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Chapter 08

The New Wanted Poster

"What do you mean she escaped, ma'am?" Rear Admiral Hina was pissed but she would never disrespect her Vice Admiral. Hina clenched her teeth in irritation, almost biting the end of her cigarette off into her mouth! "Ma'am, why would she run? We only needed to ask her some questions, the whole purpose of tracking her and Mihawk down so we can keep track of all of the crewmembers of each Warlord, especially if she's with Mihawk!"

Vice Admiral Tsuru voice came from the snail as she described what she had learned and saw.

-Flashback-

"What do you mean 'disappeared'?!" Perona had yelled this as her voice cracked and bounced off the walls, and Doflamingo's laughter filled the ships prison. The soldier standing guard was getting nervous, his hand itching for his weapon! "Oi, knock it o-"

"SHUT IT!" Perona screamed at the marine, but her eyes remained on Doflamingo throwing her hand towards the guard "Negative Hollow!" and the ghost that flew from her hand went straight for the soldier, making him fall to his knees, depression hanging over him.

Freeing two other hollows from her hands, Perona was lucky the bars weren't made of seastone as she had her ghosts flew over and around Doflamingo.

"Now, tell me, what did you do to Moria?!" Perona felt her anger rise, it was getting harder to swallow as she could only think of what had happened to her past captain and Doflamingo's smile was just aggravating her more as he chuckled. Perona was at the end of her rope, her glare becoming more ferocious. "Negative hollow." Her eyes had started to fill with tears as her frustration grew!

One hollow flew through the large man and he gritted his teeth, his smile becoming forced and sweat gathering along his brow. "I-I am n-ot as weak as those pathetic soldiers you've dealt with before!" His harsh chuckle came out and Perona grew more frustrated!

"Negative hollow!" She said harshly with a tear escaping her eye, roughly wiping it away she watched as two of her hollows had gone through his stomach. She could see him struggle to keep his own mind.

"So t-this is your devil fr-fruit pow-er? Ho-w interesting." He grunted, straining to keep his smile, veins growing in his forehead and sweating through his clothes. "You kn-know, if yo-u free me I-I can make you into any-anything you want to b-be."

Perona's eyes narrowed, "How dared you try to bribe me." Her voice quivered as tears cascaded down her cheeks and her shoulders shaking in fury. "Negative Hollow!" She yelled forcing all three hollows into the large man! Doflamingo tried to keep his smile, his mouth twitching every once in a while and the veins in his forehead were now throbbing. He didn't speak this time however Perona knew that she was starting to get some head way, ready to break him, slowing if need be, she created more hollows but was not allowed to continue her interrogation for the guard she had forgotten about had awoken up from his pitiful state and went straight to the deck to gather more marines. Marines piled into the jail, unlocking Perona's cell, it seemed the soldier had panicked and didn't tell any of the higher ranking officers!

"Negative Hollow." Perona's tone was dangerous, with tear stains running along her cheeks she easily step out of her cell. Soldiers were on their hands and knees, claiming they were nothing but trash as she stepped over and sometimes on them.

She stood in front of Doflamingo cell, glaring at him. "If you think this is over you have another thing coming buddy!" The man, who had recovered quite quickly, smiled menacingly, laughing at her words.

"I really wasn't lying, I didn't have chance to kill him, he disappeared from my sight before I could finish him off." He was still smiling as he gave her this information.

"Why are you telling me this?" Perona asked, confused as to why he would he would tell her this after toying with her and Doflamingo's smile widened. "Just felt like clearing the air before we part ways, you might wanna get movin, before the Marines catch ya. They don't take to kind to pirates attacking their own." He started to laugh again but Perona was not amused. Even if she didn't believe him, not saying she did, she didn't have enough time to question him any further, lest most Marines show up or worst, the Admiral. Heading towards the stairs, her hollows tailing her, she could hear Doflamingo's laugh echo off the walls as he yelled after her. "If I were you I would have joined right away! I could make good use of your devil fruit but don't worry I'll give you a second chance another day!"

Perona scoffed at the man and continued up the stairs, like hell he would use her for his own personal gain, she was the only one who owned her devil fruit let alone herself.

Using her negative hollows, Perona stepped over depressed soldiers getting to the deck easily. The storm would be hard to navigate in but it along with the pirates attacking the marines would provide her enough time to get away. She made her way to any boat she could find as quickly as she could, she didn't want to leave the man who had taken care of her for over two years now but she didn't have a choice as of right then.

Boarding the first boat she saw, Perona untied the ropes holding it to the Marine ship and let it go, plummeting to the sea. She gripped the boat as hard as she could as the waves tossed her around, splashing her with tons of sea water making her weak and unable to do anything but hold on!

Glancing up back at the Marine ship she spotted Mihawk standing on the deck, right next Vice Admiral Tsuru watching as she escape. She felt her heart clench at the sight of him but she couldn't turn back now, she was completely sure she would have a wanted posture out by the next morning.

