A/N: All of you guys are really nice, thank you for all of the reviews, it really made me feel happy! Thank you for always reading my chapters, since I'm so slow… Thank you, everyone. I'm really thankful that I decided to create this fanfiction! I actually had the guts to ask someone to beta me! It took a lot of it since I'm actually afraid of people.
By the way, my teacher that we students were going to create a blog! I asked if I could also use the blog to ask you guys about my fanfiction and a lot of stuff, and my teacher said yes! I'll tell you guys when we create our blogs. I will (obviously) reveal my face so please don't ask about this ugly face of mine xD
Also, about you guys who read my fanfiction called "The Special One", I'll tell this to you guys once more, I won't create another chapter until you guys vote to my poll since I want you guys to decide what Izuku will wear.
P.S: Sorry for my ranting xD
Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece
Last time on chapter 44…
"AGHH!" Vivi struggles while Miss Valentine was easily restraining her hands that were positioned in her back quite painfully.
"KYAHAHAHAHA! Be still! Did you really think that the likes of you could seriously escape from BW's grasp?" Miss Valentine says with a grin, her tone expressing her sadistic nature. Vivi stops for a second, looking at Carue who was beaten up badly. Carue tried so hard to keep Vivi and the others from harm and this happened.
'L… Luffy-nii…!' All of the sudden, a sudden gust of wind came. Vivi closed her eyes because of the impact, but when it stopped, Miss Valentines was being held by someone in the neck and Mr. 5 was lying on the ground, the person's foot on Mr. 5's back to prevent him from going up. And on her eyes, they were beaten up quite badly.
Turns out, that person was Luffy. Vivi had to stop herself from gasping and looking at Luffy in fear. Luffy was grinning, yet his complete appearance contradicted his grin.
Luffy's clothes were soaked in blood, and so does some of Luffy's uncovered parts. Vivi steps back a little, her eyes showing disbelief. "I'm sorry, Vivi. You had to see me like this…" Luffy suddenly says, showing her a sad smile that made Vivi relax.
"N-no… It's just… Those bloo-" Before Vivi could finish her sentence fully, Luffy cuts her off with a bright grin that contrasted his current appearance.
"Don't worry about it, let's just help Usopp and the others!" Luffy says as he drops Miss Valentine on the ground after feeling her unconscious, also leaving Mr. 5 who was also unconscious. Vivi and Luffy rushed towards Usopp, Luffy tending Usopp's terrible wounds. After finishing, Luffy stands up, making Vivi look up at him questioningly. "We have to save Brogy and Dorry, they must have been caught by now!" Vivi swiftly stands up and nods at Luffy with a serious face.
"B-Brogy… Dorry!" Nami shouts in surprise as she sees Brogy and Dorry on the ground. She makes her hands turn into a fist in anger. If only she wasn't weak, she wouldn't have become a burden on the whole crew and Luffy. Just seeing Dorry and Brogy suffering was enough to make her feel a burden, especially that she's stuck in some kind of pillar.
"Perhaps I underestimated the extent of a giant's power…" Mr. 3 pauses, sweating a little. " I never would have imagined he could break my candle jacket…" Brogy looks at him with a fierce glare. "It seems that I must completely restrain your entire body…" Suddenly, something big forms in Mr. 3's right arm. "DORU DORU ARTS! SWORD!" After forming completely, he stabs it in one of Brogy's arm, blood going out. "NOW STAY STILL!"
While Nami once called out for Brogy's name in worry, Dorry bites his lips in anger. He couldn't move and he was losing blood fast. Apparently, the damn Candleman saw right through his acts and also restrained him.
"MOVE AND YOUR ARMS AND LEGS WILL BE TORN OFF!" Mr. 3 shouts sadistically as he laughs, placing one sword in each arm and leg of Brogy. Brogy screams in pain, his vision whitening as he was in the brink of passing out.
Nami looks in pain at Brogy, she was useless. 'If only I asked Luffy more to train me than to just make him force me to…' Nami thought in anger at herself.
