"Who is that guy? How did he get here? Why does he have wings like the ones we saw on Sky Island, and why has nobody mentioned this question since you brought him here?" Sanji bombarded Zoro with questions.
"Well, he's Mad Monk Urouge, one of the Supernovas from Sabaody Archipelago." Zoro explained.
"Sabaody, eh?" Sanji sighed as he exhaled more smoke.
"Hm. When he get his conscience back, I'll happily challenge him to a fight." Zoro brandished his new Black Blades.
"So, can you answer the rest of my questions?" Sanji started puffing his cigarette again.
"Kay'. For your second question, he just...fell out of the sky, and the trajectory at which he fell was directly onto me. I caught him and brought him here. Mind you, he weighs about our weight combined, and if you double that, you won't get anywhere near his weight." Zoro pointed towards Sanji and himself. Sanji just looked at his feet.
"For your third one, I have absolutely no idea how in the world he managed to gain a pair of wings like those; maybe he was born with them, maybe he's from a Sky Island? I haven't a clue. Why no one has mentioned these questioned since I brought him into the medbay, I have no clue, again." Zoro explained further.
Sanji and Zoro then looked at the sun as the remnants of it disappeared over the night sky as the starry halo that was the moon rose to the top of the everlasting space on Earth. A loud shout pierced the thoughts of the wings though.
"Oi, you two outside! Urouge just woke up!" Chopper screamed.
-
"He did?" Zoro queried.
"Hm." Sanji affirmed without directly saying it.
"I'm going to go see him." Zoro immediately visioned.
"No, you stupid Marimo! He's just come back from rehabilitation of his fall!"
"Don't care." Zoro said simply.
"Nope! You're staying right here, where I can see you!" Sanji screamed.
Everybody was surprised to see him inside even though they also weren't surprised to see him for what he was actually worth. The first mate on their ship, contrary to popular belief, wasn't that smart.
I'm just kidding; Zoro couldn't tell his left between his right.
Dumbo.
I mean, if your own navigator tells you to walk up stairs to find your crewmate, the last thing that you should be doing is running off in the other direction like you don't care.
Who do you think you are, Roronoa Zoro?
"Shut up, stupid author. Don't break the fourth wall." Zoro departed.
Yeah, that's true, I'm-
. . .
Wait.
I created this book. You are alive in this book because of me. Now know your place, you stupid character who can't tell his left from his right.
"What did you say, you-" Zoro screamed.
Shut.
Up.
Unless you want to be erased from this book, I suggest you stay put. And I'll do it in the worst possible way.
Zoro growled, and he huffed as he walked away into the doctor's cabin, to see Urouge. Sanji snickered the tiniest bit of noise as he brought out a cigarette.
THE SAME GOES FOR YOU, VINSMOKE.
"Don't call me that ever again!" He screamed.
And what are you going to do about it?
You gonna cry?
"Aaarrrggghhh!" Sanji screamed as he fled into the doctor's cabin along with Zoro.
Yeah, you better run.
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"You feeling better?" Zoro asked. Urouge, who had opened his eyes so slowly that Zoro could've sworn that they weren't even open until a split second later.
"Who're you?" A low, deep voice rumbled.
"The guy who saved your-" He was then cut off by the high pitched shouting voice of his captain who had smashed the door of the medical bay down and jumped onto the bed that Urouge was lying on.
"Hey, hey, hey! How're you feeling?" He screamed. Urouge grew an irk mark on his forehead and slowly got up, his body and face still covered in bandages from his huge fall onto the Thousand Sunny, who's sunflower heading was looking pretty damn beat up from its time with the Straw Hats.
His feet quaked against the creaking floorboards underneath the Straw Hats feet. His wings that DEFINITELY looked like the ones from Skypiea.
They also looked pretty beat up, all of his tenders becoming one with the wooden floorboards.
"Hey, you shouldn't be doing that, you just got-" Chopper was interrupted by Urouge once again.
