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Double Cross

In the world´s greatest prison, Impel Down

He had been captured.

He - Straw Hat Luffy, like they called him.

He had been brought in just a few weeks ago, as his plan to get into the New World was smashed.

It didn´t went as planned. He aimed for the New World. Instead he became the laughing stock of the prison.

"Straw Hat", that was all he got to hear.

"Hey Straw Hat, how was your way to the new world?"

"Hey Straw Hat, you look different from the last time you were here. What happened to you?"

"Hey Straw Hat, I heard it didn´t went so well for you. Didn´t guess you would actually walk into enemies, right?"

"Straw Hat, Straw Hat",

... and when they started to laugh and laugh and laugh.

Straw Hat Luffy, that was all he had heard. He was already wishing he had never taken that name.

At first it seemed like such a good idea to call himself that. Now he didn´t get rid of it anymore.

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It had already started when he was first brought here.

It had already begun at the gate, as the chief was awaiting him in person. The man was clearly still sore about the infiltration two years ago,

but he was still laughing about the appearance of him.

He greeted the newcomer sarcastically.

Then he was thrown into the boiling blood, like all the new inmates. But he not without a few words of scorn by the guards.

That was the beginning, a already bad one.

He remembered how the warden himself had introduced him to the prisoners as "Monky D. Luffy" and made fun of him in front of everyone.

Later that day a few of his co-prisoners had beaten him into a pulp and left him lying on the floor, a few of the ones who still gave something about pirate honor.

As the guards had found him later, they just kicked him and dragged him to the infirmary.

They all made it clear from the beginning, he was just a joke, a fake, the fake,

the one everybody in Impel Down got their laugh at.

And still, everybody called him just Straw Hat and if it was only to make fun of him.

"Straw Hat, Straw Hat", that was all he ever heard. Sometimes he wanted to hit his head against the next wall.

For the prisoners he was just a disgrace, a weak impostor who had taken the reputation of somebody else and was taken out by the first try to actually reach anything.

For the guards he was a cheap copy of the one who had humbled them before, a living reminder, but not worth to kiss the feet of the original.

He was now sitting in his cell in level 1 of Impel Down.

"Straw Hat Luffy" in level 1... that alone was a joke in itself. And he was waiting to be taken to be tortured.

"Demaro Black", the guard called him.

Strange, this had to be the first time in days that he wasn´t called "Straw Hat",

somehow he felt relived.

The End