"I'm honestly or should i say pleasantly surprised by Rina's choice in men but then she always had a good eye for people."
The man said as they held a pause in blows
"How about we take a moment to reintroduce each other my name in Kite but Rina calls me master"
He said with a sadistic smile Luffy grit his teeth.
"You bastard. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TREATING RINA LIKE THAT!?"
Kite looked confused as if he had been accused wrongly,
"Treating her like what? An animal? I treat her exactly as she is a cursed monster."
Even Usopp and Sanji heard that and they clenched their fist in anger,
"BASTARD!"
Luffy yelled as he threw another punch that Kite just barely dodged,
"JUST CAUSE SHE'S A FISHERMAN! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE SO GREAT!?"
Kite danced just a split second away. Now he looked really confused as his thin brows crinkled,
"Fishermen?"
Just saying it threw him into a bout of hearty laughter as he turned to the frantic girl in the tank,
"Is that what you told them! That you're a fisherman and you call me the terrible one."
Luffy mouth gaped as Kite turned to him with cocky authority
"Look young boy i'll be honest with you that thing up there is no fishermen, or mermaid."
Usopp looked at the frantic girl who was still trying to give him the message and pulling forcefully at the mouth piece. If she wasn't either of those than what…
"She's a siren"
The word meant nothing to Usopp or Luffy who knew nothing of the waters deep history but Sanji paled,
"No way"
Kite smiled as he saw the reaction
"Looks like someone's not an idiot. Sirens are sea creatures of old that bear misfortune and woe sailors to their death feasting on human flesh"
He smiled,
"Filthy animals"
"SHOTGUN!"
Was all that was heard as the many fist slammed into the villainous man sending him flying across the large room and into the wall,
"Rina is not a monster. She laughed and cried and cares. Someone who hurts other people's treasure.. YOU'RE THE MONSTER!"
Luffy screamed. Just as the rest of the crew ran in Zoro bandaged up from his battle, chopper by his side and Nami and Robin looking around before they seemed to spot Rina and ran to the ladder to get closer to her.
Kite had underestimated them. Who would have thought that Rina would actually get strong opponents or rather who would have thought pirates would help her especially these infamous ones. He smiled nevertheless.
He knew when he lost and he would come back for her after all Rina was worth more than a thousand slaves but before that he had to make sure he did what he promised Rina…
Luffy didn't even see the man push the button as heavy bars raised up and separated Kite from the rest of the room,
"It's a shame we'll have to end it here mr. strawhat. You are an interesting group it would seem."
Usopp watched as Rina grew more frantic now slamming her body against the bowl to the point of blood
"RINA STOP! YOU'RE HURTING YOURSELF!"
Nami yelled
"She can't hear you the glass is too thick"
Usopp said sadly
"But why is she doing that?"
Robin asked as she watched the man she had already begun to hate with a vengeance,
"YOU THINK YOU'RE LEAVING!? GOMU GOMU PISTOL!"
The fist shot at the bars intending to break them but a shock met them instead and Luffy pulled back instantly, while Kite smiled.
"Sea stone useful isn't it?"
They then watched Kite pick up something off the ground it was large but the form was hard to make out
"Blood"
Chopper said as he covered his nose and Zoro's eyes hardened he would rather slash the bars himself but he was weak after the victory of his battle.
Soft beating was heard now as despite the thickness Rina was using all that she had the bowl turning pink from the blood spilling.
And Kite looked at her with a seemingly gentle smile,
"My poor foolish beast please never forget…"
He raised the bloody thing in his hand and raised his sword to it. And it was then that they all heard a weak growl and the sight of white from a peeking eye and the strawhats realized it was a creature. Too drenched in blood for chopper to identify.
But it was then that Robin began to fit pieces together. Why Rina was so frantic when she said she didn't care about what happened to her? Why the man was smiling? Why there was so much blood on the floor of the cell, The scream that luffy heard, the restraint that Rina was so close to breaking at this point despite scratching her own face to get it.
Robin now understand how delicate their situation had been. They had overestimated their own abilities and underestimated this man's vileness. Robin in that instant did the only thing she could.
"ZORO! STOP THAT MAN!"
Zoro's head jerked up to see the cool headed archeologist frantic
"SANJI PLEASE STOP HIM!"
Neither understood why she seemed so desperate even Nami and Usopp looked lost but like Luffy they trusted her so even though Zoro was injured from battle and Sanji's feet hurt from the glass they both raced to the bars. But they would never get there in time as Kite continued to stare smugly at Rina just as she managed to get the strap off.
"This is all you're fault"
And just like that blood splattered, Nami screamed and chopper looked away. Zoro and Sanji stopped as they were too late and Robin fell to her knees tears filling her eyes.
Luffy was livid because although he didn't understand why it was so important Robin was crying and that wasn't okay but Kite didn't care instead he continued to look at the girl in the glass,
So beautiful..
A smile of bliss stretched across his face this is what he wanted to see but he couldn't stay,
"One day my lovely Ballerina i'll come back for you."
And with that a cloud of smoke appeared zoro and Sanji breaking from the shock continued their rush Zoro slashing through the bars and sanji giving a strong kick but the man was gone, Zoro scowled
"Chopper find tha-"
"CHOPPER! QUICKLY YOU HAVE TO HEAL HIM!"
They turned to Robin who rushed to the wounded beast Chopper at her heels. But Chopper cringed it was a bear now that he had a better look at it. A fairly large one at that, but terribly wounded. There was so many scars some dangerously infected and ruined. Chopper closed his eyes slashing the bear's throat may have been an act of mercy cause with the amount of blood his fur was covered in he would have died of that and if not later in much more pain from disease.
"CHOPPER!"
Robin yelled and he looked at her confused on why she was so affected but he shook his head
"I'm… I'm sorry Robin he's gone"
Robin bit her lip and Zoro had enough of guessing,
"Oi Robin did you know him?"
Robin was still saying silent apologizes at her lack of insight to understand the situation better.
"Robin who is he?"
She looked up at her captain knowing that if she was taking this hard he would take it harder but this was not something she could withhold from him,
"This...This is.."
Just the one word and they would know, one word and they would understand just the one that was refusing to come out,
"This … is Bo"
