Seeing a lady in distress he hadn't been able to help himself, he'd left the main group.
Until then everything had went smoothly, well as smoothly as anything with them involved did.
They had been able to use the main docks as they had arrived on a day that Doflamingo was holding an open competition in his coliseum. Luffy had ran off to enter closely followed by Law who was either chasing Luffy to remind him why they were there or going to do it himself.
Those left including himself had decided to have a look around and feel out the place. The place was cheery, no one seemed concerned that a gang member was openly controlling their country. The living toys weirded him out but the citizens seemed to enjoy their company and help.
Then out of the corner of his eyes he had seen the most beautiful woman being chased by a man. Instantly his chivalry had taken over and he'd left his group to save her from the brute.
When she swung her arms round him and hugged him tight as thanks, his mind had erased his mission with possibilities of his perfect life with her. When she told him her name and asked him to follow her, he'd instantly fallen in love and followed the beautiful Viola blindly.
She'd led him to the docks where yet another burly man had grabbed her, insisting that unless Sanji do exactly as he was told he would hurt her. He'd taken their beating silently not wanting to upset the poor crying Viola more than she already was. He swore to himself first chance he got he'd make them pay for making a lady shed tears.
They'd finally dragged him up into a sitting position, tying his hands behind his back tightly. His ankles and knees were tied together too, making him suspicious about how much they knew about him.
He sat with his eyes shut, not because of the pain that he could handle, he needed to slowly flex each part of his body slowly to check for breaks. He finished at his hands, his most prized possession, thankfully everything was bruised but fine. Even running through what had brought him here, he regretted nothing.
He felt someone sitting next to him and opened his eyes, pleased to see that it was Violet who had thankfully stopped crying. Not that it would save the men when he finally got free.
'Just tell them what they want and they'll let us go' her brown eyes looked hopefully at him.
'Of course my love' anything for his angel.
'Why did you come to Dressrosa?' the thug leader asked him, his cronies trying to be menacing behind him.
Intimidation didn't work on him, he'd butted heads with his dad who was a lot scarier than some shitty thugs.
'Luffy wanted to come and where he goes we follow' he shrugged as much a he could with his arms tied.
'We know you're working for Trafalgar Law. We just don't know why.'
Sanji laughed which earned him a kick to the stomach.
'Law's working with us, we're not working for him' Sanji could just imagine Luffy's reaction to not being the leader, if he wouldn't give it up for his brothers he certainly wasn't for Law 'They're going to stop Doflamingo' he grinned at the thugs. Viola tensed slightly beside him.
That earned him another blow to his ribs.
'Is he telling the truth Viola?'
He had a feeling that she was working with the thugs but it still hurt to know he was right.
She got up and stood in front of him, she put her hands up in an almost circular shape. She said something that he didn't catch being too caught up being the main focus of such a beauty.
After a few minutes she leant in close to him.
'Can they do it? Can they really beat him?' she whispered close to his ear.
'Without a doubt' he responded quietly but confidently.
When Luffy set his mind to something nothing was going to get in his was way.
As she got up she stumbled falling next to him, as she got up he felt something cold against his wrist and as she pushed herself up, it slid through the ropes freeing his hands.
With his legs still bound, he kept this fact hidden from his captors.
He felt the metal handle pushed into his hand just before she stood up and turned to the guys.
'He knows nothing, he really is just the cook' she lied to them.
'We'll call the boss and find out what to do with him then' the one that seemed to be in charge said.
He left the building, his cronies followed clearly deciding he was no threat tied up. As soon as the last was out of site, he grabbed the knife sliding it through the ropes freeing his legs.
'Thanks' he gave a smile to Viola as he stretched his legs, getting the circulation going again.
'I'm trusting your boss to win' her eyes welled up 'Then I can free my father and my niece'
He moved to comfort her but was interrupted by the return of the thugs. They were going to pay, not just for threatening a lady and making her cry but for interrupting his opportunity to hug her.
'He says to shoot him and leave him on their ship as a message' the leader was too busy staring at his phone to notice that his captive was free.
He didn't bother to wait and launched himself at the leader his foot connecting under the chin throwing him backwards into some storage boxes that smashed under the force.
The two others were caught by surprise and stared at him blankly for a few seconds. The first took a blow to the side of the head sending him to the ground unconscious but the other managed to pull his gun out.
He aimed the gun towards Sanji at first but this one appeared to be smarter than his counterparts and swung his aim round to Viola. He was already moving as the gun fired, he breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the burning sensation in his upper right arm. If the bullet was in him then Viola was safe but how dare that asshole fire a gun at a defenseless woman.
Rage built and he moved with such speed and force that when his foot collided with the last thug it left a burn on his chest. The man was rolling on the ground in pain as he calmly pulled out a cigarette, lighting it and taking a long draw.
He walked slowly towards the shooter, the pain in his arm still dulled with adrenaline. He had originally planned to just knock him out but the idiot was laying on the floor aiming his gun again.
'You treacherous bitch' the man snarled at Viola.
Sanji covered the distance quickly before his foot smashed the gun out of the other's hand. He was pretty sure the hand was at least dislocated, he probably wouldn't be holding a gun again anytime soon.
'How dare you?' he yelled as he kicked again catching under the man's side and propelling him up into the air, he twisted round and with his other foot kicked full force. The wall crumpled at the impact of the man and only a small groan confirmed he'd survived it.
He took his tie off and wrapped it above the bullet wound, the pain was growing but he didn't have time to sort it just now and if he made it worse Chopper would go nuts.
'Come on we need to get out of here' she grabbed his other arm and dragged him away.
She finally stopped down a quiet alleyway.
'First we need to find the rest of your group' she closed her eyes and concentrated.
'Luffy is at the coliseum, I thought you said he was going to take down Doflamingo' she sounded worried
'Don't worry he will, he just got a little side tracked is all' he hoped she believed him, he really didn't want her to worry 'How are you doing that? Is it your ability?'
'Yes, part of it allows me to see what's going on even far away. I can also look at people's memories that's why I'm trusting you and your friends' she answered 'Now I'll take you to Luffy before Doflamingo works out that I betrayed him'
'Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you' he said as she grabbed his hand causing his heart to race erratically.