Hello readers! I'm back with a new fic. A great reader gave me this idea of Zoro being an alien and I kinda like it so I wrote this story. Thanks a lot Mimi Fox Love! This fic is dedicated for you and I hope you enjoyed it.
There's a lot of crack in this one and it was meant to be a one shot but then it became a bit too long so I decided to split it into two chapters. Besides, I'd like to see what u all think about it before I continue further since the story came up quite different from what I imagined it to be.
Please enjoy!
Title: Zoro the Bride (I hope the new title isn't lamer than the original)
Pairing: SanxZo, OcxZo
Rating: M
Warnings: Yaoi, crack fic, swearing
Disclaimer: Don't own One Piece or any of its charaters. If I did, there would be a lot of SanZo loving! XD
Chapter 1
It was just another calm sunny day on the grandline and the Thousand Sunny was sailing smoothly on the blue waters, slightly rocked by gentle waves and the warm ocean breeze blew the happy jolly roger wearing a straw hat, made it flapped lazily against the main mast. The crew were on their regular activities; Sanji was doing a little preparation for snack after lunch in the galley, Nami and Robin were lounging on their lazy chairs shaded by Nami's mikan trees on the upper deck, Franky was on the ship's engine room, probably repairing minor damages or planning a new weapon system for the ship, Zoro was napping against the ship's railing on the port bow, Luffy and Chopper were sitting on the railing with fishing poles in their hands, occasionally making small talks. Usopp who would usually be seen sitting with them while telling them some of his brave adventure tales stayed in the crow's nest to take on his watch turn. He peeped at random objects around their ships with the binocular and would switch to his sniper goggles if the objects caught his attention or raised his curiosity such as a flock of migrating sea birds or school of rainbow fish jumping out of the water surface or even a green octopus who swam in circles on the water surface, like it was lost or don't know where to go. Wait, green octopus? He had never seen an octopus with that kind of weird color before even though the great captain Usopp had sailed around the grandline and fought many of its weird sea monsters bravely. He adjusted his goggles to get a better look at it and gulped. The octopus was quite big, with his keen ability to measure object sizes and distances, the long nosed boy could tell that it was at least about one third the size of their ship. Usopp then spotted that there's a weird man riding it, his face somewhat looked like an octopus and his shaggy dark green hair that pulled into a ponytail made him even more like one. He was sitting on a carriage without a roof placed on top of the octopus' head while caressing his braided green beard idly, like he was planning something sinister (at least in Usopp's mind). Usopp decided to watch them for a moment while praying they'd ignore the Sunny but unfortunately the man and his octopus already saw them and started to make their way to the Thousand Sunny.
"G-guys, t-there's a weird man and his giant octopus heading our way!" Usopp squeaked a report.
"Octopus? SUGOI! Where, Usopp?Chopper, catch it! we eat Takoyaki tonight!" Luffy jumped from his sitting spot, looking back and forth, his mouth already covered with drools while imagining various kinds of takoyaki in his mind.
"B-but Luffy he said giant octopus!" Chopper piped out nervously.
"Usopp, where?" Luffy demanded impatiently, the word 'giant' from Chopper only made him more excited since that meant he could eat more meat.
"T-there, ahead of-" Usopp's answer was cut off by both Chopper's frightened scream and Luffy's excited shout.
"Aaaaarghh! Giant monster!" The little reindeer screeched.
"WHAT? It's HERE already?" The sharpshooter joined Chopper's hysterical mode and made the remaining crew members rushed towards the front deck to see what the commotion was about.
"Luffy! What the hell-" Sanji started.
"It's here!" Luffy cheered, ready to launch one of his gomu-gomu attack to knock down the octopus when another voice stopped him.
"Gentlemen, would you be so kind to show the direction to an island?" A big bulky green haired man with weird dark green cloth that looked like a sleeveless kimono and earrings on both of his pointy ears jumped onto the Sunny's deck, gaining the full attention from the crew for a moment.
"Huh? Who are you?" The straw hat boy halted.
"Ah, how rude of me! I'm Zyronophron of Planet Zon-38 and you are?"
"I'm Luffy."
"Luffy. A simple name for a simple being. Nice to meet you, Luffy."
"Watch your tongue, green man. He's our captain!" Sanji snapped at the man.
"He's your captain?"
