Sep 04, 2008 23:14
Wally woke as the intercom crackled to life and was surprised to find himself back in his room. The last thing he'd remembered was feeling relieved at finally beating off those dragonfly-lizard things. There'd been that weird intercom message, then... he wasn't quite sure what had happened after that, but he was certain it hadn't involved falling
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raine,
anya,
kenshin,
homura,
senna,
tsubaki,
adelheid,
yuna,
anise,
johnny c.,
yuuri,
melissa,
danny phantom,
tony castaway,
wolfram,
allen,
luffy,
seiya,
miku,
leon (so2),
matsuda,
reno,
kristoph,
atoli,
zelnick,
rukia,
zim,
hikaru,
mikami,
the flash,
chopper,
kenren,
guy,
hinamori momo,
yuffie,
manticore,
tokito,
zoro,
okita,
captain america,
sai,
leon magnus,
sheena,
yue,
sanosuke,
aidou,
kaoru,
statesman,
tyki,
hohenheim,
kratos,
dante,
alice cullen
Once the Cat Lady woke him up, he found out it was time to go to Doyleton again. "It'll be wonderful, Timothy," she told him. "Fresh air, lots of interesting places to see, and even townspeople to talk to. Doesn't that sound nice?"
But for him, the trip to Doyleton had one important drawback. "I can get two sacks for breakfast this time, right?" he asked in a dead serious tone, and he held up two fingers to emphasize his point.
"No, no," she gently laughed as she led him to one of the buses. "That wouldn't be fair to all the others, now, would it?" Then she handed him his (one) sack and sent him off into his own seat.
The pirate's lips protruded into a small pout as he glared at the sack, but before he even realized it, he'd opened it up and started chowing down on his muffin. Man, nightshift always left him feeling hungry.
He gazed around the bus, and for a moment, Luffy seriously considered sharing a seat with someone so he get some of their food. The Cat Lady had said he couldn't have two sack lunches, but there were ways, dammit.
((For Zoro.))
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Groggily rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, Zoro climbed one of the buses at random. Luffy's straw hat was pretty easy to find in the cramp space and, clutching his bag of food in one hand, the swordsman slowly and unwittingly dragged it to an almost certain doom.
Plopping down next to his captain, Zoro grunted out something that could have been a very gruff-sounding "Hey". It felt like he'd just been with the other man the night before but Zoro, despite what he sometimes insisted on, would never seriously admit to being tired of his nakama or their company.
Of course, that particular sentiment came to him before he looked up and saw the hungry look in Luffy's eyes. He subtly shifted his hold on the paper bag, placing it in the hand farthest from his captain's sticky fingers in the hopes that it would help him better defend against whatever might or might not be coming. Not that there ever was a good defense against Luffy when it came to food. Sanji's refrigerator knew that lesson well.
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"Hey," he greeted as the green-haired man sat beside him. "Haven't seen you in awhile. Have you been sleeping this whole time, Zoro?" It might have been some light-hearted teasing from most people, but the captain's tone was serious as he gave the other man a soft poke on his forehead.
If he wasn't training or fighting something, that's what he usually did, so Luffy wouldn't put it past him to just sleep and sleep and sleep when it suited him.
"But!" he added brightly. "We've got metal, right? When are you gonna get your sword?" Then, his eyes widening with excitement, he leaned forward. "Or did you get it already?! You never told me you sleep walk!"
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"I was sleeping, yeah." he then answered, nonchalantly looking through his breakfast choices while admitting to having slept in for a whole day. "I don't have the sword yet. Gotta wait a few more days until my turn or something." Weird system. Zoro munched tediously on his chosen granola bar.
"What've you been doing?" The swordsman looked over at his captain. Luffy... looked like Luffy. That too was a good thing as far as Zoro could tell.
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"I wonder if it's possible for anyone to sleep eat," he thought aloud. If that were the case, why the hell wasn't he taking advantage of that? Then he wouldn't have to wake up so damn hungry before breakfast!
Waiting for their turn, huh? Usopp or someone had said Roy had a pretty long line going for him, right? It sucked, but he guessed it was only fair.
"I beat someone up last night," he replied, his face looking a little more serious than normal. He didn't feel bad about what he'd done -- hell, the bastard deserved it. But it was annoying he'd spent the whole night roughing him up. He'd known right away that trying to get him to explain why he'd back-stabbed them was a waste of time.
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Luffy beating someone up didn't strike Zoro as an odd thing but the serious expression on his captain's face was more than enough to alert him to the fact that this wasn't just a "he hit me, I hit him" kind of situation. Considering the way their crew had been pulled into Landel's, Zoro's first thought on the matter was that it had been someone from their past (or, possibly, future.)
Not that Zoro thought it was likely that Luffy regretted anything about what had happened but, all the same...
"Anyone special?"
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When the swordsman asked about who it was, he grew quiet for a moment. "Glasses Guy," he responded. "Crane. You met him once, even if you don't remember it. Anyway, he was a bastard, so Brock and I beat him up." Actually, he probably told Zoro about him before now.
"He sounds like he'll keep being a bastard," he added, though he knew he wouldn't feel like wasting his time hitting someone like that everyday.
The pirate slurped on his juice and fished around the bag for some apple slices.
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