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V: Call of the Mummy
Previously:
In the hallway, the clip of clogs echoed.
"Crap," Yusei neatly summarised the situation.
"Yohohoho..." the voice echoed. "Good day to you! If you've looked inside, you should also enter."
"'Yohohoho'...?" Usopp muttered.
"Brook?" Chopper hissed.
Yusei squinted at the being dressed like a samurai. "No."
"Yohohoho..." the samurai chuckled, the voice echoing about the dark hallway. "Yohohoho..."
It was around this same time that the rest of the Straw hat Pirates were doling out the Six Hundred Million Beli Jackpot upon an unsuspecting graveyard of zombies, before Luffy's Mafia Boss impersonation got them the information needed and the screams of zombies rocked the cemetery into the night once more.
However, Yusei was quite unaware of the situation developing in the graveyard, given that with a single slash, he and the three other Straw Hats had been swept through the wooden door and possibly the stone door-frame to land before a stunned Doctor Hogback. As the wooden pieces collided onto the floor as a result, Yusei took the chance and velocity granted by the skeleton's slash to throw himself slightly further from the Straw Hats.
"You guys!" Hogback began screaming. "Why are you here?"
"What?" Nami exclaimed to Usopp from where she had collided with the autopsy table on their crash in. "Just now, wasn't that Brook?"
"But he wasn't a skeleton!" Chopper replied. "He had flesh and skin!"
"Also, he's wearing clogs and he had a sword." Usopp pointed out.
"Indeed, he was completely different." Nami considered.
Chopper started. "Then, that means... Eh?"
The Straw Hats turned around to see the Doctor loom over them, his expression that of being displeased. "YOU GUYS!"
The Straw Hats immediately threw themselves to back against the metal table holding surgical instruments. "We've been found!"
And you only just realised that...? Yusei thought from where he had landed, accidentally obscured from the view of the Doctor and Cindry.
"What did you see?" the Doctor growled, the terrified expressions of the Straw Hats reflected in his tinted glasses. "Didn't I tell you to never peek inside the research room?"
"We didn't see anything!" Usopp furiously denied.
Chopper quickly nodded, holding up both hooves in surrender. "I didn't see anything either!"
Nami quickly nodded. "Neither did I!"
"Really?..." the Doctor squawked.
"Really!" Usopp replied. "Really! Especially not the zombie you're making!"
"DON'T TELL!" Nami and Chopper yelled at him.
And, the lie is ruined... Yusei thought.
The Doctor blinked for a few moments. "Well, fine then..."
"Eh?" Nami blinked as the Doctor backed off.
"You've probably figured out some of my secrets by now, but it's too late..." the Doctor quietly said as he turned his back on them. "In a few minutes... the Night Attack will start."
"Night Attack?" Nami echoed.
"To be a guest wandering on this island at night is a careless move..." the Doctor chuckled eerily. "The Night Attack begins..."
The ticking analogue clock on the stone wall had never seemed so ominous as then.
Nami slapped her hand on the stone floor. "What was that 'studying zombies', Hogback? Aren't you rather on this island to make them?"
"H- Hey Nami! Not so bluntly!" Usopp protested.
The Doctor laughed again. "At this point you're free to suspect anything, but... what evidence do you have of that?"
Nami looked from the Doctor to the servant. "We found this woman's obituary," she replied, pointing. "Victoria Cindry... ten years ago, you died!"
"You guys!" Hogback shouted, the act of civility having been dropped. "You went into that room? Answer!"
The pirates just looked at him, each with the same fire of defiance in their eyes.
The Doctor snorted. "Not only the research room, but that room too! Cindry Chan~! Samurai Ryuuma. Cast them into the world of shadows immediately!"
From seemingly nowhere, Cindry produced a stack of wicked-looking plates that had the three Straw Hats panicking again.
"P- Please wait!" Chopper protested.
"Go into the world where you'll never see light again," the Doctor coldly replied. "The Night Attack has already begun!"
