While sailing to the Lost Island, wherever it is, I was looking at the Dream Eater Instruction Guide to know what kind of Link Actions I will be able to do with Wyvern, who is a Ryu Dragon Dream Eater. Looking at the links that I'm able to do with him, I began to train with Wyvern to practice with those links. Before I got the chance, I heard Apis's voice.

"Sorry for the wait, guys! Lunch is ready!" She ran to the back of the ship, where most of the crew gathered.

"That's nice of you, Apis," I shouted. "But, I'm not hungry. You guys can either eat without me or give my portion to Luffy."

"Okay," she replied.

"Oh, Sanji!" I heard Usopp called, as I began some training with Wyvern. "Thank goodness. You made lunch today." I swear, Apis must be mad to hear that.

"Well, then. Wyvern, you ready for some training?" I asked my new partner, who nodded at my question.

Getting into our fighting stances, Wyvern and I began our training. We've exchanged a lot of blows at each other. Wyvern, despite the fact that he was just created, already knew how to fly. His speed and power was incredible. Like most dragons, he can breathe out fire. Not only can he breathe some out, Wyven can even create fire by slashing or charging into his opponents.

"We got it!" the two of us heard Luffy shouted, having us to stop our training. "Lost Island is east of Gunkan Island!"

"Ryuuji said so!" Apis added.

"Guess we can stop our training here," I told Wyvern. "You're really strong. I can't wait to do a Link Action with you." That statement got him really happy, he did some flips.

"Xion!" Nami called me. "Lost Island is-"

"I heard," I interrupted her. "It's at the east of Gunkan Island."

"Oh. So you heard. Okay then." With that, she and Usopp ran to the helm.

"Okay! Set our course to Lost Island! Let's go!" Luffy shouted.

'We were trying to get to Lost Island,' I thought.

As we sail to Lost Island, I was cleaning my necklace, or the seashell at least. I haven't been taking care of it since I joined this crew. I held the seashell over my ear and listen to the waves, even though there wasn't any point of listening to it now that I'm sailing across the ocean. Still, it's nice to hear it from a seashell every once in a while.

"Hey, Usopp!" Luffy called. "Can you see anything?"

"Nope! Not a thing!" our sharpshooter replied.

I laughed a little at our captain's hastiness. He obviously wants to get there as fast as possible. I then turned to Wyvern, who's napping on the deck. Well, I suppose it's nice to relax every once in a while as well.

My mind automatically went to what that guy in a black coat said. 'Were we allies?' I wondered. 'Who's this 'Roxas' that he spoke of back there?' I was getting a small headache from thinking so much about my past. It was like trying to force myself to remember. Pocketing my treasure, I stopped thinking about it for a while and gently woke Wyvern up.

"Mind taking me out for a ride?" I asked, recieving a happy screech from the Ryu Dragon.

I slowly got on him, as he flapped his wings. Charging to the other side of the ship, Wyvern jumped as high as he can. And what do you know? He flew, with me on him. With wings as small as his, I had a small doubt that he would fly with someone riding him. I know looks can be decieving, but this is a little ridiculous.

As we flew, I saw Apis, leaning against a railing, staring at Ryuuji. We both knew why she would. It won't be long until she complete her promise.

"AHHHHH!" a scream from Usopp's voice was heard. Wyvern and I turned to see him staring and pointing at us. Nami was staring at him as well.

"What?" I calmly asked.

"That thing already knows how to fly?!" he asked. That question got Nami to look at us.

"Hey, it's true!" she agreed. Their shouting got our captain and Apis to stare at us as well. Man, I hate being the center of attention.

"The dragon knows how to fly?! Awesome!" Luffy complimented us, with stars in his eyes.

"Well, yeah," I answered.

"Since when?!" they asked.

"Just now, I guess."

"No fair, Xion!" Usopp complained. "Get off of your dragon! I want to ride!"

"Not before me, Usopp!" Luffy argued.

"Speaking of which, Ryuuji, what was it like to fly?" Apis asked, ignoring us.

"All right, we'll get down," I shouted. When I was about to order Wyvern to get back to the deck, something caught my eyes. "Hey, Luffy! There's something up ahead!"

