Bizarre Ending
"What's going on here?"
"Who are those people?"
"They're not from the village."
"I…I think they're humans."
"Humans?"
"But humans aren't allow here."
"Why am I at a waterpark? I was cleaning my house."
"I have a better question. Why is the village a waterpark in the first place?"
"Never mind that. We have to stop those humans."
"Yeah! Let's get them!"
"Attack!"
"Look! Queen Tsunade has arrived! She'll handle these humans!"
"Aw, come on," Luffy said. "We were just having fun a minute ago."
"Run for it!" Nami shouted out when one of the dots in the sky shout out sparks at them. The sparks shout by their heads causing them all to bolt towards the exit, following Naruto's lead.
"We're going to die!" Usopp shouted. "We're going to get thrown in the soul sucking dungeon!"
"Hey! Who's chasing us?!" Chopper asked, looking back over his shoulder as eight people started chasing after them. "They don't look that much older than us! And one of them is Kiba and Akamaru!"
"They're friends of mine!" Naruto said. "They're a lot stronger than they look too! They're some of the best ninjas in the village! So it's natural that Queen Tsunade will send them after you all! Just keep running! You don't want to face them!"
"Ninjas?!" Shachi asked. "Don't you mean fairy ninjas?!"
"Hm?" Naruto gave the man a questioning look. "I guess so. Saying ninja just felt more real."
"What's real is we're being chased by a bunch of nuts who want to kill us!" Usopp said. "Get that wand working!"
"I'm trying!" Naruto said, shaking his wand rapidly.
Several screams erupted out of the group when the ninjas started attacking. Kunai and shuriken flew passed them, landing the grown and in the trees. Nami said, "What are they throwing at us?!"
Suddenly, several strange birds were flying through the air right at them.
"What are those?!" several pirates asked.
"Drawings," Naruto said. "Sai does them. They're not harmless."
"You think?!" Sanji demanded.
"Drawings, huh?" Neo summoned her water crystals. She released a stream of water on the drawings, causing them to dissolve.
"Way to go, Neo!" the pirates cheered.
"Should we split up?" Robin asked.
"We can't," Neo said. "Naruto has to send us all back. If we're separated he can't do that."
"Shadow Possession Jutsu!"
"What?!" Luffy cried when his feet stopped running. "What's going on here?! I can't move!"
"Luffy! Get out of there!" Zoro called back as the rest of the group continued on running without him.
"I can't! I can't move!" Luffy said.
"What?" Zoro asked.
"I can't move!" Luffy shouted.
"That's Shikamaru's Shadow Possession Jutsu," Naruto explained. "He grabs your shadow with his own and you can't move until he lets you go."
"This great! We're so dead!" Usopp cried. "Can't you get that want working again?!"
"Sorry! I don't know why it's not working!" Naruto said. "It's like it died or something. But they don't die. It's impossible."
"What's that rumbling?" Chopper asked just before a large red ball came rolling out of the forest.
"It's Choji!" Naruto said. "He can curl up into a ball like that!"
"He's huge!" Usopp, Brook, and Chopper screamed.
"Jump!" Franky said before the human bowling ball could flatten them as they all jumped out of his way.
"What the heck kind of powers do you all have?!" Sanji demanded as he skidded to a stop.
"We use jutsu along with our magic," Naruto said.
"Well, if it's a fight they want," Zoro said. He pulled out his swords and got ready to attack. Suddenly, he couldn't move either. "What? What's going on? I can't move."
"His shadow!" Robin said.
"It looks like his shadow is extending," Sanji said.
"It's Shikamaru again," Naruto said. He looked over to the forest where Shikamaru was.
"Looks like I'm up!" Sanji said. He ran forward, but before he could attack, he too was caught by Shikamaru's shadows. "Crap!"
"Oh no!" Nami cried. "They've got three of our top fighters!"
"Give it up, Naruto," Shikamaru said. "You've broken the rules. They must be punished."
