Trinity Sayu
Sayu blushed while gazing over Ace who was chatting with Law. She couldn't keep the red off her face. This was her second crush in One Piece. It's different when you're in front of your crush. With Law, she knows she would want him, but she's not in love with him. With Ace and Sanji, it's totally different. She wants them but feels something deep for them. Could that be love or not? Or is she confusing love with lust? Sayu wasn't too sure.
"Sayu, are you alright?" Yuki asked the first mate after noticing her reddened face. "Are you having trouble breathing?" He was concerned for the girl.
"Ah, I'm fine! Totally fine!" Sayu waved her hands up and shook her head quickly. She couldn't let Ace know how she feels about him.
Haken glared at the freckled face boy. He knew that it was him that was getting the first mate to act out of character. Haken walked closer to Sayu and flanked her side, blocking her view of Ace. "Little soldier, I've got some pocky if you want." Haken pulled out a box from his pocket and held it out for her.
"Oh, thank you." Sayu grabbed the box and started to munch on them quietly. Haken smiled at how cute she is without even trying.
Unknown to them, Ace kept sending glances to the red haired girl while trying to stay focused and talk with their Captain. Once the cowboy blocked his view though, he gave up trying to catch her eye. "And it was around here somewhere."
The Heart Pirates looked around the clearing, and saw nothing but trees and dirt. Law sniffed the air around him...it didn't smell of just forest.
Ryu stretched his arms and then moved forward. "There's nothing here."
"Nope, it was here, I'm sure of it." Ace moved to look around the clearing.
"We should probably take a look around to be sure." Yuri started ahead. "A door just can't dis-UGH!" Yuri had walked into a...wall? The other's gathered around him as they could see nothing but trees in front of them. "What the hell?" Yuri carefully raised his hand and placed it on what he crashed into. "It feels like...a barrier? I'm not sure..."
"It's not a barrier..." Law put his hand on the invisible wall and examined it. "...Ms. Mechanic, can you shoot this with one of your sea stone bullets?"
Sayu's mind clicked as she could guess what Law was getting at. "Yep." Sayu pulled out one of her pistols and rang out a shot. A crack appeared in the barrier and a small hole gave way from the bullet. "I think this may be someone's devil fruit at work..." Sayu peaked through the hole to see the entrance on the ground that Ace had been talking about. "It's like...a mirage...I think I can break the rest." Sayu removed a knife from her belt and started to cut into the barrier from the hole she made. "It's a devil fruit user, I'm sure of it." Cutting a small doorway, she stepped back.
Law crouched into the doorway and stepped inside. Looking around, he could see the others on the outside of the barrier but he guessed they couldn't see all of him. "Interesting..." Law lifted the hatch in the ground to discover a ladder going further down. "I'll go in first." Law jumped down, disappearing into the dark hole.
Ace moved inside next and whistled. "Tight fit." Ace jumped down after Law.
"Should we all go? I'd feel safer if someone watched this entrance. What if some marines sneak up behind us?" Sayu muttered to her remaining crew mates.
"I'll stay behind with the twins." Ryu announced and the twins glared at the cook.
"Why do we always have to stay behind and miss out on the fun?!" Yuri snarled at him.
"We want to come too, please Sayu!" Yuki pleaded with the first mate.
Sayu broke her box of remaining pocky and then held it out. "The three who have the shortest pocky stick have to stay behind." Everyone grabbed a tip. "On the count of three...one...two...three!"
Trafalgar Law
"It's quiet. Too quiet if you ask me." Law strained to see in the dark hallway. He could vaguely see a small light ahead of the way.
"Well, someone had to be casting that barrier out there so there has to be people down here." Ace held out his hand and made a small flame, lighting the area around them.
"I'm itching to taste some blood on my blades!" Yuri said with excitement.
Ryu looked over to his Captain. "If we do come upon some people, what do we do?"
Law looked back at his companions. "You know the drill. If they're marines take them out before they do you. Any noncombatant people, just tie them up. Understood?" Everyone nodded to his order. "Good. Now let's get moving."
