Nami strolls along down the hallway with a small yellow basket under her arm and resting on her hip; she was looking forward having bath in Sunny's bathroom, she had longed for it since the first shower she took on the island.
She gazes down at the basket she gave it a quick once over making sure that she had not forgotten anything. Nami never left her shampoo or bubble bath nor any of her creams in the bathroom, knowing that anything that was left would be used up; so she stored everything of hers and Robin's in small baskets and took them in with them whenever they needed to.
"Huh?" Nami mutters as she thinks she hears a strange sound, tilting her head and closing her eyes she listened carefully making sure that the wind had not picked up.
On opening her eyes she frowns, she thought she heard Luffy shouting.
"That moron better be out by the time I get there." Nami hisses as she starts moving once more her pace a lot quicker than before, "And clean!"
Nami remembers the last time Luffy had been having a bath before her, he left a dark ring of dirt and grim around the tub, she spent a good hour trying to clean the large thing; she did try to track down before cleaning it out, but the rubberman had fallen asleep on the figurehead and Robin informed her that he was very tried after his bath and he not want to be disturbed.
She walked on eyes staring in front of her lost in thought, at last she was near the door. With her free hand she reached for the handle, then everything blurred as suddenly she looking up at the ceiling, her basket flew in front of her stuff pouring out as her arms went up also. She fell hard hitting the back on her head of the floor, crying out softy she closed her eyes and held both hands up around the back of her head.
Rolling and cursing out she felt something wet and sticky around her legs. Sitting up she glares at whatever it was she slipped on, her eyes went wide as she blinks at a puddle of thick red blood trailing off down the hallway. Slowly she turns to the bathroom door, it was slightly swinging back and fore; reaching up numbly she grabs hold of the door and opens it.
Then she saw the the room, her whole body was shaking as she saw the blood everywhere. Floor, walls, ceiling and window.
Nami's heart began the ache the moment her eyes landed on the straw hat covered in blood.
Someone was screaming, it was only when she stopped that she knew it was her.
Ringing filled her ears as she slowly got to her feet, eyes never leaving the hat; the beloved hat of her captain, something he would never leave behind unless it was with one of his trusted crew.
Taking a deep breathe in shouts at the top of her lungs, "BLOOD!" Nami could hear the panic in her own voice, "EVERYONE COME QUICK!"
She quickly rushes in the room and grabbed hold of the hat that was on the corner of the mirror, then slowly backed out. Heavy running feet was heard as she reached the doorway someone came in.
Zoro gritted his teeth as he quickly took in the sight of the room, he then turns to Nami who was holding on tight to the straw hat at her chest. He knew who's blood it was then; he forced his heart to harden.
"Where is he?" Zoro growls up to a shocked Nami.
"More importantly," A voice came from behind, "How did you get here? Didn't you say were checking out the main deck first?"
Zoro glanced over his shoulder and saw Usopp laughing at him.
"This is not funny!" Zoro hisses darkly at the long nosed marksman, "Luffy is gone!"
Usopp's laugher died in his throat and he darts forward, eyes widen as he stared into the bathroom.
"NAMI-SWAN!?" Sanji cries out as he knocks over Usopp who went crashing into Zoro, both lands onto the bloody floor, "WHAT IS WRONG?!"
"Sanji-kun!" Nami shouts starting to out of her daze, "We have to find Luffy!"
"Huh? You're not hurt?" Sanji asks but then finally sees the room they were in, "What happ-"
"Stupid cook!" Zoro snaps as he jumps to his feet and pushes the blonde into the door frame, his eyes narrow deadly at him, "Luffy's blood. Have to find him now!"
Sanji pushes the swordsman away from himself and hurries over to where Nami was and touches her shoulder.
"This is a lot of blood..." Usopp says in a low voice, his voice shook badly as he continued to stare.
"We follow it!" Nami barked out suddenly as she hurried, "ZORO!"
The green haired man stops and glanced over his shoulder.
"Someone take his hand!" Nami shouts out as she and Sanji starts following the blood trail, he was going the wrong way. She placed the bloody straw hat on her head as she ran.
