Hello reader's I have an announcement.
I'm going to be posting a new story on November 15th, just thought I should let you know.
Anyway today our heroes will travel to Lake Kilma.
And encounter Pirates!
Enjoy
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The day after they gave Trent the seeds the group gathered at the front of the place.
"How come we can't bring our pet's with us?" Ruby whined as she polished Sharp's blade.
"We can't drag these guys everywhere all the time Ruby." Damien said as he pulled out the next artifact.
The Stone Eye.
Damien closed his eyes and soon the stone eye vanished, "So where are we headed now?" Flora asked.
"Lake Kilma." Damien answered.
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The group arrived at Lake Kilma in just a couple of days and the first thing they heard was chatter, from a decently sized group no less.
"Huh, looks like someone's already here." Jaune said as the walked around the curve.
"Halt!" A man called, causing our heroes to stop and look at the group in font of them.
It was a bunch of human sized penguins standing in front of a Walrus, their attire seemed to say they prefer being at sea.
"What be the password?" A penguin asked.
"What?" Ruby asked confused.
She got even more confused when the penguins started cheering.
"Captain! Reinforcements are here!" A penguin said to the Walrus.
"You blathering idiots. You just need to take one good look at them to know they aren't the reinforcements!" The Walrus shouted.
"But captain... She got the password right." A Penguin said.
"Oy... Let's just get back to the ship." The Walrus captain said before ushering the Penguins down the path ahead of the group.
"What just happened?" Jaune asked completely confused.
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The group continued onward, fighting a few new enemies, most notable being the purple, floating turnips with a face call Shrieknips, annoying plant monster that had a tendency to repeatedly let out a piercing shriek that actually paralyzed everyone that was close to the monster.
Needless to say Ruby was irritated by this and opted to use her Semblance to cut the monster in half every time she saw one before it could open it's mouth.
Soon they reached the pirates once again.
"Penguins, I said it before, we need to get back to the ship. At this point we can forget about the treasure." The Walrus captain said to the penguins.
"Is it just me, or are there less penguins?" Jaune asked.
"It's not just you." Damien said.
"But captain, what about our stone-ified mates?" A Penguin asked.
That set the Captain off a bit, "It's petrified you idiots! Make another idiotic comment like that and I'll have ye K-... K-..." The captain started.
Everyone was wondering why the captain had a hard time saying the last word, which should obviously be 'killed'
"Klunked in the heads!" The Captain finally shouted, causing our heroes, and by extension a few penguins, to pratfall.
"Captain, that isn't a powerful enough threat." A Penguin said.
"Yeah, say 'I'll Kill ye all!'." A second penguin added.
"But kill is such a harsh word. Me mother said so you know." The captain said.
"Well mother does know best." Jaune said.
"But captain, any true pirate wouldn't hesitate to declare he'd kill us." A third Penguin said.
"Do it captain, show us the spirit of a true pirate." A fourth said.
"Alright." The Captain said, "Make another stupid comment like that and I'll," The Captain raised himself up on his tail to amplify the effect, "KILL YE ALL!"
This caused the penguins to cheer, "That was great captain!" a Penguin said.
"Alright, now let's go avenge our stone-ified mates!" the second said as they began to walk off.
Of course the captain started running after them, getting them to begin hustling.
"Uh..." Ruby said, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the thing about punishments is that you want to avoid the harsher ones?"
"Yeah..." Flora said.
"Something isn't right with these pirates." Damien said.
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The group continued down the path the pirates went, but now that they were looking around they began to notice statues of the penguins.
"Whoa, you think these guys got petrified?" Jaune asked.
"Most likely." Damien said, "Fortunately most petrification's are temporary unless they are tied to a curse of some sort."
Flora then walked up to one of the statues and examined it for a moment before putting her hand on it to judge the magical make-up of the petrification, "This petrification is tied to... a monster's life force." Flora deduced.
"So... what does that mean?" Jaune asked.
"Basically most monster's that can petrify you are rather weak and can't petrify you for long, but this guy is strong enough that so long as he lives these guy are over-sized lawn ornaments." Flora explained.
