Disclaimer almost everything belongs to Eiichiro Oda that genius of a man
He stood there blank faced as Dragon stared back at him, they had been silently having a stare off for the past couple minutes. It was odd as many Revolutionaries were around them awkwardly trying to find the words to get them to stop as neither of them would say a word to each other,
"Ok, I think that's enough."
Neither of them look away but they knew that it was Sabo that said that, they could also hear him sigh as he turned towards Robin,
"You seem to be able to control him to a certain extent, can you help?"
Robin giggles at this and walks forward grabbing his arm and dragging him away, Zoro stumbles a bit as she dragged him and glares at her. She continues without her smile even wavering for a second,
"As powerful as you are you shouldn't pick a fight with everyone, especially the leader of the Revolutionary Army."
Zoro grumbles at this and turns towards her,
"I'm not trying to pick a fi-"
He didn't get to finish as something slams into him slamming into the ground, he twist his body to see what hit him. He groans when he sees that it was Warpclaw,
"Get off me you damn bird!"
Robin giggles at this and rubs Warpclaw's head affectionately,
"He's cute."
Zoro glares at her,
"Don't encourage him."
Zoro pushes Warpclaw off of him and heads towards the room that the Revolutionary Army let him stay in, which funny enough was the room that was given to Robin too. Robin and Warpclaw follow behind him both in a jolly mood as Zoro grumbled the entire way to the room, once he reached the room he immediately collapsed onto the bed almost instantly falling asleep. A few moments later Robin enters the room with Warpclaw who was struggling to fit through the smaller doorframe.,
"You don't have to follow me around."
Robin sits down in the chair to the left of the bed and takes out her book to read,
"I don't have to, yes. But they asked me to keep an eye on you since we know each other and they don't trust you."
Zoro rolls over and stares at the ceiling with a tired look on his face,
"Well they don't have to worry about me, I'm not going to be here for long anyway."
This statement for once actually causes Robin's smile to falter a bit, but she covers this up with her book,
"Still while you stay here I'm responsible for you, just so you don't leak anything or destroy the entire base."
Zoro grumbles and sits up and heads for the door, Robin puts down her book and quirks an eyebrow at him,
"Where are you going?"
Zoro yawns a bit as he walks out,
"I'm going to go find some Sake."
Robin chuckles at this and closes her book and following him,
"You insatiable need for alcohol is quiet entertaining once in a while."
Zoro snorts,
"How is it entertaining?"
She smiles at him,
"Now there's no fun in just telling you."
He chuckles at this and walks off, after a few moments of walking he comes upon Asaka in what seemed to be a cafeteria area playing around with a few of the younger Revolutionaries. He shakes his head at this and continues his walk before pausing and remembering the sudden appearance of a bag when they left the Land of the Flying Beasts. He narrows his eyes at her and scours for the bag in the area, after a few moments he finds nothing he walks off to the room that was given to Asaka in search of the bag. Once he reaches her room he quickly closes the door behind him hoping no one saw him enter and looks for the bag, it would take a few moments but he would find the bag underneath her bed. He drags it out and opens it and pauses gaining a look of annoyance,
"You've got to be fucking kidding me."
He puts the bag back underneath the bed and heads back to where Asaka was, she was happily joking around with the Revolutionaries when Zoro appeared behind her with an extremely annoyed look on his face. He grabs her by the arm and drags her out of the room,
"We need to talk."
His dangerous tone left her no room to discuss as she complied easily following him, once in a secluded enough area she spoke up.
"What is it?"
He glared at her,
"You want to tell me what's in the bag?"
She froze slightly but tried to hide it,
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Zoro growls at her,
"Don't play dumb with me! I notice a bag that appeared after we left the island and when I went looking for it I found it under your bed, now tell me what's inside the fucking bag."
She backs away slightly before giving in,
"Ok, when I was captured in the cave I noticed a few other rooms in the cave. There was one room that contained dragons eggs and I couldn't just let them all get destroyed so I took one of them with us."
