Roronoa Zoro/History/Non-Canon

Past
Zoro and Saga were trainees together at the same dojo when they were children and became friends even as they became young men, with the two making a promise with one another; with one aspiring to become the world's best swordsman and the other wanting to join the Marines and become the master of the sword of justice respectively. Years later, during Zoro's time as a bounty hunter, he was fighting with a group of pirates, Zoro was cornered by a pirate wielding two pistols. The pirate, however, was quickly dispatched by Saga, who appeared much to the pirate hunter's surprise. He pulled a small knife out from his waistband, telling Zoro that it represented their promise and reminding him of their childhood together. The two began fighting together for a time, and when they came across another pirate crew at sea that was burning down, Saga ended up trapped on the burning boat by an iron chain, forcing Zoro to leave him as he could not cut steel at that time. Zoro believed that Saga died that day, but Saga had managed to survive with his right arm paralyzed, and made had it to a nearby island.

One Piece: The Movie
On the Going Merry, Zoro finds himself starving alongside Nami, Luffy, and Usopp, specifically because Luffy ate all of their food and provisions. As they’re starving, a group of thieves come to steal their treasure and supplies. Luffy stops them and wrecks their getaway boat, which had a kid on it as a hostage. Suddenly, a large pirate ship led by a man named Eldoraggo, appeared. Since the thieves worked for his pirate crew, an angry Eldoraggo, using his Devil Fruit ability, while aiming at Luffy, destroyed what was left of the getaway boat. Luffy and the kid both fell in the sea, and Zoro jumped in to save them. As a result, Luffy and Zoro were separated from Nami and Usopp.

After reaching a floating Oden stand owned by his grandfather, Ganzo, the kid; whose name is Tobio, told Luffy and Zoro about Woonan, the Great Gold Pirate, who, according to the legend, obtained almost one-third of the world's gold and disappeared with it to a remote island. As Luffy and Zoro hastily eat while listening, they learned from Tobio that Eldoraggo was determined to find Woonan's loot, too, and that he had the treasure map, which had the coordinates of the location of Woonan's treasure in possession. After hearing this, Luffy wanted to meet Woonan and find his treasure too, but he and Zoro were both stopped by Ganzo, who told to pay for the food they just ate. When he heard that they had no money at all, Ganzo tied them both up in chains.

After arguing with his grandfather about Woonan and the gold, Tobio and the others see Eldroraggo using his devil fruit in the distance, and Tobio decides to go for the treasure. As they reach the island, and Tobio runs off alone to the forest, a concerned Luffy, still chained to Zoro goes off after him, forcing Zoro to go along with him as result. After the three run into Eldoraggo, the pirate easily wards off Tobio, while Luffy and Zoro have better luck despite being chained together, with Zoro stuck with only his mouth to use one of his swords. As Luffy continues to try to fight back, he makes a mistake that leads to him, Zoro, and Tobio being launched into a distant hill, with Nami and Usopp carefully escaping Eldoraggo to follow them.

After Nami and Usopp reach the hill, Nami undoes the chains binding Luffy and Zoro, and she reveals that took the map from Eldoraggo. After both destroying and deciphering the map, the group meet up with Ganzo, who reveals that he knew Woonan and tells them how Woonan became a pirate and how he became an Oden shop owner. After hearing the story, the Straw Hats take Tobio and Ganzo to the plateau where the treasure is located, unfortunately Eldroraggo and his crew figured out the location as well.

As the Straw Hats begin their counterattack, Zoro is pitted against the mercenary hired by Eldroraggo, Golass. As the two duel, Zoro notices Golass' strength as a swordsman, but is disappointed by his apparent greed. As the duel continues, Golass seems to have the upper hand, till Zoro shows him that he is stronger, and then soundly defeats him. Although Golass lost, Zoro allowed him to live, as he realized that Golass never wanted to fight for money, and that during their duel, he wasn't. Zoro then leaves him there, and tells him to come back to challenge him if he ever regained his pride as a swordsman. After Luffy manages to defeat Eldroraggo, the Straw hats, along with Tobio and Ganzo go inside the house, hoping to find Woonan and the treasure in a hidden chamber. It turns out it was the resting place of Woonan himself and that he returned all the gold he stole to its rightful owners. As the Straw hats try to settle the earlier payment for the food, Ganzo refuses and states that they don't have to pay anymore, stating that they can pay it back after they reach their dreams, which Zoro and the others happily agree to. The Straw Hats then bid farewell to Tobio and Ganzo and sail away to their next adventure.

Luffy Falls! Adventure in the Uncharted Ocean's Navel
It's a random day aboard the Going Merry, and Luffy is being yelled at by Nami for urinating in the ocean. While on fishing duty, Luffy catches something big and tries to reel it in, only for it to drag the ship backwards instead of forward. As the ship crashes, the fishing line, as well as the ship ends up caught at a rocky crater with a chest chained to it.

While Luffy is disappointed that he catch anything to eat, the others are more interested in the chest, namely Nami. She opens the chest, only to find a skull inside. Usopp picks up the skull and reads the back of it, and finds an engraving about a treasure that can make anyone's dream come true. It also says that it can be located at a place called the Ocean's Navel. While the others explore the Ocean's Navel, the Going Merry begins to fall down into the crater, causing Luffy to almost drown, and for Zoro to have to save him. As they are doing this, they meet the one who sent the message in the bottle, Hamu as well as his guardian, Meroie. After being welcomed to their hidden village, they are immediately attacked by a monster, but Zoro manages to stop them with a polearm. Hamu and Meroie give them food, and asked them why the two of them are there, and Luffy explains they fell looking for treasure and that they are pirates. After hearing this, Hamu gets upset and leaves, when Luffy and Zoro ask what was wrong, Meroie explains the village's past and how it was destroyed by the pirate captain Joke.

She asks them if, even though they are pirates, they will help Hamu avenge his mother and protect his village. They reply that they will and decide to go to the mountain. As soon as they reach the end of the village, the monster they encountered before attacks them again. Zoro immediately starts fighting the monster and tells Luffy to go find Nami and Usopp. Meroie stays with Zoro while Hamu runs towards Luffy. Zoro keeps fighting the monsters with rusty swords that were provided by Meroie until Sanji shows up and delivers the finishing blow. Zoro is glad that Sanji is there, but then gets immediately annoyed at Sanji's behavior towards Meroie. After Joke is defeated, the monsters and treasure disappear, and Zoro, Sanji, and Meroie reunite with the others. When the Straw Hats leave the island, Hamu tells Meroie that he hadn't asked their names, but she states that it doesn't matter since they are just a bunch of pirates, to which Hamu agrees. He looks at the Straw Hats' ship sail away and smiles.

Clockwork Island Adventure
Having found a sunny, peaceful island in the midst of their voyage, the Straw Hat Pirates disembark and relax on the beach together. Their relaxing day is ruined when Luffy not only go on about a toy windmill that he finds on the beach, but later when Luffy sees The Going Merry sailing away, as the ship has been stolen to everyone’s shock.

With no possessions and forced to rent a small paddleboat and clothes from a nearby wedding shop, the crew chases their ship, only to run into a boy floating in the water. After stopping to help, they are caught in a net, realizing that the boy, Akisu lured them into a trap alongside his brother, another thief named Borodo. After seeing that they had nothing to steal, the pair let the straw hats go and introduced themselves. Then they explained that they were planning to steal the legendary Diamond Clock, which is located on Clockwork Island, which is where the Going Merry is currently headed. When asked why, the brothers explained that the Island was taken over by the Trump Pirates which is led by a pirate named Bear King, and that they are the ones who took their ship. As they began explaining who the Trump Pirates were and how big of fleet they had, the group soon became surrounded by a part of the fleet.



The fleet was commanded by two members of the Trump Pirates, Boo Jack and Honey Queen, who soon corners the brothers' boat. Despite Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji happily fighting back, Usopp frantically rows the boat away when the pirates almost capsize them all, accidentally causing Akisu to drop a music box in the sea, and causing Akisu to force Usopp to stop so Borodo can retrieve it. Borodo manages to get the box, but the Trump Pirates catch up as a result, destroying the boat, and even kidnapping Nami to be their captain's new bride.

After salvaging enough of the boat to make a raft, the remaining Straw Hats, along with Akizu and Borodo, make their way to Clockwork Island, and listen to Akisu's past. As they arrive, they see a small, barren rock in the sea, which Borodo explains is the entrance to the Island. Atop this rock stands a huge spiral staircase, stretching far beyond the clouds. This staircase leads to the "true" Clockwork Island, a hill town full of scientists and engineers. The hill is topped by a great castle, which houses the delicate engine keeping the island stable; for seven years, Bear King has commandeered it as his base, Trump Castle, using the people of the island to build a weapon powerful enough to help him become the king of the pirates, the King Cannon. As they go up the staircase, they storm through trap after trap, with Zoro stopping one trap by uprooting a part of the floor with his bare hands. Eventually, they reach the top of the staircase, though extremely exhausted and begin to head to Trump Castle.

