A few days later Iso was sitting in the private sitting room again. There were several books and papers spread out around her on the coffee table.

"What are you doing," Law asked from the doorway.

"Research. I borrowed some books on the grand line from Sam before she left," Iso looked up at him. She picked up a piece of paper from the table and handed it to him.

"And this is," he sat down and started to read.

"A summary of the next island. I also got a map on it here," she slid a book toward him.

"Sub desert huh, we will have to pick up some different supplies," Law commented as he read through Iso's report. They were heading toward a summer island called Cantogo. It was slowly turning into a desert from the constant heat and lack of rain but it hadn't been fully consume yet. There were several cities on the island all of them ruled by its own individual prince or princess.

"I think the best place to land is here," Iso tapped the northern most city on the map which was also the most isolated; "They have a reputation of being a lawless zone on the island. The marines on the island don't like the patrol there."

"Yes. We would be left alone there the most," that would also mean other pirate groups would be there as well. This could also be a chance for him to increase his reputation.

"Also this came with the paper," Iso handed him another sheet of paper. She thought he would like this one.

Law found himself holding his wanted poster and when he looked at his bounty it showed that it had gone up by four million dollars to rest at 102 million.

The captain smirked, "Must be because of the diamond mine."

"That would be my guess," Iso set her pen down and smiled at him.

They both looked up as Ryan stuck his head in the door, "the shipwrights are here looking for you captain. They want you to inspect the sub."

"Right," Law stood and looked down at Iso," you coming?"

"Of course," Iso took his hand and let him pull her out of the room.

XXX

The sub was finished when they went to go look at it. The yellow sub sat there in all of its glory ready for them to set sail. You couldn't even tell that it had been damaged. Law immediately ordered the crew to load their supplies and to set out to the next island.

Iso was walking back to her room from the navigation room. She had spent the last few hours setting the best course to their next destination. Now she was going to unpack the things that she had gotten out of her vault. This was really just a pocket dimension that she needed special tools to access.

She now had a wardrobe that was made up of more than one outfit. She had books on navigation and other things she thought would be useful. Iso had also gotten out her spell making supplies along with a couple of other surprises.

When she was finished Iso stood in the middle of her room. She was dirty but her room was and clean and organized. In her hand she held a small case. This wasn't for her but for Law. Leaving her room Iso went down the hallway to Law's office she might as well give him his present before she took her shower.

She knocked on his door only as a curtesy. Law usually gave her free reign of his office. The captain of the ship was currently stooped over a very thick medical book.

"What do you need Iso-ya," he asked.

"Oh nothing, but I do have something for you," Iso came around and leaned against Law's desk next to him, "here," she handed him the case.

"What is it," Law didn't wait for her to answer instead he opened the small box and found a pair of glasses resting on a cushion of velvet, "I know your senses are sharper than mine but my eyes aren't this bad."

"Oh shut up and put them on," Iso pushed off his desk going to his book case.

Law did as she asked just to humor her. Iso came back with one of the green books he had gotten when they first met, "you know I can't read those."

"I know and you've asked me to teach you, but I'm not the greatest teacher in the world. And I know you stumbled a little blindly when you were treating me recently and these books can help with that," Iso tried to explain.

"Is there a point to this Iso," he felt ridicules wearing glasses he didn't need.

"Yeah try reading this now," Iso opened the book to a random page and put it in front of Law.

The doctor was about to say something to the dragon but his mouth dropped open when he saw the words on the page appeared as English just like any other of his books. "How is this possible," he slide the glasses down so he was looking over the top of them and the words changed back into the foreign looking characters they were before.

"They're looky-loo glasses. Terrible name I know but they allow for you to read in foreign languages," Iso explained.

"Mhmm," Law only half heard her he was already immersed in the words of the book.

"I'll leave you to your studying," Iso smirked as she left his office to go take a shower

XXX

Iso almost ran into Elias as she came out of the bathroom.

"Oh hey Iso," the medical assistant had a clipboard in his hand, "you getting ready to head onto the island."

"Yeah are we docked yet," Iso asked.

"Yup just now. Well, have fun I'm off to do inventory."

"Well, you have fun with that," Iso waved as she went to her room to grab a hair tie for her long hair.

Law acknowledged Iso with a nod when she walked up to him on the deck of the sub.

"Well if this place isn't a dump," Iso eyed the city they had decided to dock at. It was mostly made up of slums the only visibly nice part of the city was the palace raising out of its center. A haze of smoke surrounded the whole city and her people were slow moving, not moving with any purpose or need.

"That's odd," Iso murmured so only Law could hear.

"What?"

"There are no women or children only men," Iso said.

"You think they were attacked by pirates we aren't the only ones here," Law nodded to some of the other ships in the harbor. There were at least three other pirate ships openly docked at the city public docks.

"I don't know if it was a pirate attack the people would look injured and the city would be damaged. I don't see any signs of that here," Iso nodded back to the city.

