Just a little something i put down in words about Law and Doffy's past. Those two are so alike. Law had Corazon though.

A bit of angst and violence, it is One Piece after all.

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am not making money off this fic.

Book 1

Law

CHAPTER 1

THE DARKNESS COMES

I was born in the country of Flevance in the North Blue.

It was known as the ''White City'' for the colour of the Amber Lead that was mined there which was the source of the countries prosperity. The citizens were all rich and the towns white from the soil to the plants like a snow country in a fairytale. I lived with my parents and my little sister, Lammy. We were a family of doctors and we lived happy lives dreaming that one day my sister and I would inherit the family business, but it was never to be.

My nightmare started one afternoon, at a festival. The day the world as I knew it came crashing down around me.

My sister insisted on going so my mother and I accompanied her. We were enjoying a cone together when she clutched her chest and fell to the floor.

About a century ago, when the white lead industry was established the world government performed geological survey in the country. They knew the white lead was in fact poison. Poison that eroded the body if one somehow handled it. Knowing this but aware of the fortune to be had from selling and producing white lead the government and the royalty kept it a secret and the people, who knew no better kept digging it up. The mining dust only ever contained traces of poison. It would build up in a young person's body and any children born by such a person would have a much shorter life expectancy, and a child had by such a child would have an even shorter life expectancy. Life expectancy grew shorter generation to generation till finally my generation, a generation doomed to die before reaching adulthood, was born.

I was just ten. My parents did everything they could to help the people but our supplies were limited, Lammy was dying. I tried to cheer her up, I told her everything would be just fine. The kingdom was at war with neighbouring countries who mistakenly believed that the disease was contagious. They sealed off the town preventing anyone from going in and shot down anyone who went out. The royalty escaped from the kingdom abandoning the citizens. Eventually, an extermination crew was sent into the country, their orders leave no one alive. The streets were littered with bodies as the soldiers marched on leaving no one alive in their path. Screaming, crying, and begging. In just a few days the life I had once loved was reduced to hell.

''Law kun, Come on, you gotta go with us'', smiled the sister.

A local nun was collecting children to be taken off the island during the war and offered to take me too. My friends begged me to come but I couldn't. I couldn't leave my sister. Even if I left father and mother not Lammy, never Lammy.

The Sister assured me she would return and I raced back to the hospital. I held Lammy's hand and assured her everything would be okay, that we'd go to another festival soon. I promised we would have fun again as long as she remained strong. The soldiers barged into the hospital and I hid my sister in a cupboard instructing her to be still. They gunned down my parents and spotted me so I took off running if just to keep them away from Lammy. When I finally lost them I soon discovered the corpses of the local nun and all the children who had gone with her. The soldiers had lied, they were never going to save them. They were never going to save any of them. The world had cursed me and the people I loved…to die. I returned for my sister to see the hospital ablaze.

Lammy, God no, please no! I fell to my knees and wept loudly. Family, friends, home, and even country. The world had taken from me everything that I had to live for. I screamed to the sky in pain, sorrow and frustration. Then I screamed in rage, rage turning to hatred and hatred turning my view of the world black. I escaped the quarantine hiding under the dead bodies being shipped outside the city. Curled with the fallen I made a silent promise. They would pay, every last shitty person would pay! For living in a world where my family no longer exists he will force the world to experience the suffering they'd forced on me at such a young age. This I swear!