Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or One Piece.
A/N: The review bug is back (The not showing reviews) so if you want to wait a couple of days before reviewing feel free to do so.
I now have a new poll that will end by the 1st Friday of August due to being near ending my YJ story and at the moment haven't heard if season 4 has been delayed or if it will still come out later this year. The new poll is if you want a new story if we do not hear any news/it gets delayed/delayed but no date on when it'll come out.
There are 3 choices. 1, yes if no news/gets delayed. No, wait until you finish a story, or 3 doesn't matter to me but would give the new story a read if that's what you do.
Again, it'll go down on the 1st Friday of Aug, or if we get a confirmation if it's still coming out later this year or if it's delayed.
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
Chapter XXIV.
Last Time.
Everyone then started to attack before ending with a team attack on the group of zombies. "10 Oku Beru Jakkupotto! (One Billion Berry Jackpot!)"
Back inside the mansion, the Crew heard Hogback laughing before seeing a cracked door and peeked inside. And saw him operating on a dead man with Cindry. "Behold Cindry, the work of a genius!"
Cindry just dryly hoped the machine would blow up before wishing every plate would break and dropped noodle soup on the table from a bag. The others did wonder if Cindry really did die and looked at the large body with the number 741 on an armband on his left bicep.
"Yohohoho!"
They turned to see Ryuma and gained a scared look. "Good evening… What's the matter? If you're going to stare, you might as well go inside."
"That wasn't Brook, was it?" Chopper asked, thinking the laugh was from Brook at first before Ryuma laughed again.
"Yohohohohoho!"
Now.
Straw-Hat Crew, Outside.
Luffy sat on a destroyed wall as he looked at the zombies they beat up. "So… What are you all doing out here?"
The zombies just explained they're just walking around as security before he asks about where Nami, Chopper, and Usopp might be, but they refuse to talk. As the Straw Hat captain is about to hit them, the zombie admits they didn't harm them. The Straw Hat group begins to beat them up and begin to check Dr. Hogback's home.
"Don't worry, they'll be fine," Naruto said hands in his pockets as they walked.
When they left, a person carrying a torch approaches the beaten zombies. While walking through the forest, Zoro and Sanji get into another argument when another zombie comes in awe of their power. This zombie informs the group of a major threat who stole the zombie shadows, Gecko Moria the most terrifying on the island.
This catches Robin's ears as his bounty's much higher than Luffy's at 325 million bounties and is one of the Shichibukai. (Seven Warlords.)
The old zombie also warns that Gecko Moria will also be after the Straw Hat Pirate's shadows and when the sunlight hits them, they will be vaporized. Luffy picks up his lantern and accepts the challenge. Just then, more zombies without shadows appear to encourage the group.
Nami, Usopp, and Chopper.
Ryuma threw the three pirates into the office. "You three?! Why are you here?!" Hogback asked as the dust settled as Ryuma also cut the door.
"Hey, that guy…" Nami said to the two as they sat up against the table that. "I thought he was Brook out there."
"Hai (Yeah) I know, but he's not a skeleton." Chopper said looking at her. "He had skin like a mummy."
Hogback then appeared in front of the three scaring them and had them apologize before Hogback warns that the 'night raid' will commence and anyone walking after midnight will be killed.
Outside, Absalom spots the buried zombies the Straw Hats buried and plucks them out of the ground. He then begins the awakening of the Zombie Soldiers and they rise again as the soldiers have begun to chant his name.
"Pervert! Pervert!"
"Uresai! (Shut up!)
They then call him a pervert and Absalom calls for silence.
IN the forest, ghosts creeping through it and gather in the castle and up to a girl's chamber.
They passed a large Zombie resembling a patchworked teddy bear. His body is composed of white, light blue, and orange cloth with bandages over his lower body, legs, and arms. He's wearing an oversized white and blue cap on his head and a surgical mask over his mouth, he also has bloodshot eyes and a zipper on his back.
The ghosts then all go into a girl who was sitting on a bed.
