Erik was sitting on board one of Donquixote pirates'ships, Drinking a cup of warm milk as snow started falling from the sky.
He looked at the sky and thought, 'We must be getting close to the Island then.' He looked out from his chair in the deck but couldn't see any Island.
The Donquixote pirates were currently travelling to the island where the barrel pirates were residing, They held the ope ope no mi with them, Dofalmingo had made a deal with the barrel pirates's captain, Diez Barrels to sell them the Ope Ope no mi for 5 Billion Beri.
Of course, Erik knew all of this before Dofalmingo had Even announced any of this to him, He had managed to get into the good side of Dofalmingo soon after joining the Dofalmingo pirates. Dofalmingo liked Erik's straight forward and straight to the point personally, He Didn't excuse himself nor laze around like his other commanders, he was his perfect subordinate.
Erik himself had helped Dofalmingo do several deals in the black market, going alongside Doffy most times over the last few months.
This was in preparation so that Erik could go to Dofalmingo to secure the 5 Billion Beri trade with Diez. 5 Billion wasn't a small amount, Doffy would bring only his most trusted commanders.
Soon the island came into view, the island was a winter island very close to the Red line. So close in fact that the island just had a red background behind it.
"I see the island." Baby-5 said from the bride's nest as the ship slowly approached the winter island. Erik had a small smirk but it soon disappeared as he finished his glass of milk.
"You have a moustacheeee Nehehehe" Trebol said as he pointed at Erik's face, Erik with embarrassment, quickly swiped away the milk from his mouth with his sleeve.
With Erik's short moment of being whitebeard he looked out from the deck of the ship as the island got closer and closer, until it was only a few dozen meters away from the ship
"I am going ahead." Erik said as he jumped from the figure head, in one jump, he crossed the distance between the island and the ship. Within moments he disappeared as snow rained down, Only his sillouthe was visible from the ship and it was diminishing by the second.
"Where is Erik!?" Dofalmingo asked. Trebol only continued with his weird laugh before answering.
"He rushed ahead Nehe Nehehe!" Trebol answered Doffy who was getting ready to get off the ship.
***
"Cora-san..." Law said as he stayed wrapped up in a blanket, he was sitting in the snow, his face was getting pale every second and his temperature was slowly rising.
"Stay there law, I will be back in a second." Rosinante said as he zipped up his black fur jacket and wore the sleeves around his arms. He held a grenade in his left hand and a flint lock in his other.
He rushed to the main building that was on top of a small hill in the island, It was a luxurious house.
Corazon entered the building through the window, blowing it open with a silent pistol shot, His devil fruit could turn anything he touched and anything around a certain radius calm and sound less. He ate the Nagi Nagi no mi, turning him into a silent human.
He went inside the building with his fruit concealing his movements, he shot every pirate soldier that his came across, blowing Thier heads off with a shot of his flintlock, he slowly dimmed the light in the mansion as he blew out every single lantern hung.
The figure in black made his way to the main hall, where the Barell pirates were having a fest, using his fruit, he shot the lanterns in the room, The room was dark and the only thing Diez Barell could comprehend was the five billion Beri fruit being snatched off from his hands.
The figure in black got out of the back window, blowing it's glass with one shot of his flintlock. Several soldiers saw him run away and chased after him with rifles in hand.
"The figure in the black cloak." A Barell pirate screamed as he ran after the figure, only to realise that a silent grenade was thrown at him, without the sense of sound, the explosion wiped out the chasers chasing after him from the main hall.
Soon the soldiers from all around the mansion started chasing after the black cloaked figure.
"Chase after him." A Barell pirate said as he fired a gunshot at Rosinante. Rosinante dodged the attack and threw a grenade at them once more. The pirates had anticipated something like this and thus dodged the grenade.
"Don't let him escape." A pirate said as he cashed after Rosinante with a rifle held in hand.
Corazon had a smile on face as the pirates chasing after him started diminishing one by one, slipping on the snow.
Corazon's smile was not long lived as he realised that he himself was slipping downwards from the snow.
Rosinante landed in the bottom of the hill and realised that, he now was surrounded by Barell pirates, Each holding a rifle, aimed at him. While he himself was laying defenseless in the ground.
