"The crew seems more excitement for the battle ahead, wouldn't you say Captain?" Liena says wrapping her arm around Anna's waist, looking toward the deck leaning her head on Anna's shoulder.
"Aye, you're right, let's add to their joy, pop out the rum," Anna says smile, as she puts her hand around Liena's shoulder.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Liena questions, looking up to her Captain.
"Why not? It's still a few days till we reach our destination, let them have their fun." Anna says with a chuckle, as Liena reluctantly lets go of Anna.
Liena heads below, and shortly returns with a barrel of rum, soon after the crew sets up a circle in the middle of the ship, some sitting on barrels, others on the floor. Three of the team were playing an instrument, a violin, an accordion, the last played the flute.
"Ahoy! Captain! Teach the lad a thing or two about playin' the fiddle." Ol' Bill says laughing on a barrel.
"Oh! I don't want to embarrass the boy, Bill!" Anna says she takes her coat, tossing them on against a cannon. "But, if you insist,"
The lad tosses the violin to Anna along with the bow. The crew and their guest watch in suspense. Ol' Bill leans toward the ships' guest.
"Yer in for a treat." Ol' Bill cackle, then turns back to his Captain.
The group exchanged looks then watch Anna tune her violin, Liena leans against the main mast. Anna finds her perfect tune and begins to play a joyful, energetic jig, which causes most of the crew to dance in the center of the circle. Soon Anna starts to bounce with the flow of music. As Liena watches with a smirk, the faunus girl leans against the mast as well, but Liena didn't notice for all her attention was on Anna. Occasionally Liena would catch a moment with she and Anna would lock eyes and Liena heart would skip a beat, each time Anna would give her a quick wink with her deep sapphire eyes.
The Faunus girl starts to notice, and her ears perk up, as she glances back and forth between Anna and Liena, a giddy smile spreads across her face. Anna tosses the fiddle back to the lad who was playing it before, she could tell he picked up on a thing or two. Anna then heads to where Liena was standing, energetic music still masking the ship. Grabbing Liena by the hand, Anna leads her to the center floor.
Liena and her share a quick laugh, both grabbing one another's' hands and begin to dance. Their laughter ring threw out the deck, when they finish, the whole crew cheers and claps, Anna and Liena bow.
"I'll find us some drinks love," Anna says with a quick peck to Liena's freckled cheek.
"Don't stray too long," Liena says as their hands slide apart.
As Liena watches her Captain's tail flow with the cool breeze, she finds herself bumping into the faunus girl.
"Oh, I'm sorry, lass didn't see ya, I was preoccupied," Liena says glancing back to her Anna was.
"It's ok, and I'm Blake, by the way," Blake says.
"Well, pleased to meet ya, names Liena," Liena says with a smile, extending her hand.
"Likewise, I had a quick question I'd like to ask you if you don't mind." Blake says shuffling bet, nervous to ask, " Are you and the captain? A thing?"
Liena looks over to Anna who was laughing with most of the crew, she could tell it was a good laugh, Anna was clutching her gut, and her face was bright red.
"Aye, I say we are." Liena says with a smile, "Why do ya ask?"
"Well, earlier I saw how you two looked at each other, while she played the violin." Blakes says fiddling with her hands, "You could tell your always on her mind."
"Oh, could ya now? You seem to know a lot about this, what kind of book do ya read lass?" Liena says with a short chuckle.
Blake only blushes, cat ears droop a bit. Liena realizes what happening and smiles.
"Don't worry mate, I read 'em too," Liena says placing a hand on her shoulder.
This brings a smile to Blakes' face, but before she could answer, Anna, returns with two mugs of rum, one for her and the other for Liena, after handing Liena hers, Anna turns to Blake.
"I think a certain someone is feeling a bit droopy lass," Anna says as she gestures over to a brooding blonde, leaning against a cannon looking out to the dark calm sea and to the stars above. "Seem like you should take out onto the dance floor, cheer 'em up a bit."
Blake gives the Captain a quick nod and a smile, before heading to her friend.
"I thought you liked foxes?" Anna says wrapping her arms around Liena neck, her face inches from her own.
