Serpent Chain Saga, Swamp Island Arc, Chapter 5: Captured, Captives of Satan

I noticed a large ship, a marine one heading towards me on the Starboard. On the Port I saw a small rowboat with a man holding a whip on it. In front and back of him were a pair of large armored guards wielding axes. I would have noticed these boats before but I was too busy fighting. They were hard to see due to the setting sun. The man with the whip climbed aboard the ship. "Look here." He laughed. "Not only do I get credit for arresting Captain Viper, I finally get some slaves to train to become marines."

"No you won't." I demanded.

I swung a wild haymaker, tired from the fight with Viper and his crew. The man ducked and lashed my back, the sea stone stinging my back. I turned around to protect my scars. I pushed the pain and charged clumsily at the man, but he dodged out of the way. The man struck me repeatedly burning my back like hot iron. I collapsed and he put me in handcuffs. The two guards climbed up and put Rock-Fist and Runner in seastone handcuffs. "Who are you" I asked.

"You will address me as Drill Sergeant Satan" The Sergeant replied.

"Yes Sir" I said.

"Drill Sergeant Satan Sir!" He roared lashing me with his whip.

He and his guards took us all to the captains cabin. After a few minutes I heard a bump a the marine ship pulled up next to mine. I put my ear to the wall and listened carefully. "Did you capture these men." I heard a gravely voice say.

"Yes I did Commodore Smoker" The Sergeant replied.

"How could three men beat Viper's whole crew." said Smoker.

"Three men did beat Viper's crew." I thought. "But three different ones."

"Tashigi, get me this man's bounty. Smoker said.

"Alright" Tashigi said. "This man has a 17,000,000 beli bounty. Nashorn was a 9,000,000 beli bounty. The three mantises are 4,000,000 apiece. The rest have a combined bounty of 12,000,000. That is 50,000,000 in total."

"Yes!" The Sergeant bragged.

After Smoker left, The Sergeant took me and my crew and took into the rowboat. We were rowed to the island and down a river to a large stone building. The guards pulled up the door and we walked in. The guard walked took Rock-fist and Runner to their cells and the sergeant to mine. He put me in a cell across the hall from a skinny looking kid. He chain me to the bed with seastone chains. "Hey Froggy" You got company." The Sergeant taunted.

The boy just stuck out his huge tongue at the sergeant. "You little brat!" The sergeant Barked, and hit him with his whip.

"Go to sleep." He added. "You got a real tough day ahead.

When The Sergeant left, I asked Froggy: "Who is this guy"

"He is Drill Sergeant Satan, he kidnaps people and turns them into marines." He replied.

"We'll I've figured that out" I said. "Just why is we the only ones here."

"The marines used to provide him with slaves. He said. "Not any more."

"How long have you been here" I asked.

"Just a couple of days" He replied. "I was exploring the forest and I was caught."

I soon got to sleep, and I slept till I woke up to a loud hammer crash. "Wake Up Everyone!" The Sergeant Roared. "It's time for exercise." We were all lead to the gym, and forced to lay on our stomachs. "Alright" The Sergeant ordered. "It's time to do push ups."

I pushed up against the grounds making my body rise. I let of the pressure a little to let my body fall touching the ground a little. All of the other people did this to. Except for Runner. "Why aren't you doing push ups" The Sergeant demanded, hitting her with a whip.

"I can't sir" Runner replied.

"Drill Sergeant Satan Sir" The Sergeant yelled hitting her again.

"Just let her do sit"...CRACK The guard tried to say before being interrupted from a strike from the Sergeants whip.

"All right" The Sergeant said, though only because the guard was not hurt.

The exercises went on until the middle of the day. We were given tables with stale bread on them, while The Sergeant were eating burgers. "We should get those burgers." Froggy Said.

Froggy shot his tongue out and pulled the burger from Sergeant's Plate.

"Why did you steal my burger!" The Sergeant demanded.

Froggy laughed loudly, and the rest of of laughed quieter.

"It's not funny" The Sergeant yelled, lashing Froggy.

After eating we exercised the rest of the day, stopping only when night fell.

(Smoker's POV)

It was a few hours since when I received the prisoners, I was starting to question The Sergeants trustworthiness. I walked over to Tashigi's office and up to her desk. "Tashigi, I think that The Sergeant was lying to us. I said.

"What makes you think that." She replied.

"Well I did see him carry three people to the cabin" I said. "I don't think those people were in Viper's crew".

"So you think they could be the people the actually beat Viper's crew. Tashigi suggested.

"I think so, I am going to send to bounty hunters to investigate." I said.

"Lets also call the Marine Headquarters and tell the what we think he did." Tashigi said. "If he is proven guilty, a bounty can be placed on his head."

I made the call, and the Vice Admirals agreed to place a 5,000,000 beli bounty on his head if he was proven guilty. "Trace, Chaser, come here" I said.

Two men stepped into the office. The first man, Trace was a large man with white hair. He looked like he was in his fifties but was still quite muscular, kind off like my self. Trace had a large sniper rifle slung to his back that had a machete attached to its shoulder rest. Chaser on the other hand was a younger man. He was not as buff as Trace, but stood a few inches taller. From what I heard, Chaser was Trace's nephew. Chaser had two revolver in his holsters, and two daggers strapped to his chest.

"We're here Smoker. Do you want us to catch a criminal. I'm always ready to catch criminals."

"I want you to to investigate Drill Sergeant Satan, if he's guilty, take him in and you'll get 5,00,000 .

"That's a decent pay. Maybe a little small, but its a pretty easy job."

Chaser laughed a little. "What so funny" I asked.

"I was imagining, what if you had my name" Chaser replied.

"Why would I?"

(Blader's POV)

"So" Said Froggy. "How do we break out of here.

"These chains have seastone rocks to prevent from using my powers, "But I might be able to use them a little." I replied.

I Spat on the chains and I managed to weaken them a little. "I don't know If we can go now." Said Froggy "We worked out all day.

"Maybe we could break out before he wakes us up." I suggested.