Sanji shook him. Zoro didn't respond, he was unconscious. Sanji pushed aside more boxes so he was able to get the swordsman up.
What in the world happened to this guy? Sanji thought to himself. He hoisted Zoro up and held him aloft so his boots just scraped the ground. I better get back to the ship soon or I won't be able to see where I am going. This town is like a maze already. He quickly grabbed his bags and went back the way he came.
He was about to turn the corner when he heard a voice behind him.
"He's with you is he?" Sanji turned around to see an old lady, looking at him, a smile and a grimace playing at her features.
"..Yes"
"I saw it all. He put up a good fight that one." she said nodding at Zoro.
"What are you talking about?"
"The W.S.B.H."
"The what?"
"The Weapon Snatching Bounty Hunters. They obviously wanted that poor mans swords. His bounty also. He likes his swords, that one. They jumped down on him, they did. He didn't like that, but not able to do much about it though, drugged I suppose. Kept almost falling over and all. When they grabbed his white sword he nearly beserk. Don't like the W.S.B.H, I don't. Someone else doesn't either. Flash a light and they lay on the ground, a bang n' they were gone."
How'd this idiot end up getting himself drugged?
"Bounty Hunters?" He looked down at the Zoro's waist. All of his swords were missing. The guy's gonna crack when he wakes up. And that's the last thing we need. A cranky swordsman and bounty hunters.
"Do you think that they will keep tracking us?"
"Yes. I do."
"Great. Do you know how I can get to the port?"
The old woman didn't answer, because the old woman was no longer there.
"Eh? Where'd she go? Weird old lady."
It must have taken him at least 20 minutes to find his way back because it was getting pretty dark out, but he got there nevertheless. Nami was there to greet him when he walked on board.
"Sanji! Where were you? I thought we agreed to be back here before sun down! Everyone came back hours ago! Oh, and have you seen Zoro? He probably got himself lost again. Could you-" She spotted Zoro." Oh my god, what happened?"
"I'll tell you in a moment. We should get Chopper though."
"Everyone else is asleep, but I'll wake them up." She opened the hatch to the men's quarters."CHOPPA! Wake up!" The little doctor sqeaked and fell off his hammock The others awoke too.
"Nh...What's going on?" asked Usopp.
"It's Zoro! He's hurt!"
Chopper picked himself off the floor and scrambled up the ladder, closely followed by the others. Chopper ran over to Zoro and took some bandages out of his bag. He checked Zoro's wounds and bandaged them up.
"None of his wounds are very serious, he's just unconscious."
"That's good." said Nami, "So Sanji, was it marines?"
"No, I found him like this in an alleyway. Then an old lady spotted me coming out and said she saw what happened." Sanji told them all that he had heard.
Nami gasped. "Bounty Hunters? And they took his swords? AND he was drugged!"
"This means Zoro and Luffy are in danger. They might also want your Clima Tact though Nami." said Chopper, applying the last bandage to Zoro's arm.
Usopp chuckled,"Yes, everyone wants The Great Captain Usopp's marvelous inven-Ah! I'll be in danger!"
"It would be the Clima Tact they want, not you Usopp." said Chopper. Usopp gave a sigh of relief. Chopper used Heavy Point and carefully picked Zoro up. He walked over to a door, opened it and placed him on the same bed that Luffy occupied after being frozen.
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They didn't have to wait long for Zoro to regain consciousness. It was around noon when Chopper walked into the room, the same time Zoro slowly sat up.
"Ah Zoro! How are you feeling?" Chopper asked.
"I'm fine." he replied, "Just hungry. Has that shit-cook made food yet?"
"Oh, yeah. It's lunchtime now."
Zoro got up, wincing a bit, but standing all the same.
"Be careful, please Zoro! You got a pretty bad cut on your arm."
"Yes, I will Chopper." Zoro said, with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
He entered the galley where the crew was eating.
"Oh, Zoro, good to see you're awake. How are you?" asked Nami, looking up from the magazine she was reading.
Zoro sat down."I'm fine. Oi, cook, what kind of shit did you make today?"
"Haha very funny Marimo. It's duck. Eat it all or I'll kick you ass."
"You'd try and and kick my ass anyway, not that you could."
"Moss head."
"Dartboard-brow."
"Bastard."
"Womanizer."
"Shitty swordsman."
"Okay!" yelled Nami,"Stop fighting or I'll kick your ass."
Zoro just glared at the both of them as Sanji gave him his plate.
"So, Zoro, do you remember what happened yesterday?" Nami asked. Zoro's features seemed to harden.
"Yes. My swords were stolen." he said in a icy monotone voice.
"Those people were bounty hunters that also steal weapons. We would leave now, to make it harder to follow us but, the log pose won't set for about 5 days."
"Good." He ate his food and walked out. He sat down by the railing on the side of the ship and closed his eyes.
-o-oooo-o-
Zoro didn't even look like he was sleeping. He looked dead, if anything. He was still breathing and his skin was the same color but you couldn't see him breathing. He was silent and unmoving. The crew was a bit worried. They had never seen him act like this. Zoro without his swords was like sandwich without bread. When he woke up, he went for a walk...to think. That was not one of the things on Zoro's normal To-do list.
But Zoro didn't return. They waited hours and he still wasn't back. They were starting to get worried. What if he had been taken by the W.S.B.H?
"I say we go look for him." offered Nami.
"Yosh. Lets look for Zoro." said Luffy.
"I think it would be better for you to say here, Luffy."
"Why?" he whined.
"We don't want you getting taken away. You have a bounty also remember? Sanji, I will take that way,"she said pointing in a direction off the ship."And Usopp and Chopper will take the other way."
"I will go where-ever the lovely Nami-san wishes me too!" declared Sanji.
"Alright then,"she said, ignoring Sanji,"Luffy, promise you'll stay here?"
Luffy nodded, sulkily.
"Good. Then lets go. Meet back here in an hour at the most."
The other group nodded and they split up.
Well, I hope that was longer. If you want me to I will update as soon as I can. Please review. I won't update if you don't review. As you can tell, I'm not very good at making long chapters. I have the webpage in half so I can do more things at one time and so it looks longer then it actually is. Even if I had it differently I still would be pretty bad at doing it. Well, thanks if you have and will reviewed. This will turn into a Zoro-torture fic so if you don't like that, well. You might not like it. I'm still improving, so sorry if it's bad. You should have seen what I did on paper last year. Sorry, saying to much. I'll shut up.
Spater,
Santoryuu-zoro
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Silence is golden, but noise is platinum.
(That's my line!I will be adding a different one every chapter and please don't use it without asking.)