Chapter 13: An Attack of Rage and Despair! Nightmare Ellix is Unleashed!
Warning: The following chapter is pretty damn dark and contains lots of swearing, read at your own risk. Also, if you like listening to music whilst reading (Like myself) I'd recommend 'Monster', 'Dance with the Devil', 'iNsAnItY' or something like that.
I ran down the dark corridors, smashing every thing in my way. I didn't care about anything, just finding Dusk and beating him to a pulp.
Finally I crashed through a large set of doors to find myself in a gloomy dance hall, and he was standing in the center.
"YOU!" I shouted in fury.
He turned to me. "Ah...so you have arrived Ellix-sa-"
"Soru Ken!" Before he could finish I dashed over and buried my fist in his face, throwing him back into the wall with a huge explosion.
Dusk threw the smoke cloud away as he glared at me. "Don't interrupt me when I am-"
"Rankakyu!" I cut him off again as I whipped my leg, sending an air wave at him as he narrowly dodged. He drew a large pitch black sword hidden against his matching trousers, which I narrowly avoided. "Shigan Akai Hatsu!" I continued my onslaught by trying to stab him repeatedly with both my fingers, he just barely blocked them with his sword as he was forced to leap out of my attacking range.
"So you wish to defeat me that badly." Dusk said.
My eyes grew larger in pure, uncontrollable rage. My reason became clouded as I started to call upon more and more of that little dark flicker, until I gained a shadowy aura. "This is the dark power of the Dori Dori no Mi?" Dusk said, using it's other name.
I didn't care what he had to say. I just wanted to make him pay for what he did to me, I let the next words drip from my mouth like venom.
"Daydream: Nightmare."
My shadowy aura disappeared as my legs twisted together into a ghostly purple tail pinned to the ground, my hair flared like fire before becoming purple tinted spikes. I closed my mouth as my teeth sharpened into points, and my mouth formed itself into my trademark murderous grin, my arms became shadowy as they stretched to twice their length and my hands became claws. My now purely red eyes looked at my opponents as I fully became Nightmare Ellix, a living, breathing nightmare.
"...Dark indeed..." Dusk muttered. "But...you cannot scare me!" He ran at me swinging his sword from the side, a foolish move. I effortlessly caught it as I flashed my pointy teeth in my grin at him, tossing him and his sword away from me.
"You blocked it..." He stated.
I wouldn't say anything, until..."...Aku...Akumumu..." I raised my head and began chuckling at him. "Akumumumumu...Akumumumumu...Akumumumumu..."
"...What is so funny?" Dusk asked me.
My red eyes widened as I looked left and right before hooking an arm around just to point at myself. "Are you talking to ME you bastard?" I asked him.
"...You are the only one here." Dusk murmured.
"...Well, I was just thinking of a LOVELY visage." I chuckled. "Just imagine, a blackened field ablaze with flames, surrounded by dead trees as the rivers run red with blood. And a throne of corpses atop which I sit...so beautiful..." I sighed wistfully at my imagination.
Dusk seemed unaffected. "I thought you wanted to fight me."
"Why can't we just resolve our differences?" I said with a shrug. "Come away with me to the marshmallow mountains to play with the pizza people!" I said as I did Chopper's signature dance.
"Enough games." Dusk said as he charged me.
I stretched out a hand and grabbed his face before he even came close. "Had to go the violent way didn't you?...And I was supposed to attack first because I have higher speed! Don't you know how these things work!?" I floated over to the wall, dragging him with me. "Know your place you little shit!" I smashed him face-first into the wall, cracking the stone from the pressure until I let him go.
"Ugghhh..." He groaned as he held his face in pain.
"Still concious? Good. This wouldn't be any fun if you didn't scream." I sneered as I stretched my arm off to the side. "Nightmare Nightmare..." Spikes grew out of my outstretched fist. "...Mace!" My arm snapped back as I punched him in the side of the face, the spikes digging into his cheeks as he was thrown across the floor.
