Supreme Swordsman Zoro

The going merry was sailing quickly through the waters of the grand line as Vivi clenched the railing of the ship and looked at the ocean that was expanding in her view wherever she looked, she didn't know what she was supposed to do without an Eternal Pose there was no chance for them to easily find Alabasta's coordinates, damn her why didn't she learn them herself, she thought to herself.

Even though there were still a few days before the big fight between the imperial army and the rebels they didn't know where the next island would take them, up till now only skirmishes have been reported but Vivi knew about the rebel's leader Koza plans, he was her childhood friend after all and understood him to an extent.

She sighed as she looked at the straw hats training, she looked as Luffy suddenly dodged one of Zoro's now-famous plank training but then he got cracked on the head just like before, Zoro nodded his head, it seemed Luffy was learning quite fast that dodge, however, seemed to be based on luck if the next hit landed so easily.

Luffy started to nurse his head as an island started to make itself clear in the vision of Usopp who finished his training and was staying in the crow's nest resting he shouted for everyone to hear:

"Land-Ho!"

Zoro looked at the island and Vivi shook her head she would have realized if she was in Alabasta's waters from a mile away, it wasn't Alabasta, she looked at the island and widened her eyes, even though it wasn't Alabasta it was very near Alabasta! She was in luck!

But it would take two days for the log pose to set and half a day for them to get to Alabasta, would they make it in time? Vivi was worrying very hard about her people and her father, there was going to be a big problem if she didn't make it in time...

Vivi told the crew:

"We are very near Alabasta, we can't wait for the log-pose to set as we would have no time to intercept the rebels, anyone was any idea of what can we do?"

Zoro thought of something as he looked at the island than at Vivi:

"Vivi can you describe me how the will of your people feel, I can try to use my Observation Haki to try and locate the island, as we get closer to the island I can guide us to Alabasta."

Vivi didn't know much about Observation but she learned a bit as she asked around the straw hats, Vivi nodded her head as she started describing how her people felt:

"I'm not sure if you know but Alabasta is a desert island, my people were toughened up by the environment since they were little, life is hard in Alabasta especially since the rain stopped coming due to Crocodile's plans, they should be hopeful and waiting for a miracle to happen, they should have a tough quality to them."

Zoro nodded his head as he started to expand his Observation Haki to the extreme, however, Alabasta was still too far away, so Nami decided to ask Vivi for the right direction and started to sail in that way, with the help of Vivi who remembered little bits and pieces of when she was a kid and left the island and Zoro's Observation Haki they finally reached Alabasta's outskirts where they were met with a bunch of sh.i.p.s who started encircling The Going Merry.

The sh.i.p.s looked like normal sh.i.p.s with no insignias or paintings on the flag, Zoro narrowed his eyes as he looked at the sh.i.p.s, why would they want to stop them near Alabasta?

Out of the main and biggest ship in the encirclement came out a man who had a peculiar sword tied to his waist. Zoro's eyes started to shine as he looked at the sword from the handle to the sheath it looked like one of the Ryu Wazamono!

Zoro lacked in one sword and he had to use a normal sword in replacement which already broken when he fought with Blackbeard and he had to get a new one, Zoro had a few normal swords in a barrel down with the bellies below the deck of Merry.

Zoro eyed the sword better but he didn't know the name of it, Kuina's eyes shined as well as she looked at the sword, Tashigi gave Kuina the named swords manual and she started to go through them, at page 89 she found out the sword.

Kashu one of the fifty Ryu Wazamono swords, not much known about the sword besides its appearance.

Zoro eyed the sword then nodded his head, he needed a good sword anyways, great he could find one in Alabasta, Zoro jumped in front and Luffy wanted to help him take care of the sh.i.p.s but he shook his head and indicated for Luffy to back off he didn't need any kind of help here.

Zoro took the two named swords from their sheaths and entered in a stance, the Baroque works people looked at Zoro and started to laugh at him:

"Hahaha, what are you gonna do slash us from there?"

Zoro smiled at their words then suddenly all of the encircling sh.i.p.s were cut in half and sinking in the sea, Zoro suddenly jumped from the Going Merry to the main ship and slashed the man with the sword down killing him instantly and taking his sword.

He threw away the spare sword he still had on his hip and put Kashu there.

The alive Baroque works members started to swim away and Zoro let them, he could care less about these weak people, he got his hands on a named sword and he felt giddy.

Zoro jumped back on the Going Merry and they started to sail towards Alabasta where they docked at a nearby river to resupply, they met with no problems as Zoro didn't walk into the town so no one recognized the straw hats.

After they resupplied they sailed down the river then Vivi told her duck Carue to send her father a message, giving the duck plenty of father it was sent into the desert to go to the capital and send the message to King Cobra.

Along the way to Catorea the rebels capital, they met with a bunch of strange desert animals which became their extra food before they left they met with some kung fu dugongs one of the animals that stood nearby the river, Luffy beat them up and they decided to follow him. But Luffy was against it as they wanted him to teach them his techniques.

