Lara's POV;

“This is a cesspit of the worse possible kind. There is even a hooker sleeping with her client in the middle of the street”, complained Nojiko. We just finished towing the Shadow and were looking down at what is called Mock Town, the only real community on Jaya.

Loud music was droning out from the many bars, the occasional shot, followed by a death scream that rung through the air and the streets were dirty as it could possibly be. Men and women alike were singing and killing each other side by side.

“It is a town ruled by pirates, what did you expect?”, questioned Lia, she had an eager smile, surely already thinking about all the would-be kidnappers and rapists she will be able to kill.

“Yes, but... I don't know. It just all sounded so romantic, a town without the rule of the World Government.” Nojiko grumbled a little more and then turned away from the railing. “I get a list of the things we need, you can jump off and frolic around. Mrs Chicken Wing, I will watch the ship, you can go with them.”

Mrs Chicken Wing, who was taking a bath in her very own sand bath bowl, made for her by Noa, looked up and clucked thankfully. She then flew onto the railing and gave the folk down at the pier a haughty look.

“So this is the rumoured Mock Town, said to be heaven for pirates?”, asked Jonny now with some disgust. He too seems to not be impressed by the town and its people.

“What did you expect? Piracy is anarchy, anarchy is chaos. The World Government may be corrupt, but its sheer largeness makes the corruption of the few almost insignificant in the greater picture. Most Paradise and Blue towns are under order and law and have a life without too much danger.

Pirates are the most dangerous things they will see and as long as you stay away from Sabbaody you will likely never run into a World Noble.” Countered Jo with me nodding along.

“Yes I know, but where is the romance?” moaned Yosaku in place of Jonny.

“Probably died alongside the disease-ridden whore that was killed in a dark alley after a cheap fuck.” Lia's dark humour had only me chuckling. The four men were frowning.

Nojiko came back and saw their frowns, “What's gotten into your pants guys?”

Noa answered her with a mild glare at Lia. “Lia just now killed one of the few joys this town may have had left.” It made me laugh for real. Soon after each of us got a task to finish and we left in pairs of two. Mrs Chicken Wing was riding on my left shoulder. Noa was with Jo and the idiot duo was again together.

With Noa and Josef; Third Person's POV;

Both males were walking through the dirty streets of Mock Town, occasionally evading a mugger or prostitute. “Do you think we can even find half of the stuff we are searching for?”, asked Noa after inspecting one of the nearby sail merchants. None of the sails was in very good condition.

“I know what you mean. The bandages some of these drunkards are wearing are appalling. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them die because their wounds get infected.” Josef agreed easily. He was constantly frowning since stepping down from the ship. And what some of the whores had wasn't counted in. Some had clear signs of syphilis and were still working with customers.

“I hope the next island has some good bars, I need to get laid. Lia and Lara are the only ones who get to have sex. And they do it with each other”, grumbled Noa. He was looking at the behind of a rather good-looking pink haired pirate woman while saying that.

“Normally I would think incest to be repulsive, but they are girls. And I don't think those two are the only ones”, replied Josef.

With an arched eyebrow, Noa asked the only possible thing he could think of. “So Jonny and Yosaku are doing each other?” Of course, Josef guffawed and needed some time to answer.

“No, I think Yosaku and Nojiko have something working. Likely only scratching each other itches. I heard them once at a night guard shift. Him filling out seems to fall into her strike zone. Yet, he does not seem to be her real type, intellectually speaking.”

Noa stared at Josef for a moment, then stared a moment longer. “No way. That muscle brained idiot gets pussy and I have to be satisfied with Jill?”

“You're not the only one who has to use Jill. But Lia and Lara are clearly into each other and Nojiko would most likely hit us if we even try to get her into our bed. She might have succumbed to her own desire, but that does not mean that she will spread her legs for everyone.

And acting like a brute and force ourselves on her is disgusting.” Josef punctuated his statement by flinging a knife at a nearby pirate that was just doing that now.

The would-be rapist got his brain pierced and slumped dead over the struggling young woman. She threw him off of him, took his money pouch, nodded to Josef in thanks and then hurriedly left.

“Of course I would never do such a thing, what do you think of me,” asked Noa slightly angered. He was a gentleman and would only bed a willing woman. His mother raised him to be a good man, thank you very much.

“I know, I was just stating the facts. Anyway, I need fresh bandages, we use too many for sparing sessions and then there is the need for surgical alcohol. And we won't find those anywhere near the pier”, apologised Josef, knowing that he alluded to something that wasn't there.

“Yes I know, doesn't mean that you have to imply it. And we also need wood, nails and new sails. Lia is using them like no tomorrow, now that she got stronger with her Devil Fruit. And those few we can find here will be shredded within days, if not hours.” Both men sidestepped a sleeping drunkard and continued on their quest to purchase quality goods. Something neither will quite accomplish.

At the end of the trip, Josef had decided to use sail cloth as a bandage substitute and only got absinthe and not his wanted surgical alcohol. While Noa found a few good sails and 'enough' nails as well as wood to keep them afloat for some time.

They ended their trip in the best bar they could find but were almost retching from the food that was served. Lia had made other peoples normal cooking into something that was comparable with trash.

So they made their way back to the Shadow and found a group of twenty dead men laying in front of their ship. Nojiko was sitting on the crows nest, her guns aimed and ready. “Took you long enough, search these idiots for some money and then get on board”, she ordered the moment she saw both.

