Welp! Here I am, back from the dead. Not too exciting but whatever D;
Thanks to those that still stick around and welcome to those that have just begun to read this crappy story! Uhh, light warning, slight ZoNa is found in this chapter. To be quite honest, I'm thinking of making it a thing later on in the story. Should I? Just PM me or review to let me know! Don't forget to re-read last chapter to remember and understand what's happening in this one! Love ya 3

NOW LET THE CHAPTER (THAT'S SHORT AS HELL) BEGIN!


Not much later, Zoro opened his eyes to find himself staring at a familiar ceiling. How did I-. Zoro's eye widens and he sits up immediately and grabs the bucket next to him. He retches a couple of times before actually throwing up.

"Gah...huff! Huff…"

Zoro looks at the contents in the bucket, multiple pieces of soaked cloth, blood, the orange pus, and of course the newly added content of his vomit. All of it mixes together to create a wonderfully disgusting smell of acid and blood. What happened? How did I get here? He swings his legs over the infirmary bed and drops both of his legs down. The burning of his stomach had grown to his chest, but instead of it being sharp, it had died down to a dull fiery ache.

"Ch-chop...Chopper. Huff koff." Zoro sinks back into the infirmary bed and closes his eyes. It's alright if I get some more rest.

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"HUFF HUFF! Vice Admiral Aamia! We've found something we believe might interest you."

A marine cadet stumbles through large doors that lead to a private chamber. In the middle of the room of darkness, a single spotlight revealed a tan skinned woman with black hair and blood red highlights. Her lime green eyes perk up at the sound of the cadet's voice and her back straightens in her throne.

"Oh yeah? What have you found Cadet Baruch?" Vice Admiral Aamia's legs sway back and forth while she nonchalantly continues to chew her gum.

"W-well, we believe that this might be from the one, we located their ship off to the side of the island."

"Ara? How...unfortunate. Out of all the islands they could have gone to, they come to this one? Man, and I thought that we were safe for our...experimentation. AAAAANYWAAAYSSSS, lemme smell, erm… I mean see the item."

The cadet holds up a familiar black cloth, soaked through the cloth was a red substance...blood. Aamia snatches the cloth out of his hand and holds it up to her nose. She inhales for a long time, taking in the scent of the blood and the lingering smell of sweat. Aamia licks her canine teeth and grins. The cadet shivers with fear before quietly making his exit.

"Gotcha...Roronoa Zoro! My nose is absolute, and it's telling me to look your way! Soon, but not yet, I will make you mine!" Aamia spins in her throne to look at the wall behind her which is covered by a familiar bounty poster with a very familiar green headed man. She dashes towards the poster and traces her hand over his face before giving it a quick peck.

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"AHHH!" Zoro sits up for the second time during his infirmary room visit, a cold shiver wracks his spine and causes Zoro to feel nauseous. What the hell was that feeling?!

"UWAH!" Something squeals before bumping into a shelf which causes multiple bottles shatter on the floor. Zoro turns around to see none other than their red-haired navigator.

"Z-Zoro! You're awake!" she all but yells at him. Zoro winces at her booming voice, it echoes in his head causing it to throb.

"W-witch, can you be any louder?!" Zoro scowls at her before noticing that her eyes have water welling up while the corners of her mouth pull to a sad frown.

"O-oi. That's not what I-" She runs and practically tackles him back onto the infirmary bed, squeezing Zoro into a very uncomfortable hug. Huh? What do I do? She looks up from the awkward hug and Zoro watches her tears fall.

"Y-you IDIOT!" she exclaims as she gives him a nice whack to the head. He looks back up at her, rubbing the spot where she just punched him with a confused look plastered on his face.

"What is it woman? What did I do this time?" She looks at him unbelievingly, is he really that dense?

"What did you do? What did you do?! Y-you should know exactly what you did! Why didn't you tell me you got stabbed?! You collapsed in the m-men's quarters and Sanji almost busted the door down cuz you locked it! Then we found you in a b-bloody fucking puddle and unresponsive! Chopper and Sanji carried you here and l-looked at your wound, it was DISGUSTING. YOU HAD A FUCKING WORM THE SIZE OF THE HOLE IN YOUR LEG. I HAD TO PULL IT OUT AND-"

Zoro put a finger to her lips and covered his mouth with his other hand as his eye closed and his head fell forward.

"Wait, you don't need to continue, my stomach is pretty weak right now and I don't need a mental image. I understand, it was terrible and I shoulda told you. I just didn't want you to freak out and I didn't think it was that big of a deal." Nami slapped his finger off of her mouth.

"NO! You don't get it! Zoro it burrowed in your leg! If you let it continue like that without telling anyone you could have...you could have..!"

"Died?" His grey eye met her caramel colored ones. He had a solemn look on his face. I can't even imagine what the witch went through. That must've been one gnarly wound. Wait. My wound. Zoro goes to move Nami off to the side while he lifts his leg back onto the infirmary bed and begins to unwrap the bandages that started at his ankle up to the bottom of his kneecap. The wound seemed a little better, the bleeding wasn't as bad as before and the grayness of his leg had died down to staying around his wound instead of traveling up his calf. The only problem was that he still had a fairly large hole in his calf. It was around the size of a golf ball.

"It looks as though it's gotten better, "

"Yeah, you're telling me."

"M'kay, help me up, I wanna go outside."

"Uh, hell no. You've got a hole in your leg, now you're gonna stay here until Chopper says you can leave."

"Well then go get Chopper, I wanna get out. I hate this place."

"I don't think so. What if something happens again?"

Zoro stops pestering her at this moment to pull Nami back into a hug and whispers in her ear:

"It won't."

Apparently this was enough for Nami because her face turned beet red as she abruptly stood up and opened the door.

"Uh, yeah, I'll go get Chopper for you."

Zoro grins and snickers to himself as he watches the flustered navigator leave. Plan: "get the witch flustered enough to leave" was a success, and now to move into the final phase: "getting out of this hell hole infirmary".

Zoro once again swings his leg off of the infirmary bed and works to stand up. Unfortunately, having a hole in your leg can damage you quite a bit it would seem. Zoro's right leg begins to shake as soon as he stands and his leg quickly buckles out from under him. Thankfully, he could catch himself by holding onto Chopper's desk before he face planted.

"Oh yeah, this'll take some time."


Thanks again for reading this chapter! Sorry it's so short! I hope you at least kindaliked it! Let me know if I should keep going or give up on this story if you guys are still out there!
Hopefully I can post a new chapter by next week Sunday!