Authors' Note:
Darth: Boobies, always with the boobies! Why must Nami be such a tease!?
Con: Because you make it easy. You are easy.
Darth: Hardly. I'm hard! I'm as hard as you can get...ooookaaay...that didn't come out right.
Con: No ... No, it didn't. You're a manwhore.
Darth: Giggitty.
Con: Manwhore.
Darth: Woman...whore...?
Con: Are you calling me a whore?
Darth: ...no?
Con: I will punch you in the face.
Darth: You are powerless against my masochist powers!!
Con: *Punches Dart and moves on* On with the chapter~! Hope you guys enjoy! :3
Charmed
Chapter 7: He Gets Ridiculed
Once his horse was led off the ship, Luffy climbed onto it, and this time, he didn't hold his hand out to help Nami up. Nami frowned deeply at this. He'd never been this upset before. Snorting anyways, she grabbed a hold of the saddle after situating the bottle's nozzle between her fingers and pulled herself up, though with some trouble this time. "Ass," she muttered under her breath after finally getting on.
"Just don't fall off," he muttered in reply as they took off towards the library. Leaning forward a bit with a deeper frown so as not to fall off, she then huffed and looked to the side, not really caring if her chest was touching his back. Teach the little bastard a lesson ... Luffy found himself fighting to stay awake. As his eyes slid shut, he thought, 'It's getting stronger ...'
"Are we there yet?" she asked, her voice etched with boredom and irritation as she took another swig of the wine.
A snore was her only answer.
Her lips pursed immediately as she leaned back and smacked him across the head, "Oye! Wake up, stupid!"
"Huh? Wha ..?" he was startled, "Is it morning?"
"No! You're just an idiot!"
"Shut up," he yawned. "Is your fault," he muttered and shook his head to clear it.
"No, I like that you're an idiot more! And don't tell me to shut up, you asshole!" she exclaimed, leaning back and taking another drink.
"Give me that," he growled and reached back to pull the wine bottle from her. "You've had enough to drink."
"What the hell!? You give that back!" she yelled, reaching around him to grab it, all the while pressing herself against him again, "I'm not drunk, you idiot!"
"But you are being ..." he trailed off, starting to snore again.
"Being what!? My usual bitchy self!? Good! Damn it, are you listening to me!? Wake up!" she said, smacking him again.
"Oww," he sat up straight, "Stop pressing against me!" People were starting to stare at the bickering couple on the horse.
"Well give me my wine back, asshole!" she said, pressing a palm into this back to keep her chest off him, but still reaching around for the wine.
"No," he insisted, glad she was keeping her breasts off him, even if they were deliciously soft. "You and wine are a bad combination."
"You have no idea what you're talking about," she said in a low voice. "The wine has nothing to do with this," she said, but leaned back and stopped trying to get it.
"I'll give it back to you if you behave." He stuck the wine in a pocket inside his robe. "Or would you rather I start behaving like an actual kidnapper?"
She began to move around and said quickly, "I want off this horse ..."
"Not until we get there," he ordered. "I don't want us slowing down."
"I said I want off!" she said, and instead of waiting for it to stop, she tried to get off herself, but ended up falling off, "Aah!" she exclaimed as she fell and hit the ground, but she didn't let it faze her as she stood up and began walking away from him.
He sighed and stretched his arm after her. He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back. "We're almost there," he said. "So bear with me, all right?"
"Let go of me!" she screeched, struggling against his arms, "I can't stand you!"
"And you're giving me a headache," he said and cast a spell of silence on her.
Her eyes widened, for when she tried to speak, no sound came out. She even screamed and dug her nails into his arms, but there was no sound. She was furious as she struggled against him. "Ow," he muttered as she scratched him while struggling. "Stop that!" he said, holding her tight. However, after awhile, she ended up just falling asleep, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Not too much longer and they were by the library. He climbed off the horse, shaking Nami to wake her.
When she was woken up, she blinked her eyes awake, but then frowned, looking over at him. "What do you want ...?"
"We're there," he said, jabbing his thumb at the library behind them.
Huffing a bit, she slid off the horse, and then pushed passed him none too gently as she approached the library. Letting it slide, he just followed a long behind her. The library was a tall imposing building. Inside were high vaulted ceilings, stacked to the top with book shelves. A relatively young librarian was sitting behind the main desk. When they walked up to the desk, she looked up at them and smiled. "Can I help you with anything?"
"Yeah," Luffy pulled out his mage license. "We need to see the restricted area, the latent magical talent section."
Nami stayed behind a bit and just looked around at all the books. She wouldn't mind having a look around to see what kinds of books they had.
"Of course," the librarian smiled, "This way please." She stepped out from behind the counter, and led the way, somehow managing to be sexy despite her plain, functional clothes. Nami blinked after the practical yet beautiful woman and followed after them. Could she be that practical and still be that beautiful?
