A little from me

First off, the drawings I got by request!

1: Summoner: art/Sorry-Scarface-312250428
2: Party!: (Not quite finished! but almost!)

Holy crap I got a little tiny complaint about how my story was basically a total clusterfuck of words and my transitional spaces that I added on word weren't saving to . So after a few taxing and frustrating minutes of trying the lines and adding more enters, I decided "Well hey, it can't delete text, so... what if I just... added more text? well It can't be words... Maybe () will work?"

So that's what I decided guys, okay? I fixed every chapter with () for the transitions. Like this. :)

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LAST TIME ON

MEET THE ANCESTORS 8: Calm before the storm

"Wwhat? Wwhere you imbecile? Starboard ya said- oh...Oh no..."

"Wh-what is it sir?"

"Wwait who the fuckin' hell is that? A damn wwriggler?" He squinted and saw a younger female troll standing on the very front of the ship, grabbing a rope. She screamed at them, but they were too far away to hear anything.

"Oh my fuckin' god..." Was the last thing Dualscar could say before seeing the figure behind the wriggler. Huge long hair and a big hat with a long blue feather in it. The image sent shivers up and down his spine for more than one reason...

"God damn fuckin' Mindfang!..."

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Okay guys? It's all I can do and work with considering the situation. Anyway, fell free to re-read or take a re-peek at some older chapters where there are now my little parenthesis at every transition.

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On a side note, I would appreciate it if you didn't try to tell me how my story's going to go or suggest anything further. I have a set course for how I want things to go. So I probably won't be reading any reviews unless I know you pretty well.

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Now, let's see what I can come up with this time around! :3 (Some of you are pretty damn happy that a certain spider girl is coming back! I'm glad :3)

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"Mindfang? You mean that crazy bitch from before?" The shipmate troll exclaimed.

"Yeah... that be her... shit..." He glared at the wriggler girl who waved with her metal hand.

"Heeeeeeeey everyone!" She grinned at Dualscar, looking down her nose through her glasses.

"Wwhat the fuck do YOU wwant?"

"Weeeeeeeell it's not what /I/ want exactly."

"It's what /I/ want." The older troll woman said. She steps up into the light of the party from Dualscar's ship and smirks at him.

"I never thought I'd have the 8ad luck of running into you ever again DULLscar." Her tone was snide like it always had been.

"No kiddin'. But I thought havving luck wwas your THING."

"It is. Even now, I still have aaaaaaaall of the luck! It's YOU who is unfortun8 tonight Dualscar." Mindfang grinned a little. The two ships were still rather far away and Dualscar knew what was coming.

Vriska grins with her taller counterpart, but when she looks up she gasps a little bit.

"What the hell are Gamzee and Karkat doing here?" She said aloud.

"Who?"

"Up there, see?"

"What about them?"

"Ah, so you saww my prizes huh? Wwell you can't havve them."

"What are you doing with them fish face?" It wasn't often that Vriska was visibly concerned for the other trolls, but... she was sure she was the only one who was dead of their little group. It made her mad to think she's the only one that died, but still, no one else should be here!

"Oh, I wwas just gonna krill them after the party. Obvviously."

"Fat chance. Especially with Gamzee. HEY! GAMZEE! KARKAAAAAAAAT!" She could see Gamzee look over.

"YoOo SiS." He waved a little from under the ropes, but he sure didn't look happy still.

"Hey! I'm still fuckin' standin' right here!" Dualscar glared and smacked his fist on the wood.

"Hey calm your gills down." Mindfang waved him off. She couldn't stop staring at him though with her dead white eyes. He was still the same that asshole! Both believable and unbelievable at the same time. That stupid purple streak in his hair, all that stupid showy gold on him, that stupid purple armor and that same stupid aggravated face with those stupid scars. He was beautiful in a strange way. She did miss one thing though. Those purple eyes full of fury and passion and anger towards her. They were fierce and Mindfang loved them. Oh well. Everything else is the sa- Hey where is his cape?