"I feel kinda cruddy about leaving Yuki behind." Yuri glanced back up to the top of the ladder where the exit was. Yuki, Sayu, and Haken had pulled the shorter pocky sticks. Yuri felt like he was betraying his brother just a little bit. But a win is a win.
"They'll be fine, they can entertain themselves." Ryu waved off the older twin.
"So...that girl, Sayu?" Ace asked them as they were walking down the dark hallway. Law's eye twitched in irritation.
"...Yeah, what about the shrimp?" Ryu asked him.
Ace blushed slightly and scratched his cheek while looking away. "How old is she?"
Law narrowed his eyes at the obvious interest the commander was showing to his first mate. "Not legal in society terms." He stated with a flat tone.
"Not to deny that or anything, but her birthday is next week." Yuri added on. "She'll be legal then."
Law turned around and glared at the musician with a dark look, then held out his hand. "Room." His dome encircled every one. Yuri's shout of surprise was heard by everyone.
Next thing you know, Ryu is carrying Yuri's body on his back while the Captain tosses Yuri's head up and down in his hand.
"Captain! I'm sorry!" Yuri was getting dizzy from the constant up and down motion.
"You should learn to read the situation more and maybe keep your mouth shut, Mr. Yuri." Law smirked and continued tormenting his crew mate.
"You're making more work for me, Yuri!" Ryu shouted at his headless body on his back forgetting that the head wasn't even there. "Oh."
Ace's head was in the clouds as he thought about the young girl. He could wait he supposed. She looked so cool taking out those marines and then working to free him with that cute little smile. Pops would love her, he knows it. Marco is always telling him to get a girl...and then show off how bad ass she is to Luffy!
The Heart pirates looked at Ace strangely as he was surrounded by little floating flaming hearts. Law is going to castrate the man.
Law ran a hand through his hair tiredly. He doesn't need his first mate to keep attracting this kind of attention. There's nothing special about her or attractive at all about her. In fact she's downright childish and plain creepy at times, praying to her so called Jashin-sama. Sure, Law likes the way she is, but how could other people find that attractive? "Focus." Law muttered to himself and started swinging Yuri's head again.
"Captain pleaseee...I know when I get back to my body, I'm gonna hurl..."
Law ignored his captive.
Trinity Sayu
Sayu and Haken were staring at Yuki with sweat drops and nervous smiles on them. The dark aura emitting from the younger twin was powerful, and it made them shiver slightly. Yuki was sitting in a crouched position, running his finger through the dirt and avoiding eye contact with his fellow crew mates. It was scarily quiet around the three.
Haken and Sayu were having a silent eye contact conversation with each other as they were scared to speak. They were arguing on what to do about the twin. After a few minutes, Haken's eye twitched and he sagged a little. It's decided he would make the first move. Haken glanced over to the twin and about to speak-
"Neh?" Yuki's voice rang out with a dark tone to it.
"YES?!" Both Haken and Sayu jumped from him finally speaking and they back up and closer to each other.
Yuki's head slowly turned towards them. What they saw weren't eyes, but two holes of dark, depressing, sweet wishes of death waiting for them. "Why did Yuri get to go and I didn't?!" Yuki shouted at them with a demonic voice.
"Yuki! Yuki, calm down! Your flames of hell are too strong!" Sayu covered her eyes.
"Bokken soldier! Control yourself! It was the pocky!" Haken pushed Sayu behind him as the twin was on a warpath.
"Yuri will pay when he gets back..." Yuki's tone promised pain and Sayu and Haken nodded along with him. Anything to get that anger away from them.
Portgas D. Ace
Ace's stomach growled and he sighed. "Uhhh, I'm so hungry."
"Shhhh!" Ryu shushed the flame brain pirate next to him. The group was hiding behind some boxes after stumbling upon a lab room. Currently there were two scientist inside the room. The Heart Pirates and Ace had sneaked in while they're backs were turned. In front of the scientist was a giant glass box. In the box were what seemed to be plants of some sort.
"Looks like these are growing perfectly."
"Dr. Vegapunk will be pleased with these results."
Law's excitement grew but all that showed was a growing smirk on his face. What is that dear old doctor up to? "Mr. Ryu, take them out."
