"Black Leg!"
Sanji stopped his cleaning of the kitchen and looked back over his shoulder, flinching when he saw a smiling Zoro's face looking right at him. Inside he knew it was Chas, but he couldn't help but cringe.
"Ah, C-Chas-san," Sanji said with a small stutter and smile. "Is there something you need?"
"I was wonderin' if ya needed help with anythin'," Chas said, walking into the room to see clean dishes stacked on the counter, along with all appliances on to cook that evening's dinner. "All the others had kicked me out and told me not to help them, and Mochi"-Sanji gave a small chuckle unnoticed by Chas-"told me not to bother him with nonsense since it's the last day of the switch…"
"Chas-san, it's kind of you to ask, but I can't make a woman do all the dirty work around here," Sanji said with a strained smile.
"Don't worry!" Chas said waving a hand naturally. "I'm not a woman today!" Chas soon froze and paled when she realized what she said. "I can't believe I just said that…"
"All right," Sanji sighed, knowing Chas wouldn't go away until he agreed for her to help, "if you really want to help, will you grab six more carrots and five more celery sticks from the pantry?" Sanji pointed to the large door to his right.
"Gotcha!" Chas said with a bright smile, which just freaked Sanji out even more. He didn't know how to react to Zoro's face smiling like that. He just kept trying to picture Chas smiling at him, but it never seemed to fully work.
Chas walked over to the pantry and opened it, stepping in to grab the said supplies. Once he had then in her hands, she walked back out and set them on the counter, looking back over to the stacked dishes.
I guess I'll just put these away… Chas thought, grabbing the clean dishes and putting them in the cupboards they belonged in.
"I would have done that, Chas-san," Sanji said looking over in her direction.
"I got it," Chas said with another smile.
Sanji gave a small smile and looked back to the meal he was preparing, somewhat glad for Chas's help in his kitchen.
"120…121…122…123…" Zoro continued to count as he did pushups in the gym. Even if he was stuck in Chas's body, he wasn't going to give up his usual training just because she was weak.
Soon, Zoro collapsed onto the ground and managed to roll over onto his back, panting for much needed air.
"Dammit!" he said, slamming his fists against the ground. He hated being weak like this. In his frustration, he turned his head to look over to the open window, seeing the clouds float calmly across the sky. They were gray, which must have meant there was going to be rain soon, or so he guessed.
Zoro yawned and soon found himself drifting off into a much needed nap. He didn't bother getting off the hard ground, finding it rather comfortable to lay on. He was soon snoring happily away in dreamland.
After about two hours or so, Zoro had woken up from his nap by the strange feeling of something, or someone, staring at him. He slowly opened his eyes and looked in front of him, only to be met with a pair of orange eyes that were on a round peach shape figure with a long, skinny, stem to a second fat portion.
"Must be dreaming…" Zoro mumbled, closing his eyes again and trying to drift off to sleep.
"KYA!"
Zoro's eyes opened again and blinked a few times so the picture of whatever was sitting on his chest was clearer. Indeed, it was clearer, but what he saw just managed to tick him off: The bird had returned. The yellow feathers, purple wings, and orange eyes were an exact match the ones he saw on the bird days ago.
"KYA!" it screeched again, right in Zoro's face.
Zoro cringed from the screech, but soon recovered to try and grab the bird. The bird was quick and jumped away before Zoro could grab it.
"Get back her you damn thing!" Zoro shouted, running after it. It continued to run around the room, ducking under weights and hiding behind the towels. But Zoro always managed to find it and tried grabbing its thin neck again.
"KYAAA!" the bird screamed, making a jump for the opened window.
Zoro jumped for the bird, but it had already made it out the window. Zoro got up off the ground and looked out the window to see the bird sitting down on deck, walking around. It soon looked up, eyes bugged out, and it ran away to hide.
Zoro quickly got out of the gym and returned to deck, beginning to head in the direction the bird went in.
"Hey, Zoro!" Luffy said, seeing the male in a female's body run past him. "What are you-" Zoro just ran past his captain and continued to head after the bird, which Luffy saw turn the corner.
