The broad muscular form a man trudged up the mud strewn hill side intent on reaching the figure that stood at the top. A fierce wind raged around him and pelted him with the needle like rain that fell from the sky. When he reached the top of the hill the man stood next to the slimmer figure of the woman who stood there. He glanced at her, sky blue hair whipped around her face free of its usual confines; she was starring fiercely at the sight before them. He turned to look at the valley below them; the once magnificent city that they had called home was burning to the ground. Its peoples fled to the four winds. Even the fierce rains of the storm could do nothing to stop the fires consumption of the once proud city.

"What do you plan to do Iso," the man asked.

"I plan to go after them Brun, they think they can push me around because of what I am but I will not stand for it. I will kill them but not before I make them suffer for this insult," the woman named Iso growled out.

"I will rouse the legion then," Brun answered.

"No, I will pursue them on my own."

"But that's suicide, you should at least take someone with you Iso," Brun insisted.

Iso smiled softly, "your worry is appreciated but I need all of you here to help the city and to rebuild. If I need you I will call but for now I will pursue these criminals on my own."

"I don't like it."

"Neither do I but that is my decision and I expect you to respect it," Iso turned away from the sight she had been watching so intently, "Have no doubt that I will make these bastards pay for burning my city."

Iso flexed the claws on her hands and the wings on her back, with a great leap she launched herself from the top of the hill and seamlessly changed into her true form that of a powerful blue storm dragon. The people who attacked her territory would pay for they had made a fierce and determined enemy.

XXX

Trafalgar Law growled at the man groveling before him.

"I-I'm sorry sir, I will fix it right away," the man begged. Law just waved him away and leaned back into his cushioned seat in the VIP section of the bar his crew currently had under their control. The groveling man picked up the tray of broken glasses and hurried back to the bar.

The pirate captain quickly forgot about the bumbling barman and turned back to his crewman who had come back from restocking the sub.

"Everything is set captain. We can leave as soon as the pose sets," Penguin his first mate reported.

"Excellent, Bepo when will the pose reset," he asked his polar bear navigator.

"It's going to take a few more days captain," Bepo told him.

"Hmm, seems we will have to find a way to entertain ourselves," Law mused.

XXX

Iso walked down the street being conscious to keep her pace at a casual stroll. Though she wasn't one to hide she didn't want to draw any untold attention to herself. Not that being discrete was any help to her current predicament. Ever since she set foot on this particular island she had been being followed, but that wasn't a bad thing it lead into her plan for this island.

This particular island was home to several black market dealers. One of which was a slave dealer who had recently started dealing in a product that Iso did not like and she fully intended to deal with it in the most drastic of measures.

Seeing her destination in front of her Iso ducked into the doorway of a rather run down but popular bar. Iso wasn't here to drink though; this particular bar had a rather robust black market dealer working out of the basement. On reflex Iso scanned the inside of the bar for danger. The crowd inside the bar was what you would expect from a bar that was home to the local black market. Pirates, thieves, and murders were just some of the unsavory characters that were present in the common room.

Iso made her way to the bar and caught the attention of the barman. She placed a black card down on the counter. The man stared at her.

"I have an appointment," Iso kept her tone neutral. The barman nodded and reached under the counter and pulled on a rope.

"Take a seat," he gestured toward an empty chair as he took the card and pocketed it. Iso watched him suspiciously but did as she was told to anyway. Out of the corner of her eye Iso watched two men with green hair walk through the door and take a seat. These were the two men that were following her but she made no move to acknowledge them. She was playing a dangerous game had been ever since she had left the safety of her homeland.

Someone came to stand next to her and Iso turned her head. A short slightly greasy man stood next to her.

"You requested a meeting," the man asked her.

"I did."

"Follow me then," the man turned away and Iso slipped off of the chair she had been sitting on and followed after him.

The captain of the heart pirates watched the interactions of Iso and the black marketer from his VIP booth with slight interest. He had noticed the strange looking woman when she entered the bar and the men who had soon followed after her and had taken a seat at a nearby table. As the woman followed the man into the basement Trafalgar Law leaned back in his seat. He was well aware of the black market business in the basement of the building it wasn't no great surprise that they would have clients come through the upstairs business the bar. The mundaneness of the situation would have made him lose interest if it wasn't for the men following the woman.

With them actually in the bar he could logically assume that this would end in a confrontation. If they had stayed outside then the followers wouldn't be taken as aggressive but with them entering the building after their target then he came to the conclusion that this would turn violent. So he settled back in his seat and waited for the eventual show.

XXX

Iso walked into what was a rather lavish office in the basement of the bar and if it wasn't for the smell of human blood and exotic items hanging in the air she might have thought this was the office of some lawful business. The greasy man that Iso followed moved to the side of the doorway and motioned for her to enter. The chair behind the desk was facing the other direction as she entered it swiveled toward her. It was all very dramatic and meant to impress and intimidate.

