Law was not at all surprised to find himself lying on the ground when he woke up from his impromptu nap. That he had ended up knocked out in the first place had been unexpected, as was who had been responsible for taking away his consciousness to begin with. The first thing that Law saw when he opened his eyes were pirates peering down at him, and it took the dark haired man a brief moment to not outwardly react to any of them.
Because Law remembered what he had decided on before he'd been knocked unconscious. That pirates were not his enemy; the marines were.
Things were still rather hazy in his mind, but it was enough for now, since Law knew who the real enemy was. No one said anything to him when he woke up, but that didn't seem to be a problem in the least bit. The mere act of Law waking up flat on his back started an immediate conversation between the pirates with those familiar symbols on their clothes, and the crew of Straw Hat, the person he was going to do…something for.
Law frowned to himself as the murmur of voices steadily continued overhead as he made the attempt to bring some focus to his still rather scattered thoughts. Why was he supposed to help the captain with the straw hat again? He knew there was a reason, and at the moment, it was just out of reach as he shook off any lingering traces of the rest he'd been forced to take. At the very least, Law didn't hear that voice in his head insisting that he attack the pirates.
Because Law wouldn't listen to it.
Not anymore.
Not when the dark haired man knew who the real foe was, and who he needed to deal with to make the voice leave him in peace.
"Are you sure he won't attack us again? That vice admiral's Devil Fruit powers are a real problem here."
Law reluctantly left off trying to grasp those just out of reach memories, and flicked is gaze in the direction of the orange haired woman who had spoken. He hadn't attacked anyone as of yet, and the chances of that were really low now. But what the woman said...that the marine had powers...that, at least, sounded familiar. Like someone had told Law that that was why he couldn't remember things very well, and was apt to attack out of the blue. Law levered himself up into a sitting position, in time to turn his attention to a blond haired man who answered the woman's question.
"He hasn't shown any signs of wanting to attack us at the moment. That vice admiral might be sidetracked by Luffy right now."
There it was again. Talk of the marine. Was it because of the marine possibly being sidetracked that Law didn't feel the urge to betray or otherwise attack these pirates?
"I thought the marines were just bringing him into the base to execute him. Or hold him until he was to be executed." A black haired woman said aloud, a thoughtful look crossing her face. "And how could Luffy cause them trouble right now? They used sea stone prism, didn't they?"
Law frowned again. Did the woman mean the person who wore the straw hat? Law remembered him, as much as his scattered memories allowed, though it was mainly...Luffy's insistence that they were friends. Which still didn't precisely sit well with Law when he thought too much about it, nor the thought of Luffy punching him out when Law first ran into him. Or rather, ran into him with a jumbled memory and not knowing who even he himself was at the time. So much had happened since then, and Law couldn't help but feel some other things happened that he still could not recall.
Highly inconvenient, that.
"But we need to get into the base anyway, don't we?" The green haired swordsman was nearby. "There were a lot of marines outside of that base, but we just need to get past them to get to the captain, right?"
That was right. The vice admiral...Fall...had had him on the island to try and prevent these pirates from getting to Luffy. But now that that voice was not nestled in the back of his mind and urging him into a conflict with these people, Law could recall one other thing. He'd gotten Straw Hat into this mess in some way, and he needed to do something about it. That was what Law thought, anyway, with what little information he had to go on. There were still skips of his memory, and it was confusing to piece it together when something seemed just out of reach.
Something important.
"Can you guys take care of things here?" The orange haired woman spoke to one of the pirates with the symbol on their chest; the one that wore a hat that said 'Penguin' on it.
The man cast a look down in Law's direction before he nodded. "We'll try to get through to him. You might need the captain's help later, and having his memory back would help."
Half the group of pirates departed, leaving Law confused and sitting cross-legged on the ground. What was going on? And what was he supposed to be remembering? And how would that make it easier for him to...help or whatever? Who was he helping? The straw hat wearing individual and his crew? The dark haired man warily eyed the group loosely gathered around him, not entirely clear on their motives regarding him.
"Who are you? Do I...know you all?" Law ventured after a moment, before he noticed that it had been the wrong thing to say; all of the pirates around him looked more despondent than before. Had he…said something wrong? The dark haired man couldn't recall any of them, not with the way he couldn't access some of his memory, even if there was that sense of familiarity to be surrounded by these pirates. So right now, Law was trying to gather information before he decided what to do.
A red haired pirate that wore shades frowned worriedly from where he stood next to Penguin. "How are we supposed to get him to snap out of it?"
