• Carmen's Special Cooking •

Carmen is an extremely well known cook in the East Blue. She has challenged and beaten almost every notable cook, the only exceptions is former pirate "Red Leg" Zeff, who she hasn't challenged. Her style of cooking is quite flamboyant and visually appealing as her cooking itself and are enough to make many cooks admit defeat.

On one dark, rainy day, Carmen had a very bad argument with Leo and Jose, over her cooking skills. Carmen lost her temper and killed both of them. Then she ground them up into a pile of meat. Carmen at first tried to feed the meat to animals but decide to season it with salt and pepper, added some sage and thyme and a bit of garlic. To give it a special flavor she boiled it in her cooking boiler for a while. And tasted it, and actually likes it.

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The air was warm, the sun was shining, Lougetown was having a glorious day. Zeff is invited to Carmen's cook shop in Lougetown to help her out with some cooking. Once he arrives, he discovers no sign of any work in progress, then Carmen came in from the backroom.

"Zeff, glad you're here. I've been waiting all day", said Carmen.

"Sorry if I'm a little late, Carmen. I was doing a bit of duty at my restaurant this afternoon and lost track of time", apologized Zeff.

"It's fine", said Carmen who chuckled.

Zeff got a slightly uncomfortable feeling at her laughter.

"So, you ready to get started, Zeff? I've got everything all ready", said Carmen.

Carmen give Zeff a sample of her meat that she made for him. When Zeff ate the piece of meat he felt funny at first then he blacked out.

The meat had been injected with a soporific, which knocks Zeff unconscious.

When Zeff regained conciseness, he found himself in a dark room. He tried to shake his head but found that the taut leather strap kept it firmly in place. He struggled to move, but the braces around his chest and limbs glued him to a rack formed from a series of sturdy planks, which spread his legs wide apart.

"Good, you're awake Zeff. Now we can get started." Carmen gleefully stated. She was pushing a cart covered with a cloth.

"What's going on Carmen? I can't move!", said Zeff.

"Well, isn't it obvious, you're tied up." Carmen chided "That's why you can't move. I didn't think you needed me to tell you that."

"But why? What's happening? I thought you said I was going to help you cook."

"You are helping my dear Zeff. You see. I ran out of the special ingredient for my meat and I need you to get more."

"Special ingredient? What special ingredient?", said Zeff.

Carmen chuckled responded "You of course."

Zeff's eyes widen.

"You out of your damn mind?!", yelled Zeff.

Carmen didn't respond and took out a tray contained various sharp medical tools and knives carefully organized and ready. There was a medicine bag and several other objects next to them. Zeff was now in full panic mode. His mind was racing and tried to reason with the Carmen.

"You can't do this Carmen! This is madness!"

"I know but I'm so happy that I'm going to improve my cooking skills, and I'm going to share with you in your last moments together with me, just you and me", she said in a sinister tone.

Carmen turned her attention to the tray. She removed the lid, revealing that it was filled with burning coals. Sitting on top of the fire were several large nails. Carmen picked up the can and walked over to Zeff's left. Carefully picking up a nail and grabbing a hammer, she positioned the spike at his foot.

"No! CARMEN! NO!" Zeff screamed. "NO STOP IT!"

The hummer came down and the nail punctured under Zeff skin. The white hot burning was too much. Zeff pulled and thrashed at the brace, his skin rubbed and tore. Carmen tried to line up another one, but couldn't find her aim. She let out a frustrated grunt. When she pulled the hammer back to take a wild swing, Zeff starts begging Carmen to once more to stop.

"PLEASE STOP! PLEASE, PLEASE CARMEN STOP!"

Carmen just rolled her eyes.

"Hey Zeff think fast!"

Carmen chopped Zeff's right arm as hard as she could. The bone snapped but his skin held, then tore away. She then ripped away a long strip of flesh all the way down Zeff's torso. His body seized at the unexpected trauma then an unending melody of pain filled the room. Unable to catch his breath, Zeff blacked out. Zeff awoke with a gasp. The stench of his flesh filled his mucus nostrils. As his vision swam into focus, Zeff saw Carmen removing a large adrenaline needle from his chest. Stomping her feet, frustrated, carmen lashed out at her helpless victim.

