Currently, the Going Merry was on its way to the Lost Island in a fog.

"So Lost Island is at the end of this ocean?" Luffy asked quietly. "Though meeting Ryu is different from meeting a dragon Pokemon.

"Don't you have dragons in your world?" He asked her.

"All kinds actually. In fact there are even Legendary Dragons that control the weather, govern space and time, there's even a trio of ancient dragons that maintain the balance of good and evil in secret. One came from space itself and another protects the ecosystem of the world. And recently, they learned of the existence of two legendary dragons said to be the envoys of the ancient past and the distant future." Luffy explained, making Apis excited.

"Wow! You also said you're world is home to lots of Pokémon, what about the people there?"

"We actually have a pretty small population compared to this world. About a million people give or take a few hundred. Much of our world is still inhabited by numerous Pokémon and so the land is a mix of grasslands, deserts, lakes, swamps, forests, tropical jungles, oceans, rivers, mountains, glaciers, seas, caves, volcanic areas, and there is even an electromagnetic cave where lightning Sparks around and runs still undiscovered in the ocean." She said smiling.

"Sounds like an exciting world." Apis said.

"It can be dangerous but you get an understanding of Pokémon you cant get from a book. Thats why they allow trainers to go on these journeys." She said moving a piece of her hair that had blown in to her face out of the way as Eevee agreed.

"Hey!" She called to Nami and Usopp, who were up in the crows nest.

"You guys! See anything?!" Luffy asked.

"Nope, nothing!" Usopp shouted down.

"It wouldn't be called Lost Island if it were this easy to find." Ni said to Luffy.

"Good point." Luffy said.

"Man, we've come along way, but there's still no sign of an Island at all... Are we sure about this?" Usopp asked.

At that cue, Charizard and Talonflame returned. And spoke making Apis smile.

"They said they found an Island not too far from here. They said it looks deserted but it has ancient markings there!" She said.

"No wonder! It's surrounded by a fierce storm! It could be why no one found the island." Nami said in thought.

The Going Merry was eventually docked at the sinking island. "Whoa! Check it out doesn't that look like a dragon?!" Usopp exclaimed pointing to some ruins half submerged in the sea.

"We made it!" Luffy exclaimed as she looked around. This island had signs of civilisation from long ago meaning the island was inhabited by humans not dragons. She was a little confused.

They all got off the ship. Zoro and Mewtwo bringing the Ryu mobile on to dry land. "But does anyone even live here any more?" Sanji wondered out loud.

"Hey!" Apis exclaimed. "Grandpa Ryu! I'm talking to you, Grandpa Ryu! Sheesh! We're at the Dragons Nest island now! Come on, wake up!" She ordered.

Ryu opened his half lidded eyes and realised then again. "What did he say?" Luffy asked.

"He says he's not sure... He says this might not be Lost Island..."

"You can't be serious!" Zoro said shocked.

"We went all the way through that stormy sea just to get here! Usopp complained.

"Before we start making hasty decisions, let's look around the island since we're already here. It could hold a clue where Lost Island is." Luffy said as Charizard came back from locating a mountain.

"There's defiantly something on this island." She stated firmly. "Charizard said he found something here that could lead us to the real Lost Island. Its at the summit." Luffy said as Eevee nodded.

"Luffy is right! Getting frustrated won't get us anywhere. We should check it out." Nami sighed.

"-Let's go have a look!"

"-Okay!" Apis replied.

"Alright let's go!"

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Slowly the group of seven plus one dragon tracked up the zigzagging path that led them up to the top of the island led by Charizard.

"Stupid Nami makes the men do all the work..." Usopp complained as he pushed the cart. "It's like, 'Try pushing it yourself!' " He mumbled to himself.

"Hey don't complain. Be lucky it's not a Snorlax. They weigh over 1,000 pounds and eat 880 pounds of food in one day when awake." Luffy said.

"What?! That's enough to feed my village for at least 3 months!" Usopp shouted.

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They were now off the woodland dirt paths and onto the man made roads, getting closer and closer to the summit of the island. They came upon an area that had aged and crumbled houses on their way up and stopped in order to look at what time and people forgot.

"It's a city..." Nami said as they started to move once more.