"Cool! Green-san, are you a merman? You also got green hair just like Zoro! Do you want to join our crew?" Luffy suddenly cheered in awe at the sight of the long dark green hair pulled into a ponytail and the braided beard of the man, completely forgetting the retreating octopus that seemed to rush away from the Sunny.
"Luffy, stop acting stupid! He could be working for the marines." Nami punched the idiotic captain in the face and stopped him from doing whatever stupidity he was about to say next.
"What the hell do you want, stranger?" Sanji demanded.
"I'm not here to cause any trouble if that's what you're accusing me. I came here to earth for a completely different matter." He said calmly.
"He's an alien! He wants to kidnap us and made us his experiment then sucked our brain like jelly!" Usopp, who finally decided to come down now that his nakamas were there, said to the others. His finger pointing accusingly at the stranger and his knees shook slightly. Well, okay, I mean a lot. His knees were shaking uncontrollably a lot from fright.
"No no no. Only a lowly aliens do that. We are not interested in that kind of activities. We finished doing all that centuries ago." The alien said. "I'm in far more greater mission: the mission of love!" He raised his voice poetically and strike a dramatic pose with one knee fell to the wooden deck and one hand reached above his head.
Everyone sweat dropped at that (including Sanji). The alien was even looked more idiotic than their love-struck cook in his love pose with his huge muscular built and long green hair.
"Damn it Luffy! I couldn't sleep any more after you yelled so much!" Zoro finally decided to stomp to the place where everyone had gathered after failing his forty-sixth attempt to fall back to sleep. The others ignored him until he arrived because they were still busy gawking and sweat dropping at the scene before them, torn between rolling around the floor then laugh until their tummies hurt and staring with blank expressions from distaste.
"Who the hell is he?" The swordsman blurted out, breaking the long silence among them.
"I'm Zyro-" The alien started, but stopped abruptly upon seeing the swordsman and decided to cast his eyes up and down Zoro's form instead.
"Well?" The swordsman said impatiently, he folded his arms in front of his chest, not liking the way the man gave him.
"Zoth bless me! I've only came here and my true love came to me by himself!" The alien finally beamed towards the swordsman.
"WHAT?" Everyone shouted at the same time but Zoro's and Sanji's were among the loudest, aside from Luffy's somewhat excited one, of course.
"What the FUCK-" "What do you mean?" "You like Zoro?" "What the hell is this BULLSHIT?" "SUGOI! Zoro got a boyfriend!" Everyone shouted their responds at the same time but Luffy was the only one who was unable to continue his excited rambling due to a shoe sole planted nicely on his face and sent him crashing towards the ship's wall.
"OW! That hurt, Sanji what's that for?" The straw hat boy protested but only received a deadliest glare the cook had ever gave him. Something clicked in his brain and he quickly bowed and apologised to the cook. The last thing he wanted was to be banned from Sanji's cooking until they reach another island.
"Oh. Gomen Sanji-kun, I forgot Zoro's yours haha..." Luffy scratched the back of his neck sheepishly. But he only received another angry glare, if not looked more deadly, and quickly slapped both his hands to his gaping mouth.
"Argh! Gomen Sanji, I forgot I should't say that either!" He added worriedly. He was the only one who knew after he accidentally caught the two boys making love in the galley one cold night and Sanji had threatened him to keep his mouth shut if he still wanted to live or most importantly, if he still wanted to eat. The constant warning glare and the mention of "No Food" threat from the blonde had been working quite well to silence the rubber captain at least, until now. Robin, of course, knew their little secret all along but neither Sanji nor Zoro noticed it since she mostly kept it for herself.
"Luffy, you're so dead!" Sanji growled menacingly low at poor Luffy.
"What? He's with you?" The big man suddenly interrupted.
"No, of course not!" The now purple-faced cook hurriedly said without even thinking first. He wasn't quite ready to announce his romantic relationship with the swordsman openly to the crew, more over to a complete stranger, dammit!