"Didn't anybody teach you any manners? It's very rude to fall asleep when somebody invites you over to cook with them. How would you like it if I came over to your restaurant to cook and only to go sleep?"

As Zeff blinked again, he saw Carmen pop something red into his mouth and began to chew. Noticing Zeff's stare, Carmen quickly gulped the morsel down. "What?" Carmen asked. "Oh, this?" She held up another piece. "Well, while YOU were asleep, I got impatient and helped myself to a small sample. I got it from your remaining leg; its not bad. Wanna try some?" Without waiting for a response, Carmen shoved the strip of meat into the revolted Zeff's mouth. Zeff gagged, and immediately spit it out. Carmen frowned, and picked up the chunk of flesh. "If you didn't want it, you could have said no." She contemplated the discarded snotty morsel, then gulped it up. "It's not like you haven't had my meals before."

Carmen then tied copper wires between the terminals and the nails driven into Zeff's fonger nails, then gave Zeff a wink and flipped the switch. Electricity rocketed through Zeff's body. The cook reacted immediately; his body seized, and his muscles snapped taut. Zeff thrust skyward, his eyes rolled back, and let out a deep, throat shredding cry. Carmen giggled and danced in place, then reached down and turned up the juice. Zeff convulsed uncontrollably, and his bladder emptied.

After about five minutes, Carmen shut off the power. Wisps of steam rose from the singed fur around Zeff's figner nails, and the area reeked of cooked flesh and burnt enamel. Carmen rotated Zeff upright again and tried snap the cook back to attention. "Zeff? Zeff! Hey Zeff, wake up!" Zeff moaned and managed to give a modicum of weak acknowledgment. Carmen then reached into a brown bag and produced a large syringe. "Alright, time for the last round." Zeff focused blearily on the needle, which Carmen took as a question as to what it was. "This is to take the pain away," Carmen told Zeff as she walked around to her victim's back.

Zeff flinched as Carmen jabbed the needle into the lower part of the his spine. Moving in front of him again, Carmen leaned down and elaborated. "In a few minutes, you won't be able to feel anything below your ribcage. Then you'll be able to stay awake to watch the harvest." Zeff started to cry again. "Carmen?" he choked out. "Yeah?" "I want to go back home to my restaurant," Zeff sobbed. "Yeah, I can see that," replied Carmen. "Sometimes when I cook for a long time, I just wanna give up, just say 'I'm done with this mess' and go to bed. But you know what? You can't shrug off your cooking responsibilities. You got to pull yourself up and meet the cooking challenges head on. That's the only way you're gonna get ahead in life as a chef." Zeff hung his head and cried. Minutes passed as the drug took effect. Eventually, Zeff was completely numb.

At this point, Carmen approached with a scalpel. Glancing at Zeff and smilied, Carmen made a long horizontal cut across Zeff's pelvis, just above his crotch. Moving up Zeff's body, Carmen made a similar incision under his ribs. Finally, made a long vertical cut down Zeff's stomach, connecting the first two. "Looks like I got my 'I' on you, Zeff," Carmen laughed. With a moist, gooey sound, the flaps of skin opened. The sight of his own organs and the lack of feeling caused Zeff's breathing to intensify. Carmen carefully sliced open his abdominal sac and grabbed his large intestines. As she separated the organ from the rest of the digestive tract, Zeff growing weaker from this new source of blood loss. Then Carmen reach back inside, and sliced the smaller intestine off from the bowls. Squeezing out the excess excrement, the shock of seeing his organs being cut and ripped out was causing Zeff to fade. Carmen started pulling out the rest of Zeff's organs, pausing with each removal.

Carmen continued cutting up Zeff's organ until he finally died.

Then Carmen ground him up into sausage meat and threw his bones into the sea.

Carmen continued working at her shop in Lougetown. There was such a demand for her meat meals that Carmen buy the best cattles she could find, and also kept a sharp lookout for people who might make a tasty meal.

This went in for years until, Carmen was caught murdering someone with a butcher shop. When authorities arrived at her shop. She is nowhere to found.

To this day No one knows for sure just what happened to her that day. Carmen is never seen again.