The trouble with truth is that it never lies
And the trouble with wrong that its never right
So I rest my head onto your light
The trouble with peace is that it never fights
And the trouble with love that its always blind
-thousand foot krutch, home
Brook began to explain that he had already previously died but thanks to the yomi yomi fruit he had come back to life, much to the amazement of luffy and to the disbelief of the others.
"Neh eve can't you cast some spell to restore brook or use your devil fruit?"Usopp asked only for nami to whack him across the head.
"Ah, gomen, I-I don't think I can do s-s-omething like that… I could check my b-books but" she frowned, saddened at not being able to be sadness seemed to piss off most of the others, who glared at usopp for asking such a stupid question.
"And I can't r-restore things with my devil fruit, I w-would have to go back in time-"
"YOU CAN TIME TRAVEL?!" they all gaped at the redhead
"Ah, w-well maybe, but I-i think I really don't know…gomenasai brook-san"The eccentric swordsman shook his head
"Its fine eve-san, I would cry at you generosity but I have no eyes….YOHOHOHO SKULL JOKE!" eve laughed slightly and zoro couldn't help but narrow his eyes in annoyance. How was it that she was scared of him, but was perfectly fine with a skeleton with an afro.
Eve smiled at the skeleton but she couldn't help but feel a great sadness surrounded him, something she didn't think he would seriously share with them, he would even joke about it, maybe to try and cover up the raw pain.
She was snapped out of her musings when everyone around her yelled vampire and suddenly zoro was in front of her, his hand edging towards his sword
Brook didn't appear in the mirror name held and usopp then pointed out he didn't have a shadow.
Her eyes widened and she felt her eyes go blank once more as her devil fruit showed her what lay ahead of them. She saw a large man laughing, and then that image flashed to him holding a shadow she couldn't quite make out. Lastly she saw a hoarde of strange creatures covered in stitching and then an even greater creature red in colour with huge horns. It was a creature from nightmares.
"BROOK SCARED EVE TO DEATH!"
"AH SHE WAS ONLY HERE A WEEK! WHY DID IT END THIS WAY!"
"EVE!"
Blinking she realised that all of her nakama were watching her, worry across their had been shaking her, his large hand on her shoulder had snapped her out of her vision.
"Ah gomen!"Eve sqeaked, lowering her head, to hide her had only been here a week and she was already making a fool out of herself.
"Eve-san, were you perhaps having a vision of some sort"Eve looked up surprised "Well I remember you mentioning it beforehand" Robin continued, looking at eve with her usual motherly concern.
"Ojou-chan, what exactly is your devil fruit powers?" Brook asked
"Oh, I ate the jai-jai fruit.i can see the past or future and manipulate time…"She looked at the skeleton with unease, hoping he wouldn't be scared of seemed to notice this and instead burst out laughing
"YOHOHOHO, ojou-chan, I am not afraid, as I'm a skeleton after all! But what did you see?"Eve paused…
"I saw… a large man taking someones shadow, and strange creatures covered in stitches…"She hesitated as the image of the large creature she had if sensing her hesitation zoro frowned
"And?"Eve clenched her fists.
"And a large red creature, that is so big, it is probably bigger than a giant…everything just felt… like death"Her face had gone pale…What sort of creatures awaited them? They were all silent.
"The man that you saw taking shadows, is the reason I no longer have a shadow"brook began, breaking the silence that had briefly settled around them.
He went on to explain that without his shadow he could not go into the sun as well as his loneliness of being left alone on that felt tears brim in her herself had been lonely in that house till she met snow but still, for his nakama to have died and for him to have been alone for 50 years…She could only imagine the pain he felt. But she felt a great respect for brook that despite his hardships he was still cheerful.
"You were the one who requested that I become your nakama.I was truly happy! Thank you so much"He bowed in gratitude, and luffy laughed in happiness,However when brook refused and explained that if he joined them he would perish, Luffy lost his laughter and slammed his hands onto the table in his anger
"What sort of lame-ass attitude is that?! If your shadow is needed, I will recover it" When brook, though touched by luffy's kindess, wouldn't give out the mans name, usopp turned to eve
"Neh eve, you saw the guy taking shadows right? Do you know who he is?"Eve sadly shook her head
"No, I afraid I don't…"Nami growled
"BAKA!How is eve supposed to know? She lost her memory and she was on that island"Usopp held up his arms in surrender from the orange haired banshee
"Geez nami I was just asking!"He turned to eve "Sorry Eve…"Eve smiled
"It's okay usopp…"Usopp blushed slightly but then stopped when he felt a deathly glare from behind him…Had he somehow pissed off Zoro again? Nami and Robin shared a knowing look and smiled. Zoro was hilarious, and knowing how dense he was he probably didn't even realise why he was acting the way he was. Just as Brook was about to play them a song after revealing he was a musician he screamed as and fell to the floor
"Oye! What happened? What's wrong?" Brook simply stuttered
"G-g-ghost!"
