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I ran through the forest and felt a sense of ease fall over me as I darted amongst the tropical trees. We'd be leaving tomorrow morning and I had decided to take the chance play around in my leopard form. As I ran, I found myself thinking over the whole thing with Callen. Law had decided that Callen would no longer be one of those training under me. I don't know exactly what Callen's punishment was, but I didn't know if I wanted to from the shivers and pitying looks the green haired male was given. Maki had been given a punishment as well, but not as bad as Callen's apparently was. He would be on watch duty for the next four nights after we left the island. Shaking those thoughts from my head, I found myself running towards the clearing where Law and I had spared not even a day ago. Mentally shrugging, I raced forward only to stop at the edge of the clearing upon seeing Law. He was standing in the middle of the clearing and seemed to be concentrating on something. My tail twitched as I wondered about what he was doing before a childish part of me rose up. He had been doing a lot of work lately and had been really stressed, so he needed some time to relax. The best way to do that is playing, right?

Law closed his eyes and concentrated on the feeling of his devil fruit. It had been a while since he'd actually taken the time to do something like this, so it was harder to find since he wasn't actively using his abilities. He could feel himself relaxing as he focused on the electrical feeling of his power flowing through his body. It pulsed with his heart and moved with his blood. It was focused on his head and his hands. It was-He suddenly found himself on the ground with the air knocked from his lungs and something heavy on his chest. He opened his eyes and found a familiar pair of heterochromic eyes peering down at his own from a decidedly leopard-like face, "Ariun-ya?"

"Yup," She smirked down at him, "Whatcha doin?"

"Why the hell did you jump on me?" He ignored her question as he tried to breath normally.

"You need to rela and the best way to do so is to play," She answered with a leopard-like grin.

He couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth and asked incredulously, "So you decided to jump on me?"

She nodded, "It seemed like the best way to get your attention since you seemed really deep in thought."

Law felt his eyebrow twitch and wondered where the hell this had come from, "Ariun-ya are you sick?"

"No. I feel perfectly fine," She looked at him in confusion, "Why?"

"You're not acting like you normally do," He deadpanned while wondering if she was actually sick or had hit her head on something, "Did you hit your head?"

"No I didn't hit my head," She rolled her eyes, "I felt like playing around today and this is a normal thing for me to do,"

"Jumping on unsuspecting people is playing?" He needed to wake up since this had to be a dream of some kind.

I snorted as my tail swished lightly behind me, "No. I jump on unsuspecting friends. Strangers aren't fun to jump on."

I felt immensely amused at the look on Law's face and had to admit he was really fucking cute. Some part of me wanted to see that dumfounded expression on his normally smirking or calm face more often, but I pushed that part away. I lowered my head on top his chest after making myself comfortable and Law growled, "Get off."

Sighing, I took my time in getting up before slowly stepping off him. He sat up and glared at me. I sat down across from him and returned to my human form with a smirk, "Something wrong?"

Oh pissing him off is fun too. It made his grey eyes darken in a way that made me shiver and not in the 'I'm-scared-of-this-guy' way. Law growled out, "Yes something's wrong. Why the hell would you think jumping on people is fun?"

"Because their reactions are amusing," I kept my smirk even as part of me knew it would be best to run or something, "You're really cute when you're surprised,"

The first part of my answer was met with anger, but the second was met with shock then anger. Guys didn't like being thought of as cute, but the reactions they gave when called cute was funny. Law glowered at me as he stood and towered over me. I stared up at him with my smirk even as I realized that I probably shouldn't have done that. Law opened his mouth to say something when Bepo ran into the clearing. I looked at the bear as he shouted, "Marines! They're here!"

I was on my feet in seconds and started running back towards town.

Law forced down his anger and resolved to deal with Ariun later once he had made sure his crew was alright. They reached the town quickly and to his relief the sub was nowhere in sight. Ariun seemed surprised and rounded on Bepo asking, "Where's the sub?"

"Shippo and a few of the other's submerged when we heard that some marine's were heading this way," Bepo explained, "It's why a few people are on the sub during the day even if we aren't leaving,"

"Oh," Ariun's ears flicked lightly and she grimaced before asking, "Where are the others?"

"Center of the town," Bepo answered with a slight frown, "Why?"

Ariun didn't answer as she took off in the direction Bepo gave. Law and Bepo looked between each other before following after Ariun.

