One Piece Fan Fiction ❯ Luffy in Slumberland ❯ The Nightmare God Eneru ( Chapter 2 )

Luffy in Slumberland

 

Luffy gazed upon the man grinning wickedly at him and said, “Hey, you're Buggy the clown! I shouldn't talk to you because you're a beastly man!”

 

Upon hearing this, something snapped in the clown's mind as he grabbed a hold of the kid's collar and spat, “WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT MY NOSE! IT'S BEASTLY AND RED, ISN'T IT? ISN'T IT!?”

 

Luffy blinked at the clown as Buggy soon regained his composure and let out a sigh of relief. Then he turned back to Luffy with a devious grin.

 

“I see that being a prince isn't as easy as it should be,” he said, “How about you come with me for some fun and partying, kid? I got something that I admire about you, and I want to take you on a little trip.”

 

Luffy, completely oblivious to the suspicious behavior Buggy was showing, grinned like a happy monkey and agreed to go along.

 

“Now, I know my way around here,” Buggy said pulling out a map. Luffy couldn't make out the words or the directions at all, but as soon as Buggy saw the map, he gasped and said, “Oh, this is my map to Nightmare Land. Here's the one to Slumberland.”

 

And so the two were off. Their first trip was to the kitchen where the royal guards were watching over a big pie. Luffy couldn't help himself. He loved pie.

 

“C'mon,” Buggy whispered to him, “Go over there and try some.”

 

“Oh, I want to, but it's for everyone else,” Luffy moaned. Luffy may have had little willpower when it came to food, but if it was for someone else, he could at least have some resistance. (And yes, this side of him is revealed in Alabasta)

 

Buggy grinned wickedly and said, “Don't worry, I'll take care of the guards, if that's what you're worried about.”

 

Then he detached his hand from his arm as it drifted behind one of the guards and smacked him on the back of the head. He quickly turned to the guard standing next to him and gave him a good whack in retaliation. That guard turned to another standing near him and gave him a whap on the back of the head as that one retaliated by whacking the one beside him on the back of the head.

 

Surely enough, all 4 guards were at war with one-another and Buggy's hand had snatched the pie. But as it was bringing the pie back to the duo, the guards stopped fighting and examined where it was going.

 

“LOOK, IT'S BUGGY THE CLOWN!” one of the guards shouted as Buggy and Luffy ran off with the pie in their hands.

 

Before they could be caught, Buggy and Luffy hopped onto a falcon, which took off into the sky while Luffy stuffed the whole pie into his mouth happily. He even swallowed the plate.

 

“Wasn't that exhilarating?” Buggy asked as Luffy nodded and shouted, “That was so intense!”

 

“Now, let's have some of that pie,” Buggy said, but when he turned around, there wasn't even a plate left. He groaned, but decided not to lash out at the kid, although he was really looking forward to some of that pie.

 

The two rode across the kingdom on their falcon, causing random mayhem everywhere they went. Everyone noticed Buggy but they failed to notice Luffy, so luckily, the boy wasn't in trouble yet.

 

Suddenly, the falcon grew tired and decided to land. Did I mention Buggy's falcon really sucked at landing? As soon as he neared the ground, he failed to remember to put his feet on the cement and went out of control, crashing into a secret room.

 

“Kid, I think we found the jackpot,” Buggy said in amazement as Luffy blinked and said, “Cobra warned me about this!”

 

Luffy pulled out a key and noticed that the door did, in fact, have a symbol shaped just like it. Buggy nudged Luffy and started pressuring him to open it up as the kid grimaced back at him.

 

“The king said not to open this door,” Luffy stated putting the key away as Buggy laughed and said, “Well, the only reason he said that was because there's probably a present there that he's going to give you later! C'mon, let's take a peek.”

 

Luffy grimaced and spat, “NO! I made a promise!” but Buggy didn't think so kindly of this. He detached his arm once again and snatched the key from Luffy. Luffy didn't take so kindly to this either.

 

“GOMU-GOMU NO PISTOL!” Luffy shouted as his arm stretched out and his fist slammed Buggy hard against the wall.

 

Sadly, the key had flown right into the lock and turned all by itself. Then the door creaked open just a little bit.

 

Buggy got up as Luffy's curiosity had just taken a turn for the worse. Now Luffy had to know what the door was hiding.

