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

Chapter Seventy Four ~ My Favorite Filler Arc part 1

~Third~

The Going Merry was still in free fall and thanks to the octopus balloon the ship and her crew weren't being flattened into pancakes, however they discovered their ship had been blown off course as Zoro and Nicole were napping as usual.

The sun had set "Morning"Zoro muttered waking up, Nicole woke up too stretching herself out "We're still falling?"she asked "Yes this is taking longer then i expected"Robin said "I agree i'm really worried about how far we've drifted we could be anywhere"Nami said "You know what i bet ya we'll get blown all the way to Raftel"Usopp said "Don't be stupid, we're not even anywhere near the end of the first half of the Grand Line"Nicole said.

"Uhm yeah i knew that"Usopp said, he totally didn't know that, "This conversations boring, how much longer is this gonna take?"Zoro asked "Go to sleep"Usopp told him, Nicole hummed a bit looking at the octopus balloon "Hey Zoro if you're really bored i got something you could do and it's fun"Luffy said from the top of the octopus jumping around on it.

"Hey don't do anything stupid! All our lives depend on this balloon you hear me Luffy!"Nami yelled at him "Don't worry! Don't worry!"Luffy yelled back waving it off "Luffy stop get down! Right now!"Sanji suddenly yelled "Sanji what are you yelling about?"Nami asked "The octopus is shrinking if we don't do anything we'll fall!"Sanji said going up to get Luffy "So it wasn't just me" Nicole muttered, she had thought it the octopus looked smaller then before.

"What's that huh?"Usopp asked walking over to Nami "The octopus is shrinking!"Nami said "Shrinking?!"Usopp asked "You know now that i look at it, it does look smaller then it did before"Robin said "What are we gonna do? We're still high up in the air"Nami said, Sanji went to get Luffy but the rubber boy tripped and send them flying overboard, luckily he grabbed the ship and Sanji.

Just then though the octopus had depleted sending the Merry falling down "We're gonna hit the sea so hard we'll sink to the bottom!"Nami said "Only if the ship doesn't shatter first!"Robin said "Shatter no way!"Usopp said "Usopp what are you gonna do?"Chopper asked hanging onto the railing for dear life, Usopp went below the ship and attached several breath dials to the bottom of it.

The dials did slow down their decent but only for a while as the octopus shrunk down completely sending the ship plummeting down "Everybody hold on to something!"Luffy yelled, Nicole grabbed Zoro who grabbed the railing in return as the Going Merry and her crew crashed down into the sea, thankfully the ship stayed in one piece.

"Nami are you okay?"Sanji asked "That was really scary, what happened to the octopus?"Nami asked "Guess it ran out of air"Robin said as said octopus landed on Luffy "Wonder how that happened?"Sanji asked obviously being sarcastic "Hey come on, don't whine we did make it down here alive"Luffy said "You're right and we got to see an incredible place"Sanji said.

Nicole was on edge however, she could hear a ton of voices around them but the people hadn't noticed them yet so she shrugged it off "Now that we're down here it looks so far away"Robin said "Like something out of a dream"Nami said "It's a dream land think we'll see it again?"Chopper asked "Well you might see some place similar when you die"Zoro said.

"Not you i doubt you're going any place good"Usopp said "You jerk!"Zoro said "Well wherever you're going i'm going down right with you"Nicole smiled at him, Zoro blushed a bit looking away "You two can flirt later, me? I'm gonna go put on a pot of coffee"Sanji said making them both blush "Make dinner instead Sanji!"Luffy told him "Are you ever not hungry? Have some coffee first and be patient will ya?"Sanji asked.

"Hey by the way"Luffy went to say when several spotlights were aimed at them and a blaring alarm rung trough the area "Does anybody know just where the heck we are?"Luffy asked "A marine base, just our luck"Nicole growled a bit "No doubt they'll board the ship any minute now"Zoro said "We need to move!"Luffy said and the crew scattered.