The Librarian pulled out a key from the ring of keys hanging by her side. After selecting a specific one, she opened a door in a corner of the library. "This is the restricted area, reserved for mages and wizards. I hope you can find what you're looking for." She bowed, showing a small amount of cleavage, even through her buttoned up blouse. Nami turned to look at the woman, but then her eyes turned to slits as she looked over at Luffy, knowing he would be looking down the woman's blouse.
Luffy was instead already heading into the smaller room, pulling out books at what appeared to be random. "Thanks," he called back to the librarian.
Nami blinked a bit with a purse, somehow irritated that he chose not to do it this time. Maybe she did get him upset. Shrugging it off with a huff, she then walked in. "Thanks..." she muttered, walking in and going in another direction.
Several hours later, and Luffy still hadn't found anything. "Dammit," he muttered, slamming a particularly large tome shut.
"Wow," breathed out Nami, her eyes glued to the tome of spells she was reading, "This stuff is," she started, but paused, flipping the page to read the next thing.
"Eh?" He looked up at her. "Did you find anything?"
"Ah," she said, pressing the book to her chest, "N-Not ... really ... I was just ... reading ..." she said with a shrug and turned away from him, still not ready yet to really be socializing with him.
He sighed and leaned back, rubbing the bridge of his nose. So far he hadn't found anything that described what had been going on with Nami. It wasn't quite mind control, as the men still seemed to be in control of themselves, just heavily inclined towards doing what she wanted. It was nothing like what that slaver had done. When he took control of Nami she'd completely lost control over her body as well as her personality and awareness. As far as he could tell, the men were aware of exactly what they were doing the whole while through. He'd even tried looking into enchantments and curses that could have been placed on her that would have that same effect … but nothing.
And he'd had even less luck trying to find something that would explain how she could break the spell on him. There were plenty of curse breaking abilities out there, and several curses and enchantments that could counter other spells and curses, but nothing that explained why it only worked when he was touching her breasts, though he had to admit, that Nami's ability had to be the most awesome ability out there.
The only thing he'd discovered was something about the heart, an old legend that mentioned a woman with a similar ability, but in the end it had turned out to just be a love story between the woman and the one man that she couldn't control. It had ended with both of them dying, but then all the romances ended like that.
He picked up another book and thumbed through it, but still no luck.
Nami bit her lip as she continued to read through the books she'd found. Could a person really control weather, or even lightning, and there were some that could even control ice and fire. Luffy had mentioned once about his brother being better at using fire. If she really did have some magic ability, could she control some of these? It explained that some were better at others, like as if they could only control a certain element of sorts. What could she do?
Glancing out of the window, Luffy could see that the sun was already starting to go down. He remembered that they hadn't even found a place to stay. His stomach growled and he stood up, stretching. Blinking her eyes, Nami read over some incantations. "Incredible," she whispered to herself, but then pouted, "Aww ..." 'Only works outdoors,' it read. "That's lame," she said, but then read the incantation out loud, but in a whisper, anyways. There was a soft rumble of thunder outside, and she blinked. "Eh?" she questioned, lifting her head, "Was it going to rain today ...?" However, she saw Luffy getting up and shrugged, slamming the book shut. She was pretty hungry and figured he was too.
Luffy shrugged. "I don't think it was supposed to. Anyways, we need to find a place to stay and something to eat."
"Right," she muttered, setting the book down. However, she kept her hand on it, and a strange sensation shot through it. Gasping, she yanked her arm back, staring down at the book before slowly turning towards Luffy, but kept her eyes on the book. After she was fully turned, she blinked, staring off ahead before just shrugging it off and following after Luffy.
He looked behind himself. "Eh? What happened?"
"N-Nothing," she said, walking towards the exit without looking at him and just walking out.
When they left, the librarian was putting away some books near the entrance, and when they approached, she looked up. "Did you find what you wanted?" she asked with a gentle smile.
Luffy shook his head. "No, no luck."
Nami was looking off to the side, appearing bored as she looked at all the books. She was more interested in those magic books now, and actually couldn't wait to read some more. "Well," said the librarian, "Perhaps I could help you find what you need next time?"
"Really?" Luffy grinned brightly. "That would be great. We should be back here tomorrow."
Nami yawned and stretched. "I want to stay some place nice this time," she suddenly said, referring to the fact that they would be coming back the next day, and implying they would need to stay somewhere.
The librarian looked at the orange haired young woman curiously and asked, "Oh, you don't have anywhere to stay yet?"
"Mm, nope ... We came here first so that the idiot could find out why my breasts put him to sleep," she said, cupping her breasts, not caring if she embarrassed said idiot.
The librarian tilted her head, looking at Nami's chest. "I don't see why they should. They look perfectly fine to me." Luffy looked away quickly, his face red.
"Yeah, I think so too ... I think he's just an idiot," she said, thumbing towards Luffy, though she was laughing in her mind.
"Not my fault," muttered Luffy. "It's a curse."
The librarian laughed lightly. "I see."
