Kraken Squad's new member
Sage is doing a quest in the woods around Astoria by herself and gets surrounded by some ogres. Lucky for her a green haired swordsman is close by.
Pairing: Zoro x Sage
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece or Knight Squad.
Three weeks before the Knight School of Astoria accepts new students
Sage is walking through the forest surrounding the castle which houses the King of Astoria and the knight school where she is a student. She took a quest from Sir Gareth her instructor as the leader of the Kraken Squad, but only after accepting the quest she learned that none of her three teammates are actually available. Deciding against giving up the quest which would decrease her squad's points she is determined to finish the quest by herself. For the quest she has to gather a rare herb located in the part of the forest which counts as part of the ogre's territory.
"Damn those two useless fools, leaving me to do the quest alone after Buttercup fell ill." Sage curses as she walks through the woods by herself, keeping her spear ready. Sage arrives at a large clearing in the middle of the forest and looks at the map she got from Sir Gareth once more to confirm that she is in the right location.
"Hmm this seems to be the place, which means the herb should be growing somewhere near that tree stump." Sage mumbles to herself, looking at a wide tree stump looking like it had been cut down more than a few years ago.
Sage stores her map and walks over to the stump, looking all around it for the herb Sir Gareth showed her. Not even a minute later she finds the Herb and kneels down, placing her spear on the stump so she can collect the herbs.
Once she's done collecting the herbs she glances up, grabbing for her weapon only to find it missing.
"The Hell?" Sage asks out loud.
"Look what we have here." An Ogre says holding Sage's spear, looking at the girl along with his three comrades.
"What are you doing here girly?" An Ogre next to him asks her.
"I was sent by Sir Gareth to collect these Herbs." Sage informs them proudly, hoping that they've heard of her instructor and fear him for his accomplishments in battle.
"Well you collected the Herbs, but don't think that you'll be leaving here again." The Ogre holding her spear tells her, pointing her weapon down at her from his larger height.
"What?! Let me go or else you'll have to face the wrath of the King of Astoria." Sage yells angered.
"That pathetic crybaby? who would be afraid of him?" Another Ogre asks cockily.
"You dare call our King a pathetic crybaby? Wait till I inform the guards of this!" Sage yells outraged.
"Well it's a good thing then you won't get to return to the castle." The last Ogre says laughing while the second Ogre grabs one of her arms roughly and starts to drag her along on as the Ogre's head back to their camp with their new captive while Sage screams at them angrily, hoping someone will hear her.
And to her luck someone does.
"What's up with all this commotion can't a guy take a nap in peace?" The group of 5 hear a voice say and look in the direction the voice came from and see a green haired guy with three Katana's on his hip leaning against a tree obviously having slept there.
"It's none of your business, so scam!" An Ogre tells him, walking over to the teen intimidatingly.
"Why should I go? I was sleeping here long before you idiots came along and woke me up." Zoro asks him cockily, unsheathing one of his swords.
"Last chance, run along or I'll give you a beating you won't forget." The Ogre says threateningly.
"Wrong move." Zoro sighs and slashes at the Ogre as he dashes past him, re-sheathing his sword again.
Sage looks at this impressed, now being able to see the boy for the first time since he was blocked by the Ogre that just got taken out.
"Oh, look what we have here, three Ogres attempting to kidnap a girl. You guys really aren't fans of fair fighting are ya?" Zoro says with a smirk.
"You'll pay for that." The two Ogre's who weren't holding Sage yell and jump at the teen, only for him to jump backwards, dodging their attack and unsheathe a second sword. The Ogre's run towards him, while he takes out his third sword, putting it in his mouth and crouches down while crossing his arms. With a shout of "Oni Giri" Zoro cuts up the two Ogre's as he runs by them, appearing behind them as the fall lifelessly to the ground.
"Here, take her just let me go!" The Last Ogre shouts panicking now that his three comrades have been taken out with ease and basically throws Sage over to Zoro, who catches her and then puts her down so she can stand on her own. Once Zoro's arms are free again he curves his swords in front of him and yells 108 Pound Phoenix, slashing them in a circle along with the one between his teeth and sends an attack flying through the air which quickly catches up to the now running Ogre and pierces through him, knocking over a few trees in the process.
Sage who ran over to her spear, lying next to the corpse of one of the two Ogre's the green haired boy took out with his second attack and picks it up, being on guard in case any of the Ogre's will get back up and attack her or if the green haired boy decides to attack her.
"Who are you?" Sage asks him.
"Zoro. Are you OK? Did they hurt you?" Zoro asks her, walking over to her not bothered by her defensive statue.
"No luckily you intervened before that happened." Sage tells him.
"Good. So, who are you and what are you doing out here alone?" Zoro asks her, looking the girl over, thinking once he sees the emblem on her shoulder and clothes 'she's cute but seems like the type who's proud of their nobility.'
"I'm Sage, I was sent here on a quest to fetch these Herbs." Sage tells him showing him the pouch with Herbs she picked up.
"Alone? This isn't exactly the safest part of the forest you know." Zoro tells her.
"Yes, I'm aware of that but my useless teammates bailed on me." Sage replies annoyed at her team.
"And you still came alone? Well at least you have guts." Zoro says somewhat impressed.
"Yeah, well Thanks. I really owe you, are you a citizen in the castle?" Sage asks him, pointing towards the castle raking over the trees.
"No. I'm just wandering through. I'm looking for strong fighters who can challenge me, I want to become the world's strongest swordsman." Zoro tells her proudly.
"Well, you could come by the castle then if you'd like I guess we should have some strong people there, but I have to say you are on a whole other level than the knights I've seen so far." Sage informs him.
"Hmm, I'll keep it in mind." Zoro says and starts to leave the clearing.
"Wait. I've got an idea, why don't you join the knight school like me? I'm sure you'll get to fight strong opponents that way." Sage suggests.
"Are there any requirements?" Zoro asks slightly interested by the idea of officially battling strong enemies.
"Well, you have to pay 2000 gold pieces and be of royal dragon blood, but I could lend you the money and maybe I can find a way to have the king make an exception for you." Sage says wanting to repay him for rescuing her.
"When would I join this knight school?" Zoro asks her.
"The official time for new students to be accepted is in three weeks." Sage informs him.
"three weeks huh?" Zoro says thoughtfully.
"I'll think about it and tell you my decision in three weeks then, Sage." Zoro tells her before he turns around and walks back into the forest.
"If he'd join my squad, we'd so squash Ciara and her Phoenix squad." Sage says excited.
"But first, how do I get the King to make an exception for Zoro?" Sage asks herself as she start to head back to the castle so she can finish her quest.
On the way back to the castle she gets the idea to ask her mother for help since she sometimes used her magic to charm people into doing her bidding, for once that might actually work out in Sage's favor.