Cheddar: HOWDY Ya'll! okay! time for chappie 3 to come to ya!

Chapter 3

Zolo stared bewildered at her.

"What!" he shouted "Why?" Mia glared at him.

"You killed my last living relative and for that you will die!" she screamed and she charged at him. He took out his swords and blocked her.

"Well too bad, you'll have to wait until I become the world's best swordsmen to kill me because I refuse to die before then or be beaten." Mia glared at him again and backed off.

"Fine." she snapped "I'll wait but how long will this take?" she asked him angrily. Zolo thought for a moment.

"I'm not sure but it'll take a while…" he stopped as he remembered when "hawk eye" Mihawk beat him terribly. Mia growled

"Very well… I'll follow you 'till the ends of the earth just to wait so I may kill you…"She said and then she turned on her heel and headed over towards a little ship that was docked in the harbor. Sanji raced over to his captain.

"Luffy! If she's going to follow us she might as welcome and stay with us on our ship! It'd be good to have another lady on our ship!" he said as he let his heart take over. Luffy smiled.

"I don't see the harm in letting her come!" he laughed. "Mia! Want to join my crew?" he asked as he laughed.

"For the time I guess…"she said as she turned. "I'll quit so that I can kill him and you can come after me after I've killed him I won't care because my mission will be complete, and the closer eye I have on Zolo the faster I'll kill him." She turned back around and faced the wanna-be swordsmen master and grinned.

"Well we still have to go shopping in this town…" Nami said trying to wrap things up. Mia smiled.

"Okay!" she laughed "I'll go and get my stuff!" she turned and went to her tiny vessel as the straw hats went towards the small village she'd just left.

Fifteen minuets later she clamored onboard the Merry Go carrying a very large brown sack. She dragged this while Sanji showed her where to go. Her room was right next to the kitchen and Nami's. As she got there she let the end go and weapons of all sorts came tumbling out. Sanji looked down and saw maces, swords, daggers, axes, scythes, and much more. His eyes widened.

"Mia!" he said softly. "I knew you were bent on killing moss head but I didn't know you wanted to THAT bad!" he laughed. Mia scooped them all up and put them back in.

"…anyways thanks Sanji for showing me my room!" she said happily. She opened the door and walked into the wooden room that was now hers.

Sunlight fluttered in lightly through a small port window. She opened her sack and the weapons all fell out again. She looked around and took out an ax and took it over to the wall with the window and set it on the ground. She did this with all of her weapons, placing them in various spots of the room. Then she made her own metal clasps, she'd put her weapons in them and close them off so no one else could use them but her. She did this for the safety of her self and others.

After three hours of hard labor she was done. She looked around proud of her work. Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Zolo stepped in.

"Whoa!" he said as he marveled at her collection. "Did you buy these?" he asked her. She scoffed.

"Me buy these? Me the metal morpher BUY weapons?" she pointed out. Zolo raised his eyebrows as he understood. "Yeah I made them. Each and every one of them but only ONE I have bent on killing you." She told him.

He looked at the walls as Mia walked past him. Any one of these could be the last thing to run through his body. He looked at the axes and how their tips sparkled with the setting sun. He looked at some of the swords some katanas some were double bladed.

"No Zolo I'm not going to kill you with those… I'm going to kill you with this." Mia said from behind him, he turned slowly and he saw her shut the door and he saw there hung a long sword. The detail in the sword was spectacular the hilt had on it two dragons circling their wings making up the hilt. One pair of eyes sparkled with rubies the other with emeralds. At the bottom of the sword was a rather large diamond.

"It's my best. I worked on it for three years perfecting its every detail." Mia smiled.

"Well –uh—it's time for dinner." He said as he looked around some more. Mia opened the door and walked out. Zolo trailed behind her. He whispered to himself as he shut the door.

"Wow…"

After the large dinner Mia went out onto the top deck and looked out at the starry sky she smiled dreamily and went back down to her room she grabbed a large sheet of canvas paper that she had and an easel. She took them back out to the upper deck. As she was walking down the hall she passed Usopp, he looked at her puzzled as she passed him. He turned and followed her out. She set everything up and began to put the paint in the paint holder. She took out her brush and started to paint. Usopp leaned on the railing and watched her, he looked carefully at her work as she painted and he realized that the stars she'd painted were actually sparkling. Usopp gaped.

"How did you---?" he asked her as he broke the silence.

"Metal shavings work wonders when one paints." Mia told him. She turned and faced the teller of tall tales.

"Well! That's really cool could you teach me?" he asked. Mia nodded.

"Sure!" she got up from her spot and took off her art and put a blank sheet up for him. Usopp came over to her and took the brush from her and he began to paint a picture of Kaya sitting in a field full of flowers in the spring time.

"Here now use these metal shavings for the sun streaks." Mia said as she sprinkled tiny flecks of metal on the tip of the brush. He spread it lightly and was amazed by the effect.

"Wow!" Usopp said as he looked at his finished product. "Thanks so much Mia!" he smiled. Mia smiled back at him.

"No biggie!" she told him. "But who is that? She's really pretty."

"She's a dear friend of mine back at my village that I lived in before I joined Luffy's crew." He smiled as he remembered when he still lived there.

"I see you must've really been good friends." Mia smiled.

"Yeah… I miss her so much and painting her makes me happy." He said as he turned and looked out at the sea.

"Mia!" a voice called out.

"I'm up here!" she called back. Sanji rushed up the stairs.

"Oh my lovely it's great to see you!" he said happily. Mia giggled.

"You too Sanji!" she laughed.

"What about you Mia? What was your past like?" Usopp asked trying to resume their conversation.

"Oh! Well let's see here now this was a long time ago but I guess I should start from the beginning. When I was five I was visiting an old friend of my parents. I had run off to hide for I was playing hide and seek. So I ran into the woods nearby. There was a hedge in there so I crawled through and I heard two men talking about a "big find" they'd found. They left for a moment to go and find a deer to kill for lunch, and that's when I realized how hungry I was too. So I crawled fully out of the hedge and saw a huge silver pineapple looking fruit and I was hungry so I ate it.

"The men came back after I'd crawled back through the hedge. The men started yelling and it frightened me so I ran back to the house. When I got back it was terrible, I told my mom what had happened and she started to cry and yell at me at the same time. I didn't understand what was going on but I knew that I'd done something wrong-"Mia paused. Sanji and Usopp were staring at her intently.

"Hey! Maybe we should go to my room so I can finish. It's getting cold out here." Mia said as she rubbed her arms.

"Yeah!" both men agreed and they all went down into her room.