Without other purpose (Zoro x reader)

Prologue

You have been observing the city for a while now. You were seated on a rocky cliff a good distance from the city so you could scout the place before going, if it was safe enough to even go. Well nothing seemed to be exactly safe these days, but the city hasn't yet seemed to be too dangerous or a complete death trap. Well that green-haired guy seemed to be doing fine there, always coming to stop at that same crossroad wherever he tried to go. He had slashed a couple zombies along his way with his katanas while being all directionless. It was almost amusing to watch him at first, but he didn't seem to ever learn and his stupidness soon started to irritate you. How had this guy exactly survived the apocalypse this far?

The zombie apocalypse that started maybe over a year ago. It was mid-spring when the outbreak erupted and the world all over fell into chaos. People were and still are being eaten alive everywhere you go. Once you are bit you are turned into a rotting corpse with never ending bloodthirstiness. After witnessing cases where people turned into one without bite or scratch being as cause you realized everyone must be already infected. Everyone would turn into a zombie eventually after death, if not finished through their heads preventing the changing before complete death.

Once it started you were lucky that you were on your way to meet your friend who was living far from the big city you lived in. It was supposed to be one long weekend over his place and then return back home and continue with your everyday life. What you didn't know was that there was an outbreak going on around the world and you weren't gonna get to see your friend before the worst would have happened.

That day you arrived by train to the station where your friend was supposed to be waiting. You were the only one exiting the train to the quiet and empty station, but it was a small town so you didn't question why nobody would be heading there. It was also a weekday so there weren't that many passengers on the train. The train continued ahead while you were left at the eerie station. After waiting a good twenty minutes without getting any signal to your phone, you got enough and stood up ready to go to the town yourself. Maybe everyone was in quarantine in their homes, you read about some worldwide breakdown going off before your mobile data stopped working completely. You blamed your location in the middle of nowhere for the bad connection.

The town itself looked quiet from a distance. Once arriving it still seemed like a ghost town, no people seen anywhere. You continued walking on the streets mindlessly, not knowing where your friend Luke even lived. You saw a grocery shop ahead, so you chose to go get some snacks while waiting for your friend to appear somewhere and find you.

Stepping to the shop, you were surprised at how trashed it looked. There were items in the ground and some of the shelves were completely empty. There wasn't anyone at the cashier either, just this creepy atmosphere around. Thinking more positively, maybe the store was giving stuff away now because of the outbreak or something. Looking around for cameras you didn't see any and chose to take the opportunity, going to the candy aisle and snatching some sweets. Surely you could take advantage of this as well.

After filling your bag with some different sweets, you flinched when you heard a thump behind you from the door. When you turned to look back at the door, fearing you may have been caught in the act, it was only a very filthy and bloody looking man swiping his hands on the window while growling oddly. When you walked closer it started to trash against the door more violently like he wanted to get to you. With a quick review he looked and acted shockingly much like the zombies in zombie series. It couldn't be that, right? You tried to ask him if he was okay, but he didn't react to your words at all, he just got more violent with the window when you spoke.

You then came to the conclusion that the zombie apocalypse was really going on and he must be one of the infected ones. You got a lot of proof for that from the alleyway across the street where there was a gutted corpse lying on the ground getting more gutted and eaten by another man or by a zombie. For sure you didn't want to find out what exactly he would do if he got to you on the other side of the window. Then there was already another zombie that came to rash on the glass door, probably led here by the other one that continued causing loud noise. They would only attract more and you needed to get away before they made their way inside.

But then your body started to shake uncomfortably, once the realization really settled in. This was really happening, actual zombie apocalypse. What the hell were you gonna do? You feared just going into the bathroom at night after watching zombie movies so how were you even gonna sleep your nights when you had an actual reason for all the fear. Was Luke dead already, or zombie more specifically? Was that the reason he wasn't here? You didn't want to believe that before witnessing it with your own eyes only then you could accept that he was gone and mourn over it. But what were even the chances of your survival, you were weak and that was the fact, that you maybe didn't want to admit to yourself before. You were good as dead, but if Luke was alive then you did have to find him.

Another thump on the window made you come back to your senses once again and you looked up at the window. There were two zombies more and way bigger than the two others, the glass wasn't gonna last long if more was on their way here. You looked around the store and found a back door in one corner, you dashed to test it, but of course it was locked. You looked around the shop, if there was something useful to help you open the door. You found nothing helpful and there was already one zombie more at the door. In your eye caught the fire axe that was behind the cash register on the wall in a glass frame.

Testing the glass, it was locked as well, but you took the barcode scanner from the cash register behind you and hit the glass with it. The glass broke and you quickly took the axe out of the frame. There were eight zombies in total and the banging against the window just got more violent. Before going to the backdoor you filled your bag hurriedly with some leftover water bottles that had fallen into the ground. You shoved as much food you could fit, throwing some of your clothes away from taking space in your bag. Who knows when you would come across this much food again.

You gave up on filling your bag with more dry foods when you heard the alarming sound of glass cracking. You ran to the backdoor with the axe in your hands, breaking the lock. You pushed the door open and closed it pushing a trash bin in front of the door to slow the zombies. When you looked around the room you had come to, it was the store's loading dock, which was still inside the building so you ran to the open entrance out of there. Getting at the entrance you came face to face to your first zombie that once noticed you came clumsily lunging at you. It wasn't fast, but you didn't have any other choice than deal with it because it was blocking your exit.

Testing the theory you slammed your axe with all of your strength on top of the zombie's head, blood gushing, it fell limp and collapsed in front of you. Your satisfactory sigh was short-lived when you heard rattling behind you, the zombies had got to the backdoor and were just trying to get behind the trashpin. Before they got too close you pulled your axe out of the zombies head and continued running ahead with all you got to leave the place alive to find Luke. Somehow you survived long enough after that to witness today the stupidest survivor in the apocalypse. Even now you still continued doubting the chances of surviving another day even if your physical abilities and surviving skills had of course improved.

You moved the binoculars from your eyes and settled them on your lap after getting enough of surveying your surroundings. The moss head had disappeared from your vision a while ago, after that more infected started appearing on the streets of the city. You were low on food, well you didn't have any of it, but you still had some water so you preferred to stop at a smaller town at least. You didn't like to go into cities trying your luck when the places were crawling by them. Moreover your time was ticking, the huge pack of zombies you had come running away wasn't gonna stop so you had better get off from their path before they got to you.

"I can't believe how dumb that guy was?" You muttered to yourself, standing from the ground and dusting your trousers. You put your binoculars in one of your bags and looked to your left in the east, making sure you weren't seeing the pack yet. "He's probably dead by now, don't you think?"

"Who is?" an unfamiliar deep voice questioned behind you, making shivers travel to your spine. If Luke tied to the tree hasn't learned to talk as a zombie then behind you was standing some stranger of a man, possibly one hostile to you.