"No!" Usopp shrieked as he, Brook and Chopper ran around wildly.
"You won't get away," a long blonde haired girl said as she and the rest of the ninjas who were chasing them appeared. "We've got you surrounded and Queen Tsunade has cast a spell on your wand so you can't escape."
"We're in some serious trouble now!" Naruto screamed.
"Law!" Neo said. "Warp us!"
"Room!" Law's Room spread out over them all. "Shambles!"
In a blink the group, most of them, was warped away from their current location. Neo looked around when they appeared again. "No! Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro didn't warp with us!"
"That's not possible!" Law said, panic settling into his eyes.
"You're not getting away!" Sakura shouted as she, Neji, and Hinata fell from the sky. She slammed her fist into the ground, shattering it.
"Look out!" Neo called. She summoned her wind crystals. The wind picked up around them all but before she could save them, an invisible wall appeared around her. She slammed her fists against it. Panic settled into her body and soul upon realizing she was trapped. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and her breathing became labored. "No! Let me out of here! I can't…I can't be in here! Law! Help me!"
"Neo!" Law shouted. He moved to free her from her prison. But he was surrounded in sparkles. Sparkles that ripped his sword away from his hand and forced his arms behind his back. "Stop it! Let her go! She can't handle being cornered!"
"Queen Tsunade," Naruto murmur just as the tall blonde woman landed on the ground. Her large white wings flittered in annoyance as she glared at Naruto.
"I've warned you Naruto," she said.
"Don't punish them! It was all my fault!" Naruto said. "Punish me!"
"You all are going to be punished." Queen Tsunade ran her eyes over the strangers in her midst. "All but for the fairy girl here, the skeleton, and the animals. They may go free since they are not human."
"She doesn't realize that I'm-" Brook clamped his hands over his mouth. She didn't notice he was, or use to be, human. And he wasn't going to blow his chances.
"To the dungeon with you all," Queen Tsunade said. With a small flick of her wand, all the human pirates disappeared with her and the ninjas surrounding her.
"No!" Neo cried out. Hot tears streaked down her face as she continued to pound on the invisible wall surrounding her. Then the wall was gone. She collapsed to the ground, wrapping her arms around herself, as she cried. "Law…Law! I can't…I can't…" She covered her mouth with her hand when she felt like she was going to be sick. It didn't stop her stomach from heaving up what little she had inside of her. Gagging and gasping for air, she called for him again. "Law…"
"Neo, you need to calm down," Chopper said. He, Bepo, and Brook rushed over to her. He laid his hoof on her back and rubbed circles. "They're going to be okay. We'll get them back."
"But how?" Bepo said. "They took out our strongest fighters in mere seconds."
"Don't say such negative things around Neo right now!" Chopper snapped.
"I'm sorry," Bepo said, bowing his head.
"It's…" Neo sniffled. "It's okay."
"Neo, are you all right?" Brook asked.
"I'll be fine," Neo said. She took in several breaths before speaking again. "I just freaked out by being trapped and then by having Law and the others taken away from me. I can still fell him. I can lead us to him and the others."
"Then let's go," Bepo said. "This time you need to use your crystals sooner. If you do, then they won't know what hit them."
"Yeah." Neo nodded. "I'll get everyone out of there." She summoned her wind crystals again. Pulling the wind around them, she lifted them up off the ground and headed for the mountains. "Let's go."
"That's where they are?" Chopper asked.
"They're inside," Neo said. She winced at pain shooting through her body. "It's not a solid mountain…there are…passageways throughout it. The dungeon's in there. Ah!"
"Neo, what's wrong?" Chopper asked.
"It's…it's Law," Neo said. "Something's happening to him. It feels like he's being ripped apart from the inside out."
"It must be the affects of the soul sucking dungeon Naruto told us about," Brook said. "We must hurry."
Neo pushed through the pain. Increasing the speed of her winds, she flew them faster towards the mountains. Several ninja fairies flew up in their way, warning them to stop. "Halt! Do not proceed any farther!"
