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He had never met any of these people personally but from what he had heard of them he didn't really like them, being stuck on the same ship with them for the foreseeable future simply strengthened the image of them that he had already created, a twisted group that called themselves a family. He was finally given the names of everyone which he found quite hilarious as they were named according to the order of their birth with Reiju, Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji. Whoever came up with the names did a terrible job and once he met up with the cook he was going to have a field day with this, but until then he would have to avoid any unnecessary confrontation with the bunch. He was given a small room to stay in until he got off and he was fine with it, what he was more worried about was the favor that Judge had set as a condition to let him aboard. Judge hasn't mentioned anything about it since which led Zoro to grow slightly more worried about it, he would do nothing about it for the time being trying to stay away from any trouble he could.

He had completely recovered from the battle with Tyrranth in The Arena and had started ramping his training up even more than before making it increasingly difficult to try to simulate the life or death situations that he has experienced throughout his life. Under the notion that a person changes with life-threatening events, he recounted everything in his life that could have lead to his death and trained with those situations playing on rewind in his head. He only stopped when he decided to finally acknowledge the Vinsmoke sibling that was watching him, "What do you want Vinsmoke?"

He wiped the sweat off his chin and glared at her with careful eyes as she giggled at him, "Nothing, just watching over our guest. Is there a problem with me doing this?"

He narrowed his eyes and returned to his training, "No, I simply don't enjoy having someone keeping an eye on me when I'm training."

She raised her hands up in a sign of surrender but the grin on her face said that she wasn't going to leave, "I heard that you've met my brother."

Zoro glanced at her suspiciously, "What of it?"

Her expression shifted to a slightly more serious one though the humorous look in her eyes didn't disappear, "Is my brother doing alright? I haven't seen him since he was a child when he had escaped from Germa."

Zoro rolled his eyes, "He's fine though his personality could use a bit of tweaking."

She quirked a brow at this, "How so?"

He sighed clearly annoyed, "You'll find out when you see him again."

She grumbled at this and stood up walking in front of him, he glared at her, "Don't interrupt my training."

She rolled her eyes at him and took out her raid suit, "This isn't interrupting more so joining in, how about sparring?"

He gave her an odd look before mumbling and unsheathing the rest of his blades, he gave an awkward cough when Reiju applied her Raid Suit which left little to the imagination during its transformation before shaking his head to concentrate on the battle. He studied her with anticipation knowing that her specialty was poison and unlike Luffy, he didn't possess any form of resistance to it which would prove to be troublesome if he was unable to avoid even a single one of her attacks. He wouldn't have to wait long as Reiju wasn't one to waste time, he readied himself expecting some kind of attack associated with poison but was surprised to find her simply using physical attacks instead of her poison ones. He blocked her strikes quite easily and due to this wasn't expecting her to use her poison at point-blank range, with a jolt he scrambled to avoid the encroaching cloud of poison, he was able to get out of the way with minimal damage to himself though his left shoulder tingled painfully.

With a grunt, he tightened his bandana around the shoulder and focused back onto Reiju who was grinning at him, "Annoying little pest."

She chuckled at this, "Why thank you."

He mumbled under his breath, "Wasn't a compliment."

This time he took the initiative with a spinning double-bladed strike from above, she avoided it quite easily but he followed up immediately after, "Saiko no Kaitai Ryusei!"

It barreled towards her and as she dodged it he appeared in front of her, slamming a knee into her stomach causing her to reel back in shock before doing a three-sixty and dragging his blade across her chest then delivering a solid kick to the face sending her falling backward. He made his way forward and leveled his blade at her chin and staring intensely at her as if daring her to attack him, she chose the smarter option as she raised her hands in defeat and Zoro removed his blade from her face and helped her up. She coughed a bit and touched her chest still feeling the tingling from Zoro's strike, "You could have at least taken it easier on me."

Zoro who has since moved on and continued training responded snarkily, "I did."

She huffed at him before leaving knowing that staying here would do little but waste her time, as she left Zoro sighed in relief finally being rid of the Vinsmoke. Shaking his head he returned to his training now taking it even further with imaginative combat with beasts that he had fought deep into the New World, though the sense of death wasn't prevalent with this type of training he was still putting all his effort into it forcing himself to try survive the encounter without even a single strike touching him, this would continue for hours with him losing himself completely to his blades. He wouldn't return to reality until Nazuna would approach him hours later, he gave her one look before sighing, "You look pissed what happened now?"

