Chapter 257 - Thriller Bark 04!
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Third Person POV
Thriller Bark, First Half of Grandline.
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Moria was in a tough spot. As he saw Luffy approaching at high speed in the air, he clenched his teeth and tried to attack. However, it was far too uneven a fight. Luffy was quicker, moving his fist towards Moria's face; this time Moria managed to escape at the last moment as he transformed into a bat. He looked to the side and saw several little bats trying to escape.
Luffy saw him trying to escape and would not let it go; he quickly aimed his gun and began to fire.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
His shots exploded in the air, creating fireballs and burning the bats. As Moria felt the heat and pain of being burned, he growled. "Damn, what can I do?" He only had one chance to fight Luffy. However, the pirate didn't even give him time to gather strength with his shadows.
As the sky burst and lit up with Luffy's flames amidst all the fog, in the castle, Ryuma—currently with Brook's shadow—looked seriously at Kuina. "Who are you?" he asked the woman challenging him, sensing that this woman was no ordinary person.
"Shimotsuki Kuina," Kuina replied calmly.
Leaving the zombie a bit surprised, he asked curiously, "Are you from my family, then?"
"Yes, it's true, you are my ancestor, very famous, since the famous Shimotsuki name comes from you even after so many centuries," she said as she readied her sword.
He felt her desire to fight and was satisfied. "Very well, I'll see if you truly are worthy of the Shimotsuki name." He said, and his sword, the famous Shusui, began to glow with his energy, and the next moment both of them flew towards each other, kicking the ground and their swords collided while the crew watched the fight with interest.
The impact generated a blue and a chilling energy as Kuina began to unleash her power. However, Ryuma, expecting a fierce fight with his descendant, was surprised to find himself starting to lose as the girl began to press him.
"Maybe with this body... You are just a shadow of your past..." she murmured. Now stronger than Zoro in this part of the original after the training in Skypiea, she began to release a chilling energy, freezing everything in a straight line.
"Hm?!" Ryuma had to back off as his arm froze.
Ryuma didn't even have time to react when she reappeared in front of him, kicking him hard, breaking his arm—an event similar to what happened to Don Flamingo as he flew, exploding the ground with his own body raising the ground and dust.
"Well, she won pretty quickly," Zoro commented, even sounding a bit downhearted. "I thought it would be a challenge, but in the end, he was just a weak shell..."
"Apart from Kuina's fight..." Alvida spoke up at that moment, "What are we going to do with these zombies?" She asked.
Uta sighed, listening and gaining a bit of courage. "Leave it to me, Luffy asked me to handle something. I don't know why he wants this, but okay, let's try."
"Brook, get your bass," she said, tossing the instrument for him to play.
"Alright..." Brook was surprised with Kuina defeating easily, the host of his shadow when he took the bass, but he couldn't help thinking that he shouldn't be surprised, this crew is full of monsters. He took the instrument and prepared to play at that moment.
Meanwhile, in the sky, Moria was flying backwards, blood dripping. He looked back and saw the pirate pursuing him using Geppo. "Won't you leave me alone!?" He growled.
"Come on, Moria, if that's all you can do, I'm disappointed," Luffy said with a smile. A frustrated Moria with some injuries stopped in the air and stared at Luffy still frustrated.
"What do you want?!" Moria could not help but ask, finally seeing that he was being cornered against this pirate.
"We are pirates, Moria. You might work for the government, but the world still works this way. Don't worry, I have no interest in killing you, especially since you haven't done anything to deserve that. However, I do want to take your wealth and stuff. How about you surrender while I take all your money, what do you say?" Luffy commented, but he knew nothing like that would happen, he was just provoking the Shichibukai.
"Do you think I'm going to give you my things?" Morin growled, and Luffy just shrugged.
Hearing this, he charged at Moria again. After all, pirates communicate with fists.
As Moria took another punch, feeling the impact, flying backward with more blood trickling from his nose, music started playing in the middle of the island. "What's that?" Moria, still in the air, looked after gathering with several bats and materializing.