"Ah, what a relieve!" the big man sighed happily. "So I can propose him now! Love, would you give me the honour to be your husband?" He grabbed Zoro's hand and hold it lovingly and oh you couldn't imagine how hard Nami, Usopp, and Franky had to suppress their laughter at how gentle the bulky man grabbed Zoro's battle worn calloused hand and treating it like a princess' soft petite hand. As much as Sanji found the view extremely ridiculous and wanted to laugh out loud, he couldn't. He was seriously expecting some kind of negative reaction from the marimo. Something about the way the big man held his hand while caressed Zoro's skin ever so slightly made his blood boiled. He really wished Zoro would quickly hurled him to the next island in his rage or quickly yanked his hand free to grab one of his swords and sliced him to micro atom-sized pieces or something but he did nothing but fucking stare in silence! The only reaction he showed was a slight twitch of his brow.
What the hell was this? First he got his afternoon nap interrupted by Luffy's and Usopp's yelling and now a green haired freak asked him to marry him after he saw him for five seconds? Zoro was quite surprised he could restrain his hands from grabbing his katanas this long. This stupid man had dared embarrassing him in front of the entire crew! And while his mind considering millions of ways to made sure the stranger suffered a slow agonising death, his eyes glanced irritatedly at the blonde for a moment as an automatic reflect, already expecting Sanji's face that tried to hold back laughter or any other kind of mocking expressions but surprisingly, he found none. In fact, the cook's face that had became very familiar to him showed a completely different expression at the moment. He looked quite pissed and was that jealousy? A smirk grew on the swordsman's face as an idea came to his mind. Quite a good one, he would say.
"Well, let's see... my boyfriend there still seemed uncomfortable admitting our relationship although it's been eight damned months and I'm beginning to think that maybe he's not serious with me so I guess I'll need to think of moving on and consider your proposition Mr. Alien." He slowly said, made sure he said it loud enough for Sanji to hear every single words from his spot. He might as well use this nuisance to his own advantages.
Even the usually quick witted navigator was left gawking from utter shock. The news of the infamous skirt-chasing cook involved romantically with a man was shocking enough for the crew but Zoro's unexpected reaction to the strange man's proposition was completely overloaded their brain to process any objections or even any audible reactions for that matter until the swordsman started making his leave while adding. "Oh and one more thing, you could forget it if you want me to be the wife." He said, mildly surprised by the calmness of his voice as the words flowed out. Roronoa Zoro would never be caught dead being the wife, he's too manly dammit!
His smirk grew wider as he saw the cook's frozen form that made him looked like a wax statue, a very weird-looking one and most likely would end up in a grumpy old janitor's locker with the rest of other cleaning tools to scare some inquisitive brats who happened to wander to the back part of the wax museum and decided it would be interesting to peek on the old man's locker. Zoro seriously struggled to suppress his snickers to minimum at the image and quickly went back to the back of the ship.
"H-He said he'll accept..." The alien trailed off with dreamy eyes.
"NO! He said he'll consider it!" The others corrected, after finally getting over their shock.
But the big man didn't seem to see it that way as he was suddenly dashed and arrived in front of Zoro a split second later and quickly grabbed his hand firmly. The man seemed to have an ability to travel through distances in a blink of an eye, the crew now realised.
"Let's marry now, my love!" He said.
"What? No! I only said I'll-"Zoro blurted out, completely caught off guard but the man, at least three times his size, grabbed him by the waist and lifted the stunned swordsman towards the ship's railing and jumped off the ship all in fluid blurry movements.
"......was the alien just kidnapped Zoro?" Usopp spoke a couple of moments later.
"Where did he go?" Nami whipped her head from side to side cautiously.
"I thought they jumped off." Franky supplied.
"No! We must get Zoro back!" Chopper piped in worriedly.
"YOSH! Zoro we're coming!" Luffy shouted energetically and quickly charged to the side of the ship and jumped. He would have been drown had Franky and Usopp weren't holding the rubber captain right before his feet left the railing.
"You can't swim you idiot!" Everyone yelled angrily at him and an extra fist to the head made the rubber captain almost regretted his impulse.
"Look! They're heading toward the big octopus over there!" Nami shouted to the rest of them.
"He's gonna take Zoro away! Quick, we must go after them!" Chopper cried frantically.
"Bros, we can use the shark submerge III. It's the fastest vehicle we've got." Franky suggested "but only three of us can go."
"Chopper, you're going with us, in case Zoro's hurt. Let's go Sanji. You had been using it for couple of times, you're taking us there!" Luffy quickly said.
"Uh, okay. Let's go!" The little doctor ran with Luffy towards the docking system of the Sunny that located at the lowest part of the ship.
