One Piece: The Darkness Saga
Well here's chapter 3. I hope you all enjoy it. It took awhile to write up.
Chapter 3 Imprisonment and Break Out
I woke up in a daze. My head hurt, and my vision was slightly blurry. I realized that I couldn't move my arms. I was chained to a wall. I was frightened.
"Where am I? Why am I chained up?" I screamed. I didn't know what happened. I kept pulling on the chains, but they wouldn't let go. I tried using my powers, but they wouldn't activate. I kept pulling my chains till wrists were bleeding.
"You should stop doing that and relax kid." said a strange voice. I looked toward the voice and saw it was a young man. He was beaten to a pulp, and I could tell this because he was wasn't wearing a shirt.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"My name is Portgas D. Ace. You can call me Ace." He responded in a friendly manner. "And the large Fishman to your left is Jinbe."
"Fishman?" I asked. I then heard a short noise come from my left. I freaked out because what I saw had the body of a man, yet he had blue skin, webbed hands, long sharp teeth, very large, and gills!
"Are you okay young man?" asked the one named Jinbe.
"Y…yeah. What are you?" I asked.
"I am a fish man. You know, half fish, half man. Its kind of self explanatory." he explained.
"Right." I said. After a long silence, I asked, "so where am I?"
"Your in Level 6 of Impel Down, the great prison." said Jinbe. "What's your name, young one?"
"Oh it's…uh… I think it's Caeruleus" I replied. "My memory is a bit hazy, but that sounds right."
"Why are you in here?" asked Ace.
"I don't know. Last thing I remember was that I was fighting two old bastards named… Garp and Sengoku, I think," my two cellmates looked shock when I said the names, "And the third one looked like a pirate. I believe his name was Blackbeard." When I said Blackbeard, Ace instantly told me about what happened to him and how it's the reason he's located in the cell.
"So he is the reason you're here. I believe he the reason I'm here as well." I said. "I remember fighting him. When he grabbed me, I felt my powers disappear."
"That's part of the powers of his Devil Fruit, the Yami Yami no Mi. I found that out the hard way" said Ace.
"Devil… Fruit? I wondered.
"Fruit of the sea which gives you powers, but takes away your ability to swim." explained Jinbe.
"I ate the Logia-type Mera Mera no Mi, which gives me the power to become fire." said Ace
"There are many types of Devil Fruit, of which there are three different types: Paramecia, Zoan, and Logia." explained Jinbe. "Each Devil Fruit gives you a different power, but you can only have one Devil Fruit, or you will be destroyed."
Over the next few days, we became good friends and we talked about this world. I learned about a great treasure called the One Piece and the man named Gold Roger who conquered an area of the sea called the Grand Line,, which apparently is the most dangerous sea in the world. Ace and Jinbe told me about some of the many islands there were in this world, that each had its own climate, even when there really close to each other. Ace told stories of his brother Monkey D. Luffy, who wears a straw hat, who has accomplished several amazing feats since he started his journey and has gathered a strong crew, from when he last saw him. He then told him about his captain, named Whitebeard, and how he was a kind man.
"He takes us in and treats us like we're his sons. It makes us feel loved in a world that hates pirates." said Ace. "He has gathered quite a family over the years."
"Why are you here Jinbe?" I asked, wanting to know his reason for being in chains.
" I told Sengoku that I won't participate in the upcoming war." replied Jinbe. "So Sengoku tried to persuade me by saying I should stay here till I change my mind."
"War?" I asked.
"Whitebeard is more than likely to attack Marineford because Ace is set to be executed." said Jinbe, mournfully.
We would also discuss my world. I told him that there were no such thing as Devil Fruits where I'm from and that there is a lot more technology, like we were centuries ahead. When we got to the subject of my family, I remembered Kyle and Brett. I wanted to know where there are. As I was freaking out, both Ace and Jinbe tried to calm me and told me that they should be alright.
The next day, the warden of Impel Down called Magellan came to our cell with a beautiful woman named Boa Hancock, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. She was accompanied by her large snake. Then the other prisoners started to flirt with Hancock, making cat calls, wanting her in their cell. She ignored them easily, as if she was more than used to stuff like this, but Magellan got really angry and activated his powers. He started oozing something from his body.
"Hydra!" Magellan screamed. Then out of his back, there came a purple dragon like creature. The dragon then headed to a cell away from ours (because Hancock was in front of it) and it hit the prisoners. Before he deactivated his powers, the prisoners he attacked were screaming in pain.
"Remember that I can kill you all if wanted too!" screamed Magellan.
