A/N: So, I was cleaning my room and then I found a picture of Saiyuki then I said 'Oh, it's been a long time since I last saw this anime.' So I watched it again and forgot everything. See, this is why I hate having problems in focusing. Though thanks for waiting!
And to the guest reviewer who asked me to translate this in… Indonesian language? Am I right? I'm sorry, dear, but I can't do that mainly because I don't know the language itself. The only language that I can read, write and understand is English and my own language so forgive if I can't fulfill your wish.
Also I feel a little bit sad because some reviewers who used to leave a review in the first few chapters were not reviewing now (T^T) though I can't blame them. No one is forcing anyone in reviewing… no one… so I do not blame them…because sometimes I'm like that also! Geez, I'm seeing myself in a mirror now.
Anyways, to THOSE who was reviewing since from the start I thank you!
NOTE: This will be my last update (I hope not) for this month so if it was a bit cliffy please don't be angry, it's just a reminder to me that there are still a lot of surprises left for me to write and for you to read ^_^ until then don't forget me!
Title: Daddy is The New Title
Author: gdesertsand
Pairings: ZoSan but not main
Disclaimer: Do not own One Piece!
Chapter 13: Meet the Surgeon of Death
After Trafalgar noticed his living nightmare the next thing that caught his attention was the muffled noises. Looking on the wall behind Doflamingo there he saw Ace, Sabo and Luffy tied together by rope. Vergo stood dutifully beside them to prevent any attempt of escaped. Law saw the desperate and scared eyes of Luffy, the panic and confusion in Sabo and the anger he was sure boiling inside Ace judging from the scowl.
Silently Law dug his nails on his palms. How could this happen? They have nothing to do with this! Why Donquixote Doflamingo was still alive?
"Curious aren't you?" Doflamingo, if possible, widened his smirk, "On why am I still breathing?"
Law answered him with a scowl that only sent Doflamingo into a laughing fit.
"I see you've gained some backbone after all this years!" he stood up and slowly walked towards the doctor.
Every nerve that Law had screamed to run, something that he could not do the moment Doflamingo pressed his hands on his cheeks.
"You've grown. You were such a cute child before but now you are a handsome man," he placed a soft kiss on Law's forehead. That simple action caused the other to shiver, "Shh…no need to fear anymore. I'm taking you back with me."
You are my nightmare, Law wanted to say but the ingrained fear on the bottom of his heart prevented him to do so. He could not stop those lips on making contact to his. He could not stop that tongue from entering his mouth. He could not stop anything at all.
Ace had a better view from what was happening in front of them since he was at the center. His eyes widened when he saw the pink feathery ball started touching his father and placed those disgusting lips on his skin. Ace was furious. Maybe he was a child but before he got adopted he was living in the streets and crime was not a stranger in his eyes. He knew what the man was attempting to do on his father.
Defiling
"Bastard! Don't touch my Dad you shit!" Ace screamed in anger. As it turns out Doflamingo didn't appreciate what he said and one look to the man beside them sent him in having a stinging sensation on his right cheek and a trail of blood flowed from his mouth.
"Ace!" Luffy screamed in shock.
"Stop it!" Sabo begged as Vergo continued hitting Ace on the head and face with his boots.
The shouting though brought Law's attention out from his living nightmare.
"Vergo-san, don't hurt them!" Law screamed remembering that Vergo hated it whenever he did not add '-san' at the end of the man's name. Right now he did want to incur any wrath from either of the two villains.
"Vergo," one simple word from Doflamingo and the other man stood up straight again, "Now my dear little Law, I expect you to come with me, yes?" He cooed a little as if he was talking to a two year old child.
"Don't listen to him Dad!" it was Sabo who screamed his protest this time, "Don't go with him!"
"My, my, you have such annoying brats, Law," the tone was dangerous and before Law could even blink he saw Doflamingo next to Sabo and kicking the blond child on the stomach, "Makes me want to discipline them,"
"Please, Doffy, don't hurt them!" Law begged as he stepped forward, "They had nothing to do with this!"
"Perhaps," Doflamingo crouched down in front of Luffy and took a fistful of hair from the child making the youngest shout in pain, "but then it's fun, fufufu." He gripped harder, "So, you will come with me, right?"
As if he had a choice considering the situation.
"I will…just…just don't hurt them!" he begged.
"Hmmm…" Doflamingo let go of Luffy's hair and went to a mock contemplation, "I can do that." He agreed with his sinister smile that would make you to have seconds of doubts, "Shall we?"
