real-time log HORRIBLY BACKDATED

Oct 13, 2008 21:37

Who: Monkey D. Luffy and Roronoa Zoro
When: early morning of Sept. 11th
What: Luffy bringing home dinner for himself and
Warnings: none

Luffy was wide awake at 6:30 in the morning Elysium time. He wanted to see what was up with his brother and took a peek in his room. Ace was still asleep (go figure) with a blond next to him (hello Volkner!) that seems to be making a frequent appearance in their living quarters. Of course, Luffy didn't mind since he was pretty nice enough. The younger pirate searched through the fridge (you'd figure that after over a year, he'd know what a fridge is) and could not find anything to eat. So he took the opportunity to go upstairs to the Olympus Deck and (GASP!) go shopping. Well, Luffy lollygagged around before he actually got to the store. Catching someone's frisbee that was meant for their dog and throwing it back, playing hopscotch that was etched on the ground by stupid little kids, and he stared at the pool for a bit before running into a Chinese restaurant where he ordered a lot of this sweet beef dish with quite a bit of fried rice.
Because Luffy didn't feel like stuffing down his face yet (he wanted to share with Ace and his "friend", SHOCK!) he headed back towards the Eridanos Deck. Though to do that, he'd have to go through the park. While skipping to his own beat of lou (whatever the hell that means), he passed by a bench with a certain moss-haired swordsman laying down on it. Of course, he thought nothing of it at first. But after he was about 20 feet from the bench, he stopped in his tracks and see if it was really who he thought it was. He ran backwards back towards that bench and sure enough, there was a Zoro there. "ZORO!" After over a year, one of them finally shows up. About time, too.

About time, he says. Zoro stretched a bit and immediately rolled over onto his other side to try and go back to sleep. Call it an immunity to the noise that was Monkey D. Luffy. It hadn't been that long since Luffy had run off in search of some clue to the treasure. Nami had claimed that he ran off after a chicken or some other form of meal. While Usopp had made up some story that Zoro could really care less about (Usopp talked far too much for the swordsmans liking anyway.) And the shitty cook said something that Zoro couldn't even remember because he was too busy wondering when Sanji's eyebrows were finally going to take over his face and then the world. Lifting an arm he waved his hand at Luffy. "Not now Luffy... sleeping." Wait..what..Luffy....hold on a second here.

Naturally, Luffy made for the floor so his face was level to Zoro's. "ZORO! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!" Luffy was so ecstatic, he didn't know what to feel. But now, he didn't have to be lonely anymore. Not that he was really lonely to begin with, but he really did miss his crew. Because a Captain always put his crew first before himself. When Zoro didn't wake up, Luffy put his hands on the other's shoulder and shook him a bit. A bit? Yeah, right. "ZOROOOO~!" His eyes beamed towards the sleepy swordsman. At least he was seemingly sleepy.

"Hey hey hey. What did I tell you about waking me up." Grumpy swordsman is grumpy. However, he knew (just as everyone else did) there was no point in trying to sleep now. Slowly sitting up he stretched his arms over his head before popping his neck (oh, that was such a lovely sound, so hot.) "Where have I been? Where have YOU been. You go running off to who knows where and then you ask me that?!" Ignore the fact that Zoro was now hugging Luffy, he was still angry.

Of course, Luffy happily hugged back. After all this time, a familiar face finally came around. One that he felt very close to compared to the rest of his crew members. "Hee!" Luffy laughed. He was so happy though. "You guys were supposed to be following right behind me but then none of you ever showed!" The young pirate buried his face on Zoro's shoulders. "So what happened? Did you all fall on your face or something and missed the roll call to come here?" Naturally, Luffy was all smiles when he asked.

"Blame the shitty cook. He said you went off after something completely different. Probably needed to clean the wax out of his ears." Because, Zoro was probably asleep at the time of the announcement. That or he was training or the like. "Got another question for you. Where the hell is here?"

"Ehh?" Luffy responded, pulling back a bit and looking eye to eye with Zoro. "Don't ya know where we are, Zoro? We're on this awesome ship in the middle of outer space!! See? Look!" And Luffy pointed up. The stars were indeed there despite the fact that there was a climate system here, but that's getting too technical. "Now that you're here, where are ya stayin', Zoro?"

"Staying? What do you mean, where am I staying?" Because, this was Zoro and he didn't get the idea of having a room. "Does it say someplace on this paper?" He held it out to Luffy, because it was some paper he was given when he first arrived (which he didn't know how or when that happened.)