"Oh!" said Nami suddenly, her lips in the shape of an 'o' and her expression appearing innocent as she looked at Robin. "Not my breasts~!" she assured, pointing down at them, "They're not the curse," then she gave a wink, "They're the cure, you see."
Luffy's face went bright red, and he turned away from the two women completely, even walking away a bit.
"Oh? Really?" The librarian raised an eyebrow, delicately. She noticed what the woman was doing, and decided to join in. "I wonder if it works for others as well?"
"No, no, you see!" continued Nami, enjoying herself quite a bit, "It only works on him! He's the one with the curse! All he has to do as touch them and poof!" she exclaimed, making the motions, "He's snoring and drooling all over them!"
"Oh? The snoring is unusual, but I've found that the drooling happens anyway, curse or no curse." The librarian chuckled.
Nami chuckled with her. "It's quite amusing~! Would you like to see?" she asked, smiling brightly.
"It would be a sight to see," she said and glanced over at Luffy.
"Maybe when we come back, right Luffy?" said Nami, beaming at him, completely innocent, "Oh, and my name is Nami!" he said, sticking out her hand to shake.
"Robin," said Robin, shaking Nami's hand. "And if you don't have any place to stay, you're welcome to my place."
"Ooh, really?" asked Nami, blinking at her quite genuinely this time, but then she smiled, "That would be wonderful! We're trying to save money, you see! Well, at least I'm trying to now. The idiot has already slaved his share out of me, and thus I have bought my freedom, but now I must save for money to rebuild my village, which he destroyed," she said, thumbing at Luffy again.
"Oi!" exclaimed Luffy, slapping the air. "I'm the one that did all the work!"
Robin gave him a skeptical look. "I see..."
Nami turned to him with bored eyes and a small smile. "Which would have been a lot harder for you to do without me ..." But then she touched a hand to her cheek, "Oh, but what am I saying ...? That's only for people who don't kidnap innocent girls and tell them to work to pay off a debt said kidnapper thinks the innocent girl owes, even though he's the careless idiot, who destroyed her entire village in the process ..." She sighed quickly with a shrug, "Anyways, I'm hungry ... Let's find some food," she said, walking passed Robin to go outside.
Robin frowned, "Kidnap?"
"Aheheheh," chuckled Luffy nervously. "It's a long story." He followed after Nami to go find food. Robin watched them as she followed, closing the library doors behind her. They certainly were interesting, and the boy definitely didn't act like a kidnapper, nor did she act like a kidnappee.
"I feel like noodles," said Nami, looking back and forth, frowning a bit as she vaguely realized the skies were clear with only a few clouds, 'What was that thunder earlier ...?'
"There is a nice little place, just down the road," Robin gestured. "And it's not too far from where I live."
Nami turned a bright smile to her and said, "Sounds great! Lead the way."
"Ee," Robin led them down the street to where the restaurant was. Once there the waiter showed them to a table, smiling at Robin who was somewhat of a regular customer.
"Ooh, this place looks really nice~!" said Nami, placing her hands on her hips as she looked around.
The waiter caught sight of Nami, and hearts formed in his eyes. "We're glad to please," he exclaimed and bowed lowly, holding out a chair for Nami. "Please, order whatever you want, dearest princess." Robin was surprised at the waiter's reaction. He'd flirted with her in the past before, but never anything as severe as this.
Nami laughed a little nervously while rubbing her head, but took a seat and said, "Thank you~!"
"Anything for you," he wiggled, much like Sanji. "What can I bring you?"
"I'm in the mood for some noodles~! Bring me the best you have as long as it has noodles. Oh! And some wine please," she said, beaming at the man, "Maybe some breadsticks too ..."
"I'll have the same," Robin told the waiter, who smiled at her, but not as enthusiastically as at Nami.
"Isn't there anything but noodles on this menu?" Luffy frowned. "Whatever, I'll have-hey, where are you going?"
"Ah!" Nami said, grabbing his coat tails, though she did giggle. She'd been tempted to just let him go, but hey, the man had to eat, right, "Something for him too ..."
"Thanks," Luffy muttered to Nami. "Just whatever they're having," he told the waiter, still annoyed.
"Of course," the waiter said, turning, while frowning at Luffy. Why did he get to be with the beautiful woman?
After the waiter had left Robin turned to Nami. "I take it this is part of what you're trying to research?"
Nami smiled at Robin, her cheek rested in her palm. "Yup," she said with a giggle, "My whole life and nothing like that has ever happened before ... Next thing you know, this idiot comes along ... and it starts happening ... That and my breasts put him to sleep when he's not supposed to be able to sleep ..."
"So there must be some kind of connection between his appearance and your new abilities?"
"Mmm, that's what I figured anyways ..." said Nami with a shrug.
"Hmm..." Robin thought for a moment. "Well, exposure to strong magic has been known to awaken latent magical abilities."
'Strong magic?' "Oh? So, is that what it is? Magic? Do I really have magical abilities? But what kind is it? That's another thing we're trying to figure out," said Nami, sighing deeply to herself.
