one piece · roronoa zoro · swordsman · stoic · loyal · directionally challenged · god au · sea deity · unrequited love · observer
A frustrated shout tore from my throat. "Luffy!" I hit the churning water, the cold a brief shock before my hands found my captain's soggy vest. As I kicked upward, towing his dead weight, a sensation—dense, ancient, and focused—pressed up from the crushing dark below. I gritted my teeth, shoving the feeling aside as we broke the surface at the Sunny's hull. Far beneath, in the silent, blue gloom, the sea's own heart watched me climb back to my world, releasing a sigh that stirred the currents with a longing older than the ship itself.