Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or One Piece.
A/N: Sorry for these being late, I was sick the weekend before Christmas or these would have gone up last week. So I hope you had a safe and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever holiday you celebrate and have a safe and Happy New Year.
So here's a mass update of all my stories for the end of the decade!
OH! I also have a new poll on what story to do after my Earth's Mightiest story is done, there are max 100 choices and you can pick 20! So vote if you haven't already.
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
Chapter LXXIII.
Last Time.
Fireworks went off in the background.
Is it strawberry jam?
Or somebody's blood?
I don't care either way!
If you're invited, be there at any cost!
A sweet moment! Sacrifices to the devil.
This is a dreamland for everyone! All kinds of races come together!
Totto Land!
The music started to play softly as Big Mom sang softly.
Hmm, I can't wait! I heard he is here.
Hai, (Yes,) he is here.
Mugiwara! (Straw Hat!)
Big Mom finished with a grin.
Now.
Cacao Island; Chocolat Town, Caramel Café.
"Luffy is..." Pudding trailed off as she turned around. "AAH!" And screamed startling Brook as well.
"Oh, no!"
"Now that I look closer, you look familiar! Straw Hat Luffy!"
"That's right! I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!" Luffy exclaimed standing.
"Sit the hell down before you give us away," Naruto said before pulling Luffy down.
"Sanji-san's comrades?! You're kidding!" Pudding yelled leaning back into the counter.
"I'm not kidding! Sanji's our buddy! Matte? (Wait?) You know Sanji?"
"Wait a minute," Nami said raising her hands. "I can't help but think I heard the name Pudding before..."
"She's the woman Sanji's going to marry," Naruto said from his spot getting the others to look to him.
"NANI?! (WHAT?!)"
"Why'd you come? You're going to be killed!" Pudding said to the Crew. "You're already in Mama's territory and she's a very scary pirate." She then grabbed a knife and held it at them. "But I know you people are scary pirates too!"
"Matte! (Wait!) Calm down! We won't get rough with you!" Nami said raising her hands up in defense.
Only for Pedro to dash over, grab her arm up in the air, and put his sword to her neck.
"Luffy, what should we do with her-gara?"
"Let her go, Pedro," Luffy ordered calmly as he just stared before smiling. "We came to take back Sanji."
Letting her go, they sat back down as Pudding reached for her cup of tea. "So you came for Sanji-san… To take him back." She put the cup down and looked up at the Crew. "I knew he didn't consent since Mama is so self-centered. She even uses her children's marriage to strengthen her pirate group. We're giving up on marrying someone freely out of love."
"We only have two choices; give up or run. One of my elder sisters that I loved very dearly went out to the sea looking for love." Pudding continued resting her head on her hands. "To seek a match."
"Just out of curiosity," Brook interrupted as Nami gained a thoughtful look. "It is said you're the 35th daughter of the Charlotte Family. Does Big Mom have 35 daughters?"
"Well, she has 39 daughters and 46 sons." Pudding replied picking her glass back up. "We're 85 brothers and sisters."
"Oh my!"
"Wow! That's so many brothers and sisters!"
"We have different fathers. Mama has 43 husbands so we're a family of 129." Pudding exclaimed to the Crew, Chopper, and Carrot eating what they could.
"She's true to her name, Big Mom."
They continued conversing mostly about Sanji before Pedro spoke. "We should tie her up."
That got shocked looks from the Crew minus Naruto and leaned back in his seat. "He is right, she could tell her mother or siblings about us… Or once the island knows what we look like, the people who see us with Pudding earlier will say Pudding helped us out."
"I won't! I promise! Because… Mama and I are two different people!" Pudding exclaimed having Carrot jump for a bite on the ear.
Only for Pedro to grab her by the back of her dress and held her up in the air. "How can you help us?"
"I think I can still let go of my feelings… Towards Sanji-san!" Pudding said to the crew and Minks.
She then started drawing a map for them to use and explain that even though both families and the people living in Tot Land gave their blessing, she still wants to help them and that Sanji didn't want to get married to her shocking the others who knew Sanji.
"Take this route, it's the only way for Mama not to see you which only us children know of. Now, Mama won't let Sanji go." Pudding explained pointing to the Whole Cake Island drawing. So, let's meet up at the southwest coast of Whole Cake Island tomorrow. I'll bring Sanji there at any price."
"Is it really OK? Won't you be punished by Big Mom?" Nami asked Pudding who smiled.
"I'm her biological daughter, don't worry."
