10 Years. He spent 10 years in that same prison cell. At least he wasn't chained to the wall or anything, but heck, he couldn't take even just 1 more month stuck in that hell hole. Of course, he was planning his escape. He knew it was the perfect time to escape, and so he did.

"Monkey D. Luffy. We were given orders by the warden to take you to the FHC due to the injuries you received during the war." A guard came to the young merman's prison cell and unlocked it. He locked Luffy's wrists in front of him with cuffs made with the finest and strongest metal there was.

"FHC? Why?" Luffy asked, confused since he didn't think he needed to go there. He was already healing incredibly fast and he didn't feel any pain either.

"Do not question your superiors." The guard replied in a gruff voice.

Luffy glared at the guard. The guard should've been on his knees by now, but he did nothing but shiver in response to the prisoner's glare.

They pulled Luffy out of the cell and the young merman boy followed the guards.
At this moment, the 19 year old fishboy found that it was his chance.

The chance of a lifetime. This would change anything that would happen in the future that would've happened if he had stayed and obeyed the prison guards.

Without a second thought, Luffy choked one of the two prison guards and quickly knocked out the other by swinging his tail at the guard's face.

He rushed through the halls and ignored the shouts and yells of other prisoners as they begged to be let out of there cage.

It was stuff like, "Kid, get me out of here too! I'll do anything!" or "C'mon, buddy! Don't you remember me!? Let's get out together, what d'you say!?"

Using his pro-swimming skills, he swam fast through the halls, dodged attacks from the other guards, and made his way out.

Luffy didn't stop swimming. He swam passed countless sea-beasts and monsters, not giving them more than a look.

He swam and swam until he reached a place forbidden to all the fishfolk.

He reached the surface.

No one would think to look for him up here.

Tired out, Luffy rested on a nearby rock and looked at the sky.

The sun was shining directly in his face.

It felt so warm. It felt different.

After all, the prison cell he lived in for 10 years was cold and dark. Now here he was, free of that filthy place.

Who would've thought this was all it would take to escape the prison? He could've left sooner if it really was that easy...

'I'm finally free' Luffy thought '...I wonder what things I can do now! I could go try some of that candy that everyone said was so good, or I could go see the legendary amusement park Usopp told me he saw when he battled the kraken that threatened to destroy Fishman Island 10 years ago...or..my friends?' Luffy smiled at all the ideas.

'No. I can't go back to Fishman Island. They'll surely catch me in under 24 hours.'

The young merman turned to his side thinking about how much he yearned to see his friends once again, drifting off to sleep while doing so.


"Would you just shut up! I've had enough of your bullshit and I'm not gonna put up with it anymore!" A deep voice had awakened the merman.

"Excuse me, Zoro-ya, but I wasn't the one who brought a mythical creature home." Another, much more quiet, voice had replied the man who shouted.

Luffy groaned at the light as he stood up from the rock he was laying on. Except the rock was softer. Then the young merman's eyes shot open. He realized he wasn't on the rock he was sleeping on before. He got up, but quickly fell back down as he realized he was not in water.

He landed on the floor with a small 'thump'.

The two arguing men looked over to where the noise had come from. They turned over to the Fish-Human thing to see it struggling on the floor.

Fortunately, it got up.

"What the hell? Where am I?" They heard the creature say.

He looked around before staring into the eyes of the two unusual beings standing in front of him.

The two humans observed the fishboy. Now that he was awake, they could get a better look at his features.

The fishboy had messy, curly, raven hair, deep ocean blue eyes, a scar underneath the left eye, another scar, a much larger one, sprawled against his chest, an old straw hat that was still in good condition tied around his neck, and finally, a beautiful red fish tail.

It felt like hours passed before someone actually spoke up.

"Zoro, how did you find this thing?" the unusual man with the spotted hat spoke up.

Luffy glared at the man for a split second for calling him a 'thing'. Luffy was not a thing, he was a merman.

"I'm not too sure myself. I kinda just saw it laying on a rock by the shore..." the other answered.

"Hey, umm...where am I?" The fishboy asked, a little nervous.

"Let's just say we are not near the ocean." The fuzzy hatted man said. It was only then that Luffy looked down at their feet.

Their one-hundred percent human feet, and they were real.

"H-humans!? They exist!?" the shocked fishboy held his hands up in surprise.

He then noticed he still had the cuffs on his small, but strong, .

The chain smacked his head.

"Ouch!" He yelped.

"Hey, we should be saying that to you. What are you anyway?" the green-haired questioned the fishboy, looking between the creature's tail and the chains that secured his hands.

"Well, duh! I'm a fishman, or merman. Doesn't really matter what you call me. My name is Luffy, by the way." The fishboy announced proudly, smiling the biggest grin the other two men had ever seen.

As long as he wasn't back in the water where those damned prison rats could catch him, he thought it was okay to stay on human land.

Although, he didn't know these people, and stories have been told that humans often liked to kidnap mermaids/merman and sell them off as slaves. He had to make sure he didn't say too much.

"Nice to meet you, Luffy. I'm Trafalgar Law and the mosshead next to me is Roronoa Zoro. Just call me Law." the man to the right, now known as Law, introduced himself.