Suddenly, just as the pirates had their fingers on the trigger, a figure blurred amongst them. The figure had blonde hair, red eyes, wielding two Daggers, one white and the other black and among all, his height reached all of their shoulders.
"Zanshu Kiru!!" The figure said as a crescent shaped white slash was released from his black dagger. Blood sprayed everywhere and heads rolled out of Thier stumped head at once. Corazon had disbelief all over his face as he looked at the kid In front of himself with wide eyes.
"Don't worry, I am here to help you." Erik said as he sheathed his two daggers in his back, the blood on them stained his perfectly white shirt but it wasn't something to talk right now. Corazon was trying to communicate through various signs as he hid the fruit in his coat.
"I know you can speak, Don't act mute." Erik commented as Rosinante had a showed expression on his face.
"H-How?" Corazon was out of words. He had heard of this kid from one of Doffy's calls, This kid was William Erik, The kid who became Doffy's favourite in just under months.
"I am not with Doffy, We must escape this island, Quick!!" Erik said as he gave a hand to Rosinante to stand up.
"Go and bring law, We must escape." Erik said to Corazon who followed his orders without a hitch.
"Come on this way." Corazon said as he led Erik to law, He knew Erik couldn't be trusted but His instincts told him to trust this kid. Rosinante grinded his teeth as he realised what situation he was stuck on. It was either get caught by the Barell pirates, Go to Doffy or escape with this kid. He knew the obvious answer right away, The last option was better than the previous two.
"Law." Corazon said as he held Law in his hands, the kid was almost passed out. Adding to his previous state, his cheeks were red and his breathing had gotten heavy.
"I know you trust me but follow me, I will lead you guy's to safety." Erik said as he asked the two of them to follow him. Rosinante was still stuck in choosing what to do but still followed Erik anyways, If you are halfway in why not complete it?
After following Erik for a few minutes, Rosinante had doubts it this kid was legit or not but he soon realised that the kid had lead them to their own boat that they used to come to this island.
"T-This is our boat." Rosinante said as he looked at the dinghy that was strapped to a tree using a rope.
"Get on the boat, We will sail to this island." Erik said as he showed Rosinante the highlited location on the map, it was an island with a marine base, a place where They could get protection from Doffy.
"You're not going?" Corazon asked as he held the sick boy in his hands.
"This cylinder has a lot of confidential information, I know I cannot trust you completely but please give it to any marine." Rosinante pleaded as he gave Erik the cylinder with the marine insignia. Erik nodded before taking the cylinder.
"I will be rejoining you soon, I will first report a fake location to Doffy." Erik said as he left the area. Rosinante quickly unfurled the sails and started sailing the ship.
"Law eat this." Corazon said as he handed law the ope ope no mi, a heart shaped devilfruit. Law hetstated for a second before he glanced at Corazon, he at a sma chunk of the fruit, it tasted terrible but he couldn't complain.
"Your dad was the greatest doctor in your country, you can surely cure yourself." Corazon said with a smile as he looked at law with a smile.
***
Doffy was Angry, Angry at two things, First, his foolish brother by blood and Diez. His brother betrayed him, took the devilfruit and ran away with some kind to top it all of he was a marine. And Diez, he had one job and he failed it.
"Where is That damn kid for god's sake." Doffy asked to no-one in particular. His Frowning face slowly turned to an evil smirk as several strings shot out of his hands, those strings went up to the sky and formed a large, island sized bird cage.
***
"Captain Zushi, Reporting to headquarters, There is a large bird cage now, Even our strongest soldiers cannot cut it." A marine in a captain's coat replied a two marines tried cutting the bird cage but instead Thier sword was sliced into two
Several marines started their attempt at cutting the bird cage but each attempt was futile as their sword and bullets were simply cut into two.
A sillouthe of a figure appeard in the marines's vision, the figure was a young teen running at them.
"I come in peace." Erik said as he approached the marines with the cylinder held in hand.
"State your purpose." The marine captain said as he pointed his gun at Erik.
"This is confidential information, hand it to your highest ranking member." Erik said as he threw the marines a cylinder throught he gaps between each string in the bird cage.
"I will be leaving now." Erik said as he left the vicinity of the marines. He wa snow going to Doffy's location to inform him about the fake locations of Rosinante and Law.