Welcome to my new story! My name is Dragoscilvio and this is my third One Piece Story. I haven't seen many stories that include Zoro eating a Devil Fruit and I felt like doing one. I hope you enjoy it!

He wasn't sure how it had happened, and honestly Zoro wasn't even sure that he'd be able to avoid it even if he were able to go back to when it all started. However the swordsman was sure of one thing, he was neck deep in the worst situation he had ever come up against. Worse than the time he was tied to the post and left to starve for a month, worse than the time he was almost turned into a wax statue and even almost worse than the time he took on his captain's pain. No, he was about to face his biggest battle yet and Zoro actually felt concern over whether or not he would come through alive.

Heaving a sigh, the moss headed man thought back to when he had landed in this mess.

They had been fighting a reasonably difficult Navy ship, the captain of said crew putting up a decent fight as he went toe to toe with Luffy. Zoro had been fighting in the middle of about fifty marines, perfectly at ease with the numbers stacked against him. Fifty was nothing, especially after the training he'd put in to get to the level he was at, and the swordsman could only smirk at the pathetic attacks these so called swordsman displayed. Unfortunately that was when the moss headed man's luck, as it so often did, turned against him.

Out of the corner of his eye, Zoro noticed Chopper being pushed into a particularly vulnerable position. The marines he was fighting were somehow gaining the upper edge and were forcing the small animal into a rocky outcropping pinning his back against a sheer cliff. The man noticed one of the marines throwing a lit grenade at the doctor and that was when the swordsman sprang into action.

His mind was already calculating the distance plus the speed required to make it in time to defend his nakama. Zoro heaved a sigh, already resigning himself to impending pain as he noticed that he would not have enough time to disarm the grenade. Choosing between attempting to do so (and very possibly failing resulting in major injury for both of them) or covering Chopper and keeping him from the brunt of the damage, Zoro immediately changed course and flung his muscular form over the reindeer.

The area was rocked by the loud boom and within moments of the dust clearing, the marines closed in on the two unconscious figures, picking up their bodies and carrying them to the nearest ship. From there it was a simple matter of transporting them to a Marines headquarters and shackling them to the wall. They had been held there for almost two days before the swordsman and the doctor met the man responsible for their capture. That was when things took a turn for the irritatingly worse.

He wasn't scared of being held captive or even tortured, perish the thought.

He'd been held captive more times than he could count and none of the times that he had enjoyed the particular hospitality given to pirates by the Navy, had he ever felt like he was in any danger. If anything he treated it like a vacation at a hotel with free food, plus he was usually left alone. However his current situation called for a tad more caution than normal. Particularly because he wasn't responsible for only his own safety, but now was the guardian of the Pirate crew's resident doctor.

"Now Roronoa, have we made a decision, will you tell me the weaknesses of your captain and crew?"

Oh yeah, and then there's this guy. Zoro rolled his eyes in annoyance.

Their latest host in yet their newest cell was a madman, and a Straw Hat Pirate calling someone insane was certainly something to note. This guy found particular enjoyment in his preferred form of execution, part of which included irritating mind games.

"Roronoa, are you listening to me?" the Marine snapped.

No, not really. To be honest Zoro was finding more entertainment watching a fly buzz around said Marine's head. Every once in a while the insect would dive down and attack some part of the man's face, resulting in their captor slapping himself and then flailing around to drive the bug away. If the swordsman believed in a deity he would be thanking the heavens for what he was sure was divine retribution. Though if God existed, the swordsman pondered, would he really care about delivering karma in the shape of a bug? Zoro shrugged to himself, who knows, all he currently cared about for the moment was getting out of there safely with Chopper.

"Pirate Hunter Zoro!" the Marine finally screamed his mustache straightening out into two irate points "Answer me this instant!"

"Isn't that technically an oxy-moron?" Zoro murmured his one good eye still trained on the fly, which was currently repeatedly running headfirst into the ceiling, it was probably as bored as the captives "I mean, I don't hunt pirates anymore and everyone calling me that is kind of redundant."

Chopper giggled from where he was shackled and the Marine growled at the pirate's morose response "Roronoa Zoro, I am beginning to think that you aren't taking this seriously."

Zoro's eye widened as his eyebrows climbed up his head in a look of pure revelation "Wow," he whispered still watching the bug "so Marine's finally figured out how to do that."

"How to do what?" Chopper asked brightly.

Zoro finally cast his gaze onto something other than the bug and smirked at the little reindeer "Think," he replied simply.

Chopper exploded into uncontrollable giggles while a vein began to pulse in the Marine's temple "Roronoa," he hissed "you are leaving me no choice but to use my last resort."

"And that would be?" Zoro drawled completely nonplussed by the man holding them hostage.

"Never before have I met a pirate crew as obnoxious as yours," the marine snarled as he pulled on two leather gloves, and then snapped his fingers at waiting attendants holding strange wooden boxes "to be perfectly frank I have been plotting your crew's demise for quite some time."

Zoro rolled his eye, allowing his head to droop down to his chest so to somewhat smother a bored yawn "You and everyone else in the World Government," he mumbled.

