Luffia shivered in the cold. She felt so cold. Her wings felt so heavy. She could barely move them. Let alone fly. With all her energy, she slowly stretched her wings as far she could in this cell and curled the four of them around her. The brand that she got only four meals ago is still stinging but getting more manageable. She thinks that she gets a meal every day. Her meal consisted of a glass of water and a piece of stale bread.
Her stomach growled. She was so hungry.
The cell she was being kept in couldn't be more than 4 by 4 feet. While makino said that she was 3 foot 4 inches tall, her wingspan was 4 foot 2 inches, and she couldn't stretch them fully.
The silence was driving her crazy, and the only light she got was when the guard opened the flap in the door, and she got her glass of water and a piece of stale bread and when the guard punished her for making noise when the lighting lit up the room. The wall and door seem to be made out of metal, while the floor is made out of stone.
She starts tearing up again. Then stops herself. I will not be a cry baby. I will not show them weakness.
The ship stopped suddenly, it slowed down earlier, but she did not understand why. Suddenly she was titled up, and the ship was climbing up. She tumbled into the opposite wall that she was leaning on, bruising her shoulder in the process. She groaned, she froze, waiting for the punishment to come, but there was only cursing from the guards of not being warned they were at the reverse mountain.
The guards didn't hear her. She breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly she was falling. Like when she was flying. She really wasn't any good yet. She could not fly straight for the life of her. Never mind dogging. She was yelling, cheering, floating in zero gravity. She was free in the air. Then she crashed and fell to the floor of her cell. She is defiantly going to have to bruise on her back. She missed her super-fast healing.
Then currents of lighting came into the room, and a very annoying voice yelled, " Be quiet."
She started blinking up at the ceiling. That hurt a lot. Twitching from the lighting but suffering in silence.
She slowly closed her eyes.
. . .
Sabaody Archipelago, that is where she was going. She pretended to be asleep when she got her food from the normal guards. She knows they talk when she is asleep because she woke up to them taking a couple of days ago.
through the flap in the door, the guard slipped the food and water in, and she heard, " looks like the kid is asleep." said Guard A
" The better for us then. Now we can at least talk," replied Guard B.
" It is annoying to have to stand in silence. "
" Yah, yah, but it has been a month now. How much longer till we get to Sabaody Archipelago where she will be sold," said Guard A
" two days"
She sucked in a breathe and closed her eyes tighter, praying for a miracle.
. . .
A miracle did not come.
Luffia thinks as a seastone collar with a bomb is placed way too tight on her neck, and she is wrenched up from where she is lying in the cell by the guard. The guard placed a blindfold over her eyes. She is dragged by the chain attached to the collar through the winding corridors. Her wings dragging behind her malnourished frame. Legs shakey from not being able to move around for a month.
Only barely being able not to be dragged just by the collar through the ship. Tripping over her own to feet. The sun blinding when they step out of the ship, even with the thick blindfold.
They keep walking, and she can hear voices Haggling, People shouting, and screams of happy children. All and all not very scary, but she knew something terrible is going to happen to her.
They stop moving after a while. A door swings open, and she is walked in. There are sounds of prayers, crying, and screaming. Luffia gulps.
Suddenly, they move again, and luffia trips as the collar chokes her because of the sudden movement. She falls forward, scraping her knees, already feeling the blood pouring down her knees.
She feels a shock and heard " Up now " from the guards luffia struggles to get up, slipping in her own blood, pooling from her scraped knees.
There is a loud chuckle and a new voice " We'll this is certainly entertaining. What a cute little birdy." Suddenly she is pulled up. " Well, here is the 1,000,000$ for a devil fruit user and the extra 10,000,000 $ for a mythical zoan type user. Pleasure doing business with you."
" Good day, sir. " One of the guards says, and she feels the chain attached to her collar being passed to another person. She hears them leave. Leaving her alone with this new person that she could not see.
" Apollo, bring the little birdy to my office. We need to have a little chat with her. Of course, after she is cleaned up."
. . .
