An apple falls onto the ground.
Cherry wakes up, he is 21 at the time and he is still here in this cell. The room is dark and there is barely any light in it. There is a puddle of water that he drinks out of. Cherry hasn’t eaten for days but he learned to ignore the pain in his stomach. Cherry has been a slave for 6 years now, next month marks 7 not that it matters anyways.
The door to the connecting room opens and out walks a little boy his name is Juan Carlo Kordova he is the son of the Celestial Dragon who owns Cherry. Juan has curly black hair, bright blue eyes and has a good head on his shoulders for a kid his age. This is the only part of the day that he enjoys. Juan sits in the guard chair and asks Cherry to tell him stories of when he was free and on the sea.
“Cherry can I pleaseeeee hear another one today?”
Cherry lets out a chuckle. “Not today partner, your pops ain’t gonna be too happy if he catches ya”
Juan leaves the room. Cherry tries to fall asleep again but the pain from his injuries from Juan’s father Miguel Carlo keep him awake.
“If only I could see her one last time, then I could die a happy man” Cherry mumbles to himself before his weakness wins over the pain and he falls asleep.
A lemon falls onto the ground.
“Wake up you good for nothin’ slackin’ lazy piece of”
Cherry wakes up before Wes can finish his sentence. Cherry is only 14 at the time.
“Goddamit Wes! I can’t train like this without some beauty sleep” Cherry yells still on edge after being woken up.
Wes is sitting in a tree decently far from Cherry. Both of them are so loud that communicating at this distance isn’t a problem. Wes Ternne He is a grizzly well built man, he has short hair, a short beard, and a tattoo of a skull with a cowboy hat on his chest and looks just like his epithet would describe him.
“ If you want lessons from the Ultimate Cowboy then you best quit yer yappin and do as I say”
Wes then flicks a lemon seed from the tree all the way in between Cherry’s fingers. Cherry runs and climbs up the tree but Wes is already to the next before he can catch up. Most of their days are like this climb, shoot, hunt, and repeat. That is until they find their next bounty to chase. As Cherry chases after Wes he remembers why he is doing all of this. He is doing it for next time he sees her. Cherry, while distracted, misses the jump and blacks out.
A watermelon falls onto the ground.
Cherry wakes up, he is only 7 years old at the time. He is covered in dirt, he is skinny and hasn’t eaten for days. Nobody will look out for you, not even if you’re a kid when you live here. The island is 95 percent a paradise resort for celestial dragons, the other 5 percent a wasteland and the sections are divided by a great wall.
Cherry crawls over to the watermelon on the ground. “
“Could this be a gift from God?” he thinks to himself.
As he starts eating the watermelon he hears a cute little chuckle. He looks up and once his eyes adjust to the sun he sees a big grin.
Cherry wakes up. He is only 24 now. He is on the Little Susie, funny he came up with the name and told some made up story about a girl named Susie thinking he would leave these people and this ship islands ago, but look at him now.
Cherry puts on his hat and sees Jericho drunkenly putting on a show for Jaguar, Kagu, Bei, and Emma. Cherry feels somewhat at ease seeing his friends. “Gross friends”, he thinks after he catches himself. He then joins in the antics by kicking Jericho in the head. The sun feels better than ever on his skin after eating the devil fruit. He knows he has to work to get stronger to take back what he lost and take on the warlords. Cherry looks at Emma and is filled with hope.
