Hello everyone! Sorry it took so long to update, medical problems.

I'm going to start a new fanfic soon so I hope you'll read that one too. Anyway on with the story! I hope all that read, like!

Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda.

Chapter 05

The Die that Decides Fate!

Rear Admiral Hina's eye twitched as she looked down at the drawing in her hand. Fullbody and Jango were looking over her shoulders trying to contain their laughter.

"The hell is this?" Hina growled tightening her hold on the paper looking as if she were going to rip it in half.

The Marine in front of her shook with fear as he tried to explain. "T-That's the description of the women you wanted us to get from the man yesterday, Sir."

Hina sighed rubbing her temple with her thumb and index finger. "I knew I should have stayed."

She set the drawing down and stood up from her desk, Fullbody and Jango snap to attention. The soldier flinched as she did this, not quite know what's about to happen.

"Out." was all she had to say for the marine to rush out the door.

"How are we supposed to find this woman with picture like that?" Hina said, frustrated, as she pointed to the odd drawing.

This drawing of the women with the red umbrella was the simplest thing she had ever seen. The black and white drawing showed a women with a circular head and straight bangs. Her eyes were two big circles and another dark circle inside both. Her lips had to humps on top and one on the bottom. On top of her head was a large black top hat with roses. All in all this drawing looked as if a child drew it.

"Damn it!"

-Dressrosa-

Petals of sunflowers fluttered in the wind as the sun was creeping over the ocean. Not just a small cottage could be seen in the sunflower field but also two silhouettes in front of it.

It almost looked as if a loving wife was coming home to her awaiting husband . . . Almost. Of course if the 'loving wife' was Perona glaring daggers at the indifferent Law, who still had the front door partially open.

Law could see her piercing gaze move from him to look through the door. He saw her eyes soften but as he stepped to block her view and close the door behind him her eyes sharpened again.

Bringing her eyes back up to Law's face and she could feel the tension in her face start to relax to a scrutinizing stare.

"I'll repeat, who are you?" Law asked as he was beginning to feel uncomfortable with her large eyes on him.

"You're not cute. Humph!" Perona pouted, crossing her arms nose in the air, clearly showing her annoyance with him. Law's face was blank.

"W-What?" Law asked, caught off guard, he cursed himself for the stutter.

Perona signed, annoyed she had to repeat herself. "I'll repeat." She said in a deeper voice, as if she were trying to sound like him. Law's eye twitched slightly. "You're not CUTE!" she pouted.

Law growled as moved his thumb to the hilt of his sword, pushing it till a loud 'chic' sound came from it and you could see the beginning of the blade. Perona flinched slightly at the pressure of his strength. Law saw this and used it to his advantage.

"Room. . ." He said as he quickly drew his sword and took quick steps toward her slashing the air. Closing his eyes, he was sure it was over. When he held his hand out for catch her decapitated head, he smirked, for it was a quick end.

Curiosity sudden poured into him as his hand remained empty. Opening his eyes he glanced up to see that the girl in front of him had disappeared.

"Boring." Law's eyes widened at the voice behind him.

Turning around as quickly as he could, he froze. Perona was face to face with him, which was strange because he was sure he was taller than her by at least a whole head . . . that was until he realized she was floating. A devil fruit eater. Law thought he had better be careful until she thrusted her umbrella forward so that the tip was at his nose.

"You had better not be taking advantage of Zoro!" Perona said trying not to yell and interrupt the strawhats sleep. While she was saying this her mind was frazzled 'Oh my God! He almost cut my head off!'

Law looked at her skeptical at what she had just said. "You're not here to attack them?"

"Of course not! Stupid!" Perona said keeping her voice down. Law's eye twitched when she called him stupid.

"Why are you here then?" He asked pushing the umbrella out of his face.

Perona whipped her umbrella back to herself and wiped off the dirt he may have gotten on it. Glaring at him, an idea popped into her head and in her opinion it was an excellent strategy. Smirking, almost creepily, she brought her feet back to the ground, moving her hands and everything in her hand behind her back, she circled Law.

Law kept his eyes on her, making sure she wasn't going to attack him while his back was turned.

"Hmmmm . . ." Perona hummed. She made it back to his front and stood proudly and smiled. "I have a proposition for you." She said smiling.

Law raised an eyebrow in confusion. "You still haven't introduced yourself, why would I made a deal with someone I don't know?"

