The barrage of attacks continued as the Merry got closer and closer, the ship weaved and dodged the oncoming cannonballs one after the other, in a desperate attempt to make its escape.

"Apis, it's dangerous! Get back inside, where it's safe!" Luffy shouted over the numerous explosions.

"I can't leave Grandpa Ryu all by himself!" Apis shouted back, then rose back on to her feet and took off running to the back of the ship.

"Apis, wait!" Luffy called after the girl but was stopped when Usopp stopped her.

"I'll look after Apis, You go get ready." He said pointing at his chest.

"...........Alright. You be careful." Luffy nodded. Then she turned to Eevee. "You ready girl?"

"Ee, Vee!" Her partner said.

Then she turned to her other Pokémon and gave out orders.

"Mewtwo, take out the closest ships and hurl them toward the others! Gyarados use Twister and Whirlpool! Charizard, Talonflame, scorch them with Flamethrower, Petal, Sunny Day with Solarbeam, Eevee, Secret Power!" The she-Pirate yelled.

Her Pokémon got to work as Mewtwo lifted multiple ships in the air and launched them into other marine ships. Gyarados used raging moves to knockout other ships while the others blasted away multiple marine soldiers.

It was also a sight for them to see a small fox creature summon a massive wave toward them!

"Ahhhhh!"

"This is madness!"

"Sir, we're taking a beating!"

"What do we do?!"

But then Luffy realized.....

"USOPP!" She shouted right into his ear forgetting the honorific in her frustration. Usopp flinched back, startled.

"What!?" He asked her confused.

"Where's Apis?" She wasn't with him when he came back around. He said he would look out for her. She was starting to think that maybe she should have followed when Apis ran off.

"Ahhh! Apis, she just jumped off the ship and ran down the rope to Grandpa Ryu. I tried~to get her to come back... but... but, she ignored me!" Usopp explained crying pathetically.

"But she's okay." She pressed.

"Oh yeah, she's fine...Ah!" Usopp's calm mood shattered when he remembered what he was saying just a moment ago. "But we're not. The ship! The ship! It's been hit! No! What are we gonna do, I'm too young to become a skeleton!" Usopp resumed his end of the world one man dialogue.

"That's it! That's it! Go!" Shouted Luffy from the figure head.

"Hey! A balls coming this way!" Luffy yelled to nami, not looking at all worried.

"I can't do anymore than this! Do something on your end!" Nami yelled at them from the kitchen, where she was controlling the ship.

"Mewtwo!" Luffy yelled as Mewtwo halted the ball and back at the marines, breaking the mast off of the ship that fired the ball in the first place.

"Not bad." Zoro admitted.

The sound of an alarm echoing off the ocean brought everyone's attention back to the danger at hand. "That's a large cannon!" Usopp exclaimed, gawking at the huge cannon right at the center of the ship.

"A direct hit from that and our ship's going to be blown to shreds!" Nami cried, sweating bullets.

"Can't we just send it back?" Zoro asked.

"Don't be stupid! I'll turn the ship about; you guys work the rear sail!" Nami ordered.

As the Battle raged on, Usopp knocked out a ship with the cannon.

"Nows our chance!" Nami said getting everyone's attention. "Let's act quickly and cut some links to open a path!"

"Right Nami-san!" Sanji said.

"Luffy!" Zoro said.

"Okay! Charizard!" Luffy shouted. Her Flame Pokémon swooped down as she rode on him with a determined expression

"Grandpa Ryu, we'll be back!" Luffy called.

"Okay! Charizard, Overheat! Eevee, Iron Tail!"

"Rooooaarrrr!" The fire Pokémon created a flame so hot on the chains the durability weakened and Eevee took them out with ease.

"So cool!" Usopp shouted with stars in his eyes.

"Not bad." Zoro praised.

"Take aim!" Shouted a marine from the ship opposite to the ship they were on. Luffy's head snapped to the right to see eight marines with guns and a cannon aimed at her. "FIRE!"

"Luffy-Chama!" Sanji exclaimed.

