❛ YOU CAN CALL ME MR PRINCE. ❜
₊˚៹ . ❪ episode : 108 ❫˖ ₊˚.⋆
࿐┊ CH. 14┊🏴‍☠️🌊👒

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EVERYONE STARED IN HORROR AT CROCODILE AFTER HIS NEWS ABOUT HIS PLANS TO DESTORY ALABASTA, the crew behind the bars all sharing alarmed looks when Vivi had fallen to the ground still tied to the chair, and wasn't giving up no matter if she was able to move.

"What a coincidence." He muses in a cock way with his back turned to the princess on the floor, his fluffy coat hanging off his shoulders loosely, "We're just about to head to Alubarna, too. If you'd like to come with us, then do so. Or..." He turns around to smirk wickedly at Vivi, "....would you rather save these people?"

Vivi's eyes went wide spotting the key to the cage in his hand, and she grows nervous when he aimed his hand with it near the water underneath. She grits her teeth, trying to frantically nudge the rope around her wrists off of her.

But even with her doing this, Crocodile only closed his eyes for a few seconds still smirking proudly as he easily dumps the key into the water, just as Vivi gets the rope off her wrists. She tries to dive for it, but cried out when she was too late.

"Oh, that's just great." (Y/N) whispered to herself in a deadpan seeing the trap door Croco had below his feet, her arms over her chest holding Happy, standing beside Zoro near the front of the cage.

The key landed on the bottom of the water filled with banana crocodiles swinging inside it, making the owner of them to chuckle lowly, "It won't be too long before their fight to the death begins. Even if you hurried to Alubarna from here, who knows if you'd make it in time?"

Vivi clenches her fists against the tiled floor leaning on her knees glaring at the male in front of her, who swished his coat on his shoulder as he moved, "To stop the rebellion, you'd need to leave at once, Miss Wednesday. Or will you save these people instead? Though it doesn't help that I accidently dropped the key below the floor, into the bananagators' den."

The Monkey D. twins both exclaimed together in shock seeing the said thing in the windows of the room, their cheeks pressed together as Happy was squished between them trying to break free since he couldn't breathe very well.

"Whoa! What's that?!" They gaped in sync yelling, she pointed a finger at the window looking to Zoro with wide eyes, causing him to sweat drop nervously at her actions, "There's an alligator growing from that banana!"

Usopp irked at their comment using the side of his hands to gently hit the two in the heads, "You idiots! Look closer!" He scolded directing (Y/N)'s face by the cheeks, and showed her the obvious difference, making her eyes light up once she figured it out, and Happy and Zoro to smack their foreheads, "It's an alligator with a banana growing out of it!"

Vivi ignored all her friends voices in the cage for now, a gasp escaping her when one of the bananagator's swam right up to the key, using its snout to sniff the object. And then in one swift movement, the animal gulped it down like it was food making the princess make a shocked noise.

"Hey! What happened, Vivi?!" Luffy exclaimed in a question hearing her noise, raising his eyebrows concerned at her pale face glancing at the hole in the floor where the water was.

"A bananagator swallowed the key to your cell!" She cried in answer, the stress evident in her tone and face as she briefly looked at her now panicking friends, and back to the hole where the key once was.

Mostly everyone in the cage's faces grew pale also hearing the news, and began to sweat nervously as Luffy shrieks tugging on poor Happy's ears, making (Y/N) whack his head roughly, "What?! Chase it and make it spilt it out!"

"I can't! Bananagators are so ferocious that they even prey on Sea Kings!" She retorted back just as loud, feeling her stomach churn just at the idea itself, "Get near one, and you'll be eaten in one bite!"

Crocodile hummed knowingly, a lazily smirk spreading across his lips as his lidded eyes close for a few seconds again, "I apologise for clumsily dropping the key." He lies and he knew he did, "Plus, there's no telling which one swallowed it."

The crew shrieked panicked more at that information, while Zoro cursed under his breath standing behind (Y/N) trying to calm Happy down from crying. The swordsman unclasped one of his katanas, and grunted annoyed, "Damn! If we could just get out of here, I could handle those reptiles!"

(Y/N) furrowed her brows hearing his comment right by her ear, placing a calmed down Happy into Luffy's arm as she turned to Zoro, "You're so silly sometimes." She giggled up to him, a cheeky smile across her mouth, "We need the key to get out of here, but we can't since its eaten. Back down for now."

His cheeks grew a bit red in the face staring down at her, an irk across his face as he lifts up his hand to flick her forehead with his pointed and thumb, "I know that, you dork!" He grumbled pulling on her cheek next.