As I ran towards the town center with Law and Bepo, I couldn't stop myself from grimacing. If there was one thing I disliked about ships, it was the cannons. The smell of gunpowder and the sound they made was far more intense than guns. It's one of the reasons I liked the sub. Sure we had torpedos, but they hadn't been used in the entire time I'd been on the sub. As we got closer, I could hear the sound of cannons and prayed that I wouldn't be too disoriented by the sound. I heard Law mutter, "What the hell was that?"

"A cannon," I replied as I slowed slightly to be able to speak with Law, "Marine's bring them on land sometimes when they think the threat against them is bad enough," I scented the air and picked up the coppery smell of blood, "Looks like someone's already injured,"

I slammed the butt of my bladed staff against the throat of a marine as I kicked another one away. I jump back to avoid a sword slash and stabbed the marine in reply. The marine cried out at the blade of my staff dug into his stomach only to cry out louder as I twisted the blades and tore them out. I checked around me and grimaced at how many marines were around me. I caught sight of Law's room and the white boiler suits of the other's before more marine's blocked my view. Damn it looks like I'm surrounded. One of the marine's seemed to realize this and shouted, "Just give up! We won't hurt you!"

"Yeah fucking right," I rolled my eyes at their cockiness, "Go fuck yourselves,"

I heard the boom of a cannon and people shouting as the marine's rushed at me. I mentally grit my teeth as I danced around their attempts to capture and/or kill me. The fight had been going on for over thirty minutes and showed no end making wonder why there were so many of these fuckers. I knew there wasn't a marine base of the island and there wasn't one that was very close, so why so many?

Law played with the marines and just added more to his growing collection of bodies as his crew tossed them into the circle. He was enjoying himself, but something felt wrong about this situation. It was like there were more marines then there should have been. Bepo had said that there was only one ship, so this many shouldn't be possible. It was as this thought went through his head that he heard one of the marine's shout, "Captain Hikaru! Help us!"

"Please Captain!" Another shouted.

Law dropped his abilities in that moment and the marines in his room began bleeding out. He looked around carefully just as a cry of pain was heard. He turned around as someone, Shachi, shouted, "Ari-chan!"

Law felt himself grow cold as someone said, "So this is the 'Spotted Death' Snow D. Ariun...How dull."

Law created another room and transported himself over to where he heard the voice coming from. When he got there, he felt something within him twist. Ariun lay on the ground with blood leaking from her ears and mouth. Law spoke softly, "Ariun-ya..."

"So you're the 'Surgeon of Death' Trafalgar Law," The same voice from before called out, "Hopefully you'll prove more of a challenge then your subordinate,"

Law turned towards the source of that voice as cold rage ran through him. The one to speak was a tall peach haired woman. Law would admit she was somewhat beautiful, but her eyes took away from that. They were a dull, almost blank black. He gripped Kikoku as he spoke coldly, "Who are you?"

"I am Captain Hikaru of the marines," She answered in a dull almost bored way that rubbed Law in all the wrong ways, "Your subordinate wasn't very strong," Law was about to speak when the woman's eyes narrowed, "Girl you should stay down,"

Law turned and found Ariun struggling to her feet, "Room," He teleported her over to him, "Ariun-ya."

"Law she ate the sound sound fruit," Ariun murmured while collapsing against him, From what I can tell, she can send sound waves through touch,"

"At least you're smart," Hikaru snorted coldly, "But still weak,"

Ariun stiffened and tried to move away from him, but he wrapped an arm around her to stop that. He glared coldly at the marine captain before turning his head, "Bepo."

"Captain," The bear raced up to him.

"Take Ariun-ya," Bepo reached out and scooped Ariun up, "Keep her safe,"

"Aye Captain," He looked at Ariun as her eyes seem to glaze over.

"Ariun-ya rest easy. I'll take over," He turned towards the marine captain, "You have a lot of nerve doing that to one of my crew," He smirked coldly as he raised a hand, "Room," His room spread out around them, "I dislike it when my crew gets harmed," He watched as the woman's eyes widen and felt slightly satisfied at the fear in those full eyes, "Welcome to my operating room," He withdrew Kikoku and slashed at the woman multiple times, "I'm going to kill you," He sheathed Kikoku and raised his hands, "Shambles,"

The world was spinning and all I heard was a ringing in my ears after Law was finished speaking to me. My chest hurt and I was having trouble breathing. I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't understand just what was wrong. I tried to focus on Bepo's blurry face above me, but that made my head hurt worse. The edges of my vision turned black and I knew that I would be dead to the world in a few moments. I opened my mouth and croaked out, "B-bepo...I...Chest...Hurts..."

Darkness invaded my eyes leaving me with the slightly clear image of Bepo's alarmed face and feeling him shake before I was swallowed up by the darkness.

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