His composed eyes scanned the scene, it looked like they where in some kind of cave. It was completely empty besides the 7 straw hats scattered around on the ground and a exceptionally large TV high up on the ceiling. The cave was enormously large, and from what Zoro could see there was no exit.

He then proceeded to examine his nakama's condition, proudly noting that he had more chains tying him down then Sanji, and seeing that they were not harmed, but Luffy was absent. It was the first thing Zoro had become aware of. "He's fine," he thought to himself.

Zoro knew, out of all the people in the world to worry about that Luffy, was not one of them. After all, his amazing good luck had led the ero-cook to briefly believe that there was a god back in Logetown, plus his strength and agility was something to both admire and fear. So no. Zoro didn't worry about Luffy.

He went to struggle in his chains, when he became aware of a slight irritation to his arm. Upon looking down, he saw the result from being stabbed in his forearm, all the way through. He had quite honestly forgotten about that. He also mentally slapped himself, for forgetting the sight on the enemies blade as it stabbed through Luffy's abdomen, like he were not there at all. 'I can't wait to get out of these chains so I can defeat him... If only i had my swords '. He looked around again, to see if he could spot his swords anywhere. Although he knew that if he did not see them the first time, they were not going to show up the second (though it did not stop him from doing it anyway)

He looked up to the TV, it's presents making him feel uneasy , because surely it wasn't there for entertaining them, but of course that depended on the enemies perception of 'entertainment'. Whatever that TV's job was, Zoro was almost certain it was not a good thing for them.

Just has he had finished the thought the TV unexpectedly flicked on, revealing a girl, no older then 16. She had blonde curly hair, and the most beautiful large blue eyes, adorable freckles scattered across her face, her beige business suite and glasses made her look like a secretary.

"HELLO! Zoro nee-chan!" she cheered enthusiastically "your awaaaaake!"

Saying that Zoro was a little surprised to see such and innocent looking girl appear on the screen, was an understatement (He silently cursed himself for being so shallow.)

"who the hell 're you?" he, quite rightly, asked.

"SORRY Zoro nee-chan! But i cant hear you! The cameras don't record sound. My master didn't want to hear the sickening banter of the stupid strew hats" she apologized with fake sincerity. The way she spoke was almost as if she was mocking him, and this greatly irritated Zoro, it was just like that damned stranger that had brought them there.

"ANYWAY!" she burst out "you've been sleeping for 7 hours... although it was meant to be 14" the girl pouted. "But since your awake I'll tell you what's going on shall i?" she giggled with excitement.

"go on then." Zoro grumbled

"ZORO NEE-CHAN! I said i cant hear yoouu" she moaned, "... anyway here's the deal. Everyone's always talking about how you're all SO DAMN STRONG and then came that whole deal in Enies lobby 2 weeks ago. Declaring war ALL for one stupid little pirate girl" her face had gotten serious throughout her tiny little speech. On mention of Enies lobby, Zoro glanced over at Robin noticing that she had also beginning to wake up. "Master gets a little bored every now and again, so he thought 'HAY! Why not test these retarded little shits!' and here we are" she had resumed the fake innocents and giggled when she was done. The extremely vague explanation was not hardly enough to make Zoro understand the situation, nor did it make him realize the gravity of the situation. If that weirdo wanted to test their strength then that was fine! They would just have to kick his ass.

"i wonder how far straw hat nee-chan will be able to go" she snickered. This caught both Zoro's and Robins (who'd only just really come to) "especially considering that we have his greatest weakness in the palm of our hands" she right out laughed. The way she had said it, made it clear she wasn't talking about the sea, Robin gasped has she full comprehended their situation.

None of them had their weapons.

Each and every one of them was heavily chained to the ground (some more then others).

They were locked away.

The devil fruit users had sea stone cuffs (how they got their hands on sea stone was a mystery to her) .

Luffy would do anything for them, even die.

And Luffy was extremely gullible,

They where completely and totally screwed, because as much as they hated to admit it, and the shame that followed the knowledge of it. THEY, the crew of straw hat Luffy, where hostages, and there was nothing at ALL that they could do about it. By the looks of Zoro's growl, robin gathered that he had figured it out too. They were both silent, because it seemed that they little brat wasn't done, since her face still occupied the TV screen.

"I wonder..." false worry in her voice again, mocking them for their misfortune "what would straw hat nee-chan allow us to do to him. If he knew we could CRUSH his precious nakama as easily as we breath" that had done it. Zoro had started to viciously struggle in his chains again, a waste of time, because no matter how strong he was, he was not strong enough to break steel without his swords. Damn where were those things? "... i wonder how far he'll go" she laughed, keeping up her hysterics. She was just plainly taking the piss now, and was grinding more and more at Zoro's nerves.