Robin shrugged. "I have no idea what it could be. Sounds quite silly, breasts that break a curse, and men doing everything you want? Must be convenient though."
"It is silly! But most definitely convenient~!" said Nami, beaming at her.
Robin smiled and then glanced at Luffy. "And you? What kind of curse is this?"
"Just something that was cast on me by Moria, before I beat him," he muttered.
Robin gasped. "Moria? You defeated the Shadow Lord Moria?"
Nami blinked, looking between them and asked, "Moria? Who's he?"
"Moria was a very powerful sorcerer," Robin said. "He built a massive zombie army, and was going to take over the known world. He was ruthless, and completely evil."
Nami blinked before looking over at Luffy and asked, "He's the one that cursed you?"
"Yeah," said Luffy and nodded.
"They said that he stole people's shadows," added Robin.
"Hmm," hummed Nami, and that was all she said as she moved her head to the side, which was still rested in her palm.
"He'd use the shadows and put them in corpses," Luffy picked up the story. "Anyone who had their shadow stolen, couldn't go out into the sun light, otherwise they would burst into flame."
"Sounds painful ..." said Nami, yawning a bit.
"It was," said Luffy.
She snorted and said, "You got your shadow stolen? Sounds like something an idiot would get done to him ..."
"Yeah?" Luffy frowned at her, why had he thought she was cute? "I'd like to see you do better against a zombie army."
Her brow quirked then as she turned a smirk on him and said, "Would you now?"
"Yup," he said and his brow twitched. "And then when you lose you'll be all like, 'Help me Luffy!' but I'll say 'No!'"
She burst into laughter then, slamming her hand into the table and said, "Oooh, that's great! You're so full of shit!"
Luffy's eyebrow twitched. He was about to say something when Robin cleared her throat. He glanced at her and just looked away from the table, a frown on his face. The waiter approached their table, with the three orders of noodles, and some wine. Luffy stared down at his food and started picking at it dispiritedly. "Can I get anything else for you, my goddess," the waiter asked Nami.
"Nope, this will do, thanks so much~!" She said, beaming brightly at the young waiter.
"Aaah, I live to serve you~!" The waiter moved off.
"Right, thanks," muttered Nami, beginning to eat her food.
"So," said Robin after a while, "how did you two meet exactly?"
"I told you. I hired the idiot to get rid of someone … who had enslaved us ..." she said, pointedly as she looked at Luffy with a glare, " And he stopped him all right ... but destroyed our village while he was at it. I refused to pay-He kidnapped me," she said all in one sentence as she thumbed at Luffy.
Robin frowned at Luffy, who was not looking at either of them. "You're really serious? I thought you were joking. He doesn't seem like the kidnapping type, nor do you seem like the kidnapped type either."
Nami snorted and rolled her eyes. "I haven't exactly been making it easy, isn't that right, kidnapper?" she asked, rolling her eyes to Luffy, "He made a deal with me to help him get the money he'd lost when I refused to pay him so he didn't go back empty handed, and in the process, I will also make money to rebuild my village. I don't really have much choice, but to agree, right? After we gather it all, I'm free to go ... Though, I guess I could go now, but it wouldn't be worth all I had to go through with the jerk ..."
Luffy had calmed down a little bit. "Sorry, couldn't help it, guild policy." He leaned back against his chair, having finished his meal.
"Well, your guild is horrible ... I'll remember to never hire anyone from it again," she said, standing up and taking the bottle, "You can handle the rest ... I'm going to wait outside ..."
"Can I get anything else for you?" The waiter approached Nami as she was on her way out.
"Sure ... make the meal free," she muttered before pushing her way out, not looking at him at all.
"Of course, my dearest," said the waiter.
As soon as she was outside, she tilted her face to the cool air with her eyes closed. She didn't feel very good. She knew it wasn't the wine, but her stomach was churning.
Once Nami had left, Robin turned to look at Luffy. "What was the name of your guild?"
"Devil's Fist," said Luffy.
Robin's eyes widened, and turned to look where Nami had left. "She got off easy then, didn't she?" She turned to look at Luffy again.
"Yeah ..." he replied quietly and then he stood up to follow after Nami with Robin right behind him.
As Luffy pulled out his money, the waiter waved them off. "The beautiful lady said the meal was on the house."
Luffy watched him as they left. He still seemed to have his free will, and the spell was still active despite the fact that Nami was no longer present. Nami was standing some distance away, the wind blowing at her loose strands of hair and her expression was soft and relaxed as she stared up towards the sky. The sleeves and skirt of her dress also softly drifted in flow of the wind, and her arms hung loosely at her sides, though she was still clutching the nozzle of the wine bottle.
Pausing just outside the door way, Luffy's expression softened as he watched Nami. Robin also stopped, and glanced at Luffy. She took note of his expression as he watched Nami. "Ah," she said, "I see ..."
"What do you see?" asked Luffy, looking up at Robin.
"Nothing," said Robin, moving off towards Nami.
