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[ForgottenBushido]

....and then suddenly.(har har)

"VWERWERWERWERWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER"

The Barracuda began to shake as if it had come alive. The engines began to spin, as well as several lights on the deck began to light up one by one.

Julien had been below throwing wrenches and tools around in frustration as he had been trying to fix the ship.

"What the hell do I know about airships?!" he said as he continued to tinker with the various parts of the crystal core.

He tried desperately to recall some of what he had read in the book he found. "What about this?"

Julien flipped a few switches and tightened a few bolts as if he knew what he was doing all along. But nothing happened.

In frustration he punched the cylinder valve and with a crack it began to operate! It let off a blast of steam, Julien jumped back quickly waving his hands around in front of his face, shouting, "HOT HOT HOT! OH MY DEAR GOD, I AM GOING TO DIE!"

He finally settled down and rested on a chair in the corner.

-Sigh..-

The crystal core began to glow brilliantly, as the engine hummed along with it.

Edited by ForgottenBushido, 16 December 2011 - 11:00 PM.

[Yoko]

"Oh, fuck me..." Skadi groaned and rose out of the makeshift bed she'd found and glares at a wall. Whatever that noise was, it had woken her up. The enchanted gem the elf gave her had helped quite a bit, but she still needed sleep. Unfortunately, she probably wouldn't be getting it now.

With a sigh that blows some of the long locks of auburn hair out of her eyes, she fastens her leather armor back on, slings the belts around her hips, and heads down the hallway and heads down to the engine room. She realizes just before she get there that her hair had come out of her ponytail and decides it wasn't really worth looking for at this point.

Poking her head into the room she blinks at Julien. "... Kid, what just happened?"

[ForgottenBushido]

Julien sat leaning back in his chair still resting, his feet kicked up on the table next to him.

He looked up to notice Skadi, and with a smug look on his face he replied, "Ah, nothin'..Just fixed the ship is all..."

Then shrugged and pointed at the gizmo, wrench in hand.

"Whatever, no big deal..."

Edited by ForgottenBushido, 17 December 2011 - 12:19 AM.

[Yoko]

Skadi rolls her eyes, taking a few steps into the room. "And since when did you become such an expert on lost tech, Julien?" She looks around the room, walls and controls bathed in the pulsing light of the crystals. With a sigh, she finds a bare spot along the wall and leans against it.

"So what happens when we get to the city?"

[ForgottenBushido]

Julien laughed at her comments about his mechanical skills.

"I'm not sure really. Seeing Katherine back at the fortress worries me though."

He shook his head.

"It doesn't matter really. The sooner we get there the better."

[Yoko]

"Kathrine... Oh, right." They really shouldn't have left her alive, all things considered. "The Knight-Captain with shiny armor."

Skadi was no killer, or at least that's what she liked to think. She left people alive if she had to, but if it were her choice, she would have taken a blade to the woman's neck.

"You sure it was wise not to kill her, kid?"

[ForgottenBushido]

"Seeing her there, makes me think Amelia isn't far behind."

Julien sighed and sat forward in his chair.

"Killing Katherine would not have sat well on my mind, we've got too much history."

"And it's not like she tried to kill me exactly." he said with a smirk.

He then got up and walked towards Skadi and looked her sternly in the eyes.

"We need to get going, I'm sure the King has already sent the fleet out to look for us."

Julien place his hand on her shoulder.

"I am now the captain of this vessel. And you're my first mate. Rouse the crew, let's be on our way."

He turned and trotted off trying to be Captainly.

Edited by ForgottenBushido, 17 December 2011 - 01:57 AM.

[TheBerserkMoogle]

"... Why's he walking like a bum-screwed weasel?"

[shadow_Uzumaki]

He groaned as he got up to his feet and looked towards Julien. "Hrm...." he mumbled to himself as he passed their esteemed leader, patting him on the shoulder as he walked. "Well, good thing you got this hunk of scrap movin'. I'm going to find myself a place to sleep. Something more comfortable than the wooden deck. Wake me up if you need something." He continued walking and went into the first room that was open and just fell down to the makeshift bed and started snoring again.

[BlackLightning]

Ryuuji is standing on the deck of a ship along with ten other men on board, all of them are mercenaries and bounty hunters when he saw the ship floating on the ocean. His brow raised as he took in the details of the target as he thinks to himself, 'I might not know much about ships... but does ships have propeller positioned like that?' his question immediately answered when the target ship start to take off into the air, 'an Airship? You kidding me? I thought they are supposed to be outlawed.'

