CHEDDAR: hey you guys! i hope you like this next chappie! it will make you go "WHOA!" it has many twists and turns hope you enjoy!R&R 4 PETES SAKE PPL!

Chapter 4

As both men and Mia sat on the bed she took up her story again.

"Where was I…? Oh yes I remember," Mia smiled. "Soon after my parents found out about my powers, I started twisting all the spoons and silver in the house. So we decided to move and go on a long ocean voyage. While we were there, there were lots of other people. I don't remember the name of the boat but what sticks to my mind the most about the ship was a boy. He was my age, maybe a little bit older, he was a kitchen boy. He and I became fast friends on that voyage and he gave me something to remember him by." Mia said as she pulled out from her pocket a small ring made out of the handle of a spoon.

The spoon handle had two small flowers on it and at the tip a small dove. Mia tossed the ring to Sanji and Usopp for them to look at.

"The little boy was so sweet to me and we promised that we'd find each other again after this and be together always…" Mia stopped. "But that night we were attacked by pirates. My mother not wanting me to be killed took me and put me in a barrel and told me to stay in there until she came for me. There was a small peep hole in it so I watched as the pirates took all the gold money and gems every one had. As I watched the boy ran at the captain with his kitchen knives and they yelled at each other for a bit until a huge wave came and swept the boy overboard. The pirate captain went after him and the next thing I knew was that I was in the arms of some fisherman.

"I asked him about where my parents were and he asked if I'd been on a ship earlier and I told him yes. I was informed that no one had survived." Mia paused and sighed.

"I was devastated for my parents and the little boy. I had no family so I went to the only place that I knew I'd fit in, a blacksmiths shop, the man who owned it in the small town was Josef. I went to him and he took me in with kindness and taught me to make all these weapons." Mia said as she pointed around the room. Sanji and Usopp gasped.

"WOW! You made all these?" Usopp asked. Mia smiled and nodded. "Cool!" Sanji awed.

"The sword on the door…" Mia said as she got up and went over to it. She took it down off the door and brought it back to her bed with the men. She laid it down gently. "This took me three years to make and complete it. Two and a half for perfecting the hilt, and a half a year to make the blade.

"Yes it took time but here's the interesting part, I was working on it the last year when a man came in demanding that I give him all my weapons. I was at the smiths by my self, because Josef was over in the next town getting some gems for me to decorate the next sword I had to make for a noble. So I had to defend the place by my self. Well as the man advanced someone else came on and took him down destroying the smiths shop along with him." Mia scowled.

"When the man who wanted my weapons was dead the other man sheathed his swords and turned to me. 'Sorry about the mess.' He said to me, I asked him who he was and he told me he was Roronoa Zolo the pirate hunter." Mia paused and scowled again. "So Zolo left me and I went over to see the man he'd killed and as I looked at the corpse I realized that it was my uncle. My last remaining relative was now dead. I truly was alone so I swore that I'd finish the sword and its hilt and I'd kill Zolo with it and I tracked him down and here I am." She finished.

Both men sat at the foot of the bed staring as if everything in their life was bad, their ship mate had KILLED her last family member.

"No wonder you want to kill him…" Usopp breathed. Mia smiled at the liar.

"Ah… I get to wait some more but its okay…"

"Thanks for the story Mia" Usopp said as he yawned and got up. "I think I'll turn in now… G'night."

"Good night Usopp." Mia smiled as he left. Sanji who had been silent this entire time was fiddling with her ring finally spoke.

"I was waiting for the buffoon to leave…" he told Mia. She looked at him confused.

"Why Sanji?" she asked. He looked at the ring before looking up at her. He held it up.

"Because your story… the little boy … was me."

i commit this chappie to my friend Randi for she gave me the idea of the ring and she let me borrow hers so i could write about it. bows

thank you Randi