One Piece Fan Fiction ❯ Blind Remembrance of Love ❯ Chapter 3

Hey everyone again. Well… not much to say to start this off, so… Enjoy!

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Chapter 3

 

Thousand Sunny and the Strawhat Crew looked at the creature with red glowing eyes and a huge body that was able to barricade them from escaping.

 

“WE'RE GOING TO DIE!!” Usopp cried.

 

“DIE!” Chopper cried as well.

 

“What the hell is that thing?!” Sanji said, slightly freaked, seeing the creature was as big as the largest Sea King.

 

“It's a type of fish, right?!” Nami asked Robin.

 

“I'm not sure…” Robin admitted. “But if it lived in the depths of the ocean, then it should be a fish if it could survive in water.”

 

Luffy and Zoro looked at the creature.

 

“If it's from the water, its food.” Luffy said as he rolled his shoulders.

 

Zoro smirked as he tied a black bandana around his head. “Like it sliced or diced?” He joked.

 

The young captain smiled a smile that screamed of `come-and-try-to-get-me'. “Does it really matter?”

 

The older teen chuckled as he grabbed his two swords and placed the third in his mouth between his teeth. “Going to be like that, huh?”

 

“How else?” The captain said as the creature seemed to be closing in to strike the ship in half. “Gomu Gomu no…!” He started to call when his first mate held onto him for the attacking strike. “Rocket!” He shot out his arms and both of them waited until the young boy got a hold of one of the nostrils of the creature, making it pause its previous action, and both shot towards it. “It's a bit slick!” He informed as he had to dig his fingernails into the inner nostrils to keep hold of the grip.

 

“Just hang on!” Zoro said as he positioned for an attack. “Oni…! Giri!” He called out as hard to see slashes, almost as fast as the speed of sound, only to look confused. “What the-!?” He said as he saw that the creature showed no signs of pain as they headed to the forehead of the creature.

 

When they did land on the creature, just like Luffy mentioned, the creature's skin was very slick and both nearly slipped off the creature's head.

 

The swordsman managed to use one of his swords to pin onto the monster's skin to keep him from falling further. “Luffy!” He called, only to see two rubbery arms around him and felt an impact a moment later.

 

“That was close!” The young captain said as he took a deep breath and laughed, causing the first mate to sigh. “Sanji!!” He called towards the ship. “This thing's skin is slippery! Almost like a snail's ooze!”

 

“What do you want me to do about it?!” The pirate chef called back. “You and that stupid Marimo-head are doing a fantastic job!”

 

“GO TO HELL!!” Zoro called as he seemed to develop fangs. He tried to slash the creature with his one sword in his hand, but it seems that the creature's head was too slick for a sword to even penetrate. `What the hell?!'

 

“Don't you have something so that we won't slip off this thing!” Luffy called.

 

“How should I know!” Sanji responded. “I'm no expert on live fish unless I'm cooking it!”

 

Nami, slightly hysterical about being killed, grabbed the cook by the collar and yelled. “YOU BETTER THINK UP A WAY TO KILL THAT THING, OR I WOULD NEVER FORGIVE YOU!”

 

Sanji, not wanting to disappoint a lady, went right to work for finding `anything' to make the monster not so slippery.

 

Zoro growled in frustration about the creature, which still showed no signs of pain, in fact he's starting to think that the thing isn't doing anything about it just to piss him off! He looked at Luffy, who had a good grip on him so he wouldn't fall. “Luffy! Head back to the ship!” He said.

 

“Huh? Why?!” Luffy whined.

 

“If something happens, I probably won't be able to save you! You're far too important to have anything happen to you at this point!”

 

Luffy looked at his first mate in mild shock. “Zoro…”

 

“Please! Just head back to the ship! I'll deal with this thing!”

 

The young captain never backed down from a fight, but he also knows not to be involved in other fights that are not his to begin with. “Don't fall!” Was all he could say when he stretched his arm back to the crow's nest.

 

“Not planning to!” The older teen called as his captain went back.

 

Nami looked for Chopper, who unfortunately is passed out. `Dammit!' She thought. `His scope would be useful at this point! If only he had footing…' That's when a light bulb turned on in her head. “Robin! Do you think you could give Zoro a footing long enough till Sanji gets here?”

 

Robin nodded as she crossed her arms with her hands out and palms up. “Cien Flux!” She called out.

 

Zoro knew he wasn't getting anywhere with just trying to slice the damn fish-monster open. He felt something under his feet and saw hands appear. He grinned as he managed to get his other sword out. “Thanks Robin!” He called as he tried to do some three-sword style combos.

 

Sanji came out with a sack filled with salt. “Will salt do?”

 

“That's all you can think of!?” Nami said as she seemed to grow fangs as well.

 

“Luffy said that the shitty thing is slippery like a sail, so I thought if that's so then we would put salt on the skin and give the shitty swordsman some footing.” The love-cook reasoned.

 

“Sounds like a sound plan…” Nami said calmly before shouting. “But it lives in the ocean! Salty water!”

 

“Then the stupid swordsman better make a good size cut so that we could put salt on and it could shrivel up.”

 

Nami thought that plan was somewhat reasonable enough and shouted. “Zoro! You have to get a good cut to that thing!”