She is a short young woman with unusually big, round eyes, and she has long, light pink hair that she keeps tied into two pigtails with black and white flower hairpins. She's wearing a red crown with a black cross on her head, as well as red lipstick and a thick layer of black eyeliner. Her white long-sleeved three different black heart shapes shirt was short enough to expose her belly.
She has a red mini cape with a pink ribbon on the front. Her black and white striped tights completely cover her legs, and a mini-skirt and a red and gold belt with a heart belt buckle, as well as red buckled boots. As well as a red parasol shaped like a cute version of a mini devil.
This is Perona.
She looked to the bear and opened her parasol. "Get cute or get lost! I won't have ugly things working for me, Horohorohoro!"
I another part of the castle, three small zombies ran into a room.
"Moria-sama! It's midnight! Time for the night hunt!
The lights came on revealing a man.
He is an abnormally large person with very distinct, devil-like features. He's standing at 22'8½" in height. He has two horns protruding from the sides of his forehead and stitches running vertically from the top of his face and down his neck, which is rather long and thick in comparison to his body. His ears and teeth are both pointed, while his lower body is relatively fat and stubby in comparison.
His hair is red and his skin is a pale blue, matching his lips, armbands, and the edges of his gloves. He has a coat and gloves that are black, while his pants are bright orange with pale window shapes imprinted on them. He's wearing a fishnet shirt underneath a cravat, a necklace, and a blue crucifix-like ornament with claw-like appendages sprouting out from three of the cross's points.
This is Gecko Moria, one of the Shichibukai (Seven Warlords)
In Dr. Hogback's office, Nami stared at the Doctor. "What was all that studying the zombie Doctor? There's no hiding it now, we know you're the one making all the zombies!"
"What's your proof?!"
"We read your assistant's obituary! She died ten years ago!"
Hogback orders Cindry and Ryuma to kill the group. Ryuma then walks into the lab laughing like Brook. "Oh my… Upon closer inspection, you're quite the lovely lady. I only have eyes for girls like you… Or I would if I had eyes to begun with. Yohoho! That said, perhaps you would like to show me your panties?"
"No chance in hell!" Nami yelled before remembering meeting Brook who asked the same thing.
Hogback just explained Ryuma was once a samurai from the country of Wano in the New World before the samurai dashed past them. Only for him to do nothing before asking for a sandwich. The group almost makes it out, but Ryuma's attack finally knocks the three down.
Straw Hat Crew.
Luffy and his party spot rain pouring down and they spot a pirate sail. The old zombie from before then warns that Thriller Bark has a sail and is actually a very large pirate ship. The back of the mast is also the home of Gecko Moria before Luffy and the others begin to head inside.
They walk to the entrance the others walked in and found the empty room full of seemingly harmless portraits. Just then, Buhichuck, the living Bear Rug, and the portrait zombies begin their surprise attack. Luffy begins to smile.
"Where's Nami?" Sanji interrogates the portrait monsters.
Naruto used his staff and threw Gina his blade as Robin used the twist on some of the portrait zombies and Franky breaks another's spear using his brute strength. Zoro also uses Nigiri to cut through some portrait zombies too and Luffy leads the Bear Rug zombie on a wild goose chase ending with the Straw Hat using Gomu Gomu no Bazuka (Gum-Gum Bazooka) to knock the bear down.
Buhichuck is in shock seeing his allies beaten. "That takes care of that!" Luffy said as Naruto spun his staff before resting it on his shoulder.
"Why don't we use that pig up there as a guide?" Robin asked as Naruto jumped up and pulled the stuffed head off before flipping back down.
"Yeah, I can just kill him if he takes us the wrong way or into a trap."
"Hold on…" Franky said looking around. "The chef is missing."
"Probably saw a woman and chased after her," Gina commented as the pig was saying they just put the others to bed.
Only for the zombies to snicker. "I guess they got Sanji," Zoro said crossing his arms.
They then left, Franky, picking the pig up and walked the halls.
Outside, a large disco ball shined as the zombies begun to sing and dance for the night raid. Meanwhile, in Hogback's lab, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper are trapped in a coffin to be disposed of. They are then ferried out of the mansion. Inside with Absalom, he opened a door revealing a room of caskets before waking the zombies inside. "Awaken Zombie Generals!"
