"WAHAHAHA!"
Laughter echoes across the burning crater that was once a town,
"FEAR ME!"
The maniac clown yells and continue laughing,
"WAHAHAHAHAH-" *kofh* *kofh* "Argh, stupid throat." The clown rasps.
But those words fall on the deaf ears of Emily, who stare on in absolute horror and disgust.
"wh-waht?"
"Keep your eyes peel, there may be enemies nearby."
"s-sure thing Zoro."
"And you three,"
...
"Huh? Where are they?"
"SEE YA LATER JACKASS!" The trio yell as they run towards a circus-themed tent and a giant flagpole in front of it with a black flag with a skull that have a big red dot as its nose and two bones forming an X behind the skull flapping in the wind.
"Dammit, they're getting away, Jaune come on!"
"WAHAHAHA! Wahaha! waha, ha, ha,...phew, so anyway, Emily, why did you join me?"
"Huh?"
"People don't just up and leave like that. So what's your reason? He killed your family or something?"
"Um,..."
"Oh and by the way, on your way here, did you by any chance bump into anyone running around with a map in their hand?
"Boss!"
"What!? Can't you see I'm busy!"
"Boss, the fishing crew has returned."
"Ah, perfect, I thought we have to go hungry like yesterday again."
"At least you know how I feel."
"Shut it straw face."
"Bosh! Bosh!"
"Oh jeez, what happened to you three?"
"Roranoh Zoro" *huff*
"Jut ecaped frm" *huff*
"Behide ust" *huff*
"What are you saying? Who's Roranoh Zoro?"
"HEY! Get back here!" A green hair man shouts
"EEK! DEMON MAN!" The three sailors shriek
*?*
"What's the big idea?..." The man yells but quickly catch himself, "Who the hell are you?" Pointing at the man who have blue hair, bones criss-crossing his face, slim body that is being covered by a red and white striped shirt, he also have some sort of weird red warpaint covering his mouth.
"The name's Buggy, you?"
"Zoro."
"Nice to meet you."
"Same here."
"So anyway, who's the out of breath blonde kid?" Pointing at the kid who is wearing armour, gasping for air and using his knees as support
"That's Jaune, one of my crewmate."
"Crewmate? You a pirate or something?"
"Something like that."
"What you mean?"
"Got forced to join a pirate crew thanks to my dumb luck."
"Meh, you get used to it eventually."
*huff* *huff* "oh lord, I need to work on my fitness."
"Jaune?"
"Luffy? *huff* Luffy why you here? *huff* I thought a bird ate you, and why are you tied up in a cage?"
"Who cares, untie me so I can beat up that red nose clown."
"Why?"
"He refuses to give me food."
"That's no reason to beat someone up."
"Free me!"
"Okay, okay, I'm coming."
Unfortunately, for Jaune,
"A lock? Now how am I supposed to open you?"
"Use your head."
"I know, I am."
"No, use your head, it works for me."
Some people are not blind,
"Oh Jaune, by the way."
"Yeah?"
"Watch out for those people with swords behind you."
"Wait what?"
*grab* "gotcha!" Someone's alcohol breath fills Jaune nose and a hand covers his mouth,
"Hey boss! We caught someone! And he's a squirmy one." As Jaune thrashes wildly
"Huh? What'd you find?"
"Someone trying to rescue the straw hat kid."
"Really now? That's sweet of him, throw him in the cage with his mate for execution."
"Oi Buggy."
"What Zoro?"
"You mind letting them go? They're my crew."
"Your crew?...These morons?"
*muffle*
"Shut it blonde kid."
"Yeah, it's weird how I joined those two." Zoro says as he scratches his head
"You just joined right?"
"Yeah."
"You don't mind if I kill one of them right?"
"Tempting, but I still have a promise to keep."
"Promise? What the hell is that?" Buggy then pulls out his knives
"Something that is precious to me." As Zoro draws his two blades
"Nice blades, can't wait to take them off your corpse."
"Dead man shouldn't be talking."
…
Absolute silent fall over the camp,
…
While the two stare at each other, waiting
…
"Well? What are you waiting for?"
"..."
"Are you that afraid of me?"
"..."
"Well I can't blame ya for feeling the way you do."
"You talk too much, red nose clown."
Breaking the final straw and silent, Buggy comes charging in and lunges straight at Zoro. Holding his knives up high and attempts a slash at Zoro's neck.
Instead of mirroring Buggy, Zoro quickly duck down low and thrust his two swords into his opponent's guts, turning around and slam the lifeless body onto the cold hard ground.
"Wow, that was it? Man he's weak."
*scream muffle*
Feeling something is off, Zoro inspects his blades, "There's no bloo-urhg"
Interrupt his observation is a small knife poking out of his stomach, "WAHAHAHA! Hey now, it's not nice to reveal secret."
"H-how?"
"Magic."