". . . Because I have a Warlord on my side." Law's eyes widened at this. "Will you listen to my deal?" She asked and Law nodded slowly, he didn't see the harm of listening to a deal he hasn't agreed to.

"Good! So if you look after Zoro and make sure he doesn't get into trouble, I will help you get off the island without any Marines getting in your way. Oh! And give him this!" She said shoving him the bag she had into his chest. She looked quite pleased with herself.

'This way I can tell Mihawk I didn't talk to Zoro without lying to him.' Perona thought.

"No" He said as he was already on his way back up to the house. Still holding the bag.

"What!" Perona snapped as she chased after him.

"I don't have control over what Strawhat-ya and his crew does. And I don't think Zoro-ya needs any help with getting out of trouble." Law said now knowing what side she was, and what her weak spot was.

Perona stopped, understanding what he meant. Zoro would get pretty mad if he ever found out about what she had asked. He's not weak, she just worried about him . . . not that she'd ever say that out loud. Perona was having an inner battle when she noticed he was almost to the door!

"Ah! W-wait!" Perona yelled. She stood, scattered as Law stopped walking waiting for what she had to say.

"W-will you at least give him that bag . . ." Perona stuttered as she pouted, not making eye contact for she may have had a small blush. When she looked back up to Law, she saw him looking at her from over his shoulder, and her blush had deepened out of embarrassment. She couldn't believe how humiliated she was.

"Sure." Was all he said.

"Eh! Oh, okay. Good." Flicking her hair to the side, her pride taking over. "Don't tell him I was here. Oh and take this." She said sticking her hand out with a card between her fingers.

Taking the card, Law realized it was a vivi card with 'Perona' written neatly on it and a little ghost drawn on top. Law raised an eyebrow and looked up to see her still standing there with her hand outstretched.

. . .

"You're supposed to give me a piece of that monkey's vivi card." She said expectantly and impatiently, almost glaring at him. He didn't quite understand who 'the monkey' was supposed to be. 'Ah, wait, Money D. Luffy' he remembered.

"How did you know Strawhat-ya had a vivi card?" Luffy did just get it last night.

"I just do! Do I get one or not!" She argued, not quite ready to give away her devil fruit power yet. Not to him.

Law took the piece that he had just gotten that morning and put it in her hand but not without grabbing her wrist and pulling her to him.

"The moment you attack us, you'll be cut into tiny pieces." He threatened.

Perona felt a shiver go up her spine as he looked her directly into her eyes. She pulled her arm out of his hand, she backed away and turned so her back was facing him. "Y-yeah, whatever. I'm leaving." Perona said acting as if he hadn't affected her at all. She now knew why he was named 'The Surgeon of Death.' He was scary as hell!

Law turned so their backs were to each other. Law spoke first making her stop. "If you keep the Marines at bay, I'll tell you where Strawhat-ya and his crew will go next."

"W-why would I need to know when I have this?" Perona asked knowing he was smart enough to know she was talking about the vivi card.

"Good point, but wouldn't you want to know exactly where Zoro-ya is going?" Law asked know this would get her.

"W-would you tell me now?" Perona fell right into trap he had set.

Smirking, Law knew he had right then. "No." he answered.

Narrowing her eyes Perona answered him the only way she could without damaging what little pride she had left. "Just make sure Zoro doesn't die anytime soon!" Law turned to see her already taking her leave.

As she walked away from the cabin, Law watched as she disappeared from his view. Looking at bag she gave, he decided to check if it was a bomb or something like that. Opening the bag and looking into it he spotted a large glass bottle of what looked like alcohol.

Going back into the cabin, he looked at the crew before him before stopping at Zoro who was sitting close to the door.

"This is for you." Law said thrusting the bag to green haired man.

Zoro opened his eye and slowly took the bag. Finding what was in the bag, he smirked as he pulled the bottle out of the bag. "She's that way with everyone, although she might be a little more hostile towards you, not sure why though." Zoro said while opening the bottle.

Law sat next to him as Zoro took a swig of the Sake. "HoHooo! This is pretty good!" Zoro said surprised Perona had actually got him good alcohol. Offering the bottle to Law so he could have some, Law shook his head no, the sun had barely just risen and Zoro was drinking.

"How do you know her?" Law asked.

"She helped with my training." Zoro answered.

