Chapter 17: Two Directionless Idiots and a Maze
Sea sighed… she knew shouldn't have borrowed that money… she knew she shouldn't have… but it was so tempting.
"Why did I have to borrow money from you?" she asked her self.
"Because you did." Said Nabiki, was the person she was in debt with.
Sea sighed… there was a no way she could get away from it… that was when a strange idea came into her head.
"That is!" she thought, "How about a little wager to settle the debt…"
"What kind of wager." Said Nabiki.
Sea gave a smirk, "A question to an eternal question that many of our friends have been asking for a very long time…"
Sometime later, Zoro had just finished his work out when he passed Star.
"What do you want?" asked Star harshly.
"Nothing." Said Zoro.
Zoro sighed, ever since the last fight, she was in a really bad mood…
"Hey Zoro." Said a voice.
He turned to the person who was talking.
"Sea what do you want?" asked Zoro.
"I was hoping that you would do a huge favor for me." Said Sea.
"What?" asked Zoro.
"I can't tell you." Said Sea, "Unless you agree."
"How am I supposed to agree unless you tell me what is it!" yelled Zoro.
"I was hoping I didn't have to do it that hard way… but…" said Sea.
She snapped her fingers and a weird explosion happened, knocking out, she then secretly left a note on the fridge.
About 10 minutes later Luffy began to his usual break in attempt into the fridge… when he saw the note, he removed and began to read it.
"What!" yelled Luffy reading the first sentence.
"What's going on?" asked Sanji entering the room.
"Sea kidnapped Zoro!" yelled Luffy holding up the note.
Sanji read the note and began to laugh.
"Did you read the whole note?" asked Sanji clearly laughing.
"No… I just read the first sentence." Said Luffy.
Luffy read the rest of the note ad began to laugh, even if he was kidnapped… he would be fine… and it was funny…
Sometime later… Ryoga began to wake up… he didn't know what happened but he was pretty sure Sea kidnapped him.
He looked around and he looked to a room… or a maze…
"Good you both are awake." Came Sea's voice.
"What's going on!" yelled Ryoga.
"We put you in a maze." Came Nabiki's voice, "I don't know where it came from but it's really well built."
"Where are you?" asked Ryoga.
"I have a debt with Nabiki… in order to settle it you two must engage in a little race." Came Sea's voice.
Ryoga looked around.
"There's no one here!" yelled Ryoga.
"I'm assuming that both of you are yelling wondering where the other is… I have put the other in a similar room at an equal desistance to the opening." Came Sea's voice, "I have also removed all weapons from your person and the walls of this maze can take any damage you can give."
"I'm going to kill you Sea! I swear!" Ryoga realized who the other person in the maze was.
"Since I was able to hear that from here… yes… one of the participant is Zoro… Zoro… the other is Ryoga." Came Sea's voice.
Ryoga began to sweat drop.
"This is a race to see who can get out of the maze first… me or Zoro." Thought Ryoga.
"Okay! Here are the ground rules." Came Nabiki's voice, "If Ryoga gets out first, I win. If Zoro gets out first Sea wins. You are not allowed to help out each other, other wise there will be a punishment."
"What kind of punishment." Thought Ryoga.
"You'll find out the punishment if you work together." Came Sea's voice.
"Remember just have fun and it will be over soon. Hopefully." Came Nabiki's voice.
"End communication." Came Sea's voice.
"Great… I better get out of here." Sighed Ryoga.
He looked around the area and left the area.
With Zoro he just sat down.
"I'm not going to do any of this." He muttered, they couldn't stop him from participating, plus it would help since Sea winning would depend on him.
"Oh by the way…" came Sea's voice, "If you refuse to participate… you will be pushed."
That was when Zoro was shocked by lighting.
"It's a high voltage shock… but I'm sure you can take it in small doses but constant…" came Sea's voice.
"Fine…" muttered Zoro getting up, he knew was going to kill her… the second he got his swords back she was dead.
Elsewhere in the maze, Ryoga sighed.
"So that is the punishment if we work together." He thought.
In the commentator's area.
"How do I know that Zoro doesn't have a good sense of direction and your just doing this to worm your way out of the debt." Said Nabiki.
"Because I heard things about Zoro… he has gotten lost in situations that should be impossible!" said Sea, "My personal favorite was when he went up when they was told to go north."
"Okay! I don't think Ryoga would do that." Said Nabiki with a sweat drop.
"However I still think Zoro has a better sense of direction." Said Sea.
Meanwhile in the HQ of Realm…
"It's been days! Why are you still making me do this!" yelled Terre holding two large buckets of water.
"Quiet you!" yelled Oceania.
"My arms are going to break off" whined Terre.
"I heard the funniest thing is going on!" said Sora.
"Really what?" asked Oceania.
"I heard that both Zoro and Ryoga were sent into a maze to determine who would get out first." Said Sora.
"Really?" asked Terre, "Can I go watch?"
"No!" yelled both of them.
"Let's wait and see how it goes." Said Ocarina, "If it lasts too long… let's one of us go turn Nabiki into Jaku."
"Yes… I agree." Said Sora.
"Can I be the one to do it." Said Terre.
"You should have thought about that when you told Galaxia the truth." Said Sora.
"You we were planning something big for that." Said Oceania.
"Oh…" sighed Terre.
Meanwhile with Zoro. He just realized something.
"My time key." He said.
He began to search for his time key… but couldn't find it.
"Sorry… but I've taken all special devisees away communication and other devices…." Came Sea's voice, "You can not get outside help."
