Here is the next chapter~ We're into the Foxy Arc now. Enjoy!
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"GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! WE GOT GOLD"
"We're rich, what should we buy!" Luffy cheered, dancing around the pile of gold on the ship's deck. "How about a giant statue?"
"Idiot!" Usopp scolded. "That's a waste! We should by cannons!"
"Nami~ May I buy a refrigerator that has a lock on it? Please?" Sanji cooed at the Navigator.
"Oh! Me too! Me too! I want to buy something too! I want some medical books!" Chopper joined in with Sanji.
"I want rum," Zoro added.
'…I don't want anything. I have all I need right on this ship,' I chuckled to myself, perching on the railing as I watched all my friends.
"Hey, hey, hey! Quiet down. We will talk about our spending after we are back in the Blue Sea," Nami sighed. "Though no one is going to waste my money on trash!"
"Everyone, please look to the front! We are almost at the exit!" Conis called from over the side of the ship. I glanced down over the railing to see her waving at us from their own little ship. I then look up ahead of us, using to the railing to trot up to the bow of the ship.
"The Cloud's end… So we are going down from there."
"Aww," Luffy complained, slouching over the ship's figurehead. "We are leaving already?"
"Yeah, I am feeling a little bit nostalgic already," Sanji agreed.
"Yes, time to say goodbye to the White Sea," Zoro said, sitting next to me on the railing.
"Sky Island was fun, but it was kind of scary!" Chopper said, clinging to the railing on the other side of me.
"Do we just go through that tunnel?" Nami asked as we looked at the large gateway in front of us. It was like the entrance gate. "Then follow the Milky Way all the way down to the Blue Sea?"
"This is it," Pagaya confirmed, parking their boat and climbing off on the waft next to the gate. "This is as far as we can take you!"
"Take care of yourselves everyone!" Conis cried, running alongside the boat with her father.
"Thanks for taking us here!" Nami waved at her.
"Thanks for everything!" Usopp joined in.
"Conis~ Take care of yourself too!" Sanji cooed.
"Conis, Mister, take care!" Luffy yelled.
'Bye guys! Thanks for all your help!' I barked, throwing my head up in the air.
"Excuse me! You must put away your sail immediately!" Pagaya told us.
"Hey Everyone! Do as the man said!" Usopp ordered as they all moved down to the lower deck to get the sails ready. "We may fall down really fast!"
"Roger that! It'll probably be a 7000 meter runway, let's move!"
"Move all the gold inside the cabin!"
I stayed perched at the front of the ship, looking at the tunnel that was coming up in front of us. I couldn't help with the rigging, so the best I could do was watch for any signs of trouble.
"CHOH!" an angry voice squawked. "CHOH! CHOH!"
"Huh?"
"CHOH!" the bird landed on the deck, flapping its' wings in anger as it chirped. 'Don't forget me!'
"He's saying 'Don't forget me here'," Chopper translated.
"Oh yeah…" Nami sweat-dropped. "We took him along with us on our way up… Alright Captain, it looks like the Log Pose has locked on to the next Island!"
"Okay!" Luffy clenched his fists before throwing his hands up in the air. "This is the start of a brand new adventure! Alright crew, let's go back to the Blue Sea!"
"YEAH!" everyone cheered at the same time.
"Everyone! Be careful, you are going to start falling soon!" Conis warned us.
"Did she say fall?"
Suddenly the clouds disappeared out from under the boat, leaving us floating on air. Everyone seemed to notice this at the same time, shocked looks coming over their faces, mine included. At the same time everyone ran to the back of the boat, reaching out for land as the boat started falling.
"WAAA!"
"Good luck!" Conis and Payaga waved.
Even with the wind whistling in my ears, I still heard the sound of an actual whistle echo over the area. Suddenly a giant octopus jumped out of the clouds near us, latching onto the boat with its tentacles.
"OH MY GOD! AN OCTOPUS!"
The boat was suddenly jerked to such a rough stop that everyone face-planted into the decking at the same time, heads smacking against floor boards. When everyone managed to push themselves back up, we all looked up to the octopus hovering above us, acting as a parachute to slow us down.
"Look! Look! This is so cool!" Luffy cried as he latched onto the railing and look at the octopus. "It's an Octoballoon!"
The landing was a rough one, because our octopus friend suddenly decided to let go right before we hit the surface. The boat smacked roughly against the surface of water, sending us all sprawling against the hard deck yet again. As if that wasn't bad enough, the splash that the boat created caused us to become drenched in seawater. There were grunted sounds of pain all around me as we hit the deck.
