Hello everyone and welcome back to FPD!

Now, something that you might not have been expecting, but, both this story, and Desire Cruise, will be using filler arcs and movies to help pad them out, as well as original arcs from time to time.

Sometimes certain fillers and movies will overlap of course, though not always.

And a lot of them get modified due to being put into canon, and having extra crew members around.

Now, with that little warning said, enjoy the first modified filler arc.

'You know, when I pictured pirates, I pictured something grand, something exciting… this wasn't really what I had in mind.' Jacob thought to himself as he sliced up a green pepper, helping Sanji with cooking dinner.

"Once you're done with that one can you get me about three potatoes from the bag?" the cook asked, receiving a nod from Jacob who went and did just that, before moving on to the next pepper to cut up.

"So. is it always this calm?" Jacob asked.

"Not really, but we take the calm days when they come." Sanji said with a shrug.

"Out of curiosity, what's Combusken doing?" Jacob asked as he hadn't seen the rooster as of yet.

"I told him to and try to fish up something edible. With any luck, he won't be constantly grabbing Magikarp with that fishing rod." Sanji said with a sigh.

"It's that much of a common problem?" Jacob asked in slight surprise, receiving a nod from the cook.

Suddenly, the door to the kitchen was pushed open… with as much force as a 4 (soon 5) year old could muster "Dad! We forgot two pokemon!"

Jacob blinked as he turned to the door "We did? Huh, they must be recent ones then."

Maria nodded "We forgot Magearna and Marshadow."

Jacob nodded "Right then." he then grabbed the two cards and showed them to Sanji "Magearna is a Steel and Fairy Type, supposedly created by human hands in ancient times, the chances of it's fruit existing are low, but if it does, it would be the Mecha-Mecha Fruit, Model: Fairy. As for Marshadow, it's a Ghost and Fighting type, and known to be elusive according to stories, it's fruit would be the Ghost-Ghost Fruit, Model: Fighter."

Sanji nodded as he observed the two cards, before Jacob passed them back to Maria.

"Can you go tell the others about the names I gave the fruits and show them the cards as well?" he asked her with a smile.

She saluted him with a smile "Yes sir!" before running out of the room and heading for the closest person she could find.

As it turns out, that first person was Nami, whom she almost ran right into before getting her attention and repeating what her father had said.

After that she found Usopp and had come down from the crow's nest, then Luffy, who was excited about the info, and then waking up Zoro to show him, which had involved getting Luffy's Riolu to slap him awake with a Force Palm.

Once she'd finished informing everyone, she started wandering around the ship, as she usually did, watching as Combusken used a fishing rod, reeling up a Magikarp before throwing it back out to sea, Scyther was practicing it's strikes on the back of the ship, with Spinarak watching it do so in interest, Meowth was snoring away like a simple lazy cat, while Riolu was trying to stop Luffy from falling off Merry's figurehead, as for Milotic, she could be seen periodically jumping out of the water on the side opposite to where Combusken was fishing, getting her usual workout in.

Half an hour later, when everything had calmed down and everyone had returned to what they were doing before, Luffy sighed for the… who knows how many number of times "I'm boooored. Nami! When's the next island?"

Nami looked up from her map, giving him a dull look "Still a while at least, Loguetown is pretty close to the Red Line, so I'd say about a week until we get there considering we made that detour north when Usopp spotted the island that Jacob and Maria were on." she sighed slightly "At least we avoided the storm in the area… but…" she looked up at the sky, feeling the shifting winds "I don't think it's all gone from the east blue yet."

"This is taking too long." Luffy muttered with a pout, before his stomach grumbled "And now I'm hungry. Sanji! We got any fish?"

Sanji poked his head out of the kitchen before walking out "Nope, Combusken didn't have any luck sadly, he kept getting Magikarp."

"Or the occasional Goldeen." Jacob muttered as Maria was napping in his lap.

Meanwhile said rooster pokemon was trying to vent his frustration on the back of the ship.

Then Scyther walked into the area, intending to train, and said something insulting.

Is it really that surprising they started acting like their trainers and attempted to kick each other's asses?

Suddenly, Usopp noticed something up on the crow's nest "Hey! I can see a whole flock of Wingulls over there!"

