They say that time can heal all wounds and make people do things they normally wouldn't, I guess I can say that is true. Weeks became months and everyone slowly began to warm up to each other, no that isn't true, the monsters began to trust us more and we learned to do the same.
Everyone needed something to do, so the captain decided it was best if some of the maintenance of the ship was done manually.
The women cooked, cleaned the meat and performed whatever duties they normally did before coming on board, while the men began to train and learned how to keep themselves busy.
I could feel the ship moving about happily, it enjoyed having a crew, even if it was an mature one.
The woman Aqua, calls herself a Goddes and a lot of the monsters believe her, they say something about sensing her power, but the woman drinks like a sailor, performs tricks for everyone's amusement and plays around with the children, then doing anything a God would do.
What a God does, I don't know but I'm sure its none of that.
Maleena has been training with the men and honestly, their fights can get pretty brutal. At times she just sits next to me and says nothing, she beautiful with her mask on and her body, wow, but that mouth and those teeth.
The Tarkatans act like humans but they aren't, apparently their homeland is a hot desert, so they aren't above eating raw meat, but the thing is as attractive as Maleena is, I don't know if I can do the deed if I see that face of hers.
From what she tells me she used to be or is the daughter of an Emperor and she lost her throne to someone that betrayed her when her father died, from what the Tarkatans say it was that same person that nearly whipped out their drive before fate dropped them in front of the ship.
I look at Kazuma who's playing something called a tabletop board game with some of the Tarkatans, it took a while but when they learned the rules a lot of them started playing it almost to the point of obsession.
As for the captain, he hasn't stopped looking at the beams of light now, so far everything is peaceful and I wish it could stay this way.
"Captain" I hear someone call out to the captain, his voice was loud but not to the point of him screaming.
I turn to look at who it is and I see a large group of Tarkatans armed with what looks like every weapon I put below deck.
"I see you liked my toys, is this a mutiny or do you want to prove your worthy of using them?" The captain asked the Tarkatans.
"...Look I won't let you answer, from what I heard this is what's left of your people, so I'll make this quick." He said as the weapons stolen by the Tarkatans crumbled away into gold dust.
I could feel my heart speed up as the golden light of the rings began to shine until it was nearly blinding. Maleena quickly rose to her feet, when she saw that every weapon that emerged from the rings had its blade aimed at the Tarkatans.
"Remember the deal, no betrayal, do what I say and keep the ship safe...These are toys to me, I'm being kind, there won't be a one-time" the captain said, as the group that was once armed kneeled down, they realized it was pointless to attack.
The captain didn't say anything or do anything he just looked at them. "...why?"
"We thought that if we beat you we could control the ship and everything you have shown us." One of the kneeling monsters said.
"You should know by now that the ship is aware of what all of you do" the captain said as he looked around. "Even if you did kill me it probably wouldn't obey any of you. He added as he kept looking around, before pointing at the many weapons behind him.
"You're not using any of this unless I let you."
"Captain! We have incoming!" A Tarkatan keeping watch screamed.
"What's going on?" The captain asked him.
"Ships a lot of them, some made of wood, other of stone and some of metal!" The watchman screamed as more and more ships began to gather.
I couldn't believe my eyes, there were islands floating in the sky, alongside ships the kind mortal men shouldn't even be capable of seeing, there was even a ship made of fire, fire in the middle of the ocean.
"Looks like it's time to meet the locals, get all none combatants below deck, keep the children " the captain ordered everyone.
I couldn't believe my eyes, on this day I saw men and women fly, some have wings others didn't. I watched as monsters that towered over men stood before us, each on their own ships, walked on water or flew in the air.
I wanted to kneel down and worship, but every part of my instincts told me, that if I did that the captain would be angry.
No one said anything everyone just looked at each other, the silence lingered and it felt like a fight could break out at any second.
" Let's cut to the chase, how many of you fell try a giant hole that just opened up!" The captain screamed.
It felt like if something had been moved but slowly everyone's faces seemed to lighten up, before they began to smile.
"It seemed we aren't the only one's" one of the men flying said.