"Akumumumu..." I chuckled as I flew up to the roof and divebombed him. "Nightmare Nightmare Mace!" I screeched as I drove my other spiky fist into his face, sending him flying across the room.
"Ohhhhh! Did I send that shitty bastard flying? Silly meeeee! Akumumumumu...AKUMUMUMUMU!" I cackled.
Dusk stood up in the smoke using his sword as a walking stick. "Is this what nightmares can do to a person?"
"You'd be surprised." I smirked as my unseeable irises spun in their sockets. "Can you hear them?"
"...Who?"
"The voices...they're so noisy..." My grin still stayed on my face. "They're calling for you, waiting for you...I'm supposed to help you find them..."
"You can't decide my fate." Dusk said sternly.
"Hey, I'm hungry. How about you?" I said, completely ignoring him. "I could go for some meat right now, juicy and tender...in a barbeque! Oh, I loooooove barbeques!" I dug both my arms into the ground to give me leverage as I positioned myself like a cannon. "I'll roast us some hot dogs!" purple flames licked around my pointed teeth as I spoke. "Nightmare Nightmare...Inferno!" I opened my grin and threw up a sea of hot purple flames.
"Ungh!" Dusk panted as he heavily slashed vertically, cutting my flames in two until they stopped.
"Stubborn little bitch aren't you?" I chuckled. "C'mon doggie, walkies!" I called tauntingly.
Dusk was evidently getting angry. "I will cut you down with this sword, after I use this!" Suddenly the sword opened up to reveal a gun nozzle in it. "Quick Bombs!" Two bullets shot out and I instinctively leaned left and right to avoid them, two large explosions happened behind me.
"Sugoiiii! Your sword is a gun as well!" I said with red sparkles around my head...literally.
"This sword was specially designed for me by the captain." Dusk explained. "He may value you highly...but you have proved to me that you are nothing more then a sadistic psychopath!"
"Nani? What do those words mean?" I feigned dumbness. I then stretched out my arms and grabbed his sword. "I wanna play with it!"
"Let go!" Dusk shouted as my claws returned to me.
"Your too loooooud!" I complained. "I'll fix that though! By ripping your tongue out of your throat! Nightmare Nightmare Chainsaws!" My claws transformed into chainsaws as I flew across the ground towards him with sick joy in my eyes.
I went for a downward slash but he blocked it, so I attempted to slash him from the side but he simply ducked. He then smashed his sword, along with my first chainsaw, into the ground and attempted to punch me, but I made him recoil as I slashed with my other buzzing hand. I clearly had the advantage with two weapons as I threw him off.
I then started a reckless onslaught of slashing one after the other, forcing him back. "That's right! Run away from me! I'll cut open your stomach and spill your guts all over the floor! I'll rip your kidneys out and make you eat them as I strangle you with your own intestines! Akumumumumu!"
"You aren't even you anymore!" Dusk declared. "I refuse to allow a monster like you to leave this place alive!" He then suddenly threw me off and jumped away, his sword opened up again and fired two more explosive bullets, which I effortlessly dodged as we put some difference between us.
"This is fun! Akumumumumu!" I laughed. "But can't you be more violent? C'mooooon! Break my arm! Rip out my teeth! Tear my hair off and stab me with it! Akumumu, get it? 'Cause it's so spiky." I then hit my palm with my claw. "I know!" I then flew over and placed his sword against my throat. "Slice my head off! I wanna scream at my own body! Maybe it will run around like a headless chicken!"
Dusk looked at me with disbelief, and instead pulled his sword away and kicked me hard in the chest, I just let myself get pushed away, it didn't really hurt. "Your no fun..." I pouted as my grin softened and my spikes and eyes drooped.
"You've gone insane." Dusk spat.
My face returned to normal as I reached a claw to my lower jaw.
CRACK!
I broke my own jaw as it literally hit the floor. "I haf!? Oh o!" I said, afterwards my jaw snapped back up to my mouth and fixed itself. "Why would I go to sane!? It's a terrible place for a holiday! And who will feed the chinchillas!?" My neck dislocated as my head spun around rapidly like a roundabout. "The pressure is too muuuuuuuch!"