At hearing their voices, but not their words, Nami's brows dipped as she opened her eyes a bit, her tranquility broken. Sighing, she then slowly turned to them, keeping her frown. "Shall we?" asked Robin.
"Yes ... we shall," replied Nami, turning away again and waiting for Robin to lead the way.
Robin led them along the street, away from the library, into a cozy neighborhood with decent sized apartments and then up the steps to the upper floor of one of the buildings. Unlocking the door by waving her hand over the keyholeless lock, she opened the door and ushered them through. "It's not much," she said, "but make yourselves at home."
"Thank you for letting us stay here," said Nami, genuinely as she looked around the neat and tidy place with a small smile, and then she spied all of the books, "That's a lot of books. May I?"
"Of course," Robin nodded. "I have a habit of reading anything I can find."
Going to the bookcase, Nami skimmed the spines before running her fingers over them, but she felt that same sensation, sort of like a spark. Gasping, she pulled her hand away and stepped back away from the books. However, she hadn't felt the sensation until her fingers had touched a specific book, her eyes staring right at it.
"Did you find something?" asked Robin to Nami, standing next to her and looking at the books.
"Ah ... well ... I ..." started Nami, still staring at the book, but then she turned and laughed nervously while rubbing the back of her head, "N-No ... it's nothing ..."
"Oh?" Robin pulled out the book she'd seen Nami looking at. "Are you sure?"
She chuckled nervously again and said, "I-I just ... got a static shock is all!"
"From a book?" Robin giggled. "Did you know that magic books react to the people most suited to using them?"
"Ah, what?" asked Nami with a blinked, staring at the woman with owlish eyes.
"You felt it, didn't you?" asked Robin, "The magic in the book calling to you?" She handed it to Nami. "Give it a look."
Nami's lips parted a bit, blinking twice rapidly before looking down at the book. Reaching out slowly, she took the book in her hands, but the spark was stronger this time. Gasping louder, she dropped the book, just staring down at it widely. Robin smiled, and picked the book up. "I haven't seen a reaction this strong in a while." She set the book on the table. "Perhaps you would prefer to read it at the table?"
"I," started Nami, bringing a knuckle to her lips while still staring at the book, "I ... got one ... like that ... back at the library ... It ... wasn't as strong, but ... it ... it had all sorts ..." Then she pointed at the book on the table, still staring at it, "What ... does it have?"
"This one," Robin opened it to the first page, "contains basic weather manipulation spells."
Nami tilted her head slightly. "Weather ...?" she repeated quietly before taking a few steps forward and looking down at the page.
"Yes," said Robin. "This book contains the basic starting spells for the discipline. However," she pulled another book out of the shelf, "it does not have the basic principles of casting spells."
Luffy sat in a chair in the corner, reading a book he'd found on advanced body manipulation spells. Currently he was reading about hardening body parts to steel like strength, and changing the shape of the body, as opposed to the stretching he did.
"Ooh," breathed Nami, slowly sitting at the table as she looked over the pages. "S-So then ... I-I do ... have magic power?" she asked, just as quietly, finally tearing her eyes away to look up at Robin.
Robin smiled at the younger woman. "It would appear so. Has anything happened recently that might suggest what your abilities are?"
"I-No," replied Nami with a soft frown. "That's what we're trying to figure out ..."
"I see ..." Robin handed her the basic principles book. "This book will teach you the basics. Perhaps once you start learning those you will be able to further understand your abilities," Robin hesitated, "If you want, I could help you practice ..."
Nami's expression brightened into a smile. "Really?"
"If you want me to," Robin smiled. "I would be glad to help."
Nami closed her eyes and tilted her head into the smile. "Thanks~! That would be really great!" she said, taking the book, but gasped. "Mm," she said, blinking down at the book, but then smiled nervously, "Guess I should get used to that, huh?"
Robin chuckled. "Once you start learning from it, the reaction should be less severe, and you'll eventually get to the point where you can't feel it at all."
"Oh, well, that's good," said Nami with a smaller smile as she opened the book and set it down, beginning to read it.
Robin left her to it, while she went to the slot next to her door and sorted through her mail. In the corner Luffy held up his hand and recited an incantation he had just learned from the book he was reading. His hand elongated and formed into a blade. "Cool," said Luffy, admiring his sword-hand.
Nami bit her lip as she read the basics. It all seemed easy, but if the magic was unstable, then so would the spells cast. One had to control their own power in order to properly cast a spell. Well, how did one learn to control it? She frowned deeply with a sigh.
As they did their own thing, Robin went into the kitchen to make some tea. Once it was ready, she came back into the living room and offered a cup to Nami. "Oh, thank you," said Nami, smiling up at her gratefully before taking a sip, "Mm, this is delicious."
"You're welcome," she said. "I'm glad you like it." She then handed one to Luffy, who had turned his whole arm into a sword.
"Ah, thanks," said Luffy trying to grab it with his metal hand.
"Perhaps you should turn your arm back to normal?"
