As midday came around. Lia, Zoro, Nami and Sakura reached the lake of Tranquil Falls. Nami couldn't help but stare in awe at the scenery. "Wow, it's like the further we go on the Isle. The more beautiful it gets." she breathed. Lia smiled, "It's like I said before Nami. The fare folk have a thing for nature." Soon she notice some foot prints in the mud near the waters edge.

"Hang tight for a sec guys." she told the group, as she ran up to the lake. Zoro and Nami looked at each other. When Lia came up to the waters edge, water burst from the lake, and Jun'ichi. "What the heck is that!?" the two screamed. Nami slipped off of Sakura and Zoro reached for one of his swords.

"Relax, Jun'ichi's just a friendly water sprite." Lia coaxed them. she tuned back to the fish. "Jun'ichi, have you seen a group come by here? And would you happen to know where they went?" she asked. Jun'ichi nodded, then pointed to the hills. Lia looked, then frowned. "Oh no." She breathed, walking back to the group with a worried expression.

"So what's up?" Zoro asked. "They just left no more then twenty minutes ago. If my hunch is correct, they'll reach the canyon's stone bridge in five." Lia informed him. This made the other two flinch with worry. "Then lets get moving!" he said. Lia nodded and suddenly unfurled her wings from her back.

Nami staring in awe at her, while Zoro was lost for words. However, he did not stop the blush from showing on his cheeks. Lia stared back at them, and lifted a brow. "Why are you guys just standing there gawking? I thought we needed to go? Like now?" she said. Which brought them back from their stupider, and nodded. "Your right." "We need to go." they uttered.

Lia sighed, "I get that this is your first time seeing my wings. But you two can admire them later, alright?" they shook their heads, saying they agree. With that said, they were off; hoping it wasn't to late.

Deep in Echo Canyon; Prilla, Luffy, and Usopp were peacefully walking along the trail to reach the next location on the map. Though Usopp was having a tuff time to keep up with the other two, since he was almost out of breath. "Can, we, take, *gasps some air* a breather!" he managed a huff. As he leaned on his knees to catch his breath. Luffy and Prilla stopped and looked at him.

Luffy turned to Prilla and asked. "What do you say Prilla?" The said little girl took out the map and examine it, the looked up to the sky. "Hmmm, seems the right time to have break. Yeah lets stop here and take it easy." Usopp immediately dropped his bag and comically fell to the ground on his back, and sighed. "Thank you!" he announced.

Soon the three of them heard the echo of Usopp's relief right back at them. Luffy laughed as he crossed his legs and sat down. "Man, I'm loving this island more and more by the minute!" he proudly proclaimed. Prilla giggled with him, Usopp however gave him an irked look. "Yeah, for you. But to me it feels like this here canyon is mocking me." he grumbled.

"Then don't pay attention to the echo's. Just listen to the melodies." Prilla suggested to him. Luffy and Usopp looked at each other then to her with their heads tilted to the side. "Melodies?" they both questioned. Prilla nodded her head, "Hmhm, not only does the canyon echo what you say. It can also echo melodies or songs that other fairies have played. No matter how far or where they played them." she stopped and turned her head to a faint tune.

Then she brought a finger to her lips, "Shh, listen." she told them. The boys held their heads up so they could hear what she was talking about. Soon the faint tune became loud enough for all three of them to hear a beautiful melody.

As the melody played, they suddenly heard an unknown female voice sing along to it. All three of them closed their eyes as they listened to the peaceful tune. Prilla had her fingers play along with the piano sound and swayed. Usopp used his fingers to make himself act like a conductor and conduct the song. Luffy just leaned forward on his hands and enjoyed the music.

Pretty soon, the music started to fade and come to a complete end. And the group relaxed as they all let out a blissful sigh. "*Sigh* I could listen to something like that all day." Usopp exclaimed calmly, leaning on his pack. "Yeah." Luffy breathed in agreement. Then something dawned on him, "Hey, Prilla?" "Yes." "Yesterday Me and Zoro heard Lia sing back at the falls. Can she also sing like that?" he asked.

