"Grey" Zoro yelled as Greycie was getting farther every second. Greycie was running faster than Zoro had ever seen her run and right now he was struggling to even keep up with her. Something was off but he couldn't tell what it was. She was faster that was obvious but there were other movements that Greycie made that Zoro noticed. He noticed he was struggling with not tripping over small twigs buried in the mud, Greycie however was running without a hitch.

A theory came to Zoro's mind and growing tired of this chase he decided to end it right then. He ran a little faster and tried to grab her arm but Greycie saw the outstretched hand. She turned her torso to the right dodging the arm but she didn't see Zoros other arm. He managed to grab a hold of her arm and made sure he got a good grip before he pulled Greycie back. He didn't mean to pull so hard where he frightened the child but he did just that. He cursed when he saw Greycies frightened face and his guilt grew when she started shaking her head frantically and tears began to fall.
"I'm sorry I'm sorry" Greycie screamed as she flailed her body to try to escape the grip "Grey stop it calm down." So far his theory was right, now there was still a crucial factor that needed to be answered. Greycie had speed,high awareness in all senses..but did she have strength. Strength that a devil fruit would grant. Zoros process of thinking was halted when he saw Greycies hand balled up in a fist. He saw it rise up and he knew his question was about to answered. He watched as the fist came down on his arm. If her strength was as advanced as her speed...well than this was going to hurt.

The old man stepped back and peered down at his "experiment" who was heavily breathing through her mouth. "Loss of breath, rapid heartbeat and pulse, and -" The little girl eyelids half closed let out a whimper before she began convulsing uncontrollably. The old man nodded and scribbled something down on his paper before placing his shaking foot on the child's small torso." And last but not least Seizures"

The man waited until the siezure stopped before taking his foot off the child.

"Seizure that's a new side affect" The man commented to himself.

He turned his back to the child and returned to his beakers that were loitered carelessly around the table. He soon heard the screams of the child and nodded that the drug was doing as exactly as he thought. So far so good. Now if she lasted a few more experiments than his seconded drug would be perfected. He chuckled at the thought but he noticed his chuckle was the only sound in the room. He turned to the girl to see she was lying still on the floor. A little bit too still. The old man walked to the child and took her pulse and noted her breathing was slow. So far this wasn't good. When he picked up her eyelid he raised his eyebrows at what he saw. Her blue eyes were becoming unfocused and hazed.

"Oi you better shut that brat the hell up before I do it for you." A large man with thick black hair screamed as he barged in the room. He was about to yell again when he noticed the still form of the girl on the floor. Her hair was spread across her torso and stuck to her face from the sweat covering her body.

"Ah is the little brat finally dead" The man yelled out happily

"No I believe she is just in the state of unconsciousness" The doctor argued.

The large man bruttally kicked her in her side resulting her tiny frame to crash into the wall and slump lifeless to the ground.
"That brat is in a coma." Rubbing his chin he threw his hands in the air and laughed "Just kill the bitch, I'm already tired at looking at her."

"That's a negative Captain, even though she is in a coma she is still of use to my experiments. I have already perfected one drug but the other one still needs work. I will need some money to buy the proper medicine so the child can still surviv-"

"What" The large man roared in anger. "You mean I have to spend money so it can just survive and you can just have fun with your little experiments"

"Well if you say it like that well yes that is what you must do"

"This is bull I traded that replica of a devil fruit so you can perfect your new drugs. Not to add dead weight to this crew who is going to suck up all our money."

The doctor made no facial expressions except to pick up the child and lay her carelessly on the table next to all the chemicals. The massive man watched his every move but stayed silent. The old man shakily poured some contents into a beaker and finally poured it into a syringe. " Just watch what this drug will do to our enemies"

The room was silent as he administrated the drug to the child's blood stream. The silence was broken immediately as the girl arched her back and screamed in pure agony. Neither of the two flinched but instead smiled at the drugs success. The child still screaming arched her neck letting out a gasp before coughing out blood at an alarming wait. The older man grabbed a chart and began writing furiously at the new results.