During Magellan's rage attack, I saw Hancock speaking to Ace. I couldn't hear what she was saying, but from Ace's reaction, it must have been extremely important and shocking. I then drew my attention to Magellan after Hancock turned around, and instantly realized what his powers were.
"It must be interesting to have the ability to use poison, eh, Warden?" I asked. "It must make you feel good knowing that you can execute your prisoners very slowly and have them suffer due to the effects of the poison."
"Who is this boy, Hannyabal?" asked Magellan annoyed.
"He's the prisoner Garp brought when he came to see Ace." explained the one named Hannyabal. "He was unconscious when he arrived, and Garp put him in Ace's cell."
"Wait, Garp brought me?" I asked. "Did he bring two others with him?" Hannyabal just turned around ignored me. "Answer me you bastard!"
"No… he didn't" he responded. I was devastated, but relieved that Kyle and Brett weren't suffering in this hell. They then left.
"What did she say to you Ace?" asked Jinbe.
"She said… she said that my brother Luffy is here trying to save me!" said Ace, who started to cry. "He always does stupid things like this"
"Ace, don't cry." I said, trying to comfort him. "If your brother is here to save you, you should be happy. You'll see your brother again and you won't die! You should be able to get to Whitebeard and stop this war, saving many lives on both sides!"
Ace didn't say anything for a while, but then he asked Jinbe to watch over Luffy if any thing happens to him. When I went to sleep, I swore that I heard them talking about me. Ace asked Jinbe to watch over me as well, and Jinbe said he only protects the ones he has high regards for, even though we have become friends. I then started to here voices I never heard before. They didn't sound like the ones I've heard on Level 6. I woke up and told Ace and Jinbe about what I was hearing in my head. Ace told me that it could be something called Haki. Neither Ace nor Jinbe could tell me what it was any more than what the ability is called.
Then after a few hours, Magellan returned with several more guards.
""Portgas D. Ace, you are now to be taken to a Marine officer to take you to Marineford. Your execution is in six hours." said Magellan. When Magellan said this, I flipped out.
"Magellan! If you dare take Ace, I will make you regret the day you started working in Impel Down!" I screamed.
"You can't do anything to me, even if you were able to use your powers." bragged Magellan.
I knew he was right. I knew that physical attacks wouldn't work against a man who could coat his body in lethal poison. I also quickly figured out that Magellan must have worked here for many years, as many of the prisoners greatly feared him. After Ace was taken, I felt useless. Jinbe tried to comfort me, and it helped a little, but not much. After a couple of minutes, both Jinbe and I heard voices.
"AAAAAAACE!" someone screamed.
"Be quite Straw-Boy!" another voice said.
"We need to find Ace!" said the first voice. He then turned the corner and looked in the cells. When he turned his back, I saw a straw hat and I realized who this boy was.
"Monkey D. Luffy! Over here!" I screamed. " They just got Ace only a few minutes ago. If you go back the way you came, you should be able to save him!"
"Who are you?" asked Luffy.
"He's a friend of Ace!" said Jinbe. "And he is telling the truth."
"Thanks!" Luffy said. He then ran off to the elevator, but it then collapsed. Out of nowhere, there came this hissing noise. Luffy and the two others I heard with him came back to my cell.
"Ivan-sama, it's sleeping gas!" cried the orange and white haired man.
"I know Inazuma!" screamed the giant, big-headed man wearing pink drag.
"If you want to get out of here set me free." said a calm voice that I remembered from when I woke up.
"Crocodile!" screamed Luffy.
"Set him free Inazuma." said the drag-wearing transvestite.
"Ivankov!" screamed Crocodile, as Inazuma unlocked the cell.
"You better behave, Croco-boy," said Ivankov, "because I know your weakness."
Once Crocodile was freed, Jinbe spoke up and asked to be set free as well, so he can help Ace.
"Free Caeruleus as well, he'll be a good asset to us." said Jinbe, while Inazuma was setting him free. Once my shackles were off, I felt my powers return and fill me with energy. Inazuma then created a spiral bridge to the ceiling using his Choki Choki no Mi abilities. Crocodile then used his Suna Suna no Mi powers to create a hole in the ceiling. After we ran to what Ivankov called Impel Down Level 5.5- New Kama Land. Here Ivankov gave Crocodile and I new clothes. I was given a shirt with one long sleeve and one short, with what I guess was chain mail. I was also given new shoes and pants, each piece of clothing was colored black, red, and silver. After we got out new clothes, we went to a frozen wasteland of a level that was directly above New Kama Land. While Ivankov was rallying his troops, Luffy, Jinbe, Crocodile, and I went ahead.