"Uhh..." Luffy took the paper from Zoro and took a gander at it. "Huh? Hey Zoro. It says here Eridanos 12. I stay on the same deck! That's awesome!!!! This place has the most awesomest beds and it's so cool to jump on!!" Luffy became so ecstatic when he learned that Zoro was staying on the same floor as he is. "This is gonna be even more awesomer!! I'm already staying with Ace, but woo-hoo!" Luffy stood up and extended a hand to Zoro. "Come on! I'll show ya your room. You got a card too, right?" If Zoro didn't have a keycard yet, one should magically be present in his pocket.

"Is that what that was? I thought it was some useless piece of wood, so I threw it someplace." Zoro shrugged his shoulders at that. Who would need something like that anyway? Of course, he probably didn't realize that it had his picture on it or that it was important. "Did I need it for something?"

"Oh no, Zoro!" Luffy expressed disappointment. "Where did ya throw it? It looks something like this, right?" He dug into his pocket and found his own and showed it to Zoro. "Uhh.. the doors here work kinda weird. I'd show ya but you threw your card someplace. Where did ya throw it last?" Now, he was determined to find that stupid thing. Stupid is as stupid does. But then Luffy somehow found it funny. "Haha. Zoro you're so dumb. What if your life depended on that card? Would you be dead then? Ehehehehe. 'Cuz you kinda need it to buy stuff and open up your room. Once we find it, I'll show ya." But it was now look for Zoro's keycard tiem.

"Why would I need that little card to open a door. That's what a doorknob is for." Zoro shrugged. "And I know where I tossed it." Sighing faintly he started walking down the parks path. He threw it someplace next to the lake, so it should still be in the area. "How am I supposed to know these things?"

"It kinda says it right here, genius!" Luffy said, pointing to the bottom part of the paper that Zoro had handed to Luffy. So they arrive at the lake, and it didn't seem like it was anywhere in sight. "Uhh... so where did ya toss it, Zoro?" And Luffy wasn't about to jump in the lake. He can't swim and he isn't about to drown either. Unless Zoro wasn't against CPR... but Luffy doesn't like drowning in either case.

"I didn't throw anything into the water." Zoro pointed out before kneeling down to dig through the grass. "It's someplace in this area, we just need to dig it out.." Because, he wasn'g going to be on his hands and knees if Luffy wasn't going to help. "Why can't I just get a new one."

"'Cuz I kinda heard that it takes a LOOOOONG time to get one!" Luffy said, grinning. Yes Luffy was gonna help. He was just... gonna crawl on the grass now like a little kid as much as he was actually 19 years old. Crawling, he felt something touch his knee on the ground. "Uhh... Zoro?" Luffy asked, backing up a bit and picking up what seemed to be a credit card. Sure enough, there was a picture of Zoro on it and he was sleeping on it, and DROOLING. "I think this is it." When Luffy took note that he was drooling, he began his burst of utter laughter. "Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Zoro, you look REALLY STUPID on this card! Ahahahahahaha!"

Oh, now it was on. Luffy would find himself in a headlock. "Hey! I wasn't even awake when they did that, it's not my fault! Like yours is any better." It was probably a picture of Luffy with a whole chicken in his mouth. Letting go of the future pirate king he took a moment to look the card over. "Well...if this thing is how I get into my room..I guess I'll have to keep it."

When Luffy was in that headlock, he was laughing the entire time. When he was finally let go, he shook his head off and stretched a bit. "Yeah, you kinda have to. Well, let's get goin! I got food with me that I was gonna give to Ace, but are ya hungry? We can eat it at your place, Zoro!" What an awesome idea, Luffy thought to himself. "C'mon! I'll show ya a bit! This place is REALLY COOL!"

As much as Zoro had liked the peace and quiet of having Luffy gone (for who knows how long.), the swordsman did miss his captain. Luffy was the only reason (outside of the whole become the greatest swordsman spiel) that he had become a pirate. "This place is odd. Too many weird lights and people." That was part of the reason Zoro had ended up in the park.

"But this place is awesome though, Zoro! Have ya been to that place called the amusement park?! It's sooooooooo cool! We should go one day! It'll be awesome!" Luffy was full of ideas today now that Zoro was here. For some reason, he really didn't think about the others too much. Like Sanji. And Nami. And Robin. He misses Chopper, but Zoro seems to be taking all of Luffy's attention now. "Let's go to your place, Zoro! Then we can eat!" Then Luffy lead the way to the elevators.

