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[hannahbarberra162]

Emperor's Prize "What if" Drabble (Yan Alpha Shanks x Omega Reader)

18+ MDNI | on Ao3

The other chapters

This isn't a full chapter - I'm working on the next one now. I've just been Deep Deep into Shamrock brainrot and....well....you'll see. Thank you to @sordidmusings for giving me feedback and helping me finish this piece <3

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You had wandered off from where the Red Haired Pirates were celebrating…well, you weren’t sure exactly what they were celebrating. They seemed to need little reason to drink so even though it was only the early evening there was a raging bonfire going with the crew drinking their way through several barrels of ale. Shanks was right there with them, drinking not only the ale but the hard liquor that he’d stolen from Benn’s cabin. You were sure he’d reach for you later in the night, but at the moment he was content to let you wander up the beach looking for shells and enjoy a moment of peace.

The island you were on was strange - there was a large manor far beyond the reaches of the short beach paths you saw - but other than that there were no settlements or people. The beach was winding and pebbled as you walked along the shore. You stopped occasionally and picked up particularly pretty stones or shells if you saw some, putting a few in your pocket to put in Shanks’s cabin on the shelf he’d designated for your trinkets.

You’d always liked the ocean, ever since you were a child. Old wive’s tales said that Omegas were children of the sea, a gift from the gods as an apology for the unbridled anger of the oceans. To you being an omega felt more like a curse, something designed to keep you weak and vulnerable like a hermit crab without a shell. You’d give anything to be a regular Beta but nothing had changed in the many years you’d wished on every shooting star.

You sat on a large, black igneous rock, your knees to your chest as you watched the sun set behind the clouds. The purples and pinks made a truly lovely view as a chilly wind brushed over your shoulders. You looked to the south and saw the far light of the bonfire, glowing like a distant ember in the night but allowed yourself to linger for just a few minutes longer. Shanks would look for you soon, swaying with the alcohol in his blood, and have you sit on his lap for the rest of the night as the crew yelled and drank. It wasn’t the way you preferred to spend your night, but it wasn’t the worst either.

The sun set below the horizon and the final, fleeting rays of the sun were overtaken by the dusk as cold wind ran through your hair. You stood up with a sigh, needing to get back to Shanks and warm yourself by the fire. The wind shifted, a nearly familiar scent coming to your nose. The masculine warm tones of cloves and oranges were there but it was soured with undernotes of steel and blood. You squinted and tried to catch it again - it was the same overall scent as Shanks, but something was not quite right. Turning your face towards the North, you closed your eyes and inhaled sharply, trying to understand what you were smelling in the early night. 

You leaned over the rock, your hands pushing into the rough and uneven surface as you tilted your head upwards to sniff the air. You closed your eyes to focus on the barely detectable scent when you suddenly got a huge noseful of it. 

From right behind you.

A hand wrapped itself around the front of your neck, the sharpened claw of his thumb digging into the tender skin of your neck. You inhaled a sharp breath but made no movements - any mistakes and the small trickle of blood coming from your neck could turn into an artery dissection. The body behind you pressed you further into the rock, the metal hilt of his sword hurting your side where it was digging in. The person wasn’t relenting, pushing closer until your front was against the porous black rock, his chest like a steel wall behind you. You felt a face close to your neck, as a new presence loomed behind you. You tried to look at him from your peripheral vision but the thumb dug in further to stop you from moving.

“And what has the drunken lout left behind?” the man’s voice asked in a low husk, his nose close to your throat. You felt his breath and wisps of his hair on your shoulder and you shuddered. The voice sounded so much like Shanks but lacked the easy going nature, the sunshine you’d come to expect in every statement and laugh.

“My brother’s whore, hm?” the man asked rhetorically, taking another long inhale of your scent along your neck. You whimpered as his mouth neared your scent glands, hoping the stench of your fear would overpower the scent of your designation. Once, in the dead of night when Shanks was blackout drunk, he’d mentioned a brother. An older, twin brother named Shamrock - a Celestial Dragon who served as the Commander of the God’s Knights. You didn’t stand a chance against anyone in a fight, much less a Celestial Dragon.

“Hm, no, not a whore. You have the scent of unclaimed Omega,” Shamrock said, his tongue flicking out to lap at your glands. “I’ve never seen you at the sales; I wonder how someone like him found such a prize,” he wondered, clearly not asking your opinion. The fingers gripping your throat tightened as you felt teeth grazing the junction of your neck and shoulder. You let out a small whine of fear to match your scent, which only seemed to delight him further. The teeth became sharper at your throat, pressing in for a moment before the man righted himself behind you. 

“So eager, then? Come along, Omega,” Shamrock said, a hint of dark amusement in his tone. The hand moved from your throat to the base of your neck and tangled in your hair, keeping you from running away. You stumbled in the sand, falling to your knees as Shamrock continued to walk. He didn’t help you but looked down at you as he dragged you along by your hair. Scrambling up to your feet, you were able to take a better look at him and your suspicions proved correct - standing next to you was Shanks’s twin brother, his long wavy hair fluttering in the night wind. You opened your mouth to speak but quickly closed it under his intense gaze. This man was no Shanks, that was clear already. 

“So like my brother to leave his toys lying about. Come along, Pet. Don’t worry, I won’t leave you unclaimed much longer,” Shamrock said with a smirk, pulling you along beside him. The blood drained from your face as you took in his words, causing you to stumble once more. Your knee was skinned on a rock you’d tumbled on as Shamrock continued his unrelenting march towards the castle. He clicked his tongue at your behavior, not even wasting the breath to admonish you.

It was almost funny - you hadn’t wanted to be with Shanks but now you’d do anything to get back to him. He hadn’t been your fated mate but he hadn’t been bad either. He let you speak your mind, he tried to engage with you beyond sex, he let you make eye contact with him…your mind raced to think of a way to stymy Shamrock’s progress until Shanks saved you. 

“Sh-shanks will come for me,” you said in as defiant a tone as you could muster. You were fairly sure he would, you didn’t think it was a bluff. Shamrock’s grin widened as his grip in your hair tightened until tears pooled in your lash line. 

“Let him come.”

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[aquagirl1978]

[redflagsandbanners]

Honestly, Rio was nearly livid when she couldn't see Agatha for three seconds in that cabin imagine her coming out to find Teen alone

[unforgivablego]

Are they trying to send him to Heaven through a circle???

[dogmanincorrectquotes]

Sarah: We made a mistake.

Chief: “We?”

Sarah: You’re right, let me rephrase that. Chief made a mistake.

[analog]

Maybe this really would turn out to have been the right call…

goodbye seth and/or ptolema and/or mehit and/or lilith

[puhpandas]

paralives looks cool but also every time something tries to do fake simlish it sounds so dumb 😭

[goldensunset]

if someone is talking about how much they love their parents do not jump in and start venting about your issues with your parents. if someone is venting about their issues with their parents do not jump in and start talking about how much you love your parents. peace and love amen swag city

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[smr-uti]

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

[goodnightngoth]

when my phone got 3% but i don’t have a charger

[dogmanincorrectquotes]

Chief: Wow, I keep stepping on a lot of crunchy twigs!

Sarah: Those are bones, Chief.

Chief: Not if I never look down!

[ocrkings]

Trump Inauguration - A New Chapter for America 

[jabberwick]

Human Bill Cipher

(Based on Alex Hirsch's "canon" design)

And just to be clear, writing dissertations at me justifying why he should instead be a conventionally attractive twink will involuntarily cause me to draw him with even fewer teeth.