 

“Would you shut up and let me do this!” Zoro shouted when the creature moved as if to dive, and looks as though it was going to take the ship with it.

 

“Certain Death: Blinding Flare!” Usopp called as he used his huge sling-shot and a pellet exploded, causing the monster to move away.

 

“Usopp! You saved us!” Franky said as he tried to maintain the ship's balance.

 

“Yeah…” Usopp said, slightly shaking.

 

While the monster moved its head, the swordsman had an idea and leaped and put two tips of his swords together, as he came down, and harshly thrusted the combined swords to the side to the monsters forehead, which cause some of the creature's skin to finally break! `Finally!'

 

The creature must've felt it, for it started to shake its head and its motions caused the ship to rock violently about.

 

Nami screamed as well as the two young members of the crew. Franky, who was about to finish a cannon to shoot the salt onto the monster, went back to the wheel and tried to control the ship. Sanji, who dropped the sack of salt, went over to Nami and Robin, who lost concentration, and said something that was anything but reassuring. Luffy, seeing the salt sack, stretched his arm to grab it and waited to see where Zoro was. When he did, he took a chance and shot over. “Zoro!” He called, gaining the other's attention.

 

“Dammit Luffy!” Zoro said as he reached out a hang to grab to Luffy's as he came. “I told you to stay on the ship!”

 

Luffy just laughed as he arrived with the first mate's help, nearly slipping again and dropped the sack, which opened on top of the wound. “Uh oh…”

 

“What do you mean `uh oh'!” Zoro called out.

 

The monster wailed a frightful, inhuman cry as it shook and wiggled in pain.

 

Zoro held onto the young captain last to him as he quickly sheathed his two swords: one from his hand and the other from his mouth, and braced with the monster's rampage.

 

The creature, wanting to get the object of its pain off its head, straightened itself before doing a nose dive towards the water.

 

“HOLD ON!” Zoro called as Luffy yelled and held onto the swordsman as they crashed into the water.

 

“Luffy! Zoro!” Nami called as she and the others were on the side of the ship, waiting and watching for any sign.

 

Then they saw bubbles surface, followed by Zoro and Luffy.

 

“Zoro!” Robin called. “Luffy! Are you both okay?!”

 

Zoro coughed some water before answering. “Yeah! Just peachy!”

 

The older woman seemed to relax a little.

 

“Someone get Luffy!” The swordsman said as he swam to the side of the ship, which hands started to appear. He handed the young captain to the hands, which brought him up, and started to swim out to open waters a little ways.

 

“Where'd you think you're going Zoro?!” Usopp asked.

 

“That thing has my sword!” The first mate said.

 

“You stupid or something!?” Sanji called.

 

“Shut up crap cook!”

 

“What was that!?” If it wasn't for Franky and Usopp, Sanji would've jumped and try to beat the swordsman up.

 

“Sanji has a point!” Nami yelled. “We could get another sword!”

 

“This one happens to be important to me!”

 

“More important than your life!? That's stupid!” The chef yelled.

 

The swordsman glared when Luffy came to the side of the ship.

 

“Luffy!” Nami said. “Tell Zoro that this is stupid and get him back on the ship so we can get out of here!”

 

Luffy crossed his arms and, for a moment, looked older. “Zoro…” He said, making everyone wait in anticipation. “Come back alive, okay!? Captain's orders!”

 

“NANI!?!” The crew on the ship were dumbstrucked while the first mate grinned.

 

“Aye, aye, Captain!” He said as he dived.

 

Luffy smiled and readjusted his hat, before being hit by Nami.

 

“LUFFY! DID YOU NOT SEE THAT THING!? HE'S GOING TO GET KILLED!!” She screamed as she shook the rubber man the entire time.

 

“But Nami~!” Luffy said. “Zoro's not going to die!”

 

“HOW WOULD YOU KNOW!?”

 

“I just know.” He said simply as he received a few rounds of beatings from the hot-headed navigator.

 

“You're so stupid Luffy!” She said as she stomped off, leaving the disordered captain.

 

Franky looked from the navigator to the captain. “So… what should we do?”

 

“We wait for Zoro.” Luffy said as he dusted himself off.

 

“Uh… Luffy Are you sure about that I mean…” Franky continued when Sanji cut in.

 

“His sense of direction is as great as your ability to swim.”

 

Luffy looked at the two. “But I don't swim, you guys should know that.”

 

Everyone sighed.

 

“That's our point.” Usopp said. “How are we supposed to wait for him if he gets lost himself?”

 

Luffy took on a thoughtful expression. “We'll wait for a signal then.”

 

“AND WHAT'S THAT!” The guys, including Nami, called out.

 

“What's what?”

 

“THE SIGNAL!!”

 

The young captain shrugged. “I don't know.” He said as if it's not a big deal.

 

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT!?”

 

The young captain ignored them and watched out the sea. “We won't move until something happens, and that's final!”

 

Everyone looked at their captain solemnly until Sanji broke the silence.

 

“Fine! We'll wait for the stupid Marimo!” He said as he walked to one part of the ship and sat down, lighting a cigarette.

 

Everyone else was doing the same, wondering what will happen while they were waiting.

 

Robin watched the young man of a captain, and she saw how much his hands fumbled and how his eyes were focused on the sea. She had a theory, but decided to test it at a more decent time.

 

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