Luffy looked at the front to see what I saw. It was some sort of dark cloud. I don't know how to describe it, really.

"Do you want me and Wyvern to go there and investigate?" I asked him.

"Nah. We'll find out when we get there," he told me.

"Oh come on!" I heard Apis screamed. Apparently, so did Wyvern, Usopp and Nami. "I do not think you're a bother! What's with you?! Hey, Ryuuji! Are you listening?! It's not fair for you to keep quiet! Say something!"

"Why is she arguing with Ryuuji?" I asked, recieving a small screech from Wyvern. "It was a rhetorical question." I told him, as we both flew down to Merry. While flying down, I heard something.

'Get me out of here...' it said. 'I want to get out of here...' That voice and desperate cry could mean only one thing. We're getting close to another Dream Eater. It wouldn't surprise me if I can find the Dream Eaters on every island that we stop at in the Grand Line, but we're in the East Blue. This has to be a coincidence. If not, I'll be upset if the creator either lied to me or didn't know that he actually placed them all in the East Blue. It would've made my trip to the Grand Line nothing but a waste, probably.

When Wyvern landed on the Merry, I got off and turned my head to the front of the ship to see that we were at the front of that weird fog. That 'fog' was in a shape of a pirate ship. Not only that, it's waving like it's a mirage or a reflection of a ship from the water. As the ship got closer to it, it began to disappear! Disappear, I said!

"Whoa! This is cool, Nami! Look at this!" he called our navigator.

"I'm... already looking," I heard her say.

"H... How is that even... We're not even..." I tried to ask.

"Where am I going?" Luffy asked, laughing at the end. The way he laughed sounded so evil, it was like he's being possessed by something! Nami and Usopp screamed at the sight of this, it caused the rest of the crew and Apis to look at the front.

When the whole ship passed through the weird mirage, it suddenly became foggy.

"What? Fog?" Zoro wondered out loud.

"I thought it was important the way Nami-san screamed like that," Sanji said.

"What's going on here?" the said navigator asked.

"What the hell happened back there?" Usopp followed. "I saw our ship right in front of us and then... we kind of plunged into it."

"I can't see a thing at all," Luffy said.

"What did you expect?" I asked the captain. "You can barely see a thing when you're in a fog."

"It was almost like... a mirage," Usopp continued.

"A mirage?" Nami repeated. "Of course! I've read it in a book once. When cold sea water and warm sea water are mixed together, a mirage appears."

"Okay, but what does a mirage have anything to do with this fog?" I asked.

"Well..."

"Forget that I asked," I interrupted. "Wyvern, try to blow this fog away." I then ordered the dragon Dream Eater. Wyvern did as told and blew the fog away with his wings. Just as the fog was blown away, it started raining, heavily.

"Is this part of the mirage too?" Usopp asked.

"Of course not," I muttered.

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS OCEAN?!" Nami irritatedly asked. Just as she did, the ship started rocking. A good reason for that would be the waves. But of course everyone knows that a bad weather equals to big waves.

The waves were so rough, it felt like the whole ship would flip if we don't get out of it.

"Sanji-kun! Zoro!" Nami called. "I'll take in the sails! Unfasten the ropes!"

"Yes, Nami-san~!" guess who answered.

"You have to get to safety, too!" Zoro told Apis, attempting to lead her somewhere in the ship.

"No! I have to be with Ryuuji!" she protested, running to the back.

"Idiot! Just being with him won't help at all!"

"Ryuuji is just sitting there helpless! I have to get to him-!" Before Apis could finish what she was saying, the ship leaned to the side, causing her to trip and slide down to the side that it was leaning on.

"Wyvern! Help Apis!" I ordered the Ryu Dragon, who prevented her from crashing into one side of the ship. Running to them, I said, "Look, Apis. I know how you feel about helping Ryuuji, but this is the one situation where you can't really help him." Agreeing with me, Apis went into the ship.

"Hurry! We'll be in danger if we don't get out of here!" Nami told us.

'Behind the ship...' the voice from earlier warned.

I didn't get the warning, but I just went to the back of the ship with Wyvern to see what's happening back there. When I got there, the rope just snapped, therefore forcing the Sennenryuu to separate from us. Not wanting Apis to be sad about breaking her promise like this, I quickly grab the ropes with Wyvern's help, thinking that this was what the Dream Eater's voice was trying to warn me. I then summoned Lapin to help us grab hold of the ropes.

