Chapter 7-Captivity
Everyone stared at Zoro disbelievingly when he said that. "Don't you guys want to follow our new crewmate?" Zoro asked, trying to cover his action. "Well, yeah. But, we just didn't know you didn't want to follow her that badly." Nami said, still not believing her ears. Everybody set off to do their jobs, but Zoro did his the fastest and with the most vigor. Once he was alone again without De-Ji, he asked himself, 'Why am I doing this?' for he had forgotten what that feeling was like when she was around him. He seemed to be floating, but when he looked down, his feet were planted firmly on the ground. His heart would pound whenever he saw her. Once in a while he wondered, is this love? But now that she wasn't here, he forgot what that was like. He thought himself a fool, falling for a lady so quickly. He then remembered her face, and sighed. He needed to sort out his feelings. And, since all there was to do was to wait, he went to work out, so he could be ready to fight. After a while he stopped, so he wouldn't be too tired when he fought. He then took a nap to conserve his energy. All the while, he stayed away from the rest of the crew so he wouldn't have to explain his previous actions. Once he had woken up, he felt strangely empty inside. At first, he thought it was hunger, but after he had a snack, it was still there. He dediced to ignore it, and wait to arrive at the enemy ship.
De-Ji screamed her head off for Zoro, but they were too far away to hear. She knew, but she still wanted to scream her heart and lungs out so they would find her. Tears came to her eyes when she thought of them not finding her. But, she knew that wouldn't happen, she didn't know how, but they would find her, no matter what. Meanwhile, she needed to focus on surviving. She heard Warumono calling for her to get him a drink. She got one and gave it to him, all she needed to do is survive, is what she kept telling herself. Warumono wanted her to jump into the ocean, and put on a show for his crew and him, but De-Ji couldn't take any more orders, and defied him and said "NO!" Warumono jumped up and shouted at her, "WHY NOT?! AS LONG AS YOUR CREW IS NOT HERE, I CAN ORDER YOU AROUND HOWEVER I WANT!" De-Ji stared in disbelief at what he had just said. "That's Not How That Works!!" she screamed at her captor. She ran off, feeling so alone, but she could not let herself cry. They would think of her as weak if she let them see her cry. That was the last thing she wanted at that moment. She found a dark room, and hid in it, waiting for her crew to come back and get her. After a few hours, she got hungry. Luckily, she found some food in here. There was some smoked meat, some fruits, and some vegetables as well. She ate a little of everything, and so she and her stomach were still waiting on her crew that she missed so much were here. She missed everything about her crew, even though she hadn't been a member that long. The way smells drifted everywhere on the ship from Sanji cooking, the way there were distant hyper sounds coming from Luffy and maybe some of the others. At first she had thought that was annoying. but now that it was so quiet, she missed it. Warumono had stopped looking for her, since she was just a captive. He knew she wouldn't jump in the water, because if she did, it would be even harder for the crew to find her, since she was so small, their eyes could easily miss her floating head and shoulders sticking out of the water. She had also thought of that, and that was the reason she didn't jump in. she also missed the way Zoro was always beside her, the way he slept, and occasionally snored. 'Why couldn't they come sooner?' she asked herself, knowing that they were doing all they could to try and find her. Suddenly, she heard a loud BOOM!
"DE-JI!! WHERE ARE YOU?" she heard over the loud noises of cannons and clashes of metal on metal, and gunfires and everything. They had at last, come for her. She ran outside, and found a huge frenzy of people fighting, and just as she found Luffy, Warumono was beaten.
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