Ryu stood up and grabbed his chain from his waist and with one swing, caught the two scientist in a wrap. "Captured."
"What's going on?!" One of the unsuspecting scientist was stunned. One second they were recording date on the newest addition to the lab, and the next they were wrapped in a heavy chain.
Law walked over to his new captives and crouched down next to them. "I'll ask you a couple of questions and if you stay on my good side, you get to live. Got it?"
The scientist nodded with a scared look. Ace admits to himself, this Captain of the red haired beauty is scary. "So what are you guys doing here?"
"I'll be asking the questions if you don't mind, Mr. Fire Fist."
"Ehhh? But I need to ask him stuff too! Let me do it!" Ace glared at the Captain.
Ryu and Yuri choked and looked back to their Captain. Law stood up and faced the hot head. "While we have an alliance, don't think that you can give me orders Mr. Fire Fist." Law glared right back at the freckled face man.
"Hey, man. Just let the Captain handle this." Yuri advised Ace from his grip in Law's hand.
"Seriously, our Captain will get everything we need." Ryu looked away from the two while putting his two cents in, anything to avoid the Captain getting upset.
"...Fine..." Ace looked away from the Captain.
Law nodded and went back to the people Ryu had chained up. "Now then...what are you guys doing here?"
"Dr. Vegapunk has us stationed here researching a new type of plant that was discovered on this island just recently." The scientist with the brown hair respond.
"Okay. Is Dr. Vegapunk here?" Law asked the other one.
"He left yesterday. We don't know when he'll be back."
Law sighed. "Well, maybe next time we'll meet. Did you have any other visitors besides us here?"
"None! We do have ships come and go, but they usually never find the entrance!"
Law nodded. "So I assume you have some way of monitoring who comes on the island and such. Cameras and video surveillance?"
"Mmh! All over the base and island!"
"You've proved useful. I'll just take these then." Law grabbed the papers that fell on the floor. "Mr. Ryu, you can knock them out now." Law muttered while looking over the notes.
Trafalgar Law
Law vaguely read over the notes as the others waited for him to finish. Law juggled Yuri's head while he read.
"Is that bread?"
Law glanced up hearing Ryu asked something of Ace. Ace had a loaf of bread he was munching on. "Go eat that where I can't see it. Where did you even get that from?"
Ace looked at Law with a strange look. "Found it on the table over there. Why do you care where I eat it?"
"I hate bread, go outside the room, now."
Ace shrugged his shoulders and left the room to finish his bread.
"I kinda don't like that guy..." Yuri said. "Captain, can I have my body back please?"
Law tossed Yuri's head to Ryu who caught it and placed it back on the twins body. "Mr. Fire Fist isn't my favorite at the moment as well. But an alliance is an alliance. He'll prove useful."
"So what is this place, Captain?" Ryu asked his Captain while helping the twin with his head.
"A laboratory base for the marines. This flower...apparently it's growing properties that you would find in sea stone. That in itself is pretty interesting..." Law moved over to look at the plants being grow in the small artificial green house. "If we can continue to grow this on the sub...we'll have an infinite supply of sea stone property. I'm sure we can finish up this research on the sub and make room somewhere for a little garden." Law rolled up the notes and stepped towards the doorway. "Mr. Yuri, find something to transfer those plants into and be careful with them, the stems are poisonous." He threw a pair of gloves at the twin who caught them.
"Why do I have to do the dangerous job?"
Law looked back at him with a glare. "Are you questioning my order?"
Yuri sulked and put the gloves on. "No sir."
"Great, hop to it then." Law stepped out the doorway just to see Ace finishing his bread. "Well, we should check the videos to see if the man you're chasing was actually here."
"Sounds good to me." Ace put his hands behind his head and started forward.
"We're bound to encounter some resistance ahead. We still haven't found the one responsible for that invisible barrier." Law mentioned to Ace.
"I've been needing to let off some energy!" Ace pounded his fist together as flames ignited from them.
"Oi, just stay out our way idiot! We can handle them by ourselves!" Ryu caught up to the two with Yuri behind him, carrying a small box with the plants in it. Ryu didn't like how cocky this Ace guy was getting.
"Captain, I've got the plants!"
