Chapter 35: Burning Heat
"Gomu Gomu Whip!" Luffy cried out as he slung his leg out and slammed it into several beast jailers; throwing them into the pit below that led to the next level.
"Spin, Spin!" Bon Clay yelled out as he spun as a ballerina taking out several more plump jailer beasts.
"Chop-Chop Festival", Buggy yelled out as his body part separated and shot out at their opponents, blocking their escape, and began to attack them with his body parts. However, his feet remain on the ground, making them vulnerable to attack. Fortunately Mr. 3 created a barrier around Buggy's vulnerable body parts stopping the round beast jailers from attacking him.
Mr. 3 then used the last of his creative energy to create a sled that they could use to ride down into the pit towards the next level. "That's the last that I can spare without passing out." He looked at the pile of bodies Bon Clay and Luffy had left behind in their wake. Incredible. They're both such monsters.
"Remind me to never piss off that transvestite." Buggy whispered. "He's actually quite terrifying."
No kidding. Mr. 3 thought.
"Is it ready?" Luffy inquired as he looked at the sled. "Oh! That looks steady." He jumped into it. "Let's go!"
"How?" Buggy asked as he jumped into it as well.
As soon as Bon Clay and Mr. 3 got in as well, Luffy laughed. "Shishishi." He then slammed his fists onto the floor in front of them, using armament haki to strengthen the hit. This caused the cracks to expand, running towards the group and weaken the ground below them. Once the second hit slammed into the floor, the sled with its occupants fell straight down.
"AAAAAHHHH!" The three men screamed terrified and grasping each other.
The sled hit the ground below only for it to be softened. Luffy looked under the sled and saw the unconscious beasts they had thrown down the pit. Luffy looked at his group of semi-allies and gave them a thumbs up. "We're good." He stated with a chuckle.
"You're crazier than that guy that I grew up with!" Buggy exclaimed. "Scratch that! You're crazier than my old dead captain!"
Luffy laughed. "Shishishi."
"It's not funny!" He screamed at the kid. "He shaved off ten years of my life with his stunts! I'm only thirty-eight! I shouldn't have all these worry lines yet!"
"Why live a boring safe life?" Luffy stated. "Life is too short to do so. It's better when it's exciting." He jumped off the sled and slid down the pile of unconscious beasts. "Is this level four?" he asked when he spotted a large opening with hot air billowing out towards them. It's hot. He thought before looking up at the opening of the pit. Hotter than up there had been.
Bon Clay approached the ledge. "Straw-boy, come here."
Luffy walk up to the ledge and gasped at the heat hitting him. It felt like a volcano down there! "Is this level four?" He asked once more.
"Yes." Bon answered darkly. "The Blazing Hell." Luffy swallowed thickly behind him he saw Buggy helping Mr. 3.
No wonder Mr. 3 stated he couldn't go further down or he'd die. He thought before looking back. "Tell them they can start going back. I'll go on by myself."
"No." Bon Clay said. "I'm coming too Straw-boy. You're my friend and I made a promise."
Luffy grinned.
"Why wasn't I informed sooner of this infiltration!" Warden Magellans voice echoed across the room of his subordinates.
"It wasn't totally our fault that you knew nothing." His second-in-command stated making him upset. "You just had to show Miss Hancock the prisoner." Venomous poison began to emit vapors into the room. "So yeah, your fault." His second suddenly felt light headed. "Warden! Close your mouth! You're going to kill us!"
"You don't think I can do my job!" He snarled.
Nervously his subordinates backed away. "Of course not! You're quite effective at doing it."
A woman dressed in what looked like a pink BDSM bodysuit walked into the room. "Looks like the guest has left." She spoke.
"Oh! Mistress Sadi." He greeted respectfully.
"The riots on the first two levels are being attended to by my people. So are we going to hunt down the infiltrator and his accomplices?" She stated, sounding quite bored.
"You're just the person for the job!" The warden stated as he turned towards the video monitors. "Who is stationed on level 3?"
"Minotaur is on that level." She moaned slightly.
Suddenly the doors burst open. "Strawhat and his group have entered level 4!"
Magellan snorted. "It seems Minotaur has failed." He walked out of the room towards the elevator. "I will deal with these pests."
As soon as Bon Clay rejoined Luffy, the man began explaining this level in grim detail. A river of boiling blood? Luffy wondered. "I hope they're cooking something other than prisoners down there because this place already sucks!"
"Trust me when I say this," Bon Clay stated grimly. "from this moment on you'll be constantly in danger. Your life can end at any moment. One wrong step and it's over."
Shit. Luffy thought. I knew I should've paid more attention to Robin as she talked about this place that one time. "Bon." The man looked at Luffy. "Why are you really helping me? I know there has to be reason other than being my friend."
