Hiii Guys c:! So, this is the last Chapter. Thank you so much to all the reviewers, the people who favorited/followed it, and to all the readers in general. I had a good time writing this story, especially since Zoro and Robin are two I ship together. I also had to watch things to write some of this, so credits to the MARVELOUS ODA c:! And would also like to thank my mom for helping me by editing my story and improving it. Thank you very much!

I hope the ending will satisfy you!

This has been fun 8D!

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Zoro's point of view

What's up with this place? The atmosphere…the air…it's all making it hard to breathe.

Luffy…oh crap. This isn't good. My body felt too exhausted. I let Kuma do something to me. Where am I, anyways? Hell? I'm not feeling any pain. I just feel plain tired. I can't movie, either. I wonder if everyone else managed to escape…dammit. And Robin, too. She tried to save me. I have a feeling they all ended up being separated.

Oh, right, I even told her how I felt. It's not like I'm expecting it to turn into anything big, but something inside me was kinda glad it wasn't one sided. The way I said it wasn't too expressing, but I wouldn't have confessed with a bouquet of flowers behind my back and a blushing face. Tch, yeah right. I did consider ignoring it, but I knew better than to do that. We were gonna be on the same ship for, I imagined, a pretty long time and I was aware that what I felt wasn't going to go away. I might as well come clear, I thought. Now…that aside, I need to figure out where I am.

So I turned out to be on a dull island with leafless, dead trees covering it. Buildings had apparently collapsed and rocks were all over the ground. And guess who ended up with me?

That pink-haired-ghost girl named Peruna. Perony? Oh, whatever. She was sent all the way here by Kuma as well, apparently. What fantastic luck.

After being on the island for a while, I got news. Bad news that concerned Luffy's brother, Ace, who was going to be executed. It made me pissed that it happened especially in a time like this, where I wasn't even with him. But then another newspaper arrived on the island a while after the first one, and it had a picture of Luffy holding his hat against his chest, as if praying. But I knew Luffy wouldn't just do that. I kept staring at the picture trying to figure out if there was some kind of message, but it was giving me a hard time.

"Come on!" Ghost-girl wailed. "My hands are tired, do I have to keep holding the newspaper up for you?!"
"There must be something. It can't be just that," I whispered, focusing. After what seemed like hours of me trying to figure it out, I finally understood. We were going to meet up in Sabaody Archipelago in two years. Geez, couldn't he have made it a little easier to understand?

But I agreed with him. We weren't ready to go to the New World yet, and needed to become stronger. There were baboons all over the island that were skilled in using the sword. It would be a good opportunity to fight against them and train.

In the end, that Ghost-girl wasn't the only person I ended up meeting on the island. Apparently, this island was the home of my rival: Dracule Mihawk.

"I'm begging you." I bowed down to my enemy. "Please, train me in the ways of the sword!"

"I've misjudged you, Roronoa," Mihawk replied. "You ask your sworn enemy to teach you? You should be ashamed! Get out of my sight. I have no business with such a worthless man."

"It seems I've overestimated you," he continued. "What are you doing? You're only embarrassing yourself."

"I want to become stronger!" I insisted.

"You failed to beat the baboons and couldn't go out to sea," he said. I heard him pour a drink into his glass cup. "Then you crawled back here. I have nothing to teach one such as you."

Blood dripped down onto the floor. "I did defeat the baboons."

"Now, I just need to take your head!" I told him. "But I'm not so stupid to think I can beat you right now."

"I do not understand," Mihawk said. "If you still consider me your enemy, why do you bow down before me and ask me to train you? For what purpose?!"

I raised my head and looked at him. "So that I can surpass you."

"So you want me to personally train a swordsman who wants to take my own head?" He laughed. "What a strange fellow. How ridiculous! And you are still disgracing yourself."

"It would seem I have found a man truly filled with ambition."

"Hey, Ghost-girl," he said. "Tend to his wounds."

"Hey! Don't tell me what to do!" she snapped.

"The training will begin after your wounds have healed," he announced.

I didn't want to lie in bed and wait until I was recovered. There was absolutely no time to waste. I made my way out of my room and down the stairs, then headed out the door, where Mihawk was.

"No matter how much time we have, it won't be enough," I told him, placing my katana in my mouth and gripping the other two tightly. "Please begin."

"You said you defeated the baboons, right?" he said. "The baboons that have learned various sword techniques by mimicking humans. Of course there are ranks among them, and a master."

He explained to me about what they call the baboon king. He was the baboon who had imitated Mihawk's style, and had a similar sword to his.

"Sounds good," I said, walking towards the baboon king. I stormed at him. "I'll keep getting stronger!"

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Robin's point of view

I ended up on an island covered in snow. There was a countless number of little houses and construction workers. But there was something peculiar about the workers. There were children and old women working. They lifted heavy material, hammered down wooden boards, and did all the work that strong, young people would be capable of. I didn't understand. Men tried capturing me, and it was irritating. Not long after that I ended up in one of the small houses, which was cold and very unwelcoming. A young girl, no older than eight or nine years old was very friendly. She had drawings of places from her imagination and places she heard of.

"Will you tell me about your adventures, please?!" she begged. I smiled at her and nodded. She was very passionate for a girl that age, and I gladly told her about many of the places I'd been to with the crew. She was especially excited about Sky Island.

I was sitting against the wall with a blanket wrapped around me as I talked to her. When she left, I took out the vivre card that had Rayleigh's name on it and watched it move. I longed to see everyone again and hoped they were alright, as I was. I clutched it gently then put it away. I had to find a way back.

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After finding out about Luffy's brother, Ace, I was even more determined to find a way back to Sabaody Archipelago. But not too long after that, there was another newspaper with a picture of our captain. It didn't take me long to understand what he wanted. This was his decision, and I was going to work hard until the day I met them again. He was depending on all of us.

"Aye aye, captain," I said to myself after seeing his picture. Men from the revolutionary army had found me and told me that Monkey D. Dragon, who we found out was Luffy's father back in Water 7, wanted to meet me. I wasn't sure I'd wanted to go with them at the beginning, but in the end it seemed like a good idea.

We got to a ship that was going to take us to Baltigo. We climbed aboard and I slowly made my way to the railing. The weather was very cold, but I didn't mind it too much. After having a little talk with the men I focused my gaze on the horizon. I rubbed my hands against each other and blew into them since there was hardly any feeling left in them.

This is going to be a long journey. I'll become a more dependable person for the sake of my crew. Luffy's decision is wise and I'm happy about it. It's true, we were defeated in Sabaody, but that will only increase our will to become stronger. After all, we have dreams to achieve. Our crew will consist of the Pirate king, the Best Swordsman, a Brave warrior of the sea, a Navigator that drew a map of the world, the Cook that visited the All Blue, the Doctor that can cure any disease, the Shipwright that built the Pirate King's ship, the Musician that lived an impossible number of years and still fulfilled his promise, and the Archeologist that discovered the real history of the world.

The archeologist that has found the people she belonged with. The one that experienced feelings that she had only heard of and read about. And had a person to share those feelings with.

The archeologist…who now has a home to go back to.