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Title: Zoan
Author: ZOroronoaRO
Fandom: One Piece
Pairings: nearly gen, but with pairings hinted at and/or mentioned.
Timeline: After Ennies Lobby before Florian Triangle Series.
Spoilers: Do not read if you care about spoilers and are not up to date to Ennies Lobby.
Summary: At the newest island, Zoro's strength is admired…a bit too much, and he is now the next target of an X-world government scientist.

Zoan – Chapter five

[Survival]

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Usopp took a couple steps back as he tried to figure out what was happening.

Zoro had black hair now, and his muscles looked more defined than ever. His legs were long and catlike; they, along with a new set of fuzzy ears*, reminded him of Lucci

He had a long, black tail, at which, if Usopp wasn't so scared right now, he'd laugh. To top it off, his eyes were glowing yellow and his claws and teeth were sharp, long, and poised to strike.

Zoro ripped off the muzzle with ease and wiped the blood off his mouth.

Usopp slowly took a step back, but Zoro narrowed his eyes and leaped at him. Zoro missed him by a hair's breadth, as the collar chained to the mast drew taut and flung him back.

Zoro growled at the steel chain and grabbed it with both hands. He pulled back with all his might and a link in the chain started to bend.

The marksman took this moment to run back to the corner where he had left his Kabuto and bag.

Zoro's muscles rippled with effort and a couple of the links snapped.Freedom now obtained, Zoro reared his head back at Usopp and attacked again.

Sanji quickly jumped down to help Usopp.

"Franky! Get up here!" Sanji yelled, as he jumped in front of Zoro.

Sanji kicked at Zoro several times, but the new Zoan dodged easily.

There was a heated battle of legs, claws, and dodging, and it didn't look like anyone was going to win anytime soon, until Sanji landed a solid hit on Zoro's abdomen.

Zoro flew back and smashed into the mast. Sanji clutched his arm and crumpled to the ground; he couldn't take his own back shock. He shifted his arm in its sling and got back up again. The cook let out a soft sigh and smirked, it reminded him of his fight with Gin. Sanji snapped back to reality, as Zoro snarled and got back up ready for round two.

Franky emerged from below deck and saw the commotion.

"What's going on?"

"No time. Zoro's gone berserk," Usopp replied digging for something in his bag.

Zoro charged at Sanji and went for his throat, but Sanji ducked and rolled to the side. Zoro followed up with a downward slash but missed the blonde and broke the deck, sending fragments of wood in every direction.

Chopper appeared next to Franky. "Did it…?" He looked across the deck at Sanji and Zoro fighting. "I think it did…" he winced.

The two looked at him strangely.

"While I was working with his blood, there was a reaction. I had a couple of theories about what it would do, but I wasn't sure what would happen. I do know one thing," Chopper told them as he turned into human form, "we have to settle him down, and do as little damage as we can. The more he moves around, the more blood he pumps; the more blood he pumps, the faster the chemicals will kill him. We also need to cause the least damage we can; his immune system is already working overtime."

The two were shocked slightly, but then formulated a plan and went into action.

Chopper went and helped Sanji keep Zoro preoccupied, as Usopp and Franky prepared their weapons.

Usopp loaded his staff with an over-sized looking bullet and Franky clicked special ammunition into his left arm.

"Ready, Longnose?"

"Ready!"

"Go!"

The two dashed forward, splitting off and pinning Zoro from both sides.

Franky took aim and Usopp pulled back the sling.

"3, 2, 1!"

When the two fired, Sanji and Chopper ducked and got out of the way.

The two bullets busted open to reveal weighted nets, both flying towards the unsuspecting Zoro.

Zoro turned to Franky and saw the net at the last moment, but was able to dodge it. The one from Usopp, though, not so much.

The net wrapped around him tightly and, in a wriggling mess, he fell to the ground, roaring angrily.

"You think this will hold him?" Chopper asked, panting slightly.

"Not for long. Franky, do you have anything stronger to hold him in?" Sanji turned to the shipwright.

"Not yet. I still have some things to do on it."

Despite the strong material, Zoro started to tear through the net.

"That was faster than expected." Usopp took an uneasy step back.

"Anyone have any ideas?" Chopper said uneasily.

"Yeah, don't die." Sanji smirked.

"Don't say that, Sanji!" Usopp said from behind the mast.

Zoro burst out of the net, claws slashing at the nearest target he could find.

The crew tried their best to avoid Zoro's attacks and not hurt him too badly, but sometimes it was unavoidable.

Zoro clenched his teeth as Franky's huge fist slammed into his midsection. He counterattacked by grabbing Franky's arm and swinging him around to crash into the wall, almost flipping the shipwright overboard.

Sanji was next. He dropped down and tried to trip Zoro with a sweep kick, but Zoro gracefully jumped away, landing next to Usopp.

