This is pretty dark chapter but do forgive me. Again I don't own any of One Piece or it's characters in this story except for my original characters. Enjoy!

"You look ridiculas"

Ione and Law were currently walking around Yari Island. Doflamingo wanted to ambush some low pirates who called themselves the Belie Pirates and you guess it— they rob banks and steal anything that involves money. Apparently they stole from one of Doflamingo's business establishments and he wanted to get his little revenge and take everything they own, while having some fun of course. Law and Ione were currently stuck being the look out, while the rest of the crew went in for the confrontation.

Ione brought her hand up to wipe the sweat that was trailing down her head making her hair stick to her face. She was wearing the long white feathered coat that Doflamingo bought her for her birthday. Law mused that she looked like a white cotton ball walking around since the coat swallowed her whole body.

"I know." sighing she pulled out a fan from her pocket and hastily fanned herself "but it would have been rude for me not to wear it and he was very happy that I wore it today." she said remember the smug grin he wore on his face when he saw her.

"But look!" Ione held out her wrist that held her bracelet. "I'm wearing your gift too. Don't worry I'll never take it off."

Law grumbled something and turned away trying to hide the blush creeping on his face, but inwardly smiled at the comment she made. It did please him greatly.

The pair continued walking around enjoying the nice walk. They stopped and got some ice cream at a café to bypass time. The crew should be done soon, so they opted to relax a little. While eating her ice cream, Ione would noticed Law rubbing his arms every so often and the grimace look he would make every now and then.

"How are you feeling?" she asked casting a concern glance at his arms.

Law knew what she meant when she asked. Lately he has been getting sharp pains on his arms where the white blotches covered his arms. He had to wear long sleeves when they went out in public to hide them. It was tolerable and but it still held some discomfort. Law frowned cursing himself having been found out by Ione, thinking he would be able to hide it.

"I'm fine don't worry about it" he replied with a small smile that was clearly forced.

She could tell that he was lying. She could always tell, but she knew to leave it alone for now.

They finished the rest of their ice-cream in silence. Ione sat back and blew some of her hair out of her face in a sigh as she stretched lifting her arms up. Looking over she saw some posters on the wall. Most of them were bounty posters of various pirates from around the world. She remembered seeing a poster for Doflamingo a while back having his bounty over 100,000,000 beli. With a high amount like that he was a feared and powerful man especially with his activities in the underworld.

Musing over the posters, her eyes stopped on one. Her body moved and proceeded to go to the poster hanging. Law noticed the strange behavior and called out to her deaf ears. Not being able to get her attention, he got up and walked up to her. Eyes wide and mouth slightly parted as she view the wanted poster. Curious, Law turned his attention to what had her in such a state. After viewing his eyes too widen at the sight.

It was a bounty poster…. with Ione's face on it. The picture was taken with her in the air, wearing her signature white dresses with her white silver hair blending in; not at all making her look washed out but instead making her look like angel sent from above. Her blue cast aside as if she was loss in thought.

"You have a bounty" he said still looking at the poster in astonishment. It said that she was wanted dead or alive and that her price was a whopping 1,000,000 beli! Talk about a first bounty for a pirate just reaching puberty.

"Hmmm just Ione? No nick names or my full name." she mused thoughtfully. I guess this meant that the government didn't have that much information on her yet, but she is seen as a danger that needed to be taken care of. Great the epitome of unwanted attention just happened. Ione rubbed her head in frustration.

Law chuckled and took the poster down to roll it up and out it in his pocket as a souvenir. He turned to Ione and patted her on the back in mock comfort.

"Don't be ashamed. It's an honor to have a bounty you know. This solidifies you are a bad ass pirate. I'm pretty the crew will be happy now lets get out of here. I'm pretty sure they are done with whatever they are doing."

Ione nodded grumpily and followed Law out.

It was getting late in the day, the sun was slowly setting as the pair made their way through town. Ione still couldn't believe that she had a bounty. That's something that will never go away and she felt kind of sad that she couldn't lead a peaceful life ever. Of course she knew the consequences of joining Doflamingo's crew, but she still held on to naive hope that maybe one day she could leave and be a normal citizen.

As they continued walking, Ione heard foot steps following behind them. She listened closely and heard more than one pair of feet. Narrowing her eyes, she grabbed hold of Law and attempted to fly them both away until she felt cuff landing on her ankles making her fall bringing Law with her.

Groaning after the impact, she turned on her stomach and saw three men grinning at her. They were tall and pudgy, and looked as if they went for a swim with the amount of sweat that dropped from their bodies.

"You were right Maurice it is her." One of them chuckled. The blonde haired one moved forward and pulled out a poster from his pocket.

"Didn't think we would find a wanted pirate today and it's a good thing too. We fell short on some cash so it has to be lady luck that brought a cutie like you too us."

Ione tried to use her abilities to throw the men away, but found she wan't able to do so. She flared her hands around in a desperate attempt again, but still nothing happened.

"What's wrong Onie-ya?" Law hissed as he looked from the men to the girl. Her powers wasn't working. Looking down he saw that their was a cuff on her ankle. Law went to take it off with powerful tugs, but it didn't budge.

