"We made it! Dressrosa!" shouted loudly Luffy when he jumped out of the ship and landed on a rocky ground.
Covered by a wall of rocks, you could still perceive sights of a town with white buildings and a large field of sunflowers. The boy was beyond excited to have reach the mysterious land he heard so much about from Law.
"You're too loud, Luffy! We're in their territory now!" warned Usopp.
"AOW! This week, I'm...super!!" Franky struck his usual pose. "I'm gonna find the factory right away and ka-boom!"
"I said you guys are being too loud!!"
"We should just go to the town, right?" suggested Luffy, to which the surgeon simply nodded.
"However, you shouldn't let your guard down. If we fail to destroy the factory, it'll mess up our whole plan" warned once again Law, narrowing his eyes at Luffy when he didn't seem to register his words.
"I just had a good idea! Momo!" Luffy yelled.
The child who was still in his dragon form looked over at the ebony male, eyes widening when Luffy suddenly jumped on his back. With the sudden weight added, Momonosuke faceplanted on the ground.
"Alright, go Momo! To the town without stopping!" Luffy commanded. "Fly!"
"You're too heavy! Get off of me!" snapped the child. "I can't fly and I'm not gonna enter the island! My father told me not to!"
"You can't fly?! What are you talking about?! I saw you flying!"
"I don't know what you're talking about! I said I can't!"
"But I really saw him flying" whined the bratty captain, facing Yukiko.
"I told you! I don't remember flying! E-Even if I did flying....I-I'll never do such a dreadful thing again!" said quickly Momo, closing his eyes. "I'm not gonna fly in the sky!"
"Huh? Are you scared of heights?" inquired Luffy, crossing his arms over his chest.
"YOU BASTARD!"
Momonosuke leaped at Luffy and snatched his head between his jaw, biting him aggressively.
"Don't disrespect me! We warriors don't get scared of anything!" snarled angrily the child.
"OW, OW, OW...YOU! STOP IT, YOU FOOL!" cried out Luffy, punching the dragon.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"
The two continued to fight, the others watching them with exasperated looks on their faces. Sanji groaned in aggravation, rubbing the back of his head:
"What the hell are they doing?" the chef wondered.
"Luffy-san, he's an eight-year old..." said Brook, sipping on his cup of tea.
"Cut the warrior crap! I'm gonna become the King of the Pirates someday!" The captain ignored the skeleton's statement. "Idiot!"
"I'm gonna become the shogun of the Wano Kingdom someday! You fool!" Momonosuke stretched the young man's cheeks, hitting him once again.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?! STUPID EEL!"
"YOU'RE SO ARROGANT, MONKEY!"
"WHO DID YOU CALL 'MONKEY' ?! YOU'RE BEING RUDE TO A MONKEY!"
"Enough, Momonosuke! He saved us!" boomed the voice of Kin'emon, and the two immediately released each other. "I'm sorry, Luffy-dono. Please forgive him. Even though he's a child, he's a proud warrior of the Wano Kingdom. Having said that, I can't believe you take an eight-year old so seriously!"
"Well the Grand Line is a tough place, you can't be soft in battle." Yukiko said.
"I don't like cowards! Idiot! Bleh!" Luffy stuck his tongue out, waving it at Momonosuke who grew pissed again.
"You....!" growled the dragon, sticking his tongue out too!
"I said, enough!" ordered Kin'emon, and Momo's eyes filled with tears.
"Dammit! Onami!" sobbed the child, running in the Navigator's arms. "The monkey is mean to me!"
"YOU..." started Brook, carved eyes pissed.
"....DAMN...." followed Sanji, his expression mirroring the skeleton.
"....BRAT!!" finished the samurai with blushing cheeks.
Luffy just kept Yukiko at his side, at least he made it clear to Momo that Yukiko was his.
"Oi. I want you to keep this" Law returned, and handed to the navigator a Vivre Card. "I'll point toward an island called Zou that I talked about earlier. After handing over Caesar and destroying the SMILE factory, I was gonna head for Zou. My crew is there. But if anything happens to us, go straight there!"
"W-Wait a second!" she stammered as the surgeon placed a badly drawn map.
"What do you mean 'Anything happens'??? Nothing will happen, right?!" squeaked Usopp.
"What's this?" inquired your captain, leaning over Law's shoulder.
"This is a map that my crewmember drew...We're here now, at the west coast of Dressrosa. Doflamingo's palace is at the center of Dressrosa. The SMILE manufacturing factory must be somewhere on the island. We don't have much time. The Factory Destroying Team must move quickly..."
While Law was busy explaining the whole plan to everyone, Sanji seem to be distracted by something. The chef smelled the air a couple of times, walking in the direction of a path that led to the town. Soon after, he was followed by Luffy, who thought he sensed something good, Zoro, Franky, and finally Kin'emon.
