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"The water is background music to the horror of my body."
Unknown quoter
3RD POV
About an hour has passed since the ship captain Chernyy had took control of his vessel and left the port of Hâiyáng for the Faunas nation of Menagerie. As they set sail the four made their way through the worried crowd of Faunas. They had heard stories of those who have ventured out to Menagerie. But Captain Chernyy reassured them that they not only will stop this ship till they arrived but that they have a team of huntsman aboard. This did calmed down the passengers but still they did not feel safe as house. Soon everyone head towards their quarter that they will spend the next week in. Team DTAB has just entered their quarters. It has four bed in the form of a bunk and a dresser beneath the port side window, it was almost like the downside their room at Beacon. Key differences being this place had complimentary mugs and a small table with stools to use.
"(Sigh) Seven days at sea. This should be fun." Dismas remarks sarcastically as he stored his luggage away.
"Well I welcome the idea of being closer to my friends." Bigby replies as he removes his shirt.
"Yes but do remember Bigby. Life on the ocean is like life on an island, very isolated." Amani said as she sat on the bottom bed opposite of Bigby.
"How so?" Bigby asked with a curious look on his face.
"It's more like Prison." Tardif said as he removes his helmet and placed it on top bunk.
"No I strongly disagree, in Prison you don't have friends like you guys." Bigby said as he shook from the memories of those monks.
"Eh Prison is how you make it. So far this feel more like a jailhouse then anything else." Dismas said as he tossed his coat onto the bed.
Before the conversation could continue their was a knock on the door. Everyone looked at each other before Tardif walked to the door as the person on the other side knocked again. Tardif opens the door and the person on the other side accidentally knocks on Tardif. The person on the other side was Zheltyy holding a basket of fruit.
"Oh um hi..." Zheltyy said stunned by Tarif gruff look. She only ever saw him with that terrifying mask and helm on but now without it. His face was something to actually admire terrifying and chipped yet stoic and calm.
"Privet." Tardif asked trying to get her attention.
"Oh, um sorry what?" Zheltyy asked not understanding what Tardif said.
"He said hello." Bigby said walking to the door why'll covering himself in the shroud. "May I ask what made you stop by, if it's not a bother."
"Oh, well you see that gold coin you gave me back in the market is worth a lot of money. I mean a lot." Zheltyy said trying to not blush at Tardif serious stare.
"So you want to refund us?" Dismas asked from his bed.
"Um I was kinda hoping that we can pay you back some other way cause that is a very expensive coin." Zheltyy said with nervous chuckle as she held up the fruit basket. Before anyone could say anything Tardif places his hand on the basket of fruit accidentally touching Zheltyy's hand.
"Keep the change." Tardif said with a small smirk that practically melted Zheltyy.
"Well, oh um thanks." Zheltyy said with a blush before realizing she should have let go of the basket.
"So what are you planing with the coin?" Amani asked as she unwraped her footwear.
"Well the people of Menagerie always wanted one of those CCT so we can communicate with the outside world much better. Thanks to my grandpa work and my fruit stand we made just enough for a cheap one for short distance. That coin you dropped for me will allow us to communicate with people in Vacuo now." Zheltyy said as she hopes in excitement. As she jumped up and down in joy Dismas remembered something.
"Hey um Zheltyy. By chance you know people on the island?" Dismas asked as he sits up on his bed.
"Phss Yea I do. It's a very small island" Zheltyy answer's. Dismas then jumps from his bed and reach inside his jacket pocket pulling out the letter for Blake's parents.
"You see I have a friend back at Beacon who's parents live on the island. She rather keep the part of her letter to home a secret but by chance you know where I can't find this address?" Dismas said holding the stack of letters in hand. He was about to hand it off to her when a loud message for her came over the speaker.
"Would Zheltyy Chernyy please come to the main deck. I repeat Zheltyy Chernyy please report to the main deck."
"Sorry gotta go. Grampa can be real stickler for timing." Zheltyy said as she raced down the halls.
"(Sigh) Something tells me that by the time we reach the bloody island I still won't know who Blake's parents are." Dismas mutters as he walked back to his bunk.
"Oh cheer up. We have seven days to relax before we have to deal with what ever is happening to those poor people." Amani replies as she sits on her bed.