Zoro's annoyed expression grew,
"And you didn't think it was a good idea to inform me of you reckless decision?"
Zoro storms off before Asaka could even respond, he had enough of her actions. She didn't understand just how dangerous and reckless everyone she did was and if this were to continue then he would have no part in it. He's already played babysitter for her long enough, she is an adult time to own up her own actions and decisions. He returns back to his room to see Robin still sitting there reading her book, she doesn't lower when he enters,
"I would presume that you didn't find Sake but something annoying seeing as you've been storming around the base."
He glares at her before sighing and falling backwards onto the bed,
"I never understood how you could know so much."
She chuckles at this,
"I have ears everywhere."
He only spares he a glance before closing his eyes and rubbing the bridge of his nose, they sit in silence for a few minutes as Robin continued to read her book and Zoro tried to relax. But that silence is broken when Robin spoke up,
"Zoro."
He opens his eyes and sits up to look at her with a lazy eye,
"Yea?"
She puts down her book and looks at him somewhat seriously,
"Do you remember what you said to the crew at Sabaody Archipelago?"
Zoro pauses to think for a moment for stiffening up,
"Yea I think I know what you are referring to."
She walks over and sits down next to him,
"Then I believe this is a prime moment to explain."
Zoro sighs and lays back down but before he could say anything an alarm goes off surprising all of them,
"The hell is that?!"
Robin shoots up and races towards the door,
"That's the alarm for an attack!"
Zoro stops for a moment before grinning, this attack saved him from explaining everything to Robin and would serve as a stress-reliever for him seeing as everything seemed to piss him off at this point. He charges for an exit to meet the oncoming attack, once out of the base he sees what he was up against, an entire army of hellhounds. He narrows his eyes but doesn't stop as he charges towards them, he could hear many of the Revolutionaries calling for him to stop but he doesn't. Unsheathing all of his blades he attacks,
"Torai Saiko Kaitai Ryusei!"
Sending three bolts of fire to start the battle, they tear through a large part of the front line of the attack opening up a path for Zoro to charge right through as he throws himself into battle. Not keeping track of the Revolutionaries that charge in after him he dedicated everything he had into enjoying this moment as he killed everything that came within sight losing himself to his bloodthirsty desires. This would continue on for quite a while before he finally found himself in sea of blood without an opponent to fight, he pauses for a moment drenched in blood to look around. He sees that a majority of the hellhounds had all backed away from leaving him surrounded in a circle of hellhounds, he grins at them with a crazed look in his eye and taunts them,
"What? That's all you got? You monsters are pathetic!"
They growl at him and look ready to pounce but a figure breaks through the sea of monsters and stands across from Zoro, he puts a hand up causing all the hellhounds to settle down and back away bit. This piques Zoro's interest causing him to narrow his eyes at the figure that just appeared, the man, or what he thinks is a man, was decked out in full body armor that was pitch black in color. That was the only characteristic Zoro could identify seeing as he wasn't able to find the mans face hidden behind the armor, they stare at each other for a few moments before the man breaks into laughter.
"You are quite a troublesome person Demon Wind."
Zoro remains vigilant as the man takes slow strides forward,
"How do you know who I am?"
The man chuckles a stops a few feet in front of Zoro obviously not afraid of him despite the display of power and savagery he had just displayed,
"My master has his eyes on you and is waiting for you to come to him dear swordsman."
Zoro takes a step back scanning for a way to escape just in case things get hairy,
"Master? Who is he?"
The man breaks into laughter once again,
"Well who else could it be but the great demon lord Satan!"
Zoro grimaces at this,
"Him again, tell him that I'm not interested."
The mans laughter dies down a bit and snarls at Zoro,
"Now that is a bit rude, if he wished it he could simple erase you from existence right where you stand so show respect."
