2 Chapter 2 - Struggle breeds Strength

I awoke in a cold sweat, like usual I somehow calmed myself down.

I got out of bed and walked to the bathroom, locking the door like I always did. I opened the medicine cabinet and grabbed the razor I hid.

I sat on the floor and lifted my shirt, exposing my scar covered chest, and drifted the metal across my muscle. I felt calmer the second blood came from the cut. I sighed, taking off the new clothes that I got from those six men.

Exposing my thighs that were also covered in scars, I began healing cuts and even fresh ones from the night before.

I found comfort in a blade.

I looked in the mirror, staring at the scars covering my body. No one would want to love me after they saw the hideous flaws.

Part of me wondered how the hell I ended up like this, how I turned out so messed up, so broken. How did I always end up here, why did I feel safe locked in this bathroom? But the other part of me knew why.

These six men...

They where the reason why I was sobbing, holding a fragile, yet a sharp piece of metal with intent to slide it across my skin. Intent to watch the blood fall from my cuts onto my pale white skin. I wanted to watch myself bleed, I needed to feel the pain.

It's like the world is beating me down while I'm at the bottom.

After a while, I exited the bathroom and went to the kitchen to eat food and It was currently nighttime the six men are sleeping.

This would be the perfect time to escape or take my revenge, but we're sailing in the middle of the ocean and they've locked their room.

I open the kitchen door and I immediately go and make something for myself. I learned how to cook here.

Since I am here for a whole month.

Anyways, I see a strange-looking fruit. It looks like an apple if you count off its strange patterns and weird shape.

Oh well, Let's just eat it.

and just like that, I take a huge bite off the fruit.

With slight difficult, I swallow it, but then...

I froze in place.

Almost immediately, I spit it out of my mouth and throw the fruit away. Uggh, what was that?

Suddenly, I start to feel a little light-headed.

A robotic almost angel-like voice of a man began explaining what I had eaten and what it could do.

"It couldn't be..." I close my eyes and try to do something, anything actually, and as if by instinct, I feel my body transform.

I then open my eyes.

Jup, my suspicion has been confirmed! And what I did is the most foolish decision ever.

My entire physique changed. I still possessed my humanoid build, but I now have two long antennae on my ears and a large shell-like armour over my head that resembled a helmet.

There is also dark pigmented areas on my arms,

legs, chest, and head. I got both larger and taller. Lastly, there is a powerful looking tail with spikes that served me as a weapon.

I am both delighted and disappointed. I am delighted because I look pretty cool, but I am disappointed because I now have a huge flaw.

Anyways

I shut my eyes and concentrate. Then, I feel my body going back to its usual shape. Executing this transformation was like breathing to me.

Easy and quick!

Well then...

I messed up real bad! I now know where I am at least? Isn't that good? Who am I kidding! I am in a world where it's 80% seawater and guess what?

Seawater or any sort of water is my weakness.

*Deep breath*

I need to calm down. There is no use crying over already spilt milk. I then cook something to eat for myself and sit down to eat.

'I have to see how much this devil fruit enhanced my strength, dexterity, speed, and lastly my stamina.'

After finishing my food I'll start.

First, I've to see where I'm currently at without transforming. Second, I will transform and see how much it enhances me. Third, I'll make a training regiment for myself.

With that, I finished my food and immediately began. I first did pushups to see where my strength is at. I managed to perform roughly fifteen push-ups.

I can't blame this body. It's only 4-year-old. And the fact that I managed to perform just a couple is good.

Moving on then.

I waited for a while, before transforming and then performing push-ups. I managed to do roughly 30 pushups.

It appears that it increases my strength by two times.

I didn't stop there and did other exercises and each time I could do double the amount before.

So it's confirmed. It increases my strength by two times.

Now, I should test my speed and agility, but how will I do that? It's not like I have a timer? *Sigh* I just have to speculate.

I strolled to the rear end of the ship and then began running at my top speed to the other side. I did this about 3 times before transforming and repeating the process.

I concluded that it definitely made me faster, but I don't know by how much. If I had to guess, I would say that it made me faster by 60-80%.

That decent for a regular zoan type devil fruit.

It's becoming too dark to continue and I'm also beginning to get both exhausted and sleepy. I should continue tomorrow night.

I'm in the world of one piece, A place where even someone with no sliver of talent can become an overlord if they play their cards right.

I will survive and most importantly survive.

I PROMISE TO MYSELF THAT I WILL TAKE MY REVENGE!! AND I WILL CONTROL THE WORLD LIKE IT'S MY PLAYGROUND.

THE UNIVERSE WILL BE MY PLAYGROUND AND THIS WORLD WILL BE MY BACKYARD.