"So kill the monster save the penguins." Ruby summed up.
"Pretty much yeah." Flora said, "Although I have to say that this isn't the effect of his direct power, most like it was channeled through something." she added.
"So that means by channeling his power through an object that means he really isn't as powerful as he is perceived." Damien noted.
"Yes." Flora said, and with that the group moved forward.
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"Excse me young'ins, could you give an old turtle a hand?" an old, green shelled, and upturned turtle asked.
"Yeah sure." Ruby said.
The group of four all got on the left side of the turtle and tipped him to the right until he flipped over.
"Thank you. Those pirates just rushed by me and flipped me over, no respect for the elderly." The Turtle huffed.
"Um sir?" Jaune asked, "The pirates make this place sound really dangerous, why are you here?"
"I live here young man, and don't worry, the only real danger is the fairies here, and that's only if they feel you have evil intentions." The Turtle said, "In fact it seems they trust you enough not to turn you into stone. I will cast a spell on you all so you can see them."
The turtle then raise his arms, which had fins where his hands would be, and a trio of blinking eye's flashed around the group, causing the fairies to fade into view.
Ruby, who seemed rather eager to meet a fairy walked over to one and talked to it, where she learned that the fairies of the lake hated humans, although she did say Ruby and her friends were fine.
A fairy Jaune talked to, when he asked how they petrified all the penguins, told him that they used a Stone Eye, which was charged with the power of their master, and could only be used by fairies.
One of the fairies floated up to Ruby after she finished her chat with the one she talked to and asked a question.
"Penguins are a type of human right?" The Fairy asked.
"Uh... I'm not entirely sure really." Ruby said.
"Oh thank Mana, I'm not the only one confused." The fairy said.
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The group continued toward the lake when they reached a cliff overlooking the lake.
They arrived just in time to see five penguins get thrown off the cliff, "W-wait, it was the penguins idea." The Captain said.
"Is he telling the truth or just trying to save his own hide?" Jaune asked.
"Could be both really." Damien said.
"We must sacrifice you to the master too." The fairy in front of the pirate said before she held out a stone eye, which fired a beam from the pupil.
"AAAAARRRGGHHH!" The captain shouted as he fell off the cliff.
The fairy lowered the stone eye and fluttered off, "Oh dear, things are getting worse." A familiar voice said.
The group looked behind them to see the turtle from before, who walked past them to overlook the lake, "What are you talking about?" Jaune asked.
"The fairies believe that if the master of this lake dies so will they. And rumors say that the master guards an amazing treasure." The Turtle said before looking at the group, "Both are false."
"That's terrible." Ruby said running to the cliffside with Damien.
"If you go down there it won't be easy getting back up." The Turtle said, "Is he really worth the risk?"
"Sir, with all due respect but the elimination of this 'master' is far more important than the safety of a group of pirates." Damien said before he jumped down with Ruby right behind him, Jaune and Flora following soon after.
"I suppose I should go to." The Turtle said.
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At the bottom of the cliff they saw the pirate captain was petrified, and when the penguins asked how they could save him, the Turtle answered that they could save him by slaying the master of the lake.
"How big is this master?" A penguin asked, he'd like to know what he's dealing with seeing as he and his friends are going to play the bait to lure it out of the lake.
"It's a big as..." The Turtle said walking to the edge of the lake, "From here." the Turtle then began to walk over to the cliffside, which was rather sizable a gap, "To here."
"That's as big as the Nevermore you guy's took down during initiation." Jaune said to Ruby.
"Well... I guess your plan could work..." A penguin said.
"Let me get you started." The Turtle said, and in a remarkable feat of strength, lifted and flung the petrified captain into the lake, causing the penguins to chase after him, "Now it's your turn." He said before moving to cover.
The master of the lake jumped out as soon as he was gone.
A giant eye, not nearly as big as the turtle made him out to be, it was covered by a purple eyelid that was covered in spikes. This was Gorgon Eye
[OST- Marginal Beast.]
"You know, this isn't as bad as he made it out to be." Jaune said, just before he had to dodge because the spikes on the side extended.
