[Prisoner Mine]
Near the Udon region is a petal-shaped area which acts as a Mine and Prison. Ruled by Queen and Warden Babanuki, all criminals deemed unworthy of Kaido's forgiveness or scorned by Orochi, spend their lives slaving away at mine, extracting gold, silver, iron and platinum for the development of Wano.
Prisoners work with sea stone shackles and explosive collars. Queen birthed that cruel idea, along with the gauntlet ring where prisoners face off against Beast Pirates for a chance of joining the cew. That is a false promise he made up just to see the hope drain out their eyes at the revelation.
"Keep working you maggots!" Queen barks from the watchtower, focusing on the Iron mine, he observes the new inmate.
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Ramos picks away at rock, trying to extract the minerals, after their crushing defeat to the 2 All-Stars, he awoke in chains and being whipped for doing nothing. The sea stones had no effect on him as his not a devil fruit user but the weight on them made every movement excruciating.
Countless hours in the scorching sun, mining like moles, they got a 10 minute break where they eat rice balls, sometimes it's not enough to feed everyone and sometimes they'd threaten to cancel lunch. Despite all his hardship, the Vice-Admiral didn't loose hope, using the hard labour as training, he focuses on honing his haki.
Babanuki witnesses a sight that makes his blood boil, that foreign inmate that Queen brought in has been using his methods of breaking a man's will as training. He spends hours at the mine, working till his bones ache, when ordered to carry boulders to the other section of the prison, he dares to race other prisoners to see who can carry the most boulders. "A madman." Babanukiwhispers. The biggest concern of this inmate is his relationship with the elderly man, Babanuki was a aware of the man's history, once a feared Yakuza boss of the flower capital during the Oden era, now a frail old fart. "Tsk–that brat thinks this is boot camp." The Warden snares.
Queen smiles at the comment, "That kid is quite annoying, but he's the most efficient worker here."
"That's the problem. Him alone boosts our weapons manufacturing by the hundreds, at this rate we can have enough guns to fund a war.
"FANTASTIC!" Queen twirls around, eyes sparkling with excitement. "Oi, Babanuki." The Yonko commander snaps his fingers, "Send all the weak prisoners to my lab. I need new test subjects for a new plaque I'm developing ~" The scientists chuckles
[Flower Capital]
-Pleasure district-
Tucked between the city and underbelly of the Capital, the Red-light districts most prestigious place offers the best women and entertainment, all thanks to Madame Black Maria.
In the many corridors, a spacious room is occupied by Madame Black Maria and her girls, the giant woman, smirks, smoothing the hair of her newest prodigy, Angelica. The Pirate arrived with sass and a tendency to sneak in a punch before her efforts of escaping.
"You've been oddly quiet today Angelica?" Sarahebi teases, a Beast Pirate and one of Black Maria's handler.
"Keep talking and I'll cut out your tongue." Angelica warns, sitting on her knees on the wooden floor, the fierce pirate has been reduced to a courtesian,entertaining the deprived men of the Flower Capital, no matter how many times she curses at them, calling them pigs or pathetic excuses of men, they keep paying for her time.
"Do you know that your booked fully fr today?" Maria informs her.
"Of course I know, these pigs get hearts in their eyes when I place my sandals between their eyes." Angelica gags, the thought of her clients even attempting to graze her skin made her want to vomit.
"It's unfair that Angelica took most of the best clients." Sarahebi pouts.
"Maybe get better at being a wh#re and you might get more clients." Angelica cuses
"You b#tch!" Sarahebi shrieks, using her devil fruit to expand her neck, she strikes at the black-haired tyrant, fangs sharp as steel.
"That's enough." Maria shoots her webs at Sarahebi, sticking her to the wall.
"LET ME GO!" She thrashes around, unable to break through the webs.
Angelica has a smug grin on her face, " Did I strike a nerve?" She purrs.
"That's quite enough from you Angelica. Don't think I'll tolerate disrespect just cause your my money cow." Maria scolds, taking out a giant brass knuckles from her pocket, letting it shine in the light.
"Scary~" Angelica rolls her eyes.
Maria's brow twitches, " Keep this attitude up and I'll beat some sense into you. " She warns.
Angelica bites her tongue, holding back her comeback as she feels sudden danger, " Yes, Madame." She submitted.
[Onigashima]
Yamato was spared out of the illicit trades, as Kaido's "son", she was returned to her cave, to await her father's return.
Sitting in the dark, shackles binding her like a beast, she clenches her teeth in frustration, "When things were looking good, he has to remind me of my fate... his influence is everywhere and now my friends are gone." Her body starts shaking, her lip is wobbling and tears are threatening to fall.
"Damn you Kaido." She sniffles.
"Yamato..." A voice invades her mind.
"Who's there?" She snaps her head around, searching for the source of the sound.
"Open me Yamato... free yourfriends. " The voice urges, the Ogre Princesses brain sparks.
-Flashback-
4 days ago, before meeting Ramos. Yamato and Angelica stood by the shore, watching the polluted water slump into waves. The clouds tainted Black by the toxic gases.
Yamato turns to her, " Why are we here?" Yamato asks with impatience in her tone.
Angelica holds her green skull necklace, a eerie piece of jewellery that gives Yamato goosebumps from just looking at it.
"Patience, Yamato. No need to rush ~ this is a delicate process." She rubs at her necklace.
" If anything bad happens to us, just rub the skull and say release."
Angelica instructs.
-End of flashback-
Yamato channels her haki through the shackles, the energy disrupts the sea stones chemical balance, resulting in cracks all over it.
"Come on. "
[End of chapter]
Author's notice:
Hi guys, so I was planning on a mass release but dut to power shortages I can manage these 2 chapters for now. If power returns tomorrow I'll drop the whole Arc.
Yours Truly ~
Burnedtomatoes.