Supreme Swordsman Zoro

The power of sand-sand fruit was quite a peculiar one in the logia tree, it didn't only give Crocodile the power to transform and manipulate sand but it also gave him the power to suck the water out of his enemies body.

Crocodile looked down at the husk of the fool who tried to attack him and chuckled to himself, Nico Robin was with him and he looked at the straw hat-wearing boy with interest on her face, he had a barrel of water on his body which he started drinking from making his mummified state to revert to his normal form.

Zoro appeared with the rest of the crew, they were now at the rainbow base here to stop Crocodile, after they informed both King Cobra and the Rebels about Crocodile's plan they knew that there was a chance for Crocodile to find out and that would be a problem, there were also his agents that they had to take care of, but if they cut down the head the body would wither and disappear, so they decided to take care of Crocodile first.

Sometime before this happened...

Luffy's tongue was out of his mouth as he w.h.i.n.ed:

"So hot, Sanji get me some meat!"

Sanji gave Luffy a kick on the head and said:

"You ate all the rations you gluttonous fool, there's no more meat!"

Luffy w.h.i.n.ed then he looked at the town that was getting nearer and nearer then used his devil fruit powers to rocket himself directly into it entering a restaurant immediately and ordering meat and some ale to quench his thirst.

The others shook their heads at Luffy's antics while Chopper walked forward and started to talk with Zoro:

"Hey Zoro, could I ask you something?"

Zoro looked at the now tall Chopper who looked like bigfoot, it was one of his transformations that made him stronger but slower he wore a cloak that helped him with the heat and hid most of his features:

"What do you want to ask Chopper?"

Chopper was interested in the dynamic in the crew and asked:

"It doesn't look like everyone obeys the captain orders, it seems like the crew is a bit chaotic, I'm new in the crew so I don't know how things work out in here..."

Zoro chuckled as Chopper hit the nail on the head, they weren't united at all on the surface but in their hearts, they knew how important they were to each other before Zoro could respond Kuina came forward and said in his stead:

"You see Chopper.. some of us joined Luffy because of some peculiar circ.u.mstances, so at first we didn't trust him even though he doesn't look like a scheming fellow, he is quite a simple guy, along the way he gained our trust with his actions, on the surface, it seems like we won't take his orders but we keep them in mind, we don't really act on them and we do what we want but we know what we are doing."

Chopper shook his head this logic had no logic that meant they just disobeyed the captain and the captain did nothing about it, it seemed this crew was somewhat different than the normal pirate crews out there.

Zoro chuckled at Chopper's expression and continued to trudge along in the dessert they were getting nearer to rainbow base.

Luffy finished eating at the restaurant and paid his tab with the pocket money he got from Nami. Afterward, he left on an adventure in rainbow base by himself.

Monkey D Luffy future pirate king created mayhem in rainbow base by shouting:

"Get your a.s.s here Crocodile so I can beat it!"

Even though Zoro said he would take care of Crocodile himself Luffy wanted to take a shot at the warlord as well, he didn't get a good fight in a long while and he wanted to show the others what he was made of, with all the training he got from Zoro he knew that he was way better than before.

Luffy finally got to the casino but Zoro and the others caught up with him, he was so loud Zoro could hear him even if he plugged his ears, the same could be said about the others too, they decided to enter the casino together where they were met with a sign of pirates here and normal customers there, it was a crossroad, unfortunately, Luffy decided to enter the pirate crew door and the others had to follow him however Zoro immediately grabbed Luffy by the scruff his neck and dragged him back.

He looked at the corridor and used the sheath of his new sword Kashu to prod the ground and it immediately split open.

Zoro sighed as he looked down, it seemed this was a trap, fortunately, Zoro could pick up the malicious intent of someone below them that indicated the perilous situation.

Luffy sweated as he looked down at the trap then followed Zoro through the other door, after a few minutes they found Crocodile waiting for them down in his aquatic meeting room, banana gators were swimming outside the glass protection.

Crocodile chuckled as he saw Zoro and the others then he said:

"Demon Blade Zoro and his crew, what do I owe the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e?"

Nico Robin stood on his right but she didn't say anything as she saw the straw hats enter, Luffy wanted to shout and interject how it was his crew but Zoro stopped him, it wasn't the time to fool around now.

Zoro watched Crocodile staying leisurely on his seat then unsheathed Kitetsu and pointed it at Crocodile then said:

"You should know why we are here, I have a problem with you trying to take over this country and I'm here to stop it."

Crocodile chuckled as he eyed Zoro's sword but inside he was at full attention, he knew that Roronoa Zoro was strong and there was a high chance he would cut him down where he stood, fortunately, he had the surprise element as he didn't know anything about his hook or his sand-sand fruit.

But before Zoro could do anything Luffy launched himself at Crocodile and gone through him, Zoro narrowed his eyes even though Luffy's actions were foolish it did show that Crocodile had a logia devil fruit, there wasn't much information about his sand-sand fruit so Zoro wasn't sure about its powers besides controlling and transforming into sand, that's why he didn't throw himself at Crocodile yet.

Luffy tried to pummel Crocodile down but all his fist strikes went trough him suddenly a bunch of arms appeared around Luffy and tried to break his neck, Robin said:

"Treinta flower: Clutch!"

But Luffy was a rubber man so her actions didn't do anything, Crocodile narrowed his eyes as he realized Luffy was a devil fruit user and then he shot his hook ready to pierce it through the boy's c.h.e.s.t.

Zoro seemingly appeared out of nowhere and deviated the hook trajectory, his blade took a dark turn as he cut Crocodile's c.h.e.s.t but Crocodile transformed into sand and disappeared from where he stood not letting Zoro's slash touch him.