After a while Luffy made them stop following him and they decided to become pirates like Luffy, after a day of grueling desert traveling they finally reached Catorea and fortunately the rebels were only a few seconds away from leaving the camp and relocating!

Vivi looked around for Koza and immediately found him, he was a blonde man with a skinnier physique his skin was dark and he had red-tinted sunglasses on his face, he wore a brown coat with a blue shirt underneath and he had blue jeans and brown boots on his feet.

Koza's eyes widened as she recognized Vivi and he remembered about their past, a wizened skinny old man appeared as he looked at Koza then at Vivi and he started crying, Vivi put a hand over her mouth and she started to cry as well as she recognized the man known as Toto, he became a husk of his former self as before in Vivi's youth the man was quite portly.

Vivi tried to talk Koza out of his actions and even brought out proof that it was Crocodile's fault, Koza started to see red in his face as he realized that he got tricked by the sandy Warlord, the fate of Alabasta was in the Croc's hand from the moment he walked on its lands!

He had a great plan to subdue the population and become the rightful owner of the island, Crocodile was a smart and devious man that was for certain.

Koza decided to not disband the rebels and still do what they were supposed to do, he thought that there may be some spies inside both the imperial army and the rebels army, if not how could Crocodile know what was happening?

Koza decided to keep the same plan as before, he would know when a spy would make himself known, fortunately, Vivi made it up in time and warned everyone if not... things would have become hairy.

In the Rainbow base, the Casino which was owned by Crocodile.

All the numbers were there besides Mr 5 and Miss Wednesday, Mr 3, Mr 2, Mr 1, Mr 4.

The higher echelons of Baroque works finally met up with the boss Mr 0 Aka Crocodile, everyone freaked out at first bu Mr 1 was the one who broke the ice and said:

"Whatever you are the warlord, I wonder why did you call us here?"

Mr 1 was a man with short cut white hair who wore a sleeveless shirt which was unbuttoned showing his strong physique and brown skin he wore black combat pants and black boots, his partner was a blue-haired woman with a s.e.xy body who wore nothing on her upper c.h.e.s.t besides some armor for her twins, she wore black tight-fitting pants and high heels.

Mr 3 wore a blue shirt with stripes and white pants with white sneakers, his partner was a small girl with red hair, her hair was braided in twin tails behind her and she wore a green shirt a blue skirt and sandals with socks, he also had blue-rimmed glasses on his face.

Mr 4 was a fat man with a dumb expression on his face, he had a dog bazooka on his shoulders, it was a literal bazooka with a dog's head. He wore a green shirt and black shorts and boots, his partner was an old woman who wore a sweater with a Christmas tree on it, black pants and sandals. Her hair was red and done in an afro.

Mr 2 was the weirdest among all of them and he had no partner no speak off, he looked like a transvestite had short black hair and a had makeup on his face, he wore a pink swan tutu which had the words 'new kama Kempo' written in kanji on his back.

Mr 3 being the vainest and the guy who thought he was the strongest and deserved a better position started speaking after Mr 1:

"Yes boss, shall we call you Crocodile now? Why did you ask us all to come here?"

Crocodile spun his chair and made himself clearer to his agents, Nico Robin was already on his right watching all of the agents with a peculiar smile on her face.

Crocodile was a tall man with a strong physique he wore a fur coat and a suit, instead of a hand he had a hook for his left arm, the base of the hook was seemingly made of gold while the hook looked rather normal, he had a scar running over his nose horizontally and he also smokes a cigar at the moment.

He looked at all of his agents then said:

"I called you all out here because we lost quite a few agents recently, you should see that we are lacking some spots here, I even made my identity known because someone already leaked it, it wouldn't be much time before you would learn it."

Mr 2 said afterward:

"Ok boss we see it yah, but why have you called us over, it should be for something big right?"

Crocodile put a hand over his face at Mr 2's voice it was high pitched and annoying but the man had the devil fruit which was imperative to his plan so he had to bear with it.

Crocodile continued:

"We need to quicken the plan, you should already know what are you supposed to do, Mr 2 I'm counting on you as for the others scatter and Observe, we also heard from the millions that a peculiar pirate crew with the princess on board arrived in Alabasta."

The agents started to scatter as Crocodile told them to, Nico Robin looked at Crocodile then asked:

"Do you think you can beat that swordsman?"

Crocodile chuckled as he said:

"Maybe not if we were in a different island but I have the home field advantage here, it would be quite the hard fight so I don't want to fight him, hopefully, we won't meet till the end of the operation afterward, I will be a king."

Then his smile wore off as he looked at Robin then said:

"Of course you will have to keep your promise, Nico Robin, if not you will know what will happen."

His hook was pointed directly at her throat ready to pierce through but then he put it away as he smiled:

"I only keep you around, for one thing, so make sure you would tell me what's written on the poneglyph I want it to be recited to me as you read it, it doesn't matter what's written on it hear me?"

Robin started sweating internally if it wasn't a poneglyph which she didn't care about she didn't want to read it to the man, what if it was the poneglyph the man was looking for? He couldn't give him the location of the weapon known as Pluto.

She was in big trouble now...