Chapter 14: Enslaved

Kc tilted her head and inspected the auction house, the building was dome shaped with a triangular roof. There was moss hanging all over it and a sign over the arched doorway reading: Human.

Her eyes remained locked on the sign as they walked up the stairs, She tilted her head back until she couldn't see the sign anymore. Next thing Kc knew, they were inside walking through an arched hallway, then something clicked in her head that made her nervous.

"Um... Kid there is something I need to tell you and you're not going to like it." Kc said softly, debating if she should tell him or not.

"Yeah, what the hell is it?" Kid responded.

"Well it turns out that a Celestial Dragon is a really big fan of Hail Queen, he even shot a girl with white hair in the leg, all because she couldn't sing. In fact, since the Celestial Dragon likes me so much, he was actually on his way to that singing contest just to enslave me." Kc explained with a fake laugh.

"Is this a joke because we're not laughing?" Killer asked with widened eyes which made Kc only lowered and shook her head.

"Are you fucking serious, why didn't you tell us sooner. What if that same Celestial Dragon comes here and takes you away." Kid stated with gritted teeth.

"I'm sorry, it slipped my mind." Kc responded with her head lower down even more.

Kid only sighs. "Well it's too late now, if the same World Noble does come then hide behind me and stay quiet." Kid said after he and the rest of the crew got comfortable at the back of the building.

When 2 Celestial Dragons walked inside the building, Killer pulled Kc closer to himself and held her protectively.

"Don't worry, neither one of them is the person I was talking about." Kc stated and Killer immediately loosen his grip.

"World Nobles'...! Slaves'...'Human shops'...Place up against the 'purity' of these 'upper classes'...why, the villains of the world look positively humane in comparison. It's because the world's in the hand of scum like them that it's screwed all to hell… Don't they even realize that? I mean, we're not the nicest of guys, but at least we're honest about it, ain't that right, Killer?" Kid asked and Killer said ' Yeah."

"Maybe if someone interesting shows up, we should buy them." Kid suggested as he let out a maliciously amused laugh then got elbow in the gut by Kc.

Each person they pulled out on the stage, led by chains, looked so scared and miserable and the only thing that Kc could do was watch from the back of the room.

"That's Trafalgar Law, from the North Blue. He is worth 200 million... I've heard rumors about him and they weren't pleasant. His manners aren't too good either," Kid muttered when he spotted another supernova.

Kc held back a snicker when Law flipped Kid off , and turned his head back to the stage like if nothing happened.

"I like the guy." Kc said while still giggling then stopped as another person walked onto the stage.

"This place is truly awful." Kc commented after watching another sorry soul getting sold off into slavery.

"Entry number 9, From KackTown, in the South Blue...She is a beautiful musician and amazing cook as well." Disco announced.

A young woman was pulled out to the center of the stage, and was only wearing revealing clothing, she had on a thin crop top and black leather shorts.

"She has an amazing singing voice and also got third place in last year's Grand Line Superstar singing contest. It's a human female, at the prime age of 19!"

Kid then became hyper aware of the 18 year old standing next to him. That could have been her up on that stage. All of these people would most likely want a woman like Kc, and it doesn't help that she also has one of the rarest devil fruits in the world either.

"Holy shit, people are willing to pay 15,000,000 beri for a slave who just got third place in that stupid singing contest. I'm just imagining what Kc could be worth ." Kid muttered to himself after the female musician's bidding was closed. *She is a great cook, a really attractive young woman even if Kid doesn't want to admit it, a skilled fighter, and had actually won that entire singing contest. Those 4 traits alone could get her a starting bid of 5-10 million beri. And with the added bonus she had eaten a mythical zoan type devil fruit, her worth could reach to the billions if she was sold off into slavery.* Killer thought to himself as he focused more of his attention onto her instead of the show.

The main doors opened again and a group of people walked in, one was a woman with orange hair who looked to be the same age as Kc. Next was a man wearing all black and had his blond hair covering one of his eyes. There was a man with tall blue hair and for some reason was only wearing his underwear. And finally a very hairy man only had on shorts, wearing a pink hat and had a blue nose walked in as well. Kc could recognize their faces, that group of people were the Straw Hat Pirates but their captain was nowhere to be found.

Just then another Celestial Dragon walked into the auction house causing another disruption. And once again, Killer pulled Kc into his chest to keep her from being noticed by the awful man. When the Celestial Dragon was seated, Kc inspected him carefully and frowned.

