Crazy In Love | Buggy

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After agreeing to help them, Sanra ordered Stede to climb off of me which I very much appreciated. My wrists were in agony from the heavy pressure that had been pressing down upon them. Still, they stayed close by to me. I eyed up my knife, which was so far away from me now. I had no chance of grabbing it.

Sanra ordered me to walk with them, so I did. Stede walked behind us, far too close to me for my comfort. He had a weapon on him I'd just only noticed. It was a large, metal club. Like a baseball bat, only much, much bigger.

We walked into the deck of the ship, where I noticed it had gone dark. It was nighttime. How long had Buggy actually been gone?

"You know, you could eventually join us," Sanra told me, as they led me from the ship down onto the sandy beach of the island. "You have the fight and aggression needed, you just need some proper training."

That was the last thing that I wanted. I hated pirates, other than Buggy, of course. I didn't want to join this crew, and I especially didn't want to be stuck around Stede all of the time. All I wanted was for Buggy to be safe, and alive. I prayed that they wouldn't have killed him by now.

Buggy was hard to kill, but not impossible. I eyed up the salt sea water that surrounded us, knowing that all they would have to do was fling him into it and he'd drown. His devil fruit powers meant that he couldn't swim, or even move, if in sea water. They would know that, too.

Sanra eyed me. "That would be... good. I always thought it'd be interesting to be a pirate but Buggy would never let me join his crew."

She laughed heavily at that. "Maybe that's a good thing considering how his crew met their ends."

The rest of our walk was filled with Sanra telling me about how good Captain Patella was, and how I could really enjoy being apart of his crew. I nodded my head and pretended to be actually interested in what she was telling me.

We walked all the way through the forest trees, until the sight of the beach and boat were gone and out of sight. Then, we walked and walked. The walk was further than I would have thought it would be. Finally, we made it so a large cave entrance.

"We're... going in here?"

Sanra slapped me on the back. "Don't worry. It isn't as creepy as it looks. We set up lights."

"Yeah, we wanted to be able to really see Buggy when we rip him apart."

I gulped. "Okay. Great."

We headed in together. They cave was big, really big. The rock ceiling was well above us. Even if I jumped up, I couldn't have touched it. Neither could Stede, I imagined. We walked deeper and deeper in, and I saw that they had indeed set up lights to guide our way. As we walked, I desperately tried to think of a good way out of all of this. Of course, nothing came to mind.

Finally, we reached the main cavern of the cave. It was a gigantic open space. The ceiling here was even higher, and when I looked up I saw that there was a big hole in the roof where the night sky was visible. At first, I sat it as another escape, but I quickly realised that it was too high.

Although, Buggy could sort of fly. He needed both feet firmly on the ground to do so, which was a probably.

In the open space, was about twenty pirates. They all eyed me curiously, and looked more confused than anything else. I looked for Buggy, finally spotting him. I had to repress the urge to gasp at the sight of him.

Inside of the cave, they had brought a gigantic glass container of water. It was at least ten foot high, and the majority of Buggy's body was inside of it. Then, there was a metal seal at the top, preventing him of getting out. It didn't take me long to figure out that it was most likely sea water, which meant his powers were weakened and pretty much unable.