Have you noticed lately how North Blue peeps are NERDS with Sora, Warrior of the Sea? Trafalgar Law, Hawkins, and Drake are friggen nerds. Heck, even Sanji since his character is based as an antagonist. Pft.


134340: Part II

"Hahaha!" laughed Baby Five as she ran away from Buffalo who was trying to catch her. They were playing Pirates versus Navy's; Baby Five being the pirate and the unfortunate Buffalo taking the role as the Navy. Ann decided to sit this one out knowing full well that every time she played Buffalo would give her the role of the Navy and would join Baby Five to be the pirate. Instead of playing she decided to read the comic book that Corazon had bought for her on his journey while he was away. Corazon usually never brought any gifts for any of the kids, but occasionally he would bring a book or comic to Ann since she picked up the interest of reading unlike the other two. Also, Ann was a little special in the family since she was the first kid not to get picked on by Corazon by some miracle. The other members of the family at first found it suspicious but later dropped it as they watched the two have some sort of bond. If Donflamingo, Corazon's blood brother, accepted this then so the rest of the family would too. They wouldn't question the big bosses orders.

Ann paused her reading as her stomach began to cry for food. As she placed a hand on her belly, she looked over at Baby Five and Buffalo who were still continuing with their game. A small frown was on her face, the kids were told to stay away from the kitchen until dinner would be ready. The only one who could help around was Baby Five, but it's not like she would get a snack for Ann unless she played their game. It was one thing Ann did not want to do today. Ann looked around to see if Law was around and if he, for some miracle, wanted to accompany her to find an apple tree nearby and have a snack. When she spotted the ten-year-old close to the shore just watching the waves, Ann got off her seat and decided to head over that direction.

Law wasn't a kid Ann particularly liked, in fact, he scared her a lot especially with the looks that he would give her at times. Law was just a type of kid that Ann knew to stay away from. Her little mind concluded that the boy was just always angry and would take it out on her if she was near him all the time. Ann stopped her tracks as she was only a few feet away from Law's presence. Her hands gripped on the book Corazon had brought her. Just going up close to him terrified her.

"Nn...!" she inched a little closer as she questioned herself if this was the smartest thing she was doing. Ann didn't notice that she was beginning to hold her breath.

"What do you want?" asked Law not even looking back at the petite girl.

"Bah!" Ann let out all the air she was keeping in as she was surprised he knew she was close by. Her breathing started to hypervate as she began to talk in a speed no normal person would understand. "Iwaswonderingifyouwannagofindanappletreeandhaveasnack!"

Her face was red and she was huffing as she tried to get some oxygen in her lungs. Law finally turned to her with his angry grey eyes. Ann 'eeped' as she hugged her book even tighter. Ann noticed that Law was thinking of something before he finally responded and what came out of his mouth surprised her.

"Fine, let's go."

Just as he stood up both of the children heard Buffalo shout out from the top of his lungs. "It's time to eat dasuyan!"

Ann thanked whatever god was real that had saved her from going on an awkward adventure with Law. She didn't like him, but she didn't dislike him. He just terrified her. And those grey eyes that would watch her whenever she was close to her friend, Corazon, gave her goosebumps. But Ann wasn't a rude kid, that's not how she was brought up. She was always told to give people second chances and so even though he terrified her – she was willing to accept that Law was just someone different with big anger issues that she couldn't personally understand.

"Ah, we should go get dinner now instead," she hesitantly turned to face Law and noticed his grey eyes. "D-Do you want to g-go apple tree hunting s-some other t-time?"

There was an awkward silence before he decided to agree with Ann. The girl tilted her head as she gave a nervous smile as she concluded that today was just one weird day.


A week ago Ann was afraid of Law, but as the days passed and Doflamingo and the family had accepted him to become a member – she noticed that Law wasn't so bad to be around. Baby Five and Buffalo were comfortable talking to him the most, Ann had ways to go, but the older boy seemed to tolerate her. The brunette was walking behind the group as they decided to head to town to get ice cream sounded like a good idea – at least for Buffalo.