"This way Zoro." Usopp says trying to keep the pain out of his voice, he knew his friend and captain was bleeding somewhere.
Both he and Zoro took off running and came to be just behind Nami and Sanji; reason Sanji was running so slow, he was trying to match his pace with Nami's.
Tear fill Usopp's eyes and he turns slightly and stares in disbelief at Zoro's stony face and then see Sanji's uncaring one.
'Is it because they like faith that Luffy is fine?' Usopp thinks as he runs along, blinking out the tears he stares at Nami, she also looked like she was going to cry as she held the hat with one hand.
"Oi!" Chopper voice called from behind, "What happened in the bathroom!"
Usopp turns and see Chopper in deer form, easily catching up with them.
"Something happened to Luffy!" Sanji shouts back but not turning his way, he did not even noticed that Robin was hiding upon Chopper's back.
Sanji kept his focus of Nami's behind while telling himself that his captain was doing fine. It was unusually to not hear when Luffy was fighting, he carelessly damages the ship and calls out his attacks.
'So why didn't he do so this time?' Sanji asks himself, this was the part that worried him; for some reason Luffy had not been able to call out. 'Why didn't I notice any of this?!'
"These are your footprints cook." Zoro growls out glaring at the bloody floor, "Why did you not see this?"
Sanji said nothing, he had ran passed this way to get to the bathroom. Chopper sniffed loudly as he followed along with a frowning displeased Robin on his back. Robin let out a gasp causing everyone to stop and turn to her.
"Up ahead. The walls, the ceiling!" Robin said softy in shock, she points to where she was staring.
Everyone looked, they had been looking only at the floor so they did not see what was there. Blood was running down the wall on one side, a puddle formed at the bottom on the floor. Tiny droplets of blood was on the ceiling like something has pressed against there.
"What is this?!" Brook asks as he came from behind, along with the heavy footsteps on Franky.
"Who's missing?" Franky asks as he reaches the group.
"Luffy." Robin replies strangely calm.
There was a odd scream, one that them never heard before. They all listened carefully then another cry was sounded.
"Let's go!" Zoro shouts as he took his eyes for the wall and ran through a doorway, only for someone to pull him back by his collar, "What you doing?!"
"Zoro! The blood goes that a way!" Franky informs as he nods his head towards the hallway where the trails indeed does go.
"Gomu Gomu nooo..." a short pause, "...Gatling Gun!"
"Luffy!" Both Chopper and Usopp answered as one.
"Shut it." Zoro shouts as he rushes behind the group now with Brook and Franky. Zoro found that whenever he was stressed or worried badly, he loses his way more.
Brook was fearful at the sight of the blood, it seems to be enough blood loss to kill a man; he did not want to lost another captain, he wanted to be with Luffy until the he died after his captain became Pirate King.
Franky stepped outside and blinks as the blood stops at the railing, it seemed to go over the railing. Sanji and Nami was leaning over looking down. Zoro ran right passed everyone and jumped over the railing, Sanji followed. Brook rushes forwards at high speed and was gone as well, Chopper let Nami upon his back as well, and together with Usopp. Franky jumps last and ran into the dinner kitchen area.
The cola in his veins ran warm, Franky stares at the chaos that the the place on in. Blood was everything, much more than before. Or it seemed as it looked as if someone came in and flicked a paintbrush of red on every surface. The only thing free on blood was same pies that were cooling on the kitchen counter.
Zoro glares at the sight and slowly looks around, as he had ran in he heard a door slamming. Sanji also hurries he heard the door as well, he knew where it came from.
Chopper, Usopp and Nami had frozen stiff as they stared. Robin gazed in half interest half.. something else. Brook let out a small cry and Franky grits his teeth as he steps closer to the weaker crew members.
Zoro and Sanji frowns at this running in the middle of the room, they was not following them, instead they was all looking towards the far corner of the room. The swordsman and chef spun around, seeing what everyone was looking at.
By the open window was a large man hunched over, he had rat like features. A long hairy tail, long face with twin yellow teeth hanging out of the end, claw like hands held the window frame. Behind the man they stare a ship sailing along side Sunny.