The man smiled. "I've heard that there's this man who was wrongly imprisoned. People call him a miracle. He is known as Iva!" Luffy could've sworn that there were stars in Bon Clays eyes. "He's the queen of the Kamabakka Kingdom. The pink paradise of the Grand Line! He's the leader of the queer folk. The Queen of all Queens!" Bon Clay clasped his hands together and sighed.
"Queen of all Queens?" Luffy questioned before a wide grin spread across his face. "Sounds like somebody important."
"I want to meet him face to face," Bon said with another sigh as he excitedly spun around. "if only for a moment." He stopped spinning. "Perhaps we can set him free."
Buggy suddenly jumped in front of them. "I've made a decision. My debt isn't cleared yet. I'll continue with you two until I feel it is." Truthfully I don't want to go through those other two levels with just that guy. Mr. 3 is weaker than me!
"Cool!" Luffy laughed lightly. "But can you survive level 4? It's pretty hot here and I don't want you to hurt yourself."
This kid! Buggy felt touched. Looking out for someone like me! He wanted to cry.
Luffy suddenly noticed he felt a bit cooler. Looking up at the ceiling he saw a fan but it was getting further away. "Is it me or is the ceiling going further away from us.
"Huh?" All three men said in unison.
"Hmm.." Buggy thought. "You're right."
"Is it getting cooler?" Mr. 3 inquired.
"Yeah." Luffy agreed.
"Actually…" Bon Clay looked around them as the rumble beneath his feet continued. "I think we're falling."
"No way!" Luffy yelled with excitement.
"Why are you excited!?" Mr. 3 asked. "I'm going to melt into a puddle!"
"No you won't." Luffy stated with the utmost confidence. "You'll be alright!"
"We're falling into the hellfire below us!" The others yelled, Luffy just grinned.
In the cells of level 6, Jinbe felt a tremor go through the foundation against his back. Oh? He questioned. That wasn't a tremor from water or earth. That was a tremor from the prison itself. He looked up at the ceiling, the chandelier shook outside of the cells.
"Strawhat has begun his attack on the prison." Crocodile stated. "That hatchling is stronger than I thought." He grinned. His words confused Jinbe, especially since he seemed to smiling with pride up at the ceiling.
Just who are you Strawhat Luffy? Jinbe thought as he relaxed himself. If I'm going to be fighting, I'll need to begin conserving my energy and strength.
At the gates of level 4 the guards and marine soldier under Magellan and his men waited for the invader Luffy to come through. "There's no way that boy can get through us!" Magellan stated. "With the whole of my forces here-"
"Warden!" One of his men yelled out. "We've gotten word that Strawhat Luffy and his forces have been seen on this floor already! He bypassed the gate by knocking the ceiling down!"
Warden Magellan looked up at the tall ceiling. Impressive. He thought. Even for a pirate. "The ceiling is directly above the boiling pool of blood! How are they alive!" He yelled.
"From what's been reported, they used a falling piece of slab and landed into the blood pool before jumping to safety." The guard answered quickly.
What luck. Magellan though.
"There's more." The guard said nervously. "It would seem that the champion Minotaur has been defeated on level 3 and has not moved; at all."
Magellan growled. "We already knew he failed. Do we know who defeated him?"
"Apparently he was taken out by an explosion along with several other beast guards." The guard answered. "Unknown how strawhat got explosives into the prison."
Mistress Sadi cried. "I can't believe it! My poor baby!"
"Enough!" Magellan growled out getting annoyed by his own people. "There are only two ways of leaving level 4 without dying. The staircases leading up to level 3 and down to level 5 and the elevator; both are heavily guarded." His voice took on a commanding tone as he looked at his second-in-command. "Hannyabal, I want you to take these stairs that lead to level 3. I am placing you in charge here. I want all access blocked!" He looked at the woman before him. "Mistress Sadi, I want you and your special demon guards to take these stairs that staircase to level 5. Nobody escapes!"
"No! That's going to bore me to tears!" She complained as false crocodile tears ran down her cheeks. "I wanted to punish those bad boys; unless my outfit didn't make that clear enough to you!"
"Are there any objections?" Magellan snarled as wisps of poison escaped his breath. The guards covered their mouths with their hands and whimpered a round of no's. "Oh and once they are captured, you can punish them as you like."
This mad Mistress Sadi absolutely happy. "Yay!" She squealed with joy.
"This ends now!" He growled as he began to walk off. "They have played games, made fools of all of us and have caused irreparable damage to Impel Down!" A dark aura began to form around his body from his anger. "The blazing hell will be their last stop."
M-Angel: So I originally was going to post this last Sunday but I got extremely sick and I am just recovering from it. It was pretty bad. Any way, next chapter will be posted in a couple of days. I hope you liked this chapter.