"Wow!" Usopp said. Looking around and the crumbling buildings that had been reclaimed by nature, no one had lived here in a long time. "Did people really used to live here?"

"Obviously, given all those houses." Zoro told him.

"Then why's there no one here now?" Usopp asked.

"Famine, disease, attacked by someone. There are lots of possibilities as to why there are no people here now. Maybe they left to find a new island? I don't know." Luffy stated. "But it looks like it may have happened over one hundred years ago."

"One hundred!" Usopp exclaimed.

"Yeah, an Island that's until just recently had people living on it doesn't look like this after just a year or so." Nami agreed.

Luffy noticed Apis crouching down and looking at something. "What have you doing Apis?"

Apis held up some kind of children's toys on it was a green dragon. "The Millennial Dragons mark... Did the Millennial Dragons play with children on this island?"

The she-Pirate remembered the times she played with Drampa Pokémon with other kids on Alola when she was young and smiled. "Its possible."

Three small green birds that looked like mini versions of Grandpa Ryu circled over their heads. "Hey! Are you guys friends of the Millennial Dragon too?" Asked Apis.

"Come on, Apis. Don't get left behind!" Nami called to them.

"Coming!" She shouted back holding out her hand for Apis to take- which she did and they both followed after the others.

"Guess what?!" Apis exclaimed almost bouncing in excitement. "These birds told me something! They said there's a building on the summit with a dragon mark!"

"For reals?!" Usopp said.

"It might be the Dragons Nest!" Apis let go of Luffy's hand to run ahead.

When they got to the summit of the mountain it wasn't a dragon nest that awaited them but large stone doors that had drawings of dragons on them.

"We finally made it!"

"What a view!" Sanji exclaimed still having energy to spare.

"Yep! Good work!" Nami praised.

"This painting is of the Millennial Dragon, right?" Zoro said pointing at the door. It was all in tact apart from a small piece of the claw that was missing from the dragon painting on the right.

"Yeah, it is." Luffy said.

"This building is the dragons nest?" Sanji said his tone skeptical.

"I dont think so. The building look like it could just about fit one dragon, there was no way it was the nest of hundreds of giant dragons. It may have a mural of the place." Luffy said.

"Thats right." Nami said.

"Well then how do we get in?" Zoro continued.

"There's no handle or keyhole anywhere!" Nami exclaimed.

"There's got to be some somewhere?" Usopp said looking around the door trying to see if anything was hidden or something.

Apis walked up to the door drawing everyone's attention clutching at the pendant around her neck. "Apis! That pendant... you don't mean..."

Luffy continued when Nami stopped. "-It's actually a key that opens the door to the dragons nest?"

Apis looked each of them in the eye and nodded. She turned back around and everyone waited with bated breaths as she reached up to put the claw into the hole. "Huh?" Apis turned around her eyes glassy with tears and her cheeks flushed. "I can't reach." She cried.

Luffy laughed.

"-Here, let me help!"

She helped Apis reach the keyhole when the Earth beneath their feet started to shake. The ground caved in and they all stated to fall.

"The islands sinking! The islands sinking! I told you it was a bad idea, but you don't listen!" Usopp wailed.

But Luffy acted quickly and got Mewtwo to levitate them.

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"Well, in any case, we're inside now." Sanji said.

"what is this place?" Zoro asked.

"It must be a temple..." Luffy said looking around.

"Hey, I think I found something. It looks like a mural." Usopp said making everyone look up.

"What is that?" Apis said as the crew spotted it too. This was it! This was what they needed to see, they'd found it at the heart of the island. The map to Lost Island...!

The mural wasn't completely intact some of it was missing no doubt it had worn down and crumbled over time, just like the rest of the buildings on the island.

"It looks like some kind of ancient map..." Nami stated staring at it intently, trying to work out what it was about even though it was badly damaged.

"It's too worn out to make any sense of." Sanji said. "But what is this place, anyways?!"

"I think it reveals the location of the Dragon's Nest." Luffy said. "But it's not this place."

"This has to be the dragons nest!" Apis said desperately.

"Hey! Look at this!" Luffy exclaimed from where she was stood.

"The ceiling pictures fallen down!" Luffy said.

"-Yikes!" Usopp squeaked.

"-It's huge!" Apis exclaimed.

