Katya wished for Bepo more times that she ever thought possible during the voyage to Zou. How on earth had the Barto Club survived until now without a navigator? Especially in the New World. Katya had gotten to know Kanjuro, Kin'emon's fellow samurai from the Wano Country, reasonably well, as well as talking to Robin a lot more, but most of the time on the ship had been spent with Law.
The two Heart Pirates were anxious to see their nakama at Zou once again and having time to themselves had been more or less non-existent the last few weeks, so it was relieving to have some down time.
The terrible navigation did not help Katya's motion sickness at all. The submarine wasn't an issue for her as 95% of the time it was operated smoothly. This ship on the other hand, had been awful.
"Ugh, how much further?" Katya moaned, her head resting on Law's shoulder.
"Boss, I see something at 2 o'clock!"
"What is it?" Bartolomeo replied, but like the rest of his crew and Katya, he was feeling terribly seasick.
"In the fog, there's a mountain. Or a monster." The man from the lookout said.
"I hope there's no monster than can be mistaken for a mountain." Bartolomeo replied.
"But it looks like it's moving slowly!"
"Law, do you think-?" Katya put her head up.
"I think so." The captain replied.
"If it's a mountain that moves, let's go!" Luffy said excitedly.
"No, idiot! All we should do is get out of this foggy maze as soon as we can! Or we'll hit a reef and capsize!" Usopp shouted at Luffy, pulling on the man's stretchy face as he did so.
"Wait, God." Law said.
"Did you just call me 'God'? I'm flattered!" Usopp's face was flushed and clearly happy about his title. "I'm a man of 200 million and I'm flattered!"
"I'm sure even the Navy admirals are aware of you now." Law said bluntly to the man, who began to panic. Katya let out a giggle.
"Stop teasing him, Law."
"Anyway. The Vivre Card is pointing towards it. I heard that Zou blocks out invaders with dense fog and an adverse current." Law looked upwards.
The crew rowed forward to get to the island until a large shadow could be seen.
"It's huge!" Katya gasped. "Law, I know you said it was on the back of a large elephant, but..." She looked up at it in awe.
"Yeah."
"So this is where Bepo is from. I'm excited to see it!" She grinned. "But, ah..." the freckled woman's face fell. "How are we supposed to get up there?"
"Law! I found my spare knives!" Katya grinned happily as everyone stood on the deck of the Thousand Sunny, which had been anchored to one of the legs of Zou. The woman had come running out of the girls' room with her bag. She had barely taken anything on board with her to Dressrosa as it had been a rather sudden departure from the Sunny thanks to Luffy.
Katya had also changed clothes into a white t-shirt with some jeans. Law blushed when he saw her walk over.
"Hm? What is it?"
"You wore the shirt with the logo I got you."
Katya looked down at the shirt with a grin. "Yeah, I mean it was about time I got something with our Jolly Roger on. Although it's a bit weird, isn't it?"
"How?"
"It's like a statement, isn't it? I might as well have 'Property of Trafalgar Law' tattooed on my forehead."
Law smirked. "I'd rather it was tattooed somewhere else." His hand slid down to grab her ass and Katya squealed, before elbowing him.
"Don't be so crude!"
"You like it when I do that, though." The man whispered in her ear.
"Lawww, we need to go up the elephant. How am I supposed to focus when you're saying things like that?" Katya smiled and wrapped her arms around his waist.
"There is a time and a place for whatever it is you're doing!" Zoro shouted at them and the two jumped apart.
"Zoro, you need to get laid. Then you'd be more cheerful." Katya yawned.
"Shut up!"
"Okay, it's finished!" Kanjuro declared proudly, putting down the paintbrush that he had been painting the deck of the Sunny with.
"You've got to be kidding me." Katya raised her eyebrows. "That is one of the worst drawings I've ever seen."
"What is it even supposed to be?" Luffy said.
"A snake?" Kin'emon suggested.
"Appear, rising dragon!" Kanjuro used his Devil Fruit to make it appear up from the deck and become a real creature.
"So cool!" Luffy cheered as the creature pathetically whined.
"We're going to die climbing up the elephant." Katya muttered. Next to her, Robin was looking at the odd dragon with a blush.
"Robin, you can't seriously think it's cute..."
"All right, everyone! Cling to its back, it's gonna climb up!" Kanjuro said proudly.
"This is a bad idea." Katya sighed as Luffy excitedly jumped onto the panting dragon drawing.
