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Steve's POV

"I'm not gonna lie, this ship is creepy." I sighed.

We were getting a ride to Zou on Bartolomeo's ship, only his ship was like the Merry, but with a mock Luffy on the figure head.

"Man we had a lot of fun with those guys." Luffy sighed.

"Enough wasting time." Law grumbled "Let's get moving to Zou."

"I wonder if Sanji and the rest are there?" Usopp wondered out loud.

"They should be." Rose said "That was the meeting place."

"And they have Nami so they won't get lost." Lil smiled.

"I'm more worried about the ship." Franky sighed.

"I think it'll be fine." I laughed.

"Hmm look." Zoro held up the paper "Our bounties went up."

"Expected." I said "Seems logical after what happened."

"Really!" Luffy smiled.

"You didn't know." Bartolomeo said rolling out a red carpet "This way to my room, I've got your posters on my wall!"

"That's so creepy." Rose sighed.

"I think it's cute." Monet smiled.

Bart lead us to his room where he practically threw the door off the hinges when he opened it and waved his arms at framed copies of our wanted posters.

"I even have your autographs over here!" he smiled.

"Again, creepy." Rose sighed.

"Well let's take a look see." I said looking at the wall.

"Strawhat Luffy- 500,000,000!"

"It's so high!" Luffy cheered.

"Demonic Torturer Steve- 450,000,000!"

"Hey they added on to my Epithet" I said.

My picture had been changed to one of me in mid transformation, half my face was human and the other half was all demonic and spooky

"Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro- 320,000,000!"

"We should drink to celebrate!" he laughed.

"Deathblossom Rose- 250,000,000!"

"Cool!" she smiled.

Rose's picture was now of her with her short hair and her creepy murder glare.

"Devil's Child Nico Robin- 130,000,000!"

"Oh dear it went up again." She sighed.

"Cyborg Franky- 94,000,000!"

"They used a picture of the General Franky!" he cried.

"Reissued: Snow Angel Monet- 145,000,000!"

"They placed my bounty back in effect." She sighed "How unfortunate."

Monet's photo looked like she did with her glasses off, half sinister smirk and half seductive smile.

"Hmm…" Lil peered forward "Ha! There's one for me!"

"Crystal Maiden Lil Accino- 100,000,000!"

"Oh my." Robin gasped.

"That's not good." I sighed shaking my head.

"I've got my own bounty!" the little girl cheered "I'm a real official pirate just like you guys now!"

Lil's picture was of her with her eye's closed and a calming smile.

"We missed one." Rose snickered pointing at the frame.

"God Usopp- 200,000,000!"

"AHHH!" Usopp screeched "They'll come for me now!"

"What the hell is that!" Franky snapped trying to choke Usopp "Even Lil has a higher one then me, I'm the only one that didn't break 100,000,000!"

"Not so fast Franky." Monet said "There are some others who are not in attendance."

"Look Sanji's poster has a picture!" Luffy said.

"Black Leg Sanji- 177,000,000!"

"Man it's fixed." Zoro sighed "I can't make fun of him now…"

"Cat Burglar Nami- 66,000,000!"

"Wow that's a really pretty picture of Nami." Lil said.

"It looks like she posed for it." Rose half laughed and half sighed "When did she take that?"

"Perhaps she supplies her own photos as to not end up like Sanji did last time?" Robin proposed.

"War Demon Wyper- 82,000,000!"

Wyper's picture, judging by the background, was from Fishman Island, and likely had been taken when he was in motion cause the edges were blurred.

"Pet: Cotton Candy Lover Chopper- 100."

"Poor Chopper." Lil frowned.

"There are no words." We all nodded.

"Soul King Brook- 83,000,000!"

"That's just a concert poster!" Zoro yelled.

"See Franky it's not so bad you're higher than a few people." Robin said.

"Aside from the people who weren't involved with the Dressrosa incident most people went up by about 50 million." Bartolomeo said "Including me! Oh but there was something strange."

"What is it?" Rose asked.

"Black Leg-senpai." He took the frame off the wall "Look, his says Only Alive on it, it's different from the others which say Dead or Alive."

"Ever heard of someone wanted Only Alive?" I asked Robin.

"No, I can't say I have." She blinked "This is especially unheard of."

About a Week Later

"This is some nasty fog." I said.

"Hmm?"

"What's up Lil?" I asked.

"Nothing important." She tilted her head "It's just."

"Just what?" Robin asked.

"Well ever since we started to get closer to Zou my crystals have been glowing and shaking more and more, like they're being drawn to something." She said "I don't get it."

"I think there's a mountain in the way." One of Bartelemeo's men said "But it's moving."

"A moving mountain!" Luffy cheered "Let's go check it out!"

"Freeze!" Usopp grabbed him "We're lost in fog we don't want to crash into anything, and no detours we need to find the others sooner rather than later."

"Hold up." Law said holding out his hand "Look, the Vivre card of my crew points to that mountain. I had heard the island was protected by thick fog but I never thought it was true."

"So you're saying we're here." I smirked.

"Zou, the home of the Mink Tribes!" Lil smiled "I've always wanted to see it!"

The fog gradually dissipated as we got closer to the island and soon it cleared enough for us to see it.

"Are we there?" Luffy said in awe.

"So cool!" Lil cheered.

"I'm gonna pass out." Rose said with her head spinning "Too…big."

"We should turn back!" Usopp screeched.

"Law, is this the place?" I asked.

"Yes, this is where we should be." He nodded.

I looked up and just stared on.

"But Traffy this is…"

"A giant Elephant!"

In the middle of the ocean was a giant Elephant the size of an island, walking forward with determination.

"We are here." Law said "Zou is an island located on the back of a Giant Moving Elephant."

"Yep, this is the stuff of my nightmares." Rose groaned passing out.

"Your nightmares are my dreams come true!" Lil cheered "I can't wait to get a closer look! I wonder how you'd find this place without a Vivre card, there's no magnetic resonance to draw a Log Pose here."

"We should prepare to land." Law said "It's likely Black Leg and the others arrived some time ago."

"So that's Zou." Kin'emon said "There certainly are some strange things in this world."

"I heard there is a tribe there that hates humans." Kanjuro commented.

"The Mink people." Monet raised a hand to adjust her glasses "Some just call them the Mink, other the Mink-men and some the Mink Tribe. They have a long history of isolation and it's rare for most people to see more than a few Mink people in their lifetime. They've traveled on the back of that moving elephant years for over 1000 years, or so that's what I read in a book once."

"What?" Luffy asked "So that thing, it's been alive for 1000 years?!"

"Can it possible be just an elephant?" Zoro asked.

"Well it certainly looks like a member of the Loxodonta Genus." Lil said "Albeit one of a large size, but 1000 years is far to long even for them."

This thing is really alive, just what is this place?

AN

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