Chapter 29: Arc 2: A Hex on Luffy! Colors Trap!

"I wouldn't be so sure." Mr. 3 grinned.

"Mr. 3, we'll finish him off." Mr. 5 offered.

"Don't be silly." Mr. 3 scoffed. "Just look. He showed up here alive and well because your attacks don't work. At the very least, he is at a level that is too much for you to handle. You two can take care of the others. I think I'll add Straw Hat Luffy to my wax candle collection. Now you're mine! Candle Lock!" he trapped Luffy's legs in a slab of candle wax after Usopp and Carue fled back to the forest. "How simple. Now for your hands. Candle Lock!"

"Old giant guy!" Luffy dodged the wax, extending his arm to grip onto Broggy's helmet. "Sorry to bother you! Gum-Gum Mallet!" he slammed the wax into the large wax cake, breaking the huge candle supporting the wax pumpkin into two. "Lucky." he grinned. "The mallet on my legs broke too."

"Three-Sword Style: Tatsu Maki!" Zoro's attack sliced the falling candle into pieces.

"Fools!" Mr. 3 laughed, the pumpkin spinning even faster. "With the candles closer, your hardening sped up. Now you can become wax figures even quicker."

"Just destroy this set, aniki!" Sasha shouted.

"I told you I won't let you interfere." Mr. 3 growled. "Wax-Wax Arts: Harpoon!"

"Exploding Star!" Usopp fired his gunpowder pellet at Mr. 3, only to have Mr. 5 intercept, swallowing the bullet.

"Alright, that pumpkin's the bad thing, right?" Luffy extended his arms backwards. "Hang on! Gum-Gum..."

"It's no use!" Mr. 3 retaliated. "Candle Wall!"

"Bazooka!" Luffy's attack was blocked off. "Hey you! Don't get in my way!"

"That would be my line." Mr. 3 tsked. "I'd appreciate it if you didn't interfere with my creative activities. Candle Lock!"

"I got a mallet." Luffy grinned, dodging the attack, the wax solidifying around his hand. "Gum-Gum..."

"Oh no!" Mr. 3 gasped. "Candle Wall!"

"Mallet!" Luffy sent the solid wax flying at Mr. 3, causing both barrier and wax lock to break apart and Mr. 3 to fly backwards.

"Aniki, hurry and break the set while there is still time!" Sasha urged.

"No," Luffy refused. "Why should I?"

"Color Trap: Betrayed Black." Miss Golden Week muttered. "Touch the black paint and you'll want to betray your friends, no matter what they say."

"Miss Golden Week!" Vivi realized what had happened. "This is your doing. She's a 'realist painter' who can even create real colors of emotions. Her refined sense of color can manipulate people's minds through the use of her paints."

"Aniki, whatever you do, do not move from that black circle!" Sasha shouted.

"I was kinda of weird just now." Luffy blinked, stepping out of the colored rune on the ground. "Alright, I'll save you right now! But never mind you guys!" he suddenly burst out laughing. "I just wanna laugh."

"Colors Trap: Laughter Yellow." Miss Golden Week stated, having drawn a yellow rune on Luffy's back. "You know you're not supposed to move."

"Did I wind up doing something again?" Luffy wondered, Sasha having focusing her Divine Haki on the lily-of-the-valley and hawthorn braided flower bracelet he wore on his right wrist. "Hey you!" he turned to Miss Golden Week. "Knock it off!"

"Was Laughter Yellow funny?" Miss Golden Week asked.

"Anyway, I gotta break that pumpkin!" Luffy turned back to the spinning pumpkin.

"Colors Trap: Bullfight Red." Miss Golden Week painted a red rune on the ground. "You're not allowed to break it. You'll make Mr. 3 angry."

"Gum-Gum Bazooka!" Luffy stretched his arms back, sending his cupped hands flying towards the wax cake, smashing it. "Thanks Sasha." he nodded at his sister. "You saved me." he showed her the flower bracelet.

"No!" Miss Golden Week was shocked that her Color Trap was ineffective. "But how?"

"Because you underestimated us." Sasha stated plainly. "Now, sleep please." with a quick chop to the back of the child's neck, the older girl knocked Miss Golden Week unconscious.