Hey again, thanks for your reviews. I'm so relieved that they were good ones, now I feel good again. I did I pretty quick update this time, mostly because I got nothing to do today. Nothing really much to say at this point in time, just enjoy yourself in the second chapter for now
"…and the haze withdraws in pure deceit,
Such fools awakened one they wish not meet,
The Labyrinth awakens and begins to rise,
Make your move and I hope it's wise…"
Last time:
"Three thousand worlds!" Zoro yelled and a sharp ear-splitting sound occurred following with several Walrus's growling in pain.
"So long Sabre freaks" Sanji smiled.
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Chapter 2: A cold encasement
The cloud of smog slowly cleared from the battle scene, revealing the result of Zoro's powerful technique. Walrus blood trickled down to Luffy's feet as he touched it with his hand.
"All gone and all dead" Sanji snickered, Zoro was tired out and fell to his knees. Chopper reverted back into his normal form and made his way through the carcasses towards Luffy.
"What now?" he asked, Luffy held his hat firmly and smiled at Chopper,
"Now for dinner" Luffy pranced around the ice ignoring the dead bodies and continuously tripping over them.
"Sanji, you've got no excuse now, cook us up something" Luffy grinned. Nami stepped down from her ship,
"It's no time to relax now Luffy" Nami said with a serious face.
"What's the matter? Is the weather bad or something?" Luffy asked.
"It's not about the weather, think about it, why would a whole mob of walrus things rush out at us? It must have been something that triggered it" Nami explained leaving Luffy confused.
"Then why did they send the whole mob?" Luffy scratched his head.
"That's not the point! You don't get anything, there's no point explaining it again!" Nami looked rather frustrated with Luffy's lack of sense at a serious time like this.
"If you've got nothing else to say, then we should eat" Luffy grinned and picked up a walrus and swallowed it whole, choking on the long tusk-like teeth.
"Do you mean we're going to eat this cold?" Zoro flinched at the thought of himself trying to shove a whole walrus into his mouth.
"I've got some canned food in the ship" Sanji shrugged, "They might work". Sanji climbed into the Merry Go and cam back with an armful of cans.
"What did I eat the walrus for then?" Luffy groaned and reached out for a can.
The Straw hat pirates had their feast and savoured the taste of food in their mouth again. It had been a while since they had dined, Nami now regretted refusing Sanji's cakes. They decided to explore and find the thing that frightened the walrus's all the way to the shore. The crew stuck together and headed north until they reached a sign.
"It says, 'Warning: Do not cross this sign or you shall fall victim by the walls of terror'" Usopp read out, "How original, I guess we should continue".
"Usopp!" Nami yelled, "We can't be certain, what if it's true". Usopp looked confident and continued walking forwards,
"I have the most experience about lying and I think that they are trying to confuse you because most people see signs like this as a trick but I'm not going to get tricked by this sign, there's no way that Usopp the liar would get tricked" Usopp gave the others a thumbs up, "I'll even prove it by going first". Usopp took a confident step past the sign only to retreat when he heard the sound of a fissure. Usopp flinched and ran back behind the sign with supreme speed.
"That's was meant to happen" Usopp lied.
"What was that?" Chopper questioned, "Oh no, It might be those walrus things again!" He ran around Usopp until Usopp bent down to talk to him,
"I told you it was the freezing squid of doom" Usopp grinned and started Chopper shivering again.
"The squid comes out in the evening to search for food" Usopp whispered, "…and it has a liking of reindeer meat". Chopper fell backwards and closed his eyes in horror. A staff flew out of nowhere and slammed Usopp to the ground,
"Usopp! You retard" Nami growled, "I told you not to scare Chopper like that.
"You're just jealous cause I've seen the freezing squid of doom before" Usopp crossed his arms proudly, "Shame on you". Nami's eyes were burning and she held her staff high ready to split all Usopp's bones in half.
"Oh no! Nami's been possessed by the freezing squid of doom!" Usopp cried to Chopper who was so frightened that he tripped over Zoro and rolled past the sign. A tremor started again but this time it was much louder and the ground shook like jelly.
"Come back Chopper!" Sanji yelled.
Chopper stood up but was blocked by an ice spike that had protruded from the Earth. The spikes completely surrounded Chopper until they mysteriously bent like thread and wrapped around Chopper.
"Argh! The squid's tentacles have got me" Chopper screamed,
"Stay still and the squid won't eat you" Usopp told Chopper,
"Spare me" Nami sighed and smacked Usopp in the face, "We have to save Chopper!". Luffy, Sanji and Zoro charged at the spikes which noticed the pirates and thrashed at it. Zoro slashed the ice until it collapsed to the ground, giving room for several new spikes to emerge. Sanji kicked the spikes but they kept on regenerating from the ice.
"I thought those walrus's with ugly faces were annoying" Zoro said, "But these spikes are worse and they don't even have faces", he slashed a couple more spikes and followed Luffy who had also finished off his share of spikes. They had nearly reached Chopper until a giant ice golem erupted from the icy landscape and threw a fist at Luffy and Zoro. The fist suddenly exploded into millions of tiny shards and roared at Usopp who was aiming for another shot.
"Help!" Chopper cried and was eventually wrapped in a cocoon of ice.
"We should go nearer" Usopp nodded to Nami and they both raced towards Chopper before a spike appears. The ice golem punched at Luffy with his other fist but Luffy countered the attack,
"Gum Gum finger net!" Luffy twisted his fingers into a net and tangled the golem's fist in it. Zoro leapt up and slashed the arm in quarters.