 

“Alright, kid,” Buggy said, wiping himself off, “I'll forgive you for that but do that again and I may have to do something that'll increase my bounty.”

 

And so, the two peeked behind the opening in the door, but what they saw was a horrifying sight. There was black smoke, smog and goo everywhere and amongst it all, a tall pale man wearing a bandana and a loin cloth with long Buddha-style ears started to awaken.

 

The two quickly slammed the door shut and made a run for it. They took off on the falcon and did all they could to get far away from this problem as the falcon slammed his head hard into a pole and passed out on the balcony of the castle.

 

“There you are, young master,” Merry scolded as Luffy came to, “Come on, the coronation is about to begin!”

 

When the two left the area, Buggy noticed that he had an opportunity. He'd never been invited to a royal party, so he had to take full advantage of this.

 

Luffy was dragged to the throne room where many were gathered for this wondrous of events. Luffy saw Chopper there as well and gave the reindeer a big hug. He missed the good people who made him feel comfortable. Buggy really was a bad person, and Luffy had just learned first-hand how bad he could be.

 

King Cobra walked up as Luffy took a seat next to Vivi and announced, “People, may I have your attention please?”

 

The citizens stopped socializing and getting heavy with the cocktail drinks as Cobra smiled and announced, “We are here to honor a great event. Soon, this boy, Monkey D Luffy, will be crowned king of all Slumberland! As such, it will be his solemn duty to protect the kingdom from the evil nightmare when I'm gone! He will guard the sacred door that keeps the nightmare himself locked up!”

 

Luffy started to flinch at the sound of that. He had forgotten to lock the door back up. He even left the key there.

 

Cobra pulled out a scepter. It had a very fancy handle and a blue orb on the end of it.

 

“This is the scepter of Slumber,” Cobra explained, “Luffy, you must use this to defend us against the nightmare. Allow me to demonstrate its power to you.”

 

With that, Cobra pointed it into the sky and chanted, “Pajama Bazama Gazama Pajama SHAZAMA BAZAMA GAZAMA PAJAMA!”

 

With that, a beam came from the scepter and fired into the sky. The crowd gasped, quite horrified at the thought of Luffy using such a thing, but Cobra calmed everyone down when he said, “Since Luffy is still too young to wield this, he is to wait until he is one year older, for that is when he truly becomes a legal adult.”

 

Then the ballroom dancing started as couples too hands and danced. Luffy looked back and forth nervously as Chopper and Vivi both stared at him blankly. Luffy was starting to look odd.

 

“Luffy,” Vivi said, “You're probably nervous because you've made such a big change. Don't worry about it. It'll be very rewarding, I promise.”

 

Luffy pretended to feel relieved by that. The last thing he wanted was for people to realize his true problem. Sure, Luffy was very honest when he needed to be, but now was not the time to worry everyone. Besides, he closed that door very tightly. There was no way the nightmare could escape, right?

 

Cobra looked at the dancing and said, “Oh, I gotta join in! Luffy, guard the scepter!”

 

As he threw Luffy the great magical weapon, he ordered the band to play a more up-beat tune and started to really enjoy himself. Merry looked upon this and couldn't help but join in as well, and soon Chopper was joining the dancing as well.

 

Yes, the night seemed to be going perfectly. Perhaps Luffy had not done anything wrong. But then, all hope shattered as a black stream of smog made its way into the room.

 

The whole crowd gasped as a shiny pale man stood tall in front of them.

 

“I, ENERU, HAVE BEEN AWAKENED!” the man announced proudly as the citizens gasped in fear.

 

This was the great nightmare and now he was awake. One could only imagine what he could do now.

 

Buggy was hiding behind a curtain watching this whole thing as he just bit his nails. He hadn't expected this to happen.

 

Eneru transformed into a giant God-like figure made of lightning and picked up Cobra as Luffy freaked out and shouted, “COBRA, USE THE SCEPTER!”

 

Luffy placed his hands firmly against the chair and stretched his arms back. Vivi stared in shock but Chopper was more focused on Eneru right now.

 

Luffy held the scepter between his teeth and uttered, “GOMU-GOMU NO ROCKET!” and boosted himself at the two. He quickly threw the scepter to Cobra as the king was about to grab it, but a trail of smog came up and knocked it back at Luffy. Then that was it. Cobra's entire body was covered and Eneru had vanished.