"Speed up, my Candle Service!" Mr. 3 suddenly says as a line shoots out in Mr. 3's arms. "Hurry up and turn all of them into wax-figures!" The line connects to the pillar Nami was stuck into, making the wax on top suddenly spin faster. The mist of the wax goes down to them rapidly, making Nami cough.
'O-Oh no…! The mist of the wax is getting in my lungs! At this rate… I'll turn into a wax figure from inside my body!" Nami thought in horror, coughing repeatedly.
Mr.3 laughs, "Yes, yes! SUFFER AS MUCH AS YOU CAN UNTIL YOU DIE!" Mr. 3 shouts sadistically, making Nami turn to him into terror. "YOUR EXPRESSION OF PAIN AND ANGUISH IS THE ART I SEEK! HARDEN AWAY INTO WAX IN TERROR!"
"ART!? YOU'RE DEPRAVED!" Nami shouts as she points at Brogy. "HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH AN INHUMANE THING TO BROGY!" Nami says in anger and fear, coughing at the end.
"FUHAHAHAHAHA! YES, SCREAM IN DESPERATION AS MUCH AS YOU WANT!" Mr. 3 shouts while crossing his arms, Miss Goldenweek in his side, doing nothing.
'100 years..' Brogy thought, his face showing disbelief. 'Day after day, we fought and fought…! Endlessly fighting and fighting… Our duel was sustained by our pride born from Elbaf." Brogy shakes a little, his eyes burning. 'If this is how the two of us meet our end then… Elbaf…' Brogy's tears fall down, huffing. 'Art thou not too cruel…!? Why will you not let us die in battle…!?'
Dorry coughs, laughing as he looks at the others, making everyone look at him. "You fool!" Dorry starts, looking at Mr. 3. "He will come soon, and he will see how you make his nakama suffer!" Dorry says while laughing, coughing blood a little. "I… I hoped I would have been the one to make you feel despair and pain, but it seems like that cannot happen."
"What nonsense are you saying?" Mr. 3 says while looking at Dorry in confusion. "Have you lost your sanity because of the pain?" Mr. 3 pauses, shrugging it off. "Well, whatever. Still, those two are really late, are they testing my patience?"
Meanwhile, Nami was biting her lip in happiness. If Luffy could save them, she sure would ask for a lot of training to become stronger so that she wouldn't let them down anymore. "If I get out in here, I'll make sure I'll beat your body after my captain is done."
Mr. 3 laughs, "The two of you are really funny! Me? Beaten? Suffer? Are you two really hoping that I would someday feel that!?"
Nami pays no mind to him, instead, she tries hard to move even one bit at her hardened body. Dorry and Brogy grin. The three of them laughs and looks at Mr. 3 with determination.
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"You sure will."
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Enraged, Mr. 3 glares at them and speeds of the Candle Service faster, making Nami feeling harder to breathe along with the two giants.
"You've got a weird head there, Mr. 3." Someone suddenly says as Mr. 3 whips his head in anger. Nami grins in happiness as the two giants followed.
"Who said that!? Come out and I'll make I'll kill you slowly!" Mr. 3 says as something forms in his right arm once again. The man chuckles as he goes out of the shadow, along with a long nose and a certain princess.
"I should say that the same to you." Luffy says darkly with a frown. He looks at Nami and the two giants with a sad look. "I'm sorry that I didn't come sooner, some guys gave me trouble."
"N-no! It's alright! I mean, I should say the same!" Nami says as she stutters, can't think of any words as she was happy just seeing Luffy there, it gives her relief. "J-just beat the living day life out of them and break this pillar before we turn into a wax-figurine!"
Luffy grins while Usopp and Vivi show their weapons, looking intently at the two. "My pleasure." Luffy looks at Usopp. "I suppose you can help the three get out?"
"S-sure thing, That's no problem!" Usopp stutters, his legs shaking furiously. 'As long as I'm not fighting anyone…!'
"I can take care of Miss Goldenweek!" Vivi says with courage, looking at Miss Goldenweek, who looked back at her. Luffy nods before walking towards Mr. 3.
