Emichii: Here's the second chapter, peoples! Enjoy!
Chapter Two- A cruel trick
They walked into the city; there was no-one there.
They could see Luffy, Sanji and Ussop ahead of them, wondering the same thing. Luffy yelled out, "ANYBODY HERE?"
Just then, tons and tons of people crowded into the square. They were cheering and waving flags with Luffy's face on it. Luffy stood proudly, "The people here love me! That's cuz I'm the next king of the pirates!"
Nami rolled her eyes.
Zoro looked around nervously. He had been to a city before, and they had taken his swords because they were illegal. Ussop started to yell, "Hey I'm the captain of this crew! Right, Sanji?"
Sanji laughed. "As if,"
The crowd of people carried Luffy away, chanting, "King of the Pirates!"
Ussop and Sanji ran after them.
Nami and Zoro still thought something was wrong. Zoro spotted a kid tagging a long way behind the crowd. "Hey kid," he called out.
The kid gave him a wary look.
"Who's in charge at this place?" he asked.
The kid gave him another frightened look and ran away. Zoro sighed.
"You're too hard on them," Nami said stiffly, "this is how it's done,"
She went up to a man walking by. "Excuse me; do you happen to know who's in charge around here?"
The guy stared. After a long pause, he grinned and said, "No-one's in charge here. We're all free people who do whatever we want but we get along great!"
Nami smirked at Zoro. Zoro frowned, that's weird. How could a whole city of people get along without someone in charge?"
They wandered back to the crowd. They were all praising Luffy, Sanji and Ussop as if they were kings or something. Some of them stood in front of them in awe and respect.
"Huh, you'd think they'd just returned from a war or something," Zoro grunted.
Then they were all ushered into a huge building where people served them dishes and dishes of steamy hot food. Luffy was enjoying the attention. He ate every plate of food in sight and the people cheered and clapped whenever he finished one dish.
Sanji was drinking beer and flirting with 30 different girls at once.
Ussop was bragging/lying about once having 10000000000 men in his crew and to be the strongest on who only survived in a great storm at sea, when they were all eaten by a giant octopus except for him and how he defeated the octopus and then got Sanji to cook it up for him and then he ate it. And all the people listening believed in him. And he was lying!
Nami and Zoro looked around them, their mouths open so wide that they touched the ground and with little anime-style sweat drops on their faces.
"I can't believe we know these guys," Nami murmured.
"I can't believe they're ALL SO STUPID!" Zoro half-yelled out loud.
After lunch, the people showed them around the city, and that took most of the day. Zoro got bored after bout two seconds and went to look for somewhere where he could get his swords cleaned.
"Zoro?" Nami turned around. He was gone.
"Zoro?" She started to panic.
"Zoro, where are you?" She left the group and started to look for the swordsman. Crap, she thought, why do I care? He's just some stupid conceited punk who uses swords. And he's really cool and kinda cute, I guess…
She dreamily walked through the streets then she paused. "WHAT AM I SAYING!" she screamed.
"Good question. What were you saying?"
She glared daggers at Zoro who was smirking at her from behind a corner. "I just went to get my swords cleaned. And why do you care?"
"Exactly. I don't." she pouted. "Hmmm, Zoro? Zoro, where are you?"
she heard maniacal laughter coming from a building nearby. "Zoro, you…"
"Now where did everybody go?" she and Zoro wandered around the streets. It was nearly dark.
Zoro bit his lip. "I bet all their 'fans' probably took them to a five-star hotel somewhere for no charge."
"HEY NAMI! ZORO! OVER HERE!" Luffy waved them over to a five-star hotel where the people had let them stay for no charge. They hurried over to join the rest of their crew.
"Too bad you guys missed dinner," Luffy grinned. "Did you eat anything?"
"Yeah. My boots." Zoro grumbled.
Nami elbowed him in the stomach. "ARGH!"
She pulled him to her room. "Listen," she whispered. "I really think there's something going on here, and only you and me can sense it."
Zoro looked at her. "Yeah, like what?"
"Like why the people here are treating us so nice when they don't even know us!" She hissed.
"Uh-huh."
"And why they are praising us like we just saved the world…"
"And why Luffy and Sanji and Ussop are acting as if there's nothing wrong." Zoro finished.
