I see a lot of you are confused. That's good. That is what I was intending to make happen. Hehehehehehehe! (evil laugh), but do not fear the truth shall be revealed soon.
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Luffy, Always Bounces Back: The Spring of Life.
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Chapter 6:
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There was a great swordsman that was feared by many the world over, but somehow was still made to feel insignificant in certain areas when he was with the rest of the Strawhat Crew. Zoro was just left by Robin sitting by the entrance of the new cave he had opened up. His job he had been told by her was to prevent anyone suspicious from entering the cave.
"Stupid Luffy." Zoro muttered to himself. "You just had to go and get yourself lost." he rolled his eyes back into his head as he leaned back against the wall of the cave opening and closed his eyes he was so damn bored of all this searching. All he had to do to find Luffy was to go to the centre of the Island. The easiest way would be if he climbed up on of those cliff faces. He knew he shouldn't, and Nami would try to kill him if she knew he had tried, but he had been patient for like... an entire day with Robin and nothing had happened. He frowned. Yes, it was time to do things his way.
He knelt down at the base of the cave and wrote in the sand there. 'GONE DOWN TO THE RIGHT. ZORO.' he then stepped over his handy work and looked back at the cave. Yep, she would be able to see that easily.
He smiled to himself, "See Nami, even I can leave simple directions. All I need to do is keep to the right." And he turned right.
It wasn't long before Robin cam out of the cave and saw the message that had been left for her, but only a few steps away from the letters were Zoro's footprints facing the cave before he vied off to his right.
"Oh, dear." Robin smiled, "It's a good job there's a lot of sand here." she said to herself as she set off in search of her head strong team-mate.
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Zoro felt very proud of himself after climbing such a mountainous cliff face in such a short period of time. He was absolutely sure he was on the right track he just had a gut feeling that this was the right way.
What would his Captain have done if he had come up here? Well he would have grabbed a piece of fruit from that nearby tree.
Zoro jumped up into the air and sliced off part of a branch from the nearby tree. And ate the fruit without hesitation. 'that's what his captain would have done.'
"Hum …tas...fse ... go..od." he spoke with his mouth full, to himself in pleasant surprise.
Next his Captain would have either sprung into action and moved on or he have grabbed more food and sat down to eat it.
He looked around for a seat that His Captain might feel inclined to use. There! Right there was perfect. He made his way to a rock that was just jutting out of the ground like a sore thumb, and finished his piece of fruit why just sitting there.
Where would Luffy had gone to next? He would have leapt into or onto the next thing that caught his interest.
He looked around, but that was when he began to hear the subtle changes in the sounds of water around him. There was the loud roaring sea that was rolling back and forth against the rocks of this island and then there was a gentle splashing noise coming from somewhere else.
He turned around and looked behind him. Just on the other side of the rock he was sitting on was a gaping hole that descended into the cliff.
"Luffy would definitely find this interesting." he dangled his legs over the edge and allowed himself to fall into the pit.
He landed with a thud and was surprised by the large amounts of glowing worm-like things on the sides of the cave. He shrugged it off as unimportant information and walked down the echoing passages
He came into a ginormous chamber that seemed to happy to offer the perfect echo to his boots as they hit the floor. "Oi Luffy are you here?" Zoro called out to him. No answer.
Then he smelt something familiar. What? Had someone got a secret stash of booze here or something? He began walking around the lake of water in search of the source of this familiar smell. He could do with a little break, he had been working solidly 'til now, and it had been a little while since the Strawhats had got him any new sake. He had circled half of the perimeter of the so called lake, but had seen no sign of the booze or Luffy.
"Damn it. Where is this smell coming from?" he muttered to himself. He then found himself turning back to the lake. It could be there? Could it? There was no such thing as a lake of alcohol. But his misgivings weren't enough to prevent him from testing out his theory.
He knelt down at the edge of the lake, cupped his hands and pulled out the water and drank it. Delight flooded out his suspicion as the taste was just too amazing to be imagination. It was really an entire lake of sweet alcohol.
"This should be called the fountain of booze." he cheered up as he drank another mouth-full.
It soon wasn't enough to drink with his hands alone and he dipped his entire face in. It had felt and tasted so sweet to him, he had never been offered a chance like this before, he had never seen a miny sea of alcohol he could swim in and for some reason he felt like he really wanted to.
He took off his clothes and dived into it's depths. He would be really sticky afterwards, but he didn't care at least he would have the memory of being able to do this this one time. He ducked his head under starting to feel a little giddy at the amazing effect it was having on him. He swam and drink and swam and drank. This was going to be the closest feeling he would get to being kissed by the sea as some men call it when they love it more than home. He kept the shore in sight and made his way back to it before he became a little to intoxicated. As he came up to the side and climbed up onto dry land he suddenly felt very drowsy and tired. He pulled his pants back on before he lay down on the edge of the heavenly lake and allowed himself to drift off into a drug induced sleep. He felt calm, and at peace, and so...
His mind blanked out as he fell into a deep sleep. Which wasn't very hard, because as you all know Zoro has sleeping down to an art. No one can beat him at a sleeping contest. He wins hands down.
However as he was sleeping the water that had just been drunk by him started seeping out from the pours of his skin dribbling away back into the lake of sake. Before long a mysterious man had appeared before Zoro standing straight and tall.
"I shall try to the best of my ability to achive your goals." he said to him. "May you rest in peace here until the time comes for you to rise again." And with that he picked up Zoro's weapons and left through the entrance that Zoro had just hours before come in through.
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Don't panic. Just wait for the unavoidable.