Slice and Dice

~Eraser~

Keeping my eyes trained on his movements, he was about to attack when Smoker took the initiative.

"Law, you bastard! What do you want? Give us back our ship"

I assumed the name to be that of the man in front of me.

"Alright."

Law replied as the marines shouted in disbelief.

"But you can't have it as it is now."

Finishing, he sliced their ship in half along with a mountain, the Navy soldiers shouted at their Captain, asking to retreat. When Law interjected.

"I won't let anyone leave!"

He moved his hands as the large pieces of ice and ship moved around in the air before coming together to create some strange modern art.

Law and Smoker faced against each other, staying alert and taking a glance back at the group running down the hallway.

'Seriously, I wonder why Dabi chose to stick with these people. He seems to care for the straw hat boy, that much is obvious. And he sounded a bit worried when he asked about Shoto, there's definitely some sort of connection. I just need to find out what.'

My attention was brought back when Smokers men shouted, they said something about warlords and breaking a contract. I think I remember Robin saying something about the warlords being pirates who work for the government, does that mean this guy is one of those people?

"Don't worry about me."

Law flipped his sword, the blade facing the sky.

"Scan!"

He brushed his hand down the back of the blade. It shined as he moved it, seemingly grabbing the air and motioning his hand as if he was swiping something. To which a pile of those transponder snails appeared beside me, he appeared to have taken them off of the soldiers with his power.

"I won't let you tell the headquarters or the Government about anything you've seen on this island."

His words were menacing.

"You stupid pirate, don't push your luck!"

Smoker dissolved into smoke. The Navy soldiers cheered for him as he rushed to attack.

'Must be his Devil fruit power, Robin told me a bit about them the second day on the ship after I had asked. Dabi hadn't exactly said much about them when I first showed up, figures.'

Taking note of their moves as Law and Smoker traded blows, once Smoker was distracted Law turned towards the direction of the kids and tried to use some kind of move with his sword, quickly taking action and activating my quirk. Taking note of what effects it might have on him and his power.

'It's like I'm learning how to use my quirk all over again.'

Huffing in annoyance as his brows furrowed almost immediately as the bubble that encased us disappeared, Law looked down at his hand in confusion.

He turned his head to look at me with interest yet also annoyance, deactivating my quirk as my hair fell to my shoulders.

"Sorry, like I said. I can't let you stop them, but at least it doesn't seem to affect your devil fruit power in any bad way. Though I can't be sure it'll work the same with others."

Sighing as Smoker drew his attention again, Law created a new bubble and slashed. Smoker told the soldiers to stay out of Law's sword's reach but it was too late. They shouted as they were cut but didn't seem hurt, Smoker told them to get out of the circle. Noting that as long as they are inside it, they are patients on his operating table.

Which is a fairly good analogy, he also noted that he can manipulate anything as he pleases. Finishing with "He's the Surgeon of Death!" As he put it, and the title certainly fits, he's definitely a doctor of sorts.

"Trafalgar! If you really wanna do this…"

The vice captain shouted as she ran towards him, sword in hand.

"Don't do it, Tashigi! Your Haki is not strong enough!"

Smoker shouted, needless to say, her sword broke and she got sliced in half. The marines shouted as she collapsed to the ground.

"How dishonorable! I got sliced but I'm still breathing! Why don't you just kill me, Trafalgar!"

She shouted, I sighed at the scene playing out in front of me.

"You talk like a master swordsman. Let me tell you something, Navy soldier girl. The weak can't even pick their way to die!"

Law voiced.

'He's not just saying that without genuine conviction, he's gone through something that gives truth to his words.'

"You bastard!"

She shouted as she pushed her upper body off the ground and tried to attack.

"You can't reach me with that sword. I can chop you more if you liked it."

The marines shouted as they shot at him, seemingly unfazed, he moved his hand as the bullets vanished and appeared shooting at the marines feet. They questioned where their bullets went, they apparently didn't realize he could do that.

"Those are the bullets you shot, I switched them with the snow falling over you."

He answered.

'That's one overpowered devil fruit, but there has to be some limit, even quirks have them. I know things work differently, but Robin said devil fruit eaters lose the ability to swim. So there could be more weaknesses.'

Law raised his blade, the Navy seemingly thought he was going to slash at them again. But he wasn't in the right position to do that, he was aiming down at the lady.

He started motioning his blade to slash as the marines shouted, Hurriedly taking action and activating my quirk, grabbing his blade with my scarf. Stepping on Smokers weapon and pushing it into the ground, successfully interrupting the clash of weapons. Though I was directly in the middle of the sandwiched attack, their glares directed towards me to no surprise.

"Hey, you alright Ma'am?"

Confirming that she wasn't in any physical pain, "Tashigi" as Smoker and the marines had shouted. She seemingly stumbled on her words as Smoker looked at me in confusion,

"Y-Yes, thank you."

She affirmed, I nodded in acceptance to her words.