Strings of curses immediately escaped his lips as he rush into action through his transport. Afterall, he doesn't have to be a genius to know that once the ship airborne, there is no catching up to them and by the look of the busy activities in the transport, he is not the only one to come to the conclusion. He cursed once again as the ship start to leave the water and realize that they are running out of time to catch up when he saw a hook cannon at the head of the ship.

Going into action, Ryuuji called up several men to steady the cannon as he takes aim toward the airship. Without hesitation, he fired the cannon and sighs in relief as the hook manage to reach the airship's side, effectively anchoring it. He looks up to the airship and thinks, 'Well, its still a bit far but dragoons should be able to reach it easy enough....' Without waiting any longer, he crouch slightly before kicking off and leap toward the airship followed closely by the other dragoons on the ship for preemptive strike

[TheBerserkMoogle]

"Uh... Why are we stopping?" Ragnarok asked as they came to na abrupt halt.

[Miss Soupy]

She was hunting, her feet were perfectly silent against the leafy ground. Sunlight filtered down in patches; the tree cover shaded most of this part of the woods. An owl screeched somewhere off in the distance, and she looked up to the canopy to try and locate the source of the sound. Suddenly, she felt the presence of another, and looked ahead to see her mother. Her back was turned and she walked away without making a sound, forcing Twill to hurry to catch up. The woods were becoming darker as they went on, and she considered calling out to her mother to stop her. She never got the chance; her mothers back disappeared into the foliage without a sound.

“Wait!” she called, ditching all effort to tread silently to sprint to the spot her mother had just been. Bushes appeared before her and she flung herself through them. She was in an opening in the woods. Cautiously she walked into the clearing, searching desperately for the figure she would recognize. Where had she gone? Why had she left without a word?

A thick stench hit her nose, and she recoiled. Stumbling back, her feet crunched noisily against the ground and she nearly tripped. Hand flying to her face, she covered her nose and looked around, her heart thumping loudly in her chest.

She froze in fear, her eyes falling upon the bodies strewn about the grass. Crimson stained green, tattered clothing littered the ground, bodies lay oozing with no one to claim them.

Horrified, fighting the urge to vomit or black out or shoot helplessly at the dead remains, she looked towards the tree-line hoping, praying, someone would be there.

“Mother!” she screamed. She had been right there. She would come, find her, wrap her up in her arms like she did when she was small.

Laughter rose up from the corpses, a cackling chorus that engulfed her hearing and left her feeling only despair.

She clamped her hands over her ears and screamed, “Stop! Stop it!”

Something solid clamped itself around her leg, and she looked down. A skeleton arm draped with a familiar jacket, up to a bloodied face, into a frightened, hopeless pair of green eyes.

“Don’t forget me,” he said.

The tears streamed down her face, choking her, blinding her, and then she screamed and screamed and…


She bolted up, inhaling as if she hadn’t breathed for hours. Her throat felt raw, and she faintly wondered if she had actually screamed or if she was just thirsty. There was a stinging feeling at her fingers, and she looked to see Noctua sitting by her hand.

“You wouldn’t wake,” he told her, and she saw her pointer finger looked red and raw. He must have bit it to try and rouse her.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Zerva was still fast asleep trying to forget things from his past but they seemed to haunt his dreams thats the one place he couldnt escape them.

He dreamed about his family and friends who completely abandoned him for leaving the army when his sister died.

"Like you guys understand how it feels to see someone you care about deeply die right in front of your eyes!" Zerva yelled at his friends and family.

Grabbing the picture of his sister he looked at it, "You were the only one who ever understood me." He said pocketing the photo. Zerva seemed to be having that dream a lot more frequently than he use to.

He rubbed his eyes looking around he didn't see anyone else on deck, he took this as a chance to get more rest as he laid back down to sleep with the picture of his sister in his hand still.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

Meanwhile, Balian snorted and muttered, absently scratching his ass under all that armor in his sleep...somehow. He chuckled in his sleep as he muttered, "Hehehehe, ponies....Silly Pinkie Pie, cupcakes aren't for dinner...mrhgmh....." However, as he felt the ship lurch to a halt as the cannon hook smashed onto the deck, he was jostled out of his sleep, falling to the floor and crying out "PARTY CANNON! Huh?" He scratched his slightly bruised head as he got up and walked out onto the deck, unaware he left his Kain inside the room. "Huh....We're under attack." He looked up, seeing the other dragoons in the air in his barely awake state.

As the dragoons got closer to him, Balian's face gradually turned to a surprised look as he processed what was happening. "We're f_ing under attack!" He narrowly missed one as he jumped back, kicking the dragoon's lance, snapping it. "Waaayy too much power on that Jump, kiddo." The dragoon had time for an "Oh crap," before his face was introduced to Balian's new Ebony boots.

