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.
"Apis!" Yukiko shouted running after Apis.
"-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 and Luffy 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 Luffy and her Pokémon.
"R-reborn?" Apis asked with her eyes wide. "Grandpa Ryu said that?"
Luffy and Pachi arrived at Yukiko's side with a smile and he spotted 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!"
Yukiko took her hand and the walked back up the hill where the others were waiting for them.
"You know, Yukiko 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," Yukiko said nodding Luffy copying her, "he wouldn't have been able to be reborn again if he hadn't made it back to the nest-" She 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 Nee-chan, Luffy. Okay everyone let's go back to the village. Everyone there's probably confused and worried."
"Yeah/let's go!" Yukiko and Luffy said at the same time.
"Pachipa!"
"Alright! Let's hurry back to the ship and leave the island!" Luffy announced. "I am starving! Sanji make food!" Luffy ordered.
"-Yeah." The cook replied lazily.
"-Meat! Make meat!"
"Booze."
". . ."
"I'll have sautéed veggies with lost of bean sprouts!" Usopp said.
"I could make some my nana's tropical curry if it's not too much trouble?" Yukiko asked.
Sanji swooned, "Of course Yuki-chan, nothing you ask is trouble."
"I'll have that salad you made before Sanji. And maybe that curry, it sounds good." Nami said.
"Yes, Nami-chan!" Sanji chirped.
"I wanna try the curry too!" Luffy added.
"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 piece's."
" But then that means that the elixir of like thing. . ." Yukiko trailed off.
"-Was nothing more than some fool's dream!" Zoro 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!" Luffy 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, Yukiko 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." Yukiko 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 and Yukiko said bluntly.
"-Do you not want eternal life?!" Eric asked shocked.
"Not interested." Luffy and Yukiko 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 guy to die with a smile on his face doing what he 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.
"Blaise. Halt him with Iron Tail." Yukiko said as Blaise charged with intercepting Eric's claws, making a clanging sound.
"Yeaoooooowwwwwww!" Eric said stepping back holding one of his hands which started to bleed.
"You know, I've had enough of you and your delusional yapping." Yukiko said with a glare as she was on Blaise.
"N-neechan?!" Apis gasped looking up at her as she was glaring daggers at their current problem.
"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!"
"Counter with Air Slash!" Yukiko said as Blaise launched a blast of cutting wind that halted Eric's attack.
Everyone but the Pokémon and Luffy were frozen in shock. Then she turned to her rubber captain.
"Luffy don't intervene, I'm going to beat him up my self." Her voice was unnervingly calm. "I still need to fulfil the last part of Grandpa Ryu's wish."
Luffy blinked at her for a few moments. "Okay! Kick his ass!" He held out his fist.
"Oi! Stop ignoring me!" Eric yelled like a child. "Sickle-Sickle: Whirlwind!"
Before the attack could hit Yukiko and Blaise, he jumped as he hit Eric with a strong Dragon Tail to the gut sending him up in the air.
"Blaise! This is our chance! Combo Move: Draco Impact Rage!" Yukiko said as Blaise smirked as he was surrounded by red and white energy. He was using the combination of Ancient Power, Flare Blitz, Giga Impact and Aerial Ace and he flew and charged at Eric as he yelled in pain as he caught fire and was sent far into the sky.
"Checkmate." Yukiko smirked as Blaise landed though he stumbled a bit. A combo move involving 4 moves can be draining after all. "You were great Blaise. You deserve a rest." She said patting him before returning Blaise to his Pokeball.
"Whoa! Too cool!" Usopp and Luffy 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?"
Yukiko smiled. "You know, we never did get to try them, what do you say guys?"
"I ate one!" Luffy said raising his hand.
"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.
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Yukiko had returned her Pokémon to their Pokeballs and Pachi 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. Want to come with us?" Luffy asked.
"I've made friends with all of you and I would like to go with you all and stay with Yuki-neechan. . . 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.
"Did we?" Luffy pouted, making his crewmembers except Yukiko, who giggled, slack jawed.
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 strong girl she'll be fine." Yukiko said smiling.
"Apis has more motivation and determination than anyone I've seen, she'll protect the nest." Nami agreed.
"She'll be fine," Luffy said sat up on the railing, " She's our friend after all!"
"Yeah she is." Zoro agreed.
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The Lost Island Arc is over!
Now comes the short Red Line Arc!
And we will soon meet a certain whale!
But for now, I'll let you know.....
In this story, Pokecoins will have similar value to the One Piece Berries.
And yes, Yukiko will have those valuable items that Nami will want to have.
But the value in the One Piece world will be much, much higher than in Yukiko's dimension. Won't be revealed to them until a little later.
For now............
Value in One Piece world:
Nugget price: 30,000,000 each x 200
Big Nugget: 300,000,000 each x 500
Pearl: 10,000,000 each x700
Big Pearl: 100,000,000 each x500
Star Piece: 50,000,000 eachx 100
Stardust:100,000,000 each 1000
Rare Bone:100,000 each x60
Pearl string:5,000,000,000 each x200
Comet Shard:100,000,000,000 each x 100
Relic Gold: 400,000,000 each x40
Relic Silver: 200,000,000 each x100
Relic Copper: 100,000,000 eachx 300
Trainer card:
Money: 851,581,851,911,064,714,091,000,000
Nami would freak and she'd think: 'I was in the wrong line of work!'