onepieceyaoi100 | Artsy fartsy drabble!

Title: Dance de Macabre
Pairing: Usoppcentric, UsoppxLuffy, ZoroxSanji if you squint really hard.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 205
Topic: Carousel

A/N: Much more poetic than I intended. I blame it on 3 am, and an overdose of Nick Cave and Gackt.

Ba-dump.

Ba-dump.

Heart beating in that steady rythm, pulsating life into his tense muscles. Breathing steady, eyes alert. Fingers gripping so tight around the slingshot, handle slippery with sweat.

Anticipation. Anxiety.

And then that bloody carousel started moving, slow spinning motion. Shouting, screaming, swords patterning the ground with crimson swirls and dots, leather shoes connecting with bones that cracked and shattered.
And he'd dodge and run and twist and turn, always on the move, breath hot in his lungs. The rubber band stretched tight over and over again until his fingers ached and it was all one flowing neverending motion. The world spinning so fast it blurred his vision and shut out reality. Now was all there was.

Eventually it would slow down. The last survivors scrambling to escape, swords cleaned and returned to their scabbards, the thump of leather shoes dying down as their owner returned to more important duties. Everything going back to normal.

Still panting, the boy would turn to his Captain, as to reassure himself that it was really over. And everytime he would come to the conclusion that, yes, the ride was indeed over.

And the Captain was already looking forward to the next round.

Edits? X-posted to my journal.