A man that Iso assumed was meant to be handsome was seated in the chair. He watched Iso with the smug yet wary look that his line of business usually instills in people.

"Please have a seat," he gestured toward a plush chair that set in front of his desk.

"That won't be necessary. I won't be here long," Iso smirked.

"And why is that," the man asked.

"I already know that you don't have what I want."

The man frowned. Iso shouldn't be able to know what was in his inventory only he knew the full extent of his collection of illegal goods. He narrowed his eyes in a suspicious glare but not at her but at the man who stood at his door. Someone must have loose lips and talked about something that they shouldn't have.

"Then why are you still here. My time is valuable and you are currently wasting it," his polite tone gone now that the prospect of making any money was gone.

"I'm merely bidding my time since what I want is currently sitting in the bar upstairs, but as payment for your time I will give you some information that is useful," Iso offered the knowing smirk on her face never leaving.

"Very well you have five minutes," the man said leaning back in his chair, "you had better make it worth it."

"Oh I'm sure I can," Iso turned and started wandering around the room seemingly dismissing the men around her as a viable threat. "As I'm sure you are aware the black market has many lucrative trades be it drugs, weapons, or something else."

"I already know all of this," the man grumbled.

"Of course you know this you'd be an idiot if you didn't," Iso snapped. The man decided to keep quiet the look that the woman gave him was dangerous and it was aimed at him. "Anyway I'm sure you know what the one most valuable trade is in the black market."

"The slave trade, what does all this have to do with me I don't trade in human flesh," the man answered when Iso's looked prompted him to answer.

"That's because certain individuals have made it quite difficult to enter that market, I'm about to make an opening in the next few months if your smart you can take advantage of the opportunity," Iso finished.

"Why are you telling me this," the man asked. All of this that the woman was telling him sounded too good to be true.

"As I said before what I want is currently sitting in the bar upstairs. Two men who work for a man who has recently offended me. This man they worked for dealt in the rarest of slaves. I plan to kill this man and all that work for him," Iso informed the black marketer.

"Who is this man?"

"Tao La-Shu," Iso stated.

The man choked on his own breath, "He deals in dragons."

"I know," Iso said, "I'll let you fill his position if you want. sell all the humans you want I don't care for them but if I catch you selling any of my kind I will gut from groin to sternum and let you watch as I make a noose out of your intestines so I can hang your corpse for all to see," Iso described all of this with an evil bloodthirsty smile on her face. The man could only nod in fear at Iso's gory threat. "Good now if you'll excuse me I have people to kill." Iso turned and left. None of the men in the room had the nerve to follow her.

Iso reemerged into the main room of the bar with a confident stride. She didn't head straight for the door but wandered into the crowd.

Trafalgar watched as she wandered closer. She appeared relaxed but he could tell that she was on guard. As the woman made her way past his group of tables she turned and winked at him. Iso knew that he had been watching her the whole time she was in the bar. Walking by him was just a way for her to determine whether or not he was working for Tao La-Shu. Her observations told her that was not the case Trafalgar looked like the kind of man that was far too arrogant to work for someone else.

With her tour of the room finished Iso made her way toward to door. As she passed the two men who had followed her into the bar she smirked at them and bolted out the door. The men jumped up from their seats knocking over their chairs in the process. They ran out the door after their target.

"Let's go Bepo. It appears something interesting is happening," Trafalgar Law stood and made his casually toward the door.

Iso lead her followers further into the slums of the large sea side port city they were in dodging around corners and jumping over crates. She ran just fast enough to stay within sight of her pursuers but not so fast as to lose them she wanted them to follow her. She kept running deeper into the slums where only drunks, homeless and street rats would live. As she ran Iso was searching for a good place to ambush her two followers.

She finally saw it, an alleyway that was little more than a gap created by two crumbled building leaning on each other for support. The blue haired woman skidded around the corner into the alley and grabbed a rotting support beam and swung herself up into the shadows. It wasn't long before Iso's two followers entered the alleyway where she had set up her little ambush.

"Ahy where did that little bitch go."

"De hell if I know dis place is a dead end."

Just as one of the men looked up to see her in the space above, Iso swung her body around and kicked both of them in the chest. One of the men fell to the ground while the other just staggered backwards. Iso's swing caused her to sail right over the men and land behind them in a crouch. The man that didn't fall in her attack drew his knife and charged at her. Iso didn't bother drawing her weapons the quarters were too tight to fight with them properly. So she simply stepped into the swing of the man knife and grabbed onto his wrist. Using his own force of momentum against him Iso slammed him bodily into the wall of one of the buildings. He crumbled to the ground, but Iso didn't get a break yet. The man she had knocked down earlier was back up and charging at her supposedly unguarded backside. Iso ducked at the last minute and the man tumbled over her and landed in a pile on top of his partner.

