Chapter Six: Ship

Really who knew that I would be this chipper after losing everyone I have ever known? Well there is my elder brother, his out there somewhere…

"Mis…Flora shell we leave this island?" I turn with a giggle to Ping and lift him up, his gotten used to me hugging him, and the reason as to why we haven't lift this tiny island yet is the fact that I had managed to brake one okay a few of my bones and Ping told me that we had to set them right. I think I should get a doctor to join my newly formed crew.

"Yes Ping, I think we shell leave."

"Where do you want to go?"

"Find a place the builds ships." Ping thought it over before without blinking or moving he did something that made me feel like I had just lost all connections with everything that I have ever known. My knees buckled under me when they landed on land again Ping lost from my grip as I dry heave. Ping just stood to the side watching me and I gave him a dirty look. "You could have warned me."

"I did say that miss…Floras bones needed to be healed before we could leave." I gave him a look as he seemed smugly happy, damn he got me.

"OI, ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?" We both looked up at the sound of where the voice came from and saw a male a little bit older them me run down towards me, he only spared a glance at Ping before helping me up. I looked up at him and stared, what's with that nose?

"You have a really long nose." He stared at me before he glanced around and his eyes rested fully n Ping.

"OH MY GOD IT'S A MONSTER!" He stared shacking badly and he pulled out a sling shot, I slapped him over the head.

"Don't talk about Ping like that, he said sorry while still shacking and staring at Ping. I took in the males beaten up form and laughed a tiny bit. "Looks like you've been in a fight, names Flora."

"I'm Great Captain Usopp." He said standing up and pointing his thumb at his chest in a very proud way, it's destroyed by the shacking of his knees.

"…" I glanced at Usopp then turned around and headed towards the city.

"WA, WAIT!"

I turn a bored gaze towards the male who shuffled a bit on his feet before sighing and letting it go, I knew this anywhere and I grinned, the lonely bugger.

"Would you like to join me pirate crew?" His head snapped up and stared at me mouth hanging to the ground, when he didn't say anything I went on. "Usopp would you like to join my pirate crew?"

"…" He shook his head at me clearly a no, I shrugged my shoulders and turned around.

"Want to join me for lunch?" He was about to shack his head again when his stomach complained loudly, I snickered as his face flushed a deep red and he ran after me. "So captain Usopp, do you know where I am?"

"You are in Water 7."

"Oh think I could get a ship here?"

"Yeah, this place builds really great ships and…" I nodded my head and I opened up a door to s place the smells really good, I ignored the person that wanted to show me where to sit but grabbed Usopp's arm and dragged him to an empty table. The male that I ignored glared at us but didn't say anything, he gave us the menus but I handed them back without looking at them.

"One of everything and we both would like a glass of juice." I said they both look at me like I'm crazy before he writes it down then goes off.

"I can't eat all that!" Usopp say, I glance at him this time like his the one that's crazy.

"What are you talking about? I'm eating all that and you get to grab whatever you want out of everything." He nods his head understanding then looks at Ping.

"Does he have a big appetite?" I laugh and shack my head giving Ping a bit of bread.

"Nah, he only eats a little."

"Then…"

"All D's have huge appetites." I say with a wave of a hand as the first lot of dishes up, Usopp grabs something and I set soup aside for Ping then I inhale everything, as we waited for more food to show up we made small talk, Usopp told me about his life but mostly about Kaya. "You going to marry her?"

"WH?" He turns red and shacks his head and I laugh again.

"Okay, I'll make a deal with you, once you get back to this girl of yours you're going to ask her to marry her then you came invite me to the wedding and I'll give you both the best wedding gift you can ever have." He still refused but I kept it up until he finally caved in. "Good, just scream out Pings name and we'll find you, don't forget Ping doesn't like promises being broken so if you do find your Kaya and don't ask her to marry you in three months Ping will find you and kill you in cold blood."

Ping looked like he was about to say something but I winked at him and he kept his mouth shut, Usopp meanwhile was shacking so bad that the juice in his glass was jumping out of it onto the table, I laughed and soon we forgot about it was more food showed up, I licked the last plate and sat it on the sack next to the others as I patted my belly looking at the two of them in amusement before I grabbed Pings hand.

"Ping let's get out of here and don't forget Usopp." Ping grabbed onto the stunned pirate and we were in nothing again before crashing to the ground where Usopp found me before, this tip only got my onto my knees and Usopp was dry heaving. Once we both got our bearings back I got up moving back towards the city. "See ya around Great Warrior Usopp king of the Snipers."

"…" He didn't say anything as he sat there catching his breath, Ping totted up to me and we both walked into the city. It's amazing, water everywhere and it's just mind blowing.

"BEAUTIFUL LADY!" A scream came out of nowhere and a blond hair man kneeled in front of me saying things that I didn't care much about, I'm thankful when a talking reindeer pulled the blond away from me. I ignored them and went back to my musing and then I found a green haired male running about swearing that the building where moving. I followed the man around and laughed, he ended up in the same spot every time he and he managed to take a different path back.

"Lost?" He jumped around and glared at me, making me smirk at him. "Why not go the opposite way then what your going?"

"…" He glared at me but listed to what I said, I waited and he came back to where I was standing making me laugh hard.

"Well, I can't help you." I said with a wave passing by two kids shacking my head I wonder around until I end up in a junkyard, I watch as a group hammer away at wood or mold the wood into different shapes, it was cool. I sat down where I was watching them. They didn't notice me at all as they sawed away at the wood or hammered it into place. All of them too focused
in their jobs, I would take a wild guess and say that they are building a ship, but why here? Must have something to do with the blue haired male…it got dark but yet the two blue haired males worked away. "Ping, can you get me something to eat?"

