Chapter 2

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Hoped you liked the first chapter here's the second one x

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Chapter 2- Which way to ANYWHERE !

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The blue water of the ocean sparkled in the early morning sun. The sound of waves lightly crashing against the small sailboat made Kori stir in her sleep, she stretched out her arms and legs slightly, swaying the boat in the process, She inhaled a deep breath of the salty sea air and stood up.

The sea birds resting on top of the small mast fled at the sudden movement, squawking in their retreat, she looked over to the side where her first mate was peacefully sleeping and lightly snoring.

She crouched down over him."Taka wake up, where are we, are we still in North Blue." She said poking his cheek, he mumbled something she couldn't quite make out, but it sounded like he said 'Go away' and swatted her hand away, he turned over on to his other side, a few seconds later the light snoring began again, he was not a morning person.

"Fine, ignore me baka Taka." She gave up trying to wake him up and decided to watch the the rising and falling of the waves. They had an almost hypnotising effect making her feel sleepy again.

Suddenly, the sea beneath her turned a dark blue, snapping kori out of her trance, she looked up. "Not a cloud In the sky and I don't sense any approaching storms, what could it be." She looked again at the bruised sea the dark patch moved and changed shape, it became long and thinned considerably to how it was a few moments before.

"What the hell is this? "Carefully without looking away from the deformed shadow on the surface of the water, she lightly kicked Taka's foot.

"Taka, Taka wake up I'm serious." She kicked him again a little harder this time. "I think there's something under the boat."

This got his attention, he sharply sat up into a sitting position and scrambled over to the edge of the boat his red eyes darting across the waters surface.

"Crap." He got to his feet and hurried to unfurl the sails. "We need to get away from here fast."

"What, why, what's wrong?" Kori was confused she didn't understand where the danger was.

"There's a Sea King underneath us. If we don't get away we'll end up becoming its breakfast." He was starting to panic they hadn't even properly started their journey and already they were facing their first obstacle.

"Eeeeeeh really, I've never seen a Sea King before what do they look like." This mysterious creature that she'd only read about in books had piqued her curiosity she wanted to know more, she wanted to see it in all its glory.

"Their huge and really bad temped it only takes one to sink a large merchants ship, imagine what one could do to this tiny boat." He looked down at the sea again. "There wouldn't be anything left of us Kori, we'd be swallowed in one mouthful." Remembering a past encounter he once had, he'd only seen the Sea King from quite a distance away, but even from a distance the thing was huge, he'd gained a new sense of respect for the sea and it's creatures after that.

As if on cue the surface of the of the water broke and the Sea Kings head appeared towering above them, splashing water about as it rose.

The Sea King had long slimy purple tentacles that covered all of its body that had broken the waters surface, its black beady eyes stared down at the two figures on the boat.

The eyes of the two people on the boat widened like saucers and looked the beast straight in the eyes, Kori deadpanned. "How . . . . Disappointing." The image she had of a beautiful and serene marine creature smashed in to millions of pieces as she looked upon the grotesque animal, it was the ugliest thing she'd ever seen.

A vain on the side of the Sea Kings head bulged. "Kori Shut up." Taka warned her but she didn't listen.

"Just look at it its disgusting, the first Sea King I see and it had to be this ugly thing." More vains on the Sea Kings head bulged it was angry, it let out an ear splitting cry that made kori cover her sensitive ears in pain.

"Great just great." Taka managed to shout out between the Sea Kings screeches, the beast shifted its weight and sharply flicked up the bottom half of its long body which was also covered in purple slimy tentacles, it just so happend that the lower half of its body was still under the boat, it hit the bottom of the small sail boat sending it flying into the air with amazing force. The boat was flying.

"What are we going to do !" Now it was Kori's turn to start freaking out.

Taka slowly turned to look over at her, he looked her straight in the eyes and carmly said." Scream ?"

"This does seem like one of those times doesn't it." Kori replied in the same calm voice as taka.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR !" They both screamed in unison they were still flying through the air and didn't seem close to landing anytime soon.

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They hit the sea with a huge 'Splash' wetting them through to the bone,it had taken them at least fifteen minutes to land, they didn't know how far they'd traveled.

"We're alright ha hahahaaa." Taka said in a shaky voice he laid down looking up at the sky he laid like this for a couple of seconds before sitting up.

Kori released the breath she'd been holding since the start of their decent and took in a deep breath and sighed."Soooooooo. . . . When are you gunner untie me." At some point during their descent Taka had tied Kori to the mast so she wouldn't fall out of the boat when when they hit the surface of the water.

"Oh, yeah sorry about that couldn't have you falling over board a hammer like you wouldn't last five minutes under the water." He walked over and cut the ropes with the blade of his spear.

"We're lucky the boat wasn't destroyed, by the way where are we." Kori said pulling the ropes off herself she looked around seeing nothing but blue sea.

"Don't you think it's warmer than earlier." Kori said undoing her coat and putting it in the backpack Taka had brought for her.

"Yeah it is isn't it, we might not be in North blue anymore." He said ripping the sleeves of his black turtle neck off.

"I don't even know what direction we flew in." He sighed running a hand through his wet hair."We'll just have to pick a direction and hope we come across an island.

"Oh okay, well how should we do this maybe we could . . . . Just . . . . Follow the wind." She looked over to him a bord look on her face all the tension from earlier gone.

He gave her the 'are you an idiot look' and said." The wind, really you couldn't come with anything better then the wind."

"Well I don't see you coming up with anything better." She huffed at him crossing her hands over her chest and pouting.

"I know, couldn't you just sniff out an island with your ability." He asked a hopeful look in his eyes.

Her eye twitched. "My ability is a White Tiger not a bloodhound." She said the annoyance evident in her voice.

He tilted his head to the side and shrugged. "It was worth a try."

The vain in Kori's forehead bulged.

Taka was just about to comment at how touchy Kori was about her ability when something moved out the corner on his eye he looked up and there flying in the sky was their saviour it was a sea bird the kind that doesn't stray too far from the island where the its nest is.

"Look up, a Sea bird, it can lead us to an island." He said pointing at the circling bird.

She looked up in the direction he was pointing. "Yosh follow that bird" she said smiling.

They turned the sailboat around and followed the Sea bird wherever it went. "I can see an island." She pointed to the port side of the boat where a island started to come into view.

"Look at all the river entrances." Once they got closer to the island they could see numerous river mouths all stretching deeper into the the island they looked like blue paths all snaking off In different directions, they chose the river mouth that was closest to the boat.

It was now around early afternoon and the river they'd chosen had dense forests and steep banks on either side, they needed to go deeper and dock the boat somewhere, where the banks were low.

They could hear the sounds of animal calls all around them. "Look over there." She pointed to part of the river that had over time been cut by the water creating a deformed looking half circle. "We can anchor the boat to the low muddy bank there."

Taka pinned the boat down to the muddy banking, Kori then jumped out of the boat careful not to slip on the muddy slope.

"Alright let's go explore the first island of our journey."

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END...

Second chapter finally finished.

I'm going to post regularly on Thursdays and Sundays, this fanfic is going to be a long one with over a hundred chapters (Hopefully)

Stay in touch for chapter 3 xxx

I did a drawing of kori of what she looks like in my head its my profile pic here of FF.N ( note its just the head I can't draw bodies to save my life they always have 3D'ish looking heads and flat boxy looking 2D bodies) xxx