Inside with the Crew, the group walked down a hallway as Franky held the pig in front of them. The pig taunted them until Naruto's staff blade was in front of him. "No talking unless it's to give us directions."
They then came into a hallway with armor lining the walls before Gina spoke. "Where the hell is Zoro?"
They all looked to see he was missing as well. "Oh come on, really? He was right behind us, his directions can't be that bad?!" Naruto asked before they saw a gold armor walking to them with Luffy's straw hat on.
He pushed up his face mask revealing it was Luffy in it smiling before falling. He then got up calling for the two crewmates who went missing before they came to a room full of tents. Then a knight dives down to hit Franky who Naruto pushed out of the way and used his blade to block the knight's sword.
Clang!
The knight slashed at Naruto who used his Chakra Blade to block each attack before dashing forward, blade turning a greenish-white and sliced the zombie's head off before sheathing his blade. A door closed on the halls as the pig ran off as more zombies walked in before Naruto created a bunch of clones and had them create Rasengans (Spiraling Spheres) that started screeching before they dashed at the group.
He then saw one Zombie with three blades wearing a chandelier before seeing him attack using Santoryu (Three Sword Style) before seeing Luffy was gone. "Guys find a way out! It looks like Luffy's missing!"
Robin used her arms to make a makeshift vine and swung all but Naruto out of a window. Naruto then followed throwing all of the Rasengans (Spiraling Spheres) destroying the room and obliterating the zombies. Getting out on a bridge, they saw a chain above connected to each building moving before a coffin rolled out that was tied with Luffy yelling inside.
"Hey come back!" Franky yelled before a large monkey spider dropped in front of them blocking their way.
He's a giant combination of a monkey and a spider. He has the head, hands and tail of a monkey, and the body of a spider. His spider body is black and yellow striped. He has bandages wrapped around his hands and the middle of his torso and wearing what seemed to be an aviator hat, partially colored black, with one goggle covering his left eye. His right eye had shadows around it, and he's smiling showing he's missing one of his teeth.
Outside, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper awaken in a place that's set up like a room with windows and chairs around them with a staircase leading to a tree.
Looking up, they notice another larger building that's behind the mansion. Nami saw a wall before jumping up to it and saw the part they're on is actually a bridge connecting each building and mused that they must have been going to the larger building before the zombies who were taking them tripped. "Probably to make us into zombies."
Suddenly, three zombie penguins waddled over all of them wearing hats and one with a scarf one having a dog face. They then turned and saw a group of animal zombies with weapons.
Chopper started fighting them off to give Nami and Usopp time to escape only for other zombies to attack them forcing them to run up a flight of stairs. They saw it was just a square as the zombies that started chasing them ending up in front before they jumped across pillars that were beside the staircase. And had the last one they landed on break forcing them back down to Chopper.
One Zombie appeared behind Nami as two took out Usopp and Chopper before the dog-faced penguin attacked the zombie. He then started attacking with his feet and acted like Sanji about people who attack women.
With the others, Naruto sighed before he did hand signs before breathing fire at the large zombie spider that took the shape of a dragon's head. "Katon: Gōryūka no Jutsu! (Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!)"
"AAH!"
"I guess he was the one who made the web that caught the Sunny and Merry II," Franky said as the walked into the building in front of them before hearing yelling.
Looking up, they saw Brook falling down towards them. "What do you call a flying skeleton?!" Brook asked before hitting the bridge. "You… Alright?"
Brook then jumped up at that and picked his cane up. "Hai (Yes) I'm alright." He replied fixing his hat as well. He then threw salt in the zombie's mouth having a shadow fly off of it and into the air.
"That was something." Naruto said before Brook explains spending the years after his "death" drifting on the sea on a ship with a broken rudder.
And that five years ago though, he was led to Thriller Bark. Hoping to find a way to repair his ship and finally escape the Florian Triangle, he went in to investigate. He found the zombies and ended up being captured. He was brought to the building they currently stand in front of. There he saw a combat dancer and a patched corpse.
