Kaede

"What?" I ask turning and glaring at Brook.

"May I see your panties?" Brook asks and I smile sweetly at him before raising a leg and kicking him into the pillar behind him.

"No." I say as Franky and Robin look at Brook before looking towards me. I spot Robin's eyes widen slightly when she sees me but she hides it quickly.

"Sorry about him." Robin says.

"That's okay. Just the next time he asks he might have another crack in his skull." I say starting to walk again but Robin speaks again.

"Quite a gathering here isn't it. There's some big bounties in this room but none as big as yours." Robin says and I have to hold back a snort.

"That's for sure. Every single pirate in here is a stupid dipshit for even agreeing with Shiki's plans." I say and I can sense the angry glares right away.

"Why are you here then if you aren't here to join up with Shiki?" Robin asks and I smile at her, a real one and not one of the fake ones I've been doing this whole time since switching into Death's Tempest's personality.

"I'm just here to get back what's mine. If I have to destroy every pirate in this building to do that then I will." I say before nodding my head at Robin. "Now if you'll excuse me I have something important to steal back."

"No go ahead but I just want to ask you of one thing before you go." Robin says and I raise a hand stopping her from saying what she wants since I already know.

"Don't worry. The Straw hats aren't on any of my kick their asses' lists." I say nodding my head again before continuing on my path and once I reach the door I use a devil fruit to pick the lock instantly before opening the door. I look back to see the three straw hats still watching me and I give them a small wave before closing the door and continuing along the hall towards Shiki's personal quarters. After a couple minutes, I find the room and not even bothering with the door I pull a Garp walking straight through the wall. I spot what I'm searching for almost instantly for it seems to shimmer in the dim light. I pick up the small necklace that contains a shard of a very rare stone called henki that was a dark vivid purple with a neon green colour mixed in.

I place the necklace back on my neck where it belongs as I remember the day of my fifth birthday when my mother gave it to me. I smile before walking back out through my person shaped hole and walking back towards the hall. I leave through the same door I entered to find almost everyone gone. Robin, Brook, Franky, and the staff are still left. The three straw hats are on they're way to leave as quick as possible and I jump over the third-floor railing. I land right between them and the door that leads to the exit with a small dust cloud around me.

"I thought we weren't on the kick their asses' lists?" Robin asks as her arms get in position to use her devil fruit.

"You aren't. Let's go we don't have a lot of time." I say walking out the door with them following behind me.

"Where are you leading us to?" Franky asks as we weave through hallways.

"Outside. You guys want to get to the village as quickly as possible right?" I ask and Robin nods.

"Yes, if possible we wish to stop the attack on the village." Robin says and I nod.

"Then follow me it'll be the quickest way." I say punching a hole into the wall ahead to show us right beside the Daft Trees. "Let's go quickly."

"Franky we'll need a quick way to get there." Robin says and I bring two fingers to my mouth before whistling loudly.

"What are you doing? That'll bring the animals right towards us. We don't have the time to fight them off." Brook yells as we run through the snow with me leading the way.

"Just trust me on this." I say before skidding to a stop as a couple animals come charging towards us.

"With what? Getting us eaten?" Brook asks and I look at him.

"You probably won't get eaten, maybe used as a tooth pick but not eaten." I say as the animals get closer and a blue tiger is in the lead with second place falling to a identical red tiger who had a big lead on the rest of the pack.

"Hey." Brook shouts but I ignore him and step towards the animals as they run closer before taking a deep breath. I take a couple more breaths before glaring at the animals ahead and releasing the Conquers Haki that every Cursed One in my family has been born with. Everyone except the blue and red tigers falls to the ground unconscious with foam at their mouths while the tigers skid to a stop in front of me before laying down.

"We need a ride to the village." I say gesturing to the three behind me and without missing a single beat the tiger turns to the side and offers us it's back. I climb on first before turning to look at the three who were shocked and Robin's the first one to snap out of her shock.

"Aren't you full of many surprises Death's Tempest?" Robin says climbing on behind me with the other two climbing onto the back of the red tiger that had moved beside them.

"I'm not full of surprises Robin, I just hide everything I can." I say patting the tiger's head which signals him to get moving which he does right away and I glance back to see Robin with wide eyes, which is weird since I've never seen her eyes full of such disbelieve before.

"Kaede?" Robin says gently and I give her a soft smile before turning back to watch where the tiger was head.

"What gave it away?" I ask and Robin's eyes return to normal.

"You're mentioning of hiding everything you can made me fully realize. I remembered how you never shared anything more than necessary with us at first and I started to put some pieces together back when we were talking in the hall. The one thing that did get me wondering the most though was how you knew what I was going to ask without me even asking it plus the dust loud helped. You always seem to get a dust cloud whenever you jump down from somewhere high up." Robin says and I shake my head.

