Chapter I

Perona's POV

"Where am I", I finally heard the green haired muscled buffon groan out. He tried to sit up, I floated next to him.

"Idiot, don't get up! You are going to hurt yourself even more you muscle head! " He was injured beyond belief when I saw him, a normal person would not still be alive. Yet... Here he was, alive, breathing, mad and even sounded mildly angry.

He ignored me, "You.. You are that girl from on Thriller Bark! Where the hell am I?" He was angry now, and placed his hand on his sword. It was easy to tell every move took effort. I frown a little bit, how stupid could be get?

"Negative ghosts." He was about to draw his sword on his saviour? Not cute at all..

"I am sorry for walking on the same level as everyone else... Are you kidding me.." the man calmed down a bit, panting in bed. I pushed him back down, not really wanting to wounded the dying.

"Can you at least tell me where I am?" He whispered with closed eyes and a serious face.

"You don't know where you are either? How did you get here."

"Well, the last thing I remember, was fighting Kuma, Luffy, defeat... " He tighten his eyes.

I paused for a bit and shouted, "KUMA! That idiot, I wanted to have a vacation somewhere nice, not in a random castle, with no food, or even any cute things... " I whined unhappily.

"Yo, ghost girl. You don't know where we are?" He glanced around.

"My name is not ghost girl, you idiot, my name is Perona. What's your name?" Please let it be something cute.

"Zoro."

That wasn't cute at all.

"Well, Zoro, you seem to be healing fine. But, can you take me with you if you are leaving? Please please please!" I wanted to get off the island so badly, but I was not sure how. Even though the man in front is dying, he was probably very powerful.

He nodded and sat up, "Let's leave."

"WHAT! YOU CANT LEAVE NOW! YOU ARE STILL DYING!" I shouted but he just stood up.

"I need to leave this place at once. " He was glaring into the distance and flashing his fangs. The atmosphere he emitted was, frightening, like a beast. Aww, not cute at all. But I guess he was serious, and I wanted to leave, if he dies again. This time, it would totally be his fault.

"Fine, fine. Come on, let's go." I walked out of the door, Zoro following behind me. Hopefully we can leave this place soon.

Zoro's POV

The girl haired annoying ghost girl walk out in front of me. But, we seemed to be living in some sort of castle. It structure was as confusing as a maze, the ghost girl immediately got lost. I calmed down and tried to sense which way was outside.

Before I was able to close my eyes, a white ghost appeared in front of me. "Want me to follow you? Okay. " The ghost went through the wall, in order not to loose the ghost, I broke down the wall. Revealing the frightened girl on the other side.

"WHERE WERE YOU?" she screamed.

"You are the one that got lost, it is okay. This place was pretty big. " I said.

"Um.. Whatever, just following me, you buffon." This time, I was surrounded by ghosts and escorted to the outside of the castle.

It was morning no doubt, although it was not sunny. It was foggy, but there was a refreshing sea breeze that brushed paste my nasal cavity. I sighed at the freshness.

"Come on! We need to get to sea!" The ghost girl waved and shouted.

She sure was annoying, but I followed her, she did help me afterall. We were entering a forest, and the deeper we got the more uncomfortable I felt.

It was as though, something was following us. But it never attacked us, or reveal itself. In my state, I wanted to bypass all battle so I decided to ignore it.

However, the attack was sudden. I drew my swords and widened my eyes.

It was a huge baboon. Where the hell are we?

"AHHH!" The ghost girl was screaming with fear. I immediately turned away from the baboon that blocked my attack easily. There was another armored baboon, I tried to attack the one in front of me. But, it was very powerful. I would not have been an easy battle even if I was not wounded. This was going to be difficult, I felt a smile reach my eyes. A wild smile.

The baboon that was attacking me back away a little from my change of expression, he was probably testing out the atmosphere around me. I took this chance and ran over to the ghost girl.

She was sitting on the ground and just crying. "If you have energy to cry, stand up and fight! " I shouted loudly, "at least move out of the way."

All she did was sat there, in shock, hunger and tiredness. That baboon was about to swing his sword. Without thinking, I blocked the attacking with my the front on my body. The movement already tore at my stinging wounds, but the not so deep cut really burnt. I wavered a bit, I could not die here.

I needed to beat Mihawk, I needed to become the best of the best. I could not die here.

I tied my black bandana tightly over my eyebrows and concentrated. The single sworded baboon striked with blinding speed, but I was faster and cut through its armor. The other baboon attacked me with a wooden club. I blocked the attack, feeling more blood pool at my feet and my vision blur. But the baboon paid by losing his head when I swiftly attacked him. The one with the broken armor was killed to later, with some effort.

I panted now. The blood lost was causing me to be dizziness.

"ARE YOU OKAY? ZORO, you are bleedin way too much. Zoro, can you hear me! Zoro." Perona's voice was distant from me, but at least she wasn't harmed.

Suddenly, I heard the clear footsteps, of one, no, wait, three, four?

Out of the bushes, more than 6 baboons came out.

I held my swords again and panted.

I cannot die here.

The faces of my nakama reappeared.

There was Mihawk too.

I cannot die here.

But my body... wasn't really listening anymore.

To be Continued.