Law Chapter 7: Drunken Boxing

Law and I were sharing a room again. Luckily for me, it had two beds so I didn't have to share one with the Captain. It was already late when I reached over and turned off the light. Law and the rest of the crew were enjoying their new companions. I didn't blame them, being stuck on the ship with the same people every hour of the day made me even want to meet new faces. Except for most people, I met wanted to capture me for some reason that no one had yet told me.

I had been reading a book about the grand Line. Bepo had given it to me to catch me up on some of the most interesting things you needed to know about the Grand Line, such as how only the log pose can be used to navigate on the Grand Line. I had already figured out that the weather was unpredictable, and luckily for me, my storm ability kept me slightly more on top of the changes, but what fascinated me the most was the wildlife. Which was why I was also reading a book on the common wildlife of the Grand Line.

The weirdest thing that was happening to me though that I was starting to sense the presence of other people around me. I was figuring out how to mute the breathing of all the objects near me, which was making life easier now, but things like plants still had heartbeats of their own. This whole sensing ability got clearer when I cleared my mind. I was setting my book down when I sensed Law's presence coming down the hall, and he wasn't alone. Closing my eyes, I thought that I sensed they were female but I wasn't positive. Realizing that they weren't slowing down and I didn't want to experience and awkward moment, I opened my window and jumped down, landing softly on the street below. Now was the perfect time to ask Penguin and Shachi what was wrong with my head.

Except that they were both peacefully asleep. Groaning in frustration and about mentally overwhelmed with the blur of energies and presences that I was detecting, I decided to go down to the kitchen and eat some ice cream. I sat at one of the tables and had almost fallen asleep when a hand settled on my shoulder. I jumped and activated the electric current that was my first line of defense in hand to hand combat.

"Easy Katsa, it's just me," Penguin said as he sat down across from me. "I take it Law has some guests upstairs?" I grimaced and he smiled softly back at me. "How about you stay with Shachi, Bepo, and I tonight? You would be safe at least."

That didn't sound half bad actually. Shachi and Penguin were close like brothers and they considered me family already. "I'd appreciate that," I said sleepily as he helped me to my feet.

Shachi had the smaller bed while Bepo slept on the floor. Apparently, it was too hot for him on the beds here and the wood floor was wonderfully cold. Penguin and I were going to share the larger bed. It was awkward at first when everyone settled in, but Penguin slept as far away from me as possible. Shachi winked at me before turning off the light and settling in. I fell asleep to all of them snoring.

I slowly woke up to find a shadow standing over me. "And to think I could catch her sleeping all nice and warm like," a voice purred. I blinked and tried to figure out why I couldn't move. I was rolled up in the quilt and tied up like a burrito with leather straps. 'What the hell!'

"I can use magic to bind anything that's made of fabric," the voice said above me as a hand stroked my cheek.

"You are the exact image of the girl I am looking for," he said as I struggled. Somehow this was an incredibly effective way to keep me from moving.

"Wait what do you mean?" I asked. The man chuckled softly as he placed a magic binding on me. It felt like hundreds of talismans were weighing me down.

"Oh you don't know, the boss is looking for a girl with an incredibly rare type of magic. She's a lean and agile woman with heterochromatic eyes. You fit the description very well."

"Who wants her?" I had to keep him talking until Shachi, or Bepo or Penguin woke up.

"You don't know anything, do you? Well, I guess I'll tell you before I kidnap you. The boss, Kerrigor wants you, or her, you could be her. Anyway, he says it's important for his plan. The whole taking over and destroying the world plan. Apparently, he's starting to get bored, don't tell him that, and he's setting his mind on something far greater than any of us will ever see. He got tired conquering the islands in our land so he's moved on to bigger things. She's not the only one he wants, there are a few others, but well the whole rare type is a dying breed so I'm going to be taking you with me. Rare types are the only ones able to use transcendent magic, at a cost, and well with their abilities cloned and planted into contractors, he could create an even better army. He controls the ability cloning anyway, so every contractor he creates has to offer him something important in exchange for their ability. The ring in their eye is the sign of the contract, which is for the most part forever binding."

Luckily for me, that was the perfect time for Shachi to sit up.

"Ah! Shachi help me! ….You're asleep!" I yelled as his head twitched in his sleep.

