Peek a boo, I see you! I can see you from behind. I am watching you read this and you should lay down and read this. Just in case it gets weird...well too late for that part.
Viper4K: Oh you definitely had a help in making the chapter come out sooner. As do each favoriter, follow and review. And each awesome review I see reminds me that good people read this and like it and that motivates me to do more. And the gryphon bit was my favorite part to write. I enjoyed giving the gryphon a personality that fits it rather than have it as a sign of power.
SnapDragon21: Hmm, you are quite the abnormality. Four reviews of yours to wake up to…I will answer them all! First one: yes! Second one: indeed! Third: yes! Fourth: yes! Although the main difference is he got in a fight with the animal and Snow White loved them and Yuudai got in a fist fight with one. Whether or not Snow White had an little "fun time" with the animals is debatable.
BEGIN THE STORY FOR GLORY!
Chapter 13: Pirate Troubles
"Albion is in sight!" The lookout announces loudly for everyone on the ship to hear.
Yuudai sighs opening his eyes. He only got a few hours of sleep. After all, arguing and fist fighting with a gryphon is a time waster for sure. Yuudai moves his finger along a long scratch across his cheek. It isn't deep so it'll heal over eventually.
Unfortunately for the gryphon, it also has a lot of bruises. The two were watched by the crew and the other two travel partners. The crew was in awe and Louise and Wardes were a mix of disappointed and amused. Yuudai and the gryphon finally stopped once they knocked each other out at the same time. That was about an hour after they started fighting.
"Note to self. Never fist fight with a gryphon." He says to himself out loud.
"That isn't a bad idea. Now if only I could believe in you to not do that again." Louise says sitting beside him.
Yuudai grins at her amused. "Silly Blanc, I wouldn't fist fight with a gryphon again. I promise."
She sighs in relief, but then she glares at him. "You are going to use your sword next time. Aren't you?" Louise accuses.
Yuudai laughs. "You are catching on Blanc dearest." He says playfully.
"Why are you so playful now?" She asks suspicious of him.
Yuudai keeps smiling while turning his gaze to the gryphon that is glaring at him from across the deck. "Because it seems to tick it off." He answers sounding really pleased with himself.
Louise sighs. "Why must you antagonize it?"
He sets himself on a straight face. "Need to have fun before I go risking my life again. Appreciating life while I can."
Louise ponders on this for a while. "Unknown ship on a course toward us!" The guy from earlier yells frantically. "I'd doesn't have a flag! Pirates!"
Yuudai shoots up to his feet. "There there shouldn't be pirates without the caribbean!" Yuudai stops himself giving himself a pat on the back. "So many references to be made in this deprived world." He says to himself playfully. A cannonball shoots ahead of us shooting Yuudai's happy mood through the heart.
"They are signaling for us to stop!" The sailor tells the captain.
"Wrap the sails and stop the ship." He replies.
Yuudai growls a bit at the black ship as Louise tries to hide beside Yuudai. "We are pirates! Stop the ship!"
"Pirates?" Louise asks in fear.
"Go to hell!" Yuudai yells back. The whole crew look at him with wide eyes. They can't believe what he just said even when they have guns and other weapons as the climb on over. He grabs hold of his sword as Wardes lays a hand on his should.
"These aren't armed barbarians. They have cannons pointed at us. You got to measure their strength if you wanna live on the battlefield." Wardes tells him. "They might have mages on their side."
"I don't give a damn if they do or not." He growls back. "They want to get in my way, so now I get to exact some stress they created."
A extravagant man with an eye patch jumps on board not looking to happy. He glares at Yuudai whom is glaring right back. "Are you the captain boy?"
"No, but if you try anything then I promise I will get you like a pig." Yuudai threatens with his sword in hand.
The pirate smirks. "Quite the confidence you have there boy. You dare threaten me when I have cannons aimed right at your ship?"
"They wouldn't dare shoot the ship with their own captain on it. Unless you are expendable." Yuudai tells him putting a frown on the pirate leader.
"That is a fair point boy." The captain says. "Tell me your name boy."
Yuudai stays silent for a minute glaring at him. "My name is Yuudai."
The pirate leader nods. He then pulls out a real gun. "Any last words?"
Yuudai turns to Louise. "I told you there are guns in this world. How did you never know?" Before she could answer her familiar, he turns back to the pirate. "Try to shoot me. I dare you." Yuudai says.
"Don't be stupid." Wardes tells him quietly.
Yuudai looks at Wardes from the corner of his eye. "Back off Viscount. This is my battlefield, so stay clear before you step on a landmine." Yuudai tells him.
"My gun is going to talk now." The pirate leader says firing off a loud bang. Yuudai swings his sword around that hits the bullet so hard that it is deflected into one of his own crew members right in his heart. The poor pirate falls off the ship bleeding without anyone thinking about him afterwards. "I must say, you are quite interesting. Defecting my bullet isn't normal by any means."
Yuudai moves faster than anyone could see dodging a sleeping spell unintentionally and grabs their captain by the hair. He gets behind him laying the sword against his throat. "Now listen here you useless waste of space." Yuudai whispers in his ear as the leader gets upset. "Call of your band of fools and I will consider keeping you alive."
"I could, but how will you get past the port unscathed when the rebels know of you trying to get to the Albion royal family?" He asks sounding a bit too cocky.
"I guess I will cut them down as well." Yuudai replies. "Hurry up before I leave them needing an new leader." He presses the blade more into his neck releasing a tiny bit of blood.
The leader of the pirates elbows Yuudai in the dead center of his chest right where his injury is. This makes Yuudai drop his sword and fall over in immense pain. "Yuudai!" Louise cries out.