"Nami! Mamori! Robin! Are you okay?" Sanji called out.
"Heh… Heh…" Nami panted as everyone began to sit up. "That was scary, why did the octopus suddenly shrink?"
"What was that?" Zoro groaned, clutching his head that he had smacked against the deck.
'Ouch… Damn bastard, a warning would have been nice!' I grumbled, dragging myself up into a sitting position. 'Argh… I'm soaked now.'
"Maybe there was a leak?" Robin asked.
"Phew," Luffy laughed, grabbing the shrunken octopus off his chest. It seemed to have shrunk after it let go of the boat and then it landed on Luffy. "Thank to you we're still alive, thanks octopus!"
"The sea, it's blue!" Nami gasped.
"Well," Sanji sighed, lighting a cigarette, "that was one magical trip."
"Now that we are back down, that trip feels like a dream," Robin said, staring up at the sky.
"That's because it really was a dreamy place," Nami laughed.
"I wonder if we will ever go back again?" Chopper mumbled.
'I sure will, I gotta see Amaya again one day!' I yipped.
"Maybe you will go there after you die," Zoro teased Chopper. "Or somewhere close."
"Zoro… Are you sure that we'll go to heaven?" Usopp asked skeptically.
"Alright! Let's get going on our next adventure!" Luffy yelled out.
"Hey, Luffy, give us a break!" Usopp scowled.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," Nami tsk'ed as she got up and walked up to the back decking of the ship. "If you can rest whenever you want in this sea, nobody would be afraid of it. Everyone, move it! Ah, see, here it comes!"
"AAAAAHHHHHH!" Chopper screamed and everyone was on their feet within seconds when we saw what Nami was talking about.
"FULL SPEED AHEAD! IT'S A TSUNAMI!" Usopp screamed, jumping into action with all the others.
"There are giant monsters in those waves! Look! Sea Monkeys!" someone else yelled as three monkey faces appeared in the wave.
'GIVE US A FREAKIN' BREAK WILL YA!' I jumped up and ran up the steps and over to Nami's side.
"Told you so," Sanji laughed in the background as Usopp and I dragged Luffy back on board. We were both soaking wet again after having to go for a swim to save the idiot. Sometimes it was tempting to just let him drown.
"I couldn't do it in the Sky Sea, I thought I could do it here…" Luffy grumbled as he flopped onto the deck.
'You idiot! Of course you can't ride the waver here! Nothing has changed!' I snarled angrily, water dripping off my fur and into the deck. I just got dry dammit!
"Like I said, only Nami can do it regardless which sea it is," Usopp said, draping himself over the railing so he could watch Nami scoot around on the waver.
"Nami~ Nami~ Go~" Sanji cooed.
"Yes! It works in the Blue Sea too!" Nami exclaimed happily.
"Alright, thank you for waiting! Now we will officially start distributing the loot! Each of these is worth a lot of money," Nami said, gesturing to the gold in front of her.
"Yay!" Usopp cheered, whistling.
"Hurray! Let's buy a statue! I want a statue!" Luffy called out.
"Can I buy books?" Chopper gasped.
"Now pots, new pans, new silverware, and a few mouse traps…" Sanji muttered to himself.
"Time for some rum!" Zoro grinned.
Robin and I were the only ones that were silent, not really caring. I had no use for gold.
"First thing first, my share is 80% of this," Nami said, smiling calmly.
"Hold on!" everyone protested.
"I was just kidding!" she laughed.
"You'd better be!" Usopp snapped. "You have to share equally."
"We need some of this money to repair the ship," Nami pointed out.
"Repair the ship?" Luffy asked. "Going Merry?"
"Yes," she confirmed. "The ship is barely holding together right now."
"That's true," Usopp agreed.
While this discussion was going on, everyone had seated themselves around the table in the main cabin, and Sanji had moved off to cook something for us. I wandered over to the side of the room, laying against the wall with my head on my paws.
"Let's do a super upgrade for Going Merry!" Luffy declared.
"Agree!" Usopp cheered.
"We don't know how much it will cost, so we'll distribute the loots later," Nami said, picking up the glass one of the cups of tea that Sanji had placed on the table.
"We can't really rely on Usopp to fix everything," Zoro pointed out. "His repair skills are quite limited."
"I'm a sniper. S-N-I-P-E-R," Usopp spelled out.