"Now be a good man and go back to sleep," the man said as he went to push Shachi back down. Shachi grabbed the man's wrist and through him over the bed. Another shadow shot into the room but fell forward as Penguin drop kicked him. Penguin stood and let out a snore. The first man rolled and sprung to his feet while Shachi sat down and put his head on the bed. The man pulled out a hammer and lunged for Shachi, who wobbly leaped and dodged the blow. Shachi jumped again and kicked the man into the wall before going back to laying down using Bepo as a pillow.

Meanwhile, Penguin dodged a knife and kicked the man into the ceiling before laying back down on Shachi's bed. The man lunged again and Penguin jumped, epically turning and face palming the man, who flew backward into the door. Penguin stood there teetering with a weird smile on his face. The man lunged at Penguin but Penguin's hands moved in a blur and soon the man was falling over the bed.

Shachi climbed in bed with me and snuggled up against me. The other attacker wearing what I now recognized as a gray mask lunged at him.

"Shachi wake up! I mean don't wake up, just sleep fight but move," I squealed. Just as the man about smashed in Shachi's head, he moved and uppercut the man across the temple. He rolled and tumbled into Bepo, who snorted and rolled over. There was a lot of staggering and swaying involved.

"They are both asleep and drunken boxing!" the two men shrieked. I was wondering how Bepo was still asleep until I noticed the tranquilizer dart protruding out of his arm.

"Yay Captain!" Bepo said before snoring again and I giggled.

One man lunged toward Penguin who kicked him into Shachi who kicked him into a wall. The other man quickly followed and Penguin and Shachi picked up Bepo and set him down on top of the two unconscious men. Bepo was sound asleep snoring and muttering unrecognizable words, well except for the occasional "captain and I'm sorry". I was completely amused and yet weirded out. It made no sense to me how they could be doing this, but then Shachi made sandwiches in his sleep just fine. Well, that and one night I caught him walking down the hall muttering "stupid gophers, eating my freaking carrots," and something like "stupid marines owe me 200 beli."

Back to the matter at hand, the two decided to fight each other. Shachi and Penguin grabbed a pillow at the same time, and what had been epic drunken sleep boxing became drunken sleep boxing with pillows. I couldn't help but giggle as the two flipped and leaped around the room while stumbling and attempting to hit each other with pillows.

Shachi stumbled back and got drilled in the face with a pillow, which exploded and covered him and me with feather since he went tumbling onto the bed. He grabbed an extra pillow and smacked Penguin across the head, making the pillow explode and Penguin trip over Bepo.

Shachi rammed Penguin into a wall and after three more pillows exploded, Penguin crashed to the floor snoring. The room was covered in feathers.

I giggled and then squeaked as Shachi climbed in bed with me and threw an arm and leg over me. "Ugh Shachi," I started but sighed as he got comfy. I fell asleep shortly thereafter since our attackers were out cold and I couldn't free myself.

Law woke up the next morning to find his room strangely still and quiet. He rolled over with a smile and glanced over at the room divider which was wide open revealing an empty bed. With a groan, he sat up and rubbed his sore head, last night was catching up to him. Speaking of which, wasn't someone supposed to be sleeping in here last night. Law got up and walked over to the other bed, which looked barely used.

"Fuck I forgot Katsa!" Law snarled and hurriedly got dressed. He threw open the door and marched down the hall shirtless. He threw open the door to Riku's room, which was closest to his, which woke up its occupants. Riku, Toki, and John all looked up blurrily. "Has anyone seen Katsa?" Law demanded.

"Not since she went to bed early last night. Weren't you rooming with her?" Riku asked groggily.

"I didn't see her last night or this morning," Law said grumpily.

"Then check the other rooms," Toki said grumpily and was pulled abruptly off of the bed by Law. "You're helping me look."

They searched all of the rooms looking for Katsa and came finally to Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo's room. Law took a deep breath before opening the door. Most of the crew had already headed for the sub to look for Katsa.

I groaned as the door opened. Everything and everyone was covered in feathers. Shachi was sleeping on the floor between the beds, Penguin was sound asleep against the wall and Bepo was looking around confused at the mess. I turned toward the door as it opened slowly.

"Is Katsa in here?" Law asked as he stepped into the room. Penguin opened his eyes and looked around with a bewildered look on his face. Shachi sat up and then stared at me. I was attempting to blow another feather off of me.

Law stood in the doorway staring at the room. I was still rolled up in the quilt and tied up. We had both unconscious assailants still trapped under Bepo, and all of the men in the room looked confused.

"Good morning," I said from my roll.

"Good morning…. what the hell happened here?" Law growled as he walked over to me.

