A/N : Longer chapter for you! ALSO I am considering adding some LAWLU in this story, please let me know what you think about that!
Somehow Luffy and the others had convinced this giant man called 'Brownbeard' to carry us to the other side of the island, honestly I would prefer to be walking as it would warm me up. After spending my two years on such a warm island the cold was a major shock and I didn't know if my body was reacting well.
"There's someone over there!" Robin spoke up and we all looked in front of us, seeing a tall figure standing in the snow. As we got closer the man started to seem familiar to me, and I was about to ask if we knew him when Luffy jumped off Brownbeard and bounded over to the strange man.
"Torao! It's me," he stated excitedly.
The man looked at Luffy, clearly memories of some kind were rushing in, "Straw-hat Ya," he replied after a moment.
That weird nickname...this was one of the guys from Saboady two years ago wasn't he? One of the 'super rookies.' We reached both of them and I hopped off, taking a good look at the new face. He had a beanie covering his head, but his face was dark and held a sense of mystery to it. Along with that the long sword he carried gave the impression that he was a cold hearted killer - and what girl doesn't like a bad boy?
"Hey there," I said, taking the silence as a opportunity to introduce myself. For two years all I had was ugly male cross-dressers, lately I've had the honour of re-meeting such hotties!
"Hello, you must be part of Straw-Hat's crew," he replied calmly.
I nodded, "I'm Sanji."
I couldn't quite remember this mans name, so I was hoping he'd give it to me. "I'm Law," he said. Before I could talk to this sexy man any more, Luffy interrupted us.
"I'm surprised to see you here! Thanks for everything you did before," he smiled. Luffy thanking people? That's a bit out of character.
"No need to thank me, I just did it on the spur of the moment," Law replied.
Luffy grinned, "I have something to ask you-"
"Go to the back of the research facility, there you will find what you are looking for."
Luffy opened his mouth to respond, but cries to our right stopped him. "Marines," Zoro spoke the obvious and he made his way back to Brownbeard. "Luffy, let's get out of here."
Luffy seemed reluctant to leave his old friend, but he began to turn back. I was annoyed that we had to leave without getting to know this Law guy better, but then again I didn't feel like having to fight a bunch of Marines either.
As I started to go back, my eyes fell upon a body in the snow. Curiosity won and I made my way over to him to get a look at who it was.
"Is that..." Luffy's voice rang out from behind me.
"Smoker!" I called back, noticing the man seemed to be fully unconscious. My eyes travelled to his rugged face and I smirked, he wasn't bad looking either. Although I did prefer Law's badass demeanour.
"Come on Sanji, we have to go!" Luffy yelled and I raced over to Brownbeard, jumping back on our ride. Luffy waved to Law as we began to retreat.
"I'm sure we'll see each other again on this island!" he called out with a wide smile.
As I took a seat next to Zoro, I pondered on how Luffy might know this pirate. "Luffy how come you're thanking that guy?" I asked, wanting to know more about the cutie.
Luffy grinned even wider, "after the war he treated my wounds and saved my life," he spoke, running his hand along the scar on his chest. There was a few nods, but no one spoke as we continued in the direction of the large building which had to be the research facility Law was talking about. As we entered the large building, familiar voices and cries were heard from ahead of us and soon enough the rest of our crew appeared, running towards us along with some giant children behind them.
"Usopp! Chopper! Nami! Franky! Brook!" Luffy yelled out happily as we all got off Brownbeard's back to reunite with our crew. But as we got closer, I noticed something seemed strange about them. I also got a good look around the inside of the building, and it seemed to be destroyed by explosives or bombs or something.
"What's up guys!" Luffy asked as we stood facing the crew.
"What's up?" Nami asked but with a strangely deeper voice. "Some freak has swapped our bodies that's what's up!" From beside her Usopp nodded frantically.
Luffy's eyes widened, "wow really? that's so cool!" he said.
"Why don't we go through who is who then," Robin spoke. Everyone seemed to agree with this and so the five of them began going around in a circle stating who they were.
"I'm Usopp," Nami's body spoke first.
"I'm Nami," Franky replied.
"I'm Chopper," Franky said.
"and I am Franky," Chopper's body said.
"It seems my body has not been switched with anyones," Brook stated.
We all just looked at them, feeling very confused and I was still unable to tell them apart.
"I'll make mini-masks for us!" Nami stated, who I assumed was Usopp. "Give me like five minutes."