"Ah, right," said Luffy absently, changing his arm back to normal. "Thanks," he said, taking the cup, still reading the book.
"Robin," called Nami, sipping her tea while still reading her book.
"Ah?" Robin held the tray to her chest and walked over to Nami. "Yes?" She stood next to her, looking at the page she was reading.
"Mm, how does one control their abilities? It says the magic has to be stable. How do I know if it is or not?" she asked, looking up at her with a soft frown.
"Well," said Robin. "If the spell explodes in your face, then you know for a fact that it wasn't stable."
Nami's brow twitched and her smile was crooked. "Ah ... right ..." she said before looking back down at the book. "Can I see the book with the incantations?"
"Of course," Robin handed her the book. "One thing to keep in mind is that you are facilitating the flow of the energy. Don't fight against it, but direct its flow."
"All right," said Nami, taking the book from Robin and opening it. "Oh, this is the same incantation from the other book that I was reading," she said, whispering it out loud again, but then jumped at the slightly louder crack of thunder over head. Looking up, her eyes widened before looking up at Robin, "Oops ..."
Robin smiled and opened the window. "Thunder from clear skies, not bad."
"So that was you earlier?" A voice that sounded like Nami's said. Luffy had the book open in his lap, his head transformed to look like Nami's.
Blinking wide eyed, Nami looked over at him before frowning deeply. "What the hell're you doing!?"
Luffy repeated the incantation, and shifted his head to look like a horse's. "Just trying out a new spell I learned from this book," he held up the book he'd taken from the shelf. "I haven't figured out how to transform my whole body yet."
"Stop it! It's creepy! And don't use me! Last thing I need is for you to do perverted things to yourself while looking like me!" she said, whirling about the other way to continue reading the incantations.
Bringing up a knuckle, Robin just laughed, finding the two most interesting. Luffy returned his head to normal, and tried again, this time transforming into a houseplant. Nami turned to look at him over her shoulder before bursting into laughter. "You should stay that way! At least that way, you can't open your mouth, and you look nicer! More useful too! You spruce up the place!"
Still a plant, Luffy stuck a leaf out at her like it was his tongue. Robin also turned to look at him and laughed. Most interesting indeed. The leaf sticking out only stirred Nami's laughter, making her do it harder as she slammed her hand down on the table. "You're such an idiot!"
The pot the plant was in disappeared and the roots grew into legs. The leaves rustled in a way that sounded like a, "hmph" and the Luffy Plant turned around to ignore her, walking over into the corner that didn't have a chair. This only made her bawl with laughter, tears coming to her eyes, "Oh gawd! This is great! Just too much!"
After a moment the Luffy Plant went back to where he left the book. He looked at the page it was open to and then turned the page. He then turned another page and another. After a moment, she finally calmed down with a deep and cheery sigh before going back to her book, "I wonder if I could make it rain ..."
"I'm sure Mage-kun would appreciate that," said Robin with a laugh.
In the corner, the Luffy Plant was turning pages more frantically, slightly hindered by not really having arms. Nami burst into laughter then before turning to Luffy, and noticing this, "I'm sorry ... Are we ruffling you up a bit!? Or maybe rustling is the more appropriate word!" she said before bursting out into more laughter.
The plant shook, and continued turning pages. "You having a little trouble there? You're looking a little less green ..." continued Nami, releasing a giggle this time. The plant stopped by a certain page on the book, paused for a moment. A pair of woody arms grew out of the plant. The plant looked down at the arms and then scratched at what would be the top of his head.
Nami released a series of giggles to this. "You look ridiculous!" she said before turning around, "Now, let's see about some rain for Woody over there," she said before finding the page and reading the incantation out loud. There was a light tap on the window, and soon more taps followed as raindrops softly pelted the glass. She could hear complaints from the people outside, who hadn't been expecting rain. Nami only giggled, "How long will it last?" she asked, looking outside.
"Hmm," Robin looked at the page. "At this level of power, probably only a minute at the most."
Luffy Plant picked up a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote something on it and walked over to place it on the table.
Blinking a bit, Nami shifted her eyes to the paper before pouting a bit at Luffy. Reaching out, she pulled it to her and read it.
On the paper read, "Do you know where the rest of the counter spell is?"
Her brow quirked up in question. "Counter spell? What're you talking about?" she asked, the rain still pelting the glass.
He took the note and wrote, "For the shape shifting spell. The rest of the spell is smudged out ..."
Nami blinked before looking up at him. "Are you stuck like that ...?"
The plant nodded, or rustled. Her lips twitched a few times before humor could be read all over her face, and then she burst into more laughter. Not being able to help herself, Robin also laughed, but took the book, opening it to the right page, where the spell was indeed smudged and said, "Oh, this spell," she chuckled.
"That's why you gotta look before you leap!" said Nami, still laughing to her heart's content. The Plant shook its fist at Nami. "Oooh, and what're you gonna do to me like that, huh?" she asked in a baby coo, "Are you gonna shed your leaves on me!?" she said, still laughing ... and it was still raining outside.
