Alright! Here is a new one-shot! It's not like my other one shots so far, so don't expect a lemon in this one!
This was requested by Fairyfan54 and I hope you enjoy it fairy!
Feel free to message me anytime for a request!
On the ship of the straw hat crew, all was fine and everyone was about to go to sleep, resting up for the next day and the adventures they would get to have. But what they didn't know was that the island they were nearing was far from the kind of island with adventures they thought of.
A dark fog came over the ocean, crawling across the waters towards the nearing pirate ship of the straw hat crew; luring it's next victim with its harmless appearance.
Zoro grunted in disbelief at the thick fog once they were inside it's haziness. He narrowed his eyes trying to see through it all; he had to keep an eye out, after all it was his shift night to watch the ship in the birds nest.
"Dammit," He cursed, taking a step towards the ladder.
A strangled croak came from his throat as the fog completely surrounded him and crept into his mind. It immobilized him quickly before sending him into a sleep, ready to tests its new prey's power and strength. Zoro crashed the ground hard as his body went limp and his mind fell into a deep unconsciousness.
Once the watch was under its hold, it took no time to find the rest of the crew who was already asleep, and creep into their minds and bodies to capture them in its hold as well.
Luffy sat up quickly, his stomach growling in hunger and waking him up in the dead of night. He looked around, seeing the rest of his crew out of their beds and missing.
"Hungry," He murmured while scratching his stomach.
His mind wasn't fully awake as he jumped out of bed and crept towards the kitchen, hoping to sneak some food while Sanji was asleep. The mere thought of food sent his mouth into a drooling fit, and it was so full of food, he didn't find it strange that his whole crew was missing.
"Meat," He drooled, going into the kitchen and immediately heading towards the fridge which would hold the treasure he wanted. "Ah!" He shouted, looking all around inside the fridge for the meat.
He stared with horror in his eyes as he crawled inside the fridge. It was completely empty, not a single crumb left inside there. It was if there had never been food in there to begin with. Luffy squeezed inside the fridge, pounding on the back of it as if there were a secret compartment he might find that Sanji used. The door closed on him, clicking as the lock kept it snug shut.
"RAGH!" Luffy shouted, fighting on the inside of the fridge with frustration. The fridge was jumping around the whole kitchen as Luffy fought his anger out and tried to get out of the locked compartment. "MEAT!" He shouted again, kicking the fridge door and making it fly across the kitchen and through the wall.
He searched helplessly through the cabinets, drawers, and underneath the supplies there, his fear becoming greater as not a single crumb was found once again. The cougar in his stomach growled again, sending ripples through his skin as the growl grew louder.
"Food~" He whined, plopping onto the deck with his lower lip puckered out in sadness. "I'm going to die!" He screamed, flopping onto his back and kicking his legs out while his arms flailed around. He was full in tantrum mode as he screamed and cried and rolled around the kitchen, trying to get Sanji's attention from his sleep.
"Sanji!" He shouted out, giving up on the tantrum and running to the cooks room. He stared in confusion at the empty room, finding it odd finally and checking the other rooms on the ship. The cook was nowhere to be seen. "Eh?" He said scratching his head at the mysterious disappearance of his crew. "No food?!" He panicked, finding that as the bigger problem now that his cook couldn't be found.
Luffy laid on the deck floor, feeling his stomach begin to eat itself as it growled louder than ever at it's emptiness. It felt like days to Luffy as he laid there whining and groaning; drool coming out of his mouth in desperation for food. Another growled echoed across the sea, but this time it wasn't from his hungry stomach, but inside the actual sea this time.
Luffy sat up excitedly, hoping it was a sea king that he could beat up and eat. A dark black tentacle came shooting out of the sea and wrapped around Luffy faster than he could react. It dragged him into the waters, sending his devil fruit powers to fail and make him sink towards the bottom of the ocean. Bubbles escaped his mouth as the tentacle continued to pull him down, slowly letting him drown.
Another tentacle floated by Luffy's face as he neared the body, and the sight of the tentacle in Luffy's mind was like a roasted tentacle on a stick for him to eat. Something inside him snapped as he reached out with all of his strength and grabbed the tentacle, pulling it towards him and crunching down on the flesh.
The monster roared and flung Luffy around the water, trying to dislodge him from its appendage. It swam towards the surface, ready to slam him against his own ship for better efforts. The moment Luffy hit the air on the outside, he breathed in and opened his eyes fully. They were mere slits now as he stared at the giant squid that was glaring right back at him in pain.
"Gomu Gomu no…!" He mumbled, still attached to the arm as his arm shot back into the air behind him. "PISTOL!" He finished, slamming his fist into the squids head, right between the eyes and hitting his brain inside.
