Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Crocodile dragged Cobra towards the back of the palace where the tombs of the previous Kings were supposed to be.

Crocodile looked around the garden and pointed his hook towards King Cobra's face as he said:

"Where's the entrance to the tombs? You can tell me now and I will make sure your citizens won't suffer."

Crocodile knew what kind of person Cobra was he wouldn't flinch at all if he was threatened but if his citizens were to be threatened he would throw himself in the face of peril to save them. King Cobra gritted his teeth, the poneglyph of their family it supposedly had the location of pluto the ancient weapon of destruction from the void era.

Nico Robin eyes shined under her cowboy hat as she looked around, she wanted to read the poneglyph and see if it had any mentions of the void era, her dream was to read all of the poneglyphs and uncover the secrets of the void era.

Robin knew that it was something major because her knowledge of reading pongelyphs made her a wanted woman, she became wanted at the tender age of eight years old just because she learned how to read the ancient language.

Her home friends and family killed by a dastardly buster call of the marines, she sighed to herself as she remembered her past then looked as King Cobra entered a pattern in a stone pillar that stood nearby, a cave entrance opened and the stairs led down to the tombs of the kings of Alabasta.

They started to quickly walk down the steps of the tomb, Crocodile was impatient, he wanted to get his hands on the information as soon as possible, Roronoa Zoro was still on his back, he could feel his killing intent from a mile away, even though Zoro was still at the plaza Crocodile's rudimentary Observation could feel his presence.

Crocodile walked while dragging Cobra behind him then threw him away at the sight of the giant block of black unknown material, it was the poneglyph! It had some strange words written into it that Crocodile couldn't decypher at all, but he didn't need to, Robin took a look at the poneglyph then her fiery eyes transformed into sad ones, it wasn't the thing she came for, true to the rumors it was the location of Pluto!

However, she didn't want to give the location to Crocodile, the man was an unstable egomaniac with a penchant of murder, he wanted to take control of everything and to do that he needed a weapon of mass destruction!

Robin narrowed her eyes as Crocodile waited for her to decipher the words, Robin looked at the poneglyph a while longer trying to drag the time out, maybe that swordsman Roronoa would make it in time and take care of Crocodile.

All she could do now was pray that Zoro would come fast or else she would be dead meat, even though she was good at escaping she was facing a logia shichibukai like Crocodile, plus she was nearby of him.

Cobra wanted to escape from Crocodile's grasp while he was distracted by the poneglyph unfortunately for him he was too weak compared to Crocodile, he didn't get his Shichibukai position only because of his logia fruit, his strength was also extremely abnormal and his intelligence was nothing to scoff at.

Robin opened her mouth she wanted to bluff him, after all, he couldn't read the poneglyph she could just say whatever she wanted:

"The poneglyph doesn't have information about any weapon, it has some of the histories of Cobra's clan."

Crocodile narrowed his eyes as he tried to read Robin's expression then he chuckled as he snapped the cigar in his mouth in two with his teeth and veins appeared on his forehead:

"You think you can bluff me, Nico Robin? I know from a certain source that it has the information I need, read it now while you still can!"

Robin started sweating internally, who was that source? How did he know about the information of pluto's location?

Robin started reading:

"The ancient weapon known as pluto isn't an ancient warship, this was a misconception created to fool the people thinking that such a ship could exist, however, the real pluto is as strong as the fake warship..."

Robin didn't want to continue but she gulped her saliva down, she didn't want to die here at Crocodile's hands she still had her dream, the dream that stemmed from her late mother, the mother who told her to live, Saul the friendly giant who used his life so she could escape, he told her to live!

She had to live!

Robin wanted to continue reading but suddenly a crash was heard outside, with the help of Luffy's gum-gum rocket Zoro got to the location as fast as he could.

Zoro started to run quickly in the cavern-like opening all his three swords unsheathed, Crocodile knew Zoro was coming so he tightly clutched Cobra in his hand, Crocodile watched as Zoro came forward and wanted to threaten him again with the life of the king, he still needed Robin to finish reading.

