A/N: CHA! A little earlier than normal, but the weekend might get a bit busy for me, so I wanted to get this up sooner rather than later. But I'm sure none of you will mind the slightly early update! And who knows, maybe I might not be as busy as I think I'm going to be and get another chapter out on Sunday or Monday, but no promises at the moment!
I don't own Fairy Tail!
Please enjoy!
Chapter 18: The Western Captains: Desmond and Kira!
April 11, X792 - Late Morning
"A little to the left I believe!" Matilda said happily, barely pushing the helm of the ship in the correct direction with her index finger, "Yes! That feels right! What do you think, Sam?"
"Sure," he answered, flipping through a history book he had grabbed the previous night when he found out the next island they would be heading towards. He had been reading up on Nebula all night and was feeling uncertain about their current course of movement. He suddenly felt a weight on his back, causing him to look back to see Matilda hanging over his shoulders, "Can I help you?"
"What are you reading? I want to know, don't leave me in the dark, tell me about it! You haven't put that book down all night! Tell me about, tell me about it!"
"Stop shaking me!" Sam snapped. Matilda instantly stopped her shaking of the boy, but still wore a wide smile, "I'll tell you about if you actually sit down and listen to me."
Matilda suddenly pulled up a chair with a pen and notepad, grabbing her cup of coffee and taking a large sip of it before setting it down on the floor next to her. She stared up at him with wide, curious eyes, her pen at the ready.
Sam stared at her for a moment, not having expected her to react so quickly like that, "Well then," he finally began, "First off, Nebula is an island filled with fog, so that cuts our visibility down greatly. Apparently, no one actually lives on the island, but many explorers and scientists have gone there to conduct research and whatnot. The lack of civilians is mostly due to the rumors of Angel's Cove being on that island. It's filled with sirens and mermaids and not of the good variety. Many people, mostly men, have gone missing on that island if they venture too far inland. And along with the supposed cove, there's also an abundance of odd creatures hiding in the fog and vegetation. It's not a safe island in the least, so I have my concerns about heading there."
"I see," Matilda thought for a moment, "Have you talked to Cordelia about your concerns and I might actually have a map for Nebula if you think that will help, but I'm still pretty sure that Cordelia will want to go to the island and she'll pick the right people to go inland, so you shouldn't worry so much and-"
"As her advisor, it's my job to worry when she doesn't. There are reasons that even pirates stay away from this specific island and she should know the reasons why," Sam stated in an even tone, effectively cutting Matilda off for a moment.
"Mmm, well as valid as your points are, I have my job to steer the guild towards the island and I will not veer from that path unless Cordelia says otherwise, so you need to speak with her if you really wish to stay away from that island, but we have to go there for the treasure, so good luck in changing her mind," Matilda shrugged.
"Well, I'll get in contact with her now," Sam said, "I can link in with her mentally with my magic, but I want you to get that map of Nebula ready if you have it, all right?"
"Will do!" Matilda answered, "Illusion: Map Make!" Matilda shouted. Across a table in the navigation cabin, a 3D version of a map of Iceberg popped up, the country being the last one Matilda had looked at. She started flipping through all the different maps she had, hoping that she had Nebula in her stock.
While the woman worked, Sam tapped into the data stream that made up his Archive Magic, "Telepathy," he said calmly, working on opening a communication channel that would link him to Cordelia. He just had to hope that Cordelia was in a cooperating mood. He supposed he would have to consider this his first main task as the advisor to Cordelia, so he reminded himself to sound as confident as he could once he made contact with her.
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"What are you doing now?" Eli asked, watching as Cordelia dug behind one of the bars on the main deck of the middle vessel.
"I know it has to be around here somewhere," Cordelia said, not bothering to answer Eli for the moment, "I always had extra stashed away under here."
"Oi! What are you looking for?" Eli continued.
Cordelia popped her head up to peer at him over the edge of the bar. She suddenly narrowed her eyes at him, "With an attitude like that, I'm not gonna tell you," she said with a huff before turning back to her previous search.
Eli felt his eye twitch in irritation, "Look, I went and carried you all the way to the front ship and then you made me carry you all the way back here and get you breakfast. I think I've earned some kind of answer!"
The only answer he received was a face full of water from Cordelia's squirt gun and a loud cackle from the woman.