"Shut up, you sadistic doctor!" the man to the left, now revealed as Zoro, yelled at the other for being called 'mosshead'.

"Sorry for invading your privacy, Luffy," Law started, ignoring Zoro's comment. "but what's up with the cuffs? Are you some criminal or something?"

"No!" Luffy said immediately, he wasn't lying. "They do hurt, though. Do you have anything that could take them off?"

Zoro walked off to a nearby desk and pulled out a bobby pin. Why did he have a bobby pin? No one knows.

"Errmm- I think Law can try to unlock it with this?" Zoro ordered Law through a question.

Law groaned in reply.

"Fine. I'll try." Law roughly took the bobby pin from the other human's hand.

It took Law a good 12 and a half minutes to finally unlock it. His skills taught by his ex-boyfriend, Kidd, definitely payed off.

"Ahh~! Thank you sooo much! It feels so good to be out of cuffs after a few years!" Luffy rubbed his bloody wrists.

They were injured, but to him it still felt good knowing he didn't have to wear them any longer.

It sure was a pleasant feel for him.

The two humans eyed the small fishboy suspiciously, rethinking about what Luffy had said earlier on.

Luffy noticed this, which is weird because Luffy, being Luffy, couldn't even look pass the most obvious and ridiculous lie.

"I'm serious though, I really am not a criminal! I have never committed a crime before." Luffy said trying to convince the humans that he was telling the truth.

The two humans looked at each other, then back at Luffy. The fishboy's confident eyes had told them that the boy was not lying.

Zoro sighed.

"Whatever. Doesn't look like such a scrawny little kid like you could commit a crime anyway. You probably couldn't even beat up anyone anyway." Zoro had muttered in a gruff voice, yet the other two occupying the room could hear him perfectly.

"Hey! I can! I am strong!" Luffy complained.

Then again, he was used to it. Everyone saw him as a stubborn and weak little fishboy.

"Tch. Yeah, sure." Zoro replied sarcastically, heading towards the door to exit the bedroom.

Luffy growled.

"Don't listen to him, Mugiwara-ya. He's in a bad mood today." Law said to Luffy, calling him by the straw hat that had been tied loosely around the young fishboy's neck.

Law left after Zoro.


Only after Law left did Luffy's stomach growl. He was starving.

He walked, or wobbled, on his tail to where he thought he'd find their kitchen.

Luffy had never been on land before, so he found it surprisingly hard to 'walk'.

He inwardly cheered to himself when he found his destination.

In the kitchen, he saw Law cooking and Zoro sitting down at the dining room table at the other side of the kitchen.

He wobbled his way over to sit next, to Zoro, but decided to sit across from him, not wanting to bother him since he was in a 'bad mood'.

All was quiet for the three until Law came, with a few plates, to the table.

"Thank you." Luffy smiled at Law as Law put down a plate in front of Luffy.

Luffy was definitely the happiest person on Earth...until...

"So what is this supposed to be?" Luffy asked, not knowing the food they ate on the surface. He was curious.

"Fish." Law replied.

Again, all was quiet. Zoro and Law had already started eating, not noticing the sickened look Luffy was giving the plate.

"F-Fish?" Luffy stuttered quietly.

"Yeah, fish." Law repeated, before taking a bite.

Unbelievable.

Zoro, finally realizing Law's mistake, hit the latter in the head.

Law looked up at Zoro.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing, Zoro-ya?" Law spoke, glaring at Law all the while.

Zoro pointed to Luffy, whose face had turned blue as he stared down at his plate. Law finally realized what he had been saying.

"Ah- Sorry 'bout that. I'll get you something else to eat." Law said calmly. He couldn't believe he did something this stupid.

Luffy nodded his head quietly, the same expression still on his face as Law took away the plate.

Law came back with some salad he bought a few days ago.

"Eat this instead." Law placed the plate of salad in front of the fishboy, who still had the same expression as before.

The fishboy nodded his head again.

Luffy's appetite left after he ate a bit of the salad. He couldn't stand watching his new 'friends' eat his old friends.

"I'm not very hungry anymore, so...I'll just go sleep, okay?" Luffy told them nervously, a shaky smile on his face, and quickly wobbled over to the room he awoke in.

Law and Zoro looked at each other for the umpteenth time that day.

"Great. Now we scared him." Zoro said, picked up his plate, and headed for the sink.

"You're the one who wanted fish for today's dinner, Zoro-ya." Law had told Zoro, again, blaming him for the situation that was occurring at the moment.

"Gahh!" Zoro glared at Law in annoyance.

Law continued to eat the fish on the plate, ignore Zoro...again.

- Chapter 1; End -


A/N: Thanks for reading! If you can, please review! It would make my day! Should I continue this? Or should I just leave it behind?

It's up to you! :o Please follow/favorite and review! First story w

This took me a few hours, and it's already pretty late, I should go to bed now.

So even if you don't follow/favorite/review, at least let me thank you for reading. :3

Sorry if I made the character Ooc, like Law...he seemed Ooc to me O~O

I hope you know it's not my intention to make the characters Ooc, but they might turn out that way at some point.

Just wanted you to know.

Okay, enough of this talking, I'm going to go to sleep!

Bye, and thank you!

**~RiEun~