At the same moment Benn and Luckie Roo were entering the castle like building that homed the Donquixote family. It was the property of Joker, an eccentric man that ruled practically all the criminal world.
"I thought Crocodile lived with him" said the round vampire. And then looked at his surroundings. "And that their house would be a little bit more… hidden"
"You wish. Mr. 0 or Sir Crocodile would be turned crazy with all the pink" said the black haired male, pointing with his finger at the… everything in the place.
"How could someone live in this place?"
"Why not? Fufufu. It have a wonderful personality… mine!" said a man wearing a feathered pink coat and match sunglasses.
"Doflamingo" greeted Benn, a little bit tense. That man was the most terrible mafia boss of the world, even if his looks told you otherwise.
"Fufufu, Benn. What have you come to tell me? Oh, let me guess, he finally grew up some balls and wants my help to free Mihi-san. Fufufufufu, I thought this day would never come" said the strange male.
"You know about Mihawk?" asked Luckie Roo in awe.
"Fufufu, is that strange if I do? He was my creator"
"WHAT?!" asked the two vampires in awe, looking at the older one.
"And I´m even older than his mate for a few years. Fufufu, it´s unbelievable that Shanks never told you that"
"That's amazing…" said Lucky Roo.
"Yes… but the question is: would you help us to rescue your creator, Doflamingo?" said Benn, guessing that the pink feathered vampire and Hawk eyes were not as close as they were with Shanks to begin with. He was not one of the men that would immediately agree to help an old friend. And he was unpredictable, acting just because he felt like it. There was way to know how he was going to act.
"Fufufufu, what´s the rush? We will decide that tomorrow, when Croco-chan and the rest of Baroque Works arrive."
"They are coming?"
"Fufufufufu, yes. They will be here first thing in the morning, so you get to spend the night in my palace"
"Waka-sama" called a young looking female with long black hair.
"Go with Baby 5, she will show you your room" was the last thing they heard from their host. The maid clothed girl show them one of the many places for visits in the palace and told them to wait until she brought their dinner.
"I never knew that about Doflamingo… is he really that old?" said Lucky Roo.
"Now that I remember, once I heard from Shanks that he wasn´t the only creation one of Mihawk´s creations that escaped execution. When I asked who else was still alive, he said "a pink menace". I never tough it was Joker"
"Do you know any other pink menace?"
"Point taken"
While they were talking someone in the principal room was listening to them. It was a three meters tall blond man and a little girl with green hair. Doflamingo have already talked to his man and decided to help Shanks, only because he owed Mihawk a lot. He was still going to wait for his lover to come and make his decision, but he knows his reptilian would agree with him.
"Sugar, do you know what the best part of being a vampire is?" asked the pink feathered male.
"The powers, Waka-sama?" answered she touching a spider from a corner and turning it into a toy.
"Near, but no. For me, at least"
"Then what?"
"Not being able to sleep" said the blond, thinking about the horrible nightmares he would be having in case he was able to do so. If he was still a human… apart from being long dead, the memories of his past would haunt him. They did even now.
"Waka-sama, it´s something wrong?" asked Sugar, seeing his face carefully.
"No, nothing. Go to your room for the rest of the night, Trebol will take you there" said Joker and pointed to the door where a very dirty looking man was waiting for her.
"That trash…"
"Don´t talk about me like that, you brat" said the male.
"Just die already"
"I won´t"
"Stop fighting and go" ordered the flamingo.
"Yes, Waka-sama. Good night" they said before going away.
"Leave me alone with my past" Doflamingo said to himself, removing his pink coat and glasses, then looking at himself in the mirror. The memories of his horrible past come back.
-Fashback-
"Happy birthday, Doffy!" said his family to him. A smiling eight years old little kid, the royal prince of Dressrosa, was in his bed, eating cake and playing with his baby brother.
"I want some more!" yelled Rocinante, trying to reach the plate.
"No! It´s mine!" shouted back Doflamingo. His father Homing was smiling at them in that sweet way he always do to anyone. His mother, Brumilda, ruffled his hair and commented how big her baby boy has become. Rocinante only laughed. They were so truly happy… but happiness doesn´t last forever. The next month a revolution started. His father, like the good man he was, trying to stop it talking, but no one wanted to listen to him. The reason? Their ancestors were very crazy tyrants that put the people through so much pain. Homing was a good king, but that doesn´t matter. They want a victim for their centuries of suffering. In five years there was a new king in Dressrosa, King Riku, and the Donquixote family was thrown into jail to be tortured until the end of their days.
"Please!" begged Homing, suffering a lot because of his injuries. "Do anything you want to me, but leave my wife and children out of these!"
"No, together until the end, my love" answered Brumilda, trying to comfort her children and calm their growling stomachs letting them eat her food, that was only trash as the rest of her family´s. because of that she felt ill and died.
"Why is this happening to us?!" asked Doflamingo, seeing the wards leave with his mother´s body, talking about letting her corpse rot or be eaten in the woods.
"W-w-w-w-w-why, father?" repeated Rocinante.
"I… am sorry. I should have taken you away from here earlier. This is all my fault" but Doflamingo didn´t see it like that. It was the citizen´s fault, everything since the revolution started until the dead of his beloved mother.
A couple of years later
"Get up! Now!" ordered one of the wardens. The next second, Homing was in front of his children, trying to protect them.
"Please, please, let them go. Take all your anger out on me, but not in them. They are just some innocent children" begged the ex king.