I could practically feel Dusk stare at me with confusion, when I suddenly felt something else and my head abruptly stopped spinning, now facing backwards. "...I can sense iiiiiiit." I said in a creepy mocking voice.
"...S-Sense what?" Dusk asked.
With a few more 'crack''s my head was back on properly. "Your fear..." I licked my pointed teeth as my grin widened. "Your scared of me...it's so invigorating..."
"I am not scared of you!" He regained his composure. "But everyone else must be! How do you make friends and nakama!? Bribary? Blackmail? Slavery? I mean, why would ANYONE stay beside a thing like you!?"
I stared at him with my grin. "Don't talk shit about me when you don't even know who I am you little retard. You cannot possibly understand me." I covered my eyes with my claws. "I have the greatest nakama ever! We stick beside each other even through our flaws! We are together always! Akumumumumu!"
And then, for the first time, my grin turned into a frown, as tears streamed down my face. "And...on Omatsuri Island...I watched them DIE! The only people I could compare to a family...I watched them DIE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! Do you have ANY idea how much of a worthless shitty asshole that made me feel!? To watch them DIE and not being able to do ANYTHING!?" My tears burned up as my grin returned. "Don't bother answering, you might as well just talk through you ass with all the crap you'll spout...don't...EVER say things like that when you don't know the hells we've been through..."
Then, I heard the familiar sounds of creaking. I turned to see the battered doors swing slowly open to reveal Tempo, Tack, Roy, Kalamar and Sarah.
"What the hell happened in here?" Roy asked, surveying the damage.
"...Tack?...What is that?" Sarah said, pointing at me.
"I have no idea..." Tack admitted.
"...So you don't know..." Dusk muttered, flashing me a grin, I knew what the bastard was planning, but I just crossed my shadowy arms.
"Know what!?" Tack demanded.
Dusk pointed at me. "THIS...is your precious friend Ellix."
"YOU BASTARD!" Tack roared as Sarah held him back. "Don't you DARE compare Ellix to that monster! He gave his life to save me when he had nakama to return to!"
"Oh?...So your saying you'd never compare this...THING to Ellix?" I still kept my grin, 'cause I didn't give a fuck.
"NEVER! I don't know what the hell that thing is, but it's not Ellix!" Tack argued.
Dusk turned to me with a smirk, little prick.
"Screepth!" Tempo flew over to me.
"Tempo! Keep away from that thing!" Tack called to the bat.
Tempo perched on my shadowy shoulder and grinned at me. "Screepth." He said as he nuzzled against my face.
"Tempo?" Roy asked in an uncertain tone.
I heard a small click, and turned to see Dusk aiming his gun right at them! "Let's do a little test, shall we?" He sneered as he pulled the trigger.
"YOU ASSHOLE!" I shouted as I dashed in front of my friends and spread out my arms.
I felt the bullets explode on me in a huge cloud of smoke, luckily my shadowy body endured it easily. As the smoke cleared I brushed myself down with minor annoyance. "Woah! Whatjusthappened?" I heard Roy ask.
I looked at them over my shoulder. "Are you all okay?"
They all looked at me. "You saved us?" Tack asked sceptically.
I turned to them. "You need to stay out of this battle." I told them.
"Don't order us around!" Tack argued.
"I'm not asking." I enforced as I pushed them back into the darkness (along with Tempo) and closed the battered doors on them, I stretched a claw and grabbed some fallen pillars, blocking the doors with them.
"...You saved them even though they despised you..." Dusk muttered.
