Becoming One

Massacre

Reiju stepped forward, standing next to her father. The sight she's witnessing doesn't horrify her but it is shocking, what does horrify her is who caused this scene. Bodies of their clone soldiers lay with different causes of death. Some had their jaws open so wide they dislocated it. Others had their faces smashed into, so bad that if they weren't wearing the uniform of the clone soldiers they wouldn't have been able to identify them. Some have harsh bite wounds, broken arms or legs, backs broken, some are even burned. It is a bloody and brutal massacre, one they didn't see coming. And if it continues then they are going to run out of soldiers.

All down the hallway lay bodies, eyes open but lifeless, pools of blood gathered and flowed along the hallway. Reiju walked with her father as their footsteps splashed in the pool of blood. She look at her father who's scowl seems deeper than normal. For a second, an instant, she thought her father might be happy about the situation but he seem more disappointed now than before. Didn't he want Sanji to be an emotionless killing machine? Why is he so unhappy?

Of course she's not happy. One minute she and Sanji are talking then his eyes start to change and he starts baring fangs. He starts growling at her but then turns and walks out the room before she could talk to him more. She is about to get up go after him but her father walks in. He starts questioning her. How could she get hurt? The eldest of the Vinsmoke family? What kind of example is she setting? This wouldn't have happened to her brothers. Reiju takes it like a champ. She doesn't say anything, she only finds her resolve. Not telling her father about Big Moms plan. She finds she's very okay with not letting him know and dying, all of them. Herself included. There was never any love to begin with. In the middle of his lecture he gets a ring on the den den. Before he can ask anything the voice on the other end starts screaming about attacks and untrustworthy. This actually shocked her father. Who was attacking? All they say is his son? The call ended with the man screaming till his death.

Upset, because it sounds like something the boys would do, he gets up and calls them, one by one as he make his way to the carnage. Reiju follows him. Judge gets all of them on the snail, and all of them confessing they haven't done anything. And Judge believes them. Reiju too, they may be crazy but they don't lie. They have no emotions so they wouldn't know how to lie or why they should, it also wasn't taught to them. That leaves one person unaccounted for. It was the only explanation, and Judge can't call him to check. It was also so uncharacteristic, why would Sanji, who is the kindest soul out there want to hurt people? Why would he go into a raging massacre?

They followed the bodies from Big Moms castle to the Germa palace. Where is Sanji trying to go? The more they let this go on the more brutal and inhumane the deaths got.

Again they stop in there tracks, Reiju let out a gasp. That let their presence be known to the culprit. Her brother stands up then turns to them with a growl. How dare they disturb him on his mission. His shoes and pants became stained in red. Blood splatters got on his white shirt, the exploding cliffs on his wrist have spots of blood too, so do his fingers. Sanji's eyes aren't his but an animals. Was this some sort of long term side effect from the drugs their mother took? Surely his condition would have been mentioned in a newspaper. Again Sanji bares his fangs. That can't be normal, if it was the other boys would have it too. Reiju takes a second to look at her father, she sees his thinking face. There could be a plethora of things he could be thinking about.

Right now it's one thing. How to stop Sanji? The young blonde doesn't attack but turns to walk away. Towards the original direction he was facing. The two stay a few paces away but don't get far when the three boys, Sanjïs brothers show up. They start causing a fuss but because they stood in Sanji's way he went to remove them. He attacked first, kicking the closest one against the wall keeping him there to sniff but no sign of Zoro on his clothes. Sanji let out a growl at another dead end. Like with the others he's not taking a chance of someone getting in his way but before he can finish him someone attacks. Sanji, of course fights back. No one will get in the way of him and his mate, who he can't seem to locate. That fact pissing him off more. First his own crew tries to keep them apart, second Zoro get injured during a fight and now they are separated again.

What happened to Sanji because a day or so ago Sanji couldn't fight all three at once but right now he stood victoriously, but he didn't flaunt his win only growls in a warning and started to move way, continuing his mission. His blood family can only watch.

It's not something they can say proudly but the only way to get to Sanji is to gas him. They lured him into a fight, then they lured him again to a room where they shut the doors. As he tried to escape, which he was so close to, then Judge gass the room. But Sanji took a really long time to get affected by it, so long that if he kicked the door once more he would have escaped.

They got him a muzzle and chains bolted to a wall so he wouldn't continue his rampage.

"What now?" Reiju asks her father as they stare at Sanji still sleeping because of the gas. She looks to her father.

"We proceed." Is all he says. "I'll see if I can smooth it over with Big Mom and maybe even move up the date." With that said he leaves the room.

Reiju stare at her younger brother. How do they turn him back?

***

So many things happened in such a short time that Nami thought her head might explode. Here they all, almost, besides Zoro and Franky who watch Zoro, they all sat in side a room that's in Bege.

They got to Totto Land, Pekoms disappeared, then they met Pudding who seemed nice at first but quickly revealed her true self, and by her they mean Big Moms true intentions. Wanting to assassinate the Vinsmoke, including Sanji, for Germa technology. So now they had to get to Sanji but they couldn't. Something was happening so they fought there way towards the chateau, Nami using the vivre card Lola gave her. After running around looking for Sanji they finally got to Bege who invited them, and Jinbe who had business with Big Mom. After showering away a day of sweat, which she learned that Lola was once engaged and has a twin sister named Chiffon who is married to Bege, they sit with said man to discuss.

Bege doesn't go into details but lets them know something strange is happening to Sanji. This isn't shocking to them, Chopper thought something might be happening to Sanji just doesn't know what. Bege then tells the crew that he wants to kill Big Mom. Jinbe suggest they agree. So they do.

And Luffy does. So they start making their plan.