"Well, some genius decided to tie me up in a quilt in the middle of the night and try to abduct me. It would have worked had it not been for Penguin and Shachi. Bepo got hit by a sleeping dart somewhere along the line. Penguin and Shachi decided to break out their sleep drunken boxing and were awesome. In their sleep, they finished the two assailants. Then they decided to have a drunken pillow fight, hence where the feathers have come from. Then they too went back to normal sleep and Bepo slept through the whole thing seemingly," I said while Toki untied me. His lips were twitching as he tried not to laugh.

Penguin and Shachi sat there laughing. "I told you that you would be safe with us last night didn't I?" Penguin said while chuckling.

"You could have told me that you both can drunken box in your sleep," I said as I finally got free of the quilt. "It was kind of funny to watch last night."

"At least you were safe," Law said with a sigh.

"Why were you getting attacked in your sleep again?" Penguin asked as he sat next to me, helping me to remove feathers from my hair and his.

"I have no idea. Apparently, I looked like someone he was looking for," I said. "But he did tell me he was a contractor and more about contractors."

"Take them to the sub, we'll get information out of them soon enough. Meanwhile Katsa, please return to our room and take a bath, you look ridiculous," Law said as he walked over to the now conscious assailants. "When you are done, please acquire the rest of our gear so we can leave."

I was walking into our room when I noticed my bag was gone.

"Hey Captain?" I yelled.

"What is it Miss Katsa?" Law asked as he opened our door. Penguin, Shachi, Toki, John, Penguin, and Shachi were escorting our captives to the ship.

"Where are my clothes?" I asked him as I pointed to where my bag had once been. I searched the room as Law stood there frowning. "My bag is gone," I growled as I sat there on the floor in my PJ's, which were a pair of black shorts and a blue shirt with white dots and the Heart Pirates logo on it. At least my journal was still here.

"Take a shower, I will bring back some clothes for you," Law said with a sigh.

The town murmured uneasily as Morgan, Jesse, and I finished the last of our shopping. Law had brought me navy jean shorts, a black shirt, and one of his hoodies. "What happened to your clothes Katsa," Morgan asked as he took a drag on his cigarette.

"Some genius stole them last night. I'm sure they will be returned rather quickly," I said as we arrived at the blacksmith's.

"Oh no doubt about that," Jesse said, his deep voice rumbling and his silver eyes flashing with mirth.

"Apparently those guys that Shachi and Penguin fought last night were contractors," Morgan said as he ran a hand through his dark brown hair.

"They must suck as contractors to get beaten by two sleeping guys," Jesse said as he pulled his long dark green hair back.

"Hey they fought pretty well for being asleep," I said as Morgan chuckled.

"Yah, you're disappearing act gave us a hell of a scare first thing this morning. Correction, Law looking for you gave us one hell of a scare," Morgan said.

"I wasn't missing, I just relocated myself," I said and stuck my tongue out at him.

"Law looked rather furious when he couldn't find you," Jesse said. "Next time leave him a note so he doesn't break down everyone's door looking for you."

"Right, I'll do that while trying to flee the room so that Law can have some privacy, I wasn't staying to see if there was going to be guests in the room," I said with a grumble.

"That could have been awkward."

"It would have been."

"How did you get out of the room without him seeing you?" Morgan asked.

"I jumped out the window and treated myself to a large bowl of ice cream. Penguin found me and packed me off to his room."

"I don't think he knows you knew he had quests with him before you left, though I wonder if he also thought he locked you out of the room," Jesse said.

"If he doesn't, I ain't telling him," I said.

"By the way, how did you end up tied up anyway?" Morgan asked after a long minute of silence.

"Some magic spell of some sort. It was annoying," I grumbled. "I woke up like that, and some guy was talking to me. It was really creepy."

"Yah well, he spilled the beans about being a contractor after your magic. He also told Law that if you lose your magic you will die and there are a lot of contractors after you right now. Turns out you are carrying something pretty precious other than storm magic, something that's supposed to be incredibly rare. Too bad you can't remember what it is, and they had some weird seal preventing them from saying it," Morgan said.

"Yah well, I'm sure we can handle them as a crew," I said with a smirk toward him.

"Damn right!" they both said.

With all of our gear on board the ship and my bag of clothes mysteriously having reappeared it was time for us to say goodbye and leave for our next island. The crew basked under the afternoon sun as Toki and Cody passed out lemonade and Law sat sleeping against Bepo. I didn't know what the future would bring or what the past had in store for me, but I was happy to be living in the present.