"I'm guessing that it's safe to asoom that everyone present is a victim to this" said one of the women that was standing on the ocean.
"Them we should begin the negotiation!" A man's voice could be heard coming from one of the ships.
"How about this, everyone stays on their ships and doesn't mess with everyone else and we figure things out as we go." The captain said
"None interference only works when people don't see what others are doing" said a man wearing a black suit, that resembled a bat.
"Regardless, it really is the only option we have at the moment." A man whose face was inside the water said.
"What do you mean?" Asked the captain.
"We have no guarantee that we are the only fleet around. Everyone agrees that there is strength in numbers and even if ships leave, can anyone say that those onboard will be safe." The man added.
"There's an issue with that, there are boats that are overfilled with people and they won't last long thought food and water, not to mention sanitation." Added the man with the bat suit.
"I can do something about that, but can everyone agree to help keep the peace and by that I mean. No killing for the hell of it, no we control this area so you can't come in and so one, we can smooth things out as we go along." The captain answered the man in the bat suit.
"Agreed," everyone said out loud.
A gold glow began to shine beneath the waves and slowly every ship began to be forced back, as stone pillars that were decorated with gold emerged from beneath the waves, slowly giant temples began to emerge, then trees and what looked like waterfalls that went up instead of down.
" I'll let everyone borrow this under these conditions. Protect the fleet, no infighting for any reason and if something seems off say something before it blows up in our faces." The captain told everyone
Again everyone agreed to it, the first set foot on the giant island were those on the smallest boats, life rafts really, then were the ones who's ships were over packed with people or monsters and finally it was everyone else.
There was more than enough room left over, the thing was massive, still, some people decided to stay on their own ships, while letting some of their men set foot on the island as diplomats.
As for the captain, I noticed him looking at the sky. I felt someone pull my arm and I saw Maleena pointing at something, when I looked up, I was shocked to see a giant hole in the sky.
"It seems that I can't send anything onto the thing, I've tried to throw things into it either by using my portals or simply throwing things in there by shooting them into it. None of them work, it looks like it's a one-way trip." The captain said as he looked at the giant hole in the sky.
"Captain" Maleena began only to be cut off by a Tarkatan.
"King the captain of the ships are starting to arrive onto the island." He said.
"Why did you call me king?" The captain asked the man.
The Tarkatan looked confused. "The island belongs to you does it not" he answered the captain.
"..."
"Michael until I come back your in charge, Kazuma, Aqua you two come with me." The captain ordered us.
"Captain wait" I called out to him.
"Maleena help him out, you seem to know how the Tarkatans do things. Help Michael" Jose said before he walked onto the island followed by Kazuma, Aqua and a group of Tarkatans that gathered around them.
"So captain what are your orders" Maleena said to me.
"..Nothing, just keep things the way they are until the Captain comes back" I answered her.
I could feel the air around me lighten up as Jose vanished from sight, the Tarkatans around me didn't even look at me, that was fine by me, I didn't want them killing and eating me.
Still, as I looked at everyone I noticed that some of the women had long tungs, rings they were using to lick the side of the faces of whatever man they were with.
I could feel Maleena take my hand and put it between her breast, and something wet move on the right side of my face. I would have jumped from fear or disgust, I wasn't petrified by fear.
"The captains second in command" Maleena said to me her voice was a warm whisper.
"What do you want?" I asked her altho my voice barely managed to come out. "Lord if she kisses me I'm afraid I'll throw up." I thought to myself.
"Nothing, let's just stay like this" she said as she licked my face again, however this time I could feel her guiding my hand to a private place she had.
Slowly I began to relax and I managed to move my head, Maleena now had her head on my shoulder and as I looked around I saw that a lot of the Tarkatan woman were doing the same with the men they were with.
(Character change Jose)
It's a good thing that the island is big, whatever this place became when I took it from that Goddess came in handy, the whole place looks like a giant fortress or castle. Hell, the thing isn't even halfway out and there already room to spare.
No, I'm wrong about that people need to get themselves sorted out once that happens space is going to run out quick, but I can't risk bringing this whole thing out so I'll have to keep the gate open for now.