As Borodo spots both the Diamond Clock and the Going Merry at the top of the castle, the group decides to go into town first for food and clothes. After finding both, they soon meet the town's chief engineers, who explain the town's current situation and tells the group to leave while they still can. Despite them telling the group to leave, they head straight to the castle by parasail, but are attacked by the Trump Pirates again, this time being separated from Sanji, who falls into a hill filled with landmines and is quickly captured after. Borodo brings the parasail to a crash landing at the gates of Trump Castle, where everyone continues inside through the gates.

As the group is met with hundred's of the Trump Pirates' foot-soldiers, Luffy and Zoro quickly make short work of them. When the group is attacked by another member of the Trump Pirates, Skunk One, Usopp decides to hurl himself towards him so the others can continue moving forward inside the castle, being captured in the process. As they make their way through the upper floor of the castle, Akisu is stopped by a foot-soldier and is knocked out. Seconds later, the floor springs a pressure-trap that threatens to crush them against the ceiling. Luffy and Zoro desperately try to hold the trap back, only for Borodo to slip away, taking himself and Akisu to safety. As the Straw Hats look on in shock, Borodo coldly deems them unfit to fight the Trump Pirates and reveals he had stolen their ship and planned to sail it to Clockwork Island so they would fight the Trump Pirates and hopefully save Akisu's hometown, but now he has decided to defeat them on his own, leaving Zoro and Luffy stuck on the floor.

As Borodo moves on, the trapped Luffy and Zoro are accosted by the last Trump member, the vengeful Pin Joker. As Pin Joker recalls his past with Zoro and the scar he received from him, Zoro dismisses him entirely, claiming not to even remember ever fighting him in the past. Enraged, Pin Joker began unleashing a flurry of feather darts with poison gas held within at them. However, to Luffy's horror, Zoro throws himself into these darts head-on, shielding Luffy's body at the cost of his own, and is then stabbed by Pin Joker and taken to the Bear King, where he is crucified along with the other captured Straw Hats.



While Borodo and later Akisu is being beaten by Bear King for their actions, the toy windmill from before fails down to the floor Luffy is on and breaks in front of his feet. Reminded of the Thief Brothers' integrity, Luffy finds the resolve to shove straight through the ceiling and every floor above, and after reaching the top, he randomly grabs a stick of dynamite and "plays" with it, causing everyone to freak out and make Luffy toss it away, causing an explosion, which accidentally frees the rest of the Straw Hats. After being freed, the Straw Hats, despite being upset by Luffy's antics, rally for another fight with the Trump Pirates, with Zoro quickly confronting Pin Joker. After Usopp manages to retrieve Zoro's swords and the other's stuff, The Straw Hats were finally ready for a proper fight. With his swords returned to him, Zoro begins a fight with Pin Joker, who tries to sneak attack Nami, only for Zoro to block his attempt. The two continued fighting until they reached the edge of the balcony. An angry Pin Joker then launched another wave of poison darts at Zoro for correcting his speech, but Zoro managed to not only block the attack, but send them right back at Pin Joker. Zoro then tells Pin Joker that he won't be defeated by him and finishes him off with an Onigiri attack.

As the Straw Hats defeat the members of the Trump Pirates, Luffy gets into an intense fight with the Bear King, who ends up using the King Cannon on Luffy. This backfired as Luffy caught the bullet and shot it back at the Bear King, sending him crashing into the King Cannon and through the floors of the castle. As the Bear King was defeated and the impact from Luffy's attack using the King Cannon's bullet caused the island to collapse, the townspeople watched as the castle and hill collapsed. Zoro and the others got onboard the Going Merry and made a dangerous escape attempt using a large piece of canvas as an emergency parachute, which did lead to them landing back into the water safely. With the island destroyed, the islanders pledge to seize the future that the Thief Brothers and the Straw Hats staked their lives for, and build a new homeland elsewhere on the sea. Hearing this, and the crew sees an alive Akisu, who is quickly reunited with his mother, who was one of the chief engineers, after seeing this, Borodo decides to leave Akisu with his real family.

As they leave the ruins of Clockwork Island, the Straw Hats and Borodo quietly sail their separate ways. Despite the Straw Hats' questions, Borodo tearfully insists that he and Akisu can't stay together anymore now that he's found his real family. Despite this, Akisu boards Borodo's boat and shocks everyone by stating that not even his blood family can erase what he truly is: a man of the sea, and Borodo's brother. As the two tearfully reunite, the Straw Hats happily sail away, ready for their next adventure.

Warship Island Arc
Back on the Going Merry, Luffy asks Nami if they reached the Grand Line yet, and she tells him no. Usopp then spots a flock of birds off their starboard side and Luffy sees something in the water and stretches his hand out to grab what he thinks will be a fish. The crew are all surprised when he pulls in a girl instead and accidentally knocks Zoro off the edge of the boat. The girl is unconscious but wakes up when she smells Sanji's cooking. After learning that she is on a pirate ship, she freaks out and refuses to eat any food given to her.

Later in the night, Zoro and the rest of the crew are awoken to both Luffy and the girl in the kitchen, after being reassured that they were not evil and would let her take what she wants to eat, the girl introduced herself as Apis the next morning after making everyone breakfast. She tells them that she is from Warship Island, but refuses to tell them why she is being chased by the Marines. After a Marine ship begins attacking the Going Merry, the crew manage to avoid and escape the Marines, but only to end up stranded in the Calm Belt.

The Merry ends up atop the head of a Sea King as the crew are surrounded entirely by them. After Apis manages to pull out the Sea King's nostril hair, it sneezes, causing the Going Merry to be blown back out of the calm belt into the regular seas. After this, the group start sailing to Warship Island to take Apis home. As they reach the port, Apis had to persuade the locals not to attack the Straw Hats, telling them that they were the ones who rescued her. After doing so, Apis' grandfather, Bokuden shows up, and tells Apis to come home, and invites the Straw Hats for dinner. While waiting, the group asks Bokuden why the Marines are after Apis, to which he asks Apis the same question, only for her to refuse to answer. Bokuden then tells them about the island's old legend about the Lost Island, the millennial dragons, a substance called Dragonite, and the Elixir of Immortality.

A day later, Luffy and Nami come back with Apis and tells the others the truth about why the Marines are after her, and they tell them about her pendant and about the millennial dragon Ryu. With Luffy wanting to help Apis and Ryu, the crew prepare to get the two of them off the island before the Marines show up. Unfortunately, the Marines of the 8th Branch, led by Nelson Royale already have the island surrounded, and they even have a mercenary by the name of Eric hunting the two. Everyone splits into groups, Usopp and Zoro move the ship into position, Nami and Apis get Ryu onto a cart, and Luffy and Sanji fight off the Marines. Despite all this, the group still have trouble shaking off Eric, as he hunts them with his Kama Kama no Mi, but manage to lose him in a mirage.

After going into the mirage, the crew spot an island hidden in the mirage and go towards it. After reaching the island, Ryu is still unsure if the island they are on is the Lost Island, so they go to the top of the mountain to find the Dragon's nest. Instead, they find a building with a dragon emblem. While trying to find the entrance, they end up falling down into an underground temple. After examining the temple ceiling and its paintings, Nami comes to the conclusion that the Lost Island is actually hidden beneath Warship Island, and a sleeping Ryu wakes up and confirms her theory. As Eric shows up, the others flee with Apis and Ryu, while Zoro holds him off. After battling Zoro for a while, Eric flees the building to chase Ryu, Zoro chases after Eric, stopping him by throwing a stick at his legs. Despite Eric finally agreeing to fight Zoro for real, the others had finished getting Ryu's cart back to the Merry, and Luffy stretches his arm and pulls Zoro back onto the ship, much to his frustration. The crew then escape Eric and sail out of the mirage.

Even after the crew escape and make it to the Lost Islands' coordinates, Nelson's fleet manage to blockade them, with Eric and lieutenant Hardy's ship closing in. As the ship becomes blockaded with giant chains, the crew starts to board the Marines ships to kick the Marines out. As Eric comes and takes Ryu and Apis, an angry Ryu knocks Eric into the water after knocking Apis back. As Ryu starts to finally fly, Nelson has his ship fire several cannonballs at Ryu, to everyone horror. As Ryu falls to the water, he asks Luffy to keep Apis safe. As this happens, Ryu lets out one final roar, leading to the Lost Island rising from the ocean, and multiple dragons flying from it. After this happens, the straw hats begin their counterattack once again, with Luffy and Sanji fighting off the Marines and Zoro cutting the chains connecting their ship to the Marines.