Zoro narrows his eyes noticing the shift in behavior and seeing it as obvious red flags,
"I show respect to those that command respect not those that hide behind legions of ugly beast and servants."
He was hoping that this would tick the man off and it did,
"You insufferable creature! I shall make you suffer for that comment!"
He charged at Zoro with hate radiating off each word but Zoro saw this coming and prepared,
"Kokujo: O Tatsumaki!"
The attack managed to send the man off-balance and flung him back as Zoro spun around and charged at the hellhounds that blocked his escape, not willing to risk the man recovering and coming after him, he doesn't toy with them like he would have liked to.
"Rengoku Oni Giri!"
The attack tore through a large amount of the beasts but was still wasn't enough to form a complete path for Zoro to get through as he continued to fend off the onslaught of monsters,
"YOU BASTARD!"
Zoro grumbles under his breath,
"Son of a bitch."
He spares a glance backwards to see the man storming towards him,
"I would love to talk but I'm afraid I don't have the time for that."
The man growls at him,
"STAY WHERE YOU ARE SO I CAN LOP YOUR HEAD OFF!"
Zoro rolls his eyes and strikes at the hellhounds blocking his way,
"Kami no Hono Tatsumaki!"
With the spiral of flames at his spearhead he charges through the beast as the flames either scared them away or charred them to ash, finally making headway he doesn't slow down in hopes that the man wouldn't catch up to him. His momentum is completely stopped when something slams into the his right side flinging him into he horde of hellhounds, so to stop the beast from tearing into him he had to strike in the split second he was in the air,
"Kokujo: O Tatsumaki!"
That threw all the hellhounds away from him letting him catch his breath as he recovered from the strike, the man stomped forward his anger evident through his eyes that were set aflame and glaring directly at him.
"I WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!"
Zoro rolls his eyes at this and scans for weaknesses and a feasible escape route if necessary, though with the full body armor a weakness was not something he could easily find and an escape would be very difficult seeing as he was still surrounded. He snarkily responds to the man,
"Real original, what's next you gonna pull a poem out your ass?"
The man only growled in response as he quickly closed the distance between a two of them pulling out a broadsword from out of nowhere bringing it down in a slashing motion at Zoro, not one to simply let an opponent get quick shots at him Zoro brings up his blades to block the strike. They locked blades equally for a few moments before Zoro slowly started to be overwhelmed by the man, he grits his teeth trying to not falter as the man pushed him back. Not one that liked to lose he started taking his opponent more seriously,
"Tamashi no Fujikome!"
With renewed vigor and a massive new power boost Zoro pushed back fiercely managing to balance the scales once again as he started to lose himself a bit in the fight, they disengage and Zoro instantly dashed forward never one to let go of an opportunity to strike. They clashed back and forth many times neither gaining the upper hand or landing a decent strike as the other would either skillfully dodge or block the strike, though exhaustion was slowly making its way in the fight as no matter how powerful Zoro was, tearing threw and army of hellhounds then dueling a powerful opponent was draining his energy. In his exhausted state the man finally lands a strike slamming into the right side of his ribs causing him to cough up blood, the man laughs hysterically,
"You think I'm a simple brute like you?! HAH don't make me laugh, my blade isn't just a simple great sword. It drains the vitality of my opponent with every clash you fool!"
Zoro growls and brushes the blood from the corner of his mouth,
"Kiki Kyutoryu: Ashura!"
If he was surprised at Zoro's transformation he didn't show it as his eyes still burned with anger and didn't waver even slightly,
"Ashura: Ichibugin!"
The man tense up for a second and instantly tried to avoid the strike leading to Zoro's attack only giving him shallow cuts, but that attack seemed to have drained most of Zoro's energy as he stumbled a bit before collapsing. The man studies the cuts on his body and gives a mocking grin,
"Was that all you have? That was just pathetic and you were talking so confidently earlier and this is all you could amount to? Just pathetic!"
