Chapter 38: Burning Magma and Evil Nightmares! Nightmare Ellix vs. Admiral Akainu!

Yes, yes! Kill Akainu! How though? Hooooow? Fighting! Yeeeeesssss, fighting! I can do that! And this! That one thinks pretty!

"What did you say!?" He's still there! Yes! Don't move! Where's the glue? No! Corrosive glue! Burn his legs off! But first...

"Nightmare Nightmare...Chainsaw!" Claw looks really buzzy now! Like a spiky bee! And now stretch my arm over and slash him! So much red and yellow porridge pouring out! Slash again! And again! Andagainandagainandagain! He's all cut up!...Huh? Why's he reforming? That's cheating! Someone smack his bottom!

"I don't have time to deal with you!" What!? He's trying to get past me! Bad Akainu! Better rip this chunk of ice out with my claw! And turn the other one back to normal, IMPORTANCE!

"No walkies for you!" Yes! Smash that ice into his face! That looked and smelt and tasted like it hurt! Wheeeee! He's skidding allllllll the way back!

"How dare you!? I said I don't have time for you!" Awwww! Big bad Akainu got a boo-boo! Major case of butthurt alert! Huh? Hey! Don't burn all that ice away! I was gonna use that! Oi! Now where are you going!? Not a fat ghostly chance! I'll just detach my tail and dash in front of you!

"Nightmare Nightmare Crunch!" My mouth got HUUUUGE! Chomp him up whole! Urgh! He tastes bad! Gotta swallow! Hey! Why won't you swallow!? Okay then, vomit time! Ohhhhh! You can reform even after that? La-di-fucking-da!

"Why you..." Maaaaad! He's maddy maddy maaaaad! I'm madder though! But the betterer kind! Look! His hand's all magmary! "Fine then, I'll kill you first!" My line! Line thief!

"What are you standing around for!? Get Nightmare!" Annoying noises again! Now they're coming! Cook 'em up! Fire the fire! Purple fire! Spit a big ball at them! "Aaaahh! It burns!" Now spit 'em everywhere! There! There! There! Now me and Akainu are in a big ring of beautiful fire! Rentals are 100 a month!

"There, no more interruptions." Hissing words is fun!

He's getting steamy again! EPIC PUN! "Dai Funka!" Magma fist! BAD! Block it! Raise a claw up, up, UP! Smash DOWN! Now icy spikes are all up in front of me to block the magma fist! Thanks, icy spikes!

"That sucked! My turn!" Jump above him! Biiiiig breath! "Nightmare Nightmare Sludge!" Bleeeeurgh! Sicking up a good globby trail of purple goo!

"Inugami Guren!" Magma doggy! Don't eat my goop, magma doggy! Now it's all toxic gas! "Poison?" That's what I just thought, Akainu! "Hraaaaaah!" Stop blowing away my poison!

"Gah!" Ah well, at least I got rid of those annoying noises! "Quick! Jump over the fire!" Oh no, there's more of them! Fiiiine.

"Nightmare Nightmare...Shadows!" Yay! My shadow stabbed all of them! High five, shadow!

"Get back! He's too dangerous!" Correction annoying noises, dangerously sexy.

"I won't allow this to continue anymore!" Oh! Right! Akainu's still here! And I still hate him! Hell yeah! Now to just fade away, then fade in front of him, raise a claw, considerably lengthen it, add some imaginary eggs, aaaaand...

"Nightmare Nightmare Guillotine!" And so the claw comes a-crashin' down!

"He sliced the whole of Marineford in half!"...Whoops. It was the squirrel! And damnit! Akainu's still reforming! Shenanigans! I declare shenanigans!

"You think your invincible with that power?" Huh? What was he babbling about now? "Your just hiding behind those abilities, your nothing but a weak pirate who doesn't deserve a place here!"

...What did he say? Ah well! Bigger grin! "Wordy word words! Nightmare Nightmare Mace!" Stretch my fist at him, now with spikes! Look at it sink into the magma body! Now just pull my arm back...wow! My arm burned off!

"He's lost an arm! Well done, Admiral Akainu!" Well spotted Mr. Sarcasmastic!

"Nightmare Nightmare..." Up goes the other arm! Now the spikes, and then..."Mace!" Bring it crashing down! Squashified! Hey, don't reform around my arm! Now Lefty's gone! Lefty was my second favourite claw!

"What will you do now? You've lost both of your hands." Oh urusai generic hateable villain Akainu! But losing arms is bad. What to do...what to do...

...That move...for this situation, it's perfect. Tilt my head back, open my razor sharp grin, and cough out a black orb, now it floats high up, until it bursts, trapping me, Akainu, and those generic soldiers in a dome of shifting black and red.

"Wh...What is this!?" Foolish weaklings, scared of their own shadows because of a simple change of scenery, they deserve this...

"Now..." Soon it will be all over..."Let the weak be slain, let the cowards blood paint these hellish walls, to recover my strength, and allow me to destroy everything that dares to oppose me!" Now... "Nightmare...Nightmare..."

...Sleep, little children. Forever.

"...Horror."

"AAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Yes, listen to their screams...

"Help me! Help meee-AAAAHHHH!"

Falling like bloody crops...

"The pain! Somebody end it!"

They all deserve it for being so timid. What is happening?

"My ribcage is stabbing me!"

"Gack! My shadow's strangling me!"

"AAAAH! My blood! It's boiling!"

"The ground is eating me! The fangs! The fan-" SPLAT!

Blood flying everywhere, screams the only sound, truly a beautiful little space I have created. And that Akainu...unfazed, as expected.