Doflamingo approached him again and put his arms on Law's shoulders leading him outside the room.
"W-wait you promised me! Free them now!" Law protested as he saw that Vergo was walking away also.
"Huh?" Doflamingo raised an eyebrow, "I promised not to hurt them, I didn't promised that I would free them or ensure their safety, fufufu."
"Doffy!"
"Night, night, my dear Law~" with that he punched Law real hard on the gut and carried the doctor on his arms, "Let's go, Vergo"
"Let go of our Dad, you pervert!" Ace would not let those bad guys took his father. Not now, not like what happened to Shanks. Law must not leave them.
"Give him back bird-guy!" Luffy joined and he was angry on what happened earlier.
"Get your hands off of him you pedophile!" Sabo was having enough of that cocky grin.
But all their shouts were ignored as Doflamingo and Vergo went out. Doffy was a man of his words the only thing was you were obligated to be more specific. Just like what happened now, he promised he would not hurt the kids but he didn't promised that he would free them or let them live, right? Promises had some many loopholes that were why it was easily broken. The moment that the two villains were out of the building the place exploded from the first floor making the fire to rapidly grow and ate it.
Promises were meant to be broken.
Law was carried off in the air by the helicopter of Donquixote family. It's time to go back home. If ever it was a home in the first place.
The mood was thickening with all sorts of negative thoughts. But one wise man knew that all of this would not answer their problem at hand.
"Let's go," Mihawk said as he stood up, "If you want to save your friend then stand up and stop brooding there. I can care less about him but the children are important to me." He declared and then he looked to Makino, "Stay here okay? Call Smoker if needed."
"But Mihawk-san!"
"Makino!" he raised his voice a little to make a point, "Even if you come you will just be an excess baggage to us!" it was cruel he knew that but that was the truth. He needed her to understand it.
"Oi! That's not the way to talk to a lady!" Sanji was about to kick some sense on Zoro's brother when his lover stopped him and shook his head. Mihawk had a point.
Killer sighed with impatience as he too stood up and hooked his sickles on each side of his pants where a belt should be there, "Let's just go and finish this already," he whispered under his breath. Everyone notice the dark aura that was slowly developing around the long haired blond. He was living now to his name. Killer was about to kill someone and that someone was no other than this 'Doffy-shit'.
Wait…
"I have question though," Killer raised his hand like a student asking his teacher.
"What is it now, Killer?" Kidd was really angry right now to keep up with the attitudes.
"What is this 'Doffy' person looks like?"
There was a dead silence as realization was made.
Mihawk gently hit his forehead with his right palm, "You're going in a fight without knowing who your enemy is?"
"It's not our fault!" Kidd protested, "We just heard about him this morning, how can you expect us to think about such stuff at this situation?"
Mihawk tried to calm himself down but he could not help but to think how idiotic this kid was. One idiotic little brother was enough but now he had to deal also with Zoro's friends idiocy also?
He had enough of practice with Shanks if this turned out to be a success though.
"Blond hair, purple shades and a pink feathery jacket, now will you come or stay?"
"Of course we will come," Zoro placed his swords on his side just like what he always do whenever he was in a fight.
"I need to kick that Shitty-Surgeon's head too," Sanji answered while adjusting his tie.
"Tch, Trafalgar will receive a beating from me,"
"Just let me slice this Doffy,"
It did not take for someone smart to notice that they will be burn alive. Ace saw the fire that was crawling outside the room and it was now starting to crawl inside also. Sabo was trying to move his arms to see if he could break the ropes but at last it didn't even had a tiny scratch. Luffy was panicking now.
"It's hot! It's hot!" he cried as the hot air started to envelop them and it was getting harder to breath due to the smoke.
"Damn it, Luffy shut up!" Ace snapped at his little brother but then his eyes softened, "Don't worry we're here we will not leave you alone. Just like the old times."
"That's right, Luffy. Me and Ace will always be by your side," Sabo added to lighten the mood a little.
Just like the old times. They will always by his side.
That made Luffy to finally stopped crying.
He remembered the times they were still living in the streets before Shanks met them. The times where his brothers would defend him and took care of him whenever he got sick to the point they would resolve in stealing just to have a medicine for him to drink.
That's right, his brothers was here there was no need to worry.
"It's not hot, it's not hot," Luffy started chanting under his breath and Ace and Sabo looked to each other and shared a smile. At least their little brother was trying to convince himself now that everything would be alright.