"Hmmm. . ." Law hummed as he pulled the vivi card she had given him out and surveyed it. He suddenly smelled something odd, not bad, it actually smelled pretty nice. Trying to place the smell he looked up to see if it might be someone in the room. It definitely wasn't Luffy or Usopp, Robin was too far and Franky smelled like iron. It wasn't Zoro, he would have smelled it right when he sat down if it was Zoro. Looking to the card in his hand, Law brought it to his nose and immediately recognized it to be the smell he found to be a relaxing sent.

"This card smells like apples and rose."

-Perona-

"Damnit!" Perona yelled in frustration.

'He totally tricked me into making a deal with him! Not that I agreed. But still! I was supposed to be one making a deal!' She thought, irritated that nothing went according to her plan. She was suppose come in, all cute and cool, then Zoro was going to praise her and do whatever she said! Perona sighed as she continued on the path back towards the destroyed buildings.

Now that sun was out, she had to move quickly before the Marines spotted her. Pulling a baby transponder snail with a black feathered hat and a magenta flower shell, out of her sleeve, Perona dialed her companion, to inform him as to what was going on.

She wondered what he'd want to do.

-Mihawk-

Biriri . . . Biriri . . . Biriri

Mihawk turned towards the Transponder Snail with a black top hat and white roses on the rim with a black and red hearts covered shell. Guessing who was calling he put his book down and grabbed the receiver. He waited for and person on the other end to answer.

"You're supposed to say hello when you pick up." Perona's voice came from the snail.

. . .

A sigh came from the snail. "Fine! I'll start. I found the Straw hats and Law came out and we 'talked.' And by the way, he almost cut my head off! He's an asshole!" The snail yelled as Perona did with tears in its eyes. The snail pouted as Mihawk waited patiently for her to continue.

"Anyway, we made a trade, Monkey's vivi card for mine. But Trafalgar wants me to keep the Marines busy while they escape. What do you think we should do?" Perona asked.

Mihawk thought for a moment "You're going to help anyway, mad as well let you do it. Keep in the shadows and let your hallows do the work. Don't get in the way anyone other than the Marines. Don't get caught, and be careful." He said hanging up before he could hear her answer, he already knew she was going to yell at him for telling her what to do and tell him he wasn't the boss of her.

Picking up his glass of wine he brought it up to his lips to drink but stopped right before tilting the glass to let the liquor slide down his throat.

'Why did she let him provoke her?' He asked himself, him being Trafalgar. He smirked as he knew the answer in an instant.

-Perona-

She made it to the remains of the town without any problems. She had gotten to the Navy Camp and the sun was up and so were the Marines. Perona has been watching them for a little over an hour and she was bored.

As she was looking at her nails to make sure they weren't cracked or chipped she noticed the Marines snap to attention and salute to a high ranking officer. Parting to make way for this important marine, Vice Admiral Tsuru made her way towards Admiral Fujitora, who was in the middle of eating soba noodles. What Perona didn't expect was that the former Fleet Admiral now Inspector General Sengoku was trailing behind Tsuru munching on what looked like rice crackers.

Perona moved through the shadows quickly and quietly to get closer without being detected. She watched carefully as she listened to the words being spoken by the three big shots.

"Admiral Fujitora. Why aren't you catching that pirate? You know where Straw Hat is, don't you?" Tsuru asked as Fujitora slurped up a good amount of noodles.

"The deeply-wounded pirate who saved the country. Should I consider him an enemy?" Fujitora reached into his yukata to grab something. "Or should I let him go since he's a hero to this country? I can't decide."

Fujitora held up a die so Tsuru could see. Sengoku was the first to answer confused. "A die?!" And busted out laughing while spitting up pieces of chewed up rice cracker with tears in his eyes.

"This is no laughing matter!" Tsuru yelled at him and Sengoku was quick to end his laughter not wanting her to hang him out to dry, but could contain it as he started to laugh again. "Buhftahahaha! A die. . ." He covered to his mouth to muffle the laughs only to irritate her more. "That's enough!" she yelled. And his answer to this was keeping his hand to his mouth saying "Oh, how scary."

Perona deadpanned in the corner watching this encounter. 'What are they an old married couple?' She thought. But was brought out of her thoughts when she saw the Vice Admiral turn back toward Fujitora with a straight face.