The slab of rock depicted a large green dragon it was at least three foot wide and about the same height as Luffy.

"Whoa, talk about dangerous!" Usopp spluttered running over with Apis to get a closer look.

"This whole building's ready to fall apart!" Sanji said worriedly looking around at all the holes in the ceiling and the walls. How had it not caved in when they came crashing down he didn't know.

Luffy had turned her eyes back to the mural on the ceiling, but she was putting the pieces together. "Nami? Could it be?...." She asked when she heard the orange haired girl gasp. Her exclamation caught the attention of the bickering Usopp and Apis and the others.

"What is it?" Sanji asked.

"Luffy was right!" Nami said her voice even. "This probably isn't Lost Island..."

"Huh?!" Apis mumbled.

"Look up."

"Up? At the ceiling picture?"

"If you look closely. It's a map that marks the location of lost island." Nami pointed out.

"That island with a dome-shaped building on it..." She paused. "Is the island that we're on now. That dome is this building."

"It does look just like it..." Sanji agreed.

"And the people around the island are the people who once lived here." Nami continued.

"They may have been Apis's ancestors." Yukiko said.

"Our ancestors?" Apis mumbled.

"Say, do you remember what old man Bokuden told us?" Nami asked.

"I was with Apis." Luffy said a little embarrassed. After all she'd skipped out of the nice old man's story quite early into it.

"He said that the people of Warship Island came from a distant land and they used that land to worship the Millennial Dragons." Nami clarified.

Usopp muttered. "That would lower the chance of the dragons nest being on this island."

"But...!" Apis exclaimed. "If so, then where's the real one?!"

"Wouldn't it be that island with the dragon on it?" Zoro asked, pointing up at the mural on the ceiling.

Everyone looked up. "That's right!" Yukiko said.

"Look at the island ahead of where this islands people are praying. That's the real Lost Island. The real dragons nest." Yukiko told them she smiled. "Doesn't it look familiar?"

"No way!" Apis gasped. "That island is shaped like...!"

"Yeah." Nami sighed. "Assuming the map is correct......... the nest is on Warship Island."

"But Warship Island doesn't seem like the place dragons would go to nest?" Usopp said frowning.

"But that's what the map says!" Nami exclaimed. "Or are you saying the people long ago just drew random nonsense?!"

"That's right you lot!" Sanji shouted at the men. "Nami-san'd never say anything that's wrong, same goes for Luffy-Chama! This means that it's somewhere on that Island!"

"That may be so. But it could have also sunk to the bottom on the ocean... just like this one is doing." Usopp stated.

"Yeah, I thought the same." Said Nami.

"It would explain why no one's ever found it yet." Zoro added

Apis suddenly ran over to the aging dragon. "Apis?" Usopp called. She ignored him.

"Grandpa Ryu! Think back, Grandpa Ryu! Where is the dragons nest?!" Apis begged. "We thought it was this place, but there's nothing here! There's only a painting, Grandpa Ryu!"

Apis continued. "Doesn't the painting bring back any memories?! Our only hope now is that you remember something, Grandpa Ryu!"

The dragon lifted it's head a little and looked up. Just then, as if trying to help the dragon a flock of the same green birds that looked like miniature versions of the Millennial Dragons flew in through an arched window. They glided across the roof passing over the mural on the ceiling as if they were the dragons from long ago making the journey back to the dragons nest.

That's where they needed to sail, it was as if the final piece of the one thousand year old puzzle had been clicked into place.

"Grandpa Ryu?!" Apis gasped. She glanced at Luffy and caught his eye they both nodded and Luffy smiled.

"~The dragons nest is on Warship island."

"~Alright!" Luffy exclaimed. Then she realized something.

"Wait, if I'm right. The reason why The nest hasn't been found, Warship Island may be bigger then we think. It may be a unique Tidal island!" She said. "If the people that lived here a century ago knew the Nest would reemerge soon, they left this island to protect it!"

Nami realized it too. "That could be it! The Dragons Nest had been underwater for a thousand years but the tide will go down and it will resurface soon! We gotta hurry!"

"So, let's go! Grandpa Ryu won't get any better if we just stay here!"

"Right!" Apis echoed happily. "Thank you!"

Then Charizard and Eevee growled as they looked in one direction. Luffy snapped her head up to the hole they'd fallen through. "Someone's here." She said loud enough for just them to hear.

