Chimera Luffy

by mellra

What if Luffy ate a different Devil's Fruit as a child? Not just any fruit, but the most powerful of the Zoan fruits, the Chimera-Chimera Fruit. It is a legendary Zoan fruit that allows the user to take on the forms of any Zoan fruit users, as well a true form as the mythical chimera. How will this change the course of the One Piece world? Pairing most likely Luffy/Boa Hancock, but

10. Chapter 10

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, that right belongs to the Pirate King!

Chapter 10

"Because Nami is our navigator!" proclaimed Luffy so loudly that his voice echoed through the room.

"Really?" Arlong asked mockingly, "You want her to navigate your pathetic little ship for you? Ha… I guess you truly have no idea what a monumental waste of talent that would be." He gestured around to the maps in the room. "Look… there is no one else on the face of the planet who can draw sea charts with such accuracy and efficacy. That young lady has a gift."

Luffy kept looking around as his eyes went to the desk… a small pen fell and clattered on the floor. Luffy stretched his hand over to grab it and stare at it himself.

"And there isn't really anything as ultimately regrettable as wasting natural talent. Staying here and drawing up charts for me is her only chance of living up to her full potential!" Arlong declared, not noticing Luffy was no longer paying attention to him.

But when Luffy next spoke, he said in a quiet, but dark voice, "This pen… is stained with blood."

Arlong, ignorant of the chimera boy in front of him was continuing to boast, "In order for me to obtain world supremacy her sea charts are absolutely vital!" He took his Shark Saw and held it to Luffy's neck so that his neck was between two of the blades. "She will continue drawing her sea charts for my own ambitions. And once her charts give me full knowledge of all the world's oceans, we Fishmen will be totally invincible! And the world shall kneel before us!"

Luffy still just sat there, holding the pen before he finally sighed.

"The first step is… this island! Then we'll move on to the whole East Blue!" Arlong continued to rant. "You can never use her like me. She would be wasted on you!"

Luffy, who had just put the pen carefully on the floor in front of him—almost reverently. Those words had struck a nerve and you could sense that there was something in him that was now filled with a great anger… it could even be felt in the air as Luffy very gently took hold of one of the blades on Arlong's Shark Saw. His head was down and his eyes were shadowed.

Arlong kept smiling until it was wiped off his face. His arm was shaking slightly and he seemed to be completely confused to what was happening.

Luffy's fingers tighten on the blade—he could see that he was shaking too, but from anger not fear. Then, all of a sudden, Luffy broke the blade as easily as if it was made of glass.

"NO!" Arlong exclaimed in shock; so that he was left holding a blade with only two of the six blades left.

Luffy's expression was terrifying and the fish-man felt his own spirit freeze at the look. There was no trace of his usual happy-go-lucky attitude… not even the blank or usual angry look that he got when he was faced with an opponent. There was cold fury in on his face; a sense of a hidden power radiated from inside him as if there was a wildfire burning inside him.

"USE HER!?" Luffy repeated in a voice that was filled with as much rage as his face, "YOU JERK! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU TAKE HER FOR?!"

Arlong just laughed as he said, "She is an inferior creature, but she has risen far above her peers. If all other humans are sewer rats, then she's a feisty little kitten. After all, she is adorable. She has her place and its here beside me. Can't you understand that? I can give her everything she needs," Arlong finished with a wide grin on his face.

"And all she has to do is continue to draw those marvelous charts for me!" Arlong went on. But what he said next raged Luffy to the core. "So, Nami will forever be my tool. No, she'll be my friend." He laughed again.

Finally, Luffy had gotten back to his feet, but instead of attacking Arlong he kicked the desk right through the wall. Arlong stopped laughing and his grin was wiped off as if Luffy had kicked him. He blinked before he stared at the giant hole where they could see the desk hover in the air for a moment before it fell. Before he could register what happened, Luffy had kicked a bookshelf and one of the stacks of maps out as well.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Arlong screamed but Luffy completely ignored him as if he couldn't hear him as he continued his destruction of the room, making sure to take out as much as he could with every kick so that the sky was filled with paper.

"STOP IT NOW!" Arlong screamed as he then waved what was left of his weapon at him, but Luffy easily dodged it so that Arlong ended up destroying an enormous stack of maps and he screamed, horrified at what he had done. "THE CHARTS!"

Once he landed, Luffy then kicked another stack out.

"My charts!" Arlong continued to yell as he watched all his plans and ambitions being destroyed before his eyes. His anger now growing out of his control, he finally pinned Luffy against a wall and held him there with his hand had his throat.

"Curse you!" Arlong yelled, "That's eight years of work! Eight years of planning and ambition!"

Luffy turned his arm into a long mantis like scythe and used the extended blade to take out more of the room and they could hear the books and papers smashing to the ground or splashing in the water below them.

Enraged, Arlong snapped even further as he bit down on Luffy's neck. "Now you've gone too far!" Arlong yelled as blood sprayed everywhere.

Luffy was growling with pain, but he didn't back down as he changed his arms into that of a monkey so that he could use the extended reach to grab Arlong by his nose behind his head and started to pull on it. "You keep jabbering on about—how much better—Fishmen are!" he said loudly, stuttering a little from pain, "And how much you—need those sea charts! I don't understand—anything about that stuff…" his monkeylike hands started to bleed as he cut them on the sharp nose, "But I finally figured out… how to save her!"

