The Quirk's of Fate

3:27 A.M is what was displayed in Zoro's clock when he heard a knock on the door. It was thundering outside and Zoro wasn't doing much. He was smoking a cigar while drinking rum. He was just thinking about the future and what it had to hold. It was one of those night to contemplate about those things. 'Who the hell is it?' Zoro thought.

Soon as he heard the heard the knock, he grabbed his desert eagle and his knife. He dimmed the lights all the way down and peeked out the window to see who it was. It was Paulie. Zoro had not seen Paulie a couple months. Zoro noticed that he was holding a gun in his hand and there was blood all over both hands. Paulie and Zoro used to be friends and Paulie also helped him with the business. Zoro wasn't sure of Paulie's intentions due to his attire and time of arrival.

"Are you here to talk? Or to kill me?", Zoro asked him behind the door without hesitation.

"Iceberg was killed", he said with a sad emotion. Iceberg was a major political figure and the CEO of Galley La, which makes cars and other vehicles. Iceberg was a big part of Zoro's success in the early stages of business. He lent him startup money and turned a blind eye to his activities. He helped Zoro's confidentially and was a major reason that Zoro was under the radar as a drug kingpin. They also became good friends. The news of his death hit Zoro hard. He was beyond pissed but kept his cool. All the memories of Iceberg flashed through his mind.

With that, he let Paulie in. He explained with detail exactly what happened. "Iceberg's political rival was pestering him about some deals. I wasn't sure exactly what the deal's were but they did involve crime."

"Who was this rival?" Zoro asked.

"Spandan", Paulie replied. Zoro knew who he was. He was active in various government roles and politics but many people didn't know the corruption that was involved with him. Zoro, being involved heavily in the world of crime, knew many of his deeds. Spandam had a secret group of guys that would frame/kill other people that Spandam felt were a threat to his succes.

"Spandam and Iceberg had some sort of disagreement", Paulie continued. "The day after their disagreement, someone broke into Spandam's home and stole some TV's, busted some windows and stole other possessions. On top of all that, they teid Spandam's wife and daughter along with Spandam himself. Then they proceeded to beat all 3 of them with baseball bats". Zoro knew Iceberg wouldn't do that. Even Zoro wouldn't commit crimes against kids. 'Those guys are messed up', he thought to himself.

"But it wasn't Iceberg! If he needed someone beaten up, he would call me! And he wouldn't hurt the wife or the kids!" Paulie said. He was enraged and at this point, he was yelling. Paulie was Iceberg's most trusted Subordinate and friend. Zoro knew how Paulie was feeling. The look in Paulie's eye told Zoro that Paulie was going to retaliate.

"Spandam thought it was Iceberg who was responsible. To get him back, Spandam sent his men to Iceberg's mansion to kill him. I was there too but there were 5 of them with guns and bats, I couldn't protect him. They beat me up and shot Iceberg", he said. "The police are there now."

"How many times did they shoot him?", Zoro asked.

"At least 6 times".

"What type of guns were they using", Zoro asked again while thinking of a method of retaliation.

"Sub-machines and pistols", Paulie replied.

After Zoro found out about the whole situation, Paulie and Zoro decided to get him back. They decided to meet back up the next morning with some more guys in order to discus the retaliation. Paulie left and Zoro locked his door and tried to sleep. It was hard to fall asleep after hearing about Iceberg's death. Zoro is usually able to fall asleep right away. Memories of him kept flashing through his mind. In addition, Zoro kept thinking of the retaliation. After a while, he finally dozed off to sleep.

The next morning, they met up again. Zoro brought Killer and Law with him. Law was also very well involved with Zoro's businesses and also a good friend of Zoro's. Paulie brought one of his friend as well, Lulu, who was also one of Iceberg's trusted men.

They went over the plan, it was simple. Paulie found out that Spandam is going to be at his house tonight. He wasn't scheduled for any sort of meetings or appearances. This meant that his group of men were probably going to stay with him.

While they were discussing, they were on their way to Zoro's warehouse, which contained some of Zoro's cars and weapons. Once they arrived, Zoro lead them to the back where he kept all weapons. They all picked a couple up and started loading them and getting them ready for use.