Luffy smiled as he dragged the squid onto the ship and let the flame from the stove roast the pieces he had torn off slowly until the whole squid was eaten up and gone. He patted his round, expanded stomach in relief with a small burp of air escaping him.
"AGH!" Luffy heard the scream from on the island that was suddenly there in front of the ship.
Luffy's head tilted as he stared at the appearing island. He smiled as the scream echoed again, wanting to go towards the familiar voice that suggested his crew was on the island. He ran the opposite way, latching his hands onto the mast before flinging himself forward like a sling shot towards the island the rest of the way.
Zoro's eyes opened up, seeing tree's around him. He cursed quickly, realizing he had fallen asleep while on watch, but when he took a closer look at his surroundings he realized he wasn't even on the ship anymore. A noise rustled through the bushes near him, causing him to stand up quickly and grab for his swords.
His hand grasped empty air as he tried to search for his swords that were supposed to be at his hip. He turned his head quickly, seeing none of his swords were on him any longer. He turned in a circle, eyes desperately searching for the three precious swords he used for combat. His eyes locked onto the shining metal as they sat against a tree of their own, as if nothing was wrong and they were there the whole time.
"What the hell?" He asked, walking towards them quickly. He knew he never would put them that far from himself and his grasp.
He reached out, about to grab the swords to secure them to his hip once again when a large black panther, eight times the size of a normal one jumped in front of the swords and growled at Zoro angrily and protectively. It's teeth were bared at the swordsman while the claws dug into the earth securely, ready to pounce if he made another move towards the metal.
Zoro glared at the cat, knowing he could take it down easily….if he had his swords. The cat whipped its paw faster than Zoro could react to the swords, it's claws slicing through the metal of the swords and sending them through the air into tiny pieces.
"AGH!" Zoro shouted, eyes wide at the sight of all of his swords on the ground in pieces. Even his most treasured swords was on the ground, lying there and most likely unable to be repaired. He turned on his heel, eyes furious towards the cat as it seemed to all but smirk at his horror. His greatest fear had come after all.
"ZORO!"
Luffy suddenly crashed into the large panther, sending it flying through the air and into a tree, breaking it in half with splinters shattering into the air. The cat slid across the ground, before thumping into a large barrel that sat there, suddenly appearing before them. The panther stood angrily, tail whipping back and forth at the new prey that it had to deal with now.
He roared at them loudly, whipping it's paw quickly again, but this time slashing the barrel that was behind it. A large waves of whitish clear liquid came pouring out towards the two pirates, washing them away in its wake and taking them straight into the tree's themselves.
Zoro hit the tree hard, making him knock the air from his lungs and breath in the strong smelling liquid. He choked roughly as he realized it was sake they were drowning in and being washed away with. He breathed in so much he felt his whole face turn green from sickness already. Suddenly the sake was soaked up and gone, letting Zoro hit the floor and hack up the sake that was in his lungs.
"Hey~!" Luffy slurred, wobbling back and forth with his overly expanded stomach now filled with sake. "That wasn't nice!" He argued with the cat. The panther was dumbstruck as it sat down slightly and looked at the idiot captain. "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!"
His hand shot out quickly, but his foot slipped out from underneath him, making him spin and fall towards the ground, and his fist to wobble in a squiggle, completely missing the cat. The panther let out a snort as Luffy spit out the sake like a fountain while laying on the ground, his stomach rejecting the foul liquid. Luffy groaned and reached out, grabbing hold of the hilt of one of the swords laying there.
"Zoro~" He groaned loudly, drunkenly irritated at his first mate. "Why aren't you cutting him up?"
"Baka!" Zoro shouted at him, figuring his captain should at least know that a sword was useless once destroyed. "I can't use them anymore!"
"Why? There's nothing wrong with them!" Luffy argued, sitting up and glaring at his first mate that just called him an idiot.
"What do you mean fi…!" Zoro stopped as he looked at Luffy's hand with the perfectly fine sword in his hand. Zoro seemed to realize that it was a trick somehow that the panther pulled on him.
He walked over to Luffy and grabbed the swords, putting the one in his mouth as he glared harshly at the Panther. That panther's ears went back as he felt the threat he was in now that the trick and illusion was discovered. He stood up quickly and began to back away, but Zoro wasn't going to forgive it that easily as he dashed forward, spinning in the air towards the cat and landing behind him. The panther grunted and fell to the floor, tongue lolling out of its mouth from its defeat.
"We need to find the others," Zoro said, picking Luffy up with the sheath of his swords and dragging the drunk captain along with him.