"Gyarados, Protect!" Then Gyarados appeared as he created a large green wall that blocked off the guns and cannon.

"-Wha!"

"-How!"

"The attack didn't effect the sea king!" The marines floundered and the she-Pirate used this opportunity.

"Alright, Gyarados, Blizzard! Charizard, Fire Blast! Eevee, Swift!"

The three Pokémon smirked as they launched a barrage of attacks making the marine soldiers scramble.

"Gum-Gum slingshot!" Luffy shouted, sending the one hundred or so marines she'd trapped crashing through the the railing of the Navy ship and in the the ocean.

"Oi! Guys hurry up! We've cleared the way!" Luffy shouted to the others on the Merry.

Right at that moment the sea in front of the ship was attacked halting the Merry in its tracks.

Then they spotted someone she was sick of seeing. "It's Eric!" Nami shouted alerting the others to get to the raft.

"Girl!" Eric shouted. "It's time to hand over the Millennial Dragon!"

Apis ran in front of grandpa Ryu, shielding him with her tiny body. On Charizard, Luffy rushed to help. At that moment Eric happened to look in the same direction as the ship the others were on, then he saw her on that strange dragon. She wasn't going to humiliate him a second time with that weird creature of hers.

Eric swiftly lept forward and grabbed Apis, he held his sharp claw like nails to the child's throat. And he got the desired reaction. Charizard stopped midway in the air when she saw Eric bring his hand up to Apis's neck.

"I wouldn't come any closer if I was you!" Eric sniggered.

"Have you no honor?" She gritted out.

"Not even a little." Erik smirked.

"Then you should be familiar with a foe attacking from behind." Luffy then smirked as Erik looked confused. Then he was surrounded by a light blue energy. Mewtwo got him to let go of Apis and flung him somewhere far off.

"Hah, thanks Mewtwo!" Apis smiled.

Then Charizard and Gyarados growled as they heard a sound, it was a sound an object made when it flew through the air at high speeds. She turned her head swiftly almost giving herself whiplash as she spun just in time for a huge harpoon to whiz right over her head and past her straight for Grandpa Ryu. But Mewtwo stopped the harpoon in time.

"What do you think you are doing?" Luffy asked calmly, glaring at the overweight marine commander. Said commander sneered in the duo's direction, fanning himself like he didn't have a care in the world with his paper fan.

"You've no idea of the value of the thing your standing on right now!" Came the disgusting voice of commander Nelson. "All I want are the Millennial Dragons bones! Once I have its Dragonite, I can attain everlasting life!" He explained.

Luffy frowned as she got off Charizard and he nodded.

"As the fire within burns, so does our passion! Charizard! Z-Move! Inferno Overdrive! Eevee! Secret Power Again!"

The two Pokémon obliged as a devastating fire-water combo destroyed a big portion of Nelson's ship setting fire to the wooden walls and became a blaze, somehow the flames made contact with gun power as the end result was a huge explosion, that shook the ship right down to the core.

"Wow! I didn't know a fire could be that strong!" Apis said.

All the marines were frozen in absolute shock and fear at what had just happened. They stared at the tiny slip of a girl, her dragon and dog, then to the large gaping hole caused to their ship.

"Ryu is no thing, he's our friend!" Luffy yelled.

"What utter nonsense!" The walrus dismissed. "In that case you can sink into the sea with your friend! How dare they try to attack me! Fire at those brats! But capture those other creatures. We can gain more firepower from them!" Trying to restore what ounce of pride and dignity he had left. By doing what most men in a position of power do when they've been humiliated and their ego's taken a hit; they see to it that all evidence is removed by getting rid of the ones who caused the humiliation to begin with.

"Eh! But sir if we blow them up, we'll blow away the dragons as well!" Said the marine next to him.

"No matter. Bone fragments will do just fine!" He said brushing off the marine grunts concern.

"Y-yes, sir!" The marine turned and looked forward. "Aim the cannons out to sea!" He shouted.

However.......

There was a almighty rumbling of the earth. Followed by the cry of some kind of animal. "Eh?! Earthquake!" Luffy gasped, the sea continued to quiver.