She huffed and kicked the ground like a little child being berated, "For some reason, all three of the Vinsmoke brothers have been trying to pick me up for the past couple hours and I've been trying to avoid them since they can't take no for an answer."

Zoro chuckled at her misfortune, "Seems like perversion runs through the family."

At this Nazuna quirked an eyebrow, "You never did tell me much about your crewmates, I still have limited knowledge of the people that you traveled with."

Zoro paused mid-swing and turned to her slightly surprised, "I never did? Huh, guess it just slipped my mind and you never really asked before so I didn't think much of it."

She moved forward with a curious glint in her eye, "So what were they like?"

Zoro rubbed the back of his head already feeling a bit of a headache forming just from remembering his time with the boisterous crew, "Well, Luffy was an idiot who loved his friends, Nami was a conniving woman that always though of money though she can use that expertise for good once in a while. Ussop is a coward that claims the achievements of others but has rare flashes of his own strength, Sanji is just like his brothers a complete pervert and he refuses to ever harm a woman which is quite troublesome sometimes but he is reliable for the most part. You've already met Robin, a quiet beauty that can be quite dark for no bizarre reason, there's Chopper the reindeer doctor with the human-human fruit, even at such a young age he's already a master of his craft. Franky is an odd creature, a cyborg that has quite a few perverted tendencies especially his adamant dislike of wearing pants, though his skills as a shipwright are something that we severely lacked and he could hold his own in a fight. Then we have Brook who is an even more peculiar creature as his devil fruit led to him becoming nothing but bones while still alive, he matches Sanji in his perverseness but his joyful demeanor helps keep the crew's spirits up. With Jinbe who joined us much later in the journey, he was a welcomed addition to the crew and filmed the helmsman role perfectly, he is the second voice of reason that could penetrate through Luffy's thick skull which was something we deeply needed. Right after Jinbe, our crew acquired Leon someone of which I still have mixed feeling about."

It seemed he had talked for too long as Nazuna grew impatient, "The crew as an entirety seems like an odd mix of people that have nothing in common, also I knew of everyone up until Brook, but you also managed to get Jinbe to join the crew and who's Leon?!"

Zoro paused for a second remembering that he knew a bit more than others and would have to reel back on his sharing of events to come, "I don't know how Luffy got Jinbe to join the crew as I wasn't there when it happened and didn't care much for what transpired for it to happen and the story of Leon is for another time."

She laughed with mirth and draped herself over Zoro, "It sounds like you really know everyone, must be a fun group if even you remember every detail about them."

Zoro grumbled with the added weight to his shoulders, "Fun wouldn't be the best way to describe as I would more so use the term annoying for them, but we were like a family if anything went wrong we would always be there to help each other out one way or another."

She giggled at this and nudged him a bit, "Come on, I saw the look on your face you loved spending time with them."

He grumbled in response and turned away to hid the smidge of embarrassment on his face before coughing to try to cover it up, "Now that I think about it where did Draco go?"

Nazuna paused for a moment and her face told him that she was trying hard to remember, he rolled his eyes at this and waited for her to stop. It took a couple of seconds but she finally did with a look of excitement at the fact that she remembered, "Since it was too dangerous to bring him along I left him behind with Robin."

Zoro let out a tiny sigh of relief as with him recovering he never even considered the little dragon, but knowing that is was with someone that he could trust would be less for him to worry about. He turns towards the entrance and heads out with a confused Nazuna following behind him, "Where are you going?"

He ignored Nazuna causing her to huff in annoyance, "Alright, then don't give me an answer."

Zoro walked through the door to find the Vinsmoke brothers approaching and they approached him with glares, "Ohh it's you the swordsman."

Zoro gave them jaded looks clearly not interested in what they are about to say, "We were chasing after that cute girl that was with you, any idea where she is?"

Their glares darkened when Zoro simply walked around them without saying a single word, Ichiji got in front to block his way, "Hey, answer when we talk to you!"

Zoro stopped in his tracks and looked at Ichiji's hand that was blocking his way before looking at Ichiji himself, "Get out of my way Vinsmoke and so help me if you don't I'll show you a whole world of pain you've never experienced before."