She then cut a hole for them to escape in as guards came to pick her up. After picking up supplies, they went back to the Sunny, only to find Pekoms was gone with only a message in the bathroom.
Turn back
Brock Collie Island New World.
Soldiers of Germa 66 enter a battle, where they easily overpower the weaker and less well-equipped soldiers on the other side. As the massacre continues, one survivor attempts to avenge his wife and children by shooting one of the Germa commanders. However, the commander has one of his soldiers to take the bullet from him and confronts the man as he forces his gun against his head.
He has red-colored hair and curly eyebrows. His eyebrows form a spiral that resembles the numeral 6. He is slim with long legs and his hair is fashioned into three prominent cowlicks on the right side, and also curls upwards slightly at the roots.
He's wearing a dark red raid suit, including white gauntlets, a red ascot, a white cape bearing a red "1" on its left, as well as a pair of sunglasses. He has a dark shirt with an upturned collar and a light cravat, as well as a pair of light-colored pants.
This is Vinsmoke Ichiji, also known as 'Sparking Red'. He is the eldest son and second child of the Vinsmoke Family, making him a prince of the Germa Kingdom and a commander in its military arm, Germa 66.
"I can't believe it took four hours," Ichiji said to the man. "I have to attend my brother's wedding. I have no interest in your family. Nor your war for that matter."
BANG!
He dropped the gun as he turned to his men. "It's finished. How could a war between suck weak countries for the last two years?
On the other side, another man was walking down the street holding a metal case.
He has blue-colored hair and curly eyebrows that form a spiral that resembles the numeral 6. He has a similar build to Ichiji, being slim with long legs and standing close to him in height. His hair is groomed into a very large, curved partition across the right side of his face, ending in three prominent spikes.
He's wearing a dark blue raid suit, including a black cape bearing a blue "2", dark goggles over his eyes, gold-colored gauntlets, and an aqua ascot around his neck. A set of horns extend upwards from his pair of orange and red earphones, and his belt bears a buckle with a prominent lightning bolt design.
This is Vinsmoke Niji, also known as "Dengeki Blue". He is the second son and third child of the Vinsmoke Family making him a prince of the Germa Kingdom and a commander in its military arm, Germa 66.
"The commission?"
"I got it!"
They continued to walk as the army that hired the family thanked them. They talked to their brother over the Den-Den Mushi on the wedding being just three days way while it would take two to get to Whole Cake Island.
Straw Hat Crew, Pedro, And Carrot.
Meanwhile, the Sanji Retrieval Team approaches Jam Island on their way to Whole Cake Island, and despite Chopper and Carrot's wishes to eat more sweets, Nami has them steer clear of the coast to avoid being detected, continuing on their secret route. They then come to a purple-colored part of the ocean, and Pedro reveals that juice from a nearby island flows into it.
The team wonders how he knows so much about the area, recalling how someone on Cacao Island knew him and getting suspicious. Pedro then states that he has been here before. Suddenly, the ship is rocked several times by a Giant Sea Centipede, which Pedro states will eat anything indiscriminately. The centipede surfaces and confronts the team, towering over them and the Thousand Sunny.
Nami and Chopper become extremely frightened, but Luffy, Brook, Naruto, Pedro, and Carrot excitedly prepare to fight it. However, Luffy manages to bring it down by himself with Gomu Gomu Gataringu (Gum Gum Gatling) shattering its shell and sending it crashing back into the ocean. Before the team can recover, they are soon confronted by another centipede, which is bigger than the previous one, and withstanding Luffy's Gatling attack when he attacked.
Brook, Pedro, and Carrot try to step in and slice at its chest, but Luffy and Naruto take it down as they kick it in the face with Gia Sekendo (Gear Second) and Hachimon (Eight Gates). The team sails on peacefully, although Brook, Pedro, and Carrot are not very happy with not having the chance to attack either of the centipedes.
They then sail past Biscuits Island and go into the multi-colored ocean. Pedro reveals to his excited teammates that they are in the Mixed Juice Current, a place where several juices flow in and mix together. He warns that this place contains several dangers, and the team notices several giant pieces of fruit floating in the water.
Luffy gets hungry and pulls a giant watermelon to the Thousand Sunny, but Pedro reveals that that is a fruit football-fish. The watermelon then opens its eyes and mouth as it devours Luffy, much to the team's shock. However, Luffy fights his way out of it, killing it and cutting its watermelon body up into giant slices. The team does the same to the peach and an orange football-fish, and they feast on the massive amounts of fruit except for Nami, who is sickened at the sight.
