WARNING: GORE AND STUFF... Children... gore... .

I am back after... dying idk... I tried writing a larger chapter but I couldn't so whatever.

Enjoy... hopefully.

I shifted in the warm bed, rolling from side to side. I clenched my hands tightly. I let out heavy and painful breaths as my mind was filled with my past. My head stung so much, yet I wouldn't wake up. My eyes stayed closed, preventing me from escaping my nightmare…

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"Trafalgar? You're name is kind of a pain to say, but whatever," the red-haired boy sighed, leaning against the wooden crates. He turned his head to me and grinned, "Eustass Kidd is my name."

I stared at the boy who was grinning with unbelieving eyes. Why does he smile? In such a place… Being ripped from our homes, and thrown in these large metal rooms. What kind of child would smile? I gulped and stared at this 'Eustass Kidd,' concluding that the child was the weird one out of us all.

I scanned around the grey room, looking at every child's broken and terrified faces. They all had soaked clothes from their constant crying. The room was echoed with cries and calling for parents. It was annoying…

"Shut up!" A voice yelled out. I turned to face the demand that came from the red-haired child's mouth.

The other children, just like he wanted, shut up and stared at him with their deathly expressions. I too, though I wasn't talking, stared at him with disbelief. Just what does he think this is? Some playground where his parent would come pick him up later? This 'Eustass Kidd,' I concluded once again, is arrogant and pathetic…

"Stop crying! What's the use of crying? These bad guys won't say 'aw, they are crying… let's let them go home!' There is no damn chance!" He had his hands on his hips as he spoke. He stood there besides me strong with no fear whatsoever.

Even though he spoke with harsh language, the children soon smiled as well. Their darkened hearts were filled with hope after hearing those couple of sentences. I watched with amazement as Eustass Kidd brought up the will to fight in the others. The sight was unbelievable to me…

"Erm… Trafalgar, was it?" He sat himself down in front of me with the same cheeky grin.

"Yeah…" I replied.

"I see that you don't smile lots, huh?" He beamed.

"I smile… sometimes. I see no reason to smile, that's why," I replied.

He frowned and sighed, "well aren't you a difficult one to please."

"Don't you understand what's happening? It may become worse, you know?!" I raised my voice slightly.

He flinched at my loudened talk but just tried reassuring me again, "come on… What would they do with us kids? If anything, we should be worried about our parents and stuff like that. We're probably being used as some kind of bait or something."

I thought of all his suggestions in my head. I glanced to the other children who were all smiling with hope. I let out a small breath, "that may be so…"

He smiled at me, "that's right! That's the good thing about being ki-"

The door of the room swung open. The cold air from outside slipped in, sending shivers into every child's body. Masked men stepped into the room, their steps heavy and slow. I stared at them with anger and frustration. They were the ones who took us away…

"How many?" One asked with his low voice.

"I think 25 in this bunch…" Another answered.

"Alright… Let's split them into a group of 6 and… the rest can be the other group." The first one concluded. He looked over us all, "yeah. We need more for the other project." He grinned, "this bunch may do it, you think?"

"Are you asking me, sir?" The second one asked with a sigh, "you always think that way, but they all end up dead."

The word 'dead' instantly crushed the hope Eustass Kidd created. Children began screaming and the tears began again. The men laughed and cackled at their fear. I looked around frantically then at Eustass Kidd. His fearless eyes were barely there. He was holding on…

"Ha! That's true, but shut it. Hey, how many were here again?" They continued their conversation casually.

"25, sir," said the other.

"Agh… I hate odd numbers." He grumbled and scratched the back of his head. He then grinned, shuffling through his coat and held up a gun at us. My eyes widened as I heard the gunshot. In an instant, all the children froze. The only one who moved, fell backwards and fell right besides me. Only my eyes moved to look at the child.