"Seriously?!" Eli shouted, wiping water from his face and beginning to move in to pay her back for the cheap shot.
"Found it!" Cordelia said, popping up from her spot behind the bar. As soon as she moved upwards though, the top of her head smacked into Eli's jaw since the man had been reaching over the bar to grab her, "Ow, ow, ow, ow!" she said, grabbing the top of her head while small tears appeared at the corners of her eyes, "You idiot! What did you do that for?!" she shouted, glaring at Eli.
"I wasn't the one that popped up like a Jack-in-the-Box, now was I?!" Eli snapped, rubbing his jaw.
Cordelia just huffed in response at him, "As I was saying," she began, "I found it!" she repeated, throwing out the hand that held a bucket of colorful sidewalk chalk.
Eli stared down at the chalk, "Seriously? This is what you were looking for?"
"What's the problem?"
"It's just that…you're not a kid anymore," he said, "Why do you still have that?"
"I'll do what I want when I want!" she yelled, pulling the bucket away from him when he tried to pick up a piece from it, "You don't have to be a kid to play with this stuff! I didn't think you were such a stick in the mud!"
"Fine, then what exactly do you plan to do with all that chalk?"
"Ohhhh! Chalk!" Zinnia said, suddenly appearing next to Cordelia and peering down into the bucket, "Can we play hopscotch?! It's been so long!"
Cordelia smirked triumphantly over at Eli, who only rolled his eyes in response.
"Yeah, go grab a stone or something and I'll set it up," Cordelia said. Zinnia moved to find something small to throw while Cordelia pulled out a white piece of the chalk. She moved a bunch of the tables and chairs out of the way and began to draw the needed squares. She stopped for a moment when she reached ten of them and looked up at Eli, "Ten or twenty of them?" she asked, motioning down to the board in front of her.
"You better make it twenty or someone might complain about it being too easy."
"Right, right," she said as she began adding in the extra ten squares and numbering them all off.
"What's going on?" Seth asked, having been curious as to what the small group had been doing.
"Hopscotch apparently," Eli answered just as Zinnia reappeared with a small metal piece in her hand.
"I got Gordon to make me the square marker," she smiled, causing both Seth and Eli to wonder how she had managed that.
Both men eventually just shrugged it off to being one of those unexplainable things that Zinnia did. Eli looked back up to Seth and as he was about to say something, he jumped away from him and pointed up at the top of his head.
"How the hell does he keep doing that?!" Eli shouted, having been pointing at Gamu who was perched on top of Seth.
"Haha, I don't really know," Seth laughed, "He's getting really good at doing that though."
"You should really be more bothered by it!"
"Just let him have some fun."
"Let's have some fun," Gamu smiled down at Eli.
"You're still not a parrot!"
"All right! Let's play!" Cordelia announced, swiping the metal piece from Zinnia, "And as master of this guild, I get to go first!"
"Like that's a surprise," Eli mumbled.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Cordelia snapped.
"You always have a reason for going first!"
"Some talk coming from a man that thought playing with chalk was for kids!"
"They're still having arguments like this after all this time," Zinnia laughed from next to Seth.
In the mix of the argument, the group failed to notice Bones trotting passed the group with a half eaten bone in his mouth. The hound stopped in mid-trot to stare over at the hopscotch board, his interest becoming peaked. He walked up to the beginning of the board before suddenly spitting out his bone across it. It skidded to a stop on the twelfth square and Bones began to hop across the board on his hind legs.
"Is that how it's done?" Gamu asked, cocking his head to the side as he watched Bones move along the board, causing both Seth and Zinnia to moved their heads to the side too.
Cordelia and Eli stopped their argument to look over at the board, "How is he even able to do that?!" they both shouted.
Bones quickly finished up his turn, bypassing the square with his bone in it until he came back around and picked it up. He jumped to the end of the board in flawless movements, striking a victory pose when he was finished before trotting off again. The group simply watched after him in silence, unsure of what to think of what had just happened.
Cordelia quickly shook off her confusion as she swiped the metal piece from Eli's hand since he had taken it from her during their argument, "Like I was saying, I get to go first!"
