Ellix's "So Dazzling! Am I Dreaming?" 2: Infiltrating the Food Zone!
Cover Page: Straw-Hats and Animals: Ellix is having an eating contest against ten hamsters eating carrots, Ellix and the hamsters all have stuffed cheeks and Ellix is winning.
Our group of four (sorry, five) had climbed up to the top of Food Zone, which was a giant metal dome. Looking down on some pretty burly looking security guards.
"Are they part of the Jester Pirates too?" I asked my new companions.
"All staff members are." Tack said. "They had a pretty big crew."
"But...why would they quit piracy to open a carnival?" I questioned.
"An awesome AMUSEMENT Park." Roy corrected me.
"It is pretty awesome." I agreed.
"People say it's what the captain aspired to do. The rest of the crew went along with it because they wanted a fun and peaceful life, most members have families here now." Tack lectured.
"W-Well it is pretty nice." Sarah agreed.
We stood up and turned to Roy. "Alright Roy, can you lead us to the ventilation shaft?" Tack said.
Roy raised an eyebrow. "I don't know where the shaft is. Kalamar does." He jabbed a thumb at the squid latched onto his back.
"Seriously?" I sweat-dropped.
The squid then pointed east with one of its tentacles eastward. We followed the aquatic creatures advice until we came to a ventilation shaft. Where Roy reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle of water, dumping the contents over his back and therefore Kalamar, who bubbled his thanks.
"Gotta keep him hydrated, keeps him happy, and on a lesser note alive." Roy said.
'Surely that should be more important.' I thought.
"Alright, you guys follow after me." Tack said as he leaped in.
"Wahoo! Seeyouatthebottom!" Roy cheered as he threw Kalamar down the chute and shortly followed him.
I was about to follow when I saw Sarah shuffling away. "Hey, what's wrong?" She jumped at my voice.
"Umm...I'm just...er...kinda nervous." She whispered. "What if I get stuck halfway through?"
"That's what you're worried about?" I thought aloud. She was pretty thin, there was no way she could get stuck. Maybe she was a worrier? I could understand that. "Okay, how about I help you?"
"R-Really?" She stammered.
"Yep. Just close your eyes." She did as she was told and I led her over to the chute. "Don't be scared, just enjoy yourself." And I slowly pushed her down, she screamed all the way.
"Actually, that looks really fun! Wait for me!" I leapt in face first, sliding down shouting "SUNNYYYYYYY!" However I still landed in frozen foods and ice. "AHHHHHH! It's so cold!" I started shivering.
"What did you expect? It's the frozen side of the Food Zone." Tack said, seemingly unfazed by the cold.
Roy was collecting ice cubes in a bag. "More water for Kalamar." He explained, to which we all nodded.
I noticed Sarah was taking it the worst. "Hey guys, we better get moving, Sarah's pretty vulnerable."
"You're right, let's move out, people." Tack said, taking off his jacket and wrapping it around Sarah as we went into another door.
As soon as we went through my jaw dropped. "Oh...my...Gol D. Roger."
The whole room was FILLED with FOOD! There was literally a mountain of cooked edibles in front of us. I'm pretty sure we all shed a tear at the beautiful sight. "This is the third time I've seen true beauty dash awesomeness." I weeped.
"We made it guys, after 15 minutes of planning, we finally made it." Tack said.
"It looks really nice." Sarah giggled.
"Wonder if there's anything for Kalamar here." Roy wondered as Kalamar peered over his shoulder.
We instantly leapt into the food mountain and found a place to sit and eat. They had some great bacon! And rolls! And bacon rolls!
We all sat down on top of some lettuce to eat. "So then Ellix, how did you come by Colour Carnival?" Tack started the conversations.
"I was actually sent here by a Devil Fruit user." I said as I tucked into some spaghetti.
"Wow...that sucks." Roy voiced my opinion.
"What about you three?" I returned the question.