"Ha, you think you can beat me alone?" Mr. 3 says mockingly as Luffy grins, making Mr. 3 surprised.
"Oh, I will beat you alone." Luffy says as he internally cursed at himself. Ever since the fight, he's been giddy. It's like his old persona came back.
"LET'S GET STARTED THEN, SHALL WE!?" Mr. 3 says in anger, locking Luffy's two legs. "CANDLE LOCK!" Luffy looks at the lock with a blank face before smirking.
"Isn't this pretty nice?" Luffy says as he breaks them easily without moving an inch. "Too bad it's not strong." He picks one up, ignoring Mr. 3's gobsmacked face, and threw it at the upper part of the pillar.
"He did it!" Nami shouts in happiness. "The candle pillar is destr…" Nami's voice slowly goes to mute. Usopp looks at the falling wax at fear, his jaw going down at the pillar.
After the wax falling, it was a good thing that it didn't fell down literally at them. "We're alive…" Nami says with a sigh. Usopp, who was trying to break down the wax that was locking Nami up, was hyperventilating and was breaking the wax faster than anyone could. Nami coughs while Usopp feels the wax on his back, he freezes.
When Luffy was about to pick up the other side to completely break it, Luffy feels another wax on his back. "Now that you made the process faster, I won't let you destroy that chance now!" Mr. 3 says before laughing. Luffy sighs, destroying the wax, surprising Mr. 3 once again. Before another second could pass, Luffy suddenly goes behind him and chops his neck, making Mr. 3 unconscious. Not saying a word, Luffy goes to the wax only to sense Vivi's distress.
"L-Luffy-nii…!" Vivi says as Luffy looks at her, seeing her drinking tea, murmuring that the tea was great.
"Trying your hypnosis on her, Miss Goldenweek?" Luffy says before Miss Goldenweek looks at him.
"Yes. I can't have you breaking that or Mr. 3 will get angry at me." Miss Goldenweek says as Luffy as Luffy frowns. Before Luffy could say anything, he feels…
Uninterested.
Whatever happened, Luffy was sure Miss Goldenweek used her hypnosis on him. Luffy cursed as he couldn't move, nor use his Haki. Luffy curses as he probably couldn't use Haki due to his disinterest and subconsciousness didn't want to use it.
"LUFFY! WE DON'T HAVE ANY TIME LEFT! SO HURRY UP AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS THING!" Nami shouts impatiently as she, Usopp, and the two giants were turning into a figurine at an alarming speed.
"… Yeah, I know…" Luffy says while the two looked at him in disbelief.
"IF YOU KNOW, THEN HURRY THE HELL UP!" Nami says angrily before Luffy sighs and glares fiercely at her.
"Shut it. What's it to you if I don't want to help you?" Luffy says coldly. After a moment, Nami and Usopp figured it out. This wasn't Luffy.
"Miss Goldenweek! What did you do to Luffy!?" Nami says before coughing. Miss Goldenweek just looks at her with a blank face, munching on some biscuit.
"Colours Trap, betrayal black." Miss Goldenweek started, munching as if nothing bad was happening. "Touch the black painting and you'll want to betray your friends no matter how important they are to you."
"N…No…" Luffy suddenly says as the attention was unto him. 'I'm stronger than this, goddamnit!' To everyone's surprise, His legs started walking backwards.
"L-Luffy!" Usopp shouts in fear as he coughs, he was completely locked at the position he was in. Seeing this made Luffy angrier, a kid is a kid but killing his nakama was going too far.
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He wouldn't let that happen ever again.
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With all his might, he takes a sudden backward, getting out with a gasp. Before Miss Goldenweek could paint again, Luffy takes out a small amount of Haki and effectively makes Miss Goldenweek pass out. "… Usopp… Nami…" Luffy murmurs before destroying the whole pillar while holding the two.
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"Something's definitely strange." Sanji says as he places his hand on his chin, "Really damn strange." Sanji adds as while frowns. "I've been waiting here forever, but nobody's come back yet." Sanji dramatically gasps, "Don't tell me something happened to Nami-swan and Vivi-chan!? If that's the case, then now's not the time for me to prepare cooking this lizard."