"Boy!" She said. "Is that how you've been deciding whether to go after him?!"She asked stilled a bit peeved.

"I decided to leave Straw Hat and the others' fate in the hands of providence." He answered. "But Tsuru-san. If he's just an ordinary person, would he have been saved by providence two days in a row?! Today's the third day and I'm not cheating." He said taking another mouthful of noodles.

Tsuru sighed and Sengoku turned to one of the marines exclaiming that he want soba noodles as well. The Marine was quick to agree.

"Thank you for assisting with the transportation of Heavenly Demon. But I'm still in charge here." Fujitora said as he finished his food. "So let me handle it as I like."

Tsuru was quick to respond. "Alright. But we Navy can't leave a pirate with a bounty at large forever. . ."

And then something adorable happened and Perona just wanted to run to hold it but held herself back from doing so.

"Please become Dande-donors!" Said the cutest voice ever!

A little blond fairy stood on the table in front of them with big blue eyes. "People of the Navy! Please become Dande-donors!" She said to the Officers. Solders stood off to the side with hearts in their eyes, Perona would too but she couldn't risk getting caught.

Fujitora smiled. "Oh, you came again today."

"Yes, I did." She answered.

Vice Admiral Tsuru smiled at how cute she was. "Oh, look how cute she is!" holding out her hand as the princess jumped onto it. "She's a Dwarf!" She exclaimed with the other female Marines behind, falling in love.

"I'm Mansherry from the Tontatta Tribe!" The little one said happily.

Sengoku off to the side continued to eat his soba but stopped at the claims of how cute the Dwarf was. Getting a closer look he was back in the group. "Oh! How rare!" he said but jumped back at the pricking of his shin. "Ouch! Wh-What the. . ?!"

Four other dwarfs showed up at his feet, the older one yelled at him. "Show respect, you guys! Princess Mansherry is Chief Tonta-sama's daughter! She's a princess! Why don't you bow your head?!" He ranted but the princess was first to the reply. "That's okay, Mouji." "Oh, how merciful she is!" Mouji teared up. The princess ignored this as she went back to talk to Tsuru. "To tell you the truth, we mustn't show ourselves in Dressrosa to anyone but members of the royal family. So I wanted to heal everybody's wounds without being seen. . ." Sengoku stood up asking how.

The princess smiled adorably.

-30min Later-

Soldiers were lined up blushing, waiting their turn to donate their healing properties as Princess Mansherry thanked them adorably. Sengoku had even felt the need to compete for how much more he could donate then the other soldiers.

Perona watched, impressed with what the Heal Heal Fruit could do. She turned her attention to Admiral Fujitora, who was talking to Tsuru again.

"Tsuru-san. Go ahead and roll it for today." Fujitora said facing Tsuru. "If it's anything other than "one," we'll go after Straw Hat and Law right away." Silence surrounded the area and Perona felt a little worried.

-The Sunflower Field-

In the house everyone was eating breakfast and deciding what they were going to do next when the transponder snail started to ring and a dwarf's voice filled the room, just before the door flew open and Bartolomeo stood before them. But suddenly he started to shield his eyes saying that their greatness was too much for him and how he was lucky to be in the same room as half of the Straw Hat crew.

Zoro was the one to snap first. "Just say what you're here for already!"

"Oh yeah!" He remembered "There's a lot of commotion at the Navy camp! They're gonna be here at any minute!" He yelled "'Great Advisor' Vice Admiral Tsuru and the formal fleet admiral- Sengoku arrived!"

The Straw Hats were surprised. Kronos was quick to ask what was happening and Leo had a response ready. "Oh, the Navy's going into action now!"

On the other side of the island Perona's eyes were wide and the worry had become worse as she stared at a die, which she wished she could move.

This die, just happened to be lying on the table, already rolled to decide the pirate's fate.

Admiral Fujitora spoke the words Perona really didn't want to hear. "It's six. It's a mandate from heaven!" Lifting the receiver of the transponder snail. "All Navy units! Catch the Straw Hats, Trafalgar Law, and all the criminals who've been hidden at the palace in one fell swoop!"

The marine soldiers were already lined up ready to move out. "Yes, sir!" and that was it as the soldiers ran to both the palace and the cabin in the sunflower field.

The air around the island was heavy and serious, there was trouble coming and the first thing Perona said/whispered was "Shit."

Thank you for reading!