One Piece Fan Fiction ❯ Blind Remembrance of Love ❯ Chapter 4

I'm bored, so I'm just going to work on this, okay?

 

Chapter 4

 

After Luffy gave the `order', Zoro set out to find the damned creature of the depths. `Damn!' He thought. `Its pitch black here!' He continued to swim when he heard a low rumble from his left. `That better be it!' He swam towards the sound, only to be heard it from behind him…and closing. He spun around and saw the red eyes. `Found you!' He took out one of his two swords and quickly swam up.

 

His eyes adjusted to the dark now, so he was able to make out some of the creature. HE has no idea if he got the neck, side, or tail, all he knows that his sword went in and he took out his other sword and stabbed again. `Why is it easier to make a wound on this damn thing now then when I was attacking its head?' He thought, but decided to worry about it later as he used his swords to `climb' on the creature without slipping, but then the need of air was crushing on his focus. `Damn! I need air!' He quicken his pace and hopefully find the head. He then saw red eyes up ahead. `Like a beacon.' He went up to the eye on the right side and stabbed it.

 

The creature let out a wail and went up to the surface.

 

Once the creature went up to the surface, Zoro took a couple gasps of air and saw his sword, just sticking out there like a sore thumb on the creature's forehead. “There you are!” He said as he went over and quickly grabbed it. He quickly looked around to see if he could find the ship, and saw that it was about three miles out, and hopped off the creature and started to swim over.

 

The creature stopped and it seemed to contemplate how it was treated. It turned its good eye to the swordsman and saw him as an enemy and its prey. It let out an inhuman cry and charged towards the man.

 

Zoro heard the cry and looked back to see the creature closing in on him. “Oh shit!” He called out as he managed to get one sword out before the creature attempted to swallow him.

 

He jabbed at the roof of the creature's mouth. “You're not eating me alive! You damned thing!” He said. “I still have a goal to fulfill!” The sliced a gash on the inner check. “And I still have to tell Luffy something important!” As he was about to get out of the creature's mouth, something from the back of the creature's throat covered him, and all he knew that his eyes started to sting. He used a two sword technique to bust through the mouth and back to open water.

 

`Shit!' He thought as his eyes were giving him grief. `I have to get to Chopper!' He tried to open his eyes, but that only made it worst. “Fuck!”

 

Unfortunately, having a hard time of seeing was the least of his problems when the creature started a nose dive towards the swordsman.

 

“Over there!” Chopper, now regained conscious, said as he pointed to the creature.

 

Usopp saw it as well as well as Zoro. “What is the idiot doing? He has to get out of there!”

 

“Zoro!” Luffy called out as Usopp prepared a cannon.

 

Zoro heard the others and looked through closed, painful eyes and strained his hearing. “Guys! I can't see! Where are you?!”

 

“The thing's above you!” Nami called as Usopp fired the cannon.

 

The creature was hit dead on the wounded gash on its forehead, but it continued to dive until both it and the swordsman went down into the water.

 

“ZORO!!” Luffy cried out as he was about to jump out to the ocean.

 

“Luffy!” Robin called as she used her DF ability to restrain the rubber boy.

 

“ZORO! YOU BETTER NOT DIE ON ME!!” Luffy cried out as he fought through the restraints of the hands.

 

Meanwhile, Zoro didn't have to guess that the creature was trying to drown him. Even though he couldn't see, he got one of his swords and managed to turn so that he was facing the monster and stabbed it.

 

The creature quickly rear its head upward out of the water and let out a screech of pain, before falling backward back into the water.

 

`If I could only open my eyes!' The swordsman thought as he held onto his sword that was still lodged into the monster's nose. `If this thing won't leave, them I might as well put it out for good!' He unlodged the sword and crawled until he was on top of the nose.

 

Due to the speed the creature was going, he was able to lightly lodge his sword onto the monster again and just slide down along the head, causing a huge cut along the monster's head, going deeper and deeper until only one inch of the katana blade was showing.

 

The creature went up, but this time they were in a cave, and when stone and sword collided, the blade acted like a nail and went through the bone. But the strength of the monster made it go through the ceiling of the cave and back out into the open water.

 

Zoro was hit about five times by rocks, but as he and the dead creature were going down, a huge rock hit the back of the head, like a bullet, and was knocked unconscious.

 

“Over there guys!” Usopp called as everyone saw the creature burst through a small mounts of rock and just laid there, not moving nor breathing.

 

The ship's jets died immediately so the ship wouldn't impact the dead creature and slowed to a halt. Everyone went to the side of the ship and saw the damage.

 

Nami gasped at the sight, Sanji looked shocked, Franky's mouth was open wide of shock, Robin stood and stared at what everyone was looking, Usopp and Chopper had their mouths open and eyes bugging out. Luffy, however, has his face shadowed over thanks to his hat.

 

“Chopper! Get the hospital ready.” The captain said.

 

The reindeer nodded and ran to the door, leading inside the ship.

 

“All hands ready!” Luffy started to order. “Usopp, Nami, get the stretcher and bring it out here. Hurry!” The mentioned two didn't wait around to hear the order the second time. He stretched over to where his first mate was without any protest from the rest of the crew.

 

Once he got there, and almost slipped, he made his way over to the unconscious form and managed to, after a few struggles, unlodged the sword from the monster's skull and put it in its sheath. Once that was done he balanced the other on his back and saw two hands coming out from the monster's head where his feet were and saw a plank next as the two hands grabbed hold.

 

He looked up to see the other two: Franky and Sanji, holding the other end of the plank. He carefully walked the plank without dropping his first mate.

 

Once he was on board, Nami and Usopp brought out the hand-handled stretcher as Franky placed Zoro on it and he and Sanji carried the swordsman to Chopper's hospital room. He just stood there as Nami approached.

 

“Luffy… are you-”

 

“I'm taking watch.” The young captain cut in. “Tell Franky to get the hell out of here and inform me of Zoro's condition.”

 

“O-Okay…” Nami said as the straw-hat boy stretched to the crow's nest.

 

Robin came up and placed a hand on Nami's shoulder. “Is everything okay? Nami-san?”

 

The young girl nook her head. “I don't know. I've… I've haven't seen him like that in a while…”

 

Robin understood and gave the girl a hug to comfort her. “Don't worry, once Doctor-san says Zoro is going to be fine, he'll be back to his old self.”

 

“I hope so.” The young girl said as Franky and Sanji walked out from inside the ship.

 

“Let's get out of here.” Franky said as he headed to the wheel.

 

Sanji came up to Nami and rubbed her shoulder. “Don't worry Nami-chan, that idiot is too damn strong and stubborn to die. And Luffy is going to be okay to!”

 

The young girl nodded as she excused herself to her room. `What a night.' She thought as she couldn't get the look from Luffy out of her mind.

 

Luffy in the meantime watched the darkness, not caring if he got cold or not. “Zoro…” He whispered as he tried to fight the tears. “I'm sorry…”

 

Sorry it was sad and sappy, or just plain bad but please R&R.