Chapter 5

"I wouldn't think Ace's door would be blue..." said Sanji. Luffy glared at him.

"This is Sabo's door."

"But Sabo's still alive!" said Usopp.

"Tell that to me as a kid." Luffy decided to open the door and they all walked through.

"Where are we?" asked Chopper.

"Shh. Look." Robin pointed to a stump where three young boys were sitting.

"From this moment on, the three of us are brothers!" yelled the young Luffy.

"Awww, Luffy you're so cute as a kid!" said Nami.

"Thanks, but this memory isn't exactly a happy one. Trust me." The Straw Hats then found themselves at the dock to the water, where Sabo was making a raft.

"Guys, I've decided. It's time for me to set sail!"

"He he. Good for you, then!" said Ace.

"Remember to come back and visit!" said Luffy.

Sabo began to sail out, and then a larger ship appeared.

Luffy clenched his fists in anger and looked away. Nami laid her hand on his shoulder.

Sabo's raft cut in front of the other ship.

"What the hell?! You think you have the right to pass in front of me?! Die!" The Celestial Dragon fired a bazooka at Sabo, blowing his ship up and leaving his hat and pipe floating in the water, a trail of fire behind it.

"S-SABOOOOOO!" young Luffy wailed. Tears were streaming down his face.

A tear fell down Robin's face. "Luffy...I had no idea..."

Nami hugged the sobbing Luffy to comfort him.

"Come on, Luffy. Let's keep going. We're almost done." They walked through back into the white room. A dark red door appeared next.

"Ace." Luffy said, depressed. They walked through again to find themselves in Marineford.

"Don't you know that Whitebeard is a liar?"

"What did you say?!"

"He's pathetic, a shadow of his former self!"

"I'LL KILL YOU!" Ace flew at Akainu and was easily defeated. He turned to Luffy.

"Your turn." He charged his fist up and lunged for Luffy, who was paralyzed.

"Luffy, NO!" Ace was pierced through his torso, leaving a giant hole and seeping blood. He fell onto Luffy's shoulder.

"Luffy, I want you to know something. When you're born to an infamous criminal, life is hard, and people try to take you down everywhere you go. But you and Sabo both...looked beyond that...and accepted me for who I was. Luffy...THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME!" Ace cried out before collapsing off of Luffy's shoulder onto the ground, leaving him stunned.

"Ace...? Ace, wake up...you can't die...Ace! ACE!" Luffy bit his lip before screaming out in sorrow.

"ACEEEEE! WAHHHHHHHHHH!"

Nami looked over to Luffy who was silently crying. She couldn't hold back her tears, and started crying with him.

"Luffy...I can't believe he died in your arms..." Nami sobbed. The door appeared again and they walked through it, leading back to the white room.

"I've cried too much for one day." said Luffy, wiping his eyes. A gray door then appeared.

"Gray? Who's gray?" asked Usopp. "I mean we already did Brook, but he was black." Luffy's eyes widened.

"I've got a bad feeling about who." Luffy opened the door, and they found themselves on the deck of the Sunny, on a normal sunny day.

"This doesn't seem so bad." said Franky.

"Luffy, come here." Robin waved Luffy into the infirmary.

Luffy looked down. "I was right." They looked into the infirmary.

"Nami, congratulations! You're pregnant!" said Chopper.

"I...I am? L-Luffy...YOU IDIOT! YOU GOT ME PREGNANT?!"

"What?! I-I thought you'd be happy about this!" said Luffy.

"Of course not! Chopper, as soon as it's possible, I'm having an abortion."

"WHAT?!" screamed Luffy and Chopper.

"I can't even look at you Luffy!" Nami stomped out of the room.

"I remember this day, but not like this. So Rose was never born?" asked Nami solemnly. Luffy slowly nodded. Another gray door appeared. They went through it.

"New Marineford." Akainu appeared in front of Rose and charged up his fist.

"R-ROSE!" Luffy dashed for her, but got tackled down by Ryokugyu. The fist went right through her, killing her.

"D-Dad..." She coughed up blood. "Why didn't you...save me?" She fell over and bled out.

"Another body piled up on your conscience. How you've fallen, Straw Hat. You betrayed your family's trust in you."

The door leading back to the white room appeared, and they all went through. Luffy was murmuring to himself.

"Rose...Rose..." She hugged him.

"Dad, don't worry. I'm right here. None of that ever happened!"

"I know that! But it all felt so real...it very well could have happened." A red door then appeared, not as dark as Ace's. A laugh rang throughout the room.

"Hello, everyone. How are we holding up? I decided to throw in a two-for-one deal. The last two people will be simultaneous. However, Luffy is not allowed to see."

"What?! Why not?!" yelled Sanji. A purple mist surrounded and trapped Luffy in his place.

"That's for me to know and you to find out. Bye bye." The door opened on itself, and the purple mist pushed the rest of the crew through the door.

"Where are we now?" asked Nami. Just then, a landscape formed.

"New Marineford. But it's surprisingly...quiet." inquired Robin. She heard the sound of liquid, and looked down to find her shoes soaked in blood. She gasped, and lifted them off in order to get back onto the ground.

"W-What in the hell...?" said Zoro. Everyone looked at the scene in front of them. Everyone dead. All but two people.

"Don't you see, Straw Hat? Your entire crew, your family, is gone." Luffy glanced behind him with a blank expression to find Nami and Rose lathered in their own insides, motionless. Akainu punched him over and over, but he wouldn't fight back.

The scene disappeared, and they found Luffy in full body bandages on Amazon Lily with an injured Jinbe.

"Yes, Ace is gone! But ask yourself Luffy, what remains?! What about your crew?"

"What good are they now?" Luffy said in a brooding tone.

"W-What? This is the cheerful man we know?" asked Zoro.

"Ace was my brother. If I couldn't save him, then how can I expect to protect my other family, my crew?"

"That's...but..."

"Face it, Jinbe. The Straw Hat Pirates are finished." He held up his hat. "And Straw Hat Luffy is dead." He tore it in half, dropped it to the ground and walked away.

"W-W-What?" Nami reacted. "He ripped his hat in half? Luffy..."

The scene disappeared, and they found themselves in a gray colored room with only a little bit of light. At the end of the room was a depressed Luffy, sitting down and hugging himself. Nami walked up to him, her eyes tearing up.

"Luffy?" She tried to put her hand on his shoulder, but it went through since he was ethereal. His eyes were bloodshot and red from crying so much.

"It's hopeless for me. I can't protect anything. Why did I even become a pirate? Why did I decide to have kids? Why did I fall in love with Nami? Why did I save her...?"

Dream Luffy disappeared, and a flash of light appeared at the end of the hall. Everyone walked towards it. The room seemed to get bigger and bigger until they saw a massive orange door that towered over them. Sanji lit a cigarette and glanced at the beautiful Pirate Queen.

"It's time, Nami. Are you ready?" The door creaked open, and they entered.

End.