That was if they could get the damn ropes off them!
They could run since they were not bound by anything aside from the rope but they will trip multiple times making the escaped much harder.
At the same time the windows above them, just a few inches away from Sabo's head, exploded due to pressure of the fire. The glass shards fall down and the two older brothers had the same idea that sparked in their minds.
"Oi, Sabo," Ace called as he eyed the nearest shard.
"On the count of three," Sabo merely replied.
"Huh? What's going on?" Luffy asked when he heard the exchanged between his brothers.
"Luffy, on the count of three stand up," Ace explained briefly.
Sabo took a deep breath and started counting when he reached the promised number they all stood up, well in Luffy's cased was dragged to, and moved closer to the broken glass. Slowly they sat again for Sabo to reach the glass. At last he took hold of it and started to cut the rope though it was harder than he thought.
"Oi Sabo, can't you cut it faster?" Ace hissed because even for his standards the heat was really getting on his body and making his head a little dizzy. Beside him Luffy continued to chant that words 'it's not hot'.
"I'm trying!" Sabo hissed back. A few minutes more and the rope finally snapped. The trio stood in triumph.
But not everything would go according to plan.
Before they could run, debris on flame fall from above directly on them. Sabo was the first one to react as he shoved his brothers away. He was not lucky enough though. The moment he saved them a stray flame hit his face, the left side of his face. He screamed in pain as the hot sensation started to spread. Ace heard the agony as he helped to put out the fire.
"Sabo! Hang in there, Sabo!" Ace called out when the flame was nowhere there but the damage was done.
"I'm still alive, Ace," Sabo tried to joke.
"Shut up! Your face was burned! We need water!" looking around he cursed as he remembered that they were in a sea of flames. They really, really need to get out now.
"Ace!" Luffy tried to gain the attention of his brother.
"What?!" Ace could not help but to snapped out on his little brother because their situation was not funny at all. But then Luffy didn't complain at his tone because he was too occupied at pointing on what was surrounding them now. Rubbles aflame were everywhere there was no tiny space to get out without getting burned.
Damn it
"Is someone out there?!" Luffy shouted, "Please help us!" he was worried also that Sabo might die from his injury, "Anyone!"
But then another noise from above was heard, another one will fall they had no chance of dodging it this time. Their eyes widened as it finally decided to descend down towards them again.
"SOMEONE PLEASE HELP US!" Luffy screamed as loud as he could.
The next thing they realized was the wall from their left was shattered, a gust of wind followed making the flames to part away and the rubble turned into pieces. A few minutes of shocked they looked on their left and saw a familiar sword that was almost mistaken as a huge cross.
"Uncle Mihawk!" Ace called out in relief.
"Hawky!" Luffy exclaimed.
Without wasting any moment Zoro, Kidd and Sanji entered the scene to scoop up the boys. That was when they noticed that the trio were injured, especially Sabo.
"We need to take him to the hospital quickly!" Sanji declared while running carefully in order not to aggravate Sabo's wounds.
"No!" Sabo clutched the fabric of Sanji's suit, "We need to save Dad!"
"We will, kiddo, we will. But first we need to make sure your injuries were taken care of."
"I'm fine!"
"No you're not!" Sanji finally lost his patience, "You're just a kid! You three are just kids! What do you think you can do?! You will just be bur-"
"Sanji!" Zoro called the name of his lover. It was rare for the swordsman to call the blond on his own name when they were in public so Sanji immediately shut up and looked at his lover who was wearing a face of disapproval. That was when the chef realized what he was about to say. Good thing he didn't finished it or else.
"Just…just leave this matter to us, okay?" Sanji ended their discussion at that.
Finally when they were out of the burning building, thanks to Mihawk and Zoro who kept slicing everything in their way, going back to the shore they saw Killer leaning on the railing of the ship they brought.
No words were said as they boarded the ship and make their way back to New World City and take the children to the hospital.
Three days passed when Trafalgar Law was taken away from his safe haven and forced to live again inside his living nightmare. But this time he made a fight. He struggled with all his might to escape that he managed to land a punched on Doflamingo's face. Of course the head of the Donquixote Family was angry at that and locked him up in a prison cell. His hands and feet were bound on chains that were pinned down on the ground. It was long enough for him to stand and walk a little but just five steps and he was back again on the same spot he was sitting at. During also those three days he received a beating for he was being a stubborn. Though he admit he did not know the people who were giving him all those punches and kicks. He vaguely remembered that they introduced themselves as Ms. Valentine and Mr. 5 and that they were Baroque Works Agents.
