Luffy and Nami walked out of the casino together with their Pokémons, with Nami still holding Castform in her arms while the full moon shined high above them.
"So where did you get Castform from?" asked Nami.
"In the reception where I received my money. They asked if I wanted to use some of my prize money to buy a Pokémon prize and I looked them over and that one made me think of you" answered Luffy.
"Really? How much did it cost?"
"50.000"
"50.000! Do you know how much that is!" shouted Nami in surprise. She then shrugged it off and nudged him.
"Why did you do that?" asked Luffy confused.
"Cause you're an idiot" said Nami with a smile. Luffy just began to grin and they continued their walk by the railing. Suddenly a sailor came running and said "Excuse me!"
Luffy and Nami turned towards him and Luffy said "Yes?"
The sailor stopped up and had to catch his breath. He then raised his head and asked "Are you Monkey D. Luffy?"
"Yeah" said Luffy, confused on how this guy knew him.
"You have to go to the infirmary immediately! Your crew member Roronoa Zoro is knocked out cold!"
Luffy eyes went wide and he yelled "What! Which way is the infirmary!?"
"Follow me!" said the sailor and the group followed him to the infirmary.
We go back in time to when Luffy and Nami were still playing and follow Zoro.
Zoro and Gabite walked out of the bar since the barkeep said that they weren't allowed to get anymore booze since they had drunk all of the bar's stock. Zoro had deposit the Egg Case in the ships Pokémon Kindergarten. They chose to go to the poop deck instead and look around.
When they arrived saw they a big pool with slide and a swing for some reason. There were no people in sight and this struck Zoro as odd. They walked around the pool a couple of times before they decided to go find Luffy. They were just about to leave the poop deck when a voice called out "Oy"
Zoro looked back and saw a man. He were about a head taller than Zoro and wore a black long sleeved shirt with a V-neck, a pair of grey jeans held up by a white belt, a pair of black combat boots and a black bracelet around his right wrist. He had half-long black hair and crimson eyes. Around his neck was a silver necklace with a black gem pendant. Zoro looked at the man and wondered where the hell he came from. Gabite began to growl at the stranger and tried to intimidate him.
"Who are you and what hole did you crawl out from?" asked Zoro calmly while glaring at the stranger.
"Oh my, you are scary aren't you" said the stranger with a smile on his face. He then took a step forward and Zoro and Gabite got ready to fight.
"What are you doing? I am not that dangerous" said the stranger before he just disappeared. Zoro began to quickly look around before looking at Gabite. Zoro were shocked by the sight that met him. Crouching in front of Gabite was the stranger, lightly patting Gabite's snout. Gabite just stood there completely frozen. When did he get there? Who was he? And why did it feel like if Gabite moved, both of them would be dead?
"What's wrong? Never faced death?" asked the Stranger before his face resembled a skull and a shadow covered all of them. Zoro quickly unsheathed Wado and Gabite readied Dragon Claw. Both of them slashed out, creating a flying cut that tore up the deck and destroyed the pool side, but the Stranger had disappeared again.
"Now now children, you can't ruin the beautiful pool" said the Stranger's voice and Zoro and Gabite looked behind them. There he stood, nonchalant with his back turned towards them and looked at the sky.
"What a beautiful full moon… It makes me want to just give up and surrender everything"
"What the hell are talking about!?" shouted Zoro as he charged the Stranger with all three swords drawn. "Oni Giri!"
The Stranger gave Zoro a glance and held out his left arm.
Clash! Zoro couldn't believe what just happen. The Stranger had seriously blocked all three blades with his left arm and was just fine. The Stranger swung his arm and sent Zoro flying into the pool. Zoro got out of the pool completely drenched. Gabite ran up to him and began to glare at the Stranger.
"Enough! Let's see how strong you really are" said the Stranger and he emitted a pulse. When Zoro were hit by this pulse, began he to sweat bullets. The pressure from the pulse was overwhelming. Zoro looked at his hand and flinched. It was nothing but bones! He looked at his other hand and then down his body. His entire body was nothing but bones! He looked at Gabite, who were in the same state as he and then stared into the pool to see his skull with green hair. He began to throw water on his face but couldn't feel anything. Zoro turned towards the Stranger and was about to charge, when he fell to the floor, almost losing conscious. Gabite soon followed suit and Zoro thought "What the hell is happening? Did I die without realizing it?"
Zoro and Gabite could no longer feel their bodies and were about to lose consciousness when the Stranger closed his eyes. Zoro could suddenly feel his body and jumped up. He checked that everything and saw that his body had returned to normal. He then saw that Gabite also had returned to normal and were just as confused. Fatigue suddenly hit them both and they fell to floor once again. Zoro looked at the Stranger and asked "W-what was that? An illusion?"
"No" answered the Stranger. "More like a 'possibility'"
"A 'possibility'? Do you mean that you are capable of doing that to us?" asked Zoro.
"Pretty much" said the Stranger before he turned around and began to walk away.
"Where are you going!" shouted Zoro and the Stranger turned his head to look at them.
"To the hole I crawled out from. It's not like that you are much of a fight" said the Stranger and continued to walk away.
"Stop!" roared Zoro and the Stranger stopped up. He sighed and looked back. He was surprised by the sight that meets him. Zoro and Gabite stood up again. In Zoro's hand were Wado and Gabite's mouth were filled black and blue flames. Zoro took on a stance of his right foot in front of him, his left foot behind him, both hands on Wado Ichimonji's hilt and his blade pointing at the Stranger. He then raised Wado high above his head, while Gabite used Dragon Rage to cover the blade with black and blue flames. A black aura was emitted from their bodies and the Stranger began to smirk.
