3rd Person POV
Akainu stood glaring anxiously at the sea. Jade was in Dressrosa. She was alive. Doflamingo keep his word. He winced as the memory flashed back in his mind. Doflamingo had promised to save her as long as she got to be with him for 2 years. He had her for more than two years. The debt was paid. She could come back with her father now. Akainu promised himself that he would never lose her again. To never abandon her like he had fifteen years ago. Two years ago, the end of the war..It haunted him for months. His fist, through her chest. He saw it over and over again. It haunted him, day after day, stuck on replay. He couldn't stop it. For some time, he woke up with nightmares. Old ones that came to haunt him, as did new ones. Sometimes he would dream that his finger pressing the button again. That he was back on the Marine ship, his first Buster Call. If he listened closely, he could hear a scream. A scream he could distinguish as his daughter's and wife's, molded together, haunting him. Every time, he willed himself not to press the button, not to see the ship go up, burning in flames. But he couldn't. He always pressed the button, and he always saw the flames. No matter how much he didn't want to, he saw it. He would wake in the night, sweat rolling down his brow, chest heaving for air.
If it wasn't the moments when he killed his wife and destroyed his home, it would be when he almost killed his daughter. He still remembered his magma, oozing from his hand, dripping down his arm, burning holes in the ground. He remembered the winds trying to push him back, the winds that came from Jade's stomach. He remembered gently pulling his arm out, trying to save her. He remembered looking at her body after he pulled his fist out, looking at the huge hole where her heart was suppose to be. He remembered looking at his fist, slick with her blood. Her blood. But most of all, he remembers crying. He remembers, after the war was over, running into a forest, not caring what was in it, just running. He remembers getting to a clearing, where all the animals had fled in terror from all the noise he made. He remembered falling onto his knees, screaming and sobbing at the sky at the hopelessness of it all. Finding out Jade was alive, and then that he almost killed her was too much. He remembered thinking that the sound must have echoed back to Marineford. But he didn't care. They could say what they wanted about him. He didn't care. He stayed sobbing for hours. Finally, when he pulled himself up, his eyes tinged with red, he saw what he had made in his grief. He had almost burned the forest down. The grass was grey with ash, and there was few green spots left. The trees had scorch marks on them, well, the ones that weren't burned to stumps. He remembered walking back to Marineford in a daze. No one questioned where he was, why he left. They knew. They pitied him, for losing his daughter. He didn't want their pity. He didn't want that feeling of hopelessness to come back. He didn't wanted to go through that again. Never again.
And he never would. He'd make sure of that, no matter the cost. The boat hit up against the shore, and the Marines docked it. He stepped onto Dressrosa. Everyday people were walking around, chatting with toys and just having a good time. Akainu scowled at them. He'd never be like that, and he'd never try. At least until he got Jade back. Maybe then he could try to be a family again.
A new family. After all, now, the only family he had, was
A broken one.
Cuffs' POV (Hehe *laughs nervously. Sorry about all the character change. It's just much more interesting, hm?)
"Yes, Doflamingo?" I asked him curiously. "What did you need me for?" He grinned.
"Well, there's a certain problem in the port that I feel would not be beneficial to my plan. So, just follow the marine that's in charge of the ship, and if he is being a pest, kill him." I nodded.
"Ok. I understand. And, uh, if my name Jade Alistar?" I asked Doflamingo curiously. His smile fell, and he glared at me.
"Who told you this?"
"Well, there was this old blind man who was dressed in purple. He asked where how to get to the Colosseum, and I told him. Then he asked me my name, and I told him it was Jade. He asked if my name was Jade Alistair and I said I didn't know." Doflamingo nodded, then grinned.
"Well, this changes everything. When I call you on your Den Den Mushi, attack the marine in charge at the docks. But for now, just follow him. Make sure he doesn't know you're following him." I nodded, and stood to leave. "And Jade." I paused. "Don't believe anything the marine tells you. He's just lying." I nodded, and pushed open the door. As I walked out, I could hear Doflamingo laughing.
Wahh! I"m sorry these chapters are short! Don't worry! Long one coming soon!