The Straw Hats shivered as the click of geta clogs echoed behind them.
"Have you gotten a good look in the research room now?" the lazy voice echoed as the figure appeared. Indeed, it was a man dressed in a white kimono with the Kanji 'Dragon' on the sleeves, with hair already white tied up in a simple top-knot. "Yohohoho..."
The Straw Hats merely swallowed.
"My, my," the skeleton continued. "When I take a closer look, you're indeed a lovely young lady. Just beautiful!"
Nami started. "Oh, that's..."
"My eyes have never seen such a pretty woman!" the figure continued. "But I'm a mummy, so my eyes don't see much. Yohohoho... would you let me see your panties?"
"AS IF I'D!" Nami yelled at him on reflex, before realisation dawned on her face. "This conversation..."
Brook? Yusei's eyes narrowed from where he was, creeping towards the table filled with chemicals which, considering that this was a laboratory, was sure to contain bench reagents. The Doctor might be more on the medical side, but any self-respecting scientist would have ready the usual six reagents... ammonia, and organic compounds... very gingerly, he grabbed two bottles, one of a fine dust, the other of a clear liquid, and one small beaker.
"It's exactly the same one I had with him..." Nami whispered, the rest of them forgetting about Yusei's presence.
"Fwooshfwooshfwoosh!" Hogback laughed. "His strength is different from the zombies you've seen so far. He's a General Zombie with a special body, a man that came from the New World's Wano Country. Believe it or not, a long time ago he was known as a man who killed a dragon! He's a legendary samurai."
Yusei...
The Straw Hats backed up, producing their weapons and , in Usopp's case, his bag as a shield. All of them had forgotten about the last of their nakama who was currently appropriating chemicals and materials behind Hogback.
"He's coming!" Chopper panicked.
"Fwooshfwooshfwoosh!" Hogback laughed. "You can't escape!"
The samurai mummy slowly unsheathed the katana, taking a deep breath before he sped towards them, faster than lightning–
–an Erlenmeyer flask full of an orange liquid crashed onto the sword, specifically the wrist. The samurai backed away as the liquid began to fizzle and eat through his hand slowly, groaning in agony and panic. "My hand! My sword!"
"What?" Hogback turned around to receive another beaker to the face which soon exploded into purple flames on his large grin.
At approximately the same time, Yusei charged, knocking over the rotund doctor and servant as he made a dash for the zombie samurai. Another beaker was flung at the zombie, the undead managing to slash through the beaker but spilling the contents onto itself. The mixture burst into purple flame, the mummy panicking as it, despite its undead body, realised it was on fire.
"Yusei?" Nami blinked. "Were you here the whole time?"
"Looking at the situation now, the only real threat should be the skeleton samurai," Yusei analysed as, ever the gentleman, he helped them up. "Run!"
"Cool!" Usopp cheered as they ran out of the burning laboratory. "How did those things explode?"
"With purple flames!" Chopper cheered, stars dancing around him as he looked at Yusei.
"Potassium permanganate and glycerine," Yusei answered as they descended down a flight of stairs. "The acid was aqua regia. Nami San, do you know any way out?"
"Uh, no!" Nami started. "Besides... where are we running?"
"You won't escape!" the zombies howled as they came out of their frames, cackling.
"EEEYYYYAAAAHHHH!" Nami, Usopp and Chopper screamed as they realised that they had their backs to a stone wall and were surrounded on all sides by zombies.
"Yusei, I don't want to die!" Chopper screeched.
"Sorry, but I don't have much left," Yusei replied as a rumble shook the dust slightly. "Ah, that's the lab going up in flames."
"... you pyromaniac..." Usopp muttered.
"Even then..." Yusei considered the zombies, sweat rolling down his brow. "I don't want to lose anyone... what... do I do...?"
Call us... call to us...
"I don't want to lose any nakama," Yusei breathed.
"Yusei, if you've got a plan, now 's the time to use it!" Nami screeched. "EYAH!"
