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onepieceyaoi100He he~ might turn this one into a longer and most certainly more boring series, but we'll have to see. And eventually be bored.
Title: The End of Time
Rating: G
Word Count: 299
Pairing: Just-barely-there Zoro x Luffy
Topic:Strawberry cabbage rolls Time
Notes: Semi-AU/AR. Luffy discovers that Fate can’t save everyone.
x x x
And so it came to pass that Monkey D. Luffy left his home village three days too late.
It was an understandable delay- there was a giant beast of a sea creature hungrily awaiting the meal it almost had in ages past. Three days would see it off to wherever creatures of that size went to procreate.
Three days into his seventeenth year, he left as Fate asked. Still struggling to recreate a destiny completely destroyed, she managed to keep a whirlpool spinning for three days longer- a mop of pink hair obedient for three days more- a hefty woman pirate oblivious for three days too many—
But Fate was too busy with trivial matters to remember that men run on their own time.
~ ~ ~
It was a small, densely populated Marine town. One of those frequent phenomena of a group of people taking shelter under the watchful glare of justice’s hand. Its populace was very quietly insane, whispering to one another with glazed eyes.
The fetus of a pirate king never listened to the babble of townsfolk anyways, nor the nervous babbling from the young child beside him. All he could remember was something about a famous swordsman- he was going to be the Pirate King, so he needed a swordsman.
They hurried quickly to the Marine base and peered over the wall, where a large crowd had gathered. He was just in time to see the guns fire and blood shower forth like the sweetest rain.
And so it came to pass that Monkey D. Luffy left his home village three days too late and Roronoa Zoro was executed right on time as schedule called; all the utterly defeated pirate king could do was stare and wonder why he felt like he’d just lost everything.
x x x
Title: The End of Time
Rating: G
Word Count: 299
Pairing: Just-barely-there Zoro x Luffy
Topic:
Notes: Semi-AU/AR. Luffy discovers that Fate can’t save everyone.
x x x
And so it came to pass that Monkey D. Luffy left his home village three days too late.
It was an understandable delay- there was a giant beast of a sea creature hungrily awaiting the meal it almost had in ages past. Three days would see it off to wherever creatures of that size went to procreate.
Three days into his seventeenth year, he left as Fate asked. Still struggling to recreate a destiny completely destroyed, she managed to keep a whirlpool spinning for three days longer- a mop of pink hair obedient for three days more- a hefty woman pirate oblivious for three days too many—
But Fate was too busy with trivial matters to remember that men run on their own time.
~ ~ ~
It was a small, densely populated Marine town. One of those frequent phenomena of a group of people taking shelter under the watchful glare of justice’s hand. Its populace was very quietly insane, whispering to one another with glazed eyes.
The fetus of a pirate king never listened to the babble of townsfolk anyways, nor the nervous babbling from the young child beside him. All he could remember was something about a famous swordsman- he was going to be the Pirate King, so he needed a swordsman.
They hurried quickly to the Marine base and peered over the wall, where a large crowd had gathered. He was just in time to see the guns fire and blood shower forth like the sweetest rain.
And so it came to pass that Monkey D. Luffy left his home village three days too late and Roronoa Zoro was executed right on time as schedule called; all the utterly defeated pirate king could do was stare and wonder why he felt like he’d just lost everything.
x x x
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Date: 2006-08-11 05:56 pm (UTC)...ok... so not really, but... just... ouch. In such an understated way... God I just looked up and saw the last line again and MORE GOOSEBUMPS! You’re a cruel cruel person. ;_;
That said... Awesome way to emphasize just how much of the Strawhat’s journey relies on freak-chance, luck
(more goosebumps! what have you done to me?!?)and fate. I cry for Zoro and you should write more of this. ;_;no subject
Date: 2006-08-11 06:21 pm (UTC)That like didn't just pull my heart strings, it ripped them out.
Being too late and never having the chance to meet him at all, it's so much worse than just losing him.
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Date: 2006-08-11 07:16 pm (UTC)Wonderful. No words. And I love the usage of "The fetus of a pirate king". And the opening was brilliantly worded - I was reading and trying to recall at the same time what on earth was so important about those three days until he landed and then I was like... SHIT.
But damn. Arghargh. Best AR ever. Ever. Though really chilling. x___x; *applause*
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Date: 2006-08-12 02:05 am (UTC)To be just barely too late to meet someone who would change your life like that... wow. My mind short-circuits to think about how much of Luffy's future hinged on gaining his first crewmate. Amazing drabble. <3
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Date: 2006-08-12 03:07 am (UTC)--Oh. Wait.
*turns down the AC*
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Date: 2006-08-12 04:11 am (UTC)This is so good, but hurts so much.
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Date: 2006-08-12 01:27 pm (UTC)This was just... heartbreaking, and I have to agree with everyone else here - it's so much worse for them to have never met at all.