Enslaved

In this story, we're going to see a mermaid get enslaved! Oh dear...but not to worry, it's not going to be depressing. It's actually going to be rather...comedic.

Yes, I'm trying to make One Piece slavery funny...just a random idea that popped out of my head one day.

It's not going to be entirely comedic though...it's also a Friendship fanfic! You like friendship, right?

Chapter 1: A New Life

Pearl let out a sigh as she was brought out to the auction hall. Several bidders were rather excited to see a female mermaid for sale. An attractive female mermaid no less.

Pearl in question had a sky blue tail, and had blonde, wavy (yes, pun intended) hair that went halfway across her back.

Unfortunately, her friends had decided to dare her to touch a marine ship...she had touched it and had immediately been caught by marine divers.

Apparently, it wasn't the smartest dare in the world. In fact, it appeared to have been the worst mistake of her life.

"Let's make belly off of her!" they had said. "There goes my freedom." she had thought.

How she wished that she and her kin weren't so valuable to humans.

Oddly enough, despite trying to remove pirates from the world, they didn't seem to care about slavery. In fact, they openly encouraged it.

"The hypocrites." thought Pearl. She was starting to see why so many people were turning to piracy these days. Why, the week before she had been caught by the marines, she had met a pirate boy that could stretch out his body like rubber.

Personally, she wished that she could do things like that. She could show off to her friends.

Then again, by the looks of things, she was going to have to eat devil's fruit if she wanted to pull that off...and since that would make her unable to swim, that probably wasn't such a good idea.

"I'd be a fish out of water and a mammal out of land." thought Pearl.

It was a shame that devil fruits suffered from a drawback like that. They would be a lot more useful otherwise.

"I wonder whose going to buy me?" inquired the mermaid. It could be anyone, really. There were a lot of people looking to have her as a trophy.

Sure enough, there were a bunch of unfriendly-looking fellows in the crowd, including human and fishmen. One of them even happened to be a giant, and a few of them happened to be dwarves.

She got the feeling that regardless of who she ended up with, she wasn't going to like them. None of them seemed to be very friendly.

"I guess I'm going to have to prepare for the worst." spoke the mermaid.

Oddly enough, she had been dressed in a prison uniform...she was wearing a white shirt with black sprites.

Apparently, they really wanted her to know what was coming...not that she already knew.

Sure enough, the auctioneer stepped on stage. Personally, Pearl could not understand how he could be so jovial considering the circumstances. Was he secretly some sort of demon from Davy Jones' Locker?

He was dressed in a top hat and was wearing a purple uniform and a tie.

Already, she was starting to hate him.

"Welcome to another auction at the Human Auctioning House! I'm the auctioneer, Fredrick Van Hower!" exclaimed Fredrick.

"Hey there, Fredrick. Nice to meet you! Not!" bellowed Pearl.

"How dare you!" bellowed the auctioneer.

Fredrick whacked her on the head with his hammer for insulting him.

"Ow." said the mermaid, rubbing her head.

"Now then, where were we? Ah yes! Who would like to bid first!" exclaimed Fred.

One of the fishmen bid one million belly.

"Why is their currency called belly? Do they put it in their mouths?" inquired Pearl.

Another fishmen bid two million belly.

"Speaking of which, my stomach is starting to rumble..." noted the mermaid.

A human bid five million belly.

"Look at those numbers go." said Pearl.

A dwarf bid ten million belly.

"More and more belly..." spoke the teenage girl. Now she was really starting to get hungry.

A giant bid fifty million belly.

"Wow...giants have giant loads of cash." acknowledged the merfolk girl. Why didn't that surprise her?

Go figure.

Suddenly, she noticed that a rather obese man was in the crowd as well as his fourteen-year old son.

The obese man in question was named Lachell Scallop. Unlike most of the other slave buyers, he wasn't really evil...but he was very lazy and somewhat lecherous. He had red hair and was very fat, with his belly emerging from his sleeveless white shirt and blue jeans.

Due to the fact that his wife had died, he wanted something to fill the hole in his life...and it looked like Pearl was going to be it. He had just bid a hundred million dollar belly...and nobody else wanted to compete with that.