"Hang on, guys!" I told them. When I felt the rope slipping through my fingers, even though I have gloves on, I called Luffy for extra help. "Luffy! The ropes to Ryuuji's cart are slipping away!"

When he heard and understood what I meant, he quickly ran to the back and used his devil fruit powers to grab onto the said dragon's cart.

A few minutes later, we were finally out of that storm. Funny thing about the storm is... that it surrounds an island. And by surround, I mean surround!

"A storm that surround an island, huh?" Nami thought out loud, agreeing with my thoughts.

"It's like it's there to prevent people from entering," I added. "At least it would explain why no one was able to find this place." I turned to my two worn out Dream Eaters. "You two get back in your cards for some rest." That said, Lapin and Wyvern returned to their 'rooms'.

"You know, instead of an island, it looks more like a castle," Luffy stated.

When we got to the island, we saw several stones that looks like a dragon. Usopp assumed that this island is the island where Sennenryuu came from, but somehow, I have some doubts about it.

"In any case, I wonder how long it's been since anyone lives here," Sanji said. "Looks like a jungle took over."

"By the way, where do you think the Dragon's Nest is?" Nami asked. No one had the chance to answer, as we heard Apis calling Ryuuji for something.

"Come on! We're right where the Dragon's Nest is! Come on! Get up!" When Ryuuji opened his eyes, Apis had a sad look on her face.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"He doesn't know where the Dragon's Nest is," she explained. "Maybe this isn't Lost Island."

"What?" Zoro asked.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Sanji said.

"Man. And we went through that storm to get here," Usopp complained.

"Apis!" Luffy called. "Look at that mountain! If we climb up there, we'll be able to see the whole mountain!"

"He's right," Nami agreed. "We won't know anything just by standing here thinking. Want to go take a look?"

"Sure!" Apis happily replied.

'Like Lapin and Wyvern, the next Dream Eater might be somewhere on that mountain,' I thought. 'Or at least, at the center of this island.'

"Alright! Let's go!" our captain ordered.

We began to walk to the top of the mountain, pulling or pushing Ryuuji's cart. Well, all except for Nami and Apis. I didn't summon Lapin and Wyvern out to help us, even though it would make the cart easier to pull or push with more people and that it would be a good training for them. But they needed a break, after going through that storm.

"That conniving Nami, making us do all the work," Usopp muttered. "Why doesn't she help push a little?"

"You over there!" Nami called to Usopp. "Stop chattering and push."

"Quit enjoying this, dammit!"

"I shall stop chattering and push~!" Sanji said. "Ah. The lively Nami-san is so wonderful~!"

"I feel like wanting to puke, hearing him say these kind of things," I muttered to myself.

We kept pushing the cart until we got to the top. On our way there, we ended up in a town of some sort. All the buildings seemed destroyed, which would prove the fact that no one lives here.

"Wow. Everything's run down," Luffy said, as most of us continues to push the cart. "Looks like people really did live here."

"You can only tell because of the buildings," Zoro grunted.

"But why is there no one now?" Usopp asked.

"Who knows. Maybe they found a place easier for them to live," Sanji believed.

"That might be possible," I, for once, agreed with him. "Hey. Where's Apis go?" I asked, noticing that the girl isn't with Nami.

"She's over there," Nami answered, pointing at where the girl is. "Hey, Apis? You're going to get left behind."

I saw her run to our navigator, with a bird on her shoulder. "You know what? This little bird told me, 'There is a building with a dragon mark on it at the top of the mountain'!"

"You sure?" Usopp asked.

"Let's hurry! It might be the Dragon's Nest!" the little girl excitedly said, running ahead of us.

"Nami! Hurry up!" Luffy called, as we saw the said girl dazing off.

"Ah. Wait up!" she called, catching up.

We made it to the top and saw a door of some sort with a picture of a Sennenryuu. And I have to say, pulling a cart while you're walking up the stairs is not good for you.

"Ah. We finally made it," our sharpshooter sighed.

"Thanks for showing us the way!" Apis thanked the bird, as it flew away.

