Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Zoro was staying in the crow's nest observing the crew with his Haki, there was nothing special happening at the moment, the girls were talking with Vivi, while the boys were training after they finished their talking the girls got to training as well while Vivi watched.

Vivi didn't understand the crew's training regiment because it was something extremely harsh for her, even the troops they trained back home in Alabasta didn't use such hard training techniques like the straw hats.

She decided to take note of some of their training techniques and implement them in their troop's training, it seemed like they were pretty helpful, Zoro got down from the crow's nest and started to train Luffy in Haki, Vivi got bored watching them train and decided to go to the kitchen to read something.

The training intensified as hours passed afterward they ate some good food prepared by Sanji and continued on the way the log pose was pointing, along the way they found themselves in snowstorms extreme heat and even springtime. There were no such things as seasons on the grand line everything was random, there were seasonal islands where only one season dominated the island but while sailing you could encounter all kinds of climates.

Vivi started to adapt to the crew's lifestyle as they were all jovial and happy, well besides Zoro he was always serious, even though it seemed like he didn't care about his crew on the surface if he didn't care he wouldn't have created a crew in the first place, he expressed himself through training others and making them stronger, he couldn't be in multiple places at the same time, what if he encountered a strong opponent that took all his attention and the others were too weak to protect themselves?

He had to make sure every member of his crew was strong enough to deal with the adversities of the new world, Koshiro made sure to emphasize how the new world was nothing like paradise and it would make the climate change here look like a child's play.

The enemies would all mostly know Haki as well so till they reached the new world all of his crewmates should know at least one type of Haki, the new world wasn't a children game, it was a battle of life and death and all of their dreams resided in there, if they wanted to survive and achieve their dreams they had to have a corresponding strength or they would just become bones along the way.

It seemed like Zoro knew what loss felt like but it was the phantom experiences of Miyamoto, even though the Asura spirit from Zoro's soul purged the useless memories some of them such like the sense of loss would be helpful to Zoro as it would toughen him up and make him more vigilant, he wouldn't want to feel such a thing himself, he got attached to the crew somewhat and he would become angry if anything happened to them.

After they finished training they decided to take a day off to cool off their muscles, they still needed rest days in between training so they wouldn't tear their muscles too much, even though Sanji's food was very nutritious and it helped their physique quite a lot there was still a need of a day of rest, his food wasn't magical. Maybe in the future when he will meet with a certain drag queen and ran for a year straight he would get some magical recipes from him/her.

Zoro looked around and could spot a nearby island there he felt two giant presences! they were giants on the island, even though the island was quite far away Zoro could enhance his eyes with Haki so he could see farther, it was a relatively easy use of Observation, Zoro was still discovering the potential of Observation as he trained it further.

He didn't feel any other presence on the island besides the giants, he could feel another giant presence near the island but it seemed to be a sea king of some sort, if it didn't decide to attack them then he wouldn't bother with it.

Zoro shouted towards the crew:

"We are very near to the next island, but it's somewhat different I can feel that there are two giants on it and there's also several animals with average strength on it."

Sanji puffed up a cigarette and said:

"Good we can resupply there then, the stronger the animal the stronger the taste."

He inhaled the last amount of smoke from the cigarette a few moments later then threw away the b.u.t.t.

Luffy eyes transformed into stars as he said:

"Giants?"

Usopp was also interested in giants as he asked:

"Giants? huh seems interesting."

Usopp was a lot tamer than before, he would have jumped around and acted like Luffy if he didn't have his near-death situation with Kuro, he was more serious now, even though he was interested in the Giants he wasn't going to jump around and he would act more serious than before.

Zoro nodded his head at Usopp's words then said:

"I guess we can only wait after we resupply, maybe the giants know how much time it takes for the log-pose to set, we can ask them."

Nami nodded her head, they didn't have much time according to Vivi's words, the rebels from Alabasta were getting ready to fight it out with the imperial army of the king, things weren't looking good at all for Alabasta and it's citizens.