Law blinked, puzzled. There those words again.
Snap out of it.
The longer Law could think without that strange voice trying to force him to do something he felt wrong, the more the dark haired man realized there was something that required him to, as the pirates were saying, 'snap out of.' Law would have done that, if he had had any idea what he was supposed to be snapping out of. Before Law could ask the pirates that question, to try and figure that part out, an eerie chuckle rose from the cell they were all grouped outside of.
"You're wasting your time, you know."
Law blinked when he suddenly realized where exactly he was. He was back in the marine ship that he had been on before he'd arrived at another marine base. Exactly how long had he been unconscious?
"I think that you lot would do better to leave him here with me. If anyone's going to get him out of the stupidity he landed himself in that would be me." The voice behind the cell bars sounded highly amused as well as exasperated.
Curious.
The pirates gathered around Law backed away from the cell, startled murmurs of 'Doflamingo' rising among them, along with protests.
"Why should we leave the captain here with you?"
"What if you attack him?"
"The captain wouldn't like it."
"And yet your efforts have amounted to nothing as of yet. Why, he doesn't even recognize any of you. Wouldn't you rather make sure your ship isn't taken by the marines? Your captain…" The blond haired man behind the cell bars, Doflamingo, said the term mockingly. "He is more than capable of defending himself should he actually be in his right state of mind. Besides…" The blond leered nastily at Law. "I don't care much for that vice admiral, and I'd rather have Law and I finish our little conversation from before without powers interfering and making him forget rather important details."
"Ten minutes." The one called Penguin said after a long moment of silence. "Then we'll come back for the captain." The pirate turned a worried look Law's way. "Don't agree to anything if you really can't remember everything."
Law watched the pirates reluctantly file away with wary looks thrown Doflamingo's way, until the dark haired man found himself alone with the blond haired pirate, who was still smiling in a rather unsettling way.
"It's a shame that you don't have all of your memory right now." Doflamingo said, drawing Law's attention to him. The blond's grin widened. "Because you certainly didn't like the way our conversation was headed earlier. And we will finish it, whether you like it or not."
"You gave me a lift to the other marine base before." Law said by way of remembering the blond. At least, a little bit, as the terrifying journey through the sky wouldn't soon be forgotten, no matter how scrambled his mind became. It still made Law distinctly uncomfortable for the other man to be staring at him in such a malevolent way, which in turn made Law wonder what the hell he had done to make the pirate be so angry with him in the first place.
"Well, I suppose you remember that, at least, though nothing before your memory was wiped from your mind." Doflamingo clucked his tongue in a displeased way. "Very inconvenient, but for what I had in mind, it may just work out."
"What are you taking about?" Law didn't think he should trust this man. He still recalled having the large man press his foot against his back in the cell from before. That plainly showed that the blond didn't have good intentions toward him in the least bit, even if the marine had come and shot the blond into unconsciousness soon after with a sleeping drug of some sort.
"We'll have that talk later. For now, I have a little proposition for you." Doflamingo said smoothly.
"What kind of proposition?" Law queried as he wrapped his hand around the sheathe of his nodachi. Law blinked down at it, not remembering picking the weapon up.
"Oh, nothing much. I figured that since you intend to flee from the marines with Straw Hat and the others, that you might let me out so that I can deal with some of them myself." Doflamingo grinned wide despite his erratic breathing clearly giving him discomfort. "Especially since that vice admiral is sticking his nose into business that doesn't concern him. Someone will have to do something about him."
"Why should I let you out? You tried to crush me against the cell earlier." Law demanded.
"You'd been used by that man to lure me into the cell. Why wouldn't I be trying to stop you from doing that?" Doflamingo asked, sounding completely unconcerned about the dark haired man's worries.
"You won't attack anyone but the marines if I let you out?" Law asked suspiciously. The blond haired pirate didn't seem like he was too keen on doing just that, what with the way Doflamingo kept looking at him. It was disquieting, because it appeared as if the blond wished to reach through the cell and throttle Law, for whatever reason, and the only thing stopping him were his shackles as well as the dark haired man's loss of memory.
"On this island, I will only go after the marines." Doflamingo confirmed after a moment's thought. "But on another island? I won't guarantee that I won't attack a certain someone." Doflamingo's eyes seemed to bore into Law's from behind the shades, leaving the dark haired man in little doubt as to who the blond was referring to. "Regardless of whether or not they have their memory back."
