A/N: Right now I'm jumping in joy! So yesterday I was playing this game in a mall and I said to the lady who was managing it that I like Trafalgar Law so when I got the prize that contains Don Quixote Doflamingo cellphone strap she said "Better luck next time, ma'am." And I told her, "Are you kidding me?! This is Don Quixote Doflamingo! He is my favorite villain! He is a badass psycho!" and yeah all the people inside the game center looked at me as if I'm insane.

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Chapter 17: And then they meet

A few hours earlier

Sabo quietly sat on the corner of the room. His brothers sleeping disorder decided to kick in as soon as they finally settled down so now Ace and Luffy were both asleep beside him. He sighed as he took hold of his pipe. They managed to find some substitute weapons while they were in the park and just like the old days they chose the metal ones. One of his problems now was his depth perception. Sabo was still not used in seeing in one eye since he could not take off the bandages on his left eye and risk some infection.

He sighed heavily again.

"What's wrong?" Ace suddenly spoke that made Sabo to almost jump out of his spot.

"Ace! You scared me!" the words came out of his mouth without thinking.

"As if I could do that to you," Ace simply rolled his eyes as he stole an apple on one of the boxes. He also threw one to Sabo but the blond didn't manage to catch it.

It only made Sabo to scowl even more.

Ace just stared at the fallen apple before taking a bite, deciding not to say anything about it as Sabo pick up the fruit and dusted it. None of them speak for a while. Only the sound of apple being bitten ran across the room.

"Promise me one thing, Sabo," Ace spoke after he was finished eating his first apple.

"What is it?" Sabo looked up staring at his brother straight on the eyes.

"Don't ever think that you're just going to be a burden."

Sabo's mouth hanged open. He was supposed to take another bite when Ace said those words. How did he...

Looking back it was always Ace who brought him up and away from his darkness. From the misery of being left alone, of being not understood by the people who were supposed to be your guiding light and of thinking that he should just end everything once and for all for pain was too much for him to bear. Ace chased those thoughts away. Just like how Luffy chased all Ace's bad feelings away.

He chuckled for a moment before answering, "You have my word,"

Ace smirked at the answer he got.

Seconds after that though Luffy decided to wake up.

"Oi, Lu, you're finally awake. Want some food?" Sabo offered as Ace tossed another apple to him.

The reaction they were expecting was the usual eagerness from Luffy when he heard the word 'food' so consider their surprise when their youngest didn't even bother to look what Sabo was offering to him. If it was meat or not, this question was not asked.

The first words that came out from his mouth was,

"Are we there yet?"

Ace and Sabo will never forget this day. The day when they sensed…no saw on their brother's face the want to rip somebody apart. The want to take on someone all his bottled up anger.

"O-oi, Lu, are you okay?" Ace asked hesitantly. This is the first time he saw Luffy like this. His little brother really wants to hurt the man that took their father away from them.

Maybe everyone thought that Luffy was still as innocent as his age. Yes, he might still act naïve but he was not that innocent anymore. He may be slow in thinking but he was not that pure anymore. Just like what said before they had live on the streets so they witnessed different kinds of cruelties. Cruelties that even Ace and Sabo could not hide away from their sweet little brother.

The actions that pink feathery man did finally sink in on their little brother's mind. Something that they dreaded to happen because an angry Luffy is like a tiger who was running by pure adrenaline rush. A rush that was created by fury.

"I'm going to beat that guy to pieces…" Luffy muttered under his breath. This kid didn't realize that no matter what he was still not match to Doflamingo because mainly…he was just a kid and as someone as young and underdeveloped in physical fighting like him death was just a sweet offer. The same thing applies to his older brothers.

"Luffy stop!" Ace shouted as he grabbed his little brother's arms when Luffy attempted to get out the room.

"Let go of me!" Luffy protested as he tried to yank his arm away from Ace's hold.

"Don't go out there Luffy! We are still not near on any land!" Sabo helped Ace in restraining their little brother who was fighting against their grip,

All the rules about being silent were forgotten and they just invited the spirit of being discovered. They just notice it a minute too late.

"HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING IN HERE?!" a shrill voice screamed at them and they just gulped in horror.

Uh-oh…

After being lectured for an hour by Sanji the trio was now seated on the dining area when Smoker told the others that the kids might be hungry since they sneaked in just before dinner. Hearing this the blond chef ushered them to take a seat as he cooked something for everyone.

"You're really serious that we will bring these kids inside Dressrosa? Inside the castle of Dressrosa?" Kidd, until now, was still baffled at the idea Smoker came to a halt.

"Yes," was the simple answer he got.

"You do realize that they have a 99% chance to get killed, right?"

"Even if you locked them up they will still find a way to get out. I don't know if you have notice it but it seems luck is with them when they wanted something." Smoker took a drink from his coffee as Kidd glared daggers on him.

Meanwhile the ASL brothers were listening to the ongoing conversation.

"Did they say were going to Dressroba?" Luffy asked his brothers with confusion.

"Dressroba?" Sabo said the last word Luffy spoke and an image of an old woman in a frilly pink dress came into his mind and he shuddered at the horrible image.

"Dressrosa, Luffy, DressROSA," Ace corrected his little brother and save Sabo from his overactive imagination.

"Oh…" Luffy said in realization and Sabo sighed in relief.

The rest of the conversation went out of the window when food was settled down on the table and the kids ate with no hesitation. It was an unruly meal but for a while they have forgotten the seriousness of the situation.