"Wingulls huh?" Sanji muttered before smiling a bit "Seems we're in luck. Hey Luffy! When their's a flock of Wingulls over the sea, it usually means there's a school of fish."

Seriously?!" Luffy asked as his mouth started to water.

"Or one big fish. Seriously, there's something big floating on the water!" Usopp added to the statement.

"For real?!" Luffy shouted, and one could swear his eyes were trying to take on a fish shape.

"Well, we just need to have Milotic go and-" Sanji started before being cut off by… well, we all know who.

"Gum-Gum Net Catch!" Luffy shouted as he stretched his arm out towards the shape on the water.

"Or we can do that too I guess." Sanji finished dully as Luffy started to reel his arm back in "Well, good thing no one except for moss… oh this should be good." he said with a grin as he looked at the sleeping Zoro who was on the prow with Luffy.

When Luffy brought his arm with the catch back onto the ship, he ended up hitting Zoro as well, sending him flying out into the water.

Seconds later, Zoro was brought back to the ship by Milotic "I swear… one day… I'm gonna… kill him." he gasped out while coughing out water.

"How often does that happen?" Jacob asked, turning from what Luffy had dragged onto the ship.

"Too often." Zoro grumbles as he finishes hoisting himself up "So, what did he grab?"

Jacob simply steps aside, letting Zoro see the unconscious girl sprawled on the prow and covered in water. "Does that include fishing up people from the ocean?" he asked, a little worried at the last part. With good reason too. The girl seemed only a few year older than Maria…

Zoro actually blinked a few times "That's honestly a first. Hopefully the only time it happens as well."

"You have to wonder what she was doing out there though." Nami wonders with a frown, before Sanji picks the girl up and carries her to the kitchen so she could eat as soon as she woke up, with Jacob grabbing a spare blanket from Nami's room.

At the same time, Maria woke up from her nap "What happened?" she asked sleepily as she watched her father go into the kitchen with the blanket.

"Luffy pulled in a girl who was unconscious on the water." Usopp explained as he came down from the crow's nest.

Maria blinked as she tilted her head "Is she a mermaid?"

Usopp laughed a little bit before shaking his head "Naw, she was in a boat. But, we might see mermaids one day you know?"

Maria's face lights up like a christmas tree at that "Really?!" she asked excitedly.

"We've already met some… bad examples of the fishman race, so hopefully the next underwater people we meet are nicer." Usopp said, taking a moment to think of how to put Arlong simply.

Maria nodded as she looked back towards the kitchen, getting up and walking towards it, seeing her dad placing the blanket on the girl as she was placed on a small cot in the room.

"Is she gonna be ok daddy?" Maria asked him as she walked closer.

He turned to her, smiling a bit "She will be sweetie, she just needs to warm up after being in the water for a while."

Maria nodded at that, thinking deeply, before smiling as an idea hit her "I can help warm her up daddy!" she says, already taking her halfway form, her flowers pulsing with a bright glow.

Jacob blinked as he looked at her "Wait, what are you…?" he trailed off as her flowers created a bright ball of orange energy which shot up, phasing through the roof, and reached the sky, and a second later, the sunlight intensified, as well as the inside of the room warming up.

Jacob slowly blinks as he turns to Maria, smiling proudly "Was that Sunny Day?"

She nodded, grinning.

He blinked again "Isn't that a TM move?" he asked, stunned.

She tilted her head to the side, blinking in confusion "Why?"

Jacob tried to find the right words the explain she just broke the laws of reality by learning a move she wasn't able to, before sighing and simply patting her on the head "Nothing sweetie, just very impressed and proud of you."

She smiled brightly at that before hugging him.

Meanwhile, the rest of the crew outside were confused "Hey, who used Sunny Day?" Usopp asked, confused.

Nami opened her jaw, a kneejerk reaction to blaming it on the most likely suspect, before a certain fact clicked in her head "Wait… none of our pokemon can naturally learn Sunny Day."

Jacob's head peeked out of the doorway as he listened to the conversation "Yeah… that was Maria, she somehow learned Sunny Day all on her own when she shouldn't be able to, don't ask me how, even I don't know."