She whined at the hit to her, using her hands to touch the red spot and pouted annoyed, "You didn't have to do that though!" She argued back huffing, stomping around and turned away from him, making Zoro's jaw drop at her attitude.

"Well, then." Crocodile clicked his fingers drawing everyone's attention back to him, the doors leading into the tunnel through the water opening up, "We must be going a little earlier than you. Also, this room will be destroyed automatically in one hour's time. This secret underground room I've used as Baroque Works president is no longer of use. It will fill with water and be submerged in Rainbase's lake. One million innocent citizens, or a mere six pirates with no future?"

All the Straw Hats narrowed their eyes on the males talking in a warning way, while Vivi stayed quiet in her fuming of rage. Croco continued on when he received no back chat, "Do you like gambling?" He laughs that famous deep one of his mockingly, "With so many fools in this country, this was such an easy job. The juvenile rebels and the old man digging in Yuba, for example."

(Y/N)'s eyes go wide hearing the mention of Toto that gave her and her brother water, "You mean that old guy from before?!" She yelled aggressively at Croco, who only smirked dangerous in response, making her teeth grit to suppress her rage moving right up to the cage bars.

"Tell me, Fox Girl. Do you think sandstorms can strike towns perfectly time after time?" His voice was very monotone talking to her, as well as his face being stoic staring at her from his spot near the door. His lips formed an evil smirk seeing the gears turning inside her head, until her face morphed into a look of pure anger.

As the words reached her ears, a storm brewed within her. Her eyes sparked with an unexpected flame, the usual warmth replaced by a fierce intensity. The delicate lines of her face, once soft and inviting, contorted into a visage of undisguised anger. A shadow crossed her features, casting a veil over the usual lightness.

Ignoring the worried looks from her brother, second mate and best friends, she slammed her fists into the metal bars not caring about the effect it would have,raged gaze burning holes into Croco where he stood, "You did it?! Didn't you!"

He showed a demonstration of the small sand storm in his palm that he did create and control, a cocky chuckle leaving his mouth smirking proudly. Vivi on the other hand was ready to kick his ass where he stood, "I-I'll kill you!" She growled out with a look that matched the other girls one.

Crocodile just mused a chuckle again glancing over his shoulder at her, before turning around to start walking with Miss All-Sunday, who's eyes were lingering on them all before she joined the male walking down the hallway.

Another door opened up from the ground letting in the water once he was in the tunnel, causing Usopp to panic seeing the liquid rushing in from the ocean fast, "Water's leaking in!" He exclaimed just as another one opened to spill more water inside, "The whole room's gonna be flooded if we don't do something! Vivi, Do something!"

"Quit freaking out." Zoro interrupted the male in a monotone voice, his features being calm as he had his captain under his right arm and was gently running his larger hand up and down her side hoping to ease her anger and comfort her.

Usopp snapped his head around to the swordsman, an incredulous look over his face as shark teeth appear, "Are you crazy, Zoro?!" He exclaimed crying tugging on the males sleeve roughly, "How can I not freak out at time like this?! Do you understand?!"

Still outside on the ground of the cage, Vivi's head was tilted down to hide her expression as her pinky finger was holding onto one of her weapons, "The kingdom or my friends, you say? I doubt you really plan on giving anything back!" She began to talk through her teeth, "You plan to take my life too before I reach Alubana! I know full well that nothing will end unless I beat you!"

Her eyes welled up, not with sorrow, but with the uncontained torrent of anger, brows knitted together, a silent testament to the turmoil beneath the surface, "You don't even know anything about this country's people, history, way of life... You don't know anything about it!"

The Straw Hats became on edge more when Vivi went to stand up swiftly, lifting up her weapon to try and attack Crocodile walking away from them. However it shocked them all, when Vivi cried out in frustration dropping the metal, and fell back onto the floor, shoulders shaking with sobs.

"Vivi!" At the sound of (Y/N)'s determined voice calling her, had the princess turning her head up to the girl in the cage, seeing her steady gaze staring at her, "You need to try and do something! Get us out of here!"

Her bottom lip quivered with her shoulders shaking with more cries, and didn't say anything as she just looked into the girls (E/C) eyes through the bars. At the same time Crocodile and All Miss-Sunday had stopped walking, and the male comes out from around her humming pleased.

"Finally staring to be for your life, Fox Girl?" He snarked in a question, a smug smirk across his scared face and chuckles a breathy sigh, "But it's only natural, everyone is afraid of dying. To bad you're on the wrong side also."

The crew looked to (Y/N) who was staring dead ahead at Crocodile, knowing smiles over Luffy, Happy and Zoro's mouths already figuring out that wasn't what was happening. They knew the girl too well for her to admit defeat like that, even if they were in a difficult situation.

