Disclaimer: Of course I do not own One piece
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"Well, if I get to the Marimo first, I'll help him out, and if I run into someone else, I can get them to help. Hell, maybe they heard too and are already on their way." Sanji thought aloud as he ran towards the sound he had heard.
After a while he came to a dead end, but he could still hear Zoro on the other side of it. "Waugh, guess I need to find another way in. Zoro are you alright over there? He yelled as he looked for an opening of some kind.
Nothing. Why isn't he answering me. "Hey Marimo, answer me! I know you can hear me, because I can here you." He yelled.
Still nothing! This must be bad, he thought! Fine. "Well, I remember a hallway a little way back, I'll try to go around, he yelled as he starting to backtrack."
Sanji ran back to the hallway he had seen before and followed it around until he came to a door. It was the only one in the hallways as far as he could see. He grabbed the handle, and turned the knob.
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Robin looked at the panel a little closer, and then glanced around the room before looking back to Franky. "You mean there are no control panels in here that would be used to control it? She asked. "Maybe they are in a different room?"
She walked around, opening doors and drawers here and there, looking for any clue they might have missed.
"Yeah! Not a single thing, as far as I can see. But that's unusual if they are placed somewhere else, because you need to be able to see to run the ship, right? So why have the observation room separate from the control room?" This is Super interesting." He declared.
"Oh, I found a log book!" she said, picking up a notebook she found in one of the drawers. "Maybe this will give up some idea of what's happened to these people."
Franky walked over to her, and the two of them opened the first page.
'Day 0 pre-log: Danif and Talgat are both MIA and we are scheduled to sail in two days' time. I must say that I am quite pleased with the way the ship has been built to my specifications. We have approximately four moons to arrive in Raftel, to make the delivery. Hopefully there are no unforeseen complications.'
'Day 1 log- predeparture: Our two missing team members have arrived just in the nick of time, but Danif looks a little off. I do hope he isn't coming down with something. The package has been put under stasis until our arrival. She is quite the beauty. I wonder why she is to be destroyed."
"For a while, the log pose is quite boring, just telling where the ship has sailed and the time table they are keeping!" Robin announced unnecessarily. "Though it does mention several times that the person named Danif seems to have come down with an increasingly rehabilitating virus."
"Oh this is interesting," she mentioned after flipping through a few pages.
"Day 16 Log: It is proving more troublesome than anticipated, using devil fruit powers to run the ship. The virus Danif brought aboard, has now spread among many of the crew. Which is quite alarming as it is. The fact that it seems to also disrupt the use of devil fruit abilities, buts our entire mission in jeopardy, since the ship runs entirely using these abilities. It also does not help that our chief medical personnel are finding it hard to find a cause for the unknown virus, let alone a cure for it. Without Danif, Tarik and Jamia, we have lost our weight, our eyes, and our electricity. I am thankful at this point, what we have our fair Damalie, for she provides us with entertainment through her striking illusions. Without this, I fear we would have lost moral some time ago.
Day 23 Log: Danif died today. And with him, the weight to this submarine. From here on, it seems we will be traveling upon the surface. We must also travel without electricity, because Tarik's condition is unstable. The doctors think they may have a cure. I hope it is effective, because nearly half the crew has come down with the virus now, and those who have had it longer, are close to death. May the gods help us now!"
Day 25 Log: We have lost four more crew members today. The cure has failed, and our mission along with it. Even our means of communication is gone, and our doctors are now suffering the effects of the virus, along with almost every person aboard the ship. Maybe this is Karma, for trying to do something so crazy as to build a ship run by devil fruit powers. Strangely enough it was these same people who succumbed first to the virus. How very ironic. Still, non-devil fruit users are not far behind."
Day 31 Log: Final entry- "I am one of the few left alive aboard the ship, and my health is failing. I can only hope that if someone finds us in the future, the illusions placed on the ship will keep them away. If not, our treasure will be safeguarded by the seven deadly sins, so that only one with pure intend might find her. That is my final wish, as I do not think any of us will make it out of here alive."
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The next outfit Nami tried on, was an elegant black dress, which was sparkly, and hung to her knees in the front, but to her ankles in the back. Like the first, it had a plunging neckline, but not quite as low as the first. There were ruffles along the edges on the bottom, and a strappy top. With it, she wore black high heels, and dangling diamonds on her ears and neck. Though the tiara was absent this time, nd her hair fell loose in long curls. Usopp smiled despite himself when he saw her.
"You look like you are going to some fancy party like the nobles or celestial dragons would." He said, and chuckled a little as she frowned. "though I think you were it better than any one of them could ever possibly wear it." He continued, causing her to blush a little. He took a picture of her in this outfit, in front of the velvet curtains, and then she went to change again."