He goes out of the ship, stepping on the dead dinosaur he took, "Alright, I'll go look for them." When he went to a random direction, he kept shouting for them. "NAMI-SWANNNNNNN!" Sanji shouts while the grass rustles, a low growl is heard. "VIVI-CHANNNNNNN!" Sanji turns as he sees a large tiger with sharp fangs, roaring at him.
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"Heeeey! Say something back if you can hear me!" Sanji shouts as he was riding the large tiger who was beaten horribly. "I love you!"
A white box-like place piques his interest, he goes down to the ground, making the poor tiger go away as fast as the poor animal can. "What's this?"
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Luffy hurriedly looked at Nami and Usopp, who was coughing and still had some wax at them. He curses and looks at the wax pillar that was still running. He took the chance to use Red Hawk and also burn some of the wax near them, effectively taking it out in one hit. He hurriedly looks at the two giants, good, they were also caught in it and the wax was out. The two giants coughed, Luffy took it as a good sign and looks at Nami and Usopp, who was also coughing. He sighed as the adrenaline went out in his body, he hurriedly went to Nami and Usopp.
"T-Thanks, Lu-!" Usopp couldn't finish what he was about to say when Luffy hugged the two of them, surprising the two.
"I'm sorry… I'm really sorry…!" Luffy says softly, the bad memories replaying slowly in his mind as he shaking a little.
Meanwhile, Usopp and Nami were surprised. Luffy was tall, strong in many ways, sometimes stupid and smart. This Luffy surprised them too much, this kind of situation made Luffy look like a small child, scared of letting go at something important.
Nami shakes a little, feeling like she was about to tear up. She doesn't know why, but seeing Luffy like this made her feel like crying. "Idiot…! We should be saying that!" She hugs Luffy while trying not to tear up.
"Yeah…! I couldn't even do something simple as taking out Nami at the pillar…!" Usopp argues before also hugging Luffy.
Luffy knew he was acting weird, out of his character. But the replays of the bad memories and seeing the two of his nakama almost die all because of his stupidity made him extremely guilty, sad, and many feelings that would surely haunt him forever.
The two giants move, taking out the three out of their trance. Luffy stands up, trying to shake the feelings away and places his big cardigan to the two (that had some parts of their clothes burnt) and buttoned it to make sure that the Kestia would not bite Nami and Usopp, and he wouldn't mind if it was him.
He checks Vivi, who was looking down with her fists holding the picnic blanket tightly. "I… I couldn't do a thing…" She pauses, "I'm sorry, Luffy-nii… I'm so useless…"
"No. Listen to me, Vivi." Luffy says seriously as he kneels down, and places his hand on Vivi's shoulder. "You did great, you held her back. Thank you for helping me, Vivi." With that, Vivi looks at him as he pats Vivi's hair.
Next thing he did was to check at the two giants, "Want me to take the knives away?" Luffy asks teasingly while the two laughs before coughing out blood.
"Of course!" Brogy says while grinning before coughing once again. Luffy takes each of the knives in ease and making Brogy sometimes shout a little in pain.
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"Ah! Wait a second…!" Sanji suddenly goes out of his trance, he was sitting with a coffee in hand. "Nows not the time for me to be fashionably enjoying tea!" Sanji pauses, "Nami and the others might be waiting for me to rescue them!" Sanji swiftly stands up and opens the door, "Ah, damn it. I wonder why there's a nice relaxing retreat in the middle of this jungle?"
Purururururu…
Purururururu…
"Huh?" Sanji turns around to see the sound coming from a basket. He opens it and grins, "Oh, it's a Den-Den Mushi!" His grin turns into a scowl as he answered the call. "Hello, this is The Shitty Restaurant. Would you like to make a reservation?"
"Don't play around, you imbecile." The man from the other line says, "Aren't you a little late with you reports…?"
"Reports…?" Sanji says as he crosses his legs, "Uhh… And whom might this be?"
"It's me."
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"Mr. 0…"
A/N: Thanks for those who appreciated my work, I'm going to keep working harder! Bye!