"Greetings Straw Hats!" The rat man squeaks and hisses out, "I am Captain Ratamore! Of the Rat Fest Pir-"The man fell backwards as something hit him square in the chest, he clung onto the windows and pulls himself up. "WHAT YOU DOING! I HAVEN'T FINISHED!"
Usopp stood tall ready to fire again if needed, Zoro and Sanji was already stalking towards the man. The rest slowly marched behind.
"Oi oi!" The rat man squeaks showing them his fist, "If you attack me you'll never know what happened to your captain!" They halted and wait for the man to carry on, he smirks nastily at them all, "Your captain was bitten! Brbrhahahahahah – ow..ow... ow ..." The man held his head, the nose long marksman had hit him again.
"Said it." Zoro hisses out murderously causing the rat man to flinch; in fact every crew member was giving him a death glare.
"I is a rat see!" Ratamore says regaining his smirk, "Anyone I bite or my babies bite, will become my slave and a rat man like me! Your captain is mine! My slave! Brbrhahahahahah!"
The Straw Hats were all enraged by these words.
"So how do we change our captain back?" Robin says with a surprisingly kind smile, knowing that this man liked to hear himself talk.
"Kill me and all my rat!" Ratamore says loudly as he continues smirking, "I have a connection with every rat of mine, even if you kill this body, I can clone myself from one of my babies! Your captain is mine and there is nothing you can do about it! Brbrhahahahahah!"
Then Captain Ratamore leaped out of the window and disappeared from sight.
"Come on!" Nami shouts to them and they all ran to where Sanji was standing, by the open door.
"There is lot of noise going on down-" Sanji suddenly fell backwards as everything went black. Around him the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates fell into darkness.
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The Straw Hat Pirates walked into the grassy deck on Sunny and saw their captain. Straw Hat Luffy was covered in blood, but this was not the thing that made their breathe get caught.
Luffy was hunched over, his spine seemed to have bumps there; his face was staring to lengthen and his eyes had moved slightly backwards onto the sides, they were a bright red that shone in the light. Twin white teeth was just starting to point their way out of his mouth, and his hands was shaking badly as nails gave way to claws.
The jeans he was wearing were not fully up, because his new tail had form had stopped him from pushing them to the top.
Squeaks of what seemed like shouts came from his mouth as he faced Ratamore. The other pirate captain did not liked whatever Luffy was saying, because he man was fuming.
There was rat like men everywhere holding up pistol and swords, their eyes was lifeless and dull.
'Your captain was bitten! .. My slave!.. Kill me and all my rat!.. I can clone myself' Those words floated around their minds, to save Luffy they would have to kill every last rat.
'Luffy is going to become like that?' Nami thought as she readied herself and moves onwards. She harden her mind and heart for what she was about to do.
'I'll kill them all!' Zoro thinks as he bite into his third sword, he marches on heading to the first rat he saw.
'Luffy...' Usopp screams in his mind in fear and panic at the sight of his friend, instead of walked forwards, knowing if he fails Luffy would stay like that,
'Luffy needs a doctor! But first...' Chopper changes forms to his heavy point, he takes his eyes off of Luffy and hurries along with the others.
'Kill kill kill kill kill.' It was like a chant in Robin's mind as she stares darkly at the rat men and rats around the deck.
'This is going to leave a mess behind.' Franky though as he thinks about the aftermath with no doubt in his mind that his crew members wouldn't one rat broken.
'Luffy-san...' Brook was letting off a killer aura as he strolls forwards, empty sockets faced his captain as he saw the movement around him.
Luffy squeaks something else, the way his lips curled up told them that he was still him inside.
"I'd like to see you try!" Captain Ratamore screams at he pointed at Luffy, "Finished him! He is already weak from blood lost!"
Suddenly the Straw Hats surrounded their captain making those around them squeak in surprise; they stared at their captain close up. They could no longer control their emotions, slowly they all turned slowly towards the other crew.
Zoro rushes at them first. And the others followed. They attacked the rats and rat men with vengeance.
The rat like Luffy stood blinking and staring around at his crew not understanding anything, not even noticing that his body had changed. That night many rats lost their lives, as did one Ratamore. Luffy and those had also that been bitten become human once again.