With a shrug, both males followed the woman's order and searched the unfortunate wannabe robbers for their no longer needed worldly riches. After that, they stowed their purchases and waited for the other five to come back.

“Damn I would like to tap that ass”, mumbled Jonny to Yosaku while watching the back side of a blond woman.

“No you don't”, countered Yosaku, who after looking at Jonny's questioning expression explained. “Josef told me a few tips to find diseases. She has herpes and probably hepatitis B. The first can be seen by the blistery rash on her mouth and the second disease by her yellowish eye whites.

Josef told me that hepatitis B causes the liver to defunct, which causes this yellow tint. Follow-ups are often kidney damages, both are diseases transmitted by sex. So no, you don't want to tap her ass.”

“Fine... and why aren't you looking after her?”, grumbled Jonny, still not averting his eyes. He might not want to sleep with her now, but she wasn't ugly and looking couldn't harm him, right?

“I don't know what you mean?”, asked Yosaku back, yet he wasn't looking at Jonny and had a large grin on his face.

“Oh no, don't come with that. I know that grin and it couldn't be made by Jill. So who did you sleep with and when? Was it Noa?... hell no, don't tell me Mrs Chick..” Jonny didn't come further as he was punched in the face by an angry Yosaku.

Jonny, who was way more lithe than the quite muscular Yosaku, was lifted off his feet and crashed into a house, breaking the wall and flying into a table. “Shut up you bastard, who would fuck a chicken?!”, raged Yosaku. He was tempted to pull his sword, but Josef would have his ass for starting a real fight with Jonny, outside of sparing time.

Jonny climbed up from his position, grabbed a table leg and defended his own words.“Who else? Josef is too hetero to do anything, Lia and Lara are lesbians and Nojiko is too good for you.”

“A gentlemen is silent and says nothing”, shot Yosaku back. He too grabbed a piece of wood and brandished it. They both jumped at each other and clashed their makeshift weapons together. The wood crunched under the force and splintered instantly.

“So Noa, I know he's a little womanly, but that you wouldn't be able to wait until the next harbour.” This assumption was answered first by a fist to the face, an attack that Jonny swiftly dodged, and then followed up by a knee to the stomach, this time not dodged.

Jonny grunted in pain and held his stomach, it wasn't a full powered knee, by far, but it still hurt. “I'm not gay you idiot. I like pussy as much as every other normal guy”, huffed Yosaku once he was sure that Jonny would not strike back.

“No, I can't accept that, our beautiful Nojiko? The blue-haired beauty. Why, oh why did she touch such an ugly, stupid,” “Oy!”, “moronic, simple-minded, childish, perverted, and quick-shooting muscle head as you? What did I wrong? Oh god, tell me please!” Jonny and Yosaku's small bout was an interesting amusement for the local folk, but it seemed like there would be no bloodshed, so most left when Jonny started to cry.

“We had a night shift and were drinking a bit. Our talk turned to the likes and dislikes we have in our partners and she told me how she liked well-muscled guys, well one thing led to another and at the end we did it.

The morning after both of us agreed, more her than me, that this will only be something like scratching the itch of each other, her itch not mine. Since then we slept once a week. Every other time I want a go at it I have to use Jill, like every other guy on board.” Yosaku's explanation stopped Jonny from crying.

“Still, why would she use you as her fuckbuddy when she has someone else available to sleep with, like me?”

“As I have told you, you are too scrawny for her. I have gained quite some muscle since we started training under Lara and that seems to be what she likes. I personally think she wants to bonk Zoro and uses me as a substitute, but who am I to complain? I get pussy and you don't.” Yosaku spoke the end with a massive shit-eating grin that annoyed the hell out of Jonny.

Jonny stood up, grumbled a bit more and then kicked some wood away.“Who else knows?”

Yosaku shrugged and continued to walk, they still had to buy ammo, gunpowder, cannonballs and a few other little things. “Lia and Lara I'm sure, their ears are just too good. And maybe Josef, he almost spotted us during a night shift. I don't think Noa knows and Mrs Chicken Wing did even watch us once. It made Nojiko clamp down like a vice, I think she is a closet exhibitionist.”

“Would explain why she is often sunbathing topless. Sure a full tan is one reason, but she could do it at the side and not in the middle of the deck. Even if the show is always nice,” agreed Jonny easily. Both did not consider the fight as anything else than a normal discussion so there were no real hard feelings between each other.

“Oh here is the ammo shop, grab a barrel of bullets, I'll see what kind of cannonballs they have in stock.” Jonny did he was told and walked over to the stacks of bullet barrels. There was one directly at the front, which he picked up.

He shacked it a bit and heard the bullets inside rolling around. Satisfied he looked for Yosaku, found him by the counter, and walked over.

He missed the silent squeak that came from the inside.

“Got the bullets.” Yosaku nodded and gave the man behind the counter the Berry for both the barrel and a stack of a dozen cannonballs.

“Good, let's bring those back to the ship, I don't want to run with these around”, suggested Yosaku once they left the shop. He had the chest with the dozen cannonballs on his shoulder.

“Good idea, and then we go buy a drink”, agreed Jonny. Both walked back to the Shadow, stored the ammunition away and then run back inside the town to search for a drink.