"Give me my money back!"
Zoro looked around quickly, seeing fire pits and houses up ahead. "Oi, Luffy!" He growled, pinching his captain's cheek to wake him up. The captain sobered up quickly as the fire and the smell of meat wafted past his nose.
"Meat!" He shouted excitedly, already hungry once more.
"I'll make you pay interest for every Beri you take!" Nami shouted from the village, pushing Zoro and Luffy forward in curiosity as to what was happening with her.
They watched as villagers were gathering up the Beri around Nami and taking them over to a Giant black snake that was swallowing the money like food. Nami was being held by two large men from the village and she was fighting helplessly against their hold, trying to get to her money that they were taking from her.
"Oi! NAMI!" Luffy shouted excitedly, seeing his orange haired navigator. He ran forward, waving his hand above his head with recklessness.
The two guards' attention was turned towards Luffy as he ran forward. Nami saw the chance she had and swung her body, kicking her foot upwards towards the Guards and connecting with their faces for each foot. She flipped backwards as they let her go and crashed to the floor with bloody, broken noses. She ran forward, grabbing her rod and putting it together. She swung at every villager, knocking them away from the money and to the floor unconscious. Her anger was past it's breaking point and she wasn't letting the snake off easily.
"Lightning Tempo!" She said, letting the cold and warm bubbles float over the snake before spinning the rod in circles. When she pointed the rod at the snake, it was as if the lightning was listening to her command and struck it hard with it's powerful electricity.
The snake hissed as the lightning zapped it, showing it's skeleton on the inside like an x-ray. It twitched and jumped with every shock, before the lightning stopped and left it in a charred heap on the ground. Nami walked towards it and smashed her rod into it's head, making it open it's mouth for her from the pain.
"Get my money out of it….NOW." She growled at the two guards who were back up on their feet.
A shiver ran over them as they nodded at her like bobble heads, ready to obey whatever she commanded them to do. As each villager woke up she had them retrieve her Beri from inside the snake, and made the others gather their own treasure for repentance on what they had done to her.
"Good," She nodded, putting her Beri in a cart before dusting off her hands and looking at the two crew mates staring at her in boredom. "Come on, we have to find the others!"
"You expect me to pull this?" Zoro complained, crossing his arms over his chest.
Nami smirked, crossing her own arms while jutting out a hip at him. "What? Not strong enough to do it? I bet Mihawk could easily do something like bull a cart of Beri."
That struck a nerve as Zoro growled with a stress mark on his forehead. He gathered the ropes around him and began to pull as Nami led the way with a fuming Zoro and a captain who was munching away on a large hunk of meat.
"Nooooooooooo!" Usopp and Chopper screamed as a shrill scream/roar came from the dark cave they were trapped in.
They clung to one another as the noises came from all over, making their minds thing of the worse possible monsters that could be in there with them, and what the said monsters would do to them once they got a hold on the two cowards.
"Usopp! Beat them up!" Chopper pleaded, climbing onto his shoulders to get a farther distance from the monsters that could be in there.
"W-w-w-w-w-why m-m-m-m-m-m-me?!" He argued, whole body quaking in his boots. He could feel the snot dripping down his face as his fear paralyzed him to his spot. Rocks falling and the air being beaten made them scared to move anywhere in the cave that might put them closer to the monster.
*CRASH! BANG! SLASH!*
Chopper and Usopp stared around in the darkness as the sounds suddenly stopped, before thuds were heard on the ground. Suddenly they were shaking even more as footsteps came towards them from inside the cave somewhere. A light was drifting around the corner slowly as it bobbed up and down with the footsteps.
"What the hell?" Nami complained as she rounded the corner with a light. "This small little guy was the cause of all that noise?" She complained, looking at the small bat Zoro was holding up by its wing between his fingers.
"Usopp! Chopper!" Luffy shouted excitedly, spotting two more crew mates standing there with wide eyes and disbelief on their faces.
"Zoro!" Chopper cried as he launched himself at the swordsman, clamping onto his head tightly in desperation.
"We were almost killed!" Usopp cried, latching onto Luffy around his stomach just as desperately.
Nami knocked Usopp over the head, making him let Luffy go so they could keep moving. "There's no way a tiny bat could kill you."
Usopp and Chopper stared at the small unconscious bat that Zoro held, feeling so much more embarrassed now that they realized it wasn't a horrible monster as they imagined it to be. Nami sighed and kept on walking, jotting down the island as they made their way through it to find the rest of their crew and some sort of civilization other than that small village from before.
Robin sat calmly where she was by a river, not worried at all about the rest of her crew. She knew they'd be safe and somehow find their way to her or bump into her at some point; that's how it always was. So instead of panicking like most would do, she sat back against the tree and waited.
