Emichii: Hey peeps! Isn't One Piece great? I was gonna write Zoro/Kuina originally but I got confused. Is Kuina older than Zoro? I mean, when he was all short and kiddy and cute, she already looked like a teenager. Does that mean she's gonna be married and everything when she meets Zoro again? Anyway, I'll be writing a Zoro/Kuina sometime but now I'm so used to Zoro/Nami, I'm just confused… hahaha! Read and review! NO, I don't own One Piece! Some Japanese guy does! What was his name again? Eiichiro Oda?
Chapter Nine- Enter the reindeer!
"AND NOW YOU WILL ALL DIE! WAHAHAHA!"
Shale's evil businessmen aimed their guns at the crew and their fingers reached over to the trigger.
"What's going on?" A yawn came from the other direction.
"Chopper!" Luffy cried. "Hi! How are you?"
Nami wanted to wring Luffy's neck. They were about to die and that was all he was gonna say?
"WWWAAHHHHH!"
Zoro's eyes widened. She watched Shale cover his eyes and cower, shrieking and crying, "WWAAAHHHH! It's a reindeer! Scary! Waahhh! Argh! Help! I'm gonna die!"
Zoro pushed Sanji off from atop of him and struck the net with his sword. As the net fell apart, he ran to Shale and yelled, "Yeah, you will die!"
Nami tried not to laugh. Shale is absolutely terrified of reindeer.
Chopper was still looking around confused. "What's going on?" he asked hoarsely.
"WWAHHH! It talks!" Shale ran and hid behind one of the businessmen.
"Sir, it's just a reindeer." the guy said.
Shale shook violently and said, "YES! It's a reindeer! It's evil!" he started to run away, backing away to the edge of the building.
(They're on the roof of a building, remember?)
Luffy pulled his long legs out of the net after Ussop and Sanji climbed out. Luffy dragged the rest of the net with him and he stomped over to the evil businessmen and Shale.
"YOU WERE TRYING TO KILL US? THAT REALLY MAKES ME MAD!"
And everybody around him was on the ground in two seconds flat.
Shale continued backing to the edge of the building but instructed his men, "Don't let them escape! I want them all dead! Go, fire!"
The evil businessmen cornered the Straw Hat Crew; suddenly there were hundreds and hundreds of businessmen all over the building.
The guy Shale had been hiding behind spoke up, "Men! Kill them!"
Everything burst into a flurry of activity.
Nami cowered as some businessmen cornered her. C'mon! I need a weapon!
One of the men put the gun to her head. "Say your last words, dear…"
"NAMI!"
Zoro cried out in the most alarmed and angry voice ever. He could not dive over and save her in time. He flung his sword as hard as possible, at the last split second at the guy with the gun that was threatening Nami.
Everything that happened after that, happened so fast, yet so slow, as if in slow-mo. The guy pushed the trigger, from such close range, who could miss?
The bullet went at Nami, she screamed and cried. Just then, the sword came flying by, knocking the gun out of the guy's hand and bumping the bullet, setting it off-course.
Instead of flying into Nami's head and insuring her death, the bullet flew past Nami, grazing her left cheek hard and hitting the guy standing behind her.
"Ack!" Nami fell to the ground, the blood all over her cheek. She saw the gun fall the ground, as well as Zoro's sword.
Grabbing the gun and the sword, she pulled herself up and aimed the gun at all the businessmen around her.
Some of them stepped back but one said, "your gun's not gonna shoot fast enough."
Nami retorted, "Then this sword's gonna be faster than any of your bullets."
Some others stepped back now, afraid of dying. The one that had talked before smirked and said, "Dream on… when you're dead!"
Nami didn't take any chances, on impulse, she shot. Then as the guy was falling, she shot again, and again, and again.
Three dead men laid on the ground, the stench of blood overpowering. The others ran away.
Nami collapsed on the ground, crying, in state of shock that she had just killed not one, but three men.