"Dully!~ Where did that tattered rag on your 8ack go?"

"Huh? My cape aint a fuckin' rag you landlovvin' ninny! For your information, it happens to be stylishly placed on MYYY little one!"

"Your' LITTLE ONE'?" Mindfang cracked up and laughed so hard she had to hold her stomach with both hands!

"Don't laugh you old bag!" Dualscar would only ever get so flustered around his hated enemy... It was a flaw, he'd admit.

"Show me! Show me this LITTLE ONE you have! Is she anything like my sweet wriggler partner in crime?"

"A BOY I'll havve you knoww! Your sick bug eyes don't evven deservve glance at him!"

"My 8ug eyes have more right to see the 8oy than your pathetic oversized fish ones!" The two of them continued to shout and antagonize one another on the side of Vriska yelling on the ship.

"Gamzee what the HELL are you doing up there? Did you honestly get CAPTURED? Then again it wouldn't surprise me I guess. Hey you aren't dead! What gives?"

"YeAh WeLl... We BoOkEd It FrOm ThE mEtEoR aFtEr KiCkInG bIgGeR mE's AsS aNd LaNdEd HeRe."

"You're gotta be shitting me! You honestly crash landed on this planet of dead trolls? How the fuck- no I don't even care. Is Karkat still 8eing a sleeping 8eauty over there?"

"YeAh... PiSsEs Me OfF..."

"I'm sure it does! How a8out I get you guys down-" Vriska was unable to finish her sentence when the whole boat shook.

"FIRE!" Mindfang shouted. Cannon balls started blasting out of her ship and onto Dualscar's, making huge holes in side.

"YOU CRAZY BITCH WWE'RE TWWENTY FEET AWWAY!" Dualscar yelled.

"FIRE YOU IDIOTS!" He began firing as well. Vriska had to duck to dodge one that was coming right at her.

"8luh 8luh huge 8itch yeah yeah I know!~"

"Right 'LITTLE ONE'?" Mindfang said looking down at Vriska with a big, wide, sharp grin.

"Oh my god if you call me that ever again I will kill you."

"Aw too 8ad, you can't." A couple balls hit her ship and all she did was laugh.

"Your aim sucks as usual!"

"YOU can suck my bulge Mindfang, just like old times!" This sent Mindfang into a rage.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY TO ME YOU 8RAINLESS JELLYFISH LIMED CRUSTY NOOK WASTE PIECE OF SHIT?" She screamed. Dualscar laughed at her and ducked as Mindfang threw something at him as hard as she could, spanning all the water between them. It nearly hit him too.

"Alright everyone set the ship! Wwe're gettin' outta here!"

"YOU FUCKING COWARD! I'LL BR8K YOUR WE88ED FINGERS AND TOES ONE 8Y ONE!"

"Not today you wwon't!" He waved snidely as his ship went quickly out to sea, turning off the party lights and everyone became silent. Well everyone but Gamzee.

"HeY mOtHeRfUcKeR, cAn'T yOu UnTiE uS nOw?"

"Wwhat? No shut up up there!" Dualscar whispered a little.

"FuCk nO bRoThEr." Gamzee started flopping around and yelling random things about pie at the top of his lungs, hootin' and hollerin'. Until someone climbed up the post and crammed a huge cloth in his mouth.

"8ASTARD! I'LL FIND YOU YOU HEAR ME!"

"How does his ship move so fast?..." Vriska glared. He got away. With two of her... acquaintances on board who she sorta was gonna save.

"He's pro8a8ly got little fish fuckers under the 8oat swimming as hard as they can. Damn him... Well. In THAT case it looks like I miiiiiiiight have to ask for a little help."

"What? Ask for HELP? From WHO?"

"Well... she might not be willing to help me out... 8ut I'm pretty sure I can... persu8de her."

"Who are we talking about Mindfang?"