Luffy Plant grew several leaves from his arm, and reached up tickle Nami's chin and nose.
"Oye!" she said, leaning back, but then she kept laughing, "Is that the best you can do?" she asked, still in her baby coo, "It's almost cute~! But, no, it's quite pathetic~!"
Luffy Plant took another piece of paper and wrote on it. "You will pay!"
This only made her go into another bout of laughter. "Sure, sure!" she said, waving her hand from side to side, but then looked at the window and blinked a bit, "Is it raining harder?"
Robin looked up from the book. "Ah, yes, sometimes the power of spells is affected by the caster's emotions. Beneficial spells are affected by joy, while damaging spells are affected by anger."
"Oh ... I see ..." said Nami, tilting her head slightly, "But ... I thought you said it would only last a minute ..."
Robin frowned out the window. "It was supposed to ..."
"Mm ... ah well ... It's just rain," she said with a shrug, but then looked back down at the Luffy Plant, "Sure you don't wanna go outside and wet your roots a little, huh?" she asked, giving him a wink.
Plant Luffy stuck his leaf out at her again and then took the paper again to write on it, "What are you talking about?"
She laughed some more. "Oh, that's cute. You poor boy," she said, shaking her head. "Don't worry your leafy little head about it," she said, patting the top of his leafy ... head.
Robin laughed to this. "Don't make too much fun of him. It's not his fault if he doesn't know what it means," she said with a smile and a giggle.
"No, I guess not~!" said Nami, chuckling a bit more with a hand to her lips and looking at Robin. "Now, how to make the rain stop," she said, looking back down at the book, though she was still smiling, letting Robin help out the ... Luffy Plant.
Robin found the proper passage and chanted the counter spell. Luffy grew out from the plant, and shook his head. "Ugh, that's a terrible spell."
"Well," said Robin. "you shouldn't be transforming into inanimate objects so soon into learning transforming spells."
Nami released a devious little giggle from her place with her back turned to Luffy. Stretching out, Luffy cracked his neck and said, "Oh well, at least I'm getting the hang of this." He transformed his hand into a blade again.
"Good at hanging laundry maybe ... If you grow into a tree, we could hang a line off you ..." she said, giggling some more.
"As long as I can still move, that might be kind of cool."
She snorted into laughter. "You're so stupid. You'd get bored within two seconds."
"Why do you think I was getting so frantic earlier?" he said with a pout. She giggled again, her back still turned.
Luffy yawned and walked around to slouch against the table, sitting down. "Ugh, that took too much energy. I'm exhausted."
"I'm sure being a plant is very tiring ..." said Nami, still reading over her book with an amused smile.
He flopped his head over to the side. "You have no idea ..."
She giggled again. "You're so stupid ..."
"And tired ..." he sighed.
She snorted and laughed a bit to that, "You're not even denying it?"
"Too tired ..." he yawned.
She sighed and closed the book. "I take it that's your way of saying you want to sleep ..."
"Mah ..." he mumbled into the table, more exhausted than ever before. He was dangerously low on his energy.
"Haah ..." she exclaimed, setting the book down before turning to Robin and asked, "How big is your spare bed?"
"Big enough for one person," she set her own book aside. "But mine can fit two, you can use it."
"Ah, thanks … and sorry," said Nami, giving a bit of a nervous smile before lifting Luffy up, but careful not to let her breasts brush against him, "Come on, you idiot ... Let's go ..." she said before turning to Robin again, "Which way, please?"
"This way," said Robin, leading them to her bedroom. "I'm curious to see this."
Nami chuckled nervously, but said, "Ah yeah ... I went through that faze too ..." she said, following Robin into the bedroom and then going in. She helped Luffy into the bed before lifting his arm. "Ready?" she asked Robin with a smile.
"Yes," replied Robin and raised a skeptical eyebrow, with a mysterious smile.
Looking back down at Luffy, Nami gave him a big smile before brushing his arm across her chest.
Luffy blinked, confused at her smile, but as soon as his arm made contact with her chest, his eyes drooped and he started snoring. This made Robin hum, and then she said, "Interesting."
"Uh huh!" replied Nami with a strain as she tried to hold him up. Then she eased him down into the bed, but then lifted up his legs into the bed to remove his boots. "Works like a charm every time ..."
"I see," Robin glanced down at the sleeping mage. "So how long does it last for?"
"Only a few hours without direct contact ... Maybe two or three ... and then he wakes up ... So ... that means ... I have to sleep with him ..." she said with a deep sigh, removing the covers from under him with trouble to cover him.
"Ah," Robin laughed lightly. "I can see how that would be inconvenient."
"Yes, very ... You have no idea," muttered Nami, dropping his boots into a corner with a sigh while facing her and putting her hands on her hips. "And now I shall change since he's asleep ..."
"Very well," Robin turned to leave. "Do you need anything else?"
Nami chuckled. "No, I think you have done enough for us already," she said, but looked around. "I need to get my things from the front."