"Hm, let's go to a shipyard," Sanji suggested, placing some sandwiches on the table. "A professional one, and get everything fixed up."
"Eh? There are people who can fix the ship better than Usopp can?" Chopper gasped, stuffing a sandwich into his mouth.
Sanji walked over to me, smiling at me while he placed a small plate of sandwiches in front of me. I flashed him a smile back, carefully picking one up in my mouth as I munched silently on it, half paying attention to the current conversation.
"Come to think of it, the ship has been sailing without major repair ever since we left my village," Usopp said, munching on his own sandwich. "We should really have it look at, big time. Otherwise we may sink before we know it."
"Okay, I've decided!" Luffy called out. "Our new crew member will be a shipwright! If our journey is to continue, we will need such a person. Going Merry is our home, it's our lifeline! We need to find someone who can keep it in good shape. "
Silence echoed around the ship as everyone stared at Luffy in disbelief for a few seconds. He'd actually said something that sounded smart for once…
"Did he just…" Sanji trailed off.
"Yes, he did just say those intelligent things," Usopp confirmed. "Alright, it's decided then!"
"Yup, it's decided!" Luffy agreed again.
"Hopefully we will find someone like that soon," Zoro said.
"Oh, we also need a musician by the way!" Luffy called out suddenly.
"How about we do that later…" Nami sweat-dropped.
"EH!?"
"RUN AWAY! IT'S THE SEA MONKEYS AGAIN!" someone yelled, waking me up from nap. Within seconds I was on my feet, glancing around the deck in confusion until I saw the giant sea monkeys over the side of the ship, again. They were back.
"There's no wind!"
"Pull up the sail! We'll use the paddles!" Nami ordered as everyone ran around the deck, doing their own jobs.
I trotted up to the front of the boat, standing next to Nami yet again while the guys got the paddles out and started to sail away.
"Emergency! Emergency!" Usopp yelled from up in the crow's nest. "Another ship at 12 o'clock!"
"Eh? Enemies?" Luffy asked as I wandered over the railing, jumping up to size up the ship.
"No, that ship… There is no flag and not even a sail! What kind of ship is that?" Usopp called back.
'He's right…' I noted. 'What is up with that ship? A trap?'
"Huh? They don't have anything! Why are they on the sea!" Luffy yelped.
"I don't know, but the sailors look kind of strange! They all just sit there and look disheartened! It's like they all got killed spiritually!"
"What the heck! Can that ship make it?" Luffy asked, referring to the giant wave the Sea Monkeys had stirred up. If they didn't move their butts then they would be smashed by the wave. As we got closer to the ship Luffy ran over to the side of the boat and yelled at the other ship, "Hey! You guys, the wave and sea monkeys are coming! Turn around!"
"Ah… It's a ship! A pirate ship!" One of them gasped when they noticed us. "Everyone get up! It's an enemy ship! Let's rob their treasure!"
"It's a giant wave! We have to dodge it!" someone else from the ship called out.
"We can't let the enemy get away!"
"Fire the cannon!"
"You can't command me!"
"Hurry up!"
"Turn the ship around!"
"You have to know your place!"
"That ship's crew lacks discipline…" Luffy noted as he continued to row away from the giant wave that was coming after us.
"They said they want to rob us, let's just ignore them," Sanji pointed out.
'But isn't that just a bit cruel…' I mumbled, watching quietly as the crew in the other ship continued to disagree. 'Who is the captain there? Shouldn't he be ordering the crew…?'
"Where's the sail!"
"How the hell should I know!"
"Where's the navigator!"
"I don't know!"
"Captain!"
"He's not here!"
"We're doomed!"
"Shit! You are all useless!"
"So are you!"
"You can't even dodge a fricking wave!"
We all watched in shock as they waved crashed over the fighting ship, smashing it under the water with the Sea monkeys to pull it down. Now that they had a ship, they dove under the ocean and left us alone.
"Phew, it's over," Usopp sighed once we were safely a long distance away from where we last saw the sea monkeys. The wind had picked up again, so the guys had put away the paddles and put the sails back down.
"The temperature and humidity are stabilizing… Are we near the next island?" Nami muttered before looking up at Robin who had switched places with Usopp in the crow nest. "Hey, Robin, do you see anything?"
"Yes, a while ago," she admitted.
"What! Why didn't you say so earlier!" Usopp and Luffy snapped at her and I snickered silently to myself. I swear, Robin just liked seeing their reactions.