The pirate lays his foot on Yuudai's chest pressing down eliciting a pained yelp from him. "Seems you sustained an injury recently. Unfortunate for you, huh?" The leader taunts. "Grab those two nobles and this boy with his sword. We are taking them prisoner. The rest are to be let go."
"Yes sir!"
Yuudai glares with hatred burning in his eyes at the leader. He grabs his foot prying him off. Yuudai gets up putting his fist up too. "Like hell I'm going without a fight."
The leader set aside his things raising his fist as well. "If you wish then."
Yuudai throws a precise fist at the pirate missing because he dodges. Yuudai proceeds the use his momentum to throw a side kick at his side. The pirate blocks with one arm letting out a grunt. It had hurt him a bit. It would have hurt a lot had it actually hit his side.
The pirate leader grabs his foot and pulls him towards himself. As he gets closer the pirate punches his injury hard making Yuudai cough up spit and a small amount of blood. Yuudai falls on the deck hurting a lot. Despite this he tries to get up. The leader kicks him in the stomach dropping him to the deck again.
"Stay down Yuudai! Please!" Louise pleads not able to stand seeing him hurt so much.
Yuudai ignores her just like he is trying to ignore the pain. He tries to stand only getting to his feet when the pirate kicks his feet right out from under him. Yuudai falls on his back cracking it. Not injuring him, but not exactly feeling good.
"Stay down you idiot!" Wardes urges noticing the blood on his face and clothes.
Yuudai refuses to go down, but is hit by a sleeping spell. He then falls asleep after a minute of fighting against its affects. The leader sighs in relief. He then puts his things back on.
"That boy is persistent to say the least." He says. "Round the two up and send them where they belong."
Later
"Damn it." Yuudai mutters opening his eyes. Greeting him is the ceiling of a below deck ship boards.
He scans his person finding one of the two letters missing. He smirks. The other one is still on his person. He knows this one is the real one. Mainly because it feels like the letter that the process used unlike the normal ones he created. He also notices how clean he is compared to his bloody self from earlier.
He checks his chest finding the injury almost gone. He puts his shirt down. "Looks like they healed me up." He mutters looking around seeing nobody. Not even Wardes or Louise.
A door opens finding an irritated Louise. "Where the hell is it you dog?!"
Yuudai stands up all the way. "I don't appreciate that tone, but I also know how insulting those letters must have been." Yuudai says.
"Answer!"
He sighs. "I have it and I won't give it. Not until I give it the that Wales guy myself." She grabs his arm and leads him to the office where a fancy guy and Wardes are.
The man smiles at him. "Hello familiar. Sorry about earlier. That was a bit harsh, but in return we healed your injury as best we could."
"Thanks, but who are you?" Yuudai questions.
"I am Prince Wales. Son of the royal family of Albion." He tells him showing a ruby to to him.
However, the ruby reacts to being pointed at Yuudai and so does he. Yuudai seems to eminate wind energy around himself as his gun is pulled out and the ruby ring glows a bit. Some of the wind energy flies into it making a wind symbol on the right side of it. Yuudai unconsciously tells it to stop and it does. He also dispels the gun quickly making sure the Wales guy didn't notice that part.
Everyone in the room stares wide eyed at Yuudai as the ruby ring forms a Y in the center of the jewel. Wardes gapes at it. Wales laughs a bit taking it off. "I am quite surprised. A familiar of both the Gandalfr, the Shadow Absorbtion Gun and now the bearer of the Ring of Albion."
Yuudai stares funny at the ring as Wales walks to him. Yuudai grabs the letter and hands it to him while Wales hands Yuudai the ring. "What is up with this ring? Isn't it yours?"
"Under normal circumstances that is correct, but there is an old tale that someone will one day come to Albion to keep the ring for the sake of protecting others." He explains. "It will make one more agile and quick for the one it chooses to wear it."
Yuudai puts the ring on his ring finger. It fits perfectly around it. "Never thought I would be getting a ring from a guy." He jokes. "In all seriousness though, that letter was entrusted to me by the princess and I have done much to make sure nobody touched it."
Wales nods. "I know. I had seen the other one letters and couldn't find this one. I must say that I never expected such vulgar paragraphs in a letter that ended with it saying that is the fake letter."
"To be fair, I expected enemies to try to take it rather than you." Yuudai says.
"I could tell." He replies.
"Wait! I am still confused. Isn't this ring only for the royal family?" Louise questions.
"Yes, but I am allowed to pass it down if I feel the need. Now let me read this letter." He opens it reading through the lines. "The princess is marrying?"
"From what I heard, yes. Try not to be jealous though." Yuudai says to the prince. "The other prince will die eventually and you can kiss her and all that perverted stuff whenever. Even if she is your cousin." He continues forcing a deep blush from Wales.
"Be respectful you dog!" Louise yells.
"What crawled up your butt and died?" Yuudai questions. "Let me guess. Wardes 'sword'?"
"What?!" Louise and Wardes cry out blushing.
"Anyway, she wants me to return a letter and it happens to be over at Newcastle. Sorry, but you'll have to come with me to get it." Wales explains.
"Don't worry about it Wales." He says. "We completed the first half of our mission. I am going to guess in another few days I will be back at the academy relaxing."
'I can see why Henrietta trusted him so much.' Wales thinks in his mind.
"Well thank you for the healing. It feels much better." Yuudai tells him. "But I think I will be heading up to the upper deck for a while."
"Alright then. I will let you know when we decide to leave." Wales says watching Yuudai leave. 'Take care of that ring. I will trust you familiar. But if what Henrietta said is true then he is more that capable.'
End
And finished! That was quite fun!
And before you question the ring thing, I know it isn't cannon. As far as I know. So now that is that. And the wind symbol will be fully introduced later and what it does. Reason being that he hasn't seen it.
Now I don't have much else to say so thanks for reading and have a great day/night/morning!