Then a huge man, Moria, tore the dancer's shadow from the floor and inserted it into the corpse who then suddenly came to life, replicating the moves of the dancer, while the dancer himself lost consciousness. Soon thereafter, the same thing happened to Brook himself. Brook explains that a shadow is a replicate soul that follows you everywhere. Gecko Moria, thanks to his Kage Kage no Mi, (Shadow-Shadow Fruit) seizes them and makes them obey his will.
And that he then uses a corpse, usually the corpse of legendary warriors, sometimes sewn together from different pieces by Doctor Hogback, to transfer the shadow soul into and revive them. It combines the physical strength of the body of the marionette and the personality and fighting skills of the shadowed soul.
And this is why Moria is particularly eager to find bounty heads to capture. Because of that strength though, the original owners of the shadow are generally sent away and left drifting at sea after they lose consciousness, which worries the Crew. But Brook figures they still have some time before that happens to the captured Straw Hats.
Brook then explains he has a plan and orders the four to follow it. Franky is reluctant but Robin asks Brook to tell them what it is. He explains that they should get back to the Thousand Sunny and warns with even without the shadow, the body still lives. They learn that Moria intends to leave the Thousand Sunny adrift with the bodies of the victims.
Brook then warns that they must not lose their shadows and must try to wake up their bodies. He then gives out some salt to purify the zombies. Brook then informs of how he has a desire to fight the zombie who holds possession of his shadow, Ryuma. The skeleton then declares he won't run any longer and leaves the group.
In a room, Luffy in a cage looked at a sitting Moria, as Absalom, Hogback, and Perona stood with Kumacy standing off to the side, back to them as his zipper was down showing that Usopp, Nami, and Chopper are hiding inside. Luffy yells at Moria to give Zoro, Sanji, Nami and the others back. Dr. Hogback admires Luffy's strength but Perona is skeptical whether Luffy is the type of man who would actually be a threat to the World Government.
Luffy and Absalom start to bicker about the armor Luffy is wearing and "romance" before Moria tells Luffy he only captured three members of his crew so far: Luffy himself, Zoro and a "blonde guy with no wanted poster". Luffy surmises it must be Sanji. Moria then asks Perona about the missing three members and Perona says the Risky Brothers never showed up with them.
She assumes they must have escaped. Kumacy approaches to try and tell them about them being hidden inside his body but Perona shushes him again. Absalom tells the others of the fight those three Straw Hats had in Perona's garden then suddenly worries Hogback did something to "his bride" Nami. As they bicker, Cindry interrupts with some put-downs.
Moria interrupts pointing out they can capture the missing pirates later. He wanted them here to show them the creation of Moria's new great fighting asset. Suddenly a scream is heard and Luffy, still tied up with spider web string and in the armor, is crawling around the room. Bao tells Moria that Luffy bit through his cage to escape.
Hogback is excited by Luffy's fighting spirit but as Absalom raises his hand to attack, Perona points out that because they are inside, it is better if she takes care of it. Perona starts running after Luffy and Luffy, still crawling, taunts her. But three of the "negative ghosts" come out of Perona's body and aim straight for Luffy who can't crawl fast enough away from them.
As they pass through his body, Luffy stops crawling, goes into the fetal position and wishes sadly he was reborn as a sea slug. Absalom notes with a mix of admiration and dreads how the negative ghosts were able to destroy the spirit of the 'man who wants to be Pirate King'.
A while later, Luffy is seen without the armor but still tied up in the spider string. This time, he is also hanging to the ceiling with some more string while standing in front of Moria. His spirit is back and he is still grunting and cursing Moria. A large light source is turned on behind Luffy and Moria leans over to grab the shadow Luffy's body is creating on the floor.
He picks it up from the floor, dragging Luffy along with it. Nami, Usopp, and Chopper, still hidden inside Kumacy, watch in horror. Luffy is shocked and yells at him to stop. Moria pulls out a gigantic pair of scissors and cuts the shadow from Luffy's body. Luffy falls on the floor and loses consciousness. Moria laughs and celebrates that he now has Luffy's shadow with a 300,000,000 fighting power.
