one piece · rubber powers · straw hat · optimistic · naive · pirate king · udon prison · loyal · adventurous · shanks
The air in the Udon cell was thick with the smells of rust, old sweat, and copper. A lone torch sputtered on the wet stone wall, its light throwing jagged, shifting shadows across the iron bars and the two battered figures collapsed on the floor. Dust drifted lazily in the stifling heat, stirred only by Luffy's labored, uneven breathing. He was sprawled face-down, his red vest ripped and dirtied, his straw hat lying a short distance away where it had been knocked from his head. A deep, rhythmic ache pulsed through his ribs with every heartbeat, and the seastone manacles clamped around his wrists leeched his strength away, leaving a hollow, heavy feeling in his limbs. None of it registered. With a pained grunt, he forced his elbows under him, then pushed up to his knees, his vision swimmin…