"Do you think we'll ever be back here?" Zoro asked looking at the town they just came from becoming smaller and smaller into the distance.
"Who knows, but i know one thing its going to be a crazy journey it may end were it started or it may end half way threw all that matters is that you started" Luffy said looking up to the sky peacefully
"Deep, so what made you want to become the king of the pirates?" Zoro asked Plopping down on deck with 2 cups and a barrel of Rum. Now that there out at sea he can treat himself drama free and might aswell get to know the guy he might follow out to sea
"Multiple things" Luffy said still looking at the sky. Then with a devilish smirk he lifted his head to look at his soon to be swordsman dead in the eye. "But ultimately i wish to be Free"
Zoro face changing from intrigued to confused asked while passing Luffy a cup filled with rum. "You look pretty free to me why would you want to put yourself in the marines sights and rival pirates, bounty hunters, etc?"
Smirk never leaving Luffy face he took a swig of his Rum he was just passed and said "My blood alone put my whole family in there sights so i thought why should i hide and die some lonely life? Im going to Conqueror the seas in show the world If im going out im going out with a bang living every day to the fullest who cares if they hate my blood or if they wish me dead? Im doing what i want and only death himself will take me"
Zoro drinking nodded to that feeling the same way about his own life and goals. 'This might not be bad at all' he thought to himself "So why is your blood hated?" he asked after taking anoter swig of Rum.
"Now that" he said with a huge grin "is for after we leave the East Blue!" he said excitedly.
"Fine Fine just asking" Zoro said not really caring either way.
"Its going to get dark in the next 2-3 hours. I'll take watch tonight since you was a scarecrow a few hours ago shihihi" He laughed at the end because zoro tryed to clunk him with the end of one of his katanas.
After the next hour or 2 being random guy talk grabbing a bite to eat and luffy taking a dive. Zoro decided to take it in early so going down stairs to the cabin.
"Im going down see you tommorow" zoro called out to Luffy was still swimming.
"Alright, later" Luffy replied as he raised his head out the water.
A few hours later we see Luffy walking out the kitchen naked onto the deck of the small boat not at all affected by the fact its night outside with a slight draft. He then transformed back into his 6 foot wolf size and layed down in the corner were theres also shade when the sun comes up so it being darker right there he would blend in perfectly if someone jumped on deck tonight they wouldnt see him. His eyes glowed gold as he looked out at the stars letting his mind drift until he finally fell a sleep his ears more alert in this form since his growth spurt.
Around 1 pm Zoro walks up stairs into the upstairs room he looks threw the glass to the front deck and back and not seeing Luffy he walked outside not bothering to look out the side smaller windows.
"Luffy!" he called out
'Wassup?' he thought he heard Luffy voice but actually heard him thanks to Luffys mental link him and his brothers found out they could do after showing makino for the first time in the Forest.
"Were are you?" Zoro Asked
"Over here by the barrels" he said groggily
Zoro looked over to see a huge Black shiny lump of fur? "Dude that blanket is huge cut me some!" zoro complained
"Baka thats me, hold up" Luffy said urgently before zoro tried to cut him up while he still in a ball.
Zoro watched the blanket stand up and he saw paws? Then it turned around facing him it was a huge shiny black wolf the wolf coat looked better then some peoples hair hes seen.
"So you llay with your pet? im suprised i havent seen the big guy" he said patting the wolf on the head until the wolf rolled his eyes and *wham* a hard tail smacked Zoro over his head
"I am the wolf dummy" He made his eyes glow gold just the same as he did yesterday at the marine base.
"So i wasnt hallucinating about your eyes being shining gold then going black the rest of the day" zoro sighed
"Nope its apart of my abilities, now give me a min you might want to clothes your eyes" Luffy said as he shifted back standing proudly even though hes naked.
"Ok if you want to open your eyes go ahead but only look upwards at the shoulders, you might like swords but i dont swing mine that way" he said with a smirk.
"Baka!! i like girls!" Zoro yelled at his friends face. Then his face became blank "why are you naked when you change back?"
"Because when we shift it rips are clothes off if i would have to be huge then maybe they wouldnt rip" Luffy shrugged
"That make since" Zoro said "Does it hurt? the shift thing?"
"Nope it feels like stretching your muscles after sleeping for a ling time to be honest" Luffy said
"Ok thats pretty cool" Zoro said "I wouldnt mind being a Gorilla or something"
"You can be but you would loose your ability to swim in the sea" Luffy said
"But you was swimming last night!" Zoro yelled comically
"Yeah ok look the wolf abilities that i have is in my very DNA like your green hair. The ability i mentioned is these things called devil Fruits i have one locked in a chest down stairs. We can talk about the specifics of the Devil fruits later but basically you eat one and it grant you a specific ability some to become able to transform into a specific animal they have 3 forms your human form, your hybrid form, and your fulm animal form. I dont have a hybrid form thats one benefit the fruit has over my family but are wolf form is better then the inu inu fruit any every otherway including looks" he added with a cocky smirk.
"So your whole family can become huge wolfs?" Zoro asked
"No only me and my brothers can do that you have to be born from two parents of the same ability to be able to fully shift or your parent have to be more intune with there wolf side" luffy lectured
"Make since so were we headed?" Zoro asked
"Orange town" Luffy said looking at the map