His son on the other hand was the very epitome of purity. However, he was a very dim individual, despite being fourteen years old. He was dressed in a green shirt and black pants, and had red hair.

His name was Oyster Scallop.

"What a coincidence...I happen to be fifteen." acknowledged Pearl. It appeared that they were both about the same age.

"Going once, going twice, sold to Lassell Scallop!" exclaimed the auctioneer.

Immediately, the slaveholders handed the mermaid to the man.

She let out a sigh.

"Off to the world of slavery I go." spoke Pearl.

Oyster put his hand on Pearl's right shoulder to comfort her. Apparently, he was trying to show her sympathy.

"Huh? Thanks." said the mermaid. At least his son appeared to be a better person than his father.

As a security precaution, the slaveholders put a slave collar on her waist, right below her belly button.

"Shouldn't this go around my neck?" inquired the teenage girl. She thought that was how slavery was supposed to work.

"We ran out of collars for the small merfolk...now all we have left now is the collars for big ones." answered one of the slave sellers. He wasn't sure if they would fit around her neck, anyway. Mermaids did come in different sizes.

"I see..." spoke Pearl.

"There! Now if you try to run away from me I'll just use this radar so I can find you!" exclaimed Lachell Scallop.

Immediately, he pulled out what appeared to be a GPS device. Pearl appeared to be a sky blue dot on the map.

It looked like she had nowhere to hide. No matter where she went inside his house, he would be able to find her.

However, Pearl asked him a very important question.

"How can I run away from you? I don't have legs. I'm only human above the waist." explained the mermaid, pointing out her tail fins.

Lachell Scallop sweatdropped. How exactly could he have forgotten about that?

"Funny...I was expecting this to be explosive..." questioned Pearl. Oddly enough, it didn't seem dangerous to her at all.

Her slavedriver explained his reasoning for not using one.

"I can't have an explosive collar! It will blow up my house! And I don't want to have to clean up your ashes! It's disgusting!" exclaimed Lachell.

"OK..." answered the mermaid. It was good to see that this particular slavedriver had standards.

Afterwards, one of the slave sellers asked if he wanted Pearl to be dressed to his liking.

He immediately noticed, and told the slave sellers what he wanted her to look like.

"What is he saying to them?" questioned the mermaid. She wasn't quite sure.

The slave sellers took Pearl to a nearby dressing room and began to change her clothes. She came out wearing a strapless sky blue bikini.

"This is so embarrassing..." spoke the mermaid as she began to blush. Personally she was hoping that she wouldn't have to wear such a revealing outfit.

Then again, she did happen to be a swimmer.

Lachell Scallop began to drool.

"I think you look beautiful!" exclaimed Oyster Scallop.

"Well, that's rather comforting. I don't like the way your father is staring at me though." answered Pearl.

She in fact had several admirers back at the ocean. Some of them even wanted to get her autograph.

It was a bit of a pain being so popular. In fact, being popular was what had gotten her in this mess. She simply couldn't resist a dare...even a dare as dangerous to mermaids as touching a marine ship.

For some strange reason, humans only seemed to stare at her torso rather than her tail. She wasn't quite sure why.

She still got the feeling that being a slave wasn't going to be fun, even with Oyster around to give her comfort.

Then again, he did seem to be rather sweet, even if he was rather unintelligent. Was he secretly an angel from the heavens?

It was a logical guess as any. Maybe he got kicked out due to low intelligence? He probably wouldn't fit in too well with them.

Lachell Scallop went to his car, which he had of course parked right outside the Human Auction House. Oyster Scallop picked up Pearl and buckled her to one of the back seats so that she could be safe.

He then buckled his seat and sat down next to her. Apparently, he was as attracted to her as his father was...

"I've never used one of these before." noted Pearl. Of course, why would she ever use one up until now? Cars were for land transportation and she was a sea creature.

"This is going to be so much fun! We're going to be best friends in the world!" cheered the teenage boy.

Immediately, he wrapped his arm around the left side of Pearl's neck and held her closer to him.

