Hello everyone! Second Chapter is done! I'm going to try to update a chapter every week. I hope all that read, like!

Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda.


Chapter 02

Over the Red Line

Mihawk could see Saboady in the distance. As they got closer and closer the islands he looked over to Perona. That's odd, she's quiet. . He thought. 'We've been on this boat for a day and a half, she should be excited that we've finally reached the islands.' He studied her as she busied herself getting ready to dock their boat.

She looked stiff and he knew she was worried, but she should believe in Zoro. Although he didn't blame her, Zoro tended to get lost easily and trouble always seemed to find him.

Perona wasn't the same annoying, stuck up girl he met two years ago. Of course still argued and didn't like being told what to do but she had matured, gotten smarter and you wouldn't know if you looked at her but she was much stronger. He almost felt as if he should be proud . . . but he would never admit that.

This change was actually due to Zoro being stubborn as always.

-Flashback Two months into Mihawk's training-

"Arhhhhhhhhghghghgh!" Mihawk knew very well who's yell this was and why.

(A floor above on the other side of the castle.)

"STOP!" Zoro yelled as he struggled against Perona. Perona started to yell right back "You stop! You need stiches!"

"Just bandage me! I need to keep traini— I wish to be reborn as a pike." He said as he was on his hands and knees with a heavy depressing aura surrounding him. Perona was standing above him with a smirk on her face.

"Horohorohororo! Fish is delicious but not very cute."

Zoro irritated to no end stood up quickly and all but ran out the door and into hallway, leaving Perona in a stupor. Not even 2 minutes had passed before he came right back into the room with a confused face.

"What are doing in the kitchen?"

"Idiot! This is the room you just left! It doesn't even look like a kitchen!"

After an hour of arguing and bandages, needles and thread his wounds were treated, not very well but good enough. As he marched out of the room Perona stuck her tongue out. "Stupid Zoro!"

Later on that day, Perona decided to float around the Island, bored, when something green caught her eye. It was Zoro! He was fighting the Humandrills. From the looks of it he was tired and had reopened his wound, again! "What is he doing!?" Perona thought out loud!

She started to turn to go get Mihawk when she heard a loud thud. When she turned she saw Zoro surrounded by the baboons and he lying face down in the dirt. Tears had started to gather in the corners of her eyes and she went to yell as a Baboon swung towards the beaten swordsman.

CLANG!

Perona hovered, wide eyed. Hardly believing the scene before!

Sword to Axe. Eye to eye. Zoro had stopped the axe with his sword! He was bleeding heavily but still had a determined look on his face. "I won't lose to you. I have to get stronger for them! FOR HIM!" He went back to fighting them.

Perona floated there for a minute or two, bangs covering eyes, still. Then suddenly she flew to the castle, to her body. Once she was back in her body she went straight to Mihawk, eyes still covered.

As soon as she saw him she looked him straight in the eye. "Please! Hel—"

"—p me!" Mihawk came back to reality to see Perona yelling at him to help her tie the boat up, saying he was lazy and needed to help a cute girl. Cute girl being her, apparently.

Mihawk simply got off the boat and headed straight to the bar.

Perona huffed and finished tying the boat up. "I'm headed to go get food and supplies, do want anything specific?" The answer she got was him raising his empty wine glass. "Weirdo. . ." she said as she headed into the shopping area.

She had been walking around, looking at the different foods when she saw an alcohol store. 'I guess I should get him his drink. . . Maybe they'll have a cute drink for me!' "Horohorohororo!"She laughed out loud and went into the small store.

As she made her way to the wine in search of Mihawk favorite brand, Tarapaca, she past the beer and saw an expensive rare Sake and grabbed it without thinking. As she bought the alcohol she realized she didn't like either of these drinks. . . Oh well. She shrugged as she continued to finish her shopping so they could leave for the New World.

On her way back to the boat she saw a large group of men and in the middle of it she saw the hilt of a familiar sword.

Since she decided she didn't want to walk anymore, she floated over to the men to see what was going on. She came up with many different reasons as to why a group would form around Mihawk the Warlord. One being because they wanted autographs, no. Another was for accusing him for a dine and dash . . . 'That did happen before, and I had to pay for his food, that Jerk!' Perona thought. The Last one was the least likely and that was to challenge him. Yeah right horohoro! She thought.

"Ahg!" she heard as a man flew from the group. She moved to the side quickly as to not get hit. She couldn't believe it!

