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Nami’s Dark Little Secret
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Chapter 8: Hunger
Flashback...
Nami had gone on a little ways ahead from the others as her naturally inquisitive nature
got the better of her. ‘Curiosity killed the cat...good thing I’m no cat.’ Nami grinned her
cat’s paw smile and continued on before she abruptly saw something or someone right in
front of her.
It was a little girl.
She had a round, pale face with wide blue eyes, two blonde pig-tails coming from either
side of her face, and she was wearing a white dress with a sailor style neck and scarf.
She would have been completely normal if it wasn’t for the fact that she was -
Completely transparent.
“AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” Nami let out a piercing scream.
Nami watched filled with trepidation as the little girl took something out of her pocket. It
looked like a key. The key had a velvet cord attached to it and holding it the girl would
have dropped it into her hand if not for the fact that it just passed through her hand
instead.
Nami gulped.
“Help us...save us...free us.” The girl repeated over and over to Nami eerily as she
approached. Nami took a step back.
And then the ghost girl was gone, and Luffy and the others were running up to her asking
if she was ok...
ooo
Sanji held Nami protectively behind him as the masqueraders began to circle around
them.
“Sanji...what’s going on?” Nami asked in a hushed, frightened whisper.
Sanji didn’t know how to respond.
Suddenly, their surroundings changed, images swirling around them until it suddenly
stopped to reveal the same ball room but in a completely different state. It was no longer
beautiful and elegant but decrepit and decaying. And the people...the beautiful men and
women had been replaced with hollow mirror images of the real people that had once
been before them. The truth was there. They were nothing but phantoms. Their forms
were translucent and their beauty had also decayed so that now the men and women that
stood before them were starving, injured, and angry.
“Let us taste you...let us eat you. Let us taste you...let us eat you. Eat you. Eat you. Eat
you. We hunger for your flesh.” The masqueraders were chanting as they closed in.
Nami buried her face in Sanji’s back..
Just then Nami felt Sanji take her hand roughly. “Run!” Sanji cried pulling her along with
him.
“Ack! But Sanji you’re heading right for them!!!” Nami cried.
“It won’t matter!” Sanji gruffly responded.
It didn’t.
He and Nami passed right through two masqueraders and simply kept on running. Nami
and Sanji could hear an angry uproar go up behind them for their dirty trick. They would
not be left to go that easily. Sanji knew that ghosts could usually chose to solidify
themselves but when caught off guard as Sanji had then one would just pass right through
them.
Nami chanced a glance behind her and wished she hadn’t - they were indeed pursuing
them.
Sanji continued to drag Nami along with him until they came to a decrepit hallway, the
floorboards were rotten and there were gapping holes in some places.
“So Nami, what’s up with you and Luffy lately? You two seem to have gotten really
close.” Sanji asked as they ran across.
Nami’s eyes widened in surprise. “Sanji now is NOT the time!”
“But Nami-swannn I need to know.” Sanji pleaded.
The floor boards were creaking dangerously beneath their heavy footfalls...
“Sanji wait! I don’t think it’s safe to go any fur- AHHHHHHHH!!!!!” Nami and Sanji
soon found themselves falling as the floor collapsed beneath their feat.
They fell a ways until Nami landed right on top of Sanji.
“Ugh my head...” Nami groaned.
“Ah my head.” Sanji said with a grin looking up at the goddess that was on top of him
and nearly straddling him.
Nami looked down and turned beet red as she felt his hardness pressing up against her
stomach. “Pervert!” She screeched as she slapped him hard across the face and quickly
stood up.
Sanji frowned as he got up. “Sworry Nami-san.” He rubbed his stinging cheek.
“Hmph! You are so NOT forgiven.” Nami declared stalking off. “I just can’t believe you
sometimes Sanji I really wonder-” Nami’s sentence hung in midair as she gasped.
“Nami-san?” Sanji asked concernedly. “What is it?”
He came up next to her and gaped at what he saw.
“Treasure.” Nami’s eyes were gleaming.
There before them was a mountain of gold and jewels. It had to be worth at least 200
million beli. Nami was already approaching the treasure with her hands twitching in
anticipation.