As the group began their games, the crowd around them started to grow until there were multiple groups playing multiple games or creating pictures on the deck with the chalk. Cordelia had switch games a few times to get a chance at playing with everyone in the mix. She eventually came to a foursquare game against Rio, Lance and Tazz, having taken Chris's place in the game. The four were having a rather intense game as all of them wore concentrated looks and smacked the ball around at high speeds. It was when Tazz knocked the ball over into Cordelia's square that Sam made the mental connection with her.
'Cordelia.'
"GAH!" Cordelia shouted as she stumbled forward from her concentration being broken. She completely missed hitting the ball after it bounced in her square, the rubber ball smacking her right in the face instead.
"In the face!" Rio shouted, laughing along with Lance, Tazz and Chris.
The ball peeled away, leaving behind a giant red imprint. Cordelia's hands instantly shot up to her face as she rolled painfully on the ground, "It hurts so much! I'm gonna die!"
'Cordelia!'
"Sam?" Cordelia questioned, coming to a stop on the deck. She laid flat on her back, looking up at the sky.
'I'm speaking with you through my Telepathy spell. It allows me to open up a communication line.'
"Well that comes in handy. So no one else can hear you right now?"
There was a moment of silence that ended with Sam sighing before he spoke again.
'Matilda says hello,' Sam mumbled, 'But no, no one can hear me right now. I figured this was an easier way for me to speak with you at the moment instead of hunting you down.'
"I suppose so," Cordelia said, "I am on the move quite often. So what can I do for you?"
'I'm banking in on my role as your advisor to tell you that we shouldn't go to Nebula.'
"You do understand that's where we have to go for the next clue, right?"
'I do, but do you understand the dangers that come with that island? Not only is it full of fog, but there are unknown creatures that fill that island. And then there's the rumor of Angel's Cove. If that cove is on that island somewhere, then that means we also have to deal with sirens and mermaids. They aren't what the fairy tales perceive them to be, I hope you know.'
"I know that, but our clue also stated that we'd have to deal with creatures like that anyways. Ya know, the dangerous beauties and ears and weak-willed men being the death of us and all that jazz."
'Then you should understand my concerns, especially with the men on the guild. You really think they stand a chance?'
Cordelia suddenly smiled, "Are you afraid of some little siren getting the better of you, Sammy?" she asked, laughing when she heard him sputter in her head.
'Of course not! And what's with this Sammy?'
"Don't know, just thought it was cute and it suited you," Cordelia shrugged, "Now then! I will not change our current path or motive! I fully understand what we are getting into and I'm not giving up! We've already been through so much with the first clue and there's no way I'm letting the Black Skulls win this!"
'But Cordelia-'
"Sam, while I appreciate your concern and information on the island, I have a promise to keep now," she said, thinking about the cigarette that was currently in her office desk, "We will move forward with this treasure hunt. That's a command from your master."
'While I still think this is a bad idea, I also trust your judgment.'
"Good," Cordelia smiled again, "And good job with your current position as advisor. I know that was probably hard for you to do, giving your opinion despite the decision I made."
'Th…thank you,' Sam said quietly, 'Well then, I have one other thing for you while we still have the connection up. It seems that Matilda has found a map of Nebula in her collection. I will have her download it to you now so you can decide how to approach the island. I'll patch Matilda into the connection.'
"Wait! Sam!"
'Cordelia!'
Cordelia clamped her hands to her ears, not that it helped much since Matilda was speaking directly into her head.
'How are you?! I mean, I know I just saw you a little bit ago, but then Eli took you back to the middle ship, I wanted to give you some coffee before you left, so I hope you got some with breakfast, and-'
"Matilda! Could you please download the map?!" Cordelia shouted, cutting the woman off before she rambled any longer.
'Ah, right! Sorry!' she laughed nervously, 'Archive Download!'
The magically compressed information suddenly appeared in Cordelia's mind. It was like she was standing with Matilda and Sam looking down at the 3D map of Nebula.
'So as you can see,' Sam began, 'It appears that there's only one port on the island. It's located in the area that sets closest to Fiore. Luckily, we are fairly close to that area now, so it should only be another ten minutes or so before we reach the port. Do you want to dock there?'
"I don't think we'll fully dock there," Cordelia answered, "I will be sending a team in from that port to start searching the island. I'll be giving them some flares to shoot off if they find anything though. In the meantime, I would like to keep the guild moving around the island in case we find anything that way."