-Law and Zoro-

Law and the others had just finished packing for the trip to the Land of Wano and had were getting ready to set sail when Law suddenly felt his stomach tighten. Pulling out Perona's vivre card only to find more than half of it had disappeared! He couldn't help but feel the worry fill him but he didn't know why, I mean he had only been met her once and talked to her for no more than 10 minutes.

Law had been focusing on the piece that he didn't notice Zoro's gaze move to the thing in his hand.

Zoro's eye's narrowed in on the thing, seeing that it was disappearing. Standing up to get a closer look, he moved with his hand on his swords and looked around the man's shoulder. His eye's widened as he realized just what was disappearing and he felt his heart drop.

"Oi, don't tell me that's what I think it is." Zoro growled as Law remained straight faced, but tried to think up with a plan as fast as he could. 'If I tell him he'll most likely go on a rampage, but if I don't the vivre card will most likely disappear along with Perona and Zoro would go on a rampage. Both ways, Zoro ends up mad and I will have to make sure Zoro doesn't get himself killed, I mean those were technically her last words to me.'

"Damnit." Law curse under his breath but decided it was best to show everyone. "Perona's vivre card is disappearing, it started when we left Dressrosa.'" Law explained as he watched the different expressions, some sullen, some confused and some shocked.

"What do you mean her vivre card is disappearing?! What the hell does that mean?!" Zoro was pissed but that was to be expected. It was Robin who answered him. "It means she's in danger of losing her life. Is that what she meant when she rushed her goodbye before?"

Law shrugged and roughly ran his hands through his hair before shoving his cap back on top his head. "She said not to go after her but I could care less what we do. What do ya think?" He turned to Zoro who seemed to already know his answer.

"I'm gonna go get her, I don't care if you guys stay or come but I'm not gonna just let her die if I can help it!" Zoro crossed his arms, waiting for the others decisions.

Franky was the first to answer giving him a thumbs up. "It's a man's duty to take care of his family, and as crewmates we will help you!" Robin and Usopp agreed, nodding their heads, Usopp even gave a thumbs up as Zoro smirked and turned to Momonosuke. "Is this okay with you kid?"

Momonosuke looked shocked at Zoro's question. "O-Of course!"

Zoro nodded and turned to look to the two Mink tribe kings, motioning the same question to which the kings nodded, agreeing to the delay.

Finally Zoro turned to Law. "And you?" Law turned his head and crossed his arms. "As I said before, I could care less. Besides we'll have to wait for Strawhat-ya anyway."

So they had all come to an agreement, save Perona then off to Wano Country. Looking down to the vivre card Law tried to think positive. 'Hold on, we're commin.'

-Marine Fleet (Next Day)-

"Mihawk! We need you to give us more information of Perona!" Vice Admiral Bastille yelled out as he waved his sword around looking like he was about to throw it out at the man who had taken off as soon as the storm died down the next day and was now just a small dot against the ocean. "God Damnit! OI! Someone get me a boat, I'll go-"

"Just let him be, nobody can get him to stay if he doesn't want to." Vice Admiral Tsuru called after the easily irritable man, chuckling at his annoyance. "We've taken all the soldiers she attacked and got their stories. Most seemed to have interesting ones, The soldier I left to guard the two said that she had been yelling at Doflamingo before she started to attack, saying something about Moria, he doesn't remember much but a couple others talked about how they had felt the attack before on Dressrosa when they were chasing Monkey D. Luffy. It seems the lovely young lady had decided to help the Straw Hats."

Bastille hummed in thought, placing his sword on his shoulder. "That means she's a ally to those pirates. Does that mean Mihawk's working with them too?"

"No, no, if Mihawk was on the island everyone would have known. He's not one to hide in the shadows. This young lady was working on her own, one of the soldiers had even forgotten that he got a photo of her so we made up a wanted poster and put it in the newspapers this morning." Tsuru pulled out a wanted poster with Perona's side view picture and her name on the bottom, 'Ghost Queen Perona' with a bounty of 75,000 beri. "Doflamingo gave us that name, he seems to have taken a liking to the girl."

Tsuru looked to the younger Vice Admiral and continued. "Bastille, we are going to put you in charge of tracking her, since Rear Admiral Hina is escorting the king and princess of Alabasta."

Bastille nodded, agreeing with the old woman. "Yes, ma'am."

Later that night the Marines had gotten a call, 'Ghost Queen Perona' had washed up on Shipwreck Island. Bastille reported to Admiral Fujitora getting the 'go to' to take one the ships and set sail.

He had taken about 100 soldiers and piled them all on a single ship, made sure all preparations of Perona's capture were set and finally left, headed straight towards Shipwreck Island!

