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Zoro quickly walked through the halls trying to avoid Asaka as she chased him around demanding answers of what had happened after the battle against Akathorn and the army of hellhounds. He was going to explain everything but he didn't feel like doing so yet, but she kept on pestering him to reveal everything to her which was slowly getting on his nerves.

"Don't run away from me!"

Zoro grumbles and jumps out of the window, he quickly lands and takes off running hoping that the rocks surrounding the base would be enough to cover for him. After a few moments of waiting and Asaka's voice becoming more distant he lets out a sigh of relief,

"You seem to be having fun."

At this Zoro jumps, spinning around and hovering his hand over the hilts of his blades. He relaxes when he sees that it was just Robin who was smiling cheekily at him,

"Stop sneaking up on me."

She chuckles at this,

"What are you talking about? I'm just taking a peaceful walk to enjoy the scenery of this wonderful place."

He grumbles at this and relaxes a bit as Robin continues to stand beside him,

"Is that all you came here to say?"

Robin shakes her head,

"No, Dragon told me to call you over. He wants to talk to you about something."

Zoro sighs and gets up heading back towards the Revolutionary base to meet Dragon, he was quick in doing so avoiding all the Revolutionaries that were in the base and headed towards the balcony that Dragon was standing on.

"So what do you want with me, Dragon?"

Dragon takes a deep breath and turns around facing Zoro,

"I want you to explain to me everything that happened and your relation to it."

Zoro sighs and rubs the back of his neck,

"Where do you want me to start?"

Dragon points to the chair that was on the side of the balcony,

"Tell me everything that is important."

Zoro sits down across from Dragon and starts,

"All I know about this Akathorn character is that he is a servant of Satan, a powerful demon that commands legions of monsters. I don't know why but he seems to have an odd interest in me and has been constantly sending people and monsters to observe me, so far I've been able to dispatch most of his minions so I would assume this is the reason why they sent an entire army this time, though I have no idea why they were recalled so quickly."

Dragon quirks an eyebrow,

"I don't believe that is all, Sabo told me of an odd encounter with a shadowy creature that called you it's master."

Zoro cracks his neck and returns to his story,

"Well, you guys weren't exactly wrong about how I ended up after the battle, I had actually died and was transported to another realm which I can only assume would be some kind of heaven of sorts. There I met a man who called himself Michael the Archangel, he had attempted to remove all the demonic energy within my body through the use of his holy energy, but that lead to the creation of a new type of energy that was sentient, that is Nazuna the shadowy creature that Sabo mentioned."

Dragon looks down seemingly contemplating everything that Zoro had just told him,

"So this creature was your creation?"

Zoro nods,

"Yea in a way it is since it was born from the conflicting energies within my body."

Dragon nods his head finally accepting the information,

"Though that still begs the question, why did you possess demonic energy?"

Zoro leans back in his chair rubbing the back of his neck a bit harder and sighs,

"This is the part of the story that I rather not explain, there are many circumstances behind how I possessed these abilities and divulging in that information can lead to many outcomes which may be quite troublesome not just to me but also you."

Dragon nods his head and stands up looking out the balcony once again,

"Though I am quite thankful that you revealed this much to me, I still must question. Will they ever attempt an assault of that scale here ever again?"

Zoro sits back up and sighs once again finding it quite annoying at just how much he was sighing,

"With me being here the possibility of it happening is quite high."

Dragon nods his head and turns around,

"Then I am saddened to say, that I believe it would be best for you to leave for the safety of the Revolutionary army."

Zoro gets up from his chair and heads towards the exit of the balcony,

"Just as I suspected, I will leave within the week but I will stay here a for a while longer to sort with a few things if you will allow it."

Dragon turns towards him,

"That is fine, you are a fascinating person that may play a role in the future that the Revolutionary army works to create. A few more days within the base will most likely do us no harm."

Zoro nods and leaves the balcony,

"Thank you then."

Dragon turns his head slightly to the side to staring off at the sunset,

"Though as fascinating as you are, a dangerous card you are too. Only time will tell what the future you pave shall lead to."

Zoro heads back to his room thinking through what he had to sort through before he would be forced to leave the headquarters of the Revolutionary army, a week was more time than he had expected and that was good but it was still not enough for the things he had planned.

"If you find yourself a bit busy than I could help lessen the burden you have to deal with Master Zoro."

Too focused on his thought the sudden intrusion of another voice caused him to jump and reach for his blades again,

"Jesus, don't do that again! And how do you know what I'm thinking?"

