It has been a few years now since Luffy and the others had parted, each having completed their individual goals and promises after. Once a year they go to an uninhabited island in the New World and catch up and usually throw a party for a few days. For awhile now Zoro has been noticing that fewer and fewer of the crew has been coming to the get together, yet no news of capture or death had been posted and he knew that they wouldn't miss it for the world. At the next time, if some one didn't show up, he would bring it up and figure out what he could.

The day finally came and again less showed up, it was down to Luffy, Nami, Brook, and himself. 'First Franky and Ussop, than Chopper and Robin, now even the love cook, what is going on here?' Zoro thought to himself. Everyone else had also taken note of this but at first dismissed it as that it may have been difficult or that they had something important to do, where they were all now in hiding, Luffy had been on the island Amazon Lilly for a long time now with Hancock as his wife now with a young daughter too, Zoro has moved in to the same castle that Mihawk 'used to' live in, Nami was now the owner of a multi million Beli company, and had more money than even the Celestial Dragons, but no one knew who she was or saw her, in a way she was similar to Crocodile in how she used a different name and no one ever saw her, but she wasn't evil (To all except who owed her money), Brook had went and became a star again but went under another name and had his music simply recorded to let others hear it without knowing his true identity, Sanji had opened a restaurant up in the North Blue that was always busy, Franky and Ussop had moved back to the Syrup Village and were living there, And Chopper and Robin were going from island to island curing people. After a more meeting like get together everyone got back on to Sunny, and put their small alternative modes of transport back on the Sunny. Nami had the Waver, Luffy had the mini Merry , Franky had taken the sub shark and Left with Ussop, Franky had modified the Brachio tank to be able to swim and Chopper and Robin had taken that, Zoro had simply decided to take Mihawk's boat when he died. (Note, Zoro beat him but didn't kill him, but he was soon killed by another person not long after their battle) He tied it on the back of the ship, as he had it years ago. Sanji had taken the black rhino motorcycle FR-U that Franky had also modified.

They first decided to go back to the East Blue to try Ussop's village for Franky and Ussop. When they arrived they saw something unexpected , they entire village was destroyed, the place was lifeless as they walked through. Zoro took note of the strange claw marks on the walls of buildings they passed and blood that was spilled in various places, Zoro was able to line up some of the clues but some things where missing 'From the claws we can guess a wild animal attacked many people and killed them, but there are two things that don't make sense, one where did the bodies go, and two where did the strange animal come from it wasn't here when we picked Ussop up here years ago?' Zoro was confused. "Odd." "What is it Luffy?" Nami asked "Well even if everyone was killed by something it isn't here now, besides us, nothing is on this island, nothing." "Well Luffy, that is good actually, maybe it had died from an injury or age, at least we don't have to watch our backs right?" Nami said. "May I see your panties?" Brook said before she kicked him. They then continued searching around as they looked for anything that could help them find their missing friends.

They came up to Franky's underground base and found it in a worse state than the town, it was obvious that a large battle was taken place here. They searched to place over even though Luffy had said that no one was here they could try to find the bodies of the attacker's or in worst case scenario the attacked. Again they only found claw marks and blood. They went back out and found the sub shark parked, this puzzled all of them. "Well they were strong what ever they are, to make Franky and Ussop fight and cause that much of a mess, they were either a whole bunch of them or they were strong as the dickens, but what puzzles me most is the lack of blood, with a fight scene like that we should have seen more." Luffy said in a unusual serious tone. "Luffy is right, it is strange." Zoro said agreeing. They went back to investigate again to see if they had missed anything, Luffy found a lever and his natural curiosity got the better of him and he pulled it and let the sun in. They didn't understand why it was there than thought of Franky 'It was most likely made for night so he could look at the stars when no one can see the difference.' Nami thought but Zoro wasn't sure what to think, Luffy just thought it was awesome, brook was looking though the town still so he didn't even see it to have a thought. "Well we have looked this place top to bottom twice and we still have no clue what had happened and are left to spectate. I say we go back to Brook and see what he may have found." Nami said disappointed. They all agreed and found Brook still looking through the buildings. All he had found was a diary of a girl that used to live on the island but the page that started to talk about the attack was ripped and only left them with this:

June 12 1652

Dear Dairy,

Every night now people have been disappearing from the island, I have started to wonder if it has anything to do with the small quakes I feel at night but they have been going on for the past year now and people were not disappearing until recently. On the old houses that people have been disappearing from there are large claw marks the which I have never seen before, course I have not been off the island but they are too big in my eyes to be normal. I have grown to fear going to sleep at night and have started looking out my windows to watch if any thing comes, I swear that I have seen some of the people that went missing show up at night, but I may just be making things up from lack of sleep.

I think I saw something by my window not to long ago, Mom and Dad don't know what to make of what I saw.

It had

After that was ripped out and stained over with blood. Everyone was confused to say the least over the entry. "This was written the year that they didn't show up, about three years back, and it was only a month till we were suppose to meet up." Brook said sadness apparent in his voice. No one had an idea of what to do now, so they took the sub shark and put it back on the Sunny, and left to look on neighboring islands to see if they could find out anything. They saw a few islands similar to Ussops, but even the islands that were normal either didn't know or where to scared to talk to them. After a while the Navy came, it wasn't that big of a deal to them but it got aggravating after the first few days, so they decided to go back to the Grand Line and try to find chopper. They went from island to island again, mostly finding nothing but normal villages and occasional cities but also uninhabited ones as well. They even went to old islands to ask friends if they had seen Chopper or Robin, Vivi had not seen him, nor did Dorry or Broggy (Luffy tried to draw them a picture since they had never met him, that may have made things harder but in any case they had not seen any deer, raven haired girls, Ussop, a weird robot, or Sanji, they had actually had not many visitors since they had left and they all had died except for one that they mentioned looked strange and had left before daybreak. "He came and had killed some of the people they had come here. they were quite fast, and didn't have a lack of strength either, we don't know were he went but he seemed dangerous to even us." Dorry said as a warning. They continued on and decided to try the previously named Drum Island but they knew the name was changed.