Break

It was over. Was she going to die like this? She was only seventeen. Smoker would be distraught. Heh. Mihawk would probably go berserk and destroy everything when he found their bodies. But then again, pirates lived with one foot in their grave. This was only to be expected…

But not by him! She would kill herself before she ever let him kill her.

Scowling, Lor struggled to her feet, ignoring the pain that lanced through her body. It hurt. Someone had landed a long cut down from under her left breast down to the bottom of her ribcage. She knew she was losing too much blood, but the others weren't much better off. The effect of the seastone mist was beginning to wear off, but not enough for them to use their devil fruit powers. And even then, only hers and Sho's were well suited for battle.

A marine stepped forward. Weakly she raised her dagger… Only to be punched in the stomach. She dropped, gasping from the pain. Black edged into the corners of her eyes, but she couldn't black out. She refused to black out. If she lost consciousness, who knew what he would do. Through the pain, she barely felt her arms twisted behind her back, the seastone cuffs clapped on.

She lay on her stomach, glaring up at the Admiral leading the group. He smirked down at her.

"Execute them all. Except this one. She's mine," he ordered.

Lor's eyes widened. No. NO! "Wait, Admiral!"

"Yes, my dear fiancé?" He mocked, smirking down at her.

"Let them go," she said, defeated. "I'll do anything. Rejoin the marines, anything. So please. Let my crew go."

"Well…"

She didn't have to look at him to know what kind of smug expression he was wearing. She would do anything, she had said. He was the type of man who would hold her to it.

"Don't!" Cornelia yelled.

"Lor! You don't have to do this! We won't lose, so—" Leo shouted, desperate.

She smiled weakly back at them.

"Fine," Helios said, a leer on his face. "But you will have do one thing for me for each pirate filth I let escape."

She closed her eyes in defeat, and agreed.

His leer widened. "First, you will beg me on your hands and knees, naked."

She stood shakily and began to strip, her clothes dropping to the ground. She winced a little as the cloth irritated the wound. Her crew's fists clenched, eyes squeezed shut at the humiliation the baby of their crew was going through. She stood fully naked in front of the perverted eyes of the marine men for a moment before she slowly knelt.

"Please. Please release my crew. Do not kill them, please. Just let them go."

"Alright. Since you asked so nicely," Helios said, mockingly sweet. "Release one of them," he ordered before turning back to her, taking in her naked form. "Ah, how nice to see you obedient. Just like before."

She stiffened.

"Now for the second condition, rejoin the marines."

"I understand. I will return to the base with you," she replied, feeling her freedom and happiness slip away like water through her fingers.

Her head was beginning to reel. At this moment, she didn't know if it was because of him or because of the blood loss.

"Now… I believe I have waited long enough. These past three years… No, for even longer than that, I've been dreaming of having you writhing in pain under me," he grinned darkly, dropping his coat to the ground.

At the front of his pants was a small tent, and immediately everyone knew of his intentions.

"You scum!" Leo and Sho yelled, furious.

They struggled even harder against their bonds—the marines had released the knocked out Karin.

"OI! You two! Hold her down!" Helios barked at two marines.

They flinched, glancing at the girl, back at their commander, then at the girl again.

"Admiral, she's just a child," one said hesitantly.

"Does it look like I care? She belongs to me!" Helios snarled at him. "Now will you obey, or will I have to kill you?"

The marines hesitated only for a moment longer before walking to the girl and grabbed an arm each, keeping her from doing anything. Terror filled her. This was what she had feared for years, had nightmares about. And this time Smoker wasn't there to save her, and Mihawk won't make it. She began to squirm, making the marines work harder to keep her still. Helios dropped his pants. The moment she saw his bare erection she struggled harder—as did the boys.

"Move her so they can have a clear view," Helios smirked, gesturing to her furious crew members.

"Bastard!" Sho screamed.

