Carry On The Will ( luffy x oc female )

chapter 52

the course was set and now the sunny was sailing towards the island of maps. robin had gone through some of her language books and translated the old native language writing on the map and they had found out the name of that island.

Mercatora. The island was named after a legendary cartographer who was the first person to map out the new world. they are expecting to reach the island by tomorrow and as its a map island they will definitely be able to find a way to get to the next island of their route. 

nami was in the library excitedly making a lit of things she wanted to buy on the island. robin was on the main deck reading a book, jimbe was relaxing too but still by the helm. sanji and Jules were in the kitchen. as Rose was busy playing with luffy Jules was free and didn't know what to do to kill time, so she decided to help sanji. and who was sanji to say no after Jules insisted so much. though not as good as himself but Jules was quite good at cooking. she was easily able to understand sanjis' working method and smoothly work with it. 

franky and ussop were now on the main deck excited to show their newest creation. chopper had come out of his office too to see the new machine. luffy was very excited and was now waiting with anticipation to see what the new machine will do. 

just as franky was going to turn on the machine two hand sprouted from the machine and held his hand stopping him. he looked confused at robin who was now looking at them too. " franky does this new machine of yours explodes, burst into flames, throws things around, goes out of control, cuts things, can potentially kill someone normal?" robin asked looking dead in franky and ussops eye.

" well there are chances that if it fails things might get out of control but not bad enough to kill anyone." ussop said a little worried. " well even then I think Jules would prefer her daughter in one piece and without any injuries." robin said pointedly looking at Rose who was now in Luffy's arms excitedly giggling looking at the cool machine. " robin is right luffy, you should keep her away from here while they test the machine." chopper said looking up at luffy.

" but look at her, she looks so excited to see it too." luffy said whining and everyone there saw how the little girls eyes were sparkling and looked as if they were stars as she looked at the invention. " you can just stay on the upper deck luffy, form there you two can see it at a safe distance." robin suggests. luffy's face falls a bit but he understands that Rose's safety is important.

luffy really wants to see the machine up close but he can't keep Rose alone on the upper deck and Rose won't leave him alone so he goes with her too. standing by the railing the duo watches as Franky again is about to press the button. Rose is watching from between the railing gap with eyes wide open, not wanting to miss a second. 

as soon as Franky presses the button the machine makes some noise and then beautiful and fluffy white flakes fall all around the deck. its snow. its fake snow which looks and feels just like the real one but does not melt. it will vanish cause of sublimation in 4 hours. The fake snow is completely safe and it also binds together to be able to make a snowman. Franky explains.

as soon as Luffy hears the word snow with excitement he jumps up in the air and lands on the piled-up snow on the main deck, leaving Rose on the upper deck. robin too looks mesmerized by the beautiful snow and is even more amazed when Ussop adds some kind of liquid to the machine and soon the white now turns pink. 

this results in a squeal from Chopper, as it reminds him of his father figure. " this truly is beautiful Franky, ussop." Robin says. 

on the upper deck, Rose squeals in excitement at seeing the snow. and is even more happy when it turns pink. jumping up and down she tries to catch the snow but it always misses from her hands. rose is happily laughing and giggling though, as if she is in a sugar rush. she is so excited that she doesn't even realize where she is going Jumping around. 

nobody sees as she moves towards the stairs that lead down to the main deck. well except for one person. and before anyone and especially he little girl could process what happened she is screaming but the screaming too suddenly stops. 

the whole deck is silent but he can hear his heartbeat in his ears. an old feeling he didn't know he hadn't forgotten comes rushing back as the future greatest swordsman held the small frame of the little two-year-old in his shaking hand.  Rose just some centimeters away from hitting the stairs. 

zoro can feel it, his hands getting cold and a shiver runs down his spine as fear takes over him. he himself cant believe how much his hands are shaking as he brings the shocked little girl to his chest and hugs her tight. her soft figure and the way the little girl clutches his clothes in her hands tightly relaxes him a bit.

she is safe, she is alright, she is alive. she didn't fall down the stairs. she is in his arms safe and alive. very much alive. he can feel Rose sniffling in his chest, finally getting over the shock and the fear kicking in. her cries are muffled as she buries her face in Zoro's chest as he tightens his hold on her. " what were you thinking luffy, leaving her like this on the upper deck, alone. she is just a 2-year-old kid, what would have happened if she would have fallen down the stairs, do you have any idea how dangerous it was for her, she is just 2 year old, fall down those strains can do great harm to even a normal adult, imagine what would happen to a damn child, she could have......she could......she could have....she......." zoro doesn't finish his sentence. he just turns around and goes into the galley. he doesn't even notice Sanji and Jules standing by the galley door, who had come out when they heard Rose scream. 

When Zoro is out of sight everyone sighes. Jules shakes her head in confusion as she looks at the hands that had emerged on the stairs all this while. zoro had missed them. he hadn't seen them. he hadn't seen how before Rose could hit the hard surface Robin had sprouted her hands and was just about to catch Rose when Zoro had caught her. 

" what Zoro said is right luffy, you shouldn't have left Rose on the upper deck unsupervised," Jules says looking at luffy who had shame written all over his face. if it was anyone else who was in place of rose luffy wouldn't have felt so guilty, but Rose was too precious to him. and he had done a mistake. he completely understood how dangerous it would have been if zoro hadn't have caught her in time or Robin hadn't have sprouted her arms. 

Jules could see Luffy drowning In guilt and she sighed. luffy was never the type of person to drown so much in guilt but Juels, Rose, and Ace were an exception to it. if felt guilty for a lot of things when it came to these three. " she is okay now luffy, no need to be so hard on yourself, just......just make sure things like this don't happen again. " looking into jules's eyes luffy can see the seriousness of her words so he gives her a bright smile. he promises her that such a mistake will never happen and Jules knows that Luffy will definitely keep that promise.