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Lazzzy Days

By: Mischievous Sin

Chapter 12 – Cause and Effect

"THEY'RE GONNA BOARD US!" PyrX's voice screamed.

"Shit," they said in unison and headed out on deck.

That wasn't the first time they heard Pyrate X say that. Something, there was always something that went wrong and when something went wrong, it was usually the Marine's fault.

"How is it that we are the only people that got caught out of both crews put together?" Zoro sighed, sitting in the cramp prison hold of the marine's ship.

"I'm not exactly sure," Mel replied, sitting next to him in the cramp hold.

There was an awkward silence between them, as if they were too nervous to speak to each other. After a few minutes, Zoro was the first to speak.

"So what exactly happened back there?"

"Hmm, well, the marines boarded our ship, and we were kind of distracted and easily jumped by a few marines. Then we were brought back to the ship, and apparently, they left the others behind on the Going Merry…"

"I didn't mean that. I meant, what exactly happened last night?"

Mel's eyes widened, and she turned her gaze to something outside the hold. Zoro kept his eyes on her, waiting for an answer. When he got none, he simply shrugged and turned away.

"I'm so sorry," she replied. "I-"

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the bastard swordsman and Lady Melfina."

'That voice!'

'It can't be…?!'

Without hesitating, both of the pirates whipped their heads around to see what they wished was a bad dream. Prince Aladono stood before the cell door, wearing his evil grin and staring at the two in the cell.

"Y-you!" Zoro stuttered in confusing. "PyrX and I! We killed you!"

"Incorrect, you green haired jackass," Aladono chuckled. "I'd demonstrate to you my true power, if only I had the time. Alas, I don't. I simply came down here to ask Lady Melfina something."

"What do you want?" Mel practically growled, giving him the most evil glare Zoro's ever seen.

Aladono grinned.

"How's your memory? It seems back to normal, as it is. Whose life did you take in the process?"

Mel stood dumbfounded. He planned all this from the beginning? What… Who the hell was this guy???

"Oh, right, I guess I didn't tell you," he laughed evilly, turning his back towards them. "Did you know that when I decide to take someone's memory away, the only way that person can get their memory back is by killing another person close to them, or at least seriously wounding them?"

The prince turned around to receive the glares from both pirates.

"So," he began. "Who was it?"

"No one," she replied with a smirk. "I didn't kill anyone."

"Than at the least, whoever it was must've been severely wounded."

"Not so much," Zoro added, also smirking. "Sure, it did hurt when it happened, and even afterwards, but it was nothing I couldn't handle."

Aladono's eyes widened with rage as he stared at the healthy looking swordsman.

"You," he snarled. "How is it that you weren't affected at all? And how is it that you managed to stay alive anyways? My mind-erase method always worked with the other pirates."

"What exactly do you try to do when you take their memory and have them attack one crewmate? What's the point?"

"The point, you retard, is to make the crew split up and take different sides. Afterwards, a civil war erupts between the crew, until one is left standing. After that, I simply kill off the remaining member and cash their bodies in for the bounty."

"But how would you know whether or not the crew was fighting?" Mel cut in after becoming very curious on the subject.

Just then, a loud crash of what seemed like something other than a cannonball shook the ship, causing the three to grab something nearest to them to keep themselves stable.

"I'll inform you on such later," Aladono replied, taking off up the stores to the deck of the ship.

Zoro and Mel looked at each other, looking equally confused at what just happened.

"Yosha," Luffy said after crash landing on the marine ship with Sanji, Chopper, Katsu, and PyrX. "Let's split up and find Zoro and Mel."

"Do we really need to find that Marimo?" Sanji mumbled.

Katsu, overhearing his comment, gave him a swift, but light, blow to the stomach with one of her swords, causing him to grunt and keel over a little.