"Besides… everyone who would wonder where you are have been informed in someway." Came Nabiki's voice.
"I am really going to kill you…" muttered Zoro.
Day 2…
Though out the day, Ryoga and Zoro kept running into each other though the maze. After about the 5th time… Ryoga finally said "Hey do you want to join up secretly?"
That was when lighting came down and shocked the poor sap.
"Yeah… they did warn us…" said Zoro.
"You're right." Said Ryoga with a small smoke cloud coming from his mouth.
Day 3
On the outside of the maze…
"It's been three days." Said Sea.
"That's right." Said Nabiki.
"Today should be the day they come out." Said Sea.
They turned around and looked at the group having a picnic behind them.
"You figured that too didn't you?" asked Sea to Naruto, Luffy, Mousse, Ranma, Star and Ace.
"Yeah… It's something I've been wondering for a long time." Laughed Luffy.
Sea turned Ace and Star, "Why did you two come."
"No reason…" said Star.
Sea realized it was a prevention measure to prevent Nami and Nabiki from ever meeting… ever!
"I was wondering why you two came… especially what happened the other day." Said Sora who suddenly appeared in the panic drinking tea.
"Who is she?" asked Nabiki.
Sora smirked, she revealed her gem on her palm and turned Nabiki into a monster.
"Oh man!" said Ranma.
"At least she's going to be weak… right…" said Naruto.
"Yeah…" said Ranma with a sweat drop.
"Mars Cosmic Power!"
"Jupiter Cosmic Power!"
"Venus Cosmic Power!"
"Neptune Cosmic Power!"
"Maker Star Power!"
"Galaxia Galaxy Power!"
"Make-up!"
All of the Senshi transformed.
In the maze both Zoro and Ryoga heard was going on… and headed in the direction that they heard the fight…
Well sort of… they went into the wrong direction!
"I think we can all handle it from here." Said Sailor Galaxia, "She's not that strong so I think we can all handle it."
The other Senshi nodded…
"I don't think we should use that many attack on her." Said Sailor Jupiter.
"Since she is low on the fighting levels." Said Sea.
"But I get in the attack!" said Sailor Jupiter.
"Wait we only get one attack before we have to heal her?" asked Sailor Venus.
"Why you?" asked Sailor Star Maker.
"You know why." Said Sailor Jupiter.
"Massive debt, humiliation, selling pictures… that time she claimed she was in love with him." Said Sailor Galaxia.
"She once convinced you she was in love with you?" asked Sailor Venus in shock.
"She's evil!" yelled Sailor Mars.
"Are we even going to fight or what?" asked Sora.
"Fine..." said Sailor Jupiter.
"Double Elemental Punch!"
The attack hit the Nabiki monster.
"Galaxia Healing!"
The healing move hit the Nabiki monster turning her back to normal.
"I was hopping top see the results… oh well." Said Sora.
Sora disappeared without a trace.
Nabiki woke up shortly after.
"What happened?" asked Nabiki.
"Nothing!" said everyone else.
Nabiki stared at them, making them sweat drop.
"You just passed out!" said Luffy.
"Honestly!" said Sea.
The others nodded… no one wanted Nabiki to catch on what was going on.
Nabiki sighed, "Neither one exited the maze yet?" asked Nabiki.
"Not yet." Said Sea.
However right after Sea said that, both Ryoga and Zoro were near the exit.
"It's a tie?" asked Naruto.
"One of them has to leave… it's not a tie unless they both leave at the same time." Said Sea.
"What happens if it's a tie?" asked Zoro since he was in earshot.
"You two have to go all over again." Said Nabiki.
Both Ryoga and Zoro sweat dropped…
That was when Zoro got an idea, he smirked at Ryoga. Who knew what it meant…
"All right." Said Ryoga.
Ryoga headed to the exit… but went the wrong way. Causing everyone to sweat drop.
"I didn't want to win… but if it will end this nightmare." He muttered.
Zoro left the maze. A banner appeared "Zoro wins! His sense of direction is slightly better!"
The maze was suddenly lowered into the ground surprising Ryoga.
"What happened?" asked Ryoga.
"Looks like you don't have to owe me that 5,000 yen." Said Nabiki.
Everything become quiet… the wind blew awkwardly.
"That was the amount you owed?" asked Zoro.
"5,000 yen?" asked Ryoga who has finally snapped, he didn't mind at first due to Nabiki's nature… but since it wasn't that much… yeah…
Zoro and Ryoga glared at Sea who began to laugh nervously.
"Run Sea! Run as fast as you can!" yelled Star.
Sea did just that… with Ryoga and Zoro chasing her.
"Well Zoro winning was predictable…" said Ranma with a sweat drop.
"Yeah…" said Luffy with a sweat drop.
Elsewhere, in the Mysterious HQ of the Alliance of Senshi Enemies.
"So it looks like your little project will finally come to an end." Said Zeno with a smirk.
"After months of research and collecting samples he is finally ready… the ultimate being…" said Orochimaru with an evil smirk.
"I doubt that the Senshi will be able to stand against him… unlike like last time… this time he is perfected…" said Violet.
Orochimaru smiled evilly… all his months of working will now come to an end. But who really knew if he would be stronger than the Sailor Senshi... only time will tell…
Next Time: A mysterious enemy is attacking certain friends of the Senshi... Who is this person... they soon discover that this person is much closer to them then meets the eye... And when they fight things happen... bad things. Very bad things... What will happen? Find out next time!