They sailed quickly towards the island and docked at a nearby grove. They left Vivi and her duck on the ship and went exploring, each of the crewmates took down a dinosaur easily and came back with them where Zoro cut them into pieces so they could be stored easily, Sanji would later smoke the meat so it could last longer.

Before they could go searching for the giants a giant who wore a spiked helmet over his head with a blue scarf and iron armor over his body came forward, he had long hair on his head and sandals on his feet, he also had a long flowing beard.

He started laughing out loud as he looked at the straw hats:

"Bara bara bara bara, My name's Dorry the warrior of Elbaf might I ask you if you have some rum you could share with me?"

They had plenty of room and they also had to ask something of him so they gave him a barrel of room wich the giant happily took and downed in a few seconds then Zoro came forward and asked:

"Mr. Dorry, might I ask you how much time it would take for the log pose to set on this island?"

Dorry took a pondering look on his face as he put his giant face under his long beard then said:

"Two to three years."

Vivi's eyes widened as her mouth went wide open, in two to three years Crocodile would have already made Alabasta into a history country!

Zoro narrowed his eyes at the response there was nothing much he could do here about this, he couldn't change the magnetic waves of the island, at most they could start to sail aimlessly as the eternal pose to Alabasta went with Igaram.

Zoro sighed as he looked at Vivi's terrified expression, he didn't know how to appease her fear but Kaya Kuina and Nami came forward and told her that everything would be alright, maybe they could find a nearby island who had an eternal pose towards Alabasta or their magnetic waves could point them towards Alabasta.

They were simply unlucky, if Zoro didn't kill the unluckies back then on Whiskey peak they could have reported to Crocodile and he would have sent assassins with Alabasta's eternal pose which they could snatch after defeating the assassins. However, Zoro's action changed what was supposed to happen and thus they had no eternal pose.

They will have to aim blindly towards Alabasta. Zoro scratched the back of his neck as he felt something sting him back in the jungle but he didn't bother with it, his body was extremely tempered and strong, he felt the bug try to inject something into his bloodstream but he squeezed the poison out with his neck muscles alone, it still stang a bit but he felt Ok.

However, Kaya wasn't as lucky as him a few days after they left the island she started to sweat intensely and her temperature went beyond what a normal human should be able to endure, somehow she was still alive.

Kaya's eyes were wide open as she felt her condition, she was a doctor but she didn't know much about poisons and she knew she encountered quite a strong one, the poison Kuro used on Usopp was quite an average one as he couldn't get his hands on a strong one on the small island where they lived.

Kaya knew she couldn't do anything to this type of poison it was too strong! It might even affect Luffy if he would get bitten by the bug, she knew she couldn't do the same thing as she did with Kuro's poison, they needed to find a medical expert that knew about this poison!

Unfortunately, they were at sea, Usopp immediately realized that something was wrong with the woman he liked, especially that she looked even worse than when she was poisoned by Kuro every day.

Kaya finally relented telling them about her condition, she didn't want to burden Vivi with her condition as they had to rush towards Alabasta, today they got a newspaper that they didn't show Vivi, it was about the current situation in Alabasta and it wasn't particularly nice, but Kaya Nami and Kuina decided to finally show it to her as Kaya stood in her bed, Vivi's mouth opened wide in fear and apprehension as she looked at what was written on the paper "Rebels started the fight with Imperial Army in Alabasta see more at page 32"

Nami shook her head and said:

"You decided if we try to rush to Alabasta or not, we can only wonder aimlessly anyway, hopefully, we can find an island that can cure Kaya's affliction before it's too late as well."

Usopp barged in the room and shouted:

"We can't let Kaya die! We should focus on finding an island with a doctor!"

Nami was on the same page with Usopp but they waited for Vivi's words, Kuina just stood there and took care of Kaya's needs occasionally.

Fortunately, her body wasn't as weak as it was before as it got healed from the poisoning of Kuro and she also got stronger through training if not the poison would have killed her already.