While Luffy decides to finish off the Marines, the other reach the Lost Island with Apis, upon doing so they learn that the so-called substance called dragonite meant for creating the Elixir of Immortality was in fact the fossils of ancient sennenryus. After Luffy destroys Nelson's Ship, he gets on land and makes it to the others, after which he tells Apis Ryu's final message to her; that when the dragons die, they are reborn in the nest. Seconds later, a baby dragon hatches from an egg, with the baby supposedly being a reborn Ryu. The baby screeches at Apis, and she cries happily agreeing with what it's telling her.

Unfortunately, both Nelson and Eric show up, however an angry Eric slashes Nelson and proposes a deal with the straw hats. He states that he wants to split the dragonite and the immortality with them, but a critical Nami points out that the fossilized sennenryus that make up the dragonite couldn't possibly be used to make the Elixir. That's when Eric states that the alive sennenryus could, which upsets Apis, who runs towards him out of anger. As Eric tries to attack her, Usopp and Zoro protect her, and Luffy tells them all to stop, and that he’ll be the one to beat him, because he promised Ryu he would. Eventually Luffy does succeed in taking Eric down.

As the Straw Hats get ready to leave Warship Island again, they are met by Apis and Bokuden. Luffy asks Apis if she wants to come with them, to which she replies that she would like to but she will stay in the village to protect the Dragon's Nest. The Straw Hats set sail and say goodbye. Then Usopp asks the rest of the crew if Apis will be fine and Sanji, Luffy and Zoro all say that she will be okay. As the Straw Hats finally reach the entrance to the Grand Line, they have a rough time going through Reverse Mountain, which is made even worse by Eric showing back up and telling them that if any of them move and he will tear the ship apart. Nami warns him that there is Dragonite besides him, and he falls for it and she kicks his leg, throwing him to the current. With Eric officially gone, the crew celebrate as they enter the Grand Line.

Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals
Following a lead from an old treasure map, the Straw Hats set sail for Crown Island, with everyone ready for a new adventure; except Chopper, who worries over every possible danger. While the others tease Chopper, the Going Merry suddenly begins shaking. Rushing above-deck, the Straw Hats find the sea erupting with dozens of massive geysers, one of which directly strikes the Merry and launches it high into the air. In midair, the crew can see the entirety of the island, and the crown-like ring of steam its surrounding geysers produce, but then the ship starts to fall and crash land on the island, accidentally Knocking Chopper off the ship in the process.

As Chopper vanishes in the forest, the others land in the far-off shore, with several bizarre animals surrounding them, including a Bald Parrot. The crew was taken aback when the Parrot started speaking english, but then listened as he explained that he was the elder of the island, and the island was filled with animals as intelligent as him. He then explains that for years, the creatures of the island lived peacefully under the rule of the Kirin Lion, but their ruler passed away and now the kingdom needs a new ruler, one that falls in line of an ancient prophecy.

After listening to the story, the crew hears a celebration happening in the mountains, and they go to investigate, with Usopp giving everyone animal themed disguises to blend in. On the way though, the celebrating is cut short by the arrival of the islands natural predators, the Horn Eaters, a herd of armored beasts. As everyone runs away, Luffy gets targeted by the beasts due to his costume having fake horns. Panicked, Luffy snaps them off, but throws them straight ahead, leading the Horn-Eaters to trample him anyways, with the others watching annoyed.

Later, the Straw Hats stumble across a cliff-side camp where the Horn-Eaters have been trapping and trampling scores of horned animals. They soon come to learn that the beasts are being controlled by a man named Battler, who's collecting horns in an attempt to find a treasure on the island said to have power that could shake worlds. Realizing that he told the Straw Hats too much, he controls the Horn Eaters with a special hypnotic violin and orders them to attack, unfortunately Luffy was also effected by the hypnotic music and goes on a rampage knocking himself and the crew over a cliff and into a crocodile filled river. Once Luffy is out of range, he grabs everyone and breaks their fall with his rubber body.

The straw hats then see dozens of dehorned animals along the riverbanks. Realizing how much damage Battler has already done, the crew start to worry more about Chopper, while doing that they notice the Bald Parrot from earlier flying above. They ask for his help, and he agrees to take them to the mountain to meet the new king of the beasts, unaware that they are being followed by Battler and his men, Heaby and Hotdog. Once they reach the top of the mountain, however, they are surprised to learn that the new king is Chopper, and while Chopper is happy to see them, Mobambi; the only human resident of the island, and a talking bird named Karasuke, who thinks they are invaders, and asks Chopper to fight them. Chopper tells the animals that the Straw Hats are safe, and so he leads the Straw Hats over to a great feast so they can eat together. Mobambi demands what's so great about the Straw Hats, and when the animals hear that they are pirates and when Luffy asked for meat, the animals flee in terror thinking Luffy is going to eat them. Nami asks Karasuke about the treasure of Crown Island, but Usopp says that they should just grab Chopper and leave.

Then, a large blast is heard from the distance so the straw hats and the animals go to see what is going on. They see Battler and his men down below, and he states that the power he is looking for is in the horns of the King of the Beasts. Battler demands that they tell him where the king is and starts playing his violin, so the Horn Eaters start charging. An angry Chopper leaps down and lands in front of Battler declaring himself as the King. Battler stops playing the violin, unconvinced by Chopper's words. Chopper tells him to stop attacking the animals and to call off the Horn Eaters, but Battler says he will only if Chopper beats him. Luffy tries to help, butt is unable to leave the entrance, due to eating to much and becoming fat, which ended up blocking Zoro and Sanji as well.

As Chopper and the others try to divert the Horn Eaters away, Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy arrive, and Zoro and Sanji run off to go help Chopper. Luffy says that Mobambi should go help too, but Mobambi says that he is not strong enough, remembering that he was helpless when his father was killed by pirates. As the others console Mobambi, Zoro begins fighting off one of Battler's henchmen, Hotdog. As the fight went on Zoro became restrained with a metal ball and chain, and began taking an onslaught of powerful kicks from Hotdog. This goes on for awhile, until Hotdog becomes overconfident and ends up kicking the chains holding Zoro loose, till Zoro eventually breaks free from them. As Hotdog brags about having the world's strongest kicks, Zoro simply notes how careless the man is, before finishing him off with his Tatsu Maki Technique, finally defeating him. After this, Zoro openly states that Sanji's kicks are more powerful, then goes off to find the others.

As Luffy finally defeats Battler once and for all, a day later as Mobambi and Chopper say their tearful goodbyes, the Straw Hats talk about the great party they had after the defeat of Battler. As they head toward their next adventure, Usopp jokes with Chopper about possibly seeing some monsters next, and Luffy happily yells that they will just keep moving, full steam ahead.

Episode of Arabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates
The majority of the events of Whisky Peak Arc plays out the same, but Zoro's fight with the bounty hunters of Baroque Works has changed. In this version, when the bounty hunters try to shoot Zoro, he cuts them, instead of dodging their attack to make them shoot each other. When Zoro runs up a ladder, an unknown man shoots him, and when fighting against the Officer Agents, another unknown man throws a barrel at Zoro, instead of Miss Monday. His fight with Miss Monday remain the same, but his fight with Mr. 9 happens while Zoro is on the roof, also Zoro doesn't fight against Igaram or Vivi and defeats all bounty hunters that are left with Tatsu Maki. Just like in the original version, Vivi ends up traveling with the Straw Hats all the way to the Arabasta Kingdom.

A sleeping Vivi wakes up on the Going Merry to find Luffy and Usopp fishing with Karoo as bait, and she punishes them by bashing their heads together. They pull up a mysterious okama, who appears extremely grateful to be saved by pirates he does not know. The man reveals that he cannot swim because he ate the Mane Mane no Mi, which allows him to change himself into anyone he has touched the face of. He adds that he can also remember these faces, which allows him to take on the faces of those he touched before, showing several faces to the crew, one of which is Vivi's father Cobra, the king of Arabasta. The man then leaves as his crew arrives to pick him up, declaring the Straw Hats his friends despite not knowing them for long. As he leaves, he is called Mr. 2 Bon Kurei by his crew.

When Vivi realizes that the man was a member of Baroque Works and that he could turn into her father, she reveals that Arabasta is in a drought, and her father, King Nefertari Cobra had been framed for using Dance Powder, which forces rain onto the region it is used on at the expense of places downwind, for the capital. She states that the leader of Baroque Works is Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, who is considered a hero in Arabasta for protecting the nation from pirates. In order to prove their identity should Mr. 2 transform into any of them, the crew each draw an X on their wrists and covers it with a bandage, which they will take off to prove their identity.