"You're powers won't work kid. Not with the sea stones in the cuffs and I have the key." the leader said as he held out a key, showing them that they were utterly defenseless against them.

Ione's mind went into overdrive trying to figure out the options her and Law had. Maybe Doflamingo and his crew were near and they will be able to save them, or she could try to talk her way out of it, but that was doubtful since she knew they weren't the sympathetic type.

Ione's eyes cut to Law, who had moved in front of her, blocking them from her view. He held a knife tightly grasped in his hand ready to defend Ione. He held a snarl on his face as he pointed the knife to the men.

"Stay back!"

The men laughed at the boy who was trying to intimidate them. One of the men pulled out a club and held it over his shoulders, walking over to Law.

"Well boy this has nothing to do with you, so you better move or you die right here." Law stood his ground but shook as the man came closer. So he was going to die right here. That was fine with him, hopefully Ione made a run for it. Seeing that Law wasn't backing down, the man growled and lifted the club over his head and sung it at Law. Law braced for the impact and suddenly felt himself falling on the ground, but not because of the club, but because of Ione tackling him.

"Run! go get help!" she commanded as she laid on top of him, staring into his eyes. Unable to move, Law looked at her as saw her face grimace in pain as one of the men grabbed the back of her hair pulling her off him.

"Go!"

Law snapped out of his daze and quickly got up and ran as fast as he could. He could hear the wail that erupted from Ione's mouth as they dragged her by the hair and the laughter from the men in the distance the further he got, causing some tears to go down his face.

Please wait for me

Doflamingo was sitting on the deck of his ship counting the money his crew got from those so called pirates. It was like taking candy from a baby at how day everything went. The Belie Pirates didn't even put up a fight as his crew stormed their hideout. They begged and begged for their lives, but they made the mistake of stealing from him, causing a disturbance in his flow of business. They had to pay.

He chuckled at the memory until he heard feet running towards him. Looking over his shoulder he saw Law looking paler than usually and …frightened? Law was shaking and his face had traces of tear staines on his face. He narrowed his eyes and looked Law over once more until his brain finally made a connection as to why he looked this way.

"Where's my dove Law?"

Ione woke up in a daze as she tried to focus on where she was and what was going couldn't see as her eyes felt swollen shut. Her whole body felt as if she fell from a cliff and landed face first. Her head pounded as she tried to touch it, but found that her hands were tied behind her back. She was in a chair.

"Oi I see you are awake. That's good. I didn't think you would after the third time you passed out." came a dark chuckle.

Her memories were slowly coming back to her. She was captured for her bounty and these sadistic men were beating her to no end. I guess they wanted to have fun with her until they turn her in. Her body that is.

"Awwe Bart you made the girl cry" a man giggled. All she could taste was blood as she swallowed in fear. She didn't want to die. Not right now, not by them. At least Law was safe.

Ione gasped as she felt a hand grip her swollen face quite painfully. She tried to speak but it felt too painful to.

"Don't hit her! I don't want her passing out again…. I got another idea of what we can do."

What else were they going to do to her? She panicked and rocked sideways in pitiful attempt to free herself. Soon she felt the ropes on her hands go loose and her hands being pulled to her front. She felt someone hold her right arm tightly as her left was placed on a hard surface, making her hand lay flat. Suddenly she felt something cold and sharpe on her pointer finger.

A voice chuckled "This is going to hurt"

A scream echoed in the small room. Ione franticly moved in her seat to escape but hands held her own. Another wail erupted from her body when she felt what happened to her pointer finger happen to her middle. She continued to wail and cry in horror of what they had done to her. She felt what she believed to be fingers on her cheek.

"You dropped these"

That moment she prayed for death to come to her or at least unconsciousness to pull her out of this painful nightmare.

"Boss I think she wet herself!"

A sharp sting sounded from her cheek.

"That's disgusting girl!" the man yelled her.

Ione didn't say anything as she continued to cry, making gasping and chocking sounds from heavy breathing.

"I think it's time to end this men. I'm surprise she made it alive this far, usually they always die or never regain consciousness after about an hour."

This was it. They were going to kill her. Where they going to shoot her, stab her, strangle her?

I'm sorry Kid, I love you so much! Law… I—

A loud noise sounded on the right side of her and she heard multiple feet rush in. "What th—!" one the men said as he was pushed to the other side of the room crashing into the wall.

More shouts were heard and a pair of feet came running up Ione. She flinched as she felt a pair of hands gently touching her face.

"Hey man don't hurt us! We didn't know she was with you!"

"You hurt something that belongs to me." That was Doflamingo that much she could recognize. His voice sounded strain like he couldn't bring the words to come through his clenched teeth.

He's saving her.

"How about we have some fun like you did with my dove since I missed out" he chuckled darkly. Screams could be heard as the men tried to run or defend themselves.

The hand on her face never left as it stoked her cheek in a soothing manner. Then it was gone replaced with shaking hands they cupped her cheeks. Ione could hear a strangled sob in front of her as one of the hands left her cheek to fall on top of her damaged one.

"I couldn't protect you" came a weak hoarse voice.

Oh Law…