Usopp walked towards Kaya and clutched her hand, he couldn't see himself losing her, even though he didn't express himself directly Kaya knew he had feelings for her as he knew she had feelings for him, they were just too shy to act on them. However Usopp decided that if Kaya lived through this he would make sure their relationship would become real and official just like Zoro's and Kuina's, Usopp started to catch up on what they were doing when they left, he wasn't that dumb. Only Luffy remained oblivious.

As they sailed they started to go through an icy climate that wouldn't change, that meant a winter island was nearby!

Zoro watched in wonder as a man who seemingly stood on the ocean asked:

"Cold day today isn't it?"

Luffy eyebrows rose as he looked at the man and muttered to himself:

"What a mystery man?"

Zoro shook his head as he felt the auras of the people below the man, it seemed they had a submarine of some short if they became hostile Zoro would cut them all in pieces.

At the mention of pieces Zoro remembered he still had Buggy's devil fruit stashed somewhere on the ship and he told everyone but not in a high voice so the unknown people wouldn't hear, he didn't want the new crewmates to accidentally eat the fruit:

"There's a devil fruit on the ship, it looks like a pineapple please don't eat it if you don't want the power of being apple to split yourself up into pieces."

Kaya was unconscious so she didn't know anything about it but Usopp didn't seem interested in it neither Sanji.

Afterward, the auras on the submarine started to turn hostile so Zoro did the only sensible thing he could do.

He unsheathed one sword and cut the submarine in two letting the people on it either surface or drown.

A bunch of people with surgical masks on that looked like doctors surfaced, one of them was injured but another of the doctors was quickly helping him by sewing his injury with very high precision.

Zoro's eyes shined, doctors were on that submarine? very good. Luffy started fishing the doctors out of the waters at Zoro's instructions and Zoro directly dragged them towards Kaya's room and said:

"Any opinions on how she should be healed?"

The number of doctors amounted to ten, nine if you didn't count the unconscious one, all nine of them shook their heads as they said:

"We don't work with this kind of type of illnesses, we are surgeons."

Zoro muttered something to himself under his breath that was indiscernible to the doctors then shook his head, he was ready to throw the doctors back into the cold waters but one doctor suddenly perked up and said:

"We are from a nearby island and we were forced to work for the tyrannical king who is now drowned, there's a witch that lives there that should know how to heal this young miss, the island isn't very far away and the symptoms while advanced aren't in their terminal phase, we can rush there now."

It seemed Zoro and the others were in luck, there was a witch who lived nearby who could heal Kaya!

The doctor continued:

"However her healing costs are quite high and she has a peculiar temperament, also she lives in a quite distant place but we know how to get there fast, just take us to the island and we will help you out since you took care of Wapol, the citizens of the island will also be happy that we came back, they needed us back on the island more than anything but we were forced by Wapol to not help them."

The doctor sighed as the others didn't say anything, it seemed he was the spokesman for the other doctors.

Zoro nodded his head and with the instructions from the doctor they started to sail towards the island known as Drum Island!

Hopefully, they could quickly alleviate Kaya's situation and afterward finish the Alabasta business, even then it would still take them a while to get to the new world, hopefully, they would all be trained up enough.

After a little while, Usopp shouted as he looked at the winter island with a giant mountain in the middle of it:

"Land-ho!"

Vivi looked towards the island, hopefully, they could quickly heal Kaya, she couldn't wait much anymore, her country needed her, her father needed her, her friend Koza needed her.

Unfortunately for her things weren't always going to go as she wanted to, a burst of strange laughter could be heard on the island as a dark patch of land appeared and s.u.c.k.e.d a lot of snow and a few houses in:

"Zehahahaha, this island is pretty good, let's see what kind of loot can I get from it."

It seemed like an unknown enemy was making problems for the people of Drum Island.

Zoro unsheathed his swords, as soon as the giant patch of darkness appeared he knew he found an opponent that he could finally test his powers against, and it wasn't going to be an easy one!