"WWWAAAAAHHHH!"
Summon us, call to us... make us... come, our master...
"Kill..." the zombies breathed.
"What...?" Yusei breathed.
"Shippu no Ankoku Kishi Gaia, shokan!"
A whinny sounded from behind as the zombies froze in their tracks, stitched corpses flying back and forth and impacting onto stone as some mysterious figure fought through the masses of undead.
"What?" Chopper breathed.
Usopp stuttered. "That... is..."
"What... is that?" Nami half-screamed.
From the masses of bodies charged forth a horse, its brown coat gleaming in the dim light with leather and buckles. Its rider, a knight in blue armour streaked with red, a lance in each hand, easily cut a swath through the zombie pile to fight to them, each move swift and merciless.
"A knight...!" Nami breathed.
"Wow..." Usopp muttered.
"Sugoi..." Chopper's eyes went wide. "The zombies are staying down..."
"That's..." Yusei blinked. "That's..."
"Spiral Strike!" a voice called through the gloom as the lance in one hand twisted, drilling through one unlucky zombie that screamed. "Zombies that believe that death cannot touch you, come fight me!"
"Run!" the horde of undead attackers yelled, escaping back to their portraits or hiding places in a panic.
The charger pawed the ground before Yusei, the horse sniffing as the knight gave a brief nod.
"This is... Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight..." Yusei murmured.
"Oi, Yusei," Usopp muttered. "You know this guy...?"
"This is... one of the famous Monsters of Duel Monsters..." Yusei heard himself answer quietly.
"EEEHHHH?" The Straw Hats screamed, backing away from the knight.
"And, its owner... the legendary Duellist..." Yusei's eyes made out the small stature that strode confidently over to them.
The figure's crimson eyes glowed in the dark.
"Those eyes..." Nami whispered. "Those red eyes..."
"Like blood," Chopper nervously finished.
"It's been a long time," the figure chuckled, a sound that was like the dark of night that brought forth either pleasantly dark dreams of all that went on in the shadows, or hid nightmares that roamed the hours between dawn and dusk and caused the Straw Hats to shiver. "Yusei Kun."
Yusei squinted. "Yu- Yuugi San?"
"Yuugi San?" Yusei squinted again as the other gave him a look.
The figure shrugged. "Close enough. Judai Kun sends his regards, by the way."
"Yuugi San," Yusei asked. "Not that I'm not displeased to see you, but there are a few questions I'd like to ask, so please oblige me. How...?"
"We have no time," the other interrupted. "Five others have already entered the main part, and the time when this place becomes active is drawing near. I would advise that we get to open ground, before we are cornered once more."
"Ah," Yusei shook his head. "Ah, yes. Everyone, this is Mutou Yuugi, a friend of mine. Yuugi San, this is Nami, Usopp and Chopper of the Straw Hat Pirates."
"A pleasure to meet you," the other Yuugi nodded, expression deadpan. "Now... how do we get out...?"
"How did you get in?" Nami asked, confused.
"I threatened a zombie to lead the way, and then Gaia forced them to let me into the secret network of passageways," the other replied coolly.
This time, the Straw Hat Pirates all carried the same expressions of 'he threatened a zombie?'
Yusei blinked, before dismissing the mental thought. "So, how do we get out?"
The other Yuugi laughed. "Gaia. Form a path out."
"Yes, milord!" Both lances aimed on the walls.
"Is he going to...?" Nami whispered.
"Is he serious...? Usopp breathed.
"Such a thing is within the ability of the swift Gaia," the other replied. "Spiral Strike!"
The result was the knight charging through three straight walls of thick stone, straight into a garden of a lawn and a few trees and not much else, surrounded by battlements like the top of a castle.
"Jut like Zoro..." Nami silently wept as she walked through. "We'd better not give Zoro ideas, or the damages will triple..."
"M- Monster Trio..." Usopp stuttered as he walked onto the lawn.
The other rolled his eyes. "Too bad. Live with it."