"If you're anything like me Vriska then you know exactly who I'm talking a8out." Vriska thought for a moment... then it dawned on her.

"Oh my god, no way. From her? Why?"

"Well she would never let a misdeed go unpunished. Justice must be 8rought. 8sides you want to help those little wrigglers right?" She adjusts her cufflinks and straightens her jacket, then walks back to the helm to steer the ship further out to sea. Vriska stood there and thought. Well yeah she wanted to help... She couldn't believe that Gamzee honestly let someone wrigglernap him and Karkat. It must have been fast... How the hell did they even tie the two of them to the top of the mast like that? Whatever... She hasn't been on shore since she arrived on this planet. Remembering it like it was yesterday... which it was.

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It was dark and the only thing the Scorpio could hear were waves and felt the steady motion of the ocean... Vriska opened her eyes and everything was blurry, but she could feel under her face that there was wood... Her lower half was apparently in the water. Shit. Where were her glasses?... Dammit.

Sitting up proved to be difficult. Her head was spinning and she couldn't recall-... Wait what happened earlier? She remembered standing on the roof of the building back on the meteor and attempted to control the beast that was a giant Gamzee. But then it hit her. The highbloods hand anyway. It ripped through her and she felt like she was falling. That's all she could gather.

"Where am I now?" She feels around for her glasses. Maybe they landed somewhere here on this crappy piece of shit board she was floating on... Shit who was she kidding they were probably broken into a million- there they were! She grabs them and puts them on, looking around quickly.

"W8 a second..." She takes them off a little bit and sees the reflection of her own eyes... her own WHITE eyes.

"Uh oh... I'm dead?" Vriska puts them back on and looks around. She's only on a small piece of wood in the middle of the fucking ocean!...

"Dammit." Only water all around her... This was so not good. She climbs up on the board, but it only makes her sink, so she can only stay put and pout a little. All alone in a vast ocean was sorta depressing.

"Well well well! What a shame, a wriggler's been abandoned." Came a trolls voice. Vriska looked behind her and there was a HUUUUGE ship that was practically ready to run her over. The troll looking at her was an olive blooded older male troll.

"Is that so? Who cares, it's pro8a8ly dead anyhow."

"O-oh my miss, I think you should come look at her. It will surely interest you."

"Are you serious? Jegus, fine." Vriska stares at the older man and waits to see what woman is going to come look at her.

"Hey, can you let me on your ship? I really don't feel like drowning after just dying." Vriska said, making sure to sound bored. Heavy boot steps walked across the portside and a figure looks over the side. Vriska's eyes go wide.

"Oh my god... MINDFANG?"

"What? ... What the hell? Well this is certainly strange indeed. You look just like me when I was your 8ge... What's your name wriggler?"

"V-Vriska! Vriska Serket!"

"Interesting indeed! It sounds like you already know who I am. Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. Bring Miss Serket aboard!"

"Yes ma'am!" Said the older troll and a couple others in the back. Vriska couldn't believe this... The real Spinneret Mindfang was standing in front of her... and letting her on her ship! A life saver was thrown out to her and she grabbed a hold of it tightly with her metal arm. They pulled her up and she dripped all over the wood of the giant ship. But that was hardly the thing she wanted to look at most. Mindfang stood and stared at her with her arms folded.

"Remarkable..."

"I... I can't 8elieve this is real! The real Mindfang!"

"You're a fan? How flattering."

"W-Well that too! 8ut I'm ectobiologically related to you!"

"What the fuck is ectobiologically?"

"It's a long story, 8ut it doesn't even matter 8ecause I'm standing right here with you in front of me! This is fantastic!"

"If you just died then how do you know so much a8out me?" Vriska smiles widely and holds up that metal arm of hers.

"I read your journal! I found it! I read all of your entries!"

"My journal?" Mindfang looked puzzled.

"So it happened to land with you did it? How fitting!"

"We're a lot alike! I mean, other than the fact that you pro8a8ly don't get all worked up when you see your idol..." Now the older troll smiled.