The cook came to his two crew members in lightning speed, literally. The blonde secretly appreciated Luffy's words and thought he could forgive the kid for his slip, probably even thank him later for covering him. But even if Luffy didn't ask him he would make him allow him to come with them. At this rate, he didn't really care about what the others would think. The damned alien had dared to take Zoro in front of his nakamas, for God's sake. In front of him! He would make sure to beat up the green bastard until the fact that Zoro wasn't his got into his thick skull then kicked him and his stupid octopus pet back to whatever filthy planet they came from!
"We're gonna kick that alien's ass for trying to take Zoro from us!" Luffy announced to the rest of the crew right before they disappeared though the trap door leading below deck.
"YOSH!" They all shouted in unison.
Damn straight we will! Sanji thought furiously.
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The swordsman could barely remember anything except salty water that threatened to fill his lungs in a sudden. The rest of the journey was a set of blurs and the only thing he could remember was the sensation of being dragged in inhuman speed under water. He flailed his arms in order to keep afloat while his legs kicked violently toward the alien who didn't seem to be affected at all, if anything, it only tightened his arm around the swordsman's waist and dragged him further underwater. When all air in his lungs had almost gone and his vision started to fade, his lungs suddenly able to suck air as his body was dragged to the surface again. He wheezed and coughed a lot of water for some time and his senses gradually came back and alerting him of another presence nearby. He quickly moved away and reached for his katanas which he now realised weren't on their normal perch any more and so were his ever present green haramaki.
"Where're my swords?" He growled.
"I left them on your friends' ship. Don't worry you won't need them any more. I will protect you from any danger." The alien said.
"The only one who needs protections is you once I get my swords back."
"I really can't blame you for hating me, but I'm sure I can change that later."
"I wouldn't change even if you torture me to death." The swordsman glared at the man in hatred.
"I didn't take you here to kill you but if you like a little bit of torture game, I have millions of fun ways to do it..." The man smirked a little at Zoro.
"That if you survive long enough, unfortunately I'm going to have to kill you now."
"A fierce one aren't you? I would love to join your little game but we're running out of time. We need to marry before sunset so I expect your cooperation just for a little longer..."
"Wishful thinking, basta-" Before the swordsman could finish, or even blinked, the big man suddenly wrenched Zoro's arms and tied it together behind his back. The same thing happened to his ankles the next split second and sent him stumbling forward. He would've fell if the octopus man hadn't caught him and laid him gently to the ground with his stomach against the floor.
Damn! How could he move so fast?
"I wouldn't want any bruises on my gorgeous bride just yet." The man half whispered it to his ears, sickeningly too close and made the swordsman's hair involuntarily stood on end. His hand wandered from Zoro's tied arms to his tense back. The hand then slipped a little under the white shirt to caress the smooth skin underneath for a while before moving slowly to clutch at his firm ass that stunned Zoro for a couple of seconds while heat suddenly crept up his face. "We'd have a lot of fun." The man said to his ear.
"You sick bastard! Get off me!" The green haired swordsman shouted frustratedly, he wriggled and struggled to get away from the perverted touches that already gone once he finished his sentence. He heard retreating steps but when he jerked his head to see, the man was nowhere around.
"Coward! Get back here and fight me like a man!" The teen shouted towards the direction he thought was the door but no reply was given. He then looked around for a while to study his surroundings. The first thing about the room that was hard to miss was the walls, the ceiling, and the floor which were made with the same material of green slick-look material that looked like an animal skin. There's a small round window at the corner of the room that told him that he was in a submarine of some sort, since he could see school of orange fish just swam passed the window. He wasn't exactly recalled seeing a submarine while being dragged in there, but it didn't really matter now anyway. The thing that pulled at his nerves was that he's just being kidnapped before his entire crew mates without being able to do anything about it. It meant his friends probably would have started their effort trying to save him by now and probably would thought that he was weak. No, his friends would know better than that and even if his friends think he was, it was fine with him. It was fine as long as he knew it wasn't true. As long as he knew he wasn't weak and able to save any of them once danger strike. But now he wasn't so sure any more. He couldn't even defend himself from the stranger in the first place. That damned man didn't really showed it, but he sure was fast! He wasn't fast enough. He was weak.
No! I'm not weak! I can't be weak!