Trafalgar Law
"Captain...haven't we been walking down this hall for a while?" Yuri asked his Captain.
Law had noticed about ten minutes ago that they were literally walking down the hall way with no end insight. Except a light at the end that they never seem to get closer to. Law paused and looked around. The hall was empty besides his companions...and the bright light at the end. "Mr. Fire Fist, would you be so kind as to shoot one of your fireballs down the way?"
Ace shrugged his shoulders and raised an arm. Pulling it back, he launched his fist. "Fire fist!" A fireball flew down the hall, and exactly at that moment, all the dark around them pulled back and towards the light, and then a flash as the fireball exploded into a door just a few feet away from them. In front of the door, a woman had appeared in a misty flash. She was wearing a lab coat buttoned up with a Captain's coat over it.
"You have no business being down here filthy pirates." She was a tall woman with a spiky ponytail. "How did you see through my barrier?"
"Ah, so you're the one that created that mirage." Law stated while looking around. The hallway had actual light now and they could all see multiple doors up and down. This woman knew they had been here from the very beginning. She was probably watching them take hostage those scientists.
"...So you know that it was a mirage? How could you tell? It shouldn't have been visible to the naked eye." She narrowed her eyes at the heavily tattooed man.
"The smell." Law said with a smirk. "Usually labs would have a more chemical smell. However, I noticed that when we entered that clearing, that it had a unique smell...almost like perfume. It was faint, and I'm pretty sure I was the only who noticed it, so kudos to you for getting one over my companions. It also helped that what you projected us to see and feel were pretty out of the ordinary. A random barrier out in the middle of nowhere...the twin walked right into by luck maybe."
"Captain's calling us stupid again." Yuri muttered under his breathe.
"He stays in the med bay and lab most of the time, of course only he would know." Ryu sighed.
"...I didn't really smell anything at all." Ace picked his nose and flicked it.
"That's gross..." Ryu glared at Ace and saw the booger.
"Ignoring the idiots behind me. I'd have to guess your devil fruit has to do something with manipulating your opponents senses through illusions? And to cast it?" Law motioned for her to continue.
The girl grinned. "All you have to do is inhale. The more you inhale the more realistic the illusion becomes..." Holding up her hand, a wave of pink smoke was launched towards the pirates. "Take a good sniff of my Genso-Genso fruit!"
"Cover your noses!" Law shouted to his crew mates as he wrapped his sweat shirt around his face, covering his mouth and nose.
"Ryu, catch!" Yuri tossed the box towards the cook and pulled out his blades from his back. "Demon wind slash!" Yuri cut through the smoke with one swipe of his blades. The gust from the slashes dissipated the smoke easily.
"Captain Marcy!" A few marines in lab coats came rushing out of the doors on the pirates sides and had guns pointed at them with gas masks on. "We'll provide support, Captain!"
"Excellent! We need to clean up this mess before Dr. Vegapunk returns!" With a flourish spin, Marcy let out another wave of pink smog from her hands.
Trinity Sayu
"Hey Haken?"
Haken glanced at the girl who was eating the rest of her pocky while rubbing Yuki's back. "Yeah?"
"When I was working on your arm, I saw the design and how you have it hooked up. Is that why your eye glows red when you're pissed? Half your brain is circuits and metal. That's pretty cool if you ask me and I didn't get the chance to ask you about it last time." Sayu gazed at his metal arm, and muscles appreciatively.
"Ah, yeah. I had an incident a few years back, left me without half my body. The marines actually picked me up and had these parts installed with synthetic skin and hair for my face. Partially why they're pissed at me was because I escaped their experiment and haven't been exactly nice to them since then. I really don't like marines at all." Haken rubbed his head while pulling on Sayu's hair lightly. "I have to say, your red hair is really pretty little soldier."
"I wish I had my mother's hair honestly. Her's was so pretty and I loved when she let me brush it. I don't really take to my hair much as it belongs to my idiot father, but mother loved it so I took care of it for her. Enough about me, you think you could let me examine you further when we get back? I promise I won't do anything bad?" Sayu gave Haken her puppy dog eyes.