"We sure came up long way," Sanji stated.

"Thanks for you help, guys," Apis thanked us.

"Yep. Good work," Nami followed.

I looked at the Sennenryuu picture and thought to myself, 'Not that far now, hopefully. Wait a little longer, Dream Eater.'

"This is a picture of a Sennenryuu, right?" Nami guessed.

"Looks like it," Luffy agreed.

"Is this building the Dragon's Nest?" Sanji wondered.

"This place?" Usopp asked.

"Wait a second, where's the door?" Zoro realized. "How are we going to get in?"

"This is the door," Luffy said.

"You idiot. We don't have the key," Nami reminded him. "How are we going to get inside?"

I noticed a little hole on the door where one of the Sennenryuu's claw is. It's almost the size of Apis's pendant. I assumed that her pendant is the key to this door. I faced Apis and saw that she was thinking the same thing, for she was holding it and walked up to the door.

"Apis... That pendant... Could it be?" Nami asked, catching up to our thoughts.

"Is it the key to open the door to the Dragon's Nest?" Sanji followed.

"It should be," I said. "The size and shape is exactly the same."

Apis nodded her head in agreement and reached up to put the pendant in the hole. Or tried to. Due to her height, she couldn't reach it.

"I can't reach," she whined, her eyes watering.

"Man, you sure are short, Apis" Luffy insulted.

"What was that?!"

"Alrighty then, just leave it to me," he volunteered, taking her pendant.

'Don't! Stop him!' the voice warned me. having a bad feeling about its tone, I tried to stop Luffy.

Before I could, and before he could put the pendant in, the ground under us suddenly collapsed. We all fell to who-knows-where.

After that fall, we all landed hard on the branches. Or are they big roots? I don't know. We sort of crashed into them while falling. With wide eyes, we, including Ryuuji, looked up at the hole that we fell in.

"We're... alive, right?" Usopp asked.

"Yeah. Seems so," Zoro answered.

"By the way, whose idea was it to use a key up there?" Sanji questioned.

Ignoring their conversation, I began to wonder how I was going to get to the next recipe. It's good that we're alive and inside, but this place is too dark to see.

'Well this is unexpected,' the voice that's usually in my head suddenly spoke.

"Who's there?!" Luffy asked, as he and the other members of the Monster Trio got into battle positions.

"Sh-sh-show yourself!" Usopp demanded, trembling.

"If you're here to get Ryuuji, you're not getting him!" Apis yelled.

"Relax guys," I told them, getting confused looks on their faces. "What am I going to do now? I can't start this challenge with them here, right?"

"Xion, who-"

'That's not entirely true,' the voice interrupted Nami. 'You can still do the challenge, but you have to have them to cooperate.'

"Yeah, I get that. However, how can I be sure that they will help me complete the challenge?"

'That's what you have to find out on your own.'

"Oh come on." I heard someone clear their throat and turned to see suspicious looks on my crewmates' and Apis's faces. I'm not sure about Ryuuji's face. "You want to know, don't you?" I asked, getting nods. "Okay. It just so happens that there is a Dream Eater recipe here," I explained. "My first clue to that is the voice of the Dream Eater itself. I also noticed so far, or assumed, that the Dream Eater recipe is somewhere on the center of the island that their creator left them. Not only that, like I said earlier on the ship, there's also a challenge that I have to complete in order to get that recipe. If I fail that challenge, I won't be able to get the recipe. If you guys cooperate with me to complete this challenge, you have to pay very close attention to what the challenge is. Otherwise, the recipe will be stuck here for who knows how long."

"So you want us to help you get it, right?" Luffy asked.

"In a way, yes."

"Then, where is it?" Zoro asked.

"Xion just said that we won't get it if we don't do what the challenge is," Nami told him.

"And I asked where it is."

"It won't reveal itself unless we did the challenge," I said. "So will you guys help?"

"Yes, Xion-swan~!" Sanji agreed, of course.

"Just tell us what the challenge is," the captain said.

"Before I get to that, I have to find a Keyhole," I told him, looking around the room. It didn't take long for me to find something glowing. I ran up to the glow, summoning my Keyblade. When I got close enough, I pointed it at the hole, shooting out that beam of light.