When the blood stopped the man began checking the little girl making comments to himself. When he opened her eyes he saw sea blue eyes staring back at him. Dropping the lid back down he turned to his captain. They stared at each other until the captain began to clap which the doctor humbly bowed at. Both had huge grins on their faces.

"Why dont you go upstairs and go get some sake so you and I can celebrate your success of your new weapon." The captain cheered.

The doctor nodded and mumbled about how he would be unstoppable with this new drug as he walked out of the room. The curly haired man waited until the door closed and the shakey footsteps were far gone. Checking all around him he ran to the table where the chemicals and the child was. He looked at the beakers and saw one was labeled Drug 1 while the other was labeled just X. Making quick work he grabbed a syringe and placed it inside the unknown chemicals.

He soon heard light footsteps coming back towards the room. He only managed a little bit of the liquid inside the syringe but he hastily stabbed it inside the child's arm. Injecting the small dosage of medicine he threw the syringe in his pocket to discard the evidence. He waited for the door to open but the table shaking drew his attention. The child was shaking uncontrollably resulting the table to shake with her. He felt a hand push him to the side and noticed his crew mate was back.

"What happened" The doctor asked his voice rising for the first time.

"I don't know it must be a new side affect to the drug." The captain tried to make his voice convincing that he had no idea what was going on.

"Oh dear this is not good her heartbeat is racing" The old man grumbled.

"What might happen" He asked

The doctor ignored him but instead began to work in a fast pace. A scream erupted from the little girl as her entire body arched off the table. The two watched the scene with wide eyes now as she fell back on the table her open eyes staring at the men. The doctor took a step back and took a full look of the grey eyes that stared into him.

"Well thats an unusual sight" The doctor finally said. "The pupils are entirely gone. A change of the genotype in the eyes very interesting. But it seems my last drug has killed her, oh this is not good"

The massive man saw what he had said was true, just pure Grey eyes stared at them.

"Well looks like shes dead, no heartbeat, lets get rid of this body. Im already growing tired at looking at it." The doctor said as he he waved his hand as if he was waving a fly away.

The captain nodded and watched the doctor begin to move towards the child. That waswhen he saw a drop of the unknown chemical still on the child's arm. He quickly nudged the doctor away and roughly picked up the cold dead child.

"Oi I don't want you to throw out your back, come on let me get rid of this"

When they threw the girl inside the tiny boat the doctor carelessly threw a blanket over the corpse.

"Well that's that, at least she was able to perfect one drug."

The doctor left so his captain could drop the boat in the sea which was currently pitch black from the light-less night. Watching the fading doctor the captain slowly took out the syringe in his pocket. He looked closely at it and noticed there was still some liquid in it. Shrugging his shoulders he picked up the blanket and stuck the needle in the child's arm. Making sure he emptied all the contents in the syringe he threw the only evidence of his doing overboard. He then grabbed the boat and also threw that overboard. The boat rocked dangerously but stayed afloat. The massive man laughed suddenly and screamed to the sky "The mighty BlackBeard will be the Pirate King"

Unknown to him in the boat that was being carried away by the waves, the blanket rise up as a small child breathed deeply as she heard her rapid heartbeat. She felt something run through her veins that made her feel like her body was on fire. But she liked the feeling...no she LOVED this feeling. The last thing she heard before falling back to sleep was a familiar voice screaming. "BlackBeard" the voice brought a mental image to the child and the fire feeling was gone instead she fell asleep with tears running down her face.

Zoro braced himself when the fist landed on his arm. Nothing. Nothing but a three year old his theory was wrong. but right now he had to get Greycie. Zoro used Greycie's outstretched hand to grab and embrace her against his chest."Grey listen to me its ok."He yelled.

"No I lied, I lied to you" Greycie screamed now as tears streamed down her face.

"I don't care if you did, do you know how worried everyone was about you." Zoro barked.