"Heh, Yea guess it won't be... wait what are we going to do for seven days?" Dismas asked as he turns to the three. Usually on expeditions to the manner and it's surrounding lands they would have someone to raise their spirits or entertain them. So with no one knowing what to do for entertainment Tardif reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of dice.
"Bar dice?" He said holding the dice in between his fingers. Dismas thought about it for a moment and grabbed a stool and a few mugs from the counter.
"Eh, only a few hours till sunset I'm down for a few." Dismas Answers as he sat down at the small table across from Tardif. "What about you two pricks. Wanna go a round with me and Tardif?"
"Um, actually why not." Amani said as she sat down at the table.
"I never played Bar dice. Mind explaining the rules?" Bigby asked as he sat down at the table.
Dismas gave a quick run down of the rules and the four began to play. By the end of the day Tardif has the most wins why'll at least Bigby didn't came in last. They had left their rooms and head down to eat their dinner before heading off to an early night. The next few days were a practical blur for the four. Bigby started to feel sea sick after failing to learn how to use his sea legs when the tide and waves started to become rough. Amani simply meditated and said her prayers facing the north west. Granted she has no idea where Mecca is considering that Mecca doesn't even exist on this world. Dismas tried repeatedly to find out about Blake's parents but it seems that the only one on the boat how knows is Zheltyy. She was either to busy because of work to talk or was to busy "checking up on" Tardif. Tardif found himself below deck cooking pastries with fruit he received from Zheltyy in the ship's kitchen. He always left out his pastries out for anyone to take some and this in turn bought him friends on the ship.
Today though was very different from any other day. Thursday morning Bigby raced from his room to vomit out his fish based dinner. Tardif would get out of bed and do some morning pushups. To which Audrey gets up and do some morning prayer before placing a few pillows next to her bed when Dismas wakes from a nightmare and falls off his bed.
"Ugh, Thanks Amani." Dismas groans as he pulls himself up.
"No problem. Speaking of problems it seems you have one. Not that many nights you have nightmares that send you to the ground. What are they about?" Amani asked as she grabs her pillow and place it back on her bed.
"Oh nothing new. Me, alone, surrounded by fog then being haunted by my dead family." Dismas answers grimly.
"Ah, I would pray to Allah that you may find peace one day, but with our life style I highly doubt any of us will." Amani said with a sadden tone all the while looking down at her stub arm. After a few moment Dismas asked.
"Well what about you? Do you still miss her?" Dismas asked softly.
"Every single day. It's bad when a mother doesn't know where her child is. Even worst when the Vizier still seeks to draw me out by any means." Amani replies sorrowfully. Dismas see her begin to tear up so he simply placed his hand on her shoulder to comfort her.
She took solice knowing full well where ever her daughter ended up she is much quicker and smarter then all the Vizier men combined. As she wiped away her tears that started to form Bigby burst in.
"Friends come quick! Something strange is happening outside!" Bigby shouts as he stumbles about the cabin trying to stand still. The group gave each other a confused look before following Bigby out of the cabin and up onto the deck. Their a huge crowd of Faunas passengers came out of their cabins to see something bizarre yet horrifying.
A huge blanket of fog scaling to be bigger then the city walls of Vale. It was so thick people couldn't see anything past that wall. There was also the deep and horrible stench of fish coming from the fog wall. Thought it's most likely coming from the trail of dead fish floating on the oceans surface that is slowly making its way towards them.
"What the hell?" Dismas mutters to himself when the ship came to a slow stop. Afterward the captain came from his post to address the crowd.
"May I have your attention everyone! We seem to have an unfortunate choice in the matter! Either we wait here for conditions to improve or we head through the mist!" Captain Chernyy explains through a megaphone. The crowd of Faunas begins to talk among themselves, arguing over what is the best solution. After discussing a bit captain Chernyy continued his announcement.