The man apollo the other man called him apollo. Pulled luffia into another room, and she hears him say to someone else.
" This is the gem of the auction. Get her cleaned up. "
My knees are suddenly kicked from under me. Which ended up with me kneeling to the occupants of the room I can not see. My knees stinging from the bruise that is sure to form and the scrapes. Luffia whimpered, and the other occupants chuckled at her discomfort.
She was picked up by somebody a lot bigger than her and stripped bare, and dropped into a barrel of freezing water with soap the stung and felt like it was eating away at her skin. She let out a cry of pain. When she felt a sharp slap on her face, and a cold voice says " No noise, " Her blindfold suddenly was ripped away before she was dunked under the soapy water.
She couldn't breathe or move and felt like all of her energy was gone. It felt like her lungs were going to burst. She is suddenly lifted again and ducked back under before she had the chance to see anything. Just bearly enough time to breathe. Her wings ached from the constant banging against the barrel. After what felt like an eternity after she was deemed clean enough, it stops, and she was pulled back out of the water.
She collapsed on her knees and felt her hair that went to her shoulders being pulled, tilting her head up to see another blindfold closing in on her face.
Her hair is then ruffly brushed. It feels like it is tearing her scalp open with how hard they are pulling. Silent tears making their way down my face. Drip drip drop. She then finds herself shocked by her collar and hears a voice say in a superior tone, " No crying animal."
They then push her down on her stomach and manhandle her four wings open. They keep pulling at her feathers and roughly touching them. one runs a hand the opposite way of the natural direction of the feathers. Luffia misses the way makino did it. All soft and gentle. Luffia lets out a pained yell at that. Just to feel a hand on her neck choking her. " What did we say about noise animal" Is said with disgust. As I am about to pass out, the hand is removed.
I am not an animal, is all that I think. But I don't dare say that out loud.
Suddenly, a sac-like thing with no back where my wings would be is put over my head. A rope is tied around my waist and the sac, giving it some form and stoping it from being long enough to trip over.
" Apollo, we are done. She is ready for the boss man. " is called out.
She then feels a sharp pain on the back of her neck, and the world goes black.
. . .
When she comes to again, she kneeling on the floor again. She hears apollo and who she thinks is the boss talking.
She lets out an involuntary groan and hears. " Well, it looks like the little birdy is up. "
" Have a good sleep. "
She doesn't reply, she can't even see who she is talking to, but she knows the rule no noise.
" Oh, well, that's a shame. I love to punish people who break the rules. Now I have some questions for you. You will respond truthfully, and you will address me with master. You got that."
Luffia really just didn't want to feel any more pain of what before was her best friend, but now is one of her greatest fear again. She didn't want to feel the lighting course through her again.
So before, when she might have yelled, no way jerk face. She now says terrified " Yes master " In barely more than a whisper.
" Now, how old are you? "
" six master "
"What is your devil fruit? "
" A thunderbird master "
He touches my face slowly and says, " Good birdy, you know I think a caged bird is the most beautiful of them all, now sleep."
The world fades black again.
. . .
When I wake up again, I am without a blindfold, and there is a man right next to me chained up and kneeling to.
I slowly move my head around and see it is just him and me with a few guards back here. The man looked a little funny with blue skin and gills.
The man catches me staring at him and chuckles. I flinch and wait for the shock to come for the noise, but it never does. "They won't do that here, kid. The guards are respectful enough to do that for us here, kid. I am a fish-man if you are wondering."
" A fish man, That is cool. I am luffia. "
The fish man's eyes soften. " First time at an auction, kid, "
" Yes, sir, " I say a little shyly.
He gave me a once-over and said, " That explains why I wasn't the gem of the auction then, especially with a devil fruit like yours."
Suddenly we heard "SOLD FOR 8,000,000 $" a merman was then dragged off the stage behind the curtains in front of us.
Two guards suddenly walked over and grab the fish man's arms and drag him up—" my name is Tachi kid. " he said as he dragged on stage.
I gulp, my breathing feeling constricted. I am next. Please, someone save me.