Something in the corner of her eye caught her attention that she decided to separate from the group. Her feet lead her to the way of an outdoor book stand where an elderly man gave her a nod as a greeting which she did back to be polite. Her eyes scanned on the blue book that caught her eyes. In front of the cover was a figure with a golden helmet and a blue cape. The golden title read Sora, Warrior of the Sea Volume One. Her blue eyes began to sparkle in admiration. This was the book that she had overheard that was a good superhero story from Lao G and it was based on real-life Marine experiences. From what Lao mention was that the antagonist was pretty famous in North Blue.

Oh, how she wanted this book!

"Ann!" cried Baby Five angrily, Law and Buffalo were just a few meters behind her. Ann looked at the gang with sparkly eyes as she held the book that she was looking for.

"Baby Five I know what I want for my birthday!" she said excitedly. "I want this book!"

Baby Five placed her hands on her hips as she gave Ann a disapproving look. "You can't. You have too many books in the bedroom and adding another one is just going to add more junk to the room! Buffalo's snacks are everywhere by the way! Honestly, kids these days only like to hoard things that are never going to be used again or can't even clean-up for themselves. Right Law?"

Law grabbed the book from Ann's hands and began to flip the pages of the book. He scanned each page and stood quiet for a minute or two. Afterward, he glanced at Ann and gave the book back to her. "What are you? A boy?"

"I'm a girl!" she cried out in protest. Her cheeks began to redden by the embarrassment. "I think Sora is cool… like Cora-san." She hugged the book tighter as her imagination pictured Corazon wearing the same superhero costume as Sora and a cool pose near the sandy shore.

This was the annoying part that Law found of her – the fact that Ann had somehow earned some type of respect from Doflamingo's brother; the brother that Law hated with a passion. His eyes narrowed at the book that she was fondly attached to. No one had explained to him why Ann was attached to that stupid man or how that man never mistreated the younger girl. He came up with theories and the only one that made the most sense was because she was young, but screw that! Baby Five was just two years older than her and Ann was going to turn seven in just a month from now.

Law grabbed the book once more, much more forcefully, and threw it to the floor. This caused Ann to burst into tears while Baby Five and Buffalo watched Law dumbfounded. Law gave Ann one of the nastiest glares he had done the first week he had arrived in front of the Doflamingo Family. "Corazon is nothing like your stupid hero."

Ann cried louder as Law walked away from the rest of the kids.

That afternoon when Ann and the group (except Law) returned home, Ann burst into tears when she saw Corazon sitting on the sofa chair reading a newspaper. She hugged the man's leg for her dear life not saying anything about Law and the book but continued to sob. Corazon and the rest of the adults were appalled by her behavior because while Ann was a crybaby she had never really cried like she was crying at the moment.

Diamante turned to Baby Five and Buffalo. "What the hell happened to her?"

Baby Five was not stupid to rat out Law, she was terrified of the kid and she was surprised that Buffalo wasn't saying anything. So the older girl shrugged her shoulders. "Dunno."

Giolla ordered Baby Five to take Ann to her room since the crying was becoming unbearable and it was starting to give her a headache. Just as the girl was about to do as she was told, Corazon picked up Ann by the waist and took her outside instead. He gave Diamante a look before closing the front door. Diamante scratched the back of his head.

"Not like I understand him, but if he's going to make it stop fine by me."


"…What's wrong?"

"…!" the girl's tears continued to fall down her cheeks as she tried to calm down her burst of crying. Corazon stared at the young girl trying her best to rub away the tears. He placed his hand on top of her head and began to stroke it – a physical motion that he knew would calm her down at times from what he learned.

" I...I…" her beady blue eyes looked at adult in front of her. Her cheeks redden by all the crying she had done. Her eyes were puffy knowing full well that she constantly rubbed them in order for her to stop her tears. She sniffed, "I…think of you as… my hero Cora-san!"

The adult stared at her before a goofy grin spread on his face. A slight blush appeared on his cheeks as he lifted up the girl happily. "Hahaha! Ann-chan!"

The moment Law returned back, he noticed Ann smiling happily as the heartless Corazon pointed at a book and scribbling at pages in order to communicate with the girl who laughed at whatever the man had written. There was something in Law that saw this familiar and it sickens him to his stomach.

'Idiots.'