We all seemed to agree with his idea, and I turned to face Zoro who was leaning against the side of the building, fast asleep. This guy really needs to pay more attention. As Usopp busied himself with creating some masks, I made my way over to Zoro and knelt in front of him. Wanting to get a reaction out of him, I moved my hand but before I could touch him, Zoro's large hand was grasping mine and his left eye opened.
"What do you think you're doing?" he asked sleepily.
"I was just trying to wake you up, you might miss something important if you're sleeping all the time," I replied calmly. The swordsman didn't seem impressed with my answer, and instead just turned his head away from me. "Someone's moody," I commented with a smirk.
Zoro scoffed, "I am not moody I'm just tired, let me sleep ero-cook."
I waved my finger, "Not happening." Zoro looked defeated at this, but he didn't speak. "I wonder where that Law dude went, he should come keep me company since all you do is sleep."
At this a vein popped in Zoro's forehead. "What's with you fawning all over him anyways?" he asked curiously. "He's a pirate as well, which means he is technically our enemy."
I couldn't help but giggle at this, "but he was like super hot don't you think?"
"No."
Getting an idea on how to piss him off even more, I sat next to him. "Don't tell me you're jealous Zoro-kun?" I asked sweetly. "If you want my attention all you have to do is ask you know," I continued and ran my finger down his muscular arm.
"Why would I be jealous of him?" Zoro replied and swatted my hand away.
I shrugged. The rest of the crew were talking, but honestly I was happier just sitting next to Zoro. As my eyes began to droop I realised how cold my body still was, and that I hadn't stopped shaking since we got out of that icy water. Zoro was always so warm it was like the cold didn't affect him. As tiredness overcame me I let my head fall onto Zoro's shoulder.
"Wake up Shitty Cook!"
Why was this asshole waking me up, I'm so comfortable I could sleep forever.
"Wake up before I punch you," the aggravating voice continued and so I reluctantly opened my eyes.
"What do you want Zoro?" I asked, wanting to drift off again.
An arm tugged me up into a standing position and I groaned, "I can't believe you of all people are telling me to wake up."
Zoro scoffed, "everyone's gone and we are supposed to watch Brownbeard, find this guy's torso and wait for the rest of the crew to return with some candies for the children or something," he said.
"That doesn't make any sense." I commented. "Plus why can't we be going with them?"
"Because you were asleep and they couldn't wake you up," the green haired swordsman replied in a serious tone. "Chopper said something about you having first degree frostbite - why didn't you tell us you were practically freezing to death?" he asked, his tone raising in velocity and volume.
Looking down I noticed my skin was a light blue and it was completely numb, "were you worried about me? that's cute," I commented, trying to lift his mood.
"Now because of you I have to stay here and be bored," he said, my joke not working. "If you had just let go of your pride for a second we wouldn't be here and we would be with the rest of the crew," he said, clearly extremely annoyed.
Okay, now he's just being a dick for no reason.
"If anyone needs to let go of their pride it's you," I said, ripping my arm out of his grasp. Ignoring the Shitty Swordsman I walked over to the legs, who were now attached to a head. "Where is your torso?" I asked him, trying to finish this up quickly so I could go kick some people.
"I'm not quite sure, but it is somewhere cold and wet," he replies in a gruff voice.
"Don't tell me it's in that icy river?" I asked, dreading having to go back in that water to retrieve it.
"Yes! That must be where it is!" He commented.
Continuing to ignore Zoro, I hop onto Brownbeard and command him to take us outside back to the river. Zoro managed to jump on before we started walking towards the entrance, and i began to ponder why what he said annoyed me so. We used to fight all the time and there's no reason why what he said should affect me like it did.
We arrived at the freezing cold lake, and I jumped off Brownbeard to peer inside of the clear blue water.
"There it is!" The samurai pointed to a shark, which had his torso in it's mouth. ouch.
"You owe me," I grumbled to the head and legs before diving into the cold water once more. I couldn't even feel the cold anymore, which was a good thing. I unleashed a powerful kick onto the shark's chest, which resulted in it releasing the torso and allowing me to grab it. I used my legs to kick and propel me to the surface, pulling myself back onto the ice.
The Samurai tried to take his torso, but I held it. "If you want this we need to do a trade. You give me your coat and I will give you your torso." The Samurai looked annoyed at this, but he nodded.
"I need my body to be attached in order for me to take it off," he said. I hesitantly helped him attach his body, and he ripped off his coat, upholding our agreement.