Zoro growls and tries to get up but the man takes his blade and slams it into his back forcing back down,
"Don't get up now worm, I have no idea why my lord would wish to meet a revolting creature like you. I should just kill you now so that you can no longer cause any problems for us."
Zoro grits his teeth and slowly feels himself losing feeling in many parts of his body and falling, the only thought that ran through his head was how pathetic this was.
"Once Fleur: Slam!"
The man that was standing over Zoro was flung off him allowing him to relax a bit as a weight was literally lifted off his shoulders,
"Zoro!"
He turns his head to see Robin, Sabo, Koala, and Asaka all racing towards him. He groans and tries to sit up but is stopped by Robin,
"You idiot! This is what you get for charging at an army alone."
Zoro chuckles a bit before stopping as he coughs up a bit of blood, he's about to say something but an explosion stops him. They all turn towards the explosion to see the man standing there with his great sword at the ready and his eyes blazing even stronger than before,
"YOU WILL ALL SUFFER! I WILL MAKE SURE YOUR BODIES WILL BE HUNG OVER THE GATES OF HELL FOR INSULTING MY MASTER AND FIGHTING AGAINST ME!"
Zoro grumbles a bit,
"You sure you guys can deal with this? He isn't exactly a walk in the park."
But before any of them could answer a giant horn goes off causing all of the monsters to freeze, the man looks behind him and growls,
"You got lucky this time! Remember the name of Akathorn the Proud, for I will be the one to end your life!"
The army slowly retreats leaving the Revolutionary army confused, Sabo broke the silence,
"The hell was that?!"
Zoro groans and lays back down letting his body finally completely relax as he slowly fell unconscious, the last thing he could hear before he completely fell unconscious was the other Revolutionaries rushing towards him along with the fading voice of Robin and Asaka.
~Sometime Later~
Zoro lazily opens his eyes to a completely white room and tries to sit up, he simply shrugs off the room and stretches his weary limbs while getting out of the bed. He looks for a door so to find the Robin but found a suspicious lacking of one, he narrows his eyes and looks around paying a bit more attention to his surroundings this time to see that this room was glaringly white with nothing except for a bed in the center of it. He blink s few times to make sure he wasn't hallucinating before searching around once again, now he was truly confused about this situation. The last thing he remembered was fighting the demon guy he thinks called himself Akathorn and passing out, but even if he were to pass out he had no recollection of any room in the Revolutionary base being like this. So this lead him to two conclusions, either he had died or he had been captured unknowingly after the battle, neither being favorable outcomes for him. Seeing as there was literally nothing inside the room except for a bed Zoro simply decided to hop back onto he bed for some more rest until something would happen, though with his isolation to anything from the world in this room he still understood that he had remained trapped in the room for a quite a bit before anything would happen. After what he assumed was about five hours a new light emerged and created a doorway across from his bed, Zoro sat up waiting for who or whatever to emerge from the door with his patience already run dry as it is. What he didn't expect was for a giant of a man with pure white wings to walk through the doorway, the man smiles at him but Zoro stayed on guard not sure how to react to this,
"Who the fuck are you?"
The man continues to smiles as he answers,
"I am the Archangel Michael."
Zoro quirks an eyebrow at this,
"What the hell are you and what the hell am I doing here?"
The man chuckles lightly and pulls a chair out from nowhere to sit on,
"Silly man I already told you what I am, an Archangel, and why you're here well that's simple you died."
Zoro pauses for a second,
"You're kidding me!"
Michael's smile turns a sad,
"Sadly I am not, but fear not nothing will happen to you. We are already well aware of your past ventures and your deal with Ashura, you have lived out your time long enough it is time to rest dear warrior."
Zoro sits silently for a few moments digesting everything before growling, shooting forward and grabbing Michael by the collar of his robe.
"I can't die, not until I finished what I started!"