"You know you're the only faunus for me, dear," Liena says as her arms swivel around Anna's hips.
"Well, would do ya say to a little mischief before I tame your sea?" Anna says with a devilish smile.
"How could I say 'no' to that." Liena says with a dastardly chuckle, "Whatcha have in mind?"
"You see that young lad, and lass over yonder?" Anna says gesturing to the farm boy and the girl dressed in white.
"Aye, I do," Liena says following Anna's gaze.
"Well, they've both been staring at the one in red most of the night, Ruby I think was her name." Anna says with a chuckle, " here's the plan, I'll take the lass, you take the lad. Play our cards right, and we'll get them to fight over little red over there."
"And we'll meet back at your cabin," Liena says with a quick, passionate kiss on her Captains flush lips.
Seconds later Liena makes her way to the boy who's leaning on the second mast, Anna quickly regains focus after the short trance she was in, heads to the girl, who sits on a barrel.
"Ahoy, lass," Anna says as she picks up an empty barrel and sits next to her. "Never did catch your name lass."
"Really? Well, it's Weiss Schnee, for your information." Weiss says flipping her hair back.
"You know I saw you looking at your friend there, for a while now," Anna says gesturing to Ruby who sways with the slow violin music. "You could ask her to dance you know? I can tell you like her."
"W-what? I-I have no idea what you're talking about!" Weiss says blushing a deep shade of red, trying to hide it.
"Oh, I'm sure you definitely know what I'm talking about," Anna says with a slight chuckle, out of her peripheral she sees Liena had succeeded with her mission and got the farm boy to start making his way to Ruby, and Liena is making her way to Anna. "Well, do as you wish, but if you don't react in time, someone could snake her out from under you."
"What do you mean? Are you?" Weiss says as she starts turning red, not with embarrassment, but with angry.
"Ha! Sorry, my friend, I'm taken." Anna says as Liena shows up in the nick of time, sliding her arms around her waist, pulling her close. "But it's not me, you should be worrying about.?"
"Wha?" Weiss starts but is interrupted by Anna gesturing toward the farm boy haft way to Ruby.
Springing off her barrel, Weiss whisper under her breath 'Oscar' before quickly making her way toward Ruby. At the pace she was going, she and Oscar meet at Ruby at the same time and begin arguing over who Ruby should dance with first.
"Oscar? So that's the boy's name huh?" Anna says, surprised, "I thought it'd be like Chuck or Phillip or something like that."
"Phillip? Really?" Liena says sarcastically.
"Eh, thought for the morning. Don't we have a common destination we were both heading to?" Anna says taking Liena by the hands and starts leading her to the Captain's quarters.
As the festivities go on throughout the night, Weiss eventually won Rudy's dance, Blake and Yang talk throughout the night besides one another. The one who dressed in pink and the ninja were making pancakes, in the morning. The man with the cape had to make rum than he could handle and passed out in a pile of ropes.
Anna exits her cabin and basks in the wrath of the sunlight. Stretching and inhaling deeply, Anna makes her rounds, her coat lightly tapping the calves of her legs as she steps down the stairs. Anna looks up to the sails to be sure that they weren't scathed, then towards to tie a loose rope that held the cannon in place.
After it was secure excellent and tight, Anna glances toward the bow of the ship to see the blonde headed boy, gazing out to the rising sea. Anna wakes up to the boy, but he doesn't notice that she's there. He looks like he has something on his mind, the way he just gazes out to the sea. Anna had asked the girl in pink what his name was; also hers. The girl in pink says her name was Nora and he was Jaune.
"Oi, what's on your mind lad?" Anna says as she rests on the rails, as she watches the waves dance across the sea.
"Have you ever lost someone you've cared about?" Jaune says, still looking out to the flowing sea. "Ever have the feeling of helplessness?"
"Aye, that I had my friend. The worst feeling to be felt." Anna says sagging her head, memories flow into her head. "You know, I wasn't always the great pirate that you see before you."