'Understood,' Sam answered, 'Two teams like that should be rather helpful in finding the clue much quicker. The group we send out onto the island will have to be extremely careful though. There will be dangerous animals on the island and that fog will make visibility hard. I suggest whoever you send onto the island receive this map from Matilda the way you did, that way they can have it with them at all times. There is a jungle-like area on this island from what you can see on the map.'
"I'll make sure to do that," Cordelia answered, "I'll let you know the team soon, Matilda, that way you can download the map to them."
'Yes ma'am!'
"Now Sam, if you could please disconnect me from the line. I have a crowd of people giving me odd looks," Cordelia said, looking up at the people around her from her spot on the deck still.
'Of course. Thank you for your time.'
"Still so formal," Cordelia muttered after the line was disconnected. She then turned her attention back to the people around her, "What? Do I have something on my face?"
Gamu was the first to move next to her, perching near her head, "Why is your face all red?" he asked as he bopped her on the nose with one finger.
Little tears appeared at the corners of her eyes again as she resumed her rolling on the deck, "It still hurts so much!"
"She was sucker punched in the face with a foursquare ball!" Rio explained, "It was completely awesome!"
"Well maybe if you all didn't play like it was life or death then no one would get hurt," Eli grumbled as he moved to pick up Cordelia by the back of her coat. He set her on her feet and moved to grab her hands, "Let me see your face to make sure you didn't break your nose," he said as he pulled her hands away. Cordelia sniffed a little as she looked up at him with wide eyes. Eli twitched at the sudden cuteness before him, a blush rising to his cheeks as he covered her face back up with her hands, "Yeah, you're fine," he said, patting the top of her head. As soon as he released her, she was back to rolling on the ground again.
"Who were you just talking to?" Seth asked after having laughed at the scene.
"Oh, that was Sam and Matilda," Cordelia answered, stopping her rolling again to look at the large man, "We should be coming up to Nebula soon. Which means I need to pick out a team to go onto the island!" she announced, popping up off the ground like nothing had happened to her, although she still had the red mark on her face, "I need a team that's strong and brave and won't run away easily!" she said, causing Rio and the others to suddenly jump in front of her in a line and puff their chests out to show themselves off, Tazz included. Cordelia looked over them with a flat stare, "And a team not fully made of complete punks."
"You're one to talk!" Rio shouted.
"Just tell us what we need to find and we'll find it," Lance said with a charming smile, stepping in before an argument could break out between the two.
As Lance said this, the group began to notice it becoming darker around them. They looked around them to see a thick fog setting in, indicating that they were close to the island.
"I suppose Nebula is properly named," Zinnia mentioned, sticking her hand out to swirl it through the fog.
"This is like super creepy," Tazz mentioned, "I feel like some slasher psycho is gonna pop out any second."
"What kind of thing is that to say?!" Rio and Chris shouted.
A sudden loud roar had the two boys shouting in fear as they grabbed onto each other tightly.
Cordelia eyed them for a moment, "And you want me to send you onto the island," she mumbled, "But seriously, what was that?"
"Sounded like an animal," Seth answered.
"Are we that close to the island?" Cordelia asked, trying to peer through the fog to see if she could spot any land.
"Pretty sure that sound came out from the ocean, not land," Seth said.
"A water beast now?" Cordelia whined as the roaring sounded off again, this time much closer to the guild. Things went quiet for a moment before screams and shouts could be heard coming from the back ships that created the dorms, "Dammit!" Cordelia shouted before the group ran off towards the dorms.
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Upon reaching the back ships, Cordelia and the others saw a large, three-headed hydra attacking the guild and its members. The long necks moved quickly while the sharp teeth continuously snapped at people. Jean, Drayden and Kato were currently battling each of the three heads, but it was clear they were having some trouble.
"It doesn't look quite normal," Zinnia said, causing the rest of the group to look more closely at the creature.
"That thing is made of metal and mechanical scraps!" Chris shouted.
"Jean's got an advantage since he's using his heated rapier," Zinnia mentioned, "It should burn through the metal easily. And Drayden's lightning should help him out too, but I'm afraid of what will happen if Kato cuts one of those heads off. You know what happens to real hydras."
"Shit," Cordelia cursed before she ran over towards the three men and the monster, "Kato! Stop slashing at the thing!"
"What do you expect me to do?!" he shouted, "We can't just let this thing attack us!"