"I still don't know how to get that to stop happening." I mutter before remembering something. "I still owe you answers to two questions Robin."

"You do. We were interrupted before." Robin says and I nod.

"Ask away then so we don't get interrupted this time." I say turning around all the way to face her.

"Why do you have so many bounties?" Robin asks and I look at the sky before looking back at her.

"True fully I think it's because the Government's stupid and can't recognize the same person with different clothes and hair colour." I say chuckling lightly.

"What happened in your past?" Robin asks and I look down at the tiger's fur instantly losing any happiness in my body from remembering it.

"I trust you enough to tell you this so please don't betray my trust and spill it to the world." I say looking at Robin with a serious expression.

"I won't." She says.

"I was born different and because of that by the time I was six my whole family was ripped away from me by the World Government. I was put into experimental trials and anything else those bastards deemed important. I was stuck going through that for two and a half years before getting shuffled to a different base where I stayed for half a year before escaping. The reason all of that happened was because I was born with the ability to access every Devil Fruit that has existed and have the means to eliminate ones from the world." I say rubbing my forehead before looking up at Robin who seems to be in thought.

"That is a horrible thing to happen to you but just imagine. If none of that had happened, then you wouldn't have met Luffy and his bothers which wouldn't have lead to eventually meeting us. That would also mean that you wouldn't have met and fallen in love with Zoro." Robin says and I smile in understanding before turning back around to notice the village is coming up with things not looking the best.

"I think we were too late." I say and the tigers stop on the edge of town for a second before slowly making they're way through the rubbles of the town.

"Straw hat say something." Franky yells looking around with Brook doing the exact same.

"I hope they're all okay." Robin says and I tap the tiger lightly on the head. He looks up at me and I point towards where I can sense Luffy's presence as well as the others except for Nami's. The tiger turns in that direction with the second one following behind and soon enough we're right in front of the pillar.

"Please don't go anywhere. I have a feeling we'll need you're help again in a bit." I tell the tigers as I jump down after the three straw hats since they had dismounted almost as soon as the tigers stopped. The tigers lay on the ground while I walk right up to the pillar.

"What happened?" Franky asks.

"Come on let's dig them out." Robin says coming towards me.

"Right." Brook agrees following behind but I raise a hand out stopping them.

"Get ready to catch them you two." I say rubbing my hands together before slamming my palms against the rock and a second later it shatters into a million pieces. Hands start appearing everywhere catching some of them while Brook grabs the rest.

"They don't look to be in that bad of shape." Robin says and we move them to a different location that's flatter.

"You guys make sure they're okay I'm going to see if any villagers need help." I say standing up and heading towards the destroyed village.

"Wait I'll come with you." Brook yells but Robin speaks up.

"She should have it covered." Robin says and I wave before remembering something.

"The tigers will be staying there until told otherwise." I yell back before entering into the village and starting to search for the villagers. When I don't start finding bodies or blood then I send out my senses searching for any movement. There's a group of people in what appears to be an underground shelter but they're unable to get out due to a huge piece of stone debris that's blocking the only way in and out. I quickly make my way over and move the debris out of the way.

"Is anyone injured?" I ask as all the people stare at me in slight fear but also some hope as well as shock.

"No, we're all okay. We managed to get to the shelter in time." A little girl responds being the quickest to get over her initial reaction which was small compared to the rest. "Thanks for moving the stone out of the way. Otherwise we would've been stuck in there."

"It's no problem." I say before noticing the old woman on one of the woman's backs.

"We need to see if those guys are okay mom." The girl says speaking before I can.

"I hope they're okay." The woman with the elderly lady on her back says and before I can say anything they're making their way out of the shelter.

"Would you mind letting me carry her?" I ask following them and the woman looks uncertain. "You look a bit tired and if I carried her then it would give you some time to regain that energy for later."

"I guess it wouldn't hurt." She says before handing over, who I assume is her mother.

"Do you mind me asking what's wrong with her?" I ask and the woman shakes her head.

"She has Daft." She says and I nod in understanding.

"Mom I found them." The young girl says coming back to her mother's side and directing us towards where the Straw hats are.

"So, he's going to let those monsters loose on our home towns just like he did with this village. Evil bastard making us look like a bunch of fools." Sanji says smoking and I see the other two stop. I stop with them looking at them confused.

"Nami, she chose to go with Shiki so she could protect the East Blue. She saved our homes. She saved us." Usopp says and they all fall silent.

"Sho, all of you okay?" Chopper asks looking towards us causing everyone to look at us.

"We got to the underground shelter just in time. What you were just talking about, you said your home was... Are you all really from the East Blue? And that girl's also from the East Blue?" The woman asks and I set her mother gently against a rock while gesturing for Chopper to come here.