(Vol 3) CHAPTER - 16 { Devil's Shadow Part-3 }
Chopper held up a pirate and slammed him down the stairs.
"Hurry! I know where the medical room is!"
Chopper, acting as a guard, looked towards the group.
"Something is wrong with the doctor!"
Vivi suddenly screamed out in surprise and panic. Nami stopped and brought one of her hands near Doctor Kurai's nose.
"He's not breathing!"
Nami exclaimed, Chopper immediately went before Doctor Kurai.
Vivi and Nami left Chopper holding Doctor Kurai while Usopp stood guard with his tensed face.
"Doctor! Wake up! Doctor!"
Chopper shouted and tried different medications on Doctor Kurai but everything failed.
"No! Please! Please, Doctor Kurai! You have to wake up! I don't want to be alone!"
Tears shed down his eyes as Chopper turned back to his small and half hybrid form.
"Doctor!"
Chopper's cries echoed in the silent hall as Nami and Vivi lowered their heads in regret.
Usopp turned his face trying to hide the shamefully courage of his.
Karoo came beside Vivi and looked at the heart broken Chopper.
"Doctor Kurai…"
With his cries coming to an end, Chopper wiped his tears off his cheeks.
Raising his head, with the red eyes, Chopper gazed at the direction of the Throne room.
"I will kill you!"
Pulling out four Rumble Balls from the bag he carried, Chopper bit them.
"Ahhh!"
Nami screamed in horror as she retreated multiple steps away from the transforming Chopper.
"Hey!"
Usopp panicked as he ran and pulled the dead body of Doctor Kurai from near Chopper.
Chopper's body expanded and reached unimaginable heights.
It has hands unique to all the others; he retains five fingers analogous to a human's, but each digit is replaced by a thick, long, black hoof in the shape of a finger.
His eyes were also altered in this form, becoming glowing cyan with no visible difference between sclera, iris, and pupil.
This form is a special and a kind of accident, when Chopper consumes more than three Rumble Balls in under six hours.
The transformation grants Chopper a tremendous boost in his physical attributes. His body becomes incredibly dense and durable.
Tearing and breaking through the ceiling of the hall, Chopper became more than 12 meters tall.
"Roarr!"
The loud roar from Chopper made Nami, Usoop, Vivi and Karoo cover their ears in pain.
It was heard in the entire island. Everyone felt the deep anger in the roar mixed with sadness.
"Roarr!"
*Boom*
Chopper seemed to go out of control as he charged through the ceiling towards the throne room where Kitta was fighting luffy.
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"What the hell was that!"
Zoro gulped in his saliva and looked outside the door to the throne room.
"Whatever it is, it's definitely not happy."
Sanji lit a cigarette and puffed. Glancing at Luffy, Sanji sighed and started preparing for another battle.
"And it's coming this way. Feel the floor shaking."
Sanji pointed towards some small pieces of cement on the floor besides the dead or fainted pirates.
*Shake*
The pieces shook as the sound of something coming towards the throne room increased.
"It's fast!"
Zoro pulled his swords and eyed the door. But what he expected didn't come from that direction.
"Below!"
Sanji and Zoro both shouted in union as they jumped away from the floor near the door.
*Boom*
A huge head and two hands breaking through the floor, showed itself.
"Roarr! I! Will! Kill! You!"
The rough and wild voice filled the throne room with deadly aura which caused Luffy and Kitta to temporarily stop their battle.
"What the hell is that thing!"
Kitta with wide open eyes, stared at the monster which showed up in the throne.
But only half the monster's body was visible. Meaning, the monster was extremely big in size.
"Kill!"
The monster moved his right hand at Kitta to catch him. Each movement from the monster shook the entire castle.
Zoro, Sanji and Luffy stepped away from the monster's hand which grabbed Kitta tightly.
"Damn! Leave me!"
Kitta tried his best and used all his strength but the monster's grip was just too strong.
And also because Kitta was in a position where he couldn't generate enough power.
Even with haki, it was just a useless struggle in the monster's grip.
"Fuck you!"
Kitta roared at the monster but the latter swung him and threw him at a wall.
*Boom*
Kitta flew like a missile through the many walls one after the other.
The monster broke his way through the floors and ceilings towards the place where Kitta landed.
"Was that the reindeer we met?"
Asked Zoro, he looked at the hat and the two horns on the monster's head.
"Yes, it does feel like Chopper."
Luffy nodded at what Zoro said. Sanji was still confused and shocked by the monster.
He also didn't meet or know Chopper so his not understanding was normal.
"Luffy!"
Suddenly with a shout, Usopp entered the throne room with hurried steps.
"Usopp. How's Nami, Doctor Kurai, Vivi and Karoo?"
Luffy waved his hand at Usopp and asked. Stopping before Luffy, Usopp gasped for breath.
"Doc-Doctor Ku-Kurai couldn't m-make it!"
Panting, Usopp explained the things that happened in the hall a few moments ago.
"What!"
Luffy stared at Usopp with wide and shaking eyes. Zoro stood surprised and too stunned.
"The Doctor who was hurt by that bastard died?"
Sanji looked at Usopp and sucked in a cold breath. The cigarette flame went away.
"Because of us. The old man died."
Luffy was very sad. His head lowered as he clenched his fists tightly.
"He got caught up in our mess."
Zoro sighed and looked towards the direction where the monster or Chopper went.
"We must stop Chopper!"
Then, Luffy remembered what Doctor Kurai had said to them a few hours ago.
"Could you take Tony away from this place? His future is bright, but definitely not here."
"There's blood, pain, grief, unhappiness, misfortune and deaths here. That's the only thing I can see. Tony is a first class doctor, but he can't spread a name for him as he is in hiding. Hiding from those Devil's Pirates."
Doctor Kurai wanted Chopper to achieve his dream of becoming a doctor who could cure any disease.
"Zoro, Sanji and Usopp. We need a doctor in our crew. No one knows what we might encounter in the Grand Line."
Luffy lifted his straw hat and adjusted it back to a comforting position.
"A doctor who can cure any disease. That's the kind of doctor the future pirate King needs!"
For the first time in many years, a light could pass through the dense snow clouds.
The sunlight went through the collapsed parts of the castle and reached the throne room.
The room turned bright and a little warmer from how it was before.
"Yes, let's stop our doctor from committing something which he might regret later even more."
Sanji lit the cigarette again while walking towards the broken floor.
"A doctor is someone who saves lives, they don't take lives."
Zoro put the swords back to their sheaths as he walked on the same level as Sanji.
"Hum!"
Luffy stepped in the middle of Zoro and Sanji as they jumped down the floor to the ground.
"Hey, what about me? How will I come down?"
Sorry for Usopp, he was really just a regular and normal young man unlike those three.
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[Author Talk---]
Hey guys, I just wanted to know from you all.
Do you all like the change in background of the important characters?
I wanted to make them a little different and also darker then usual.
And the surprise is coming! In next chapter or the chapter after the next!
Within those two chapters is a surprise to you all by me!