"C'mon, Sanji," she sighed. "You're coming with me, since you can't be trusted…"

"Oi…"

After Sanji and Katsu took off towards the way to the prison hold, PyrX, Chopper, and Luffy were left on the deck.

"I guess that means all three of us are a group," PyrX assumed, starting below decks.

"Chopper, go with PyrX," Luffy ordered. "I need to check something out, first."

Chopper and PyrX exchanged glances before shrugging and heading below decks, where they were greeted by a various group of guards. In a second, they were easily knocked out, and the two continued their journey through the ship.

"Hey PyrX," Chopper called, knocking some marines aside into the wall. "What do you think Luffy needed to check out?"

"I don't know," she replied, slashing into some marines with her swords. "Knowing him, he's probably checking the food storage supply."

The two began to laugh, but their laugh soon turned into an annoyed sigh.

"That baka…"

"He's such an idiot…"

Back with Sanji and Katsu, the two quickly met up with the cell where Mel and Zoro sat impatiently waiting for Katsu to find the right key to the door.

"It's probably this one," she said, jumbling the keys around trying to find which was the right one for the door. "GRAGH, WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MANY KEYS?!"

"Move," Sanji said, preparing to kick the door.

Sanji kicked the door open easily, sending the metal door flying right into Zoro's face.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!" He shouted, standing up.

"I told you to move, mosshead," Sanji replied in his suave kind of tone.

"Hey," Katsu mumbled, crossing her arms and pouting.

"Guys, we don't have time for this," Mel said, getting everyone to face her. "Prince Aladono is on the ship. We need to get back as fast as possible."

"Prince Aladono? I thought he was dead."

"No, he survived somehow, even though we cut him up into six different pieces…" Zoro shrugged.

"He must obviously have the powers of the devil fruit or something, because otherwise, he's just a ghost."

"A G-GHOST?!" Chopper and PyrX shouted in unison.

The others turned to the doorway to she them standing there.

"How long have you been here?" Sanji blinked.

"Right after you mentioned the ghost thing," PyrX replied.

"Wait, where's Luffy? Wasn't he with you?"

"He said he needed to check something."

"Oiiii, everyonnnne!!!" Luffy's voice could be heard out of nowhere.

"Luffy, where are you?" Chopper asked the voice.

"I'm… somewhere…"

"YOU BAKA!" (All of them shouted.)

"Oh yeah! I'm in the kitchen! I couldn't find any meat, but I found this weird speaker thing, so I wanted to test it out!"

"Can we get off this ship now?" PyrX whined.

The others nodded, heading back to the deck, but not before Katsu decided to carve a hole into the hull in order to sink it. The majority of the marines were either knocked out or knocked over the ship. No one saw Aladono since his rendezvous with Mel and Zoro in the cell, but he was constantly on everyone's mind.

After meeting up with Luffy, the crew was sent flying back using Luffy's "Gomu Gomu no Rocket." Mel turned around to watch the marine ship sink under the crashing waves of the Grand Line. She sighed shakily and noticed Zoro coming up beside her.

"Hopefully that's the last of him," Mel frowned.

"There should've been no way that he could've survived that," Zoro replied. "But you never know…"

"You're right, swordsman," that familiar voice laughed from behind the crews.

Immediately, everyone whipped their heads around to face the one and only Prince Aladono standing before them on the railing with his arms crossed and a twisted smirk on his face.

"You never know."

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Sin: (bows before her humble reviews) I AM SO SORRY! I am probably the most laziest person in the universe… It's not entirely my fault though. My computer that had everything, including the new chapter, died, and I had to get a new one. Then, there was high school that I had to deal with, and just everything. It was terrible! But I do say I am SO SORRY to my faithful reviewers who have been waiting a terribly long time for the next update… For Takahane, Kitty Lurv, 'guest', AnimexFreakx4xEva, 4getregret, and firefistACE888888, I am so sorry. Thank you for keeping me from leaving my story entirely. DX I hope you enjoyed! Read and Review please!