His body twitched and his voice was surprisingly still there. His white shirt was painted in red. I stared at the horror besides me. The child was shot… He turned his bloodied eye to me and tried to speak, "h- lp…" I couldn't move at all. Why was he still alive? He grabbed my sleeve with his shaking hands and pleaded again. He clenched his stomach with the other hand and pleaded over and over again, "it- hurts… help m-"

My breathing hitched and I shook my head, "n-no… I can't…" I backed away, my head still shaking. I was losing my mind.

"WHY?! HE- P ME!" The child cried, shaking my body.

"L-let go… D-don't touch me!" I pushed the child away forcefully, sending him tumbling back. He hit the wooden crates that were stacked up. "No…" I realized what was about to happen. I turned my body and clenched the shirt of Eustass Kidd. I didn't want to watch, but my eyes wouldn't turn away. It was the same with everyone else… everyone watched as the wooden crate on top slid off and fell right down.

The heavy and sharp corner of the crate turned downwards. It landed right onto the boy's stomach where he was shot. He screamed in pain as the crate crushed his bones. His flesh where the crate had hit was cut almost immediately. All was silent as we all listened to the snapping of the bones and watched the blood cover the metal floor.

It was soon completely silent. His small heart beat it's last beat and stopped. I stared at the blood that was still flowing from the body. I felt tears build up in my strained eyes. My hands shook along with the rest of my body. I felt a tight grip on my shaking hands. I looked upwards, "E- E- Eust-"

"I- it's alright…" Just like then, he continued now, trying to reassure me that everything was alright. But of course… the fearless eyes he once had and the hope to survive was no longer existing.

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Yes… that was only the beginning… My eyes shot open and I breathed harshly. I pushed myself up from the bed and looked around. I was not in that place… I gulped and sat myself back. I held my head with my shaking hands, "because of me…" Because I pushed that child away… he died in such an awful way. Because of me… Eustass-ya had to witness that… I closed my eyes and shook my head lightly. It hurt so much… Why must I remember these things…

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After that event, it was decided that I was to be in the group of six. I was separated from Eustass and the others that went with him. The six of us were dragged off to another room that had a large cage in the middle of it. We were tossed in and left there. We all just sat around, not talking at all… We only listened to each other's heavy breaths that were shaken with despair and the screaming of the other group far off.

I sat near the cage's door and listened to the screams. My eyes were blank and I was sure to have not blinked since the sight. Hearing the screams were nothing at all… Every scream I would listen to was the same until I heard one. It was him. His hollering of pain was oh so different to me. It hurt to listen to. I covered my ears with my hands and rolled back and forth, "no…"

A masked man came into the room with a smile upon his demonic face. He clapped his gloved hands together and peaked into the cage, "hello, my children~"

Silence.

The masked man grumbled some inaudible words then growled at us, "when I come and greet you, you have to greet me back, you damned brats."

No one replied to him. No one looked at him…

He snapped and looked around for the closest child. Of course, sitting by the cage's door, was me. He crouched down and looked at my blank eyes. "I heard from my partners that you are quite something, boy. What's your name?"

I turned my eyes to look at the man but did not answer him.

"Ha ha… you'll get used to it, boy," he smiled a cheerful smile.

Why does he smile? I don't understand… I let out a tiny breath and spoke, "Tr- falgar…"

The man looked at me and nodded, "you learn quick, Tra… Trafalagar? Yes, that should be right."

I wonder why I had told him my name, but it wouldn't have mattered… In the end, my name would have turned into 'monster,' 'cannibal.' Things along those lines. I remembered the 'game' we had been put in. The man gleefully danced as he explained it to us. He grinned and simply said, "no water. No food."

How would us children survive? How do we live without water? How do we live without food? Ah… that's right. We have each other… If there is no food, then one will have to find some… We were to eat each other. Eat each other's flesh and drink each other's blood. That… was the masked man's game.

A/N: I hope it was alright...

And the mysteries of Law's (maybe Kidd's) past begins . rip