When, Sanji broke in with - “Nami-san as much as I’d like to get some of that treasure
for you I’m afraid we have visitors.”
Nami was only half-listening, however, as her eyes drifted over to a small chest on top of
the pile of gold which lay in the center of the room. From the looks of it it certainly
needed a key to be opened. A key...
Nami placed her hand in her pocket and pulled out the key the little ghost girl had
dropped before her. ‘It just has to be...’
“Nami-san!” Sanji tried again to get her attention.
Nami quickly spun around. “What is it for heaven’s sake Sanji I-?!” And then she saw
that they were surrounded. Right....well. *cough* anyways. “Sanji go get ‘em! I need to
get my hands on whatever’s in that chest!” Nami declared launching herself at the small
chest.
“Whaaaa!!!” Sanji cried in disbelief but quickly turned serious as the ghosts’ attention
turned to Nami. “Hey, you ghost-freaks your opponent is me.”
A few of the ghosts gave Sanji an eerie smile which stretched unnaturally wide for his
taste revealing pointed teeth. They then attacked and so did he. Sanji quickly flipped over
so that he was on his hands and spun his legs in a kick aiming for their heads. But
unfortunately his blows just passed through them. Just as Sanji was about to reposition
himself for a new attack he felt something on his leg and saw one of the ghosts had
actually grabbed his leg...by his teeth.
“Eww let go of my leg you bastard! I am not your hors d'oeuvre!” Sanji yelled while
trying to shake him off.
‘Damn it solidified itself. But wait! That’s it!’ Sanji smiled and with his other leg sent it
flying into the now solidified ghost which was then sent flying backwards. Sanji then
flipped back onto his feet his hands on his hips in triumph. Who said you couldn’t kick a
ghost’s transparent ass!
Meanwhile...
Nami was fitting her key into the lock and turning it. The chest opened and Nami licked
her lips in anticipation. How she just loved treasure! There before her in the chest was the
largest ruby she had ever seen. It was in the same shape as a skull and in its eye sockets
were two large emeralds. This had to be the biggest, badest ruby ever! Nami practically
squealed with delight as she snatched it up into her hands, a wide smile on her face.
“Sanji I’ve got it!” Nami declared turning around to face him and gasping as she watched
him taking on several ghosts all at once. They were ganging up on Sanji now, solidifying
to land a blow on Sanji and then quickly un-solidifying so that Sanji’s counterattacks
were rendered useless.
Sanji was now panting for breath. Damn. And just when he thought he had gained the
upper hand they had to go and grow a brain! Then he heard Nami’s musical voice. She
was done. Good. They had to leave this crazy ghost ship as soon as possible.
“Great Nami-san! Let’s get the hell out of here!” Sanji then waited for a ghost to land a
blow on him before he quickly used his fancy footwork to trip him up. This caused an
opening for him and Nami, who quickly rushed through stepping right on top of the
ghost-man, and leaving the rest behind.
ooo
Meanwhile...
Zoro and Luffy stood back to back as the ghosts began to close in.
They had tried to run only to be surprisingly blocked by two ghosts who had solidified
themselves. The ghosts had landed a nasty blow that had sent the two flying backwards
onto the pile of bones. Now they were up again and ready to face their new foes.
“Zoro...do you see what I see?” Luffy questioned.
“If you mean the bloodthirsty ghosts then yes.” Zoro calmly stated.
“Oh ok. I just wanted to make sure.” Luffy cracked his knuckles. “I’ve never fought
someone who was already dead before.” He smiled.
Zoro sighed. Only Luffy would be smiling at a time like this. Oh well, if you can’t beat
them join them. Zoro placed his third Katana in his mouth and got into a fighting stance.
The ghosts attacked and Zoro was the first to counter. “Demon Slash!” His swords
crossed and uncrossed so that his third sword came down upon his opponents’ chest. He
cut through air most of the time but as some of the ghosts had tried to solidify they had
been blown backwards by the force of Zoro’s swords.
As they pulled themselves off the ground Zoro readied himself into another fighting
stance prepared to meet any advances.