When we got to level 4, which was blistering hot, even though we just left that frozen area right beneath it, we encountered guards. Jinbe used his Fishman Karate, which took out several guards at once. Crocodile used his powers to extremely dehydrate several guards, which looked like it killed them. Luffy used his Gomu Gomu no Mi abilities to fight the large guards called Blue Gorillas. When a couple of guards came at me with swords, possibly because the underestimated me, I retaliated against them.
"Shadow Aero!" I yelled, using my abilities to send forth black bursts of wind, which not only pushed the guards back, but also caused several slashes to appear on them. Ivankov and his soldiers had finally caught up with us by the time Crocodile had released someone called Mr.1. When we got to the staircase at the other side of Level 4, we were blocked by the Demon Guards, who Crocodile said were users of the Awakened Zone type Devil Fruit. We then attacked the Guards.
"Sables!" yelled Crocodile, sending a tornado made of sand at one Guard.
"Gomu Gomu no Gigant Pistol!" cried Luffy hitting another.
"Fishman Karate- Five Thousand Tile Punch!" screamed Jinbe, sending a Guard flying without even touching it.
"Almighty Push!" I screamed, sending a black pulse to the last Guard, sending it past the door. Then the dominatrix mistress of the Guards named Sadie-Chan became angry at us.
"Hmmm-why would you do that to my poor pets!" cried Sadie-Chan.
"Lady, you and your pets are freaks!" I yelled. I then realized that this was a bad idea, because she then became even more angry. She then attacked me with her whip, but Ivankov caught it.
"I think this should be a fight between two women." said Ivankov. "Emporio Female Hormone!" his fingers than grew needles and then he stabbed his leg. In about a second Ivankov became a well endowed woman. As they began fighting, I saw Luffy fighting Hannyabal, obviously winning. Hannyabal was saying something, but I really couldn't make it out through his gasps for breath and coughing up blood. Then all of the sudden the men behind Hannyabal were sucked into a black smoke.
"Just shut up!", cried the voice who I instantly remembered. "All this talk about what's right and what's wrong, you'll never find the answer in this world!" Then a leg materialized out of the smoke and slammed into Hannyabal's face. There right in front of me was Blackbeard, the one who brought me to this world! I jumped toward him just as fast as Luffy's Gear Second technique.
"Blackbeard!" I screamed, forming a giant black claw from my hand, empowering it with my anger towards the man. He looked surprised to see me and then I hit him directly in the face and sent him flying into the wall. When I calmed down, Blackbeard stood up, barely dazed.
"You must have Haki, Caeruleus. That actually hurt." he said, rubbing his nose, which I broke, even though I wanted to do much more damage than that.
"How dare you attack me and my family!" I yelled at him. "We did nothing to you! We were minding our own-!"
"Shut the hell up!" screamed Blackbeard. "Kurouzu!" I was pulled into his hand, and I was unprepared for it. My powers weren't activating. He then punched me in the stomach and threw me at Luffy, who caught me. I was dazed and in pain, but not unconscious.
Luffy put me on the ground and then talked to Blackbeard. Blackbeard said that if it wasn't for Ace, Luffy would have died by Blackbeard's hands and Blackbeard is the reason Ace is going to die. This made Luffy extremely mad. He went into his Gear Second technique and hit Blackbeard in the stomach, which to me was surprising because he couldn't have let his guard down after just being punched in the face by me like that… could he? He then used the same technique on Luffy that he used on me and seriously hurt him. When Luffy recovered from the attack, rather quickly I might add, he tried attacking him again using Gear Second, but Jinbe caught him while he was trying to attack. Jinbe told Luffy that he can't be stalled by Blackbeard if he wants to save Ace.
We then ran past Blackbeard and his crew. When we made it to the desert-like Level 3, Ivankov decided to stay behind and stall Magellan.
"Ivankov, don't know how strong you are, just be careful." I said, because I gained a lot of respect for the Queen of Queers because he protected me from Sadie-Chan's whip.
"Don't worry, even though I may look like a dainty little flower, I'm still as strong as Jinbe." explained Ivankov.
There was a short silent moment because I couldn't think of what to say to Ivankov after that, because this little talk was very awkward for some reason. I then sped my way to Level 2, because when I ran passed Inazuma, he used his powers to destroy the staircase. I'm not sure about this, but I swore I saw him crying. I then caught up to Luffy and the others. He was talking to one of his old friends, who goes by the name Mr. 2 Bon Clay, or as Luffy calls him, Bon-Chan. Bon Chan tells Luffy what Ivankov was doing. Luffy wanted to go back, but Bon-Chan convinced him otherwise.
I then heard someone scream in anger. I looked back and saw Inazuma fighting Magellan. I decided that he was buying time like Ivankov did, so I went to level 1. I then heard something coming behind me. It was one of Magellan's Hydra and I attacked it so no one would get poisoned.