They screamed profanities at the marines, only making Helios's smirk widen. The marines moved so the crew could see everything from a side profile, struggling a little to keep a grip with all the blood that was coming out of the reopened wound, her struggles tearing the scabs out. He smirked, running a finger down her torso, from her neck down her breasts to her navel. Seemingly without a single problem, he pushed her knees apart and shoved himself inside her. She screamed. It felt like she was being torn apart. A trickle of fresh blood joined the dried blood on her leg. Cornelia stopped watching, closing her eyes, wishing for the sounds to stop.

But Helios pulled in and out at a taunting slow pace, enjoying the physical, emotional, and psychological pain he was causing. She screamed until her throat was raw, and her voice suddenly gave out. Helios only picked up the pace, before pulling out and climaxing on her belly. At the back of her mind she briefly thought, 'at least he didn't cum inside', but her conscious mind was going blank, trying to block out the trauma. But Helios drew her back to reality. He drew up his pants and surveyed the damage he did. He laughed.

"Was that so hard? It took a few years, but I finally took your virginity," he cooed, leaning over her, eyes flicking to see the reaction of the boys.

They had furious tears streaming down their faces—fury towards the admiral and towards themselves for being too weak to do anything to save the baby of their crew.

But she started laughing, starting as a giggle then turning into a full out mirthless, mocking laughter. They all stared at her, Helios in shock and confusion, the others only in shock.

"Too bad," she smirked when her laughter died, eyes filled with hatred and mockery. "I lost my virginity three years ago."

Well. That was news to everyone.

"WHAT?!" Helios bellowed.

The two holding down the girl flinched, their grips loosening and allowing her to sit up, still smirking.

"Who the hell did you fuck?" Helios screamed.

"The man you hate the most," she told him.

He fell silent for a moment, fuming, but still thinking. "Smoker," realization dawned in his eyes. When her smirk grew, the light in her eyes becoming mocking, he scowled. "You fucked your own brother?! No. That's a lie. You're just trying to rile me up."

"You could ask him if you like. Once I convinced him and we got into it, he seemed to forget that I was his little sister," she said, then sneered. "I would rather commit incest than give my virginity to someone like you. At least Smoker is a good lover."

Helios's face was turning purple with rage. He opened his mouth and roared, making everyone jump, even her. But he calmed down almost immediately, making Lorelei wary.

"Fine then. He would do that, if just to spite me. But you will not be getting away that easily. Now for the last condition. Kill one member of your crew," Helios said, the fury on his face transforming into a dark smirk.

Lorelei recoiled. "You said-!"

"Yes. I will let your crew go. Four orders, four members," he told her.

"Like hell!" She shouted back.

"Now, now. What marine won't kill a pirate? Unless you want me to kill them all?" Helios cooed.

"Renren," Rolo whispered. "Kill me."

"What?! I can't—"

"I'm dead anyways. Please. I'd rather my death mean something!"

Then she saw it. His blood, too much of it, staining the ground. She ran over, eyes wide and teary, putting pressure on the wound to try and stop the bleeding.

"Rolo!" She cried.

"Please," Rolo begged, eyes filled with pain.

"But—"

"Lorelei, end his pain," Cornelia finally said.

"What?! I can't do something like that!" She snapped back.

"If I were the one lying there dying I'd rather you kill me than die at their hands!" Cornelia shouted back.

"Please," Rolo whispered again, voice weakened.

A choked sob escaped Lorelei's throat. Rolo wrapped her hand around his dagger and brought it to his throat.

"Renren," he smiled gently at the sobbing girl, still naked under the jacket she used to cover herself.

"Thank you for everything," she managed to say.

His smile only widened. His eyes met those of the other members of the crew one by one, before returning to her. With his hand on top of hers, they plunged the dagger into his throat. Almost immediately his eyes turned glassy and lifeless. Her trembling hands dropped the dagger and her wails rang into the sky. Unseen by her, the rest of the crew had tears streaming down their faces as well.

"Admiral, Mihawk's boat is approaching," a marine hurriedly reported.

"Very well, then. Grab the girl and let's go," Helios said dispassionately, still enjoying the look of despair on his fiancé's face.