Zoro sent a glare to the TV, so concentrated with killing intent and it made her flinch, and shut up, stopping her laughing completely (looks like he found that damned camera). There was a silence that seemed to take forever, even though it was hardly even a minute, during which the only sound that was heard, was the deep breaths of Zoro and Robin as their anger built up, and the soft murmuring as another crewmember began to gain consciousness.

"something tells me..." she began again. Her face had dropped, her large lips in a frown, and her eyebrow crinkled, a slight (only slight) glistening in her eyes (as if she was actually sympathetic) and then she checked around herself, as if to make sure no one was around. "... That straw hat Luffy, will go to any lengths to insure the safety of his crew" she muttered, respect was clear in her voice, and something about the way she said it lead both Zoro and Robin to believe it was sincere. Another silence, and the girl seemed to look past the camera, behind it perhaps, and began to smile like she did the first time the TV had flicked on, then she looked dead into the camera. Something about the face she was pulling, made sure that all innocents left her pretty face, as she said in a dark menacing voice "maybe he'll let us just kill him... oh! or he could kill himself chahahahaha!" She laughed as the screen turned off before Robin and Zoro even had the time to react to what she said. The TV then quickly turned BACK on as she said one last thing (with a smile) "oh! i almost forgot! You can watch how well straw hat nee-chan does in the TV! BYE." The TV turned off again after that but remained that way this time.

Both Zoro and Robin were left gawking at the TV. The colure had left their faces; surely, it could not be THAT easy to trick them into the current situation. Besides Luffy would probably walk in fighting as soon as he got there (if he even DID manage to arrive) and all would okay, after all it was Luffy for gods sake.

Although Zoro was telling himself that, he got a felling, that they were in deep shit. He had gotten the same felling back at alabaster. When Luffy had left them to go fight crocodile. If he remembered correctly, that damned rubber man had nearly, ever so nearly, gotten himself killed. His instincts were telling him that they were not leaving without serious difficulty. The thought dawned on him maybe Luffy wont make-

"he'll be fine" Zoro said out load, more to himself then to Robin.

"i didn't say anything" she said with a soft smile, that faded quickly. He grunted, damned sly women. There was silence for a long time, both being left to their own thoughts.

It was finally the day, the day that those shady men were recovered enough to leave the ship. Although he didn't show it, Luffy was very relieved, those men had made him feel uneasy for the whole two days that they where on the ship and now that could finally leave. Luffy didn't like feeling uneasy in his own ship. He was kind enough to the stranger and his nakama though eating and talking enough, although he never bothered to remember his name .He was sure there was a z in there somewhere.

"thank you so much!" he cheered, fake tears in his eyes, shaking each of the straw hats hands before he stopped at Luffy "if you hadn't offered your doctor to me i don't know what would have happened to my comrades" he thanked. Shaking Luffy's hand, then just holding it. "really thank you"

By now all the straw hats had started to feel a little groggy, finding themselves thinking and moving much slower, Luffy's eyes widened and he snatched his hand away from the stranger in front of him, still too slow for his liking.

"tahaha, you caught on to that pretty fast!" the man had said, as all this comrades got into some kind of battle stance.

Their thoughts where interrupted when they heard a quite murmur of "oh of course i will my love, my life." Zoro's face when stern and angry, just by the sound of that damned ero-cook agitated him to no end.

"do you think that captain-san has awoken?" Robin asked.

"of course" Zoro grumbled,

And, like most things concerning his captain, he was right. Luffy had, indeed, woken up from his drug-educed sleep. Paddling so fast, he was almost too fast to be seen.

"lu lu lu lu lu so-ge-kiiiing-gu!" he sang as he desperately paddled faster and faster, ignoring the violent protests from the stab wound, that, when ever managing to close itself up a little (to some incredible feat) would get ripped open again from Luffy extreme paddling, sending waves of pain pulsing through his body. Luffy ignored it. So amazingly well, that nothing in the exterior (besides the wound itself) hinted that he was in any pain at all. He just paddled faster, every now and again looking at the eternal pose pointing to Indread Island, just to make sure he was on the right track. It was clear to him that nothing would stop him, his determination strong and his mind set. Even when he saw a huge ship that smelt of dinner time and tones of meat, he ignored the ferocious growling of his wounded stomach and his ridiculously salivating mouth, and just paddled, not even hesitating for a minute, after all he had more important things on his mind. Like getting to his nakama, eating could wait (since when?) for after he got to his destination, so he just went right past the massive ship within a matter of seconds.

The pirate on watch duty was confused, did he just see that? Or did he not? "what the hell?" he expressed when he saw a flash of a wave, or was it an animal.

"what is it john?" his fat companion asked.

"nah it's nuthin'" he shrugged scratching the back of his head. 'jus' seein' things" he thought, and took a swig from his (4th) mug of rum.

authors note :D :So? what do you think, please review because in very much doubting this chapter.

..ooh and unfortunately (for me) i have exams so next upload may take a week or two. sorry!