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Beginning
Noun - an act or circumstance of entering upon an action or state
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"Damn, I was going to attack that ship too," the twenty year old captain of Angels nor Demons said as he watched the two ships engage in the most aggressive battle he had ever seen. He put his hands inside his swashbuckler's jacket. The jacket was brown and dropped down below his waist. It had brass buttons that went all the way down with a black sash tied right at his midsection.
He saw the two captains shoot cannons at each other. They were really strong crews, he knew that, for they were famous, as well as his.
The battle was going to be interesting.
"Everyone, stop what you're doing. We're staying right here!" He yelled at his crew and laid back to watch the show.
His crew members were all gathered at the very top, watching Ghost of the Seven Seas against Rolling Thunder.
Inuyasha leaned forward on his seat, as Rolling Thunder invaded the other ship. He watched intently as Kagome and Naraku sword fought.
"Oh my god, is that a girl? No way!" He watched as she slid across the deck, to Naraku's other side, "Man, she has some talent! But I don't think her skills can match up to Naraku's."
Naraku wrapped his sword around Kagome's neck. "Too bad, she's done for." But that didn't happen.
"Oh, good move." He watched Kagome slide to Naraku's other side and deflect his sword into the sea.
"I could learn some things from this girl. She's fast and tricky."
At this point Naraku's crew dropped their swords in surrender. "They beat the Ghost of the Seven Seas," Inuyasha said in disbelief.
He sat back and started pondering the situation. He said to himself, "Well, the strongest ship, Ghost of the Seven Seas, is down. So now, only my crew and Rolling Thunder are left. If I beat Rolling Thunder then we'll be the top crew. That's it! I'll attack them!"
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Kagome stared incredulity at the chest. Had she finally found it after all these years of searching? Had it been right in front of her this whole time and she hadn't noticed?
"All the seas you shall defeat
Never look too far
The answer lies beyond…
56-15 A.D."
"The first line showed the crew we just defeated. All the seas you shall defeat," she recited to herself. "Ghost of the Seven Seas, I can't believe it. All the seas: Viridian, Ice, Sage, Cobalt, Midnight, Polaris, and Whistler Sea. There are seven seas, which refers to all the seas that Ghost of the Seven Seas have conquered. So, therefore, if we defeat Ghost of the Seven Seas, we have defeated all of the seas." Kagome blinked. "Never look too far/ The answer lies beyond. What was that supposed to mean? 56-15, 1556 was the date that the Ghost of the Seven Seas was found. Yet, why would this poem switch the numbers around?"
The chest had many scratches on it. She could tell that someone had been trying to open it. Kagome then gasped when she noticed on one side of the chest was a combination lock. The lock was rusted and long with four spots where numbers could be matched.
Suddenly, the door swung open. Before Kagome could react, she felt a blade cut down her arm. Kagome quickly dodged with her quick reactions, she took her dagger with her left hand from her right side and swung around and cut the enemy right across the neck.
It was Naraku. He clenched his neck in pain and fell onto his knees. Blood gushed out of his neck. He was going to bleed to death.
Kagome let go of her dagger. She didn't mean to kill him. "What have I done?"
Sango ran in at this moment. "Kagome, he got away, he…" Her gaze dropped down to the floor. "Well, I guess you already took care of him."
Naraku lay motionlessly on the ground. Kagome wanted to get out of the room and the ship itself. "Sango, I want you to help me carry this chest back to our ship and you can tell everyone else to take whatever they want."
"Oh my god, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Let's get out of here."
"What are we going to with this ship since the captain is dead now?"
"We're going to burn the ship." She had finally avenged her grandfather. She felt a little relieved.
"What about the pirates?"
"We'll take anyone who wants to join our crew, and the ones that don't want to, they could just burn with their ship." Kagome felt it was out of her reach to help some of these pirates. They had killed her grandfather just a few years back after all.
Sango carried the chest back up to the deck and back to their ship, since Kagome was now injured.
"Go tell them to burn down the ship and get everyone that wants to join us on board." Kagome headed down to her room to the chest, where Sango had placed it. When she got there, she ripped off her sleeve to see and treat the cut. The cut was not too deep. The blood, however, was still dripping from it. Kagome winced at the sight.
She wrapped it up with the sleeve that she had just ripped off to stop the bleeding. When she would get to the island, she would be able to further treat her wound.
Turning her attention to the chest, she said, "Okay, so how should I open you? Let's see, four digits." Then it hit her. "This is too easy. It can't be that, could it?" Kagome got down to one knee and started to move the digits into spot. "56-15, that has to be it." She aligned them and the chest opened with ease.
The chest was filled to the brim with bronze coins and some even fell to the ground. Kagome wondered at the sight. "Is this it?" She filled her hands with the bronze, "the treasure that my grandpa was seeking is some bronze coins?" She dropped the coins from her hand, "No, this can't be it, what about the two lines in the middle? Never look too far/ The answer lies beyond."
