Emichii: YAAAYYY! Chapter Six is here! I hope you all like it so far, I think it's getting better as it goes. Read and Review! Oh by the way, I don't own One Piece; Shonen Jump and Eiichiro Oda own it!
Chapter six- Ow! That really hurt!
Zoro groaned and opened his eyes. On instinct he tried to sit up but firm hands pushed him back down.
"Lie down, don't get up or your wound will hurt even more!"
Zoro blinked at the blurry blob in front of him. As his vision cleared, he saw Nami on her knees next to him, cleaning his wound as best as possible.
"Nami." he said.
Nami looked at him. Her eyes were still teary.
Zoro tried to sit up again. "ARGH! THAT HURT!"
Nami rolled her eyes. "I told you to stay down."
"Yeah I know, I just wanted to do one thing." Zoro reached over and brushed away Nami's tears. "I can't handle crying girls."
Nami managed a small smile.
"Now, just hold still. This might hurt a bit…" Nami tried to clean Zoro's wound.
"Owwww… eiiiahhhh…ARGH!"
Nami blinked away her tears. "I'm sorry… I wish I was a better doctor."
"Hey, that's okay. That's why we have Chopper. And that's why you're the navigator."
Silence.
Zoro watched Nami bandage the wound.
"Thanks," he said.
Nami smiled. "That's okay. No problem!"
Zoro heaved himself up, groaning. Nami jumped up. "Are you okay? Shouldn't you stay put?"
"Who, me?" Zoro examined Nami's face critically. "Stay put? Get real, Nami! We have to go and stop that Shell guy-"
"Shale-"
"Yeah, Shale guy. And we have to get Luffy, Sanji and Ussop to snap out of it…"
Nami added cautiously, "we have to wake up Chopper. Remember, poison in your wound? How was I supposed to get the poison out?"
Zoro put a hand on Nami's shoulder, "Just chill. I'll survive."
Nami looked at Zoro, the tears rolling down his cheeks. "You mean, you don't care? You're just gonna wait here and die? I can't let that happen! If you just died and left me here all alone, that would make me hate you even more! What would I do? Go and dig you a grave-"
"I'm not gonna die," Zoro said quietly.
He leant over Nami and their faces came extremely close and then…
"Well, isn't this a tender scene?" an unrecognizable voice said.
They jumped.
Luffy and Ussop came in from a hole in the roof.
Zoro stood in front of Nami protectively.
Ussop just laughed and said in a weird voice, "Heh, you might as well spend the rest of your time cuddling with your girl as you're gonna die soon anyway… That poison is slow but it works surprisingly well… and if I'm accurate… you have 3 hours before you die…"
Nami clutched Zoro's sleeve.
Zoro glared at Luffy and Ussop.
"What is with you guys?" he said. "Trying to kill your first crew member?"
Luffy and Ussop paused for a second and Zoro grabbed Nami's arm and pulled her out the hole they came in through.
They ran hard.
Zoro grunted as his sore hip burned with pain. Nami constantly worried about him. What would she do if he was gone?
You have 3 hours before you die…
Ussop's scary voice kept haunting Zoro's mind. What was he supposed to do? His brain was overflowing with all his problems- Crap; I don't need anything else to worry about right now!
He knew he was in danger of dying and he had to go get Chopper right now but he had to stay and fight for Nami.
As he ran, Nami called to him shrilly, "Zoro, we can't keep going! The only thing we can do is fight!"
"Fight our own crew?" Zoro cried incredously.
Nami yelled back. "YES!" she felt the hot tears on her face streaming down. "If we don't, the poison will get to you and you'll die! You'll die, Zoro! And… and I… don't want… to see you die, Zoro…" Nami started sniffling.
Oh no not now! Don't turn on the waterworks. Zoro groaned. I'm such a sucker for a crying girl!
"Okay, okay…" Zoro sighed. I can't believe I'm such a pushover with her!
Just then Shale's deep cool voice laughed at him.
Zoro scanned the area in front of him. "Where are you?"
"I am here."
Zoro and Nami looked up and Shale was standing on the roof of the largest building in the city, his lips curled in a smile that taunted Zoro. "I'm quite amused, really." he said.
"WHAT?" Zoro shouted.
"I just want to watch you spend the last 3 hours of your life in total panic…" Shale looked at Nami, smirking, "And what will you do, girly? What will you do when your lover is dead? Of course I wouldn't mind filling in that position… but you'll be dead soon too…"
Nami and Zoro gave him the most contemptuous, disbelieving look ever.
"Lover?" Nami shrieked.
"Are you crazy? Don't you know the law of Swordsmen? No relationships, no alchohol-"
Nami snickered. "Well you obviously didn't obey the second one… I've seen you drunk before."
While Nami and Zoro were bickering, Shale laughed louder.
"Well, what on earth are you gonna do now? You can't even get along together, you'll never defeat me… Oh and Zoro… your 3 hours really aren't much…" Shale taunted.
Zoro tightened his grip on his swords. He hated anyone that insulted him.
Shale took a lengthy jump into the air so that the moon in the night sky behind him seem to shout his presence louder than ever,
"Go, my slaves!" he cried.
Obediently, Luffy, Sanji and Ussop jumped off nearby buildings to attack Zoro.
Sshhhing!
Zoro drew his three swords. Just before he placed Kuina's sword in his mouth and just before the others attacked him, he whispered to Nami, "Go and use your thieving skills…"
Nami nodded blindly and managed to run away from the danger.
She knew exactly what Zoro meant. If she could snoop around Shale's headquarters, she could find out more about the stuff that had turned Luffy and the others against them. Maybe she could find an antidote or something. He heart leapt as she thought about Zoro and the poison that was slowly working it deadly spell over him, maybe; maybe… she could find something to save Zoro too.
She looked over to her wristwatch as she ran, what's the time? How much longer does Zoro have? …there are…only about 2 hours and 40 minutes left!
Nami quickened her pace.
When she finally slowed down, her experienced thieving skills lead her to a shiny tall building which said 'Microsoft Computer Company'.
Of course, if Shale was an evil businessman then the headquarters would have to be in a business.
She entered the building and immediately caused a lot of suspicion. But she was experienced at this; she walked primly to the guy at the front desk and whispered, "I'm here to do a quick business check around here. I need to see the boss."
She winked at the guy and he fell head over heels. "Of course, Miss… he's on level 30."
She gave the guy a mysterious smile, shook her hair out as she walked.
As soon as she was in the elevator, she dropped the act and waited anxiously for the elevator to reach level 30.
28…29…30!
Ding!
The little bell announced her arrival. She watched the doors opened, and sent another little prayer to the heavens. Please…let Zoro be alright.
Emichii: HEY EVERYONE! HOW R Y'all? HEY SAZ! Okay, well, that was a nice chapter, wasn't it? Now I'm gonna ask everyone a very hard question, and don't faint when I tell you the answer on the next chapter. I was wondering if my writing shows how old I am…
So readers, Review and guess…How old am I? How old could Emichii be? SAZ DON'T TELL THEM THE ANSWER!
