Reversal of Fate
Uchihas1010Hyuuga

Update: This is a rewritten version…


Chapter 2: The Beginning of Everything

With time, Honey and the crew bonded. It was like she's been there all along and her absence would create an emptiness on the ship. She also worked so hard and gains her status as Vice Commander of the Second Division. Ace's division because her devil fruit Hyoo Hyoo no mi (Logia: Air) and Ace's Mera Mera no mi (Logia: Fire) compliments each other.

Not only did she bond with the Whitebeard pirates but she also bonded with other pirates in the New World. She chases after adventure and wants to meet new people and see the world more.

"Why did that Red Haired Pirate have to inform Ace that he's leaving to his homeland for a while?" a member of the second division complained. "Now Hon-chan's gone to visit West Blue."

"We can't even trust that Red Head…"

"You can't really blame Hon-chan's adventure-chasing trait… she's barely even been out of the New World."

"Yeah but it's almost too quiet without her," another complained as he stared at his hand rolling a coin back and fro in a bored manner. "I wonder what she's doing now," he groaned and lay back on the wooden floor and stared at the blue sky.

"Sanchou!" a man with a penguin hat yelled as he came running after his captain and their polar bear nakama.

"What's the rush?" the polar bear asked, looking a tad bit annoyed.

"I asked around the village and found out that it will take 3 days for the log to set." He exclaimed.

"I see," replied Law in a calm tone. He reached to touch the snow puddle grouped on top a barrel. "It'll be interesting to find out more about this Snow Cone Island. It's a complete barren autumn island with fake snow. It should have been renamed Cotton Island," he smirked and releases the snow from his previously squeezed palms, captivating the snow.

Then a pile of rolled blankets fell from the sky. "Don't tell me that thing's a snow ball," Penguin said in a sarcastic tone.

"No, it's a baby," Bepo stated in a surprised tone as Law unwrapped the face area of the baby that fell directly into his arms.

"It's fate that the baby fell straight into the captain's arms," Shachi piped in.

"I could care less about this baby," said Law, rather loudly and left the baby on the barrel he just cleaned snow out of. "And fate."

"But Sanchou!" The Penguin hatter exclaimed looking back and fro of the captain and the baby and rushed to his captain who have already started walking away.

They felt a woman's presence joined them. She held the baby close to her and called them out. "Hold it!"

The Heart Pirates turned to look at her.

"Are you just going to abandon your child just like that?! You inhuman… beast!" She scolded and stomped forward in front of Law. "Here," she pushed the baby into Law's chest. "Take your child," she forced Law's arms around the baby. "The poor thing's barely even moving. You should take it to a doctor, not leave it behind to die."

"What do you think you're doing to our captain?!" Bepo exclaimed in an angry tone.

"The baby's not dead yet and I'm not the father," Law calmly stated with a smirk, amused.

"That's what they all say," Honey smirked back. "I saw you abandoning your child just now. "What have you done with the mother too? Where is your wife?" She asked in a threatening voice.

"Oh lord," Law secretly sighed, holding his head in his free hand and the other holding the baby. "Guys, go take a walk. I'll finish this matter off quickly," he ordered without taking his eyes off from her.

Without complaint, the two started to walk off. Bepo handed Law his nodaichi in case something happened.

"You look familiar, "Purple Wind" Honey, isn't it?" asked Law and he gave her a good lookover.

The woman had long, shiny purple hair that hung around her waist. Her forehead concealed with her cupped bangs. She adorn a pale purple tube top with darker purple stripes running horizontally on it and it has a matching jacket that begins at the back of her neck and ends a few centimeters above the tube top. Complimenting her top, she had white pants on with a silver belt embracing it and she had on a pair of silver boots with various colored gems decorated on it.

She raised an eyebrow. "I'm not that familiar with pirates of the first half of Grand Line yet. I've only been to this side a couple times. Your mark looks very interesting though," she said, referring to the Heart Pirate sign on his chest.