Mihawk stood with a small knife in his that use to be around his neck. . . Wait! Why!

"Dracule Mihawk! Ahhhhh!" A man, sword in both hands, charged at him. Mihawk easily deflected his attack and quick stepped all of the men. He was standing next to Perona when he put the small knife back around his neck and started to head back to the boat.

Perona didn't seemed shocked as she turned to head to the boat irritated with him. "What did you do!? Did you not pay for you drink?" She yelled.

"Hey! We are not done with you!" "He—"

All of a sudden blood was spilt. "Ugh!" "ARH!" "Agh!" The men started to fall, defeated. "But, I didn't even feel him cut me. (Cough, cough)" As the man's vision got blurry he could see the woman with Pink hair join Mihawk.

"Who is that?"

With that the man passed out. Not that it mattered, Perona and Mihawk didn't pay the man any attention.

And with that Mihawk and Perona set sail again. . . Wait.

"EH!" Perona all but screamed, making Mihawk's ears hurts.

"What do you mean you want me to lift the boat over the Red Line?!"

"(Sigh) This boat isn't designed to go underwater so we will have to go over. But if you can't do then we'll just head back to Kuraigana." He sign with the smallest smirk.

Perona glared at him. "Of course I can do it! But what about the Marineford!?" Her answer was a raised eyebrow . . . Of course, he's a Warlord, and they wouldn't shoot him.

"Just make sure your hat covers most of your face." "Fine." Seeing no point in arguing with him any further, it just isn't as fun. By the time they had finished she could see that they had already made it to the Red Line.

"Alright, don't do anything with my body! Weirdo." With that she sat beside Mihawk leaning her back on the small railing. Tipping her hat so I covered most of her face and for good measure angled her cut umbrella so it protected her from the harsh rays of the sun as she exited her body. "Ship Poltergeist!" She yelled as her spirit merged with the boat. The small boat slowly lifted from the sea and started to head forward and up toward the top of the Red Line.

"What happens when the marines see a floating boat go past their ford?" Mihawk heard Perona ask.

"They shoot." "EHHHHH!" The boat shook comically as Mihawk sat unaffected.

"I didn't say they would shoot me." He said with a straight face.

"That doesn't mean they won't shoot me!" Perona yelled as they got closer to the Marines. Mihawk simply shrugged his shoulders.

"Whatever." They were silent for a few minutes as they kept going. It was when Perona saw the top of the Line and the Marineford did she start to worry that they would shoot. But when Mihawk stood, making sure that if someone were to look with binoculars they would be able to see him clearly, Perona began to relax, just a little.

When they got to the top Perona started to become confident. They may be able to get through without conflict. Not.

(WHEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO, WHEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO)

The sirens at the Marineford started.

Perona stopped moving almost jumping right out of the boat! They floated in the air for what felt like hours when in reality it was only a minute. Mihawk stood still watching the ford waiting for what was to come. When suddenly.

"Move. Quickly."

It was Mihawk who broke her from her frozen position and just as she moved she heard. (Kaboom!) It was a cannon!

(Kaboom!) (Boom!) (Kaboom!)

Multiple cannons were fired as she swerved the boat trying desperately not to get hit. And they kept coming.

(BOOM!) This Cannon was bigger than the last, way bigger! As the huge cannon ball came hurtling towards them. The boat, aka Perona, looked as if it was about to cry. 'I'm going to die here, and we didn't even get to the New World yet!'

All of a sudden the ball was cut clean in two equal pieces. Mihawk stood, sword in hand, glaring at the ford. Two explosions were heard as the pieces hit the ground below them.

After that all that could be heard was the siren, nothing else was fired.

"Horohorohoro! (huff) You think they were too scared to shoot anymore. (huff)" She said trying her best to stay smug.

Mihawk sat back down with a thoughtful expression. 'They must have seen me, even so . . . Why did it take so long for them to start shooting? Is it because of the situation with Doflamingo?'

"Perona, let's go, now."

"Okay" a small voice came from the boat, knowing full well not to argue.


-At the Marineford during the Cannon Fire-

(WHEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO!)

(Kaboom!)

With the sirens going off. A very irritated Rear Admiral Hina walked through the halls of the Marineford wondering who in their right mind would come here, of all places! Jango and Fullbody following close behind.

