Goretober 2024

16~Candy Gore~

TW: disturbing, blood
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It was incredible! Amazing! Spectacular!

Chocolate, everywhere that the eye could see. Chopper was thrilled, freely salivating without a care. Luffy was right there with him, and they sped off into the town of sweets.

"So much delicious chocolate! I don't even know where to begin!" the reindeer exclaimed excitedly, his eyes practically bulging out of his head. Luffy pointed up at the fountain in the middle of the square and turned back to Chopper with a joyous grin.

"Look, Chopper! It's a fountain filled with fudge! So cool!" Chopper squealed and rushed over. Luffy followed right behind and paused to gaze at the cascading fudge, dazed by the scrumptious smell emitting from its flavourful surface. He leaned in, mouth wide, and gulped it down as fast as it flowed. Chopper crawled up his friend to get a better vantage point, and just like Luffy, stuck his open mouth under the falls.

It was heavenly, and neither could get enough.

Afterwards, the two went exploring, and they were shocked by everything that was chocolate. They even watched a man take a bite out of the shirt he was wearing! It was unbelievable, and they were starstruck. 

The chocolate was all that the two could think of, and it was all that they could see. It filled their minds until their minds were no longer theirs to control. They just had to feed and taste everything in sight. So, when hunger-crazed eyes landed on a beautiful, chocolate made and designed house right before them, it was quite simple what the next course of action had to be.

A few minutes later, the pair of pirates were deep in their dessert. Nearly half of the house had been consumed, and witnesses stood around in shock at their indecency. 

It was after his next bite that Luffy felt something was off. Yes, he was beginning to feel full, but his stomach was feeling worse off than what was usual. He dropped the piece of wall from his hand, confused and even a tad bit concerned.

During this time, one man spoke out for the rest, pointing his finger at them in his anger and shouting until his face turned red. Luffy paid him no mind, brows pinching closer together as he stared down at his stomach. It gurgled loudly and squirmed beneath his dead-set gaze.

"Oi, Chopper. Stop eating," Luffy demanded, but the reindeer didn't respond nor stop stuffing his face. He hummed appreciatively, tearing up one of the four walls to shovel into his eager maw. It was grotesque the way the chocolate melted to Chopper's touch and oozed down his front. His entire face was filthy, and his eyes held an insatiable hunger that far exceeded the reindeer's usual gusto when it came to sweets. Frankly, it was a disturbing sight, and it gave Luffy all the more reason to stop him from consuming his next bite at the very least.

Straw Hat leapt forward and grasped right below Chopper's rising hoof to stall his movement. The reindeer gave an indignant grumble.

"Let go, would'ya? I'm hungry!" However, Luffy didn't budge. He was sure that something was wrong, and his gut told him Chopper would be worse off if left to continue as he pleased. Finally taking in the seriousness behind his captain's eyes, the candy-lover begrudgingly complied and dropped his tempting piece of meal. 

"Finally! Now, you two are in big trouble. This was an inexcusable act and you must face the consequences for it!" The shouting man from earlier waltzed into the house, using the door despite a large opening in the wall directly beside him. He was a short, stubby man with a great mustache, and yet his enraged expression was that of a man three times his size. 

Luffy picked his nose absently, feigning ignorance as he looked around innocently. His lips puckered to the side, and his eyes narrowed in an arguably guilty way as he deflected.

"Ne, we didn't do anything. Someone else did this."

The man was not impressed.

Even though he was openly grumpy about being dragged outside the ruined home and down the street, Luffy couldn't very well start punching his way out of this. He may be stupid, but not that stupid. Even still, the majority of his mind was on the strange behaviour of his stomach, and his trusty companion that was stumbling after the two.

Then, all of a sudden, he felt something big move around his gut. Luffy was immediately on high alert, and his concern sky-rocketed. He watched as his skin gurgled unnaturally, notable areas pressing outwards as if being influenced from within. Not only that, but he was starting to feel greatly ill as the seconds passed.

Quick on his feet, Luffy shoved away from the man and engaged his gum-gum abilities. Ignoring the background shouting and further chatter, he fell to his knees and rested his fists to the ground. Chopper approached from his peripheral, unsure and fearful, but this was only something that Luffy could do.

He forced his stomach to stretch and contract, and eventually, he was able to maneuver the contents up and out his throat, spilling the partly digested chocolate onto the candy road. Multiple voices exclaimed in disgust, but Straw Hat only had eyes for the largely sentient muck of brown that moved and groaned all on its own. 

"W-what is that!?" cried out Chopper.

"The chocolate I ate," Luffy stated matter-of-factly. He was very much grossed out watching the sludge continue to do its little jig, and then it occurred to him the same time that his reindeer friend voiced his agony and fell to the ground. "Chopper!"

"Luffy! Something doesn't feel right, I-" He clutched his stomach as tears gathered in his eyes. Just as Luffy's had, the surface squirmed and pushed, and it left the captain floundering at what to do. After all, Chopper wasn't made of rubber like him, and he couldn't contort his body as he had.

"Hang on Chopper! I'll think of something!" he promised vaguely, wracking his brain for anything. Looking around at the locals who were observing in shock from a safe distance, none of them stood out as important or helpful in any way.

"It hurts so bad, Luffy, please." The reindeer groaned and doubled over, and the tears fell freely as his stomach pushed and prodded, expanding outwards at a serious rate.

"I don't know what to do! You're the doctor!" Luffy shouted in panic. He spun around to ask that annoying guy, but the man was gone. The captain was about ready to pull out his hair.

"LUFFY!"

"CHOPPER!"

The reindeer's stomach exploded outwards, pieces of skin and fur shooting every which way. Onlookers screamed and ran, and Luffy numbly watched as Chopper's eyes grew hazy, and he collapsed to the ground. His insides were exposed to the world, and the one cause was already making its jolly way out - a brown, sticky mass wearing a sickeningly gleeful expression. It happened so suddenly.

Of all the colours decorating the area, the expanding pool of red in the center of the road was the brightest and most jarring. Luffy could do nothing but watch, and watch, and wait, but nothing changed in Chopper's state, and the blob had already shuffled out of sight behind a building.

His ribcage disintegrated and collapsed into itself, and the blood was already drying and clotting together like ribbons of tasteful gum, gleaming in the light from above. It was a traumatic sight, but even so, Luffy could not look away no matter how much he desperately wished to.

"Chopper...?"

Of course, there was no answer, as the Straw Hat's doctor was long gone; his eyes were lifeless and body limp. There was nothing that could be done, and Luffy was forever sensitized to the sight of chocolate.