Haken chuckled nervously and looked away. "I guess if the Captain agrees to it."
Sayu pouted. "Law wouldn't agree with that!" She sighed and continued to rub Yuki's back.
"When are they coming back?" Yuki whined into Sayu's lap.
"It's alright, it's alright, Yuki." Sayu petted his pretty hair and looked up at the sky. "I bet Law's having fun down there."
Trafalgar Law
"DEVILS TORNADO!" Yuri shot a tornado of slashes twirling towards the marines charging toward him. It sent them flying with cuts and slices all over. "Ha! Match that one, Ryu!"
"As if you're better than me, pipsqueak!" Ryu swung a chain in each hand, and with every whipping strike, it knocked out those low ranking marines.
Yuri jumped back to back with Ryu as more marines rounded the corner. "Stay frosty man."
"I could say the same for you." Ryu smirked and prepared himself.
"Fire fist!" Ace launched a fireball at the marine captain. The fireball collided with Marcy's pink smog and she miraculously dodged it.
"Idiot! The smell has already invaded your nose! Where are you aiming at?!" Law saw the whole thing and Ace had actually threw his fireball and it almost hit Law, had he not moved out of the way.
Ace blinked in confusion. "Eh? I thought-"
Law sidestepped Ace and charged at the woman. "Just stay out of my way! Room!"
"What is this?!" Marcy looked around her in panic. A blue film had expanded from the tattooed man and was now surrounding them both.
"Hmph!" Law bought his sword up and swung it down, instantly cutting off one of Marcy's arms.
"CAPTAIN MARCY!" Some of the marines shouted for their Captain as they saw her arm get decapitated.
Marcy held her arm but realized that it didn't hurt. "W-Where's the blood?! How did...what?" Marcy was going into shock. Her brain couldn't comprehend the pressure it was feeling. Her arm was laying next to her on the floor but she felt no pain and saw no blood...yet it was cut off!
"Next! Mes!" Law shoved his arm out and pushed her heart out of her body.
"AHHHH!" Marcy screamed in hysteria. "Stop it!" As Marcy screamed, pink smoke exhaled from her mouth and traveled towards Law. Law switched places with a marine behind Marcy and right next to her heart. The marine that he switched places with was covered in the pink smoke.
"Goodbye Marine Captain, I'll leave you for Dr. Vegapunk to find." Law stabbed Marcy's heart with his nodachi.
Instantly all the illusions disappeared from everyone's mind as the pink smoke cleared. The remaining marines were on their feet with tears in their eyes.
"Captain Marcy! The Captain's dead!"
"You heartless pirates!"
"Did you have to kill her? We don't really do killing so much in Pop's crew." Ace questioned the Captain.
Law wiped his nodachi of the girls blood on her body. "Well, we obviously have different outtakes on life." He smirked. "Death is daily on my ship."
Ryu nodded along with the Captain. "Mostly marines though. I killed one innocent...she was going to eat us though, so it was protection."
"I'm pretty sure they all died once that octopus swallowed all that water actually." Law mentioned offhandedly while ignoring the marines that were charging at his turned back.
"Devils slash!" Yuri's blades sent out dark waves towards the marines coming for his Captain. "Octopus? You guys haven't told us that story yet!" The marines fell to the ground from Yuri's slash attack. He placed his swords back onto his back. "That takes care of that..."
"It's...not...over..." A lone marine held his head up.
Law glanced at the barely alive marine. "What are you talking about?"
The marine chuckled darkly. "You pirates...we can't...let you get away with Dr. Vegapunk's research...so this lab...this island...it will all disappear...and you'll all die here with us!" He held up a trigger with a red button and pushed it.
"What?!" Suddenly booming sounds come from down the hallway. Ace's eyes widened. "I think we need to run!"
"Grab what you can and make for the ladder!" Law ordered his crew and started to run.
Trinity Sayu
"Ah, it's gone!" Sayu pointed in front of her and Haken put his hand out.
"Oh, the invisible barrier." Haken couldn't feel it anymore. "I guess they found whoever did it."
"Shhh...do you hear that?" Yuki lifted his head up from Sayu's lap. All three of them got quiet as the ground started to rumble.