The marine ground his teeth in an effort not to be caught by the bait and lose his composure, and instead continued on with his monologue "And I have done much research on execution styles that would suit the rage I hold, and after long hours of searching I finally found it."

The man had finally caught Zoro's attention, because if they were simply being held awaiting a transport to Impel Down, then he could easily handle anything thrown at him. The worst part about that scenario would be keeping himself entertained during the inevitable boredom. However this man was planning an execution. Something he was planning on carrying out right this moment. Muscles tensed and the man grit his teeth as all his focus went squarely to the threat standing in front of him.

"Oh?" Zoro's gaze went from bored to sharp as flint in a millisecond his body radiating fighting spirit as he prepared for the battle ahead "and that would be?"

"To be honest, it's more of an experiment," their captor shrugged with seeming regret "I'm not really sure how it will turn out. You've heard about how no one can eat two devil fruit and survive?"

"Yeah," came the growled reply.

"I'm going to give you a choice," the Marine sneered "you see I need a subject for my experiment. I would be more than willing to let one of you go, if one of you were to volunteer. Of course I could always just feed a devil fruit to your friend here, it saves me the time to locate two more."

Zoro gnashed his teeth in fury "You touch Chopper and I'll make sure you never use your hands again!"

"Then are you volunteering?"

"Zoro! Don't do it!" chopper wailed turning horrified eyes on the swordsman.

The swordsman ground his teeth together as flashbacks of Thriller Bark played before his eyes. Why was it he was always the one in the position for self-sacrifice? Zoro wasn't as suicidal as people thought he was, he merely was the one who felt very strongly about protecting his family, and when said family was a bunch of klutzes he collected a few more injuries than normal. Of course he thought this in only the fondest way possible. However it always seemed that he was usually the one in the position for such things.

But Chopper's life was on the line, and if he didn't accept this idiot's ultimatum then the reindeer would most assuredly die. The swordsman's gut twisted at the thought that he was giving up the battle he had fought for so long in resisting eating a Devil Fruit.

He and Sanji had both refused, one rare thing that the two agreed on, because they both wanted to be strong in their own right. The idea of either of them eating a Devil Fruit was repugnant to both, they were the ones who protected the hammers in the crew from drowning, and they were the ones who rescued the captain when he was caught in a sea stone cage. Now Zoro was being forced to choose between weakening himself ultimately costing the crew one more able bodied fighter who could actually swim or he could pass the sentence on to someone else costing Chopper his life. The last option was a coward's way out and Zoro knew what his decision would be.

After a few moments of thought the man rasped "Fine, I'll do it."

"Zoro you idiot!" Chopper screamed weakly throwing himself against the sea prism stone bonds "What about your dream?!"

"I'll still fulfill my dream," Zoro replied seriously "besides if something goes wrong you can always find a new swordsman. Finding a doctor to replace you would be impossible, but I promise that won't happen… I won't die."

"You can't promise that!"

The swordsman merely smiled "Chopper, trust me, have I ever broken a promise?"

Tears streamed down the reindeer's face "But what if you can't keep it?"

"I will,"

"Well then, since the decision has been made why don't I bring forward the Devil Fruit?" Zoro sneered at the man currently force feeding him the cursed fruit.

"You better pray I don't survive this," he snarled with a malicious grin "because if I do, I'm coming after you first."

This is how Zoro found himself facing the biggest battle of his life, one that somehow was giving the pain he endured on Thriller Bark a run for its money. Within moments of the man's declaration two funky looking fruit were brought before Zoro and sliced into pieces. Sticking a toothpick into a piece from either plate, the Marine released a feral grin.

"Have you ever seen anyone eat two different Devil Fruit," he whispered excitedly "it's quite the show. I have only seen it twice personally because obtaining two Devil Fruit is actually more complicated than it seems, but I enjoy it every time."

Zoro seethed with fury, his shoulders shaking with the anger "I could care less,"

"You should," the Marine hissed "because you're about to be the main attraction."

"Please Zoro," Chopper pleaded "I'm sure Luffy will be here soon, you don't have to do this!"

"Oh no, this is your last hope," Their captor smirked "it is either this, or I inject both of you with poison and be done with you. It is your choice."

"I already made the stupid decision, now get it over with already!" Zoro bellowed his mouth a grim slash of fury.

Without further ado, the Marine plopped both pieces into the swordsman's waiting mouth watching as Zoro chewed and swallowed with a grimace "Ugh, that stuff tastes horrible."

The Marine allowed a slow smile to spread across his features, Chopper merely stood watching his nakama horror mounting in his eyes "Z-Zoro," he murmured in a quavering voice "are y-you ok?"

The swordsman slowly blinked "Yeah," he shrugged casually before cocking an eyebrow at the Marine "hey are you sure that you got the right frui-AUUGH!"

A piercing scream ripped its way through the middle of Zoro's question making Chopper immediately melt into tears.

The swordsman couldn't understand it, one moment he was perfectly fine and then his body was being torn to pieces and thrown into a boiling pot of magma. His knees buckled as the man slid down the wall as far as his wrist restraints would allow while the green head slammed into the stone before his back arched bracing his skull as he fought against the waves of agony devouring him from the inside. Eventually he fell into a darkness accompanied by the sounds of screaming that he vaguely recognized as his own.

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