Iso drew one of her swords from its place on her hip, "now we are going to have a nice chat about your boss and you're going to tell me everything I want to know."

"An why de hell should we talk to you."

"I don't think you quiet realize the position you are in," Iso said sitting down on an abandoned crate and laying her naked blade on her knee, "I only need one of you to talk and whoever talks first gets to live, and who ever talks second gets to die by being chained to the dock and one of the outgoing merchant ship's rudders."

Both men blanched at the visual of being pulled apart by an unsuspecting ship.

"I'll tell you whatever you want to know," Iso frowned slightly both men had spoken at almost the same time.

"I spoke first,"

"No I did," now the men were scrambling to save their own lives.

"Shut up the both of you," Iso glared at the two men and they both clamed right up, "Now I'm going to ask my questions and then I will decided who spoke first, understand."

They nodded.

"Good. Now your boss he deals in slaves correct," Iso started with a question she already knew the answer to. She pointed at one of the men, "you answer."

"Yes miss."

"What kind of slaves?" she pointed at the other man.

"Exotic ones Ma'am."

"What do you mean by exotic?"

"Fishman, giants, but lately he's been dealing mostly in dragons," the other man answered catching onto how she wanted them to alternate answers.

"Is that why you're following me?"

"Yes miss. One of our men spotted your hair and wings when you arrived and we thought you an easy catch."

"Well you thought wrong now didn't you? One last question if I wanted to find your boss where would I look?"

"Are you crazy lady! Master Tao will rip you."

"That is not what I asked," Iso interrupted the man speaking with a deadly calm voice.

"He uses an old abandoned marine base on the far side of the island," the other man told her.

"See now that wasn't so hard. Now onto other matters. Who do you think spoke first?"

The two men seemed to burst open. Both of them begging for their own life and trying to sell out his partner at the same time. Iso silence them with a growl.

"You know what I think? Both of you spoke last," Iso rose from her seat and advanced on her target. No one paid any attention to the screams coming out of that little alley way. All of the slum residence merely looked away and wait for it to end so that they could go in and rob the corpses of any valuables that they may still possesses.

Iso stepped out of the alley way without a speck of dirt to mar her appearance. Her eyes shifted to the left where Trafalgar Law stood leaning against the wall with his polar bear sitting next to him hold on to a sword that was almost as tall as she was.

"Did you enjoy eavesdropping on private conversations," Iso asked turning to face the tall dark haired pirate. He was dressed casually in spotted jeans, a black and yellow hoodie, and a spotted white hat.

"In fact I did dragon-ya. I always enjoy a good mental torture," Law smirked as he stepped away from the wall, "Though that isn't the only interesting thing that I got to enjoy."

Iso cocked her head to the side and studied the man in front of her. He held an arrogant air around and a confidence that could imply the ability to serve her purpose on this island. Tactically if she wanted to kill Tao La-Shu and free the slaves she would have to ensure that Tao La-Shu couldn't escape and to make sure that he wouldn't just kill the slave in retaliation for her coming after him for she fully intended him to know the reasons for his death. She would need allies for her assault on the abandoned marine base.

"Trafalgar Law bounty 98 million recent entrant to the grand line. You've been quickly making a name for yourself in the pirating world," Iso recited the details that she knew about this man in a rather bored tone.

"I do my best," Law answered, "May I ask why it concerns you?"

"I could do the same, why did you follow me," I stepped closer, "but I won't instead I have a proposal for you."

"Oh and what might that be," he asked his curiosity piqued further by this woman's forwardness.

"I intend to kill the boss of the two men I just killed Tao La-Shu and free the slaves that he is holding but I can't do all on my own. I offer you this if you and your crew help me in my endeavor you can have claim over any valuables that may be his compound all I ask is that you help me free the slaves."

It was Law's turn to study the person in front of him. This woman's proposal was appealing and he had a feeling that he was going to take her up on it. He wanted more out of the bargain though as a pirate he was obligated to get as much as he could out any of his dealings and he felt that this woman had more to give.

"Let's say I accept your proposal, but we add in the condition that you answer any of my questions truthfully until this is over."

"I'll give you twenty questions, no more no less," Iso countered.

"It would seem that we have a deal miss…" the heart pirate captain left his sentence hanging in the hope that the woman would fill in the blank.

"Is that a question," Iso asked a cocky smirk appearing on her face.

"No but it is only polite for you to introduce yourself since it would seem that you already know my name," Law said.

"Fine it's not that important any way. My name is Isodellaco but I much prefer Iso."

"It is a pleasure to meet you Iso-ya. We will reach our destination faster if we use my ship," with that he turned and headed toward the harbor.