Black Heart [One Piece x OC]

A Few More Distractions

WABAM! Another one. This is brought to you by a night of insomnia.

... not sure about Law in this... I really struggle with him for some reason D: which sucks because he's an amazing character!

Anyway, Enjoy!

Onyx sighed and shut off the black transponder snail, silencing the marine news broadcast she'd been intercepting.

Other than a few new bounties and the movements of some Vice Admirals, there had only been one bit of information that had piqued her interest.

Marshall D. Teach was being considered as a replacement Warlord for the recently arrested Crocodile.

Blackbeard...

There was something unnaturally frightening about that man. He had somehow managed to give Red Haired Shanks a massive scar. And he had killed a member of his own crew in order to get a devil fruit.

... Poor Thatch...

But other than that, he had done nothing of note. Why would the Navy consider someone for Warlord whose only claim to fame was being on Whitebeard's bad side?

And on that note, the boy who had defeated Crocodile and left this position open: Monkey D. Luffy...

His name was popping up a lot lately.

The World Government was not going to let such a young pirate take down a Warlord without consequences. They'd sent out notices to all the bases with the boy's new bounty and orders to show him no mercy.

I should get in touch with Garp...

Onyx let out another sigh as she recalled the strange boy from Alabasta. She hoped she ran into him again. She wanted to test his character. And she wanted to know why Portgas D. Ace was so friendly with a rookie from the East Blue.

After scribbling down a few notes, she stood and stretched. Her eyes scanned the watery horizon until they settled on something out of place.

Her spyglass came out and up. She blinked and lowered it before lifting it again, not quite believing what she was seeing on the other end.

"What is he doing out here?" she muttered, checking her course and drifting towards the small, solitary vessel approaching on her port side.

The other ship must have noticed her because its course altered as well. After a half hour of sailing towards each other they were finally within speaking distance.

Onyx perched up on the rail and waved across the water.

The lone man on the other vessel stood up from the chair positioned in the center of his deck. He removed his feathered hat and gave her a suave bow, the hilt of his huge black sword glinting in the noonday sun.

"And how is the Woman in Black doing on this fine day?" his low, respectful tone was as smooth as ever.

"I'm doing well, Mihawk," Onyx nodded as their ships drew alongside each other, "Fancy meeting you out here."

"I've just come from Mary Geoise," the man ran a hand over his short goatee, "I'm on my way home. Would you like to accompany me?"

Onyx cocked an eyebrow at his forwardness.

"I'm afraid I have to decline," she said, "And since when do you obey the government's summons?"

Mihawk's lips curled into a slight smirk.