"I hear something." Apis said from the Merry.

Ryu looked up, he seemed to look content.

As if he felt at peace.

However, Luffy realized what this could mean.

"Let me go! Let me go, untie these ropes! I need to get to grandpa Ryu!" Apis begged from where she was tied to Usopp's back.

"Just leave grandpa Ryu to Luffy!" Usopp said trying to calm her down.

"No, no, no!" Apis chanted. "I gotta go! I gotta go!" She said as she spoke each word she elbowed Usopp in the head, if he wouldn't listen to her maybe he'd get annoyed to the point if just letting her do whatever she wanted.

"The entire sea is shaking!" Nami interrupted them. "What is this?! What's happening?!" She asked frantically.

Back with Luffy...

Luffy was trying to keep grandpa Ryu's head above the water. All of a sudden, she saw that the sea started to change colour. The once crystal clear blue waters were quickly changing into green. Patches and patches of leaf green blossomed all around them.

Then Luffy seemed to pause as if she heard something from Grandpa Ryu. "Really? So that's it!" Luffy muttered.

There was a roar from above and grandpa Ryu answered it with one of his own.

In the distance, a huge flock of Millennial Dragons appeared. They all watched in amazement as one of the dragons swooped down and intimidated the marine commander, causing him to fall backwards and tumble out of his chair.

"I get it. We already arrived here!" Luffy said as her Pokémon agreed.

Then she looked to Ryu who looked very withered.

"I see. I'll tell Apis." Luffy said.
"We were very happy to have met you." She said with a sad smile.

In a few moments, Ryu had died......

But there was no time to mourn.

Not a moment later they heard the sound of maniacal laughter and Luffy snapped. She stretched his arm up in to the sky and grabbed on to a Millennial Dragon. "GOMU GOMU NO: ROCKET!" He shouted springing up into the air, he ascended up and up. Alot higher than the dragon he'd used as leverage.

"...And..."

"GOMU GOMU NO: BATTLE-AXE!" She kicked her leg up, let go of the dragon and sent it crashing down as his leg descended, Charizard lent his power with a Fire Spin, and Eevee with a Swift. It extended until it was twice the length of the marines commanders ship. Her power boosted leg crashed in to the ship the force was so powerful that it split the ship in half.

The marines fell in to utter discord as Luffy appeared standing on the destroyed ship that hadn't yet sunk to its watery grave. Luffy glared at them and the marines ran for their lives completely ignoring the Pirates and creatures that were still among them in favour of making it out alive. Unlike their fat commander who was sinking to the bottom on the ocean, his huge body acting like an anchor.

"Good riddance." Luffy growled.

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As the crew regrouped,

"Where's Luffy?" Nami asked. Looking down the ladder hoping that her idiot captain hadn't fallen off the ladder and in to the sea.

"She was on the destroyed marine ship, the last time I saw him." Zoro told the navigator as the other Pokémon came along.

Luffy arrived with Mewtwo, Gyarados, Eevee and Charizard as Meganium, and Talonflame were on the Merry.

Apis ran to the front of the ship just in time to see the final ripples if the water from the dragons sinking. "Grandpa Ryu!" She cried brokenly. The rumbling of the earth that had momentarily ceased, started back up again.

"-Another earthquake?" Zoro said.

"-Again?!" Usopp mumbled nervously. Shielding his head with his hands.

"Grandpa Ryu... I wasn't able to keep my promise to you, Grandpa Ryu..." Apis cried in anguish. "I wasn't able to take you to the dragons nest..."

Luffy walked up and wrapped Apis up in her arms, "No, your wrong Apis-chan grandpa Ryu's wish came true." She told her softly as Eevee licked Apis's cheek.

"Huh!" Apis quietly exclaimed looking up at Luffy.

"Can't you hear the Millennial Dragons voices?" She asked Apis. The shaking became even more fierce suddenly and there was a powerful shock wave that spanned ten miles out in all directions.

"The sea's shrinking!" Usopp shrieked pointing at Warship Island, where the surrounding waters were reseeding from the shoreline rapidly.

