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Chapter 04

The Woman with the Red Umbrella

Luffy had gotten out of the Colosseum with not only the help of Bartolomeo, Straw Hats biggest fan, but also his 'brother' he had thought was dead, Sabo. He, Toy soldier and Viola had gone to go set Law free and dethrone the Doflamingo. Franky Robin and Usopp had decided to go find a way to destroy the Smiley Factory. Kinemon had ended up in a pit-like cell that contained the friend he had been looking for, Kanjuro, and the previous king!

Usopp was the one that had defeated Sugar, the girl with the power to turn people into toys. This resulted in the citizens remembering the people who they had forgotten, including the toy soldier who was actually Kronos, Rebecca's father!

Doflamingo had set up a cage of string all around the island and had started a game. Whoever ever had caught a certain pirate or person got points and would be set free. Turning the citizens against the King, the pirates and the the revolution! Law, trapped in seastone chains was forced to rely on Luffy to get to Doflamingo.

The people who had participated in the Colosseum had decided to band together and help Luffy. Bartolomeo, Rebecca and Robin had decided to help take the key for Law's chains to Luffy.

Franky had defeated Senor Pink while Zoro defeated Peeka. Bartolomeo even defeated Gladius! Kronos defeated Diamante Army and Usopp had knocked Sugar unconscious once again only this time it had been from the farthest he's even shot!

Once Law had been set free he and Law had started to devise a plan! Of course destracting the Marines was part of Sabo's job, after he had one Ace's devil fruit, the flame flame fruit!

"Ahhhhhhh!" "Help us!" "Please!" "AAAGGGGGGHHHHH!"

These were the voices Perona and Mihawk heard. Pained, desperate voices screaming for rescue! Why were these the sounds they heard and not the joyous laughter of children and happy songs and dance? Well that wasn't what shocked Perona the most.

A cage!

This cage of wires or string, whatever they were, surrounded the island shrinking in size towards the center. The strings cutting though whatever crossed its path as if they were paper!

Perona stood wide eyed staring at Dressrosa, her mind not quite registering what was happening in front of her. She felt pity for the people. Mihawk was also standing but he was analyzing the cage looking for a weak spot, if there was any he would find it.

"What is this?" Perona said weakly.

She turned to Mihawk and saw something she hadn't seen in his eye for a long time. Disgust.

"This is a cage of death. Doflamingo's Birdcage. Whoever is inside the strings meets the end of their fate. The Strings cut anything in its path. Seastone is one of the only things that can slow Doflamingo's stings down. Although it doesn't stop them from pulling it to the center, and eventually the stone will be cut."

Perona turned to Mihawk completely. Shock evident on her face.

"What! It can cut Seastone? But I thought all devil fruit were powerless to the Sea?!" Perona questioned.

"Most devil fruit eaters are weakened by seastone but not powerless." Mihawk reasoned.

"Hmm." Perona hummed. "Is there any way to cut the strings? To help those people?"

"I could not cut Doflamingo's strings, let alone anyone else. There is no way in or out for a living person, but maybe a spirit could get in." Mihawk said looking at her from the corner of his eyes with a raised eyebrow.

Understanding what he was leading to Perona whipped her head towards him, eyes wide. "You want me to go into a deathtrap! What if it doesn't work, what if I got hurt?! OH! What if my dress gets dirty?!"

Mihawk sighed, closing his eyes as he reached for his forgotten glass of wine. "I am merely suggesting you send a few of your hollows to gather information." Taking a healthy gulp of his glass.

Perona looked shocked. 'He pays attention to me!' Perona could almost smirk, if they weren't in front of a large cage. Perona was almost too happy, but then she realized she yelled at him for no reason.

"Ahem. . . Well, I know! I-I just wanted to know if you cared. . . Never mind!" Perona tried to cover up her embarrassment. Turning her head to the side swiftly, she pouted with a heavy blush on her cheeks. Perona hates it when she's wrong.

Perona stood up straight and threw her arms in front of her body. "Spy Hallows!" as she said that small sphere like spirits with small tails came from her hands. Their eyes had a blue glow and they hummed as they flew around. All Perona had to do was point towards Dressrosa and the little hallows flew as fast as they could to the island.

"Awe! My little spies are so cute!" Perona swooned over the little guys while Mihawk stood with an indifferent look on his face. Although her giggling stopped suddenly as her eyes widened. Mihawk raised his eyebrows wondering what she was seeing.

Perona gasped putting a hand to her mouth "Zoro?"

-Saboady-

Rear Admiral Hina stood in front of two frightened civilians and all but shoved a close up photo of a red umbrella with horns and eyes on top.

"Have you seen this per- umbrella?" She said irritated that no one she had talked to knew anything.

"I-I-I'm s-so sorry! We h-haven't seen anything l-like that." The man squeaked holding his girlfriend close to him.