With one huge heave, Luffy snapped Arlong's nose like a twig, causing the Fishman to scream in pain and as he opened his mouth to yell, he pulled his teeth out of Luffy's neck.

Luffy was still on his feet, his eyes wide, looking worse than ever before. "This room isn't anything but her jail cell!" he declared with a hiss, "There's only one way for Nami to escape, I gotta tear this place apart!"

Arlong glared up at him, looking ridiculous with his bent nose as Luffy suddenly grew larger and larger while his nose lengthened and he grew tusks, becoming a human-elephant hybrid. With a mighty leap, the chimera captain was able to jump to the point where he broke through the roof and hovered for a few seconds before he started to descend. "Elephant…" he began but Arlong wasn't beaten yet.

"YOU FOOL!" Arlong yelled and was getting up. "Arlong Park cannot be brought down by some inferior human!" Arlong continued as grabbed hold of his nose and straightened it with a sickening cracking sound, "Especially not by some animal freak like you! Shark Tooth… DRILL!" Arlong screamed out before he jumped and began to spin like a propeller—or even a drill—towards Luffy's falling form, his teeth bared. Luffy's eyes widened in terror but he managed to finish the attack as he landed on the tower… "CANNONBALL!"

Arlong's teeth sank deeply into his side just as Luffy's heavy body came down and slammed his face to the floor. For a moment, they were there… frozen as they stared at what happened. It was almost as if time had stopped here, but then the floor began to break apart. With Luffy's trumpet like scream echoed as the force of the attack was so great that Arlong started to cough up blood just before Luffy's body slammed him down floor after floor of Arlong Park and hit the ground with an almighty boom.

As Luffy stood from where he landed the rest of the building was starting the collapse. The walls crumbled and the roof was falling in.

Luffy just didn't seem to get to the hole he made in the wall in time. The ceiling gave way and the floor broke apart as he fell through it. The noise was so loud, but then everything went dark around him as the night sky came back.

But suddenly the top of the rubble was move and Luffy burst through so that he was standing on top of the remains. He slowly shrank down back to his human form, showing that his thicker hide prevented a majority of the damage along with his natural resistance. No one spoke as they all stared at him—though he didn't say a word, their eyes were all drawn to him as if he had shouted.

Luffy then took a deep breath and yelled out, "NAMI!" he finished screaming out, "NAMI YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY FRIEND!"

It slowly dawned on all the crowd what just happened as they were all screaming in joy. All of them cheering and crying as well… finally, their nightmare was over. And the cry that echoed through the village was Nami's happy tears while Johnny and Yosaku screamed out, "BIG BRO WON!"

Later…

Back in Cocoyashi village, after a small altercation with a group of marines, an enormous party going on. The villagers were all dancing and feasting, music and laughter was in the air, and every single person here was smiling.

"You moron!" the doctor snapped as Zoro was gritting his teeth and moving painfully around on the bed as Johnny and Yosaku slept in the background. Well…almost everyone was smiling. The doctor continued, "Did you think this would heal on its own? Seriously, pirates are supposed to be smarter than this!"

Zoro tried to defend himself but the doctor shoved his hand in Zoro's face to keep him still as he continued stitching. "Don't you have a doctor for this?"

Just then a familiar face appeared in the window above Zoro's head, with a leg of meat in his hand, and he repeated, "Doctor? Never thought of that. Good idea!"

"Luffy?" Zoro said in surprise.

"But we need to get a musician first right?" Luffy asked, as if making sure that he got it.

"Why's that?" Zoro asked him.

"Cause pirates really like to sing," he said as if it was obvious.

Zoro actually laughed at that and sounded sarcastic as he said, "That's true, but why is that first?"

Luffy didn't answer, but he grinned at him before he looked up to the doctor and asked where Nami was—claiming that she wasn't in the village.

"Well then," the doctor said, looking away as he thought it all over, "If she's not in the village, there's only one place she'd go…"

Later Still…

It was still a dark night around and the only thing that had changed was that Genzo was in the more quite location. He was on a cliff that overlooked the ocean—a bright moon was reflected in the sparkling sea below them, and there was a very simple grave raised there with a wooden cross. Genzo had poured an entire bottle of sake over it, as if the one who was buried there could enjoy it as well.

It was very peaceful for a few quiet moments, but that soon ended when someone yelled out, "WHERE'S THE FOOD!?"

Genzo had jumped and spun around to see who it was.

Luffy was barely aware that he wasn't alone as he looked for food. "Oh, no food out here," he said to himself, sounding disappointed before he turned around and muttered something about leaving.

"Wait, boy!" Genzo suddenly shouted, stopping Luffy so that he would look back and they looked over at him.

"Huh, a grave?" Luffy asked before he asked tactlessly, "Did somebody died?"

Genzo turned back to look at the wooden cross and admitted to Luffy that someone did die a long time ago.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Luffy said, bowing his head—though it probably would've been easier to take him seriously if he took the food out of his mouth first. "I give you to my conveniences…"

Luffy realized that he said it wrong and tried again.

"Wait… my sincere compliments… no my deepest…?" he said several times before Genzo corrected him.

"My deepest condolences," he said.

"Yeah, thanks," Luffy said.

"Listen boy," Genzo said, still not looking away but his voice was very serious, "I know Nami is going away with you. She has her mind set on becoming a pirate and that… dangerous business. And I'm fine with that, it can't be helped."