He doesn't ask anything just walks off; I grin at this, no poofing off but walking, guess he got bored. I stand up and stretched my arms over my head and walk over to the blue prints on a…table? Next to the sleep three, I glance them over and I couldn't help the grin that formed over my face at what I was seeing.

"OI!" I look up to where the shout came from and saw the blue haired male looking down at me. "What they hell are you doing down here?"

"Looking." I reply back lifting up the blue prints and looking at the one under it…why a fish tank? I look up at the two watching me and I smirk. "Can I help?"

They are both taken back by this and I chuckle.

"Please…"

"No." I blink at the flat out rejection, I sigh.

"PING GET HERE!" Ping poofs up right away next to me I pick him and onto my hip. "Take me to Volant Island right now."

When my feet hit the ground I glance around, my home island isn't the same as I remember; the whole place is bare, covered in black ash. I look up and grin when I find that everything on the volcano has been left untouched. With a whoop I race towards it, I did this every day for fourteen years; I reach the top and shout out in glee at my untouched work shop. I dash inside and grin at the left over bits of glass I look over at Ping that's struggling to breath at me door.

"Ping go get their blue prints." He sighs but does as his told, he comes back a few second later holding the blue prints. I laugh as I grab them reading them over then start working with my glass slowly building the pipes and other stuff. I glance at one of the designed weapons and with a quick wrist and a pencil; I change a few things that make it more stable when it is finally built.

"Miss why are we helping them?"

"Cause I don't have money to buy a ship, so I'm hoping that they will build one for me for free." I say welding two corners together, by the end of the day I have a pile of glass pipes, I even built that stupid fish tank for them. "Ping, take us back, along with all of this."

We land back where the blue print where taken, and I'm happy that this glass is nearly indestructible otherwise it would have shattered. Everyone had been yelling about missing blue prints but when their eyes landed on the blue prints in my hands they shut up, I held them up and stared at them before I smirked.

"If you want these back then use there and build me a small ship for free." I say, the blue haired males walked up to my glass items and looked them over with a professional eye.

"Did you make these?"

"Yep!" Next thing I knew the speedo wearing blue haired male swung his fist around at the fish tank, everyone froze as they watched the huge fist make contact with the glass. I roll my eyes and walk over to him, hitting him over the head. "Jeez you could have broken your arm doing something like that."

I give the blue print over and stare at my fish tank, and sigh.

"Look you got it dirty!" I point at the smear mark and sigh.

"What is this stuff?"

"Heh, not telling." I sing song out. "I made all the pipes and other stuff too."

"Why didn't it break?"

"Are you a devil fruit user?"

"What are you wearing put some clothes on!"

"Do we have a deal?" I ask looking at the speed wearing man, he watched me.

"If I make a deal with you, I get these?" He asks pointing at my stuff, I nod my head.

"But you have to build me a small boat."

"Why not build it yourself?"

"I'm not good with wood."

"If I agree how would one look after it?"

"Just wash it down with a cloth every few months."

"What happens if it breaks?"

"Call me."

"…huh?"

"Well not me but yell out Ping's name." We stare at each other before his large hand grabs mine and we shack hands I let the shit eating grin spread across my face and I jump up and hug him.

"Yay, thank you!" Meanwhile, the other blue haired male was staring at the glass in mild shock.

"Where did you get this?" I look at him and hug him to before pointing at them.

"My home island." I say with a huge grin, he glances at me, I notice that he took note of my swords and other visible weapons. I hand over one of my bullets to let him have a closer look at it. "You can keep it."

"…" I grin and grab it from his hand pitting a small hole in it and thread a chain in it before looping it around his neck.

"A good luck charm."

While they built the ship I helped them weld the glass throughout the ship of where it goes, using my own tools, the only thing that will work on the glass. And while that's going on Franky is building my small ship from the stuff that doesn't get used. Both ships take a while but the aftermath is breath taking. I stare at my figure head with a tilted head then at the other ships then back at mine.

"You like it?" Franky asked coming up behind me, I didn't jump but stared, he knew I was comparing the ships, kind of hard not to when they were both next to each other and done by the same maker. I let him shuffle on his feet for a moment then…

"Why does my ship have a queen for a figure-head?" Franky laughs.

"Well, I guess, it's more to do with my mood, because that ship over there is made for a king…I just went along with the feeling and because we were using the same wood for them both I thought that it shouldn't have anything less. So a queen…"

"I love it." I say hugging him before running over to the others and hugging them as a thank you, and then I return to my ship and frown at it. "It needs a name, help my name it."

"Huh…"

"Franky, help me choice a name, you're the one that put the thought into it so you should help the captain choice the name!" We debated over names but none of them stuck out that is until Ice-Berg gave us a name.

"The Jewel."

"That's stupid." "I love it!" Both Franky and I said at the same time, we glared at each other before I declared for all to hear.

"I name this wonder ship the Blue Jewel."

"Why add the blue?" I smirk at Franky.

"In honours of her creators." With that I walked towards the Blue Jewel and step up Ping follows after me. "Set sail."

Ping stared at me blankly and I stared back we both didn't move before I looked down at Franky.

"How do you work a ship?" Their jaws drop while I laugh at them rubbing the back of my head. The next four hours they thought me how to run a ship and even handed me a few books about sailing a ship. With that done this time when I said set sail both Ping and I knew what to do and we sailed away, I'm glared that they filled up our stock for us.

"Where are we off to captain?" I grin at the title and look up at my flag, a glass skull with twin swords before I turned to Ping.

"I have no idea!"