Prilla smiled and shook her head, confirming his hypothesis. "Yep, Li takes a lot after mommy. Only when it comes to sings and beauty. And speaking of my mommy, she was the one who sung the melody we just heard." she brought up to them. The boys were in awe, "Really?!" said Luffy with starry eyes. "Was she aware that the canyon would replay her song?" he asked.

"Of course! She's the one who did the spell in the first place." she said. That put Luffy at awe, however Usopp, "Why doesn't that surprise me?" he asked sarcastically. Prilla and Luffy just giggled, as they got up and continued their journey. As they walked, they came around a corner and saw a deep ravine in front of them. With a bridge that didn't look quite safe.

It looked like it was crumbling apart. Usopp pointed that out very quick, "Uh guys, I'm not so sure about this bridge." he groveled. "Really? Looks fine to me." Luffy simply said, letting his oblivious mind show again. Usopp deflated by leaning on the bag. "Hey Prilla, can you maybe fly us across the ravine? Instead of us crossing this 'death trap?"

Prilla shook her head, "Sorry Usopp, I can't." "Why not?" he asked. "Cause living at the bottom of the ravine is a Wyvern." The boys looked at her, then tilted their heads in confusion. "What's a Whyvern?" Luffy asked, saying the name wrong. "Wyvern." she corrected. "It's a giant flying lizard that's closely related to a dragon. But the big difference is their grand flying and bone crushing jaws and claws, that's pretty much all they do whereas dragon have much more abilities." Prilla explained.

Usopp started to tremble. "B-B-Bone c-crushing?!" Luffy just laughed, "Sounds fun!" Usopp collapsed over his stupidity. Then got right up to him an shouted. "Ok, you are way to care free for your own good! You know that?!" However Luffy just ignored him and walked on right up to the bridge. He looked at it, then to the other end of it.

He turned to Prilla and asked, "Hey Prilla, what's on the other side once we cross?" The said little fairy pulled out the map. "Hmm, according to the map. On the other side should have the valley of flowers that dwells the cheery tree." "And near the tree is the treasure right?" Usopp guessed. Prilla nodded. "Mhm, we're that much close to finding it." she proclamed

Luffy cheered, "Alright! Lets go!" and ran off on the bridge. "Wait Luffy! We don't know if it is safe!" Usopp shouted. ''I'll get him." Prilla assured him, as she ran up to catch up to Luffy. Parts of the bridge began to crumble, then all three stopped at the sound of some thing cracking.

"That, didn't sound good." Usopp whimpered. Then, all at once a piece of the bridge crumbled to bits. Right between him and the two in front. "Usopp! Get back!" as soon as Prilla said that, the rest of his bridge crumbled towards him. "GAaaaaaa!" he screamed and ran back, with the breaking bridge following close behind.

Usopp tripped and landed safely on the other side. The bridge on that side however was completely gone. All that was left of it was the half that Luffy and Prilla were on. "Usopp! Are you ok!?" Luffy shouted. Usopp hasently got up and looked around him, seeing that he was safe he got on his feet and burst in to a proud fit of laughter.

"HA, HA, HA, HA! Are you kidding!? Nothing! Not even a crumbling bridge can frighten the Great Usopp!" he proclaimed. 'Yeah? You were just screaming your head off a second ago.' Prilla uttered in her thoughts. "Hey Prilla." Luffy caught the girls attention. "You think you could fly over and bring us and Usopp to the other side?" he asked.

Prilla shook her head, "Not with that Wyvern that's down there. If I even try to fly across, that thing will come after me like an owl going after a bat." "I thought creatures and fairies were friends?" Luffy assumed. Prilla sweat dropped and awkwardly.

"Not exactly, you see Wyverns are very proud flyers. They prefer to be the only things in the air. They don't mind ordinary birds though, but anything bigger then that. Lets just say they get easily jealous if some other flying creature is in their territory. And things don't end well for the other party." She explained.

"That's stupid." Luffy just plainly thought. "Not everything in life is so simple Luffy." Prilla told him. Suddenly, their half of the bridge began to crumble again. "Guys! get to the other side, quick!" Usopp shouted at them. But as the two turned to do so, a large crack went straight across their path. If they took so much as another step, that slab of the bridge will fall dragging them with it.