"Shut up, scum. You don't know what happened up there in the sky." Urouge spoke for the first time in the time that he had been on the Straw Hats ship.
"Um...who're you again?" Luffy, who was still on top of Urouge's bed, questioned. Urouge rolled his eyes in an unfashionable manner and just spoke calmly, not getting angered by Luffy's ignorance.
"I'm the Mad Monk Urouge. I'm a Gemini that's born on the 7th of August, I-"
"Aren't Gemini's born on the-"
"Don't interrupt me, Pirate Hunter. You, along with that infernal raccoon dog are-"
"I'm a reindeer!"
"-Scum that can't even manage what I've just gone through." Urouge finished, after much tribulation.
"Uh huh. So, something bad happened in that stupid sky island of yours?" Sanij, who had just appeared, stated.
"Vinsmoke." Urouge said. Sanji tensed after hearing this name.
"Don't-"
"-Mention the name? Well, I'm sorry that I touched a nerve there, but I'm pretty pissed that everybody up in the sky wouldn't agree with. I ain't having the best day so far, you know? I've told you that pretty handily about this. Those traitorous bastard in the sky took over my pirate crew and through me off of the islands. That's how you-" He nodded to Zoro.
"-Found me plummeting down towards you." He narrated.
"Which traitorous bastards are you talking about?" Luffy asked, who had then gotten off of the bed.
"There was a guy wearing a sarong under his legs, and he held a trident in his hands, with the earlobes of this man stretching up to his abs." Urouge explained.
At once, every Straw Hats' brains were racked with memories of their visit to Skypiea.
Enel...
Or not?
"Did this person say his name?" Luffy questioned, in a more serious voice.
"No...but all I heard was that he was muttering about revenge, and the moon, and then he linked it to the 'stupid golden bell'. Why?" Urouge asked.
"We think we know who the person who attacked you was." Sanji affirmed.
"Who?"
"Enel."
"Who?"
"Enel." Sanji enunciated more clearly.
"WHO?"
"ENEL!"
"Asked?"
"What?" Sanji was confused.
"Who asked?" Urouge wittily responded.
"Why, you-"
"What I'm saying is that talking about it won't be as good as doing it."
"I-" Sanji was interrupted by Robin.
"So who was this other person? You did use the word 'they', after all." Robin asked. Urouge was frozen on sight. His eyes looked like they were about to cry tears of absolute loss. He inhaled heavily and exhaled like their was no tomorrow.
"Funny enough, the last thing I heard before I went unconscious was that infernal man's voice, and that cigar that blew smoke into my vasectomies. He called out to me, just before I had fallen off of the cliff of heaven up above us. His chilling voice ran through my spine..." Urouge recounted, as Zoro and Sanji exchanged looks.
"He looked like my good friend...Bege." Urouge looked depleted when he released that INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT piece of information.
"He looks like Bege?" Luffy quickly exclaimed.
"Wait-"
"No, no, no, no, no, are you saying that Club-"
"That's impossible, there's no way he made it on time." An abundance of voices were throw around the room, while Urouge had broken out from his stupor and just looked confused at the Straw Hats reactions.
"What're you talking ab-" Urouge was interrupted by Chopper, who had shoved him back down in his bed.
"Urouge, answer this question in full honesty." Chopper started to breathe a bit more heavily.
Urouge widened his eyes a fraction.
"What was the second capturers name?"
"My memory's still foggy, but I think I heard the words Tornado and Club. Does that mean anything to you?" Urouge asked, and the Straw Hats stiffened at the sound of the name 'Tornado' and 'Club'.
"Did this person have any type of ship near the place where you were beaten up?" Robin chimed in.
"No, but I remember seeing a hot air ba-"
"A HOT AIR BALLOON?!" Luffy screamed.
Their worst, (eh, kinda), nightmares had come true.
They would have to go back to Skypiea.
"Dammit." All of the crew said together.