Chapter 255 - Thriller Bark 02!

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Third Person POV

Thriller Bark, First Half of Grandline.

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"Hm?!" Brook finally stood up.

"What a sight... you meet your old friend and flee at the first chance? I expected more from you, my musician." Luffy approached Brook at that moment.

"..." Brook was speechless, although terrified of returning to Moria's domain, he heard Luffy's words and looked towards Laboon who showed confusion looking at him.

"I guess you're right..." He admitted, realizing he had let his fears take over. "I'm sorry, old friend..." He said as he approached Laboon.

"Let's move on, don't worry, because nothing will happen to you." Luffy assured.

Luffy continued with his group into the forest of Thriller Bark, with a new member of the group, with a cornered Cerberus along with them, or at least a copy of the real one, who was downcast, while Yamato rode it like a horse, kicking its skin with her feet.

"Go, go, Cerberus!!! Hahaha!" She screamed joyfully, having a happy, childish moment. "Go ahead!!!" She said, raising her arm, while the animal could only lower its head being intimidated by it, after all there was a small dog walking beside him, which he was very afraid of.

WOOOLFF!!

Chouchou started to wake up while Cerberus was in despair, seeing that Chouchou was commanding him to obey Yamato, he had no choice but to run as Yamato shouted, starting to run.

"Well done, Cerberus!!" Yamato laughed with that, moving forward. Robin was sitting with Uta also on the back of the animal, while the girl sang to dispel the fear of the place.

Luffy saw them running, and continued leading the rest of the group, passing through the eerie forest and coming out of it, while finding Cerberus and the others stopped at a sort of local cemetery.

"Luffy!!! Can this place get any worse?!" Uta complained on the back of the animal.

"Fufufu. This place is quite unique." Robin commented.

"It was so cool the run, we had to stop because of Uta..." Yamato complained, not caring at all about the sight of a cemetery.

"This cemetery..." Luffy walked past Cerberus and ignored his crewmembers murmuring fearfully about the place.

Luffy went up to one of the graves while his crew watched him. Suddenly, a constant moaning sound appeared in the place.

Then from between the grave and Luffy, a hand emerged from the ground, rising with a head appearing, proving to be an undead. Meanwhile, the more fearful ones were frightened by it.

"AHHHHH!!!"

"WHAT IS THAT!!!???"

"IT'S A ZOMBIE!!"

"Seriously, what is a zombie? Was he sleeping under the ground?"

"How do you not know what a zombie is!?"

The zombie stared at the companions in despair and then turned his attention to Luffy in front of him, studying him with crossed arms, while a growling sound came from him, but he was surprised that Luffy was not afraid.

This could be said of Yamato too, who approached with Cerberus and looked alongside Luffy. "Is this one?!" He murmured uncertainly... "A sick old man?" he commented as everyone made a face.

"It's a zombie!" Almost everyone exclaimed at the same time.

"Hahahaha that was funny..." Luffy laughed and looked at the zombie. "Now Mr. Zombie... Go back to Earth," he said, and before the man with rotting flesh could react, Luffy punched him in the face, making his growl turn into a scream of surprise.

"AHHHHHH!!!" He screamed, as the punch was so strong that it exploded the Earth with a light around.

BOOOOOMMMMMM!!

The ground beneath that poor soul exploded with such force that all the terrain around began to crack and explode, devastating the entire cemetery, while the sound exploded once more throughout Moria's ship island, the earth rose and all the zombies who were hiding inside were surprised as they flew with the force of the punch that Luffy had just made.

"AHHHHH!!!"

"WHO WOKE ME UP LIKE THIS!!"

"HELP, I'M FLYING, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FLY!!!"

"You're a zombie! You can't get hurt!"

"You too!"

They exclaimed in the air, while all of the crew looked at it, opening their mouths with their eyes wide open, wondering why Luffy had done something like that.

Luffy, in the middle of all that destruction with just one of his punches, ended up scratching the back of his head

and looking at his crew.

"I think I overdid it," he commented as everyone made faces.

"You think you overdid it!?" Everyone shouted. And Luffy laughed at that. While Brook looked shocked at it.

The zombies continued to scream as they began to fall to the ground, wondering what the hell was happening when they were sleeping peacefully. They quickly fell to the ground and saw that the entire cemetery had been destroyed while they made shocked faces.

Moria once again heard the explosion from his castle. "What the hell is going on here today?!" He murmured, dissatisfied.

"AHH!!" Perona was once again frightened, leaving the room and going to look for Moria-sama to see what was happening.

Returning to the destroyed grounds of the old cemetery, the zombies finally saw Luffy amidst that chaos and began to run from him.

"Hey, why are the zombies running away?" Zoro asked, bewildered.

"Maybe they're scared or something..." Hugo murmured.

"Well, anyway, let's go," Luffy said, not caring about the rain of zombies falling at that moment while those already fleeing from them screamed and called them monsters.

"You home wreckers!!" They distanced themselves and began to shout at Luffy.

"I'm calling the navy!!"

"I'm calling the government!"

"I'm telling everything to my mom!"

All the Straw Hats heard their protests from a distance, but none of them dared to approach.

"They're so funny!!" Shirahoshi laughed at that.

"This seems so strange." Nami murmured.

"The sea really is vast..." Little Chopper murmured.

"What kind of fake zombies are these!" Kuina complained. "After all, a zombie shouldn't be afraid of anything. Why are they complaining that Luffy destroyed their cemetery like a union or something?"

They continued past the cemetery, ignoring the zombies booing them from a distance and heading towards the large structures in the middle of the island, which were shadows in the fog ahead.

At one moment, Luffy saw a kind of white substance flying between the trees.

"A ghost!!!" Usopp shouted as he pointed his cross at it, with Bepo doing the same next to him, which could be said of Hachi with 6 crosses, one in each of his arms.