"Kid, That's the same Celestial Dragon I was talking about." Kc whispered softly and Kid immediately hid her in his jacket.

Peeping from her hiding spot, the next person that was brought out on the stage was a pirate captain. Disco was delivering his speech about the slave when suddenly blood dripped from the pirate's mouth.

After the pirate fell to the ground, the curtains were then pulled over the stage.

"Well, I'm sorry to inform you all...the pirate captain Lacueva got a little nervous and had gotten a nosebleed. He's collapsed backstage, so we won't be selling him until a later date!" Disco stated which made the tension in the air thicken.

"What a load of bull shit." Kc mumble.

"However, Ladies and Gentlemen! The product I am about to reveal to you all...should be enough to completely blast all thoughts of such minor issues right out of your minds! IT'S A SUPER SPECIAL ITEM!"

The regular lights dimmed down and multiple lights of many colors danced about the stage for added effect as they wheeled a large tarp covered container to the center of the stage. A light from behind the container then lit up to give the audience the silhouette of a mermaid in a large round fish bowl.

Disco grabbed hold of the tarp and yanked it off, revealing a pink-tailed green-haired young mermaid.

"I'll bid 500,000,000 beri!" The World Noble that Kc hated the most shouted.

It appeared the mermaid could not hear what was going on. As Camie looked at her friends, she then started pounding the glass as tears escaped from her eyes.

Kc's face twisted in pure disgust when she heard what the Celestial Dragon was going to do with the mermaid.

"What is wrong Kc?" Kid asked when he noticed her face turned a few shades lighter.

"Since my devil fruit enhanced my hearing, I could hear everything what that fat fuck is going to do with that poor mermaid. He is going to put her in his piranha infested aquarium and watch her to see how long she can survive." Kc stated with all the color gone from her face. "Damn, that is fuck up even by my standards." Kid commented.

Kc then looked up to Kid with a desperate look on her face and asked. "Captain, can we please leave now."

Everyone in the Kid Pirates was in pure shock, that was the first time ever Kc had called Kid, captain, in a serious tone.

The Kid Pirates were near the entrance and had made it halfway to the exit when something flew and crashed right past them. Three guys climbed to their feet from the heart of the wreckage, a raven haired boy wearing a blue vest, a straw hat and black shorts was the first person to get up.

"CAMIE!" Luffy shouted when he saw his mermaid friend.

As the man with light green hair nursed his sore head, Kc gritted her teeth at the familiar face and created a snowball then threw it at the swordsman.

"Hey I remember you, you're the same dumbass that almost killed a Celestial Dragon."Kc shouted as she prepared another snowball and threw it at his face.

"Who the hell are you and where did this snow come from?" Zoro asked as he brushed the snow off his face.

"That's no way to talk to such a beautiful lady, moss' head." Sanji scoffs before waving affectionately toward Kc with hearts in his eye.

"Oh my god, isn't that girl Hail Queen. The famous Rockstar who is also a pirate." One Noble stated while pointing at the short woman.

"Not only that but had also eaten a Mythical Zoan type devil fruit that allows her to transform into the Silver Fox." Another Noble exclaimed loudly.

"It really is her, how didn't anyone notice! " Another noble shouted in pure shock while pointing at her.

Before Kc could make her way to the exit, she heard the person she hated the most called out her name. "Hail Queen, come here at once or I will get an Admiral to kill you and your whole entire crew as well! I've been looking everywhere for you, I even have a special collar for my new pet." Saint Charlos said before walking toward her with a slave collar in his gloved hand .

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"Kc, I order you not to go to that asshole!" Kid ordered with clenched fists.

Kc picked up Kenzo who was resting on her shoulder, and gave him to Killer without making any eye contact with the mask man.

"Take good care of him and goodbye." Kc said after she walked away from the group of pirates.

Holding back her tears, Kc walked away from her friends while ignoring their shouts to 'Come back or Don't go.'

All she could do was obey and let the horrible person place the piece of metal around her neck.

"Kc!" Kid called out her name as Killer and the rest of the crew pinned him down, while doing their best not to kill the sick bastard that was taking away their friend.

"Let me go, let me go, you bastards…. Kc don't go, Please don't leave. We still have too many adventures we haven't been on yet." Kid shouted as his vision started to become blurry.

"Kid, I hate you. I hate being a part of your shitty crew, I just played you and everyone else like stupid fools. Now get the hell out of my sight, you worthless piece of shit." Kc lied in hopes she could at least ease the pain that the crew was feeling right now.