The crew reach Yuba, a ghost town that had once been a prosperous oasis before sandstorms ravaged it, causing many of the people to join the rebellion. They encounter an old man named Toto, who is the father of the rebellion's leader, Koza, a childhood friend of Vivi's. As the sun rises, Toto gives Luffy some of the water he dug up. During their travel, Luffy declares that he quits, saying that even if the rebels stop, the threat will continue as long as Crocodile is alive. He adds that Vivi is naïve to think that they can prevent everyone from dying in the battle, and he urges her to, rather than risk only her life, let them help her, which she agrees to. After this, the crew befriend a camel named Matsuge, and they begin to ride his Crab friend, Hasami. Vivi then thanks Luffy for helping her see the truth, and promises him a feast after they save the kingdom.

Crocodile then ambushes them almost immediately, using his devil fruit abilities to reach and capture Vivi. Pell shows up and attacks Crocodile and while he fails to injure him, manages to make him let go of Vivi. Crocodile's assistant, Miss All-Sunday uses her powers to ground Pell, then uses Clutch to severely wound him. Luffy intervenes, stretching out and throwing Vivi atop Hasami, staying behind to fight Crocodile.

As the rest of the crew go on to Alubarna without Luffy, Baroque Works' Officer Agents lie in wait, but the crew splits up as decoys for Vivi, allowing her to escape and try to stop the rebellion. Zoro ends up fighting Mr. 1. The majority of his fight with Mr. 1 remains the same but is a lot shorter, as Zoro is initially unable to hurt Mr. 1, but suddenly realizes how to cut through steel, and defeats him.

After Luffy and Pell save Vivi, Zoro reunites up with the rest of the crew, and they attempt to retrace Crocodile's steps to find a bomb he placed in the city that will take everyone out, while Pell searches from the air. They discover its location in the clock tower and is guarded by Mr. 7 and Miss Father's Day, who shoot Pell from the sky. The crew are left with less than one minute, and they work together to launch Vivi into the clock tower, where she easily defeats Mr. 7 and Miss Father's Day and cuts the fuse, only to discover that it's a time bomb and cannot be disarmed. Pell, however, shows at the last minute and carries the bomb high above Alubarna, sacrificing himself in the process. As the crew watch Vivi try to stop the fighting, the then see Crocodile fly through the sky and lands in the main square, defeated, knowing that their captain has won. As the fighting finally stops, Cobra then brings Luffy to his crew, meeting them for the first time. The crew then collapse from their injuries and rest in the palace as Vivi stays up, watching the rain.

Three days later, Luffy awakens from his coma, and the crew enjoys a feast for helping save the kingdom. As they eat, Chaka then arrives, informing them that Marine ships have come for the Straw Hats. Nami tells Vivi that she can come with them if she wants, and if she does, she must come to the shore at noon the next day. That night, Vivi wonders if she can truly continue her journey with the Straw Hats. The next day, Vivi, who is supposed to be giving a speech at the palace, instead proceeds to the shore, where the Straw Hats are waiting, initially believe that she would not come. She tells the Straw Hats that she can no longer travel with them, but asks if they will consider her a friend if they meet again. Luffy is about to say yes, but Nami tells him that her being associated with them will make her a criminal, and as they sail away on the Going Merry, the crew says goodbye by showing her the marks on their arms, while Vivi and Karoo does the same, happily saying their goodbyes.

Goat Island Arc
While being chased by the Marines, led by Moore and Minchey, Luffy and his crew get lost in the fog and discover an uncharted island. They find that the island is inhabited only by an old man named Zenny and a multitude of goats. They also find a partially constructed ship on the top of the island.

Because of his bad heart, Zenny probably only has three days to live. Hoping to make his last days good ones, the Straw Hat Pirates help him out and they learn about Zenny's past as a money lender and his dream of becoming a pirate. But realizing that Zenny has outlived Chopper's predictions the Straw Hats decide that after helping him finish his pirate ship, they will leave the island. The Straw Hat Pirates help the old man out while hiding from the Marines and working to get his ship into the water.

With help from Luffy, Zenny and his goats were able to attack the Marines. The Straw Hat pirates then went forth to help him. They defeated Minchey and tied him up. Luffy, then, threw Minchey back on Captain Moore's ship, and Captain Moore allowed them to choose their battle location. Zenny decides to follow his dream and become a pirate, despite his age and they part ways, leaving the island and officially forming the Zenny Pirates. Luffy, then, pointed to the Marines a foggy area for battle location, which caused Captain Moore's ships to land in a shipwreck due to the rocks. With the Marines out of their way, the crew sails off on towards their next adventure.

Ruluka Island Arc
The Straw Hats are being chased by a small fleet of Marine ships led by Major Pasqua and Isoka. The crew barely escape when the Major accidentally sinks one of his own ships. The crew then make their way towards an island named Ruluka.

After making landfall, they soon meet Flip, the leader of the Collection Party, a group who collect taxes from the people of Ruluka. He is also the son of the island's mayor, Wetton, who used to be a pirate, and is currently over taxing the people to build the Rainbow Tower. Wetton hires a professor named Henzo to build the tower, and to research a phenomenon called the Rainbow Mist. As the straw hats eventually meet Henzo, he explains the Rainbow Mist to them, they then hear two townspeople rushing to the harbor to see a galleon and they rush there as well.

Some of the mist begins to arrive as Henzo rushes to the galleon, that he recognizes as the Tarielishin on his small boat. When the mist begins to reach the island, Henzo borrows the Going Merry, with Luffy, Usopp, Robin, and a sleeping Zoro on the ship, into the mist. The inside of the Mist is full of wrecked ships and treasure, and is guarded by a group of kids calling themselves the Pumpkin Pirates.

Henzo explains that the flow of time is different inside the mist, and that those children were once his friends. He tells them that Ruluka was attacked in the past by the Wetton Pirates and that the children stole the pirates ship but were chased by Wetton and his crewmate Ian. As the children fight off Wetton and Ian, Wetton and Henzo fall overboard and the children sail directly into the Rainbow Mist never again returning. Understanding now how the Rainbow Mist kept the children from aging, the crew attempts to find a way out.

Finally, Flip communicates with Henzo with a Den Den Mushi and the group realizes they are still connected with the outside world. Knowing this, they try to reach the end of the mist, alongside the Pumpkin Pirates. As they do that, Sanji, Nami, and Chopper are trying to get to the harbor to find the others, as they are hindered by Lake, Wetton's grandson. He tells them that the mayor has announced all the shipwrecks there have untouched cargo just laying around with jewels and coins, and that the Rainbow Tower will be used as a bridge between the island and the Shipwrecks in the mist, just as Luffy propels himself and one of the kids outside of the mist.

After the Rainbow Tower is connected, Nami manages to get into the mist and reach the Merry. After asking where Luffy was, Zoro and Usopp told her that he was gone, and then continue trying to make it out of the mist, despite Wetton and his invading forces. As Luffy returns, he fight Wetton off, but Wetton manages to escape and blows the Tower away. Despite this, Luffy and the others manage to escape the mist onboard the Going Merry, when the Pumpkin Pirates stay behind and help the Merry escape with an explosive.

Outside the collapsing Mist, Wetton finally gets arrested by a group of powerful Marines, who turn out to be the older versions of the kids who stayed behind in the Rainbow Mist. They reveal that after the mist collapsed, they were thrown 50 years into the past and became Marines. They decide to let the Straw Hats leave as a thanks, and the crew departs the island of Ruluka, going onwards to their next adventure.

Dead End Adventure
The Straw Hats are now chased by a Marine ship, commanded by Drake. Due to the stormy weather and Nami's exceptional navigational skills, the ship sails away unscathed, leaving the Marine pursuant behind.

The crew reach a town on Hannabal Island. Inside a pirate filled bar, they find out there is a great but very dangerous opportunity through a mysterious door in the bar. As the crew enters the mysterious door they are surprised to see it is the opening to a large tunnel. Inside they find themselves in a large cave filled with pirates, who are all there to compete in the Dead End Race, a very dangerous anything goes sailing competition, which the winner can win up to 300,000,000.

The crew is introduced to the favorites to win that year, 2 giants, Bobby and Pogo, a Fish-Man and former rival of Arlong, Willy and the favorited to win, Gasparde, a former Marine general who deserted after killing his crew. While Nami registers the crew for the race, Luffy gets involved in a fight against Gasparde's crew along with an infamous bounty hunter by the name of Shuraiya Bascùd, as well as meets Gasparde himself which of course ends on bad terms.

The next morning, The crew set sail along with many other pirate ships for the parade start which involves sailing off a waterfall, fighting off other pirates, and navigating sharp turns. Before even reaching the ocean, several pirate crews are wrecked, luckily the Straw Hats manage to pull through with each challenge. However while checking the ship, they find a stowaway, a kid by the name of Anaguma whose come to kill them for their bounties, though find that's impossible after witnessing the crew's strength and power and thus sails along with them for the race.