The swordsman growled angrily at the thought and furiously struggled against the rope, he tried again and again and maybe his mind was a bit too clouded with anger that he used more force than necessary. Soon his entire muscles ached, they were desperately screaming for some rest but still the stubborn rope didn't budge. Seriously, what the hell it was made from anyway? Exhausted, he finally let his body relaxed, letting the dark green floor supported his entire weight. The coldness of the floor against his skin helped soothed him a little. He supposed he might use the opportunity to take a nap as well until his muscles decided to cooperate with him again. Besides, he was sure he would know if the bastard decided to come back so he let his eyelids fluttered close and soon drifted to a dreamless sleep.
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"Oi, are you sure you saw them go that way?" The blonde asked, mildly annoyed.
"Yeah I'm sure. They passed that funny looking coral that looks like a poop! I told you already." The rubber boy said.
"Every corals around here looks like shit! How do you differ one with the other?" The older teen said.
"I don't think they are corals..." Chopper's little voice mumbled to no one in particular.
"No, they're different, Sanji. See, that one is slightly longer and the one next to it is shorter and round-" Luffy explained to his sceptical cook.
"Fine! Just tell me which coral they went through!" Sanji rolled his eyes.
"It's that! ...wait I think the one I saw is a little bit spikier on the edges. Ah, that one! No, wait! It's supposed to be a bit longer and located next to the one-"
"Damnit Luffy! Just decide already!"
"But Sanji, it's really weird... I'm sure that one is not there before!" Luffy pointed at a particular coral that looked almost the same in shape with the rest of the other dark brown corals.
"You're lost don't you?" Nami's annoyed voice was heard through the den den mushi. "Of all people they let Luffy guide them..." Her exasperated voice trailed off.
"N-Nami-swan! I'm sorry I failed you! I promise I'll make it up-" Sanji's apologise was interrupted by the hot tempered navigator.
"Sanji-kun, where are your position now?" She asked impatiently.
"Uh, we're slightly above the ocean floor now, Nami-swan. We're right on the octopus' tail before we're caught in this muddy water."
"Cook-san, can't you detect anything from the sonar?" Robin's calm voice was heard through the speaker of den den mushi.
"Yes, Robin-chan. There are several objects nearby but the water's so thick around here we could barely see more than 3 metres. Wait, there's one object moving closer in high speed... "
"Sanji, watch out!" Chopper squeaked, almost at the same time with the shark submerge's rocking movement caused by the unknown attacker. Wait no, they didn't get hit. Sanji's nimble hands managed to save them at the last minute. The submerge ship was still rocking slightly after the unknown object hit the ocean floor.
"What the hell was that?" The cook cursed.
"It looks like one of the corals. Why is it falling from above?" Luffy asked curiously, his head tilted upward in a weird angle in order to look through the glass window above that Sanji was sure no normal person could perform without breaking their neck.
As if on cue, three other similar shaped coral slowly fell from above, not so far from the submarine. The three of them looked up through the upper glass window at the same time and discovered the whole mystery. There, about thirty metres above them, at least four sea monsters were floating still as they poop. Some of the droppings were bigger and rounder, while the other was longer or smaller. The poops, that they had thought as corals were falling slowly and piling up on the ocean bed.
"We're in the middle of sea monsters' shits!" Luffy exclaimed, unsurprisingly in excitement of this new revelation.
While Chopper was torn between excitement and fright at the moment, the cook was definitely not very keen of the idea, more over by the possibility of being hit by a giant filth so he quickly swerved the steering wheel and drove the ship away from the falling shits. They had to dodge some obstacles on their way out and Sanji managed to keep his concentration despite Chopper's panicked screams and Luffy's cheers every time they saw their ship almost crashed onto a dropping. Within a couple of minutes the water around them had became clearer, enabling them to see farther.
"Sanji, look! There's a cave over there!" Chopper told the cook, his hoof pointed at a rocky cliff on their far left. Slightly covered by overgrown seaweeds, there were an opening at the bottom of it. There's possibility that they might had gone other way, but the cave was a bit suspicious and they couldn't have gone that far so the blonde supposed it was worth a try. They drove cautiously through the cave's entrance, expecting any trap or ambush but they found nothing but the cave's dark grey rocky walls around them. The walls grew larger and it ended up on a huge cavern in which a giant air bag was trapped. It created some sort of land surface that separated from the ocean water that enabled their little submerge ship emerged to the surface.