"You're right, stay close Iso I don't like the looks of this," Law told her as he disembarked.

"Fine with me," Iso said as she jumped down to stand next to him. The dragon did not like the looks of this city. She sneezed as soon as they were surrounded by the buildings. Smoke wafted around them from braziers that seemed to be burning on every street corner, "This place smells terrible."

"I don't smell anything," Ryan commented.

"Do I even have to say it anymore," Iso glared at him.

"No, no I get it you're better than all of us," the mechanic laughed.

"It's good that you finally learned what I've been teaching," Iso huffed as she followed after Law. As they walked in search of an inn she started to hear whispers follow them as they moved into the city. The men of the city were becoming restless some of them were pointing at them, more specifically her.

"Let's get off the street," Law too had noticed the attention they were receiving and he was beginning to think it would have been better to leave Iso on the sub.

"Right," Iso followed Law into an inn. She thought the inside of the inn might give her some relief but the smell and the attention they were receiving followed them into the building.

Law was talking to the inn keeper to get them rooms for their stay. Something seemed wrong though, the inn keeper, who was an elderly old man, kept gesturing toward Iso.

"What's wrong," Iso asked as she went up to Law.

"She can't be here," inn keeper was saying, "Princess Charlotte has forbidden other women from setting foot in the city."

Law looked frustrated and was about to say something when the doors to the inn were slammed open. Several guardsmen entered into the already crowded room followed by a finely dressed woman with a crown on her head.

"Well it seems the rumors are true another woman dares to defy my laws," the girl who must be Princess Charlotte said.

"It's not hard to disobey laws I don't know about," Iso commented. She studied the situation. The heart pirates outnumbered the guards not to mention Law and Iso could probably take them all on their own.

That strange smell that had been following them since they set foot in the city seemed to grow stronger and now Iso could pinpoint its source as the princess.

"That is not my problem, arrest her," the princess waved a dismissing hand at the dragon.

"Now wait a minute," Iso said as she backed up. The guards approached her, but the most disconcerting thing was the heart pirates, her friends hadn't moved. Charlotte had approached Law and he looked down at her as she placed a hand on his cheek.

"Order your men to help my guards," she asked.

Laws eyes dilated as he breathed in her unique scent, "Of course."

"Law you bastard snap out of it," Iso yelled as her friends to advanced on her threateningly. Someone grabbed at her arm and Iso threw them across the room. Penguin went flying and the dragon gasped when she saw who it was. She hadn't even smelled him, "Penguin, Shit!"

Iso went to help her friend but more hands grabbed her. Not wanting to hurt the heart pirates any more then she already did the dragon went limp. Shackles were clamped on her wrists and the guards started to drag her away. The last thing she saw before she was pulled from the inn was the princess kissing Law and the pirate captain responding.

Anger and pain lashed through Iso. How dare that bitch kiss Law. He was her human. Iso snarled and started to thrash. One of the guards cuffed her over the head dazing her. When the guard that hit her saw her trying to blink through the pain in her head he smashed the side of her head into the stone wall of a nearby building.

Iso fell limp. Darkness consumed her as the guards dragged her to the palace.

XXX

The dragon groaned as she came back to awareness. Her head felt like it was going to explode from the pounding. She cracked open an eye preparing for the backlash from the light but it was dark where she was at. The only light in the room was entering from under the thick wood door bound in iron. She was in a stone room that was damp and smelled strongly of filth and mold. Iso was bound to the wall by what looked to be sea stone shackles.

As the ache in her head started to lessen Iso started to test the strength of her bindings. The sea stone was too strong for her to break but the steel that attached it to the wall was old and rusted. Easily broken.

Iso paused and went as still as possible tuning her sense of smell and hearing into the space outside her cell. She was searching for the signs of a living person the smell that they would give off from being in a place like this, their heart beat as they moved further underground. Not smelling or hearing anything to indicate the presence of guards Iso tensed her muscles and ripped her arms away from the wall. The steel sheared away from the stone with a great shriek. Iso rushed to the door and listened for any type of movement to indicate someone heard her free herself.

Not hearing anything confirmed her suspicion that there were no guards posted on her cell. "Bad move princess," Iso muttered as she pulled some lock picks from the heel of her boot. The door clicked open after a moment of fiddling with the lock. Iso opened the door into the corridor cautiously. The shackles clunked around her wrists. She didn't have the correct tools to remove them right now so they would have to wait.

The dragon took a moment to study the dungeon around her. She didn't find anything that would indicate which way she should go to get out of the dank place. Iso ended up picking a random direction and going that way.

As she walked along Iso's surroundings started to become more and more decrepit. The dragon was starting to think she had gone the wrong way. She stopped in the intersection of two corridors and was about to turn around when she caught the scent of torch smoke. Curious as to what they could be keeping this deep into the dungeon. Really who needed a dungeon this big? Iso started to follow the scent.

