-1Wow! Sorry for the really long delay but I seriously got swamped with my a whole bunch of crap before school starts up again. Plus, the last couple of weeks I got into this art gear that came out of no where so focused on that more. Thanks for the comments and stuff and trust me there's more to the little evil character than meets the eye. Yeah, there's some OOC-ness going on esp. for Luffy in the near future but sall good in my book )
NOTE!- Ok so during this whole dip in time btwn chapters I sort of figured out how to somehow get both the 1st and 2nd idea combined into 1 story through brain storming done during my odd lapses of insomnia. --
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"Owww," groaned a voice inside the pitch black room, "huh? my body feels so weak…what is this place?"
He tried to get up but his body completely lost all feeling as he slumped back down against what seemed like a stone wall. The boy was completely unaware of his surroundings but couldn't help but feel a bad vibe emitted from something or one near him. He smiled to the darkness around him and focused on himself again.
"Huh? What the.." he said lifting up his arms with difficulty. The sound of chains clinking against each other echoed through the room.
"Chains?…oh! I know! I bet it's Sea-stone." He felt around his limbs and found 2 on his wrists and 1 around his neck. "Cool necklace! Wait…is it a collar?…where am I again?" he asked with wide eyes looking into the darkness.
"Are you just acting ADD or maybe just plain retarded because just listening to you talk to yourself is really entertaining." mocked a feminine voice in front of him.
A dim light was lit above and revealed two figures below. The room was a small cramped area with the walls and floor made out of stone. On the opposite wall of that Luffy was leaning on was a wooden door with a small bared window and above was the mysteriously lighten candle dripping wax every so often to the floor. Luffy was sitting on the ground, his head bowed forward because of the strong effect of the stone. He shifted his eyes to his arms to see his wrists bound to the wall by a long chain and the chain attached to the collar on his neck hung down in front of his chest and barely touched the ground. A few feet in front of him stood his captor staring down at him.
"Hmm? Who the are you and where's my crew?" he asked while trying lift his head to the person in front of him. The veiled woman in front of him slowly knelt in front of him and lifted his chin with her index figure.
"Oh, your friends are somewhere off in the ocean blindly sailing through some fatally sharp rocks just waiting to drown them all," laughed the girl.
Luffy's expression suddenly became serious glaring at the hidden eyes in front of him. "I'm not playing with you where and why am I here and why is my nakama out there?"
"Are you always this self-confident in yourself when you're in such a pathetic position," the girl questioned, " well, I guess I'm gonna have to tear that strong wall of yours down it seems." She sighed and rested her head in her hands. "You should feel pretty proud that I actually talk to you because I know that your too good to play mind tricks with unlike your clueless crew…you knew I was in the room all along didn't you?"
"What's it to you? and you haven't answered my question!"
"Don't you dare raise your voice to me you worthless freak!" she yelled as she roughly threw his head into the stone wall behind him, "Without your powers your weak as any normal human so don't get any ideas." Streams of blood rolled down Luffy's neck as he let out a small moan from the pain in the back of his head. "But just because I'm sweet I'll tell you your on a remote island known as Kyuushuu island but your nakama have no idea where you are," she said nonchalantly, "I kidnapped you because you have something that I want but with that kind of will you won't let it go will you."
Luffy cocked his head to the side. "Eh? What are you talking about lady? If you haven't noticed I'm kinda almost half-naked so how can I have something you want?"
The girl giggled to herself as she moved closer to his face. " Stop playing that innocent card I know your not an idiot," said said pulling his hair back violently, "and I know what your hiding along with every devil-fruit user in this world, ……the true curse of the devil's fruit," she whispered in his ear. "You're the one I've been searching for in particular."
"What do you mean?" breathed Luffy.
"I know all about your kind, like after eating those fruits it has an extra side-effect other than the ones originally known; the one that makes the user have an insatiable lust for blood and eventually death," calmly explained the girl, "but that only comes out if the human mind of the user gives up on itself. I chose you because your superior physical strength without the curse is so abundant that you will be the most effective yet, you won't let it out so I'm going to make you break and when you do I'll be in control with this." She yanked at the chain pulling his neck closer to her.
"How do you know about that?" asked Luffy, "only users know it and keep it to themselves…"
"Oh, I have my ways, some people are easy to persuade to tell me everything especially that clown." casually explained the veiled woman.
Luffy's eyes widened as she spoke and closed in defeat. He knew exactly what she was talking about. "Fine I'll drop the innocent act but what makes you think I'll break?" he hissed, "and besides what makes you think that I'm the strongest out there?" asked the young teen.
"I'm glad you asked that," she replied standing up, "I know because I've been watching and following you from the beginning and seen the people you have defeated in battle." As she said this her body split into pieces.
"Buggy the pirate,"
Her body became smooth suddenly, "Alvida, Crocodile," she said turning her hand into sand repeating all the devil-fruit user enemies he had beaten in the past along with an example of their powers. "and just for fun your brother Ace," she finished turning her hand into a flame.
Luffy just stared in awe as the powers of his past were displayed in one person before him. "Awesome! How can you have all of those powers? I've never heard of a devil-fruit that can let you do that!" he said completely distracted from his current predicament.
"I'm no devil-fruit user I just copy others attacks like a mirror I guess. It's a natural gift probably given to me to rid this planet of you freaks." She turned her body back to normal flexing her fingers a little. "It's natural to have 2 powers in this world anyway: 1 evil which is your kind and me who has the ability to kill you all...but these don't amount to the power you hold inside." she sighed kneeling back down in front of him.
"Why do you want it anyway?" asked Luffy suddenly serious again.