After a few more encounters one involving the pirate ship of Bigalo the Hangman and sea kings, the Straw Hats arrive at Partia, the supposed finish line of the race. However it turns out to be a Marine stronghold that quickly sinks any incoming pirate ships. Luffy realizes Gasparde rigged the race and the crew manages to escape the stronghold and track down Gasparde's ship using Chopper's nose.

The Straw Hats manage to get to Gasparde's ship, the Salamander, just in time to stop Gasparde from killing Shuraiya. After Luffy knocks out Shuraiya, and starts to fight Gasparde, the rest of the crew board the ship and Anaguma reunites with his grandpa and tries to get him to leave the ship. Instead he sends Anaguma on ahead while he claim he has one last thing to do. As Luffy's fight continues, When Anaguma realized that his grandpa is still on Gasparde's ship, he begs the Straw Hats to go back but Zoro knocks him out and reveals that Anaguma is actually a girl, while this is happening, her grandpa causes the boiler to explode and make the ship sink.

As Luffy manages to stay on the sinked wreckage and finish his fight with Gasparde right as a cyclone is coming, Luffy manages to defeat Gasparde and send him flying into the cyclone. After this, he is saved by Anaguma's grandpa along with Shuraiya. As they head for the nearby island, the grandpa reveals that Anaguma was adopted and her real name is Adelle Bascùd, Shuraiya's little sister whom he thought was dead. Despite the awkward reunion, the two come to accept each other.

The Straw Hats close in on the real Partia as the winners of the race but the Marine ships suddenly appear and go after them, forcing them to flee from the island and forfeit their prize money. They let Adelle, Shuraiya, and Grandpa off then wish them good-bye individually before sailing off with the Marines on their tail. Despite not getting the prize money, and Nami strangling Zoro for his wisecrack about her leaving without the money, the Straw Hats continue on for their next big adventure.

The Cursed Holy Sword
When the Straw Hat Pirates dock at Asuka Island, Zoro and Usopp stay behind on the Going Merry to guard it, while the others head into town to restock their supplies. As everyone on the island learns about the legend of the Shichiseiken, Zoro is fast asleep, while Usopp is issuing repairs on the Merry. After Usopp asks a still sleeping Zoro to kick down some wooden boards for repairs, a knife is thrown through the wood, nearly hitting Zoro squarely in the face, if he had not moved his head. However, Zoro is shocked to see his name carved into the knife. As Usopp climbs above deck to get the wood himself, he notices Zoro is suddenly missing.

Zoro is later seen walking through the woods, with the knife thrown earlier in his hand, when he eventually comes across three people: Bismarck, Boo Kong and Toma. The three identify him as Roronoa Zoro, tell him that they've been expecting him, and asks him to follow them. As the Straw Hats notice Zoro's absence and are forced to make an attempt to leave the island without him due to the Marines chasing them, Zoro follows the trio deeper into the jungle, where they reach a Marine dojo. It is revealed that Zoro has been taken by Toma's group to meet their leader, who turns out to be Saga, his old friend. Zoro hands Saga the knife, who hands it to Toma. Zoro presumes, since Saga is a Marine and Zoro is a pirate, he wants to fight him, but Saga asks him instead to give up on being a pirate, before collapsing on his knees, clutching his chest in pain. As Zoro asks his friend what's wrong, Saga simply asks Zoro for a favor; to lend him his strength. Zoro then decides to listen to what he has to say.

Later the Straw Hats end up back on the island, due to them barely escaping the Marines chasing them, as well as a Hippo Rhino that fell in love with the Merry. As they go back to looking for Zoro, they end up meeting a woman named Maya and eventually most of the crew follow her back to her village, with Luffy and Usopp getting lost on the way. Just then, a band of Marine swordsmen assaults the village, led by Bismarck, Boo Kong, and much to the Straw Hats' surprise, Zoro. Zoro chases after Maya and another villager; Izaya, in an attempt to steal a set of orbs in her possession, while Sanji pursues the rogue swordsman. After Sanji asks Zoro what the hell he thinks he is doing, Zoro simply refuses to answer his questions, and the two engage in combat. As the two are fighting, Sanji leaves himself wide open in the middle of another conversation with Zoro, which lets Zoro cut his arm in the process. After that, as Sanji lies on the ground, Zoro steals the orbs, and leaves with the retreating Marines.



Back at the dojo, Luffy and Usopp managed to get there, and Toma simply tells them that Zoro will be there soon, but are later driven out by Toma and Saga, who start to fight them saying that Zoro will no longer be a part of their crew. Later that night, Zoro brings the orbs Maya was protecting to Saga, who throws them down a well. Despite this, Saga once again collapses, even though it seemed that the orbs were causing him pain, but Saga tells him that he will be alright. In morning, Saga, Zoro, Toma, Bismarck, and Boo Kong are standing in front of many Marine soldiers, all trained under Saga's tutelage in swordsmanship. Saga promises the Marines an insurmountable power when "the awaited time arrives". At that moment, he lifts his sword, which he identifies as the Shichiseiken, and proclaims that with their power, they will cut a path to true justice. Everyone in the vicinity roars in agreement, except for Toma, Saga, and Zoro. Saga then tells Zoro that on the night of the red moon, his dream will be realized, with Zoro simply staring at him, realizing that everyone, including Saga was under the sword's influence. As they left, Toma expressed interest in sparring with Zoro and informed the pirate of his captain’s defeat by Saga’s sword. Toma asked Zoro to have a proper duel with him before he completely succumbs to the sword's influence like the others. Zoro agrees and he and Toma fight, reminding Zoro of his past with Saga, and of the promise they made, that Zoro would become the greatest swordsman of all time, and Saga would join the Marines and master the sword of justice. However, Saga interrupted their duel and took complete control over Toma, crushing his spirit and ordering him to protect one of the towers needed to perform a ritual with the orbs from earlier to seal away the swords' power.

Zoro, angered by this, called out Saga and stated that Toma was stronger through his ability to resist the sword, angering Saga. Despite the disagreement, Saga proclaimed that Zoro would still make his dream come true, prompting Zoro to attack Saga. The two began to fight, with Saga launching flames at his angered friend. Zoro’s attacks had no effect, and Saga sent a blue, dragon-shaped flame to bite Zoro, picking him up and throwing him into the ground. Struggling on the ground, Zoro tried to reach for Yubashiri, but Saga kicked the sword away before stabbing Zoro in the hand. He stood over Zoro, telling him about how the Shichiseiken gave him the power he lost when his dominant arm was crippled and how he would take over the world with darkness. Zoro stood up, remarking about their past dreams, and charged Saga, who knocked the pirate back and shot him with Youkazan: Dark Fire Slash. This action thrusted Zoro into the outer wall of the dojo, and he fell to the ground injured.



Saga was ready to finish Zoro off when, to his surprise, Maya was able to activate the barrier between their island and the Red Moon and prepare to start the ritual to seal the Shichiseiken. Infuriated by this interruption, Saga ran toward Maya's location, with an injured Zoro following to the site. As Zoro tries to get to the site, Luffy and Saga fight their second fight. While Luffy had the upper hand for a while, Saga eventually loses full control of himself to the cursed sword, which merges with Saga's body, making him strong enough to get the upper hand on Luffy. As Luffy is about to challenge Saga again, he is stopped when Zoro arrived to fight Saga himself. Wanting a proper final duel, Zoro threw Saga a katana. As the two prepared to clash, Maya, praying again, caused the orbs in the towers to glow, activating the ritual. The ritual aggravated the mark on Saga’s chest where the sword merged with him, and the swordsman stabbed the ground in front of him in anger to force Zoro into the air. He lunged at Zoro, but Zoro was able to strike Saga down, defeating the Shichiseiken, and destroying it once and for all. Lying injured on the ground, Saga regained his consciousness and smiled up at his victorious friend before passing out.

Zoro himself passes out along with Luffy who passes out from hunger as their friends come for them while Maya holds Saga in her arms. With the ritual complete, the cursed sword destroyed, and everyone under it's influence freed, and his old friend saved, Zoro apologizes to the crew for his earlier actions, including Sanji, who simply shrugs off his apology and states that after everything that's happened, he'll let what he did slide. As the crew happily reunite, Saga wakes up and swears to everyone that he will master the sword of justice for everyone's sake, as it is the only atonement he can make. Zoro then gives Saga his old knife back, as Saga makes Zoro the same promise, he walks away with his crew ready to leave the island. As the Straw Hat Pirates leave the island, Saga sits on a cliff with Maya, Izaya, Lacos, and Toma to see their departure. As the crew ready themselves for their next adventure, the Going Merry sails out with a Hippo Rhino continuously hitting it in a strange sort of mating ritual, with the crew trying to sail away from the smitten creature.

Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
On a calm day, the Straw Hats receive a message in a bottle advertising Omatsuri Island as a resort, promising spas and salons, good food, and many beautiful women, with Grand Line Pirates being especially welcome, the stronger the better. The crew are delighted at their luck, and Luffy decides that this is an opportunity they could not ignore. They set a course for the island.

