Well here is the next chapter. The sad thing is I have no more obligation (other then my loyal and faithful readers) to continue since I lost the contest I was in this round. Though it was my fault, but it is a relief to be free of constantly worrying about it! I made it to the last TWO weeks and that is all that really matters! And now I just need to finish it, I am really hoping that I will be done by the next chapter though because I am really am getting tired of this, though I have enjoyed it, but I really want to get on with the other stories that have been gathering dust on this site.
So here is the chapter where the truth is free, though it is indeed strange to be free. Well this chapter is the conclusion of what happened (not very well)
Sits in a corner depressed because it is indeed almost over... "one chapter left, time sure flew by fast."
Creed could only tolerate a few things. Zoro's incisiveness' and his own will to slaughter those fools that claimed to be his nakama and the fool in his head was one thing he could not stand. He would do anything to be rid of the horrid of that boy that made his gut clinch in fury as the straw hat wearing boy would cuss him out, tell him he could and would not be touching his friends again and again in a never ending cycle.
It was growing tiresome, and it was getting on his last bit of nerves. In a slight release Creed slammed his fist into the table he had dragged out of the dining room to the deck to keep watch on the small and disgusting ships that had taken to grouping up to figure out a battle plan.
There was also one more think Creed could and would never tolerate: Kuina. A sadistic smile came on his face as he remembered how she betrayed him, and outsider just like he was, on an island married to Zoro.
"That woman will pay for what she has done." Greed growled out threw thin lips before he felt something inside the boys mind snap into planning. He grinned a little, he did like the boys determination, it was something he quite liked.
Chopper looked down at Sanji and felt slightly worried. The wound he had was deep and it had pierced threw his back and out of his stomach. It had made it difficult for the reindeer to remove and stop the bleed due to how big it was and how much slivers of the mast that was left behind.
"You are lucky Sanji that it didn't make it harder to patch up." The small zoan user said as he looked at his patient. In the corner Ussop was sitting next to Robin, both looking pale as they remembered the fight that happened not too long ago on the ship that had caused Sanji's wound.
It had been hard for them to realize that there was nothing left of Luffy inside that think as they fought him barely an hour ago.
"I can't believe that this is happening." Ussop said, remembering so many times where the crew was almost ripped apart.
"Do not worry, we shall get them back." Robin said, trying to calm down the sniper though she felt that it was indeed going to be hard to get out of this mess unscathed.
The door creaked open as a woman entered, she looked at them before her eyes fell onto Sanji. "Has he fought him?" she asked, looking pale. The crew, what was on the ship, looked her before nodding slightly. "Damn." She cursed before going to his side and looking at the bandaged wound. "How bad is it?" she asked, not wanting to poke around to check his chest wound without the doctor's permission.
"Bad, I barely stopped the bleeding." She nodded before she raised her hand and began chanting softly, all three of them watched before her hand turned into a red like liquid that began to drip onto Sanji's stomach.
"What do you think you are doing?!" Robin shouted, grabbing her shoulder as Sanji gasped out. The woman looked at her, her eyes dark and dangerous, before she went back to looking at Sanji.
"I am healing his wound." She said before allowing a much more quantity to fall onto him until a few minutes later she stopped and her hand returned to normal. When she turned to look at them she smiled sadly, "My name is Kuina, and I was Zoro's past wife a long time ago when he was the god of our country." She could see that they didn't quite understand her. Laughing a little she motioned her hand towards the door before it opened and Nami entered by being pushed in by a man who looked identical to Zoro.
"This is my eldest son, Zoro's son." She looked at him before smiling softly to him. "I have a favor to ask of you all." With that it went silent as they all looked at each other before allowing her to continue.
Creed wanted to scream as he felt anxious for the fight to continue and it was enough to make him leave his post to grab something to eat –due to his stomach still growling after a few minutes since he last ate all of the fruits that was on this ship- and turned on the oven and shoved three pieces of leg into it to cook. Feelings satisfied that it wouldn't burn tell he got back to check on it he went to see how Zoro was doing.
As he entered the woman's room he noticed something he didn't really like. It didn't feel like Zoro was in here, as if something about the god changed while he was on watch. Shaking his head that it didn't matter anymore did he walk over and sat down by the man and smiled, he looked better now that he had a few hours of sleep. The bigger wounds had stopped bleeding on their own –for he didn't really care of treating him- and he felt content knowing that nothing would be going wrong tell…
He could feel it like he felt it back then, the pull of puppet strings, and the pull of someone turning everything he wanted around again. Cursing his luck he quickly shot of out of his seat and made his way out of the ship to stand on the deck and hiss at the smaller ships sailing closer to him.
What made him yell in frustration was the fact that all in all she was standing there looking at him with her pitiful eyes and 'they'-the villagers- stood behind her in support. It disgusted him how they believed her, how she ruined him that day with her lie!
"How dare you." He spoke between clinched teeth. "How dare you ruin my life to save your pathetic existence!" He remembered her promise to him, how she would put in word with the council and her husband for him to stay on this island.
That was until she realized he looked up to Zoro as his own brother. It must have been surprising, after all she dotted on the man more then he joked with him, and to go as far as to frame him for those children's death! It sickened him.
"A woman who lies to control all in her path… pathetic." He spoke solemnly before he quickly walked into the kitchen turning off the oven and allowing the meat to cool down before he began to eat it ravenously until there was only bone left and he began to think of what to do now.
"Kill her of course." He said with an ear to ear splitting smile before he stepped out onto the deck and waited for them as he cracked his knuckles.
Luffy watched as if time was different on each side until he spotted Sanji standing next to Kuina-the one he saw in Creed's memories when he dwelled on them at times- and it was obvious that the spirit didn't see him or his crew. Smiling he couldn't help but allow the joy swell up inside him when he realized that Sanji was alive and nothing seemed wrong.
Sanji and the rest of the crew glared at Kuina as she looked at Creeds form standing on the ship grinning like a mad man at her. They were told like the rest of the people of what Kuina had done to the man to make him so bitter and that she was the reason this curse had been placed on them all.
The village at first was shocked but they soon forage her afterwards. It was difficult to believe that she had done it because she felt that he would take away the one that she loved- putting ideas in her husband's head and actually showing him more of the world- so they forgave her in understanding that she indeed loved her home and her husband to stop their god from leaving them, though in the end it will happened.
"Do not fret; when this is over we shall not try to reclaim your swordsman to take our dead gods place." Kuina said looking at them before again at Creed. "When this is over all of us should be free of this curse."
Creed could only smile wildly until he heard something move behind him. Zoro stood in the entry way with half glazed eyes and his mouth hanging open as he looked at the group behind him.
Creed growled as he whipped his head to look at them all and saw the sad smile on Kuina's face and he knew it at that moment that she had finally did the one thing to undo the curse. She had given up on the love of her life, her husband, and set aside her own desire to set him free.
"You…" he growled out before he turned to look at Zoro and he suddenly felt weak. He wished to cry out to him and make him look at him if only to see if it was… though he knew… he knew when he stepped into that room. He had changed. "Zoro… please no…" as the tears began to fall. Nothing he could do or try desperately to make Zoro the god of the three swords remember him.
After all, the man in front of him was not that man. It was the Roronoa Zoro born in this time, his soul no longer the same but pure and reborn.
"It can't be… It can't be… IT CAN'T BE!" and Creed rushed forward at the boat where the woman who ruined his life so long ago and to this day resided with the crew who had everything he ever wanted.
"KUINA, I'LL MURDER YOU THIS TIME AND NOTHING WILL SAVE YOU!"