"Why? because I detest devil-fruit users and their lack of regard to others and abuse of power," she said through clenched teeth, " they take advantage of others who are weaker and destroy." She stood up and walked to the side wall with her hands balled in fists by her sides. Her quivering breaths were all Luffy could hear as he stared at her back. "You people kill for fun….. just like how that man killed my family in front of me and that maniacal laughing ," she turned back to him showing no signs of her previous episode and knelt before him again, "That's why I use my gift to give all of your kind payback, revenge for what they did to me and others and using you against them will end it."
"Honestly, you're a cute one but it's too bad that fate has lead us here." she whispered cupping his face in her hand.
"Don't touch me you bitch! Take me back to my friends now!" said Luffy as he tried to get out of her grasp to no avail.
"Still a rebel I guess," she sighed, "but I like that fire inside." Her free hand crept up his white shirt to rest on his stomach receiving a small gasp from the helpless boy.
"Wha-what..are you doing?" he stuttered feeling the cold touch against his body.
"Just playing with you," she laughed taking her hand away from his stomach.
Regaining his composure Luffy looked up with a quiet laugh. "Tsh, You seem so confident yourself in getting what you want that you can play games with me yet you hide behind that ugly veil of yours like your scared," teased Luffy.
"More like scarred" she remarked coolly raising her veil. Hidden behind the thin piece of cloth was a beautiful face with straight black hair framing her face going down to mid-neck and bangs a little past than her chin. Her smooth pink lips stood out from her milky white skin. Luffy's eyes widened in shock as he looked into hers, or at least where hers should be. Her eyes were only sockets that revealed only black voids lined with crimson red. She smiled at his reaction showing her perfectly white smile. "You like what happened because of your cruel kind?" she growled putting the veil back over her face. "My name is Cai," she admitted slowly moving her hand down to his chest, " Don't think that your 'nakama' is going to save you from this….make yourself comfortable!"
With a large amount of force she pushed him back towards the wall making his head ricochet off the wall in the same spot as last time. Luffy's vision began to blur as Cai stood up again.
"This is going to be so much fun torturing the world famous Monkey D. Luffy… at least you will feel my pain," she said. His weak body couldn't take the hard blows to the head anymore as he blacked out and slowly slumped to the side lying on the cold floor.
She turned away and walked out of the cell. Cai blew out the candle extinguishing the light leaving the boy in pure darkness. The large wooden door shut echoing through the halls. 'That fucking confidence, I'll be sure beat it out until your mind surrenders,' she thought as she walked away from the cell, "Revenge is so sweet," she mused as she walked through the darkness around her.
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The fog had disappeared from around the ship and now all that was seen were the sharp rock formations that threatened to puncture the sides of Sunny protruding out of the vast ocean in front of them. The remaining members of the straw-hats were recovering from the embarrassing defeat by one unknown character who visited their ship a few hours ago.
"What are we going to do now?" asked Zoro, "we're stuck in the middle of the ocean surrounded by jagged rocks, Luffy's been kidnapped and we have no idea where that unnatural weird girl went." His pessimistic attitude created a little tension in the air between the members as they listened to his remark.
"Hey! Fucking marimo! Don't call that young lady names!" yelled Sanji
"What did you call me shitty-cook?! Besides, if you haven't noticed she's the reason were in this situation plus she beat the crap at of you anyway.." he retorted smiling slightly to the last few words.
"Not like you did any better!" said the cook kicking the other straight in the mouth wiping off the grin. AS usual the shoe and sword met in another duel that took place for about 10 seconds before a certain Navigator showed up between the two.
"Knock it off you idiots!" scolded Nami punching them on their heads down to the ground.
"Yes, we don't have time to play games, captain-san is missing," remarked Robin.
Usopp stood up proudly next to Chopper. " I was kidnapped once before by thieves along time ago!"
"Really?!? When?" asked the curious little reindeer excitedly.
"When I was working for a secret mission across the ocean. I was taken in by the thieves but I beat them up easily even when I was tied up!" proclaimed the liar parading around acting out the imagined scene for Chopper who seemed to be fascinated by his fake story.
Suddenly four members were now on the ground nursing the huge bumps on their heads while Nami stood above them all with a huge blood vessel popping out of her head.
"Don't any of you notice the problem here?!?" she said behind clenched teeth, "Luffy is gone and we need to find him!"
"Geez, Nami, Luffy is strong enough to fend for himself! When he wakes up he'll break out and everything will be fine." said Usopp.
A mysterious dark cloud fell around Nami as she glared at the marksman. "How can he get back to us if he doesn't know where we are??"
"…"
"and didn't you notice the sea-stone collar he had on?!"
"…."
"Aghh!! What do we do?? Luffy!!" screamed the little doctor running in circles around the crew.
"I suggest we get out of this area and figure out how to get to Luffy-san after." proposed Robin.
"…..I guess," sighed Nami.
"SUPA!! Let's get going!" yelled Franky pumping his fist into the air.
"Don't act so happy! We haven't accomplished anything!" reprimanded the navigator punching the remaining male member to the ground. She walked over to the balcony pulling out her log pose watching the needle point forward. "I guess we have no choice."
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Sorry if it sounds rushed and a whole bunch of info was randomly shot out in the chapter but I rather get into the main part of the plot so I can get to the pain and suffering faster now. The main reason for this chapter was to clear up reasons, powers, secrets, blah, you know. Anyway review if you like if you want some kind of work on something or w/e. Yeah' next chapter will be pretty much bloody and painful as will the ones in the future for poor Luffy so the rating will change as of next post so look out for that. Thanks!