"Huh? This cave isn't filled with water." Sanji gazed at the dry rocky surface of the cave in front of them in slight amusement.
"It's an air bag. The air that trapped created a surface in here even though we're underneath the sea." Chopper said.
"Really? COOL!" Luffy cheered louder than he did when they were almost hit by the last dropping that also had the biggest size.
"Stop shouting to my head, Luffy! You're giving me a headache." The cook grumbled to his hyperactive captain.
"Hey! Look there! It's the octopus!" Luffy exclaimed suddenly, pointing to their right.
"Damnit, Luffy! What did I just tell you about not shouting?" The blonde yelled back at the boy.
"Cook-san, I see you found the octopus." Robin said through the den den mushi.
"Hai Robin-chan."
"Do you see the stranger? Be careful, he could move in inhuman speed."
"No, not yet. We're going to sneak and see what we could do. Hai~! Robin-chwan is so caring!"
"You better act quickly. I don't think we have much time left." Usopp's voice told them.
"What, you think he'll kill the marimo?" The cook enquired.
"Err no, but we think he's about to-uh, do something equally bad."
"What might that be? Torture?" Chopper joined in the conversation, his face showed a deep concern.
"Um... no. I mean, it could be considered as such, but-"
"Just beat that man and bring Zoro back!" Nami's voice butted in.
"Aww, come on, Usopp! Tell us!" Unfortunately, the conversation had caught Luffy's interest and now he was too curious to drop the topic.
"Captain-san, we had agreed not to tell you, especially Cook-san, but I think it was too late now. I read about this species from planet Zon-38 somewhere before, and if what he told us was true, that he's marrying Swordsman-san, that means he's going to take him back to his home planet soon"
"WHAT?" the three of the straw hats at the end of the line shouted in unison.
"After he finished with the marriage ceremony." The archaeologist finished her explanation.
"They called that a ceremony? more like serious molestation to me..." Usopp's voice was heard in the back ground.
"Shut up Usopp! We shouldn't tell them!" Nami scolded him.
"Huh? Usopp, what molestation?" Something in Sanji's voice made the poor sharpshooter's forehead wet with cold sweats.
"...uh, well Robin told us to-"
"That's okay, Long nose-kun, I'll tell him. Cook-san, their wedding ceremony mainly involves sexual contacts in their true forms." Robin said bluntly.
"Wha-" Chopper began, eyes as round as saucers.
"Sex? Oh..." Luffy cooed knowingly.
"Eh what? You mean you know what that word means, Luffy?" The reindeer doctor jerked towards Luffy. He and the rest of the crew had assumed the word was foreign to their innocent rubber captain until at least a couple years to come.
"Huh? Sure! Na-err, someone taught me that." He grinned proudly. Everyone on the other end of the line went dead silent. All heads turned towards the navigator who was suddenly emitting huge aura of powerful killing intent through out the galley where they put the den den mushi in.
"PERVERTED MOTHER FUCKING RAPIST BASTARD!" Sanji's curses were suddenly exploded through the den den mushi, making most of the straw hats in the galley jumped in surprise while trying to cover their poor ears at the same time. Then silence filled in for several moments until Luffy broke it.
"Naa Sanji, don't yell that loud. You almost made me deaf!" Luffy whined but the cook didn't respond.
"I'll-I'll fillet him with my bare hands! I'll skin him alive and-feed him to his own pet before I made takoyaki out of it too!" He continued furiously. Luffy and Chopper could even almost see great flames surrounding the chef's figure.
"O-Oi Sanji-kun..." Usopp started cautiously.
"Sanji-kun, don't worry. Zoro is strong, he wouldn't get him that easily. The most important thing now is you all move quickly and carefully." Nami took over the den den mushi from the sharpshooter. Even though the news of the cook's and the swordsman's relationship was still quite surprising to the crew, they all decided to react neutrally for the time being.
"H-Hai, Nami-swaaaann!" with that, the cook was instantly back to his normal love-struck mode.
"Let's beat up the octopus first!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Looks like it's sleeping. I hope it didn't see us before." Chopper said nervously.
"No, I don't think it did, Chopper. I'll take us to the shore so we could sneak closer." Sanji told them.
After they made sure their submerge ship was hidden between some sticking out rocks that had purple moss in the surfaces, the trio carefully got out and sneaked to the shore not so far away from their spot. They hid under a rock to study the area for a moment to make sure there was no one in sight besides the sleeping octopus.