Suddenly they heard a scream off in the distance, and startled, they both turned to look at the door. "What was that?" Nami asked nervously. "I think play time is over." She said as she ran into the closet to change back to her normal clothes. A few minutes later, she was back out, and ready to leave.
"Nami wait a minute!" Usopp exclaimed as she opened the door to leave. "You still have on the earrings." He reminded her.
"Oh, you're right!" she said sheepishly, as though she were unaware.
'hmmm, maybe she really didn't realize it.' He thought "Anyway, I am going to explore a little bit, I will be right back." He said, leaving her to return the earrings.
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Suddenly a fuzzy memory invaded Zoro's mind, and he frowned, now remembering the girl quite vividly, and a surge of guilt washed over him. "Emma" He whispered, and suddenly he wasn't feeling turned on at all. Instead he felt bile rise in his throat, and his stomach churned. More than anything in the world at this moment, he wished he could forget again.
"I see you finally remember your first victim" The voice resounded throughout the room.
"I didn't know" Zoro shook his head, but the guilt wouldn't leave him. "She approached me in the alley-way, it was my first time, and I thought she was pretty. I didn't know she was a slave. I didn't know she was only 16." He said.
"But you kept seeing her, even after you found out." The voice reminded him. "Can you still claim your innocence?"
"When I found out, I wanted to be there for her. I could only do that, if I was a paying customer. I wanted to save her. To free her. so I defeated him and took her home. I cared for her."
"You used her, and left her." The voice continued.
"That's not true., I cared for her." He exclaimed. "I wanted to stay with her, but her mom said I would just remind her of the bad experiences she had and what she had been through. That's why I left."
"So you believe you did the right thing?" The voice inquired.
"I did at the time" Zoro replied sadly.
"But you don't feel that way now." The voice spoke assuredly." What changed?"
"A few months after I left, I got word that their village was attacked by pirates." Zoro said as he buried his face in his hands. Several of the younger girls were raped and brutally murdered. Emma was one of them."
"And you feel guilty about that?" the voice asked.
"If I had been there…maybe I could have saved her." Zoro admitted. He noticed his body was shaking, and took a deep breath to calm himself. "It's a big part of the reason I became a bounty hunter."
"Very well. and what about the concession of girls…and guys that followed?" the voice asked then.
As if on cue the screen started showing a collage of pictures and sex scenes flooding the screen. Strangely enough, other than Emma, every single one of them had dark hair and warm brown eyes. Zoro was captivated as he watched the pictures unfold. He had never realized this preference before, and looking at them now, they all reminded him in some way of Kuena, and he would also be willing to bet, he didn't know even one of their names.
"All I can really say in my defense is that they were willing and of age." He said. "To be honest, I didn't really get to know any of them. I was just looking for temporary company."
"And him?" the scene suddenly showed him kissing Luffy at the makeshift beach earlier. "Is he to be temporary company as well?" the voice asked.
"Of course not" Zoro's face flooded red, partly in embarrassment at being judged, and partly in anger. "Luffy is different. And anyway, that kiss was just to complete the puzzle and get out of there." He insisted.
"I see" the voice resounded. "you care about him, but he is not the one you want, is he?" the voice continued as the scene before Zoro shifted again, this time focusing on a certain, blond haired, curly eyed, noodle dancing fool, with eyes for hearts, as he noodled before an unseen person in a lavender bedroom with a large canopy bed.
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Chopper Walked around the sunny for a while, checking to make sure nothing was amiss. When he confirmed that everything seemed calm, he walked down to grab a book from the library, and brought it out to the deck to read. "It's not that he disliked Luffy's company, but if the captain kept asking him for something to eat, and giving him those pouty faces, the little doctor didn't know how long he would be able to hold out, and keeping food away from the captain right now, was for his own good. He couldn't give in this time, he wouldn't. Usually chopper would look for medical books to try to discern a problem and how to fix it, but Luffy's problem was different than anything he had ever heard of before. 'Could this be the result of someone's Devil fruit? But there didn't seem to be anyone on the ship. Although, if there wasn't anyone on the ship, where did the food come from? And the illusions. This was all very mysterious.' he thought, as he pulled out a book about rare devil fruits.
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Now things may seem a little mixed up right now, with what's going on with Sanji and what's going on with Zoro but it will come together, I promise. Poor Zoro, has probably never had to defend himself in his life, can you imagine how hard it must be to remain calm under any circumstances and defend his actions instead f solving his problems with a sword or three. At least we ow have a bit of an explanation about what happened to the ship they have found themselves on. Anyway, see you next time.