Luffy woke up slowly, and panicked as he couldn't move at all. His body was strapped down to a metal table in a dark room with stone walls. He even had a strap across his forehead to keep his head down against the uncomfortable table. He was in jail. What had happened to put him in here? Dark Luffy must have come out, and done something really bad. Oh, he hoped Thatch was alive.
Luffy was obviously a threat to everyone and that was why he was strapped down. Dark Luffy was quiet in his head, and couldn't yell as Luffy began to sob like the child he was. He pulled at the straps on his wrists, but as Luffy, he wasn't strong enough to break them.
Through his tears, he called for someone to come in there and tell him what happened. Was he going to be executed? After all, Ace said it was the ultimate sin to kill a crewmate. And though Luffy wasnt an official crew member, he'd almost killed another person on the ship he was stuck on.
No one came into the room, even though he knew someone had to be outside the room. He was able to move his fingers and felt no wet or dry substance. He had no blood on his fingers. That was good, right?
He continued to cry in the silence, before he became exhausted and quiet. He wanted this to end, but Dark Luffy would never allow that to happen. But Luffy was just done. He couldn't handle it anymore.
"Dark Luffy?" he asked the silence. He didn't get an answer for a few minutes.
"What?" he asked, sounding bored. He was irritated he hadnt been able to kill that man, and his shoulder hurt from the gun wound. But Luffy and he could tell it had been treated, not that it didn't hurt.
"If you promise to not hurt anyone on this ship, ever, I'll give you full control. But you have to promise, and keep it. You've ruined everything, and even though I don't want you to win… I'm just tired of this.
"You win."
"I promise," was the last thing Luffy heard before he let go, and everything became numb and dark and silent.
Everyone jumped in the galley when a horrible wave of haki blew up, and continued to flow out. It was worse than the other two times Dark Luffy had come out. They all heard a loud crashing noise, followed with a shout. Then they heard a door slam open against the wall.
Ace was first to come outside and saw Luffy stretching while facing the sea. But his wings were entirely black. There was no white left. Not even one feather. It was pitch black. The flow of haki continued to pulse away from Luffy. But it wasn't Luffy, for when Ace hesitantly called his name, he turned around with black irises and a black mark over one of his eyes. They werent the pretty blue and green, but pitch black, like there was no pupil.
"This body doesn't belong to Luffy anymore," Dark Luffy said simply.
"What do you mean?!" Ace demanded. The others were behind him, actually looking afraid. The only ones not wanting to get off the ship were Ace, Marco and Whitebeard. None of those three approached Dark Luffy.
"Luffy has given up. I promised I wouldn't hurt anyone here and he gave me full control. I have no problem with you people anymore. See ya," Dark Luffy said simply before he jumped off the ship and flew away and quickly left their view.
No one reacted for a few seconds after he took flight. "Luffy!" Ace called desperately. Then he whipped around to look at Marco. "Follow him!" he demanded. But Marco didn't move, he just frowned.
"He promised he wouldn't do anything against us. I don't particularly want to make him take that back and kill us and these scaredy cats." Then he looked up to Whitebeard.
He frowned at Ace, giving a sympathetic look. "It's the best to let him leave without hurting any of us. He almost killed Thatch, Ace. Our family comes before a guest. I'm sorry," he said kindly. Ace looked at his hands furiously. Even if he got on his flamed powered ship, Luffy was long gone and Ace didn't even know which direction he was heading anymore.
"Fuck…" he mumbled sadly, defeated and disappointed.
"Dark Luffy's got another bounty," Marco said while holding the paper. "He crushed another navy base and murdered everyone there." Then he sighed and approached Whitebeard. It had been three months since Dark Luffy had disappeared, and it was only a little over a week for the youngest ever wanted poster to be sent out. It started at 10,000,000 beris, but steadily climbed up into the hundred millions. Now it was at 300,000,000 beris.
The demon had been going on killing sprees for fun, and no picture had been able to be taken. Until now. And no one knew his name, so his wanted poster read "Demon Angel", because that was really the best way to describe him.
Ace hurried over and frowned deeply at the photo taken. It was taken from the back, showing Luffy's wings and small frame, making it quite clear that he was a child. There were black spots on the photo, drops of blood on the camera. It didn't help that there were blurred lumps on the sides, which had to be dead bodies.
"Pops… another Devil Fruit power popped up. It's yours. Dark Luffy has the quake quake fruit," Marco said seriously.
