One Piece (Love Story) [Part Two]

Chapter Two Hundred and Seventy [Rewritten]

-Chapter Two Hundred and Seventy-

"Perhaps they were strangled and they can't call out for help" Robin suddenly suggested in an attempt to explain why the others weren't answering our calls.

"No more predictions out of you! They're way too depressing!" Franky snapped.

"Such positive thinking you got there, Robin" I sweat dropped.

"Hey, wait a second, when did we last see Zoro?" Luffy asked, causing my eyes to widen as I just now realized that I didn't have a hold on his arm anymore.

"Don't tell me we already lost him" I groaned, not daring to look beside me in fear of proving myself right.

"Skylar, I thought you said you were going to keep a hold on him?" Luffy lightly scolded.

"I know! He must have slipped from my fingers when I wasn't paying attention!" I argued. "He is prone to getting lost, so you can't fully blame me for this..." I grumbled.

"Well okay, but you got to do better next time" Luffy softly huffed before smiling as he patted the top of my head.

We continued onwards after that and it wasn't much longer before we eventually lost sight of Luffy as well.

"I don't like this" Franky frowned.

"I wonder what could have happened to them, it's certainly strange" Robin said.

"I knew I should have kept a closer watch on him, that dumbass can't tell his north from his south" I sighed, shoulders slumping as Robin gently patted my back.

"There's nowhere for them to go though—they were walking right next to us" Franky argued, baffled that we could lose two crew members on such a narrow path.

"You'd be surprised how lost Zoro can get, even when his path is a straight one" I said.

"Perhaps ghosts had something to do with it" Robin suggested.

"Maybe" I sighed.

"I hope they didn't lose any limbs" she said, causing me to chuckle.

"Dammit! Stop with all that creepy talk and start thinking about how we can find those guys and save them!" Franky snapped before freezing as the sudden sound of metal scraping against metal filled the hall. Peering back, we watched as a golden suit of armor slowly meandered its way down the hallway—in a way, it would have looked threatening if it hadn't tripped over its own two feet halfway and crashed to the ground in a heap of limbs.

"Zoro! Sanji! Man, where did they go?" Luffy asked as he lifted the mouthguard to the suit of armor.

"This is no time to screw around! What's wrong with you?!" Franky snapped as he hit the rubber man.

"Hey, everybody knows when there's armor lying around, you got to put it on and wear it—it's like fulfilling a man's dream!" Luffy argued.

"What?" Franky blinked. "Oh, wow, that's a good point" he conceded, agreeing with the rubber man's logic.

"No, it's not..." I sweat dropped.

"Don't tell me, when you made your body out of iron, you gave yourself a cold iron heart too?!" Luffy gasped as I suddenly felt Robin take my hand and begin leading me away from the two.

"I'm sorry, you're right! Even if I have fists of iron that's no replacement for a heart full of dreams!" Franky apologized, suddenly strumming a guitar.

"Where'd he even get that thing?" I muttered as I looked back.

"Yay! Song time!" Luffy cheered.

"Realizing I lost something so precious has blown a cold wind through the rusty cracks of my heart" Franky poetically said as he continued to strum the pink guitar in his hands. "I call this one Steel Cyborg Traveler Blue" I heaved a tired sigh before looking forward once more.