Luffy turned back to his friend. "We can't! The part we're on is about to brake!" "Well then stretch your arm out! Shouldn't that help?!" Usopp suggested. "Oh yeah." Luffy realized. But when he try to do that, he ended up throwing his arm out painfully. "Ow, why can't I stretch out?" Prilla sweat dropped again. "I think I know." Luffy turned to her questionably.

"The entire canyon is full of my parents magic. Remember when I said that 'Devil fruit powers are rendered useless when exposed to fairy magic? Well this is one of those cases." she said dully. "That's something you aught to tell us before some thing like this happens Prilla." Usopp said to her begrudgingly.

Prilla puffed out her cheeks with a glare. "Hey! Don't go blaming me for this! If Luffy had just waited, I could have used my magic to make the bridge more sturdy and safe!" she scorned him. Usopp sweat dropped and rubbed his head. "You have a point there." The crack on the slab broke more and shifted its weight. Making Luffy and Prilla wobble a bit, and began to worry.

Prilla turned to the long nose. "Usopp! Run bake as quickly as you can and get Lia!" "On it!" With that, he was off leaving a cloud of dust. "Wow, he's fast." Prilla said, slightly amazed. "Yep." Luffy smiled.

...

Usopp ran back through the canyon as fast as he can, being very mind full with the curves along the way. 'I gotta hurry! That slab could collapse on them any minute!' he said in his head, fearing the worst for his friends. As he passed the cliff that sang a new melody, he immediately ran into something, or at lest someone and fell to the ground with a thud. So did the other person.

"Ow, that hurt." Usopp ground. "Damn it, watch where your going." complained a very familiar voice. "Zoro?" Usopp questioned, getting up. He looked and he was right. There on the ground, rubbing his head was the swordsman. "Geez, do you close your eyes when your in a hurry?" he retorted. "Zoro what's wrong? Are you alright?" asked the person Usopp was looking for.

"Lia is that you?" he asked, she and the dragon riding navigator Nami and Sakura. Nami looked at the sharpshooter, "Let me guess, you guys have trouble at a certain bridge?" she bluntly deduced. "Yeah, how did you know?" Usopp asked. Lia answered that for Nami. "Because I've been this trail so many times before to know that the bridge is worn out enough for the salty air that it can no longer support anyone that want to cross it."

"And with the place flowing with magic, Luffy can't use his devil fruit to help." Zoro added, getting up. "Where is Luffy and Prilla?" Nami asked. That made Usopp remember in shock, "Crap! We need to hurry! Those two are stuck on a part of the bridge that's about to collapse any minute!"

"Why can't Prilla fly themselves out of there?!" Zoro yelled. "She can't with that Wyvern there to." Lis brought up. "Wyvern?" both navigator and swordsman questioned. "No time, lets go!" Usopp proclaimed. And the group ran off, hopping they'll make it in time.

...

Back with the two on the bridge, Luffy and Prilla just stood there. Making little movement as possible. "Soooo, Prilla." "Yeah?" "I over heard your Lia saying you guys had a brother. What was he like?" Luffy asked. Prilla brought her head down and gave off a soft smile.

"Thaylim was a great man and brother for that matter. He always had a way to make you smile and light up hope in your heart. You can never be in a bad mood around him." She explained smiling at the sky. "Yeah." Luffy said, getting into the story already.

"Yeah, he also had a great sence of hummer. He always knew a way to make me and Terence laugh. Also no matter what battle or fight he was in, Thaylim never gave up. He would always stand tall and proud; protecting what he cared for and placed others before himself. And when ever my dad tested him, he would never hold back. Giving all of his fights a 100%. "

Luffy started to get excited. "Awesome! I would have loved to have met him!" he said. Prilla smiled at him. "Same with Thaylim about you. You two would have gotten along great." she told him. "Hey if you don't mind me asking, but how did your bother die? From the way you say it, theres now way he could of lost." Luffy assumed.

Prilla suddenly went pale, and flashes of a horrible memory of a horrifying creature went through her head. "Luffy, please understand that there are other beings out there in the world that are far more stronger and powerful then others. Weather they be good." She shuttered at the last word. "Or down right evil."

