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John was ore or less correct as it took them about four days before they finally caught sight of Sabaody Archipelago, though he believed he was a tad bit earlier than the two-year deadline it would be fine if he stayed hung around for a few days having some fun. Though he never really thought about how to deal with the fact that he would be arriving with on the ship of a now-dead Celestial Dragon along with only two people and a dragon on the ship that was made for far more than three passengers, he would have to dispose of the ship before they arrived so not to raise any suspicions especially since he was unsure if anyone knew of him killing the Celestial Dragon since news always traveled so fast somehow. He came to the decision to get close enough to Sabaody then board a smaller boat before burning the ship to remove any evidence of it arriving anywhere near Sabaody, after that he would have to find something to do for the next couple weeks and a good place to hide out seeing as he was a wanted man especially after the incident that occurred last time he was here at Sabaody. Not only that he would also have to hide the fact that he possessed a dragon as it would do nothing but cause more unnecessary trouble for them

He sighed and got to searching for a smaller ship or even a rowboat would for them to board onto, Nazuna was packing up their things as they were reaching the final stages of this trip and were ready to disembark the ship while Draco was most likely asleep in the crow's nest. When he finally found a boat for them to work with he went to wake up Draco and inform Nazuna of his discovery before dragging the boat out, he used a rope to tie it to the ship before tossing it onto the water using the rope to keep it from straying too much before they leave. They quickly grabbed whatever they had and whatever they believed they would need for the stay before placing it all in the boat, Zoro stayed aboard for a few more minutes trying to find anything that was flammable and spreading it throughout the ship before joining them on the boat, after they got far enough away from the ship Zoro flicked a sleeping Draco and got an annoyed hiss in response, "Go fly over to the ship and set the barrel I placed next to the base of the mast on fire."

The little dragon made a sound that seemed much like a grumble of sorts before taking off towards the ship and after a few seconds the boat quickly caught fire with Draco lazily flying back to them, he plopped onto Zoro's head before returning to his sleep. Zoro lifted Draco off and gave him to Nazuna before grabbing the oars and started making his way towards the island. When they arrived at the island Zoro grabbed most of the things out of the boat before turning to Nazuna, "I'm going to go into the town and see if there's going to be any troublesome people on the island before heading towards the Thousand Sunny, you should take everything to the ship first and take Draco with you don't know how they would react to the sight of a dragon."

Nazuna chuckled hefting everything up, "I doubt Draco would join you seeing as he desperately seems to want to go to sleep more than follow you for once."

She paused for a moment before setting everything down and started rummaging through one of the bags, it took a second before she pulled a cloak out, "Here, you have to remember that you're a wanted man if there isn't anyone troublesome there then with your appearance then there's bound to be one."

Zoro took it thankfully putting it on, "You know how to get to the Thousand Sunny right?"

She nodded in response, "Don't worry about it I've got everything covered."

Zoro gave her a blank look for setting off into the town, for almost two years everything looks exactly the same though as he made his way through the town he once again found himself at the Human Auctioning House. Seeing as what had happened here last time it left a bad taste in his mouth, he wished he could destroy the entire thing now but knew better than to as it would only make things more difficult for him especially since the rest of the Strawhats were going to make their way here very soon. So with a click of his tongue, he turned around and left the area not exactly in a happy mood. Not of interest really appeared so Zoro grew bored quite quickly not sure if he should return to the ship now or patrol around for a bit longer just in case something would appear. But it appeared that everything was the same as usual since Mary Geoise was so close to this island most pirates don't want to cause any trouble, so the only people he would have to worry about would be the Marines who consisted of mostly the usual cannon fodder that wouldn't be much of a problem for him, so unless he or someone else cause something worth a fleet of Marines to arrive he should be fine.

