37 A cold stare

Time passed by swiftly and two days passed by without any events happening. The Shandorian tribe had settled down on the island and had created an alliance with the inhabitants of Skypiea.

After their first visit with the Shandorian group where they gave their gratuities and thanks to Izan, haven't any of them bothered their little vacation while sailing around the White-White-Sea on Defying.

The sun was shining brightly without any hindrance as the Defying was sailing towards the edge of Skypiea. Izan, Jiutian, Nojiko and Robin were standing on the edge of the deck as they were gazing at the horizon where they could manage to see the edge of Skypiea as there were no clouds or anything there.

Both Robin and Nojiko had large smiles on their faces while giggling from time to time as they peeked a glance at Izan.

Jiutian was smiling as usual, yet it looked like she was in a daze. No one knew what Jiutian was thinking, but there were moments Jiutian would smile brider, smirk or even chuckle at times. Yet, she kept staring forward as she knew that Izan would notice if someone glanced at him.

On the other hand, Izan was calm as he gazed towards the edge of Skypiea with a smirk. Izan had a premonition that something would happen if he kept moving forward. Yet Izan had absolutely no thoughts of backing off, Izan sneered at the thoughts of retreating from a future challenge.

'No matter what's in front of me, I will continue moving forward while crushing any and every challenge which is trying to gold me back.' Izan's thoughts were simple, his facial expression showed no hints of what he was thinking. But, not even a moment later a sigh escaped his mouth as he peeked a short glance towards Jiutian, Nojiko and Robin.

"I think it will be the best for all of us if we grabbed onto something." Izan said with a calm voice as he saw Defying nearing the edge of Skypiea, and falling down over 10 000 meters...

Nojiko and Robin gulped, it was a weird feeling knowing that they would fall down over 10 000 meters while being on a ship. They had both trust in Defying and Jiutian who said "It should be fine.", yet it was still a terrifying feeling that they knew they would drop down from the sky.

The ship Defying was on the edge of Skypiea and it dropped downwards. Two screams were heard as it fell while laughter sounded from the other two.

Somewhere in Grand Line

There were five Navy battleships of marines on top of it with an extra ship in the background which had a World Government flag on it. These six ships were trying to surround a pirate ship.

Weirdly enough, there was only one person on the pirate ship which was being towed by two large Sea-snakes. The two Sea-Snakes had blood dripping down from their pores and they were barely able to breathe and hold their eyes open.

The person on top of the pirate ship was a beautiful woman. She has a well proportioned figure compared to most females. She is very tall and slender with long black hair that extends past her waist with locks of hair that frame her face down to her chin. She has jet-black eyes, pale skin and large breasts. The female was wearing a bloody red blouse and a loose sarong which had been ripped.

Even with all of this happening, she held her chin high and glared at everyone surrounding her with cold eyes and disdain!

Most people knew her as "Snake Princess" the most beautiful woman alive, Boa Hancock.

"Catch that slave for me!" Charloss pointed towards Boa Hancock as he yelled his lungs out while he had a lecherous expression on his face.

The ships were circling around the Kuja pirate ship as the marines were readying their weapons. They had to follow all of a Celestial Dragon's order, even if they had to commit suicide.

"You lowly men, how dare you try to harm me!?" Boa Hancock said in a cold voice as she pointed towards the marines and Charloss while raising her chin even higher, disdaining them all.

In truth, Boa Hancock was afraid and exhausted. The World Government had found out that she and her sisters were previously slaves. And it seemed that a Celestial Dragon had personally arrived to catch her.

In the process of her fleeing, the marines had killed everyone in her kingdom. They had even killed her sisters... Boa Hancock couldn't help but to tear up while remembering her sisters telling her to escape as they got pierced by a sword.

Hancock was the sole survivor. Hancock had shed tears continuously for the past few days, yet she held her pride while facing her enemies.

Hancock despised them, yet she was helpless as they were surrounding her. She had nowhere to escape, she had no one to help her and Hancock slowly lost the thought of surviving this battle. She wished to die rather than to be a slave of a Celestial Dragon again.

Ice slowly spread everywhere, freezing the sea and the deck of the pirate ship. Aokiji helplessly gazed at Hancock, a former Royal Warrior of the Seas as he was going to capture her now only to please a perverted Celestial Dragon.

Hancock couldn't resist the coldness and powerlessly fell down on her knees. Tears ran down her cheeks as she gazed at the Navy ships nearing hers.

"What's that?!" A marine suddenly yelled out while pointing towards a shadow up in the air.

Yet no one had time ask before a loud explosion was heard and the ice Aokiji made shattered into pieces. Everyone was dumb-founded, Charloss, the marines, the man in white, Hancock and even Aokiji as he didn't sense the incoming "shadow".

After everything had settled down, they could see a red ship with magnificent design and the ship was waving a pirate flag.

The pirate flag was of a skull with red hair covering the right eye and a black scythe in the background.

The marines gulped as the ship was giving off a threatening feeling. The only ones which didn't have this sensation were the man in white, Aokiji, Charloss and Boa Hancock.

Both the man in white and Aokiji were strong enough to not feel pressured by the ship, whereas Charloss was just stupid enough not to feel any danger

On the other hand, Boa Hancock felt a warm sensation, she stared at the ship until her eyes met the man who stood on the deck. He was tall, handsome, beautiful, his blood red hair was shining because of the sun shining at his body.

Defying had finally landed on the Blue-sea. But it shocked Izan as he saw the half dozen battleships trying to surround one pirate ship.

As Izan peeked around, he felt that there were two strong people around and Izan saw a man with a bubble covering his head, Izan guessed that the man was a Celestial Dragon.

Izan peeked a glance at the pirate ship to find out who was the one that could get this many marines and a Celestial Dragon to hunt them.

What Izan saw was a single woman, Izan would have to say that she was beautiful, but Jiutian, Nojiko nor Robin were worse than her.

A with escaped his mouth, he didn't wish to meddle into others problems.

"Catch those women too and kill that bastard!" Charloss yelled out as he pointed towards Jiutian, Nojiko and Robin.

A cold stare sent Charloss shivering and even Aokiji and the man in white had a bad premonition...