"You think too highly of me."

"Not at all! You're the 8est pirate and your life was complex and 8eautiful! I envied how fantastic your stories were! How Dualscar was your kissmesis even though he didn't really do too good of a jo8."

"Oh no, he was a good kissmesis. He was just..." She scratched her head a little.

"Oh yeah! And a8out that tragic story of you and The Summoner!" A line had been crossed apparently.

"Go get some dry clothes on." Mindfang turned around and went up to the helm. Vriska just stood there in shock. What just happened?... The older olive colored man came up to her.

"This way Miss, we'll give you some dry clothes."

"Oh uh... Thanks." Vriska followed the man down into the cabin and all the way she looked at Mindfang until she disappeared behind the wood... What was wrong?

"Did I say something wrong or what mister?"

"Ah well... She... she won't admit it, but she's particularly sensitive with that subject. She was quite in love."

"Yeah... I guess so..." It appears she'd forgotten that Mindfang wasn't just a character in a 8ook she read for fun... Mindfang was a real person with real feelings... She'd have to apologize after getting some dry clothes on.
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After all was dry and set Vriska walked out back onto the deck and looked around. Mindfang was right at the front of the ship standing with her arms on her hips looking out to the moon. It was white! Weird. Whatever. Vriska walked right up next to her, and Mindfang looked down to see what outfit she'd chosen. It was a nice pair of blue leggings with a poofy black skirt going to her mid thighs, a nice white dress shirt with the fluffy stuff coming out from under the black jacket with gold trimmings and danglies everywhere.

"That looks good on you."

"Thanks. I didn't really have a wide array of clothes 8ack at my hive so I wanted to wear something different... Hey look about what I said earlier. I don't usually do this 8ecause I figure people can just get over it... 8ut I have a lot of respect for you. I'm sorry a8out 8ringing up that guy."

"Summoner..."

"Yeah..." She didn't normally take others feelings into TOO much consideration, but this was MINDFANG. Her IDOL. She didn't want to say "Summoner" in case it would bug her... augh.

"Want to tell me what he was like? Or is that too much for you?" Vriska carefully peeked up at Mindfang who now had a soft smile on her blue lips.

"He was a total idiot. He goofed and joked around all the time, 8ut when it came down to hard times he was serious and thoughtful of everyone. And if someone even looked at me the wrong way he'd give them this look that would make them cower and run... Ah sorry, I don't usually spill my guts like this..."

"It's okay, 8ecause it's me."

"May8e... anyway, I suppose I accept your apology even though its unnecessary."

"Well good. How did you guys meet anyway?" Mindfang was quiet for a second and then chuckled a little.

"Nosy. Just like me.~ I'm proud. I met him when I was having... one of my more unfortun8 days. I'd 8een thrown from my ship and I washed up on shore... He found me and carried me all the way to an abandoned hive he'd often use. I woke up there and of course I was pretty confused. And pissed. 8ut the moment he walked in and I saw those giant horns of his, and how... perfect he looked... and those damn wings. I felt red for him THAT instant. And what he told me later on he felt red the second he saw me on the beach. 8ut I can't really 8lame him." Mindfang put her gloved hand to her chest and smirked.

"I'm a rather attractive troll after all. It was a very good relationship. What I wouldn't do to 8e with him again..." Vriska never thought she'd see Mindfang be so... emotional? She imagined her being this cold stone hearted hardened pirate with only the passion to loot and pillage and to WIN. But she really felt like this all along.

"Sorry again."

"No, your guts are safe with me."

"They'd 8etter 8e."

"So where are we going?"

"WE?" Mindfang smirked and looked down at Vriska.

"Well Duuuuuuuuh I'm coming with you. You can't get rid of me so fast."

"I suppose not. Alright then Vriska, we're off to find someone to pilfer. We're a teensy 8it low on supplies and we could use a little more. Are you prepared to 8attle sweet cheeks?"