It's a good thing I actually found the instruction manual for the Gate of Babylon and have been learning everything I can about what it can do.
Sofar Humans are gathering around Humans and everything else is gathering around what looks familiar to them.
"Don't attack unless they attack first" I told everyone but I still don't know why the Tarkatans are following me.
"So any idea where everyone is going to gather?" Kazuma asked me, before he graves Aqua by the collar as she begins to approach a group of kids that began to play with a ball they brought with them.
"No idea" I answered Kazuma
"So then why are we here?" He asked me.
"The mind games have started...at least the public ones" I answered him as we walked passed a family of people that seemed like if they had worms crawling from their eyes into their noses.
"You say that like it's supposed to mean something" Kazuma added, while he kept his eyes on a group of women that were moving things around with just their hair.
That caught me off a little, the hair seemed to be alive and was moving things around and some of those things were clearly heavier than the women themselves.
"I'm sorry no civilians from here were just setting up." A man wearing a sailors uniform told us as he held out his hand, behind him were men dressed in different colors and what looked like designs of the same uniform.
"Then it's a good thing I'm the owner of this place. " I answered the sailor, the strong look on the man's face was strained but didn't break.
"My apologies, but I have my orders sir" he made as the men behind him stepped forward, instantly the group of Tarkanian's following me stood in front of the sailors.
"Stand down" a man said to us, there's a feeling in the air when you meet someone that's actually supposed to be in control. The way they speak, act and walk just makes you want to follow the guy, this man checked all of the boxes.
"You said that this island is yours, I'll need some proof" he said as he looked at me in the eyes.
So I made the floor next to him vanished.
"Would you like more proof?" I asked him and I instantly regretted my decision, the shocked voices of people around me could be heard, I didn't bother turning to look at them my concentration was focused on the man in front of me.
The thing is that as I looked at the captain, Admiral or whatever I realized he was looking past me and was focused on the people behind me, I turned to look at Kazuma and realized he and Aqua were looking around with shocked faces.
I turned to see what was going on and I couldn't believe what I was seeing People and creatures of all sorts of shapes and colors kneeling down, a lot of them were standing and some were just keeping guard, but still, more and more were either walking up to us before immediately kneeling down.
"Why?" Was the only thing that came out of my mouth.
"Some do it out of respect, others go with the crowd and some like those that either just ignore you or simply stand don't know what's going on" a woman said as she walked up to us, I could see behind her a group of women that were completely naked.
No, they weren't naked, their skin was even, no distinct coloring anywhere. They must be wearing some sort of tight form fitting suit.
"So this is where everyone's gathering?" A man asked, however, his voice seemed to be coming from above us.
When I looked up to see who it was, I saw a man wearing a tight blue suit and red cape with a giant on his chest, next to him was a blond woman with the same large A on her chest, altho she wore a mini skirt and half a shirt.
"I'm Superman and I'm the representative of the people up there" he said as he pointed to the ships flying in the sky above us.
"Fleet Admiral Delrio of the U.S military." The man from before presented himself.
"Jose owner of the island, next to me are Kazuma, the Goddes Aqua and the Tarkatans." I said to them.
"Queen Padme Amidala and these are my escorts, warriors of. " she stops before turning to look at us, looks like she was about to say something she shouldn't have.
"So shall we start negotiations" she asks us.
"No I'm pretty sure we're missing a lot of people, so if we could get word to everyone to head to the giant pillar over there we could start negotiation, there's a meeting room inside it." I answered her.
"Allow me Captain" one of the Tarkatans says. "Everyone that can run fast, go tell everyone that looks like if they are in hard to head towards the largest pullar.!" He screams to the crowd and a lot of people take off running, while some just stand up and walk over to us.
"Michael can you hear me" I spoke to the help screen.
"Captain, captain is that you?" I heard Michaels' voice answer me.
"Yeah listen kid, I need you to send someone to represent the Tarkatans. Whoever it is tell them to head to the largest pillar on the island." I said to Michal and the only answered with a right away.