Thankfully, Yukiko decided to tag along.
Dressrosa was a particular island filled with fragrantly-scented flowers, the delicious smell of local food, local women doing their tireless, passionate dancing.
But one thing that stood out the most was the stuffed toys who could talk and move. A little creepy.
"Hello! I'm a soldier!" A doll introduced itself to the surprise of the guys. White strings were dangling all around him as he moved. "Have we met before? Your faces look familiar. Hm?"
"What's this?! A toy?!" said Luffy, dumbfounded.
Everywhere they looked, the toys and plush were blending in with the citizens, living side-by-side with humans. There were living toys. A whole kingdom filled with them.
"A man has been stabbed!!" someone yelled.
"Oh, again?" spoke casually a tangled nutcracker, and Zoro raised a brow at it.
"What do you mean "Again"? Is there a phantom slasher or something?"
"No. The women in this country are passionate about love and most are the jealous type. So when their lovers cheat on them, things can get pretty violent" stated almost creepily the nutcracker, hollow eyes bearing in the swordsman's only one.
"HOW SCARY!"
"The more beautiful they are, the more likely they stab a man!"
"Hm....Toys are moving by themselves but that's okay! Let's eat!" suggested Luffy.
"Wait, Luffy!" Yukiko stopped your captain from running by himself. "We should have a disguise on to avoid people recognizing us."
"Oh.....Not a bad idea! Kin'emon!"
"Right, Luffy-dono! Just give me a minute..."
The group changed into costumes that would divert the attention. However, the guys weren't really trying...With Luffy simply adding a white beard and mustache, changing his red shirt for a sunflowers covered one. Sanji and Kin'emon followed the same trend, changing their looks for a black suit and kimono. Franky and Zoro simply opted for a beard and a mustache respectively, clothes being black suits.
Yukiko settled for an elegant dress and wore a wig.
Luffy smiled as he loved her dress. "Hey Yukiko, you think you can wear that on a date?"
"If I don't get this dirty, then sure." Yukiko smiled.
"All right! We're in disguise!" grinned your captain. "I'm hungry!! Let's go this way!" shouted Luffy, running with Yukiko's hand in his.
And here began the journey in the island Dressrosa, filled with passion and dark secrets yet to be discovered.
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Luffy found a restaurant just around the corner when he suddenly rushed in a random direction.
It was a simple building with a sign that stated 'RESTAURANT' in big letters, as if it wasn't precise enough with the smell of food coming from it.
Once the group was inside, Yukiko noted the large amount of people and toys that were dining at a respectable volume.
"Strange that toys would need to eat....I thought they were simply robots or something like that" she muttered.
"Perhaps an advanced technology that can replenish their energy by indulging human food" suggested Franky, looking surprised
"However, I can't help but feel like there's something wrong..." Yukiko said as she looked around.
These toys seem to have a life of their own, and she felt an imbalance in the air.
That the harmony here was fake. In fact, it had been gnawing at her since they got here...
While they were waiting for their food, the samurai lost the last bit of patience he still had in him and slammed his fist on the table.
Taken by surprise of the sudden move, Luffy coughed and spat his water.
"What're you doing?!" your captain cried out.
"I don't have time to fool around like this! I need to look for Kanjuro as soon as possible!" the man stated.
"Relax" said Franky, putting a hand on his shoulder. "I know we need to hurry but we need to get information rather than just run everywhere"
"Don't you think it's strange, though?" voiced Sanji after taking a cigarette. "Their king just abdicated from the throne this morning. I thought there would be more confusion and chaos."
"Yeah, I noticed it too. Something doesn't seem right...." Yukiko said.
"Maybe they don't know yet" suggested Zoro.
"No way"
"Hm. Let's ask. Hey, pops!" Luffy turned around on his seat, and tried to gain the attention of an old man.
"DON'T!" barked the chef, kicking his head.
"What's your problem?!"
"You were on the front page of the newspaper this morning!"
However, Yukiko and Luffy's attention was diverted from the sight to the commotion from the gambling games inside the restaurant. A man wearing a light-purple yukata with a belt around his shoulder of a deeper shade of the same color was the center of all the people's blabbering. Each times he made a bet with the roulette, he would win it with white, to the shock of his audience.
Suddenly, the room fell silent went a mysterious group of people wearing weird clothes entered the restaurant and approached the gambling board. What it seems like to be their leader stood on the other side of board, smiling cruelly at the old man.
Yukiko did not like this. Getting up she decided to watch, and Luffy followed.
"You're quite a gambler, huh? Let's play just me and you! What do you say?"