As she made her way to the ship that had infiltrated her area, not that she wanted to be stationed here she would much rather be in the New World showing Smoker up, she popped a cigarette in her mouth. But she could hardly believe her eyes when she saw who's 'ship' it was, not that you could even call it that. It was more like a dingy. . .

Anyway. Hina snatched the first pair of binoculars she saw, which happened to be in Jango's hands, and looked to see who was standing on the small boat.

"Mihawk! That bastard! What's he doing here?" She asked as she looked for any answer that could make sense of why the Warlord would be crossing to the New World on a flying boat! Last time she checked his boat did not fly!

"Someone bring me a transponder snail! NOW!" She yelled almost spitting her cigarette out. Fullbody was the first to respond, only because Jango was still off to the side gushing about how she was using HIS binoculars. And as Hina took Fullbody's snail, he joined Jango in lavishing at the small brush of her fingers on his hand.

Admiral Hina called the first person she could of, cannons still firing. She heard the line ringing.

(Bririri, Bririri, Bririri, Bririri- Kachack) A deep voice came onto the transponder "Vice Admiral Bastille."

"Sir! This is Rear Admiral Hina. We have a problem here at Saboady Marineford, Sir! It's Mihawk, he's crossing the Red Line for the New World!"

"What! How? Why?" yelled the transponder. "He is flying in a boat and we don't know why yet. We are in the process of apprehending him. Sir!" She responded confidently.

"Good. We wi—" Bastille's voice suddenly cut off. There was shuffling and the snail's eyes had changed to small slits and scars across both eyes. Then a different voice came from the snail.

"Leave him." She knew this voice. Rear Admiral Hina snapped to attention.

"Admiral Fujitora!"

"Let Mihawk do as he pleases. He's not our concern, for now. You are no match for him, not yet." Fujitora said calmly. Reluctantly, and irritated, Hina agreed "Yes Sir!" (Kachack) and that ended the conversation.

As she called off the Cannon fire a large cannon ball was shot. "Shit." As it sailed toward Mihawk she couldn't help a small part of her that wanted him to get hit, but no luck as she saw the ball split in two.

"Damn."


-Back to Mihawk and Perona-

The boat had finally made to the other side of the Red Line after what seemed to be hours. Perona was already in her body when he looked at her, she was hunched over and exhausted. "Well (huff) that was (huff) easy. Why does everyone (huff) make a big deal out of it . . .? (huff)"

Just after she said this, three gigantic sea monsters came out of the water ready to eat.

"Kyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Perona screamed, her eyes nearly popping out of her head!

Mihawk merely gave them a dominating glare and they froze, was it conqueror's haki? Perona sure didn't know nor did she care at this point. Quickly the monsters retreated back into the sea. Looking back at Perona, Mihawk saw her crying bout how she almost died and that a cute girl shouldn't be eaten by sea monsters. . She being the cute girl.

He turned the other way, ignoring her, to grab his wine and glass when he saw the sake. . . 'That must be for Zoro.' He thought with a smirk.


-Many miles away-

"AUCHOO!" Zoro sneezed yet again for the hundredth time the last couple days.

"Yohohohohoho, are you okay Zoro-san? You've been sneezing a lot, did you catch a cold from Punk Hazard? Yohohoho!" Brook sang expressively.

"Eh? Did shitty Marimo catch a cold?" Sanji said with a haughty smirk.

"What'd you say dumbass cook!" Zoro got in the cooks face, swords in hand ready for a fight. Sanji lifted his leg getting into a position to kick the swordsman. That was until they saw a beetle fly rather suddenly between their faces, then they saw the stretched arm of Luffy.

Zoro looked left as Sanji looked right. What they saw gave them panic. Luffy was coming at them full speed, eyes closed and laughing! "Shit!" And before either of them could get away it was too late. They were both hit with the full force of Luffy, sending all three of them straight into an unsuspecting Law!

Law, with his back to the group, was just looking at his map of Dressrosa when he felt his back crack as a large group smacked into him and was sent tumbling into the sea with the monstrous trio of the Straw Hats following close behind.

When the group was back on the deck of Sunny, drenched and tired, Luffy got a scolding for goofing off by Nami and both Zoro and Sanji made sure to hit him over the head yelling "What's wrong with you!"

"Shishishishi!" And Luffy was already back to smiling and laughing

Law remained silent, and when he looked at the Straw Hats from under the bill of his dripping hat all he could think was 'Maybe he's the wrong person to be in an alliance with. . .'


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