Hina growled and waved them off watching as they scurried away. As she turned to her next victims, who flinched as she made eye contact, she could she Fullbody and Jango running towards her, pushing each other to see who could get to her first.

Panting when they reached Hina, Fullbody was the first to speak.

"We found (huff) a bar. (huff)"

"Mihawk (huff) was there!" Jango finished.

Hina, shocked, focused on them. "Was a women with him?" she asked.

Looking at each other warily, Fullbody and Jango all of a sudden looked quite nervous. Hina had a bad feeling.

"Well, the owner said that he was alone and kept to himself . . ." Jango started but brightened at the next information they received. "But she said that a group of men came in and started to yell at him, she also said they wanted to cross swords with him." Fullbody stood next to him, nodding his head.

Hina turned away from them. "Hmmm, good work you two." With her back to both men, they started to fangirl over the fact that their Hina had praised them.

"Did the bar owner say who they are, or are they dead?" Hina asked suspicious as to why someone would want to pick a fight with a warlord.

Fullbody spoke up just as Jango opened his mouth to speak "AH! She said that they found the men injured, but nothing to serious, she also kicked us out. But, some of the guys might be in the hospital, so-"

"Where is the hospital?" Hina interrupted.

-Saboady Hospital-

It had taken some time for the Rear Admiral to find the patient she was looking for. Hina felt stressed and it wasn't even the end of the day. Lighting her fifth cigarette for the day, Hina waited for the nurse to give her the room number.

"You can't smoke in here." A passing nurse tried to tell Hina, which was answered with an intimidating glare. The nurse left quickly with her 'tail' tucked between her legs muttering a small sorry.

The nurse that was helping her in the first place, came back with a slip of paper. Handing the paper to Hina, she looked as if she too wanted to say something about her smoking but decided not to.

Hina snatched the paper from the nurse's hands and it read: Cline Rob RM 234A

Hina, Fullbody and Jango walked through the halls of the hospital quickly getting to the man's room. Everyone who saw them scurried to get out of their way.

Opening the door, the man who had challenged Mihawk was in hospital clothing and sitting in a bed. If you looked closely you could see the bandages that wrapped around his torso. Turning his head at the sound of the door opening, he look confused as to why the Navy was in his room.

"What do I owe the pleasure of having Marines in my room?"

Hina stood straight as she addressed him. "Mr. Cline, I am Rear Admiral Hina, I'm here under investigation. If I have my information right, you were one of the men that started a fight with Dracule Mihawk. Am I correct?" Hina asked excelling the smoke from her lungs.

"Tsk." Rob's eye twitched. "That bastard! He killed my father! And when a told him, he said he doesn't remember all the bugs he's squashed! My father was not an insect! He didn't even take me seriously. And he finished our fight so quickly just because of some girl. Damn-"

He didn't get to finish his curse as Hina had launched at him. Grabbing the scruff of his top, Hina forced her face into his personal space. Her cigarette so close that if she got any closer it would burn his face.

"The women! What did she look like?!" Hina yelled practically spitting on him.

Rob froze, fear radiating off of him. "I-I-I don't know. All I saw was her long, pink curly hair. Everything was blurry. A-All I really remember is that at one point her voice was high pitched and then when she s-started yelling her voice got lower and raspy."

Pushing him back into the bed roughly, Hina felt her frustration rise. 'Why can't I find anything on her?' She thought.

Sucking in the tobacco of her cigarette, she calmed herself down as blew out smoke.

Showing him the picture of the women she asked. "Like this?"

Rob to a close look at the photo. His eyes widened as he recognized the hair and umbrella. "Yeah, sure, like that." Hoping he got the right answer so she wouldn't get any madder.

"Thanks." Hina gruffly said as she made her way outside the room with Jango and Fullbody behind her making the 'We're watching you' signs towards Mr. Cline.

Hina stopped outside of the Hospital. Sighing she said the only thing on her mind at that moment. "I need a drink."

-Dressrosa-

Law had done his best to try to defeat Doflamingo but had only been able to help defeat Trevor Army. Law had lost his energy and his arm leaving Luffy to fight Doflamingo on his own.

Luffy had used his fifth gear, but ended up using to much haki and had been forced to have others try their best to distract the king for ten minutes! Princess Mansherry of the Tontatta Tribe, with the help of her heal heal fruit had put Laws arm back so he could help Luffy towards the end.

Zoro, using his black blades to try to keep the strings from meeting in the center, was being pushed as a small ghost hid by a building that had yet to be cut into pieces. The ghost had a worried expression on its small face.

Staying in place to watch the swordsman another ghost flew by taking in all the debris and destruction.

On another side of the cage another spirit focused on Franky and an army of cute little fairies around him, as well as some of the civilians of Dressrosa, as they pushed on the building in front of them to do the same as Zoro.