"What? Just you and me?" repeated the blind man in confusion.
"That's right! I wanna play a game against such a very lucky guy! Don't tell me you're gonna quit now?"
"No, I got chips from everybody as you see so I'm going to play a lot more" he continued, mentioning the people behind him who were gazing back at the masked man in terror.
"Good! I like you, old man!" exclaimed with a large grin the masked guy. "So everybody else, please go to the room in the back to exchange your chips"
Yukiko noted that the man was blind. She frowned as these guys were gonna cheat.
The ball was thrown in the roulette, after both men made their bet. The one who was blind placed his bets on the white, while the other took the opposite. When it finally stopped turning, the ball had fallen on the 5 of white. The masked male gazed in stupor, before his expression turned devious.
"I'm sorry! It's black!" he lied. "You were off!"
"Oh, did I?" the blind man sounded distraught. "Then I'll get it right this time!"
"No, it was white, he lied." Yukiko spoke.
Murmurs echoed all around as the witnesses couldn't help but gape at her courage to stand up against this bunch of assholes. The masked man gritted his teeth at you:
"Who the hell are you?! Look carefully! It's black, idiot!" he shouted, and your eyebrow twitched at the insult.
"It's white. My eyes arent empty sockets." Yukiko stated.
"Eh?!" cried out the blind man.
"You bitch...Stay out of this!" growled the masked man.
"That's right!" enriched a snobby girl with glasses.
"Do you wanna get your ass kicked?!" threatened a bulky man.
"Hey back off her!-" Luffy yelled
Not knowing what's going on, the blind man turned to where he first heard Yukiko's voice:
"D-Do I really win?!" stammered the man.
"Yes, these people took the advantage of your blindness." Yukiko said.
"I don't know who you are but thank you for your kindness!"
"Don't mention it. I just said what I saw"
"What you're doing is so senseless, you bitch! When we say 'It's black', it's black! He can't see anyway so it doesn't matter!"
"I'll take that as confession you cheated." Yukiko said.
Before the people could shoot, the blind man stepped forward and tripped one of the men that tried to attack with his cane. He hummed in confusion, looking up:
"Oh, no, did I trip a big boar or something?" the blind said before chuckling. "If so, I'm sorry"
Yukiko and Luffy giggled at that.
"Y-You..." growled the masked male.
The strange group encircled you, the blind man frowning as if he could analyze the situation even if he lost his sight.
"This is no good. Ma'am, could you step aside a little bit?" he said, gripping his cane tightly. "I'm going to send those people to hell"
Yukiko raised a brow, but obliged. The enemies charged at the old man without a moment of hesitation. However, he could predict their moves, and dodged their attacks each times.
The blind man then revealed a sword inside the cane, and with a surprising speed, sliced each opponents. They gazed down at their clothes, dumbfounded to see they suffered no wounds. The old man turned around, walking pass them while reputing his sword inside its sheath.
The floor cracked under them, and one by one, the opponents found themselves on their stomachs, an unknown force pushing them down.
"It's heavy! So heavy....I-I'm going to get crushed!"
The floor then severed in two, and created a hole right in the middle of the restaurant. The gang fell inside, their screams resonating all the way down.
Luffy gushed at the display of power, closing on the opening.
"Woah! It left a hole!" he said.
"It's not too bad to be blind. I know there are many hideous things that are better unseen. Now, if you excuse me..." spoke the blind man, walking away.
"Is he a Devil Fruit user..?" wondered Sanji, stopping next to Yukiko as the others did the same.
"What kind of Devil Fruit is that?" muttered Zoro, folding his arms.
The old man reached the exit, and turned to the owner at the counter. He offered a piece of paper, stating that he could send the bill to this place to compensate for the damage. The owner took a look at it, and let out a cry of surprise, watching the retreating form of the old man.
"Old man, you're so strong! Who are you?" inquired Luffy.
"....I think I should not tell you that for the sake of both of us" he answered honestly, leaving the restaurant without a second look.
"Is he extraordinarily infamous or something?" murmured the chef.
"Whoever he is, he is not an ordinary man" Yukiko said.
"Oh, my bag is gone!" shouted suddenly someone.
"So is my watch!"
An uproar erupted in the restaurant as a few customers yelled about their stuff being stolen. In broad daylight too. Zoro's cry earned your attention as the swordsman gazed at his weapons. One of them got stolen behind his back.
"My Shusui was here a minute ago!" the male gritted his teeth.
"WHAT?! THE NATIONAL TREASURE OF THE WANO KINGDOM?!" snarled loudly Kin'emon.
"How did you lost it? Don't tell me your own swords earned your stupidity too?" Yukiko groaned.
"Shut up! Where did it go?!"
