Kestrel

Chapter 9

The last voyage.

Hawx kestrel furiously pounded his fists into a very unfortunate Griffin that he had somehow brought down to the ground. Beside him lay the bodies of three school students that hadn't been able to defend themselves from the creature. It wasn't Hawx's fault of course, The city was in flames with the Grimm running riot through the streets. Had Hawx got there in time he would have been able to save them. The Griffin finally stopped moving and began to fade.

"where do you think you're going!" Hawx yelled.

Behind him an Ursa roared. Hawx spun around and readied his fists.

"You want some too huh?" He grunted.

The Ursa roared again, and then started to flinch violently. A squad of Atlesian Knights had found the monster and opened fire. The Ursa still managed to tear its way through two of them before it finally fell down. The surviving knights lowered their weapons and advanced slowly towards the dead. Hawx pointed to the building next to them.

"could be some survivors in there."

The knights stopped, they were all facing him. Hawx raised an eye brow, sill panting heavily. The Knights Visors weren't shinning their usual blue. Instead they were glowing red. The knights raised their dust rifles as Hawx took a step back raising his hands.

"hey! Easy I'm on your side!"

The knights opened fire.

The docks were now littered with the bodies of dead Vale soldiers. There bodies lay broken and bloody all around, thick pools of blood collecting around them. Bones had the last survivor pinned underneath his foot, Slowly crushing his rib cage. In his hand he held his great buster sword, still wrapped in its protective sheath. Bones looked around him searching for something new to entertain him. It was just as he felt a satisfying crunch beneath his foot that He spotted something in the corner of his eye. There was someone in the water by the dock. A girl, a beautiful dark haired young girl who seemed to be wearing a bikini. Bones watched the girl for a moment, his expression unchanging. Bones advanced on the girl. She was humming a perfect tune, a tune so alluring he couldn't pull himself away from it, Bones started to feel a little drowsy. He knelt down in front of the girl and reached a hand toward her face. The girl smiled and vanished into a cloud of smoke. It was only then that Bones noticed the thick cloud of black smoke engulfing the docks behind him. He looked around him his expression changing just slightly to one of slight pleasure. Finally, some entertainment.

Of course, Bones couldn't have anticipated what came next. He wasn't sure how it got there and frankly didn't care that much. There was a ghost ship silently gliding through the water towards him. It was an old Galion glowing a dull green, its sails holed and its timber bow rotten. The ghost ship pulled up thirty yards from the docks. A lone man stood at the edge of the jibboom extending from the ship.

"Yar look what we have here boys! A land lubber looking for a fight."

Called the Captain. Three more members of Team PIRT appeared. The girl disguised as a man. Indy Rodgers with his anchor chain weapon slung over his shoulder, and the hook handed fighter who went by the name of Rouge Wan but insisted his name was Rogue.

Bones grinned from ear to ear. He laughed just once. It was a vile evil skin twisting sound that would have made anyone shiver.

"Ha. A pirate Gimmick." Mocked Bones.

The Captain watched him for a second staring at him intently, then looked to the bodies around the docks.

"Yar! Prepare yourself for the fight of your life scallywag! Men prepare the cannons!"

With the captains words the crew moved to their positions, they readied three cannons on the port side of the ship and lit the fuses. The cannons all fired at the same time, Bones stood his ground as the shells exploded around him. Engulfing his position in a thick cloud of smoke.

"Yar good hit me arties!" called the Captain.

And then, all of their expressions dropped as the smoke faded. Bones was still standing, he was completely unfazed.

"Rouge! Bring up the heavy cannon. If he wants a fight we'll give him one!"

Rouge groaned unpleased and fetched the heavy cannon.

"You heard him lad get the heavy cannon" called Indy.

Rouge wheeled up a far more impressive cannon at least twice the size of the others they had previously used, Rouge lit the fuse. Bones cocked his head slightly as the cannon fired. A massive projectile raced towards him. Bones didn't take a step, he raised his left hand and the wind picked up. The black mist behind him was blown away in an instant. To the horror of team PIRT the cannon shell slowed as it reached Bone's hand until finally stopping a few inches from his body.

"What!" Cried the Captain.

The wind continued and the cannon shell started to drift back towards the ship with increasing speed.

"Abandon Ship!" Yelled the captain.

The cannon shell struck the vessel at Midships splitting it into two half's as the team leapt from the deck landing on the docks surrounding Bones. Rouge swapped his hook hand for a flint lock pistol. The captain drew his weapons and Indy started to swing his anchor. The ghost ship faded away leaving no trace of it ever existing.

"Yar we will avenge our vessel!"

Tyler produced a large cutlass that was far more reminiscent off a buster sword as it was nearly as tall as she was. Bones flicked his weapon to the side. The sheath flew off into the distance leaving his massive weapon out and open for everyone to see. Just before the handle the sword held a large revolver chamber and a barrel extended to the tip of the blade. Bones started to move in a circle, weighing up his opponents.