"We eat regular fish," Naruto said coming up to his wife and watched the others eat.
They continued to sail into the night, in a sea of mizuame, which has solidified around their ship and prevented it from moving. The team is forced to melt it extremely slowly with torches, not willing to wait for daybreak due to the possibility of a horde of giant ants that they had beaten earlier returning and eating their ship.
Pedro reveals that he once had a ship eaten by the ants, and the Straw Hats are curious about what he did here in the past. Carrot then reveals that Pedro used to be a pirate with Pekoms, and Pedro elaborates, explaining that the two of them sailed as explorers in search of Poneglyphs for the rulers of Zou.
However, they still received bounties on their heads, and Pedro only accompanied Pekoms halfway, as he met his defeat here five years ago. The Straw Hats are surprised that he would come back here, but Pedro reveals that he is determined to help them since Inuarashi and Nekomamushi had shown them the Rōdo Pōnegurifu. (Road Poneglyph) on Zou.
The only other foreigner they had shown it to was Gol D. Roger 26 years ago. The Straw Hats got to see the Rōdo Pōnegurifu. (Road Poneglyph) because they reminded the rulers of Roger, and so the minks believed they were on track to be Pirate King. Pedro points out that acquiring Big Mom's Rōdo Pōnegurifu. (Road Poneglyph) is a necessity to reach the island Laugh Tale, and offers to go in and get it while the others rescue Sanji.
Luffy offers their help, but Pedro encourages them to focus on their goal, and his determination delights the team. However, the ants regain consciousness and attack the team, and they struggle to overpower the giant insects and protect the Sunny.
The next day, the Sunny is sailing once again, and the team wakes up nursing their injuries from their battle with the ants. However, they get excited when they see Whole Cake Island directly in front of them.
The island is quite large and looks like a gathering of frosted cakes due to the enormous cake buildings constructed there. Atop the largest central building, the Whole Cake Chateau, there are massive poles shaped like candles, making it look like a birthday cake Most buildings appear to be covered in what looks like icing. The interiors of buildings, in general, look as if they are partly made of icing.
The island's southwestern coast is covered in a kind of hardened whipped cream. The island east bay has a coral-like structure, resembling those on Fish-Man Island.
They sail toward the coast in front of them, which Pudding told them is the only unguarded landing point. As they approach the island, they suddenly see Sanji standing on the coast, much to their surprise.
He's wearing a white, frilled dress shirt as well as his usual black dress pants and shoes; he keeps the collar of the shirt upturned and the first few buttons were undone.
"Sanji!"
He then ran off into the forest having Luffy look confused as Naruto pulled the lever and had Brook and Pedro come out in the Shark Submerge III and sailed towards the shore to get a copy of Big Mom's Poneglyph.
The others docked and explored the beach. They fail to see Sanji or Pudding anywhere, to their confusion, as Pudding had agreed to bring Sanji to this beach. Chopper discovers that the beach is really made of hardened whipped cream, to his teammates' delight, and they then suddenly see Sanji standing by some woods in the back. They call out to him, but he does not respond as he instead runs into the woods. Confused, the team races after him into the woods.
Nami is particularly confused, as she remembers Sanji promising to return during his capture on Zou. However, Luffy, Chopper, and Carrot quickly become mesmerized by the forest, which is composed mostly of candy. They decide to split up and look for Sanji, but Nami points out that they would get lost that way and they seem to be more interested in the candy lying in the paths they want to search. The team tries to deny it, but quickly get distracted by the edible nature in their path, including a melon juice river and a doughnut bridge.
Nami tries to snap them out of their distraction, but as they walk down the bridge, a giant blue crocodile with a magenta hat and suspenders leaps at them from underneath and takes a large bite out of the bridge they were standing on.
Luffy got ready to fight as the crocodile chewed on the food In his mouth and looked at them disinterestedly. "Oh, humans." He said before walking on his hind legs down the river.
After the Crew debated on what to do, with Nami wanting to stay near the ocean for Sanji and Pudding, they saw another Luffy with his scar on his right cheek and accessories switched like a mirror image. Luffy confronted his other self before Carrot saw Sanji on a tree eating a yellow lollipop before running off.
Everyone minus Luffy ran after Sanji as Luffy fought his doppelganger. They cashed Sanji through a field of lollipops before coming up to a very big man in the ground from the neck up. His head alone is twice the height of Carrot and significantly wider. He has long, wavy light pink hair tied into a ponytail on top, a long and thin mustache, and a stubbly beard.