"We just decided to take a break." Tack said, making a hot dog and stuffing it down. "In fact, the whole reason we planned this was because the stuff here is pretty overpriced."
"Tell me about it." Roy said. I SWEAR Kalamar rolled his eyes.
"What about you Sarah?" I asked her.
"Oh er, me? I'm not really that, er, ummm, errrr." She seemed to pull into herself.
And then she started growing.
Meh.
"Hey Sarah." Tack said. "You're kinda..."
"Oh, oh, right. Sorry." She shrunk back to her original size.
"Woah...what was that?" I asked, purely out of curiosity.
"Sarah ate the Mega-Mega Fruit." Roy explained. "It allows you to grow to giant size, it's kinda intertwined with her shyness."
I sat there for a second. "That. is. AWESOME!" I dashed over to her with sparkly eyes. "You can become a giant? What an awesome Devil Fruit!"
"I-It's nothing really..." She shuffled away a bit.
"She ate it at the age of 8 and stayed giant for several days, it caused a bunch of problems in her village." Tack continued. "She decided of her own accord to leave when we arrived for supplies, until she learns to control it."
"Hmmm." I said. "You shouldn't turn down your Devil Fruit powers and try to hide from them, you should embrace them. I actually have a Devil Fruit power you know."
"You do?" All three asked.
"Yep, I ate the Dream-Dream Fruit."
"Dream-Dream Fruit? Never heard of it." Tack and Roy dismissed, causing me to fall over comically.
"It sounds quite nice." Sarah mumbled, shuffling forward.
"Hey, what's that?" Roy asked.
"Huh?" I said, not really comprehending what he meant.
"That thing on your wrist." Roy pointed at my wristband.
I looked at it. "Oh...my wristband."
The two males instantly began feeling awkward.
"Is it a delicate subject?" Sarah said.
"Kinda, my girlfriend gave it to me before we got separated by that Devil Fruit user" I sighed.
"Oh my Gol D. Roger!...You have a girlfriend!?" Roy shouted. Again, wrong emphasis.
"So you're a pirate?" Tack asked.
"Yeah..." I sighed.
"Ellix...do you love her?" Sarah whispered.
"Of course I do!" I said, almost offended. "...And now this is all I have left of her."
Roy's eyes went shifty.
"Is she...Is she hot?"
"Well...what?"
"Is she hot?"
"...Yeah."
"How's her bust?"
"What!?"
"Nothing."
"I do love her, and I miss her and all my nakama. They're the family I never had." I sighed.
Flashback
"Sugoiiiii! A giant bathhouse!" Luffy cheered as he and Usopp rushed in stark-naked.
"AHHHHH! MY EYES! MY POOR EYES!" I screamed. "DON'T YOU TWO HAVE ANY DECENCY!? PUT A TOWEL ON!"
"Meanie!" The two yelled, I had turned away from them but I could still hear their raspberries.
I settled down into the warm water and let my sand filled bones be washed over. This was interrupted by two certain idiots splashing each other.
"Bakas! I'm trying to relax!" I shouted with shark teeth. My reward was a splash to the face.
"I got ElliiiiX! I got Elliiiix!" Luffy cheered.
"The mighty Rokushiki user trembles before Captain Usopp!" The sniper laughed, jabbing a finger at himself.
"I'll show you mighty! Rankakyu!" I swept my leg and caused a small tidal wave that swamped over the two. Luffy and Usopp emerged with the latter carrying the former. "Now THAT is fun." I chuckled.
"All of you shut up! I'm trying to relax!" Zoro roared.
Sanji nudged the advisor. "Hey, ossan. Know where the womans bathhouse is?"
"WHAT!? Don't be so indecent!" He yelled in reply.
"It's just over that wall." The king said, pointing to said wall.
"Your majesty!"
The ero-cook leapt onto the wall with cat-like skills, scurrying to the top, quickly followed by the other males except Zoro. Me included, don't judge me!