As Luffy saw this, he didn't press onto the matter any further. All of a sudden, their slab shifted lower. "Whoa!" they both studied their balance. "Lets hope Usopp gets to Li soon and fast!" Prilla worried. Then, the two heard, "Luffy!" "Prilla!" the two said pair looked and found just the people they wanted to see.

Both Luffy and Prilla smiled. Well Luffy more then the little girl. "Alright! You guys made it just in time!" he cheered. However, his cheering made his and Prilla's situation worse. Lia noticed this, "Luffy! Stop moving! Your gonna make the slab break even," before she finished, the slab broke once more, making Luffy cease his 'happy jaunt.

"Uh oh." he pipped. "YOU IDIOT!" yelled his crew. And with that, the slab completely broke and down went Luffy and Prilla. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the two screamed as they fell. "Luffy! Prilla!" shouted the crew. Out of the corner of their eyes, Lia dove down with the falling pair.

"Lia! What are you doing!?" Yelled Usopp. "What's it look like?!" she yelled back. Lia reached out and grabbed Luffy. "Prilla! Unfurl your wings!" "But what about-" The young fairy girl was interrupted, "I'll deal with him, just do it!" Lia spouted.

And so both girls reviled their wings and stopped in mid air, just a few foot away from the river below them. Luffy let out a relived sigh. "Whew, that was a close one." he turned his head to look at the two girls. "Whoa!" He was in awe with Lia's wings. "Your wings look awesome Lia!" he said with stars in his eyes.

Lia just smiled, "Thanks" she thanked. As they flew towards the cape, all three heard a low growling sound. "Oh." "Crud." Lia and Prilla said in dread. "What's the hold up guys?!" Nami called to them from up top. "We now have a new problem on our hands." Lia exclaimed lowly.

"What could be worse then Luffy almost falling to his near death?" Zoro vented. "Wait." Nami and Zoro turned towards Usopp, who was pale with terror. "I think I might know what Lia's taking about." He sniveled in fear. "Then what-" Before Zoro could say more, a loud roar bellowed out from where the girls and Luffy are.

"Uh, what was that?" Nami asked dreadfully. "The new problem." Usopp sadly answered her. "Hey Prilla." "Yes Luffy." "It that the Wyvern you were taking about earlier?" He asked, pointing to a caved that was right next to them. The girls looked to where he was pointing, and there stood a white bulky, scaly, scary lizard. It had a big teeth like maw and bottom claws. And had wings where the arms should be.

The giant lizard roared at them, having it echo threw out the ravine. "Guys! Hurry up and get out of there!" Nami shouted at them. Lia grabbed onto Prilla's arm and flew straight up to the cape. Once they made it up, Lia threw both Luffy and Prilla to the others. "Lia! What are you doing?!" Zoro yelled. "Distracting him as long as I can!" she yelled back.

When she took to the sky, the Wyvern followed. The beast freaked most of the group, "Holly Crap that thing's Huge!" Usopp cried out. "How exactly is Lia suppose to out fly that?!" Nami boldly exclaimed. Luffy however, "Come on Lia! You can do it!" he encouraged. That earned him a whack on the head and a face full of dirt. "WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP!" spouted the two.

Zoro on the other hand was too absorbed in the scene he was watching. Lia was dodging the Wyvern's attacks with ease, using it's weight and size against it. Practically playing with it, and even from the ground, he saw the gleam in her eyes. A gleam he knew all to well, it showed that she knew that everything that was going down was part of her strategy to win.

Then, Lia suddenly dove straight down to the ground. With the giant lizard hot on her tail. "What is she doing?!" "Pull up Lia! Pull up!" Nami and Usopp hollered. "Don't worry she knows what she's doing." Prilla assured them. Before the two could say anything to her, Lia did a sharp right angle turn that made her only a foot away from the ground.

The Wyvern however wasn't so skilled. It immediately crashed and berried itself into the earth. Lia stopped flying and simply landed near the group. Everyone except Luffy and Prilla were dumfounded. "Ok...That happened." Nami broke the silence. "Turns out we were worried for nothing." Usopp mumbled, still staring at the woman in disbelieve.

"Figured she had it covered, but wasn't expecting that." Zoro said. "That, was... SO COOOOOOL!" Luffy cheered, flaying his arms like a fool. "Moron." his crew scowled. "It's not over yet." Prilla told them. Before they could ask her what she meant by that, they felt the ground shake and at once the Wyvern shot out from the ground.