"I'm captain of the Heart Pirates," he introduced himself in a conceited tone. "Trafalgar Law."

"Good you're a doctor. The baby will survive."

"Look, how many times must I tell you? This baby is not mine," said Law in a very frustrated tone.

Before Honey could say anything, her stomach started to thunder, loud enough for the whole island to hear. Law chuckled softly under his breath as Honey's face started to show different shades of red.

"Hora, where did Honey run off to? We were just on this island to stock up," Shanks said looking around the ship for his purple haired guest.

'Shanks! If I disappear all of a sudden, just take off, 'kay?' Honey ended with a smile.

"Should I really leave her? What if something happened? Hmm, she's not that weak a girl for me to worry about," said Shanks, who made his mind to take off.

"Okay man! We're taking off!"

"Captain, Honey is not here yet! She went out for a boat tour and never came back," Rockstar reminded.

"Oh my, the boat tour is taking her to Snow Cone Island," Yasopp who just encountered the advertisement back on the island said. "I saw the area and the man said it's like a ferry to Snow Cone Island,"

"It's not that far, should be go pick her up?"

Then another man who just woke up that is listening on in the conversation started to speak up. "Oh, Hon-chan told me she wanted to go to Snow Cone Island instead. She also told me that she'll find a way back to the Moby Dick,"

"Oh that makes it clear," said Shanks. "I was hoping she could see my home island," he trailed off in a slight whiny tone.

"Are you sure you can finish everything you just ordered?" Law asked with a raised brow.

"It's weird… I thought babies were supposed to cry. Why isn't this one crying?" She asked, eyeing at the baby.

"Because it's still fast asleep," Law stated as if that was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Because that's why babies do, that kid is a big sleeper. It still manages to sleep after falling into my arms," said Law as he lay back on his chair and crossed his legs with his arms stretched behind his head to work as a pillow for him.

Then the waitress came and served them some of their orders. Honey stared at the pot of honey the restaurant served. She noticed a spot in the pool of honey creating a faint whirlpool around it.

After grabbing a spoonful of honey of the pot, she brought it close to her face. "Huh, a baby bee larvae," she giggled. "Those people must've rushed to the nearest bee hive or a honey house." Then she casually dropped it at the corner of the table.

"Were you a bear in another life or something?" he asked referring to her obsession with honey. "I mean even your name is honey," he stated with a smugly face and a smirk spreading like a plague across his face.

"Ooh, were you a cat in another life too? Don't ask too much 'cause curiosity kills the cat," Honey retorted.

"Do I look tasty too, now? I bet I look like a walking pool of honey to you," he teased making Honey stare at his shirt with blank wide eyes.

"You do make a point," she replied with a serious face and feigned lust for his shirt, teasingly. Then she suddenly stopped fraternizing. "I don't even know why I'm here with you."

"You were the one who pushed the baby to me in the first place," Law said monotonously.

"Well, you ARE the father after all. It's only right I do that," she smiled and twirl the spoon around the honey.

Law held the baby up and hold it out to her across the table. "Your turn to hold it. I'm going to eat."

Honey took the baby and placed it on her laps. The baby started to awaken and made cute baby noises as it stared at Honey with a huge smile on its face with drool coming out.

"I have no experience with baby but I'm going to feed it."

"YOU look like the mother."

Honey ignored Law and attempted to put the huge spoon dripping with Honey in the baby's mouth.

"What do you think you're doing?" stopped Law.

"Trying to feed the baby," she replied sarcastically with a tint of annoyance.

"Yeah that, the honey had a baby bee larvae in it, it's not safe for the baby to eat it," warned Law in a very alert manner.

"Hey, honey's very nutritious and it's good for babies. It can even be used as medicine, you know,"

"I know, but sometimes it contains dormant endospores which can harm the baby that will lead to illness or worse, death," he told her in a very professional way she gave up.

"Fine, you're the doctor, and the father of the baby, you'll know best," she said and dropped the spoon back in the pot.

"But you can eat it. Don't waste Honey."

