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"Zorooo!"

What's that? Thought Zoro. …Luffy. Where am I? Why can't I move? So tired.

"Zoro! We found a village and food! Hey! Where are you?

His wounds hurt, but they had stopped bleeding. No. Luffy… Stay back. He heard Nami's voice now.

"Maybe they're still lost in the jungle," suggested Nami.

"No, not Zoro and Tashigi. They wouldn't get lost." (Pause) "Ai! Zora! Where's—what's wrong? Why are you crying?"

Zora? No, Luffy, it's a…trap! He blacked out once more.

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"Zoro, Zoro!" He's waking up!" yelled Ussop. Zoro opened his eyes. He was in a bed. A warm bed. He blinked. There was Luffy… all beaten up.

"Zoro, your awake!" Luffy smiled.

"What happened?" Zoro gasped, "Mucho-Baka…"

"Don't push yourself, Hon," said an unfamiliar lady. She must have been the village healer.

"Oh, you mean that one guy?" continued Luffy, "He was strong, clumsy, but I got him. He got away though. Sorry."

"No, I'm sorry," I didn't kill him although he was an unskillful opponent. It's shameful actually."

"Nah, you did good Zoro, he was nearly dead when I got there. He had chained you up in the storage room"

"Where are we?" Zoro continued.

"We found a village," Luffy said excitedly, "We carried you here after we got rid of that weirdo. The kids are here, too!"

"Zora…"

"Oh, Zora? She's outside. She was crying like she was aho (crazy) earlier. Maybe she'll stop now."

"Zora!" Luffy walked out to find the swordsman's daughter, giving everyone else a chance to see Zoro finally. He could now sit up right. Zora burst into the door screaming, "Daddy!" She hugged him tight. "Ow… Zora."

"I'm sorry!" she cried, "I shouldn't have trusted that man! It's my fault!"

"Nah, Zora, it' s not your fault." Zoro tried patronizing her.

"It's not?"

"No it's…Sanju's"

"What!" exclaimed Sanju.

"You should have told her!"

"I did! She's just so stupid!"

"What did you call me?" shouted Zora.

"You heard me,"

"Well at least their back to normal. I was getting scared," said Nami.

Kaya laughed. "Are you okay, Zoro?" she asked. "I apologize that I couldn't help any and I also welcomed the guy."

"Like I said, it's not your fault; it's Sanju's."

"Stop bringing my son into this," admonished Sanji.

"It's not my fault he's completely useless just like his father,"

"You want to fight, Mold!"

"Yeah, they're ok, too," said Carmen.

"Well, you seem to be better," broke in the village lady who bandaged Zoro, "but you should rest more."

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3 days later…

"So do you think it's time to go?" asked Nami.

"Yeah, I guess," replied Tashigi.

"No," whined Kaysopp, "We just got here!"

"Yeah, but Zoro has healed," Nami carried on, "And we're not getting staying here."

"Yes!" exclaimed Luffy out of nowhere. "We need to go to become—

"Ok, then it's decided," interrupted an annoyed Nami.

They boarded the next day. The villagers waved them off as they raise the sail and sailed toward the horizon.

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I'm surprised. I was planning this to be 7 chapters and it ended up only four. Well, that's good. I hoped that closing line was ok, I couldn't think of any good ones. I noticed after I was done that Luffy was kind of out of character (too mature) until the end, but let's just say he was extremely worried before and it temporarily altered his personality All right that's all.