-Mihawk-

He had set sail as soon as he could, now that they knew Perona had helped the Straw Hats there was no way the Marines would just leave her alone. 'Damn, and here I told her not to get caught.'

Sighing he continued to watched the small disappearing vivre card move on top of his palm. He noticed it's disappearing after they were taken onto the Marines ship, he was worried but thought it would be fine as long as she stayed by his side, but he was wrong. He should have gone with Tsuru but it'll be alright, as long as he can get to her first.

Perona felt drained as she awoke in a small bed, it wasn't cute but it was better than the floor. As she thought about moving to get up she heard someone in the other room speaking, well more like yelling.

"She's the wanted pirate in the newspaper and we needed to turn her in!" The raspy voice of an old man was interrupted by a young woman's voice. "I know, but you didn't even ask me! I just thought we could give her a few days of rest." The old man was having none of it. "I wasn't about to allow a pirate to hurt you and rob us after we took care of her! Calling the Marines was the best option, they will be here soon and I don't want to hear another thing about it!?" There was stomping and a door slamming, she also hear a soft sigh and steps that she assumed were headed towards her.

Closing her eyes she decided that pretending to sleep might be the best option for now. She heard the door open and the steps coming closer, but was gently shaken 'awake.' Her eyes opened as a young woman appeared in front of her, smiling as if nothing was wrong. "Hello. We need to get fed, okay?"

"W-What? W-Who are you, where am I?" Perona played dumb, she still didn't know where she was or most importantly how long she had till the Marines got there.

"My names Kayley. You're on Shipwreck Island, the island that changes shape. My father and I found you two days ago, on the beach, you looked as if you were in a storm." Kayley was very kind as she talked to Perona, speaking to her in a soft voice.

"I was." Perona confirmed the girl's suspicions as she sat up or tried only to fall to the bed again, her muscles were sore and her skin was still a little raw from the sea hitting it repeatedly. She tried to lift her hands only to find them locked together in seastone handcuffs. 'Damnit!' Perona thought, doing her best to survey the room.

"Sorry about the cuffs, my father's just being careful." Kayley sighed as she set a food tray on the side table and helped Perona sit up. Sitting on the side of the bed, she fed Perona, slowly and carefully.

"When are the Marines coming?" Perona asked, feeling weak as Kayley laid her down again.

"Most likely tomorrow morning, afternoon if you're lucky." Kayley looked sad as she said this, as though disappointed but smiled afterwards. "But don't worry about it, for now get some rest, you'll need it."

Perona could feel her eyes getting heavy, she couldn't afford to stay and get arrested but her whole body felt heavy but she just needed to get off the island, she couldn't get caught the marines, not yet. She blinked trying to force sleep away as she turned to the bedside table. Her vision was blurry but she could see the silver key on top, or at least she thought it was a key.

Her body was so heavy that she could only lift her arm at the most an inch before she dropped them. Her eyes closed as she tried her final attempt to stay awake.

'I need to get away.'

-Law-

It wasn't that the submarine was small, it was the two large Minks who had to bend down significantly, almost crawling, just to get around the ship! Deciding it was best to stay afloat, Law sat up against the railing, near his navigator with the disappearing vivre card in his hand. It was nearly midnight and Law could feel himself become antsier as time went by, it didn't help that they had all seen her picture on a wanted poster in the paper early that day.

As he continued to ponder on the many reasons why Perona's vivre card was fading but all he could come up with was that her life was in danger. Hearing a pair of boots climb up onto the second level, Law looked up to see Zoro walking towards him, hand on his swords.

Law watched as Zoro glanced down at his hand, eyes narrowing he seemed to growl at the man.

"I'm pissed you didn't tell me. . ." Law just continued to stare as he knew Zoro was going to say more. "But what the hell are we supposed to do when we get there?"

Law sighed and rubbed his forehead with his thumb and forefinger, eventually dragging his hand down his face in frustration.

"I don't actually have a plan. She could be severely wounded, completely surrounded by marines and sentenced to death or simply dying of a untreatable disease. To tell ya the truth I don't think it's a disease but there are so many different outcomes that we won't know anything til we get there."

He could see Zoro flitch when he had said the word disease. "You're a doctor, you can fix her can't you?"

Law sighed, "Yeah maybe, maybe not." Zoro 'tsked' as he listened to the captain continue. "We won't know till we get there. She important to ya?"

Zoro let out a rough sigh, scratching the back of his head in frustration. "Sure, I guess. She's kind of a prissy little shit but if you can believe me, she's actually older than me. She's also a lot stronger than she looks and she kind of . . . maybe took care of me during my training when the crew was separated. A lot of the time I felt like I was looking after a little kid but there were a few times that she felt like a older sister."

"Hmmm. . ." Law was deep in thought as he felt slightly relieved, for what reason he wasn't quite sure but he decided to ignore it. "Well, we'll see when we get there."

That's it for this chapter! Sorry for the long wait. Thank you for reading!