Emichii: HELLO PEOPLES! Thanks for all your reviews! I really appreciate them all!
Has anyone been wondering where Chopper was? Well, I haven't forgotten him, just planned to have him come out later. Hee hee… got a great idea for that one!
Oh and here are the results for the question: who's your fave one piece character?
One person liked either Nami or Zoro best, two people liked Zoro the best, and well, actually I do too (but Luffy comes close). I mean, what's not to like about him? He's shy and he's got a hot-tempered, isn't that a nice combination! He's cool! I love Zoro! YAAAYYY!
Chapter five- Evil businessmen.
"Show yourself!"
Nami covered her eyes. She could imagine it now. Horrible monsters, evil businessmen, Big Brother, demons, whatever… they were coming to get her!
And she was partly right.
A tall man in a black suit and red tie stood on the roof of a nearby building with a briefcase in his hand. He was wearing sunglasses and was sturdily built and looked like he'd been working out.
"Well…" he chuckled.
"What do you want?" Zoro asked.
He slid his sunglasses lower and looked at Nami over the top of the rims in a way Nami could only describe as chillingly.
"I want you two… dead."
"Actually, I want all of you dead." he said again.
Zoro narrowed his eyes at the evil businessmen. "All of who?"
"Your measly little group you call a pirate crew! Haha… you really think that you can get to the Grand Line? Think that you can actually get One Piece? Hee… you'll have to get through me first! And your friends."
Nami spoke up. "What do you mean?"
"You did something with the others, didn't you?" Zoro said.
"Heh heh…" he laughed, "Well, Nami, to answer your question… your captain and our crew-mates are all against you. Thanks to my wonderful potions I put in their food, they'll do exactly as I tell them! Ha, and they didn't suspect a thing, they just ate everything like the pigs they are!"
"How do you know my name?" Nami cried, "And who are you anyway?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out… and I say, you can call me… Shale."
Stupid name, I know, but I can't think of anything else! Heh, I've been doing my geology homework, Haha!
"You've been taking control over everyone in this city, am I correct?" Zoro countered.
"Amazing, some of your stupid pirate crew actually have brains." Shale laughed evilly. He looked at his watch in a cool way and flicked back his dark black her with his hands. "Oh I must say, I'd like to stay longer but I do have to go now…"
Zoro leapt up at him and tried to attack him, saying, "You're not getting away, not unless you're a dead spirit anyway…"
But when he slashed at the figure, he wasn't there.
"Where'd you go now? Don't run and hide! Stand up and fight like a man!" Zoro yelled.
Sound like he's trying to impress a certain lady starting with N, hmm?
Nami looked up in alarm when she heard the voice again. It said from somewhere: "If you want to defeat me, you're gonna have to defeat your own crew… and I doubt you'd want to do that… heh heh… but I'm not giving you a choice, fight for your life!"
"Arrr…arrr…grrrrraaaaaa…"
The horrible sound came again. Nami scanned the area around her but couldn't see Luffy or the others anywhere. Suddenly, Zoro's voice startled her, "Nami, look out!"
Sanji came barrelling down at her from the sky. He managed to push her onto the ground and started to attack her.
"EEEKKK! Gross, Sanji!" She angrily kicked the guy off her and grabbed the closest object to defend herself… which happened to be a pitchfork resting against the wall.
Crap, I knew he was absolutely smitten, but this is crazy!
Then the all-familiar guy in a straw hat dove down and grabbed her with his stretchy rubber arms. "Eek!"
Luffy swung her around and around then let go and she went flying. Nami screamed.
She felt herself plunging down faster and faster. She could see the ground from above now. Then she saw a green dot dart out from nowhere.
"Zoro!" she gasped.
Zoro darted out and caught her. Nami felt like her heart was about to spring out of her chest. After such a plunge from so high, Nami didn't think that she'd be scared of anything else.
Ussop aimed his slingshot at his target, stretched out the elastic and shot.
Nami saw it coming before Zoro did, "Watch out, Zoro!" she squealed. Since when did Ussop start shooting bullets?
Zoro tossed Nami aside to a patch of grass and started to run.
Nami bit her nails. He'll never be able to outrun a bullet! She saw Zoro dodge a bullet which went flying into Sanji's back, making Sanji turn around with fiery evil red eyes.
Ussop kept loading and firing. Nami squeezed her eyes shut.
Please be okay…
Zoro…
"AAARRGHH!"
Zoro's cry of agony caused Nami to blink open her eyes and look around alarmed.
She saw him.
He was crouched on the ground, with one hand on the ground for balance and the other one on his hip, looking a little off-balance but okay. Nami sighed with relief. But then she saw him remove his hand from his hip.
Drip, drip.
The sound of blood on the pavement proved it. Zoro was not alright.
Nami ran to Zoro and tried to support his hip, her hands getting bloody.
Nami looked at the blood on her hands. There were purple liquid mixed in with it.
"Poison."
Zoro looked around pain-stakingly. "Quick, run. They're coming."
Luffy, Sanji and Ussop were starting to come in on them. "Go, run…" Zoro urged her.
Nami felt the salty tears roll down her face. She brushed them away with her bloody hands, smearing the blood all over her face. "No way, Zoro."
"I'm not leaving you again," She helped Zoro get to his feet. They ran, Zoro limping and gasping out. Nami winced every single time she saw the blood on the ground.
Zoro was suffering, Nami felt awful. She felt that she was the reason for Zoro's injury. She saw an hole in the wall and motioned for Zoro to follow. They crept into the hole and following a small passageway they found a dark little room. Nami collapsed on the ground, crying and gasping.
Zoro lay back in exhaustion. But when he didn't move, Nami saw that it was because the poison was starting to get to him. She cried silently and wished that Chopper was there but he was back in the ship, hibernating in the hold.
Zoro gasped out in pain. Nami stayed by his side.
Please, she prayed, please don't let Zoro die.
Then Zoro went into a coma.
Emichii: There you go! That was chapter five! Did you like it? Read and Review!