Rocks appeared out of the sea and suddenly it twigged in Nami's mind; the sea wasn't shrinking. The island was rising!

"Luffy was right!" She shouted, startling every one.

"Huh?!"

"What is it Nami-san?!" Sanji shouted.

"The dragons nest really is here! They're not called Millennial Dragons because of their life spans! It's because they come to this island once every 1000 years!" She explained. "Millennial Dragons are migratory. And it's no coincidence that they've all flocked here now! Warship Island is really part of Lost Island! It is a very unique Tidal island!"

"No wonder they call it Lost Island!" Usopp said. "Because it only surfaces once every 1000 years! So of course they'd be no one alive that remembers the last time it surfaced!"

Nami nodded. "And now... this very moment...in our lifetimes... is when the dragons nest has appeared!"

Everyone was stood in awe of the beautiful scenery of lost island. "Whoa..." Apis muttered.

The landscape was breathtaking. The once small Warship Island had quadrupled in size. It was covered in coral and sea grass. There were dragon statues aged and worn but they soon realised that the weren't made of stone. No artist would have been able to capture the magnificence of the ancient beasts, no they were actually dragons that had passed away and had been calcified at the bottom of the ocean a process that took 1000 years. One after the other the dragons descended, claiming a spot of the island as their own.

Apis's awe soon turned to terror when she spotted her winged friend floating in one of the lagoon pools created by the trapped seawater when the land mass had risen from its watery depths he wasn't moving and that worried her. She didn't say anything to the others Apis just jumped down on to the shore and sprinted with everything she had towards that pool.

"-H-hey! Apis!" Sanji said shocked by her made dash.

"-Why'd they all suddenly run off?" Wondered Usopp out loud.

"-Grandpa Ryu." Luffy told them, staring straight ahead at the fallen dragon.

"Huh?"

"Grandpa Ryu is over there. . ."

"GRANDPA RYU!" Apis screamed about to charge right into the water and forgetting that she was a devil fruit user and therefore a hammer.

But Mewtwo was able to keep her from doing so.

"Stop it! Do you want to drown. Apis you can't swim." Yukiko words seemed to have sparked realisation into Apis's eyes and she deflated, going limp as Yukiko caught the younger girl in her arms.

She kept muttering Grandpa Ryu as she wailed into Tsuna's chest, "I broke my promise. I let grandpa Ryu down." She continued to wail.

"No you didn't. Before he died, he told me he finally remembered why he had to get back."

Apis looked in confusion.

"The Dragon Nest actually serves two purposes, and its more than a nesting ground. The dragon formations are from dragons that have passed on. But something more amazing happens to them.........

The Millennial Dragons do not come here to get better, they come here to be reborn." She said surprising everyone but her Pokémon.

"R-reborn?" Apis asked with her eyes wide. "Grandpa Ryu said that?"

Luffy then spotted something over on the other side of the lagoon. "Look over there. . ." Over at the other side of the lagoon was a fossilized dragon and near it's head was what looked like a stone. Suddenly cracks appeared over the stone but the stone was really a dragon egg the cracks got bigger and bigger and then a head popped out.

Apis gasped. "A baby Millennial Dragon?!" She said over the infants first cries. Hearing the newly hatched chicks cries four adult dragons swooped over to give it comfort and to welcome their new family member. One of the dragons nudged the hatchling after it had started to doze it opened its eyes and they locked with those of the astonished Apis.

Apis started to cry again but this time they weren't tears of sorrow but tears of relief. The baby dragon called to Apis and she nodded her head, "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"

Apis then walked back up the hill where the others were waiting for them.

"You know, Luffy is right Apis." Nami said, "This isn't just the Millennial Dragon graveyard. I think it's a place that connects to new life."

"-Thank you, everyone."

"-Eh?" They all said in reply to Apis.

"For brining grandpa Ryu back to the dragons nest. I realize it now too." Apis explained. "I realize what kind of place this is, and why Grandpa Ryu wanted to return so badly."

"That's right," Usopp said "he wouldn't have been able to be reborn again if he hadn't made it back to the nest."