"This looks like the back of the mansion," Yusei analysed, stepping through.
"Hogback's research room was on the top floor over there," Nami observed. "And it seems we've travelled some distance..."
"H- Hey, over there!" Chopper, now in Heavy Point, gestured. "On the other side there's an even larger building!"
"A Devil Fruit, then?" the other Yuugi observed quietly, such that only Yusei heard him. "One of those who gain extraordinary power, but in turn are cursed by the sea by eating the Fruits. "
"What is that?" Usopp drawled, not paying attention to the two Duellists. "There was such a huge building behind the mansion?"
"Usopp, Chopper, Yusei!" Nami called, standing on the battlements. "Now I know what this place is!"
"What is it?" they ran towards the battlements, looking out. "How did you find–?"
Nami pointed. "This is the connecting passageway between the mansion and that building."
"Connecting passageway?" Usopp echoed. "It's a big one, at that! And there's a forest too! No, it's a forest, but not quite... So, we're probably going to that building if the Doctor caught us... I guess?"
"Then, you shall have to go without me. I have business to settle on this island as well," the other commented, close to Yusei. "Remember, Yusei, you too are a Duellist attached to the cards. Sometimes, your words are all that is needed to convince the cards."
Yusei started once the presence faded and the other, for all intents and purposes, faded into the shadows.
"Maybe they intended to make us into zombies," Nami offhandedly commented, jumping down from the battlements.
"EEEEE!" Usopp and Chopper shivered.
"Eh, where's that... Yuugi?" Usopp asked, looking around.
"Actually..." Yusei decided to tell them. "He said that he had some business here."
Nami paled. "So... he's with the zombies?"
"EEEEEEEE!" Usopp and Chopper screeched further.
"Thank god we're lucky!" Chopper shivered. "Let's run!"
"AAAHHHH!" Usopp yelled. "We've got to run right now!"
"Wait a minute," Yusei realised.
"Eh?"
"This doesn't make sense," Yusei observed. "We're running around this place, scared out of our minds... but..."
"What are you saying now!" Usopp screeched.
"Ah! My 'Something's wrong' sensor is tingling very hard!" Chopper exclaimed.
"That's right! We should run now, Nami!"
"Yes! Yes!"
"Stop thinking about pointless things! Let's run!"
"Let's run, Nami!"
Nami turned around to face them. "You idiots! I know! I'm scared too!" Beli symbols flashed in her eyes.
"Your eyes are strange!" Usopp and Chopper yelled. "And I don't think Yusei was referring to money!"
"Then, which way shall we run?" Nami asked, crossing her legs. "Back? Forward?"
"That's a tough one," Usopp considered. "If we go back we might meet the samurai again... that'll be bad..."
"But if we go forward, we might meet even scarier bad guys!" Chopper argued.
Nami gestured to Yusei. "With this poker face around, the guys would have to scare him first."
Silence greeted this declaration, such that the chirping of cicadas were heard loud and clear.
"-.- Nami San..." Yusei sweat-dropped.
The sound of bouncing suddenly filled the air.
"Eh?" Nami looked down at the bouncing rotund blue bodies. "These lovely forest animals are... penguins?"
"Numbers!" the middle called, turning to reveal a face scarred and stitched over the left eye and a brown newsboy hat. "One!"
"Two!" the second turned to show another scarred penguin face, but this one wore a scarf and a top hat.
"Three!" The last had a chequered pork-pie hat and the face of a bulldog grafted on.
"Noooo..." all four of them whispered.
"Good day! We are–"
"The Penguin Zombi-Combi! Ah, no, that's wrong..."
"Trio! We're a trio! I'm the new member!"
"As if we care about your line-up!" Usopp yelled at them.
"And behind you guys are–!"
"You're joking..." the Straw Hats muttered as they turned around.
"Our nakama, the Wild Zombies!" the penguins cheered as the Straw Hats came face to face with an assortment of animal zombies.