She looked back and forth at the river, wincing as her head ached. She put a hand to her head, feeling a large knot there as if her head had collided with something hard. It was huge! No wonder she had such a headache since she woke up. She'd get Chopper to give her some pain relief medicine when they found her; she could handle it till then.
She stood up and put her feet in the water, letting the cool sensation wash over her and relax her taut muscles that were also aching. She spotted a rock a few feet down with Poneyglph writing on it. Excitement and intrigument flooded her mind as she walked through the water towards the large rock that was jutting out from the water.
She put her hand to it, rubbing the moss from its writing so the letters were clear enough for her to read. She scrunched her eyebrows together, looking at the same letters over and over again. She couldn't read them, it was as if she couldn't remember anything about the Poneglyphs. She searched around her bag thatw as with her always, pulling out the book on Poneglyphs for her. She read over some pages, but she had no recollections of reading any of this before.
Now she was starting to panic. Everything she learned about the mysterious writing was now wiped from her brain! Her whole pasts of learning all the information was now useless and gone. She kept flipping through the pages, trying to find some recollection of the information to bring some hope to her, but nothing sparked her memory.
She closed the book roughly, placing it back into the bag and walking back to the rock to try and get a closer look somehow.
"Robin?" Chopper shouted excitedly from up the river.
The others turned their heads and spotted the intelligent woman who looked at them in relief. Though her panic was still there, she knew that Chopper would have an answer to this problem and would help her like he did with all of them.
She explained her situation to him, watching as he furrowed his brows in confusion to her predicament. "Sounds like that hit to your head may have temporarily blocked some of your memory." He said, running a paw over the large bump on the back of her head.
He began to go through his backpack with Nami watching in worry for her female companion. She knew how much Robin loved reading Poneglyphs, and now to be unable to could make anyone feel panicked. Nami was becoming very suspicious of this island. From what she could gather it was as if all of them were going through situations they didn't want to be in.
"Here," Chopper said after mixing a few herbs together. "This should help."
Robin took the small drink and gulped it down, sitting quietly as she waited for some sign of it being better to come. After ten minutes passed, she sighed and stood up, knowing she was going to have to deal with this some other way.
"Sorry Robin," Chopper said guiltily, picking up his bag and seeing Robin glance one last time at the jutting rock.
"Wait!" Robin said, quickly launching herself at the rock and running her hand over it. "I can read it!" She said with a thankful laugh. "Nightmare Island. An island with a fog as black as night will come and surround any ships daring to trespass in its territory. It'll creep into your mind and send you into sleep before spreading you out along its island and making each one go through their worst nightmares. If you are able to escape the nightmare before sunset, you may leave. But if you cannot, you will be doomed to live the rest of your life in your nightmare until your death."
Everyone of them looked at one another, nodding in agreement at how right that sounded from what they have all gone through.
"We may want to find the others quickly." Robin said worriedly, knowing they still had three more friends to find.
"My angel!" Sanji shouted excitedly as a blonde haired, blue eyed, curvy woman walked by, seeming to not see him at all.
Suddenly he crashed into an electrified force field. Keeping him away from the woman and sending him flying away from her. This whole town was filled with woman, but they couldn't see him, and every time he tried to get near them he got sent flying.
Of course that didn't stop him as he squirmed and wiggled at every passing lady; hearts in his eyes as he yelled out to them, and once again got sent flying back from the force field around all of them. He sighed and pouted at the thought of not being able to touch them. He pulled out his cigarette pack, about to light one up for himself when suddenly a knife flashed by and cut the cigarette off to where he couldn't use it anymore.
"What the?" He asked, looking at the knife now on the ground.
"Smoking is bad for you!" A sweet voice shouted to him.
Hearts appeared in his eyes once again as he looked around for the beautiful woman with the sweet voice who could finally see him. Another flash came as his cigarettes were taken from him. A black cape fluttered as the woman landed, making Sanji squeal and squirm towards her in excitement.
"I told you no smoking." She said again, before turning around.
Sanji stopped as the hearts broke and he jerked back away from the woman. She was short and stubby. Weighing around 300 pounds with an oval face, crooked black teeth, pimples, zits, moles, and bored holes in her face with huge ears, nose, and lips that seemed to be bigger than her head. She smiled at him seductively as she thought her black bikini on her body made her look hot.
"GAH!" He shouted, blocking his eyes from the woman.
He fell to the ground as tears ran down his face and to the dirt. The only woman he could see and get close to was this woman! And she took his smokes away from him! It felt like his whole life was broken and crumbling around him!