"But if any of you do anything to hurt her… I will kill you," Genzo said, his voice deadly serious.

"We're not gonna hurt her…" Luffy said to him firmly.

But Genzo spun around and yelled out at the top of his lungs, "YOU SURE?!"

Luffy looked startled at that before he nodded, "I'm sure."

Genzo moved his cap back down so that he couldn't see his eyes, but a satisfied smile was tugging at the scarred man's lips—as if he just had a hard question answered for him.

Day of Departure

The four Straw Hats were already on the deck of the Going Merry as they began piling on crates and boxes of food and supplies. It looked like the whole island had come to say goodbye.

Suddenly, Sanji had run to the side of the ship. "THERE SHE IS!" he screamed out, barely able to contain himself. Looking up, they saw Nami standing far along the road and everyone was looking directly at her. Her eyes were hidden by bangs before she screamed out, "SET THE SAILS!"

And suddenly she started sprinting towards them as if she was being chased by something.

"I don't get it," Usopp said, watching her sprint towards them, "Why's she running?"

"She said set sail," Luffy reminded him and he jumped a little at the seriousness in his tone.

"NO!" Genzo suddenly cried out as he Nojiko and the doctor all looked surprised at Nami. "She's planning on leaving without letting any of us thank her or say goodbye!"

"Set sail!" Luffy yelled and they did as Zoro pulled up the anchor—soon they were moving away from the dock.

"Wait! Don't go!" someone screamed.

"They're leaving!"

"Stop! At least let us say goodbye!"

Nami didn't respond to any of their words as she continued to sprint with the citizens trying to stop her. Genzo fought his way through to the front, "NAMI!" he yelled, "COME BACK HERE! YOU CAN'T LEAVE THIS WAY!"

"So," Sanji said to Luffy, "You sure you wanna let her leave like this?"

"Not my decision," Luffy told him, "She does what she wants."

They sailed farther and farther away, with Nami now in danger of being left behind. But they didn't need to worry. Nami started to run between them all zig-zag, diagonal, up and down… she ran past all of them all, slipping away without any trouble—thanks to her years of stealing. Once she passed the doctor and her sister she jumped, almost flying through the air, just barely made it to the ship.

"WHY?!" Genzo cried out as she landed on the Merry's deck. Breathing hard, she didn't move for a moment before she pulled back her shirt to show dozens of wallets and coin purses falling out. At that they all checked their pockets and realized that she stole from each of them.

Nami was pulling out some of the money, she kissed it before looking back with a smug smirk, "Thanks a bunch!"

The looks on each of their faces was priceless.

"WHY YOU LITTLE BRAT!" Genzo shouted as their jaws all dropped.

Usopp whispered to Zoro darkly, "Great. She hasn't changed a bit."

"I'd watch my back if I were you," Zoro agreed, giving Nami a shady look. But Luffy was laughing as Sanji gave her a thumbs up.

"YOU LOUSY PICKPOCKT!" Genzo cried out, "WE'LL MISS YOU!"

But then Genzo suddenly yelled at Luffy and got their attention. "BOY?" Luffy looked back up, as he finished by yelling, "REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU!"

Luffy just smirked and gave him the thumbs up. "You got it!"

Nami began to scream out, waving goodbye, "GOODBYE EVERYBODY I'LL MISS YOU! TAKE CARE!"

She then turned to the rest of the crew and said, "Now that that's over with, I say it's about time we head off to the Grand Line!"

Everyone cheered and started to laugh together—glad that was finally over. It was another beautiful day later and the whole crew was relaxing on the Merry's deck. Nami was stretching out on a lawn chair as Usopp sat there, mixing together some of his infamous Tabasco Stars. Zoro was on the upper deck and taking a nap, and after looking around for a minute, they spotted Luffy cautiously reaching for some tangerines that had been put on the top of the cabin.

Sanji came out of nowhere and kicked him so hard that he was flung backwards right into Usopp—who had some of it get splashed into his eyes.

Luffy however was glaring up at Sanji and yelled, "Ah, come on! I just want one of them!"

"NO!" Sanji yelled, standing there in front of the trees like a bodyguard, his arms folded. "This is Nami's tangerine orchard! I won't let anyone lay a finger on it!" He then turned to Nami with his eyes as hearts and cried out, his arms now wide, "Nami can you see how well I'm protecting your trees?!"

"Yes," she said, without turning to look at him, "You're doing very well."

Soon, Nami was still going over the paper as Luffy sat up on the railing, looking hungrily up at the fruit as Usopp lay on his back with a cool cloth to his red eyes.

"I only want one tangerine!" Luffy whined. "Just give it here! You're so mean!" he stuck his tongue at him.

"NO!" Sanji yelled again.

"Oh well," Luffy said, beaming widely, "I'm pretty happy anyway."

"The world sure is a turbulent place," Nami suddenly stated, telling them what she was reading. She flipped the page and a stray piece of paper fell out.

"What's that?" Luffy asked just as it fluttered to the deck and they saw what it was.

Everyone gasped at what they saw and soon they were all screaming—some of them were joyous—or horrified.

Luffy jumped up and picked it up to stare at it. His eyes were as big as dinner plates as he stared at it and held it up for them all to see—laughing out proudly. "Alright guys! We're wanted criminals!"

Usopp leaned over to look at it, "Wanted: dead or alive… thirty million?!"