The crew had found out Luffy somehow had their Devil Fruits, though the original owners still had them. First, it became known that he was able to burn down towns, and fly over them as a small flaming bird, an easy way to leave the scene without being caught.
But Ace's and Marco's powers were the only ones to show up until this time. He had reduced a navy base to rubble, the island sunken into the sea. Those who were lucky enough to see it and survive described it as him slamming his fists onto the ground and cracks being made into the cement, people falling inside to their deaths. Then he just flew away, not in pheonyx form.
"Damnit," Whitebeard growled The strongest Devil Fruit was now in the power of a demonic six year old. Ace cursed as well. "I wish Luffy hadn't given up. But… I can see why he did. Especially after being locked and strapped onto a table by himself in the dark." They all felt ashamed for that choice, because it finally broke Luffy completely. Izo felt the most ashamed, since those were his decisions.
"Where did this happen?" Ace asked, everyone else gathered around the three to listen.
"Not far from here, but we know how fast he moves from place to place. There would be no point in going there," Marco said sadly. A lot of them felt that it was being on this ship that created the dangerous, homicidal little boy. Ace had told them that the stress of being on this ship had made things worse.
But they had to wonder… was Luffy still there? And just asleep in the back of his head or something? Or was he wiped from existence?
They also had to worry about what Teach (Blackbeard) was doing. It seemed that he was competing with the demonic angel in the most trouble and destruction they could cause. It didn't seem that Dark Luffy cared since he'd changed nothing even after Teach started copying him.
Apparently, to the Whitebeard's horror, Dark Luffy went into a daycare and killed all of the children. Luffy had said Dark Luffy hated kids, but this was just… too extreme. They hated the image of meek little Luffy murdering toddlers and babies. It was unthinkable, but it happened.
Everyone were calling for his blood, but it was hard to do when he had four Devil Fruit powers, three of them offense. The fourth was Jozu's diamond power.
The first time it came out that Luffy had Ace's fire, they assumed it was some type of fruit, and that stirred hostility in the crew. Many of them thought Luffy had used them to somehow get Devil Fruit powers. But Ace and Marco argued that Luffy obviously didn't know he even had a Devil Fruit, if that was what it was. It was completely possible that Dark Luffy had eaten the fruit and Luffy didn't remember.
Plus, if Luffy knew he had a Devil Fruit, why did he tape his hands and feet together to drown? If he had known, he would have known that he'd drown even if he had no binds.
Thatch had finally woken up a few days after Luffy left, and listened in horror to Ace talk about everything that happened. He'd always liked kids, and hearing about what the six year old went through made him sick, even more so than knowing he was almost killed by a demon, or whatever the hell Dark Luffy was.
Marco had done his research, looking for books about Devil Fruits on multiple islands, and when he finally found one, he stole it. He was a pirate after all. He didn't have to pay for things if he didn't want to.
He spent a long time going through the book, finding the most ridiculous fruits that he'd rather die than be stuck with. It was in the back, under "special" fruits that had no definable place. They werent technically logias, zoans, or paramecia. And there was only one.
The absorb absorb fruit, though that was long and was instead called the "ab ab fruit". If you touch someone with a Devil Fruit, you automatically are able to do the same, whether they wanted to or not. It was more rare than a mythical zoan fruit, and only a few people in as long as history remembered had eaten it. It was too overpowered.
They all assumed that Dark Luffy had eaten it not long from when he boarded their ship, since the only powers he had were from the people on the ship. They wondered what else Dark Luffy did when Luffy couldn't remember. Other than killing, that is.
Another thing that the smarter members of the crew contemplated was why Dark Luffy chose a four year old kid as its home body? And how did that even happen? There was also the thought that Dark Luffy had chosen Luffy because he had already eaten the fruit as a child, and the little boy hadnt known. Dark Luffy might have found out somehow and took Luffy because of the rare power. But that was just thinking too much outside the box.
The Whitebeards did their best to go back to how it was before Luffy had come and gone, but that wasn't working out too well. Ace especially was moody and upset a lot. He felt it was completely his fault that he couldn't somehow save Luffy from this awful fate. And he wouldn't listen to anyone reasoning with him that it was never his responsibility and that it might have not even been possible to save him if no one knew what Dark Luffy even was.
Things were down everywhere with Dark Luffy on the loose.