"Consider yourself lucky, Akainu. I can't target people like you..." Breathing above the screams. "But this match was decided the moment it begun..."

"What drives humans? Animals? Every living thing? Fear! You can't use adrenaline without it! But what do people do when faced with things like fear? Sorrow? Insanity? Turn it away! Lock it! Bury it deep within the recesses of their minds!"

"But...I am so much different. I really should thank you pathetic children, scared of monsters under the bed. That fear and sadness and madness you locked away was brewing, growing stronger with each passing day it was repressed, just waiting for somebody, anybody to use it!"

"I took it, me! I took all the fear! All the sorrow! All the madness! They feed me, make me everything you don't want to face! I AM FEAR! I AM SORROW! I AM MADNESS! I AM LIFE'S GREATEST HATRED! YOU ALL FEAR ME WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT! I WILL COVER THE WHOLE WORLD IN THESE THREE EMOTIONS! EVERYTHING WILL ACCEPT ME! I AM A NIGHTMARE! AKUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUMU!

And so the dome faded away..."Aaah! What the hell happened!?" Oh, the rest of them. "It looks like a massacre!"

Ignore them, self. Just nod up, and all the little rainbow coloured sphere's float up from the corpses. "What are these things?" Idiotic grunts.

Now all of them start to gather in front of me, beginning to form one big sphere. Their good dreams, so fluffy and sweet...how I hunger for them! But I must be patient...

There, they have all gathered...slowly open my gaping maw, and swallow the delicious dreams whole! "He ate them!"

"Did he just eat their souls!?" Dreams, stupid! And now to use them, first, the arms. Shuddering violently is natural before the shadows start exploding out like thick blood! Forming, growing into replacements, identical to the old ones.

Hm? A thought?...Yes, I had a body previous to this one, didn't I? It looks bad...but I suppose I have plenty of nourishment to spare. Fix and enhance the bones, repair the muscles, recover and heal the brain, improve it slightly. Why is the heart torn? Save that right away...finished, now I am ready.

"I will show you my nightmarish power!" The dark ayra burst from my claws, as well as purple fire, and black spikes. "Nightmare Nightmare..."

Akainu's hands...they were turning into giant lava mounds..."Ryusei..."

"FURY!"

"KAZAN!"

Throwing both of my enhanced claws forward rapidly in an enraged frenzy, colliding with the giant fists of magma, was sending impacts across this whole place, chunks of magma flying and crashing everywhere, purple fire raining down as if it was the end of the world, all whilst our two fists continued to clash.

Keep punching, obliterating those magma blasts! Just focus on that! Power on through! Just keep punching! So that I can drive my claws into his stomach!

"This brat...is using Haki!?" Why was I listening to Akainu!? I wanted to kill him! Kill him! KILL HIM!

An opening! Send a clenched claw fkying through and...smash into his stomach! Yes! Cough up blood! Let your eyes roll into the back of your head! I want to do it again! PUNCH HIM AGAIN! Yes! In the face! Look at him get sent skidding back! The blood running down his chin! The punch marks on his torso and face!

Huh? A dark aura surrounding me? But it's quickly fading, so no biggie...hold on. I'm Ellix! I remember! I remember everything! And I'm smiling! And alive!

Suddenly it felt like all of my insides exploded, I fell on my back, and I passed out.

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"Uuuuurgh..." I sat up, rubbing my head. "What happened?"

"Hey, you okay, Ellix?"

"Yeah...I guess so-" I stopped...that voice...I looked up.

It was Ace.

"Crud, I'm dead, aren't I?" I said.

Ace laughed. "Sorry, I don't think so. Look around."

I did as Luffy's dead brother said, noticing everything was rainbow coloured, and we were...practically nowhere. "I'm dreaming? But...I didn't dream you up."

"Nope." He smiled. "I guess I'm just hanging on for a bit longer, aren't you the one who said 'Dreams don't die?'"

"So wait." I said. "Your really Ace...but just your dreams."

"Guess so." He agreed. "But I don't think I'm gonna be able to stick around for long."

"...Ace...I'm sorry..." I sighed. "I...wasn't strong enough to protect you..."

"Don't worry about it. I know you and Luffy fought as hard as possible, you were willing to die for me."

"But...Ace...without you, Luffy will..." I swallowed, trying to speak.

"Yeah, Luffy's hurt right now, deeply." He nodded solemnly. "But...I know he can pull through it."

"How?" I said.

"Because he's got his nakama." He nodded. "You'll always be there for him, right?"

"Of course!" I nodded. "...Ace...I promise I'll help Luffy."

"Good." Suddenly he began fading! "Looks like my time's up. Take care of my brother, okay Ellix?"

"I promise Ace." I promised, just as he disappeared. "Luffy...Don't give up! I'm coming!" So I began running, until I was enveloped by a bright light.

Hello! I'm back from my trip! I know I said I wouldn't update this week, but it's Halloween and a NE chapter sounded pretty good!

Ellix: I thought it was because you felt bad for making Thief-chan cry and missing her chapters?

Ignore him, he's still dellusional from almost dying! Reviews!

R.E.W. 4: No need to run!

tHe ultimate dragon lord: He did do that!

Thief-chan: Sorry again!

Ellix: Me too! *sobs*.

HikariLight99: This is the best.

Exile037: They can't know it, 'cause most of them are dead now.

Alright, I'm up EXTREMELY late to write this. So night night! (By the way, the trip I was on, NCS. I came up with the team name! It's Team Nakama! Look us up on Twitter!)

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NE: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! AKUMUMUMUMU!