The two females were sitting in the water wearing towels, Nami washing Vivi's back. The two quickly noticed us and Vivi covered her chest. "What are you doing?" She accused us.
"Peeping, obviously." Nami scolded, followed by a sigh. "Alright, but it will cost 100,000 berri for all of you."
She stood up as I crossed my arms over the wall. 'Maybe I should back out, whatever she's gonna do it will add 100,000 ber-'
"Happiness...Punch!"
Everyone except me fell over from a violent nosebleed.
Two 2's appeared in my head.
The two's inched closer to each other.
The two's touched.
Behold, the logical thoughts I was having as my eyeballs shot out of their sockets:
'SFBHKSR/TUKOPSROPDGHNSRTH'YRFIEDBJDGHOPRGUHDTIOPRT#TYJTEDUY]UOPLERFBUIDTH[TYHSDGVMNKDTH!?'
I immediantely covered my mouth and nose as my whole body heated up. 'IAMNOTAPERVERT,IAMNOTAPERVERT,IAMNOTAPERVERT!'
She re-covered herself and frowned at me. "Huh, I didn't take you for THAT type Ellix."
My legs were flailing around madly as my whole body started turning red. The steam was picking up too. Wait a minute, was I GIVING OFF STEAM!?
Vivi looked genuinely worried. "Ellix, what's the matter?"
Nami frowned some more. "Okay, seriously, what's wrong with you!?"
The steam was coming off a lot more fiercely now. (Looking back I guessed I looked like Luffy in Gear Second.) As I lifted my head up high and-
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Fierce jets of steam erupted from my ears until my body had finally cooled down. Nami and Vivi looked at me with dropped jaws and wide eyes.
"...What...the...hell...?" Nami managed.
My body went limp as noodles as I slid back into the bathhouse.
"Sugoiiiii! Ellix is a steam engine!" Luffy went sparkle-eyed.
"Fill him up with coal!" Usopp yelled to no-one in particular.
I mumbled into the floor.
"Nani? What did you say, Ellix?" Luffy asked as he peeled me off the floor.
"I said...I can die happy..." I moaned as I passed out.
Flashback End
I had told this tale to my new friends, changing all names, who stared at me with the same looks Nami and Vivi gave me.
I looked around as I realised something had fallen on me during the time. "Where did that spotlight come from?"
"Let me get this straight...STEAM...came out of your...EARS!?" Tack asked in pure disbelief.
I crossed my arms and nodded. "Better then having a nose bleed and being a pervert."
The males fell over comically. "HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE!?"
"It just does!" I argued, finishing off a muffin.
Suddenly a bunch of burly looking security guards bashed their way in and quickly surrounded us.
"Damn...these guys are good." Roy admitted, Kalamar nodding in agreement.
"Oh no! We've been caught! W-We're gonna be in real big trouble now!" Sarah panicked.
"No we won't! We'll fight out if we have to!" Tack declared as we got ready.
Before we could do anything though the guards parted and allowed a Visual Den-Den Mushi on a cart to be wheeled forward. It buzzed to life and showed a midget jester.
That's the only way I can describe him. He wore a robe that was red one side and green the other, with a matching two-pointed hat that had bells as big as his head on the tips. A patch of black hair jutted out from under his hat, and he was MAD! His face was bright red and he had a shark face like you wouldn't believe.
"WHO IS HAVING THE EATING MY FOOD OF TASTINESS!?" He screamed through the Den-Den Mushi. "THEY SHALL BE FACING THE REDNESS LEVEL PUNISHMENT OF DOOM!"
Howver he seemed to spot me, and he instantly calmed down, switching to a normal face and a smile that covered half of it. "Oh! Ohhhh! Look upon you who is Ellix-sama! Who had the eating of the Dori-Dori No Mi and the taking of the titley title of Rokushiki Nightmare! To you I says welcome!"
"Wait..." Tack said. "Did he say..."