"Hold men!" growled the captain.

Tyler moved in first, swinging her cutlass high. She attacked Bones directly from behind. Bones spun around in the blink of an eye deflecting her strike and threw her off balance, as she was lifted from the ground Bones activated his semblance, a huge gust of wind blew her away into a nearby container. Bones swung back around deflecting a strike from Indy's Anchor. The captain and Rouge both dived in Rouge fired his one shot while the captain began cycling through his arsenal of pistols. Bones ducked and weaved through the bullets, none of them making contact with his body. He launched his sword into Rouge and sent a gust of wind slamming into the Captain.

Rouge's aura strength was halved from the hit while the captain was able to recover. Indy launched his anchor towards Bones. Bones slipped under the attack, Indy pulled the weapon back hoping to catch him from behind. Bones turned around launching a blast of air throwing the anchor off. Tyler attacked from the flank she leapt into the air and swung her blade down with a confident grin. Bones held out one hand and caught the sword. Tyler tried to pull her sword out of his grasp but Bones held it steady. He pulled Tyler towards him grabbing her neck with his free hand. Tyler struggled as Bones started to squeeze. the captain, Indy and Rouge all attacked at once. Rouge and the captain ran in. Bones launched Tyler into Rouge knocking them both away. The captain moved in close throwing a hard-right hook at Bones. Bones caught that as well. With his free hand he gave the captain a heavy blast of wind and sent him away, no sooner then the Captain left his hand Indy's anchor whizzed past his head. Bones narrowly dodged the strike but turned to Indy with a menacing glare that screamed his hatred. Bones didn't immediately run to Indy, first he ran for his sword. As Bones took hold of the weapon Tyler returned swinging for his head. Bones easily blocked the strike and swung at Tyler. His blade coming down on her with full force. Tyler buckled under the strike, she was too slow to block the attack, and also failed to block the second strike from Bones's fist. Tyler was slammed into the wall of a nearby building. She lay dazed and confused, her blurred vision showing her friends attacking Bones again and again. Each attack was deflected and someone launched away. Tyler picked up her sword and ran forward. Bones knocked Indy and The Captain away, Rouge attacked again but Bones was ready, Bones raised his sword pointing it straight at him and pulled the trigger. The bullet tore through what was left of Rouges Aura and slammed into his chest. The force of the impact knocked him away and he didn't get back up.

"Indy!" yelled the Captain "Lets kill this Bastard!"

"Eye Captain, Lets kill him!" replied Indy.

Bones swung his sword a few times as Indy and the Captain both rushed him. Indy launched his Anchor again, Bones raised his semblance to deflect it. The Captain launched a volley of small golden coins At bone's feet.

"Feast your eyes ye land lubber!"

The Captain's eyes started to glow gold. Bones stared right into them.

Tyler stopped her assault.

"You got him cap!" She yelled with Glee.

Bones starred at the Captain still unflinching, Indy moved round to the side and launched his anchor again. Bones didn't even have to move his hand this time, He activated his semblance, though instead of launching the anchor away from him, He hit Indy from behind with the blast, launching Indy towards him. Indy had just enough time to scream as he flew into Bones. Bones swung his sword just once slicing through Indy's aura. And his chest. Indy rolled across the ground leaving a trail of Blood and fell still.

Tyler and the Captain stood in silence. Tyler dropped to her knees, her eyes filling with Tears. The Captain turned to Bones with burning hot rage in his eyes.

"Demon Bastard." He growled.

The Captain shot towards bones with immense speed.

"Captain wait!" cried Tyler.

But her words reached him too late. Bones swung his sword as they passed one another, severing the captains right leg at the knee from his body. He screamed from the pain. The Captain hit the ground hard and rolled to the side. Bones turned his attention to the one remaining fighter. Tyler's fake beard had fallen from her face after taking her last hit. Bones considered her for a moment. The Captain pulled himself up as best he could.

"Tyler!" He groaned. "You were a woman all this time? Gah, no wonder we always failed. our voyage was cursed from the beginning."

Tyler grit her teeth, still crying she raced towards Bones. Bones took no enjoyment in the fight, he put just the necessary amount of effort into blocking her first few strikes then shattered the rest of her aura with a final swing. Tyler landed beside the captain.

"Tyler…" he grunted. "get out of here, save yourself!"

Bones advanced on the Captain. He pointed the barrel of his gun sword towards his head. Tyler jumped up putting herself between them, too weak to use her sword she stood between the men with her arms apart.

"I won't let you do this!" she cried "You'll have to kill me first!"

Bones shrugged, he raised the sword above his head.

"Ok then."

Bones brought the blade down with his full strength. Tyler closed her eyes and readied herself for the blow.