Zoro and Luffy lumbered into the kitchen, their faces blank. Everybody watched them go to their seats. The plates Sanji had placed were filled with food, but the two didn't seem interested in eating. Luffy stirred his food around with his fork, and stabbed a piece of meat. Instead of bringing it to his lips, he raised it to his eye level and gazed at it. Everybody murmured to their neighbor. Their captain not hungry? He was taking it harder than they thought. Sanji was prepared for this, though. He had gone through this before.
"Oi. You have to eat and have strength if you want to beat up their capturer, right?" came a soft sentence from the blonde cook, who was watching the two of them. They both turned around and looked at the cook for a second, then dug vigorously into the food placed in front of them. The rest of the crew took as much food as they could before the two ate it all, and set off into their meal as well. Halfway through the meal, Robin looked up at the green haired swordsman, who was borrowing the technique of stealing food from her, and her eyes caught his for a moment or two. What she saw chilled her to the bone. Rage and loneliness most of all. Then he had broken the connection and kept on eating. Shuddering for a second, and assuring the cook that nothing was wrong, she went back to eating. As soon as they were done eating, They ran outside to continue what they were doing. Watching the swordsman to try to talk to him when he paused in his training, Robin waited and read.
A couple of hours later, The swordsman put down his new, bigger weights that he had gotten at the last island, and walked to the railing and leaned on it. Robin took her chance, and placed her bookmark in her book, put it down and strolled casually over to the sweating man. Reaching her destination, she gazed out into the sea, seeming to ignore the swordsman who was watching her. With a smile, she spoke.
"Good luck, swordsman-san." Zoro watched her, in case she had more to say, and was about to reply, when suddenly Nami yelled.
"THERE'S A BIG STORM COMING!! GET THE MAIN SAIL UP!!" Zoro ran to hurry and get the ship ready for the storm, when it hit. Nami hadn't given enough warning! The winds pulled at the sails to the point where they were about to break, but they held thanks to the strong material Franky had used. The ship rocked violently, and Zoro was thrown to the side. About to fall off, he was saved by a link of hands that had sprouted out of the wood. The storm was so brutally strong that none of them could move from their life-saving chains of Robin's hands. The storm pushed their straining sails, shoving them to an uncharted island.