Luffy ran towards the tunnel until he saw the door Chooper was talking about. He opened it wide open without worry and looked what was in front of him. It was a huge chamber with people shoveling rocks and braking down dirt, all at the far left side of the chamber. And yes just like Nami feared it was the Marines that where working, but their appearance was different. They had constructive clothes on and had black on instead of their traditional blue and white colors.

Luffy however didn't care he just wanted to yell out if they had anything to do with the explosives, he would have too if he didn't feel a hand clasp around his mouth. The infuriated red head gave him a warning to not say a word.

When she released her hand Luffy whispered, " Nami they did it they put those explosives."

" I know that Luffy, but lets not just go in there and cause trouble...let's see what they are up to," said Nami pointing at the Marines.

The rest of the crew finally showed up and looked at awed at the huge chamber.

" Shit look at the size of this place," said Sanji looking around with a new cigarette in his mouth.

" What are they doing picking up rocks for, are they trying to find something?" Asked Chopper looking up at Nami.

Nami frowned at the marines sight, " of course they're trying to find something why else would they be here?"

" I don't like this, I don't like this one bit," said Ussop looking nervous around the chamber.

" Hey I just thought of something," said Chopper looking down.

Everybody turned to him, " If we were able to find this door it means someone made the path from where we where to this chamber... right?"

" Y-yes..." answered Nami nervously.

" So... couldn't there be marines behind us maybe," asked Chopper slowly looking behind him.

" No chopper, remember where we came from was a one way road so if nobody was there then nobody should be behind us." said Ussop calming himself with his answer.

" Oh yeah eh eh," said Chopper smiling.

" ...Don't be so sure," said Sanji drooping his cigarette.

They looked at Sanji who was looking up in his fighting stance. They followed his view and saw a whole bunch of marines pointing revolvers and swords at them.

Luffy placed his hat behind his head and smiled, " I've been waiting to let my frustration out...this is going to be fun."

MEANWHILE ZORO AND ROBIN...

" This is it, this is the place where the explosion was held," said Zoro touching the smoked dark area.

Robin's eyes gazed particularly at a huge hole made in the grass.

" Zoro-kun...," she said walking towards the hole.

Zoro looked at where she was and his eyes went wide.

" This is where they fell...," said Zoro walking towards the spot.

" How long down do you think it is?" Asked Zoro worried of the thought of his friends falling all the way down.

Robin didn't answer she crossed her hands and closed her eyes attempting to use her powers. After a moment she opened her eyes with a sigh.

" I used my hands to reach all the way to the bottom...it's a bit far down, but I'm sure that they would have made it," she said reassuringly.

Zoro smiled, " So should we go down there?"

" Yes we should...I'll use my powers as a ladder, but I'm going to have to go down there first," said Robin already preparing herself to go down the hole. Zoro nodded in agreement and waited patiently as Robin made her way to the bottom of the hole. IT must have been very deep down, because Zoro could hear Robin's murmurs as she made her way down.

" Robin?" Asked Zoro after a while getting a bit anxious and worried.

" Zoro-kun, I have reached the bottom...it looks like a underground mine to me."

Zoro raised his eyebrows in surprise...a mine? Down there...why?

" Zoro-Kun," repeated Robin braking Zoro's thought, " I'm going to make a stairway for you using my hands... so when you see the hands just jump on them...don't worry I'll hold you."

" Right," Zoro waited for the hands to appear at the edge of the hole. At first nothing happened until he saw the group of hands together making it a little platform. He was about to climb into it until he heard yelling from behind him.

"That's the wanted Roronoa alright, fire at will"!

Zoro saw a group of Marines behind him, and what was worse was that two of them had a loaded cannon. They fired the first two cannons and he jumped to his right already having Wadou by his side.

Unfortunately one of the cannons hit where the hole where Robin climbed down to.

"Shit," mumbled Zoro as more Marines came to aid of the attacking Marines.

Zoro easily dodged all the bullets and he growled angrily annoyed with the marine's resilience.

Zoro who already had all three of his swords out closed his eyes and concentrated on a single attack. He sensed the flow of breath penetrate his surroundings...he waited until the time was right.

It was a mysterious moment, every bullet that was shot from the end of the barrels of guns and cannons slow down somehow...yet Zoro moved freely away from the flow of time.

"Sight, Hearing, Speech, Smell, Touch, Thought and on to those desires," said Zoro in his mind.

"Good, Evil, Neutrality, and onto those desires," he continued as an unseen force slowly surrounded his swords.

" Purity and Corruption...HYAKU- HACHI POUND HOU!" ( 108 pound cannon)

A greenish phoenix shaped blast escaped the tip of his swords, and along with the blast a huge gust of wind blew at the marines at full speed.

Zoro quickly jumped to his left after realizing what he had done, by creating his attack he had only expanded the blast of the cannon and guns that were fired. And he watched as the impact blew the marines away and also gusted away Zoro.

He clenched his teeth hard, never before had he felt such strong winds able to quickly and easily lift him up and throw him up at quite some distance. And then something clicked on his brain...Robin.

Had she been affected with the blast? Probably not, after all she was far down she'd be okay. But still even so Zoro was worried, and apart from worrying there was no time to think either. Blood was flowing quickly to Zoro's head making it even hard to think, he had to think of a way to get as close as possible to where Robin was no matter what. So while he was in the air he attempting to go down upside down for two reasons, one to reach ground level as quickly as possible and two to prevent him from leaving Robin's location.

Unfortunately Zoro made a mistake, sure he went down faster, but how was he going to land? If he tried to land doing a handstand all he would be archiving would be breaking his hands. He had to land with his feet to prevent hurting himself. So he quickly flipped himself right before making contact with the soft meadow grass.

(Stomp) Zoro landed almost perfectly with his left leg crouched. His leg's hurt a bit, but it wasn't a real bother. He looked around to find himself FAR way from where Robin was. Zoro let out a big groan of annoyance and let his body rest on the spiky edge grass.

" Damn It," was all Zoro could manage to say. He looked down to his waist where all three of his beloved swords where intact. He had trouble looking at Wadou, he didn't know why. But after they landed in Domaisly all he could feel when he looked at Wadou was pain and... guilt? Why guilt? He wasn't sure, sometimes there were things nobody could solve or explain. One of them would be how Wadou had...possible warned him of danger. In a way Zoro was glad this happened, well he didn't want this REALLY to happen, but ever since he touched Wadou earlier, he knew Wadou was cold simply to warn him of something bad that was to take place. Now that this has happened he can rest without worrying and guessing what was going to happen. He knew Robin was alright and as well as his crew, but...what if...

Zoro looked thoughtful for a second. He reached for Wadou one more time, he grasped it's beautiful white lace with golden diamond shaped buckles. Then closed his eyes and relaxed. He quickly reopened his eyes that were shaking with fear.

Kuina...why won't you warm up?

AUTHOR'S COMMENTS

Hey guys!

I've been trying to submit chapters, but I have been really busy.

Well I don't know much on what to say really... by September the 20th it will be over for me and yes I have gotten a lot of request for my fics, and I just want to say I'm very very sorry that I haven't

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