Okay, I know some of you (possibly all of you) were quite shocked that I chose to have Sora be alive. Like I stated before I did not make that decision until chapter 8 when she came in. But I promise that I have some great stuff planned involving her! I also would like to say that I love Sanji, he was my favorite characters from the first episode, long before I even new his name (I watched the anime before I started reading the manga)... Literally his fighting style is what determined this for me at first… Okay that said, I am telling you this because a lot of things are going to happen in this fanfiction (it is called A Father's Betrayal, so at some point Judge is going to betray, not just Sanji (he did that years ago), but all of his children (as seen in the prologue)... I am not doing this because I hate Sanji but because this is based on a dream I had that I wanted to see how it might have ended had I not woken up… Why I have random, odd dreams about my favorite fandoms…? I do not know. But they're always interesting lol.

Anyway that's enough blabbering. Back to the story!

Chapter 10

Judge opened the femailur rot iron doors… the doors to the training room. The training room was hidden deep in the main castle, away from the prying eyes of the servants. The room was the average size of a common bedroom, however there was five door along the walls. Above each door frame read 'Zero: Poison Pink', 'One: Sparking Red', 'Two: Electric Blue', 'Three: Flaming Yellow', and 'Four: Wrench Green'.

Ichiji walked over to a control panel in the corner.

"This is ridiculous," Sanji muttered as Judge walked to the fourth door, 'Flaming Yellow', and opened it.

"In," Judge demanded, gesturing to the room as Ichiji flipped a few switches.

Sanji stared into the smaller room. He jumped and took a step back as flames burst out of the floor. He could see that there were paths to walk through but from what he could tell they were so small that the flames would still come into direct contact with him. He couldn't feel the heat from his own flames but he never tried to touch flames from an outside source like this before and he was extremely careful in the kitchen so he never burned himself… well not sense he was a kid anyways.

He looked Judge straight in the eye and asked, "Why?" in much the same way as Judge asked him 'why' as he was begging to be rescued from his brothers so many years ago.

"Excuse me?"

"Why should I do this for you? After everything you've done! After everything you put me through! Why the hell should I help you! You have done nothing to deserve my help! NOTHING!"

"I think our brother needs a bit of encouragement," Niji smirked. "Stealth!"

In less then a second, Niji had a hold of Sanji from behind. Sanji allowed his flames to engulf his leg, preparing to defined himself.

"Don't. Fight. Back," Niji ordered. "Or else blood will be spilled in the East Blue."

"What?!" Sanji grawled, turning his head in an attempt to look at his brother.

Yonji laughed, "I think you struck a nerve, Niji!"

"You see, Sanji, not only do we have your friends here as hostages… but we also have a nice little sea restaurant being closely watched… just waiting for our order to… Blow. It. Up…" Niji explained.

"We hired that hostage of yours, Caesar, to make a bomb and as soon as he's done we'll sending another ship out to transport it to the one in the East Blue," Ichiji added.

Sanji couldn't focus. His head flooded with memories of he and Zeff. All the times he insisted on calling Sanji, 'Little Brat', until the day he left with Luffy and Zeff called him by name for the first time. Everything he knew about cooking and fighting, even his chivalry and morals… they all came from that old man…. Sanji would not be who he was today if it hadn't been for Zeff. He owed the man a greater dabt then anyone could ever imagine.

Sanji's body became numb, he couldn't move to defined himself even if he wanted to. Niji's words completely drained every ounce of fight he had left in him. He felt… hopeless.

Judge walked over to him and unlocked the wristlets. "I will remove these for now… but after words they are going right back on. Understood?"

Sanji could barely hear what Judge was saying. His head was spinning and he could hardly breath. He felt like the walls were closing in on him. He didn't even realize that Niji had shoved him through the opened door until Judge said he would be in there for two hours before closing the door and locking it.

Sora walked to the hall were the rooms the Straw Hats were staying in. When she got there she noticed talking coming from Sanji's room, she had managed to convince her husband to allow her son's friends to stay in empty rooms in the same hall as Sanji's old room. She new Sanji wouldn't be back from what Judge called training, she called torcher, yet, so she figured maybe Sanji's friends were waiting for him in his room.

She walked up to the door and knocked on it.

"Luffy! Would you open the door like a normal person!" Nami said as the door opened.

Much to Sora's surprise, nobody was standing in front of the entrance. Everyone was either on edge of the bed, in a chair, or on the floor. An arm stretched across the room from the bed and had a hold of the door.

"Hi, Sanji's Mom!" Luffy said as his arm snapped back to normal length.

"May I come in?"

"You're nice to Sanji…. I like you, so sure," Luffy said patting an empty space on the bed next to him.

"Thank you," she replied closing the door behind her.

"What do you need, Sanji's mom?"

"I didn't get a chance to properly introduce myself at dinner tonight."

"That's okay," Nami said with a smile. "Sanji-kun, already told us your name. Queen Sora, right?"

"Just Sora is fine."

"I'm Nami, the navigator. That's Robin, our archeologist."

"It's nice to meet you," Robin smiled.

"This is Carrot, a stowaway."

"Hi ya!"

"Tra-guy, the captain of the Heart Pirates as well as their Doctor."

Law raised a hand before placing it back on Kikoku's sheath.

"Long nose over there is Usopp, our sharpshooter. You may know him as Sniper King."

"Your sons are terrifying."

Sora couldn't help but chuckle at that.

"The little reindeer… er… 'hiding' behind the bed is our Doctor, Chopper."

"H-hi…. A-are you really nicer than Sanji's other family?"

"The cyborg is Franky, our shipwright."

"Yo."

"The skeleton is our musician, Brook."

"You are quite the beautiful Queen…. May I se~"

"DON'T EVEN START THAT!" Nami yelled punching the skeleton in the skull. "Our swordsman, Zoro, is over there," she continued as if nothing had happened.

"You wouldn't happen to have any booze in this place, would you?"

Sora chuckled, "Sounds a bit like Niji."

"And this rubber guy, right here, is our idiot captain, Luffy," Nami finished introducing everyone.

"I'm hungry… When's Sanji getting back? I want meat!"

"We just ate!"

"Sanji might be an hour or two. Anyway, I just want to say thank you."

"For what?" Luffy asked.

"For taking care of my son for all this time. For showing him what it feels like to be cared about, to have friends, to be loved for who he is. For giving him everything he will never get by being here. I can't tell you how much it means to me to know now that Sanji didn't die as a member of a family that hated him, but is alive and is very much cared about. I hate to imagine what might have happened if he had been here all this time."

"Sanji's our friend. You don't have to think us for that," Luffy said.

"But, I do. I feel I owe you for giving my son what he couldn't have here…. But even though I already feel indebted to you…. I'm afraid I'm going to have to add to that debt by asking a favor of you."

"By "our" he means 'their's'. I could care less about stupid eyebrows."

"He's just saying that. Sanji and Zoro are always butting heads," Nami said. "Zoro acting like a jerk aside, what is it you want to ask?"

"I need you to get Sanji out of here. Take him as far away from Germa and never bring him back. I love him but I know he doesn't belong here, he never has. He doesn't deserve this. Judge has been act extremely off lately and it has me very worried. He's been talking about how close he is to conquering the North Blue…. It's his dream…. But recently something about the way he talks about it… it's different then usual. Like his plan for accomplishing his goal is not entirely what we think it is."

Sanji paced up and down the narrow paths. "DAMN IT!" he hollered kicking the door as hard as he could, leaving a dint in the iron.