Jen finished telling them what she knew of the criminals. Robin seemed to be the one who accepted it more than the other two but Jen already knew that would happen. She looked at Nami closer and assumed the girl would not be able to deal much with the two. Franky on the other hand seemed to be a little calmer, his face tight almost in thought.

"You three should return to your ship, Sam and I am going to stay here and wait for you and your crew to either agree or not to what I am asking now. Will you help us before they go after a challenge?"

HR

Sanji groaned, coughing rapidly as he slowly began to shake away the cob webs in his mind. His clothes were soaking wet and his mouth tasted of salt water. He glanced left then right and frowned to realize he was in the ocean not too far from Sunny go. Slowly he turned onto his stomach coughing in pain and starting swimming in deep strokes.

HR

Zoro held his hand to his wound as he carried his captain to a random door, begging that the person inside did not realize that they were pirates. He coughed a few times tasting the copper that came up and figured he was severely injured.

He shifted Luffy's weight before knocking onto the door. Slowly he felt the grip loosen as his head leaned forward.

"Come on." He coughed out hoarsely before he heard someone laughing at him.

"Do you really think we'd let you leave?" Zoro froze before turning around and looking at the person. His hand went to his swords before he heard the door open and something sharp cut into his wrist.

"We let you leave; you should be heading back to your ship… after all we don't like out quotes to be hidden." Zoro turned to look into the man's eyes before he felt something being launched at him from behind knocking him down before he tried to push it off.

His hand hit something clammy, cold, and fleshy. He turned to stare into the dead blue eyes of the mother of the family they left them to kill. He stared into her eyes for a while before he felt something solid, hard, and fast make contact with his cheek sending him farther away from Luffy.

His back roughly hit concrete before he coughed sending a spasm up his back. He tried desperately to get up before he fell down.

'Why am I so weak?' he shouted in his brain before he heard laughter.

"Roronoa Zoro we came to ask you who we should kill out of your group." Zoro looked up seeing a sword, his sword, held up to Luffy's heart already cutting into the flesh.

His heart dropped as he thought of what he should do. He couldn't make it if he rushed the people, he couldn't betray his friends, and he didn't know if he could even walk at the moment from the numbness in his legs.

"Anyone from the crew?" the woman nodded. Zoro quickly took a deep breath before getting his feet under him and leaning heavily on the wall in order to stand though he still couldn't feel his legs. "Me."

The man laughed as the woman nodded her head walking forward, "I did say anyone, didn't I."

"Yep, maybe you should be careful-"

"No, I like it this way, self sacrifice is the best motivation to anyone." She slowly looked into his eyes before waving her hand into the air and looking at the man. "Make it slow."

Zoro took a small intake of breath before he felt something force more air into his lungs making it severely difficult to breath. If he could scream he would have as he felt something piece his right arm to the wall then moved to his left then slowly trailing it upwards to his shoulders before spiking them both.

Zoro panted before he felt the things slowly beginning to outline his torso. He felt a few ribs being scraped before a few more broken as the stakes slammed into them breaking them on both sides. Slowly the pain ebbed away as he started to fade in and out.

"Not yet Pirate hunter." Zoro growled at the woman as she planted a small kiss on his cheek. "I still need to write the quote on your chest."

Slowly the words were etched along the horizontal line on his chest.

"I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction" they spoke the words out loud for him to hear before leaving him nailed to the wall and Luffy a few feet away unconscious.


Jeffry Dahmer quote! I love that man's work