I turned to him with pure rage in my voice. "YOU FUCKING BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU BRING THEM INTO THIS!? HOW FUCKING DARE YOU! YOU WANT TO FIGHT ME THEN THROW ALL THE CRAPPY, USELESS MOVES YOU HAVE AT ME! BUT DON'T YOU EVER BRING PEOPLE I PROTECT INTO THIS! SO HELP ME I WILL RIP YOUR FUCKING RIBCAGE OUT AND PIN YOUR CORPSE TO THE WALL WITH IT! YOUR FUCKING WITH ME ENDS RIGHT NOW YOU BASTARD! NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE SKEWER!" My spiky hair suddenly stretched and stabbed all over the room. Dusk had barely managed to protect himself with his sword.
"NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE WISP!" My body shrank and distorted into a small purple flame with red eyes as I zipped towards him and disorientated him, I turned back to normal as I appeared behind him.
"NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE CRUNCH!" I opened my pointed teeth and bit down hard, on his sword.
"You are nothing more then a baka..." Dusk glared at me.
"Shuf the hell uh!" I said as my teeth completely shattered the blade, revealing the long, silver twin-barrelled gun underneath.
"Nani!?" Dusk gasped in shock.
My malicious grin returned at his gasp. "Nightmare Nightmare Shadows..." Two shadowy arms grew out of my back and grabbed his arms hoisting him high into the air.
"Gaaah! Let me down you-GLACK!" He was cut off as a shadowy claw pierced him straight through the stomach. Blood ran from his mouth and his new stomach wound as I tossed him aside like the filth he was, before my extra shadowy appendages retreated into my back.
"Hah...hah...BLEACK!" Dusk coughed up blood as he struggled to stand.
"Give up you worthless sack of shit." I belittled him. "Your going to die of blood loss from that wound, it's over."
He glared at me. "It's not over until I say it is you monster!"
I grabbed him by the throat and brought him to my face. "You still have the fucking nerve to call ME a monster after what you did!?...I can stop the blood flowing and save your life...if you apologize and admit you were WRONG!"
"Get your filthy claws off of me!" He cried as he jumped out of my grip and pointed at me. "You'll just make me suffer even more!...No...If I'm going down, your coming with me!" He grabbed his gun and put in a red bullet. "This bullet...has enough condensed explosives to blow this entire zone to the New World! You and your so called friends!" He aimed the gun at me as I fixed him with my grin. "See you in hell, monster!"
He fired.
I yawned.
I caught the bullet.
"...THIS was your trump card?...You really are terrible." I sighed as I opened my mouth and dropped the bullet into my gut. I definitely felt an explosion as I opened my mouth and thick black smoke poured out. "Spicy!"
Dusk just looked at me with saucer eyes. He began trembling so much he dropped his gun and made a run for it.
"Where do you think YOUR going!?" I stretched out a claw and grabbed him, pulling him back to me at eye level.
"Okay! Okay! I'm sorry!" He screamed in pure fear. "I'm sorry for everything! Just please let me go!"
"Awwww, what's the MATTER!? Where's that BRAVADO of yours!?" I shouted at him. As I continued to talk I slowly grew bigger and more menacing as shadows swirled around me. "Apology time is OVER! You are nothing but a waste of space DO YOU HEAR ME!? YOU HAVE NO HONOUR AND ARE NOTHING BUT A LITTLE SHIT THAT I HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF STEPPING IN!"
"Please! I'm sorry!" He pleaded as tears rolled down his face.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP! YOU STAY AWAY FROM EVERYONE I CARE ABOUT! IF YOU EVER SO MUCH AS TALK ABOUT THEM I WILL CUT YOUR VOICEBOX OUT! YOU ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO MY NAKAMA AND FRIENDS! NOTHING! I HAVE ENEMIES WHO I DEEM BETTER THEN YOU! WELL? DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY!? DO YOU YOU LITTLE FUCKING BASTARD!?"
"AHHHHHHH!" He screamed one last time before his eyes rolled behind his sockets and he foamed at the mouth, completely passed out.
I slowly shrank and returned to my normal nightmarish self as I dangled the unconcious Dusk like a fish. I then stopped the blood flow from his stomach by patching him up with some carpet, before hanging him on the chandelier.