"You are on watch, so when you see and island, you're supposed to say," Usopp lectured.
"YOU GUYS~ I SEE AN ISLAND! LAND HO!" Luffy called out, trying to teach Robin.
"Now you do it!" Usopp encouraged her.
"There is a heavy fog," Robin said, ignoring them.
"A fog?" Nami asked. "There may be danger, Chopper, Mamori, go watch the front!"
"Yes sir!" Chopper said.
'I got it,' I nodded, padding up the front of the boat with Chopper behind me.
"We're there!"
The ship finally came out of the mist and in front of us laid a barren, flat island. The only thing in site was tall trees and grass.
"So big! So empty!" Luffy gasped in excitement. "It's an endless plain!"
"It's plain alright, there is nothing to see," Sanji sighed.
"I wonder if it is inhabited," Robin mumbled.
'Probably, a place this nice wouldn't be left alone for long unless there was a major problem.' I hummed.
"Yahoo! A giant plain!" Luffy cheered, launching himself off the boat and taking Usopp and Chopper with him.
"Hold it!" Nami screamed but they ignored her. "We still don't know anything about this place and they…"
"This place is so empty, there shouldn't be any danger," Zoro pointed out, dropping the anchor over the side of the boat.
"Who are you people?" Zoro asked darkly with a glare.
A large ship had pulled up behind Merry, the giant paws from the figurehead extended and latched onto the land either side of Merry so we couldn't move the boat. Robin, Nami, Sanji, Zoro, and I were all on land, glaring at the Fox figure head of the large ship.
"Come on down and fight!" Sanji challenged.
'What the fuck is this?' I bristled, hovering in front of Robin and Nami.
"What do you want from us?" Nami gasped in worry.
"Blocking the front and the back of ship…" Zoro muttered. "COME OUT COWARDS!"
"We are the Foxy Pirates!" a voice called from the ship. "Don't be so anxious! Our duel shall begin shortly."
"Davy Back Fight?" Nami asked, curious after they had explained to us what they wanted.
"Yes, the game begins when the captains from both ships agree to it," a crew member from ship explained. "Our captain is proposing the game to your captain as we speak."
"Proposing? Why bother? We never turn down a fight anyways," Zoro said in annoyance.
'Zoro!' I snapped, sending him a dirty look.
"Have you never heard of it before?" Sanji asked Zoro. "This isn't just a fight. A Davy Back Fight is a gambling game between pirates."
"That is correct," Robin agreed. "According to legend, the game was invented a long time ago in the Pirate's Paradise Island. Many pirate groups have been using it to acquire good crews. It's the way pirate groups fight over pirates."
"Groups fighting over pirates?" Nami questioned. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who didn't get it.
"Yes," Robin confirmed.
"You didn't even know that and you call yourself a pirate?" one of the men on the ship taunted. "Davy Back Fight is a contest for human resources! The format we use is a 3-coin rules. That means 3 rounds per game! The victor of each game may pick one crew from the loser's team. The chosen crew member must sweat loyalty to the winning captain. He will do so in the name of the great Davy Jones!"
"If you lose the game, you lose your friend?" Nami gasped.
"That's right!"
'There is no way Luffy would agree to that game!' I growled.
"Lastly, if there is no desirable crew left in the losing team, the winner may choose to take the loser's pirate flag," the Foxy pirate finished explaining.
"In this game you offer up your friends and your pride. I you win, you grow stronger. If you lose, you can fall and never get back up again," Sanji summarized it. "It's a very dangerous game."
"So that other ship… The one we saw on the way here. It had no sail…" Nami mumbled. "Nor was there a captain."
"Oh, you must mean the Fanged Toad pirates! They were looser of previous games! Look at the new crew we got!" he gestured to some of the guys around him.
"I won't deny it, I was captain of the Toads!" one of the men called out.
"I was the doctor."
"I was the navigator."
"I was the ship mechanic."
"They played the 3-coins and lost five time, so we took four crew members and their flag!" he laughed. We literally stripped them of everything they had! Hahah!"
"That's so foolish and meaningless!" Nami yelled. "We will never play such a game!"
"Idiot, it doesn't matter if a crew like you rejects," the Foxy Pirate snapped. "The game will proceed as long as both captains from both sides agree to it. You can cry, you can scream, but as soon as your captain, Monkey D. Luffy, nods his head, you will become the ante of the gamble."
