[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
Impeldown , First Half of Grandline.
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Luffy entered the second floor of Impel Down while the sounds of beasts echoed through the air, with his group following close behind.
“Woolf Woolf!” Chouchou barked beside Luffy.
“Do you want to catch it?” Luffy asked the animal with interest, as it nodded. “Then go ahead.” Luffy ordered.
“Woolf!” He barked as he ran ahead down the corridors.
“Will he be okay?” Reiju asked, still hearing the animal’s footsteps in the distance.
“Of course he will, he’s the alpha beast right now.” Luffy said with a slight smile.
Meanwhile, the prisoners, even more dangerous than those on the first level, were wondering what all the explosions from earlier were about, not knowing exactly what was happening. This could be attributed to the beasts guarding that floor—giant birds, lions, spiders, even basilisks, and manticores were guarding the cells of those prisoners.
“What could be happening… The animals seem agitated…” one prisoner said.
“Maybe a new beast on the floor?” another said. After all, the beasts would compete whenever another one came to this floor, fighting each other to see who would be the alpha.
“You’re right, look at that shadow coming from the corridor!” a prisoner pointed to a wall with light coming from one of the corridors, and a huge shadow began to appear there, with a kind of beast with four legs walking calmly through the place.
“I don’t recognize that beast! It must be a new monster they brought in, maybe the tremors were caused by it!” a prisoner pointed, trembling.
“Be careful! The beasts will fight each other!” another pointed out, as all the animals in that corridor also looked at the shadow on the wall, which was approaching every moment.
“What kind of monster is that…” another murmured as the beast finally appeared in the corridor.
Chouchou finally appeared curious as he came across a corridor, he looked back and saw that the light from the path he followed made his shadow appear gigantic. He saw several beasts and prisoners looking at him at that moment, as he stared back at them with curiosity.
“What? Just a simple dog?” a prisoner murmured, looking at the animal that sat at the front of the corridor, while the shadow still projected a large monster, tricking them with the light and optical illusion.
“Wait, why is there a dog here… he’ll be killed by the beasts…” another prisoner said, watching the beasts growling at Chouchou.
Chouchou didn’t seem afraid, he just looked at the creatures about to attack him with curiosity as he sat there. He then stood up and began to walk forward.
“I have to admit, the mutt has courage…” someone murmured from their cell.
“Tsk, let’s see the dog die with one bite, I wish I had a dog in my cell to keep me company…” another commented.
Chouchou ignored the conversations and mockery the prisoners were throwing at him and looked seriously at the beasts before growling. His body began to change at that moment, catching all the spectators off guard.
A lion charged and jumped on him at that moment to kill him, not liking having such a small animal on this floor, but Chouchou didn’t stop growing. When the lion saw the form of Cerberus with three heads, it couldn’t even react as it was bitten by one of the heads, being held suspended in the air, despairing at that moment.
“What is this dog!!” People screamed in their cells, seeing the small dog transforming into a mythical beast, while everyone felt immense fear.
The animals were no different, seeing that the animal they had mocked and called to fight had become a predator, making them stop and emit sounds, looking at Cerberus with fear. But it was too late, the lion didn’t even see its death coming as the head that held it emitted fire, turning it into a barbecue the next moment and being spat out by Chouchou as if he had eaten something bad.
“That’s the new beast…” the prisoners swallowed hard, watching Cerberus’s actions.
“That thing shouldn’t be on this floor!” they exclaimed, knowing there were more powerful beasts on other floors.
“HOOOOO!!” Chouchou began growling at the other creatures as they barely had time to move away before he jumped, his paws so large that they covered the roofs of numerous cells, trembling with his advance.
A war erupted as Chouchou began fighting against all those beasts on the floors. The prisoners could only watch the massacre happening as that beast started destroying everything.
“Please save me, I don’t want to be eaten by this thing!” the prisoners began to feel fear, believing that after the beasts, Cerberus would come after them. But their screams were not heard with no guards around, or were muffled by the sound of elemental explosions and beasts lamenting and being killed echoing throughout the place.
“He made quite a mess…” Luffy whistled as he walked, reaching the prisoners’ corridor.
“He also knows how to scare these prisoners…” Kuina couldn’t help but comment as she looked at the cells with people trembling in a corner.
“He’s a good dog.” Luffy said.
“How is he a good dog when he’s massacring all the animals!” Nami shouted at Luffy as the place was infested with fallen dead beasts.
They saw a basilisk screaming and crying while it was in Cerberus’s mouth, a creature even larger than the snake.
“Chouchou, we’re heading to the third level. Finish this quickly and let’s move on.” Luffy requested while Chouchou nodded, returning to normal after frying the snake with lightning. They proceeded to the third floor once they found the key.
Meanwhile, in the elevator reaching the first floor, Hannyabal finally opened the elevator with a group of wolves that had followed him from the fifth floor.
Luffy knew about the elevator but chose to walk from floor to floor to kill time, while most of his crew was still unaware of it. This would lead to some protests.