"That's the ghost here that we saw on a ship," The Leap shouted.

"Karoo!!!" Karoo clung to Vivi in fear while she did the same.

Luffy was thoughtful; he definitely did not want that ghost to touch him. After all, except for Usopp in the group, everyone was affected by this negative ghost, no matter the raw power.

"I can cut it!" Zoro suddenly spoke, stepping in front of Luffy.

The ghost seemed to see this and dived into the ground, "Tsk... it escaped." Zoro commented, but it seems his haki did not notice when the ghost appeared coming out of the earth below him and passed through his body.

A moment later, Zoro was on the ground with a negative atmosphere. "I should be an amoeba," he said while everyone was shocked by this.

"What happened to him? How can he say such a thing?" Others murmured.

"Wasn't it the same thing that happened to Chouchou?!" Nojiko commented.

"It's true... definitely, I don't want to get close to that." Reiju said as a ghost passed by her at that moment, making the girl fall to the ground.

"I'm never going to cook in my life again, I shouldn't even have been born..." she said.

"Bufff. Hahahahahaha" Lami next to her pointed at her and began to laugh loudly.

She didn't even notice when the ghost came out of the ground again and caught her. "I'm the worst doctor in the world. I apologize for being born," she murmured next to Reiju.

"It's better not to touch him, after all, it seems to affect everyone negatively." Alvida commented. While everyone tried to distance themselves from the ghost, one did not. Chouchou started barking and chasing after the ghost.

He jumped into the air and tried the same as before, but ended up on the ground crying with dog sounds.

"Why did he do that?" Luffy couldn't help but comment.

"He's coming for me!!!" Usopp screamed as the ghost ran towards him and passed through him the next moment.

"Hm?!" Usopp looked at his body to see if everything was okay since he was not affected. "Nothing happened? I don't understand," he said.

"That's because he's already negative," someone shouted.

"Amazing! Usopp is immune!!!" Nami said.

"Usopp is so cool!!" Chopper's eyes sparkled.

"Really!" Bepo celebrated.

"Am I immune...?" Usopp could hardly believe it. "Of course, after all, I am a brave warrior of the sea!" He said.

"Neee... that's amazing!" Hachi said, unaware of the ghost passing through him at that moment. The merman was lying on the ground. "I should be a joke," he murmured.

"Well, anyway, forget the ghost..." Luffy spoke after seeing that it had gone. "We should go." He said.

The crew continued moving forward.

"Shouldn't I have been born an amoeba?" Kuina commented, looking at Zoro and laughing, while the swordsman became frustrated after having the ghost pass through him, being teased by his childhood friend.

"Damn, I swear I'm going to kill that devil fruit user!" Lami commented, walking strangely, frustrated, after Luffy mentioned that the one creating these ghosts was a devil fruit user.

"No, I'm the one who's going to destroy him," Reiju said, as flames covered her body. She was determined to destroy the owner of these ghosts.

Neither of them liked having acted that way. It was humiliating, especially in front of their own rival. So, they wanted to move forward to see who was the user controlling them.

As they continued walking, they finally reached the center of the ship island but couldn't help noticing the zombies watching them from the forest, looking at them and murmuring to each other.

"These zombies are so weird," Nojiko commented, always believing the stories that they were bloodthirsty beings, but they seemed like ordinary people, besides the rotting flesh.

"They are definitely experiments of some sort. All their bodies and limbs are stitched together, even this dog here," Robin commented, pointing to the fake Cerberus, who was now behaving like a common dog at that moment, intimidated.

"Don't talk like that, he's a great mount," Yamato exclaimed with a smile on her face, making them contradict themselves, not knowing if that was a compliment or an offense.

"We've finally arrived," Luffy suddenly interrupted their conversation as they reached a huge castle.

"Is this where the Shichibukai lives?" Zoro asked.

"This guy really likes to live in a horror setting," Hugo said.

Luffy didn't respond to their conversation and started walking up to the huge door which, as he approached, opened with a zombie dressed as a butler appearing. He looked a bit strange at that group.

"How may I assist you?" he spoke with a cracked voice.

"I would like to speak with Moria. Tell him I am here waiting," Luffy spoke calmly, while the members of his crew looked somewhat stunned. After all, he didn't come here to defeat the Shichibukai, Luffy seemed so polite.

Moria, who was busy, was called. "Lord Moria, there's a group of people wanting to see you outside the castle..." The zombie butler spoke, making Moria look at him surprised.

"A crowd of people?" He asked, bewildered, as no one usually visited him.

"Let's see what they want," he said as he approached, walking down the hallway. He ended up finding Perona walking after a restless sleep caused by two explosions, looking at Moria.

"Moria-sama, did something happen? What were those explosions?" she asked.

"I don't know, but it seems we have visitors. I'm going to see who it is," he commented as he approached the door and opened it, seeing a group of more than 20 people, including all kinds of species, with animals. He was a bit surprised by this.

"Who are you?" he immediately asked.

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy," Luffy said with a smile, as everyone looked on, wondering what their captain would do this time.

"Monkey D. Luffy?" Moria exclaimed, remembering this man who not only defeated Crocodile in Alabasta but also remembered very well the meeting he had at Marineford with Luffy receiving a bounty of 750,000,000, which was shortly after defeating one of the three calamities and Doflamingo in Jaya. He became a bit cautious about this, because this pirate did not seem like someone he could handle, since he had already defeated 3 Shichibukai.

"What do you want?" Moria asked cautiously.

Luffy just smiled with his eyes closed. "I came here to defeat you," he simply said and before Moria could react or Perona next to him, also stunned by what she heard, Luffy advanced.

A moment later he hit Moria with a punch right in his face, making the Shichibukai fly back against his castle.

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