"Sorry to interrupt your guys' battle, but I'd rather we leave the injured and defenseless out of this. I would also like to use the least amount of energy as possible, so agreeing would be the best option. I figure you'll be fine with it, but I know little of this guy's personality."

Stating to Smoker before focusing my attention on Law, making sure to keep Smoker in my peripheral vision. He seemed to think a bit before relaxing his shoulders slightly, they moved back from each other. Nodding and deactivating my quirk in satisfaction, before crouching down to Tashigi and helping her up after reattaching her upper and lower halves. Returning her to the soldiers as they ran off out of the circle, the battle resumed quickly.

Noting that the others had run far enough away, now I had one less thing to worry about. That being said, I still have these two to watch out for. I don't know what either of them have planned or what they want to do, but I can't let my guard down as long as I'm around them. They traded blows as Laws' slashes cut down the strange modern art he had created previously, as the soldiers hid behind a hill. They traded words as they fought, one questioning the other as to their appearance on the island, and the other deflecting the question with another.

'They both had reasons for coming here, I'm guessing Robin was right about the Navy tapping into Luffy's conversation. Which would explain the marines appearance, but Law, the others recognized him.'

'But they reacted a bit differently than when noticing Smoker. No doubt he was here before us, but those soldiers definitely aren't his. And I highly doubt he's the supposed "Master", that does still leave the question as to why he is here though. I'll have to be cautious, I don't like surprises.'

Sighing before returning to watch the show. Law dodged Smoker, he created some distractions before doing something. Something flew from Smokers chest, watching as he fell to the ground, seemingly lifeless.

Law stood up and teleported the item into his hand, he put it into his pocket and removed the circle. He was walking back towards me when there was sudden shouting. Turning my head noticing Dabi riding some kind of, human? It was almost like a centaur, Luffy was shouting about having remembered him and something about a thank you. Law seemed slightly surprised as he whispered something to himself, Luffy jumped off of the creature's back, Dabi following suit.

"I didn't expect to see you here! Thank you very much for helping me!"

He said before continuing seemingly confused.

"Oh? Where are the talking bear and the others?"

He seemingly didn't notice me, or simply didn't care, it didn't really matter.

Dabi moved beside me as he slightly leaned in.

"Who's that guy? You make some new hero friends?"

Sighing at the sudden close proximity of the villain.

"Try again, he's a pirate. I'm not sure if he's good or not."

We conversed while listening to them talk.

"So you made it, Straw Hat-ya. But you don't have to thank me for that. I just did it on the spur of the moment. We are both pirates. Don't forget that."

He reminded the carefree captain as Luffy chuckled.

"Yeah. We're all enemies when it comes to the fight for the One Piece. But I owe so many people for helping me two years ago. I just saw Jimbei and now you - I'm so lucky! Thanks again!"

He smiled.

There was sudden shouting as the Navy ran towards their unconscious Captain.

"The Navy?! Oh? Is she..."

Luffy questioned as Tashigi checked on her Captain.

'I figure he's still alive, most of his powers seemingly immobilize people rather than kill them.'

I assumed.

"I thought so! It's Smokey and his clan! It's been a while!"

He waved as me, Law, and Dabi shared a balanced annoyance.

"How dare you!"

She shouted as she drew her broken blade and ran towards Law.

"Whoa whoa, don't. I don't like these lame tear jerking scenes."

He replied while turning to face her, meanwhile, I leaned over to Dabi and spoke with a whispered tone.

"I think you two will get along ju-st fine."

Drawing out the u a bit before standing straight again.

He glared at me from the side but slightly snickered at the same time.

'He agrees.'

Holding in the chuckle that almost slipped and moving on from the conversation, Law created another circle, sighing at the continued events.

'This girl, does she enjoy running blindly into danger or something?'

Questioning to myself, letting Law do as he wished.

'I doubt he'll kill her, we did, after all, agree to leave the defenseless out of this.'

He moved his sword and hand before saying something. She collapsed as Dabi gave me a sideways raised eyebrow.

"Aren't heroes supposed to help the defenseless?"

He questioned, as I nodded before responding with actual words.

"If they are in danger."

He tipped his head up, eyebrow falling and a slight smile spreading on his face.

The circle disappeared as everyone took in the events that happened.

"She never learns. Don't get so serious."

Law said, as I rolled my eyes at his words.

'You've been so serious this entire time, I don't think you should be preaching to the choir.'

The soldiers shouted as they ran toward their fallen captains. The others were readying to leave when Luffy asked Law something,

"Go round to the back of the laboratory. What you're looking for is there. We'll see each other again later. We both have something we want to take back."

He said before walking past me, he glanced over at Dabi then me before entering the building again.

My brows furrowed as Dabi nudged me.

"You feeling just as uneasy as me or what?"

He asked, glancing at him before sighing and following the others.

"Is that a yes or a no? C'mon, I thought we were bonding!"

He called from behind me as we climbed onto the centaurs back, the Navy started firing at us a bit before giving up to take care of their captains.

'That was tiring, at least it seems Law isn't an enemy, for now.'