Law felt a chill race down his spine, but he felt that, given the circumstances, it would be good enough to hold Doflamingo to that. Whatever grudge the blond held against him was bad enough that Doflamingo would likely derive no satisfaction from doing something about it until Law could recall exactly who the blond haired pirate was.
Decision made.
After all, more attack power would be pertinent to getting into the marine base and back out again with minimal difficulty. It made sense at this point in time to do as Doflamingo suggested. Law raised his left hand.
"Room." Law created that bizarre dome using his Devil Fruit powers, and was rather relieved that, for some reason, he still had access to memories about the knowledge of those powers and how to use it and dismiss it at will. Law drew his nodachi from its sheathe automatically, and used the long blade to slash through the cell bars, dropping them to the ground and allowing Doflamingo to get out of the cell.
Doflamingo proffered his arms to show off the cuffs. "You will need to do something about these." The blond haired pirate went quiet after that, and merely watched Law, as if waiting for something to happen.
What, the dark haired man wasn't sure, but he was wasting time here. Law needed to get going, and even if he wasn't sure why Doflamingo was breathing so heavily and seemed more worn out than he ought to have been while just chained up, he acted automatically.
Law hesitated a fraction of a second, before he used the blade to remove the cuffs from Doflamingo's wrists, and then the chains that were wrapped around the man's legs. What happened next made Law briefly wonder if he had just made a mistake, because one of the blond's large hands suddenly seized him around the neck and squeezed none too gently.
"You're going to feel like a fool when you do get your memories back, because the marines won't have another chance to capture me like this again, and you yourself will never get another chance to do me any more harm then you have already managed."
Law's powers left him abruptly at the restriction of airflow, and choked on another breath as Doflamingo pinned him up against the side of the corridor of the ship, the blond haired pirate continuing on as of he weren't choking the smaller man.
"I won't say much right now, because you won't understand, but as soon as your memories return to you, you will." Doflamingo said simply. "My wounds you've given me haven't killed me yet, and you would take care to make sure you don't meddle more than you already have." Doflamingo let go of Law, and the dark haired man collapsed with a gasp.
Law sucked in a few harsh breaths, coughing as he struggled to get in air, but held still at the sensation of a foot nudging him in the side.
"When this is all over, I will find you. And whether you'll use your powers on me or not will depend on how much you want your crew and the others to live. I will have those powers of yours used on me, whether you yourself use them, or I find someone else more suitable to carry things out for me. Perhaps someone who is less of a little shit."
Doflamingo's heavy footsteps receded along the hall following crazed laughter that ended with a few coughs of the blond's own.
Law remained where he was on the floor of the corridor, even more confused than before. What was that pirate talking about? What could Law do with his powers? The dark hared man retrieved his nodachi from where it had fallen from his grasp, and, automatically propping it up against his left shoulder, went in the direction that Doflamingo had gone. He would worry about the blond pirate's intentions later. When Law emerged onto the deck of the marine ship, he was immediately surrounded by the pirates wearing the familiar looking symbols. It was blatantly clear from their expressions and questions that all of them were concerned about Law in one way or another, and all because Doflamingo had emerged from below deck before him.
"Are you all right?"
"Doflamingo didn't do anything to you, did he? How did he get free?"
"We shouldn't have left you all alone with him."
"We're sorry."
Law didn't really hear any of them, as he was drawn to the side of the ship. Below, he could see the fight scattered about the grounds of the island, the marine base looming in the distance. Doflamingo wasn't hard to miss with the way he was using his powers to carve a bloody path in the direction of the base.
Enemies.
Destroy.
Capture.
Law heard the voice, but it was faint and barely there. It was clearly the voice from before, the one that kept confusing Law over who was friend and who was foe. But since the voice barely reached him, it was likely that there was something the voice needed to pay attention to more than him. But still, that voice, that insistent, insidious voice that worked its way into Law's mind, while barely there, continued to tell him that the pirates around him, the ones who hadn't attacked him yet, were his enemies.
Defend.
Defeat the enemies.
No.
Law tuned the voice out as much as he was able to as he turned around to face the group of pirates. No, these people were not his enemies. They were clearly his allies in some way, and the dark haired man just had to somehow remember that. Plus they had not done anything when his back had been turned, and that spoke volumes about the fact that Law could trust these people as much as he was able to at that point in time. Law stepped forward and spoke to the one that he presumed was Penguin, based off of the hat the man wore. "What's going on out there?" Law indicated the fighting behind him on the island. He knew that the marines were trying to capture the pirates, but apart from that, some things were hazy, and perhaps on purpose. The voice had seemed to quiet in his head, but in return, Law's thoughts began to be disjointed, and the dark haired man had to struggle to keep things together.