"I know that, but if you slice a head off then-"
It was too late though. Just as Cordelia was explaining things to the redhead, his sword managed to cut off the head he was fighting against. The other two heads roared as the sliced one fell onto the deck. There was no movement for a moment, but it didn't take long for the fallen head to start moving again. The scrap metal floated up into the air and reattached itself to the main body as two heads instead of one, giving the monster a total of four heads now.
"I told you not to slice it!" Cordelia shouted.
"Whoops," Kato said just as a figure on the back of the monster jumped up and landed on the deck. The heads gathered around her as she stared down the guild members before her.
"The name's Micky," she began, "A member of the Black Skulls."
"So it looks like you're not even bothering to hide it anymore," Cordelia said, narrowing her stare at the woman.
"Madmartigan decided it was pointless to hide that we were after Blackstroker's map after the spectacle that Daniel made."
"Yeah, it would be a bit pointless," Cordelia agreed, "But I also hope you know that we're not just gonna hand over the map to you."
"I figured as much," she grunted, "So I'll be taking it by force."
"We'd like to see you try," Rio said as he, Lance and Chris ran out to stand directly in front of the woman. Tazz had run off to grab something off another ship while the boys kept the woman busy.
Micky scanned over the three boys in front of her, something seeming familiar about them. Her stare suddenly turned into a glare once she realized where she knew them from, "You're the bastards that destroyed half my collection!"
Rio, Lance and Chris went quiet at her accusation, the three looking at each other as they tried to figure out what she was talking about.
"Jesus! You don't even remember, do you?" Micky snapped, "You remember that fire you started back in port that burned down the bar? Well that fire of yours burnt away half my scraps! You're gonna pay for that now!"
"You stupid little punk!" Cordelia shouted, suddenly yanking Rio into a tight head lock, "You burnt down a bar?!"
"How do you know it was me?!"
"You're the one that has those stupid hackies and I know you have fire ones in your stash!"
"Well so what if we started that fire?! It got us the map, didn't it?!"
"It got us this pirate in front of us! You're not in some punk gang anymore, remember?! Don't do stupid things!"
"You do stupid things all the time!"
"Is now really the time for you two to be arguing like this?" Chris sighed.
"Butt out!" both Cordelia and Rio shouted.
"I suggest backing away slowly," Lance laughed lightly as he pulled Chris back with him.
Micky's eye twitched in irritation before she controlled one of the heads to attack the arguing pair. Though, before it could reach either of them, Kato sliced through it.
"Stop chopping the heads off!" Cordelia shouted as the fallen head returned to the body as two new heads.
"Just give me the map and you won't have to deal with it anymore," Micky said, glaring over at the three boys, "And you let me beat them up a bit too."
"Tch, yeah right," Cordelia answered.
"OI! Scrap chick!" Tazz shouted from atop the middle vessel, sitting on her bike and revving the engine a bit, "You want a fight, then you got one!" she continued before revving the bike up enough to have it rearing back on one tire. Once the front tire hit the deck, she took off down towards the dorm ships. As she passed Micky, she flicked the woman on the nose before she continued to the end of the last ship and speeding off of it.
"Tazz! You don't even know if there's land nearby!"
The girl disappeared into the fog and after a moment or two, she called out to them, "Made it!"
Sighs of relief came from everyone in the group. Cordelia thanked whoever was watching over them that they had made it close enough to the island for Tazz to land on it. The guild members turned back to the Black Skull pirate to see rage filling her. Before anyone could think of what to do next, Micky controlled the scraps in her wagon to follow her and she quickly followed Tazz through the fog with it all.
"This definitely wasn't how things were supposed to go," Cordelia said, whipping around to look at Rio, Lance and Chris, "Oi! You three need to go after them! I don't want Tazz facing that woman alone or being on that island alone!"
The three of them nodded in agreement.
"If you get the chance while you're on the island, we're looking for a frozen beauty within dangerous beauties. So if you come across something like that, send up a signal of some sort. We'll be searching as well from the guild and if we find it, we'll send up our own signal," Cordelia explained, "But you could come across sirens and mermaids, so don't fall into any stupid traps of theirs, got it?!"
"Got it!"
"Good! Now get going! I'll have Matilda download the map of Nebula to you all here shortly."