"All right, Voice. What's the challenge now?" I asked. And yes, I'm calling that voice 'Voice' from now on.

'This challenge is one that you will not like,' Voice told me. Just then, there was a little light and ten Shadows came out of nowhere.

"Hey! It's those things!" Luffy shouted.

"AHHHHH! They're here, too!?" Usopp and Nami screamed.

"Hey, hey. What is this?" Sanji asked.

"What's the challenge?" I asked Voice, having a really bad feeling about the challenge.

'One of these Shadows is a coward. Destroy that Shadow,' he told me.

"SO IT'S THE SAME CHALLENGE AS THE PREVIOUS ONE, ONLY THAT IT'S BY PERSONALITY!" I summarized, with my teeth as sharp as a shark's.

"Okay! Let's beat them all up!" Luffy ordered. AND DID HE NOT HEAR WHAT THE CHALLENGE WAS?!

"Yeah!" Zoro and Sanji agreed. And let me rephrase that. Did THEY not hear what the challenge was?

Those three idiots charged in at the Heartless. Before I let them do anything, I wacked them in the head with my Keyblade.

"What was that for?!" they asked, holding the bump on their head.

Before I answered, I used my Stop spell. Sure I can't defeat the other Shadows, but that doesn't mean I can't freeze them. After stopping their movements, I turned to the idiot trio.

"IDIOTS! I thought you heard what the challenge was!"

"We did!" they said.

"Okay then. What did you hear?" I asked them, wondering if it's just me.

"Just destroy those monsters," they all answered.

"YOU DUMBASSES! So I wasn't being paranoid!" I yelled, wacking them in the head with Starlight again, only harder than the first. "Forget you three! Don't help me! Stay in the sidelines!"

"What?! Why?!"

"The challenge was to destroy the Shadow that's not fighting!" I reminded them, with my teeth razor sharp and my eyes similiar to a demon's. "If you just go and destroy all of them, we won't get the Dream Eater recipe!"

"Then what do you want us to do?" Zoro asked.

"Stay on the defense. You guys know how to do that, don't you?" I asked, giving them a scary look and a deathly aura.

"Y-yes ma'am!" they saluted in fear.

"Then get going and stay on defense!" I ordered, kicking them over to the frozen Shadows, who, by chance, can move again.

I stay in the sidelines, looking for the coward Shadow. I counted the Shadows that were fighting Luffy, Zoro and Sanji, who were staying on defense like I told them to. There were nine of them fighting. One of them is somewhere in this room, not fighting us.

"Hey, Xion!" Usopp called me. I turned to see what was so important that he had to call me. "The Shadow that's not fighting is over there!"

I turned to see where he was pointing and saw that the said Pureblood was hiding behind a rock, watching the battle.

"Thanks, Usopp!" I thanked, running to the coward. It noticed me too late, for I had just killed it. With that, the other Heartless disintegrated and the recipe appeared in the middle of the room.

'Congratulations, Xion,' Voice said. 'You completed the challenge with the help of your crew this time. There's the recipe. Please accept it.'

"You know I will," I told it, getting the said recipe. Once I touched it, the room became bright enough for all of us to see.

"Now we don't have to worry about the dark," Nami said.

"Hey, guys," Luffy called us, looking up. "What do you think that is?"

His question got the rest of us to look up at the ceiling. Not only were there holes on them, there were also drawings on them, making us wonder what they are about.

A/N: Another chapter done. For those who are wondering what the next Dream Eater was obtained, I'll just say that it's a dark-style Dream Eater. For those who are wondering about that, yes, Dream Eaters have different styles. One small problem that I would like you all to help me with: decide which dark-style Dream Eater is the next one to join. I know, I should've thought about that already, but there were too many ideas in my head for all of them in this part of the story. So yeah, please help me decide on the Dark-style Dream Eater. For those of you who already knows about Lapin being a Dark attribute, that's not a style. If you want to know about what Dream Eater is a Dark-style, go to google and type in 'dark style dream eaters'. Until June 22, folks. :)

Ah yes, for those of you who are wondering why I already decided on a Dream Eater style but not on the Dream Eater itself, you'll find out the reason in the next few chapters, that is, if you can see the reason. (insult not intended)