Later...
The Pirate Empress dressed in her normal clothes, disguising the fact of her new change into a Star Sapphire. With the only exception being her violet ring, which most people wrote off. She was dressed in an attractive dress as well as a long covering cloak. Under this cloak and hugging tightly on to her body was Luffy, using his rings to make himself invisible. She suggested this double deception to keep the marines from learning about the rings.
The fact it also allowed her to be close to Luffy as he snuck on board did hurt either.
She had to turn the men back to flesh from the stone she had made them, it was a necessary evil to get to the prison before reaching Marineford. Deals had been made and she would be left alone in in the cabin as they traveled. She was also thinking of the power of the ring. Seems like a side effect to the power it granted her to make her thoughts reality, it also had a healing option.
It was slowly regenerating the brand on her back, the same "Hoof of the Soaring Dragon" which made her less then a human. It had begun when she had put on the ring, it had taken her time to feel it but the scar tissue faded. The same tissue was replaced by new healthy and last time she had looked in a mirror, it was just a faint discolouration which didn't even look like a hoof.
Love was healing not only her heart but also her scars.
Meanwhile with Luffy...
Luffy had taken to higher ground when the Kuja people started to touch and stretch him while he didn't want to. So he had left for the roofs of the village, while looking at the sky which was causing him to remember his time in the other universe. Somehow where Kuma had wanted to send him had been interrupted by a spacial rift which sent him to the world of the Lanterns.
'Found myself in the middle of a war I didn't know. All of those zombie lanterns reminded me of Thriller Bark, and that weird looking guy. I had to help out, even if they didn't seem to stay down when using my Rubber Man powers. It wasn't until I managed to get my first ring, the Green one. The Blue one followed after a big battle against the Black Lanterns on that Earth place.
Then came all of the training before I was sent back to this world due to Ganthet's vision of new lights in my world. I was just glad I could keep the rings, cause it meant I could have all sorts of adventures in space once I become the King of the Pirates. The Lanterns are kinda like the Marines, but they are less like jerks then some I know. But Ganthet said I could stay a pirate if I followed the rules he gave me.' Luffy remembered when the little big-headed blue goy had scanned Luffy's mind, before making a quirky little smile like he had seen some kind of joke.
Luffy was wondering what other rings had managed to find their way to this universe, hoping the Black Rings had not made it to this universe. One set of zombies was bad enough, and there wasn't a full set of corps to counter then with the white light.
'Still, if those undead rings exist... I can call up Hal-sensei to help out with all of his friends. Still there is the question of what rings are out there?' Luffy asked himself, as he looked at the clouds in the sky.
As Luffy thought himself, there were series of changes in the world which had had been in as rings started to react where they lay.
Several yellow rings found their new masters in this world. The main one was a man with many lost teeth and a black beard on his face. He had a huge chest, a pot-like belly with thinner legs and arms. As the ring took it's place on his finger, his body shimmer with waves of shadows as he laughed with a Zehahahahahahahaha.
A single ring of indigo shot out to an island in the South Blue known as Torino Kingdom. Hidding there was a figure which had the appearance of a small child if one of it's parents was a blue nosed Rudoph the Red Nose Reindeer. It also wore a pink top hat with a white X on the front. It had been a surprised when the ring slipped itself on the finger hoof of the reindeer man, talking about compassion.
It was in a certain prison where the orange lantern and it's ring had been found by a man with overwhelming greed and desire. Desire for money, desire for power, desire for fame. All of the things he deserved and had earned by the suffering he had experienced, at the hands of Shanks and Strawhat. He clutched his lantern in the shadows, even as he used his powers to turn invisible and hide out from the prisoners and guards in the great Impel Down.
'I'm still trying to figure out all of the powers of this Lantern, this awesome and powerful Lantern. It holds so much power, I don't know where to begin with it. Or I would if it had a better instruction manual to it... seems it has some glitches with it's mind. Still it gives me time to plan out my escape as well as keep my eyes open to any kind of valuables I can take out of this place while I get out.
Now, I'm going to need a map or something to figure my way out of here. The oply problem is the Blue Gorillas and their damned sense of smell which I have yet to find a way to cover up while I make myself invisible. The beasts can detect me, so I have to stay out of their way. Fortunately, their trainers think they're reacting to nothing for some reason.
Once I get out of here, the world will learn to fear me once again. All of the treasures of the Grand Line will be mine, once I master my lantern and ring. Their power will give me everything I deserve as well as get my revenge on Strawhat and his crew as well as the Red-haired pirates. If the ring is right, once I kill them they will be joining up as my ghostly circus crew as my new Pirate crew/Orange Lantern Corps.
Look out world, the power of Buggy the Orange Lantern Clow is about to be released on the world. Once I'm out there all of the nations in the Grand Line and the New World will have to leave with their losses, while I learn to live with all of my gains.'
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