Chapter 209

Author's note: the new fic is out! You can find it by searching its name on the site; The Average DC Experience. It will take a couple more chapters before appearing on my profile for whatever reason so don't bother looking there until then.

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I frowned as I stood on one of the four chains going from Thriller Park's outer walls and into its gigantic main masts, taking in the sights of the wondering island.

Despite Thriller Park's huge size befitting of its epitaph as the wondering island, most of its surface was, in fact, a wasteland, a dead forest choke-full of nothing but dried up trees, with only several areas standing out from the forest.

The areas were the enormous mansion, which housed Hogback and his lab, and the colossal tower surrounded by the said mansion, which served as Moria's residence, Thriller Bark's mainmast, and the freezer where Moria kept Oars's body.

The two other notable areas were the little garden on the bridge connecting the Thriller Park mansion and the mainmast, where Perona kept her zombie animals, and an enormous graveyard beyond the borders of the dead forest.

The entire wondering ghost island looked like something straight out f of a stereotypical Dracula or Frankenstein horror movie, and it gave the impression of trying too hard to be spooky.

"Hmm?" I stopped musing, humming as I looked down after I picked up the sound of running below me. However, I saw nothing but splashing mud even after activating the zoom feature in my eyes.

"It's that invisible pervert... whatever his name was..." I muttered, pausing as I scratched my chin in thought, trying to remember more details about the man.

My frown deepened as I remembered the stuff he did, like peeking at Nami, who was showering, assaulting her, and licking Robin when he was invisible.

I quickly decided to neutralize the guy before he did something to piss me enough to kill him, and with that, I jumped towards the area he was running towards, seemingly in a hurry.

I channeled my Impact force through my leg and landed in front of the invisible man, creating a powerful shock wave that sent rubble and dust flying everywhere, digging a crater into the ground.

I heard groaning and coughing as the dust settled, but I still didn't see the man even as I looked in the sound's direction. I squinted my eyes, searching for any regularities to help me find the invisible man, and sure enough, I quickly spotted some gravel and dust unnaturally floating in the air.

"There you are," I remarked, smiling as I appeared in front of the invisible man, clutching his throat before he even had the chance to react. "Believe it or not, this is for your own good," I added, still smirking as I activated my conqueror Haki, focusing on the man in my grasp.

With a loud groan of pain, the invisible man revealed himself, anger and agony all over his half-human, half-feline face as he glared at me while holding his head.

"What the hell-" the man tried to object, but I quickly cut him off with a punch to the mouth, shutting him up. "Just what do-" he tried to speak again, getting another hit.

"Be quiet for a moment while I decide what to do with you," I said, sighing and punching the man again for good measure after noticing he was about to start talking again.

"I don't want to kill you, but I can't let you be since you'll harass the girls..." I remarked, tilting my head to the side. "Maybe I should break your limbs and leave you here instead? You'll be alright, won't you?" I flatly asked, causing the man to swallow hard as he finally realized his situation.

"I would prefer if you don't do that..." the man remarked with twitching eyes as he looked at me with a barely kept poker face, trying to hide his fear.

"You know what? I'm feeling generous today. So I won't do that, but..." I said, causing the man to sigh in relief only to gulp again as I trailed off at the end of my sentence.

"You have a troublesome ability, so I'll do this instead of breaking your limbs," I added, nodding as I walked towards a partially destroyed brick wall.

"Behave yourself, and I might get you out of here when I'm finished with Moria," I said, shoving the man into the wall as I activated my power, burying him in the wall with only his head sticking out.

I returned the man's density to its original state, fusing him into the wall as I took back my hand, pausing to look at my work, and chuckle at his horrified expression.

"However, if I hear you were harassing my crewmates..." I remarked, flaring my conqueror Haki as I drew my sword. "You'll have no one but yourself to blame," I added, my tone losing warmth as I swung my sword to the side, creating a sword slash that cut a ruined house some distance away in half.

The invisible man's face turned blue in horror, his gaze alternating between my sword and the house I cut in half, slowly nodding after processing the situation.

"Good," I concluded, punching his face and knocking him out as I jumped into the air, flying towards the mainmast.

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"Let's land here. We don't want to alert the enemy to our abilities," Doc remarked, smiling as Stronger landed on the ground after hearing his words.

Law obliged, shrugging his shoulder as he landed behind Stronger and watched Doc grab Bepo by the scruff and put him on the ground.

"The captain said that Hogback fellow should be inside the big mansion in the center of the island," Doc said, gesturing towards the freakishly large mansion visible even from the edges of the wondering island.

"Still... this place sure is scary..." Doc jokingly said, taking in the sights of the dead forest as he started moving after gesturing for Law and Bepo to follow along.

"I don't like this place..." Bepo said, turning blue as he noticed several shadows moving along the trees. "It looks haunted..." he added, the fur on the back of his head standing as a chill ran through his spine.

"Stop making a ruckus and let's move," Law said, shaking his head in disapproval as he walked past Bepo, alarming the mink polar bear and causing him to hurry after him.

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"Hm? We've got company," Doc leisurely remarked as they stopped and approached a clearing in the forest after several minutes of walking in the dead forest, causing Bepo to start nervously looking around.

"I'll take care of it," Law said, frowning as he drew his sword and moved into the center of the clearing.

"Don't show too much," Doc said, smiling as strange creatures began creeping towards Law from the edge of the clearing.

"Stop giving me orders, you bastard. I know what I'm doing," Law said, feeling annoyed while watching the creeping creatures with mild interest as they approached him. However, his attention was on a tree near the clearing where something was dangling upside down while watching them.

There were many kinds of monsters among the creatures, such as moving trees and stitched-up animals with faces of humans, all seemingly rotted corpses that looked like chimeras instead of zombies.

Law drew his sword, and it didn't take him long to put it back into its sheath after beating the crap of the creatures, bisecting it into many little pieces.

"They're still alive!" Bepo said in a horrified tone, clutching a cross he took out from his pocket in front of his face while watching the bisected creatures still wreathing and groaning despite Law cutting them without using his ability.

"Indeed..." a voice came from behind Bepo, causing him to turn even bluer in horror as he turned around, screaming at the top of his lungs when he saw a pale stitched-up face staring at him.

"Who are you?!" Bepo exclaimed, taking a step back while keeping the cross between himself and the newcomer.