【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Luffy closed his eyes and looked up at the giant snake that kept hitting the crack that was stuck on him, and whispered, "Come on! Giant snake!" He felt like he was suffocating.

"Hiss!"

Luffy heard the voice, opened his eyes, and turned his eyes to look towards the sky where the giant snake said. It was a huge bird with a green figure hanging under its claws. Luffy realized that it was Zoro, and he immediately became excited and tried to make a sound "Zoro..."

……

"Hmm?" Zoro looked down at the forest below. He just had a strange feeling, as if Luffy was calling him from somewhere. At this time, he saw a huge snake below, stretching its head to look at them. "Wow! What is that! It's coming!"

"Chiu!!" Seeing Nan Niao screaming in fear, he hurriedly flew forward, trying to escape from the big snake.

"Hey, fly higher, higher!! You will be eaten!" Zoro shouted hurriedly. For some reason, the snake kept chasing them!

"Chirp..."

"Hissssssss!!"

"Run! They're catching up with us again!" Zoro urged loudly.

"Chiu!" After flying for dozens of seconds, Jian Nan Niao suddenly realized that if it dropped the human below, the snake would eat him instead of chasing it. The next second, the defenseless Zoro was mercilessly dropped by Jian Nan Niao...

"You bastard!!" Zoro shouted in shock, then slid down the huge bean vine uncontrollably and fell into a pile of ruins, which immediately raised a huge cloud of dust around him.

Zoro slowly stood up from the ruins, ran out of the flying dust coughing, and almost growled angrily, "I will never forgive that stinky bird!"

Waver stared at the swordsman who suddenly fell from the sky and said, "Are you an accomplice of the Straw Hat?"

"Hmm?" Zoro looked up and around, noticing that he was in a ruin, and asked in confusion, "Is this a ruin?"

"Where is the gold?" Zoro asked, looking at another person standing here. The man holding the cannon seemed to be the guerrilla soldier that Usopp and the others mentioned, who was firing at them.

At this moment, the giant python that had been chasing Zoro suddenly appeared behind Zoro and said "hiss!"

"They've chased you here!" Zoro drew out his sword and stared at the giant python with a serious expression.

“Weber!!”

"Huh?" A sudden female voice interrupted Zoro's idea of ​​attacking the giant python. He turned his head and looked in the direction where the voice came from. A woman was rushing towards them, saying something loudly while running. Suddenly, a huge pillar of lightning suddenly appeared above the woman.

Weber also noticed the lightning above Lach and shouted in fear, "Run, Lach! Don't come over here!! Get out of here!!"

At the same time, several bolts of lightning appeared above their heads and struck the island cloud under their feet. The next second, the island cloud suddenly began to collapse, and the two people and a snake fell uncontrollably from the vines along with the collapsing island cloud. Fortunately, there seemed to be another layer at the bottom, which prevented them from falling into the sea of ​​clouds.

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'Ah, why are they all gone...' Luffy thought a little frustrated, and then felt that breathing seemed to become more difficult. Luffy was a little panicked and took a few breaths hurriedly, but it did not achieve the desired effect. Instead, he choked because of the rapid breathing.

While he can handle being squashed and hit with blunt objects, even with his rubber body he still needs to breathe.

"Luffy!!"

Lucci's voice broke through his panic and he opened his mouth to try to respond but he noticed that he only made a wheezing sound and it was weak, he tried again but the second time it left him gasping for air again, the few breaths of air he had taken earlier were already used up.

Luffy gritted his teeth, grabbed the wall with a few fingers, and tried to climb up again. With the sound of breaking from the wall, his fingers lost their support again, and his whole body slid down a few centimeters.

"Luffy!?" Lucci looked down at the narrow crack in the ground in shock. Luffy was stuck in the crack upside down, and he seemed to be sliding down. How did Luffy get stuck in there? That crack was something they could easily cross when they walked normally!

Luffy noticed that Lucci's voice was very close, and he quickly turned his eyes to look above the gap. Lucci's face appeared in the bright light, blocking part of the sun. His eyes were wide open, and his mouth was wide open, as if he was shocked.

He tried to answer Lucci, but he was already having trouble breathing and he gasped again, the crack felt smaller and smaller, pressing against his back and chest and he couldn't breathe at all.

The constant struggle to get a full breath prevented him from responding to Lucci for the time being, so he did the next best thing and gave him a big smile, but his squashed face didn't seem to express what he wanted to say, because the expression on Lucci's face seemed to be even more tense.

"Don't worry, Luffy, I will rescue you soon." Lucci comforted him while pulling out his knife quickly and pointing it at the ground, calculating the distance that would not hurt Luffy and would allow him to be rescued immediately. The next second, a larger gap appeared on the ground that trapped Luffy, and then Lucci broke one of the walls that trapped Luffy and pulled Luffy out.

The next second Luffy bounced out of the crack, his body expanded to its normal shape again, and he slammed down Lucci, gasping violently "Huh, alive!!"

"Are you okay?" Lucci breathed a sigh of relief, stroking his back and helping him breathe. "Take a deep breath!"

"Thank you, Lucci." Luffy calmed his breathing and got off Lucci with a grin. "Thank you for finding me!"

"I think as your big brother, this is my job." Lucci sighed and replied with a smile, then asked "So why didn't you tell us and left alone?"

"I saw a golden beetle." Luffy said with his head down, his voice a little low "You and Robin were too busy chatting."

"Next time you'd better wait for us to finish, or if you can't wait, just interrupt us." Lucci stood up, his tone a little stern, then seeing Luffy nodding obediently, he softened his tone and added, "I would be very worried if you suddenly disappeared like this."

"I'm sorry, Lucci." Luffy apologized sincerely.

"It's okay, Luffy, no need to apologize." Lucci sighed and ruffled Luffy's messy black hair "Don't let yourself get hurt, now we should go find gold."

"That's right, the Golden Bell!!" Luffy shouted excitedly, then pulled Lucci and ran forward impatiently.

"Wait, it's this way!" Lucci stopped Luffy in time and ran in the opposite direction, then took him to the direction of the ruins. "Robin should be waiting for us there."

"What a huge vine!!" Luffy looked up at the sky in shock. A huge vine appeared behind the clouds. Although it was blocked by the clouds, it was still possible to see that the vine was very long.