He finally caved and decided to return to the ship this was bound to a peaceful yet stressful couple weeks as he would try to avoid all problems involving combat so not to cause too much of a commotion before the rest of the crew would arrive which he knew with his insane bloodlust would be a pain in the ass to manage. As he returned to the ship he was met with the sight of a bloodied up Kuma slowly lumbering his way towards the town, he hovered his hand over his blades at the sudden appearance of the warlord. Kuma stopped in his steps and stared at Zoro for a few moments before speaking, "Roronoa Zoro, it appears that you truly have returned."

Zoro narrowed his eyes at him, "What's that suppose to mean?"

Kuma continued on his path, "I have completed my mission your ship is safe."

Zoro glance at the gigantic figure before sighting and making his way back to the ship, "To this day still don't understand what goes on in that mind of yours."

When he arrived at the ship Nazuna was finishing up unpacking everything and Draco was scampering around the ship yipping in excitement while doing so, he hopped onto the ship and took off his cloak. Nazuna noticed him, "Was there anything that would be problematic for our stay here?"

Zoro rubbed the back of his head and slowly made his way to the crow's nest, "Besides Kuma, there shouldn't be any problems at all, that is if nothing attracts the attention of the Marines."

She nodded, "What did happen to that man anyway?"

Zoro sighed, "I never did understand him much anyway, he was always such an odd person. The only thing I truly understand about him is that he was turned into a cyborg for experimentation purposes and that he was a former member of the Revolutionary Army, besides that, I'm just as confused as you."

She furrowed her brow thinking of something as Zoro slowly climber up into the crow's nest an area he was very much familiar with, his weights still sitting where they were the day he was sent away. He reminisced for a bit of a time that was much simpler where he wasn't constantly worried about tearing down a government and was there just for the journey with his friends along with his striving for a simple goal of becoming the strongest swordsman, a much happier time that had far past. In the middle of this he suddenly remembered something, he quickly made his way down the crow's nest and past Nazuna, she looks at him confused, "Where are you going?"

Zoro hopped off the ship, "I'm going to visit an old friend."

She quirked an eyebrow before shrugging and returning to unpacking everything, Zoro slowly made his way towards an oh so familiar place, Shakky's Rip-off Bar. As he opened the door he saw Shakky sitting there alone smoking a cigarette she turns around at the sound of the door opening and smiles, "Well, I didn't expect you to return so fast you still had at least a week."

Zoro closed the door behind and sat on the barstool next to her, "All that matters is that I'm here now and I've become far stronger than I was before."

Shakky chuckles at this, "If you're looking for Rayleigh he's off coating another ship."

Zoro sighed, "I expected that for now I'll probably grab a drink and wait for him to return I've got a quite a bit of time now."

Shakky gets up and stretches heading into the bar, "If you want a drink it's going to cost you."

Zoro grumbled, "You sound so similar to Nami it's uncanny."

She chuckles at this and tosses him an entire bottle, "Drink up, knowing Rayleigh he's not going to return for a while."

Zoro rolled his eyes, "I don't need you to tell me that."

They sat drinking and conversing for a few hours as they waited for Rayleigh to return, though it takes quite a lot to get him even close to wasted it seemed that that was exactly how far they would go as when Rayleigh returned he was met with the sight of a tipsy Zoro and chuckling Shakky. He grinned at this, "Well, you've finally returned."

They both turned towards Rayleigh Zoro being quite a bit slower as it took him a second to register everything, Zoro takes a deep breath trying to sober up as much as possible for this conversation, "Yea, was a pain in the ass and had to do a lot of things to get here but I got here successfully though much earlier than I was planning to."

Rayleigh chuckled and reached over grabbing a drink for himself, "Two years have gone by hasn't it."

Zoro nodded, "Though my concept of time is a bit off it should be."

Rayleigh gave him a questioning look, "I'm going to have to ask, what've you done for the last two years?"

Zoro sighed, "A lot of weird things if you want a full story we're going to be here for quite a while."

Rayleigh reclined in his chair with an interested look on his face, "Well, you've got like two weeks and I have about twenty years left so we both got a bit of time."

