Black hearts: watery fates
Summary:
Zero crocodile wasn't always evil, charismatic and twisted and only a few people knew how he became this way, starting with a young woman and ending with blood and tragedy.
Legally I do not own anything from one piece, legally the franchise belongs to Eiichiro Oda and Shonen Jump magazine.
Chapter 1: the Shichibukai meeting
Marine HQ
Sengoku paced the room as he waited for the pirate warlords to arrive as he did so, he thought back to the battle of marine ford and the warlords parts in it he knew that Boa Hancock of the Kuja pirates had sided with Mugiwara Luffy and the onslaught of pirates in the fight effectively resigning her place from within the warlords. Crocodile didn't chose a side and escaped on the first opportunity he received, probably gone to restart beroke works again.
His train of thought was suddenly interrupted by the doors slamming open to reveal the first of the warlords Donquixote Doflamingo, a rather flamboyant man with a big bright pink feather coat, cerise lensed sunglasses and an arrogant personality to boot.
"oh so you still have your position then" Doflamingo crowd in a seemingly proud voice.
"Just sit down and shut up, scum of the sea" Sengoku replied showing that he wasn't taking the bait.
"hey I'm just trying to lighten the mood, anyway where's Crocodile? I haven't seen him for a while" Doflamingo replied slightly disappointed that his verbal jab didn't work.
"he won't be here as he is no longer a warlord" one of Sengoku's lieutenants said monotonously reminding everybody that Crocodile had been defeated, as other people began to enter the room quietly, one being Dracule Mihawk Aka "Hawkeyes", others being Buggy the clown, Blackbeard Marshel D Teach, Gekko Moriah and last but not least Trafalgar Law.
"he could be on Talmar" Mihawk said in a rather surprisingly direct way.
"but why would he be there, I mean his base is in Alabasta and Talmar is in the calm belt near the south blue, not to mention how dangerous it is to get there" asked a rather now impatient sounding Sengoku.
"He's probably going to see her resting place" stated Doflamingo smirking as he looked up at the ceiling adopting a bored expression on his face. Everyone turned to look at Doflamingo as if he had come from another planet, he obviously knew something about the former warlord that no one knew.
"who?" Everybody in the room asked/shouted.
"her name was Gonzales D Estrella and she was absolutely beautiful with bright silvery blue eye's, skin paler than white marble and hair as black as coal, while it's not my type I can see why he fell for her, I mean she could put Hancock's beauty to shame!" He said in a dreamy reminiscent voice.
"wow even pirates have hearts" muttered a chore boy who had been listening in as he swept the floor in the hallway just outside of the room, as a small crowd of marine subordinates tried to listen in on the conversation. they quickly scattered like chickens at the sight of the newly promoted vice Admiral Smoker.
"what's going on here?" smoker demanded to know of his subordinates as he made it to the meeting room to find a gang of rookies crowding out side of the door.
"well uhh... we kinda listened in on the conversation" the chore boy tried to explain away their actions knowing what they had done warranted dismissal from the marines if he wasn't careful.
Meanwhile in the meeting Doflamingo had started telling the tale of crocodiles youth.
"28 years ago crocodile met Estrella who at the time was the captain of the zodiac pirates of the south blue had managed to find a way into the grand line without using reverse mountain by going through the calm belt battling it out against a huge array of creatures and avoiding the worst of hurricanes on her ship The Queen Anne's Revenge" Doflamingo told the people in the room who listened in rapture as the memories came flooding back to him.