"You are not in the position of giving orders anymore, idiot. Now get out if you want to receive some food by the end of the day" said the man, pushing the other to the ground.
"Daddy… Doffy…" said Rocinante, scared but pretty hungry.
"Don´t worry, Roci, everything is going to be alright" lied Doflamingo to his eight years old brother. And what a big lie it was. They were tied up to the windows of an old government building and then it was set on fire. The little boys were already crying and their father was begging for mercy for them. His pleas felt on empty ears and the angered citizens started to throw things at them, like rotten fruits or sharp knives, but they were not close enough to hit them.
"Stop!" yelled Rocinante. His psique could not take this much abuse, he was only a little kid! "I want to die… I WANT TO DIE!" cried him.
"Roci…"said the two older males, totally broken for seeing this. That night, when they were returned more dead than alive to their cell, Homing made a plan to escape. He maybe didn´t make it, but his children will and that encourage him. It went all wrong, but the brothers could reach the jail´s door and get outside, running for dear life. In their way to freedom, the older one was tackled to the ground by one of the mans that were following them.
"Nii-sama!"
"Damn it! Don´t stop, Roci! Keep running! I will be okay!" yelled the boy and saw the crying child disappear. He was taken back to jail and saw the corpse of his father.
"No!" he screamed before crying.
"Where is the other one?" asked one of the wardens.
"Escaped, but doesn´t matter. He would not life for long. Then, what are we going to do to this little shit?" said another, kicking Doflamingo.
"I… will take my revenge… it doesn´t matter… how long it takes…" started him.
"Oh, shut up" said the man, kicking him again.
"Hit me, I don´t even feel it any way… you could do nothing worse to me than you have already done" said him. In his childish mind, he there was nothing worse, but he was sadly mistaken.
"You think so, stupid brat?" and then his real hell begin. He was gang raped for the first time in his life and he was only ten, a little kid. He took the blame for all the crazy things the past kings did with his body, being taken by every male in Dressrosa and some travelers too. He bottled up his hate for ten more years, until he was twenty and a stranger with yellow eyes appeared in his little cell. He was naked and freezing, with some blood coming down his abused entrance.
"I came to save you from this hell" said the man.
"How? There is no way out of here!" screamed him in desperation.
"I can offer you one that will grant you revenge too, but you will have to stop being a human"
"Stop being human, huh? Fufufu. Then do it, I… have not any piece left of humanity!" said Doflamingo, then laughed like a mad man.
"You… are really broken" said Mihawk before biting him and took the blond to a cave for his transformation. After three days, he was a newborn vampire and discovered his gift: the strings. And the first thing he did with them was…
"TORIKAGO!" and the people in Dressrosa began to kill each other for his entertainment, painting the ground red. "You told me I was exactly like my ancestors… Well, now I am crazy like them! Fufufufufu!" he was drinking from some of the corpses when a paper came flying towards him.
It said stop. He immediately attacked the person who throw the paper at him, but stopped when he found it was an eighteen years old blond man. His brother.
"Roci…" he said, getting away from him to avoid drinking his blood. The young man took another paper and wrote: What happened to you, Nii-sama?
"What happened to me? What happened to you?! Why are you writing instead of speaking?" Rocinante looked bad at him before writing: I´m mute, I lost the ability to talk after we separated.
"Oh, sorry… look, you need to get away from me, I´m… not human anymore" Rocinante wrote: But I want to be with you!
"And you can, with my help" said a voice behind them. It was Mihawk, who offered to Rocinante to turn him like his brother. The teenager accepted without second toughs. After his transformation they discovered the boy´s strange gift: the silence. They were trained to be soldiers from the Rumanian army under Dracule´s orders, but Doflamingo was never truly loyal to him. After a few years he started his own business in the underworld and quickly escalated to be the top boss. After achieving this, both brothers left the army.
-End of the flashback-
"He could have hunted us, but he let us free. I owe him for that" said the blond, then he tried to distract himself thinking about his brother. "How much months have passed from his last visit? I want to see him and little Law again" he smiled and remembered the eight years old street kid Rocinante have adopted without thinking and raised with his help before turning him into a vampire when he was 21.
"Your brother and his brat would stop by soon" said a voice and he turned only to see sand passing through his door.
"Hello, Croco-chan, I expected you in the morning"
"We ran like crazy" said the raven, reforming himself.
"Why?"
"Because I heard from some idiotic vampire that an old friend of yours attacked a city called Volterra. Care to tell me his reason?"
"Our creator, his mate, is a prisoner there"
"Are you going to help him?"
"Yes, I owe that man… a lot" said the flamingo, twisting his hands into fists.
"Are you going to tell me? Or are you going to keep it a secret like everything about your past?" said Crocodile, crossing his arms.
"No, I will tell you. Do you know about Dracule Mihawk?"
"The Rumanian leader? Of course, I forced that guy to give me details after learning about Shanks attack to the Italians" The Vultury, of course, didn´t know a word about his or his mate´s existence.
"He was my creator, I was in the Rumanian army with Roci some centuries ago"
"And you two ran away from battle? I never took you for a coward"
"We left before the war with the Italians, but… I owe Mihi my second chance in life and Roci´s too, so I will free him"
"So that´s why in my way here I saw Rocinante running towards this pink hell of a castle"
"Why isn´t he here yet?" asked Doflamingo a little worried.
"I think he stayed in the town to give you the surprise I just ruined tomorrow morning"
"Fufufufu, what a joykiller you are, Croco chan, fufufufu"