Now was the fourth day and he was alone.
Just like the old times…
"Aw…but you are not alone…" someone whispered to his ear and Law looked up in shock trying to find the source but no one was there with him. He sighed. Good, now he was having audio hallucinations.
"Come on, don't tell you have already forgotten me," the voice was back again and as Law realized it was coming from his own head, "It's me, Surgeon of Death…"
That was then memories started to resurface. Surgeon of Death, the other persona he had accidentally created due to his increasing fears when he was a child. This other 'him' though was in between of hope and despair. In between because Surgeon of Death was created to protect Law and while that one thing always stayed in check list this persona has its own twisted way of protecting. Surgeon of Death did not care who he was about to kill as long as it was not Law doing the killing. But if Surgeon of Death did not remember what was happening whenever Law was in control the opposite always happened to Law. Meaning he always remembered what Surgeon of Death was doing whenever the persona was in control.
Surgeon of Death was merciless…
Law created a monster not a savior…
But… Surgeon of Death was always protecting him…
But then at the same time he was a mindless killer that was why Law never allows the other persona to take control ever again. Those were the times he was frequently tossed in his personal prison room full of corpses.
"I know now how I can block my memories for you not to see them…" Surgeon of Death tried to negotiate, "I can deal with Doffy. There's no need for you to face him." He cooed.
Law closed his eyes and the moment he opened it he was in a place covered in darkness but at the same time he knew he was standing just above water judging from the movement and weirdly enough those movements were sparked by a bit of enchanting lighting. When he looked up in front of him he was met by a man who had the same features as him. The only difference was the other guy was wearing a grin torn between fondness and sadism.
Surgeon of Death…
"Just go to sleep and I will deal with everything, my King" for some odd reason Law's other persona had taken a liking in calling him 'King' like he was a spoiled child or something.
"But…" he tried to say something but Surgeon of Death just engulfed him in a hug.
"Shh… sleep… I promised you will never remember what was happening when I'm out there this time, I promised. I only want to protect you."
"I want to be free…" Law unconsciously muttered on his other persona's ear as he slowly succumbed in dreamland.
"Is that what you want? Freedom?"
"I don't want to be bound by anything…"
"Then your wish is my command,"
With that said Law closed his eyes and Surgeon of Death carried him on a bed covered by different kinds of flowers. Slowly he lied Law down there and pulled up the soft blanket to cover him. When Surgeon of Death stepped back walls of roses bearing sharp thorns on its stems erupted from the ground and covered everything until Law could not be seen anymore.
"Your wish is my command" Surgeon of Death repeated again.
The door of the prison opened and the two agents of Baroque works entered. Ms. Valentine was carrying a tray of food. Doffy did not want to starve his cute Law after all. She placed the food down just in front of Law and she bend her knees a little to have a closer look of the sleeping face.
"His cute, too bad he was already owned," Ms. Valentine commented like she was talking about a dog she wanted to buy.
"Hm, he's just a pet," Mr. 5 spoke while standing beside his partner.
"That's why it's too ba-" she didn't finished her sentence when suddenly a fork was shoved inside her mouth and before anyone could say anything her face was slammed down hard on the floor forcing the fork to appear on her nape as blood flowed down from her mouth and warmth slowly left her body.
Before Mr. 5 could react something hit his feet that he also hit the floor and a spoon embedded itself on his throat having an almost similar death scene of his partner. The key on his belt was grabbed and sound of chains hit the floor. Slowly the figure stood up and did some stretching.
"That, my dears, is how you make a weapon out of eating utensils besides the knife," Surgeon of Death said as he stole a piece of bread and a slice of meat from the tray and left the room that was slowly having a pool of blood.
He looked around and found the stairs obviously he was underground judging from the lack of light. Not bothering to care at all he went up and a blinding light invaded his vision. Using one hand to cover his eyes he walked towards the nearest window to see where he was.
Dressrosa.
"Hmmm, so Doffy still likes to live in this country huh," Surgeon of Death mumbled as he turned away, "But first of all, I need a bath," with that he went searching for the bathroom in the castle where he was being held at.
Doflamingo was not the only one who loves the game of sadists.
A/N: Okay, that's it! Don't expect weekly updates! It's just so happened that it was just the first week and professors were planning on how to make our semester hell!
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