Luffys mind

Part 20

Yay we have a chapter thats a little earlier than last time👌🏼👌🏼 finally. I wanna thank the people who commented on the A/N as it rly helps to know what you guys like in order to make the story🤗. As always i hope you enjoy my attempt at writing fanfiction😂. I feel like I have to. warn you there will be some upsetting things in this chapter so if you are sensitive with emotions and still want to proceed then do it with caution. I don't want to make anyone hate me cause I didn't warn them about the sadness or triggered a past event.

Zoros POV

The entire crew stood at the ready, fully prepared to attack even if the monster moved an inch. Something seemed off, though. Why wasn't it attacking? All it did was stare its ice cold stare down towards us. staring up at its shadowy figure sent chills down my spine. Why wasn't it attacking? didn't it want this? So why wasn't it doing anything? The waiting seemed to have lasted for an eternity even though it probably only lasted for a few minutes.

Suddenly, the thin shadows that so intricately made up its body began to twist and turn rapidly. Desperately attempting to become undone. The monsters from began to shrink slowly contrasting to the swift movements of the shadows as the tendrils unravelled. Unexpectedly, the twisting rings dissipated outwards creating millions of singular strands of the wire like shadows.

What the hell was happening? We didn't even do anything yet so why has it fallen apart? boi why u askin so many question jesus what am I doin to the poor man. I looked to the rest of the crew but they had the similar confused expression that I did. All of a sudden a realisation came to mind. "What about luffy?!" I exclaimed loudly. The rest of the crew stared at me now aware of what we had so easily forgotten about. Seriously? We literally just had a whole bonding moment over the guy and yet completely forgot he was right in front of use this whole time! Whilst the monster was gone ( or at least in weird floaty peices. guess he couldn't keep it together. he he he) we all sprinted towards the cage that luffy was trapped in. From a distance it seemed like sea stone however as we got closer it looked like an ordinary iron cage. The only thing a little odd about it was the fact that the bars were decorated with detailed patterns of something. I didn't quite know what though. Has nothing to do with plot yet I don't think I haven't decided. Honestly just felt like makin some fancy bars dunno why I hyped it up like that. btw I feel blessed at my dog literally sitting beneath my chair she usually hates me this is the best. As we finally reached the cage I realised that Luffy had begun to wake up. Luckily the doors were already open as I carefully reached towards Luffy. I thought these were locked? I dismissed that thought quickly though as all that mattered right now was Luffy. Slowly, I lifted Luffy out of the small prison.

Out of nowhere, the slithers of shadows rapidly began to group together. Tightly. The huddled together form began to take shape into a human form. The shadowy strings began to form together to almost form a sort of shape similar the that of a human. Its body was slim yet muscular. However it definitely wasn't human. No. That thing had a body made out of shadows similar to Luffy's mind however its face was sharp and jagged red marks with a smile stretching from ear to ear. My heart stopped as the thing had finally, I think, finished forming together. Almost like a wound invisibly being made, a blood red cross shaped scar was ripped onto its chest. It had taken Luffy's form. Rage flooded in my veins as I stared it right in the eyes. How dare he pretend to be luffy like that?! The only thing that it was missing was our captains signature piece of clothing. The straw hat.

With otherworldly speed, it came sprinting directly towards us with the sickening smile still on its god forsaken face. If you could even call it that. Panic filled me as I barely dodged a hit from Luffy's mind. We were going to have to fight luffy. Out captain. We were going to have to kill our captain.

We all looked towards robin as she began to attack it with her hands to no prevail. Robin shouted " the challenge was never whether we could defeat it in strength, it was whether we could kill him mentally!" She shouted out as she was slammed against the wall.

At least he doesn't have Luffy's powers. But that means that we can't predict what he may do. I know luffy isn't a predictable man but at least we know what he is capable of. No. I can't think like that. It isn't impossible. He's not luffy. Be barely even looks like him. No. I turned towards chopper who had dragged luffy away to try and heal him. No. That is luffy. And we have to save him.