But suddenly a flying slash hit his arm he quickly dissipated it letting Cobra free!

Cobra scrambled forward ready to run away Crocodile couldn't let his hostage go, it was his only way to restrain Zoro!

Unfortunately for him, Cobra was already quite a distance from him, the distance was negligible to Crocodile but not to Zoro!

Zoro muttered to himself as he looked at Crocodile:

"I will send you off with one of my stronger techniques."

Crocodile heard Zoro's muttering and paled at his words, he had to leave now!

Suddenly a bloody aura started to appear around Zoro, the screams of the damned were heard around him, he didn't use all three of his swords as he sheathed one, both Kashu and Kitetsu were encased in armament, Zoro closed his eyes for a brief moment before opening them again, a different light appeared in them, Crocodile stood petrified due to the killing intent Zoro exuded, the number of people Zoro killed wasn't small, his killing intent was nothing to scoff at!

Crocodile sweated as he tried to move his legs, he reinforced himself with his meager amount of armament but his proficiency was extremely low, even if he wanted to hurt Luffy's rubber body with haki he couldn't.

Crocodile had lived in the new world for a while and learned about Haki and it's applies but he didn't have enough time nor a good teacher to learn it properly, he learned by himself here and there and he could only learn the b.a.r.e basics, so he started to focus more on his devil fruit so that even Haki users would have a bit of problem with his smart usage of the fruit. He knew how to dissipate his physical body in such a way not even Haki enhanced attacks could hit him, unfortunately, that would put him in a passive state where he couldn't attack.

Crocodile tried to dissipate his whole body and enter the soil, to accomplish his dream he needed to be alive!

But suddenly the bloody aura from Zoro increased as the physical images of bloody heads dripping their last remaining blood on the ground appeared behind Zoro, every face had a surprised look on their faces, they didn't realize they were dead even in their final moments, the scene changed from heads to other gruesome deaths, as the aura solidified around Zoro he suddenly disappeared from where he stood!

Crocodile looked around his back drenched in sweat, he didn't know what to do, he knew he was done for if the swords found their spot.

He tried to reinforce his whole body with Haki, he got some inspiration when he saw how Zoro used his Haki but inspiration wouldn't make up for years of not training it, slashes started to appear on Crocodile's body tearing his coat to shreds, blood started to seep out of the wounds but the blood didn't flow on the floor, it started to harden on Crocodile's body trapping him inside his blood transforming it into a makeshift cocoon.

Only his head was still visible and his face was pale due to the lack of blood, Zoro appeared again all his swords sheathed, he chuckled as he looked at Crocodile's situation and said:

"How do you like this technique? I created it for situations I don't need to kill."

Crocodile growled as he looked at Zoro then said:

"Why didn't you kill me?"

Zoro responded:

"Killing you would be a mercy, do you want to escape so fast? You have tortured the people of this country for years and now you just want to die? Don't you think it would be too easy to die?"

Cobra got up from the ground where he kept himself till the battle finished, Nico Robin wanted to make herself unseen but Zoro didn't let her.

He walked forward and Robin wanted to say something but Zoro beat her to it:

"I saw how you were drawing out your responses, this stone contains what Crocodile wants, doesn't it?"

Nico Robin paled at his words, did Roronoa want the coordinates of Pluto?

Zoro shook his head as he seemingly read Robin's mind and he said:

"No no you misunderstood, I don't care about such weapons, the only weapons that I need are my swords, To be honest, I wanted to thank you, your act of delaying helped me arrive in time and save the king, Vivi would be destroyed if her father died."

Robin nodded her head and she was ready to leave, after saying what he had to say Zoro decided to let her go.

Robin started thinking about Zoro, he looked pretty strong and he could be helpful with his crew of misfits, she knew that none of them were normal, she didn't know much about Haki as Crocodile didn't bother to explain to her but it seemed like the crewmates of Zoro knew some about it.

Maybe they could help her... or at least for some time, she needed a ride as well.