"Then what do you suppose we feed the baby?"

"Milk."

When the waitress came over to serve them milk, Law asked her to feed the baby since Honey, apparently, does not favor kids. And to ask her to do such chores would be out of the question.

"The baby is so lucky to have such thoughtful parents," the waitress noted as she cooed the baby as it sucks on its bottle tip.

"I'm not the mother, but he's the father of the baby," Honey replied nervously. How could anyone think she's a mother? Do I look that old?

"I'm not the father either," as soon as Law was done saying that, the woman's face brightened.

"You're not?" And she began to flirt with Law and Honey glared at the woman and cleared her throat.

"Do you know anyone who lost their baby or anything like that? We'd really like to return the baby,"

"I'm sorry, there's no news of a lost baby around yet," the waitress kindly answered. "I'll be sure to tell them it's with you if someone did ask around,"

"M'kay, thanks,"

As soon as they were done with their meal, Honey stormed out of the restaurant. Law came out a second later with the baby.

"Why are you following me?"

"To return your baby."

"It's your baby."

"If you're not going to take it I'm just going to have to find a place to leave it behind," said Law and walked towards a house.

"No, don't!" Honey ran back to him and pulled his hoodie. "Let's look for the parents together."

Above the roof of a bar facing the restaurant, sat a man in a frog stance. He has silver hair with tints of blue; his eyes shine pale lavender.

"So that's "Purple Wind"," he smirked. "Who's that pirate with her? He has a different mark," he noted. "No matter…"

"Why do you want to look for the parents of this baby that much? Let's just kill it off," says Law quite calmly.

"For a heart pirate, you have no heart." Honey said while fiddling with the baby in her embrace.

"It's troublesome," he was getting impatient, not understanding why someone would care about a kid they found out of nowhere.

"I want this kid to live happily with its parents," she said, in a depressed voice. Her energetic face withered to a gloomy one.

'Why is that?' He wanted to know, but decided to leave the matter with a shrug.

Honey debated in her mind whether to tell or not. "Because," she heaved a heavy sigh. "I don't know where I'm from."

Law raised a confuse brow at her.

"Ace found me when I first… woke up."

Law waited for her to go on.

"Honey's not even my real name. I can't remember anything from before I met Ace," Law thought he saw her eyes shine. Then he realized her tears welling up in her eyes.

Honey fought the tears back in her eyes. She doesn't want to be seen crying in front of this man.

"So it's true," said Law.

"Huh?"

"You and Fire Fist Ace…" Law trailed off, feeling uncomfortable to ask about her love life.

Honey's face flushed. "Wh-aaa no! He is family!"

Law cracked a smile. "He probably have better things to do than fall in love with you."

Honey pouted. "Isn't that true for all pirates?"

"So what are you doing in this half of the Grand Line?" Law asked, wondering if Whitebeard sent her for something.

"I was going to visit Shank's homeland. I was with him and a ferry brought me here," she giggled.

"What's so funny?"

"Maybe the ferry brought me here by fate… to meet you," Honey smiled up at him.

Law looked at her in a puzzled face and remembered what Shachi said about the baby and fate.

"Purple Wind", do you know about this island's "Hearth"?" The silver haired man from before crackle in sinister laughter.

"Did you hear that?" Honey inquired when she heard something suspicious.

Law just simply shook his head and they reached a river. "You heard the farmer right? He thinks he might know the parents, we just have to wait for a while a little patiently," then a sudden urge came to him to say, "I told you I'm not a father."

His smile retreated when he noticed Honey had been staring at the snow ever since they arrived by the river bank. "Hey, what's wrong?" He asked when he approached near her and kneeled down so his eye level can reach her.

"…" She trembled a little. "Trafalgar Law…" she mumbled nervously as her clutch on the baby trembled along with her.

"Honey," he called out as he shook her by her shoulder. "Look at me!" He spun her upper body to face him but saw her eyes were blank.

"I can't see anything…"

End of Chapter 2