"If we..." She began to start off in a low voice, gaze hardened with an unyielding determination, a steel resolve that glittered in her eyes like shards of tempered glass as she glared furiously at Croco, "If we die, the who's going to kick your ass, huh?!"

Her words cut through the air like a blade, each syllable dripping with the potent combination of resolve and rage, as it made all the few outside the cage to pause and look at her. Miss All-Sundays eyes gleamed for a few seconds, then went back to the normal stoic expression.

Croco narrowed his eyes on her figure, another smirk crossing his lips spotting the barley noticeable orange flame in the girls iris, "Don't flatter yourself, kid. You're only a small fry amongst the others in your crew."

"You're the small fry here!" She gritted out through clenched teeth, the fury expression over her face darkening as she pressed her forehead into the metal making it squeak under how much pressure she's putting against it.

He made mental note about her strength and how her voice sounded like it had two people talking as she did so for later research, and clicked his fingers again. It made another trap door open up, and reveled a massive bananagator instead crawling out from the water.

"Well, this is your chance to abandon them, Miss Wednesday." Croco told Vivi, the animal that came out from the water standing above him, its beady eyes staring the princess down intently, "If you wish to stop the rebellion, that is."

The bananagator loomed over Vivi now who was standing up trying to look confident, but on the inside she was freaking out badly. She gulped seeing the size of the beast, and gripped the weapon in her hand more tighter.

"Alright! Beat it, Vivi!" Luffy cheered loudly raising his fists into the air, Happy on his shoulders who paled hearing his best friends words, and shared a stressed look with (Y/N) in Zoro's arms again, "You can do this!"

"That's crazy talk! It's too large!" Usopp exclaimed in a scold to the rubber male, shark teeth appearing before he turns to Vivi sweating nervously for her safety, "Vivi! Run! You can't beat it! But help us!"

Nami turned away from the males bickering beside her to something outside the cage, and felt her stomach drop seeing what was there, "Wait! Look out the windows!" She points out quickly making the crew turn to it, and spotted all the animals in a line in the water waiting to come up.

The gator inside the room standing before Vivi opened its jaw to growl, flashing its razer sharp teeth making her cross her arms together, weapon attached to both her pinky's, "Peacock Str-!"

Before she could finish her sentence, the animal jumped forward to snap its jaw at her. She screamed in fright just managing to dodge the attack, resulting in the gator to chomp into the stone stairs leading into the massive room.

The bananagator turned his body around to face Vivi's small figure standing behind, hearing the crews words to get out of the way when they saw the tail of the creature coming towards her. Though she only received half of the impact, since a small, barely even there wall of rocks came in between them, and it stopped the impact of the tail but a few inches.

Standing up front of the panicking crew for Vivi was (Y/N), her chest moving up and down as she pants out heavy breaths, arm outstretched out of the cage bars, fist clenched upwards. She was the one who created the weak wall, having only done a little since she was trapped and her powers weren't working very well for her surrounded by the ocean stone.

Zoro bit his tongue to stop himself from fussing over his captain's well-being in that moment, his hand coming out to press it flushed against her lower back to keep her up, noticing how she was a bit wobbly after pulling that stunt.

"Vivi! You need to move!" Luffy and Happy yelled out in sync panicked, both of them holding onto one another stressed out as they see the princess's wounded figure on the floor in front of the gator, "(N/N) can't do that again, so you gotta run or you'll get eaten!"

The crew continued to shout warnings to her, as she was bleeding and whimpering in pain on the floor. The gator was just before her, his jaw opening up again to finish off his job, before a sudden noise of a snail transponder was ringing throughout the room.

"Someone's calling." Miss All-Sunday commented in a confused hum to Croco, and pulled out the pink snail from her pocket, holding it in her palm as she answered it, "What?"

A familiar male's voice was heard through the transponder next, it belonging to the one and only Sanji, aka Mr. Prince, "Hello? Can you hear me?"

She nodded her head even if the male couldn't see it across the call, "Yes, I hear you." She confirms sending a look to Croco who was facing her with his back, "You're a Millions, yes? What do you want?"

The Straw Hats all shared a small look of confusion between each for a few seconds, and Croco got annoyed with the background talking in the transponder making him grunt out into it, "Hurry and state your business! What happened?!"

"Oh, I've heard that voice before." Sanji's tone was a humming one over the snail, the communication having his familiar curly hair look on it as Croco raised an eyebrow, "Heya. You've called the Damn Restaurant."

Crocodile paused for a movement trying to remember where he heard that line and voice before, and it suddenly hit him where he did, "I'm certain we have all four Straw Hat pirates inside that cell. All that's left is their other pet. Does this mean there are still others?"