Zoro started right from the beginning, "I spent a few months stuck on Kuraigana Island training with Mihawk before I left. It was about the least exciting part of the entire two years actually, I got attacked a few times by some hellhounds but they were more so to send a message so they weren't expected to be able to defeat me."

Rayleigh gave him a confused expression, "Hellhounds?"

Zoro nodded, "Yea, their these type of demonic dogs that have the ability to teleport themselves, they're like rottweilers with scars all over but the scars are filled with a fire of sorts."

Rayleigh slowly nodded imagining what it would look like as Zoro continued with his story, "Then I left the island and arrived at another island called Hell's Gate that was overrun by these weird monsters that were being summoned by a tomb, it was a really weird couple days. I had to fight a couple of powerful monsters, a titan, and like a tenth of a creature as only it's arms were able to get out of the tomb before I sealed it. I think it was because I was too tired so I didn't destroy the tomb but someone snuck in sometime after the battle and took the tomb away."

Rayleigh whistled, "When you said that a lot of weird things happened this wasn't what I expected but it's entertaining nevertheless."

Zoro sighed, "After that, there was this girl called Asuka who snuck onto my boat and followed me as I left. About a day or two later I arrived at another island whose name I don't remember which was home to two main species of creatures the dragon and the griffon who have been participating in an island-wide turf war of sorts. I got dragged into defeating the dragons cause they took Asuka and one of the griffons decided to join my journey, out of all the stowaways I had he was my favorite. While I broke Asuka out she managed to swipe one of the dragon eggs and hide it in her bag while not telling me."

Rayleigh quirked an eyebrow, "So you have a dragon and a griffon now?"

Zoro twisted his hand from side to side indicating yes and no, "Technically they both are mine but something happened so the griffon remained with Asuka while the dragon followed me."

Shakky popped in from the back of the bar, "If the dragon's with you now I would love to see it."

Zoro sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, "Maybe another time, he's on the Thousand Sunny right now and I'm only a bit of the way through my story."

She smiled at him, "Then I'm looking forward to meeting him and continue with your story please it's quite interesting."

Zoro cleared his throat and downed another gulp, "After that, we arrived at another island and we ran into the Revolutionary Army."

Rayleigh quirked an eyebrow, "The Revolutionary Army? Haven't heard that name in quite a while, wonder how they're doing."

Zoro shrugged, "They were doing quite well, but I ran into Robin who was with the Revolutionary Army. They were trying to return to their base but this was were the person that had stolen the tomb escaped to and he was using it to try to kill more people and managed to overwhelm the group of Revolutionaries there forcing them to abandon their ship so they were stuck there. They didn't possess the right weapons to handle the monster so they were making no progress to retaking their ship until I went and attacked the guy, but he went on quite a rant until he died. He kept on talking about his lord Satan but when he started revealing more stuff he just imploded out of nowhere and died, covered me in blood it was quite annoying and left me with a really bad feeling."

Rayleigh took a swig before asking, "Satan? Isn't he some kind of demonic lord of something?"

Zoro nodded, "He called himself the King of Demons but I'll get to that later, after that they took us to the Revolutionary Army's base and I spent a few peaceful days there until Satan acted up again sending one of his generals and an entire army of demons to try capture me. Apparently I pique his interest of something, it was a massive battle but I focused completely on defeating the general and it costed me as because of fighting the general all alone I died."

Rayleigh erupted in laughter, "Hah! You died?"

Zoro rolled his eyes and grumbled, "Yea, I died my soul was taken to heaven and I had a conversation with an angel, they tried to remove all the demonic energy within me but it didn't work and the two energies within me merged to create something much more powerful."

Rayleigh blinked, "You aren't kidding?"

Zoro continued, "Nope, that power manifested as a human and her names Nazuna I'll introduce her some other time, it was a few days to recovered and a few days to train before Satan himself came to capture me. But before that, an entire organization made to kill Satan reached out to me asking for my help, so we made a plan but things didn't go well and when I fought Satan they weren't able to track him down so I was such in Hell for a couple of months not really sure how long since I was in a cell for most of that time. They had a gladiatorial arena there and forced me to fight there, I beat most of them until my final fight where I was fighting against this giant dragonman but the day that fight happened it was also the day that Ashura had managed to break through the barrier bringing in that entire organization. I only heard what had happened during the raid since I was beaten half to death from the battle before but it was a long drawn out fight and they almost managed to defeat Satan but something intervened don't remember what."