Ichiji looked at him oddly then turned to his siblings before erupting in laughter, "Come on man, you really think you can take us especially three to one don't kid yourself."

Unbeknownst to both parties, Nazuna was hidden in a shadow above watching the altercation with an amused smile on her face, she was taking much joy in the annoyed expression on Zoro's face as one of his eyes twitched indicating that his patience was coming to an end. Zoro grabbed the arm and pushed it away from him, "Get in my way again and you'll lose that arm."

Yonji didn't take kindly to that statement, "Is that a threat? Cause if it is then we'll have to take you up on it, cause no one ever threatens us."

Zoro gives him an odd look, "Fuck's wrong with you, are you retarded or something?"

There was a moment of silence before everything went exactly as everyone expected, Yonji struck him and Zoro responded accordingly, by grabbing his face and burying it into the ground. Ichiji and Niji rushed forward to try take out Zoro quickly. Taking a single blade out he kept up with the two as they rigorously attacked him, Zoro was already tired from his training and dealing with the Vinsmokes was not something he was in the mood to drag out so he decided to end things quickly. Blocking a strike and jumping back he lowered himself and shot forward this time taking the initiative, "Ashura Hakai!"

Using the blunt side of his blades he slammed into the two of them sending them barreling backward, Zoro followed up by slamming his foot into Niji's face and bringing his blade down on Ichiji's left shoulder leaving a deep cut. He ripped it out and swung in a full arc to block off the attack from Yonji who just recovered, the slash forced Yonji back and Zoro took advantage of this, rushing forward he leveled his blade to Yonji's chest doing a piercing charge. A loud voice caused to stop though, "You follow through with that move and I'll have everyone on the ship hunt you down Roronoa!"

Zoro turned towards the voice and scoffed sheathing his blade as Judge approached with his spear at the ready followed by a large amount of Germa soldiers, Zoro walked past him without giving Judge a few words, "You're sons attacked me first and they suffered the consequences for it, make sure this never happens again unless you want a dead man on your ship."

Judge glared at him but didn't say a word before turning to his sons, "It as dumb of you bunch to try challenge him, especially without your Raid Suits on. I told you all to leave him alone while I try to distinguish any noticeable weaknesses. Why did you go against what I've instructed of you?"

Ichiji groaned and picked himself off the ground, "He insulted us, our pride dictates us to make him suffer for it!"

Judge glared at his sons, before walking up and back-handing Ichiji, "We've already fought them once and you know just how powerful he is, think before you do something this stupid again child!"

Ichiji gave a small nod his anger still prevalent but he bit his tongue knowing that speaking up against his father would lead to nothing but suffering for him, Judge scoffed at them before turning around and walking off clearly frustrated at how difficult it was to contain Zoro. Ichiji, on the other hand, stood still indignant with the current situation turned towards his brother's, "Well, what now idiots?! We screwed it up and now Judge is going to be on our ass even more than usual."

Niji who was covering his gaping wound on his shoulder approached slowly, "Then I believe it would be best for us to distance ourselves from him for now, until we are able to come up with something to deal with him."

Ichiji growled at this and pushed past Niji and stormed off leaving Niji behind with an annoyed look on his face, "Yonji, keep a careful eye on him but don't engage, try to find something we can take advantage of."

Yonji hovered behind him, "Me? Is that really a good idea? I'm not exactly the sneakiest."

Njij mumbled, "Well, we're kind of busy and short-handed right now, Ichiji is storming around throwing a tantrum like a little child and I need to go get fixed up for my shoulders so you're the only one left for now."

Yonji sighed and shuffled off, "This is going to be fun."

~With Zoro~

The problem had solved itself to his delight as he wasn't required to clean up the corpses of three dead men, though he disliked Judge the most out of the entire group he was smart enough to not start up any problems with him. As he walked back to the room that was given to him he yawned somewhat bored of his situation hoping that Judge would hurry up and tell him what the favor he would have to do was so he could get off the ship as quick as he could. He knew that staying on this ship longer than he should be an extremely bad idea as most of the people on the ship itself wanted him dead, he grumbled and was distracted with a weird rumbling sound coming from the walls of the hallway.