When they reach the island, they see an uninhabited jungle but the crew follow strange sounds throughout the jungle, which leads them directly to the resort, and they are in awe by its dazzling rides and attractions. Soon, the owner of the island, Baron Omatsuri comes out on an elephant with a small talking flower sprouting from his shoulder to greet his guests. The crew notices the flower, and also notice that the dancers and performers, all have a small plants sprouting out of their heads as well. As the Baron welcomes the crew to his island and says they are welcome to enjoy all the delights he is offering, Luffy and the others are happy to hear this, but first he suggests that they prove their worth by taking part in a competition called the 'Trial of Hell, which he explains is similar to the Davy Back Fight.

Despite the crew being unsure whether or not to consider the trial, Luffy is filled with excitement by this challenge, saying that it might be fun, and that his friends are capable of handling any trial, officially excepting the proposal. As he accepts the proposal, the plaza they are in mechanically converts into an enormous round pool with a platform in the middle, as the first competition is goldfish catching, with the rules being that the winning team will be the one who catches the most goldfish in three minutes using only the net they are given, which is about three inches long and made of water-soluble tissue paper.

When Usopp volunteers to take on the challenge, he immediately changes his mind when he sees his opponent, Muchigoro and the massive goldfish that they have to catch, Rosario. As Nami, Sanji, Zoro and Luffy all try to catch the giant fish using their normal attacks, but only succeed in breaking the tiny net. Just as they decide that it's an impossible task, Muchigoro takes his turn. He reveals that he was hiding a net big enough to catch Rosario all along, much to the crew's fury. He calls Rosario into his net and flings him toward his prize bucket, with Robin intervening with her powers to bounce the fish back into the platform, where Chopper knocks him into own bucket using his Guard Point, just as the time limit ends.

The Baron is furious at the Straw Hats for beating him, as well as insulting him and Muchigoro. He demands that they compete in another challenge. Nami had been hoping for a chance to relax at this island, and refuses on behalf of the rest. Luffy, however, overrules as before, having enjoyed the first trial and is looking forward to more. Nami, furious, tries to lead the crew back to the ship, but the forest seems to move around them and they become lost. Luffy, following them, continues to try to convince them to go back to the Trials. When they finally manage to leave the forest, they find themselves before the Baron again as he announces that they have arrived at the second trial - a complex game of ring toss, taking place between two teams of four people, each in two gondola-like waver boats. To win, a team must throw rings over every member of the other team. Due to Luffy, Robin, and Chopper all being Devil Fruit eaters, the teams for the next trial ended up with Zoro and Sanji being partnered together, and Usopp and Nami teaming up as well, and their opponents, were the so-called; Four Wise Men, a group of four tiny, frog-like people.

With the trial starting at a canal, the participants have to throw rings at their opponents while speeding through what appears to be a city. As Zoro and Sanji complain about being partnered together, they avoid machine gun fire from Keroshot and Kerodeek's tooled-up boat. As the race continues Zoro and Sanji do not seem to make much progress together as they continually bicker, but both of them finally catch up to Keroshot and Kerodeek's ship. Before Zoro makes his move with the ring, though, the two wise men use their boat's mechanically operated arms to try and catch him with a ring. Zoro finally slices them up and orders Sanji to pull in closer. Before Zoro makes a second attempt, Keroshot pulls out another piece of artillery and starts to shoot at him. He dodges again and again and blames Sanji for his reckless driving. For that, Sanji goes a bit faster and eventually makes Zoro an easy target for Keroshot again. Zoro eventually leaps out of the boat into the sides and runs to keep up with the boat. He finally leaps high into the air, and after seconds in flight, falls back into his own boat. Both Zoro and Sanji continue to fight, while Keroshot and Kerodeek smile at their success in getting them riled up. Zoro becomes determined to get them this time, but fails as their opponent's boat backs off. Trying to maintain his balance, he then realizes that they are out of sight when the path splits up between them. He cannot help but attack Sanji another time. As they both argue, the paths merge. Without them noticing, Keroshot's boat appears ahead of them, ready to ensnare them with a ring.



As Zoro and Sanji are ready to duke it out on the boat, Keroshot and Kerodeek tries to get their attention. They shoot at them, but every single shot misses. Then they provoke Zoro so much he slices up their boat. Kerodeek, within mere seconds patches up the boat, and presents a larger, more intimidating version of their shark-like boat. They pull up near Sanji and continue to make some noise. Sanji finishes them off with his kicks, and Kerodeek is forced to patch up once more. A massive version of their boat pulls from behind. Its power is so great the boat even begins to float. Its golden drill is able to plow through the bridges extending across the water. Zoro and Sanji had enough of their interruptions, so they break the massive boat apart together, sending Keroshot and Kerodeek into the air. Finally they were at peace and they could properly fight. Nami catches their attention and orders them to throw the rings since she's tied up herself, being hung up at the strings which held the city's lanterns. Sanji stops the boat and throws the two rings to ensnare the two wise men.

As the duo try to help Nami, Kerojii appears and gets in their way, with all of them just barely missing each other with their attacks. Annoyed by this, Zoro and Sanji try to stop the frog with Nami's help, only for Kerojii to dodge and for Zoro's katana to cut Nami's string instead, sending her to the water below. They try a second time, but end up hitting each other and landing in their boat. As they fight, Kerojii falls from above with a ring in each hand. Zoro pushes Sanji to save himself, causing Sanji to be ensnared by the strange self-wrapping ring. This gave Zoro the chance to take Kerojii out himself and thought that he'd insult Sanji before doing so. Even without the use of his arms, Sanji attempts to attack Zoro on the boat.



Zoro continues to swing his katana but misses with each thrust. Before performing Oni Giri, Kerojii kicks a sandal to his head and gets ready to catch Zoro. Thinking that he ensured his victory, a voice comes from above. There was one person left of the Straw Hats team, which was Usopp. Usopp lets go of his glider and comes down with his 5 ton hammer, pounding Kerojii down into the water. Usopp throws a ring on Kerojii, ending the game, even though Zoro was caught in the process, the score was 4 to 3. Usopp smiles and laughs about his aid to their victory, until Nami stands up and slaps him and accuses him of betrayal. She slaps him again when Usopp abruptly replies that Nami is the one who specializes in betraying people. Zoro and Sanji aren't happy with each other either. As the victory fireworks appear in the sky, it seems as if the crew is starting to crumble apart.

Despite their victory, everyone was on edge and angry at one another back at the hotel, confusing Robin and Luffy. As Robin questions Usopp if he saw anything that resembled a flower while he was gliding in the air, Zoro interrupts him and asks the crew where Chopper is. Usopp answers, but the question gets asked again by Sanji. Usopp answers again, but Nami asks the question again a third time, then snaps at Usopp and said that she wasn't asking him. Usopp is stunned at the length of Nami's anger towards him for his spiteful words earlier, but they are interrupted by the introductory drumming of the Baron as he presents them with a dinner party for a gift. The water pool near them changes and one of Baron's men Kotetsu emerges from below, equipped with two giant grilling spatulas strapped on his back. The flooring underneath him becomes a giant iron grill as the grill itself is surrounded by walls of flames.

As the performance soon turns into a cooking challenge between Kotetsu and Sanji, an unimpressed Zoro simply takes a nap through the event. As the event ends and Luffy wakes Zoro up to eat, he gets up but Sanji does not give him permission to eat, stating his usually his wanting nobody to go hungry belief was overridden by his rivalry and anger with Zoro, coupled with the fact that he slept through his performance. With Zoro now annoyed, Sanji spends no more time with Zoro and runs through the tables searching for Robin but she's no where to be found. With Sanji not being able to find Robin, Zoro tells him that she was off to investigate a flower on the island. The four Straw Hats then gather and realize that Usopp was gone too, and that they didn't know where Chopper was. Sanji begins to put all the blame on Zoro for not watching them properly, but Zoro counters back telling him that they weren't children. It was outrageous to Sanji that none of them noticed the disappearance of three of their crewmates, leading him to angrily ask Luffy for his response since it was his idea to come to this island, leaving Luffy surprised and feeling guilty.



With the Baron calling forth the final Trial of Hell and DJ Gappa showing up wearing Usopp's hat, Zoro and Sanji immediately demanded to know where their three missing crewmates are. As the Baron demands that they accept another Trial of Hell, Sanji backs away and decides to look for the three himself, and Zoro decides to do the same and runs off to the opposite direction, as the final trial is revealed to be the trial of shooting, where the island residents ruthlessly hunt down the opposing pirate crew. With the trial officially started, everyone began hunting the remaining Straw Hats down, with Zoro being hunted down specially by DJ Gappa, after already dealing with Sanji and Nami. DJ Gappa walks up towards Zoro, but discovers that he was still alive. Zoro strangles him, throws him, and uses his Oni Giri. It was clear that the technique connected, but DJ stood there with a frightful, smiling face. He realize that he was just cut, but he did not die. There wasn't any blood, and he was still okay. He does not understand what was happening. Zoro attempts to get him a second time, thinking that DJ used some sort of technique to shield himself. The same thing happens. While baffled, Zoro is caught by surprise and is hit with an arrow by the Baron, which causes Zoro to collapse. After which, Zoro is later taken prisoner by the Lily Carnation, and is eventually absorbed into the monstrous plant in front of Luffy, becoming apart of it.