"I have been told by many sailors or those who came back with little of their sanity intact that the mist never goes away! Rather it stays as long as the ship does! So with little supplies and tight expenses I looked at both decisions and their consequences if they were to happen, and decided upon that we shall move on through the mist straight for Menagerie!" Captain Chernyy said with some fear in his tone. With that announcement the Faunas crowd begins to panic. They heard stories about mermen deep sea creatures and other sea bottom monstrosity's that make Grimm sea Feilong look like minor nuisance. As they begin to panic Dismas noticed in the corner of his eye something popping it's head out of the water. It disappeared before Dismas had a good look but he had this feeling like they have been watched for a long time. As he looked out into the unnatural dark water the captain called out to try and calm the crowd.
"People please, I know what you have heard but I can guarantee you all that once we enter the mist we will not stop till we reach Menagerie! Hell If I have to I'll personally beached the ship if it means we reach the island!" Captain Chernyy said as tried to calm the crowd. "But should we run into anything, I'll let you know that not only are we armed with modern weapons. But we have a team of Huntsmans that can reassure you all that if their was any mermen that they can handle it with ease."
He then points towards team DTAB who was at the back of the crowd. The crowd looked at the four and they, weren't impressed by what they saw. A cripple a mutilated hobo, a terrifying mute, and a thief standing idly by. The crowd begins to panic even more before Zheltyy came up next to her grandfather.
"People please! My Mother, grandfather, and my ancestors for the past eighty years have taken those who seeked peace on Menagerie took to the seas with little pay and little thanks! Just to help Faunas alike find refuge from the persecution they suffered from! So please trust my grandfather, this is his last trip and he will spend retirement with his family! He wouldn't jeopardize those in need, even when my mother became fatally ill he refused to sell his ship to the Belyy to pay for medical bills! Because he knew that they would have made you pay rediculas prices for second rate room that were once closest! So please trust my Grandfather, we will we to it that you get to the island safe and sound!" Zheltyy pleaded to the crowd. Everyone thought about her words for a moment, murmuring with one another before someone said.
"If you can get me and my family to Menagerie... then let us go through the fog to do so!" A Fox Faunas called out.
"You helped out my father when Belyy raised their prices and lowered the living conditions! So I say we go through the fog if that means sticking it to the Belyy!" A deer Faunas shouts out.
"Yea! Fuck Belyy!" A random Faunas shouts out in the crowd.
Soon the crowd started shouting out agreeing comments and with a quick nod from Captain Chernyy the ship started up again, slow at first but it gain momentum trying to go full speed ahead. Heading towards the fog with no intention of slowing down till they literally crash land on Menagerie. Before they went through the fog a sudden shift in the temperature from hot tropical to a late fall feeling. Everyone felt a cold shiver go down their spines as the fog blankets the ship. Before the fog covered the ship in the corner of Dismas eye he could have sworn he'd seen multiple things swimming beneath the surface towards them.
Days have gone by and they had yet to reach Menagerie. The cold fog caused those who went prepared to hide in their room for warmth. Those who were superstitious hid next to those for protection. Those who had family's had them down in their rooms for safety. Essentially a lot of passengers held each other regardless if they were even related for multiple reasons. Dismas however was fine since he had his jacket and scarf so he wore it. Still despite getting the last laugh over Amani about not wearing clothes suited for the climate he still felt like something was off. Almost like they were being watched from afar by something ancient and malfeasance beneath the dark depths. To most it's like a bad omen or a sign to turn back, to the four however it is a familiar sense of dread. It was the abyss and it stared back at them.
Still despite the conditions and the dread they haven't ran into Grimm Mermen, or abominations from the depths. That unnerved the team more, it's always calm before the storm. So they took to finding different ways to relax. Amani did multiple and sometimes convoluted stretch's, Bigby mediated, Tardif kept cooking, and Dismas is currently smoking his pipe at the front of the deck. As he smoke his thoughts trailed off thinking back to Beacon, living a fake pass with a team of warriors from different backgrounds and tragedies. Living with team RWBY just reminds him of his earlier days at the manner. Him, Reynauld, Junia, Paracsus. "The Usual Suspects" he would jokingly call them. And just like the usual Suspects he became friends with the determin leader of team RWBY. Actually sometimes it felt like talking to a younger more rambunctious Reynauld some times, difference being that she is rambling about weapons rather then religion. Still after returning from their latest mission she has been very distant. Ozpin did told her everything, guess she is trying to digest what she now knows to be the honest truth.