"Welcome, to Perona Sama's Wonder Garden!" the zombies chorused.
"They're so weird we should go 'Nooooo!'!" the Straw Hats, save Yusei, exclaimed.
"And, we're going to squeeze you viciously!" what looked like a koala in a pink suit barked.
"Yeah!"
Chopper began moving, punching zombies whenever they approached. "Nami! Usopp! Yusei! I'll hold them here!"
"We're going to meet some weird zombies wherever we go!" Nami yelled.
"And, these guys are animals, so they'll definitely be faster than we are!" Usopp added.
Chopper had one punch blocked, and the pirate doctor had no choice but to backtrack away from a mace swung by a zombie panda.
"This guy looks like a human, but he's an animal!" the koala chuckled.
"That's right!" Chopper yelled. "I'm a reindeer!"
"A Zoan type power, eh?" one of the zombies growled.
"He's an animal like we are!" the koala pointed. "If you behave and listen to us, we'll let you off easy!"
"What's that 'animal like we are'!" Chopper yelled.
"If that's what you want, then I won't hold back!" the zombie chuckled as he swung the mace towards Chopper, who just barely dodged it.
"Nami! You go and hide!" Usopp called as he kicked off the small zombies. "First... you! Ow!" A small zombie used a spear to stab him in the arse.
Nami dived into the bushes, peeking to watch Usopp against a zebra-kangaroo hybrid.
"W- What, you want a go!" Usopp took up a basic boxing stance. "You Zebra kangaroo!... or a kangaroo zebra... Mmm... either one is fine!"
The zebra began to box.
"I'll warn you of one thing though..." Usopp lied. "I've been the Champion of the World Pirate Boxing Championship for the last fifty years!"
The zombie still feinted.
Usopp yelled. "With my perfect stance, you can come at me at any time! Take my super right!"
The zebra dodged before it let fly a barrage of punches.
"Usopp San!" Yusei broke two test tubes in the zombie's face before dragging the injured sniper away from the explosion of purplish flames in the zebra's eyes.
"I- I see. You're not bad..." Usopp drunkenly sang through the injuries.
"The dog is talking!" Nami's yell could be heard as the navigator herself leapt out of the bushes and ran towards Yusei.
"Ah!" Yusei dodged the zebra's right hook, which flew into an approaching monkey's face, and the three coming zombies ganged up on him.
"Yusei!" Nami yelled. "Scare them away with your poker face!"
"...I don't think it works that way, Nami San..."
"Think of something!" Nami screamed as they ran from the horde of zombies up the flight of stairs to the larger building. "Whatever that man did, you can try too, right! If none of us do something we're going to die!"
We're going to die...
"I can't do that without a DuelDisk!" Yusei retorted, running up the steps easily.
Speaking of which... where is Yuugi San's DuelDisk? Unless... he never used it! Is that possible! Even Aki needs a DuelDisk to use her power last time... Then again, this is Yuugi San, if anyone can figure it out, he can... the only thing is, can I!
Yusei leapt up, narrowly escaping being pummelled by the boxing zebra. The resulting left hook broke a hole in the cement floor. One hand flew to his belt and deck box, roughly fumbling as he drew and prayed. Really. Hard.
"Scrap-Iron Scarecrow!"
The feeling of having energy utterly drained from his body was overwhelming, yet as Yusei watched the familiar iron scarecrow, beat up and worn from years of use, slowly rotate into being from absolutely nowhere straight into the path of the zebra's next attack, Yusei keeled over with a smile.
The Heart of the Cards, then...? Please...
"Yusei!" Nami screamed as Usopp quickly recovered their fallen comrade. "What happened!"
"Run!" Usopp yelled, supporting Yusei with one arm while half-dragging the fallen. "Yusei, wake up quickly, or the zombies will catch up!"
From above the battlements, the other smiled, eyes like rubies gleaming in the night. "A Trap card without setting, eh, Yusei Kun? Good. This will at least ensure you survive this night."
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