Life Changing Decision Katakuri X Reader One piece

Failure

Darkness.

This was all he was able to see. In a way it felt kind of relieving to be surrounded by this pitch black coat to hide from all the torture he sure would meet again soon.

''God it hurts so much...'', he whispered strained not able to move an inch. His whole body was screaming and suffering of the whip marks which covered his skin like a tattoo.
To be in such a situation, vulnerable, helpless and wounded badly wasn't normally for the second son of the Charlotte family, Katakuri.
The most feared pirate, once proudly and strong gazing down on his enemies and now pinned down onto the cold floor covered in blood.
Yeah it hurted like hell. The beating, cutting and who knows what they did to him, Katakuri couldn't follow anymore, but the moment they took his scarf roughly from his neck, exposing his face, he always kept hidden from the world, let his last bit of pride break into pieces.
In an instant he felt cold. His exposed skin tickled and let him tremble of shock. Laughing down and spitting into his face, he only could endure this unhuman mockery, while being pinned down in this cell. Never would he give up. They got him good, but he was stronger than that. Biting on his lip, he surpressed a cry of pain. Grumbling he tried to stay still and closed his eyes to calm down.

Why?

Cursing under his breath he thought over and over again about the cause of his distress.In a way it was the only escape to push this nightmare away. Just a moment not feeling any pain, nevertheless the grief, that his life would end like that was worse.

How?

How could everything go so wrong?

"I knew that she wouldn't understand at all. Safe my subordinates than fulfilling my duty.... My righteous decision to safe my crew is killing me now...", he chuckled bitterly and images of the life changing decision popped up in his mind.

Xxx Flashback xxx

Silent Katakuri rested alone at the back of his ship, while his crew worked hard to keep everything perfectly. His loyal members of his crew looked out for the convey of ships which followed them close by and without any problems. 

The sea seemed calm and the weather couldn't be better. Everything was going fine. Katakuri thought about how easy this mission was.

Like he would ever fail anyway.

For Big Mom it was already clear that she would get the ancient artifact after giving Katakuri the task to get it for her. 
Sighing in delight Katakuri looked out to the beautiful sea and got up to watch over the ships, which were following him peacefully.
He felt bad for resting for so long. As a leader he shouldn't rest at all.
"To be careless would always lead to trouble. Never underestimate the sea... ", he thought, but before he could comprehend what happened next, it was too late.
The shots, targeted perfectly, flew past his face and hit some of his subordinates. He couldn't see any sign where this attack was coming from, only the breeze of the shot which tickled his cheek lead him to the direction from its whereabout, but Katakuri was only met with the open sea.

"Well well who do we have here???? " a dangerous voice appeared behind him and let Katakuri gasp of shock. Quickly turning around he was met with Laffitte, one member of the Blackbeard pirates, smirking towards him while waving with his black hat in one hand. Katakuri's men were kneeling before him, trembling in fear. It all happened so fast that he wasn't able to sense anything. This was exactly what they had planned. They new all too well what the son of the Charlotte family was able to do. Only tricking him would lead them to victory.

"How..? What are you doing here.?!", Katakuri growled frustrated and had to endure how Laffitte was playing with a knife above his subordinates heads. The look of the Blackbeard pirate, smirking widely and threatening him to stay still if he wanted them alive, let Katakuri froze in the spot.