"Heh, ignorance is truly bliss." Dismas mutters as he looked out towards the water as he puffed a ring of smoke. As he thought about life back at Beacon he heard the slow footsteps of someone behind him.
"You know they say smoking isn't healthy for you." Captain Chernyy said as he walks over to him with his own pipe in hand. "But then again I know that look. I had that same look when my daughter died so by all means take what little comfort you can get."
Dismas gave a slight chuckle before holding up and offering a box of matches. Chernyy leans forward and Dismas stroke the match and lit his pipe. After a few puffs Captain Chernyy leans back and the two begins to smoke.
"So what seems to be troubling you lad? I know these young kids like to brood and think life is completely miserable, but you definitely don't look the type. So what is on your mind?" Captain Chernyy asked.
"Problems with a friend." Dismas responds as he takes a few puffs and blew another smoke halo. "Let's just say that I have done some things I ain't proud of and she found out about them."
"Ah, how bad can these past deeds be?" Captain Chernyy asked as he attempted to do a smoke halo only for it to come out messy.
"Theft, assault, murder." Dismas said while Chernyy choked on his smoke.
"Well... you certainly have been fortunate to get a second chance from a man like Ozpin." Chernyy said as he took a long drag from his pipe.
"Would have hanged otherwise." Dismas half lied. The two went back to being quiet before Chernyy dumped the ashes overboard.
"If you are willing to take an old man word. Find a way to fix your relationship with your friend. When my daughter died giving birth to my granddaughter, my wife blamed my son in law for her death. Heh even I was looking for someone to blame. I'll admit I wasn't as supportive of her choice in our daughters choice to date a Faunas much less marrying one. Still she insisted that if she had to start all over knowing full well how it will end. She wouldn't have changed a thing. So I helped co-dad her why'll he was mourning her death. Overtime he pulled himself together piece by piece and we became good friends. My point is, don't let this leak sink the ship. Try and fix it so you don't loose a friend." Captain Chernyy said before giving a polight nod and walking back towards the helm of the ship.
Dismas watched as he disappeared through the fog. Once gone he turned back to the ocean. He thought about captain Chernyy words. Kinda reminds him of Baldwin words. He missed that rotting friend but still he did say small words that had great meaning behind them. He chuckled to himself remembering his past friends. After his brief laugh he actually put some serious thoughts into Chernyy's words. He looked upwards to see a cracked moon hidden behind the fog and decided to himself that he will sit down with Ruby and talk with her. As he looked upwards he hears another pair of footprints. Instead of the sound of boots moving up and down the creaky old wooden boat, it was more like a wet flopping sound. Like something with fins learned to walk on two legs. Still despite never hearing the sound like this aboard the ship before it was still familiar.
He turns around to see to his shock multiple dark figures pulling themselves up from the water and onto the ship. All of them are armed with harpoons and cutlasses. What worried him the most was the fact that they don't look remotely human or Faunas, more fish like them anything which means.
"(Sigh) I fucking hate fish." Dismas said as he pulls out his blade and flintlock getting ready to fight when some of the fishmen green glowing eyes the pierced the fog turn its attention to Dismas.
The scene then shifts to Tardif, who was in the kitchen cutting up the remaining fruit to make a Kisiel. As he cooked, one of the creatures that had boarded the ship quietly snuck in. It was was covered In scales from head to toe. It's eyes were a low glowing green, and it's gills where showing. It silently moved forward on its unexpected pray taking its time to aim it's harpoon. It lets out a cruel snicker before taking a step forward and missing his shot entirely. What the fishmen didn't realize was that Tardif laid some Caltrops on the ground, and before it threw the harpoon it just stepped on it. This caused the Fishmen to scream in pain as he tosses the harpoon against the wall near Tardifs head. As it kneeled there in pain Tardif looked down at his desert he was making. The harpoon May have missed him but it did cause a few spices to fall onto his cups with the jello inside. Ruining his cooking.
Tardif looked down at his ruined Kisiel with his stoic look on his face. He continues to stare as the fishmen in the background kept calling out for help in its native tongue. After a few moments the Fishmen was silence when Tarif tossed a meat cleaver right at the fishmen head. It nearly spit it in two as hit fall to the ground dead.
