"What the hell was that thing anyway?" Velica questioned as her and Law made their way back through the forest, headed for the sub. Law was quiet as he didn't really know what that beast was that had attacked them and then disappeared without a trace once it was beaten.
"I'm not for sure, but it reminded me something that CC would make." she muttered to herself, not expecting Law to over hear her. He stopped dead in his tracks and turned slowly toward the girl. His eyes were narrowed, suspicions raised greatly.

"What did you just say?" Velica blinked, confused as to why Law suddenly seemed to have a darkened aura around him. She tilted her head while crossing her arms over her chest.

"That monster, it's something that reminded me of one of the beast that CC created once." Her statement was innocent enough, but Law couldn't help but read between the lines. In seconds, he had her pushed up and pinned against a near by tree with his sheathed sword across her neck making it hard for her to breath.

"W-what the fuck, Law!" She gasped, her hands reaching out and clawing at his jacket. His eyes were intense as he stared deeply into her eyes nearly scaring her out of her wits. She wasn't easily frightened when it came to things, but that look Law was giving her right now was enough to silence her.

"How did it know we were here, on this island?" Suddenly Velica understood. Law believed her to be a mole in his crew. He must have figured that Velica had somehow contacted Doflamingo and told him their whereabouts, causing him to send a monster after them both.

"N-now hold on Law!" Velica gasped, his hold becoming tighter against her neck. "You don't honestly believe that I ratted out our location? I don't even know where the hell we are for starters! And on top of that-" she gasped, her breathing becoming shallow and uneven as she sucked in what little air she could manage.

"On top of that if Doflamingo was going to send something out after me do you honestly believe he'd have something sent that would try to- to kill me!" Law could not manage to find any lies within the gasping woman's words and so released his hold on her. She slid down the trunk of the tree, her legs were unable to support her body as she gasped for the air she received then and there.

Law watched as Velica placed a hand around her slowly bruising neck and sucked in the air greedily. He took a step back, his eyes still watching the woman that laid below him. Many things rushed through his head, but one in particular remained.

"Why didn't you fight back?" She opened an eye and glanced up at Law, her hand still around her sore neck. She coughed, placing her hand against the tree and using the support to pull herself up onto her feet.

"You could have saved yourself being choked had you used your powers." She coughed again before turning away from the man and stumbling away from him. He listened as she cleared her throat loudly as she continued to stumble her way back toward the ship.
"Because you're currently my captain," Law's eyes widened at her words, not expecting them to come from someone like her. "Even if you are an ass, you're still my current captain and I won't attack my captain."

The way back to the ship was a rather short one compared to how long it took getting as deep into the woods as they had. But after fighting with that monster and being nearly blown back to the shore seemed to help as well. Everyone was back there waiting on Law and Velica to return and when the couple emerged from the tree-line the whole crew made a bee-line toward the two.
"What the hell was that sound!"

"And that explosion!" The crew seemed extremely worried about the two, mainly Velica as she seemed horsed and was holding her neck.
"Don't worry about me, this injury wasn't made by the monster we encountered..." she explained making her way past everyone and toward the ship. Everyone then turned and looked at Law, whose expression was currently unreadable as his eyes were locked on the woman's back.

"We're not staying here any longer, we're heading back out." Law informed the crew as he too started his way back to the ship. The crew watched as Law made his way back behind Velica - who was almost to the ship - before they all turned toward one another. Penguin was the first one to speak up in the group.

"Does something seem off between the captain and Velica?" The rest of the group nodded, feeling strange suddenly being around the two.

"It's almost as if something happened back in the woods that we don't know about." Bepo added which only earned him looks from everyone that stated "well we know that!" which caused him to hang his head and mutter a "sorry" as everyone rolled their eyes and made their way back to the ship.