"That's a whole lot of beri's!" Luffy cried out still laughing.

"Check it out!" Usopp cried out, pointing at it as a dreamy look came over his face, "I'll be seen all around the world!"

"WHAT?!" Sanji screamed out, staring at it, "THEY PUT LONG-NOSE IN BUT LEFT ME OUT?!"

He was then looking all over the poster, now demanding to know where he was because he couldn't see him. Usopp pointed in the lower corner where the back of his head was and began to laugh as Sanji sat on the deck to pout. "It's the back of your head! That's not so great."

Usopp giggled and said, "Aww, don't be so glum! You don't have to be a captain to get your picture on one of these things."

Sanji cheered up almost at once. "Is that true?" he asked excitedly.

"Yeah," Usopp said, "Just work really hard."

The three male Straw Hats were all celebrating and dancing as Nami looked like she wanted to crack their heads together.

"LET'S GO TO THE GRAND LINE MEN!" Luffy shouted out and the other two cheered along.

"Yet again, you guys don't understand how grim our situation really is!" Nami yelled at them before she slapped her hand to her head, "This means all of our lives will be in constant danger!"

Soon they were back on the Merry's deck, and the five of them were all on the upper deck with Nami pouring over the map and find a way to the Grand Line.

"We're getting closer," she informed them. "We've almost made it to the Grand Line and it looks like the only way through is here… Reverse Mountain."

"There's not," Sanji suddenly said, "From what the geezer told me that's the only place to enter."

Usopp looked over at him. "Well, how come?"

"Cause it's really dangerous?" he answered as if it was obvious, which soon led to the two arguing…again.

"See, the reason is…" Nami began, but Luffy interrupted, "I got an idea! Why don't we sail right into it?!"

Nami looked deeply annoyed and snapped at him, "ARE YOU REALLY THAT CLUELESS?!"

"My way sounds a lot more fun!" he said brightly, smiling, "Plus it'd be a whole lot better to dive right into it right?"

Nami put her hand to her head as if she had a headache and said, "Talking to you drives me completely insane!"

"First off," Luffy said, sounding more serious, "We have to stop by an island! We need to pick up some meat! Need meat!"

Giving him an annoyed look, she pointed to a small island on the map and explained, "There's a famous city on this island. Known as Lougetown."

"Lougetown?" Luffy repeated mildly, "Why's it famous? They got delicious meat?"

"You know," Sanji stated, "I'm surprised you love meat so much. I mean, you turn into most animals anyway? Shouldn't you be a vegetarian or something?"

Luffy went wide-eyed before sticking his tongue out in a 'yuck' face and declared, "No way! Vegetables are gross!"(1)

"I'm pretty sure I've heard of it before," Zoro said as he looked up at the sky, ignoring the captain and chef's developing argument on the values of vegetables. "It's the city of the beginning… and the end."

Luffy looked confused and Nami explained, "It's the town where the old King of the Pirates, Gold Roger, was both born and killed."

The Straw Hats were all looking at the make with new interest as Luffy asked in a hushed tone, "That's where the King of the Pirates died?"

She looked at him with a small smile. "Well?"

"Yeah, let's do it," Luffy said seriously, "This was the man who had the One Piece. Everything the world has to offer… I need to see where he was born and executed."

Before long they were standing in a large town in what looked like the main square—though it was wide-open it was filled with people.

After agreeing to meet up later, the Straw Hats soon went their separate ways. Before long, someone in the crowd at the town's square yelled that someone was up on the executions platform. When the other members of the crowd looked up, they could see a tall metal structure—several stories high—and starting to rust from the years of being exposed to the elements. Standing at the top, with his eyes shielded so that he could see everything, was Luffy.

In the crowd someone screamed, "Hey, you up there!"

Looking down, Luffy saw that a police officer—dressed in attire very similar to Genzo had been, was there with a loudspeaker. "Get down from there, immediately!

"But why!?" Luffy shouted back, like a child who had been told that he had to go to bed and didn't understand why he couldn't stay up later.

"You are standing on an execution platform that belongs to the World Government!" the officer yelled. "Now, get down from there right now!"

"Fine! I'll come down!" Luffy yelled down agreeably. "But first you have to say the magic word and smile too!"

"I'm not playing, I will arrest you if you don't come down!" the officer yelled, and he truly sounded annoyed. But before he could make good on his threat, someone came out from the crowd with a colossal iron mace over her shoulder before she hit the man so hard that he was out as soon as he hit the ground.

She was a truly beautiful woman that was slim, well-endowed, with dark-green eyes before is brown, and full ruby-red lips… but the most noticeable thing about her was her silky-looking skin that looked so soft…ahem, what was I saying? Oh yeah.

The woman spoke. "Now's not the time for such trifles," she said in a sweet voice that seemed strangely familiar. The woman was looking up to Luffy and cooed out, "Long time no see, Luffy. I've been looking for you."

Apparently Luffy didn't recognize her as he looked down with a confused look on his face. When she noticed this, the woman sighed. "Now that's just rude," she said, "You mean to tell me that you, of all people, this face?"

"Forgot? I'm pretty sure we haven't even met," Luffy said in confusion. "Who are you?"

"I'll never forget you. You were the first man who ever truly strike me," the woman said fondly, causing the other people around them to scowl up at Luffy, outraged that he had done something to this girl.

"What?! I never hit you!" Luffy yelled incredulity, looking a little lost as to why everyone was glaring at him.