Greycie stopped now as she thought about the whole crew. She felt as if all the energy was drained from her and now she just laid on Zoro's chest. She felt like her throat was on fire and couldn't hold back the sobs anymore. Heart wrenching sobs broke out and all Zoro could do was wrap his strong arms around her and wait till she was done.
"M-my da-ad didnt wa-ant me. He tra-aded me for a a fruit" He heard her say through the sobs.

"Greycie that doesnt matter anymore, everyone on the crew loves you. Nobody cares what happens in the past, all they care about is that your happy and safe"

"Do you love me Zoro, like really love me Zoro" Greycie whispered now. She closed her eyes and waited for the answer, she had to admit she was scared for the rejection. There was a moment of silence before she felt Zoros hand on her head.

" I love you Grey and I promise that you will never be hurt again."

Greycie looked up at Zoro and gave him a broken smile before throwing her arms around his neck and began crying all over again. Zoro rested his hand on her head and waited for the cries to quiet down.

"I love you too Zoro" Greycie finally said as her cries went to sniffles.

Zoro patted her head as he got up and began to walk back to the ship. Greycies sniffles stopped and Zoro realized she had fallen asleep. Her eyes were red and puffy and Zoro noticed her cut stopped bleeding. It didnt look deep but he wanted Chopper to still look at it.

By some miracle Zoro spotted the Thousand Sunny and saw the entire crew watching the duo. He made a mental note to himself that Greycies little speed burst should be kept to himself.

He felt every ones eyes on him as he walked onto the deck but he just tilted his head to the sleeping Greycie who was still latched on his neck. "Shes going to be ok but there is a scratch which I think Chopper should look at."

Chopper hearing his name immediately went to action and carefully took Greycie so she wouldn't wake up. Zoro turned his attention to Nami and brought out the blanket that was hanging from his haramaki.

"Hey Nami wash this blanket yeah" Zoro ordered as he threw it to Nami.

Nami was going to make a comment about his debt but saw the blood in the blanket. She just nodded and walked away with Robin following her. Soon the crew began to make excuses to leave where only Zoro and Ace were left. An icy silence followed between the two men.

"I would just like to apologize, I really didn't know. Don't worry I'm leaving tonight. I'm already late as it is" Ace began as he took off his hat and stared deeply into it.

"Its fine you didn't know, just make sure you sure talk to her. She would be real hurt if you left without saying goodbye." Zoro answered as he laid his hand on his swords.

"Ill make sure to do that" Ace nodded at him and walked away but was stopped when Chopper came out saying Greycie was asking for Ace.

Zoro watched as Aces eyebrows shot up in surprise but he still walked towards the infirmary. Zoro laid himself out on the deck and took a catnap. He couldnt help but wonder what they were talking about. It wasn't until he felt someone walking towards him did he open his eyes.

"Well Zoro I'm off before I cause any more trouble, don't worry I already said goodbye to everyone" Ace said as he knew the swordsman was awake now. He was walking to his boat but suddenly he snapped his fingers and turned towards Zoro. He pulled something out of his backpack and handed Zoro a folder. When the folder was out of his fingers he made a mad dash to his boat before yelling. "See you guys in a couple months"

Zoro sat there confused until he decided to open the folder. He quickly scanned the pieces of paper inside the paper and his face grew serious. It was the last line that drew a small smile on his face as he recalled what Ace said.

"Damn better tell the witch about this" He smiled as he closed the folder and put it under his shoulder. He soon heard small footsteps and looked up to see Greycie staring nervously at him. He gestured her to come over and was greeted back with giggles as Greycie ran in Zoros arms. The giggle caught Luffy and Chopper's ears and soon heard two words that Zoro despised. "DOG PILE" Luffy screamed as they ran to Zoro. Zoro quickly stretched Greycie out before Luffy and Chopper in heavy point jumped onto him. The crew soon came out and Nami quickly pulled out a camera and began to snap pictures of the once again happy crew.

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