The three boys nodded at her again before running off and jumping through the fog to reach the island. Cordelia listened to make sure they didn't fall into the water, but she didn't have much time to make sure they made it when she felt Seth tapping on her shoulder.
"We still have to take care of this thing," he said, pointing to the five-headed hydra.
They watched as the head that hadn't been cut off made an attack at Drayden. As he was about to use his lightning on it, Kato appeared above it and sliced the head off, allowing the beast to create six heads now.
"STOP CHOPPING THE DAMN HEADS OFF!" Cordelia shouted.
"Can you just let me burn it away already?" Eli asked.
Before Cordelia could give him the go ahead, two figures suddenly crashed down in between the hydra and the guild.
One was a man that appeared to be about thirty who stood at 6'2" with a medium, dark skin tone and a lean build with broad shoulders. His pitch black hair was clean cut with his bangs swooped to the right, keeping his slanted, gold eyes unobstructed. He also had a single beauty mark on his left cheekbone. He wore a pristine Naval Captain's uniform, everything being in its place and perfectly fitted to his build. On one hip hung a rapier with a silver blade and a gold hilt.
The other figure was a young woman of twenty with a fit build. Her piercing green eyes could be seen through her bangs, the rest of her brown hair being pulled back into a ponytail. She wore a black jumpsuit with a white Captain's coat around her shoulders, a small habit that she had picked up from her superior. In her hands were two steel escrima sticks that were each about two feet long. Finally, there was cigarette in her mouth, though it was currently unlit at the moment.
"Who the hell are you?!" Cordelia shouted.
"Desmond Lihir," the man answered with a slight bow.
"Kira Dawson," the woman answered with a playful and cocky tone, standing in a more laidback stance than her comrade.
"Captains of Earthland's Western Naval Forces," they both said.
"Fuck my life!" Cordelia cried.
"We have come here on orders of our Vice Admiral," Desmond said.
"Seems he's taking a fancy to you," Kira smirked.
"We're kinda in the middle of something right now," Eli said, motioning back towards the hydra.
"Well then, it seems you will have your hands quite full with us too," Desmond stated.
"We have orders to take the lot of you on," Kira added.
Cordelia felt her eye twitch multiple times. She could clearly see the Vice Admiral smirking at her in her mind and it agitated her to no end. Not only did she have to deal with a damn six-headed hydra, she now had to deal with Captains of the Naval Forces. She looked up in time to watch everything in what seemed like slow motion. The hydra heads coming at them along with both Captains. She finally released the roar of a shout she had been holding in as she and her guild had to prepare for battle.
"BEEEERRRRNNNNNN!"
A/N: And there we are! I hope you all enjoyed it!
Credits
Desmond Lihir - XLil MEkoX
Kira Dawson - Dragon-Penguin120
Well that was super fun for me to write! Especially now that Cordelia wasn't being all sad! It makes me sad to write her like that, so back to normal Cordelia in this chapter!
And we finally got to meet our two Captains. Seems Bern instilled some of his fighting spirit in them to attack them while also having to deal with that hydra. So we'll get to find out next chapter on exactly how they all deal with that along with Tazz and the boys taking on Micky!
Oh! I totally forgot to mention this last chapter! But if you have ideas for a general theme song and a battle theme song for your characters, then please PM them to me. I'm setting up a small character section on my profile page for them and those are two of the categories I will be putting in. But please only send me one song for each! If after a certain period of time you do not send me one, I will start choosing them myself! But I have all my own characters to get through, so it'll probably be a long while before I start to do that. (AKA it's been so long since this announcement that it's gotten a bit obvious to me that you won't be sending any songs over, lol!)
Now then! Onto those awesome reviews!
LightandDarkHeart - Yep, got a scrap mage and Bern's still after the guild! And I hope you like the start of this island along with the Captains! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
silverhawk88 - Haha, it's good that you got a bad feeling about Madmartigan and Duke! But that'll be a bit later down the line. Well, Bern just loves to fight and he's found some decent opponents in Storm's Helm, so after them he goes! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Benthino - Yep, the Captains were revealed a bit in that last chapter, but fully revealed in this one! And yeah, those Eastern Captains will be fun, but it'll be a while before we reach them. Glad you enjoyed the chapter and I hope you enjoyed this one too!