He paused for a moment trying to identify exactly where the sound was coming from but was a bit slow as something burst through the wall, he was slammed in the face by some type of black creature that seemed quite familiar. Whatever it was yipped in what he assumed was excitement but he wasn't sure as he tried to wretch the creature off his face, it took a moment but Zoro was finally able to pull it off to be met with the familiar face of Draco. Zoro quirked an eyebrow at him and Draco responded by licking the bridge of his tongue and panting heavily with his tongue sticking out imitating a dog, Zoro gave it a blank look before sighing and placing him onto the ground to have him excitedly yipping and bound around his legs. Zoro ignored this and continued on his way until Draco bit into his pant leg, Zoro gave him a slightly annoyed look, "Stop that, how did you even get all the way here anyway?"

Draco stopped, sitting down and gave him a confused look, Zoro sighed, "Why did I expect you to understand me."

He continued on his way only to have Draco bit his pant leg again this time pulling him towards the hole he had created in the wall of the hallway, Zoro grumbled, "I thought I told you to stop."

Dracon let go of his pant leg and jogged towards the hole that he had created in the wall and pointing at it with his nose, Zoro gave him an odd look before slowly following after him peering into the hole. To his surprise, it appeared to have something quite large and odd looking at the end of the hole, his curiosity getting the best of him Zoro followed Draco into the hole after a few moments of walking he would finally come across what he saw. A large room filled with mountains upon mountains of test tubes filled with people that looked exactly like the soldiers that followed Judge around, he narrowed his eyes confused at the sight before him, "Clones? Thought they were joking when they told me about this, but then again anything can happen on the Grand Line."

When he heard a few voices getting louder he grabbed Draco and hid back into the hole, as he listened in he saw Judge and someone who looked like a scientist of sorts walking towards the mountain of clones, "What information have you accumulated from him?"

The scientist was an old man and seemed barely able to even stand on his own power as he was shaking constantly responded quickly, "Not much except for his ability over fire and immense strength, no weaknesses or anything we can exploit. Though if you manage to get some of his DNA I could attempt to create a clone of him for either research or to create an army of men as strong as he is."

Judge growled, "I need more, to do that we need to understand everything about him, all his strengths and weaknesses, how he managed to obtain such power. Not only that he also knows the location of Sanji, but we're also going to need him alive to extract that information from him, we need Sanji for that deal we have with Big Mom. I couldn't even believe that such a weak and disposable pawn like Sanji could have some use in his life, I must say such a stroke of luck doesn't really come around often."

The scientist nodded his head vigorously, "Yes, I must agree, Sanji was a disappointment and disgrace to the Germa name and now that he can help us advance our knowledge and power he has finally achieved something worthy of the Germa name. But that is the only problem that has been solved sir, this anomaly of a swordsman on our ship has not let up anything and we are hard-pressed to confront him on it, it is unlikely that he would support our goal in any way or form."

Judge scoffed and shoved past the scientist, "Then come up with something, I must know what is it that makes him so strong."

Zoro watched the two of them argue but zoned out the rest of their conversation as his annoyance had reached an all-time high, as much as he disliked the perverted cook he was still a friend and watching them talking of him like a failure of a human being just rubbed him the wrong way. Add on the fact that Judge was keeping him here in hopes of replicating his strength for his own maniacal means pushed things even further and Zoro could barely contain himself from rushing out from his hiding spot to cut down both of those men. But he knew better than to do such a thing as it would ultimately cause him more trouble than he would want to deal with, with a quite growl he grabbed Draco and crawled back through the hole and headed towards his room.

Draco quickly took his place wrapped around Zoro's neck, Zoro had pondered on what to do with his current situation but was met with no ideas of how to properly handle things as they were. He shooked his head annoyed with his predicament before summoning Nazuna, who looked as or even more so annoyed than him, "What do you want?"

He gave her a deadpan look before taking, "Draco found us."

she paused for a moment before moving forward and rubbing the head of the small dragon on Zoro, he gave her a moment before continuing, "But that isn't the main point, thanks to Draco I've come across a particular bit of information about Germa."