"Turn around," I spoke to both him and Zoro, and they did. I quickly stripped out of my coat and wrapped the warm, dry one around me. "Okay, what now?" I asked, feeling a lot warmer.
"We need to go back into the lab and try to meet-up with Luffy and the others I guess," Zoro spoke, and his tone showed he was still agitated at me.
"Weren't we supposed to wait for them?" I asked, trying to remember what Zoro had told me when I was half awake.
"If you want to sit there and do nothing for who knows how long, then by all means feel free to do that," he grumbled back.
Arrogant asshole.
We hopped back onto our ride (brownbeard) and he began running back into the lab.
"While you were sleeping you missed a lot," Zoro spoke. "First of all this lab is run by Ceaser Clown who is using innocent kids for his experiments or something," he said. "And Nami convinced Luffy that we need to save them, so they've all run off to beat Ceaser and his minions."
"Okay," I replied.
I wasn't sure where we were supposed to be going, as this research facility was much bigger than I originally thought, but Brownbeard and the Samuri seemed to know where they were going. I was just itching for a fight, firstly because Zoro had pissed me off and I wanted to kick something, and secondly because I hadn't had a good opponent in a long time.
"Black leg Sanji and Roronora Zoro from the Straw Hats," a cold voice spoke. "You might want to hurry and get out of here since Ceaser has released the poisonous gas already, although I won't be letting you run."
Brownbeard stopped running and we noticed a large, lean man standing in front of us. He was quite tall and muscular, with short dark hair and strange horizontal sideburns growing on his cheeks. He wore a knee-high coat which looked incredibly warm, and held an unimpressed expression on his face. Getting the feeling this man would be quite strong, I jumped off Brownbeard and walked closer to the man.
"That's... V-vergo!" Brownbeard shrieked from behind me, clearly scared of the mystery man.
"That woman..." This time it was Zoro who spoke, and I followed his gaze to see a Marine woman who looked vaguely familiar was on the floor, clearly wounded. There were also many other Marine soldiers standing around, and they also looked like they had been fighting this man - who in turn, didn't have a scratch on him.
"You guys go on ahead, I'll catch up," I said. Zoro looked like he was ready to protest, but Brownbeard seemed to be extremely scared of the man, and he took off running as soon as the Marine girl and her subordinates had climbed onto him.
"I should warn you we do not have much time to play around, the gas will be covering this room in a matter of time."
I scoffed, "then I'm going to have to beat you quickly."
Vergo stood tall as he looked me over, and I wasted no time in speeding towards him, positioning my leg for an attack. To my surprise, he lifted his own leg and retaliated. This guy uses his legs too huh?
As he blocked my attack, I realised how much power he had behind his legs. After a few more blocks, I saw an opening and so I launched a fiery attack with my right leg. It hit him in the chin, and he was sent flying backwards into a nearby wall.
Whilst waiting for him to pick himself up, I took the opportunity to light myself a cigarette. Vergo picked himself up and the dust around him cleared - he seemed unharmed by my attack. Many of the marines who were on the ground began to pick themselves up, freak and started running - I turned behind me and noticed there was clouds of purple gas approaching us quickly.
"Black Leg! Hurry up and get out of here - the gates closing!" I turned to face the Marines who were addressing me, and noticed they had gone past a gate and were now starting to close it - most likely to keep the gas out. My attention was brought back to my opponent when he unleashed another kick to me, which I only just managed to block with my own leg. This guy is no pushover, it's like his body is made of iron.
I attacked him once more, but this time he was ready and used Haki to coat his already iron-like body. I wasn't able to stop myself in time, and I unleashed my kick onto his arm - then I heard a crack and felt insane pain in my right leg. This was bad, the bone had to be cracked from that. I didn't have time to ponder on the pain, as he coated his arm and went for a punch, which I jumped to the side to dodge. The Marines continued to shout for me as the gas was getting closer and my eyes were already beginning to sting from the strength of the poison.
"So that's his plan..." Vergo stated before he used his left leg to kick me once more, which I countered with my own left leg. Thankfully the cold had already numbed my right leg, and I could barely feel the broken bone - although it was going to hurt like a bitch later on. Suddenly, in the middle of our attacks, Vergo disappeared and I knew he must be running from the gas himself. Noticing how close it was getting, I swore under my breath and began to run towards the gate - but the view of unconscious Marine soldiers stopped me. Sure, they were the enemy but they were still innocent men getting brutally killed. I hurried over to the two of them and swung them over my shoulder, racing towards the gates just as they closed.
