Chapter 10: The Zodiac Archipelago Act Part 1
The cover was a blue tint with silver patterns. A single golden butterfly rested on a white cherry-tree in the middle of it. The bottom was engraved in an ancient text that Robin might have known or someone else. She opened the book showing the title page. "Shibuya's Ruins." Was what the book read as they were on the page? The copyright and printing pages were nowhere to be seen.
"Is that the book?" Sanji asked.
"Yes, Cook-san, the ancient text has been very difficult to understand, but some words are easy." Nico Robin replied back.
"What's that?" Chopper asked as he noticed a very heavily colored page in the book.
Robin flipped to the page as she smiled. "I believe it's a picture of a small cat on a hill."
The picture seemed to be alive as if it were enchanted from the years of magik text. The colors and tones of shading throughout the years made the picture seem to be worth something other than the worth of the emotion its gives.
A girl was sitting there staring at the cat and the butterfly while she smiled. She looked a lot like Sparky, but Sparky's eyes were hazel and not golden. The cat was pure white with blue wide eyes and black pupils. Black spots above its eyes were showings. A red collar was around its neck as well.
There was some text on the right hand side of the tree stating, 'Taken by the sea, only to be claimed by the current as I am here now, only I'm not here but I'm thereanyway.'
"MERA-TAIL!" Shouted the creature as its golden tail became ablaze with fire. He swung it at Soul fiercely.
Soul dodged slowly, grazing his arm, as he groaned from the contact of fire.
"SHIMO-CRY!" Subaku yelled out as he caterwauled a sheet of ice shot out of his mouth hitting Soul.
"Damn!" Soul cursed as blood was soaking out of his leg. He yelled, "MIRROR SLICE!" A thin sheet of metal was thrown Subaku's body.
There was a long tortuous battle going on and even Fire Fist Ace and Roronoa Zoro were caught in it and severely injured summing up that whole day…
The next week was when they finally arrived at 'Zodiac Archipelago'. They all started to dock there, but Sparky was still in her room sleeping like an angel. Soul had dispersed back into Scythe which is now in her room. The creature left after giving Ace and Zoro some 'parting gifts'.
"Damn! That smarts!" Ace began to whine while Chopper began to treat him but putting on some sting burns. Hey, even though he's 'fire Fist Ace' he still gets hurt!
((YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! D: I don't wanna think about the pain he's in right now!))
Zoro laughed but regretted it when he felt some wounds ache.
Luffy walked in groaning about 'Evil door' and 'the hell' with a red mark on his face.
"NE! LUFFY! WHY IS YOUR FACE ALL RED!" Chopper yelled.
"Oh… I tried to get Sparky-chan to wake up but…. I got attacked by the guy." Luffy whimpered.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO ENTER THE DEVIL-SHE'S ROOM!" Usopp yelled.
"So, Sparky hasn't even woken up for a week? I wonder how bad her injuries were."
"I feel bad for putting her in your care though!" Ace laughed.
"OI! Hey, Ace, why is there a bite mark on your neck?" Zoro asked.
Ace suddenly remembered the bite I left him, and he blushed. "Uh…. Sparky?"
"Woah…. 'Fire Fist' gots the hots for someone he just met, and to prove it she left a hicky!" Zoro laughed teasing Ace.
"No! She just bit me is all she did!" Ace started but fell short of an explanination as Sanji came in.
"Oi, what'd ya doing?" He asked getting ready to walk into town with Nami and Robin.
"Ne, Zoro said that Sparky left a 'hicky' on Ace. What's a hicky?" Luffy asked.
"SHE DID WHAT? ACE! SHE'S ONLY 15!" Sanji yelled making Ace flinch.
"Ne, what time is it?" I groaned out in pain rubbing my eyes. I saw my room and the waves of the ocean began to soothe me. I looked up to see the tiny reindeer looking at me.
"Kami, SO ADORABLE!" I yelled in uber cuteness at the reindeer as I hugged him. I smiled at him before wincing at the pain. "Ita…. I feel like I just got hit by a Boomer Beat." I muttered realizing that Chopper was staring at me.
"What's a Boomer Beat?"
"Oh, they're a type of Kangaroo Noise. They come in different forms depending on the type of music. Naturally, Noise are more like animals with different kinds of music groups, styles, types, and personality wise traits." I explained to the doctor. I actually felt a bit better than I did…. Wait… what day is it?
"Did it have tattoo like legs and a small tattoo like baby in its pouch?" Chopper asked.
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"Well, we've seen some of those types of monsters around the Grand Line. They seem to appear for some reason and eat people out of thin air! Before you came with us, which was a week ago, they outright attacked us for no reason! That's when we met up with Portgaz D. Ace, Luffy's older brother, and he creamed them with the help of our captain, Monkey D. Luffy! His boat got wrecked by one of them, and so he's with us now." Chopper replied as I began to softly pet him.
"Oh, they're very dangerous and it's my job as a player to kill them before they erase me!" I smiled. I felt the boat not moving so I asked Chopper why.
"Well, we docked at one of the towns in 'Zodiac Archipelago' to get some supplies. It seems that there's a very famous festival going on tonight and we are invited." Chopper said as he closed his eyes from the pleasure I was giving his fur.
"Cool, Chopper, can I go to the festival? I'm part of the Zodiac, and I wanna see if they're celebrating my Year of the Animal." I begged making the 'Please, I promise I won't get in to any trouble' look that most people fell for.
"I don't know… Your wounds are still infected. You need constant watch for getting into trouble." Chopper thought.
"Please! I'll go with….." I started to say but stopped when my door opened to reveal Portgaz D. Ace standing there in bandages from head to toe.
He looked at me for awhile before he smiled. His face was red with embarrassment or from a giant shoe mark on his face. Is that my mark?
"HIM!" I pointed as I pleaded to Chopper.
"Alright…. Since its Luffy's big brother, it'll have to do. He doesn't get into the kind of trouble Luffy does." Chopper concluded before he walked up to Ace, patting his leg. "You're going to watch Sparky during the whole Zodiac festival. She wants to see if they're celebrating her Year of the Animal she has."
"Zodiac Festival? You mean the Animal things?" Ace asked. He was confused to why as I jumping up and down like Luffy when he was small.
"YATTA! I GET TO SEE A ZODIAC FESTIVAL! :3 I HOPE its MAH ANIMAL!" I shouted as my room seemed to be excited as my TV buzzed the ending for Bleach known as "Happy People".
"Yes, she seems to be very interested in the Zodiac. And since Luffy wants to go, we all have to go." Chopper sighed as he walked out the door.
YAY! ZODIAC ARCHELEGIO COMES ALIVE… And there are a lot of chapters in it…. RATE AND REVIEW!