"All right Luffy, Chopper, stealth is the most important key here. After we found the marimo, we can beat the hell out of them. Got i-" Before Sanji could finish his sentence, he saw Luffy already marching toward the enemy.
"Goddamnit, Luffy!" He hissed while quickly went after the captain. Luckily, the octopus seemed to be in a deep sleep that it didn't hear the approaching steps of Luffy's sandals against the humid surface of the cave ground nor the noises Sanji's soles made while running towards him. The soft sound of running hooves followed suit behind the previous two foot steeps.
Then suddenly Luffy made an abrupt stop, making the blonde almost bumped onto him but he managed to stop on time. Chopper wasn't that lucky and let out a little 'Oof!' while bumping onto the cook's leg. Before Sanji could scold him, Luffy whispered to them with his hand pointing at the mid part between the octopus' closed eyes. "There's a door on its head!" The boy's eyes gleamed and his mouth gaped wide in total awe. Chopper's expression mirrored his idiotic captain in an instant while Sanji rolled his eyes in annoyance seeing the younger boys' reaction at the round medium sized door that had exactly the same green slick surface as the octopus' skin. Had it not partly opened, none of them would be able to spot it in the first place.
"Let's get moving, the marimo's probably being held in there." He said. They climbed one of the animal's front tentacles that surprisingly wasn't as slick as it looks and easily sneaked in through the suspicious door. As soon as they entered, a familiar voice was heard through some sort of invisible speaker from the ceiling.
"Ah, just right on time. Now that the honoured quests had arrived, we could start immediately." The alien's voice announced.
"Get your hands off me, you freak!" The swordsman's angry growl was heard through the same speaker.
"Zoro!" Luffy called.
"Luffy?" The swordsman answered but the alien had turned off the communication line.
"Ohoho now that your dear friends are here, the ceremony could be started!" The man said.
"Fuck you!"
About half an hour ago, the floor in the first room Zoro was in had suddenly disappeared when he almost succeeded freeing himself of the rope not long after he had woken up. It was so sudden, he didn't even have the proper chance to shout as he fell to the unknown depth. The surface below seemed to appear as suddenly as the disappearance of the one above him. He grunted upon landing shoulder first and he was sure the bone inside would've been broken if he hadn't landed on a relatively soft surface. The fall, however, had given him advantage as it caused the rope ripped in one part and made it easier to snap. He only needed to pull it towards opposite directions twice to free himself. Then he quick-scanned the area around but there's nothing beside blood red see-through veils that hanged from the high ceiling in circular formation around him. On the ground, also in circular formation, at least twenty small yellow-green orbs were placed surrounding the spot where he fell, brightening the dimly lit room with its soft glow that made the swordsman felt a bit weird. The dark surface under him felt soft and slick. The swordsman shuddered in disgust when he felt it pulsing against him, like it was some kind of live organism. His first instinct was to get out of the odd circle, but the floor below his feet moved, causing him to fell every time he tried to stand up. Was it just him or was the whole room started spinning? Finally he settled with both knees supporting his body, one hand clutched the short green hair on one side of his head while the other helped levering him up against the floor. He shook his head as if trying to chase away the nausea and blinked hard for several times before staring at the orb's glow to help him focus, but it did nothing else other than making his stomach sick with its strange neon yellow green light. The longer he looked at it, the sicker he got but when he tried to look away from the sickening glow, he couldn't. The next second he felt his body collapsed limply to the ground as a shadowy figure appeared at the outer side of the orb circle and watched him.
"Don't fight the light, it'll only make you feel worse. Just give in..." The familiar voice of the man said soothingly.
"Fuck off!" Zoro wanted to snap at him but his head and stomach were killing him. It was somewhat felt like a hangover, a very bad hangover, and since Zoro didn't really experienced with hangovers before, it felt much worse. He felt like throwing up and his head was pounding so much he couldn't tell whether he was lying or standing.
"Yes... that's right. Just sleep... you're tired aren't you? sleep..." The man spoke gently. His eyes fixed at the swordsman's every movements like a hawk. A smirk appeared on his face when the other's eyelids finally closed.
to be continued...
So, what do you think? Is the plot too weird? I'm trying the best I could to keep the straw hats in characters, hope it's working...
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