The stress of flying through the air with Luffy and Law was giving Katya a pounding headache. When Pica hit, Luffy had jumped up and hanged them from a random spike by his shirt. It was messy and a piece of debris had hit Katya's arm pretty hard. She'd heard a disgusting 'pop' sound.

Luffy jumped down to greet Zoro after the man turned up. Katya panted and clutched her left shoulder. Thankfully, it wasn't her dominant arm, but it was still a problem.

"Katya-ya, you're hurt." Law said urgently.

"I think I popped my shoulder." The freckled woman had tears in her eyes.

"Ah, I can help with that." Zoro said and walked over to Katya.

"Zoro-ya, don't you dare try-"

"AHH!" Katya screamed as Zoro shoved her shoulder back into its socket without warning.

"Oi! Zoro! Don't break Katya!" Luffy exclaimed.

The Heart Pirate's face was now streaming with tears of pain, but mercifully, her shoulder was back in place. She gave it a gentle roll. It was still agony, but it was in the socket.

"N-Never...do that...again." Katya said between sobs.

"Tch. You're welcome." Zoro replied grumpily as both Katya and Law glared at him angrily.

"Luffy, we need to get him out of those cuffs." Katya changed the subject to avoid infighting, although she privately filed away the brief daydream of her and Law kicking the swordsman in the balls until he apologised.

"Straw Hat." A musical sounding voice came from a blonde man walking towards them. He had a bright blue feather plume in his hair, and Katya was immediately on her guard.

"Cabbage!"

"Pirate Hunter Zoro and Takimi Katya." The man said, looking at the two. "I recognise you from the announcement."

The man looked down at Law on the ground and scowled angrily. "And Trafalgar..." he raised his sword. "Law!"

The blonde man brought his blade down but it was stopped just above Law's head.

"Huh?" The angry blonde looked down. Katya was crouched over Law, her knife holding back the sword. The look in her eyes was truly murderous.

"Back the fuck away from my Captain." She gritted her teeth.

"Stop, Cabbage!" Luffy shouted. "They're with us!"

The blonde man lifted his sword and relaxed it to the side. Katya stood up between him and Law, her knives in hand. She was lucky the man hadn't used armament Haki when he swung.

Luffy talked the man down from attacking them and the man, apparently actually called Cavendish, offered them Law's hat that he had found outside of the Colosseum. Katya snatched it from the man and kicked him in the shins.

"Arrogant prick."

Katya carried Law's nodachi as the group of ex-Colosseum competitors followed them on a bull that Luffy had apparently tamed. They had all declared that they would kill Doflamingo, but had turned their attention to Katya with annoyance as halfway through she yelled at them to stop having a dick measuring contest.

Katya, exasperated, turned her attention to Law, and pulled a few bandages from her pockets.

"Talk me through what to do." She said to Law.

Law nodded and they managed to bandaged a few of his wounds, even as Luffy forced the bull to run up Pica's stone arms. Zoro leapt off to fight Pica and Katya ended up mostly hanging on to both Law and the bull for dear life.

"This way of travelling sucks." She muttered nauseously.

"Oi, Straw Hat-ya," Law said as Katya slumped onto his chest. "I know the only way for us to survive now is to kill Doflamingo. I've made up my mind too. The plan that I suggested to you guys was to take down Doflamingo indirectly. But to be honest, I want to hurt him directly too!" Law glanced at Katya, who took his hand in hers.

"It's time, Law. He needs to know."

"Thirteen years ago, there was a person I adored and Doflamingo killed him. His name was Cora-san. The former top executive of the Donquixote family."

"What? He was a member of this clan?" Luffy said in surprise.

"Yes, he was. He also saved my life and was Doflamingo's biological younger brother."

Katya bit her lip. "He's the reason we're here, Luffy. I'm sorry that we lied to you. It's also the reason Doflamingo wants me alive." She looked down at her hands. "I possess Cora-san's power. He wants to kill me himself so the fruit will reform near him. They say that those who eat a Devil Fruit sometimes inherit the will of those before them. I'd like to hope I am even slightly like the person who saves Law's life."

"Ah." Luffy replied as Law looked up at Katya with an unreadable expression. "Well then. I'll definitely kick Mingo's ass!