With Luffy and the other pirates trapped on the island banding together to stop Baron Omatsuri, the Lily Carnation takes it true form, with the entirety of the Straw Hats now assimilated into it and the Baron. Despite an uphill battle now ensuing, one of the pirates manages to fire an arrow into the Lily, critically injuring it in the process, causing all the inhabitants on the island to become lifeless again, and a shocked Baron to lose his connection with the Lily. With a now enraged Baron trying to finish everyone off, before he takes a step further, Luffy steps into the puddle of the Lily's innards and strikes him with a death-rendering punch, sending the Baron into oblivion, and ending the struggle.

With the Lily Carnation's destruction, everyone that was absorbed earlier returned, completely confused about what had happened to them in the first place. As the five of them emerge safe and sound, Luffy smiles in relief and closes his eyes. The Straw Hats spot him and quickly go to see him. With Nami calling out to him wondering what happened and how he could lay there and sleep in a place like this, Luffy couldn’t help but laugh, as the struggle on Omatsuri Island was finally over.

Spa Island Arc
As the Straw Hats relax on Spa Island, they met Lina, her sister Sayo, and her pet sea raccoon, Nukky, who can shape-shift. While most of the crew are helping the two sisters out, and dealing with the unexpected return of Foxy, Zoro is off mediating under a waterfall. While the commotion of dealing with Foxy and the island's owner Doran is underway, Zoro is seen trying to find his way back to the others, while also noticing that people on the island are starting to leave and the island itself is starting to shake from the commotion.

After finding the others and learning about the sisters' situation, Zoro helps begin destroying the island, an angry Doran decides to stop the bunch by showing them Sayo tied to a stake and a gigantic cannon aimed at her. To show he was serious, he fires a warning shot that barely misses Sayo. Doran then demands the notebook for Sayo's life. Lina tempted to do it was stopped by Sayo, telling her not to give up on their father or his goal, and managed to convince Lina to refuse giving up the notebook. The Straw Hats then proceed to stop Doran and rescue Sayo, with Zoro cutting the cannon apart. After Luffy saves the sisters and stops Doran, Lina notices an x-shaped crack under the island. After telling the crew this, they all realized that the clue was under the island the whole time. The heat from the lava soon makes steam form around the group and the reflection from the sun causes a circular rainbow effect. The sisters then realize that the steam is the final clue to make the gem.

A few days later, the Straw Hats' continue their journey when Nukky flies in and delivers a letter to the crew from his owners. Sayo and Lina succeeded in making the rainbow gem and are living happily with their father who returned, alive and well, just in time to see the creation of the gem. They even sent the gem to the Straw Hats as a thank you, and while the crew gather around to look at the gem, it starts to rain candy out of nowhere, and the candy knocks the gem out of Luffy's hand, causing Nami to panic and demand that everyone search for it on the deck.

One Piece Film: Strong World
On board the Thousand Sunny, the Straw Hats read news of attacks on East Blue. Luffy said they would return to East Blue to protect it when Shiki's ship appeared overhead. After warning him of the storm ahead, he came down to meet them. There, he revealed he has a Devil Fruit power to make any inanimate object he touches ignore gravity and float. After learning it was Nami that delivered the warning, and that they were heading to East Blue, Shiki offered to take them there and used his power on the Sunny. Together, the two ships traveled to the floating island seen before, where Shiki suddenly kidnapped Nami. Zoro and the others tried to rescue her, but by controlling the Thousand Sunny using his power, Shiki escaped them and scattered them among the fragments of the island.



Zoro and Chopper ended up on a snow mountainscape. Upon riding around on a Mammoth Dense, they found and rescued a young girl named Xiao and were lead to her village. Along the way, they learned that the large poisonous plants, called Daft Green, located around the village emit a stink so powerful that the animals stay away. However, long term exposure to the plants is poisonous to humans and Xiao's grandmother had become ill from it.

When the rest of the crew showed up at the village, Robin informed them of Shiki's plan. They learned that Shiki was planning to let loose the animals on the island into the East Blue in a gambit to force the World Government to surrender. They also learned that to prove the power of the animals, Shiki was planning a demonstration by targeting a village on the floating island.



Shiki then arrived sometime later and confronted the Straw Hats. Zoro attacked with Nanajuni Pound Ho slashes, which Shiki easily deflected. Sanji then launched Zoro into the air as he tried again to fight Shiki, who sent him back down to the ground with one blow. Despite some initial success in the others fending him off, Zoro and the Straw Hats were defeated, and Nami was coerced into rejoining Shiki by him agreeing to spare them and her hometown.

Xiao reappeared and gave them the Dial Nami left for them. Her mother, who earlier had expressed relief about the animals being sent to East Blue, apologized for saying how happy she was for Shiki leaving for East Blue. They then played the message, and the crew, except Luffy, listened to the whole thing.

The Straw Hats later arrived at Shiki's palace, broke down the gates, and made short work of the guards outside. They then marched into the main meeting room brandishing various firearms and a new wardrobe.



After a short confrontation, where Shiki called them simply a suicide squad, he revealed hundreds of men around them. They unloaded their firearms in the room, defeating most of those gathered, before splitting up to defeat the rest. Luffy chased after Shiki, as Zoro clashed swords with Dr. Indigo.



Zoro later showed up at Indigo's lab and challenged Indigo for the antidote. Indigo mocked him and stated that the world would not care if East Blue was annihilated. This comment enraged Zoro, due to his origins and most of his crew being born and raised in that area of the world.

He knocked Indigo through the wall and the two began to fight on a bridge. Indigo showed off his Chemical Juggling ability, attacking the swordsman with his chemical orbs. Zoro was unable to keep up and was hit by them. This merely annoyed Zoro, who stated that he did not have time for his acrobatics. Indigo then used the Mass Juggling ability, creating one giant ball of energy and threw it at him. Zoro survived the attack with little damage and defeated Indigo in one strike using his Ashura: Ugui technique. He handed Chopper the antidote and headed back to the ship.

After Shiki was defeated by Luffy, the other Straw Hats escaped on board the Thousand Sunny, using Shiki's pirate sail as a parachute. Zoro was seen much later on the ship as Nami recovered.

Adventure of Nebulandia
The Straw Hats were lured onto Kinoko Island by the Foxy Pirates, who posed as a marooned crew. Luffy agreed to a Davy Back Fight rematch, and Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji took part in the first round, where they had to eat as many mushrooms as possible. However, the mushrooms caused the three of them to become lethargic, and they were captured along with Porche and Hamburg as the Foxy Pirate Komei revealed that this was part of his plan to take down the Straw Hats. Komei then captured Zoro, Sanji, Porche, and Hamburg and took them to Nebulandia, where he imprisoned them.

Zoro and Sanji were later taken outside and chained to a rock formation along with the other captured Straw Hats in order to lure Luffy to Komei. However, Chopper and Brook came with an antidote and reinforcements, and Zoro and Sanji were freed and restored to their old selves. They then helped beat back the Marines, and the Straw Hats and Foxy Pirates returned to Kinoko Island afterwards, where they parted ways. The Straw Hats then held a banquet to celebrate their victory.

Silver Mine Arc
As the Straw Hats and Barto Club slept for the night, Luffy and Bartolomeo were suddenly kidnapped by the Silver Pirate Alliance. The two crews woke up to confront the kidnappers, but Peseta and his men fired Adhesive Shells at the Going Luffy-senpai. Zoro sliced them up, but became covered in a sticky substance which rendered him and everyone else immobile.



The next day, the Straw Hats and Barto Club reached Silver Mine, where Luffy and Bartolomeo were being held. As Peseta was forcing Luffy, Bartolomeo, and their allies to surrender by taking hostages, Zoro freed the hostages and confronted Peseta. Peseta mocked Zoro about his predicament the previous night and fired more Adhesive Shells at him. However, Zoro sliced them up without getting any adhesive on him and sent Peseta and his men flying far away with Kokujo: O Tatsumaki. Zoro and Kin'emon prepared to take Luffy and Bartolomeo back to the Going Luffy-senpai, but the Silver Pirate Alliance leader Bill cut the two groups off, and Luffy told Zoro to go on ahead while he dealt with Bill.