The crew flinched and scream in terror as the beast charged at Lia. "Run!- no, Fly Lia! Fly!" Usopp shouted to her, but she just stood there in her place and waited for the lizard to come at her. "What is she doing?!" Nami screeched.

Zoro started to run over to Lia to save her, but then stopped upon the sight that really took him off guard. The seconded the Wyvern was within arms reach of Lia, she swung her arm out and slapped the beast hard. Sending him flying back to a rock.

"Uh? What just happened?" Usopp asked. "Lia just smacked down a giant lizard." Luffy answered him. "I get that but." He couldn't say any more cause he was to confused to say any more. "Just watch and see what happens." Prilla told them. Soon the Wyvern got up and looked at Lia with tears in its eyes."

"Don't you go giving me that look mister! You know better then to go chasing either me or Prilla when we're flying! We have every right to be in the sky as much as you do!" Lia started to lecture. The straw hats were really confused now. "Your job was to guard the bridge from outsiders, but let those who are given permission to cross by me go. However I find you sleeping on the job and allowed Prilla and her friends fall."

The Wyvern looked away from her, beads of sweat started to come down on it's head. Lia kept her arms folded as she stared down the lizard. "Now, your gonna do something for me if you promise to behave." The Wyvern nodded it's head vigorously, meaning it'll do anything for her forgiveness.

"She's lecturing that thing like it's a kid who got in trouble." Usopp muttered. "Yeah, I almost feel bad for the lizard." Nami sweat-dropped. Luffy just laughed, "He, He, He, did you see how she sent that thing flying?! Man that was awesome!" he said gleefully. Everyone just shook their heads. "Your an idiot." they sighed.

"Alright then." they all turned to Lia, who was walking up to them with the Wyvern trudging behind her. Looking a bit ashamed, "Vern here is willing to fly all of us to the other side of the ravine." She turned around and glared at it, it trembled. "And he'll do it without complaints."

"Wait." Everyone turned to Prilla. "The other side? You mean your gonna let us find the treasure?!" She asked excited. Lia smiled and nodded. "Yep, however I would've appreciated it , if you've told be about your plans before. That way we could've avoided situations like this." Lia retorted.

Prilla lowered her head. "Sorry Li." Lia just sighed and embraced her little sister. "It's okay, just think before you act next time alright?" she asked. Prilla nodded. With that done, Lia turned to the crew. "Ok!" she clapped her hands. "Who's ready to ride on a Wyvern?"

Luffy wasted no time to shoot his hand into the air and waving it like crazy. "Oh! Me! Me! Me!" "Uh? Sure, as long as it's safe." Usopp replied. "Why not." was all Zoro said as he walked up to the creature. Lia went up to Nami. "I think your ankle should be good now." she keeled down and unwrapped the organette's leg. To Nami's bewilderment, her ankle was all healed. As if the bruise was never there.

"Incredible." she awed. "One of the many talents of Fae plants." Lia bragged. "Come on! Let's go already!" Luffy shouted. They all got on Vern's back, and took off. There were no words from the Straw Hats view of the scene bellow them. Well except for Luffy. "Woooohooooo!" he cheered.

Soon the Wyvern landed right where they wanted to be. Luffy was the first to jump off. "Whoa! That was great!" he bounced in joy. He stopped when he looked at the scenery before him. "Whoooooa." There in front of the group was the most beautiful valley they've ever seen.

"Wow." "Beautiful." Usopp and Nami breathed. Zoro had no words as he just stared at the landscape. "Oh wow! The flowers here are so pretty!" Gleed Prilla as she ran off to a patch and stared to pick some. Zoro looked over to Lia, and saw that she was just smiling at the scene. The swordsman couldn't help but have pink dust his cheeks as the wind blew past them.

Lia's hair fluttered with the wind, she tried tucking it behind her ear. "They are aren't they?" she smiled at her sister. Her eye's shined more in the sunlight. 'Yeah well, none of them are as nice looking as you.' he thought. Lia turned and found Zoro staring at her. "Is something the matter Zoro?" the swordsman flinched.