He looked towards the castle, at the entrance, and saw a crowd of zombies doing something strange... "They are dancing?!" He exclaimed, frowning, as he had commanded them to obey him. "Why would they be dancing when they had an order?" He repeated the question, dazed, since he was the owner of the Kage Kage no Mi, no one should be able to disobey him.
It wasn't just a female voice; there was a melody with bass and beats echoing across the entire island.
"Haha. Looks like it worked." Luffy said with a small laugh, looking at the group of dancing zombies, he had played Michael Jackson's 'Thriller.' Writing the lyrics and melody with rhythm, he imagined something like this might happen, but was surprised and Uta was singing well, giving him a nostalgic feeling from a past life.
The Straw Hats were shocked by what they were seeing. The zombies, who were looking at them, ready to devour, began to dance and perform synchronized steps in a style of dance they had never seen before. Uta sang while Brooke played the bass and a type of drum that beat with the feet, to back the music.
Uta sang the chorus while the zombies moved from side to side, raising their hands and dancing.
"How fun!" Shirahoshi clapped her hands, watching the show with a certain charm in her eyes.
"And it certainly is unbelievable," Nami couldn't help but comment, stunned.
"Incredible," Bepo shouted, also excited, forgetting his fear of zombies.
"Fufu, and it certainly is a sight we don't see every day," Robin commented.
Uta continued to sing as the zombies synchronized with their steps, there were 1000 zombies.
"This is quite fun…" A zombie spoke while dancing.
"I can't control my body, but it really is fun!"
"Haha, look at my steps!"
They continued finding it fun as they took their synchronized steps, filling the whole area while they danced.
"How is this possible?" Moria snarled from the sky. However, that was his mistake: taking his eyes off Luffy, because the straw hat appeared behind him, raising his hand and punching him hard. "You should pay attention to our fight…" Luffy said before Moria flew like a rocket against gravity as the ground exploded, and Luffy landed in the middle of the dust.
"What's going on here?" Someone approached the fight, not being a zombie.
"Moria went flying." A person in the middle of the forest shouted.
"Amazing, it seems someone has come to face the Shichibukai and is winning," Lola said among the crowd of spectators.
Luffy let the dust settle while Moria lay on the ground, unconscious. "Well, that was pretty fast," he couldn't help but comment.
However, he sensed something coming and behind him there was an explosion at that moment, with something falling from the sky hitting the ground hard while the trees beside it fell with the ground cracking.
He didn't take his eyes off Moria, who lay on the ground unconscious, as he just laughed with a smile, "You finally arrived, and I thought I would find you here earlier, but it seems I was mistaken, Kuma." Luffy turned as the shadow emerged from all the dust and Bartholomew Kuma stepped out of it with his bible clutched between his belly and arm.
Kuma emerged from the smoke and looked at Luffy, as if scanning him, and finally spoke after a few seconds. "Monkey D. Luffy." He said, his voice sounding robotic.
Luffy didn't mind that, noticing the voice devoid of any emotion. "It's good to finally meet you," Luffy said with a smile. After all, this guy had a significant backstory, probably the saddest in the entire original work, to the point of becoming a cyborg to save Bonney, a pirate he hoped to eventually meet in the Sabaody Archipelago.
Kuma decided to speak again. "I need you to leave Moria alone," he said in his usual tone.
"I can leave him... But..." Luffy said as his fists began to turn into flames, "I've fought with all the Shichibukais, except you... You know what that means?" Luffy asked as his flames began to intensify.
"..." Kuma remained silent.
"It means that I need to fight you right now, I promise it'll be a light fight, but I don't want you to hold back against me," Luffy said, as his body was covered in flames and he began his phase 2 transformation directly, since this man was certainly stronger than Moria and Luffy wanted to have some more fun before leaving Thriller Bark, especially since this place had become so easy and disappointing with Moria's weakness, that Luffy would have to fight someone else.
Kuma watched calmly, his expression unchanged as he began to step heavily on the ground, and raising his palm with the design of a bear's paw, preparing to attack Luffy.
"This is good... let's start!" Luffy announced with a smile amid his complete transformation.
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Racoon here: I had Uta singing the song, but I think that might cause copyright issues...
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