Michael shakes his head,
"That is not how things work my friend, everyone is destined to die before or after they achieved what they wished for, as a human you have no control over your fate."
Zoro growls at him,
"I make my own fate, you blasted gods and angels can't control me!"
Michael opens his mouth to say something but is blasted back by a flame that emerged from Zoro's right arm, Michael looks shocked at the flame that had just attacked him,
"Impossible, we removed everything that was related to the demon on you, the holy energy that entered you should have eradicated all the demonic energy that laid dormant within your body!"
But Zoro ignored him and studied the flame that had emerged, it was different from the usual flames he used in his fights due to it not only being singularity black, it possessed a mixture of black and white flames that seemed to have cooperated to create this.
"The flames have amalgamated?!"
Zoro turns towards Michael confused,
"Amalgamated?"
Michael shoots forward and studies the flames,
"Usually either one or the other energies would eradicate the other but in this rare instance they do not fight each other in hopes of removing each other at all, they're collaborating and created a new type of energy!"
Zoro looks at it slightly confused but with a better understanding of it, but his response was paused as the flames started to spread all over his body.
"What's it doing now?!"
Michael stutters a bit in his response,
"I-I don't know, this was created within your body and is something that we hold absolutely not information about. How would we understand what it is doing?"
Zoro tries to stop the flames but he had no control over the flames as it continued to spread, right before the flames covered his entire body he turned towards Michael with a glare,
"I still don't accept the fact that I died, my goal has yet to be completed and I will complete it before I will ever think of kicking the bucket!"
With that the energy completely consumed him before dissolving leaving nothing but a few drops of fire behind, Michael simply frown before disappearing and collapsing the room and removing it from existence.
"This is quite unsettling, I should keep an eye out if that man were to ever reappear again."
~With Zoro~
He was engulfed in complete darkness and lost of control of his senses as he floated lifelessly, this time there wasn't even a bed for him to rest on. But he wouldn't have to wait as long as the darkness swirled around him creating a figure in front of him, Zoro stayed silent and waited for the figure to speak but it never did instead Zoro would have to.
"Who the hell are you now?!"
The figure finally spoke up,
"Master I do not possess a name or a purpose yet."
Zoro looks at the figure shocked,
"Master?"
The figure nods,
"Yes, I am the flame that was created from the joining of the two energies within your body so I am your servant. I saw you were in an unfavorable situation so I brought you into my realm so to save you."
Zoro blinks once, then twice,
"So the mixture of the two energies that was within my body created a sentient being?"
The figure nods once again,
"Yes, what shall you use me for?"
Zoro sighs before answering in a joking way,
"You got a way to bring me back from the dead?"
He chuckles a bit not expecting the figure to have one,
"Yes."
His laughter stops and he blinks once, then twice,
"You do?!"
The figure nods,
"With the current excess energy within my body it is possible to revive your body giving you a slim chance to be brought back to life, though I must caution you if the energy isn't used up completely in this process then your body shall not be able to withstand the energy most likely causing it to implode taking your soul with it."
Zoro gulps but still smiles,
"At least it's better than what I had to begin with."
The figure nods and starts to gather its energy but is stopped by Zoro,
"Before we do that we should give you a name. You have any ideas?"
The figure shakes its head,
"I will be pleased with any name you give me master."
Zoro thinks for a few moments before finally settling on something,
"When I Michael first told me about it I was just going to call you the Flame of Resurrection but now that you're a sentient being calling you that is just off, so from today on forward you will be Nazuna the Flame of Resurrection!"
The now named Nazuna nods its head,
"Thank you master, then I will now proceed to return you back to the world."
Zoro smiles at this,
"No problem, just try not to kill me."
With that the darkness surrounding them tears apart into tendrils that formed a cocoon around Zoro, with Zoro protected Nazuna starts to dispense the energy that was used to create her so to bring Zoro back to life.