Zoro dragged Crocodile's cocoon while he walked away from the tomb with Cobra, Cobra got outside and walked directly to the upper levels of the palace Zoro followed him and showcased Crocodile's defeated body, both the rebels and the imperial army shouted in victory!

Vivi started crying loudly while Nami Kaya and Kuina comforted her.

Usopp Luffy and Sanji had smile's on their faces.

Cobra immediately invited the straw hats to a feast where Igaram's wife cooked for everyone, even Sanji was impressed by some of their dishes.

Cobra wanted for them to stay a few more days and Luffy decided to stay one more day before they left, after all, there was no marine presence at all near Alabasta, what could go wrong?

The next day everything went wrong in multiple places.

The first thing was the newspaper that came to Alabasta in the morning, the king took it to breakfast where the straw hats were and a few wanted posters dropped out of it.

The new ones were, Luffy "straw hat" bounty 50,000,000, Sanji "black leg" bounty 20,000,000, Usopp bounty 10,000,000, Cat Burglar Nami 5,000,000 Chopper "strange pet" 1,000,000, Kuina "swift sword" 70,000,000.

The crew cheered at the new bounties taking in their photos, Luffy had a photo with him smiling and doing a peace pose with his hands, Sanji photo wasn't technically a photo it was more of a drawing which made him look strange. He immediately started crying out on how this was unfair.

Usopp's poster had him looking manly with his c.h.e.s.t puffed up and his hammer in his hand.

Nami's photo was of her finishing off her fight with the blue-haired spike lady her bo staff in her hand.

Chopper was in his heavy point in the wanted poster but there was also another image on his which showed his small form.

Kuina had the simplest photo showing only her face.

Zoro's bounty didn't change, remaining 350,000,000.

Suddenly another bounty poster dropped from the newspaper, a clump of blue hair was on it and it wrote on it 'only alive'

"Traitorous princess" Nefertari Vivi bounty of 100,000,000.

King Cobra almost died of a heart attack when he saw the photo of his daughter.

How did his daughter become a wanted person? What the hell!

Unknowingly to them, the world government had ears everywhere, even though there were no marines nearby that didn't mean the cipher phol organizations weren't.

Cobra wanted to go directly to the world reverie to contest this bounty when he heard from outside:

"Roronoa Zoro and his crew, get outside right now! you are arrested! Nefertari Vivi, you have to come with us!"

It seemed problems would come together and never alone.

Cobra wanted to rip his hair off at what happened, how could things go so wrong after literally one day of their kingdom finally reaching peace?

Was fate playing a cruel joke on him?

His only heir was a wanted woman? He had no heirs anymore who would inherit Alabasta in the future?

Cobra didn't know what to do in this situation, he was at loss for words.

Vivi looked at her bounty and didn't know what to say, she was more devastated than her father, how could this happen?

Why would this happen?

In Marie Jois a bunch of world nobles who wore their special 'outfits', the outfits consisted of a white astronaut looking suit with a see-through helmet that looked like a bubble, a fat world noble chuckled as he finished his pig roast which was fed to him by a beautiful slave with pink hair the worlds noble's slave mark was on her c.h.e.s.t, she wore very little to no clothes only covering her private part, he ogled her with his eyes as he grabbed a handful of her bountiful c.h.e.s.t and played with it while saying:

"Those fools who left Marie Jois, hmph, they don't deserve to control Alabasta any longer, they aren't celestial dragons anymore, now that we gave that woman a bounty the king has no descendants unless he sires another one Alabasta will fall into our hands!"

The world nobles started laughing in unison, the woman who served them food had a big smile on her face but under the smile was hidden pain hatred and disgust for these people. She wanted nothing more than to cut off the man's hand then murder off all of the other celestials.

Unfortunately for her, she had sea stone cuffs on her neck and her legs, there was no way for her to do anything!

She sighed as she looked down, she couldn't make any visual contact with anyone or else she would be slapped and kicked while being sent to her prison without any food, she had to obey but her will wasn't broken, she was bidding her time for when she would escape.