The roar of the crowd surged through the coliseum like a tidal wave, an overwhelming force of voices rising in unison, echoing off the towering stone walls.
“Kyaaah! They look so magnificent!!” someone shrieked, her words swallowed by the thunderous cheers of the Amazon warriors.
“This is the strength of our champions! The power of the Gorgons! This is what happens to those who dare challenge them!" Another voice rang out, her tone trembling with exhilaration.
“This is what they deserve for their defiance! The punishment for standing against the might of Amazon Lily!”
“And even though they bear a curse… the younger sisters are wonderful!” another voice chimed in, as if the supposed 'curse' only heightened their admiration.
“Curse…?” Y/N muttered under his breath, his brow furrowing in confusion. His eyes darted between the transformed figures of Marigold and Sandersonia, then back up to the wild crowd.
“No matter how you look at it, they just ate some Devil Fruits,” Luffy stated plainly, his arms crossed as he observed the massive serpentine sisters.
“DEATH! DEATH! DEATH!”
“Do it, Sandersonia! Marigold!” Hancock’s voice sliced through the chaos like a blade, silencing the crowd for a fleeting moment. “That is the punishment for trespassing on the sacred island of women! That is the price for insulting us!”
Then, in a voice laced with cruel amusement, she sealed their fate. “Show them how we carry out our death penalty.”
Sandersonia’s lips curled into a sinister smile, her forked tongue flickering out between sharp fangs.
“Ufufufu… Shall I swallow them whole?” she mused, tilting her massive head to the side, as if savoring the idea.
“Or should I strangle them until their bones snap like twigs?” Marigold cackled, her scales gleaming as she flexed her massive coils, testing their crushing strength.
Down below, Luffy had already begun to move. With careful but hurried motions, he dragged the petrified statues of Margaret and the others toward a lower section of the stone platform.
“All right… They're not cracked,” he muttered to himself, glancing at their frozen expressions, locked in a state of fear and defiance. “You guys just wait here. I'm sorry you got turned to stone because of us...!”
A flicker of memory flashed through his mind—Aokiji, the bitter cold, the feeling of being completely frozen, helpless in his own body.
“Just like when we were frozen by Aokiji… you might be able to go back to normal,” he reasoned. “If only Chopper were here, I'm sure he could fix this...”
From above, Sandersonia's body coiled, her gaze locked onto the two men.
“Rather than wasting your time worrying about others…” she purred, her voice dripping with condescension. “Shouldn’t you be thinking about saving yourselves?”
Y/N, standing firm beside Luffy, clenched his fists, his jaw tightening. “That’s up for us to decide,” he snapped, his voice cutting through the noise like a blade.
A collective gasp spread through the crowd. The warriors of Amazon Lily, who had only moments ago been reveling in the spectacle, now whispered among themselves, exchanging glances of intrigue and skepticism.
“Those men… do they actually intend to save Margaret and the others?!” one voice questioned, her tone laced with disbelief.
“They can’t be serious… They’ve already been condemned to die!” another cried, shaking her head.
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Wind Demon (One Piece x Male Reader)
Fanfiction(Y/N) is a wind man, he ate the Kuki-Kuki no mi. He finds himself in a complicated situation but gets rescued by a rubber man with a straw hat in return he joins his pirate group, follow along on the strawhats adventures as they try to find the One...
