Yay everyone likes the new length! Thanks for the reviews everyone I really love them especially when their random. Playing gold fish with uno cards? hahaha oh and I have my sister behind me so in case I write a cliffhanger she is allowed to pull my hair hahaha You know whats weird I started this as Zoro father figure story but I cant help but put all the other strawhats into the family TOO! lol
So I did my math and junk and found out that this story if I post once a week is going to end in the beginning of January. Pretty crazy i must say. But oh yes please enjoy the new length. This chapter picks up where the last one left WHICH WASNT A CLIFF HANGER! hahha as one reviewer said stating its not a cliff hanger is a symptom it is in fact a cliff hanger. HALLOWEEN was involved in this chaper a little
The island they stopped on was bursting with sounds and night activities and the center of village was bursting with busy bodies. The streets were crowded with people but it was how they looked that made four Straw-hat pirates stare in awe. The villagers were in elaborate costumes that seemed to light the pitch black streets with neon colors. The girls wore beautiful costumes that made them look inhuman in an exotic way that Greycie was almost hypnotized by them. The almost part was when she felt something brush against her and turned to see what it was. Her face dropped two shades of color when she was faced with a pair of redshot eyes. She screamed in terror and ran away from the man in all black makeup. She ran back to the group clinging to Luffy's legs.
"Sugoi" Luffy exclaimed as he ran to the man who was hunched over and still staring at Greycie.
"Whats with everyone being all dressed up" Usopp asked to no one in particular.
A woman who had a skull painted over her face stooped down next to Chopper and handed him a paper.
"With that costume you will definatly win first place" She said with a warm smile.
The four, Luffy now growing bored of the hunchedback man, peered over Chopper's shoulder to read the paper he was given.
It read,
ITS THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!
We are once again celebrating that wonderful time of the year again!
This ENTIRE month we will proudly celebrate the time of the Dead The last day of the month we will have our annual festival and PARTY all NIGHT long!
We also show our pride by dressing as the dead every night of this month!
There will also be plays, events and our annual maze to celebrate this once in a year event.
Tonights event is a horror film being played at the local Theatre *Remember folks this is only a night time event*
"The Great Captain Ussop says we should go check out the movie tonight and ditch the play. Does anyone disagree" Ussop questioned excitedly.
"Lets Go" The rest agreed thrilled.
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"Four Tickets to Horror House the attack of the Zombies returnedfromthedead" Ussop said in one breath the last words becoming one from lack of oxygen.
The teenager who was distrubuiting the tickets raised her eyebrow as she glanced at the small figures in the group.
"You know this is R rated play due to gore, horror, and violent tenancies of that sort" The teen said in a non caring voice as she stared down at Chopper and Greycie.
"Oh dont worry their actually midgets who I found at an unhibited island after I fought ten no no it was ten thousand sea kin-"
"Sir I don't care" The teen snapped.
Ussop stopped his tall tale and his face grew red at the look he was receiving from the pissed off teen. The employer handed out the four tickets and watched as the group hurried inside the building.
"Boy she was a mean one huh" Luffy said as he turned around to get one last look. The rest of the group nodded their heads in agreement.
"We still have five minutes until the doors open for the play what should we do" Chopper asked.
"Lets go get front seats" Greycie hollered excitedly.
The group all agreed as they ran to the room at the very end of the building and inside the pitch black room.
"Hey look there's only four seats in the front"
"And their empty, wow were so lucky"
"Hey guys look there's plastic on these seats, I wonder why"
2hours later
The room doors busted open with teenagers and adults talking excitedly about the film. Women clinged to their dates arms and squealed as they talked about the special effects. One girl in particular was fuming about how her shirt had a spot of red liquid on it.
"These idiotic village thinks its so funny to try to scare the audience by throwing blood into the audience"
"Ah baby come on its just water with red dye, it could have been worse. We could have been in the front row"
The girl smiled and nodded "Yeah that would suck, did you hear how loud they screamed. I wonder if their still in the theatre" The couple walked out and joking about how drenched the people must be.
