A/N: Kay so this is my second fanfic and my first chapter fic so I really hope it turns out.

Disclaimer: I don own One Piece cause if I did then I wouldn't be righting this.

One more thing, "talking", 'thinking'

Onward to the story!!

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'A little boy no older than six ran blindly down the main street of his village, the smoke from the burning homes and shops stung his nose and lungs as he ran. The pirates that had destroyed his home were hot on his tail. Bullets nearly missing him as he turned blindly into an alleyway and strait into a dead-end.

"Well, well, well, what have we here?!" sneered the leader of the small group "A little rat that thinks he can run away from us, hmm?" he laughed as did the five others behind him.

"Oi, boss, cap'n said to kill everyone right? Including woman and children?" Asked one of the lackeys excitedly.

"Indeed he did." Said the boss.

Fear set itself like a cold stone inside the green-haired boy's stomach. He took a step backward only to find his back pressed against a brick wall. He gulped as the pirates moved closer; he was trapped and would die because of his poor directional skills. He squeezed his eyes shut and waited for death to greet him, but the one thing he didn't expect was for someone to whisper to him.

'Kill them, destroy them!' the sinister voice hissed in his ear 'Make them pay for what they did to you, to us!'

The young boy hung his head and seamed to relax, this confused the pirates.

"What….the…hell?" Questioned the leader. The aura around the boy seemed to change; it was darker more…..evil than before. The six year-old's hands slowly began to clench into fists, his shoulders became hunched and he began to quiver, but not with fear, with anger. His head slowly rose and he opened his eyes causing the pirates to gasp. The once dark jade eyes had turned an alarming shade of bright crimson.

The horrified screams of the villagers and pirates alike were joined with the cries of "Demon!!" and "Monster!!" It was about half an hour before the navy arrived. The marines got off of their ships expecting to battle with pirates, but what they found was a smoldering village and a huge massacre. What was confusing was that the bodies of the people they could identify were of both pirates and villagers, and all of them seemed to have the same horrified expression on their face.

"Search for survivors." Said the marine captain.

"Hai, sir." Saluted the solders.

Captain Brago had seen some horrible things in his life, but this had to be the worst. Blood was everywhere; it was splashed across the remaining chard stone and brick walls. It was still oozing out of the wounds of the mangled corpses making sickening pools beneath them. It streamed into the streets so his boots would splash through it. It made him sick, not just all the blood but the horrible stench. It seemed that the very ground was decaying.

"Sir, there's a kid up here, and he's alive!!" The eerie silence was broken by one of Brago's men. He ran up the main road toward the center of the town, where the mass of bodies got thicker. He slowed to a halt next to his lieutenant, the one who had called, only to stare at what was seated in front of them. A green-haired boy no older than six was rocking back and forth and shaking, his arms where wrapped around his knees and he had his face buried in them. From his hands to his elbows where completely covered with blood, the sticky liquid matted his hair and he seemed to be crying.

"Oi, kid it's going to be alright." Brago tried to calm the boy. The marine captain moved closer, but the kid's head shot up.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!!" He shouted it was a mixture of anger, fear, and confusion. Brago gasped, the kid's eyes where the same color as the blood that was splashed across his face.

"d…d…d..DEMON!!" The stuttered yell came before the terrified scream, and once again blood splashed into the night sky.'

Zoro's eyes snapped open to face the fading sapphire sky; he realized he was drenched in a cold sweat from the nightmare. He sighed as he sat up; he had been having that dream a lot lately. He took a deep breath to try and slow his rapidly beating heart. Looking around the deck of the Sunny, Zoro decided to join Luffy at the bow of the ship. As he got up however, he endured a dull throbbing in his forehead, he tried to rub the pain away but it didn't help. Deciding to ignore his newly born headache Zoro made his way over to the lion figurehead where Luffy was sitting.

The straw-hated teen seemed completely oblivious to the swordsman's presence. Zoro looked out toward the horizon which was interrupted by the large island they where headed for. As soon as he laid eyes on the mass of land a sharp pain erupted in his skull. He hissed and began to massage his temples; this of course caused Luffy to look at him in curiosity.

"You okay?" the captain questioned.

"Yeah, yeah." He waved him off. "I just have a bit of a headache that's all."

"Oh." He paused "You sure?"

Zoro nodded, the pain had already ebbed off into a dull throbbing again. He chanced another look toward the island; he had no idea that the lonely spit of land that was slowing growing larger was going to be the start of all his problems. Chimamire-kairiku (A/N: translates to bloodstained-land and sea, I think not completely sure -.-) 'odd name for an island' he thought. They would be docking in half an hour or so, but his thoughts of the island were interrupted when his captain called his name.

"Zoro?"

"humm"

"Is….is it." Luffy let out a sigh; Zoro turned and arched an eyebrow.

"What."

"Nothing, it's stupid." The teen didn't look at him, a sure sign that something was troubling him.

"Out with it."

" Is it okay to have nightmares?" The swordsman almost laughed out loud at the question, but he couldn't help the smile that came across his face.

"Yes Luffy it's perfectly normal, a nightmare is just your conscience playing on your fear."

"Well I wish it would stop." The raven-haired teen folded his arms across his chest in a pout. Zoro chuckled the kid was too innocent for his own good.

"What? What's so funny?"

"Nothing." He said.

"I bet you never have nightmares." Luffy flashed him that smile of his, needless to say the remark caught him off guard.

"Oh, and why do you say that?" He thought it best to turn his attention to the churning water below.

"Cause your not afraid of anything."

"Heh." He stared at the water with a bleak expression 'yeah not afraid of anything.' He thought 'I'm just terrified of myself.'

To be continued….

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Short I know but please, I promise it gets better! Tell me what you think, review Oh and I up date when I get….say five good reviews.