Hello people I am back! Not from the exams though. I am still in the middle of my exam period. Now presenting... Deceit chapter 2! (is slapped aside)
Mihawk sat on his rotating chair, spinning it around. In his fingers were the thick pile of profiles from Crocodile. No, I am not the least stuck on this! He thought to himself. He started to read the profiles again, desperate for a similarity between the different people that were grave robbed. He calmed him down from the frustration of scanning the papers for fifteen times.
At that moment, a man with neatly combed white hair barged in, almost dropping the cigar in his mouth. "Oi, Mihawk!"
Mihawk turned around lazily. "What seems to be the problem, Smoker?"
Smoker did not even pant or gasp for air after his seemingly long and urgent run. Instead, he stood straight and saluted before starting, "There's a woman telling us that she had lost her son yesterday."
"I thought that was in your control, Smoker."
"Well..." Smoker sighed, "She's not willing to go away, we can't do anything, and I smell suspiciousness from her. Please for once leave your important case (you've stared at it for five days) and have a look at this (annoying junk)."
"...Fine..." Mihawk stood up and followed Smoker, who impatiently tapped his heels.
The woman was shorter than Smoker by a head, and she was crossing her arms in annoyance. Even from a far distance, Mihawk heard her conversing, or arguing with Coby, whose face was as flushed as his pink hair.
"-Miss, I-I am really d-desperately sorry but-" stuttered Coby in his embarrassed and nervous state.
"But what? Are you saying that you can't help because or some stupid reason? I thought that the 'Seagulls' were the best police and problem solvers in the world that's why I came and until now I trusted in YOU!" She shrieked. Helmeppo covered his ears, though he was already keeping a five-metre distance with the yelling woman. "Bring out your leaderrrrrrrrrr!"
"Yes?" Mihawk asked, a bit annoyed.
"Oh!" the woman stepped back, stunned as the amber light penetrated her. Smoker pulled Helmeppo and Coby back into the office before coming out to listen.
"Y-yes! My son has been missing for a day and I can't find him!" (Smoker: If he's missing of course you can't find him)
Smoker felt Mihawk's gaze shift over to him, before going back to the woman.
"Your clothes..."
"Oh!" The woman shifted uneasily and looked down at her blood stained clothes. "Well, I am the butcher's wife, and I am sorry if-"
"I do not remember the butcher having a wife, do you, Smoker?" Mihawk interrupted, his eyes narrowing.
Smoker shook his head, I didn't even know there was a butcher near here, he thought to himself.
"...!" The woman tapped her heels.
"Get some blood samples and the chopper she claims to have been using, and bring them to Hiluluk and Chopper, that miraculously clever reindeer." Mihawk sighed. " I'll leave this to you."
"Ok!" replied Smoker before dragging the woman away.
As Mihawk was ready to go back in, someone tapped him on his shoulder.
He turned, and came face to face with a living- zombie.
His eyes widened in disbelief.
The blue-skinned zombie grinned and snapped out a dagger. It made a wild slash, in which Mihawk stepped back to avoid and stamped its foot., the bandages wound on it twirling in the gust of wind.
As it got ready to stab again, Mihawk snatched at his cross necklace, revealed to be a short knife, ducked under the outstretching arm and blade, and pierced through its heart.
In the background, Smoker came running back with a report in his hands as the zombie fell down onto the ground.
Mihawk picked up an envelope on the ground. Smoker dashed over and handed over the report.
"The woman's a maniac, Mihawk. She killed her own son. Well, she's in the mental hospital now, case finished." Smoker stated. Then he noticed the envelope, and the blood on Mihawk's fingers. "What happened, and what is this?"
Mihawk pointed to the zombie and flipped over the envelope. He narrowed his eyes.
"Who is it from?" asked Smoker as he stepped back from the still twitching zombie.
"Gecko Moriah."
And there goes chapter 2! Hahaha! (is slapped aside but climbs back) Thank you for reading this, and all the same, please leave a review. Sorry if Smoker is out of character, but I can't put another suitable guy in that position since none of them really made sense. Thanks for reading!