Rayleigh chuckled, "But wouldn't that mean that he's going to be back to hunt you down again?"

Zoro sighed, "Yea, it's going to be a pain but I wasn't powerful enough to fight him then so there wasn't much I could do so I'll have to deal with the consequence some other time. After that, I spent another month or so recovering my the physical beating I got before we looked for a way off the island and that solution came in the form of the Vinsmokes that were passing by. I hitched a ride with them for a couple of days before things turned sour and I was forced to escape, the method I used to escape was a very questionable one that put me in a coma for about six months."

They looked at him in surprise, "A coma for six months? The hell did you do for that to happen?"

Zoro chuckled, "An explosion from a flame that I should have used, thanks to that my entire back is covered in scars now, in hindsight it was a terrible idea but I was tired of hiding on a ship as the entire ship tried to hunt me down. But when I awoke I was stuck on a medieval island for a couple of months to recover from my terrible idea and I didn't find a way off the island until a Celestial Dragon visited."

The two of them shared a look before carefully responding to Zoro, "What exactly happened to the Celestial Dragon?"

Zoro rubbed the back of his head before answering, "Well, I killed him and took his ship."

Rayleigh rubbed the bridge of his nose, "You know how incredibly stupid that is?"

Zoro nodded, "Of course I do, the last time we just injured a Celestial Dragon we almost died."

Rayleigh put his drink down giving Zoro an intense look, "Then why did you think killing him was a good idea?"

Zoro narrowed his eyes back at him, "I didn't, but I wasn't going to just allow him to just harm the residents that had taken care of me while I was recovering."

Rayleigh continued, "What makes you think that when they find out about his death that they won't kill everyone on that island?"

Zoro glared at Rayleigh, "Because I'm going to take the blame for it."

Rayleigh looked at him confused, "What do you mean? That would only cause more trouble for you, it would make your journey that much more difficult. Why would you do such a thing?"

Zoro sighed and took another swig of his drink, "I know but our journey was never meant to be easy, and for what I'm planning on doing it wouldn't be that bad of an idea for them to chase after me"

Rayleigh gave Zoro a cautious look, "What exactly are you planning on doing that would have an Admiral and countless Marines chasing after you being a good thing?"

Zoro gave him a blank look before responding, "The eradication of the Celestial Dragons and the noble system."

This quieted Rayleigh and Shakky as they sat there dumbfounded for a few moments before Rayleigh shook off his stupor, "That's an awfully ambitious goal you have there, countless others have tried the same thing you have and have all failed. What makes you think you could do what they could not?"

Zoro smiled at them, "The timing and a secret weapon I possess, though they increase the chances of my success it will still be a difficult journey especially for me."

Rayleigh questioned him, "Timing? Secret weapon? Unless you have one or all three of the ancient weapons no other weapon could even remotely achieve that, and timing what exactly does that mean?"

Zoro chuckled at him, "You'll just have to wait and see, a lot of things are going to happen and you yourself will have to prepare for the changing of this world. The only question is if you're prepared for it or not."

Rayleigh stared at him silently for a few moments before erupting in laughter, "Two years and it seems like you've completely changed, you've become far more ambitious than I could ever imagine. Though I caution you not to let your ambitions consume you or you'll pay the price for it."

Zoro snorted and took another bottle of sake, "It wouldn't matter if I'm consumed by it or not I just have to achieve it for it all to be worth it."

Rayleigh quieted down a bit but his amused expression still remained, "That's a dangerous mindset you got there ain't healthy for anyone to think like that."