His face is shaped like a pear, and he has rather small eyes which contrast with his very large nose and mouth. He wearing a frilly light blue dress shirt.
This is Pound Big Mom's 25th ex-husband.
"You scared me!" Pound yelled as the others stared up at him.
They ask who was the one to bury him, but Pound reveals that he buried himself. Chopper gets angry at his irrational behaviors, as Naruto picked him up and ran with Nami and Carrot to prevent Chopper from getting worked up over him. Pound reveals that he saw a man run past him earlier, and will tell the trio about him if they get him apple juice from a nearby waterfall.
Thinking it might have been Sanji, Nami agrees, but the trio is suddenly ambushed by a Mink rabbit on a large crane.
He is an average-sized humanoid rabbit, though his limbs are unusually long. He's wearing a frilly shirt, a dark cape, and a cavalier.
This is Randolph, a member of Big Mom's pirates.
Carrot stared at the other rabbit, fists crackling with Electro before they ran off having the rabbit smile. They then stopped in a clearing with melted clocks on the trees before Nami collapsed into Naruto. Nami states that they should return to Luffy. The matter of Sanji was still unresolved, but his unusual behavior when the team encountered him made it questionable whether he was actually real.
The group prepares to go back, but notices in shock that all Log Poses and clocks are going haywire. As they try running back the path they came from, the objects in the Woods all come to life and sing as they block off the path to the shore, excitedly planning to trap and kill them.
Naruto pulled his guns out and pulled the hammers back as they ran. He took shots at anything that got near them before Randolph charges at them again, and Carrot flips back and the two clash., Electro sparking off his spear and crane.
"See! He's not a Mink! He can't use Electro!" Carrot states.
Nami tells Carrot to stop fighting so they could get back to Luffy, and Carrot knocks out Randolph's crane with Electro to keep him from pursuing them. However, Randolph leaps into the air and spins his spear at the trio, hurling it with great velocity. Naruto, arms infused with Haki, grabbed the spear and threw it at the rabbit.
They continued past Pound, the field of lollipops and came up to Luffy before Naruto brought a Haki infused knee up to his face, knocking Luffy away.
"Why'd you do that?!"
"That was that fake Luffy!" Naruto yelled before they skid to a stop in front of Pound, confusing them as they ran by the man a few minutes ago and kept going in a straight line.
They turned and ran again, only to once again, end up in front of Pound. Confused, they turned to see the trees, flowers, other plants, and even patches of the ground moving to direct them in circles.
"This is the Seducing Woods!"
Turning to their left, they saw a woman walking up to them. She looks in many respects like the stereotypical witch. She is an extremely tall, slightly hunched, and gray-skinned woman with a well-endowed yet thin figure, making her limbs appear to be exceptionally long. She stands at roughly twice Nami's height, with her legs alone being noticeably longer than Nami is overall.
She also has very long, gnarled fingers with overlong, sharp nails painted blue. The woman's face has very striking, hag-like features. Her droopy eyes have yellow irises and long lashes and are topped by viridian eye shadow and black, high-arched eyebrows, which are furrowed. She has a huge and over-projected, reddish hook nose, a large mouth with purple lipstick, a square jaw, and a brown, sharp-cornered scar stretching diagonally down her face from right to left.
Her hair is lavender and divided into two side locks that cascade over her breasts, as well as four other, similarly long, and sharp, lock-like segments that stick to the sides, slightly curved upward.
She's wearing a whitish, creased gown. Its main upper section has a frilly scoop neckline, loose, flaring sleeves that are tattered at the edges, and stops quite below the waist in a frilled hemline, adorned by a horizontal row of red roses above. The lower, seemingly separate part of the dress, which begins under the upper one, falls to the ground and, too, has roses stitched onto itself in an aforementioned manner. Her clothing is completed by a feathered, sleeveless overcoat in moss green color.
This is Charlotte Brûlée is the eighth daughter and 19th child of the Charlotte Family.
"No matter how many times you run, you'll never find your way out!" She said before bringing her hands up as Nami hid behind Naruto. "Such pretty faces… It makes me want to scratch them up!"
To Be Continued.
A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
Sorry for these being late, I was sick the weekend before Christmas or these would have gone up last week. So I hope you had a safe and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever holiday you celebrate and have a safe and Happy New Year.
So here's a mass update of all my stories for the end of the decade!
Nothing else to say.
Talk To You Later,
Lone Wolf Out.