In distress, Kagome climbed up to the deck for fresh air and watched as Ghost of the Seven Seas burned down. When she got there, the ship had almost completely sunk. All that was left now was their flag. It waved gently in the breeze.
"Can it be?" The flag was right in front of her. It was two sabers crossing each other, making an X. "Never look too far/ The answer lies beyond. It must be the flag! This flag! Pirates can tell other ships by their flags, so that's why I should never look too far. The answer was right in front of me all this time." At Kagome's last sentence, the flag sunk into the sea. This was the end of Ghost of the Seven Seas.
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"I can't believe it; Ghost of the Seven Seas was defeated." Inuyasha stood up in shock as the ship disappeared from his view.
"Crew!" He yelled as he climbed down to the deck, "I've got an excellent plan, ready to hear it?"
His crew stared at him, what was he up to this time?
"We're going to attack Rolling Thunder!"
"What?" Some of his crew members yelled, "They're still weak from this battle."
"Exactly," he snickered.
Kagome had finally gotten the clues to the poem. Now the only problem was fitting all the pieces together.
"Okay, we're porting!" She yelled at her crew.
Kagome walked down to her room, where the chest lay wide open. She kneeled down so she was eye level with the box. Kagome dug through the treasure chest, feeling and touching all the bronze coins, and then she hit something cold and different. She pulled it out and in her hand was a bottle with a parchment inside and liquid filled to the top. She tried to take off the cork, but couldn't; it was stuck. Then, with all her strength, she removed the cork from the bottle, almost spilling the liquid inside. Kagome took the parchment out of the liquid and opened it. To her surprise, the letters were not smeared.
She put the cork back on tight and slipped the vial into her pocket. Now she turned her attention to the parchment. It was a map.
The map showed an island, it was really detailed; it had shops, roads, and houses. There was a big 'X' on the map, marking a shack. An arrow pointed at the 'X', the end of the arrow led to the top right corner of the parchment, there showed a single saber.
Kagome smiled at herself, "This must lead to the treasure."
Sango called from above, "Captain, we're being attacked!"
"What! Are you kidding me? How many ships can attack us in one day?" She closed the chest, folded the piece of parchment, and shoved it in her pocket.
When Kagome ran to the steering wheel, "Damn, it's Angels nor Demons. No way." She hoped it had been a weaker crew, but this was going to be hard.
"How many cannons do we have!" She yelled to the deck.
"Only one!" Sango yelled back at her.
"How are we going to win with one cannon! We barely won when we had seven! Why didn't you guys take any from Ghost of the Seven Seas!" She scolded at her crew.
"We didn't think that far. We were planning to port!" Sango screamed as she prepared the crew for battle.
Kagome rolled her eyes at her crew. "This is going to be a hard battle to win." She was so close to the next clue, she just had to win.
"Okay everyone, I need you to try your best and whatever the outcome may be," She was interrupted mid-sentence when a small cannon hit her ship.
Kagome steered the ship with her left hand straight forward for a straight on attack. Since she only had one cannon left, why not make it a sword fighting battle. Now she would have to fight with her left hand. "This isn't going to be pretty."
Another cannon blasted and hit her ship harder than the first. After a few moments the two ships hit head to head. The impact of the blow sent the two ships side to side.
"Let's make this quick. Fight your best. Charge!"
Her crew didn't even have to swing over to get on to the other ship because the ships so close that they were touching each other. There was a clanking and clashing of swords almost instantly.
Kagome took out her sword and flinched in pain. She had forgotten that her arm was injured. She quickly shifted the sword to her left hand. It felt awkward and heavier. She practiced a few swings before jumping on the opposing ship.
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Inuyasha was very satisfied, but was surprised that Rolling Thunder hadn't shot a single cannon and just went right towards them, taking the many blows. "Well, their loss. We're going to beat them easier this way."
All of the sudden he spotted the same girl that fought with Naraku earlier; she must be the captain. He grabbed his sword and walked slowly with a smirk on his face towards the girl.
The girl had her back turned to him. "Perfect," he whispered to himself. He stabbed his sword into her side, but missed. Kagome had swung around and deflected the blow. Inuyasha tried as hard as he could to push Kagome's sword into her side because it was blocking his attack.
Kagome clenched her sword as hard as she could, but could tell it was getting closer and closer to her stomach. She thought fast and withdrew her sword and dodged to the side.
Inuyasha almost fell forward from the quick withdraw. "What's your name girl?" he asked as he charged towards her once more.
"It's Kagome," she said as she defended herself. "What's yours?"
He sneered, "Inuyasha." He then changed his attack direction and sliced his sword into her right arm. He had noticed that it was wounded. The cloth dropped from her arm and it started to bleed even more.
Inuyasha took this chance to knock her sword out of her hand. Kagome hadn't been gripping it tightly and flew into the air and Inuyasha caught it. "You lose," as he took his sword and placed it on her neck.
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