Luffy was having a bit of a more difficult time. He’d swing a punch for it only to pass
right through his opponent and then was surprised when the Ghost landed a square punch
to his jaw. What the hell was going on? This might take a while to figure out...Luffy
realized.
Zoro however noticed his Captain’s plight. “Luffy you numbskull they solidify right
before they’re about to attack you, that’s when you should try to land a hit. Got it!”
“Thanks Zoro!” Luffy said as he turned to face his opponents once more with renewed
confidence. He waited till three of them attacked him at once before attacking them head
on. “Gomu Gomu no Gatling Gun!” His punch went through the first who had predicted
Luffy would do this but the other two weren’t so lucky and were thrown backwards.
It was an endless cycle of hit, fade, miss, hit, fade, miss and Zoro was beginning to get
agitated. “Damn ghosts...how can we kill them when they’re dead already! Dammit!”
“At least I know how to fight them now.” Luffy - always looking on the bright side of
things.
When Zoro got agitated he tended to overdo things a bit - “3000 worlds!!!!” Zoro’s
blades spun faster than the eye could see, his steal glinting in the glow of the torch light.
His attack hit the ghosts straight on. Some were solid some not, and the rest of his attack
hit the floor and destroy several bones...this caused an interesting reaction on the ghost’s
part.
“Muwhahaaa Hoooooo!” They shrieked and cried as Zoro’s attack destroyed several
remains. Luffy and Zoro watched in shock as a few of the ghosts began to disappear
before them with a pop turning into little blue lights which lifted upwards towards the
ceiling and disappeared.
Zoro’s eyes narrowed. “It’s their bones. Their bones are their weakness! Luffy destroy all
the bones!”
“You got it!” Luffy flexed his left arm muscle and ostentatiously grabbed it with his right
hand. “Gomu Gomu no-”
But before Luffy could attack a powerful looking ghost appeared from beneath the
floorboards and stood before them causing silence among the other ghosts and a few of
them to even bow down before this new ghost. “Don’t even think about it, mi boy.”
The ghost standing before them was of a gruff looking man who died probably when he
was in his late 30s. When he smiled Luffy could see that all his teeth were solid gold...or
at least they used to be. His black hair was slicked back and their was a single white strip
that ran through it skunk-like. He was wearing a long, black leather jacket which had a
neck of brown fur. On his wrists and around his neck were several solid gold chains.
“Huh? Who the hell are you?” Luffy demanded.
“I?” The ghost-man raised an eyebrow. “I am the Captain of this here vessel. I have been
known about these here waters as Captain Greed, and this here vessel is the infamous El
Dorado. I’m sure you’ve heard of my great feats...”
“Nope.” Luffy simply responded.
Captain Greed fell over. “Insolent boy! I happen to be one of the Deadly Seven Pirate
Kings! And besides, boy, you should really be better informed of your enemies since
you’ve made an enemy of us.”
“The Seven Deadly who?” Luffy questioned frowning.
“BOY! Don’t tell me you have yet to realize just who you’re dealing with! The Seven
Deadly Pirate Kings control the Great Line and all its treasures! No one has yet dared to
defy our rule except for you. You went against our comrade Captain Blood-Lust. And
even had the audacity to go and kill Miss Melody Vanity. She was our nakama and you
will pay for what you’ve done to her.”
“Melody...who’s she?” Luffy scratched his cheek while he tried to remember. “That
name seems vaguely familiar.”
Captain Greed narrowed his eyes dangerously at Luffy. “You don’t even remember
having killed her?! How dare you forget her death so easily! She was a very powerful
Siren-Witch many pirates fell victim to her flute’s deadly song and died. But you...and
your crew somehow managed to escape her. Curious. No matter, I will finish what Miss
Melody and Captain Blood failed to do! Prepare to die, BOY!”
Luffy’s eyes darkened under his straw hat. “I believe that would be you. But wait opps!
Too late you’re already dead. Guess I’ll just have to beat your ass back to hell again!”
Luffy said swinging his arm and getting ready to send a punch flying Greed’s way.
“Gomu Gomu no Pistol!!!”