Nazuna tilts her blank shadowy face,

"I am sorry if I surprised you but I am always with you so there should be no need for you to be surprised as I am something that was created from your body so I am also connected to you in many ways such as your thoughts, that is why I am able to ascertain what you are thinking about."

Zoro stares at her not exactly sure what to say before sighing and continuing on his way,

"Not sure I exactly like that."

They finally reach Zoro's shared room and Nazuna bows to him,

"Then I will refrain from doing so from now on."

Zoro puts his hand on the door and smiles at it,

"Thank you, though next time I will say try to take on a more human-like appearance. I can't have a shadow follow me around constantly without drawing suspicion to me."

Nazuna nods,

"Then I will do so."

Zoro pushes past the door as Nazuna dissolves into the shadows and is greeted by the sight of Robin quietly sitting on the bed while reading a book, Zoro flops onto the bed with a sigh of relief enjoying how soft and comfortable the bed was.

"So what did he want to talk about?"

Zoro lifts his head up to look at Robin and gives a quiet sigh,

"Do you really want to know?"

Robin chuckles not even looking up from her book,

"I don't need to know but my curiosity wishes to learn of what you talked about."

Zoro grumbles and flips onto his back staring at the ceiling,

"He just asked me if I knew anything about the attack and a few other things."

Robin puts down her book and turns towards Zoro,

"What other things?"

Zoro sits up cracking his neck,

"He asked me what happened after I died, and told me that me staying here posses a threat to the safety of the Revolutionary army so he asked me to leave."

Robin looks down contemplating the information,

"So you're leaving?"

Zoro nods his head,

"But not just yet, he's giving me a week before I have to leave so I have until then to sort through everything manageable until then."

Robin turns towards him looking somewhat saddened, Zoro notices her look and pats her head while smiling. Robin freezes for a few seconds before breaking into happy laughter,

"There's no need to be sad, it isn't like we're never going to see each other again."

Robin grabs his hand and pulls it into her chest feeling the warmth from it while grinning at Zoro's face which was slowly growing red, Robin lightly grips the side of his arm and slowly pulls him closer. Zoro is frozen unsure of what to do in this situation as Robin continued, their faces were barely an inch from each other and stay there for a few moments before Robin blows air in his face causing him to reel back in surprise. Robin starts to giggle breaking Zoro from his stupor,

"What was th-?!"

Zoro is interrupted when Robin grabs his shirt and pulls him in for a kiss surprising him, she giggles a bit more at his dazed look and let's go.

"I'm a bit tired so I'm going to go to sleep."

She lets go off him and turns her back towards him, pulling herself under the covers. Zoro takes a moment before breaking into a grin,

"It seems like Nami rubbed off on you a bit you cheeky girl."

He could hear her trying to suppress a giggle and watches her for a few moments before going under the covers himself, pulling her into his chest.

"Night."

~The Next Morning~

Zoro wakes up with a groan, he tries to lazily turn to the side only to find the action being a bit more difficult than it was supposed to be. He tiredly opens his eyes to try to find out what was stopping him from doing so, it was Robin who was sleeping soundly on his chest which was the stopping him from doing so. He exhales and tries to get Robin off of him without waking her up as he was hoping to get some work done early in the day, he had successfully slipped out from under Robin and headed out to find a secluded spot for him to train. Slipping through the eerily empty halls of the Revolutionary base he looks for an exit but suddenly stops,

"You know you don't have to keep following me, I'm a straightforward person that hates this kind of stuff."

Nothing happens for a while before the wall to his left ripples and a small figure emerges from it,

"Surprising, you actually sensed me."

Zoro turns towards the figure with a scowl on his face,

"Who are you and what do you want with me?"

The figure chuckles,

"I was simply told to keep an eye on you."

Zoro rests his hand on the hilt of his blades,

"Did Satan send you?"

The figure hisses angrily at him causing Zoro to back up and hover his hand over his blades,

"Like I would ever work for that evil bastard! If I had things my way I would torment him myself for the rest of eternity!"

Zoro quirks an eyebrow at this,

"Some strong emotions you have there about him."

The figure hisses for a few more moments before clearing their throat and straightening the cloak that they were wearing,

"Excuse me for that, as you can tell I truly detest that vile creature."

Zoro rolls his eyes and sarcastically responds,

"You don't say."

The figure glares at him,

"Well besides that, I was told to simply keep an eye on you seeing as the demon also has his eyes on you."

Zoro draws Shusui and points it at her,

"And what if I don't like you watching me?"

The glint in Zoro's eye disturb the figure deeply making the figure gulp,

"Those are simply my orders, having someone watch over can't be that bad."

