• Bartolomeo's Nightmare •
There's a scary story in the East Blue about a mob man named Bartolomeo who become stuck in a dream. They say that this story is cursed and you may not want to hear it. They say that if you don't forget the story within a week you will have the same dream. You could become stuck in the dream as well and find yourself unable to wake up. So please think very carefully before hearing this story.
There was a man named Bartolomeo who had a very strange dream in the dream, he found himself wondering in a building. It was a building he did not recognize, and he was unable to use his Devil Fruit Powers, the Barrier Barrier Fruit, which he can create barriers around himself by crossing his fingers.
It was night and the building was in darkness. The sound of footsteps echo down the empty hallways. It was very eerie. He tried to open the doors and windows, but they were all locked. He tried banging on them as hard as he could, but the glass would not crack.
The building was large and sprawling. It was like a maze. It didn't seem to make sense. Walking down one corridor would bring him back again to the place he was before. It was very strange, as if the normal rules of time and space did not apply.
Bartolomeo was starting to get scared. He began to run down the hallways. The corridor doors stretched on and on without end and there was no exit. After running past the same set of rooms several times, Bartolomeo noticed something odd. The corner was an endless loop. No matter how long he ran down the corn door, he would always find himself back at the start.
He decided to try a different route. He ran down the hallway to the right, then took the first left and the first left again. He entered one room and when he went out the door on the other side, he found himself in another hallway. He entered the another room and went out the door on the other side. Somehow it brought him to the third floor, next to the bathrooms.
He went through yet another room and ran down the hallway, past another set of rooms. He came to a stairs and went down. He kept wondering and wondering. The night seemed to last forever and he felt like dawn would never come.
Kin... Kon... Kin... Kon...
Bartolomeo heard the muffled sound of a clock chimney. When he looked up, he saw a clock. The hands were swinging back and forth like a pendulum.
"Clomp... Clomp... Clomp... Clomp..."
Bartolomeo heard the echo of heavy footsteps heading towards him.
He was too scared to look behind him and since you can't use his Barrier Barrier Powers, he decides to desperately wanted to escape. Bartolomeo ran up a set of stairs that should have taken him to the 4th floor, but instead he found himself on the first floor, outside a room.
"Clomp, Clomp, Clomp, Clomp, Clomp, Clomp..."
The footsteps began to get faster and faster.
Bartolomeo ran down the corridor and turned left, left again, right, and left again. He came out in front of another set of rooms. At the end of the hallway, there was an emergency exit, but the glass box that house the key was smashed and the key was missing. There was a note inside that said the key was in room 108.
"CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP..."
The footsteps were coming closer and closer.
Bartolomeo ran down the stairs. He turned left, ran down the hallway, then turn right and right again. He found himself outside of a room. On the door, there was a sign that read, 108. Bartolomeo tried the door and it open. He stepped inside and shut the door behind him.
The room was in darkness and you could barely see. He flicked the light switch, but it didn't work. The room was filled with desk and there were bags hanging on of shelves. Bartolomeo started searching desperately through them. He looked in every bag, and search every drawer in the desks.
All the while, he could hear footsteps coming down the hallway.
"CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP, CLOMP..."
Before long, he heard something banging loudly against the door of the room.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Bartolomeo still couldn't find the key he was looking for. He pulled the drawers out of the desk and tipped them on the floor. He opened the bags and it began dumping the contents out onto the floor.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
The sound of the banging grew louder and louder. The door seem like it was about to come off its hinges he searched desperately, but he still couldn't find the key.
Just then, the knocking on the door suddenly stopped. there was an eerie silence. Bartolomeo stood there trembling, waiting for bated breath. He stood there in the darkened room, afraid to move a muscle.
After a while, Bartolomeo still couldn't hear anything, so he went to the door. He reached out, turned the handle, open it gently and peered out into the corridor.
What Bartolomeo saw horrified him and a scream died in his throat.
There were countless men and women. They were in pieces. Their heads, arms and legs were severed from their torsos. The floor was a wash with blood and they were dancing, jerking back and forth, their limbs flailing to and from in a dance of death.
Bartolomeo was drawn into the dream. His body remained asleep. It was never able to wake up. Even today, he is still wondering through the school and his mind.
Now that you have heard this story, please try to forget about it. If you don't want to forget about it this story within a week, you will have the same dream in which you will find yourself wondering around the school. You will have to find the key and escape through the emergency exit before you come across the pieces of men and women who dance, or you will be drawn into the dream.