But sadly everyone could see past through her lie, it was clear to everyone that Kc was heartbroken to say goodbye to her friends then immediately became a slave to one of the worst human beings in the world.

"What a strong woman, she didn't even shred a single tear. " Law commented as he watched the whole scene from where he was sitting.

"Poor girl." Penguin said while shaking his head in pity.

As Kc was getting dragged around like if she was a dog on a leash and not a human being that she was, Kc yelped quietly when Saint Charlos pulled out his golden pistol.

"Bang!"

"NO!" Kc shouted before immediately covering her mouth.

"Ahaha, I did it. I shot it, I took down a fishman….Look father I got a fishman, I shot it and caught it all by myself. That means I can have it for free." Saint Charlos said while jumping back and forth while still holding Kc's chain with one hand and in the other hand was the gun he shot the poor fishman with.

"It's free, it's free, First I got my favorite singer and now an octopus just for me. I caught a fishman and a rockstar all by myself and now they are both mine. What a deal, what a deal." Saint Charlos sang out happily before demanding Kc to sing along with him.

"It's free, it's free, you caught a rockstar and an octopus all by yourself." Kc sang out in a wobbly voice.

"You call that singing! Sing like the rockstar you are supposed to be or I will freaking kill you." Saint Charlos shouted after he punched Kc in the face and then started repeatedly kicking the back of her head over and over again.

"Kc!" Kid shouted again from where he was being pinned down.

"Stop hurting her, please!" Kid begged at the top of his lungs.

"Captain, I'm fine! Now just be quiet and let me sing!" Kc shouted before she started singing out loud again.

"IT'S FREE, IT'S FREE, YOU CAUGHT A ROCKSTAR AND AN OCTOPUS ALL BY YOURSELF." Kc sang out loud the best she could while still getting kicked by him.

"Kc." Everyone in the Kid Pirates muttered her name in pure sadness as they tried to look back.

This must be hard for them. I can imagine Luffy would feel sad and helpless if anyone in the crew were in that girl's position.* Nami thought to herself as she felt bad toward the rival pirate crew.

"That's no way to treat a lady." Sanji spat in pure rage.

"Even if she threw a couple of snowballs and called me a dumbass, no one deserves this kind of treatment." Zoro stated as he ready his weapons.

Then the Celestial Dragon turns his attention back to the wounded fishman. "That's enough, stop your annoying babbling before I shoot you up for good." Saint Charlos exclaimed loudly as he aimed his gun at the fishman again.

Kc carefully watched Luffy walk up to the Noble, the look in his eyes gave away his plan easily.

Pulling her chain away from the Celestial Dragon's grasp, Kc then stepped aside and watched in a good view when Luffy directly punched the horrible man right in the face.

"My turn!" Kc exclaimed after jumping over a few rows of chairs to where Saint Charlos landed.

"GO TO HELL!" Kc shouted after kicking him square in the nutts.

When all hell broke loose, gunshots and swords clashing against each other could be heard as the Straw Hat Pirates fought against the auction house workers.

Kc's eyes wandered to the orange hair woman running down the stairs, away from some guards. The woman tripped and rolled down the stairs and when she got up a large thundercloud showed up and struck the people wearing armor.

Not able to use her devil fruit abilities because the collar she was wearing had sea stone, Kc grabbed the nearest weapon and hoped that her bomb collar wouldn't go off.

Three more flying fish broke through the ceiling and three more people fell into the fight. "Here I go!" A well dressed skeleton with a cane yelled, dropping to the ground. A woman with black hair fell through the air, her arms crossed, across her chest and wings made out of...hands appeared from her back.

The last one was a very skinny man with a long nose and also had crashed into the oldest World Noble in the building.

"Luffy, where's Camie?" Usopp called.

"Over there!" Luffy pointed at the large fish bowl located in the middle of the stage. "There are battleships and admirals on the way!"

"Whaaat?!" Usopp squealed in distress.

"Oh, the marines are already here, Straw Hat." Law informed him just loud enough to get his attention.

Luffy then turned to look at the captain of the Heart Pirates. "Who the hell are you?" There was a small pause before he added, " and what's with the bear?"

Kc's eyes then travel between Law, Luffy and her captain. Law simply smirked and tilted his head forward, letting his hat shadow his face.