"The Straw Hats are going after their captain, Straw Hat Luffy." Penguin said after a moment.
The name Law recalled and for some reason, the thought of the cheerful straw hat wearing individual brought him feelings of annoyance. "I…recall that he was captured by the marines."
"Does that mean that you remember us?" Penguin asked, his voice reflecting hope.
Law wasn't sure, but the memory was there, just beyond his reach within his mind. Right now, it was something he couldn't confirm, but deep down, Law knew that he had to know these pirates. Something, perhaps the voice he had just been hearing, was preventing him from remembering them like he ought to have, and because of it, Law shook his head in response to Penguin's question. "No, I don't remember but…you all seem to be familiar. But I just don't know how." Law could tell that the other man was having trouble responding to that, so the dark haired man added. "But you know who I am."
"Yes, we know you." Penguin confirmed. "Because you're our captain."
"Captain…" Law repeated. That meant that he was a pirate after all, and that the marines had been lying to him. Especially that vice admiral. Although Law had known it all along, subconsciously, based off the pieces of memory he could recall then and there. All of the things that had seemed off when he had been helping the marines...all of the times he'd woken up in a cell...there was something bigger going on, and Law wanted to know what. And to figure it out, he needed to go confront the marines. "If I am your captain, then go back to the ship and make sure the marines don't take it. I…" Law looked in the direction of the base. "I have the feeling escape will need to be made in haste." The dark haired man ignored the protests that rose behind him as he turned away and raised a hand.
"Room."
Law warped himself to the island, and made short work of a few marines that converged on him, before he dropped his powers and jogged in the direction of the marine base, nodachi in hand.
He didn't think much of leaving the people that were supposedly his crew behind, but there was a lingering feeling of guilt and that meant it wasn't something he chose to do often. However, since none of them followed after him, Law supposed they still respected the orders that were given, and could only hope, when he regained his memories, that he had made the right decision to leave them behind.
Law turned his attention to the base. The dark haired man did recall, the longer he ran, that he needed to return the favor that he believed he owed Straw Hat, for whatever reason, and that was when another memory came to Law's mind unbidden.
One about Doflamingo that made Law relieved that he couldn't hold a conversation with the man before. But that memory, and another that soon followed, indicated that whoever had used their powers on him was losing their hold over him. That was when Law knew for sure that it was a Devil Fruit power that was at work, as someone, likely Doflamingo, had told him it was. And the sooner Law regained the rest of his memories, the better he would be able to put the pieces of the puzzle together and make a decision of what he was going to do when this was all resolved.
Because even though Law only had bits and pieces regarding Doflamingo, the dark haired pirate knew, without a doubt, that the man would come after him once he was off this island.
-x
The inside of the marine base was a mess with the Straw Hat crew wreaking havoc in search of their captain.
"Sixteen hundred pound phoenix." Zoro called over the din, sending a flying slash through the nearest wall that halted a group of marines in their tracks. Zoro kept his stance up, jaw clenching around the hilt in his mouth when several other marines took the place of the ones he'd dealt with.
"Diable Jambe! Collier Strike!" Sanji took care of a few of them, legs burning and catching the marines unaware. The blond haired cook landed lightly on his feet next to Zoro, irritably lighting another cigarette as he surveyed the melee going on around them. "Where did they all come from?"
"Does it matter?" Zoro gritted around the hilt.
"Zoro! Sanji! Go on ahead and find Luffy!" Nami called out from where she'd just zapped several marines into submission.
"Yes Nami!" Sanji swooned and ran off, kicking a few marines aside as he ran off down the hall.
Zoro joined him after sending another flying slash at a marine sneaking up on Nami. "We'll be back with Luffy!"
"We'll hold them off." Robin called after the swordsman, arms crossed as two large hands that had been formed slapped a dozen or so marines away.
Usopp, meanwhile, was racing about, half running away from the fight and half engaging with strike of his pop greens.
Zoro lost sight of them as he and Sanji continued along in a less populated hall where the marines weren't as vigilant.
"There's no end to them." Sanji said in exasperation as he kicked one marine aside.
"What? Can't handle a few marines, shit cook?" Zoro said, crossing blades with a more adventurous marine.
"Like hell, moss head!" Sanji snapped back as he drop kicked a marine that had gotten too close.
The bickering between the two men lessened as soon as they ran into a larger room, and found their captain further ahead and up on an upper floor.
