Miss Meep: Love the new pen-name :)
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Somehow, Locks had acquired an extra fluffy coat and had been relegated to babysitting duty. Babysitting who, you ask? Why, Zoro of course. The crew had collectively decided that the mosshead couldn't be trusted not to wander off and get lost if left to his own devices.
Locks watched with raised eyebrows as the lunatic swordsman took his shirt off and dived overboard into the frozen river. She didn't move a muscle as Carue, Princess Vivi's duck, dove after Zoro. Locks took a long moment to consider whether or not it was worth moving from her position to follow Zoro around the frozen island . . . the answer was no. It was too cold to move. The duck could do it by himself.
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Sometime later, Locks was disturbed from her semi-meditative state by a ship commanded by a very fat man nearly crushing the Merry. Locks was tired, too tired to ask herself how such a large object had found its way this far upstream. Locks was not pleased by this incursion into her rest. Locks decided that no one would mind if she set the new ship on fire if it didn't harm the Merry.
It took her a little while to work up the energy to do so, but a hole was soon melting in the ugly man's submarine ship from the flames gushing from her mouth in a steady stream. The heat from the glowing hot metal when she finally stopped caused all the ice and snow in the air to turn into a dense, warm fog.
Now that she was all warmed up, Locks was much more partial to the idea of tracking down the swordsman. Completely ignoring the angry scalded fat man and his minions, Locks transformed and flew off to find a green-haired idiot.
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Considering that Zoro had less navigational skills than a headless chicken, it wasn't all that surprising to find him slowly freezing to death in the middle of a forest far away from the ocean where he'd started. Locks set a nearby tree on fire in order to keep warm, whacking the swordsman on the back of the head with her tail. It was then that she noticed Vivi and a very . . . well, puffy would describe his face perfectly right now. Carue was nowhere to be seen.
Vivi freaked at the casual arson, while Usopp and Zoro took a long moment to appreciate the heat.
Zoro demanded Usopp give him his coat. Usopp said no. Zoro asked for Usopp's shoes as they all began to walk. Usopp said no.
"One shoe?" Zoro said hopefully.
"NO!" Usopp yelled.
"You have to pay for your mistakes, you know." Vivi said in a wise-sounding voice. Locks snorted in agreement.
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They came upon a crowd of villagers. When Zoro asked what was going on, he got yelled at for wearing practically nothing. The villager who'd yelled then gaped at the large silvery dragon standing behind Zoro as the swordsman talked to Usopp. Apparently, the villagers were being threatened by soldiers who belonged to the fat guy.
Zoro punched one of them . . . for no other reason than to steal his coat.
