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KLOMP! KLOMP! KLOMP! Dalton, Usopp, and Vivi raced from Big Horn to Cocoaweed in a sleigh that was being pulled by a pair of rams.
"I'm sorry, this is my mistake," Dalton apologized, as he sat up front in the sleigh holding the reins. Usopp and Vivi were both in the back seat. "I was aware that the doctor had come down from the mountain in the last few days, but I assumed that she had left and wouldn't be back for quite some time."
"Don't worry about it, this isn't your fault," Usopp reassured him. "The problem here is how strong Luffy, Y/N, and Sanji are, even if we go up the mountain after them, there's no way we'd be able to catch up to them. Especially with Y/N making them go twice as fast as they normally would. If we are able to find the witch in this Cocoaweed place, we just need to tell her to get back up the mountain as quickly as she possible can."
"You're right, that's true," Vivi agreed. "We have no other choice."
"Forgive us," Dalton apologized again. "Forgive this land for not having more doctors."
"Don't say that," Vivi told him. "This isn't something that you need to be apologizing for Dalton."
"LET'S HURRY!" Dalton resolved, he tugged on the reins and the two rams picked up speed as they continued to race towards Cocoaweed and Dr. Kureha.
Little did they know, the person they were looking for was traveling on a nearby path heading in the opposite direction.
Dr. Kureha sat in her sleigh which was loaded up her pay from her services in Cocoaweed. Chopper the reindeer was up front pulling the sleigh quickly through the deep snow. Dr. Kureha stared ahead, but ordered Chopper to stop when they spotted something... odd.
"AAAAAAHHH!" Zoro gasped as he trudged through the deep snow in only a pair of pants. He had his arms clasped tightly across his bare chest as he tried to withstand the harsh cold. "Damn it! I got carried away and swam for too long! Where am I now? Where's the ship? This is just great, I have no way of telling where I am with all this snow everywhere!"
Zoro was hopelessly lost on a strange, snow-covered island, but then he looked to his right and spotted an old woman in a sleigh with a blue-nosed reindeer harnessed on the front.
"Ah! I'm saved!" Zoro exclaimed as he walked passed the pink-hatted reindeer and approached the old woman in the sleigh. "Hey! Old lady! Sorry to bother you, but do you think you could drop me off at a village nearby or something?"
Now that he was standing beside the sleigh, he could better take in Dr. Kureha's appearance, he spotted her short shirt and her bare belly and stared in surprise. "Whoa! What're you doing dressed like that in this weather?" the shirtless and shoeless swordsman asked the old woman. "I've seen some weird old ladies in my day, but you, you're..."
Zoro was cut off when Dr. Kureha curled one of her fingers in a 'come closer' gesture. Not sure what she wanted, Zoro leaned in to listen to whatever the crazy old lady had to say.
"Careful how you talk to me, little boy," Dr. Kureha scolded Zoro. POW! She suddenly lashed out her arm and punched Zoro in the face, sending him flying backwards into a pile of snow. "At a hundred and thirty-nine years old, I'm still young and strong!"
"Let's go, Chopper," Dr. Kureha instructed her reindeer, "that boy is clearly some kind of freak." Chopper nodded and started pulling the sleigh once more, leaving Zoro once again alone out in the snowy wilderness.
"COME BACK HERE!" Zoro shouted after the old lady as the sleigh disappeared in a distance. "What the hell was her problem? Dumb old hag!" SWOOOOO! The wind blew and Zoro quickly clutched his arms around himself to keep warm.