"ROKUSHIKI NIGHTMARE!?" All three yelled while Kalamar blubbed in shock. "THE MERCENARY OF THE STRAW-HAT PIRATES!?"
"I'm a mercenary?" I asked in confusion.
"Allow me to be giving the introduction!" The guy on screen said giddily. "Dimo is me! The leading of Jestery Pirates and working of Colour Carnival I do!"
"Wait...YOU!? You're the guy in charge!?" I shouted in pure disbelief.
"To you I say yes!" Dimo said.
"ELLIX! I knew I'd heard that name somewhere before!" Tack yelled.
"He has a bounty of 240,000,000!" Roy shouted.
"He looks shorter on his poster." Sarah said.
One of the guards turned to Dimo. "Captain! These four-"
"Five." Roy corrected, pointing at Kalamar.
"...Five...have infiltrated the Food Zone and eaten Colour Carnival property without permission!"
Dimo nodded. "Yes, yes, I am having the knowing. Like the spoiled brat tattling on the naughty siblings." He leaned forward on his chair. "Ellix-sama! Unimportantlings! Perhaps you shall be telling the tale of reason for destination obtainment."
I raised an eyebrow at this guy, why did he speak in constant Engrish? But I told him of how I got seperated from my crew and landed here. By the time I was finished he was crying a waterfull.
"S-Such a tale of moving!" Dimo sobbed. "The tears fall from the eyes like soda from the falls of magic! Ellix-sama shall be having the receiving of a boat and crew to have the heartwarming reunion with his nakama!"
One of the guards jumped at this. "C-Captain! You cannot be serious! They have broken at least seven rules! This cannot go unpunished!"
He switched off the waterworks immediantely and had a twisted face of thought. "Myeeehhhs. I suppose the nakama has the rightness, but how to do the punishing of Ellix-sama and the naughty Unimportantlings!"
"Hey! I at least want to be called the Somewhatimportantling!" Roy shouted as we all face-palmed.
"Ah-ha! My brain is having the idea of incredible brilliance!" We all turned our attention back to Dimo. "If you are wanting the boat still, you must be having the asking personally! Coming to the Creation Tower you will be, like happy children to the forest of sunshine for the picnic of cupcakes!"
"Do you mean go to Creation Tower to ask you for it?" Sarah said.
"I say to you yes! Did the hearing have the failing?"
"N-No."
"Goodness! But the but of but! Easy it shall not be having of you! As you are knowing of the Zones of the park, there are many! Having the dark side they do, like the innocent businessman who plots domination of world! Making through all will allow us the meeting! And then joy will do the raining on us like showers of gold! Of seeing you there I will, Ellix-sama and Unimportantlings!"
And with that the Den-Den Mushi was switched off and rolled away, and the guards let us out through a door onto a stone path.
"The captain's decision is final, see you at the end of the zones...if at all." The guards said as they blocked us from going back.
I sighed. "Looks like I'm not going back anytime soon. I'm sorry you guys, I was trying to protect myself.
Tack patted me on the back. "It's alright, we understand. You were just looking for a meal."
"Guess we're all in this together now. Let'sdoit!" He cheered along with Kalamar.
"I-I'll try my best." Sarah whispered.
"Alright then, sorry I dragged you guys into this." I admitted.
"Hey, if you weren't there I think we would be dead. Dimo sure seems to like you." Tack said thoughtfully.
"Yeah, I wonder why." I said.
"Comeoooooon! Let'sgo!" Roy yelled as Kalamar beckoned us on.
"O-okay." Sarah whispered.
"Alright! Colour Carnival Zones, here we come!" I cheered as everyone charged down the path, ready for anything these Zones could throw at us.
xxxSummitxWarxxx
And another chapter is done! This is where the Colour Carnival Arc really starts! I hope you enjoy it. (Those who have played spin-offs of Mario games know where I got the inspiration for Dimo from.). Also, check out my new profile!
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Thank you for reading! Nakama! Dimo belongs to me.