"Cook-san!" Robin called out, waving her hand above her head, trying to get his attention.
"Robin-chwan!" He shouted excitedly, and then spotted Nami coming up beside her. "Nami-swan!"
"Sanji!" Nami called out also. "It's just a nightmare! If you defeat her it'll be over!"
Sanji looked at the woman in front of him as she glared at the two beautiful women. "I don't fight woman." He said gentlemanly.
"No one can get near the men here except for me!" She shouted, throwing knives at Nami and Robin. Robin deflected the knife, while the other cut Nami's shirt just barely.
"Why you!" Sanji said, eyes blazing with fire. "Don't you dare harm the beautiful angel's!"
Sanji kicked out at the woman, watching as her features changed into an man just as ugly with make up on. Sanji became even more furious as he repeatedly kicked the man until he was sent flying up into the air in a spin and disappeared with a twinkle.
"A man?" One of the village women asked.
Suddenly men appeared all over the village, as if they were invisible themselves until just now. Sanji stared in confusion as the woman all flocked towards the men like they knew them. He sighed and picked up his cigs, lighting one up and puffing smoke out.
"The consequences of being a gentleman," He said, staring up into the sky with a pout.
"Oh shut up and come on!" Nami said, racing past him quickly. She looked up and saw the sun setting quickly on the island, their time wasting away and still they had two more to find.
"Franky's hair was deflated as he tried to look for cola somewhere. He felt defeated as he had no strength, and for some reason every time he tried to say his favored word 'SUPER!' his lips would pucker up like a lemon and keep him from saying it.
"Yohohohohohohohoho!" Brooke laughed, making the people watching him in confusion and horror at the same time at the strange man spinning around the village.
"Brooke!" Franky shouted, catching the man's attention.
"Oh! Franky-san!" Brooke said, looking at Franky with a smile. "It seems I cannot play my violin. As the villagers say, I am boned!" He began laughing once more, making his own lame joke about him being a skeleton again.
"Yeah, I can't seem to say," He put his arms out in his traditional stance, opening his mouth wide. "SUP…!" His mouth puckered up again as his hair deflated. He sighed and hunkered over in defeat.
"Oh my," Brooke said, seeing his pals predicament towards his usual routine. "That is a problem."
"Yeah, and the only cola I can find is this rotten one!" Franky said, pulling out the pure black bottle of cola from inside of him. "It's the only thing keeping me going right now."
"Hm," Brooke thought to himself, catching sight of a woman walking by. "Excuse me, but can I see your panties?"
The woman tilted her head in confusion before pulling her skirt up in wonder. Just as Brooke was looking down to see, suddenly a black cloth wrapped around his eyes and blocked his view of the panties.
"Oh my, seems I can't see them!" He laughed loudly, making the woman back away slowly and the cloth to go back to his wrist where it was concealed before.
"Has that been there this whole time?" Franky asked, pointing at the cloth.
"I woke up with it tied to me. It seems it keeps stopping me from looking at panties. And when I try to play my violin it wraps around my hand so tightly I can't play it."
"Just take it off!" Franky shouted, grabbing the cloth and ripping it.
A shriek was heard from the cloth as it flapped around, trying to get out of the robots hands. Brooke and Franky stared at it as Franky stepped on it and pinned it to the ground.
"Well, I'm sure the rotten Cola is your problem." Brooke said , grabbing his bottle and throwing it to the ground, watching as the black goop inside the bottle squirms and crawled away. "That's not pleasant."
"Mina!" Luffy shouted, running into Brooke and Franky with a crash. "Found you!"
"Quick! Have you seen anything black?" Nami asked breathing heavy.
"That?" Franky asked pointing at the cloth and goop that was scrambling away.
"So you already got it." Robin sighed, as Usopp gave Franky a cola and he powered up with his catchphrase, finally able to say it.
"Congrats, you made it past the challenge!" An old woman said with a smile. "Though there should have been more of a challenge," She snapped at the black subjects that were now behind her.
"It's not our fault they have such weird fears!" They shouted, "They're crazy! Don't make us go after them again!"
Luffy smiled at them goofily, licking his lips as he looked at the squid who was behind the woman now in a smaller form. Nami hit her hand with the rod, Zoro flashed his swords, Robin rose an eyebrow at the black rock that she realized was next to her as she woke up, Usopp and Chopper were watching the bat with fake glares as they trembled, and Franky and Brooke looked confused at the cloth and goop.
"Where's Beatrice?" The bat asked.
"Seems Mr. Cigarettes here kicked him into outer space." The woman said with a sigh. "Just get your supplies and leave. I've never seen such weird fears."