Zoro waved him off, "Bah! It's fine, but you should prepare yourself, Rayleigh, the world will change and it will do so quickly. If you aren't prepared for it, it'll sweep you along before you disappear before the raging tides."

Rayleigh chuckled, "Ominous but duly noted, now enough with these depressing talks lets have a party!"

Zoro shook his laugh while laughing, "You're quite old is that much alcohol good for your system?"

Rayleigh waved him off, "What are you just too scared to be drunk under the table by an old man?"

Zoro rolled his eyes and stepped forward, "Try me, old man!"

~Two Weeks Later~

Zoro woke up buried in a mound of bottles once again, ever since he returned to Sabaody he'd been drinking an insane amount with Rayleigh which lead to him almost waking up every day like this. If anyone said he drank a lot they have never met Rayleigh as a Seventy-Eight-year-old man he drank more than anyone could even imagine and never even seemed to have a hangover as he would just get up from the night before like nothing happened. As Zoro looked around he saw rayleigh sitting peacefully with a cup of coffee in his hand chuckling at Zoro, Zoro groaned, "Can it old man."

Rayleigh chuckled even more, "You should get prepared soon."

Zoro looked at him confused, "Why?"

Rayleigh quirked an eyebrow, "Don't you know what day it is?"

Zoro blinked a couple of times trying to remember before jumping to the conclusion, "The rest of the Strawhats are arriving today aren't they?"

Rayleigh nodded and Zoro shot up with a groan he started running straight towards the door while putting his shirt back on, "SHIT!"

As Zoro left the bar Shakky emerged from the back of the bar seemingly having just wakened, "So the rest of them are arriving today, took them long enough."

Rayleigh chuckled at her, "He was never supposed to arrive this early so technically they didn't take that long since their on time."

Shakky rolled her eyes, "You know what I'm talking about, though things are going to get much quieter without him around."

Rayleigh looked out the window, "He's only just left and you already miss him?"

She chucked a bottle at him in response, "That's not the reason, it's the fact that you just disappear all of a sudden all the time."

Rayleigh chuckled while dodging all the bottles she was throwing at him, "The kids going to be on a hell of a journey especially with what he's hoping to achieve."

Shakky lit another cigarette for herself, "Do you think he could actually do it though?"

Rayleigh's smile falters slightly and he turned back to the window, "I'm not really sure, I expect great things from the Strawhats but I never even considered something like this especially from the one in the group that seemed the least concerned with how the world currently is. I guess only time will tell if he'll be able to achieve it though him foreshadowing a wave of change that will sweep all those unprepared is slightly concerning, especially the way he targeted it towards me."

Shakky sighed, "He's hiding something I'm pretty sure you picked up on it too."

Rayleigh nodded, "But if he isn't willing to talk about it then I won't pry, let him sort out all his issues himself."

~With Zoro~

He rushed back to his ship to find Nazuna who he had assigned to guard the ship along with Draco and was hoping that none of the Strawhats would arrive before he had so to avoid any complications. As he rushed towards the ship he gripped his head trying to stifle the hangover he had so it would hurt less as he ran, as he was making his way there he ran into a very large hooded person. Stumbled a bit and turned around glaring at him the figure glared back though his pupils seemed to shine inside the hood, Zoro caught sight of blond hair accompanied with a long scar down the side of his mouth before he pulled his hood closer, "Watch where you're going."

Zoro stared for a few more seconds before shaking his head and continued towards the ship flipping the man off while doing so, "It couldn't be him could it?"

When he finally caught sight of the ship he let out a sigh of relief seeing that it seemed practically untouched meaning that no one had arrived yet, he stopped right in front of the ship kneeling by the water and cupping his hands gathering some of the water to splash his face. He didn't look like complete shit but all the heavy drinking was causing him to be a bit paler than he wanted to be, with a grunt he hopped onto the ship and called out, "Nazuna!"

It would take a few seconds but she would finally appear as her head popped out of the kitchen, "What?"

Zoro walked up to her, "The rest of the Strawhats are arriving today."

She looked at him confused, "And?"