"So tonight we will head over to Spandam's house and sneak in through one of the windows. I have a tool that will help us cut open a window undetected", Paulie explained. "Then we find the Spandam and shoot him and run out of there".

"What about the other men he has with him?", Killer asked. "They won't be just standing around while Spandam gets gunned down."

"I know those guys carry some fire power", Law added. "They'll start firing at us. We should maybe find ways to avoid them".

"It doesn't matter if we shoot up his men, but our main target is Spandam", Paulie.

"Fuck that! Let's just bust through the front door and and start firing at anything that moves! That will catch them by surprise so they won't have time to react. We will be sure to kill Spandam that way!", Yelled Lulu. He was shaken and worked up about Iceberg's death. He wanted retaliation in a major way.

Zoro got up suddenly. "See there is a problem with that. We aren't killing Spandam's kid. He'll be in the house with him and we aren't killing the kid for no reason", Zoro exclaimed. Zoro was not willing to hurt the kid at all. "There's one person I'm looking to hit and that's Spandam. We're not gonna waste any time or bullets on the others, especially a kid."

"You're right, sorry I wasn't thinking. He has a little daughter, we won't hurt her", Lulu quickly assured.

"So we will go in there through the window and get Spandam and break out the door", Paulie stated.

After gathering the weapon's, loading them, and finalizing the plan, they drove back to Zoro's house. After that, they all drove off to carry on the day. They were to meet back up later that night at a restaurant. Zoro drove home from his warehouse in an ordinary car. This would help them them below the radar and keep away suspicion.

Zoro took another nap. He wanted to be at his best later that night. It has been a long time since Zoro had participated on such dangerous activity, and for some reason, he had a bad feeling. Usually, all the dangerous stuff was taken care of by the people who work under him, such as Franky. Shootouts were very rare for Zoro. He knew how to minimize and resolve problems or to eliminating them without risk.

4 hours later, Zoro woke up with a bad dream. It wasn't very clear but in the dream, Zoro was putting a flower on a grave. Then all of a sudden everything went black and fountains of blood started squirting out of the ground. He heard screams and cries. It wasn't as much of a nightmare as it was a disturbing dream.

He got dressed and left his house to take care of some things. First, he visited some of his prostitutes and checked on them. Then, he visited some of his underlyings. For some reason, he felt like something bad might happen later that night. He wanted to make sure he checks on them incase something bad does happen to him.

He went to a restaurant by himself later in the afternoon. He was eating lunch late because of his earlier activities and his nap. After lunch, he went out to the beach just to take a walk. This was odd oh him because he would never just go out there just for a 'walk'. Some of the girl's were trying to get his attention but he wasn't in the mood. He was just trying to clear his mind.

After the beach, he grabbed some flowers and went to the graveyard. He hasn't been to the cemetery in over a year. He would go there every once in a while to put flowers on his childhood friend, Kuina's grave. She died as a kid but her memory still lives with him. For some reason, he felt like visiting the grave today. While he was putting flowers on her grave, he remembered his dream he had. 'Maybe this is what the dream was telling me about', he thought to himself. The only problem was that the grave in her dream was different from Kuina's.

After the the cemetery, he had to go check on his store. There were a couple more hours before he was going to meet up with Paulie.

At the store, Luffy and Usopp were working their shift.

"Hey Zoro, what's up?", Luffy asked in cheerful way. Even though Zoro employed them, they were pretty good friends.

"Nothing much", he lied. He sat down and opened a bottle of rum.

"How do you make so much money if you drink half of your stock of booze?", Usopp asked, not knowing Zoro's true affiliations.

"I don't know", Zoro said as he finished the bottle within minutes of opening it. "Can you wake me up in exactly an hour and a half?"

"Yea sure", Luffy said while cleaning the countertop. With that, Zoro fell asleep.

Hour and a half later.

"Zoro wake up!", Luffy yelled as he shook his shoulder. Zoro fell asleep behind the counter. He was able to literally sleep anywhere he wanted.