Zoro glares at her,

"I don't care, stay away from me unless you want to be cut down."

The figure nods rapidly,

"I will but first, I need to know what do you think of the demon."

Zoro narrows his eyes,

"Satan? Hate the bastard, all he's brought to me so far is bad luck and a hell of a lot of monsters coming after me."

The figure's grin emerges underneath the cloak,

"Then you have nothing to worry about, we're on the same side here."

With that, the figure hops back into the ripple and disappears causing Zoro to grumble,

"Need to stop attracting all these crazy characters."

With that he continues on his way keeping a careful watch in case that figure emerged again, this luckily didn't happen allowing him to actually concentrate on what he had to do. Once he settled down in a secluded spot he got to it calling Nazuna out,

"Nazuna."

She instantly responded appearing before him this time not just a mess of shadows but possessing a human-like appearance and bowed to him,

"Yes?"

Zoro studies her new appearance for a few moments before responding,

"How did you change your appearance?"

Nazuna get up from her bow,

"I am not a true living being but your creation, if you will it so then I will change in any way to suit what you wish."

Zoro nods his head and then continues on,

"So I called you here because I still don't have a broad enough understanding of what you are able to do and what abilities you possess, all I know so far is that you can disperse your body into shadows and that you could bring me back from the dead."

Nazuna ignites a flame within her palm,

"As you can see I am able to utilize the same flames that you have, along with most of the abilities that you were able to do with the flames. In part, I am a clone of you power wise, though I believe that my agility far surpasses yours."

Zoro studies the flame in her hand finally it practically identical to his own,

"Is that all?"

Nazuna shakes her head,

"I don't believe so but that is all I know of so far."

Zoro furrows his brow,

"Well go and discover what abilities you have then scout the area around the base just in case any demons are lingering around."

Nazuna bows before dispersing into shadows,

"Right away, master."

Once gone Zoro grumbles,

"I told you to stop calling me master."

Zoro gets into a meditative stance concentrating on the energy flowing through his body, ever since he had been revived he felt a bit off like this body wasn't his anymore. He shook his arm trying to feel any abnormalities in his body and finding none but still having the odd feeling, he shrugs his shoulder and ignores that feeling instead prompting to train. Unsheathing his blades he focuses,

"Tamashi no Fujikome!"

Once merged he focus on molding his flames now not to just completely cover his blade in a giant ball of flames, but to refine the flames so that it was more like a thin layer over his blade so that it would also help increase the sharpness of his blades. Until now he had mostly just ignited the flames and left it in that shape never really controlling it instead just shooting it out, now that he was finally trying to control the flame to a certain degree he saw how difficult this task was seeing as the flame almost felt like it had a mind of its own and didn't wish to be restrained in any way. While doing so he would also constantly activate his Armament and Observation Haki so to get used to instantly using them without a second thought, he would continue to do this for a while until he was struck by a sudden headache. He gripped his head in pain as the headache persisted, after a few moments he was suddenly gripped by the side of his head and pulled up. He painfully opened an eye to see a blood red silhouette evilly grinning at him while gripping onto his head,

"To be put under by such a simple attack, I'm disappointed in you. HAHAHA!"

Zoro opened his mouth to speak but was struck by an immeasurable pain while doing so,

"Who said you could speak peasant? You will only speak when I allow you to do so, you are nothing before me so act like it and grovel like the maggot you are."

The creature let go of Zoro causing him to drop onto the ground as blood started to leak from his eyes and mouth,

"W-Who are you?!"

The creature bent down so that his face was right in front of Zoro's,

"Why that's just insulting, you don't even know the name of the man that has been tormenting you for the past couple weeks."

The creature pauses before breaking into a malicious grin,

"You know that just makes me ANGRY!"

At that the creature lets loose a blast of pressure that sends Zoro reeling, he opens his eyes to see the creature had slowly grown bigger and started to resemble more of a demon as it grew goat legs, horns, and a tail. Through the pain, Zoro chokes out,

"Y-You're Satan aren't you?"

After saying that the pressure that it let loose slowly receded,

"Good on you for figuring out who I am."

Zoro wipes the blood off his face and struggles pushes himself to sit up,

"What do you want with me?"

Satan narrows his eyes at him,

"I don't like the tone in which you're speaking to me, I am a great demon speak with respect or fear either works."

Zoro simply glares at Satan,

"You already know, I grew an interest in you. A human that possesses the blood of a demon, well that isn't something that you run into every day. How I would love to just drag you down into my domain and experiment on your feeble little body, I could do it there isn't much that is stopping me right now."

