Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Blackbeard heaved a sigh as he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood then clutched his c.h.e.s.t then threw out all of his crewmates from his darkness pocket space, Burgess coughed out a bit of blood as well then said:

"Boss I didn't think we would take a loss in paradise, who is that guy?"

Blackbeard looked at each of his crewmates and then said:

"Where's that damn bastard, Lafitte?"

Seemingly out of nowhere Lafitte made his presence known, he wore a dark blue overall with tiny pink stars on it and tap shoes, he had a tophat dark purple hair and dark lipstick on his lips, he had a cane in his hand.

Lafitte bowed to Blackbeard then said:

"You called Captain?"

Blackbeard was fuming, this guy was an expert at stealth if he didn't want to make himself seen he would just disappear as if he wasn't there, Blackbeard then looked again at him then asked:

"Why didn't you help us?"

Lafitte chuckled then said:

"Dear Captain you know that fighting is not my strong ace, after all, I'm your navigator and that swordsman fellow looked pretty strong, maybe if he was a tiny bit weaker I would have joined you..."

Blackbeard mumbled something to himself then said:

"We will need a replacement I'm not strong enough to deal with this super rookie, we need to capture someone else, the plan must go on after I get the second power I should be able to easily deal with this Demon Blade Zoro."

The crew said in unison:

"Of course Captain!"

They started to sail away to a destination they had previously talked upon.

Zoro sighed as he sheathed his sword and he looked at his two crewmates, Luffy's fight was alright in his opinion he did well against the big buff guy but Sanji thoroughly disappointed him, if he was going to remain in this crew and also remain in one piece, he needed to train harder.

Zoro shook his head and started walking towards the giant mountain ignoring the strange looks the villagers gave him, they seemed to be filled with gazes of apprehension fear and also admiration.

Sanji and Luffy followed him along as they trudged towards the lift that would take them towards the top of the mountain. The doctors and the remainder of the crewmates already sent it back for them and they easily scaled the mountain up the top where they met with Kuina Nami Usopp and Vivi.

Nami and Kuina sighed as they looked at Sanji and Luffy's injuries, Zoro himself looked pretty ruffled and his clothes were in tatters due to the fight with Blackbeard, he also took some damage from his devil fruit but it wasn't anything major he would heal in a few days at most.

Out of the giant castle came an old woman that looked so old that she might fall and die in the next second, well that would be her face because her body looked similar to Nami's! and Nami was eighteen years old!

Zoro mumbled to himself:

"No wonder they call her a witch."

Sanji firstly looked at the body and he almost had a nosebleed then he saw the face and transformed into a stone statue.

The woman chuckled to herself as she saw Sanji's reaction, she wore a relatively revealing outfit for her age consisting in a purple jacket and a floral undershirt with some tight pants and some boots, she had her hair in a ponytail and had glasses, it seemed even though she looked young she couldn't heal her eyesight.

Zoro coughed a bit then said:

"How much do we owe you?"

He already heard from the doctors on how she would ask for gigantic prices for her work but she had a one hundred percent accuracy on healing her patients, The witch mumbled to herself then looked back at the castle than at Zoro:

"You don't owe me anything, it's enough of a payment you took care of that fat bastard Wapool, good riddance, you even took back the doctors for this island, the citizens of the island will be rather happy about that."

Even though she was a supposed witch on the surface she really cared about the island's people, out of the corner of the palace a little reindeer looking humanoid tried to hide but he was on the wrong place of the door making himself visible rather easily.

Luffy's eyes became stars as he quickly started running towards the reindeer looking humanoid while saying:

"What a cool looking guy!"

He had stars in his eyes and everything, but before Luffy could get further the witch walked in front of him and stopped his charge then said:

"You are going to frighten my little assistant with that, please even though you are the saviors of this island and its kingdom I don't care about anything else, I already paid you back by not charging you, you know the ingredients are quite expensive, the poison was deadly and extremely old, did you children wandered around a prehistorical island while not being fully covered?"

Nami Usopp and Kuina coughed while Zoro scratched his head, Luffy just answered simply:

"Yeah, we did how do you know that? are you a witch who also sees the past?"

Nami facepalmed at Luffy's stupidity while the woman laughed then looked at Luffy:

"You aren't the smartest of the crew are you?"

Luffy chuckled then said:

"No that would be Kaya, she is our doctor!"

A shocked look appeared on the woman's face then she said:

"Your doctor doesn't even know to heal such an affliction?"

Usopp interjected:

"Well you see Kaya just recently started to learn about such things, after all, she isn't a poison expert, she said she wanted to expand in the branch of surgery..."

The tiny reindeer human said with a soft tone of voice:

"As a true doctor you can't expand in only one branch, you should learn everything you can!"

Of course, doing that would make you a jack of all trades but master of none, however, being on the sea a jack of all trades would be more useful than a skilled surgeon as the sea had countless injuries or diseases, especially on the grand line.

Zoro pondered the little reindeer human words then walked forward towards him, the reindeer human wanted to run away but he was immediately caught by Zoro by the scruff of his neck:

"We can't really wait for Kaya to learn things as we are speeding along, why don't you come with us, little guy?"

The reindeer struggled out of Zoro's hands and Zoro let him down the humanoid reindeer immediately started to hide wrongly again then Zoro pointed it out:

"Little guy that's not how you supposed to hide."

The reindeer adjusted his hiding spot and said:

"Don't I look like a monster to you? Why would I join humans like you?"

Zoro shoulders went up and he said:

"Why should I care how you look like? you a monster? you look pretty cute."

Kuina walked forward she wanted to pet the little guy, he was so cute!

The reindeer was startled by his words then by Kuina's actions of walking forward then he immediately jumped away as he morphed into a more reindeer like form and quickly ran away.