IdentityCrisis.03 - I think whoa is a good word to describe Bern too, lol! But yeah, he's definitely a beast being able to stand up against Cordelia and the others like that. And yeah, Cordelia is a bit stressed with those promises, but she'll make it! But I'm glad you like Micky! And yeah, I'm sure that cove will be quite a bit for the guild to handle, but we'll see. And I'm glad you enjoyed that bit of Cordelia and Eli! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Origm2012 - Yep, Madmartigan definitely doesn't go easy on anyone, but like you said, it's pretty natural for him. And yeah, the third person out of the seven crew members, so I'm glad you liked her character! And I'm glad you're still enjoying how things are tying in together with the characters. Sometimes I don't even know I'm doing things like that with those small comments, lol, but I'm glad you pick up on things like that. And yep, I totally mentioned Duke again! MUWHAHAHAHAHAHA! SOON! Ahem…anyways…well there are only a select few that know about Securus's voice. I suppose a fun fact would be that Cordelia is actually the only person that Securus has told willingly about that voice. Everyone else found out through…uh…unfortunate events? More to be explained on that later. But yeah, only Nanami, Seth, Devin and maybe one or two other people, know about that voice. But like I said, more to be explained later. All sorts of promises going around! More on those later too! Well, I've got some plans going on in the next arc of the story that will involve both the Western and Southern Forces, so you can look forward to that! But other things are in the working for all them! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
CrazyAnimeForever - Red Fire is part of the Rainbow Fire Magic. I just went through and expanded on the colors in that magic. So Red Fire is extremely hot…hotter than normal fire. Hope that helped! And I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Joshua1277 - Daniel definitely screwed up! Madmartigan was not happy in the least! And yeah, I believe Micky could make just about anything she wanted really. Yeah, Eli has his moments, lol, but he's known Cordelia for a long time, so he knows how to approach her in those kinds of situations. And I'm glad you're still liking Bern since he'll keep showing up for a bit. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
DarkHyena - Yeah, Micky is not happy at all. And she's going out for payback against Tazz and the boys, so they better watch out! Yeah, Cordelia has some stress weighing down on her, but that's to be expected, but luckily she's got people around her to help her out like Eli. Haha, no, I don't believe Bern has tried out model ship. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
XLil MEkoX - Yep, a new Black Skull member has been introduced! And I'm glad you like her! But yeah, Madmartigan was not happy at all with Daniel. And I gotta keep you all guessing for a bit with what happened between Madmartigan and Duke! I haven't even told Dreadburner94 about that and he's my Beta, lol! So I'm hoping it'll be a surprise to all of you…even if it won't be a happy surprise. Haha! Well I'm glad Eli was able to get a brownie point from you! But we got to see Cordelia back to her normal self in this chapter, so hopefully she'll keep looking up for a while! And we finally got to meet the Captains! More action from them to come next chapter! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
ThePrinceOfLight - Yeah, Daniel made it back to the ship only to be yelled at by Madmartigan. But we finally got to meet our next Black Skull crew member! And I'm glad you like her magic. It is pretty interesting. But yeah, she's ready to lay down some payback for half of her supplies being destroyed. And enter the Captains of the West! But I'm really glad you liked that Cordelia and Eli moment! And yeah, let's hope he doesn't find out about Securus making her cry, even if it was an accident. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Momochan77 - Glad you enjoyed that Eli moment with Cordelia! And the moment between Nanami and Securus! I'm glad to hear I have another shipper for them, lol! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Dreadburner94 - LOL! You were having a bit of a hard time there, weren't you? And yet, you found enough letters to create a 999 message -.- Anyways, Madmartigan probably could have used some more salt to rub in that wound, so I suppose he did get off a bit easy. And I think the ship between Nanami and Securus will be a slow build, so we'll see how things go over time. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Sakura-Fiction - Haha, but will she really complete all those promises? Guess will have to wait and see! And we finally got to meet the Western Captains this chapter and we'll get to see them in action next chapter! And yep, Micky is definitely out for revenge! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
reven228 - Yeah, it seems that things will eventually lead up to a small war between Storm's Helm and the Black Skulls. So much more fighting to come! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
frozenwolf94 - Hopefully the chapter turned out interesting for you! Since the Captains finally made their appearance and Micky being out for revenge! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
I believe that's it for this time around!
If I don't do another update after this early update, then I'll see you all next Sunday!
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Yours Truly,
MyDearWatson