This causes Zoro to tense up and grab the hilt of his blades just in case he did try to do something to him, Satan chuckles at this,

"After that pathetic display do you really think a simple sword could do anything to me? You, humans, are just laughable!"

Satan disappears and reappears right in front of Zoro, Zoro reacts but isn't fast enough as Satan's arm shoots forward and hoists him up by his neck.

"See there's nothing you can do!"

But at that Zoro's chest starts to glow glaringly bright, causing Satan to hiss and let go of him backing away from him. The light grows stronger forcing Satan back as he hatefully spits out a name,

"MICHAEL!"

Zoro looks at him oddly before placing a hand over his chest to feel the energy, he narrows his eyes before looking back up at Satan who was glaring at the energy that was coming out of Zoro's chest. Neither of them said anything as the energy slowly dissipated,

"When the hell did you meet that detestable angel!"

Zoro stayed silent while slowly snaking his arm to his blades,

"ANSWER ME!"

Zoro is blasted back by the energy that Satan released in his anger, Zoro remains silent and this served to piss Satan off, even more, causing him to approach Zoro again intent on choking the information out of him. But he wasn't able as whenever he got close to Zoro the energy would emerge once again causing him to hiss and back away,

"You got lucky this time, once I discover a way to separate you from Michael's protection I'll kill you!"

With that Satan creates something that was similar to a black hole that slowly consumed his body before completely disappearing, with him gone Zoro finally relaxes collapsing backward to recover his breath.

"Are you alright, what happened?"

Zoro pops his head up to see Nazuna quickly making her way towards him, once he saw that it was her he dropped back down feeling completely exhausted.

"God I hate demons."

Nazuna doesn't say anything but he could feel her slightly judging look,

"Not you ok."

The look lessens a bit as she still remains silent as she helped him up and gave him some water, she lets him rest for a bit longer before asking again,

"So what did happen? Everything was going fine then all of a sudden I feel intense energy and rush over to find you on the ground trying to recover your breath as demonic energy slowly dissipates from the area."

Zoro sighs and leans up against one of the rocks and steadies his breath,

"Satan paid me a bit of a visit, not very fun I must say. Though from his visit I learned that Michael left a little something in me seeing as when he got his hands on me some energy shot out through my chest that kept him away."

Nazuna pokes his chest a few times to test it out but nothing seemed to happen so she stopped and looked at him oddly,

"Quite odd this is, can you recreate this energy?"

Zoro shakes his head,

"When it first came out I didn't do it on my own accord it just kind of happened. Honestly, since you brought me back to life I felt like there was something off with my body so I guess this is what it was, Michael placed a something within my body which I only assume keeps away demonic energy to a certain degree."

Nazuna nods,

"Well besides that, there does not appear to be any more demons roaming around here that serve Satan."

Zoro grins,

"Well that's good, I really don't want to run into him anytime soon again. What of your abilities?"

Nazuna ignites two flames in her hands a black one in her right hand and a white one in her left hand,

"So far what I know of is my control of demonic and holy flames, I possess the ability to change these flames into any shape then to harden them so that they are physical items. The two energies don't seem to be combating each other which is good, I am able to also mold an avatar of sorts that uses both kinds of energy and possesses immense power as I have tested."

Zoro looks at her confused,

"Avatar?"

Nazuna nods and focuses on the flames within her hand,

"This requires quite a bit of energy but I will show you."

The flames slowly circle around her slowly flowing up to create a giant figure, Zoro whistles slightly impressed,

"How powerful is it?"

Nazuna points towards a giant boulder sitting about fifty meters from them, her avatar slowly forms a white crossbow and notches a black arrow. After steadying the weapon for a few moments she releases the shot which completely destroys the boulder not leaving even a trace of it ever existing. Zoro whistles again,

"Impressive."

But when he turns towards her, he sees that the avatar was slowly dissipating as Nazuna collapses. He rushes over and catches her before she slams into the ground, she was sweating profusely and barely seemed strong enough to stand,

"I'm sorry but that ability drains most of my energy, I must train myself to be stronger so that I won't collapse after just one attack."

Zoro shakes his head,

"You don't need to push yourself so much, there's no rush to get stronger, just go at your own pace."

Nazuna nods as Zoro helps her stand, Zoro thinks for a few moments before speaking,

"Hey, Nazuna I want to try something."

Nazuna nods at this, Zoro quirks an eyebrow but decides not to bother asking right now as he opens his palm and places it parallel to Nazuna. He closes his eyes and focuses on the feeling when he had first encountered Nazuna, once there he concentrated all the residual energy into his palm.