Zoro cursed, it seemed Crocodile knew a bit of Observation even though it was weak combined with his Logia devil fruit it would be a bit tricky to take care of him.

Zoro wanted Luffy to stop it but Luffy suddenly went through the upper floors trying to as he said it

'beat Crocodile's ass' Crocodile decided to change the playing field as he wasn't advantaged at all in this room, he was actually at a disadvantage, what if Zoro destroyed the glass and water entered in the room?

He would certainly die after all water was a double weakness of his.

Zoro sighed and then followed after Crocodile and Luffy while the others decided to take the stairs, Robin knew what to do and she decided to observe the fight from a distance.

Luffy finally followed Crocodile to the desert where he tried to fight him again, unfortunately, Luffy didn't know about Crocodile's weakness yet and this cost him, Crocodile used his hand to absorb the moisture from Luffy's body transforming him into a mummified state, fortunately, Luffy got some water in a tiny barrel from the restaurant for later use and he drank it when he realized his body was out of water.

Crocodile was ready to impale Luffy on his hook when suddenly the image of a blue tiger with dark tints in it appeared in his vision.

It was Zoro's three sword style technique Tiger Ascension!

Crocodile dissipated into the sand and in the desert, you couldn't realize where he went if he hid his aura.

Zoro closed his eyes as he started to stretch his observation haki to the limits, he needed to take care of Crocodile then take care of his agents.

Speaking of the agents...

Mr 2 slapped King Cobra on the cheek with his left hand the put his right hand on his face directly transforming into the man's appearance!

Mr 2 had the mimic-mimic fruit which let him transform into people he touched with his left hand.

One part of the plan was ready but Mr 2 didn't know that the plan was already foiled somewhat.

Mr 1 his partner along with Mr 3 and Mr 4 and their partners were watching from above as the rebels started to gather in the capital of Alabasta, Mr 3 pushed up his glasses and said:

"It seems it's all according to the boss's plan, we only have to observe and interfere when something happens, like Demon Blade Roronoa Zoro's crew interferes..."

Mr 1 opened his eyes then looked at Mr 3 then said:

"I know the plan why are you saying it again?"

Mr 4 the slow man said as well:

"Youuuu knoowww thattttt weeeeee knowwwww theeeeeee plannn whyyyy areeee youuuuu sayingggg itttt againnnn?"

All of his words were drawn out of his mouth very slowly.

Mr 3 wanted to say something else but he decided against it, he was a man of grace and patience with an artistic streak to him, he wouldn't bother with these brutes who only knew how to fight.

Back with Crocodile, Zoro was still trying to find his aura but it was hidden too well! the desert gave Crocodile the best hiding spot he could ask for after all after he transformed into sand fully his aura became almost negligible especially that he hid in his best environment.

Zoro sighed then he looked around if Crocodile wanted to hide there was nothing he could do to him, only if Crocodile wanted to fight him head-on he could take care of him.

Zoro tried one more time to sense Crocodile's whereabouts but there was no luck.

Zoro looked around the vast desert then looked at his crewmates who were watching from a distance and shouted at them:

"Guy's I think we can go, seems Crocodile is just a big chicken."

When he said that suddenly out of the sand an arm wanted to snake his way to drain away all his moisture!

A grin appeared on Zoro's face as he suddenly shoots a flying slash towards the location where the hand popped out of.

Blood started to gush out of the location where Zoro shot his flying slash and Crocodile couldn't hide his aura anymore that was now full in chaos, he didn't think Zoro's observation was so good as he couldn't find him, after all when he fought Doflamingo in a similar situation he was found easily by his fellow Shichibukai.

Crocodile vomited a mouthful of blood and looked at his c.h.e.s.t where a slash mark appeared, he was bleeding at high speeds but Zoro quickly ran at him as he started spinning at the same time, Crocodile was in the air as a black dragon which spun in circles appeared near him and it started cutting him:

"Three sword style: Black dragon twister!"

Crocodile was starting to get faint from the blood-loss but he chuckled as he transformed back into sand, then his aura started to depart at high speeds!

He wanted to kill Zoro in one fell swoop but as he couldn't he decided to run away!

Robin looked with wide eyes at Zoro and how easy he took care of the Shichibukai, but she decided it wasn't time to talk with the straw hats and left to Alabasta's capital Alubarna!

Zoro tried to sense Crocodile again but he was getting away too fast!

Even though his aura was still chaotic after he transformed into sand he entered the desert and started to go through the ground at high speeds.

Unfortunately, Zoro was fast but not that fast, he didn't know any techniques that could help him in this situation as well.

Zoro sighed as he looked at the direction Crocodile was going to, it was the capital!

Zoro looked at his crew than at Luffy who wanted to follow Crocodile already then shouted:

"We have to go to Alubarna!"

Vivi was with them as she wanted to watch Crocodile's demise with her own eyes, even though she was happy that he got beaten up she didn't realize that Crocodile was still alive.

Zoro destroyed her imagination with the next words:

"Crocodile is still at large and he is going to Alubarna, we need to go there fast! If we foil his plan and it gets exposed the marines will take care of him anyways."

Shichibukai's who broke the rules of the marines were hunted even harder than the normal pirates, after all the marines lost face inviting a pirate to become a government official and then the government official being caught blackmailing and doing untoward things to the residents of the world government?

If you decided to be a villain at least don't get caught!

It was time to go to Alubarna and put a stop to Crocodile's devious plan once and for all, whatever it might be besides getting his hands on a whole country.