The old woman chuckled as she said:

"You want to take Chopper away? Good luck with that, his heart was scarred by humans long time ago, there's a low chance he will trust you, however, you need a doctor on your ship that's more knowledgeable than that little unconscious girl in my infirmary, ah I forgot I have to check up on her, you guys can enter the castle and wait."

The witch walked back into the giant white castle that seemingly looked to be made of ice and the crew followed her in, Zoro looked up and saw a pirate flag the wind battering it, it had a skull with crossbones and sakura petals on it.

Luffy looked at the flag as well then nodded his head for some reason unknown to others.

They entered the infirmary and looked over to Kaya seeing her wake up, Usopp was almost in tears and wanted to rush over and give her a big hug but a scalpel was almost found in his throat as the witch appeared from nowhere and she said:

"Don't bother the patient till she is fully healed!"

Usopp started sweating, this old woman was scary!

Chopper came into the infirmary room with a bunch of towels and his eyes went wide as he saw all of the humans inside, He wanted to run away but he was blocked by Luffy who suddenly intercepted him and said:

"You cool reindeer be my crewmate!"

Chopper blushed and did an awkward dance as he said:

"Oh. you fool you think I'm cool, I'm not cool you fool!"

Then he took a stance and he said:

"Wait for a little you think you can fool me with compliments?"

Luffy put on the straightest face he could as said:

"I'm not fooling you, you are cool!"

Luffy pointed up towards the ceiling as he said:

"You think pirates are cool right?"

Chopper's eyes widened as he started remembering on how his father talked about pirates and how they were warriors of the sea who embraced freedom, he always wanted to become a pirate afterward but since his father died that day he wanted to take on his mantle of healing and decided to learn under an old friend of his father Doctorine.

Chopper looked towards Doctorine and he asked her:

"Doctorine is it okay... I always wanted to become a pirate and these guys..."

Chopper knew these people took care of Wapool he was the one who murdered his father, even though the events didn't go like that in Chopper's eyes Wapool was one of the catalysts of his father death, Doctorine shook her head as she saw Chopper's eyes and she realized what he was thinking about:

"Chopper before you make a decision I have to tell you something, your father was already dying when he drank that concoction you made for him, it wasn't your fault, his days were already numbered."

Chopper's eyes widened in horror, he always thought he was the one to blame mostly for his father's death, Dr. Hiluluk but it seems he was going to die anyway, tears started to appear in Chopper's eyes while Luffy looked at the duo not knowing anything about what they were talking about.

Doctorine decided to tell them Chopper's story, how he ate the human-human devil fruit and ended up being shunned by his herd, he was already an outsider due to his blue nose but after he ate the devil fruit he became the black sheep of the herd and he was thrown out, he tried to befriend humans but they thought he was a monster and tried to attack and kill him.

Then he was saved by his father Dr. Hiluluk, they bonded quickly but Dr. Hiluluk had a disease that was eating at his life, Chopper read a book that if he found a special mushroom and mixed it with some other herbs he could create a concoction that would save his father's life, unfortunately, the mushroom was poisonous and the combination created a concoction that would explode upon ingestion...

Hiluluk hated how Wapool took the doctor's from the population and tried to confront him since he was already dying to create a message he drank Chopper's concoction and died in front of Wapool.

Of course, Wapool could care less about the man and then continued in his ways. Until the day the kingdom was attacked by the Blackbeard Pirates and they fled the kingdom, the rest was already known.

Chopper started to clear his tears up, his past was already exposed he wondered what these people would think of him?

Kuina Nami and Usopp approached Chopper and hugged him while crying loudly:

"Such a cute guy had such a sad past!"

Chopper was confused by their actions, shouldn't they shun him? even though he didn't kill his father he still ended his life earlier with his concoction.

Doctorine shook her head, Chopper still didn't understand:

"Chopper, you should know that your father had made a similar concoction to yours back then, he used yours because of how hard you worked on it, on how you even broke your antler in trying to find the mushroom, he didn't want your efforts to go to waste."

Chopper's tears that just started to dry up immediately went back into the hyper mode as he suddenly became a water dispenser.

Zoro watched as Nami Usopp and Kuina started to comfort the little thing.

Luffy wanted to comfort him as well but he didn't know how to and Sanji watched the things like Zoro did, Vivi didn't know what to say here, she was still extremely worried about her country.

Kaya wanted to go up too but she was tied to the bed by Doctorine.

After a few days of waiting Kaya was finally ok to go, Chopper was at the doors of the giant palace watching how the others were ready to leave, he suddenly went forward to Luffy and asked:

"Do you still want me in your crew?"

Chopper finally decided to himself that it was time to let the past behind and embark on a new adventure, he already learned quite a lot from Doctorine and he had a blue bag of books on his back where there were a few books he still didn't finish reading in rest he pretty much read everything that Doctorine had.

Luffy smiled towards the little reindeer person and he chuckled:

"Of course, let's go!"

Luffy took Chopper in his arms and walked towards the lift that would take them down the mountain, he recruited his second doctor!

Luffy was giddy at the thoughts and Chopper liked to be held he then got out of Luffy's hold and made himself comfortable on Luffy's head, Luffy didn't mind his straw hat was off since he had winter clothes on, even though it wasn't on his head it was still on his person dangling behind him by a string.

The straw hat crew finally reached their ship and were ready to leave when suddenly behind them the mountain started blossoming like a sakura tree, pink cherry petals look-alike lighted the winter island known as Drum Island.

Chopper started crying again as he looked at the mountain then he said:

"I'm going, Doctor!"

The ship unfurled its sails as Zoro took the anchor up, the log pose was set and hopefully, the next island would be Alabasta!

Unfortunately for Vivi, the chances were pretty small, but who knows?