"Luffy!"
The Straw Hat captain had been kicking and demanding his hat back when he spotted his friends and perked up immediately.
"Ah! Sanji! Zoro! Hey!"
"Don't hey us, you idiot! Why did you let yourself get caught!" Sanji asked as he half turned and struck a marine to the ground with a well-placed kick.
"Eh?" Luffy puffed his cheeks up. "I didn't let them do it! That mingo jerk used his weird strings and then there were sea stone cuffs and-"
"Luffy, duck." Zoro interrupted, and ran forward with his katana poised for an attack.
Luffy kicked free a marine holding him and dropped flat to the ground regardless of face planting, and grinned up cheerfully at his exasperated crewmates when they got onto the upper floor of the base, marines scattered on the ground and groaning from their attacks.
"Oh! Where's Law?" Luffy asked as Sanji fished a key out of an unconscious marine's pocket.
"He was with his crew the last we saw him. They're trying to get him to remember them." Sanji unlocked the cuffs and tossed them aside.
"So he isn't attacking us anymore, right?" Luffy questioned with a grin, shaking out his hands.
"At the moment, no." Sanji replied.
Zoro side glanced to a darkened hall on the upper floor, and smiled in anticipation. "I think we got someone's attention."
"The vice admiral?" Luffy jumped to his feet and raced off in the direction Zoro had looked in. "Hey! Marine guy! Fight me!" A pause. "Oh! And give me my hat back! I'm gonna kick your ass!"
Zoro and Sanji gave chase, not about to let their captain out of their sight again while they were on a marine base. But they needn't have worried, because after they ran in a circle of the hall, they found Luffy standing in front of a railing and staring down at something. Zoro and Sanji joined Luffy and stood to either side of him and saw what had caught their captain's attention.
Fall and some of the marines with him had cornered most of their crew against one wall, and a few of them, like Robin and Usopp, appeared to have been injured. Fall gave Luffy a familiar look of distain though he seemed unsurprised by the pirate captain's escape. "It is only matter of time before you and your crew are captured and brought to justice, Straw Hat Luffy."
"No, I think you'll find you're wrong there." Sanji relaxed his stance as he fished out a new cigarette and lit it as he indicated Luffy. "He'll prove it to you."
Zoro sheathed his blades as he addressed his captain. "Don't forget that we need to be able to get out of here. If you're going to kick his ass, just take him down and get out."
"Got it." Luffy said, not looking at either of his crewmates as his eyes were still on Fall. Without another word, the Straw Hat captain jumped down from the upper floor and made right for the marine as if he couldn't be bothered with the lower rank marines that were still milling about.
Fall gave a derisive laugh. "None of you will be going anywhere." The vice admiral had no more time to say anything because Luffy was suddenly right there before him as the pirate captain slugged Fall hard in the face with a clenched fist. There was no wondering what had Luffy up in arms in that moment with what he yelled.
"Give me back my hat!"
-x
Law had almost reached the base, when he was struck by a sudden feeling of vertigo, and stumbled to a halt before he dropped to his knees as a rush of memories flooded back to him. It was almost enough to knock him out, but Law struggled through the confusion of all the memories settling back into place, and soon one thing became blatantly apparent. While there were still some blank spaces, Law knew what had happened more or less since Fall had used his Devil Fruit powers on him.
The Heart Pirate captain remembered.
Law remembered going to Fall's base for an item that would be useful in taking down Kaido. Or rather, an item, a map, that would lead to that useful thing. He recalled being taken down by Fall's Devil Fruit powers before he or the others could find that map, and then running into Straw Hat and his crew outside of the base with his memory terribly scrambled.
Law remembered almost all of it.
Not everything, but the important pieces of the dark hared pirate's memories had returned to him for the most part, and that allowed Law to figure out exactly what he was going to do. He needed to defeat Fall. The vice admiral's Devil Fruit powers were still active, and Law needed to remember everything. But for now, it was enough to know who he was.
Law didn't dare go back to shore for his crew, because Doflamingo was still lurking around, and the former warlord did not know, for the moment, that the Heart Pirate captain's memory had almost completely returned. Law couldn't risk harm to his crew, and he didn't doubt that Doflamingo would lash out at them if he thought, for one second, that Law had gotten his memories back sooner than anticipated.
So Law looked ahead. He focused on the marine base before him, and the sound of what appeared to be a full-scale brawl inside. No doubt Luffy would be after Fall if he were free, and that was just as well.