As for Hannyabal, when the door opened, he quickly jumped out with his spear, and the wolves followed him.
“Where are the intruders!?” he shouted, pointing his weapon, with the wolves circling him growling. But what he saw in front of him left him bewildered.
There was nothing but debris scattered all over the place, and what shocked him the most was that he could see the sky above the sea. “What is happening!!!” Hannyabal was shocked.
He continued looking at it for at least 10 seconds while the wolves seemed to be having the same experience.
“Sir Hannyabal!” He finally snapped out of his daze when he heard someone calling his name. He looked to see a group of guards running towards him.
“Lord Hannyabal, the prison is under attack. They’ve destroyed the entire surface area and are advancing to level 2 or even 3 as we speak!” The guard seemed scared by this.
“What, who are they, and why have they destroyed this place? Why is my Den Den Mushi not working!” Hannyabal shouted, “Where is Director Magellan?!” he demanded.
“Communication has been cut… the marine ships are destroyed or damaged… And the marines are lying unconscious, thanks to the pirates. And they are none other than the Straw Hat Pirates who’ve been in the news lately!!” They said, startling Hannyabal.
Before he could say anything, they continued speaking. “As for Director Magellan… He is knocked out!” He said while pointing to one side of the entire destruction, where many parts were corroded by Magellan’s own ability.
Hannyabal could see a large crowd of guards gathered there. “The Straw Hats!” he said as he ran towards that group with the guards who approached him right behind.
Magellan was lying on the ground in the middle of a small crater with his chest bleeding while some people were trying to stop the hemorrhage, and his face was also destroyed. He was completely unconscious in that state. Hannyabal was shocked as he passed through the crowd with the wolves from the fifth floor following him.
“This is bad!!” Hannyabal looked afraid, seeing Director Magellan in that state, and glanced at the growing crowd of guards, pushing his fear aside.
“Maybe this is my big chance to shine…” he couldn’t help but murmur as his dream began to overshadow the fear he felt at that moment. “Yes, this is my chance!” Hannyabal finally seemed to gain some confidence.
He puffed out his chest as he faced all the men in front of him. “Listen up, everyone! Our duty is to protect this prison with all our strength!” He began to try boosting the group’s morale while everyone looked at him, confused, as they were in the middle of a crisis and Hannyabal was suddenly bringing this up.
“But they are the Straw Hats… we can’t beat them… Even Magellan couldn’t defeat them and was taken down like a stray dog…” someone murmured without any confidence.
“Don’t be a coward! The world needs us to protect them from these pirates and the prisoners in the cells below us. We need to stop them and defeat them! And more importantly, this prison needs me. I am now taking command and will stop the pirates, leading us to victory! I will finally become the director!!” Hannyabal exclaimed.
“…” The guards looked at each other, unsure of what to say… They doubted if they could really stop the pirates.
“Let’s defeat them!” Hannyabal continued shouting alone.
“…” People remained silent while Hannyabal seemed to be dreaming of his promotion to director, and the wolves behind him seemed excited too, with the promise of getting larger pieces of meat in their meals.
“I guess we should fight…” one guard said, although not very enthusiastically.
“Yes… maybe we should fight with all our strength against the enemy…” another murmured.
“We are the guards of the most dangerous and protected prison in the world. All the people in the world are counting on us to keep these prisoners in their cells,” a third murmured.
It was a strange situation, while Hannyabal continued shouting and dreaming of being director with his dogs, the guards talked among themselves.
“Let’s fight them, even if it costs us our lives!”
“That’s right!”
“Let’s fight the Straw Hats!”
The guards started shouting at each other, gaining more and more morale. Hannyabal looked at this with pride. ‘I can inspire people!’ he screamed internally, thinking it was a quality of a director, but he didn’t know they were inspired by themselves while discussing, ignoring all his previous speeches.
“Come on, men, let’s go down to the prison and stop them!” Hannyabal shouted while everyone nodded now.
“YES!!!” The chorus came from the crowd, and Hannyabal headed for the elevator with the guards and wolves.
Meanwhile, on the first level, Domino woke up at that moment. She saw the still unconscious guards around her. She couldn’t help but remember what happened, feeling a vein bulging on her forehead.
She touched her bottom. “He squeezed my butt and got away with it, this won’t stand!!” she growled and began waking the guards with her whip, ready to fight Luffy on the lower floors or wherever he was.
“I’ll capture him and give him several lashes!” she shouted as she saw the guards yelling as she hit them. Luffy didn’t even know he had entered the sights of a vengeful woman.
Buggy also woke up from the ground, blinking and trying to orient himself about what had happened.
“Where is Straw Hat!” he growled, with the memory of being knocked out by him, not knowing his map had been stolen. Otherwise, Buggy would be at his peak of fury.
“…” There was no more sign of Luffy in the corridor, making Buggy wonder where he had gone.
“No matter, I can still get out of here…” he thought, but then looked at the distant cells. “Maybe I can free them!” He had an idea and decided to go after the cell keys, to gain an advantage while trying to escape.
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