Man, what is going on, where am I? What is up with this head ache? It feels like my head is being crushed. What is this on me, a blanket?... Oh right. Now I remember. Dang it. These were the thoughts in Zoro's mind when he woke up. He then took the blanket off and started rubbing his aching head. "Hey, how are you feeling?" Riku asked after a moment, "Like crap." Zoro said still rubbing his temples. "Well that is only normal to have, a massive head ache after that, but fair warning, your fangs will grow in soon too. By what I can tell that hurts even more." Riku said as he walked away from Zoro to the other side of the small boat. "Oh, another thing you should know, you can't eat or drink anything now and the first thing that will go through your mind when you hear, certain words, will be to hurt people. If you get hungry, I'm sorry, you will have to bear with it." Riku explained as nicely as he could. "Well thanks for the explanation." Zoro said sitting down. "My superiors think that chewing will make it hurt less, so here, take this and chew on it, if their right then it will dull the pain." Riku told Zoro as he gave him a metal pipe. "Your teeth wont break if you chew on it, their stronger and harder than before, so don't worry." Riku said trying to be friendly to him. Zoro held it up and looked at it for moment before looking back at Riku "Thanks" Was all Zoro said and they didn't say a word after. About five minuets later, Zoro felt a sharp pain in his jaw that felt worse than having it ripped off. It was so bad even he yelled out in pain for a moment before he bit down on the pipe, it really did lessen the pain a little. When the pain stopped he looked at the metal pipe he was chewing on and saw that it was no longer recognizable as a pipe.
Zoro soon felt a strange hunger in him after that, but he made sure to keep it under control. They had another day left till they would make it to their destination, Zoro was surprised that they would make it there so soon. "Well actually, we have been sailing for more than a month, you slept most the way." Riku told him "What?" was Zoro's only response "Don't worry it is quite normal, however I find it strange strong-willed people have been known to wake up early and pass out later, I wonder if it is a sign. Maybe you are the one that they are looking for, who knows?" Riku speculated as Zoro thought about his friends.
"Hey, we should be there tomorrow, I'm going to get some sleep, stand watch, and don't bite me." Riku said as he went inside the small cabin part of the ship, he then closed the door and put some garlic on the handle to be safe. Zoro just sat there for a while and looked at the stars, till he picked up a familiar presence with his Haki. He then stood up and saw a small ship just larger than theirs, then,as it came he saw the people he had been thinking about not to long ago. There stood on the other ship Franky, Robin, Ussop, Kya (Who he wasn't really thinking of, but knew her), and Sanji. All of them were looking at Zoro, more specifically, the two fangs protruding from his mouth. "Looks like they got you too, sward man-San" Robin said looking down, "You crappy sward man, what did I tell you?! 'They are not as weak as they' crappy 'Look'" Sanji said also looking down, "This is really unsupper. Look how many of us they have now!" Franky said crying "Idiot, don't look at me, I'm not crying." Franky said as he fell to the ground holding himself with one hand and covering his face with the other. "I never thought that they would get you Zoro, man. Their making us look bad. They even went and did it to Kya too." Ussop said looking at Kya as a stray tear went down her face. "What are you guys doing here?" Zoro asked confused. "We heard a rumor that you had 'disappeared' as well, so we came to verify it." Robin said in her normal tone, still looking down. "We have been running ever since we 'disappeared' from others, the other of our kind will try to force us to hurt others and if we get to close to normal people we can feel our 'desire' grow, so we have to stay away from them too." Ussop said, Zoro was getting confused at why they kept avoiding specific words but kept it to himself thinking back on what Riku had said earlier. "You want to come with us, at least we can keep each other company, right? While we run from the others." Kya said and stared crying. "Hang on a second, this guy told me that he will take me to people who are working on a cure, they maybe able to help us become normal again. Come on if they find a cure than we can go home again, and back to our friends." Zoro said and everyone perked up. They stayed on their ship, since Riku's boat couldn't hold them all, but Zoro tied their ship on to the back of Riku's.
In the morning Riku saw this, but didn't know what to do about it so he left it as it was and waited till Zoro woke up to ask. "Hey, what is going on? Did you know about this?" Riku asked pointing at the ship behind them "Yeah, there are some of my friends on that ship that are in the same condition as I am, I told them about what you were trying to do and wanted to join up in it, you were asleep so I just tied them on the back so that they could still travel during the day. Is that a problem?" Zoro asked as he looked at Riku "No, not at all. I was just worried we were under attack or something. Why aren't they up?" Riku asked back "They told me that being around normal people made it hard on them." Zoro replied as he sat down and looked at the sky as the sun set the rest of the way. A few hours later Riku yelled out "We're their!", "Hey, you don't have to yell." Zoro said as he looked around. He couldn't see it so he decided to use Haki and was able to find it was under water. Riku released the anchor "It will raise now." Riku said and confused Zoro but he didn't ask, soon small bubbles could be seen coming up, followed by larger ones, and after a while the ship was being thrown to and fro till finally the massive construction was above sea level.