Zoro groaned, "Hide yourself."

She gave him an odd look, "Why should I do that?"

Zoro sighed, "Because no one knows who you are so if you were to just stay on the ship and one of them was to arrive at the ship and see you it could cause complications."

Nazuna looked like she wanted to argue but it died in her throat and she sighed, "Fine."

With that, she dissolved into flames and flew towards Zoro forming one of the few tattoos on Zoro that seemed to be missing ever since Nazuna was first formed, he never really noticed but he filed that away for later now he would focus on the other problem on the ship Draco. He wasn't sure how to deal with him but believe that the rest of the Strawhats wouldn't think much of it if he was next to it, he paused for a second, "I could have done the same for Nazuna."

He shrugged chalking that up to his head still fuzzy after a night of heavy drinking prior, he called once again, "Draco!"

The creature slammed into him causing his headache to grow stronger as he slammed into the ground, opening one eye and gripping his head he looked up to see Draco on his chest panting like a dog. He once again noticed that Draco appeared to have grown even bigger than before, he wasn't sure what was going on but this seemed unnatural but then again what did he know about dragon biology. He pushed Draco off and rubbed the back of his head, "If you're this big try not to do things like that especially when I have a hangover."

Draco gave him a low growl in response and Zoro continued, "The rest of the crews going to arrive soon, try not to cause any trouble alright."

Draco huffed in response and walked over to the center pillar and curling into a ball and quickly falling asleep, Zoro sighed and went to the railing of the ship leaning over he stared off into the distance. He'd been so preoccupied with Rayleigh and Shakky's constant drinking that he didn't even have time to think about the return of the rest of his crew, he didn't know what to think, his time spent in hell gave him a new appreciation for his comrades. He sighed at this and got up deciding not to wait around and instead go searching for them as he was very impatient, "Draco go up to the crow's nest I'm going to go looking for them."

The dragon grumbled in response and slowly got up yawning while doing so and flying up to the crow's nest, Zoro jumped off the ship and headed into the town in search for his crew. He also remembered that there being copy-cats at Sabaody when they were here last time, he never ran into them last time he was here but since he was bored he might as well go and clean up some trash. He walked up towards one of the recruiting signs and smiled, he turned towards one of the passersby, "Do you know where the Strawhats are?"

The man looked at him cautiously before answering, "They planned to have everyone joining the fleet meet at Grove 7 in two hours, but I heard someone saying that they saw them messing around in a bar down there."

Zoro smiled and patted the man on the back, "Thanks."

He tosses a gold coin at him before walking towards the bar, he was ready to challenge them though he didn't want to tear up an establishment he was ready for anything. He entered to hear a commotion growing and walked in to see a large man in a Strawhat along with an open tank top that was far too small for him pointing a gun at someone, "Bitch when I say you come and have a drink with us you come over here."

Zoro chuckled and kicked a chair at them having it slam into the fake Luffy or Demaro Black yelp in pain and drop the gun, "When a lady says no you listen to her or your going to be in for a hell of an experience buddy."

Demaro glared at him and tried to pick up his gun but Zoro was much faster than him shooting forward he kicks the gun out of the way and unsheathed one of his blades placing the tip of it mere millimeters from his face, "Well how about you guys stop causing trouble and leave this establishment peacefully, unless you're willing to try to fight me. In which I'm fully willing to let happen though you may not enjoy the result."

The man was stupid but not stupid to fight someone like Zoro especially with the dark look in his eye he huffed and turned around storming out of the bar followed by the rest of the false group. Zoro turns around and is body-slammed by an oranged-haired woman, "Zoro!"

He stumbled a bit before stabilizing himself and getting a good look at who had run into him, she lifted her face up and smiled at him. Zoro instantly recognized who it was and chuckled, "Nice to see you too Nami."

She let go and giggled at him, "It's been two years and that's all you've got to say?"

Zoro rolled his eyes and headed towards the exit, "There isn't need for any more words."