"When you struck me with your powerful fist…" she answered, her hand over her stomach, "it felt good."

Luffy looked most uncomfortable at this and his eyes were darting around, as if hoping for a way to escape.

"Listen up boys, who is the most beautiful person on these seas?" the woman suddenly asked the crowd.

"That would be you!" everyone in the crowd yelled as they got down on their knees and held their arms out to her.

"That's correct," the now highly familiar sounding woman said with a smirk, holding out her arm. "I am quite breathtaking aren't I? There isn't a man alive that won't crumble before my beauty. But I prefer strong men… like you."

Looking back to the platform she cooed out, "I'm gonna make you all mine, Luffy. Just wait."

Luffy shouted out, now sounding completely sicken at the thought, "Gross! No way! Just who the heck are you!?"

"You still haven't figured it out!?" she exclaimed in annoyance, losing her patience.

Several officers came running to the square with their weapons and telling the woman to put her mace down and come with them.

"I placing you under arrest for assaulting a police captain!" another officer yelled before he turned up to Luffy and shouted out, "As for you up there! Get off that platform!"

"Hold on… who did you say you were arresting?" the woman asked, as if she just wanted to make sure she heard right.

"We… we're arresting you!" the officer stuttered, taken in by her beauty as she batted her eyelashes at him.

"Are you really going to arrest me?" she asked sweetly, smiling as hearts now appeared in the officer's eyes, causing them to start saying that they couldn't arrest her because she's too beautiful.

"I don't give a crap!" another yelled, though he was now looking close to proclaiming undying love as well, "Arrest her!"

But before they could act, a large cannonball came flying from behind them and it hit the fountain so that it ended up blowing it apart in large chucks when a large part of the fountain flew at the woman, but as it hit, it slide right off her as if it had been a giant bar of soap and went flying off near Luffy's direction but moved in time.

"Ah man, that's weird!" Luffy exclaimed loudly as everyone stared at her.

"That little stunt was dangerous you know?" the woman asked, sounding just a little irritated as she turned her attention to a group of people who had come from the direction of the cannonball—each of them wearing a dark cloak to cover themselves.

"I'm flashily sorry," the one out front said softly. "But that smooth skin of yours is unharmed of course? So there's no need to worry fairest Alvida."

"Alvida?" Luffy repeated to himself, as he finally made the connection… or maybe not. "I don't see Alvida."

"Don't be so dense you nimwit!" the woman yelled angrily, "I'M ALVIDA!"

("WHAAAAA?!" The collective fans of One Piece screamed out upon reading this.)

"You sure?" Luffy asked, "'Cause I don't think you're her."

Alvida smiled. "I guessed I really did change after eating the fruit called…" She removed her heart cloak to fully reveal her new body to them all, and get the whole picture to how much she had changed. "Smooth Smooth Fruit. No attack can hurt my skin because it slides right off.

"Unfortunately, a lowly fruit could not improve on my already stunning good looks," Alvida sighed in disappointment as she touched her cheek. "One big change you may have noticed was that I lost my freckles."

"Uh, sure, that must be it," Luffy whispered, though it was clear that he didn't believe a word he said as he continued to look around for a way to get away from her.

"After becoming a whole new person," Alvida went on. "I decided to join forces with someone who shared my goal of finding you." She then finally gestured to the cloaked men.

Here, the cloaked man laughed insanely as he and his crew threw off the cloaks, revealing to be Buggy the Clown and his whole circus was back. "Now that I flashily made my entrance, time for the real star of the show!" he screamed out and pointed up at Luffy, "Monkey D. Luffy, ever since the day you sent me flying, I've been obsessed with exacting my revenge on you! That alone led to me finally finding my crew! My travels are an epic saga. I went to hell, found friendship, I even lost parts of my body! I call this tale 'Tiny Buggy's Great Adventure!' The first thing that happened was… WHY THE HELL AM I TELLING YOU A STORY?!"

Luffy stared blankly at Buggy. "Don't know. Now…" he folded his arms as he said, "What was your name again? Boggy? Buggie? Buhii? Baggy? AH! I know!" he said proudly, "It's Buffoon!"

"Buffoon!?" Buggy screamed, enraged. "You got a lot of nerve you bratty animal! And now Buggy the Clown is gonna make you pay for that!"

"Hey! That's Buggy the Clown!" one of the people yelled in fear. And at the mention of pirates, all the people there turned and began to try and run—wanting nothing more than to get away from the square as fast as they could. But the Buggy Pirates seemed to be prepared for this as they each pulled out guns and swords, making sure that they wouldn't move.

"You people flashily stay where you are!" Buggy proclaimed to them all. "I want every single one of you to see exactly how scary I can be!"

"Oh yeah!" Luffy yelled proudly, having just remembered Buggy's real name, "Buggy right?"

"You mean you just now remembered it!?" Buggy screamed.

Too late, with Luffy distracted, the man who fought Zoro on the unicycle, Cabaji, appeared behind him and slammed a large metal and wood board down on top of him to trap him so that he was pinned in the stocks that held his head and hands there.

"Hey…?" Luffy questioned in surprise looking around up at Cabaji, "What gives?!"

"Long time no see, animal freak," Cabaji greeted with a scolding tone as he sat on the stock and asked how Zoro was doing.

