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// I'm a horse...WHAT!? 
// Story: The Lost Swordsman 
// by Star Shadow 
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	Fighting rocked the Thousand Sunny as the Straw Hat Pirates clashed with a rival crew. The enemy’s ship had been destroyed long ago so the crews were now restricted to the Sunny’s deck. Although each member of the Straw Hats were powerful in their own right, they were outnumbered by a group of slightly less powerful pirates. The fights were spread out all over the deck of the Sunny but the biggest was happening right in the middle of the lawn deck between Monkey D. Luffy and the captain of the Void Pirates, Torane Rikaru. 
Rikaru was a man of over nine feet tall and a member of the Longarm tribe. He had pales skin, long black hair that reached his mid back, and was wearing a completely black outfit that blended in with itself to where no one could tell where one part of his clothing ended and another began. He was apparently a master of haki as he kept dodging each of Luffy’s attack; only dodging. It was starting to make Luffy angry how this guy wouldn’t fight him and instead kept provoking him with a wide grin and comments. 
"What’s a matter Straw Hat!? Can’t you hid little old me” laughed Rikaru as he barely dodged another of Luffy’s punches.
“Stand still!” yelled Luffy.
“Well since you asked so nicely” shrugged Rikaru as he finally stopped moving. When Luffy went to attack him however, the Void captain muttered something under his breath and a colorful circle opened up in his torso. Luffy; unable to stop his rocket attack in time, found both of his stretched out arms stuck in the man’s body and could feel himself being pulled towards his enemy. 
“W-what the hell!” screamed Luffy as he desperately tried to pull himself free. 
Nearby, Roronoa Zoro heard his captain’s yell and when he saw that Luffy was being pulled into the enemy pirate decided to finish his own enemy quickly and help his captain. Unfortunately his opponent was a cloaked man who appeared to be fighting with some sea-stone chains and said man had both of the Santoryu user’s katana wrapped up in those damn chains. Zoro knew that he could cut his way through the chains; training with Mihawk for those two long years had taught him how to cut through plenty of enemies, but after seeing how quickly Luffy was being dragged into the seemingly empty rival captain Zoro had to make a choice. 
It didn’t take him long however as the swordsman released his grip on Sandai Kitetsu and Shusui and dashed towards his captain. Thanks to his speed Zoro was able to reach Luffy just in time and use his monstrous strength to help yank his captain away from the enemy. Unfortunately, Zoro seemed to have used a bit too much strength and once his captain was free, Luffy was sent flying into a nearby wall with his head going through it.
“Ahhhh Sunny!” screamed Franky who, along with the others who’ve seemingly finished up their fights, reached the various guard rails surrounding the lawn deck.
“Zoro you idiot!” yelled Nami.
“What if you killed Luffy!” panicked Usopp.
“Ahhhh, I can’t cure death!” cried Chopper.
“He’s rubber you idiots!” yelled Sanji. Usopp and Chopper released a sigh at being reminded of that. 
“Unless a splintered plank pierced his brain and killed him” stated Robin morbidly in her usual calm demeanor.
“Yohohoho! You’re so dark Robin-san!” laughed Brook.
“Would you idiots just calm down!” yelled Zoro, as he took Wado Ichimonji out of his mouth and re sheathed it. They then all saw Luffy pushing against the wall trying to yank his head out from the hole. “There you see, he’s fi-“ Zoro stopped mid-sentence as he slashed away one sea-stone chain only to be constricted by a number of others. The swordsman looked over and saw the cloaked, chain using enemy that he’d been fighting before smirking at him. “Damn it! You piece of sh-“
“Body slam!” yelled a familiar voice from behind Zoro but when the swordsman turned around to see who had yelled all he saw was black.
Zoro groaned as a splitting head ache coursed through his head. In an attempt to at least calm the quaking in his head the swordsman reached a hand up to his fore head. It was then that Zoro felt something that wasn’t a hand touch his forehead, it was definitely attached to him from what he could feel past his head pain but it wasn’t what was supposed to be his hand. Finally deciding to open his eyes Zoro found himself staring straight at a dark green furred hoof. “Great, I’m a horse now” muttered the green horse. He then sprung up to his back hooves only to fall onto all fours. “What!?” he yelled.
After a few minutes of trying to figure this out with a still pulsing headache the swordspony looked around and saw a nearby pond. Trotting over to it the former man looking over his reflection and saw that he was covered in a dark green coat with his hair and new tail retaining his usual moss green color. His scars were all still there including the one over his left eye as well as his bandanna; which was tied around his left fore hoof, his three sheaths, although they were all empty, and his haramaki was still around his stomach. It was went he looked a little closer in the water though that he saw a familiar white katana laying beneath it.
“At least I still have this” he sighed but when he tried to grab it however he remembered that he didn’t have thumbs anymore. “Damn it” growled Zoro before he breathed in and plunged his head into the water. After only a few seconds of grabbing Wado with his mouth, (looks like his fighting style came in handy) the green maned stallion placed it, with some difficulty back into its sheath. Glancing around once more, Zoro saw that there was a dirt road nearby and decided that that’s where he should go. “The others can come find me when they get here so I might as well find out where the hell I am.” With that the swordspony started his trek down the road to where ever it would lead him. Until he walked right off of the road a few minutes later thinking that it moved somewhere else on him.
- Back with the Straw Hats
All of the Straw Hats; except for Luffy who was still stuck in the wall, stood in shock as their green haired nakama seemingly vanished beneath the enemy captain. Said captain was cackling happily at having gotten one of the infamous Straw Hat Pirates while his cloaked subordinate simply smirked. “W-w-where the hell did Zoro go?” stuttered Usopp.
“What did you do to him you bastards?” asked Franky in a rage after he got over his shock.
“Hololololo!” laughed Rikaru. “I sent him to one of my many different dimensions. For you see I ate the Void-Void Fruit, which allows me to open portals to a huge number of different dimensions and I just sent your friend to one of them. Hololololo!”
“Well now you’re going to bring him back” demanded Sanji. “Unless you want me to broil you alive.”
“Perhaps I could assist you in tenderizing the meat Sanji-san” offered Robin as she bloomed hands all over their remaining enemies; ready to break them at any time, with three hands placed over the mouth of Rikaru to keep him from using his devil fruit ability to summon another void.
“And I could help with the dicing” suggested Brook seriously. “Yohohoho! That would be fun!”
“Alright guys you’re all scaring me a little” stated Nami, freaked out by her friend’s dark suggestions.
“Us too” whimpered a shivering Usopp and Chopper.
They were all interrupted though when Luffy finally freed himself from the wall. “Ouch ouch ouch!” cried Luffy. “Thanks for helping me Zoro but you didn’t have to throw me into a wall.” It was then that the straw hat boy noticed that his first mate was nowhere to be seen. “Hey, where’s Zoro guys?” When all of his nakama pointed at the two restrained enemies then Luffy got made. 
“Where’s my nakama!?”