The ship shuddered and screeched to a halt as it ran into the island. Everyone almost fell flat on their faces, but were saved by Robin's powers. The storm still raging, everybody held on to whatever they were closest to, trying to help Robin however they could. Opening his eyes to the wind, Zoro shrieked at it,
"GO AWAY THIS IS THE LAST THING WE NEED!!" The wind covered his shout with its piercing whistle. Zoro looked over at his captain, who was shouting wordlessly at the whipping wind. And, almost as suddenly as it started, it stopped after a few minutes, as if to comply with Zoro. The wind died, and the waves calmed as if it had never happened. Nami shouted orders. Zoro was sent to check out the damage. He looked around, but didn't find any holes or even cracks, surprisingly. The main sail was stretched, though. Getting off the ship, they set out to find a town and see if they could get a new sail, and find out where they were.
Zoro wandered along at the edge of the group. He usually stayed, but for some reason he had insisted on coming this time. They had left Usopp and Chopper to watch the ship as they walked off. Wandering through the trees, and making sure they still had Zoro with them, they came to a very large clearing, the edges of which looked as if it was being cleared out by humans. Tree stumps encircled the rest of the clearing, and there were men pulling them out of the ground. They looked up to see who it was, then silently went back to their work. The town beyond this strange sight appeared to have been ravaged. Gaping around them as they walked down the main street of the small town. The people in the town did the same as the workers on the outskirts, but the mothers put their arms around their children, and held them close until they had passed by. Luffy rushed off, seeing a sewing shop nearby, leaving everybody to follow, which they did. Brushing by each other to be in the store first, they somehow got in and Luffy was already asking the manager about helping them fix their main sail. Zoro looked around and saw a small child, probably the young manager's kid, hiding in a discreet corner of the store. Trying not to glare, Zoro motioned toward the child, trying to get him to come closer so he could ask him a few questions. The kid shook his head no, and tried to bury himself deeper into the corner he was sitting in. Zoro moved toward the kid, trying to not scare him, but only succeeding in a little ball of clothes and flesh mashed together. Chuckling, Zoro sat down by the kid and greeted him. Poking his little face out of the bundle, the child watched him curiously. Zoro didn't even try to smile. He knew that he couldn't. The kid ran his eyes over him, and finally spoke.
"What do you want?" he said in a rude tone. Zoro, not caring about the rudeness, hoped for a sufficient answer. Kids were smarter than some people thought they were.
"What happened here? Did you get raided?" The kid's eyes widened when their gaze fell on his katanas, but moved back to his face and answered,
"yeah, what of it? A huge jerk with a flag that has snakes coming out of the skull's eyes, mouth, and nose. He kidnapped my sister!!" The small child lunged at him, enraged obviously about his sister. Zoro dodged to side easily, letting the kid fall on his face due to lost balance. The adolescent sat back up and glared at Zoro. Zoro spoke again, saying,
"He kidnapped some of my nakama too. Do you know who he is?" The kid grunted, then answered again,
"His name is Dokueki. He kidnaps girls and..." glancing at his father before continuing, he finished whispering, "rapes them." Zoro's eyebrows tried to climb off of his face before he gained control of his muscles again. The festering rage inside him was born again, hotter and fiercer this time. He had to find her before.. that happened!