"... What a waist of good food." Tradif said stoically as he walks over and prys the cleaver from the head with some effort. As he inspects the cleaver he can hear screams and panic of the passengers and sailors alike as hoards of fishmen killing without remorse or distinction. Soon Fishmen can be heard racing down towards his position.
"(Sigh)... I don't get payed enough for this." Tardif said as he pulls a flashbang from his pocket and tossed it out into the hall towards the hoard of fishmen. Once blinded he raced forward cleaver held high and his attention never dulled by the crude tear gas. As he fought through the hoard the scene shifts to down the hall towards the passengers deck, where a few sailors mounted a defense.
Earlier on deck the fishmen caught the sailors off guard. All those who were on topside were butchered with little resistance. Still even though all died grizzly from rust harpoons and sea salt stained cutlasses their sacrifices gave warning for those below to arm themselves. The sailors managed to hold strong against the waves of fishmen, but they started to be pushed back against the wall. It got so bad that the sailors started ordering an evacuation of the ship once they got word that the fishmen had destroyed the engine.
"Oh, my Oum. The hell these creatures be?" One sailor shouts as he blast a Fishmen away with his dust shotgun.
"For Monty's sake who cares just kill em!" Another sailor replies as he blast another with a dust pistol.
The crew fought hard as they quickly exhausted their ammunition piercing the scaley hide of the fishmen. It got so bad that by the time they ran out of ammo was shen the halls was knee high in fishmen corpses. The crew began to panic as they started to get slaughtered from the lack of ammo, one sailor would have met his end of it was for a timely hard slap of a chain like wip.
"Board you life raft now. I'll hold these fishmen off!" Bigby shouts as he tears his new shirt off.
The sailors would have argued that it was suicidal if it wasn't part that Bigby quickly transformed right in front of the sailors eyes. They watched as Bigby in his transformation state begins to rip and tear the fish folk to pieces like paper. After watching Bigby rip a head spine and all still attached from one fishmen they listen to his words and ran. A little faster then the passengers. As they raced down the halls with screams of dying passengers and sailors surrounding them they quickly spotted the stairs leading totopside. They reached topside to be greeted by dozens of Fishmen alike, diminishing any hope for survival till a spear pierced one in the head. Amani quickly raced forward grabbing her spear and started dancing around the dozens of fishmen. She carefully spin around them avoiding and taunting them till an opening allowed her to thrust her spear into their chests.
"Get to the boats! Get to shore now!" Amani shouted out to the stunned group. They continued to watch as she flipped upward before landing elegantly on a circle of blades and slitting all their throats. The crew members shook their heads before moving towards the life boats. They quickly instructed the passengers to board the boat with women and children first. As the passengers slowly board the boat an explosion can be heard and felt beneath their feet. The ship's engines must be under siege since bits and pieces of the engine blasted through the ship's floor.
Two boats full of passengers where launched from the ship to safety. The rest hurried to board the next ones. As the crowd hurried aboard Zheltyy moved through the crowd reaching one of the sailors.
"Carre, where's my grandpa!" Zheltyy asked in a panic.
"Fraid not. I believe he's in the helm." The sailor replies why'll helping a Faunas onto the boat.
Zheltyy quickly turned around and pushes her way through the crowd. She finally managed to break free from the crowd and raced in towards the bridge of the ship. As she ran through the halls smoke begins to fill the halls causing her to cough and hack. She couldn't see the puddle of blood but by then it was too late. She slipped and fell on her ass. As she looked around she panicked to see multiple bodies of mutilated men, butchered women, and shredded children corpses surrounding her. She could see their lifeless eyes piercing into her soul. Their faces described horror and agony in their cruel final moments. Worst yet she was the one who reassured their safety, she lead them to their demise. As her mind try's to contemplate her horrible choice she hear a small sniffle coming from a room near her. She quickly pulls herself together and crawls through sludge of blood and gore to avoid the smoke. She took a turn and spotted a dog Faunas girl hiding under what is presumed to be her mother. As the child cries Zheltyy slowly approaches the child. She can vaguely see through the smoke that the dog Faunas had black hair and a pale complexion. Reason why she was so pale was from the huge splint sticking out of her stomach close to some vital organs.
