Beware the angst. For realz, yo.


Title: The Extermination

Theme: #7- Illusion

Claim: Robin

Words: 907

Rating: T

Warnings: Angst and depressing scenarios


Paramecia Devil- 100,000,000 beri

Zoan Devil- 150,000,000 beri

Logia Devil- 300,000,000 beri

Robin read the poster, her face completely blank. The seastone beneath her feet made her feel lethargic and tired, but as long as no one knew what she was, she would be safe. There were more posters surrounding the general pricing list, photos of various Devil Fruit users recorded in the WG's archives. Luckily for Robin, she wasn't included. They didn't know she even existed. Yet.

The woman pulled her hood further down over her eyes and slowly made her way down the street, past bums warming their blistered hands over trashcan fires and prostitutes lingering in the doorways of hazy bars. The city was a terrible place to be, but among so many people, it was the safest place to hide.

Robin eventually entered the rundown, abandoned part of the city where the buildings were nothing but iron skeletons and wild dogs roamed. She ducked under a rusty beam and entered one of the derelict buildings.

"Yaay! Robin's back!" a voice cheered from the shadows, bouncing off the concrete walls.

"Shush, Luffy! Don't be so loud!"

"Yohohoho..."

Robin made her way over scrap metal and dumped the bags of food before her companions, who were huddled together against a wall. The hunted Devil Fruit users found it safer to travel and hide together. But usually, Robin was the one left to go out to gather supplies since the other three were on the wanted list.

"Did you get meat?" Luffy asked eagerly, his eyes bright but his ribs showing. Robin shook her head.

"You know it's too expensive. And it's too risky if I try to steal."

"I wish they'd get rid of all that seastone out there. Even I can feel it all the way from here." Chopper shuddered, his fur bristling.

"These old bones can't take the stress much longer. We should move soon." Brook said, his kneecaps trembling. The four of them began to eat. Luffy whined when Chopper insisted on rationing the food.

"It's too dangerous if Robin goes out too often." Chopper said. "We have to stay hidden."

"We can't be too careful." Luffy pouted.

"Think of what happened to Ace." Robin quietly said. Luffy looked down at his grimy feet and slowly chewed on his bread. He said nothing more.

--X--

The next day, Robin risked another venture to the central part of the city to see if she could gather more information about the Devil hunters' route. The woman walked down the street, each step burning her feet and draining her energy.

There was a sudden clap of lightning that illuminated the gray squalor of the city.

"I AM GOD!" a voice roared. A figure descended from above, fingers crackling with lightning. Pedestrians froze and looked up. "I! AM! GOD!"

"Logia user." Robin muttered. Only a madman would dare show off his powers in a populated area. He might as well been asking for a death sentence. Robin ducked behind a newspaper stand.

"SEE MY POWERS? WHO WILL DARE TO CHALLENGE MY RIGHT TO FREE THE DEVILS?" the man roared again. He shot down a bolt of lightning at a man who tried to run away. The man screamed and convulsed in pain before collapsing to the seastone-sidewalk, his body smoking.

"THIS IS A NEW AGE! A NEW AGE OF GOD!" the Logia screamed again as the crowds began to panic and disperse. "THE AGE OF THE DEVILS!"

Sirens began to wail as the lightning man laughed with insanity. Armor-clad officials appeared out of nowhere and began to shoot. Immediately, the electricity died as if turned off by a switch and the Logia fell to the ground, blood pouring out of several wounds.

Seastone bullets.

Robin shivered and ran away before the Devil hunters could sweep the surrounding area and find her. She slid into a rundown cafe and hid there until the sound of the sirens faded away.

--X--

They were all gone. Luffy, Chopper, Brook, all gone. Her brothers were gone.

Robin fell to her knees as she stared at their hideout with horror, which had been cleaned out by the Devil hunters. There were fresh bloodstains in the entrance below the metal beam and the plastic bags she had carried the food in last night were fluttering sadly on the ground.

They had tried their hardest to pretend they didn't exist, that they were just mirages trying to survive in a dangerous world, but it wasn't enough.

She shouldn't have left. She was too late. Now she was alone again, in a world where Devil Fruit users were being hunted to extinction one by one. Robin gritted her teeth and pulled herself up, trying to see past the red haze that had spread over her vision.

And she ran blindly, not knowing or caring where she would end up next.

Someday, Robin knew, she would eventually die as well. And once every Devil Fruit user was exterminated from the world, the last of their memories would be nothing but ghosts fleeing in the polluted smoke, nothing but illusions that no longer exist.


It feels like I'm going to alternate between humor and angst, so beware.
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