The ghost appeared and then soon disappeared and everything began to rattle and the strawhats soon realised they were at thriller bark…A place that eve had foreseen before she had even met brook. It was a place that reeked with death and decay…
Once they had arrived at thriller bark, brook left after advising them to leave and currently they were deciding what exactly they should do as nami, usopp and chopper had gone missing. However when the anchor suddenly dropped, Snow began to growl.
"Eh snow? Whats wrong?"Eve asked softly only for the hatch to open on the deck.
"Did you go near that?"Zoro asked, eyeing sanji who shook his head
Eve gasped as she noticed that her captain's cheeks had been stretched, and she could only watch as this invisible beast toyed with them. And then she felt something grab her around the waist and snow went flying into the corner of the ship
"Eeek!"All attention turned to eve who was now hovering in the air
"EVE-SWAN!" she felt large hands travelling up to her chest and something on her neck. And then a sharp pain erupted from her neck.
Luffy felt his anger rise as blood dripped down her neck from the mysterious creature and Zoro gritted his teeth.
"Bastard y-"He paused as he noticed that eve had her eyes closed and was muttering under her breath and suddenly she began to emit a bright light, like that of the sun.
The figure dropped her with an angry growl, and then perhaps fled leaving the crew both angry and ran over to eve who was standing up and holding her bloody neck
"i-i-it was a vampire ghost! SUGOI!"
"BAKA!"He turned to eve. "Eve-swan are you okay? I am so sorry I didin't stop that beast from sucking and biting your sweet neck" Eve laughed nervously
"I-its f-fine s-sanji-kun…"Sanji however interrupted her
"No, I insist let me see your neck"He reached out towards her neck only for an elbow to block his hand…
Eve looked at Zoro slightly confused…
"Go drop the anchor hoge" Sanji was now slightly red
"Urusai!" yet he still did as he was told, even if he felt that Zoro was acting weird, but then he simply thought that he was a marimo. He was always acting weird.
Zoro then turned to Eve, but mostly at the wound on her neck and he cursed about how their doctor was currently missing and instead he simply grabbed her by the elbow and dragged her to the medical bay.
"Neh, is Zoro sick?"Luffy wondered outloud, only for robin to had caught an illness alright, and his only cure was eve.
Eve didn't exactly know what to say, as zoro tended to the wound on her neck, with a gentleness that both of them didn't know he possessed.
"A-ano, I'm r-really fine z-z-oro so u-um"
"Urusai"He snapped, wiping her neck with a damp cloth. He was angry, eve noted, and she couldn't help but think that it was her doing.
"Um, I'm s-s-orry i-if I a-angered you z-zoro"Zoro frowned at this, he wasn't angry at was angry with couldn't even protect his nakama, but then again, using the word nakama with eve felt werid, like she should be something else…But Zoro put it down to her being fairly new to the ship
"I ain't angry at you idiot…"He paused "Did that thing hurt you anywhere else?" eve shook her head, though she shuddered slightly
"No but… i-t f-felt d-disgusting, a-and his h-hands…"She held her stomach and looked repulsed slightly. Zoro narrowed his eyes…Not only had that thing bit her… it had touched her as well?!Without thinking, our swordsman grabbed eve and put her in his lap, his hands wrapped loosely around her waist. Eves began to stutter as he face once again reddened
"Z-Z-Zoro? W-what are you-"
"What? I'm replacing his hands with mine. It ain't so disgusting now is it?" Oblivious, he didn't notice the inner turmoil of the girl in his hands. She wasn't sure that the feeling of butterflies in her stomach was a good replacement for the disgust she had previously felt. Though she found that she felt safe in his strong arms, a feeling she couldn't remember feeling before and her heart was pounding so fast she thought she would surely die.
"If you still feel disgusted I could do the same to your neck?" Though Zoro was generally trying to help his nervous nakama he couldn't help but like what he was doing as he lowered his head towards her pale tender neck. As he got closer she could feel his breath as well as his lips hovering just above her neck…
"OI YOU TOO COMING?"And with that the moment was broken at the sound of Luffys voice, and as eve scuttled away, red faced with a feeling a hint of disappointment, Zoro couldn't help but curse to himself.
The world just seemed to be against him these days…