𝗢𝗛 𝗗𝗘𝗘𝗥-! ᴼⁿᵉ ᴾᶦᵉᶜᵉ ˣ ᴼᶜ

21 - Onwards!

“Where’s this!? There’s a forest…in prison!!? The forest is all red..!! And there’s a bunch of people down there.” Luffy exclaimed. “Explain, Bubbles.” Xuri said, while falling down at the same speed as Buggy and Luffy.

“WUAAAAHHH!!! DON’T DO THAT!!!” Buggy screamed with his eyes bulged out, looking at Xuri who suddenly appeared.

“Oh Xuri! You made it!” Luffy grins at Xuri. “Of course, I’m not called a Warlord if I can’t go pass a bunch of simple guards.” Xuri smiles back at Luffy and grabs onto Buggy.

“Ehem ok…They’re prisoners! This isn't just a forest!!! The leaves on the trees cut you like knives. They're blade trees. The grass below pierce you like needles and it's called needle needle grass. The prisoners are chased by poisonous spiders and jailers all around the forest and would be cut by the leaves and grass, staining the forest with their blood, suffering from being sliced all over!!”

“This is level 1, the crimson hell!!! This is Impel down!!!” Buggy continues to say. “It's really hell…!!! This is what Ace is going through too?” Luffy asks while Xuri begins to worry, thinking about what Ace could have gone through.

“Right this is good!! Just keep falling like this!!” Buggy said. 

“What!? We're going to be cut up!!!” Luffy exclaimed

“I can't be cut!! Just be quiet and hold on!! Throw my feet to the ground!!” Luffy did what he was told as Buggy began to fly. “Uwah, that was close!!” Luffy said as Buggy laughed proudly.

“This power of yours comes in handy, Bubbles.” Xuri said, sitting down on Buggy with her legs crossed, hanging loosely from his side. “KYAHAHHA!! I am Captain Buggy the Clown!! This is how great I am!!” 

“We’re going down from this floor, but we don't need stairs or a key for the gate!! I remembered that in order to escape the crimson hell, they prepared an escape route.” Buggy says. 

“An escape route from hell!?”

“Look, right here!! Even though nobody ever uses it…” 

“A Hole!” Buggy, Luffy and Xuri arrived at a huge deep dark hole leading to the next level. “And that’s because this escape route goes down to level 2..!! It's connected to an even more fearsome hell!!” Buggy continued. 

“Uwah!! It’s totally black!!” Luffy said as Xuri got off Buggy. “There are plenty of guys who hope to escape to the surface but there isn't a big enough idiot who would willingly go the other way!!” Buggy said.

“I see! This is great!! We can just fly down!!” Luffy said with a grin.

“Yeah…but down there…AH!! HEY!! HEY!!” Luffy jumped down with Xuri who was wrapped a few times in his right arm. ‘What did I deserve to get dragged like this…’ Xuri thought with a deadpan face as Luffy and her fell down the hole.

“GAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!” Luffy, Buggy and Xuri screamed as a Basilisk began chasing them down through the cells of level 2.

“CAN A CHICKEN REALLY HAVE A KID LIKE THAT!?” 

“WELL OBVIOUSLY THEY DON'T NORMALLY!! THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED A MONSTER!!” Buggy responds to Luffy.

The three of them quickly dodged the Basilisk who tried to take a big chomp at them. “GUAHHHHH!!!” screamed Buggy. 

“That was close!” Xuri said as she landed back on the ground. “All right…let’s see what you’ve got!” Luffy exclaimed as he did his fighting stance. Xuri coated her fists with white flames, getting ready to beat this abnormal chicken up.

Meanwhile…

“Something’s wrong..!!! We seem to have lost contact with Magellan!!”

“At any rate, we need to report this to the monitor rooms in all floors and to the Marine HQ, at once!!!” A prison guard ordered the others.

“We may not know how this happened or what their objectives may be…but there can be no mistake that those two people running around level two with Buggy the clown…are without a doubt…” the guard slams two wanted posters on the wall before continuing,

“The Pirate , ‘Straw Hat’ Luffy and the Warlord, ‘White Flame’ Xuri!!!”

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