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Third Person POV
Thriller Bark, First Half of Grandline.
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Thriller Bark was returning to normal after some mysterious explosions occurred, but once again, the explosive sound echoed through the air. It was now happening at the castle as it began to tremble and crack while dust rose from its base.
The sound was heard by everyone as destruction unfolded with everything there breaking. Perona, standing nearby, looked on with a shocked and frightened face as she trembled.
‘Moria-Sama, was sent flying like a rocket by that guy…?’ she was still trying to process what was happening with this man attacking him without warning.
Luffy usually wouldn’t fight this way without warning, but he was there to defeat the man, so there was no reason for talk or waiting.
Meanwhile, the crew looked on in shock, their mouths and eyes wide open.
“That was super weird and unexpected,” Frank commented.
Brooke, standing next to him, had his mouth open wider than usual.
“Well, did you expect anything different from our captain?” Hugo commented, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
“Luffy always acts unexpectedly…” Reiju remarked.
Several walls of the castle had broken, and on the ground at the end of them, Moria lay fallen, his face an expression of gritted teeth with blood running down his face, slowly rising with so much anger that his initial fear of Luffy had disappeared, wanting to kill this man who dared to attack him in his castle like this.
“Moria-Sama!” Perona shouted worriedly, and looked at Luffy cautiously.
Luffy turned his gaze, while she trembled with his eyes on her. “Sorry, little girl, but we’re on the wrong side,” Luffy said, and she saw that he was about to attack.
She then prepared her ghosts, despite the fear. Luffy would have let her fight Usopp initially, but he didn’t want to hurt her. He simply appeared behind her without her noticing and tapped on her neck, making her faint and caught her before she fell.
He picked her up by the clothes and threw her to a slightly surprised Shirahoshi. “Take care of her, Shira,” he said and turned his attention to his crew. “If anyone tries to attack, fight,” He concluded and disappeared the next moment.
He moved at high speed advancing against Shichibukai who began to rise with so much anger that his shadows started to move beneath his feet. And before he could act, Luffy was already in front of him.
“You’re slow,” Luffy commented, as Moria barely had time to respond, feeling a kick from Luffy, flying even further, destroying another part of the castle.
As the walls exploded, Moria felt increasingly hurt. “This bastard,” he muttered. “I won’t forgive this way,” he exclaimed, as his body on the ground transformed into bats and, quickly, several bats joined together and formed Moria again, standing, looking towards where Luffy was with anger.
Luffy looked at that a bit more satisfied, feeling at least that the man wouldn’t just be beaten without a fight. Then his hand began to catch fire. “Let’s see if you can take this,” Luffy commented, as he leaned back with the flames growing on his arm, until he punched forward, launching a storm of flames. The explosion continued advancing in purple flames exploding on all the walls that were not affected by the wider reach going up to Moria, who looked stunned at it.
It didn’t take long for one side of the castle to explode completely, while Moria flew out, heading towards the forest, breaking the ground. The explosion echoed as the zombies in the forest looked stunned at it illuminating the central part of the ship, wondering what was happening.
“Hey, hey, what’s going on. Is that group of people causing chaos again?” A zombie asked dissatisfied.
“Damn, I lost my house.” Another complained with his tombstone.
“Just you, we’re all homeless, we should talk to Moria!” Another complained with the destroyed cemetery.
“How can they do this?” Another spoke crying.
Some approached the chaos and waited for the dust to settle, becoming frightened.
“Hey, isn’t that Moria!?” One of them pointed. The dust settled showing Moria a bit burned at the end of all that explosion.
“Is that really Moria? How strange, what’s happening here?” A zombie put his hand on his chin.
“Why is he all beaten up? Who did this?” Another zombie asked, bewildered.
Meanwhile, Moria opened his eyes with difficulty, nearly cracking his teeth from clenching them in anger. “That damned pirate, he will pay for everything,” Moria shouted angrily, his voice echoing across the entire island, scaring all the nearby zombies.
“Run!! Moria is furious!!” One of them shouted.
“We have to flee!” Another said.
The crew just watched, unable to react, but some were disappointed, after all, Luffy was destroying that Shichibukai so easily.
“Man, this guy really is weak,” Yamato commented thoughtfully.
“It’s true, even Nami could handle him today,” another commented, as his sister made a face.
“What do you mean by that?” she exclaimed to Nojiko, her sister speaking for her being one of the weakest in the group.
Robin laughed. “Seems like this one is even below Crocodile.”
As she spoke, Vivi looked at her and said, “It’s true…”
“Well… not to interrupt, but it looks like we have company.” Zoro commented, beyond Shirahoshi who was holding Perona. Some sensed, through their Haki, a presence at the site, which was Absalom, using his Akuma no Mi of invisibility.
“Somebody there, who?” Chopper asked bewildered.
“Right here, look!” Usopp spoke as he took his slingshot and aimed at a corner of the castle.
Absalom was frightened by that, after all, he had never been caught off guard like this, wanting to rescue Perona from the hands of these pirates.
