Yay, finally I have a drabble on topic!
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onepieceyaoi100Title:: The Kinetic Energy of Systems
Rating: G
Word Count: 298
Pairing: Not-yet-established Sanji/Zoro
Topic: Fast
I saw all those lovely drabble topics come and go, but my inspiration was being used up on a couple of longer fics. But now it's baaaaaaaaack...and on topic, amazingly enough. It may take a few tries for it to rev back up to pumping out coherent ficlets in 300 words or less, though.
The Kinetic Energy of Systems
It takes only one second for a standard-issue Marines rifle to fire a bullet across 400 meters.
"Turn!" there's an enemy gunman behind you- but Sanji doesn't have time to say all that before the trigger is pulled, just 'turn'.
It will take him a few minutes to realize he'd seriously not considered that turning around might get Zoro killed. In hindsight, 'duck' would have been much smarter; a potential wound wouldn't have been fatal from that angle. But still in the back. A swordsman's shame.
The speed of a signal through a nerve is only 100 meters per second, but it doesn't have to travel as far as a bullet. Nobody alive has been able to measure the life-and-death reaction time of a true kengo...as long as he reacts unerringly the split instant he hears the warning, without doubt or question, voluntarily neglecting the extremely skilled opponent with a large axe he is currently fighting.
It takes much less than a second for Zoro to spin around, Wadou parrying a danger only instinct and trust tell him is there.
It takes a fraction of a heartbeat - but Sanji's time has conveniently slowed to a crawl - for the bullet's trajectory to curve away from the blade as if that instinctive slash has murdered the laws of physics. Sanji remembers seeing Mihawk do the same to the bullets Krieg's pirate fired at him. He feels insanely, savagely proud and doesn't know why.
The bullet zips on to take Zoro's axe-wielding opponent in the chest. Even though the projectile is nowhere near him, it shatters something inside Sanji, too.
But it will take him a few weeks to come to terms with that. When he does, Zoro will smile faintly and ask him, what took you so long.
END
The present tense and myself are at all-out war, so corrections are much welcome.
Rating: G
Word Count: 298
Pairing: Not-yet-established Sanji/Zoro
Topic: Fast
I saw all those lovely drabble topics come and go, but my inspiration was being used up on a couple of longer fics. But now it's baaaaaaaaack...and on topic, amazingly enough. It may take a few tries for it to rev back up to pumping out coherent ficlets in 300 words or less, though.
The Kinetic Energy of Systems
It takes only one second for a standard-issue Marines rifle to fire a bullet across 400 meters.
"Turn!" there's an enemy gunman behind you- but Sanji doesn't have time to say all that before the trigger is pulled, just 'turn'.
It will take him a few minutes to realize he'd seriously not considered that turning around might get Zoro killed. In hindsight, 'duck' would have been much smarter; a potential wound wouldn't have been fatal from that angle. But still in the back. A swordsman's shame.
The speed of a signal through a nerve is only 100 meters per second, but it doesn't have to travel as far as a bullet. Nobody alive has been able to measure the life-and-death reaction time of a true kengo...as long as he reacts unerringly the split instant he hears the warning, without doubt or question, voluntarily neglecting the extremely skilled opponent with a large axe he is currently fighting.
It takes much less than a second for Zoro to spin around, Wadou parrying a danger only instinct and trust tell him is there.
It takes a fraction of a heartbeat - but Sanji's time has conveniently slowed to a crawl - for the bullet's trajectory to curve away from the blade as if that instinctive slash has murdered the laws of physics. Sanji remembers seeing Mihawk do the same to the bullets Krieg's pirate fired at him. He feels insanely, savagely proud and doesn't know why.
The bullet zips on to take Zoro's axe-wielding opponent in the chest. Even though the projectile is nowhere near him, it shatters something inside Sanji, too.
But it will take him a few weeks to come to terms with that. When he does, Zoro will smile faintly and ask him, what took you so long.
END
The present tense and myself are at all-out war, so corrections are much welcome.
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