Vice Admiral Fall was Law's objective now.
He needed to ensure that the marine was knocked out because the Heart Pirate needed all of his memories back if he was going to effectively plot a plan against Kaido, despite everything that had occurred. He and the straw hat crew had been delayed enough as it was, and time was of the essence if things were going to play out how Law hoped they would.
-x
Luffy chased Fall all over the marine base, trying his best to take the marine down and get his hat back. Even though the vice admiral didn't have the hat on hand, Luffy figured that he had it somewhere, and as soon as he kicked the man's ass, he would be able to find out where it was. Luffy used gear two to spring ahead of Fall, and swung his fist in the marine's direction. "Gum Gum Jet Pistol!" The attack sent Fall stumbling backward, so Luffy pressed on, leaping into the air and swinging his foot down. "Gum Gum Jet Stamp!"
The vice admiral barely dodged out of the way, and brandished a blade he'd pulled from his belt to ward Luffy off.
The Straw Hat Captain attacked regardless of the blade, intent on retrieving his hat.
"I plan on getting rid of every one of you pirates, in whatever way necessary." Fall taunted, as he avoided another attack and threw a punch of his own.
"Shut up and give me back my hat!" Luffy exclaimed, and he shifted the gears he was using to coat one large fist in haki. "And stop getting in the way of my adventure!" Luffy swung his fist. "Gum Gum Elephant Gun!"
"Your little journey to find One Piece? I will delay you as long as necessary to see you executed. I'll even use my powers if I have to. They worked out quite well with Trafalgar Law." The vice admiral taunted as he darted into a nearby room briefly to avoid being crushed by the giant fist.
"Leave my friends alone!" Luffy said, and swung his free hand as soon as Fall came back out of the room. The Straw Hat captain managed to send the vice admiral flying with another punch and went after him as soon as he gained his footing again. "You shouldn't make people forget their friends!" Luffy said as he punched the wall, as Fall had moved hastily out of reach once he'd landed from Luffy's initial strike.
The look of distain crossing the vice admiral's features turned into a triumphant one upon realizing that Luffy was in close quarters with him now. He raised his fists and parried Luffy's punches with some of his own, all the while his smile of triumph was growing in intensity like he was pleased about something.
"Shall I make you forget?" Fall questioned in a flat tone.
Luffy continued his assault with a yell of 'Gum Gum Jet Gatling' before he flung himself in Fall's direction after the vice admiral had avoided the attack. "Go ahead! But you won't make me forget who my friends are!"
"Is that so?" Fall's features morphed into a rare smile as he went into a fighting stance and blocked a few punches Luffy sent his way. "That sounds like a challenge to me. One I will take you up on, pirate."
Luffy hurled close without words, intent on defeating the marine in front of him and leaving the base with his friends, his straw hat in tow. Luffy clipped one of Fall's shoulders, and as he went by, a hand grabbed him and sent him slamming into the ground.
"Dammit." Luffy was unharmed from the sudden meeting with the ground, but it was an awkward angle that didn't precisely allow him a good footing to attack Fall from. So Luffy twisted his body to one side and lashed out with a foot, only to have Fall grasp the limb to prevent the strike. The next thing Luffy knew, Fall had a hand on his head, and the marine spoke aloud with an ominous announcement.
"Let us see how your friends fare when Straw Hat Luffy doesn't remember who they are."
Luffy twisted to the other side to try and get the angle right, but he missed the marine by a hair as Fall spoke again. And when he did, Luffy experienced exactly what Law and Doflamingo had via the vice admiral's Devil Fruit powers.
"Nix Memoria."
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
A/N: As always, thank you for the reviews, favs and follows! I appreciate seeing anything regarding this fic (I didn't realize the number of followers had gone up so high), because it really does help me get a feel for what is good/could be better in the fic, and just interest in the fic in general (the favs/follows). I do realize that the amnesia thing is getting old but that was the whole underlying point of the fic, to be dealing with it. I did some more cutting of the outline again (cleaning it up, mostly), so I can say for certain that there is going to be one more chapter after this one (for a total of 12 chapters), and then this particular story will be over with.
However, I did already go ahead and make an outline for a sequel to this, and a darker toned one, at that, due to the item (map) that Law and the Straw Hats were after in the first chapter of this fic (aka the sequel will be rated M for violence and physical trauma). I'm planning on posting the first chapter for it soon after I finish this fanfic, because I like to have stories like this one around to work on to balance out all the fics I have with pairings in them, because I know some people prefer generic stories without pairings in them.