But without warning, Usopp made his slingshot glow and fired a laser shot. Immediately the area exploded into a ball of light, disintegrating the ground, while from the smoke, a man burned by Usopp’s light power fell to the ground unconscious. Usopp hadn’t killed him but certainly had put him out of action for a long time.
“Got him,” Usopp said, adjusting his nose proudly.
“Hey, didn’t you go overboard?” Brook yelled, more scared of this crew than anything else. With each moment, these pirates were becoming weirder, revealing themselves as all kinds of monsters.
“What’s going on here?” The doctor who worked for Moria was in his laboratory working on Oz when he felt all the explosions and quickly came to see what was happening while finding the castle partially destroyed.
He saw from an opening on the upper floors the group destroying Absalom and with Perona with that mermaid, unconscious. He swallowed hard and took a few steps back, seeing that even Moria was having a hard time from a distance.
“I have to get out of here,” he said, looking at his secretary who was a zombie, who was helping him. “Let’s go!” He said.
“Look what we have here,” they heard a voice and quickly saw a large man behind them, crossing his arms. It was Hugo, who also sensed a bit of their presence, despite not being an expert in observation Haki, certainly felt the presence of those curious eyes, like others.
And before the doctor could react, Hugo slapped him on the head, making him faint. The woman looked at this and tried to charge at Hugo, but he, seeing that she was just a zombie, didn’t hold back and simply punched her, making her explode from the wall, flying to the ground, creating another explosion as the dust rose.
After that, in the middle of the smoke, Hugo came out dragging the Doctor. “Caught another rat here,” he said.
“What’s with these people…” Brook was really scared at that moment. He simply watched this crew destroy every member of the crew that had taken his shadow.
Meanwhile, with Moria rising from the ground, he soon heard the ground slam in front of him. Luffy appeared as his cape flew, keeping a small smile.
“Straw Hat!!” he spoke slowly with anger at this man who appeared and began to assault him. “You will pay for this,” he shouted for the third time this promise, launching bats at Luffy, who just stood still, feeling the blows and mocked Moria.
“Man, I don’t even need to use my transformation to deal with your attacks. Honestly, I hope you get stronger than this, otherwise, you’ll be destroyed,” Luffy just commented.
And before Moria could react, Luffy appeared above him, taking out his pistol and beginning to shoot a stream of flames downwards. Moria quickly tried to escape, transforming into his bat form and flying away as explosions began to occur in the holes.
The explosions were so large that the zombies fleeing the area were hit while running. “AHHHHHH!!” They screamed in fright as the flames began to burn the forest.
“Something is happening on the island!!!” A man who had lost his shadow and was living in a hidden part of the forest murmured.
More and more people came out of their hiding spots as they heard the explosions, with the sky lighting up with Luffy’s flames.
“Somebody is fighting Gecko Moria!” A sailor exclaimed.
As they gathered wondering what was happening, suddenly Moria’s voice resonated across the island. “Listen, my zombies! Advance against the invaders,” he shouted to the entire island, commanding his zombies.
“Moria wants us to fight those monsters?!” A zombie shouted in fear.
“We need to get out of here!”
They exclaimed, but before they could react, their bodies were paralyzed, and they quickly began to obey, realizing they had no choice, and started advancing towards the crew in front of the castle and Luffy. But Luffy wasn’t worried about this; he knew the crew could easily handle that number and had prepared something for Uta and Brook on the way to the castle.
“It looks like they’re starting to get brave now!” Shirahoshi commented, watching the zombies finally approaching them as they walked, groaning like true zombies at this moment.
“Now they really look like zombies,” Chopper commented and then suddenly realized the fact that there was a crowd of zombies advancing on him. “Zombies! They’re going to devour us! Help!” he began to scream while Karoo, Megalo, and Greg also became frightened.
Suddenly, a man exploded out of the castle, with Brook looking surprised. “It’s him,” he said, pointing to the zombie appearing.
“Who is this?” Kuina asked, feeling a strange sensation coming from that zombie. The zombie stopped closer to them and looked on, while the others still advanced.
“My name is Shimotsuki Ryuma.” he spoke calmly.
“Shimotsuki!!” This took Kuina by surprise, as it was her last name. “Wait,” she pointed. “Are you the real Shimotsuki Ryuma?” She looked, seeing that it was a corpse right there, connecting the dots being her own ancestor, at least his body.
“He’s got my shadow,” Brook said.
“That’s right, Yohohohoho!” Shimura commented, laughing in the same manner as Brook.
“Leave him to me,” Zoro wanted to fight that zombie, but was soon stopped.
“No, he’s mine. He’s my ancestor, let me fight him,” Kuina requested, grabbing her sword and heading towards the zombie.
While Kuina drew her sword to fight her newfound adversary, Luffy was advancing on Moria himself, who couldn’t react much given the power difference between them and he couldn’t even prepare and gather all his shadows to fight against this opponent who was catching up to him. He just had to find a chance to keep him busy for a while until he could gather enough strength.
Meanwhile, outside of Thriller Bark, in the Florian Triangle sky, a figure swiftly passed with a paw-shaped ball and a man holding a bible inside it, advancing towards Moria’s territory.
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