"They stole from everybody" spoke a doll with a drum. "It was fairies who took your stuff"
"The heck are you talking about?! Is that the name of a group of thieves?!" demanded Zoro.
"Fairies are fairies. All you can do is laugh it off and let it go" it shrugged, pissing even further the swordsman.
"HOW CAN I LAUGH IT OFF?!"
"Those invisible fairies are the guardian deities of Dressrosa from ancient times. We have to turn a blind eye to whatever they do"
"I can't let it go!"
"He's right! The sword is the national treasure of the Wano Kingdom!" spoke the samurai and Zoro whipped his head at him.
"That's my sword!" the man argued.
"It's not yours!"
"I told you! Somebody gave it to me!"
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However, Yukiko, Franky and Luffy found one of the goons and cornered him.
"You're working under Doflamingo, aren't you? Seeing from how you acted like you own the place..." Yukiko said.
The masked bastard sneered through broken teeth, blood sipping from a wound he earned by the old man.
"Yeah. So what?"
"Super! That's what we thought!" said Franky.
"Yeah" enriched Luffy with a nod.
"Do you guys think you can mess with the Young Master-sama in Dressrosa and get away with it? I remember going after a couple of samurai, but I don't know how one got captured and where he is now. And I don't know what SMILE is"
"Not even a bit?" asked Franky.
"Yeah, and I don't know the factory you're talking about. Who are you guys?!"
"I can't believe this" grunted the captain. "Even his men doesn't know about it"
"Then tell us where the people of higher rank are" demanded the cyborg. "This guy is too low in rank maybe..."
"Everyone's too busy today - I don't know where they are. Although I've been summoned to the Colosseum, too. All the people in this kingdom are heading there today"
"What Colosseum?"
"It's the Corrida Colosseum. If you wanna see high-ranked officials, go there! There will be a very big event today. All the executives of our family should be here"
"And what is that big event everyone is talking about?" you asked.
"For whatever reason, Young Master-sama offered an unbelievable prize! Everyone wants it!"
"Prize?" Luffy asked.
"Hm? Then what is the prize?..." Franky asked.
"Prepare yourself for the shock..." grinned the masked man. "The prize is..."
Once the words left his lips, Yukiko's mouth went agape and her eyes widened with fear. Your captain held the same expression, not believing what he was hearing from the other.
"Is it a real one?" Franky raised a brow, not remarking how Luffy and you stood still.
"Young Master-sama won't lie about this!"
"The prize is...." Yukiko trailed, breathless.
"Blackbeard's Darkness-Darkness Fruit?!" finished Luffy, lifting up his shades.
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Franky gritted his teeth. "That bastard found a way to get his hands on that man's Devil Fruit....."
"B-But....How did it get here?!" said Luffy.
"I heard there are no two Devil Fruits of the same power existing at once" stammered the blonde bandit. "However, when a Devil Fruit eater dies, a Devil Fruit with the power that the deceased possessed will pop up again somewhere in the world. And when somebody eats it, he'll become the new holder of that power. After Blackbeard died, the Darkness Darkness Fruit was, without anyone knowing, reproduced and the Young Master-sama managed to track it down!"
"That bastard!" Franky yelled.
"I can't believe the Young Master-sama made it a prize for the competition! If I can possess such incredible power, my life will change!"
"I'm not gonna let you eat it!" bellowed Luffy, causing the man to cower in fear. He then turned to you and Franky, sweat gathered on his forehead. "I want it! The Darkness Darkness Fruit!"
"It isn't like we got a choice in the first place. Blackbeard's Devil Fruit was very powerful, he even countered Ace's Devil Fruit, and I don't want to think what would happen if it fell into wrong hands." Yukiko stated as Pachi appeared from her bag.
"Why don't you eat it, Franky?"
"I don't wanna lose my ability to swim, and I'm sure Pachi doesn't want to either" the cyborg said as the squirrel agreed.
"I ate the Gum-Gum Fruit so I can't eat another one. Same with Yukiko....." Luffy said.
"However, this was the devil fruit that Teach killed a crewmate for. One of Ace's friends. And from I heard, he was planning to hunt down Devil Fruit users to grow his power. We can't have another Blackbeard incident. I'm sure that's what Thatch would want." Yukiko said.
"It's possible that this may be a trap. But one thing for sure! You shouldn't let the chance slip by! You don't wanna regret it afterward" Franky said.
"Yeah. We have to go to the Colosseum anyway" Luffy nodded. "Let's go!"
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Well, I added a different twist to this story, and I hope I did it good!
And I changed Rebecca to Melissa for the Pokémon oc!
Yukiko won't be participating, but she'll be watching Luffy fight. Can't have her give herself away after all.
Plz comment!