Chopper was extremely confused. Why were all these men in suits attacking them? What had they done?
Thinking back of his poor childhood, Chopper grew angry. These people are my friends! You will regret all that!
Chopper grew and grew into his huge reindeer form, Shale whimpered. "WAAHHH! The reindeer's gonna kill us all!"
There were businessmen that had just aimed and shot at Chopper but when he grew bigger, their careful aim was destroyed and the bullets went haywire. Chopper bashed the guys up and ran to attend to Nami.
Sanji was in a spot of trouble himself. He couldn't attack the men, because they were too far away, his legs weren't long enough to hit them from so far away.
And they had guns too and fired over and over again. Sanji ducked and dived and jumped and swerved, trying so hard not to get hit. But the bullets were just do fast, Sanji didn't even have time to think.
Tired and weary, he missed on of the most crucial of bullets; it was aimed at his stomach. Sanji moved late and the bullet hit his side, and got wedged in his hip bone. Sanji staggered to a railing on the building, leaned over the side and vomited.
(Why'd he vomit?)
Because the jumping and pain and everything was too much for him. He vomited and coughed up blood, the putrid stuff fell over the edge and some of it covered Ussop up.
Sanji gasped and wheezed. He couldn't move his fingers. He could see the men advancing, and using the very last of his energy, did a handspring to his feet, placed his hands on the ground and spun that magnificent attack thing with the legs.
The men fell away, and he fell back without the clean finish he usually had.
Then he turned over and fell asleep.
Zoro tried and tried to get at Shale but he was always behind one of his many businessmen.
How can I possibly get through to Shale? Zoro did a huge leap and jumping down, did a quick, clean cut.
The men around shale fell away and even Shale was injured. More of his men jumped down to replace those that had gone and Zoro had to repeat and repeat attacks, trying to clear away each group as if, eating layers of cake.
Zoro backed away and away, into the half-vomit covered Ussop. Zoro was surprised at his position and luckily, Ussop thought fast and shot plenty stuff with his slingshot. With only Shale left, Zoro hoped he could finish the boss off.
But Shale knew quite a few moves too. He pushed Zoro to the very edge of the roof where if anyone fell, it would be certain death.
Zoro was pushed over so that his unprotected back was open to Shale and he was facing over the ledge. Shale punched right into Zoro's ribs and he yelled out.
If only, if only… ii had my other sword.
"Zoro!" Nami cried. She looked up into Zoro's terrified eyes, as he gasped out over the top of the building.
"Nami!" he gasped.
Nami suddenly flung the sword up at Zoro. Zoro caught it with his mouth, spun around and attacked Shale. Shale was extremely surprised and stepped back. Then he caught the sight of Chopper staring at him and turn and ran, but there wasn't anywhere to run, he ended up running over the edge of the building to his death.
"Well, he's dead…" Zoro said painfully as he limped over to Nami, who couldn't stop herself from throwing herself at him. Nami hugged him and cried into his chest as he slumped over her in pain.
"We did it!" Luffy cheered.
"Shush!" Nami cried. She turned to Zoro. "Are you all right? Is your back okay…?"
Zoro gasped out, fell to the ground and said, "Argh…"
"Zoro!" Nami held to him and watched him. "You'll be okay, you'll be okay…"
Zoro pulled Nami's face to him and kissed her gently. He fell back into her then, and groaned.
"Zoro! Don't die on me now!" she screamed.
"I think… my time…" he finished in a voice so soft she could hardly hear him. "I think… my time's up…"
Emichii: Ahhh… that was so dramatic! I'm so proud of myself! I'm so proud of my wonderful fighting drama! I'm finishing this second-last chapter listening to Pink's Who Knew song. And … wait… there's a clue for you… it's gonna be the songfic for one of my digimon Taioras that's coming up after Someone Just for Kari is done. And this is the second last chapter for this fanfic. Wasn't it just wonderful? Read and review!
