Part Of The Journey Is The End

It’s his first heat in years so he doesn’t even know he’s in heat. He just feels so so warm and has trouble focusing - he knows something isn’t right and tries to find his way back to the ship.

A pirate crew who was hiding out in the forest catches his scent and goes after him.

Zoro fights them off initially, but their scent is throwing him off and his body seems to want to cling onto them rather than to slash them. Zoro is so confused by all of this.

The captain is a dominant alpha and commands Zoro to Be Still and Zoro’s body freezes, to his horror. He can’t move and he kneels next at the captain’s next command.

Zoro has no idea what’s happening. His scent turns sour out of fear and the captain picks up on it but laughs, saying that Zoro doesn’t have to worry because they’ll give him a good time.

The captain straddles Zoro and Zoro is fighting with his own body because he wants him to get off but also it feels so good to have an alpha holding him, his body wants this and it feels right. A small voice at the back of his head holding his last shred of sanity is screaming at him to RUN.

The captain has his man to hold Zoro down <TW: attempted SA, skip to next point> while he takes his time playing with Zoro, overpowering him with his scent and Zoro is almost gone, reduced to a whimpering moaning mess beneath him until the captain bites him near the mating mark.

The pain and smell of blood suddenly brings Zoro back to his senses and he can focus long enough to throw off the men holding him and punches the captain off.

Zoro staggers to his feet and unsheathes his sword, but the captain gets angry and his pheromones almost overpowered Zoro again until he stabs himself in the shoulder to stay alert.

Zoro hangs on to the pain and manages to kill off the enemies in a sort of drunken rage, but his heat is taking a toll from disobeying an alpha so he collapses nearby in his own pool of blood from his shoulders.

About the same time, Sanji was sent to go after Zoro to bring him back to the ship like usual. Sanji guesses that Zoro wandered into the forest from the town after checking all the bars/pubs.

Sanji was walking aimlessly in the forest when he hears the commotion of trees falling and birds flying off and sighs ‘oh there he is’

But as he got closer, he senses something was wrong, his nose picks up the faint scent of steel mixed with a trace of sake - a rare scent that he smelled from Zoro when they fight and gets way too close physically. It was what tipped him off that Zoro wasn’t a beta but he never asked because Zoro never said anything either.

The scent got stronger as he got closer but the smell of blood overpowered it. Something was definitely wrong and he picked up his pace. It’s too quiet so he could only hope he’s not too late.

When he got there, the sight that greeted him left him speechless. An entire field turned red, bodies cut into thousands of parts all scattered and no longer recognisable. A pure massacred blood bath.

He scans the field warily, looking out for any green he could spot but he could still smell the faint scent of distinct steel (different from the metallic smell of blood) and sake so he knows Zoro was still here, hopefully alive.

And who else could have done this if not Zoro himself. Sanji knows Zoro is strong, but he had never seen him go so wild or uncontrolled before and he’s worried even if he’d never admit it.

He eventually finds Zoro curled up beside a tree, soaked in blood that he can’t tell belonged to who and with his clothes dishevelled, but at least he was still breathing although his brows were drawn and his breathing was rapid and shallow.

But what caught his attention was that the smell was so strong now. ‘He must be in heat…’ Sanji puts 2 and 2 together and can kind of guessed what went down here.

Sanji, being an alpha, had to take a moment to take control of his instincts, before he bends down to slap zoro lightly in his face to wake him up. ‘Shit he’s so warm’. If his hand lingered on Zoro’s face, there was no one to call him out on it.

When that didn’t work, Sanji sighs again and evaluated his options - he could carry him out of here but he doesn’t really want to be in such close contact with an omega in heat, especially when it’s Zoro. He’s just not sure how his body will react. He hasn’t untangled what he felt towards Zoro yet and he definitely doesn’t want to find out now.

Before Sanji could think further, Zoro lets out a small whine and curls in even further and Sanji’s brain almost short circuited. The scent is even stronger now. There isnt time to think - Sanji has to get him to Chopper immediately. If Zoro has been on suppressants for so long, going into heat must not be pleasant.

Sanji slaps himself to focus and to not be carried away by his alpha instincts to claim claim CLAIM. He’d kill himself before he takes advantage of any omega, let alone Zoro.

He carries Zoro in his arms and takes off running towards the Thousand Sunny, all while letting off calming and soothing pheromones.

‘Damn Marimo you’re heavy’ he complained under his breath but seeing Zoro cradled on his chest was doing funny things to his heart so he tries not to look. He bites his lip hard enough to draw blood just so he could focus on getting him back to the ship.

Sanji shouts for Chopper when he nears the ship at the dock, and Chopper screams and cries for a doctor when he saw the bloody mess that was Zoro.

Sanji also shouted for everyone else to stay clear of the infirmary so that he doesn’t out Zoro. They were confused but complied and moved to the other end of the ship. (I haven’t figure who are the alphas - Luffy, Robin and Jimbe? Most of the rest are beta but Chopper is an omega)

But Luffy of course doesn’t listen. When Sanji gets on the ship, he has chills from Luffy’s overprotective scent that flared in anger. Sanji’s own scent pushes back and he hands Zoro over to a crying Chopper in the infirmary before turning around to face Luffy.

But Zoro’s fingers clutches onto Sanji’s top and refuses to let go even when unconscious. Sanji would have found it cute if not for how dire the situation was. He tried to pry his fingers off but to no avail so he took off his shirt entirely.

Luffy is serious and his eyes stares into Sanji’s searching for answers before he smiles and says ‘ah I see’ as if it explained anything and then made his way to the back of the ship, shouting that he’s hungry already.

Sanji heads to the showers to clear his head and tries to keep clear of the infirmary because Zoro’s scent was still strong there.

Chopper comes out of the infirmary a few hours later saying that shoulder wound was shallow but Zoro’s in heat for the first time in a long time so his body is going through it. He doesn’t want to put him back on suppressants immediately since the heat already started so they should let this cycle run. Chopper asked to remain docked for the next few days and for the others to head to town for accommodation, and asked to speak to Sanji and Luffy.

Sanji explained to Chopper and Luffy what he saw when he arrived at the field. Luffy’s mood darkened.

Chopper said they could go see Zoro and Sanji almost had a nose bleed when they walked in because Zoro was curled up with his face buried in Sanji’s top.

Luffy laughed then said he understood and that he’d leave Sanji to take care of things on the ship and took the others down to the town.

I haven’t thought much of what comes next but but I think it’d be cute if Zoro is trying to nest but doesn’t know how to but is too embarrassed to ask but Sanji kind of guessed because Zoro holds onto his bloody top for too long so Sanji just keeps giving him more of his clothes until there’s a pile near the infirmary bed that he finds Zoro purring in one day and he gets a nosebleed this time from how cute it is HAHAHA also Sanji hates the bite mark the other guy left on Zoro so he bites over it to cover it with his own.

I also haven’t thought of how explicit it will go but I think they don’t do it this time because it’s all too new and they haven’t spoken about it and Sanji would never take advantage of someone so they wait until this cycle breaks and have The Talk and they realise their feelings were mutual.