Another World?
Oven had been launched away by Albert's punch but he still had more in him. The strawhats had already started their escape and Luffy was in the mirror dimension fighting Katakuri. Oven lunged towards Albert with his hand superheated and curled up into a fist aiming for Albert's head.
*Pow*
Albert however didn't dodge, He used his tangle trait to catch Oven's fist with a giant mushroom cap. Oven tried to pull his arm back but small dumpling-shaped mushrooms sprouted from his arm whilst somehow rusting his arm. It felt like his arm was a rusty clamp that couldn't close no matter what.
Before he could react another one of Alberts's punches had made its way to his face as he was launched back again.
Now his eyelids were closed and he felt like rusty metal was scratching his eyes.
"It's my specialty you know? Mushrooms can be so versatile, invasive, and adaptive. Suppose you should go get that checked out before your eyes rust as well"-Albert
Albert had a lot to do these several weeks, incapacitating someone powerful was the specialty of his mushrooms, of course, he could also make people into zombies but he wasn't about to have another walking dead reiteration.
He soon scattered into yellow lines yet again as he made his way back home.
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What happened here? That was the one thought he had as he looked over the cliff next behind his ranch and saw something strange, he knew what it was. He didn't know where it could lead him, it was a rift in the space-time continuum.
Before he jumped in of course he needed some lunch. So he went to the kitchen and started cooking.
He prepared to do his usual chicken broth but he remembered that he had gotten some fish a few days ago from a fishmonger in the west blue.
These fish were elephant tuna which were incredible on their own, and so he grabbed one of the tuna from his freezer and cut off its nose, and clipped off its fins. He then made two incisions and took out the gills as well as the bones which he could grind up and use as fertilizer.
The tuna had a beautiful pinkish red color that contrasted heavily with its gray scales. Albert with his heavy appetite ran his knife across the tuna and cut off about half of it just for himself, the rest? Well of course they were for little old Frio.
He readied the smoker outside while he prepared the tuna by covering it in phase lemon slices. He threw some nimble needle wood onto the smoker and the fire started to roar. After placing the Tuna in the smoker he made himself a drink with a little bit of Starfire rum and cuberry juice.
Soon enough the tuna was ready and Frio was next to him almost drooling from the smell. The tuna that came out was tender and it just melted in your mouth, literally. The savory taste of the tuna paired with the sweet, burning taste of Cuberry Starfire rum was an incredible mix of flavors.
Frio had already swallowed his entire cut of tuna by the time Albert finished half of his cut and was trying to eat Albert's food.
"Listen here you little glutton, You just... agh I can't stay mad at you just don't eat too much okay?"-Albert
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Mealtime was eventually over and it was time for Albert to go in through the rift. He packed some food and went in.
As he stepped in, his surroundings changed from the ranch to a lush forest that had trees so tall that they could block out the sun.
Around him, strange fruits could be found. They were the size of his head and emitted an almost unnoticeable glow, they all had different colors too. Some were yellow, others purple and a small amount was green.
They all looked like Heirloom tomatoes without the green part on top. He went to try them and... The yellow ones were hard as walnuts but the inside was a gold liquid that had a sort of citrus taste with a hint of apple. The purple ones were very soft and squishy but tasted bitter and poisonous.
The green ones were refreshing however, they had a sweet delectable cherry taste and after eating one Albert felt revigorated by the fruit.
Well, that was how he felt until he heard a screech behind him.
*Reeeeeeaaaaagggghhhh!*
What he saw behind him was like a joke from biology. It had the head and face of an owl, hands on the end of its wings, a giant tail with a hand at its end, and it had the body of a monkey. To top it all off its fur was mainly colored blue with a few orange markings and it was the size of a semi-truck.
It charged right at him whilst spinning on its tail like a Beyblade. Now to a regular person, this would seem terrifying, to Albert though? This was a new pet.
The creature swung at his shoulder, to which Albert simply dodged and grabbed the creature by its claw and did an overhand shoulder throw, making the creature fall on its back. Albert took the opportunity and jumped on the creature's stomach and started rubbing it with vigor.
The creature kept trying to escape his kindness to which he rubbed its belly with even more power. Eventually the creature accepted his kindness and fell asleep, so he stood guard to defend it.
As it slept his suspicions were valid as he recognized all the monsters that he defended the creature against. The first was a bear with blue scales that turned green when they reached its midsection, yellow fur the made it look like it had a mohawk, and red eyes with red claws. For some reason this one was easily bribed by just throwing a honey plort at it.
The second was a Great Izuchi and its pack, It was basically a velociraptor with orange and white fur, with blue claws and a weird thing on its tail which was basically another pair of claws. It took a lot more effort to ward it away.
These were all large wyverns from the game Monster Hunter, and due to the Izuchi he realized he was in Monster Hunter Rise. (The Bear was an Arzuros)
The Owl monster he was protecting was...
*Raagh?*
a Bishaten!
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Thanks to everybody for waiting for this series. Looking back at it now when I first made this series I thought it would end up like my other fanfic(don't read it) but this one is going along just fine!