"Uh- Y-Yeah! W-Why wouldn't I be?" He stuttered a bit. Hoping she would buy it and not press on. Thankfully for him she didn't, she turned her back to him and walked over to her sister. Zoro huffed in relief. "*Whew* that was close." he swiped off the sweat from his forehead, then scowled at him self. "Coward. I need to find the perfect time when to tell her how I feel." he growled under his breath.

"Want my advice?~" Asked a cheery voice behind him. Zoro jumped and found it was Nami who spoke. "What do you want woman?" he sneered at her. Nami just smiled at him, "If you really care for her in that way, then I suggest that you tell her at the right moment that's perfect to you. Sooner rather then later. Or else some other guy will sweap her off her feet." she implied walked passed him.

Zoro just continued to sneer at her. However in his head, he knew she was right. The group (mainly Usopp, Luffy and Prilla) continued to wander and play in the meadow. "Alright guys, lets wrap up the treasure hunt real quick so we can head back and have lunch." Lia announced. The boys cheered, as they all started to follow the woman.

After awhile of walking, Luffy noticed that the clouds in the valley were pretty close to the ground. "Hey Lia!" "Yeah?" "How come the clouds are so close to the ground?" he asked. Lia smiled and hummed. "It's because we're pretty much at the top of 'Serene Mount." she answered.

"We're that high in the mountains? But I didn't noticed any of us climbing at all." Nami pointed out. "That's mostly because you were riding on Sakura the whole time." Zoro grumbled. Lia laughed nervously, "Yeah, you hardly notice any thing when your having fun. Am I right Prilla?" she asked her sister, and Prilla nodded to her.

Soon, when the group got to the other side of the valley. There before them, was the biggest and tallest Cheery tree with ever blooming cheery blossoms.

"Whoa!" "Now that's a Cheery Tree!" "Pretty!" Luffy, Usopp and Prilla exclaimed in awe. "Hey Pril, you wanna know something?" Lia asked her sister. "What?" the little girl tilted her head in question cutely. "This is the same tree where dad purposed to mom." Prilla gaped at her elder sister, "Really?!" "Yep."

Usopp whistled impressed. "Talk about a perfect place for the perfect moment." Nami nodded in agreement. "I bet it was so romantic." she swooned, picturing the whole scene in her head. Zoro rolled his eyes at her, then turned to Lia. "I thought your parents made this Island for you?" Lia rubbed her head, looking for a good explanation to give him.

"Well actually, this island was here during Avalon's golden age. So waaaaaay before Gold Roger's time. My parents found this place and used it as a 'get away home, a place to relax and unwind during their 'teen years. During their stays here, let's just say they had their way with their 'Remolding' " she quoted that last word with her fingers.

"After dad's proposal then having us. The Isle sortve became a family vacation spot for us." "Until Gold Roger came around and the promise was made." Zoro figured. "Yep." she confirmed. "Hey what's that?" They all turned to Luffy who was pointing at the bottom of the tree. They looked and saw it was a chest. But not just any chest, a treasure chest.

"TREASURE!" Yelled Nami, Usopp, Luffy. and Prilla as they zoomed straight to it. "And here I thought only Prilla and the boys would get excited. I wasn't expecting Nami to be." Lia condoned. Zoro grunted, "Let's just say she has a thing for money and Treasure." Lia looked at him oddly but nodded and didn't on of the subject.

As soon as they got there, the others were just crowding around the chest. "Lia, you wouldn't happen to have the key to it would you~" Nami hummed the question to her. Lia playfully rolled her eye's as she pulled out an antique key. Similar to the lock on the chest. "I hope your aware that you guys can't have anything of what's in there. What's in that chest are precious to my parents."

Nami began to pout like a child. "I know I just want to see it." she twiddle her fingers. Lia just laughed as she went up to the chest. Everyone crowded around her while she was unlocking it. The lock made a *click* sound. The chest was unlocked, Lia slowly opened it. The crew's eyes widened, of what they saw. Inside was...

To Be Continued...

(Sorry, I want to do a cliffhanger there. Thought it would get everyone on their toes. Anyway hoped you all enjoyed the chapter, I'll try to be quicker with the next one.^^. See you in the next chapter!)