"Oh, of course," she smiled. "I'm glad to help."
"Ah, no! I can get it!" she said, following her out and leaving Luffy there. "You just have no idea how inconvenient this is for me ... It's very uncomfortable, and I always wake up in ... awkward ways. It's bad enough he's such an idiot, but a real pervert-Ugh! I really can't stand him! It was great earlier when he was stuck as a plant," she said with another giggle. "He really should do that more often," she said as she knelt in front of her bag to get her nightdress.
"I see," said Robin.
After they left, Luffy started rolling around in his sleep. In his dream, he could see Nami walking away from him. "Nami, wait!" She turned around, her face asking him, 'Why?' Behind her, the darkness grew thicker and started to swallow her up. "Nami!" yelledLuffy, running forward but growing further away. The darkness swallowed Nami up whole. "Nami!" he screamed, sitting straight up in bed.
Not hearing Robin's words, Nami gasped loudly and quickly looked towards the room. Without giving it a second thought, she surged to her feet and rushed towards Robin's room and to Luffy. "Luffy!" she cried, running into the room and looking over at him.
Luffy looked up at her, breathing heavily. "You're still here ..." he whispered and sighed in relief, closing his eyes. Robin followed Nami into the bedroom and just watched Nami skeptically, seeing as she rushed into the room where Luffy had just yelled from.
"What the hell're you talking about!?" yelled Nami, going over to him and thumping his forehead. "What the hell're you screamin' out my name for, you idiot!" she said, placing her fists to her hips.
"Nothing," groaned Luffy, laying back against the pillow. "Just a nightmare."
"What the hell!? You're having nightmares about me, you ass!? I hope I was torturing you somehow!" she said, storming back out of the room to get her nightdress.
"Can't stand him, can you?" asked Robin sarcastically, and even smirk was gentle.
"What're you talking about now!? Of course I can't! You see that?" she said, pointing back at Luffy without looking at him. "I gotta put up with that nonsense all the time!" she said as she kept going to the main room. "Do you have some place else I can change?"
"Of course," Robin fixed Nami with a skeptical smile."Which was why you ran to his side so fast."
"Well he yelled my name! Scared me!" she said with a huff as she dug into her bag and pulled out her nightdress. "Where can I change?" she asked, turning to Robin with a deep frown.
"The bathroom is just down the corner there," Robin chuckled at Nami's reaction. "Something tells me you care more than you let on."
"I have no idea what you're talking about! I don't give a shit about that rat's ass!" she said, going into the bathroom and slamming the door behind her. "Damn it," she muttered to herself as she paced the bathroom floor. Her heart was still pounding.
"That stupid son of a bitch," she muttered after awhile before taking off her dress to change into her nightdress. Then she left, taking her things to go back to the room, where she knew he was still awake, and ignoring Robin. The woman was obviously daft. Robin just chuckled at her and went to her guest room to prepare for the night.
Luffy opened his eyes, obviously unable to get back to sleep. The dream had shaken him more than he thought it should have. His heart was still racing, and he could barely keep himself from shaking.
Walking up to the bed, she saw the movement of his shaking through the covers. "What the hell is wrong with you?" she asked, climbing into the other side.
"Nothing," he muttered, taking a deep breath.
"Whatever, I don't really care. Turn around," she said, nodding towards the opposite side, and he turned around, like she told him to.
Scooting over more across the bed, she wrapped an arm around him for comfort and then pressed her chest into his back. "Go back to sleep, idiot ..."
"Yeah ..." he whispered and almost instantly fell asleep. Sighing deeply, her breasts pressing more into his back with the breath she took, she then closed her eyes and went to sleep.
To Be Continued …
Authors' Note:
Con: Nightmare, huh? Interesting ... very interesting ...
Darth: Indeed. And only the power of boobies can combat it!
Con: *Punches Dart again* Don't make me hurt you-Oh ... wait ...
Darth: Owww...
Con: It's a wonder the readers are mistaking you for a horny teenager ... Wait, no ... it's not a wonder at all ... *Picks nose*
Darth: Horny teenager...horny nigh-mid-twenties. What's the difference?
Con: Sadly ... none ... Not when it comes to you ... *Sigh*
Darth: I know how to solve this. Step 1: Find a girlfriend. Step 2: ... Any takers?
Con: Step 3: Show just how pathetic you are. Step 4: Watch as all women make a run for it. Step 5: Laugh my ass off. Wait, step 5 is for me ...
Darth: Step 6: Kill everyone...
Con: Step 7: Punch Dart in the face. *Punches Dart* Hope you guys enjoyed~! :D Until next time~!
Darth: I'm not done!
Con: -.-
Darth: Worship me ye female masses!
Con: *Punches him on the head* Until next time ... -_-; *Dares him to get up again*
Darth: Womenz...!
Con: *Smothers him with pillows, not her own pillows ...* Thanks for reading, and again, until next time! XD Ja ne~~!
Darth: Boooobies...
Con: *Clubs him over the head and drags him off*