As Luffy was about to shrug off the whole thing, he saw Zoro and the bird reemerge from the other side of the walkway around the Kitchen, Dining Room, and Infirmary.
"Oi, Zoro, I want to play too!" Luffy said, beginning to chase after the bird too.
"I'm not playing a game!" Zoro shouted.
Luffy didn't care whether it was a game or not, he just wanted to join in the fun of chasing after the bird.
"What the hell is going on out here?!" Chas shouted, exiting the kitchen with Sanji right behind her. She then saw the purple and yellow bird, running across the deck like a Dodo bird. Unlike Zoro, she didn't get angry at seeing the bird, but she did get angry at seeing Zoro chase after it.
"Knock it off, both of you!" Chas shouted, quickly getting Zoro into a headlock.
"Get off me, Manju!" Zoro shouted, trying to get himself released.
"Stop chasing the bird then!"
"Will all of you just shut up?!" Chas and Zoro, along with Luffy who had finally caught the frightened bird, were hit on the head by Nami. All three listened and stopped what they were doing, sitting their quieting while Nami tried calming down the frightened creature.
"You shouldn't treat it this way!" Nami scolded them. "Even if it is the cause of your problems." Nami soon looked to Luffy. "And you! Why were you chasing after it?!"
"It looked like fun!" Luffy said, which got answered with another hit to the head.
"But why is it back?" Chopper asked, looking up the bird on Nami's shoulder.
"KYA!" it screeched.
Chopper blinked. "Oh…really?" The bird shrieked again and soon more after that, as if explaining itself in full scale.
"What'd it say, Chopper?" Usopp asked, joining the group with Brook, Robin, and Franky behind him.
"He said that he came back to apologize," Chopper said, looking to everyone. "He didn't mean to swap Chas and Zoro, but did it to get away from their arguing. He felt that if he had stayed Zoro would have ripped off his head."
"AW!" Chas said, tears beginning to get in the corner of her eyes.
"Don't start crying with my face!" Zoro shouted at her.
Chas looked to Zoro. "But I can't help it… It's just so sweet…"
"I want to keep it," Luffy said, looking at the bird with a smile. The bird squawked at Luffy and soon bit his nose, making it stretch as Luffy pulled away to look at the others. "See? It likes me!"
"I don't know Luffy…" Chas said. "It looks to me like"-everyone was soon surprised when she stopped talking for a moment, then continued talking from her own lips and feminine voice-"it wants nothin' to do with ya." Chas's eyes widened and she was frozen from shock, which was the same expression everyone else was showing.
"About time…" Zoro said, stretching in his own body. "I was getting tired of having water bags on my chest."
Everyone around the two stared and said nothing (except for Sanji who was more than happy to see his lovely princess back to being herself).
"I'm back!" Chas shouted, jumping to her feet but she soon learned that was a bad idea when the sudden wash of pain fell over every limb in her body. She immediately looked to Zoro. "Why do I hurt everywhere?!"
"It's not my fault you're weak," Zoro said, cleaning his ear. "I had to cut my training in half because of your weak body."
"I'm female!" Chas shouted, grabbing him by the collar. "And I'm not weak!"
"Here it goes again…" Nami said, putting a hand over her face as the usual arguing continued and the annoying question 'can we keep it?' kept coming from Luffy. Once again, everything seemed to be back on track for the crew, and due to Nami's cave in, Luffy got himself a new pet.
Hey everyone! Another pointless chapter! Yay!
Anyway, I just wanted to say, I made a Tumblr…for really no reason at all… But if you want to ask me questions about characters, plots, or just have any questions in general, go find me there and you can ask. Also, if you have any ideas for later chapters and are like "Hey, ya know, this would be perfect for this story!" just tell me on there too! Because I probably won't answer if you tell me on here (like PM's or through comments, unless completely necessary). So, go find me, same name, same picture, easy peesey lemon squeezy! Wait, I don't do lemon… NEVERMIND! It's easy as pie!
Hope you enjoyed this chapter, even with its pointlessness, and look forward to the next small bunch of chapters (okay, not small but quite large) until I do Punk Hazard (which will end differently than the manga because I actually have a two plots that need to happen in this story…sorry…). Hope to see you all later!