Chimera

Title: Chimera
Rating: T
Fandom: One Piece
Summary: The Donquixote Pirates stumble across an abandoned lab and find the remnants of human experimentation. Only two live subjects were left and Doflamingo recognizes one of them as his younger brother. [Rewrite of Hybrids]

The El Flamenco's anchor was dropped as she reached the shore. Her inhabitants all disembarked and set foot onto the discolored sands. It was odd; there were dark patches of sand splattered all over the shoreline, as if someone had thrown paint onto a sandy easel. A pungent scent assaulted their nostrils.

"Gross!" Baby 5 gagged, covering her nose with her hands. "It stinks here!"

"What is that smell-dasuyan!?" Buffalo exclaimed.

"Blood," Doflamingo answered calmly. The foul odor was not only of blood though. He could tell that it was a combination of blood, rotting flesh, and human waste. He started to walk forward.

"O-Oi Doffy," Trebol called. "You're not actually going to explore the island, right?"

"We might find something useful," Doflamingo claimed. Though, that wasn't his only reason. He could feel it in his guts; he had to go forward. He didn't know why he had to go or what he was even searching for. It was as if his own strings were pulling him in the direction they deemed right.

He noticed something lying on a dark patch of sand nearby and cautiously moved towards it. He wrinkled his nose in disgust and paused just a few feet away from the corpse. His eyes were locked onto the dead body and focused on the inhuman parts. 'A monkey tail, feet, and ears? There are also chains around its neck, wrists, and ankles. A partial Zoan transformation? No, when a person dies their Devil Fruit is reborn elsewhere and the corpse should have no trace of it left,'

The sound of tearing brought Doflamingo out of his thoughts. He peered over to the other side of the corpse and saw a little boy no older than two years old. He nearly threw up once he noticed that the boy was eating the corpse. The boy was in a half-crouching half-on all fours position and his feline ears twitched at the sound of Doflamingo's disgusted gags. He stared at Doflamingo.

'Why the hell is he eating a dead body!?' His internal shock penetrated his calm demeanor but he was still prepared to kill without hesitation if the boy decided to attack him. He had no idea who or what the boy was, but if he was a threat he'd be treated like one, child or not.

The boy hopped onto the corpse in one swift fluid motion, allowing Doflamingo to see his appearance clearly. In place of his human arms and legs, the boy instead had four snow leopard legs. A slender tail protruded from his lower back. Atop the boy's head were a pair of triangular ears, totaling the boy's number of ears to four. His nose and mouth were a horrendous fusion of a human face and a snow leopard muzzle. "Mrow?" He tilted his head curiously.

'It's definitely not a Devil Fruit,' Doflamingo deduced. 'What should I do with this boy? Should I take him back to the ship? We did take in Dellinger who is half-Fishman half-human. But will this child be more trouble than he's worth? At least he isn't as aggressive as Dellinger was when we first found him,'

"Doffy did you find something?" Diamante called as he and a few others approached his location. The rest had stayed back on the ship. "What the hell is that thing!?"

"It's not a Devil Fruit so my only guess is human experimentation," Doflamingo replied.

"Is that blood around his mouth-iin!?" Machvise exclaimed.

"He was eating the corpse," Doflamingo responded. "Think this kid will make a good family member?"

"He isn't outright trying to bite us like Dellinger did when we found him," Trebol lifted the toddler up by the back of his shirt. "Ne, how did he survive by himself?"

Apparently the boy hated being carried by a strange snot man and hissed. "Mrah!" He attempted to scratch at the executive but his claws could not reach him.

That's when it suddenly struck Doflamingo. "He can'thave survived on his own. He's too small and young. Trebol, put the boy down,"

"Ne, ne, don't you think you're overreacting Doffy?" Trebol asked. "If anything attacks us we can just kill it,"

But Doflamingo wasn't having it. He didn't know if there were any venomous creatures or experiments on the island. If one of them were to get bitten or stung, they might not have a cure ready in time. Doflamingo yanked the boy out of Trebol's hold and placed the boy back on the ground. "I'm not taking any risks,"

"Ooh," The boy's pawed hand grabbed a fistful of Doflamingo's feathered coat and pulled to bring it closer. He buried his face in the soft fabric and purred in delight. "Mrow…"

An angry snarl drew everyone's attention away from the boy. Standing a couple feet away from the group was another hybrid. He was a large one, larger than both the cub and the deceased monkey hybrid. He had a pair of wolf ears on his head, and like the boy, had a total of four ears. His hands and feet had been replaced with large wolf paws and his face was a horrifying fusion of human and wolf. A wolf tail was tucked between his legs, showing little to no movement. The corners of his lips were pulled back and his lips curled, revealing his sharp fangs. The wolf fur was a light brown-blonde that was similar to the hybrid's hair color.

But Doflamingo did not care about the hybrid's body at the moment. Instead, he was focused on his eyes. Even as the wolf tackled him to the ground and bared his fangs just inches away from his face, Doflamingo did not stop staring into the sapphire blue eyes of his baby brother that he had last seen years ago.

"Rocinante?"

So that was the first chapter of the remake of Hybrids. I felt like it was rushed and that I could do better. Law and Dellinger are about the same age in this story.

Doflamingo: 27 years old
Rocinante: 25 years old
Law: 2 years old

There are seven chapters. Chimera will update every Monday.