Nami turned and looked around the island. "It's the same for the island there both connected, it reappears every 1000 of years so that the Millennial Dragons can also be reborn back in to the world. And then disappears once the dragons leave, until the next time it's needed."

"Thank you everyone. Okay everyone let's go back to the village. Everyone there's probably confused and worried."

"I agree!" Luffy said.

"Eeeve!"

"But still, these rocks are cool. I can't believe these all used to be Millennial Dragons?" Usopp whistled.

"Yeah it looks that way." Nami said.

"Even if they are dragonite, there's no water to extract it like this." Sanji said gesturing to the fossilized remains of the dragons. "They'd just crumble in to pieces."

" But then that means that the elixir of like thing. . ." Apis trailed off.

"-Was nothing more than some fool's fantasy!" Luffy finished.

"Most likely." Nami agreed.

Zoro snorted, "Doesn't that mean the Navy bastard did all that work for nothing?"

"Yeah." Nami nodded.

They all burst in to laughter. "Serves them right!" Usopp shouted.

"ARRRRRRRRRGH! !" They all whipped around and the pain laced scream. Just in time to see the commander of the Navy ships they'd been battling a few minutes ago get killed from a top of one of the rocks after suffering an attack from none other than Eric.

He stood above them with an air of both confidence and arrogant fury as he fixed his drenched hair the vein in his forehead bulging.

Luffy and her Pokemon returned his look with a glare of their own. . .

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"Man you dont know when to quit!" Luffy moaned.

"Yeah. I very nearly drowned to death." Eric told them eerily calm.

"You should have stayed there." The she-Pirate growled as her Pokémon did. She was getting sick of this guy.

Eric continued on. "Just look at this beautiful radiance!" He said loudly raising both his arms at his side, "Isn't it marvellous?!"

"We stand in awe of the limitless supply of dragonite, the legendary elixir of immortality." He laughed.

Nami took a step forward, "Breaking the fossilized remains of the Millennial Dragons won't produce anything usable!"

"Yeah, I heard you say that already. But I'll have to improvise with the fresh supply right before me." Eric said his tone smug. "A pointless fight would only be tiring. How about we make a deal and split this treasure?"

"No." Luffy said bluntly.

"-Do you not want eternal life?!" Eric asked shocked.

"Not interested." Luffy replied in the same bland tone as before.

Eric lost his composure. "Absurd! There's no one who's not afraid of dying! We may have Devil Fruit powers, but a pirates life is always inches from death! There's no way you can outlive life on the sea!"

"I dunno." Zoro said smirking. "Our captain is the kind of person to die with a smile on her face doing what she does."

"Very well. You can sit there and watch as I take my dragonite and leave!" Eric announced fed up with the lot of them as he smirked.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Apis screamed dashing forward.

"Stop right there, girl!" Eric raised his arm and thrust it forward it was a move they were all to familiar with now.

But suddenly, one of Luffy's Pokeballs opened up and a new Pokémon emerged twice as big as the Millennial Dragons.

Zygarde.

And he was not happy.

While everyone else was shocked, except for Luffy, Apis looked like she saw a ghost.

'That dragon...it looks similar to.....can it be?!' She thought.

"Alright, I'll let Zygarde play with you. Go wild on that sicko!" Luffy said giving Zygarde approval.

"S-so, you insist on defying me, h-huh. . ." Eric seemed to regain some of that confidence of his as he exclaimed, "In that case, you can all die! Sickle-Sickle. . . Whirlwind!"

Zygarde countered with Earthquake, making Eric lose his balance, then used Thousand Arrows, giving him a real beat up.

And he finally sent Eric flying far away with a powerful Hyper Beam as the former yelled in pain.

"Checkmate." Luffy smirked as Zygarde landed. "You were great bud." She said patting him.

"Whoa! Too cool!" Usopp said all sparkling.

"You did it!" Apis shouted throwing her hands up in the air. Apis's shout seemed to have given the villagers the courage to reveal them selves as they started to appear one by one everyone all bursting with unanswered questions.

"Do you suppose this place'll sink again after a little while?" Nami asked.