Their backs towards the doors they didn't see four figures walking slowly out. All four of their eyes were wide in horror and three of them were still shaking. The worst part was that somewhere on their cloths spots of red were splashed. Well everyone except Greycie. She was drenched in red liquid from head to toe. An employee stepped fore ward to them with towels in her hands. She distributed them quickly and gave a pitying look at the soaked child.
"Were sorry we thought the seat was empty, that's why we threw most of the fake blood onto that seat" She apologized sincerely.
Chopper and Ussop quickly got the towels and tried to dry the red dye off the child. The whole time she was quiet and the boys could feel her arms shaking a little.
"Crap Zoro is going to kill us" Ussop muttered as he rubbed the towel over Greycie's arms.
After five minutes of drying the fake blood Chopper sighed. "I think that's the best its going to get." He stared sadly at the child and tried to brighten the mood."I can't believe how scary those zombies were, they scared me and I faced real zombies back at Thriller Bark"
Luffy who had a faraway look in his eyes suddenly turned his attention to Chopper and asked with his head tilted to the side "Wait you guys were afraid of the zombies"
"What else would we be afraid of" Ussop asked his attention now fully on his captain.
"The scene when the man got his face eaten by the zombie the man-" Luffy stopped as he tilted his head down and began shaking in fear.
His crewmembers leaned in to try to catch the rest of his sentence
"He didn't...he didn't get to finish his piece of meat" Luffy choked out as looked at his crew members expecting to see the same horror expressions he was now donning.
He instead found Ussop and Chopper sweatdropping as they stared at him. He was going to ask at how they could be so cruel when he noticed Greycie was still shaking. He slowly walked over to her and crouched down to meet eye level with her.
"Greycie are you ok" Luffy asked worriedly.
Greycie who's body was shaking more than ever, shook her head frantically and quickly threw her arms around Luffy's neck.
"I want to go back to the ship" Greycie whispered as she buried her face into his shoulder. Luffy's face dropped and he quickly picked the child up and wrapped his arms around her.
"Oii guys were leaving now" That was all that needed to be said and the group was off heading towards the dock. They walked in silence until Luffy murmured something about Chopper holding the sleeping Greycie.
"I think she's cold" Luffy commented while handing the child to Chopper who now morphed to Beast form. Chopper's eyesbrows rose when he felt the child shivering in his arms. He quickly pressed the child closer to his fur.
"Damn the crew is going to tear us a new one" Ussop fearfully said as he stared at Greycie who still had a faint red covering her. That was the last thing the trio said as they hurried to the docks.
When the Thousand Sunny was in sight a quiet voice broke the silence.
"Can we not tell everyone what happened please" Greycie whispered as she turned her head away from Chopper's fur.
The trio looked at each other before Luffy nodded his approval.
"We will just say that we were in the wrong place at the wrong time" Chopper added.
"That doesnt sound like a good enough lie, we should say the great Captain Ussop was in the midst of a vicious battle whe-
"Oi is that you Ussop" A female voice rang with authority.
"Damn it Nami is there, alright we will make it simple we will say we were in the wrong place in the wrong time. Yeah that sounds good lets go" Ussop said and led his way up to the Sunny's gangplank with a sweatdropping Chopper trailing him.
The trio knew they were in trouble when Nami's eyes grew wide with shock then squinted with anger. They all flinched when Nami started yelling at them on what the hell is that red shit on Greycie.
~~~~This is a breaker dont mind it just keep on reading, DONT LOOK AT THIS~~~~~
Greycie was in warm pajamas and was now red dye free as she followed Nami into the Boys room. Though the two tried to be quiet while walking in but, Zoro's eyes immediately opened by the sound of the doorknob turning. He decided to keep the visual of him sleeping and he watched as Greycie walked in followed shortly by Nami. He looked closely at Greycie and noticed with a relief that she was no longer shaking. He was waiting for her to head over to her bed that happened to be right next to his hammock.