"Yeah...we're going to be best friends." answered the mermaid nervously.

Unfortunately, as she quickly discovered, the doors were childproof and she couldn't simply jump out of the vehicle.

Besides, she would risk getting herself killed...and she didn't want to die. At least, not yet.

Immediately, Lassell Scallop drove to his house, which looked to be fairly rundown. Oddly enough, it happened to be near a ocean.

"Well, at least I can look at that for comfort." said Pearl.

He then stepped out of the vehicle, picked up Pearl and Oyster (the latter of which had fallen asleep, as it was now nighttime), and took them to his son's room.

Sure enough, there was a bed (which apparently belonged to Oyster), as well as a hammock.

Lassell immediately pointed to the hammock. Oddly enough, it happened to be sky blue, much like the bikini she was currently wearing and her tail.

"Is this where I'm going to sleep tonight?" inquired Pearl curiously.

"Yes." answered Oyster's father.

"Funny, I was under the impression that I was going to have to sleep in a straw bed or something." said the mermaid, recalling the various merfolk that had been enslaved before her.

"Nah..." spoke Lachell Scallop. Apparently, he didn't have that kind of straw to go around, nor would he want to.

King Neptune did warn her (along with the rest of her race during a meeting) that there were humans out there that would try to make belly off of them and would keep them as trophies...maybe she should have listened to him a bit harder.

Then again, most of the mermaids thought that they were just rumors meant to scare young merfolk.

"How I wish that were true..." thought Pearl.

Shrugging, Pearl decided not to look a gift seahorse in the mouth. That hammock actually looked rather nice.

Immediately, she decided to lie down in it and see if it would make a decent bed...which it surprisingly did.

"Well, this is fairly comfortable...at least I won't wake up sleep-deprived..." answered the mermaid.

"Isn't this awesome?! We get to be roommates!" exclaimed Oyster.

"Yeah...I guess we do." nodded Pearl.

Immediately, he turned off the lights so that they could both go to sleep.

She let out a sigh. At least tonight wasn't going to be so bad. She didn't have any chores to do for the time being, though that would likely change in the near future. She was a slave mermaid now, wasn't she?

"Maybe I can try to escape now?" inquired the mermaid. Now seemed as good of a time as any. Lassell Challop wasn't currently keeping an eye on her, after all.

However, she then remembered that she had a problem...she now had a slave collar around her waist.

Was it true? Would he really be able to hunt her down if she tried escaping him? If so, there was no way out.

Granted, it was preferrable to being blown to bits by an explosive slave collar...but she wasn't looking forward to getting caught nonetheless.

It looked like she was stuck being a slave. There was no way for her to escape from her slavedriver for the time being.

"Well, I bet my friends are going to miss me." noted Pearl. Personally she was wondering how they were doing in her absence. Were their hearts breaking as she spoke?

On the other hand, they were the ones that dared her to touch a Marine ship in the first place.

She vowed that if she ever got out of this, she would never do something like this again.

Curious, she noticed that there appeared to be a key slot on the collar.

"Maybe the father has it?" inquired Pearl.

Then again, he probably had it heavily guarded.

"Something tells me that it isn't going to be so simple." thought the mermaid.

For all she knew, it was guarded by high security lasers that would fry everything they touched.

Then again, considering that he had declined the explosive slave collar, he may not resort to such gruesome methods.

"At least he seems to be a better person than those other slaveholders." thought Pearl.

Shrugging, she decided to go to bed. Hopefully she would be able to think up an escape plan by tomorrow.

Then again, she hadn't heard of any mermaid that had escaped from the slavedriver's clutches...except for that mermaid with green hair.

Apparently, she was the exception.

"Zzz..." murmured Pearl.

Well, things don't seem to be going well for Pearl so far. Don't accept crazy dares from your friends, kids...they're more trouble than they're worth.

In the next chapter, Lassell Scallop is going to make Pearl wash the dishes and the like...and no, he's not going to use a whip. He's too lazy for that...and he has standards.

Oh, and she's going to befriend his dimwitted son...that's why this is a friendship story. Heh heh.