Revive-Revive Fruit."

Sanji overheard their conversation as did everyone of the Strawhats started listen to him ask Brook "Wait a minute, if you ate a Devil Fruit. How come you're a skeleton?"

Brook explained "That's right! The truth is though, I died some decades ago. In short, the Revive-Revive Fruit has the power of revival. I was promised that I could live a second time as a 'Revived Human'. Oh, how wonderful that ability seemed." He sighed right after that.

Nami muttered, repeating what Brook just said to her and her crewmates, "Died some decades ago?"

Brook continued "You see I was a pirate in those old times. On the ship you saw earlier, I came to this 'Devil's Sea' along with my friends. Unfortunately, we happened to engage with some strong fellows and my entire crew was annihilated."

Everyone of the Strawhats stared at him for awhile, some thinking wrongfully to judge him based on what he looked, and some were sympathetic to him.

Franky asked, wondering "Do you know who it was that annihilated your entire crew?"

He replied "No, I have not. It has been a long time since I began drifting on this sea. I kinda have forgotten the people who killed our entire crew."

As they crossed the gap between the two ships, Robin crossed her arms and unsprouted the feet bridge she made.

Zoro asked "Ok, we're here. Now what?"

Nami responded "We investigate whose on this ship. Also find out why they are here."

Luffy stated, cheering "I hope we meet someone whose on this ship, that way we can invite join the crew.

Sanji kicked him while Nami punched him, also shouting in unison "Stop with that! We already have someone from another ghost ship!"

Franky looked around the ship, noticed the burn debris, and said "Famn, what could've done to burn a ship like this? It's almost as if someone dropped a bomb here."

"You think this ship was fighting an enemy?" Nami asked Franky.

He replied "Well, yeah. Seems like it." He gestured towards the large crash site on the top bridge and said "I think they were fighting someone who was flying."

Chopper muttered "Oh, boy. I don't like this place very much." Though no one heard him, as Usopp stated "The enemy must've been tough, if they were able to cause a lot of damage here."

Nami said "I agree, Usopp. But whose strong enough to even do... this." She waved her hands to gesture all the debris surrounding the sky deck of the ship.

Brook looked around awhile and suggested "I don't think anyone is here at all. Why don't we just go back to the ship and continue our dinner."

Then all of them froze, as a dark, menacing laugh sent chills into every single one of the Strawhats' and Brook's spines.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahehehehehehehe!" The laugh kept going and going until one of the Strawhats (Usopp) started to ask, "Whose," he gulped, "there?"

The laugh continued on and on until the Strawhats and Brook saw the direction of where the laughing was coming from. Malevolent darkness overwhelmed the Strawhats and Brook, feeling a huge aura of danger surrounding them, and due to the fog of the Florian Triangle, none of the Strawhats or Brook could see as to what was to come to them. A pair of red eyes opened through the fog as if that was the only thing noticeable from a strange figure they were about to meet and the laugh was coming from this figure. As they stared the area from where the red eyes are to be seen, and what came out of the fog was a man. But not an ordinary man.

Everyone stared at this man for awhile, as they noticed he possessed bloody red eyes, even to the point where he doesn't have any pupils. His hair was very large and wild almost like Franky's, except it had no particular style to it. His clothes were that of a suit, leather boots, and a knotted red cravat. He also wore a pair of white gloves, each having a five pointed seals adorning their backs.

"Hi." The strange man greeted them with a gentle politeness. But they felt a strange, powerful, dark aura coming from this man. Some of their instincts told them not to trust him, while another side of their instincts told them to trust him.

Everyone looked at each other as if they were telling each other "You speak first, no you speak first," at each other silently without the red-eyed man noticing them, though unbeknownst to them, he was reading their thoughts.

"Are any of you going to speak or do I have to kill you in order for you to talk to me?" He started to get annoyed and growled a bit, exposing his sharp, shiny teeth.

Almost all of the Strawhats and Brook gulped, until one of them spoke (Robin), "We are the Strawhat Pirates. And who might you be?"

He smirked devilishly "So you can speak, I was beginning to get concerned." He said that with a deep, echoing voice which caused Nami, Usopp, Chopper, and Brook to be paralyzed by fear.

"My name is Alucard." He introduced himself.

Luffy stood out in front and asked "My name's Monkey D. Luffy and I like to ask you something. Would you join our crew?"

Robin chuckled at this, while everyone shouted "YOU IDIOT!"

Sanji and Nami were standing at Luffy's right or left sides, screaming "Luffy, what did we just say before we went aboard this ship?!"

Luffy laughed, while scratching the back of his head "Oh, come on, guys. Look on how cool he looks."

They both shouted "That doesn't matter, you need stop inviting strangers to our crew!"

Alucard chuckled at this banter, he admired this kid's offer, unfortunately he had no where to go, nor knew where he was, so he had to arrive to the conclusion that he must to stay with these people or pirates in order to go back to his world. They seemed normal at least that's what Alucard thought, so he decided to ask "Who are you, people? I know you're pirates, but you're not like any normal pirates I've ever seen before."

"I'm Luffy, the captain of this crew. Will you join us?" He said that as soon as Sanji and Nami started to get angry and chase him around the dark ship.

Robin approached him without caution, and much like Brook, approached him with curiosity and answered his question "I'm Robin. I'm the archaeologist of the crew. You don't seem like any normal person nor pirate we've ever seen before. Where are you from? Why are you on this ship?"

He laughed and replied "Well, you seem like a nice lady. I will inform your captain that, yes, I will join your crew." Soon as he said that Luffy stopped running and cheered "Really! Yay! New crewmember!" While Sanji and Nami heard that and fainted.

Zoro and Franky screamed at Luffy "Are you kidding me?!"

Meanwhile, Usopp, Chopper, and Brook held their crosses, though no one knows how Brook has a cross in the first place, and chanted "Be gone, evil spirit," about 4 times, till Zoro stated "Guys, stop that. I don't think that's going to work."

Usopp retorted "That's what you think! I read a book on how to get rid of such evil spirits."

Alucard then started to ask, the unnamed long-nose man, as he preferred to call him, "Really, what book was that?"

Usopp turned to look at him, paralyzed by fear, and held the cross at him. This didn't do anything to ALucard, only made him raise his eyebrow as to what he was trying to do with the cross.

"I think it'd be best to go back to the Sunny and discuss what's going." Robin suggested.

Luffy ordered "Ok. Everyone back to the Sunny!"

Alucard stared at the individual pirates in front of him and knew he was going to have a wild adventure before he could go back to his world.