"We said to stop!"
"Stop you three!"
"Get out of my way!" Neo screamed. Dark clouds rolled in overhead. They boomed and crackled with thunder and lightening reflecting her fury. She caught them off guard with her magic and sent them flying before splitting the mountain with her earth crystals so they could fly inside of it. A shocked gasped escaped them all when they entered into the mountain. It was like they had entered into a sea of stars, like they had flown out into space instead of into a mountain. "What is this place?"
"Never mind that," Brook said. "We can't get distracted. Surely the others have been alerted to what we have done."
"We must hurry!" Bepo added.
"Yeah!" Neo nodded. She pulled her attention off the strange world around her and flew them closer to Law. The pain in her body became more intense the closer they got the screams of their friends. "It's so intense."
"Just hurry," Chopper said. "All we have to do is get them out of here."
"I know," Neo said. Pushing through the pain, she flew them faster and faster until the agonizing screams of their friends were perching through their ears. She had to force down another gag when she saw them. It was like their bodies were bring ripped apart piece by piece. Strange glowing pillars were around them. It wasn't like any prison she's seen before. But she didn't have time to think about it. She forced her winds around them, hoping the glowing pillars wouldn't stop her. Relief flood through her body and soul when they all lifted off the ground.
More fairy ninja voices mixed in with the crews' tortured screams.
"We have to go," Brook said. Neo obey him and flew them back towards the exit. Soon the screams faded and the sun fell upon them again.
"That hurt," Usopp said, rubbing his ears.
"We're free!" Shachi and Penguin cried as they hugged each other.
"Not so much!" Neji said. He and the others reappeared in front of them. A chaotic battle broke out, but now the pirates had a leg up. They knew what they were getting into and didn't allow themselves to be caught again. Everyone jumped around and dodged each other's respective attacks. It was like whirl wind of bodies and attacks flying around.
Neo pulled her storm clouds back over them. Without light the shadow user wasn't able to use the shadows to his benefit. And once Choji expanded his size again, Neo wrapped him up in vines before freezing half his body in place.
"It's so c-c-cold!" Choji shivered.
"We're out matched here!" Tenten said while the pirates took them down one by one.
All the pirates released their attacks on the ninjas despite their tired state.
"We are out matched here," Lee said. "What do we do?"
"What you shouldn't have done is take Law and my friends away from me," Neo said from above them. She remained their, hovering with a harsh glare that was almost demon like. "That was your biggest mistake."
"I'm beginning to see that," Shikamaru said.
"We don't have to fight them," Kiba said. "They're not our enemies. It was an accident they came here."
"Accident or not, they are not allowed to leave here alive!" Tsunade's voice boomed out over the area. She then lowered herself down from the clouds and hovered right in front of Neo. "I was giving you the benefit of the doubt since you are magic, but no more. If you want to protect these humans then you're an enemy as well."
"We're not enemies," Neo said. "If we had any intention of hurting you people we wouldn't have hidden and tried to get back home. It's you all who are mistaken here."
Tsunade's eyebrow twitched.
"You people are the one's who attacked us," Neo said. "All we want is to go home. But you wouldn't allow that. You didn't even speak with us before attacking. You made the mistake of taking Law and my friends from me. And I won't allow you to hurt them anymore. I know you're scared of me. You're not prepared for someone with my type of magic. All you people can do is wave your little wands around. Well, no more. I don't want to, but I'll fight you all if I have to."
Tsunade growled at Neo's words. She raised her wand and started making circles with it in the air. Her voice echoed out around them as she spoke. "I will not be denied! I am the ruler here! And you will obey the laws of my land or you will die!"
Neo focused her wind crystals on the woman in front of her. Each time the woman shot out sparkles at her, she blew them away. Several times this repeated itself. It was clear Tsunade couldn't do anything to stop her now that she was furious. Neo wasn't going to give her the chance to trap her again. Soon the entire area looked like a sand storm of glitter as Neo's winds whipped the attacks around the air.