“Fool.” Greed said as he simply un-solidified and allowed Luffy’s powerful punch to
pass right through him. “My turn.” Greed literally flew towards Luffy and solidifying
himself at just the last second hit Luffy with a hard uppercut. Luffy went flying upwards
and hit the ceiling with such force that his head popped through leaving the rest of his
body dangling behind. “Buwhahahaha you really play the fool well!”
“Argh!!! Zoro get me out of here!” Luffy cried as he struggled in vain.
“Yea yea.” Zoro groaned walking over to the helpless Luffy. “Don’t blame me if you get
hurt. Demon Slash!” Zoro cried as he slashed at the ceiling above to cut a circle around
Luffy’s suspended body.
Luffy quickly fell to the ground pieces of wood bouncing off of him. “Whew! Glad to be
free!” Luffy quickly sprang back to his feet and brushed himself of ready to face off with
Captain Greed once more.
Captain Greed was shaking in anger. “And to think an idiot like you actually managed to
defeat those two...well I suppose they weren’t worthy to be a part of the Seven. Now
allow me to show you my true power!” A strange glow began to surround Captain Greed
and then gathering some of this strange light in one of his hands he then sent it hurtling
towards Luffy.
Luffy was too shocked to get out of the way in time and allowed to ball of light to simply
hit him head on. It sent him careening backwards with much force but also impacted
harder than a normal human blow in such a way that it actually managed to crack one of
Luffy’s ribs in the process.
“How did you like that, it was a plasma blast. What is a plasma blast the idiot asks? Well,
it’s the concentrated force of psychic energy which we ghosts have much off since we are
no longer physical but mostly made up of mental and ethereal energies. Even a rubber
man cannot help but be affected by this energy which not only effects your physical body
but can even effect your very soul. Buwhahahaha!” Greed cackled evilly.
Luffy grasped his side as he stood but did not allow the pain to show in his face. He
wouldn’t let this guy-that’s-already-dead beat him.
In the meantime Zoro was fending off the remaining ghosts as much as he could while
trying to come up with some sort of a plan. He knew victory would be inevitable if all the
bones were destroyed...the skulls...he was sure Captain Greed’s bones were probably
down here with the rest but how to tell the difference?
Zoro glared at Greed as he was laughing maniacally at Luffy, his golden teeth gleaming.
“That’s it!”
Just at that exact moment...
“AHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
Sanji and Nami fell through the hole in the ceiling that Zoro had created in order to free
Luffy.
“What the hell was that hole doing there?” Nami groaned. She looked below her to see
that once again Sanji had broken her fall, although this time he didn’t look that happy
about it. “Uh Sanji...you alive?”
“Can’t breath...” Sanji murmured.
“Oh sorry!” Nami quickly hopped off of him. She then turned to see Zoro facing off with
some ghosts and Luffy who looked a bit pale facing off with a scary looking ghost-man.
“Luffy! Zoro!”
This of course caught the attention of Captain Greed who looked at Nami and then
became fixated on what she held in her right hand. His eyes widened. “Wh-where did
you get that?!” He cried.
“Oh this?” Nami casually tossed the ruby skull in the air, Greed’s eyes following the
movement, as it came back to rest on the palm of her hand once more. “It sort of fell out
of this chest and I didn’t want it to get lost or anything.”
“You little thief!” Captain Greed growled. “How dare you lay your filthy little hands on
my treasure! You know what happens to those that take things that don’t belong to
them?” Greed unsheathed a ghostly sword at his hip. “They get their hands cut off!”
“Epp!” Nami shrieked as she stepped back in fear.
“G-Greed!” Luffy stuttered slightly as a wave of pain washed over him. “You’re fighting
me remember!”
Greed sighed. “You’ll be defeated soon enough, and then girlie I’ll be dealing with ye.”
Greed made a motion with his sword cutting across his neck that sent a chill down
Nami’s spine.
Zoro simply passed through a few ghosts to quickly get to Nami and Sanji’s side. “Yo
guys, little late. This battle isn’t going too well from the looks of it. That ghost-man who
calls himself Captain Greed has some sort of special power - it can even hurt someone’s
soul. I don’t know how much longer Luffy can last. But I have a plan. All we have to do
is find the skull here that has gold teeth and smash it to bits.”