"You're...Trafalgar Law!" Robin stated. "Luffy, their pirates just like us. Oh and the guy standing behind in the back, that's Eustass captain Kid."

Suddenly everyone stopped paying attention to Robin, when the female Celestial Dragon pointed a gun at the young mermaid and started threatening to kill it.

Without warning, the noble woman seized up and fell to the floor with a muffled 'thump'. Then a silhouette of a man stepping through the torn screen behind the stage appeared.

Long, wavy silver hair framed his face as he took a swig from the flask in his hand and his cloak, he wore billowed around his feet as he walked.

Without lifting a finger, the strange old man made all of the knights and staff workers collapse.

Kc couldn't see what the old man did, but with only a flick of his wrist, the collar exploded, effectively blocking everyone's view with a heavy cloud of smoke.

When the blue haired man walked onto the stage with the keys in his hand, he was shocked and confused about why his mermaid friend didn't have a collar around her neck anymore.

That is why Franky just decided to throw down the keys onto the stage so that the rest of the slaves could free themselves.

After Kc jumped onto the stage and picked up the keys, she then realized that none of the keys work for her.

"Hey, can you do the same thing with my collar?" Kc asked as she walked closer to the old man.

"Sure, I can't say 'no' to such a pretty lady." Rayleigh responded with a small chuckle.

Closing her eyes when her collar started ticking before another loud explosion was heard across the room.

"Thanks." Kc said as she rubbed her sore neck.

Wanting to give the old man some type of gift for helping her, Kc used her devil fruit abilities to create a pair of throwing knives for him.

"Here, the Marines are coming soon so use these to stab their eyes out. I even made the blades extra colder to give anyone who comes into contact with them frostbite." Kc stated as she held up the deadly weapons.

"You can create weapons out of ice, you should join my crew!" Luffy said excitedly as he and some of the other Straw Hats examine the well crafted Kunai knives Kc made in only a few seconds.

"HELL NO!" Everyone in the Kid Pirates shouted with pure venom in their eyes.

"Thank you for the gift, I'll make sure I will put these into good use." Rayleigh stated as he picked up the knives, tossed them in the air and caught them with ease.

"Damn it Kc, you did the one thing, the one thing that I feared about being on this island the most." Kid scoffs in anger then embraces Kc into his arms after she walks back to them. "I really thought I would never see you again." Kid whispered into Kc's ear softly as he hugged her even tighter.

"Are you okay, did that Celestial Dragon hurt you too much?" Killer asked as he looked over her body.

Kc only shook her head. "Nah, I barely felt those loser's kicks."

Kid then started walking away from the room and towards the exit. "I'll get rid of the Marines for you, as a favor."

Both Luffy and Law got mad at his words and were now arguing about who would fight the Marines.

"Do all captains act like children or just those idiots." Nami stated loud enough for everyone to hear.

"I know." Kc responded while shaking her head.

After all three of the pirate crews walked outside, they could see how much damage their captain's had caused in only a short amount of time.

"Hey Straw Hat, I'm glad I had this little chance to me you but next time I won't show you any mercy. Even if you save one of my crewmates from a life of slavery." Kid stated before Luffy declared he will be the one who will find the One Piece.

Kc watched Killer jump into the way of a blade meant for Kid, killing the attacking Marine in an instant.

"Hey captain, what are you standing around for?" Killer asks.

"Killer, you know what, on our journey to this point. People would make fun of us, whenever we mention the One Piece. They say we were fools for just searching for it and each time that happens...I slaughter every single one who even snickers. What lies ahead is a sea full of death for those who think the One Piece is something to laugh at….Let's meet again at the New World."

"Men, move out!" Kid demanded as more marines came their way.

After Heat uses his fire breath to burn some of them to a living crisp, Kc then entraps the marines by turning the ground into a thick layer of ice.

"What the hell, where did this ice come from?" One marine shouted as he and anyone else who got caught tried to free themselves.

Kc pressed her hands together and created a big bundle of snow and then pulled onto it like if she was holding a bow, when she let go. The bundle of snow then shot out multiple arrows made out of solid ice.

Ice arrows.*

Anywhere that her arrows landed or hit , then that certain area or person immediately turned into ice or got frostbite.

After the Kid Pirates crossed and broke a bridge, they hardly ran into any more marines.

"Kc, I still can't believe you kicked a Celestial Dragon in the balls, punching him is one thing but kicking him in the balls is another thing." Wire stated.