(Y/N)'s stomach flipped with butterflies realising who the mane was behind the voice, knowing she was right the moment she heard her cooks voice through the transponder. She hugged Happy close to her chest, who snickered knowingly to himself seeing her happy look, and Zoro's small scowl over his features.

"San-!" Luffy was about to yell out the males name, but Usopp was quick to shut that down by slamming a hand over his mouth to silence him, which did work since the rubber male fell quiet.

"Wait! The enemy doesn't know about him!" Usopp drops his voice into a whispering one telling the second captain, and the rest of the crew standing beside them, "He was in his room when Mr. 2 showed up, so they never met!"

Croco narrowed his already lidded gaze down on the snail in Miss All-Sundays palm, his teeth gritting together in raising annoyance, "Just who are you?"

"Me? I'm..." Sanji's voice over the transponder trailed off in thought, before he spoke again, the smirk being heard even if none of them could see it, "..Mr Prince."

"I see. Mr. Prince." Croco repeated in a suspicions tone, and raised his eyebrows in question, "Where are you?"

"'Fraid I can't say! If I did, you'd come and get rid of me." The cook answered in a drawl, seeming like he was teasing the other male he was talking to, "Though, selling aside whether or not you can get rid of me, I'm not so stupid as to give up information so easily. Unlike you, Mrs. 0."

Sensing the opportunity to yell out to Sanji, the crew began to call to him and reassured him that they were all alright, expect for the fact they were stuck in a cage. (Y/N)'s was the loudest, gaining a soft giggle from the cook across the transponder.

"Sounds like my love and crew's right by your side." He mused into the radio chuckling more, feeling utter relief when he heard his captains voice, "In that case, I'm gonna-"

A sudden gunshot was heard through the transponder out of nowhere, it echoing through the tunnel and building filing up with water. It caused (Y/N)'s blood to run cold, her fingers digging into Zoro's arm out of fear for her other beloveds safety, as all the others share a nervous look.

"Troublesome bastard!" Another male's voice was heard through the snail now, it no longer being the blonde cook talking, "Hello? We've caught him! What should we do with this strange man?!"

Crocodile tilted his head to the side showing off his one gold earring, not really buying what was happening but would play along for now, "Where are you? Tell me."

"T-The front gate of a casino in Rainbase named Raindinners!"

This had the crew exclaiming in shock and freaking out hearing where he was. Usopp was running around in circles with a sulking Happy in his arms, while Luffy's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and Zoro cursed the cook out scowling, "That unless moron! That bastard better be alive!"

(Y/N) bit down on her bottom lip out of anxiety having a feeling Sanji was alive, and faking this entire thing. She felt it in her heart that it was true. She twisted the bracelets around her wrists to calm herself, and shuffled closer to Zoro's side despite him also freaking over the Sanji situation.

"This is perfect." Croco chuckled humourlsy turning off the snail transponder when it went silent, and faced the way towards the exist talking to All Miss-Sunday behind him, "Let's go to the front gate."

Over where Vivi was still having a stand off with the massive beast, she started to slowly back away from it seeing the gator wasn't looking. Taking this chance, she sprang away just before the jaws got take her whole and disappeared in a massive pile of rubble the gator brought up when it bit into the rocks of the stairs.

"Vivi!?" (Y/N) shouted in fear for the girls safety seeing her starting to climb up the stairs, "What are you doing?!" She adds in question holding onto Happy more, who wrapped his tiny paws around her neck for comfort.

The princess grunted pulling herself up more despite the blood and dirt all over her skin, "There's still tie before this room fills up with water!" She answered in a yell also, facing her friends briefly to look at them, "I'm going outside to get help!"

However Crocodile wasn't allowing that to happen. The crew saw it first causing them to scream out warnings to Vivi, but they were too late when the males sand power was heading straight towards her, and knocked her back down harshly onto the lower level of the ground on some rocks.

"Enough of your nonsense!" He growled annoyed down at Vivi's weakened figure laying on the rocks, his gold hook coming back to him when his hand did, as the water continued to spill more and more into the room, "If you love your friends that much, you can all die here together."

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─►☆ AUTHOR'S NOTE :
im so excited for the next chapter omg sanji in this arc really has me giggling and kicking my feet like him calling himself mr. prince >>> UGGHH IM SO IN LOVE WITH HIM AND ZORO AGHHRR and also the next ep has zoro's precious smile also :'))) hes so cute in that one scene im SOBBING and i know y/n will to LMAOA 😭

anyways i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, and pleaseeee don't be silent readers, it really helps to keep me motivated :') kisses🫶