She soon found the source of the smell was a door flanked on both sides by lite torches. The door was similar to all the others except this one was being kept closed by a heavy iron bar.

"Now what could you be keeping in here," Iso asked the air. The dragon easily lifted the bar and moved it off to the side. Cautiously she opened the door and took a look around.

What she found was far from what she expected. The room was lavishly decorated. Wall hangings hung on all the walls to warm the cold stone look of the room. Metal containers burned wood and some kind of incense that as Iso breathed in in she began to feel drowsy. She covered her nose with her cape to keep out the drug in the smoke while she covered the two containers with nearby lids to smother the fire.

Iso left the door open to clear out the rest of the drugged smoke from the room. The dragon entered the room to better investigate its oddness. The few pieces of furniture there looked to be more suited to be in a noble's bed room then a dingy dungeon. There was a set of drawers, a wardrobe, and even a bed draped in heavy curtains. She opened the doors to the large wardrobe that sat against one wall. Inside she found several cloth wrapped canvases.

The blue haired girl took out the first one and pulled off the wrappings. The painting was of a beautiful young girl in her late teens. She had wavy auburn hair and large warm brown eyes. The painting seemed to have captured her innate kindness perfectly. At the bottom of the painting on the frame was a bronzed plated that had a name on it.

"Princess Charlotte," Iso read. This painting looked nothing like the Princess Charlotte she had met. That Charlotte was blonde with full pouty lips and greedy eyes. Iso looked up suddenly at the curtained bed at the other side of the room. There was only one reason to fill a room with drugged smoke. Iso tore away the curtains clearing away the rest of the smoke in the room. There on the bed was the real subject of the painting Iso had found. The woman who was the true Princess Charlotte.

The dragon was starting to figure out what was really going on in this city and it wasn't anything that she liked. While she waited for the princess to wake up Iso tried to come up with a plan of what to do. First of all she had to get Law and the others back, but to do that she had to break whatever control the imposter princess had on them. She also wanted revenge against the fake princess for locking her up and for kissing Law.

As she thought about her last sighting of the pirate captain the pain and anger again lashed through her. Iso clamped down on the emotions and shoved them away not wanting to think about their implications just yet.

A soft moan drew the dragon out of her thoughts. She looked down to find large brown eyes staring up at her, "What… where I'm I," the girl asked confused.

"Take it easy princess. You've been asleep a long time," Iso helped her to sit up, "as to your question we're in the dungeon."

"Who are you," Charlotte asked. She had never seen this woman before.

"I'm Iso, and we need to get out of here."

"Penelope," the princess said.

"What?"

"Penelope she was my maid. She attacked me and locked me down here," the princess said.

"How's that possible," Iso helped the princess to stand.

"I don't know. The guards they seemed to be obeying her orders," Charlotte shook her head as Iso handed her a pair of velvet slippers to put on.

A scuff behind them made Iso snap around. In the doorway were three men wearing guard uniforms. One of them was Ryan. He had removed his jump suit and bandana revealing his unruly orange hair.

The princess shrank back with a soft "eep."

"Stay back," Iso raised one hand to motioning the frightened girl further back while her other raised in a defensive position. The shackles on her wrists clanked heavy on her arms.

"You're not supposed to be here woman," one guard spoke.

"Yeah well you should put up a sign then. Not that I would listen," Iso taunted.

The guards snarled. They drew swords the first one who spoke charged her. Iso ducked the swing while grabbing his sword arm with one hand and hitting him in the solar plexus with her elbow. The air was knocked from his lungs leaving him pliable to Iso's moves. The dragon swung him into the other guard who was trying to flank them making them fall into one of the covered fire pots causing ash to billow into the air.

"Dam it," Iso swore as she turned to Ryan who tried to use his greater height to his advantage by grabbing her. Iso moved into his tackle and slammed him into the wall. The tall mechanic slid to the ground not moving. As soon as she was clear Iso backed away from the door. The two guards who had fallen on the pot were out cold. The fire was out but the ashes still contained the drug. Already Iso could feel the effects of the drug.

"Cover your nose princess. There's a sedative in the air," Iso followed her own instructions by covering her mouth and nose with her cape while the princess brought the sleeve of her dress up to cover her nose.

"What are we going to do," Charlotte asked.

"For now, getting out of here," Iso helped the princess to step over the bodies in the doorway and into the corridor where the air was cleaner, "Stay her I'll be right back."

Iso disappeared back into the room and soon re-emerged with Ryan draped over one shoulder and the un-spilled pot of drugged ash in the other.

"Why are you bringing him," Charlotte asked.

"He's a friend," Iso handed her the pot, "Let's go."

A/N sorry this took so long even though I like this arc this chapter and the next one were just a pain in the ass to write. I just couldn't get them quite right but I like how its turning out now.