Hard Lines: Lost with Zoro
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"You're lost again aren't you?"
"Be quiet, something's coming."
I srained my ears to hear whatever it was that Zoro was hearing so well, but I heard nothing. I was just about to say that I couldn't hear anything when…
"BOOM!"
Behind us there was a huge explosion and a sudden suction of wind we were both whipped off our feet (Zoro's feet) and into the pipe at the far end of the hall.
We were hurtled at mind-boggling speeds in absolute darkness, and I couldn't tell which direction was up or down. I felt Zoro's strong hand grab my coat as we fell and I felt relief as we landed on a slope, which seemed to have a slow incline and we slid to a stand still.
It was pitch back, but I had a torchlight I always carried around with me inside my coat. I got it out and turned it on.
Zoro stood up and looked around. We were in what looked like a tunnel of death. I stood up as well and checked my arm. I tried moving my fingers, but the cold must have gotten to them because they didn't move. Maybe it is because I landed on them strangely.
"Where on earth are we?" I said.
The corridor was black and gloomy and in the distance I could still see nothing, and it wasn't because my glasses were a bit broken, the tunnel just went on.
"It doesn't seem to end?" I speak into the silence.
When was Zoro going to say anything?
"Could you at least say something?"
"Do you hear that?"
I was about to say no when I heard a thudding boom sound echoing down the huge tunnel in the dark.
"Where is that coming from?" I closed my eyes and strained my ears to try and tell.
"No idea." Zoro turned back to me and pointed in both directions. "So which way shall we go?"
"I… I don't know? I can't even see where we came out from. There is no indication that this tunnel even existed in the research that I was able to get on this place." I leaned against the tunnel wall.
Blast is all! Why did I have to get lost with this idiot… Again? And why does my arm not hurt? This is not good at all.
"Come on." Zoro and pulled me away from the wall.
"Damn it! Let go!"
"What the hell is wrong with your arm? It's freezing!" He pulled the torch out of my other hand and held it up.
"That's because I'm cold."
"No it's a lot more than that." I couldn't feel what he was doing to my arm, but I got a good look at it as he moved it up and flashed the light on it. It was going frosty as if in after affect of Monet's bite attack. All I knew was that I would most probably lose consciousness and freeze soon if I wasn't careful.
"Can you move your arm?"
"No."
"Any of your fingers?"
"No."
"Right." Zoro sounded pissed off for some reason as if my shoulder being like this was my fault. "We had better get going."
"It's alright." I said before he could throw me back over his shoulder again. "I think I can walk by myself."
"If your sure." I nodded. "Fine then, but do keep up. I don't want to come back for you because you decide that you want to take a nap and lie down." He turned towards his right and started running in that direction.
"Oi Zoro! That's my torch! Give it back!"
"Well keep up."
It wasn't very long until my arm was so cold I could barely touch it. But I wasn't going to give up now. No Way! And I wasn't going to ask for help either.
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After fifteen minutes or so I couldn't quite tell we were finally outside and Zoro's strange wind creating maneuver seemed to disperse the clouds of poisonous gas in a chilling gust.
My hands were too cold even to tell whether they had been hurt or not, so I took the gloves off to check. My fingers on my uningured hand were white and the fingers on my other hand were white and purply black.
Definitely not good.
Behind us, from the tunnel we just came out from, came a thunderous screaming sound, and smashing through what remained of the entrance came Caesar flying over our heads and coming to a grinding halt just before he reached the ocean. He made everything he grazed over turn into what looked like a purple stone.
"Zoro, he has the devil fruit powers of a gas gas man. He looks like he has absorbed the gas of the island."
"Yeah, I think you're right. Step back and don't get close." I did that, but before I could tell from what direction it was coming from something crashed down at my feet.
"What the hell!" He looked up to the top of the Strawhat's ship. "FRANKY! Keep your parts on!"
"OI! ZORO! THAT WAS A SUUUUPPPPER HIT WASN'T IT!"
"I wasn't watching." He pointed to the deflated Caesar Clown. "Didn't you see this old geezer lying here!"
"OH! SORRY ZORO! COULD YOU PASS BACK MY SUUUUPER SHIELD!"
I looked back at the fallen weapon. I couldn't tell whether it was supposed to be a weapon or a toy. The colours were just so bright. Zoro picked it up and threw it back to him and then turned his attention back on the odd, creepy, child experimenting scientist in the dirt.
"Oi?" Zoro looked back at me. "Do you have sea prism hand cuffs by any chance?"
My mind was blank fo