Hours later___
"Where am I?, " Muttered Brook as he looked at the surroundings.
Dry land, hot temperature and the darkness was eating up the whole place.
Brook nodded his head as he came to a conclusion that he was lost.
"Let's get up, " Said Brook, but then he found that his body was actually separated from the head.
In front of him, a skeleton of a human stood up without having the skull at the top.
"Yo-hohohoho! It's my body!, " Controlling his body to move towards him, Brook finally fixed his structure.
Wiping his clothes off the soil and dust, Brook walked towards the three active volcanoes in the middle.
He himself didn't want to go there but not a single soul was seen here.
Even after he looked around, either the volcanoes or the other side.
Well, the volcanoes would obviously be better than going around them.
One reason, he was already dead so he couldn't die because of the gas produced by the volcanoes.
Second, his bones will not melt unless he falls on the lava.
He found that he was on an island surrounded by the downward flowing water wall.
"It's really scary here! I am having goosebumps, even though I don't have skin! Yo-hohohoho, " Joking around, Brook reached the foot of a volcano.
On the way, he found that the island had hot red lava flowing everywhere.
There were even trees with black trunks and black leaves rooted here.
He also saw some small bugs and birds with red color as the main appearance of these creatures.
"I guess I should turn and find other things here, " Then Brook turned towards his left and started going in that direction.
*Thud*
As he walked a few meters, a sound of something falling on solid ground was heard.
As he looked back at the source of the sound, all he could see was black dust.
Slowly, the dust cleared and Brook was very astounded by the huge creature.
It had a very big body in a deep orange-brown color, orange-red fur around the head continuously burning in hot flames.
Four strong legs supported it's huge body, each having a deadly claw enough to leave deep cuts in steel plated walls.
A tail with flames on the end. Its eyes black, its sharp razor-like teeth and a scary face.
Its height should be at least 8 meters, the length might cross 10 meters.
A true beast!
"Hello! Can you tell me about this place?, " Asked Brook as he moved the hat on top of his head and gave a respective bow.
"Roar!, " Sprinting, Nemean Lion charged at Brook without holding back in full speed.
"You don't have to be so serious!, " Brook blocked the claw of the Nemean Lion with his cane.
Even though he was successful in stopping the blow, he still suffered the force in his bones.
He retreated backwards creating a 20 meters gap between Brook and Nemean Lion.
"This shouldn't be its strongest attack, right?, " Said Brook as he looked at his left hand. Multiple cracks were visible on the wrist bone.
Then, Brook saw the Nemean Lion look at him while narrowing his eyebrows.
Actually, its eyes are not at Brook but behind him.
Brook followed the gaze of the creature and looked behind, still maintaining his stand.
What if the creature was fooling him into turning back and secretly attacking him from behind?
Brook's empty sockets moved and then widened as if they were in animation.
Behind him, another creature with the same size as the first one appeared.
A completely red and orange lava dripping body, with three heads and four legs.
The three heads, all of dogs showing aggressive facial behavior.
Its back consisting of black scales made of lava rocks and spin having multiple sharp pointed fins like things was visible.
On the necks were metal collars with spikes, on the front legs' elbows it had long black spike.
The claws were thick and black in color while red lava flowed down slowly.
It's eyes different from the Nemean Lion, they were completely red.
"Yo-hohohoho! Am I in trouble again?, " Muttered Brook as he looked at his boths sides with worries.
One side is a lion and the other side is a dog.
From both side he could feel hostility pouring out of their eyes.
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Hell Realm___
Maba was sitting on his chair made of sea stone inside the house near the altar between the three active volcanoes.
He already felt someone approach near, so he let his children take care.
But something told him that he should head there and see for himself.
"It must be someone strong if it managed to come through the storm, " Getting up, Maba stepped out of his house.
"Hope it doesn't dies until I reach, " Muttered Maba, his snake lower half slowly crawled on the ground.
It was because of him that the Roger Pirates survived coming near the active volcanoes.
He extracted the poisonous gas from the atmosphere for the Roger Pirates.
But will this person be able to live long enough?
Crawling, Maba reached the place were the noises of the fight came from.
He saw his two children battle against a person in gentlemen suit.
Only thing to note was that the suit was tattered and the person didn't look human at all.
No, it was definitely a human…
Accurately a skeleton of a human.
"What the? How is that skeleton still moving?, " Turning his head in different direction, Maba searched and observed.
'There no one here, that mean it's not a puppet, ' Thought Maba, even his advanced observation haki failed to find someone except the shelter people.
Which he knew that it's not them, the strength those people had were already little to survive for themselves.
How could they control another body. It's impossible even if that did have such devil fruit to do so.
"So, the question comes… What kind of devil fruit did that skeleton eat, " Muttered Maba while slowing approaching them from the side.
Things eating devil fruit or things fused with the devil fruits.
Maba had learned this from Rony and the other famous researchers in the ends of 13th century.
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[Author Talk---]
The last sentence of the chapter is only for the readers that is, 'Maba doesn't knows it's 13th century'.
All he knows is that it was the time spend with Rony and the researchers in the laboratory.
Thanks for reading!!!