By the time Mihawk arrived, what greeted his eyes wasn't a pleasant scene. There was not a single marine there, but almost all his crew was on the ground, injured and sobbing with grief and frustration. It wasn't hard to see why. Rolo was dead, gutted and throat slit. And the baby of his crew was gone. He took off his hat as he kneeled to shut Rolo's staring eyes, slightly relieved at the smile on his face, meaning the boy died at peace.

"What happened?" He asked Leo, the one he deemed most emotionally able to answer him at the moment.

"Marines. They set up a trap. They used seastone mist. We tried to fight them and escape, but…" Leo's voice broke and he paused to wipe the tears away angrily. "It was Renren's bastard of a fiancé."

They all knew the story by now. They knew what kind of man he was, and the fear and hatred she felt towards him.

"Renren exchanged herself for our freedom. He was supposed to let us all go, but he made her…"

"What happened," Mihawk repeated, voice deadly with poisonous fury.

"He made her strip and beg him to let us go while naked. Then he had her rejoin the marines. And as proof," Sho answered, spitting out the word, "he told her to kill one of us."

Mihawk's eyes narrowed further, and it took all his self-control not to destroy everything in sight before setting off to slice the admiral into pieces.

"She didn't want to, but Rolo was already dying. He asked her to kill him," Cornelia finally said, sitting up and pulling her daughter Karin close.

So that was why Rolo looked at peace. Mihawk's eyes closed for a moment. They were still hiding something from him.

"What else."

"Captain, it's better if you didn't know," Cornelia told him.

"What else did that fucking bastard do to Lorelei?" Mihawk growled.

The boys and Cornelia stared at him. Mihawk almost never swore. And when he did, it meant he was pissed, and everything within a fifty mile radius should flee for their lives.

"He raped her," Leo said quietly. "I think in the beginning he was going to let all of us go, but after he… she told him that she had lost her virginity to… someone else… he had her kill Rolo. I was his version of revenge."

Face turning red with fury, Mihawk stood, took a few steps away from his crew, and swung the sword with all his might. The pressure flattened everything across the island and shot out into the sea, causing a spray of water before the waves clashed together. But he didn't care about any of that. He closed his eyes, having released some of his anger, and turned to his crew.

"I'm having all of you join Shanks's crew," he finally said, tone forcefully calm.

"What?! But captain—"

"I'm no captain. Not when I cannot protect my own crew. At least Shanks would be able to protect you. I trust him."

"But—"

"You can come visit anytime. You will always be my family and my crew, even if your captain is officially someone else. The same applies to chica," he knelt once again by Rolo.

He would have to bury the boy. He'll drop off the living ones somewhere safe with a doctor that could treat them, and call Shanks to pick them up. Rolo he would bury at his island. Then a thought hit him. Who the hell took the virginity of the baby of his crew?! He turned his head to level a hard stare at the two boys, focusing especially on Leo.

"Leo," he growled. "Who did she lose her virginity to?"

"Not me," he said hurriedly.

His captain's tone screamed if-it-was-you-I-will-dismember-you-even-if-you-are-my-crew. Mihawk raised a brow.

"You know she told us Helios tried to rape her before?" Leo asked.

Mihawk nodded. The key word was tried. But Leo hesitated.

"Captain, you won't judge her? What she did was wrong and disgusting by society's standards. Even I still think it's really wrong. I understand why she would do it, but…"

"I probably would have done the same," Cornelia admitted. "But I would have used a stranger."

"It's screwed up. Really screwed up. That bastard actually drove her to do it, and because of him, she'll probably do it again, if only to forget the feeling of him raping her," Sho spat, quivering with fury directed at the admiral. None of them blamed the girl.

It was wrong, but still, after seeing the type of man her 'fiance' was…

"We're pirates. If we cared what society thought we would have stayed home and led a very different life," Mihawk stated.

"Smoker," Leo whispered. "She slept with her brother."

Mihawk blinked. Incest. But he was slightly relieved. It was someone who loved her rather than a stranger. And then another thought came to him. The rather miffed swordsman muttered, "She would sleep with a man sixteen years her senior, and yet she called me too old?"

The crew knew they shouldn't have heard that, but they did, and it broke through their raging emotions for a brief moment, allowing them to smile weakly.