She stopped what she was doing and nodded at him seriously, "Their objective with keeping me here is to try to discover the secrets to my strength and take advantage of it, to be more specific to either use those strengths for themselves or to create clones that are similar in power for their army. The second point I make here is that most if not all the soldiers that are on this ship are clones, along with that they wished to use Sanji as a pawn to try further their power by connecting with the Big Mom Crew so they could use all the soldiers in her crew as test subjects to create even stronger troops for themselves."

Nazuna narrowed her eyes, "How exactly are you going to deal with this issue though?"

Zoro shook his head, "Nothing yet, I'm unsure of how to properly deal with this situation without resulting in even worse repercussions, so, for now, all I want you to do is stay hidden and observe anything problematic to us in this ship. I'll think of something to handle the situation eventually but more information is what we need now and that's what you're going to achieve."

Nazuna nodded and gave him a half bow, "Then I shall take my leave now. This ship is quite large so I shall begin in my endeavor as early as I can so you can determine what the right course of action for this predicament is."

Zoro laid back onto his bed with a sigh, "Yea, you go do that, for now, I'll simply fake ignorance to their plans while you gather the required information."

Nazuna melded into the shadows as Zoro took Draco off his neck and rubbed his face, "Things are going to get problematic real fast."

Draco yipped at him before laying down next to his head, they sat there for a few moments before Draco suddenly shot up and turned towards the door a slightly angry yet confused look on his face. Zoro slowly sat up and followed his gaze to be met with the sight of a conflicted Reiju standing in the doorway, he slowly reached towards his blades, "What do you want? If you're here for revenge because of what I did to your brothers than the same thing is going to happen to you."

She shook her head, "I only came to warn you."

Zoro narrowed his eyes, "Warn me of what?"

She paused for a second hesitating before steeling herself, "You should get off this ship as fast as you can."

Zoro quirked an eyebrow at this, "Is that a threat?"

She shook her head, "No, it isn't, I'm simply saying that the reason you were allowed on this ship is far more sinister than you realize it is."

Zoro paused for a moment before chuckling at her statement, "Do you really think I got on this ship thinking that you guys did it out of the kindness of your heart? I already knew from the moment he put down his weapons that he had an ulterior motive to letting me aboard, d not take me for a fool Reiju I know not to trust people from the start."

Reiju didn't move before letting out a small sigh, "Don't blame me for what's going to happen I tried warning you."

Zoro mumbled under his breath, "You didn't tell me anything about what is to happen you simply told me to leave not much of a warning, but nevertheless I already know what to expect."

He leaned back and stared at the ceiling of his room aimlessly, "You guys are the ones that need to be careful, I don't take kindly to being used or threatened and if I put my mind to it I could destroy everything your family has built up in the blink of an eye."

Sitting silently for a few moments afterward he contemplated the smartest course of action until he saw it time to do something about the Vinsmokes, though his thoughts were interrupted by a loud bang right outside his door. He stood up and made his way to the door expecting Reiju again though he was met by another one of the Vinsmoke siblings. To be more exact Ichiji, who looked ready to murder him, Zoro immediately unsheathed his blade and rested it right against his neck telling him not to do anything stupid that could get him killed.

Ichiji completely ignored this shooting forward reaching to try to choke Zoro, but he was much faster and his reflexes instinctively made him slice what was in front of him which in this case was Ichiji's outstretched hand. Zoro could hear as his blade sliced straight through is arm inciting a shocking scream of pain from the man as his limb flew off from his body, the scream was loud as it garnered the attention of the clones that were near the area. They were all met with the sight of Zoro standing over the slumped over, shaking body of Ichiji who was in a pool of blood griping the stump that was what remained of his hand.

That's a wrap, I don't really have much to say about the progress of this chapter, I kind of just forgot about doing this for the past week and a half so I never got around to finishing it and I'm sorry about that. I wasn't really sure of how to end the chapter so I kind of threw in the little Ichiji scene so I can have Zoro running around and hiding around Germa much like that one filler arc we had after Skypiea where all the Strawhats were scattered around the Marine base. It was a flash idea I came up with at the end cause I was still short a few hundred words so yea gonna have fun writing that for the next week or two. I don't plan on dragging out Zoro's stay with the Vinsmokes for much longer since I don't want to kill any of them off nor do I know of any other way to progress a storyline with them for any longer than I've already done so Zoro will probably be off the ship by next chapter or even the one after if I play my cards right. Once again if you're reading this and enjoy it thanks for reading.