Note: This chapter is going to move in a bit to Servan being not so nice after all, but everybody has their faults,
Cardguards, dragonflys and muffins.
"CARDGUARDS!!! CARDGUARDS!!!!" The Gryphon yelled to his distant ship.
Now the distinct problem with yelling is that it draws often attention
to you, and this attention, more often than not, is negative. Red diamonds
whizzed past the Gryphon as the Cardguards on the huge steamer aimed their
weapons.
"ATTACK!!!! ATTACK!!!!"
Alice sat on the edge of the boat and tested her knife on the wood.
A red diamond that only moments before had been shot past her feathered
freind (and I do not mean Servan) landed with a crash next to her. She
leapt up immediatly, instantly aware of more diamonds whizzing into the
hull. She saw Gryphon struggling back to the boat.
"ATTACk!!! ATTACK!!!" He screeched. "ATTA-" He was cut off as a diamond
thudded into his back. He hovered for a moment and then fell. Alice pulled
out her only slim chance, the Demon Dice. Focusing herself, she hurled
it into the air and let it fall into the abyss. A moment later a great
thunder dragon shot into the sky with a battlecry that would chill
the bravest of hearts. Hanging on to its foot was Gryphon. But this demon
was designed to be a fighter not a carrier and it hurled itself across
the sky, the golden creature hung on to his savior, who was now attempting
to throw him back down to his death. Alice aimed her knife at the thunderdragon's
head. She sent it flying into the creatures eyes. It burst into flames.
Servan was at the head of the ship watching the ship approaching and
the attacking cardguards. Diamonds whizzed into the ship. Servan stared
with glazed eyes for a moment and then twirled on his crewmen, his black
cloak swishing around him.
"Prepare the cannons and get the Snap-dragonflys fed" He stared at
his crew with hard, cold eyes, they snapped to attention and ran off.
"You and your freinds should go down to the lower levels" Servan told
them quite decidedly. Cheshire's grin did not betray his contempt for Servan.
His eyes though did.
"Not on your life birdbrain" Cheshire wrinkled his nose and jumped
to one side as Servan's talon came flashing down. Diamonds flew over their
heads thudding into the wooden floor of the ship. The slaves were loading
their...from what Alice could see they were muffins, into the cannons and
sailors were giving little breadcrumbs to large bugs which were part christmas
cracker and part dragonfly, she figured that those were the Snap-dragonflys.
Servan himself was striding the ship barking orders. Gryphon and Mockers
hid under the table as the too ships fought with deafening explosions and
wizzing projectiles. Cheshire himself was leaping about on the Cardguard
ship, slashing and fading and slashing and fading.
"SIR!" A crewman cried to Servan, the huge raven strode up to the crewman.
"What?" He snapped, the crewman cowered and replied.
"They have docked sir, Clubs are streaming in by the minute!" And sure
enough clubguards had rolled themselves along the planks faster than they
could be caught.
Alice flailed about with her Eye Staff, beating off Clubs and blasting
them to smithereens. Servan was slashing with his rapier, but they were
greatly outnumbered. Alice fought her way to the mast pole and an idea
struck her. She raised her Eye Staff in one hand and her knife in the other
and span in a crazed circle, the mastpole splintered and fell right onto
the planks that locked the Cardguard ship and The Lost, Alice finally freed
from the Clubs who were fleeing wildlay, layed her Eye Staff near to the
ground, she twisted the handle and meteorites shot up from around her,
she exerted all her will and meteorites shot up everywhere and crashed
into the Cardguard steamer, but it would not be destroyed and Alice felt
her willpower draining, the meteorites grew few and then suddenly a new
strength flowed through the Eye Staff and Alice, Servan closed his hands
around the staff, Gryphon tightened his talons around it and Mockers plaed
his claws on it. Meteorites shot up everywhere and came raining down upon
the Steamer like it was the end of the world. Alice turned to Cheshire
as their energy began to drain.
"Cheshire, we could use your help" She smiled, the Cat turned his back
on her.
"I am not touching something that he has touched" The cat growled,
everybody knew he meant Servan.
"Please Cheshire" Alice pleaded. Cheshire turned around and sighed.
"Oh alright then" He raised a single claw and touched the Eye Staff.
It was over in seconds, the combined strengths of Alice, Servan, Gryphon,
Mockers and Cheshire personified itself in blasts of purple light from
the sky, within ten seconds the great steamer became a floating wreck of
peices of bent metal and small timbers. Each of them fell to the ground
and breathed heavily.
"Sir, we took some serious damage, we should stop and repair" A crewman
suggested, a moment later he was sprawled across the floor,
"There is nowhere to stop, Finch!" Servan yelled in the sailor's face
"WHY MAKE USELESS SUGGESTIONS???." Another Sailor piped up.
"Actually there is a small island not far from here!" The other sailor
pointed out, Servan pulled himself away from the crewman reluctantly and
wrapped his coat around him.
"We will stop for repairs there, anybody who leaves the ship will not
be aloud back on" He turned and gave Alice a peircing gaze "That includes
you Alice"
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