"Huh?", he said. Then he remembered where he was. He had the same dream of putting a flower on a grave but this time, there was no blood or screams. He wondered what this dream could mean but he hoped it had nothing to do with what he was doing later that night.

He got up and grabbed another bottle. He had to go home and change and get ready to meet the other. They were first going to meet at a restaurant for dinner, then head over to Zoro's.

Zoro walked up to Usopp and Luffy, who were playing cards since there were no customers at the time. "Uh.. guys I have to go now", he said. He wanted to say some sort of goodbye incase things go sour later that night, but at the same time he didn't want them to suspect anything.

"Okay, we'll shut down for you when it's time", Usopp assured.

"Okay. And uh…you guys do a good job at running the store when I'm gone. Keep it up", he said. When he said keep it up, he meant that in a way that if he doesn't return , he wants them to keep it up.

After that, he got in his car and went back to his apartment to change. Then he met up with the four other guys that are involved in the plan. They ate dinner while discussing the plan one more time. Lulu was able to confirm that Spandam was in his house with his crew of guys. After dinner, they went to Zoro's apartment because that was where their weapons and car was.

Zoro picked up his loaded submachine gun and his usual desert eagle. He handed everyone some bullet proof vests. He remembered to bring his knife that he always had on him. They all loaded the 'normal looking' car and made their way to the location.

Spandam owned several houses and mansion's but the house that Zoro's group targeted was a large house that Spandam regularly lived in. It was not a mansion but it was larger than the average house. He prefered living here the most because it closer to town than some of his other houses. It gave him easy access to many important sights around the city.

Law was driving while Zoro sat beside him. The other 3 were in the back. They pulled up two houses down from Spandam's and parked across the street. They already decided that Law was going to stay in the car incase they need a quick escape. "Keep the engine running running", Zoro reminded him.

Paulie, Zoro, Killer, and Paulie got out of the car and put on their ski masks. Zoro still had a very bad feeling about it but it was too late to turn back. Paulie led them to the side of the house to a large window. There was nobody outside the house to stop them from sneaking around.

Paulie took out a unique type of saw and cut a large rectangle out of the window. Then they all sneaked in. They were inside of a dining room with dimmed lights. There was no one there, only a large table. They could hear the TV and also voices of men from the living room.

Zoro put his back against the wall that was beside the living room and peeked around it. He saw Spandam and some of his guys there. All of them had their backs to where Zoro was and his made it a lot easier for the hit. Zoro looked back at his comrades and gave a thumbs up to show that everything was in good position.

"I'll turn the corner and shoot and finish him, you guys turn with me and shoot the other men only if they draw their guns", he whispered. He didn't want his crew to be shooting at people that weren't even attacking.

Before he turned the corner to shoot, the images of Iceberg flashed through his head and he felt strong. He wanted to kill Spandam for his deceased friend. It felt right. Then his dream flashed through his mind again but he tried not to think much of it. He wanted Spandam to pay. Zoro wanted to make sure the last thing Spandam heard was Zoro's voice.

"Say goodbye, asshole!", Zoro yelled as he turned around the corner of the wall, followed by Killer and the others. Zoro pulled out his Desert Eagle and fired 6 shots right at Spandam. As the bullets were about to hit him, Spandam turned around holding his daughter as a shield….

It was a misty sunday, a couple weeks after the shootout. Zoro was putting a flower on a grave. He had done this many times before but this time was different. The grave didn't belong to Kuina. It belonged to Spandam's daughter.

That night, Zoro's bullets killed Spandam's daughter on the scene. He stopped firing as soon as he realized what he hit. The other men in Spandam's crew tried to draw their weapons but they were quickly gunned down by Paulie and the others. Spandam tried to escape but was also gunned down by Paulie. They escaped and drove off in the car they came in but Zoro couldn't remember exactly what happened after his bullets went into the girl. He wasn't in a depressed state of mind or anything but it definitely had some sort of effect on him. As Zoro walked away from the grave of the girl he killed, he thought of what he could have done differently to have avoided it. He concluded that it was just one of the many quirks of fate.

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