Nami was struck speechless by that, honestly she expected reality breaking stuff from Luffy, not from an adorable little girl.

As for Jacob, when he turned back to look inside the room, he smiled as he saw Maria in her full Shaymin form, curled up on the girl's chest, trying to share some heat down to her without putting her full weight on her.

Hours later, Sanji had finished preparing a soup for their guest, who was just about waking up now.

The young girl groaned softly before blinking her eyes awake, seeing a wooden ceiling above her, and then feeling a weight on her chest, looking down to see, in her eyes, the most adorable hedgehog ever, which she couldn't help but cuddle as she whispered "So cute!"

"Thank you." Maria said happily as the girl suddenly stopped and looked down at her with wide eyes, since, that felt… strange.

"I know I can understand animals but that didn't feel like it normally does." she muttered in thought.

"Probably because Maria spoke normally." Jacob said, making the girl jump as she turned to him from where he was shoving a piece of steak into Luffy's mouth to shut him up in advance so he didn't mention anything about them being pirates in front of a confused kid.

He wanted the kid to regain her bearings before she was told that, because that way she might question the fact that there was a child already on board, and it wasn't against her will.

"Anyway, the little miss here is probably hungry right now after being out at sea for who knows how long, so let's all eat." Sanji said as he placed bowls of soup on the table, with Maria jumping off the girl's chest and taking her human form at the same time before sitting down next to her father.

The girl meanwhile, blinked as she realised that the cute little hedgehog had in fact been a girl a few years younger than her.

As she sat down, looking at the bowl of soup warily, she was once again surprised as Maria suddenly started talking to her "I'm Maria! What's your name?"

The girl blinked at the sudden greeting, before the question clicked in her head "My name's Apis."

"Well Apis, it's nice to meet you, I'm Jacob, you've already met Maria, the chef is Sanji, the only adult girl here is Nami." that one brought a small snort from said redhead "The one with green hair is Zoro, the long nosed one is Usopp, and the idiot with his mouth full here is Luffy." Jacob finished as he pointed at everyone, and true to his word, Luffy's mouth was full, with several slices of meat just sticking out past his lips.

Apis just stared at Luffy, bewildered for several moments, before she finally took a sip from her soup, her eyes widening as it hit her taste buds, before she started to almost greedily drink it down.

When Apis was done drinking down the soup, she let out a pleased sigh, before finally asking something that had been bothering her "Maria's younger than me right? What's she doing on a ship?"

"That would be because my daughter and I ended up shipwrecked and then were rescued by the crew here." Jacob explained simply.

Apis looked at everyone "A crew… this small?" she said with a small frown as she tried to understand what that meant, with everything slowly sliding into place "So, you're not Marines then… are you explorers?"

Luffy tried to mumble something past all the food in his mouth, but all that was heard was gibberish, though the shake of his head did answer her question.

"Not explorers… wait… you're not pirates, are you?" Apis asked, being obviously worried.

"We are, but, you could say we're not your typical kind of pirates either." Nami said, adding the last bit quickly when she saw Apis ready to bolt.

"What makes you different?" Apis asked, still on guard.

"Well, for one, normal pirates don't make it a habit of saving people in trouble." Sanji said with a smile as he picked up her empty bowl to wash it.

Apis looked at him for a moment before nodding slowly "That… makes sense. So… you guys just… hunt for treasure then or something?"

Luffy finally finished swallowing all of his food "That's right! And I'm going to find the greatest treasure ever! The One Piece!"

Apis looked at him with wide eyes for his statement, before shaking her head to regain her mental footing "So, I guess you guys are nice pirates… kinda."

"That's a simple way of summing it up yeah." Usopp agreed to the statement with a shrug.

"So, Apis, why were you out at sea?" Nami asked the girl who was finally calming down.

"Well… I was kind of escaping from the Marines." she admitted sheepishly.

Everyone blinked as they looked at her, before Zoro broke the silence "You don't hear that everyday."

"Yeah, well… their kind of… after something a friend of mine as." she answered vaguely.

"And that something would be?" Jacob asked with a raised eyebrow.

Apis fidgeted "Sorry, but… I don't know if I should tell you, it's kind of important."

"That's fair enough I suppose, but, I have to ask, where you trying to get somewhere with that small boat of yours?" Nami asked curiously.