"It can't be helped Nami," Sanji tried to calm her down. "This is the law of the sea. No matter how foolish it sounds. If you run away or play tricks, you will become the laughingstock of everyone in the world."
"So? Let them laugh! Who cares!" Nami protested.
"I do," Zoro said. "I would rather die."
"Me too," Sanji agreed.
'Pirates have pride though… But would Luffy really agree to this?' I fidgeted with my paws.
"What the heck is wrong with you!" Nami screamed at them.
"Give it a rest," Robin interrupted. "Men are always like that."
"Fine!" she snapped. "Then we have to stop Luffy now! Mamori help me!"
"You're too late!" the Foxy pirate laughed. "When the captains fire their guns one after another, the game starts. It should happen any moment now."
BANG
BANG
"That means!" Nami gasped clutching her head.
'…Fantastic,' I sighed, glaring at the Foxy pirates.
"He accepted it," Sanji said.
"Perfect," Zoro smirked.
"Interesting," Robin laughed.
"Challenge accepted!" cried Foxy's crew.
"Alright!" a female from Foxy's crew called out over the microphone. This whole thing has quickly turned into some sort of celebration, with food stalls, a main stage and everything in-between. "Scums, be quiet! I will now state the rules of the game!"
"Yay! Porche!" Foxy's crew whistled and called out for the woman standing on the stage. It seemed that she was popular.
"Rule number one, he crews and flags lost in a Davy Back Fight can only be reacquired through another Davy Back Fight. Rule number 2, the person chosen in the endgame must swear loyalty to the winning team immediately! Rule number 3, the pirate flag that is taken away may never be used again!"
"Why do you all act like this is no big deal?" Nami moaned, sitting on a crate and clutching her head between her hands.
"Stop mumbling, Nami," Zoro scolded her.
'People… So many people,' I hissed to myself, glancing around nervously.
"Anyone who disgraces any of the rules will be sacrificed to Davy Jones! Do you swear to honour these rules?" Porch called out.
"I do," Foxy agreed.
"I swear!" Luffy said, stuffing his face with some food he had gotten from one of the stalls.
"YEAHHHHH!" the crowd cheered and I flinched at the loud noise, closing my eyes.
"See these coins?" Foxy asked after the noise he calmed down. Foxy threw the coins up into the air and called, "I am reporting to the great Davy Jones that this official game under the 3-coin rule will commence now!"
"Who's Davy Jones?" Chopper asked innocently.
"He is a cursed pirate from ancient time that lives under the sea," Robin, the ball of knowledge, answered Chopper.
"He lives under the sea?" Chopper gasped.
"It's a legend. He also takes all the ships and treasure that sink to the sea floor," she smiled.
"It must be a scary place under the sea!" Chopper said.
'Chopper, if you ever get to the bottom of the sea, you'll probably be long dead. You can't hold your breath that long,' I tried to comfort him and judging by the look of horror that came over his face, I'd said the wrong thing.
"Davy takes whatever he likes from the sea…" Sanji muttered. "Just like how the winner takes what he likes from the loser. So they names the game "Davy Back Fight"."
"Hey!" One of Foxy's crew walked up to us. "You know the rest of the rules, right? Exactly 8 people from each team will participate in the game. Each person may play no more than one round. You may not change the grouping once the game starts, but you may have one reserve in the case that one of your participants are unable to play. The reserve may only play one game and cannot play in the final game between the captains."
"I knew that," Sanji snorted. "Get out of here."
"Damn you!" Usopp snarled, digging his fist into the side of Luffy's face.
"It's all your fault!" Nami dug her fist into the other side of his face.
"Guys! All we need to do is win!" Luffy protested. "When we win, we can get a ship repairman too!"
"Why would we want someone from that kind of pirate group!" Usopp yelled.
"The games are racing, sports, and combat," Zoro read off of a sheet of paper he had been given. "I'll take combat."
"What!" Luffy protested. No! I want to fight!"
"No!" Sanji butted in. "Let me! My legs are itchy already!"
"It's decided then," Robin laughed. "I'll turn in our listing."
In the end Usopp, Nami and a Robin were going in round one, the Donut Race. Round two, the Groggy Ring was Sanji, Chopper and Zoro. Round three, combat, was Luffy. I was acting as the reserve.
