Book One: Treasure of the Heart (Zoro X OC)

Chapter Seventy Two ~ Eneru's glorious reaction

~Third~

"Geez it's awfully noisy"Nicole muttered before she dodged something as it flew past her, she looked over her shoulder as a shandorian appeared "Are you one of the blue sea people?"he asked "I'm not obligated to answer that"Nicole said turning over laying her hand on her sword "Either way it doesn't matter you're a threat and i'm taking you down!"he said charging at her.

Nicole dodged at the last second when she paused "Sanji"she muttered hearing his voice disappear "I've got you now!"the shandorian yelled charging at her again but again Nicole dodged, snapping out of it and knocking the shandorian out.

"I don't have the time to deal with you, take a nap"she said and closed her eyes focusing, she sighed in relief "He's alive at least"she muttered and continued heading for the ruins "Usopp" Nicole muttered hearing his voice disappear too, again she stopped to focus "Still alive" she sighed in relief and continued walking to the ruins.

~skip~

Nicole furrowed her brow as she suddenly heard Luffy's voice disappear, she didn't think he was defeated but it was certainly strange, she shrugged it off as she continued walking, eventually Nicole reached some ruins she could hear she was closer to Robin then before, she could also hear Robin was fighting someone, Nicole left the archaeologist to her fight as she continued heading to the center of the eye.

~skip~

Nicole was exploring the center of the ancient city, there was no trace of gold left but the architecture was still quite impressive, she paused "Twenty people, all at once?"she muttered and looked over to where the voices had disappeared, she shrugged it off and continued wandering around the ruins.

~skip~

"Robin"Nicole called walking over to her as she heard the archaeologist approaching "Nicole, how long have you been here?"Robin asked "A few minutes i guess? I haven't found a trace of the city of gold, any luck on your side?"Nicole asked "I think i know how to get in, follow me"Robin said leading the way up the temple.

Robin started cutting into the heavy cloud cover digging down "Ah i see, let me help"Nicole said drawing her sword "Do be careful miss Hawkeye, try not to damage the surrounding building" Robin said "Give me some credit i'm not as clumsy as Zoro with a sword"Nicole said cutting into the cloud like it was butter and taking out huge chunks.

The ladies dug pretty deep until eventually reaching the bottom, yet they could go even further into the temple, Robin went down first followed by Nicole after she put her sword away "So vast, the ruins really do go down much deeper, i thought it was strange all there blue sea ruins had island clouds for ground, the ruins above are nothing but the upper parts of the city eaten up by island clouds, there's still more below"Robin said.

"Robin over here, i found stairs"Nicole called over, the two ladies went down deeper into the ruins, Nicole clearing the way of roots as Robin discovered a way out of the temple, Robin ran towards the light with Nicole quickly following but not too quick so they didn't fall from the opening.

In front of them laid countless ruins but both were awe struck by them "It's all so incredible the ancient city collapsed eight hundred years ago i can hardly believe it's been that long"Robin said "Where'd you get eight hundred?"Nicole asked "I read it from a tablet, the actual has been around for eight hundred years, it's been in the sky half of its existence"Robin said.

"Still it's so majestic and grand, this really is the great Shandora, the city of gold"Robin said "I'm not seeing any gold though"Nicole said looking around as the ladies went further into the city "Perhaps it's all been taken or it was a metaphor in the first place, i can certainly see the history of this place would be as valuable as gold"Robin said.