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Cactus Island (サボテン島, Saboten Shima) is an island with several cactus-shaped mountains, with the "spikes" being tombstones. These mountains were never fully explored, so it's unknown how one can climb these mountains. This is one of the first islands reached in the Grand Line. This is the location of the Whiskey Peak arc.

Whiskey Peak (ウィスキー ピーク, Uisukī Pīku) , called Misty Peak in the 4Kids dub, is one of the major cities (an only city fully explored) located on Cactus Island. This city is inhabited entirely by bounty hunters working for Baroque Works,

Sweaty, but gleaming, Lamia was for once proud that she rode on the Diamondia. It'd been terribly dusty lately, and with her mixed roles as new head of the cabin boys and as Master Yobu's humble servant, she'd been a bit more bossy lately. But once the ship was presentable in her eyes, she finally let the boys go free as they dashed hurriedly to the party quickly taking place on Whiskey Peak. They were quite braggy about being Lamia's unofficial wards, or "apprentices" as they boasted, but it did wear on their nerves whenever she nagged them about the ship. Still swelling with ego she did as much of a strut down the gangplank as her tail would let her, ignoring the blossoming, gossipy whispers.

However, the ego dropped as soon as she took hold of Master Yobu's wheelchair, and she was instantly humbled before her gracious master.

"Something to drink Master Yobu?" she asked with a gentle, servile look as they took their seats inside the racous party-house.

Lamia just rolled her eyes at her captain's lout actions. "Men...so full of themselves..." she muttered, quickly ignorant of her own ego. With her nose in the air, as usual, she refused to acknowledge her captain's big-headed attempts to get attention.

(Ewww! Ully-kun I got the inneuedo and that's gross!)

As she helped Master Yobu into his seat, she didn't notice the two partiers that were steadily approaching. Master Yobu's curious stare from behind her however, prompted her to turn around straight into the two men. She wrinkled her nose as the smell of sweat and the beer dripping slightly onto the floor became apparent. It didn't help these guys didn't shower. They had to make messes too.

"Hey there babe" one purred with a leer, "...we were just-"

"No."

"Huh?"

Looking quite irritated with the two, she cut off what was probably going to turn into a very lame pick-up session. They looked a little shocked at being cut off, even more so as she started pointing her sharp, pointy fingernail in their face.

"Can't you see I'm busy now?!" she shrilled in agitation, "I am trying to get Master Yobu fed now and it's been a long journey so he's hungry. You two are making a mess as well and if you don't beat it I'll make you beat it! Go on! Shoo!" she waved them away as if they were just dogs as they awkward slumped off, muttering in confusion, but holding their beer mugs a little more steadily. If they dripped, they might have to clean it up and they'd hate to become demoted to nothing but cabin boys again.

She turned back to Master Yobu, a little startled by his chuckling.

"I've seen quite a few women get hit on, but I've seen few react like that," he chortled to Lamia's somewhat embarassed face.

EDITED

Lamia herself was quite baffled, first by the instant violence of the patrons, second by Master Yobu's hidden weapon.

"M-Master Yobu!" she squeaked. He grinned back at her stutter.

"Well at least you know most of my old tales weren't false."

Lamia then sighed, before drawing her claws across her lip slowly in thought, calculating what moves she should make.

"Does trouble ever cease to follow you captain?" she said with the air of someone about to be dragged through something really unnecessary.

Lamia raised an eyebrow at the whispers. "Again?" she drawled, "Just how many times have you done this?"

As Lamia sat on the sidelines, listening to the burning sounds of the bounty hunters houses, and their shouts of protest as they remained helpless inside the fire, she couldn't force down the icy cold wave of disgust towards Matsu. He was like a volcano, and personified it often. Sometimes he was managable...but times like this, where he'd just killed two men without even a second look, reasons why didn't matter.

"Death is always the worst option..."

She remembered when her mother told her that. If anyone deserved death, it'd be her father. With a shaking, sickened feeling roiling in the pit of her stomach, she slumped back down to the ground and tried not to turn right back at her captain and scream.

(Edited. But she's still mad <3)

Matsu clocked Lamia on the back of the head. "Exactly. Death is always the worst option, but if it's a choice between my death and theirs I'll choose theirs. You prefer that Yobu was the one cooling in the ground right now?"

((Understandable.))