"Now's our chance!" Nami said over the howling winds. "Naruto! You have to get your wand working!"
"I'll try!" Naruto stepped forward. "Waaa!" He screamed as his foot got caught on something unseen. He fell forward onto his face. He whipped around onto his back and held his hands up to the irate woman hovering over him. "Wait! Lady Tsunade! I didn't mean to bring them here! It was an accident! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I won't happen again!" He paused when no one said anything back. Lowering his arms, he looked around to find that he was no longer in the candy forest but back in his own room in his normal apartment where he always lived. "This is…I'm back home? What the heck happened?"
Naruto gasped. Grabbing his shirt he pulled it off his body then felt around on this back for his wings. "Nothing? They're not there? That's a relief. But what the heck was all of that? I don't get it. It was a dream?"
He grabbed his head, running his fingers in frustration through his blonde locks. "I don't believe it! All of that was just a stupid-Ouch! That hurt!"
Naruto stopped rubbing his head so hard when he noticed pain shooting through his scalp. "I guess I hit my head. Wait a second. This is where that orange haired girl hit me. But that can't be possible."
Naruto's eyes shot to his window. Jumping up he ran over to it and flung open the curtains. He heart raced wildly inside of his chest. It relaxed when he noticed the village was the same. There was no fairies walking around, no crazy waterpark, just the same old Leaf Village that there always way. "That's a relief. I guess it was just a dream after all. I must have just hit my head during the night and caused this bump. I'm so glad."
Naruto turned and walked away from the window. Yawning he went through his morning route of getting dress before heading out to meet up with his teammates. While he was walking to the training ground to meet them, he still couldn't shake his dream. "I've never had a dream that felt that real. Everything about it was real. I wonder why? Maybe that ramen I ate before bed had expired? Well, whatever. At least it's over now and everything is normal again." He dropped his eyes to his friends. Sakura and Sai were waiting for him. He smiled, waved, and ran over to them. "Hey! Guys! What's up! Hey…what's wrong? You all look like you didn't sleep very well."
"I didn't," Sakura asked as she slumped tiredly on the ground.
"I did not sleep very well either," Sai added. He too was slumping on the ground, looking like he was about to fall fast asleep.
"I had this really strange dream about the villagers being fairies and Lady Tsunade-" Sai and Sakura said. They both stopped and started at each other in confusion when they realized they were saying the exact same thing.
"Hold on. You all had a dream about the villagers turning to fairies and the village into a waterpark because of a crazy, rubber pirate?" Naruto said.
"Yeah." Sakura nodded. "That's exactly what happened."
"How is it possible we all had the same dream?" Sai asked just before Kakashi arrived.
"What's gotten you three looking so serious?" Kakashi asked.
"We all had the same dream about fairies, pirates, and a waterpark," Sakura said.
"Oh, yeah. I had that dream too," Kakashi said. "Those pirates were strange."
"Hold on, Kakashi sensei. Are you saying you had the exact same dream that we did?" Naruto said.
"Uh, well," Kakashi said. He then told them everything about his dream. It was all the same. Down to every last detail.
"This isn't possible," Sakura said. "How could we have all had the same dream?"
"I wonder if anyone else had this dream as well," Sai said. The group of four exchanged looks before they automatically bolted away from each other to see who all had this dream. Everyone they spoke to ended up having the same dream that they did. Everything about it was the same. Tsunade even sent out a letter to the Sand village to see if the same phenomenon happened there. It didn't. It appeared to have only happened in their village. And no one had an explanation as to why.
"This is so weird," Tenten said as she and the rest of her friends were gathered together eating barbeque later that night.
"How is it possible we could all have the same dream?" Choji asked.
"I wonder if those pirates were real after all," Shikamaru said.
"Why do you say that?" Ino asked.
"Because if that dream we all had was real then those pirates must have been real too," Shikamaru said.
"I wish now I had gotten more information about Neo," Kiba said. "She was an interesting girl."