Ruby dashed past the eyeball, slashing as she did so, which caused the eye to flinch and suddenly fade.
"Where'd it go?" Ruby asked confused.
"Ruby behind you!" Damien shouted grabbing Ruby and pulling her out of the way, just before a purplish beam of energy blasted where she stood.
"That was close, thank's Damien." Ruby said.
"No problem." Damien said as he jumped up and slashed at the eye while Flora did the same by spinning her spear.
The same thing happened for a few minutes until Flora finally jumped up and stabbed the eye with her spear then jumping back off.
The eyeball turned to stone as Flora landed before it exploded.
[End OST]
"That wasn't all that bad really." Damien said.
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Due to how long it took for the rest of the now un-petrified penguins to rejoin the Pirate captain so they could make a slope that was easy on the Turtles back, our heroes ended up having to stay at the pirates camp for the night.
They were actually remarkably friendly for pirates, the captain even declared them his personal friends, and were welcome on his ship anytime.
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They soon returned to the Home, where Ruby and Flora went over to Trent to see if the food had grown.
It had because Trent's branches had both fruit's and oddly vegetables hanging from them.
Lettuce shaped like Armadillo's, Apricot's shaped like cat heads, a mushroom that looked more like a Jack-in-the-box, even a lemon that looked like a squid.
"This is awesome." Ruby said jumping up and picking an Apricat.
"Mana, I love these fruits, they are sooooo tasty." Flora said picking a Citrisquid.
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Over lunch Damien pulled out the next artifact, the flower shaped Firefly Lamp and closed his eye holding it, causing it to disappear in a small light.
"Tomorrow we're heading to a new town everyone." Damien announced
"Where?" Jaune asked.
"Lumina." Damien answered.
"Oh man I love that place, I could go for a new lantern for around the house, and I think the monsters could go with a nice one themselves." Flora said.
"Can we come?" Lisa asked.
"Of course you can." Damien said, getting the two kids to cheer.
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In the town of Lumina, in the middle of the night seemingly, there was a small lantern shop. But inside that shop was an unconscious woman.
She had long black hair with a ribbon tied up in it, she was sleeping on a bed with her weapons, a katana and a cleaver, leaned against the far wall.
And she was waking up, "Uugh." She groaned as she sat up.
"Sit up slowly, it helps with the dizziness." A different woman said.
She had long golden hair and a pale skinned face, she wore a pink flower rimmed cap and a pink dress covering her chest. From the legs down she had bird-like legs with three toed talon's at the end, along with six purple flowers on green vines sprouting from her back.
"W-who are you?" The black haired woman asked.
"My name is Monique, I'm a lamp maker here in Lumina, I often end up staying up a little too late when I'm making lamps, I just find it so fun." The woman said, then she noticed the black haired woman staring at her legs, "Oh right, I'm also a siren." Monique added.
The black haired girl thought on that information for a moment, "Don't sirens have feathery wings?" She asked recalling a few of the books she had read.
Monique chuckled at that statement and began flying toward the black haired woman, the six plant's sprouting from her back fluttering up and down slowly, somehow giving her lift, "Yes a lot of sirens do have feathered wings, but some of us don't but what we have still works the same in the end." Monique said, "So what's your name miss?"
The black haired woman was silent for a moment, "Blake, Blake Belladonna." she finally said.
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That's the chapter everyone, and next chapter we go to Lumina and reunite with our favorite faunus girl...
And learn the Dudbear language... that part is always so annoying, even with a strategy guide.
Also sorry if the Gorgon Eye battle was a little poor, my fight's with the guy never really lasted very long due to the fact I get over leveled in the Mekiv Caverns hunting the Reptiles eggs in there until I get myself a Tyrannos... Plus I had to write the chapter a second time.
Seriously I'm actually considering taking Tuesday afternoon's off from writing because I keep getting logged out automatically.
Anyway, I don't go to Lake Kilma too often, but I can say that the upper path in the first area of the level holds a Plant egg for you to collect (However you have to beat a boss later in the game for it to show up)
Seriously I hate those Shrieknips, I actually died once because they kept on shrieking!