Zoro and Kin'emon returned to the Going Luffy-senpai, attacking some of the Battle Boats besieging it. Luffy and Bartolomeo later returned, and the Straw Hats and Barto Club set sail for Zou.

Heart of Gold
While at sea, the Straw Hats encountered a girl named Myskina Olga, who fruitlessly tried to threaten them. Olga revealed the existence of the great treasure Pure Gold to the Straw Hats, and they wished to go after it with her. Suddenly, they were attacked by Mad Treasure and his crew, who were also after the Pure Gold. The Straw Hats easily repelled Treasure's crew, but Treasure pulled Olga to him with a chain, starting a tug of war between him and the Straw Hats. Eventually, Zoro cut Olga free and returned her to the Sunny, but her ring fell into the ocean into the process. This caused a giant fish named Bonbori to emerge and consume the ring, and the Straw Hats sailed into Bonbori after hearing that the Pure Gold was inside it. Treasure followed the Straw Hats into Bonbori, and rammed his ship into the Sunny, nearly causing it to hit Bonbori's uvula. However, Luffy prevented a collision, but was blown far away after being shot by Treasure's subordinate Naomi Drunk. Olga went to rescue Luffy as the Sunny fell into Bonbori's throat. Zoro, Sanji, and Franky later ended up in Bonbori's second stomach along with the Sunny.



Zoro, Sanji, and Franky later reunited with Luffy when he and his companion Myskina Acier came into Bonbori's second stomach. Upon hearing that the rest of their crewmates were captured by Treasure, Zoro and Sanji accompanied Luffy and Acier to the island of Alchemi, where the Pure Gold lay. They were attacked by Treasure's crew at the coast of Alchemi, but Zoro and Sanji stayed behind to deal with them as Luffy and Acier continued on. While easily dispatching Treasure's masses, Zoro confronted Naomi Drunk, who repeatedly and unsuccessfully shot arrows at him. Zoro dodged and cut apart all the arrows as he approached Naomi, and hit her with an air slash. He then knocked Naomi out by driving a sword into her cap.

Zoro and Sanji returned to the rest of the crew right after Luffy defeated Mad Treasure, and they prepared to escape on the Sunny. The Straw Hats and Myskina family exited Bonbori as it vomited, and they watched as the Pure Gold was absorbed into Bonbori's lamp. The next day, the Straw Hats parted ways with Olga and Acier, but they were disappointed at their failure to get the Pure Gold. However, Nami revealed that she had acquired a Vivre Card leading to the entertainment city Gran Tesoro, and the Straw Hats excitedly set sail for it.

One Piece Film: Gold Episode 0
On the Thousand Sunny, the Straw Hats were having a barbecue. After the volleyball game between Nami and Chopper versus Robin and Franky, the Straw Hats discussed what they will do when they reach Gran Tesoro. Usopp then demonstrated a show for Gran Tesoro in case betting in the casino failed. Zoro spectated the sumo wrestling matches between Luffy versus Usopp and Luffy versus Franky. After a long match between Luffy and Franky, they both decided to use their signature attacks, but Nami punched the two because they could have destroyed the ship. Moments later, the Straw Hats approached the City of Dreams.

One Piece Film: Gold


The Straw Hats entered Gran Tesoro, and were showered with gold dust at the entrance. They emerged in a pool of liquid gold that had a concert venue around it, but quickly found themselves under attack by the Long Long Pirates, who intended to rob the Straw Hats to pay off their debts. Narcie rushed toward the napping Zoro, but Zoro countered his sword strike. When Narcie attacked again, Zoro ran on top of his sword and used Oni Giri on Narcie, defeating him. The Straw Hats managed to defeat the Long Long Pirates, and watched as Gild Tesoro, the proprietor of Gran Tesoro, encased the remaining enemy pirates in gold.

The Straw Hats docked, and were approached by Baccarat, who offered them a VIP experience due to their fame. Baccarat drove them through Gran Tesoro in a turtle car, and took them to a VIP hotel at the heart of Gran Tesoro. The Straw Hats donned new outfits as they prepared to enjoy their vacation, although several kids tried to sell them flowers to pay off their families' debts. They went to the casino, and were given 20,000,000 worth in tokens. The Straw Hats managed to get very lucky and drastically increase their earnings, and Baccarat took them to the VIP lounge, where they had the chance to become millionaires. They played a dice game hosted by Dice and won, when Gild Tesoro arrived and challenged the Straw Hats to a game. However, Baccarat used her Devil Fruit powers to take away Luffy's luck, causing him to lose. When the Straw Hats found out about her deception, they refused to give Tesoro their money, and Tesoro and his subordinates retaliated with force. Zoro confronted Tesoro, but as he raced toward him, Tesoro encased his legs in gold using the gold dust that had been showered on him at the entrance before blocking his sword strike with a gold tendril. Tesoro covered more of Zoro's body in gold, rendering him helpless, and held Zoro as a hostage. Tesoro allowed the Straw Hats to try and repay their debt by 12:00 the next night, but if they failed, then Zoro would be executed.

Zoro was held in a dark room afterwards in a gold structure, with most of his body encased in gold. The next night, Tesoro came to him and mocked the Straw Hats' hopes of beating him, and Zoro had no reaction.

Later, Zoro was taken to an entertainment venue where he was to be executed and where his crewmates were to be trapped. However, thanks to a plan developed by Carina, seawater sprayed from all of Gran Tesoro's fountains, freeing Zoro and his crewmates from their gold encasement. Zoro rejoined his crewmates, and Tesoro blew up the hotel, causing a deluge of gold to fall on them. However, Sanji, Robin, and Franky carried their crewmates to safety, and Tesoro confronted the Straw Hats inside a giant gold golem. As Luffy battled Tesoro, the Straw Hats were confronted by Dice, Baccarat, and Tanaka, who had been given golden armor and weapons by Tesoro.

Dice attacked Zoro with a giant golden axe, but Zoro managed to counter his strikes. Dice managed to block Zoro's attacked with Busoshoku Haki, but Zoro eventually managed to disarm Dice and send him flying back in a whirlwind. However, Tesoro summoned gold tendrils to grab Zoro's swords, and Dice curled into a ball and rolled toward Zoro with great force, sending Zoro flying and causing him to lose grip on his swords. Dice took two of Zoro's swords and attacked him with them, but Zoro managed to counter them with only his Busoshoku Haki-imbued arms. He then used Tatsu Maki to send Dice flying back, and after Dice recovered, he rolled toward Zoro again. However, Zoro reclaimed one of his swords and used Shishi Sonson, cutting through Dice's armor and defeating him.

However, after Luffy managed to get the upper hand on Tesoro, Tesoro turned his golem into liquid gold, swamping everyone in it and preventing them from moving, except for the aerial Luffy. Luffy managed to defeat Tesoro, freeing everyone on Gran Tesoro, and they all rejoiced. However, a timer suddenly appeared, and Carina stated that the ship would sink once it reached zero. The Straw Hats then returned to the Thousand Sunny, but then found out that the timer was a ruse in order for Carina to take command of Gran Tesoro. However, they had no hard feelings, and were forced to depart once the Marine fleet nearby began chasing them.

One Piece: Stampede
After receiving an invitation for the Pirates Festival, the Straw Hats headed to Delta Island. After exploring and playing around a bit, they decided to take part in the main event, a Treasure Race for Gol D. Roger's treasure. After the Straw Hats started to ascend the Knock Up Stream, they then noticed that Law has boarded their ship, who reveals he's been chased due to coming close to a secret behind the Festival. The crew then decided to split up, with Robin, Brook and Sanji accompanying Law to further investigate his suspicions. The rest continued to the Treasure Island atop the Stream, where an all out brawl occurred as they raced towards the treasure, with Zoro engaging Killer briefly. However, the race ended when the island was destroyed by Douglas Bullet. After also receiving news that the island was being surrounded by a Marine fleet, Zoro was assigned to take care of the crew on the Sunny. When they made it to the coast, the Pirate Hunter soon found himself facing Issho, who he held of until Bullet started to make his move. Issho left, but not before leaving a parting gift in the form of a meteor, which Zoro managed in two, though it was only blown away thanks to Dracule Mihawk, who was present to fulfill his duties as a Warlord. Bullet then altered the island's terrain with his ability, creating walls on the edge of the island and trapping both pirates and Marines within. When Zoro noticed that Crocodile was aiming for Bullet after Luffy destroyed his colossus and ship, Zoro briefly intercepted the former Warlord. After Luffy defeated Bullet, the Straw Hat's reunited on their ship, where they set sail and attempted to penetrate the Marine's encirclement of the island, together with the other members of the Worst Generation, as well as several other pirate crew. In the end they were able to escape thanks to Sabo and Ann creating blazing path for them to go through.

One Piece Film: Red
Uta organized a concert on Elegia in order to realize her dream of performing for the whole world. Zoro was present during the concert.