"Always." Vriska grinned back at her taller counterpart and off they sailed into the night.

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"Wwhat the fuck is goin' on?" Eridan walked up tiredly, holding the cape close, seeing as how it was so huge compared to his.

"You missed a party Eridan!" Dualscar chuckled.

"That so?"

"Indeed! You wwon't believe who showed up! Someone you may knoww evven you're really similar to me. Mindfang! And her pipsqueek with an eye missin'." Eridan's eyes went wide.

"Wwhat? Vriska?"

"I guess that wwas her name. Mindfang sure got mad when I told her to suck my bulge." He laughed again and Eridan just blushed, looking off to the side.

"Eww! That is so gross Dualscar."

"Yeah, but it pissed her off right quick! I don't knoww howw wwe escaped to be quite honest with ya! I ... can't believve you slept through it all. There were cannon balls flyin' evvery wwhich wway son! Do ya knoww howw loud those suckers are?"

"I guess I wwas tired."

"Obvviously."

"Shit our hostages aren't dead are they?"

"Hell no, the big one wwas bein' loud as fuck wwhen wwe wwere makin' our escape. Wwe had to literally cram a sock in the kids mouth! Is he alwways that loud?"

"He isn't usually LOUD as much as he is annoying with basically evvery wword he says. Just wwait till Kar wwakes up. Actually we should probably them dowwn and put them in the cells if wwe really wwant them to keep quiet. Or at least not givve us awway."

"A man of my owwn heart. Good idea. If you're really tired though you should go lay on an actual bed ya knoww."

"I suppose so... I'll sleep just a wwhile longer."

"Do that. Because tomorroww we're gonna head right to Redglare."

"Wwho?..."

"Neophyte Redglare boy! She'll be sure to help us out wwhen she hears about howw Mindfang's invvolvved."

"... Oh cod, Does Redglare wwear stupid pointy red glasses?"

"Sure does."

"Jegus. I'm gonna get some sleep so I can prepare myself. Night... I guess. Oh do you wwant this back?" Eridan pulls at the cape a little when Dualscar shook his hand a little at him.

"Nah, keep it. Off wwith ya!" Eridan smiled juuuust a little bit and nodded, turned, and walked down into the cabin. It was silent when Eridan finally found somewhere to relax. Something had been weighing heavily on his mind...

"You gonna come out?"

"Hell0. Are y0u h0lding up alright?"

"... I dunno..."

"I kn0w this is hard Eridan, but we have t0 get all 0f them t0gether."

"I fuckin' knoww wwhat wwe havve to do... I just... I really don't knoww wwhat the fuck to do anymore okay?... I... I came to find Dualscar to join up wwith him anywway and showw the others that I didn't fuckin' need them for nothin'... but wwhen you told me..."

"That y0u had t0 betray y0ur ancest0r. It must be difficult."

"Not like you'd fuckin' knoww Aradia... I don't wwanna betray Gam or Kar either though... Wwe ain't friends or nothin' but wwe've all been through a lot together. I even got on Kar's nerves less than usual wwhen wwe wwere in the pod for so long... They're... closer. And just now I fucked it all up by helping Dualscar kidnap them... And with Fef... everyone... Can't anything just go right for me for ten fuckin' minutes?" Eridan laid down and covered up with the cape, hiding his face a little.

"Things will only get harder fr0m n0w 0n... the pr0cess will be l0ng and it will weigh 0n y0ur s0ul. But y0u can't break. Y0u have t0 be str0ng... Are you listening t0 me?" Aradia stepped closer out of the shadows and stared at him. He was asleep. She rolled her eyes a little bit, but covered Eridan up a little bit with the large cape. Then she noticed that his eyes were a little wet, ready to cry right before he went to sleep... Aradia frowned and stroked his hair a little.

"I'm s0rry this is s0 hard f0r y0u... I h0pe that with time... y0u will heal." She backs off into the shadows and disappears leaving Eridan to sleep.

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TO BE CONTINUED.

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