"Good shot, Cabaji," Buggy praised as he began to laugh and call out to everyone, "To all of my followers! Hundreds of billions of them around the world…! We will now begin the most flashily public execution! You're trapped Monkey D. Luffy! You can't move so much as an inch!"

Luffy attempted to pull his head out of the board, but he couldn't pull his head out of the hole—and it wasn't easy for him to do so while he was being held like this, he honestly couldn't move at all. Suddenly he felt weaker for some reason and could no longer feel like he could transform into one of his animal forms to escape. (2)

"Tell me Straw Hat!" Buggy yelled up at him as he laughed. "Feel honored?! You'll die in the same place as the King of the Pirates!"

Again, despite his weakness Luffy was trying to move as a wind began to pick up and dark clouds were being blown over them so that the entire square was cast in shadows. And perhaps it was just the trace of electrical energy in the air that caused it, but there was also a strong sense that something big was going to happen here was building with each minute.

Ignoring this, Buggy started speaking again like an announcer.

"Pirate Monkey D. Luffy of the Straw Hats, will be flashily executed for the crime of being stuck up and making me angry!" Buggy yelled as he lifted his arms, suddenly standing beside the trapped Luffy. At his words, all the pirates around them were screaming in celebration, shooting off guns and jumping as if a great show was about to take place. "Now live it up, flashily!" Buggy shouted as his men all cheered at that.

Luffy was looking down at them excitedly, "Oh boy! I've never seen an execution!"

"Well you're about to kid," Buggy informed him with a dark chuckle in his voice.

Luffy blinked at that and looked up as he slowly processed what he said. "WHAT?!" he screamed out in horror, "STOP JOKING!"

"It's no joke!" Buggy screamed as Luffy was now trying to desperately pull himself free and call for help. "I even got a little bit of Sea Stone just for you so you won't turn into something like a rat and escape! It wasn't easy, I'll tell you that. Now…" he said as he turned away from the struggling Straw Hat.

"ALRIGHT!" Buggy yelled to the crowd as Luffy continued to try pull his head free. "I HEREBY FLASHILY BEGIN THE FESTIVITIES OF THIS PUBLIC EXECUTION!"

Luffy finally stopped struggling and was now lying there with a pout on his face.

"I'm so sorry. Really I am, please spare my life," he said in a droning voice, and it sounded as if Nami forced him to apologize for breaking something instead of pleading for his life. It couldn't have been any clearer to them that he didn't mean a word to what he said.

"WHY WOULD I SPARE YOUR LIFE?!" Buggy bellowed in frustration.

"This is what happens when you go against us," Cabaji commented, moving back down to the ground so that he could watch with the others.

Alvida sighed a little regretfully, "I guess this is it for the man I had my eye on."

Buggy held up a long sword and looked down at Luffy as he stated, "You've got quite a big audience here today, Straw Hat. You want to say a few words before you die?"

Luffy continued to sit there with a grumpy look on his face, even as Buggy stepped on his head. "Awww, cat got your tongue?" Buggy asked, still taunting him. "That's alright. Stay quiet or say a few words. It doesn't matter, you're still gonna die!"

Luffy lay there for a moment before he took a deep breath. Just as a great wind swept over them all he bellowed out at the top of his lungs, so that the words seemed to echo all around them, "LISTEN! I'M THE MAN WHO'LL BE KING OF THE PIRATES!"

There was stunned silence all around them as the crowd stared at him in disbelief—yet at the same time it was as if they could feel a strange energy coming from him—as if confirming his words.

Buggy however wasn't impressed as he grinned evilly. "We're finally getting to the best part of the show?" he asked him, looking truly pleased at what he was going to do, "Bye Bye now…"

Luffy had tried to pull his head out one last time, but it was clear that he was trapped here.

But then Zoro's voice echoed out behind them, "STOP THE EXECUTION!"

There they were, Zoro and Sanji had finally shown up and were now standing at the edge of the crowd as they watched on.

"NOW!" they both screamed out at Buggy, clearly warning him that they weren't playing around here.

"Zoro, Sanji!" Luffy yelled in relief.

"Luffy you idiot," Zoro teased, his hand resting on the two new swords hanging at his hip. "Guess all that fooling around finally caught up with ya, huh?"

"You starting a sideshow?" Sanji added, looking around at the Buggy Pirates. "Or is that how you look?"

"Pretty sad," he continued as he smoked, "Now… all we gotta do is drive these goons away."

The citizens all screamed Zoro's name in terror and fled—thankfully the Buggy Pirates turned their full attention away from them and onto the two men.

"HEY GUYS!" Luffy screamed again happily.

"You made it here, Zoro!" Buggy yelled cockily. "But you're just a little bit too late!" He raised his sword over his head, ready to cut Luffy's head off and that got their attention as they rushed in to try and take down the platform before that sword fell.

Of course, that was difficult to do since the pirates were now standing in their way—with Alvida now taking control and telling them what to do. Though the two members of the Monster Trio were easily able to plow through these weaklings, they were outnumbered and it was taking too long already.

Buggy laughed victoriously as he held his sword high as the sky continued to darken overhead—the storm was almost here. "Not even the great Zoro can stop me now! There's nothing you two can do! This is the end of your captain!"

Luffy's expression became terrified as he stared up at the blade as Buggy continued to laugh insanely.

Zoro and Sanji were now fighting tooth and nail to reach the platform in time. They were quickly becoming more frantic and scared as they tried to force their way through.