"When it does the Millennial Dragons'll leave the island, too." Usopp said.

"And I guess that baby Millennial Dragon will fly off somewhere too?" Apis murdered sadly.

" Well, not that things are settled down, What do you say, everyone?" Grandpa Bokuden said walking over to them slowly. "Won't you have some of my special pork buns before you go?"

Luffy smiled. "You know, we never did get to try them, what do you say guys?"

"T-thank you for the offer but we really should get going!" Nami said to Grandpa Bokuden, hurriedly a slight hysteric edge to her tone. She wouldn't be able to survive another one of the old man's history lessons.

"We'll just take the recipe." Sanji said with a smile.

"I see, that's too bad." Grandpa Bokuden said. "It'd only take three days to prepare them, too. I could tell you about the royal family if lost island in the mean-"

"We've already heard all about it!" Nami interrupted.

Then Zygarde looked to the Warship rock formation. He let out a low rumble.

Suddenly, a person ran up and said a secret cave suddenly emerged.

Everyone headed over and were amazed as it was a temple and there was a large mural of not only the island but of Zygarde leading the Millennial Dragons.

"Amazing. This is a temple dedicated to Zygarde." Luffy realized.

"Zygarde. I remember that name." Grandpa Bokuden said. "It was the name of a Dragon God that Gifted Lost Island to our ancestors centuries ago. He acts as a protector of not only the Millennial Dragons but of the ecosystem. In his strongest form, he neutralizes those who harm the balance of nature."

"No way!" Usopp said. "No wonder he appeared at the moment Eric would attack the dragons!"

"Seems to be the case. We were also told that our ancestors protected a sacred treasure with important instructions. 'Protect the Treasure of Zygarde until a Blessed comes to claim it.'"

At the center of the temple, there was an object on a pedasal.

It looked like a ancient bracelet, but it had a mystical aura around it, but it still looked to be in peak condition.

The Time Looplet.

Then it suddenly glowed as it floated off the pedasal.

Then to everyone's surprise, something glowed from Luffy's chest. She took it out to reveal a mystic pendent that glowed as well, and the Looplet floated to Luffy's hand.

In the shock, Bokuden theorized that Luffy was a Blessed as she mentioned having helped Zygarde before and he chose to follow her.
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Luffy had returned her Pokémon to their Pokeballs and Eevee was settled on her shoulder.

"Alright! Set sail for the Grand Line!" Luffy shouted they were all back at the ship. The villagers were kind enough to load them up with supplies for their journey ahead.

"Apis. You sure you dont Want to come with us?" Luffy asked.

"I've made friends with all of you and I would like to go with you all. . . But I'm going to stay on this Island. I'm going to learn all sorts of customs from Grandpa Bokuden and protect the dragons nest just like my ancestors did before me!" Apis paused to catch her breath and beamed up at them all. "I'm going to wait for the baby dragons to come back here someday!"

"But wait, A thousand years, are you going to welcome them as a ghost!" Usopp said.

"Hey, now don't be so cynical!" Sanji scolded.

Apis laughed. "It's okay. I know I won't get to see the dragons all grown up, but I'm sure my kids' kids will get to!" She explained. "So I'm going to keep protecting this dragon nest forever and ever!"

"That's crazy!" Usopp spluttered.

"But you guys did crazy things as well!" Apis argued back.

Luffy smiled.
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The sail was dropped and they shouted their goodbyes as they watched Warship Island disappear along with Apis who continued to wave until she could no longer see the Merry Go.

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"Is Apis really going to be okay by herself?" Usopp wondered out loud.

"She's a tough girl, she'll be fine." Luffy said smiling.

"Eev!"

"Apis has more motivation and determination than anyone I've seen, she'll protect the nest." Nami agreed.

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Warship Island arc is done!
Next I'll do an omake with young Ace, Sabo, and Luffy!

I'm gonna have the boys learn about the Aristocrats of Evil and I'll need their reactions on each member.

And as a note, Lillianthe got word of what happened on Warship Island before the Navy and she's already made moves to put the island under her protection.

Plz comment!