Whilst his back was turned, I un sheathed my swords and ran to attack him. However he managed to dodge me. But I didn't stop. I kept trying to hit but it didn't work. It was like he was predicting my moves. Wait! This is Luffy's mind right? Before I was thinking about how we could predict Luffy's actions in battle because we had seen them before. If this is Luffy's mind wouldn't he also be able to predict our moves? A bullet whistled past my ear as Ussop tried to get a hit on him.

Chopper had decided to join the fight and went to grab for his pellets however was swiftly stopped by a tendril that was emitted from Luffy's mind. It had grabbed the pellets. I was right. How else could he have known that chopper needed those pellets to fight. Although this was not what concerned me. Because as the tendril had touched the beg of pellets the bag ,including the pellets, had turned to smoke. "Don't touch them!" Brook shouted. "He can predict our moves. Try and attack him with something unpredictable. Something luffy has never seen or heard about!" I shouted. I grabbed only one of my swords and sheathed the other two away and lunged towards it. As it turned ready to deflect my attack I swerved. Looking towards Sanji he knew what to do. Sanji also lunged forward behind it. Unfortunately it had predicted that as well and was prepared to deflect Sanji kick however was met with a punch to the face. Luffy's mind went flying in my direction so I took my singular sword and plunged it right into its stomach. Its face was almost touching mine. This was too easy. It was weaker than I expected. None of its hits had really even done that much damage.

All of a sudden, the tendrils began to change colour. The face had begun to mould into the face of a human. A man. A man that was very similar to luffy. But it couldn't be because luffy was over there. Lying down. Safe. Yes this was just another one of its mind tricks. Trying to fool me. If I just look over to where chopper had lay luffy he will be there. Why can't I look? He will be there I'm sure of it. My head just won't move away from his eyes. They look so much like his. I love his eyes.

Flashback

"Zoro!" luffy called. I slowly opened up my eyes to be met with hazel brown ones. I just stared. They were so beautiful. So pure. It was true what people said about the eyes being the window to the soul. You could read every emotion in someone's eyes. If you looked close. enough. Luffy's told a story. One with hardships and suffering yet managing to pull through somehow. Like a boat in a storm. Always busy. Never stepping. "Zoro?" However, every boat eventually sinks...

"Zoro..." weakly whispered luffy. Blood began to drip, drip, drip down his pale, pale face. I couldn't look away. Those eyes... this wasn't Luffy's mind or some monster. This was luffy. My captain. My luffy. When did I start to cry? I wondered. A wide smile ran across Luffy's face. "Zoro. Hi..." Why? Why would he do this? This was him all along. Why? "why?!" "I'm sorry... I couldn't... control it... the man on the boat gave me this medicine...someone took over... in that fight I couldn't control my body... this thing took a hold of me and wouldn't let go...I didn't want to...hurt you..." I couldn't control the tears that freely flowed down my face. I could hear the rest of the crews sobs in front of us but I couldn't look. I wouldn't look away. I don't know whether I even had the choice. I had to be strong. If I pull him off the sword he will bleed out. What can I do? What should I do?! I hate this...feeling so helpless...why can I never save him? There's nothing I can do...

"Zoro..." No, I can do something. "I'm scared. Isn't that funny? Usually I'm never scared. Zoro... I don't want to die." He chuckled. I can be strong for him." I know. Its gonna be okay." I hate how my voice came out in a sob. Stop it. "Zoro can I tell you something? Lets play Chinese whispers between you and me." He weakly smiled. I agreed. He lent over and gently whispered something into my ear. His baby soft lips brushed against my earlobe. I felt his shaky breath breathe into my ear as he spoke. I didn't even know it was possible to make me cry even more than I already am but he seems to be able to prove me wrong time and time again. Always playing games. Complying with the rules of the game I shakily whispered against his almost ice cold lips as his life drifted further away,

"I love you too."

The end.