She pouts at this and follows after him but they were stopped by a man hidden behind a hat, "Now you swiped my chance for a flashy entrance."

Zoro quirked an eyebrow before snorting when the man popped his hat up a bit revealing an unnaturally long nose, "Can it Usopp, I got things to do and allowing you to play around with theatrics is not on my schedule."

Usopp grumbles and mutters something about muscle-heads not being able to appreciate true art, but Zoro continued forward not breaking his stride, "You guys should return to the ship I'm going to gather the rest of the crew myself."

Usopp gave him an odd look, "Why are you telling us to do everything?"

Zoro rolled his eyes, "I'm not but having people not be separated would a much better idea than being completely separated so if the Marines try to chase it down it would be easier to escape since everybody's together."

Usopp sighed, "Fine, we'll head back. Is anyone else there right now?"

Zoro shrugged his shoulders, "I don't believe so, you guys are the first people I ran into since I left the ship."

Nami grumbled and punched his shoulder, "We've got two years to catch up on don't go and get injured or disappear like others time alright?"

Zoro chuckled and rubbed his shoulders, "Alright."

He headed towards Grove 7 hoping to intercept the group of fakes and knock them out, leaving them for the Marines to deal with them. Though knowing Nami she would love to turn them in themselves for the bounties but they were also pirate so it was unlikely they would probably chase them all down without giving the money unless they got someone to turn the bounties in for them was not something he believed he had the time for as he searched for the single most troublesome member of their crew, Luffy.

He jogged towards grove 7 and saw the large groups of people gathered for the recruitment, he entered one of the empty buildings and watched carefully for his targets to emerge. They finally did and Zoro was about to make his move before a group Pacifista's appeared, Zoro felt a bit odd as he knew exactly that this was going to happen but shook the feeling off and continued to watch. He saw someone within the crowd of pirates that really stood out, he smiles knowing exactly who it was. He shook his head and slowly heads down the building deciding to let events run by themselves and interfere when he's needed which he ultimately wouldn't need to. As Luffy would be completely unscathed even against three Pacifista's, he decided to head back to the ship seeing as he wouldn't really be needed here.

Heading back to the ship he knew that Franky and Brook would find their own way there but was unsure of how Robin and Chopper returned, so he paused for a bit and climbed a building keeping an open eye for them. He sat there for a few seconds scanning the area before ultimately finding Robin and Chopper being accompanied by Nami who was riding on a bubble bike, he stared at the form of transportation and shook his head still not wrapping his head around such a weird creation. With that, he heads back to the ship satisfied knowing that all the crew would be accounted for, he jumped off the building and slowly walked back enjoying the few minutes of peace before he would once again be joined by his crewmates. It had been a long time coming and he had already experienced this once before but it was still a great feeling being reunited with them once again, he arrived at the ship to find Franky already there, the man did his usual super-pose to catch Zoro's attention. He climbed up the ship to find that the rest of the crew had arrived before he had, they were all laughing and enjoying each other's company, the only thing he could do now was smile and join in on the fun.

That's a wrap, I managed to finish this chapter a lot faster than I would have imagined but I'm kind of thankful, wasn't sure how I should have done for this chapter so I had a bit of a recap of what happened during the timeskip period and a bit of what I'm planning to take the story in. I'm starting to figure out how I want to end this story and things are gonna get real bloody real fast when we reach that point, but that won't happen for a long while. I may be able to work on this story a bit more than I used to due to the fact that my siblings are dragging me out ever Saturday so I just camp out at a Starbucks for a few hours so I can study and when I'm done with that I can work on the story so I ain't complaining too much for now especially with how long this chapter is, longest one yet 6.5k words ya'll. But ya boi sucks ass at Chemistry and I'm not trying to fail any classes especially with how bad my grades were last semester so later on it'll slow down a bit again most likely around early March till late June but we'll see until then. I'm going to try finish the next chapter within the next two weeks but with things starting up a bit I might not be able to so I'm sorry. But once again if you're reading this and enjoy it, thanks for reading.