Many of Perona's Hallows flew around taking notice of the people of Dressrosa, the people of different islands, the giant, the Marines and of course all of the Straw hats, well half of them. Two in particular narrowed as they spotted three important people.

One could see the king of Dressrosa, for now, Donquixote Doflamingo. A women in a frilly dress stood before him looking for a fight, or at least the best she could do.

The other followed a group of gladiators meeting up with an exhausted Monkey D. Luffy and a defeated Trafalgar Law.

Keeping in the shadows each Hallow followed the details to the end of Dressrosa.

-Mihawk and Perona-

"The Marines are here! What should we do?" Perona turned to Mihawk with fear in her eyes.

Mihawk knew why she was scared, Zoro was in the cage. One of the men she had spent two years taking care of, the man she wanted to be stronger for, and also Zoro was Perona's first real friend. Mihawk knows how important Zoro is to Perona, and Mihawk hates it when she cries . . . it's annoying.

But Mihawk cares for Perona.

"We have to stay low, we can't be seen helping pirates." Mihawk says calmly.

"But-" Perona starts but is stopped by Mihawk when he looks at her. "Is the Straw Hat there?"

Perona's looked confused. "U-Um, yeah."

"Then he'll be fine."

"But that Monkey is pass-"Perona's eyes widened for the hundredth time that day. "H-He's back up . . . "

"All we can do is wait." Mihawk finished, turning back to the island to spot Doflamingo in the air and a large haki covered mass above that he recognized to be the captain of the Straw hat pirates.

Smirking he looked at Perona by his side, her mouth agape and eyes wide with amazement.

"Wow . . . He really has changed." Perona said with awe in her voice.

They watched as haki covered string flew towards Luffy. Luffy pulled his arm, which was huge by the way, and threw it towards the strings. Hitting the strings first, the impact caused everything around them be thrown out. The waves became wild and Perona had to hold onto her umbrella tightly. The strings finally broke and Luffy's fist made contact with Doflamingo.

Doflamingo flew to the ground, braking through, and underground with the single punch Luffy had thrown. The cage finally coming apart, ended the terror running through everyone within.

Relief rushed through Perona as she wipe the tears in the corner of her eyes, smiling, happy that Zoro would be okay.

With her Spy Hallows still on the island, she could see everyone rejoicing and celebrating their lives.

"Thank goodness." Mihawk heard Perona whisper.

-Saboady-

Rear Admiral Hina walked through the market as she headed back to the ship. She was tired and frustrated and just wanted to relax.

Taking in her surrounding, Hina noticed a small Liquor Store. Turning she decided that she mad as well follow through with what she had said earlier that day.

Walking in the store, she went straight to the sake. Picking up a nice bottle, she noticed an empty spot on the shelf. "Wonder what that held." She said in a low voice.

Getting to the front desk, Hina started to get enough Beri to pay for the alcohol. Not noticing that the photo she frighten people with had fallen out of her pocket and onto the small counter.

The sweet old man behind the counter picked up the photo and was about to give it back when he stop and smiled.

"I know this umbrella."

Hina froze as she was handing the berries to the man.

"Such a cute little thing. Didn't talk much but bought a nice Sake and a beautifully aged Tarapaca." The old man continued to smile as he remembered the women.

Hina was quick to respond. "Do you remember what she looked like?!"

"Hmm, maybe, but I'm an old man and I'm not too good with remembering things. Although I might be able to recall some things about that woman with the red umbrella if I get a little extra."

Not such the sweet old man she thought as she hand him an extra 10000 Beri.

Finally Hina is getting somewhere!

-Perona-

It was early the next morning when Perona decided to go to the island, not wanting to call attention to herself, she walked.

She had to leave her super cute dress with Mihawk. Although she still looked cute in her off the shoulder red and white three quarter sleeve tight top with a heart on the front, and her tight white jeans, along with a pair of thigh high red boots and a black cap on top of her head. Of course with her red umbrella in hand but also a brown bag in the other.

The only reason she is wearing this is because she didn't want to get her dress dirty.

Mihawk had also warned her not to draw attention. 'Remember, the moment the Marines see you interact with the Strat hats you will become known and wanted.'

All she wanted was to make sure Zoro was okay, with her own two eyes, not with her hallows, even if it puts her at risk.

Making her way towards a small cottage Perona was anxious to see how he was doing when all of a sudden the door opened and she froze.

Trafalgar Law stood ready to defeat the person he had sensed coming as he locked eyes with her.

Perona felt electricity go throughout her body.

"Who are you?" Law asked, getting straight to the point looking to her umbrella for a split second then to the bag. And in an instant Perona knew she couldn't entrust Zoro to this man even if he had a cute little hat!

Thank you for reading.

I didn't really summarize all of what had happened in One Piece so I'm sorry if someone's confused, it's just a lot to remember. I just hope you are up to date with the anime or manga.

Also if I did my research correctly 100 Beri = $1. Sorry if I got it wrong.