He then walked to a freezer with the number 900 on it and opened it revealing a giant zombie.
He is an extremely large, red-skinned, skull-faced zombie who is more than four times the size of an average giant. He has two large horns and long yellow hair that flows from his head to his back. His upper jaw consists mostly of straight-edged molars, while his lower jaw consists of several sharp fangs and two large tusks. He is missing his right eye, and his left arm has "SZ-900" tattooed on it.
Like other zombies, he is completely stitched up, save for a small portion of his upper right pectoral area that has decayed to reveal ribs and a moldering section of his right deltoid. His right arm has been replaced entirely, but the joint where his original arm had been connected is not and retains severe signs of frostbite.
Blue cloth is stitched across the middle of his stomach. Apart from the various bandages covering his limbs, he's wearing only a large black loincloth adorned by three gigantic skulls and a large cross pattern in front strapped onto a rope holding it up.
"Oars!"
Moria walks along the chains to the lifeless Oars being watched by his minions as well as the horrified Straw Hats. No matter how the shadow of Luffy struggles, Moria holds the shadow and makes it swear loyalty. The zombie then places Luffy's shadow into Oars, making the giant monster begin to feel new life and break the chains binding it. Nami's party is horrified as the monster opens his eyes.
The Straw Hats make loud noises and are noticed by Absalom and Perona. Gyoro, Nin, and Bao block the exit. Oars dropped an ice block, hitting Dr. Hogback who admires his masterpiece.
"MEAT!" Oars then yelled in a distorted version of Luffy's voice and calls for Sanji.
The yell blows Nami's party out of the room and they try to escape. Chopper realizes that Dr. Hogback is the one making the zombies and they steal personalities with the shadows inside them. The reindeer knows that Hogback is using people like pawns. Usopp knows they must save the bodies of the other pirates in their crew.
Just then, Absalom lights Usopp and Chopper on fire and grabs Nami so he can marry her. Usopp tries to save his friend with the Viper Star Six but the lion-faced zombie and Nami start to disappear. Only for Naruto to grab the man in a sleeper hold until he falls unconscious. "Not so fast buddy."
Gina, Franky, and Robin run in and purify the zombies that run in. The zombies are horrified about how their secret was ratted out. They then ran out back to the Sunny to wake the others up. On the way, Usopp explains what they saw Moria do with shadows. They return to the Sunny to find the zombies had ransacked the ship in the process of returning their victims.
Usopp finds the missing crewmates in the dining room in assorted humiliating poses. "There's a beautiful swordswoman with lots of meat!"
Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji quickly regain their bearings. The crew trade information they've picked up: The zombies that hold the stolen crew's shadows, Brook's knowledge of the zombies and how to purify them, and the fact Moria's one of the Shichibukai (Seven Warlords). Franky then admits that, in a callous moment, he'd asked what kept Brook going despite the hardship he'd endured.
Brook then mentioned a baby whale named Laboon, whom he'd been forced to leave behind at Twin Cape but not before promising to return for him. Nami, Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Sanji instantly recognize the name and reveal to Gina, Naruto, Franky, Chopper, and Robin of a large whale they've met and they're familiar with that promise.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Naruto asked them. "We should hurry and get the shadows back before sunrise because who knows what will happen."
To Be Continued.
A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
The review bug is back (The not showing reviews) so if you want to wait a couple of days before reviewing feel free to do so. Sorry for this being mostly exposition (Same for my other OP story) just got in a part of each arc that was just mostly talking/flashback/focus was mostly cannon stuff.
I now have a new poll that will end by the 1st Friday of August due to being near ending my YJ story and at the moment haven't heard if season 4 has been delayed or if it will still come out later this year. The new poll is if you want a new story if we do not hear any news/it gets delayed/delayed but no date on when it'll come out.
There are 3 choices 1, yes if no news/gets delayed. No, wait until you finish a story, or 3 doesn't matter to me but would give the new story a read if that's what you do.
Again, it'll go down on the 1st Friday of Aug, or if we get a confirmation if it's still coming out later this year or if it's delayed.
Nothing else to say.
Talk To You Later,
Lone Wolf Out.