"CREEP!" Sanji screamed at Buggy as the thunder roared around them. As the Straw Hats all watched the two fight to get closer, Luffy's voice from above them sounded out: "Zoro! Sanji! Usopp! Nami!"

They looked up to see Luffy looking up—everyone in the square was now staring up as the fear completely left Luffy's face.

Instead… he was smiling…

Each of the Straw Hats felt as if they had frozen in place as they stared at him. It wasn't a forced or painful smile… but serene… as if he was truly happy. This lingering smile… Luffy truly believed he was going to die here… but he wasn't upset about it…

"Sorry," Luffy went on, and he truly did sound like he meant it this time—but this time he was apologizing to his crew, not Buggy. "But… I'm dead," he informed them all. And he kept smiling even as Buggy brought his sword down on his neck.

"Idiot!" Zoro as he stared up in horror.

"Don't say that!" Sanji yelled, now desperately kicking five or six pirates out of his way to get to them. But as the blade fell, it sparkled with electricity from the air and with a great explosion from above them a single bolt of lightning came crashing from the dark clouds and struck the tower.

The entire tower burst into blue flames and the skies opened up to the rain.

In a matter of seconds, it was pouring—but the platform continued to burn… slowly bending and twisting around as it broke and landed with a crash sideways. The sound of when it hit the ground echoed throughout the square.

No one said a word… on one even moved as they watched. They were all staring with their mouths open in shock at the twisted heap of metal and burnt wood.

Just at that moment, Luffy had pulled himself out of the debris, his head still on and his body looking only slightly singed and dirty. Buggy wasn't so lucky, taking the brunt of the blast… he was lying on the ground and was badly burnt and out cold (3). Like a puppy finding its owner, Luffy's straw hat dropped at his feet and Luffy picked it up to put it back on. As soon as he did he started to laugh—a laugh that cut through the silence—"Hey, I'm still alive! That's nice!"

The people in the crowd hadn't recovered as quickly as they had and were all staring in stunned disbelief at what they just saw. Sanji's own mouth had was open so that his cigarette fell out… but Zoro's face didn't react at all, but there was a strange contemplation expression there as he looked at Luffy coming towards them, talking about how lucky an escape that was.

"That was divine intervention!" Sanji suddenly declared.

"Stop talking nonsense," Zoro said at once, the first one to really recover. Though still shaken up by what just happened, he grasped the seriousness of the situation as he said loudly, looking around them, "We gotta get out of this town. Our troubles are not over."

It looked like he was right—because at that moment—a small army of Marines came charging out from all sides. It was clear that they had the entire place surrounded from the moment that the pirates began fighting each other and were now trying to round them all up. Luffy was looking ready for a fight but Zoro grabbed him and reminded him that they had to run now. That if they didn't get back to the Merry now, they weren't going to leave at all. So, with everyone's attentions on each other, the three turned and went running down the street in the direction of the docks.

As they ran through the empty streets, the rain was now coming down harder than ever before. Zoro yelled in frustration, "What the hell is up with all this rain?"

"Nami was right about this storm," Sanji said loudly, trying to shield his eyes from the water with his arm so that he could see where they were going. "If we don't get back to the ship and set sail soon, then we'll be stuck here for good!"

On they ran, even when the Marines were right behind them, they kept going—not bothering to stop and fight. With every step they seemed to take however, the rain seemed to become thicker and fall harder so that it was getting hard to see anything in front of them. But eventually, they spotted someone standing in their way… a young woman with short navy-blue hair and a sword in her hands.

"I didn't know you were Zoro… and a pirate as well. You lied!" the woman said, her head down. But then she looked up and glared at Zoro and said loudly, "You're just another liar!"

Zoro told her irritably, "You never asked what my name was, did you? So I never lied did I?"

The woman got angry at him and declared that she wasn't going to let him leave town with his sword, in the end, Zoro decided to stay behind and fight.

The woman, Tashigi, charge ahead in anger and pull out her blade, but Zoro was more than able to hold her back. His eyes held a thoughtful expression as Sanji yelled that he shouldn't fight a girl. That got Tashigi even angrier than before and told him off for that, as Zoro told them to go on ahead.

Luffy nodded, deciding to leave it all to him as he and Sanji left—with Sanji threatening to kick his ass if he hurt her.

As Luffy and Sanji ran through the raging storm that suddenly appeared in Loguetown, Luffy met up with another Marine. This particular Marine's name was Smoker and he was the leading officer in Lougetown. He was around Zoro's height with short white hair and wore a white Marine jacket that looked like it was made to look like a biker's. He had a large metal jutte strapped to his back and, most curiously, had two cigars in his mouth with more strapped along his body.

Luffy and Smoker weren't waiting around as they began to fight. But here, no matter what Luffy threw at him, none of his attacks did any good. Any attack launched at the Marine passed through him as his body turned to smoke, showing the Marine to be a Devil Fruit user.

Luffy jumped around on cricket legs and tried multiple rapid fire kicks on Smoker… however his attacks just ended up going right through him like smoke. The Marine then flew a smoky fist that caught Luffy in the face during one of his failed attacks, sending the young pirate crashing to the ground.

"What's wrong?" Smoker challenged, "Had enough already?"

Luffy slowly go back up and tried to attack, but nothing he did worked. 'This is bad!' he thought frantically, 'I can't think of any animal that can hurt smoke!' (4)

Smoker trapped Luffy in a cloud of smoke and slammed him to the ground, his face in the concrete and his hand on his head.