Yeah, it's the worst, who did you lose?" Jaune hesitates, not knowing how Anna will react. "Sorry, I didn't mean-"
"I lost most of my family, you see I grew up in an orphanage." Anna interrupts, with a soft, gentle voice, "When you live in an orphanage in Vale, the other kids tend to be your family. The owner long since died, and it was just us, a small group of five who lived in a run-down orphanage building. Three humans and two faunus. The faunus were me and Kalin, a male deer faunus. The humans were Arith, Maie, and Jared. We were almost the same age, 17, give or take a couple of years."
"What happened?" Jaune questions with compassion intrigued but not wanting to offend the Captain.
"Grimm," Anna says with anger, clenching her fist so tight that it pops her knuckles. "One day, one rough, faithful day. It started as a normal day, scavenging what we could to survive. Then Jared and the others decided we would have better luck, with hunting in the forest than going through the leftovers of others. We never went anywhere without the company in tow."
"And then what happened?" Jaune says, focusing on Anna.
"We ventured out, with makeshift weapons that we made in an hour," Anna says, crossing her arms, letting out a small chuckle with a smile. " After hours of tracking, we managed to find and kill a deer, we corner and surrounded it after we killed it, the others celebrated while I started to clean and gut the deer. Putting its meat into a bag that I made out of old shirts. Everyone was so busy that they didn't see the Alpha Ursa creeping up behind."
Jaune watches with sad eyes, and a heavy heart.
"It was only when I heard the screams, that I turn to see the Ursa, tear into Jared with one swipe of its claw. The force of the hit, sent his body flying if he hadn't died from the claw the rocks ensure it was done. I run to check on him, while the others tried to fight the Ursa, when I got to him, he had lost a lot of blood, but he was already dead." Anna says holding back tears. "When I turned the Ursa had Kalin in its mouth, biting down blood pours from his body like emptying a pale of water. That didn't stop Kalin from fighting, using a blade made from a piece of glass and tape for a handle, he stabbed the hell out of it, before it flung him into a tree, killing him instantly."
"I rushed over to the beast and drove my spear made of long pipe I found into it's back. Only to anger the beast, it brought its claws and swung them down on me, but Maie, she pushed me out of the way, and was crushed." Anna says as a single tear runs down her cheek. "Arith was the last to go, she tried to run to my side, but she was cut down by the Ursa claws, through her gut she looked to me, and I try to get to her, then she just fell grasping her stomach."
"That's when I got this," Anna says to Jaune pointing at her eyes, as her irises change to a luminous blue, her pupils transform into a shape that resembles a curved shuriken.
"What are those?" Jaune asks looking at her eyes. "What happened to your eyes?"
"This is my semblance, my special eyes. I don't know I got them, but it had something to do it watching my family and friends being cut down, one by one." Anna says resting her hands on her hips. "With these new eyes, I managed to kill that Ursa, though I was badly injured. These eyes saw the Ursa attacks before it made them. Though I killed it, I found Arith grasping her stomach for dear life."
"I kneeled down beside her, but she knew she wasn't gonna make it and her last words to me were, 'You need to survive Anna, keep the crew alive.' she held her open, and I grabbed hold, with a tight grip, tears poured from my eyes." Anna says with water filled eyes, "After that day, I vowed to honor those I lost."
Anna's as she unsheathes her cutlass, the handle is a revolving flintlock pistol, an emblem was embedded in the grip on the gun, PL, which stood for Pirate's Life.
"I made this to defend my crew along with my eyes. The blade bends to fire special dust bullets when the blade is up, it does this." Anna says as she loads a fire dust crystal, and flicks the blade up, instantly the edge catches fire.
"Whoa! That's awesome! It's like Qrows." Jaune says surprised but notices some engraving of the blade. "What's that?"
"That? It's the way I honor my friends." Anna says, extinguishing the fire, and reads it aloud. "'Keep the crew alive, keep your family alive.' that's the engraving it, it's what I live by."
"How do your eyes work, if you don't mind me asking," Jaune asks, fascinated by it.
"Well, I know it increased my reaction time, speed, and grants me to see my enemy's movement before they happen," Anna says rubbing her chin, then bowing her head, "that's how I was able to beat that Ursa. Without it, I probably would've died alongside my family."