“Skull? Zoro what are you talking about?” Nami was asking before she stepped on
something unusually hard. She looked down...bones they were everywhere.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!!”
“Women.” Sanji and Zoro mumbled as they ignored her and began to search for Captain
Greed’s skull.
“I’m not afraid of you, Captain Greed.” Luffy declared in a cool tone as he began to walk
towards him.
“What is that idiot doing?” Zoro sounded exasperated.
Nami finally stopped screaming about the bones to see Luffy approaching Greed. She
had a bad feeling about this.
“Well, well, well, in a hurry to die are we? Well maybe I’ll even let you join the ranks of
my ghost pirate crew, if you stick around that is! Buwhahahaha!”
Luffy was nearly standing in front of Captain Greed now. “Do your worst Greed.”
“But of course.” Greed began to concentrate the energy into the palms of his temporarily
solidified hands...
‘Now’s my chance.’ Luffy thought as he quickly jumped right onto Greed wrapping his
legs around Greed’s waist and his arms around his torso. He then stretched his head back
and prepared to swing it forward. “Gomu Gomu no Bell!” Luffy’s head shot forward
back at Greed and hit him square between the eyes.
“Gahhhh!” Greed cried as he was hit. But he was only temporarily affected by this attack.
“If I hadn’t been dead already that would have killed me for sure. Tough luck kid.” Greed
declared as he unleashed his finished plasma blast at Luffy at point blank range.
Luffy was sent flying backwards but this time as his body hit the floor it lay still.
“Luffy!” Nami cried in horror. He couldn’t be... Nami looked over at Zoro and Sanji who
were still trying to find the skull. Nami got on her hands and knees and frantically began
throwing bones left and right. ‘I just have to find it! I just have to! Luffy won’t last much
longer...’
She didn’t notice that someone had come up behind her.
She suddenly felt the air being chocked out of her as she was raised into he air by Captain
Greed who had a vice grip around her neck. And his hold wasn’t getting any lighter.
“And now to deal with you girlie. Drop that treasure you have in your hands.” Greed
commanded.
Nami smiled. “As you wish.”
The skull she had in her hands fell to the ground and shattered to bits...
“ARGHHHH!!!!” Captain Greed cried as he felt his connection to the material world
break. “You bitch! That wasn’t the treasure was it?! It was my skull!”
“Damn straight, ghosty.” Nami stood to turn to him. “I had already stashed your treasure
away in my secret place.” She reached down her shirt and pulled out the ruby skull and
winked.
Captain Greed glared back at her. “You may have one this battle but you won’t win the
war! The other Seven are more powerful than you can imagine. And no amount of
teamwork or dumb luck is going to save you from them! Besides I’ll be the one to have
the last laugh! Buwhahahaha.” Greed said as he laid his eyes upon the ruby skull one last
time.
“Yea yea whatever.” Nami said dismissing him with a wave of her hand as his
transparent body began to fade away. His body soon burst into several red tinged lights
that sank down below the floor boards. She quickly went over to Luffy’s side and
touched his arm to shake him awake and froze. He was like ice. She feared the worse.
“Luffy...”
“Nami look.” Zoro said from his place next to Sanji.
A small ball of light was hovering over Luffy.
“Do you think...is that his soul? It must have been forced out of him by the plasma blast.”
Nami said in awe. But then realized what she was saying. “No! He can’t go! Not yet! He
can’t leave me!”
“Nami...” Sanji started to walk towards her.
“Stay away Sanji! I...I have to get him to come back somehow!” Nami cried. “Luffy!
Luffy! Can you hear me! Don’t go Luffy!” She began to shake him until she felt dizzy
and collapsed on top of him...
Zoro quickly came over to Nami to see what was wrong and felt her pulse. He turned to
Sanji and shook his head. “We’ve lost them.”
ooo
To be continued...
AN: I’m evil aren’t I? Hehehehe. Remember 10 reviews will get you that new chappy!
Let me know what you think of this new saga? Oh and if you have any ideas for
upcoming ones let me know, you never know I may incorporate them somehow into the
story. So yea, comments, suggestions, requests, let me know peeps!
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