"Woman," Naruto said. "And she's married and pregnant."
"I know that!" Kiba snapped. "I just meant I'd like to have gotten to know her more! I don't want to date her! Akamaru wants to know more about her too!"
"Well, we are not going to get the chance," Lee said.
"Don't be so sure about that," Neji said.
"Why?" Lee asked.
"If that dream happened once there's the possibility it could happen again," Neji said. "We must be on our guard. We have no idea how this event actually happened."
"It could have been an attack from unknown enemy," Hinata said.
"That's just great," Naruto said. "A possible enemy that can attack us in our dreams. Or what we thought were our dreams." He paused for a few seconds. "I wonder where those pirates are now. And what they think about this."
"Do you think it is possible that they are the ones who caused this dream thing to happen?" Lee asked.
"It's possible," Shikamaru said. "Pirates aren't known for being nice after all. That dream could have been nothing but a planned invasion to scout out our weaknesses."
The group mumbled in agreement.
"I don't think so," Naruto said.
"I agree," Kiba said.
"What are you two talking about?" Tenten asked.
"Just a feeling," Naruto said. "I don't think they were the enemy at all."
"Neo was too innocent to be an enemy," Kiba said. "And Akamaru agrees. If they were dangerous we would have known it."
"The only way we will know for use is if they come see us again," Hinata said. "Or if we go to them."
"Either way," Naruto said. "I hope they're fine and made it back home safely."
…
Neo gasped and shot up in bed. Panting hard she looked around the lightly lit room of hers and Law's. Immediately, Law sat up and wrapped his arms around her. He said, "It's okay, Neo. It was just a bad dream."
"I know, I know," Neo said through her pants. "Are you…are you okay? Are you hurt? I don't feel any pain from you."
"I'm not hurt," Law said. "And neither are you or our baby."
"Our baby," Neo said. She placed her hand on her stomach with a relaxing sigh. "That was so weird and intense. I thought you all were going to be…"
"It didn't happen," Law said, rubbing smooth circles on her back. "It's over now."
"Yeah." Neo nodded. She relaxed into his hold for a while before realizing something. She pulled back and stared at him with kneaded eyebrows. "Wait…did you look into my mind?"
"No, I…" Law's voice trailed off. His own eyebrows drew together. "I didn't…"
"Did we have the same dream?" Neo asked.
"What did you dream about?" Law asked.
"We were magically warped to another world by a ninja fairy named Naruto," Neo said. "He was really bad with his magic. The majority of the people there hated humans because of issues in the past. Naruto kept trying to get us home but kept failing. It didn't help that Luffy was being his typical self and wished for the village-"
"To become a waterpark," Law finished for her.
"They're exactly the same," Neo said.
Without another word to each other, the two lovers crawled out of bed and headed for the crews' quarters, but half way there, the three they were going after came running up the hall towards them.
"With the looks on your faces I assume you were coming to find us for the same reason we were coming to find you," Law said.
"You had a dream about ninja fairies, wishes, Luffy going nuts, and such?" Shachi asked.
"Yeah." Neo nodded. "We had the same dream too."
"And if we had the same dream," Penguin started. He didn't finish as they all rushed to the deck of the sub just as the sun peaked over the horizon. The cool sea air was chilly but they didn't notice it at all. They were more concerned about their shared dream than anything else. Once out there, Neo summoned her wind crystals and flew them over to the Sunny.
Chopper and Brook were lying out on the deck of the ship. The two were on lookout duty but had clearly fallen asleep last night. Neo landed beside them. Kneeling down she woke them. She shook them lightly. "Chopper, Brook, wake up."
"What's going on?" Chopper asked.
"I feel like I just ran a marathon," Brook said. "I feel dead tired. But then, I'm already dead. So…what are you all doing over here?"
"To see if you all had the same dream that we did," Penguin said.
"Is your crew getting up yet?" Bepo asked.
