Ch 1

Darkness. nothing but the void. Am I separate from the void or am I just another part of it? How long have I been here? What is long? And suddenly a voice!

"Hey…. hey pal can you hear me? Rero. He's still out out of it … all right boys wake 'em up. Rero."

Wait wha… Cold! Cold!Cold! Oh arceus my head. Who the hell….and I'm tied up. Joy. That's always a good way to wake up, not remembering how you got First things first where the hell am I? You know the stereotypical image of an 'interrogation' room aka the modern torture chamber? Yeah that's where I somehow ended on a side table and everything. I'm going to die here. I'm going to die here and nobody will find my body until years later. I'mnevergoingtoseemyfamilyagainbecauseI'llbedeadohgod. Ok Ok focus I can still maybe get out of here alive. In the midst of my impromptu panic attack the voice that woke me up snapped me back to reality.

"Good now that you're properly awake you and answer some questions for "

Welp that's the second to worst(-wait 3rd?-well it's up there in terms of bad) thing that you could hear after you wake up in an unfamiliar place without remembering how you got to said place That's a weird mark on that guy's forehead plus sunglasses even though we're inside; and did he just say rero? And why is his tongue out and so long? Odd combo;not that I can say anything given my circumstances. Seeing my confused look i must've been giving off the man(lizard? reptilian?) spoke again

"Oh forgive me let me introduce myself,my name is Vito adviser to Father

I'm not a fan of beating around the . So tell me who sent you and maybe if Father likes your answer you can walk out of here without us breaking your ."

… The fuck did I do last night. Ok just answer the nice incredibly incredibly SCARY mob member's questions and hopefully leave in relative at least this guy is polite doesn't diminish the intended threat towards me though. if I get out of this i'm gonna have to ask how he does that.

"Good now that i've got your . So TALK! Rero"

Ok that's enough stalling might as well find out why I'm here in the first place and then what I need to do in order to leave in one piece.

"Okay….okay what do you want to know" Has my voice always been so raspy? How long have I been out? Day's? That's not good why haven't I woken up in that time? Stop asking your brain questions that it doesn't know the answer. That's the way to madness right there.

"Good glad you understand your . So Pal who the fuck sent . Not only do you crash through the roof of our dining room on our family dinner but you had the balls to land a blow on "

What. Oh no. oh Shit. how the hell am I not dead oh no.

"Considering how pale and panicked you just looked you understand the severity of what you just did. Rero. So who sent you? Rero. The remients of the falconies? Rero. Someone else? me!"

Ok Vito seams to understand somewhat that i'm in way over my head let's hope that he believes I'm going to tell him.

"Ok ok, sir I honestly can't remember how I got here I think i might have a little concussion right now what I can tell you is that my name is William and that I'm incredibly sorry for attacking your boss even if it was an accident."

Please believe me. Please believe me. I know it sound like the worst excuse anyone could give but I'm telling the truth.

"So then William you claim to have a concussion and claim not to have been sent here by anyone. Rero. I'll send a medic down here to help with that. Rero"

Ok that might have bought me some time to do with something… ok ow ow OW thinking hurts i'm just going to try to sleep it off

"Oh and william? Rero. For your sake, I hope your not lying to me or else I'll have to get my tools out and possibly rip something out quite painfully. Rero."

"R-Right Mr. vito i swear I haven't lied about anything" Well that was the most intimidating experience in my life so far. Let's just hope that i can figure a way out of this mess.

After I get some sleep that is. Take me now void.

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After a period of time I woke up (still tied to a chair mind you) got looked over by a doctor, confirmed that I had a concussion, and tested out the strength of the ropes holding me. Needless to say but they are very secure. So now I'm just waiting to see what happened next to me.

"Right so let's confirm what happened I got out of work last night; something happened I lost consciousness; apparently somehow accidentally invaded a mafia family and landed a blow on their boss. The hell happened? did someone drug me? Kidnaping attempt? If so why me? I'm just a nobody from suburbia and my family isn't that rich. Random chance seems to be the most likely solution right now….."

"Sorry to cut off your muttering but the boss wants to see you in person. Rero" A second voice suddenly cut in

" In the I want to look you in the eyes before before I kill you way or the General meeting sort of way? Sorry I shouldn't mouth off I know. I just sort of ramble when I'm nervus." Great going Will you probably just pissed off one of the people who could help you get out of the mess that you got yourself into. Great job. Why is he chuckling?

"Nyororo… ah that's . No one ever asks that most people are normally begs us not to kill them by . Why aren't you? Rero."

That's an interesting laugh. Didn't know that people could laugh like that outside of like one piece.I should probably answer the man's question before he gets mad.

"Well i'm just trying to mask my entirely justified fear right sure how well it's working right now but if i'm going to die I might as well no go crazy wondering how things are going to pan out."

"Whatever keeps you going. Rero. And to answer your question;the boss wants to meet with you fo the second reason you said but will easily turn into the first way if you say something or do anything that we don't ."

Right another of those polite threats that i like so much fun. Well It looks like I'm off to meet the boss. The wonderful wonderful boss. We hear he is…. What am I doing? That's probably just the head injury talking. The doctor said that this thing should clear up in a few days. I hope.

End of chapter

An: Bege hasn't set out for the grandline yet that'll happen in like A chapter? I hope... anyway it'll be a year in universe until Bage and his family go off to sea. Probably enough time for William to join up and earn a place in the gang.