"What is your name?" asked Zoro the Stranger.
The Stranger took out a Dusk Ball. Out of it came a Darkrai that began to ready Dark Pulse. It then handed the attack to the Stranger and he took the small black ball with his right hand. It was floating just above the palm of his hand and slowly began to grow. The Stranger then held it out towards Zoro and said "You can call me Lucifer"
"Roronoa Zoro!" said Zoro and then swung his blade down. "Dairyū no Hōkō!*"
A massive inferno of black and blue flames went flying towards Lucifer.
Lucifer held out both his arms, fired a giant black beam from the black ball and shouted "Darkness Pulse!"
The black beam quickly engulfed Zoro's Dairyū no Hōkō and the entire poop deck. When the attack ended was the poop deck no more, with only the lower part of the pool left. Lucien and Darkrai looked into what remained of the pool and saw Zoro and Gabite's bodies floating in the water surface. Darkrai readied another Dark Pulse but Lucien stopped him before he could fire it.
"So, you jumped into the pool to save your hides. Good job" said Lucifer. "If you hadn't, then you would had been dead"
"Hey you!" shouted a voice and Lucifer and Darkrai looked back. It were a group of sailors that came running and Lucien looked back at Zoro and said "Seems like we don't have more time"
Darkness gathered under Lucifer and Darkrai and they slowly disappeared into it.
"Now promise me one thing. Don't die" said Lucifer and they disappeared into the darkness. The sailors were shocked. A man disappeared into darkness were too much to believe.
"Ngh…" sounded and a sailor snapped out of his disbelief and looked into the pool. There he saw Zoro and Gabite and woke up his friends. They got them up of the pool and quickly to the infirmary.
6 hours later.
Zoro woke up in a bed and looked around. He was in one of the ship's infirmaries. In the corner of the room were his swords. Sitting in a couple of chairs next to his bed were Luffy and Nami, sleeping and lying around on the floor of the room slept the various Pokémons of the group. He looked at the bed on the other side of Luffy and Nami and saw Gabite lying in it. Zoro quietly got out of his bed and walked up to Gabite's. He grabbed the nearest chair and sat next to Gabite. He then gentle began to stroking Gabite's snout but Gabite didn't react.
"Are you ok?" asked a voice and Zoro almost jumped. He looked back and saw Nami with a mischievous smile on her face.
"Shit woman, don't startle me like that" said Zoro as he returned to caress Gabite's snout.
"Sorry, sorry" said Nami almost laughing. "But seriously. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. It is not like I got hurt"
"Still, the doctor believed that you were unconscious because of psychological stress like, and I quote after him, fought against the Devil himself"
Zoro looked thoughtful and quietly said "Lucifer…"
"What was that?" asked Nami but Zoro ignored her, which pissed her off.
"Anyway, what is wrong with Gabite?" asked Zoro and Nami stopped her attempt to smash Zoro into the floor.
"The doctor said that he is in a coma. He might not wake up again" said Nami with a sorrowful expression
"What!" shouted Zoro, waking up the Pokémons around him. Monferno looked at Zoro with a serious expression on his face and stopped Riolu from walking up to him. Zoro looked at Gabite as tears formed in his eyes. He then banged his head into the steel wall, making a deep dent. He continued to bang his head into the wall even though Nami and Monferno tried to hold him back. Suddenly somebody grabbed a hold of Zoro's collar and forcible threw him down on the floor. It was Luffy, looking at Zoro with the angriest glare. Zoro glared back as blood poured down from his forehead and a tear escaped his eye.
"What do you think you are doing?" asked Luffy keeping his glare on Zoro.
Zoro kept glaring before turning his head. Luffy grabbed his collar again, raised him up to his eyelevel and roared "What the hell do you think you are doing!?"
"I am doing whatever I want!" roared Zoro and Luffy punched him.
"Luffy!" screamed Nami.
"What good is that going to do for him!?" shouted Luffy while pointing at Gabite.
Zoro still glared at Luffy before getting up and quickly grabbed Wado from the corner. Luffy readied for Zoro to attack him but Zoro didn't even unsheathe Wado. He walked past Luffy and up to Gabite. He then placed Wado next to Gabite and said "If he dies, then so does my dream" before walking out of the room.
"Zoro!" said Nami as she tried to stop him, but didn't succeed.
He left the room, dreading this day.
Lucifer is a demon!
Hi everyone.
Ok, before anyone says anything, Lucifer is not a demon even though I wrote that. He isn't the character from "It was a Sunny Day" either. Some of you might recognize him from my "Dark Born Series" as Nick. Nick is the OC I created for my One Piece Re-Write series and I have plans of using him future fics too.
To say this as short as possible… he is demonically strong. He is so strong that he is seen as one of the strongest members in the organization that he is a part of and all of the members of that organization are demons… or should I say Angles?
Now, I want to thank DR. PLUTON BLACK for his absolute incredible review and I hope that I size up to your expectations in the future, even if I recycle my own characters.
The * section
Dairyū no Hōkō means Grand Dragon's Roar.
I can't speak, read, write or understand Japanese so if this means something else then I am sorry. I used Google Translate to translate this and just chose what sounded coolest.
See you next time.