"What is that?!" Sayu stood up and fell back down as the ground continued to rumble and shake. "An earthquake?!"
"Oi, Haken! Grab this shit!" A box was tossed up the ladder as Ryu's head shot out of the ladder after the box. "Hurry up! It's exploding!"
"What's exploding?!" Yuki asked nervously as he grabbed a glass box his brother handed him while coming up next.
Yuri climbed out and started running past everyone else while calling back to his crew mates. "The lab! Gotta jet!" Yuri left them in his dust.
"Nii-san!" Yuki followed after his brother.
Just then another box was tossed up and Ryu grabbed that one as Ace pulled himself out of the ladder. "We should run, really fast!" Ace grabbed the box from Ryu and turned to Sayu. Suddenly cracks started to appear in the ground beneath the pirates.
"Sayu! Take this!" Law's voice called out from the dark ladder and Sayu looked inside and grabbed the crate he was handing her.
"Haken, here!" Sayu handed the box to Haken and then reached out for Law's hand. He grabbed onto her and she helped him out. Law stood up and put his hand on Sayu's back pushing her in the direction of the sub.
"We have to move people!" Law pushed his first mate into a run with the others following them.
"Sayu, let's go!" Carrying the crate in one arm, Ace grabbed the first mates hand and pulled her along.
"Don't touch her, Fire Fist! Unless you want to lose that hand!"
Trafalgar Law
"Bepo start the sub!" Law called out to his navigator who was leaning on the railing of the sub. Bepo had felt the tremors and was waiting for his crew mates to come back unharmed. Shachi and Penguin were next to him looking for their friends as well.
"Is that Fire Fist Ace?!" Shachi questioned seeing the new addition to the group.
"No time! Hurry up and get us out of here!" Sayu screamed at them as everybody made their way onto the sub.
"Ah, my rider!" Ace shouted over the ground imploding and exploding underneath them.
Sayu pulled him inside of the sub. "I'll make you a new one!" Sayu ran to the control room and Bepo followed her. "Bepo grab the wheel!" Sayu flipped a switch as the sub started to rock from the tremors. "Submerging! Everyone hang on!" Everyone grabbed onto something as the sub started to go underwater and just when they fully submerged, the island exploded. The sub was knocked harshly in the water and everyone screamed besides Law. Everyone was knocked around in the shock waves.
Ace crashed into Sayu and they tumbled to the floor. A few minutes passed as the shock waves slowly subsided. Everyone caught their breath and relaxed as the sub stopped rocking slowly. Sayu groaned and wondered what was on top of her. She opened her eyes to see Ace staring back at her with a blush on his freckles. Sayu blushed intensely as they gazed at each other.
"...Get off of her..." Law was standing over the two with his hand on the hilt of his sword with a pissed off look.
Broken from their stare, Sayu pushed Ace off of her. "Ah!" He rolled over on the ground from her shove. Sayu shook the blush from her cheeks and looked up at Law. "Um...I don't know if this is the right time or not...but...did you guys blow up an island?"
Law grabbed his first mate and pulled her up by her hand. Pulling out the notes from his back pocket, he grinned at her. "Well, we got supplies and something that may interest you like it has me. Tell me, have you heard of flowers that reproduce sea stone properties?"
Both Sayu and Haken's eyes sparkled at that and they got closer to Law's face. "How is that possible Captain-san? I haven't heard of that phenomenon!" Haken reached for the notes, but Law tapped his hand away with his sword.
"I'll read the notes first and then pass them onto to you two. I've got some plant samples and I'm hoping you'll be able to recreate it, Mr. Haken." Law looked at his scientist.
"But of course, Captain-san. Something of that genetic level is childs play for someone like me." Haken said while rubbing his hand.
"As excited as I am about this...you guys blew up an island..." Sayu muttered while looking over between Law and Ace.
"Destruction is a daily part of the pirate life." Ace said with a grin.
"...Technically it wasn't us per say, as it was more than the foolish marine who pressed the button." Law said and patted Sayu's head.
"...You guys blew up an island...that's a first...I can't wait for the marines to find out that one!" Sayu grinned at everyone as they moved away from the remains of the island.
