Chapter
Three- Just an Act
"HEY GUYS!" Luffy's loud voice shouted.
It was a new day, and it turned out that Nami and Zoro had fallen asleep on Luffy's bed. Zoro was lying back, sleeping, his feet on the pillow. Nami was snoring lightly; her head was leaning on Zoro's stomach.
"WAKE UP!" he yelled in Zoro's ear.
"ARGH!" Zoro jumped out of bed as though the bed was on fire. "Luffy!"
"Eh?" Nami's eyelids fluttered opened. "LUFFY!" She screamed. "Where were you?"
Sanji and Ussop came into the room casually.
Nami let out a sigh of relief but Zoro was wondering why they'd just disappear and then come back.
It was extremely odd, Zoro thought, how they could all disappear into thin air and then come back again and act like nothing happened. He watched Nami, Luffy and the others cheering and drinking and decided to be on his guard.
It was evening when eerie things started to Nami.
The straw hat crew had been drinking and laughing and joking around, and slowly all the drinks got to them and they had fallen asleep. Nami blinked her eyes opened and surveyed the scene. Drunken people were lying all over the floor asleep. She couldn't help smiling at the scene.
"Hey, where's Luffy and everyone?" she wondered.
"ARGH… arrr…arr…"
"Eeeek!" She jumped and spun around in mid-air to face her attacker. She was expecting some stupid drunk pervert who was still half asleep but what she saw made her temperature drop.
"EEEEEEKKKKKSSS!"
A man went at her with a club.
She watched in horror as the people rose up from the ground one by one and came at her with knives and sticks and brooms and carving knives. She knew they weren't drunk; they were doing it on purpose.
She was surrounded. They were rising like the living dead- like mummies under a curse, eyes glazed over as they stared at the girl.
A man jumped at her with a baseball bat. Nami screamed and pushed through more people to get to the doorway. When she got out she looked around frantically for someplace to run, anywhere- just somewhere safe.
"ARR…arrr…grrrrraaaaaa…" The weird mumblings grew louder again. They were coming after her.
Where were they? Where was her crew?
From atop a very high building, the men in black stood with their boss, looking like evil businessmen. Their boss rubbed his hands together and watched the orange-haired girl run from the evil people.
"Ha, ha… Perfect!" he smiled, showing his gold tooth. "They have no place to hide!"
Nami ran. They were everywhere!
People with their brooms and knives; chasing after her. They were coming out of their shops and houses. Even kids with their pretend lightsabers and plastic arrow sets. Their eyes were glazed all over, they looked evil and Nami felt hysterical.
She ran and hid behind a wall and waited while the people walked past. Then a man found her and motioned to the others and Nami was cornered. She ran past them, wishing she had a portable hole to jump into. Then she ran into…
"LUFFY!"
Nami had never been so happy to see her captain. Luffy could help her with his gum gum power. Nami clung onto Luffy and screamed, "LUFFY! THEY'RE ALL MAD! HELP!"
Luffy growled at her.
Nami jumped back. His eyes were red and glazed over. She saw Evil Sanji and Evil Ussop emerge from the crowd of evil people.
They crowded around her and surrounded her from all sides, waving their carving knives and yelling their weird language.
As they closed in on her, she lifted her face to the sky and let out a scream:
"ZOROOOO!"
Emichii! Just thinking how nice it would be to leave you all hanging but I'm gonna be nice and keep writing to make up for not updating for so long…
HEE hee… I'm laughing imagining how funny it would be if Zoro swung by on a vine, yelling like Tarzan and saved Nami! HEE HEE… Anyway DON'T GO! I haven't finished this chapter yet!
The guy with aqua-green hair swooped down then like an eagle and yelled, "EAGLE SLASH!"
I wonder if that attack actually exists… remember when he yelled ONIGIRI? Wasn't that hilarious?
With his three swords, he slashed down and the people fell back. He did a perfect somersault and landed in front of Nami, looking very defensive.
Nami almost felt afraid that Zoro would turn against her too but then he gave her a quick glance and an almost affectionate pained smile.
Nami felt her heart beat faster.
Zoro grunted, "Get outta here before they come back…" he said with the sword in his mouth.
The fallen people were starting to get up again. Nami barely managed to scrape past them.
She ran as fast as she could, into a dark alleyway.
Thankyou Zoro…
Zoro had heard Nami's cry for help and had responded as quickly as possible. He scanned the crowd of evil people. Luffy? What on earth are you doing on their side? They're turning you evil!
Luffy growled. Zoro frowned. Then Luffy let a Gum Gum rocket and Zoro just managed to dodge that and a knife which was flying at him but then he dodged it and it flew at Luffy, burying itself into Luffy's head.
Luffy let out a cry of pain and fell back to nurse his poor head, sending Sanji into the action with his lighting-quick footwork. Zoro had never even tried battling the curly-eye browed blonde but now he had a taste of his shoes and he didn't like it.
Zoro had to protect himself but how could he without injuring his evil ship-mates?
Nami bit her lip and watched, in tears as her crew turned against each other and fought hard.
Why? What happened?
Zoro became so psyched that he did his best attack ever. He whirled his swords around in multiple directions over and over at such a speed that his opponents couldn't catch what happened.
When he ended the attack, Luffy, Sanji, Ussop and everyone else was lying on the ground. Zoro sensed great danger; he knew they would get up again.
"Zoro!"
Nami ran toward the swordsman, tears falling. She buried her face in his chest and he didn't object.
They said nothing.
The night was quiet except for the sound of Nami's sobbing.
Zoro heard Luffy mumbling. He heard people starting to get up again.
He gave Nami a desperate look, "They're getting back up,"
Nami clung to him frightfully.
He grunted, "You have got to get outta here! Right now!"
She was shocked, "No, Zoro, I can't go-"
"GET OUT! NOW!" he yelled.
"No, I can't leave without-"
He grabbed her wrist, "I'll stay here, but Nami, if you don't go now, you're gonna die!"
He jerked her towards the ship, eyeing the people out of the corner of his eye.
"Go! Take the ship! GET OUTTA HERE! NOW!"
The tears fell from her eyes. "Zoro…"
Zoro looked down at her and then did something. Almost out of desperation, he bent down and kissed her gently on the lips.
Nami couldn't stop crying.
Zoro clenched his fists. "NAMI!" he shouted. "Go!"
She stood on her tiptoes and grabbing hold of his elbows, she kissed him back gently, then the tears blurring her sight, she ran.
She ran as fast as she could towards the ship.
Then she saw something that made her gasp. Luffy had grabbed someone's axe and heaved it at Zoro's chest. She saw the blood and immediately started to head back. But people started to chase her again.
Gasping, she ran to the ship, pulled off the anchor and set sail immediately.
Her heart throbbed as she looked back at the people fighting. She cried aloud in the cool night air.
There was good wind, and the ship left the port easily, leaving Zoro, Luffy, Sanji, Ussop and Microsoft Island behind.
Emichii: Wow, since when did I become such a romance author? Ha! I thought I wrote comedies! Oh well, who cares? Now the story is becoming really interesting! Yup, my inspiration is definitely back!