"Right."
"Wrong."
"What?"
"There's something wrong here. I'm sure that someone's in charge of this city."
"Yeah."
There was a silence.
"I'm going to bed," Zoro said. He turned and started to go to his room. At the last second. He looked back, hesitated and said, "Goodnight,"
She watched him go. "Goodnight…"
Next morning, Nami woke up and wondered where she was. The windows were open and the sunlight was streaming inside. She looked around the room and marveled at the beautiful furniture and the colour of the walls.
Then something struck her. Something was very wrong.
Nami went to the window and looked outside. The streets were empty and deserted like they were before.
She threw back the covers, got dressed and went off to look for the others. She went to Luffy's room first. The bed was unmade and there was no sign of him in it. He wouldn't leave his crew, would he? He probably just went to get food.
She went up to Sanji's room which looked like Luffy's. It was messy but empty. Nami was starting to get confused. Where'd they go?
She ran to Ussop's room and threw back the covers which revealed no-one. She panicked. Where could they have gone?
She ran over to Zoro's room, now feeling really sick in the stomach. don't tell me he disappeared! She dove into his bed and buried deep into the covers, throwing all the junk on his bed off. Nami gritted her teeth, and started to cry. Why the HECK am I crying? Stupid, stupid, stupid…
"I only want you to get in my bed when I'm in it, okay?" he said.
She turned and looked at Zoro. He was standing in the doorway, watching her.
"Zoro, I'm so glad you're here!" she flung herself at him and nearly toppled him over.
He grunted.
She clung onto him, sobbing. He stood still. "What's this about?" he asked finally.
"The others. They're gone." she cried.
His face grew pale. "Don't tell me…" he started.
Nami started to cry out louder. "STOP CRYING ALREADY!" he yelled. "I CAN'T STAND IT…when you cry like that…"
She stopped, sniffling.
Zoro grabbed her arm and dragged her outside. "We have to find the others. It's probably got something to do with this strange place. Hmmm… I wonder where everybody went."
The streets were still empty.
Nami had stopped crying now but was walking so close to Zoro that she kept stepping on his heels.
"HEY QUIT THAT!" he shouted.
"SORRY."
He grunted in reply and she followed him around and around.
"Um, Zoro, do you even know where you're going?"
And
he didn't. But he was too proud to admit that so he said, "WELL,
DER I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING… Now where am I going?"
And
that's when she hit him in frustration.
They tried to find people to talk about wherever Luffy and the others could've gone, but the people seemed afraid of them and hid from them.
"Now what are we gonna do?" Zoro asked.
"That's my line," said Nami. "What are we gonna do?"
"Let's go look for them," he said. He stood up and pulled Nami to her feet. "I think they're somewhere around the centre of the city."
"What if they've been kidnapped and drugged and turned evil?"
"You've been watching too many of those cop shows," he said.
"How? The ship doesn't even have a TV."
Even so, they inspected the biggest buildings in the city, but they found nothing. So they went back to Luffy's room and had a look.
"Does it look like they've been any signs of struggle?" Zoro asked.
"Now you're sounding like a cop from the show," Nami rolled her eyes.
"I think they must've dragged him off the bed and took him away."
"Then how come they didn't take us too? Whoever 'they' is."
Zoro sighed. He sat on Luffy's bed and said, "Well, we… we didn't eat any dinner… maybe they did drug them and kidnap them."
Nami watched him, secretly glad that he was with her in this.
"Good work. The Straw Hat crew is out like a blackout hit them."
"Er, sir, it seems that two of them are not here."
"WHAT?"
"Yes sir, the swordsman Roronoa Zoro and the girl."
"Well, you better get them back or-"
"YES SIR, YES SIR! I will-"
"And quick or-"
"Yes sir!" The guy ran outside.
The boss sighed. "Yes, go and get them back or else everyone will suffer."
Emichii: Whassup, everybody? Yeah, I know this chapter pretty much sucked. And I'm already out of inspiration for the plot, but I'm still budding on ideas for Nami and Zoro's… Ahem… love.
Did I actually say that? Okay, so Nami and Zoro are the couple in this. Any ideas for the plot peoples?