"Yeah, people are going to start calling you Nut Breaker Kc instead of Twin Tails Kc." Heat said then everyone started laughing at Kc's new nickname.

"And I would do it again, that fat fuck deserves to be torture to death."Kc responded with her head held up high.

When everything seems fine, a laser beam then shots out of nowhere and glazes Kid's thigh.

"What's a Warlord doing here?!" Kid hissed.

Kid then summoned nearby weapons to himseld to create a metal arm to attack the enormous man.

Kc looked behind them when she heard other people's voices and saw the Heart Pirates standing at the opposite edge of the clearing from the Warlord.

Kid punched it with his metal arm, giving it some small cuts, but nothing seemed to affect the Warlord. Even Heat's fire breath and Killer's scythes didn't do anything.

Kc ran toward the Warlord, prepared her attack and then encased it in the largest block of ice she had ever created before. Everyone's mouth was wide open from just how large the ice was, it was about 5 times bigger than the auction house.

Everyone gasped when the Warlord easily broke through his icey prison, and as Kuma started to prepare another laser beam, Kc held her breath and ready her beam as well.

Ice Beam!* The Warlord and Kc were now fighting to see who has the stronger beam and for a few seconds it was pretty even until Kc couldn't keep up anymore.

"AHHHHHHH! My eye!" Kc screamed in pure agony when the laser got her directly in the eye.

"Kc watch out, he's about to fire again!" Killer shouted as he tried to rush for her aid but couldn't reach her in time.

She was in so much pain, Kc didn't even notice or had enough time to dodge another laser that was shot right in the middle of her stomach. And then Kuma shot her again but this time it hit her chest.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Kc yells out in pain again but this time even louder as she clenches her chest in order to try to stop the bleeding.

"Kc!" Everyone in the Kid Pirates shouted in worry.

"Step aside, we will handle this." A polar bear said as 2 other men step infront of her.

Penguin quickly picked up the injured woman and handed her to the nearest Kid Pirate, which was Killer.

"Thanks, I owe you one." Kc thanked Penguin after he handed her over to her friend.

"No problem." Was all he said before joining the fight along with his crewmates.

Coughing up an alarming amount of blood, she looked down and saw where the laser had pierced her stomach and chest.

Gritting her teeth as she got out from Killer's arms, Kc only ignored the pain in her stomach and chest and just took up another fighting stance.

"Stay down, you're too injured to fight!" Killer stated as he tried to pick her up again.

Kc only shook her head as she pushed Killer aside. "It's not over until I say it's over, plus I got an idea. If I can't freeze him on the outside then I must freeze him on the inside."

After Kid shot a large chunk of metal at the Warlords, Kuma went down and everyone in the crew started cheering.

No way, Kid's strong but he couldn't take a Warlord down that easily.* Kc thought to herself before the Warlord got back up again. At the same time both Law and Kc jumped on top of the Warlord and used their devil fruit powers on him. Kc shove her fist in the Warlord's mouth and froze the inside of his body, while Law just simply impelled the large man with his Nodachi.

Ice then came out of Kuma's mouth as more ice surrounded his whole body and onto the ground from where he was standing as well.

After Kc fell off from Kuma, she felt a warm embrace but she knew it wasn't her captain or anyone in the crew.

"Eustass, I'm taking her back to my submarine, she needs to be treated right away. Don't worry I'm a doctor." Law stated as he started walking away.

"I'm f-fine, my wounds don't even hurt that m-much.''Kc said as she tried to get up only to cough up more blood.

"Let me go, I don't need your stupid charity." Kc muttered as she tried to push herself away from Law before she suddenly stopped struggling before her eyes rolled far back in her head .

"Crap, she is losing too much blood" Law stated clamly like it was the most normal thing in the world.

"Capture them at once!" One marine shouted then a whole army started running toward the 2 pirate crews.

"Damn it, If you hurt her more than she already is, I'll enjoy killing and ripping you into little pieces." Kid shouted after he and everyone else made a run for it after another Kuma appeared.

As Law kept on running with Kc in his arms, he noticed that her forehead started to glow slightly.

When Law brushed away her long bangs from her head, he could perfectly see where the light blue glowing was coming from.

Law's eyes widened in amazement and curiosity when her wounds started to heal at a rate that was medically impossible.

Her wounds, it's already starting to heal. This healing power, is it because of that strange marking on her forehead or part of her devil fruit abilities.* Law thought to himself, fascinated with his new patient.