"I'll wake them," Brook said. He stood up from the deck of the ship and disappeared into the men's quarters. A few seconds later, he came back out with the rest of the men following after him.
"What's going on?! Why did you have to wake me?! I was dreaming about meat!" Luffy whined.
"We know," the rest of the pirates said.
"What do you mean? How could you have known what I was dreaming?" Luffy said.
"Because we all apparently had the same dream last night," Robin said. The group looked up to see the two Straw Hat women had come out onto the deck already. Robin was fully dressed but Nami was still in her pajamas.
"You can't be serious," Nami said, descending down the stairs. "How could we all have had the same dream?"
"I don't know," Sanji said.
"Maybe it was just a coincident," Zoro said.
"Not likely," Law said. "Any pain we felt in there felt real. Same with Neo's pregnancy symptoms."
"Really dreams don't have real pain," Penguin said.
"So that dream, those people," Bepo said. "It was all real?"
"Do you think they're the one's who caused us to have that wacko dream?" Franky asked.
"It's possible," Usopp said. He crossed his arms over his chest. "We know that magic is real since Neo has it. And there's no way that could have happened without magic. Could it?"
"I don't think so," Chopper said. "But who's magic was it? Was it those fairy people? Neo, do you know?"
"I'm not sure," Neo said. "I know I sensed magic but I'm not sure exactly where it was coming from. For a while it felt like the people in the dream, or whatever it was, was actually normal people without magic."
"So what could it have been then?" Zoro asked.
"The moon," Neo said after an intense pause.
"What do you mean the moon?" Luffy asked.
"When we were all at the waterpark," Neo said. "I noticed the moon was in the sky and had a strange red mist around it."
"I didn't see anything like that," Nami said.
"Neither did I," Usopp said.
"I don't recall such a thing either," Brook said.
"It only appeared there for a second," Neo said. "Then it was gone."
"And here's another question," Shachi said. "Why did it only affect us? Why was the rest of our crew left behind?"
The crews went silent for several minutes before Sanji spoke up. He said, "Maybe who ever pulled us into that strange world could only pull us. Maybe their magic, or whatever, wasn't strong enough to pull us all there. The same could be said for our ships."
"That maybe true on the rest of the Heart Pirates," Franky said. He glanced up at the sails of the Sunny. "But I don't think it holds true for the ships. If you noticed while we were there, we weren't anywhere near the sea. We were clearly inland somewhere. Probably not even close to the sea."
"I guess it doesn't matter now," Nami said.
"Of course it matters," Usopp said. He whipped his eyes around, looking for dangers or any signs of the moon and mist Neo had mentioned. "If it happened once, it'll happen again."
"We can't be sure of that happening or not happening," Law said.
"I guess we're just going to have to keep a look out for the mist," Neo said.
"That's all?" Chopper asked.
"What else can we do?" Neo asked. "We have no idea where the mist came from, or those other people, or how to even get back there."
"Do you think they were our enemies?" Brook asked. "They might not have had magic themselves but they could have gotten a hold of some magic from somewhere."
Another round of silence fell up on the two crews as they considered Brook's suggestion. Luffy then said, "Naw, they weren't our enemies. They were fun."
"I hope you're correct, Luffy," Nami said. "They did have some strange powers themselves. Even your Devil Fruits were useless against them."
"That sucked," Luffy said. "How could someone grab your shadow like that."
"Says the one who's shadow was taken when we were on Thriller Bark," Nami said with a heavy sigh.
"Well, there no point in worrying about it now," Robin said. "At least it's over with and we're safe."
"Yeah," everyone agreed.
"I wonder if we'll ever go back there or see them again," Neo said. Her eye drifted to the horizon as the sun's rays started to warm up the remaining cool night air.
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Author's Notes: Apologizes for this story not ending up very good and one chapter shorter than I wanted. If/When I do more crossovers, more thought and better execution will happen in them. Again, sorry this wasn't the best. And this is an open ended story. So people are suppose to come to their own conclusion about what really happened here.