"(Cough, cough) Hey, can you move?" Zheltyy asked cautiously as she moved towards the child. The child didn't reply rather continued to cry into her dead mothers lifeless corpse. After a few more moments Chernyy try's to get the child to move out from under but she instinctively bit her hand.
"L-Leave me alone!" The child shouted back through her tears.
"Ugh, Kid, listen. The boats starting to catch on fire and if we don't evacuate we may die. Please we need to go." Zheltyy said tryouts to Cox the child into leaving.
The child thought about it for a moment before noticing two figures looking like fishmen right behind her. She let's out a scream warning Zheltyy of what's behind her. She barley had time to avoid the first slash from the fishmen cutlass but the second one stabbed her through her left eye socket. It thankfully didn't hit her brain but destroyed her eye entirely. She fell backwards against the wall in agony as she scratches at her eye trying desperately to remove the blade. She fails to do so and laid back against the wall looking at her attacker's. Her eyes widened in horror as she see's the first Fishmen tossing the mother's carcass aside so rudely before picking up the screaming child with a sickening laughter. The other one was different compared to the other. For one this one had white clothes on, had actually clean weapons. But what shook her to her core was a big fancy Belyy logo pin to it's clothes. It gave a small chuckle as it removes its face mask revealing a fishmen like face except less scaly. It then raised its blade with a sinister smirk on its face all why'll the child screams out for help in the background. She watches as the blade was brought back ready to strike. In an instant her life life flash before her eyes as the monstrosity saviores the moment before plunging its blade.
The blade never pierced her heart. Rather a sharp meat hook caught itself on its jaw like a fish on a hook. It cries out in pain when the hook was pulled back sending it to the ground. Zheltyy could barley see what was happening with her missing eye. What she saw was a fuzzy and blurred man racing inwards with a hook and executioners axe at the ready. The first fishmen holding the child swings it's cutlass down at the stranger only for him to block with the handle and deliver a powerful left hook, send the beast to the ground. The second fishmen raced over with another knife trying to gut stab the man to which he side stepped him getting the rope wrapped around its face. The first fishmen let's go of the child and raced over to the attacker with intention of running him through. Instead the man side stepped the creature before reliving it of his hands. It fell to the ground crying in pain before the stranger quickly grabbed it's head and placed it on a fallen board piece before curb stomping it. The other fishmen tries to remove the rope from its mouth, but failed before it could even get a chance. The stranger had pulled against the rope causing it to tighten all across its face. It screams out in a garble for mercy but the stranger simply tightens the rope till finally the Belyy Fishmen head caved in.
The Belyy fishmen fell down dead and the fuzzy grey blur sighs in relief as he comes over to collect the hook. He then approached the child and reached out for her. The child quiver in fear for a bit till finally she relented and held out her hand. The stranger slowly picked her up and carried her gently so the splitter wouldn't go any deeper. He placed what look like a rag over her face and nose before making it's way over. Upon closer inspection Zheltyy recognizes that the grey figure is Tardif.
"... the Belyy's... they did..." Zheltyy mutters as Tardif wraps a wet cloth over her mouth to stop the smoke.
"Noted." Tardif interrupted as he picks her up with her arm over his shoulder. He carried both through the burning ship straight for the life boats. It was probably the blood loss or how dangerously close the blade was to piercing her brain but as soon as they got the the stairs leading up Zheltyy rememberers why she came here.
"Wait, w-what... about my... g-grandpa, Captain Chernyy?" Zheltyy asked as the ascended up the stairs.
"..." Tardif replies. He didn't had to say it but Zheltyy knew what he meant by being silent. She closed her remaining eye and begins to weep as they exited on to the deck.
As they walked through the deck the scene pulls back towards the helm of the ship. Inside the turn house multiple men laied down dead with their bodies completely mutilated. Only one person seemed to be mostly intact. Captain Chernyy lays against the wall blood soaked and half mad from he what he had just witnessed. Still despite the overwhelming hoard they put up a fight till the bitter end. As Captain Chernyy laid their drenched in his own blood a fishmen walked into the room. He tries reaching for his gun with his right hand till he remembered that he doesn't have an right arm anymore. The fishmen crackles cruelly Chernyy reaches for his gun with his left. Seeing it was fruitless he gave up, and instead went for his pipe inside his jacket.