Usopp took a step back, but tripped and fell to the ground, dropping his Kabuto behind him. Zoro took a step towards the fallen warrior of the sea and crouched, claws ready to strike. Without looking away from the attacking Zoro, Usopp reached behind him for his dropped weapon. Just as Zoro jumped forward, Usopp's hand clenched onto his weapon and he held it up in defense, squeezing his eyes shut.

The expected pain never came.

He slowly opened one eye and saw he wasn't holding his giant slingshot, but Zoro's white katana. Gulping, he realized that ten claws were only centimeters away from his neck.

He finally gathered enough courage to look Zoro in the face. Zoro's teeth were bared, eyebrows pointed downward and his eyes locked on the sword.

Usopp looked from his face to the katana, finally putting two and two together.

"Z-Zoro? See? It's your katana…." Usopp squeaked out.

Zoro's beaming, yellow eyes faded to their usual emerald and he collapsed to the ground, head in his hand.

"Uh…" Zoro let out a groan.

Relief came like a ten ton weight off his shoulders, and Usopp relaxed.

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Zoro was still lying there in the darkness, unable to move.

He didn't know how long it had been, he didn't know where he was, and he just laid there.

Suddenly a light shone to his left, and he turned his head to see what it was. It was far away and blurry at first, but it slowly came closer and he made out what it was.

It was an image of someone. He squinted his eyes, trying to see better. He felt some energy come back to him and was able to get up. He stood up and saw the image clearly now.

It was Usopp, holding up his sword horizontally. Zoro was confused; what was Usopp doing with his sword?

The image started to move. Usopp looked up at him. "Z-Zoro?" he stuttered. "See? It's your katana…" Usopp's voice echoed in the darkness.

Zoro heard a growl behind him, and turned to see the panther sink back into the darkness, his yellow eyes disappearing altogether.

He turned back to the image and it engulfed his vision. It made him dizzy and he sunk to the ground, holding his head in his hand.

"Uh…" he rubbed his head. "That was weird."

"Zoro?" Usopp stepped up to him. "Zoro? Are you back?"

Zoro looked up at the marksman. "Back? Where the hell would I go?"

Usopp let out a sigh. "You tell me."

Zoro looked at him like he was crazy.

Franky, Sanji, and Chopper gathered around them and explained what had happened so far and what Chopper had discovered.

"It was that guy," Zoro said as he explained his side of the story. "He knocked me out, but I don't remember much from there until now."

"The great Roronoa Zoro, ambushed and knocked out." Sanji stated smugly.

"Shut up!" Zoro roared, facing Sanji with a killing intent.

"Whoa, whoa. Settle down, Zoro." Chopper switched to heavy point and stood between Sanji and Zoro.

Zoro relaxed. "Sorry, I'm not in the mood." He turned his head away and exhaled. "Franky, do you think you can get this thing off of me?" He pointed at the collar with just a few links of the chain still attached.

"Yeah, no problem, Bro."

Zoro followed Franky below deck to get his tools.

As soon as he was out of earshot, Sanji turned to Chopper. "What was that?"

"He's under the influence of the drugs, so everything is amplified." Chopper shrunk back to normal. "His strength, senses, emotions, you name it. His system just can't take it all at once; that's one of the ways it's killing him slowly."

Everyone was quiet.

"I'm guessing it's so overwhelming that he can't control it, hence the outbursts. Just don't upset him at all. I'm going to go and try and figure out how to reverse it," the little reindeer started to tear up, "but it's so complicated, I don't know even where to start." Chopper let out a small sob.

"You can do it, Chopper," Usopp said with a thumbs-up.

Chopper sniffed and looked up at him.

"Don't give up, and don't doubt yourself! We all believe you can do it!"

Chopper wiped his tears away and nodded. "Right! I have to be a man!"

With that, the little doctor scurried back into the sick bay.

Sanji and Usopp stood in an awkward silence for a few seconds; but, then Sanji remembered dinner and ran up to the kitchen.

Zoro entered shortly after, now wearing a dark green tank top, his white katana, and boots, he was also free of his collar. Sanji ignored him and took the meat out of the pot, cooling it on a plate.

"You hungry?" he asked, not looking towards Zoro.

Zoro grunted in response.

"You have to eat something." Sanji put a plate of decorated appetizers on the table and another stack of empty plates next to it.

"Go get the others. We're not having dinner until the ladies get back, but I have snacks."

Zoro snorted and left to get the others, slamming the door on his tail on his way out.

There was a ton of cussing, and then the door shattered into splinters.

Sanji went stone-faced as the swordsman looked at the remaining fragments of the door to him.

Sanji went back to cooking the dinner, pretending it never happened, but inside he was laughing his guts out. He waited for Zoro to leave until he silently chucked to himself, it was an interesting day.

*think Inyuasha ears :3

ah... i never know what to say here.... umm... thanks for reading? :D