"Err..okay." Amusement park? What the heck? This place was completely ass-backwards to Zoro. Though, one of the first things he noticed was that there were no wanted pictures here. No Military, no random pirates...and... his swords were missing. "Luffy, I need to be serious for a moment. Where are my swords...?"

Once again, Luffy took that paper that was given to Zoro and shoved it in his face. "It says it right here, Zoro!" And pointed on the back side of the paper where it looks like Zoro had signed the paper. "They got somethin here about weapons and stuff. I mean look. I can't stretch out my arms anymore!" Luffy tried to stretch them out as rubber but they only stretched out so much. "They said somethin about special powers and weapons taken away here. It kinda sucks, but I guess they kinda have to do that because this is paradise?" Of course, Luffy didn't really get it, but he was always too distracted to care about his powers being taken away. When he did go home, he had them back so he didn't really think anything of it. And hello elevator. Luffy pushed the down button and waited for it.

Wait wait waaaait. "What the hell is this thing!?" Zoro stared at the glowing button and at the doors and decided he didn't want any part of it. It looked like a jail cell to him, that or some kind of box of death. "What happened to taking the stairs...or jumping." Certainly seemed safer to him.

"They don't have stairs, Zoro!" DING! The elevator quote/unquote magically opened and a few people came out of it. Some dingbat girls came out and waved to both Luffy and Zoro and laughed. Of course, Luffy smiled and waved back, then grabbed Zoro's arm which would theoretically leave him no choice but to go in. "Zoro, let's go! This thing's gonna close on us!"

Of course, once he was dragged into the elevator, Zoro immediately wanted to get out. The box was moving downwards and it felt a bit like falling. "Luffy, if I die in this thing, I'm going to kill you." Yeah, that made perfect sense and nevermind the fact that Zoro was back against the corner like something was going to jump out of the ceiling...

Watching Zoro looking like he was shrinking on the corner was funny to Luffy. "Ahahaha. Zoro, you look dumb. Like you're seasick or something!" Luffy pressed the button that said "ERIDANOS" on it since that's what floor they were on. "Come look at this, Zoro! When you go inside this magic door, you gotta tell it where you wanna go. Because your paper thing said 'Eridanos', you gotta press that thing so it lights up so this door goes down! Easy as cake, right?" Luffy grinned at Zoro and the elevator dinged, stopping, then opening to the Eridanos deck. "Here we are! C'mon, Zoro! Let's go to your place!" And Luffy grabbed his arm and rushed to his place.

Oh, Zoro had no problems with getting the hell out of Dodge (or the elevator in this case). "Why the hell do I have to use that thing. It's evil...or just dangerous. Depends on how you look at it." He'd rather be diving in the stupid diving suits than going up and down on the death elevator. "Wait. So, I get my own room?"

"Zoro, quit being dumb! It didn't do anything to ya! Let's go!" And down the hall they went. But before that, Luffy pointed to the door that had '1' on it. "This is my house. It's so awesome! Even more awesome that I live with Ace! But he's probably asleep." Then onwards deeper into the hallway. 9. 10. 11. Then 12. "Ahh, here it is!" Luffy put the bag down and showed him how to do it. "See this thing right here? Put your card in there until you see a green light. Then you'll hear a click, and your door is unlocked! Simple!"

"Simple he says." Kicking the door once, just to make sure it wasn't some evil demon door, Zoro went ahead and stuck the keycard in and waited for the light (good thing he wasn't color blind, huh). Once the door clicked he went ahead and pushed it open. "Well...that was easy enough..."

"You gotta use that card to buy stuff, too!" Luffy told him as he went inside. "Ya know, one of these days, you're gonna get a roommate but it looks like your by yourself for now. Let's eat! I'm starvin!" Heh, but Luffy was always hungry even when he was full. But he's had stomachaches lately since he wasn't so much rubber as he was more real now. While it didn't disappoint him too much, it looked like his metabolism kept up with him. Which was a good thing because it seemed to be a hobby for Luffy to eat.

"What kind of magic card is this thing? What happened to carrying money around..." It just didn't make sense to Zoro. But, it seemed like it would be something he'd have to get used to. And then another thing hit him. "Wait wait wait... what do you mean by roommate?"

If this was the same layout as his own place, then Luffy would show Zoro there were two big rooms in this place. "So you gotta pick which room you want. I dunno who's gonna be your roommate later, but you're by yourself for now." Luffy then dashed to the kitchen and got the food out. "I dunno why we can't just carry money around. Probably because they'd get stolen. Hehe. C'mon, Zoro! Let's eat!" Mmm, orange chicken had always been good to Luffy's tastebuds.
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