"Vergo," a deep yet husky voice called the stoic man.

"What is it, Doffy?"

"Can you promise me something?"

"Anything you want."

"Promise when the time comes you will let Law kill me if he wants too, okay?"

Silence settled for a while between them as the woods from the fireplace splintered one by one slowly.

"Vergo?"

"If that is what you want then I have no right to argue with you."

"Thank you, my dear friend." With that Doflamingo gently caressed the head of the ten months old baby lying beside him on the sofa bed.

"—ergo, Vergo-san!" the annoyance behind the voice who was waking him up finally brought him out from his dreamland.

"Finally awake, shurururu," Ceasar, the mad scientist of Don Quixote family, said as he walked a few steps away from the stoic man.

"What is it, Ceasar Clown?" Vergo stood up from where he was taking a nap. Right now they were on private plane owned by the family and on their journey back to Dressrosa. Doflamingo cut the meeting early saying that he did not want to leave his precious little Law alone for too long.

"Monet discovered something and we want to tell it to you first before going to Joker," Ceasar answered as he let his furry coat flow in the air by his dramatic way of walking like he was a damn gas in the air. Joker was the alias of Doflamingo as an underground warlord and broker. The other one was 'Heavenly Demon'. No one knows why but Vergo really dislike the name.

No one knows except Doflamingo himself and he took every chance to get on Vergo's nerves with it.

They heard knocking on the door and when it was opened the light green hair of the snow woman was seen. It was no other than Monet, the personal secretary of the Don Quixote family. She was the one responsible to every transaction for it to run smoothly. The term 'Snow Woman' was given to her because despite that she looked like she always smile kindly she can take a life at the same time with the same façade. She was nothing but a heartless woman who was just duty bound in the family. If she attempt to betray Doflamingo then she will be a much worse corpse than her victims for the head of the family took pleasure in torturing his victims.

"Good evening, Vergo-san, I brought you your dinner," Monet smiled as she held the tray on her hands.

"Ceasar said you discovered something," Vergo went straight to the point as Monet settled the tray on the table beside the couch where Vergo was sitting.

"Yes, indeed," she smiled again though it was cold, "I found out that Mr. 2 has betrayed us."

With that said she produced a small cylindrical device from her pocket and with the motion of clicking something voices was heard,

"Ow! You guys need to disguise yourselves if you want to enter Dressrosa!" the familiar irritating voice of Mr. 2 declared. A few voices followed and Vergo identified the two of it. It was Hawkeye and White Chase. The damn Baroque Work agent had babbled to the government investigators.

"It looks like we have some visitors when we return to the castle." Monet declared.

"Shurururu, Vergo, if you like I could handle them. I want to test some of my chemicals to them. You don't need them alive, right? Shurururu," Ceaser volunteered with maniacal grin.

"I can help Ceasar with it," Monet volunteered also.

"Why?" was the simple words Vergo asked as he look up to the woman.

"I want to show to Mr. 2 not to mess with me," her eyes speaks nothing but terrible pain to her victim despite the fact she was still smiling kindly.

Surgeon of Death started walking aimlessly again on the hallways of the castle. He was really bored. How come this castle, despite being big, had nothing to offer for him to ease his boredom?

Maybe killing Baby 5 was a bit earlier. He should had messed around her even more before slicing her throat. But Surgeon of Death could not control it when the woman willingly closed her eyes!

…okay, maybe the words 'Please I need you to close your eyes for me' were partially his fault when he discovered that the secret phrase for her to do anything he says was 'I need you'

Well… the others were dumb also. Some of the old members just welcomed him with open arms like he just went to some long vacation and just got home. That reminds him it was the only time Baby 5 realize who he was… or the name of the body he was occupying for no one beside Law, Vergo and Doffy knows his existence.

They celebrated his return and didn't even bother to ask him what he was doing in here in the first place that they made it for Surgeon of Death such an easy tasked to slash their throats in a swift motion and so fast that they didn't had the time to react with the knife he had stole from the kitchen when Baby 5 showed it to him hours earlier.

He yawned for a bit, a sign that he was really bored when an explosion interrupter him.

Running to the nearest window he saw that the main gates of the castle were already caught on fire.

"WHAT?! They started to party without inviting me!" Surgeon of Death shouted angrily as if not informing him that chaos will start was a sin itself.

Immediately he ran ready to find the nearest staircase to go down. When he reached the second floor and was about to round the corner he heard some childish voices and when he turned around he saw three boys.

Timed seems to stop for a while.

That was until the smallest one shouted

"DADDY!"

A/N: I hope you noticed that there are a few time skips and those scenes will be shown on the next chapter/s. I know also that you can read between the lines so let's keep quiet and wait for the next chapters okay? So as a gift and an apology for such a short chapter again here is another Omake!

Omake:

Fifteen year old Trafalgar Law

Law: Tahigi onee-chan,

Tashigi: Hai, what is it, Law-kun?

Law: Do you like, Dad?

Tashigi: Of course I like Smoker-san, he is a good superior officer.

Law:Eh…

(Smoker entered his own office where he left Law)

Smoker: Law, let's go home now.

Law: Dad!

Smoker: What?

Law: Marry Tashigi onee-chan!

Smoker: What! I thought this 'marry' topic ended long ago!

Law: But Tashigi onee-chan likes you!

Smoker: Your point?

Law: Be responsible!

(Silence…)

Tashigi: Sir, I think you need to monitor what kind of books he was reading.

Smoker: I agree.

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