He dodged another Jump attack as he reached for his back only to grasp air as he blinked. "Great...my lance is inside that room...." He narrowly dodged another spear thrust, chestpiece sparking as the spear's edge scratched the edge of his armor.

Edited by shadow_Uzumaki, 17 December 2011 - 07:25 AM.

[BlackLightning]

Ryuuji saw from the edge of his vision when one of the dragoon who had attempted to outrace him to the bounty was kicked on the face and inwardly winced, 'An Ebony boots to the face... that gonna sting like crazy.' when he saw the man's face though, a smirk rose from his face as he recognize the man, 'Jackpot....'

without waiting to land, Ryuuji draws his great sword from its scabbard on his back revealing a violet great sword with jagged edge. As he descended, he brought the sword down toward the man and he smirked, 'Lightning Edge'. It is with good reason he picked that particular form out of the others, metal conducts electricity, simple enough. He knows the sword won't be able to break it but the electricity should serve to numb the opposing party just well enough.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

As he backed away from the offending thruster, he felt something hit his shoulder, "What are ya-" were all he could said before electricity coursed through his body. "Argh!" He yelled out as he fell down, shaking and tensing up from the electric shock. He kept flinching randomly as he struggled to move.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Hearing Balian scream woke Zerva out of his sleep, rubbing his eyes he looked around noticing a lone man standing over his Boss.

Standing up he pulled his scythe up to his side as well. "Yo, who the hell might you be?" The young elven hume asked angrily.

As he walked towards the man he noticed the sword he wielded had electricity coursing through it.

Stopping about 15 feet in front of the stranger Zerva got into a defensive stance.

"You going to answer me?!" He yelled.

Edited by Fyuria'sLeo, 17 December 2011 - 02:55 PM.

[Miss Soupy]

Leaning silently against the wall at her back, she pulled out her water jug and drank what remained. Images of the dead fought her mind for attention. She slumped forward, trying to keep her thoughts in order when she felt a weight at her shoulder.

Warmth entered her and she sat numbly, allowing the familiar magic to work its way in. The dead, the blood, the speaking corpse of her father started melting away and calm began to settle in. She grasped at the feeling desperately. Her scalp prickled, and she realized Noctua was repositioning tufts of her hair with his beak. It was like when she would stroke Thea’s hair when she had a bad dream. Faintly, she wondered how Noctua would know to do such a thing.

“You were crying out,” he said, stopping his motions when she seemed to have calmed down. “I tried to call you, but you couldn’t hear me. It was a nightmare, wasn’t it?”

She silently stared out into the blue of sky and ocean. “Yes. I’ve had that one before.” Twill didn’t want to talk about it, so she tried to come up with something else to comment on. Then it hit her. The boats position was unmoving even as it hummed faintly. Somehow they had been stopped. Just as she had noticed, Noctua's head shot in another direction.

"There is commotion on the deck. Something is wrong."

Twill jumped up and grabbed her bow, slinging herself over the side of the balcony to the little bridge that ran around the upper deck. Racing across the bridge, she looked out from above to see the battle that was starting below.

[ForgottenBushido]

Julien had happened to make it to the captain's quarters and pass out for a few minutes before some unbelievable jackass had decided to wake him up. The ship rocked as she was anchored by the enemy, and threw Julien from his bed and onto the floor with a crash. "What now!?" he thought to himself as he got up and collected his weapons, strapping them to his hips. He didn't bother with his jacket and marched right out the door to the upper deck to see what was going on. When he arrived he could see another ship which was too close for comfort, however they had grappled the Barracuda and there appeared to be Dragoons awaiting to board them.

"These idiots aren't military, perhaps mercenaries sent to arrest us?"

Julien drew his sword and cast "Enfire" enchanting the blade and began hacking away at the cord attached to the anchor. He struck it as hard as he could, seeing that it would eventually snap and break loose.

"Somebody figure out those controls and get us the hell out of here. We're the only ship that can fly." he ordered.

"I-Don't-Have-Time-For-This!"

Edited by ForgottenBushido, 17 December 2011 - 06:38 PM.

[BlackLightning]

Ryuuji heard a shout behind him and turns to face the person. The first thing that attracts his attention however is the massive scythe the guy is holding as he inwardly whistles, 'Thats one big ass scythe there....' taking his time to look around him, he saw that the wire holding the anchor had finally gave out after another man hack it but there are enough other mercenaries on board already.

He turns back toward the man with the scythe and asked in bored tone, "Aren't you supposed to have more important thing to worry about? You do know I'm not the only ones on board, right?"