Apis nodded "Yeah, I was trying to get back home."

"And where would home be?" Usopp asked.

"It's called Warship Island, because it's, well, shaped like a huge warship." she said with a shrug.

Everyone blinked at the description as Nami grabbed her map of the East Blue to try and find said island "Well… that's… odd." Jacob said after several moments of silence.

"Ah, there it is." Nami said suddenly as she pointed to an area near the Grand Line on her chart "Warship Island, and it's not too far from Loguetown, so I think we can make a detour."

Apis blinked once, twice, before smiling hopefully "You'll get me back home?"

"Sure! Sounds like it could be adventure too!" Luffy said with a grin.

"Thank you so much! I don't know how I can ever repay you!" she said as she bowed.

"Oh! You can play with me!" Maria said happily, being excited at the idea of a friend close to her age.

Apis blinked at that, before nodding with a smile "Ok."

Maria quickly ran out of the room, with Apis following after her as quick as she could, before the others looked between each other.

"We're going to encounter those marines soon aren't we?" Jacob asked.

"Knowing our luck, it's pretty likely." Sanji admitted with a sigh as he lit a cigarette for a quick smoke since no more kids were in the room.

"I say either tonight or tomorrow." Usopp said as he slouched onto the table.

"Might want to make sure the cannon is armed and ready then." Jacob suggested, with Usopp nodding and heading to check on the ship's sole weapon.

"I'll try and see if I have any maps of Warship Island itself, if not, well I know what I'm doing once we get there." Nami said with a small grin as she thought of her stack of papers in her room, which she shared with Maria because it was the only room with a bed.

Jacob had no issues with sleeping in a hammock with the other guys in the same room thankfully.

As the day rolled by, the crew continued to do what they normally did, this time having adjusted their course to head towards Warship Island and bringing Apis home.

Zoro mostly trained with Scyther since he was fully awake now, Luffy just continued to goof off, though Riolu kept hitting him in the back of the head whenever he was hatching up a crazy and or stupid plan, Sanji was working on a few new recipes while Combusken kept him focused on actually handling that and not trying to woo Nami, Usopp stayed up on the crow's nest, acting as lookout with Spinarak trying to help him with ideas for new tools, and Nami was mostly looking for any maps she may have on their destination with Meowth's help, eventually finding an old one that dated back to a few decades. As for Maria, she ended up playing different games with Apis, all come up with one the fly, while Jacob mostly cleaned Milotic's scales as it was his turn for the day to do so since the water type couldn't handle all of them.

Though they obviously stopped in the middle of the night, weighing anchor and waiting for morning to keep going.

And it was after the early morning fog had lifted that they had their first sign of them being close.

"That's… definitely a Marine ship in the distance." Jacob muttered as he looked through the spyglass from up on the crow's nest.

"So… what should we do then?" Sanji asked after Jacob relayed the information then.

"We kick their butts." Luffy said simply before Riolu slapped him upside the head, making his head shake like a bobble head "We go around them?" he rectified with a raised eyebrow, with Riolu nodding.

"Not the easiest thing to do with how many of them are present." Nami said with a frown as she looked out over the ocean, being glad that the marines hadn't seem to spot them yet.

"It's them, the Marines I escaped from." Apis pointed out when she saw the large 8 on one of the sails.

"Even more reason to get the hell out of dodge then." Zoro muttered.

Maria blinked as she looked at the ships, before turning to Apis "Their bad guys?" she asked with a tilt of her head.

Apis opened her mouth to answer… before realising said answer wasn't so straightforward.

She had to take a moment to think it out "Kind of? Marines are usually the good guys… and pirates are usually the bad guys, but, I guess sometimes it's different."

"Like seeing the world in shades of gray." Sanji added with a nod.

Maria blinked before looking around everywhere "But… I don't see any gray here?"

"It's a figure of speech." Usopp answered her, making the young girl just blink again.

Any further conversation was cut off as cannon fire sounded, the waters around the Going Merry exploding in a shower of spray, and making the ship rock back and forth from the sudden waves.

"Attention pirate vessel! Stop your ship immediately! You've had your warning shot, the next won't miss!" they heard a voice call out from the Marine ship, most likely it's commanding officer using a megaphone of some kind.