"First up, it's the obstacle course around the isle, Donut Race!" the announcer called out over his microphone whistle flying in the air on his bird. "You are given 2 oars and 3 barrels to make your canoe. You are disqualified if you use extra materials. It all depends on the shipwrights skills! Now, for the self-introduction, I am the party captain of the Foxy pirates, Itomimizu! I will broadcast from the reach from my super sparrow of the South Sea, Chuchun!" Itomimizu flew over the water where the contestants were already in the boats on the water. "Now, introducing the Straw Hat team. They're Nami, the Navigator, Usopp, the Sniper, and Nice Robin, the Archaeologist! The boat they will use is called 'Barrel Tiger'!"
"This won't sink, will it?" Nami asked Usopp.
"I told you I'm not a shipwright!" Usopp snapped back at her.
"It'll probably sink," Robin shrugged.
"Hey! That orange girl is cute!" one of the men from the shoreline near us called out. My head snapped around, eyes narrowing.
"I want to play with that dark haired chick!" another joined in the teasing.
'Oh hell NO!' I growled, slipping away from Luffy and the others as I made my ways towards the way that the voices came from, weaving in-between the legs of Foxy's crew. I completely tuned out the announcer in the background.
"Of course we won't even consider that male!" one of the pirates laughed.
I stepped in front of the laughing group, a growl bursting forth from the chest. The three that had been so loud suddenly went quiet, look at me.
'Would you like to repeat that?' I purred, quirking an eyebrow at the confused pirates.
"Hey, isn't that the dog from the Straw Hat pirate's crew?" the one that been eyeing Nami asked.
"Haha, sorry, we don't play with dogs! Go get someone else to go throw a stick for you!" Robin's admirer laughed.
'GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU PIG!' I screamed in rage, jumping towards them with an ear splitting howl of rage.
All three of the men cried out in shock and tried to scramble back out of my way but they all ended up on their asses on the ground. Before I could pounce on them, something grabbed the back of my bandana, dragging me away from them with a strong hand. I looked at the person who was holding me up in the air and walking away, only to see Zoro with a nonchalant expression.
"Wait until the games start," he sighed, dropping me roughly on the ground once we were far enough away.
'Hmph!' I snorted, following after him with an annoyed swish of my tail.
"And now, what we are all waiting for!" Itomimizu called out as everyone gathered on the shore near the start line. "The winner will be greeted by celebration and the looser by the deep cold sea. It's the Davy Back Fight! The first race, the Donut Race, is about to begin! Both sides are waiting behind the starting line. It's very simple, just go around the island once. Oh, by the way, guns, cannons, and swords… Any weapon is allowed. If you don't like it, then you don't deserve to be a pirate."
'Mamori,' An echoey voice that wasn't my own or Chopper's called to me. I jerked my head around in confusion, not seeing anyone that looked to be talking to me.
"What kind of boat race is this?" Zoro sighed.
'A bad one,' I snorted, still slightly peeved about him dragging me off earlier.
"I'm warning you, Usopp! If any of the ladies get hurt, I'll slice you into pieces and feed you to the fishes!" Sanji yelled at Usopp.
"Don't lose! Usopp! Nami! Robin!" Luffy encouraged them… In his own way.
"I'm so excited!" Chopper gasped.
'Mamori.' The voice came again, but more insistent this time. I tried to ignore it, thinking it a figment of my imagination.
"Racers, catch!" Itomimizu called, dropping something towards the two boats. "Use these Eternal Log Posts so you don't get lost! Remember not to go too far away from the island, be safe and good luck! Everyone! Ready! DONUT!"
'Dammit! Don't ignore, you bitch!' the voice in my head snapped so loudly that the sound bounced around inside my head.
'EXCUSE ME, ASSHOLE!' I snapped back mentally, without thinking and then suddenly everything went black. My sense of touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste disappeared. I thought I'd passed out for a few seconds, but I was still mentally conscious of everything that was going on. I was floating a world of black. 'Oops… That wasn't meant to happen.'
'Well, actually, that was meant to happen,' the voice laughed.
'Whoa! What the fuck! Who are you? Where are you?' the questions tumbled about before I could stop them.
'You've forgotten me already?' Cue a sigh before continuing in a mocking tone. 'And here I have been thinking about you almost every day.'
'Yeah, because that isn't creepy or anything dude.' The constant black and the annoying voice were starting to get to me. 'Seriously, where am I and what is going on? And who are you!'
'I thought you were smart. It seems I've overestimated you,' it snorted.
'That snide voice… Oh Gods. It's you, isn't it?' My question was met by laughter.
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