He hated to admit it but he missed the child sleeping in his arms but ever since her past was revealed her nightmares were no longer a problem. She insisted that she slept in the bed that Franky made for her. Zoro guessed that she probably felt guilty that she hardly slept in was now making up for it as she slept everynight in it and everytime before drifting off to sleep commenting on how this bed was so listened to her footsteps as she walked on the wooden floor and the sound of the sheets being pulled. Reassured she was safe in her bed Zoro closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
It felt like he barely closed his eyes when a high pitch scream erupted in his ears and he was sure everyone on the ship heard it. Hell even Franky might have heard that high scream and he was in the crows nest right now. Zoro turned to the source of the scream and he found himself staring at Ussop's hammock and a red faced sharpshooter. Right after the scream another person screamed, then a third one, and finally a fourth one. Zoro found himself going in a circle as he stared from Ussop's to Chopper, then Luffy's, and then there was a scream right next to his ear. Growing tired of the earsplitting screams Zoro decided more volume wouldn't hurt.
"Everybody shut the hell u-" Zoro's yell never finished as a fist hammered the back of his head and he found himself face down on the floor with a large bump forming on his head.
"What the hell is going on" Nami screamed at the men and Greycie.
"Ah a Zombie" Chopper and Ussop screamed together.
"The meat" Luffy screamed.
"Ahh a skeleton...oh wait thats me Yohoho skull joke" Nobody laughed at Brooke's joke.
"Zombies...meat" Sanji questioned as he lit a cigarette. This cigarette was snatched away and thrown to the floor by a blossoming arm. Sanji turned to Robin and smiled with chibi hearts in his eyes.
"Robin-swan is so kind to care about Greycis's health"
"Alright guys what really happened tonight and if you lie again I will charge each of you night watch this entire week.
The room was suddenly quiet and the crew waited for an answer. The seconds dragged on and Nami was getting impatient.
"We watched a zombie movie and now were a little bit afraid I guess" Greycie quietly said her head down in shame.
"That still doesnt explain why you had red stuff on you, or why you were shaking"
"They threw fake blood at the ending of the movie and we were the lucky ones who got covered in it" Greycie explained again
She quickly turned to Robin and quickly changed the subject. "Hey Robin do you think we can have a giant sleepover, you know just to make sure no one gets their brains eaten by zombies"
Robin chuckled softly and looked at the four pair of fearful eyes.
"I believe that is reasonable. Cook-san would it be possible to make coffee and hot chocolate"
Sanji immediately sprang up and hurried to the kitchen "Of course Robin-swan anything for a lovely lady"
Robin walked to Greycie's bed and made herself comfortable. Picking the child up she put her in her lap and wrapped her arms around her.
Greycie felt her throat tighten and pressed her face into Robin's neck.
Don't cry, Don't cry Don't cry Greycie screamed in her head. The movie ran through her mind and she found herself closing her eyes to stop the moisture that was coming in her eyes.
The sound of the door opening and Sanji entering made Greycie stop thinking of the movie. She took the mug of hot chocolate with a smile and a thank you. Having the warm mug in her hands she couldn't help but shiver. Thankfully these chills only lasted one time unlike the past ones.
She felt Robins grip on her tighten and she tried not glance up at her. Instead she rested her head on the historians chest and let her heavy eyelids close.
With everyone drinking and laughing no one caught the look that Robin gave to Zoro. Nobody noticed their gaze fall on Greycie . Zoro looked away and found the three he was looking for.
"Oi you three each give me 10 bellis now" Zoro ordered at the guilty trio.
"What for" Luffy asked.
"Im taking this kid to the movies tomorrow so she actually knows what movies are supposed to be like"
"What about us" Ussop questioned.
"Be tough and get over it" Zoro paused before continuing and looking at Chopper.
"Oi you wanna come Chopper"
Chopper grew red in the face with embarrassment of the invitation "Hell no you bastard, Im tough no zombies are going to scare me"
"What the hell do you mean there's only one movie being played tonight" Zoro growled
"Sir like I said three times already due to the horror flick we showed yesterday we are now showing a G rated film"
Zoro looked at the movie poster which was covered in pink, flowers and, in the middle of it a horse with a horn on its forehead. Zoro felt like slashing the poster with his swords in two but turned to Greycie instead.