~With Zoro~
Once again he was engulfed in darkness but at least this time he knew what was going on, he patiently waited for Nazuna to finish with what she was doing and bring him back to life. Though this took would take longer than he would have anticipated he would still wait, he would eventually lose consciousness as Nazuna went into the final stages of reviving him. He would eventually regain consciousness and jolt up at the surprise that he wasn't dead, he looked around to find himself in a room again but this time a room that wasn't glaringly bright and with only a bed possessing no door. He lets out a breath of relief and lays back down to cool down and think about what just happened, what had happened was weighing on him. He had actually died and was nowhere near close to his goal of killing everyone that had caused the death of his crew mates in the past, he still had to get so much stronger and wasting his days around traveling was not he way to go though he still had to deal with Satan so to make sure he wouldn't disturb him any longer. But until he came up with a plan for that he would have to recover first, his thoughts were interrupted when he heard voices and footsteps slowly getting closer to the room he was in. He pops one eye open to watch as Sabo, Robin, and Asaka enter,
"We can't just keep him here, he's dead we should just bury him. There's no point in keeping him in a hospital bed that could be used for a Revolutionary that is injured, we can help those that are injured not those that are already dead."
Zoro decided that this was a good time to enter into the conversation,
"Who said I was dead?"
This statement shocked all of them as even Robin seemed to have taken a step back as Zoro sat up and grinned at them,
"You can't kill me that easily."
It took them a second before they relaxed as Asaka dived towards him,
"We all thought you were dead!"
Zoro grimaces at this,
"I'm not dead but still injured so I don't think jumping me would exactly help here."
Asaka lets go and sheepishly smiles at him,
"Though you guys aren't exactly wrong I did kind of die."
They all looked at him confused,
"What do you mean?"
Zoro chuckles at them,
"Don't worry about it, I'll explain another time."
He turns to his right,
"Nazuna?"
The shadows in the room slowly collect to form a figure that bowed down to Zoro surprising the other occupants in the room,
"Yes master?"
Zoro smiles,
"Nothing was just checking on something, though I find it weird for you to call me master."
Nazuna gets up from her bow,
"Then what shall I call you?"
Zoro cracks his neck and lays back down on the bed,
"Just Zoro is fine."
Nazuna nods and disperses into shadows again, Zoro closes his eyes with a smile on his face and the room is silent for a few moments before Asaka spoke up.
"What the hell was that?!"
Zoro chuckles at her not even opening his eyes,
"Like I said don't worry about it."
He tunes them out as Asaka continues to question him as Robin and Sabo chuckle at her antics.
That's a wrap I've been kinda lazy so this chapter was finished a lot later than I wanted it to be but ehh, I'm just excited Anime North is coming. BUT I have a shit ton of school work to do and exams to prepare for so I'm just kind of dying right now, even with all of that for some reason I feel like starting another story. Stupid right? I've always been constantly thinking of what I should write next and I feel like starting the second story when summer starts won't be a bad idea, like I'll have a hell of a lot more time to work on the stories and I won't have to grumble over one story when I run out of ideas of how to progress it. If I get stuck I could just move over to the other story and work on that, it actually is stupider than I make it sound but ehh I've never been on to make smart decisions. Like I probably would still put it off for a quite a while before starting it but I'm somewhat excited at the prospect, though I'm stuck between two ideas for the next story, either an even more Zoro-centric story that revolves around him being raised by Mihawk or a My Hero Academia one that has Shoto Todoroki being struck down by amnesia. I already have enough on my plate but these two just seem fun to write and I want to, I think the BNHA one would be easier for me to write power-wise seeing as Zoro can only use blades which has been a bit of a struggle for me to write especially cause I don't want to remove the his main three swords now. On another note I'm excited as hell, I'm heading to Anime North tomorrow and it's time to weeb out and spend a shit ton of cash on stuff that I don't need but want! But enough with the rambling. Once again if you're reading this and enjoy it thanks for reading.