"Don't suppose you have a lighter?" Captain Chernyy asked sarcastically as he puts his pipe to his mouth. The fishmen replies with a cruel crackle as it raised its cutlass for a decapitation swing when the sudden cocking of a flintlock can be heard.
"No, but will matches do the trick?" A blood covered Dismas asked before blasting the fishmen's brains all over the windows and walls.
Captain Chernyy lets out a small chuckle before coughing up blood. As he coughs Dismas knelt down beside him and helped him with his pipe. Lighting the match and lit the tobacco inside Chernyy pipe. He took a few puffs before blowing a smoke halo.
"Heh, fucking nailed it." Captain Chernyy said before coughing more blood. "So how bad do I look? I'm guessing not so good since I can't feel my shooting arm."
"Yea ain't nothing I can do." Dismas said as he stands up. He looks down to see Amani, Bigby, and Tardif defending the final few passengers who where being evacuated.
"Well theirs one last thing." Captain Chernyy said as he grits his teeth to hold his pipe in his mouth. He then held out his left arm to be helped up. Dismas replies and he helps the Captain to his feet why'll trying hard to not make it painful. He then motioned for Dismas to bring him to the wheel. He brought the Captain to the wheel and he used it like a crutch.
"I'll be honest kid. I ain't gonna make it, best you leave me to die any other Captain. With his ship." Captain Chernyy said as he blew smoke from his nose. He then used his stump left arm and points forward.
"Before the attack my men spotted the island. Should be a few miles off shore. Which mean just west of us is some rocks. I'll give you five minutes head start before I crash the ship into the rocks and send these devils into abyss from where they came.
Dismas looked out the window and noticed the rocks looking a jagged and sharp. If you were looking for a way to ram a ship that would be the place.
"Alright, guess this is goodbye then." Dismas said with a nod as he goes to the door and hears a group of fishmen head up the stairs.
"Yes so it seem." Captain Chernyy said grimly while Dismas barricades the door. "Do me a favor young lad."
"Sure." Dismas said as he finished barricading the door.
"Tell my granddaughter that I will be waiting with her mother. That we love her very much as well." Captain Chernyy said as He took a long drag before blowing another halo.
Dismas gave a nod as he grabbed a shotgun from one of the dead sailors. He aimed and blasted the window to pieces.
"God spead you magnificent bastard." Dismas said before leaping through the window.
He landed on the ground with a thud but quickly pulled himself up. He quickly raced towards the life boats where his team was fighting off the hoard's of fishmen. He quickly joined in with fight by shooting a stubborn fishmen off Bigby's back before sliding under him and parrying a slash.
"How long before everyone evacuates!?!" Dismas shouts as he kicks down hard on the fishmens leg giving him time to circle around with his blade dragging along it's throat.
"We just need a few minutes!" Amani replies as she blocks a slash from a cutlass, before bashing the fishmen in the head and piercing it's skull with her spear with an eyeball still attached.
"Oh great, well heads up but unless you want go down with the ship they need to hurry!" Dismas shouts as he struggles to get a fishmen off him when Tardif gave a strong uppercut that sent it flying overboard.
"Captain going down?" Tariff asked with a gruff tone as he uses his rope knife to slash at multiple fishmen with ease.
"Ship and all!" Dismas shouts as he blasted a grape shot into a school of fishmen.
"(Growling and roaring noises)" Bigby shouts as he bites the head clean off as he went on monstrous rampage.
"Um, what did he say?" Dismas asked as he pulls back his head as one fishmen snaps at him. Tardif looks over and paused before saying "Rocks."
"Rocks?" Dismas asked as he turns to look behind him to see massive rocks coming out from the water. He then realized that they either just waisted their five minutes or the rocks were much closer then he first thought. "Oh bugger, fucken rocks!"
The three look in shock along with the passengers who were evacuating. In an instant he ship crashes into the rocks causing everyone including the fishmen to take a tumble. After a few moments an explosion went off in the back of the ship and slowly a domino effect of explosions happened.
