New chapter up! Be prepared for a lot of dialogue in this one. Thank you to all who's reading this little story and special thanks to Polyamory for continous reviews and honest opinion ^^ Now enjoy!
Chapter 10
The next morning Zoro's eye was open as a thin elderly man came in with a few other men and women, also the captain was present. He watched the man with hostility as he came forward holding a bowl in front of him. Suddenly him and the few other people people in the room could hear Luffy's angry voice, a bit stronger than it had been the past days. "Zoro don't die, stay alive! Captain's order!" The older man ignored Luffy and continued until he sat in front of Zoro, he said with a clear and loud voice.
"Young man… you sent my three sons to death at Whiskey Peak, no punishment is strong enough for your crimes."
He forced Zoro's mouth open and poured the liquid in the bowl into his mouth. Soon the effect began to work and Zoro was once again shaking. For the first time in four days of torture he let out a scream. With that one scream out, the rest continued to come out as well. When the effects ran out he was actually sobbing loudly.
"Zoro, you cannot die! You hear me? I'm not allowing you to leave my crew!"
"Ai, Captain!" Zoro sobbed.
The man approached him once again, and gave him another bowl with some liquid in it. Zoro cried harder as the man forced the liquid down his throat. This time his body fell limp, not even his eye could move, he was aware that he was on the ground on his back, then suddenly something graced his belly and an overwhelming pain passed through that area. The screams coming out his mouth did no longer sound human.
"Professor Sima, how did you manage that?"
"Captain, it's a special serum that i made. In the first bowl I gave him the liquid enters his blood as soon as it hits his stomach and it makes all the vessels in his body burn. The other bowl contains a serum that will make his body paralyzed except for his vocal cords and increase his sensitivity to touch so anything that will touch him will send pain in that localized area.
"Very impressive professor. However won't he die?"
"Not likely, the blood boiling serum is not in effect for so long for it to make deathly damage, and the other is just messing with his brain. With these serums one could torture a person for an eternity"
Applauses could be heard, it seemed that most of the crew had come downstairs after hearing those screams.
"The only problem is that the second serum runs out to fast out of his system." He said as he forced Zoro to drink another bowl. This time he touched Zoro's forehead…
In the afternoon most of the crew was still there to watch and enjoy their enemy getting tortured with the substances. However… after the last time he got the blood boiling serum something seemed to snap in the swordsman. As the effects ran out he began to laugh a crazed laughter. Sima took a step back from their prisoner. The crew held their breath thinking they had finally managed to break Pirate-Hunter Roronoa Zoro. Then the unexpected happened… he just stopped and stared up with a glazed eye.
"We did it!" Someone shouted happily, "We finally managed to break his mind!"
The fool and three others ran forward in joy to kick the other two mugiwaras, but once again when they crossed that invisible line, they all fell dead on the spot. In front of them stood Zoro, with a knife in his hand. Horrified the crew yelled in fear as they realized that he had stolen the knife from the attackers he had just murdered during their attack.
As they fell in front of him his eye shined red and an inhuman laugh sounded through the room. He licked the blade of the knife he had stolen and said with a wicked tone.
"I suggest you to leave our cell this instant or I will kill anyone in sight. I, am tired of your childish games."
They watched the swordsman with horrified expressions. His limbs were visibly broken, his foot was skinned, his body was marred with holes and old and new blood was constantly mixed all over him from head to toe.
"DEMON!" "DEMON!" "HE IS A DEMON!" THE DEVIL REINCARNATED!" "A DEMON PERSONIFIED!" "DEMON!"
It was chaos as everyone tried to escape through stairs to get up on deck and away from the demon. When only the mugiwaras were left with the cell open, Zoro just sat down beside the corpses and absently stabbed them through the heads and torsos.
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Up on deck…
"Captain what should we do?"
"This has gone out of hand, that is not a human, that is a monster."
"Nothing human could stand up after that!"
"Break his mind we sure did, but who could have expected that to happen?"
"Captain, Marines up ahead!"
"Oh shit! Just our luck!"
"Captain they're catching up on us!"
"Everyone prepare to battle!"
Within 5 minutes the marine ship had latched onto the pirate ship and a full scale battle emerged. The pirate ship was nothing compared to the marine ship and it's experienced crew, and soon the marines had them all in handcuffs and in the cells of the marine ship.
"Smoker-san, there is no one else left up on deck."
"Well done Tashigi… huh?"
A horrified marine came up from some stairs. "Smoker-san, Tashigi-senpai!" Before he continued he emptied his stomach on the deck.
"Boy, what's wrong?" Smoker asked cautiously.
"Strawhat Luffy and Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro are down there together with an unidentified girl, but…but…" The marine turned pale as he recalled the grotesque scene down below.
"Roronoa!"
"Mugiwara!"
Without a second to spare a very alert Smoker and Tashigi ran downstairs and froze at the sight in front of them. The strawhat captain and a girl laid limp on the floor, in front of them were three cut up bodies, new and old blood everywhere on the ground mixed with cerebral contents and in the middle of all sat Roronoa Zoro. Almost naked and with a destroyed body he sat on the floor looking down a blood drenched knife that was laying a few feet away from him, it looked like he was trying to wipe his hands on the floor but not managing as the floor around him was as bloody as his hands and body. As they got closer they could hear him mumble incoherent words.