"I told you!" Smoker yelled at him, "You gotta go through me to get to the Grand Line! You're not worth thirty million beri's! Huh, you're luck's run out."

But as Smoker reached for his weapon, someone stepped out of the shadows and took hold of it to prevent him from moving.

The man's face was a mystery… not only was the rain obstructing their view, but the man was wearing a long, dark-green cloak that hid him completely from their view.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that," the man said in a hoarse voice. Though his tone carried no trace of a threat, they could tell that he meant business… there was something in that voice that seemed to demand attention despite speaking so softly.

"It's you…" Smoker snarled almost exactly as Robin spoke.

"Hey, what's going on?!" demanded Luffy with a muffled voice, hard for him to speak with his face to the ground. "Who's that?!"

"The most wanted man in the world: Dragon the Revolutionary! How nice," Smoker said to him, "Now the government can have your head!"

Dragon didn't speak for a moment, but then he went on in that same hoarse voice, "The world is still waiting for our answer."

Just then the whole area was surrounded with an eerie green light and a great wind came rushing out of nowhere… a wind that was so strong that it was as if they were in the middle of a maelstrom. Luffy screamed as he was sent flying back… falling backwards onto soft grass. After recovering, Luffy was soon standing on the Going Merry, but it was still raining hard and the storm raged around him. Fierce gales and heavy rains and battered the ship something awful as Nami was shouting out instructions as they just left Loguetown.

"Feels like she's gonna capsize!" Luffy yelled from the front, but instead of worried, he sounded excited at the thought that they might end up drowning.

"Hey look! A light!" Nami suddenly screamed out and they looked up to see a bright light burning in the distance, point the way through the storm.

"Is that a lighthouse?" Usopp screamed over the noise of the storm as he hung on to the mast to keep himself from slipping.

"The Grand Line is just out ahead," Luffy repeated in awe, his eyes bright as he grinned at the lighthouse. Nami smiled just as brightly as she looked to him, and she was as excited as he was here.

Zoro smirked and Sanji grinned wildly, giving them a thumbs-up. Luffy and Nami were grinning at each other as Luffy held onto his hat to keep it from being blown off.

Sanji then yelled out, "Ok then, I think we should say something to mark the occasion."

"Good idea!" Usopp exclaimed, finally able to pull himself off the mast at the suggestion as Luffy yelled in agreement to that idea.

Sanji rolled out a large barrel on the upper deck and the five crewmates stepped around it.

Each one had an excited gleam in their eye—because they all knew that this was the first time of them fulfilling their dreams. They smiled at the barrel, as if each one was thinking the same thing as the others. Sanji stepped up first and put his foot on the top of the barrel. "I'm going to the Grand Line to find All Blue!"

Following suit, Luffy also put his foot up and proclaimed that he was going to become the King of the Pirates. One by one, they all put a foot up and told each other their dreams… the reason they set out to sea with each other in the first place was for these reasons. Zoro and Nami both proclaimed their reasons for being here and looked to Usopp who stood there thinking… as if he didn't know what to say, but then he quickly put his foot up and said, "I guess I'm going… to be a brave warrior of the sea!"

Though the five of them held their feet there for only a few seconds, it felt so much longer… they looked at the barrel that held their goals and hopes, each one smiling through the rain. At this moment, there was no fear or hesitation in any of them… there was no turning back for them even if they wanted to. They all knew what they wanted and it was here that they decided that they were going to go to the ends of the world if that's what it took to get it… and no matter what happened, they were going to do it together.

"And now…" Luffy yelled as they all raised their legs high, and brought them down to smash the barrel, "TO THE GRAND LINE!"

"Yeah!" the Straw Hats shouted, with the little boat continuing on through the rough storm, following the light.

1. I thought this'd be funny to add, showing Luffy's line of reasoning for why he's not a vegetarian like Beast Boy. Not quite sure what Luffy's actual opinion on vegetables is, but due to his childish behavior and his obsession with meat I'd assume this is spot on.

2. This is the only way that I could think of for Buggy to successfully capture Luffy. I imagine, that with all the Sea Stone the Marines use to capture pirates, chances are there is some black market stuff that Buggy could get a hold of just for capturing Luffy.

3. Buggy acted as a lightning rod in canon, and with Luffy's durability I'd imagine he'd survive with or without rubber powers. He did get a bit more damaged than in canon, but not enough to be noticeable.

4. I myself can't think of any animal, real or otherwise, that can hurt smoke but I plan on researching this so that by the next time Luffy and Smoker fight, it'll be much more interesting. This will be because Luffy himself will be trying to find any animal that can fight smoke. Also, he couldn't use his other forms that might have worked because, in his hurry, Luffy couldn't come up with a strategy in time. While smart while fighting, that doesn't mean Luffy can come up with an answer for everything. After all, it took him 3 tries before he could take down Crocodile in canon.

AN: So here we are again. I hope you all enjoyed this latest installment of Chimera Luffy. Not so different from canon, but like I said from the beginning this'll be similar to canon with the only difference being Luffy's powers. I assure you though, some of the other fights are going to be way different. I'm going to go for another challenge or two after this, then back to my main stories! Again, big shout out to RoseDragonWitch for allowing me to use some of her work to outline this chapter. Until next time, please Read and Review!