"Hey, wheres Sanji?" Zoro suddenly remembered his weird rival. Sanji had managed to crawl to Chopper while remaining undetected. He sent a kick at Chopper and split the cocoon of ice.
"Hey golem face" Sanji insulted to capture the ice monsters attention, "Got any room left for dessert?"
The golem gave Sanji a confused face only to let it be kicked at by Sanji.
"Gum Gum double barrel!" Luffy delivered the final blow and knocked the golem's head off. It rolled towards Sanji who easily destroyed it with a small kick. The golem collapsed like the other ice figures but this time, a white glow illuminated from the ruin of the golem. A mysterious voice spoke to the pirates in a spiritual tone,
"How dare you perish my golem of ice,
I'll spare you once but I won't twice,
However your fate is already lost,
You shall suffer in my eternal frost"
The light died out and the voice disappeared, Chopper reunited with his crew only to experience yet another earthquake. The crew packed together tightly, ready for any enemy but instead, gigantic slabs of thick ice shot upwards and encased the pirates, the ice slabs continued building itself while the pirates were in awe.
"Welcome to the Labyrinth of ice" a voice echoed through the walls.
"The squid has outdone himself this time" Usopp commented. Nami smashed his head, as always,
"Why my head?" Usopp cried in agony.
"Fine" Nami grinned and hit Usopp on the legs. He began rolling on the ground.
"What's a labyrinth anyway?" Luffy asked,
"It's a maze" Chopper explained, a strange shadow cast upon a slab of ice stealthily.
"It's where minotaurs used to roam, I wish there was a good minotaur to fight here" Zoro commented, the dark figure displayed itself to the crew and in a ghastly voice, he said,
"As you wish fool". The dark figure morphed into a minotaur, Usopp instantly freaked out and hid behind Luffy.
"Zoro, are you satisfied?" Sanji smiled,
"I didn't mean now" Zoro defended himself from Sanji's words. The minotaur charged at Zoro,
"This is my prey" Zoro wiped the sweat off his forehead, "My katanas miss shedding fresh blood".
The minotaur picked up some snow as it charged and morphed it into a battle axe and slashed it at Zoro who blocked it easily,
"You may be able to copy but you have no skill at all" Zoro smirked and skilfully attacks the minotaur until it pressed against the icy walls of the labyrinth. The minotaur melted back into snow and regenerated into someone very familiar.
"Hawk eye Mihawk?" Zoro gasped, "What is it young zoro? Scared of me?".
"Hell no freak" Zoro smiled and cut off his Mihawk's head in less than a second. The head melted into snow and reconnected back to the strange shape shifting figure. Luffy stepped out,
"Hey you, come fight me" Luffy invited, "Very well foolish boy" the strange creature smiled, "I shall morph into your worst fear!". The creature once again melted all details of Mihawk and rearranged itself.
"Haha! Your worst nightmare!" the transformed beast laughed.
"Argh!" Luffy flinched, "Not my grandpa, anything but my grandpa!"
The fake grandpa looked at the reflection of himself in the ice,
"Your worst fear is this old piece of shit?" it growled,
"You're the scary one here" Chopper yelled and punched it in his human form.
"How dare you! I'll transform into you're worst nightmare" the creature laughed and performed the morphing sequence again. Chopper shrunk at the sight of the morphed beast and fell backwards.
"Usopp! It's the freezing squid of doom!" Chopper cried,
"Indeed" Usopp nodded, "you can do the honours of fighting it" Usopp crept back to his hiding place. The squid thrashed at Chopper and hissed madly. It thrusted a tentacle at Chopper only to be blocked by Sanji's leg.
"I was taught that seafood was only meant to be eaten" Sanji grinned and delivered a reverse hook kick at the squid which sent it flying at the labyrinth walls as it permanently withered into snow.
"What was that?" Nami questioned,
"Welcome to walking with the labyrinth!" Usopp smiled, "Today we will be talking about the newly discovered species called the zoron".
"That's right" Chopper winked in great partnership.
"How did the zoron get its name? It was because it first appeared when Zoro acted like a moron, hence the name zoron".
"Hey watch it long nose" Zoro insulted.
"The zoron is a very dangerous beast with the power to transform its appearance and can sense your worst fear" Chopper added in.
"Thankyou for watching walking with the labyrinth, goodbye" Usopp waved and ran away but crashed into a wall.
"Oh, I forgot, we're trapped in this maze" Usopp sighed. The crew all sighed for a moment.
"Whats our next move Luffy?" Nami asked.
"We should explore this maze!" Luffy exclaimed, "It'll be fun". Sanji stepped in to the conversation,
"Just keep in mind we don't have any food in here" Sanji reminded, "I'm sticking with Luffy's plan, that way we can hunt anything that springs at us". Zoro shrugged,
"It's our only real option".
"Either way we're screwed, might as well" Usopp supported.
"Then it's settled, we go explore and hopefully get out of this darn maze" Nami decided. Everyone agreed with the decision and headed off into the dark corridors of the maze, not knowing what they will find, just as long as Sanji is able to turn it into a meal…
End of chapter 2
Now that was chapter 2, hope you enjoyed it, I might not update really fast cause I got stuff on the next few days so forgive me if you're wondering what's taking so long. This is also an early notice to tell you that I will be in Malaysia on the 21st so I guess that chapter 3 will be the last chapter I could possibly post this year. If you're really into this story add it to your favourites and I'll presume you'll get a message next year when I update. If I'm lucky enough to be able get on a computer In Malaysia I maight be able to post but I highly doubt it. Well anywayz, sayonara
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