A fever dream.
In a dead ship floating rudderless in a sea filled with fog, two men can be seen dancing and singing.
Correction, a man and a skeleton.
"🎶Yo ho ho
Yo ho ho ho
ladies show us your panties 🎶
we'll protect your happiness 🎶
there are so many bad people out there 🎶
but no need to fear 🎶
For wee are heeereee...🎶
la la la 🎶"
The skeleton was on the piano playing an upbeat melody while the 'man' was singing.
"🎶 la la la
Show us your panties 🎶
Woo hoo🎶"
The song came to an end. With two lonely dead men laughing in happiness and contentment.
The skeleton was the great musician Brook.
"I have a question Rick-san."
"Sure, go ahead."
"Are you a hallucination?"
"...Come again."
"I'm asking if you are a figment of my imagination."
"And why would that be? Didn't I tell you that I have been floating in this sea rudderless in a small boat until I came onto your ship?
I also lost my shadow to Moria and don't have one.
look! Look at my shadow!
I have none!"
"...Sigh, it's alright. As long as I'm not alone anymore."
"Yeah, so let's keep up the party. Sing! dance! party!! Woooo!!!"
🎶🎶🎶
**
A beautiful brigantine ship with sails that show the flag of a skull with a straw hat reached a ghost ship.
The ghost ship was extremely scary.
But it had a beautiful piano melody playing.
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Which was hauntingly beautiful.
A ghost ship with everything broken, in a foggy sea that everyone says is filled with ghosts.
A melody playing that was soul-catchingly beautiful.
"Uhh, maybe we should not go to that obviously cursed ship filled with ghosts." A very sensible person with a surprisingly long nose said out loud.
"Shishishishi, I want that musician in my crew." someone a lot less sensible said while laughing.
"You idiot!! That's obviously a ghost playing a song to lure us in and kill us! You want a ghost in the crew?" A cook who didn't skip leg day said to someone who got sparkles in his eyes at that specific prospect.
But Robin felt very interested in seeing what it was that was singing. "I think we should check it out."
"Yes of course Robin-Chwan!!"
**
"Rick-san, are they your friends?" As Brook saw the people who entered his ship, his first instinct was to ask the person next to him whether they were also hallucinations.
"Rick san?"
But the moment he looked over to his side, Rick was gone. It was as if he had completely vanished.
"Wow! a real skeleton. Do you poop!?"
"Yes, I do!"
And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between a skeleton and a man who would ask a skeleton whether he poops.
**
A few hours later, three members of the straw hats were stranded on the island. They were walking along a road in the middle of a spooky forest at night.
But the most horrifying thing for them is that there were corpses stranded around them everywhere.
"W..w.what is this place???"Usopp said as he trembled in fear.
"Mu..must be a cemetery. Right." Name assured herself and her Nakama that everything made sense.
"Ubb uubbuu" Chopper was simply frothing from fear and practically unconscious.
"Look, there's a castle there! Let's go, there must be people there. We'll get some explanation from there." Nami went ahead hoping for a rest from this madness.
"Why is the door broken?" Chopper had gained some backbone from the fear of being left behind.
"I don't know, let's go in."
They pushed the broken doors aside and entered only to see more 'corpses'. But these were much more different. They were 'weird.'
Some paintings had a corpse sticking out of it. There was a bear rug that was in a place that a rug was not supposed to be. And more and more weird corpses.
"What happened here?"
*Bang
A really loud sound startled them.
They ran out of the castle hoping to find the source only to find that behind it, another building was destroyed.
To be more precise, it was cut in half and one part of it slid off, causing a big hill of wreckage.
"Wha..What happened here?!!"
Behind them, someone drinking alcohol kept walking and promptly disappeared.
"I don't know what happened here and I don't want to know. Whatever did this might still be around. I think I have the 'don't get too close to scary wreckages disease."
"I also have that disease. Even though I am a doctor, I can say that it has no cure and recommend that the patient flee."
**
Soon after that, about 1 hour later.
"Party!!!!!!!!"
Boom crack crack <Firework noises>
"Wooo, they are getting married. Finally!!!"
"Zombie party!!!"
And in front of this rowdy party of people, there was a very weird scene happening.
A very stiff-looking man who was richly dressed.
He wore an ankle-length coat that had a high collar and cut like a parapet along the bottom, a white button-down shirt with two stylized crosses on it, basic blue slacks tucked into his boots, a white belt with a chain, and basic black boots with crisscrossing straps on the front of them. He wore a round white hat with a blue mark and had the muzzle of a lion stitched to his face, as well as long blond hair.
Underneath his garments was a body stitched together from various animal parts. His skin was that of an elephant, and his muscles were a mixture of bear and gorilla. The combined weight of these transplants, along with his body, gave the man a total weight of 300 kilograms.
And in front of this 'man' was a beautiful 'bride'.
The bride was a zombie stitched together from the remains of a warthog. She had pink skin and a large, skeletal mouth with two large tusks. She had a small scar connecting her two nostrils and wore red lipstick, as well as a wedding dress with golden metal shoulder pads and corsets.
"Oh... I just can't hold it with that wild mouth of yours... Give me your finger! I love you, Absalom!"
And with that, the ring was exchanged.
A simple man wearing a beautiful tuxedo was in front of them.
"Do you beautiful lady, take this horrible-looking man as your lawfully wedded husband?"
"Yes I do!!!!!!"
"Mr pervert, does a wretch like you take this beautiful woman in both body and heart as your lawfully wedded wife?"
The very stiff man shook. Tried his best to stop his body from moving, but it was useless.
His face moved up and down.
"And with the power vested in me by my devil fruits abilities, I pronounce you husband and wife!
You may kiss."
And for a very brief second, Absalom got back control over his body. Yet it was too late.
His body was extremely weakened and the 'woman' in front of him wasn't someone who would allow him to back down.
"Lola!!! Mm.."
And he was promptly silenced.
"And so, let the party begin!!!!"
The people attending instantly stood up. The chairs were cleared out of the room by black tendrils made of shadows.
And people from all walks of life started dancing.
The music was catchy. The bride and groom were performing 'tasks' that were a crime against the eyes of anyone who noticed them.
A giant Oni who was wearing seastone shackles was dancing. A similarly giant cyborg was drinking champagne and was also covered in seastones.
A woman with a haunting laughter but cute personality was dancing while wearing beautiful jewellaries. Also made of seastones.
A 'doctor' was being cut up while also being forced to watch and feel everything was also there.
Zombies laughed and were happy.
The ones that didn't dance were already served tasty salted fish that they were forced/happy to eat.
Some people/survivors were watching everything with a face that said, "This is crazy."
"I wanna go home"
"Mommy"
"Mommy Lola!!"
…cough. Anyways. In simpler terms, it was pure pandemonium.
The strawhats arrived at that moment.
...and the captain happily joined the pandemonium.
The musician increased the tempo even more.
Luffy was promptly seen in the food section.
Franky was in the dance floor making a sick choreography that occasionally screamed "SUUPER!!!"
Nami was drinking all the tasty booze.
Sanji promptly joined in the making of the food and also served.
Usopp and chopper joined the dance party.
Zoro was seen with a barrel of booze.
And Robin simply sat in the bar next to an invisible man that orchestrated all this.
"It's been a year. I think it's time you start moving."
The shitfaced man instantly sobered up. "what?"