"Shadow Cannon!" I yelled, sending a dark energy ball at the poisonous dragon.
""You dare fight against me?", questioned Magellan. "Hydra!" He sent out three more dragon heads which were about to hit until someone jumped in front of me.
"Candle Wall!" cried a man who's hair was shaped in a three. The Hydra attack was successfully blocked.
"Brother 3!" cried some prisoners
"Mr.3, what are you doing!" screamed a clown
"Hey Luffy, is that clown's red nose real?" I asked .
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" cried the clown. "I am the great Captain Buggy! I'm going to kill you, you dumb ass!"
"Get away from me, Big Nose!" I said, kicking him towards Jinbe and Crocodile. "Hey Mr. 3, your wax seems immune to Magellan's poison. How about you make armor for Luffy so he can kick his ass?"
"Sure why not, it seems that only Straw Hat would be able to hurt him." agreed Mr. 3.
While Luffy got armored up and started to kick Magellan's ass, I saw Jinbe, Crocodile, Mr. 1, and Buggy go off to get a ship. When I turned my attention back towards Luffy and Magellan, I saw that he wasn't wearing his wax armor and that the poison coming from Magellan was a different color, and that the effects of the poison was spreading into stone! I fired several Shadow Cannons, but it didn't slow him down. We were backed up to the exit of Impel Down and Magellan used his strongest move.
"Venom Demon: Hell's Judgment!" He said. He then formed a giant, reddish-purple version of himself, only more demonic looking. He swung his arms, barely hitting a single person, but he was poisoned anyways. The prisoner then touched another, which caused that prisoner to get poisoned. As we were about to fall into the water, Mr. 3 formed a giant, spiked Candle Wall that Luffy used in conjunction with his Gomu Gomu Gigant Stamp to push back Magellan. I used my Almighty Push attack to push him even farther away. Then the ground beneath us shook and Ivankov popped out the ground with a giant head, holding Inazuma. Luffy told the prisoners to get on Ivankov's head and asked me to keep doing the Almighty Push technique till he could wake Ivankov. This didn't last long, because Magellan kept coming. Then Ivankov woke up and used on of his strongest attacks to blast us out of Impel Down.
"Hell Wink!" screamed Ivankov. I jumped on his head next to Luffy as we were flying out of the great prison, far out of Magellan's reach. We were going to fall in the ocean, which would cause several of us to sink, because of the Devil Fruit curse, but then giant fish surfaced and saved us. Jinbe called them whale sharks, which were huge! When we got on the ship Luffy began asking about Bon-Chan. Jinbe then gave Luffy a baby snail, which Crocodile said was called a Den-Den Mushi, which he explained as a way for people to communicate over vast distances. Luffy then talked to Bon-Chan, who said he had to open the Gates of Justice, which Jinbe pointed out to me. I looked straight ahead and then I looked up. There was a giant wall that didn't even seem to have a slit where it opens. I then heard Bon-Chan say that he was sacrificing his life so Luffy could save Ace, and everyone was crying. I even shed a tear. I didn't know him, but he seemed like a good person and like a good friend to Luffy. Then the Gates opened and we then were on the other side. Jinbe told me the function of the Gates of Justice, which was just a quick shortcut between Impel Down, Enies Lobby, and Marineford. I then stared off into the distance. Planning the fates for Sengoku, Garp ,and Blackbeard.
"Get ready Marineford. Ready to enter the void." I said, with revenge within my grasp.
-Meanwhile at Marineford-
"Get ready you two." said Sengoku.
"Yeah, yeah." said the young Marine soldier with casual silver, light red and white clothes.
"Just chill out." said the teen soldier wearing light silver and blue clothes.
"You need to be prepared." said Sengoku, "You have reached your ranks faster than anyone ever has in the Marines. The rank of Vice Admiral within two weeks has never happened in the history of the Marines. Plus your efficiency with your blades have also greatly improved. Add that to your newly awakened powers and you slight control in your Haki also needs to be put into thought."
"We know. Can you give us a minute to ourselves? We've never been in a war before." said the silver-white dressed soldier.
"Fine, but meet me in my office in ten minutes." demanded Sengoku.
Once their superior was out of the room, they two soldiers sat down and discussed their training with Sengoku, Garp, and the three Admirals. When they were ready, they got up and headed for the door.
"Well, I guess it's time…eh…Brett?
"Yes, time to face fate Kyle."
How did you all like it? I personally believe it was the best of all the chapters so far. It was extremely hard to put a whole arc of the series into one chapter, but it was worth the hard work. Please leave comments if you so wish.