After that I stretched my arms over to the pillars and removed them, allowing the small group to collapse into the room.
"Akumumumumu...It's rude to listen in you know." I chuckled as Tempo flew over to me and perched on one of my hair spikes.
They all stood up. "Listen...are you really Ellix?" Tack asked.
"Not gonna say yes, 'cause your not gonna believe me." I told him.
"I believe it's you Ellix..." Sarah mumbled.
My expression softened at her words. "Well...thanks..."
"Besides, Tempo gives you away." Roy chuckled.
I gave my evil grin at them. "Guess so."
"So...what's with the new look?" Tack had to place his words carefully.
"Why this incredibly sexy version of myself is my Nightmare Form!" I gave a little twirl for emphasis. "You just throw a bit of nightmare energy into the Ellix mix and badda-boom badda-bing! You get me!"
"Nightmares, huh?...Well, there are certainly some things different." He mumbled.
"Ah! Allow me to explain it in the simplest way possible!...Blauck fleargh!" I coughed as I cleared my throat. "WHY I fight remains the same...it's HOW I fight that changes." I explained in a way Luffy could understand.
"...I don't get it." Roy said, making me facepalm knowing I'd failed.
"So, where is Dusk?" Sarah asked.
"Up there." I pointed at the chandelier.
"Oh my god! Is he...?" Tack started.
"Dead? No..." I said with some regret. "I thought it would be better for him to live the rest of his life with a massive hole in his stomach and having mental therapy for five years." I ignored the looks they were giving me. "Anyway, let's get outta here, I've had enough of this place."
"Here, here." Everyone else agreed as we pushed open the double doors and walked onto a familiar stone path.
I then felt my Nightmare Form slipping away from me. My hair returned to normal as it lost its purple tinge, as my shadow arms faded back into my regular arms and my pinned tail untwisted into legs and feet. My teeth lost their sharpness as my eyes returned to normal as well. Almost immediately I covered my mouth as my insides painfully started contracting, feeling as if they were on fire.
"Ellix! Yourbacktonormal!...Are you okay?" Roy asked as Kalamar blubbed in concern.
"...BLEAUGHK!" I gagged as I threw up a whole stomachfull of blood before collapsing forward.
"ELLIX!" Everyone yelled as I was helped to my feet.
"What the hell happened?" Tack wondered aloud.
"Urgh...side-affects...of my Nightmare Form..." I wheezed as my strength was quickly drained. "The nightmares...mess up my system...and steal my strength...I...I need a power nap."
Sarah hoisted me up onto her back with little effort. "I'll carry you, Ellix..." She said.
"...Thank you Sarah..." I whispered weakly as I slowly closed my eyes and fell asleep...
...Jesus Christ on a honey covered broomstick...that was DARK! Dark with a capital 'D'! What the hell is wrong with you!?
Ellix: Don't look at me! You wrote it!
Yes but...*Sigh*...I hope I described Nightmare Ellix good enough for you readers. I'd like to put a picture of him on the profile picture for this story or something.
Ellix: Because you can only draw stick-men...
Yep. And this is my second chapter today! I'm on a roll! Onto reviews!
To ThiefofStealth: Ohhhhh yeah. I hated Omatsuri Island. I couldn't look at a flower in the same way for a week!
Ellix: Eri-chan almost killed me...
Your overexaggerating. And what do you think of Thief-chan's (Do you mind?) proposal?
Ellix: I'd be honoured! To be a rival of Eri-chan...I'll do my best!
Although she might reconsider after this whole 'stunt'...
Ellix: NANI!?
To XJustified: Here's another one for you! *Evil laughter*
To TheRealEvanSG: I'm definitely gonna do another movie! Although Omatsuri's Island is debatable...I'd have to watch it again...*Shudder*.
Ellix: Don't make me relive that!
I think that's everything! Now then, can someone do the discl-*THUMP!*
Ellix?: Akumumumu...OPFan37 doesn't own One Piece! Only me and this Arc! Sweet dreams...Akumumu...