"And their not even trying to hide their bloodlust." Zoro said just as quiet.

Everyone looked up at the figure the loomed above them. They recognized who it was immediately.

"Thanks for the explanation." Eric chuckled. "Now I know where to find the Dragonite and the dragons nest..."

"You again?!" Luffy shouted.

"The bastard must have followed us." Sanji snarled.

"But there's no point if it's at the bottom of the ocean... so it would seem my only option is to take your Millennial Dragon." Eric mused.

"No!" Apis screamed at him. "Besides we don't know if their nest is at the bottom of the ocean or not!"

"He said he had the Sickle Sickle Fruit powers, if I recall... that's one nasty guy we've got here..." Sanji said.

"Sickle Sickle Fruit?! He has Devil fruit powers?!" Usopp asked.

"That's right!" Luffy said as her Pokémon got in to a defensive position. She didn't know when the Sicko was going to launch his attack.

"You guys go on ahead and take Grandpa Ryu to the ship!" Zoro said walking forward his eyes never left Eric. He looked at Luffy and smirked. "I'll catch up with you later."

Luffy smiled. "Got it"

"W-w-whoa, now! The ship?!" Usopp spluttered. "We don't even know where the exit is!" His eyes trailed Luffy as he walked over to the wall.

"We won't need to. Mewtwo! Get us out and back to Merry!" Luffy yelled as Mewtwo did so.
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After getting away from Eric and Mewtwo getting Zoro back in time, they had to sail back to Warship Island.

Usopp's eye caught sight of the marine ships, they were really far away now thanks to Charizard. "Look at 'em come! Look at 'em come! They'll never catch up with us!" He said pointing at the ships.

"Anyways we need to get back as fast as we can!" Nami told them. "We don't have time to be messing with the Navy!"

"Nami. It doesn't look like that's going to be an option..." Luffy's eyes flickered and she turned to face the approaching danger.

Ahead of them was huge gaudy looking marine ship it had one large mast flanked by two submasts all three of them had the number eight painted on their sails. The figure head was a gigantic gargoyle that funnily enough had a resemblance of a Chinese dragon on its head was two large cannons at the front and a dozen or so smaller cannons around the edge of the ship.

There were about fifty or so ships on either side of the ship with the gargoyle figure head appeared, completely cutting off their escape.

"Just how many ships does the Navy have?!" Zoro wondered out loud.

To make matters even worse all the ships were connected by huge iron chains, so now they couldn't even slip between the ships.

"What now?! They have us blocked off! Asked Apis.

"Jump onto the ship, kick the guys off, and cut the links!" Usopp explained a smug look on his face. "That's the only choice, obviously!"

"Wow! You can do that Usopp?!" Apis said impressed.

"Go! Luffy! Zoro! Sanji, charge!" Usopp shouted pointing forward.

"I thought as much." Apis mumbled.

"Guess we have to deal with them anyway. Mewtwo, Charizard, Talonflame, Gyarados, Meganium, time for action!"

Her powerful Pokémon appeared ready to fight, and especially the new ones.

Cue Sparks info.

"Gyarados the Atrocious Pokémon.

Once Gyarados goes on a rampage, its ferociously violent blood doesn't calm until it has burned everything down. There are records of this Pokémon's rampages lasting a whole month. A tale is told of a town that angered Gyarados. Before the sun rose the next day, flames utterly consumed the town, leaving not a trace behind. It fires hyper beams in all directions, burning the surrounding area to ash. There are some regions where it's called "the deity of destruction."

Meganium the Herb Pokémon

The fragrance of Meganium's flower soothes and calms emotions. In battle, this Pokémon gives off more of its becalming scent to blunt the foe's fighting spirit. Its breath has the fantastic ability to revive dead plants and flowers."

Apis's eyes shone at this info and especially at Rubius.

"Wow! You didn't tell me you had a sea king!"

"Gyarados. And I have two others." Luffy clarified.

"Make it quick you guys!" Nami ordered.

"All right, everyone! Prepare for battle!" Luffy shouted.

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Another chapter done!

Now we'll see Pokémon battle in action!

Bet you can guess the reactions of the marines and the other Strawhats with her Pokémon!