"Abandoned ship!" Tardif barks to the remaining Faunas and sailor who didn't even think twice as they jump over board.
Everyone from the Faunas passengers to the sailors then lastly to jump were Tardif and Amani, why'll Dismas was a bit hesitant since he couldn't swim. Before he could have another though Bigby quickly grabbed him and jumped from the ledge as the ship explodes sending them flying outwards. The two screamed as the plumet towards the water below. After a short time a de-transformed Bigby came to the surface, gasping for air while holding Dismas jacket.
"Dismas, Dismas, Dismas!" Bigby cries out as he struggles to swim with all his chains on board. As he struggles to swim a hand reaches out to him, and pulls him up onto an overturned life boat. He looks over to see his teammates and a few others holding on for dear life.
"(Cough, Cough) Amani, Tardif! Have you seen Dismas?" Bigby asked as he struggles to breath. Both of them have solum shakes to let him know that they had no idea. Bigby completely distraughted held on tightly to his friends jacket before calling out for him. Meanwhile below the tide Dismas sinked like a rock.
As he struggles to attempt to swim his leg was grabbed by something and he was being pulled to the depths by the fishmen. As he struggles he noticed that his surrounding's was of a ship graveyard, and a crate of Schnee brand fire dust was floating within firing range. Normally a flintlock wouldn't work under water or even in the rain because of wet power, but his flintlock was special made. So he quickly pulls his flintlock and fires at the crate. The crate suddenly explodes with tremendous force lighting up the abyss and revealing multiple marine devils surrounding him. This would have been the end of it wasn't for the serious of chain reactions of explosions caused by that box of dust. The graveyard light up in pressure and fire scarring the Fishmen away. Dismas was still drowning but the explosion knocked loose an air tight crate sending it to the surface with him holding on. The box brought him to the surface and he gasp for air as he held tightly.
"(Cough, Cough) Bigby! (Cough, gasp, Cough) Amani! (Cough, Cough, gasp) Tardif!" Dismas call out all why'll refusing to let go of the crate. His calls for his friends were left in answered as the screen pulls out of him in the mist of the fog with no way of seeing a massive ghost ship floating offshore with a cruel pirate flag flying highly.
Hello everybody Wombag1786 here.
So sorry for the late chapter, I have been off my A-game and some work has been wiped from my computer. In any case I'm back in college and I'm trying to fix my schedule. So with that said let's answer some questions.
From Gold crown dragon: yes, bit of an understatement. But yes old rich guys do ruin everything. 'Cough' Trump, 'Cough'.
Thanks for writing Gold crown Dragon
Carre: 1. Eh don't worry, I spent the vacation playing 76. (I know it's bad but Damn does my character look savage over a dead mothman in photo mode.)
2. Yep, Yep, and... toes? You mean the SS Clark?Its Actually named after Issac Clark from Dead Space.
3. Eh they will have the same clothes, the only time they will have different clothes is for the story or comedic effects. Like Bigby in a Hawaiian shirt. That sound to funny to imagine.
4. Well empires rise and empires fall. Essentially the world was threatened at the turn of an era near the Renaissance. Like sometimes during the hundred year war. Actually one of Marvin Seo characters feels a little bit based off of Joan of Arc. As for the world, it wasn't exactly the end of the world. That would happen if Reynauld hadn't fought the heart of darkness. Still it is the heart of the world and what do you expect to happen when you righteously punch the worlds heart with fanatical conviction and justice. It definitely caused a huge chain reaction in the worlds tectonic plates.
5. A. Thanks, I do love to make as many reference as possible so it will be like a scavenger hunt. Anyways this arc should be a big 'splash' with those familiar with H.P work, but I do try to 'swim' out to other references.
5. B. No there was gonna be a party but before season two starts which is a bit away now.
6. Thanks. At this point I need to get a box of thumbs I have received. Thankfully I know a bushmen or two who make good necklaces from them.
7. Hey I was having trouble with this one chapter so since you've been around I left you a little Easter egg as a way of thanks for sticking around. Seriously your and everybody else's feedback helps this story.
Please Fav and Fol the story and leave a comment. This is Wombag1786 signing off.
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