After swallowing their shock they took a few more steps closer to the cell. Zoro stilled and lift his head and just looked at them with a glazed eye.
"Stop, don't come any closer, Smoker!" Luffy's weak outburst stopped the two marines in their tracks.
"What do you mean?" Smoker asked confused, thinking that Luffy had been unconscious.
"Zoro is sick, he is not thinking right now, if you come closer he will kill you in an instant."
Smoker and Tashigi were now right outside the cell. They were both shocked as the boy began to bawl. "Don't huwt him anywore, pwease! This is enough! I want Brook to pway us a song! To see Franky's new invention! I want to hwear Usopp's stories! I want to see Robin weading on deck! I wan't to eat the food Sanji makes! I want to pway with Chopper! I want to hear Nami navigate Sunny! I want to hear Wexi waugh! But most of all, I want to see Zowo take a nap out in the sun!" The pent up frustration and tears he had held back for days suddenly burst out. He was weeping like a child pleading the marines not to hurt his swordsman any further.
"What did they do to him?" Tashigi asked no one in particular. However the sound of her voice carried to the swordsman ears, and all of a sudden he just looked afraid. His hands shot to his head and he started a loud conversation with himself or to someone or something, they couldn't really figure out.
"No, no! No, it was my fault! Kuina! I'm so sorry! It's all my fault! Your dream, yes the dream, I will fulfill your dream. Wado? Wado!? No, where is Wado Ichimonji? You is Wado! Wado is your spirit! Wado is our promise! Kuina, Wado is safe, I put her away only. Wado, Kuina. Kuina, Wado. Hahahaha! Yes we will become the best swordsmen together, Kuina you and I. With Wado. Hahaha! Becoming the best swordsman, yes, with Wado, means you're the best. I never beat you and will never be able to, therefore if I become the best you will still be better! Hahahahaha! Forgive me, Kuina. It's all my fault! Dead! Death! Guilt! Death! These piece of shit, trying to hurt my nakama! Kill, kill, kill! DIE! DIE! DIE!" Through the whole monolog he had been weeping and shaking but as soon as he laid eye on the corpses his face turned into rage and he picked up the knife and began to stab them again. After a moment though he gave a shout and dropped the knife. The expression on his face was pure horror and disgust, he crawled back, and turned his head and vomited blood and bile.
Smoker and Tashigi were frozen to their place as they saw Zoro vomit, he then fell to the floor with a loud thud, and his body began to convulse. They both recognized it as a seizure. When it passed he laid there panting before sitting up and laughing, this time staring at a wall."
The two marines left to go up on deck again. They were both quiet as the other marines saluted them and waited for their orders. Seeing that neither of them were going to start talking, the marine boy who had approached them earlier asked what they were all wondering.
"Smoker-san, what will we do with the prisoners?"
"We will get them back to their crew."
"But, what about their bounties?"
"Whatever sins they've committed they have paid for it and more to last several life times. No one is to go down there, Roronoa Zoro is currently unstable, being downstairs is not safe."
"How are we supposed to contact the Strawhats?"
"Tashigi get me 'the' Den, den Mushi from my office."
Without a word she left, and a couple of minutes later she came back with what he had asked. During the time she had been away Smoker had ordered his crew to go back to their own ship and stay on alert.
Tashigi handed him the device and he dialed the number to the Sunny.
"Hello?"
"This is Smoker from the marines, who am I speaking to?"
"This is Nico Robin, but you are on speaker so the rest can hear you as well."
"Very well…"
"Before you continue, may I ask how you got our number?"
"A while back your captain and I thought it best in prospect of future negotiations."
"Then, why are you calling now?"
"A few hours back, my ship spotted a pirate ship. We captured it but we found something unexpected in their cells…"
"Go on…"
"Strawhat Luffy, a girl and Roronoa Zoro."
"And you're telling us this because…?"
"They are waiting for you…Listen Luffy and that girl are wearing seastone cuffs, but we can't get to them."
"What do you mean, 'you can't get to them'? Are you implying you want to set them free, what about Zoro?"
"Ok, I will be blunt. The pirates we captured seemed to have tortured Roronoa to the point he has gone mental, the other two are not physically hurt but the seastone seem to have drained their life energy quite a lot. We don't know how long they've been there."
"You still haven't answered my questions."
"The answer is that your swordsman seems to kill anyone who steps anywhere in range right now. He's delirious and looks like something that is supposed to be dead. The reason i'm telling you is that I'm not heartless and those idiots have had enough, so hurry your shitty ship over here and take them back will ya, or they might die!"
"Cordinates?" Another female asked.
"…"
"We will be there within 1 hour."
"I have ordered my crew to stay on our own ship, only Tashigi and I will be present onboard. You're free to latch onto the other side of the ship."
"Thank you."
Both parts hung up…
This was all for this week and next week I will upload two chapters so look forward to it!