As we arrived to the pillar I could already see people gathered there and some were just arriving like us, no one said anything wordlessly we all decided to wait in silence for everyone to arrive.
Finally, after half an hour had passed and a large group of people had gathered we entered the pillar thru a wooden door that was placed on one of the sides of the pillar, it wasn't the only door, the pillar had a lot of them.
My guess is that it was built that way so that no one ever missed a meeting, still the only thing in the room was a long stone table and stone chairs that couldn't be moved.
"Stone, I guess you couldn't get something comfortable like giant coutch," a woman said to me.
I smiled when she said that, and I made the stone chairs vanish before bringing out two giant from, yet comfortable sofas
Everyone just stood there looking at the giant sofas before taking a seat, by their expressions they liked how the thing felt.
"Alright so how does everyone want to do this?" I asked everyone as I tried to break the ice, yet the room remained quiet.
"Food, water, and first aid. People will gather around that, a lot of people have gotten hurt after being thrown around by whatever is going on" Admiral Delrio answered me.
"And who's to say who gets all of this first? We have people that haven't eaten in weeks" a woman said as she dramatically pointed at the door.
"So I'm to understand that no one here has rations or supplies if any kind?" Said Batman, there was no way this man could be someone else, he was wearing the costume.
No one answered and soon the room became quiet again.
"I can give you all of that, we aren't negotiating anything here. Sofar' it's only been a lot of quiet" I said to everyone.
"Can you guarantee that you have enough of everything for everyone?" Asked a man that had a mechanical hand and wore a metal mask that only covered the bottom half of his face.
"King, I have a lot of injured people, we need that medic in" a woman said to me, it was someone I didn't know and she didn't even bother to introduce herself.
Yet as she talked a man cut her off saying that his group needed the medicine and food first because they were at the berg of turning to cannibalism. Soon the entire room was filled with people screaming at each other.
"Enough this isn't getting us anywhere, we haven't even introduced ourselves. Your majesty, I am Sindel of Edinia" she said to me.
Finally, someone that actually introduces themselves, I thought to myself.
"Listen were all frustrated, confused, trued and hungry, so let's start over. how about we all introduce ourselves."
Negotiations took three bloody hours, tons of screaming and more than one person was on the verge of attacking the other. In the end, everyone agreed it was better to put all the lizard men with things that look like lizards, Humans with things that were borderline Human in appearance.
As for supplies, the various leaders were now handing them out.
One good thing that came out of all of this was, that everyone agreed it was in everyone's best interest to keep the island and the fleet safe and that meant no fighting amongst the refugees would be allowed.
Still, it took three hours just for everyone to agree to that, I just want to get back to the ship and get some sleep.
"Your Majesty if I many" a soft voice behind me said.
I really didn't want to turn back, but I had to. It was queen Padme who stood behind me, however, her guards were now on the edge considering that the guy sent to represent the Tarkatans nearly bit off an annoying persons head off.
I just looked at her, I honestly didn't want to deal with anything and she must have gotten the message because she began to talk once more.
"Your Highness as ruler of this land there are certain rules that one must oblige by" she began before I lifted up my right hand to stop her from finishing.
"What she means is that if you don't demand respect no one will listen to you. You're the ruler of this place, yet you allow the people that aren't natives to it disrespect you" Sindel said as she walked up to us.
Looking at the two women only made me realize that I was going to get ahead ack from people complaining about how other people dressed.
Padme was covered up but her face was heavily painted and she wore a strange ornament on her head, while her dress could only be described as a cylinder.
Sindel on the other hand barely wore anything, her clothes could easily pass off as underwear or bikini, everything important was covered up, but her large breast would slip out if she made a sudden move.
Her long knee high boots and long gloves gave her some added clothing, but other than that she really wasn't wearing anything at all.
Both women became quiet when they realized I wasn't going to say anything to them, I just exhaled and turned around, I didn't and wasn't going to deal with this, so I just headed back to the ship.
The thing is just because I was done with them didn't mean they were done with me, so imagine my surprise when I turned around and found the two following me back to my ship and both Kazuma and Aqua strugeling to holding back their laughter.