Two Dreams, One Adventure

And The Sun Rises

Luffy woke up to the taste of blood in his mouth, jerking awake. He was disoriented on the floor of the galley. He jumped up, confused. He looked down and saw his shadow was gone. That Moria! He stole his shadow! Damn it! "What happened?!" Luffy demanded. "Usopp, Chopper! Where's Nami? Where's my shadow!? Where's Moria!"

Usopp told him to calm down and listen. Luffy did, taking the already open blood bag and drinking. He, Sanji and Zoro all got caught. Zoro got caught after Luffy. Their shadows were all taken away, and put into other bodies. But Luffy's was put into a giant zombie. "A giant zombie?!"

"Yeah. He was frozen in some chamber! It's huge, bigger than Dorry and Broggy!" Chopper said, tears in his eyes. "It was so scary! But you cleansed Kumacy and Cindry! Those zombies. You scared them out!" Luffy was angry that's all he could do. Now he couldn't go out into the sunlight at all!

Nami was kidnapped to be married to the invisible man, who had the lower face of some cat, a jaguar or something. "You let Nami get taken?"

"It wasn't our fault!" Chopper insisted. Luffy apologized for accusing them, seeing both were very upset about it all. He asked what his big zombie was doing. "You can try and listen. He was noisy, at least. We ran away after that, didn't see anything after that."

Luffy closed his eyes, but the fog was interfering. He heard a sound of things breaking. "...My body...!" he heard his own voice shout, though it was deeper and sounded furious. Luffy said it sounded like his giant zombie was throwing a fit. Then he heard something come crashing to them and slammed into the spiderweb. Luffy hurried outside, it still dark out due to the fog and being night time. Of course they couldn't see the stars though.

They looked and saw it was the very top of the mansion, broken apart and in the spider web, stuck above Brook's ghost ship. "It looks like this was thrown here," Sanji said. "That's pretty dangerous. If your giant zombie is throwing a fit, it could destroy the island. Us with it."

Chopper said it was better than obeying Moria and Hogback. They then explained to Luffy everything that had happened. A lot happened to the three of them! Wow. Luffy felt bad for them, how scared they had been. "Well, we're with you now and won't let anything happen!" Luffy said firmly. "I'm sorry I got caught, Zoro. Then you got caught."

"Oi! You're not my bodyguard. I don't want you to start thinking you gotta protect me!" Zoro said firmly. Luffy nodded, but said he couldn't help but be worried about it. Well, they were all alive, though. And they could get their shadows back by putting salt in the zombies' mouths.

Luffy wondered how they got that information, and was told that Franky and Robin were saved and met by Brook after Zoro got taken soon after Luffy. Everything was explained to them, which was how they knew to come back to the ship. "Those assholes! They won't get my shadow!"

"It won't be able to come out just by you insisting," Usopp said. "They can only come out from Moria."

"I didn't need salt to free the shadows! I'm not normal, I'll get my damn shadow back! I won't be used by someone who claims they'll be the Pirate King! I'm gonna be the Pirate King!"

"Oi! Oi, calm down!"

"I lost five of my nakama to that guy!" Luffy raged. Zoro took his hand and Sanji insisted it wasn't his fault they got lost. "It was for you! I had you and then I let go!" He was so angry at himself. Five of them, six including him, had been taken and in danger. And he'd wanted to go ghost hunting and wear armor.

He felt... bad.

"You're our captain, not our babysitter," Sanji said firmly. "We won't let Moria get away with it, either. And I won't let Nami-san get forced to marry some freak!" Usopp asked them to please calm down. Luffy swallowed and took a few deep breaths, calming his anger and guilt. He sighed, and apologized for freaking out.