"Like hell we're gonna stop." Jacob muttered as he glided down onto the deck in halfway form before going back to normal.

"I guess we're fighting them then." Zoro said with a grin.

"Looks like it!" Luffy agreed with a laugh.

"H-hey hold it! Why do you two always do this? Do you actually think you can take on a whole fleet?!" Usopp shouted at them while panicking.

Meanwhile, Apis and Maria were recovering from the suddenness of the attack, though Maria wouldn't let go of her father as soon as he touched down.

As Usopp continued to argue with Zoro and Luffy about whether or not fighting back was the best idea, with their pokemon having a similar discussion, Apis looked to a group of seagulls that had landed on the ship's railing.

"There's a wind coming…" she muttered, catching a few of the other's attention "A BIG wind." she added, somewhat louder.

Nami looked up for a moment, her eyes widening slightly, before turning to the crew "Zoro! Turn the sails south! Usopp, Sanji, turn us hard to starboard!" her orders were met with a confused silence "NOW!" she added, her statement punctuated by Meowth hissing at the designated members, getting them into action.

"Something wrong?" Jacob asked while Luffy looked at Nami confused.

"There's a squall coming, we'll catch it, and use it to escape. There's too many of them for us to take on, especially not with two kids on board." Nami explained, before turning to Apis with a quizzical glance, wondering just how she knew of the incoming wind.

Moments later, the wind shifted, catching in the sails and jostling the crew on the ship as they suddenly picked up speed and sailed onwards south.

"Alright! We're losing them!" Usopp cheered.

"We're going super fast too!" Luffy added with a laugh as he looked out over the water.

Minutes later, as most of the crew were celebrating their escape, Zoro and Jacob were looking around in confusion.

"I'm not the only one who's noticing something wrong with this picture… right?" Zoro asked.

"No… I see it too." Jacob responded with a frown.

"What's wrong you two?" Nami asked as she noticed their serious looks.

"Well… the ship stopped moving." Zoro pointed out.

"And there isn't any wind at all." Jacob added.

Nami blinked as she looked around, realising they were right.

It took several moments for her to realise what that meant.

And her scream of horror brought the others out of their celebration.

"What's wrong?" Luffy asked with a confused frown.

"This is bad…" Nami muttered as she gripped the railing tightly "We're in the Calm Belt!"

"What's that?" Usopp asked, confused.

"A stretch of sea that is completely calm waters, and we NEED, to get out of here!" Nami stressed, spying Jacob going to get something below deck, having quickly understood what the situation meant.

"I don't see the problem, I mean, the water's peaceful right? Why should we go somewhere else?" Luffy asked with a confused pout.

"Maybe because there isn't any wind either?" Sanji ventured a guess, earning a nod from Nami and making him rush below deck to help Jacob get the paddles.

"So… are we in the Grand Line then? It's a weird ocean right?" Luffy muttered, completely confused.

Nami groaned "No, no we are not in the Grand Line. We're in one of the two strips of ocean surrounding the Grand Line known as the Calm Belt, where absolutely no wind or waves are present… but that's not even the worse part about it."

"What's the worst part?" Zoro asked, with Nami's answer being cut off as the ship suddenly lurched to one side and then back, seemingly rising up.

"Hey! What's going on?!" Jacob asked as him and Sanji came back above deck, staring around as several forms rose out of the water.

"They're here." Nami muttered fearfully as she stared up and around, pulling Apis and Maria close to her, the two younger girls looking around worried.

Surrounding the ship, and with one below them, where several HUGE Sea Kings.

Jacob eyed all the huge beasts, and only had one thing to say.

"This is bad."

Yep, cliffhanger.

And we're starting the story off with the Warship Island arc, BEFORE the crew reaches Loguetown.

Because that makes more sense to me honestly, since they're supposed to head up Reverse Mountain right after leaving Loguetown.

Also, yes, Maria literally hacks life and learns stuff she shouldn't be able to yet, because she's just so adorable and naive she doesn't know that she can't learn that XD

Thing to point out, obviously Maria is going to be like the little sister of the crew, especially with Nami due to being the only other female prescense on board... for now.