"Come!"

At that Nazuna broke into shadows and reformed in his hand as a black blade with a white hilt, Zoro grins at this and studies it taking a few swings so to get the feeling of the blade. Turning around he notices a boulder and faces it bringing the blade above his head, taking a deep breath, he brings the blade down in an overhead strike. The boulder was split cleanly in half, Zoro brings the blade up to his face studying a bit more before trying to ignite the holy flames that Nazuna was able to. Much to his surprise it worked and unsure of what the flame was able to do he directed it towards one of the two parts of the boulder, he directed the flames towards it to watch what the results of doing so were. The flames simply sat on the boulder not doing anything much to his disappointment,

"The holy flames are meant to ward away demonic spirits and heal those, not to harm people."

Zoro pauses for a second before looking at Nazuna in her bladed form,

"Was that you Nazuna?"

Nazuna's face appears on the blade,

"That was not me, I have been a bit too exhausted to do much."

Zoro lets go of Nazuna allowing her to transform back into her human form,

"Then who was that?"

The voices giggles,

"Well, it's me, Michael!"

Zoro grumbles,

"Why are you here?"

But Michael was already gone leaving him alone, he growls at this and slowly helps Nazuna up as they head back towards the Revolutionary base.

"You can go rest now."

Nazuna who was exhausted bows to him without saying anything and disappears to where ever she goes whenever she's alone and Zoro heads back to the room he shares with Robin. He had been out for a few hours and Robin should have been gone already, he stumbles into the room to find Warpclaw sitting at the foot of the bed waiting for him. He squawks at Zoro but is ignored seeing as Zoro just wanted to rest, but as he was about to jump into the bed Warpclaw bites onto the back of his shirt and drags him off in a random direction,

"Let go of me you cursed bird creature!"

Warpclaw ignores him and continues to drag Zoro through the halls of the Revolutionary army base surprising many people after a while Warpclaw seemed to arrive at his destination as he slowed to a stop and flung Zoro forward. Zoro turns towards Warpclaw and gives him his harshest glare,

"Do that to me ever again and you'll wish that the dragons on that island had killed you."

He turns away from him and looks around the room to see where he was when he noticed the dragon egg that Asaka took which was sitting on the bed of the room. Zoro narrows his eyes at the egg before turning back at Warpclaw with a confused look,

"Why did you bring me here?"

Warpclaw simply squawks and backs up, Zoro turns back to the egg hearing a sound coming from it. He pauses for a second before walking closer to the egg studying it,

"Is it just me or is the egg moving?"

He didn't expect a response from anything as he kept an eye on the egg for any more movement, after a few more moments later Zoro slowly lost interest and sighed before turning around. But before he could leave the room he hears a crack, pausing he turns around and stares at the egg. Looking at the egg again he sees that the egg had a crack in it,

"You've got to be fucking kidding me."

Zoro continues to keep an eye on the egg as the crack slowly started to grow, he watched in fascination as the egg blasted open forcing Zoro to cover his eyes so to block the pieces of the egg that flew at him. Once he determined that it was safe he removed his hand and looks at the spot where the egg had been, what remained was the small body of a dragon.

"What was that?!"

Zoro turns around to see Asaka and a few Revolutionaries rushing into the room,

"THAT was the hatching of the dragon egg you brought from that island. Quite explosive isn't it, huh?"

Asaka gives him an odd look before looking at the center of the explosion to see the body of a small dragon that was yawning, she turns towards him with a slightly guilty look on her face.

"I'm never going to hear the end of this am I?"

Zoro glared at her,

"Yea."

That's a wrap, this chapter simply served to push forward the whole Satan plot line. Like as you can see Zoro can't do jack shit to him so far, like most of the time I have Zoro just steamrolling most of his opponents but as much bullshit I can pull even I think given Zoro some way to defeat Satan would be a bit too much. Though you never know I may be able to come up with something that isn't a Deus Ex Machina, though I doubt I could come up with anything that could achieve this so I'll have to find a way for Zoro to survive his next and final hostile encounter with Satan. I'm slowly getting back into the habit of making the chapters and I'm happy about this, but that's going to slow down again seeing as exams are coming up and I am in no way prepared for it so I'm going to be trying to study my ass off so I don't fail anything, which will lead to a bit of a pause for two maybe three weeks after this chapter. I'm a bit sad about it seeing as I'm actually starting to get back into the habit but that's what's going to happen. But once again if you're reading this and enjoy it thanks for reading.