"So Grey does this look good to you"
Greycie looked at the poster and her face was filled with disbelief. She tried to pull off a smile but failed horribly. Giving up the act she looked at Zoro.
"Zoro I really really dont want to watch this" She practically begged.
Zoro smirked and brought out the 30 bellis he had.
"How bout me and you get some sake and ice cream"
Greycie smiled and followed him to the crowded streets.
Two bottles of Sake and three ice cream cones later found Zoro and Greycie on top of a building roof and staring at the ocean. They sat there in comforting silence each thinking over their own thoughts. Zoro stole a glance at Greycie and decided to ask what was bothering him.
"So Greycie are you going to tell me why you were so upset over that movie" Zoro asked as he took a sip of the wine bottle he just opened.
"I was afraid of the zombie-" she replied a little to quickly.
"Your lying" Zoro cut her off. "Grey you dont have to hide anything anymore, if your not careful this can really hurt you in the end" Zoro stopped to look at Greycie and waited.
Greycie began to fidgit and Zoro could tell she was thinking about what was bothering her. She began to wring her hands together and tears began to fall down her face. She tried to talk but the words wouldn't come out. She took a deep breath and thought about what she wanted to say.
She was sitting between Luffy and Chopper watching the movie and everynow and then jumping in fright. She watched the film never once taking her eyes off the screen. The scene changed and showed a man with his daughter who was coloring inside the kitchen. The man was making breakfast for his daughter while whistling joyfully. The daughter hummed along both seemed to be so happy. The hero of the movie walked in the house and warned the family of the zombies that were attacking. The man shooed the boy away with his nonsense but the boy yelled the mans name.
"Ray look outside your window"
Ray. Ray just like her father. Her father that sold her for a fake devil fruit.
Fruit. That was what the little girl was munching on while watching her father frantically pack vital items. There was a sound of broken glass and the trio looked up to see Zombies in their house and coming towards them. A futile chase began but the whole time Greycie stared at the father named Ray. He scooped up his daughter and fled with the hero right behind them. They ran but didnt make it to far. They were quickly surrounded and needed a distraction desperately. The man looked at his daughter with loving eyes and kissed her forehead. He then made a love filled speech on how his daughter was going to be something in the world. "Lucy I love you more than you will ever know" was the last thing the father said before he flung her and the hero away. The Zombies attacked and all was heard was Ray's screams.
Greycie couldn't remember much what happened after that part in the movie. She just had this sick feeling in her stomach that she couldn't shake off. She felt tears falling down but thankfully the room was dark so no one saw her tears. She just sat there letting the sick uneasy feeling eat her away. Greycie couldn't stop thinking about her Ray. Her man that she shared DNA with. She couldn't think, she couldn't move, she couldn't even breathe. Feeling scared she was about to call for help when something cold was splashed onto her. She welcomed the unfamiliar feeling as it brought her attention back to reality. The feeling faded but didn't disappear.
"Zoro my dad...my dad didnt love me" Greycie finally choked out as tears began to fall in steady pace. Her throat was tight and now her nose was runny. She covered her eyes and brought her knees in.
"He sold me...my own father sold me. He doesnt even know If Im alive and... and.." Greycie continued without any force.
"He killed me" She said quietly now with no emotion. She said it if it was rather a fact.
Greycie felt those familiar strong arms around her and leaned into them. The feeling of safety she always had in those arms, they were like a drug. A drug she couldn't get enough of. She let the arms carry her into Zoro's lap and she felt Zoro's chin on her head. They sat there for a while. Zoro listening to Greycies sobs hoping they would die down while Greycie listened to Zoros heart hoping it would never stop. Zoro shifted and placed a hand on his swords on his side. He closed his eyes and mentally sighed. Greycie didn't feel the shift, she was slowly falling asleep. The sick feeling she had was slowly sinking. Greycie tried to bury the unwanted feeling as far as she could.
She was about to think about it again when a sharp pain shot through her body. It wasnt painful more like uncomfortable. It lasted for a few seconds but gradually disappeared. Feeling it disappear she sighed and added another problem to her mental list. She was a little bit afraid of how it was growing.
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