Zoro opens her eyes and instantly knows she's back to reality and not experiencing the life of Nina, the bounty hunter. She sits up and looks around, her eyes speedily gets use to the dark. It's dark this time. She examines the area around her. She's in the girls room. She sees two silhouettes on the beds across from her. Franky must have redesigned the room because now there's more beds. Nami and Robins bed going vertically from largest wall. Robins' is stick in the corner, with a nightstand next to her head. Nami's bed right next to the nightstand, the girls sharing a nightstand. Zoro's bed is on the other side going horizontal with a nightstand next to her bed too. A round purple rug on the floor in front of Zoro. Zoro stood up and left the room. everything else was in the same place but the set up for the beds let it so there is more room for Zoro's own closet for her own clothes.
Zoro walked down the stairs onto the deck. She looked around to see the kitchen light off. The same things with everything else. It was like a ghost ship, wonder if Brook is wandering around somewhere, at least his soul? Zoro walked to the railing. That was a lot to learn about Nina. She seems so happy and carefree. Why is Light's Tear with Red Blade? It seems so weird that both swords are cursed. But what's with Nina, how does she fit into this? And where is the other girl? They seemed really close being lovers and all. Is she going to go through her whole journey? If so she's going to be fainting a lot. She sensed something behind her and turns in a flash only to spot all three swords. So this is where they are. She sees light being shined and turn to the sunrise. The red, or orange in the sky is beautiful but she remembered something from Nina. Nina once saw the sunrise start with red to shade into purple then blue. It was significantly better than this.
"Zoro," she hears her name being called softly. She turns to see Sanji staring at her wide eyed. It's like he's seeing a ghost.
"Cook." She calls back.
"You're awake." He states, still unable to believe she has finally opened her eyes again. She nods as her answers. She doesn't know what else to say to that. What can she say? She was never one for apologizing, plus what would she apologize for? 'Sorry for fainting because of my red cursed sword,' or 'sorry I was unable to help during any fights.' That's not her.
Sanji's glad she's awake now. He remembers the conversation they all had about her.
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They all gathered in the galley. Sitting at the table everyone looked at Luffy, he seemed to be thinking about something but as soon as Sanji set down the food everything else didn't matter. Well it's not like Zoro fainting and being in a coma like state wasn't important and shouldn't matter but Luffy knew she would be ok but the others, they had different opinion.
"It's the curse sword isn't it?" Usopp asks remembering when he touched the crimson one.
"It has to be, this only happened when after she got them." Nami says. Sanji serves the ladies as the boys serve themselves.
"Would getting rid of them help Zoro?" Chopper questions out loud. That question made the whole grew freeze. They all thought about it and all came to the same conclusion.
Yes. Yes it would.
It has to. She always fainted when she was touching those swords. It's only happened twice now but they didn't like it. They've all seen Zoro bed written and bandaged from head to toe, yes she doesn't have bandages on now but this all reminds them of an instance where she was and didn't wake up for a while. Chopper has said that she's fine but what if it causes problems later down the line. That's what worries everyone.
"So should we get rid of them?" Nami asks.
"It's not like we could touch them." Usopp says.
"If it means Zoro doesn't go into a coma then do it." Franky answers.
"Would that be wise though. How would Zoro react when she learns what we did?" Brook asks.
"If she wakes up." Sanji adds. Food is served but no one but Luffy is eating.
"But if we do get rid of the swords, she would wake up then right?" Nami questions.
"That does seem to make the most sense." Robin says, "it mostly seems to be up to us though since we are the only ones who could touch the crimson one." She adds looking at Nami. The orange haired girl nods. It really is up to them. Should she do it? But this is for Zoro to make her feel better since Chopper can't. It has to be done.
"Don't touch her sword." Luffy says. He looks at every single member in the eye, first the boys then Nami and Robin. His gaze locked on them longer than the boys.
"Ok." Nami says looking down at her food. Robin and the boys nod. Captain's orders.
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"How long was I asleep this time?" Zoro asks. She caught the frown Sanji made before it vanished and turned to his normal face. He look over to the sunrise and took out a cigarette from his inside blazer pocket. He then took out his lighter from his pants pocket. This seemed to be him prolonging his answer. Seemed dramatic for Zoro for no reason but whatever, the cook like to be dramatic sometimes.
Sanji exhaled a plume of smoke. He caught her eyes. "Two weeks." Sanji said. Zoro wasn't surprised, it shouldn't be. If that small dream sequence the first time was one week this one was longer and more detailed. If she's being honest with herself, she thought it would be longer but she had one more question.
"Did we dock at an island?" She asked worried for his answer.
"Yes." He said exhaling some smoke again. Sanji noticed she looked sad. Zoro had missed an opportunity to investigate. Granted she didn't know what to do yet but she was just gonna go with it, trust in luck. It hasn't failed her yet. "It was inhabited, just forest and jungles. We only stopped to get some supplies and wood."
Wood? "Was there a fight?" She asks. Again Sanji noticed the look she gave him. It made his heart thump faster.
"No, bad storm." Her face got worse. He knew she didn't like leaving the crew helpless. It might sound ridiculous for a crew to be helpless one person down, and they weren't but with a small crew like this every extra hand helps no matter how small. Yes they handled it without her but having her there would have been better. Hopefully this would...
"ZORO!" The swords-woman looks over to see Luffy up. She gives him a smile. Being comatose for two weeks must have worried everyone. With Luffy's outburst everyone woke up instantly. Even Chopper who is in the infirmary (it's also his bed room).
With one look of her green hair, her grey eye and tan, goddess figure, all of her nakama ran to give her a hug. Happy to see her standing, out of the bed. They all got more worried after a week and everyday after was miserable.