 

“Who unlocked the door?” was all Merry could say in response to this as everyone noticed Buggy standing right there with a look of guilt and shouted, “IT WAS HIM! ONLY BUGGY WOULD DO SUCH A THING!”

 

“No, it wasn't me!” Buggy protested, “It was the kid! It was prince Luffy! He did it!”

 

“No I didn't!” Luffy retorted, “YOU STOLE IT FROM ME AND USED IT!”

 

The crowd believed Luffy's story a lot more, but Buggy put on an innocent face and said, “I saw Luffy do it with my own eyes. He just couldn't wait to open it up!”

 

Sad to say, Chopper didn't deny this for a minute. Sure, he wanted to believe that Luffy was telling the truth, but he had to admit that Luffy was the type to do such a thing.

 

Suddenly, everyone glared accusingly at the boy. Even Vivi had to admit, she was full of hate for Luffy right now. The entire crowd gathered around and pointed accusingly at Luffy, angrily hissing at him and making him feel worse.

 

Luffy's eyes widened as he shouted, “I SWEAR, IT WASN'T ME!”

 

Suddenly, Luffy awoke with a startled look in his bed. He was back home as he sighed with relief and said, “It was all just a dream, a really bad dream.”

 

But Luffy discovered that maybe it wasn't as he lifted up his covers and noticed that he had the scepter with him. It couldn't be. So Luffy hadn't been dreaming at all. It had really happened, but how he had returned home was a mystery.

 

But it wasn't so confusing when he looked outside his window and realized that his house was in the middle of an ocean and soon the water had come into his room and pulled his bed out of the window.

 

Luffy saw Slumberland in the distance. He had to get back there and set everything right. He may not have been the one to unlock the door himself, but he was partly responsible, and he had to do something about it.

 

He paddled as well as he could, but he could not allow himself to get stuck in the water for he couldn't swim. And this wasn't another retardation of his. He really couldn't swim because he had eaten a devil fruit.

 

Along his way, he noticed Chopper hanging from a plank of wood. Chopper had also eaten the devil fruit, so if he lost his grip, he'd be dead now. Luffy quickly stretched out his arm and saved the reindeer who came to and noticed Luffy looking at him with concern.

 

“LUFFY!” Chopper shrieked as he clung onto his owner, “I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!”

 

Chopper transformed into a big gorilla-like creature and held Luffy paddle as the two noticed Merry struggling against the tide. Luffy saved him as well as Merry breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Oh, Luffy, it is so good to see you. What an awful thing Buggy has done! He's getting what he deserves!”

 

Luffy gasped and said, “No, we can't punish Buggy! I was partly responsible, but also, we might need Buggy!”

 

Merry gave Luffy a look of confusion as the boy explained, “Buggy has a map of Nightmare Land. I heard him confess that and he even showed it to me.”

 

Merry and Chopper let out a gasp as the butler said, “Alright, quickly, let's paddle back to Slumberland and stop this at once!”

 

Speaking of which, Slumberland was still looking nice as ever. It seemed as if Eneru had not really done anything except kidnap the king. Everything else was in tact and the sun was shining bright.

 

Also, a certain clown was being loaded into a hollow sphere as the guards said, “Buggy, as punishment for your heinous crime, you are to be shot from a cannon into the sun!”

 

“Whoa, come on, be a sport here,” Buggy protested as he was placed inside the cannon.

 

The cannon was lit and at that very moment, Luffy showed up and ran up to Vivi who smiled with joy, embraced the kid and shouted, “I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU! WE ALL THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!”

 

“No, I'm fine,” Luffy said, “Where's Buggy?”

 

“He's getting what he deserves,” Vivi replied as she pointed to the cannon. Luffy gasped in horror and spat, “NO, WE NEED BUGGY! HE HAS A MAP TO NIGHTMARE LAND!”

 

Upon hearing this, Vivi gasped and ordered, “GUARDS, STOP THE CANNON THIS INSTANT!”

 

The guards were quite shocked, but they had to follow orders. They fumbled a bit but managed to put out the flame as Buggy fell out of the cannon with a look of relief.

 

Then Luffy loomed over him and demanded, “Where is the map to Nightmare Land?”