Scott and Belle decided to help the builders remodel the Tavern, and build a fountain. Scott helped Izmael remodel the Tavern, while Belle busied herself helping Kirala with building the fountain. But with all the work that had to be done, they were beginning to wonder how Izmael and Kirala always managed to do it themselves so quickly. But as usual, Scott was a little distracted, always looking over at Belle, practically not working at all.

But he snapped out of it when Izmael accidentally hit him with a plank of wood when he was turning around. Of course, since Izmael was so short, the plank only hit Scott in the back.

"Hey watch it!" Scott said as he jumped forwards.

"I was tellin' you to get out of the way." Izmael said. "But you were just gone, so I had to give you a wake up call!"

Grumbling he got back to work, but it seemed like he had just started. Kirala and Belle were done their project far before Scott and Izmael finished theirs. Izmael blamed it on Scott, and well, it was actually Scott's fault. So Belle went and helped them out too. Setting up planks, moving furniture, even creating menus. Time seemed to fly by for Scott, because then he could work, and look at Belle at the same time! He barely noticed anything else.

It was a day and a half after Vyse and Co left for Drangal Island. They did come back for a day, but they had left again to actually go to Old Sky. So again, Scott and Belle were left to themselves, and without work too. They just busied themselves with the day-to-day things. Feeding the chickens, cleaning their own spaces, and all that other stuff. It was pretty boring, so Scott usually trained to pass the time. He figured his blade was getting rusty anyway. And every time he did, Belle would watch, and very closely too. He usually would've minded an audience, but of course she was Belle, and she seemed to watch every singe move he made. It sort of made him proud that someone would watch him, someone interested anyway. She'd compliment him on how well he could do his swords-play, and she even told him how she wished she could do something as amazing. Now Scott had been called a fair fighter before, but never amazing, so he agreed to teach her a thing or two. Of course, she got really excited about the idea, and was unable to contain her excitement. So she vented the only way she knew how, by jumping up and down. And again, this made Scott dizzy and he fell over.

The next night, Scott was going to try and help her learn the very least, at least. It made him feel, well, important. Maybe it was his ego getting the better of him, but he didn't mind of course. He unsheathed his katana and handed it to Belle. She blinked a few times, gazing at it, then glanced back at Scott.

"Come on," He said. "It's alright. It isn't gonna bite or anything."

"But." She began. "But it's yours."

"And your point is?" He asked, rhetorically, smiling reassuringly.

She giggled and took it by the hilt, holding it a little uneasy. "What am I supposed to do with it?" She asked.

Scott smiled, he had never asked any questions about how to handle a blade. Partially because he had to learn on his own. But being the nice guy that he was, he moved around behind her and wrapped his arms around her, placing his hands over hers. He moved her hands into the right position on the handle and helped her grip it correctly.

All the while, she was in heaven. Absent-mindedly, she rested her head on the spot where his shoulder met his collarbone, sighing contently, closing her eyes. He blinked a few times and looked down at her, smiling a bit. But then he realized what he was supposed to be doing.

"Oops." He thought to himself.

"As I was saying!" He said, quite loudly. "This is how you are supposed to hold it."

Belle's eyes shot open in surprise, and she jumped a bit. But she calmed down quickly, closing her eyes again, a slight blush bringing a shade of pink to her cheeks.

"Oh, yeah, I see that." She said quietly.

"Hmmm. It looked like you took the first ship out of reality." Scott said, laughing a bit.

She giggled again, blushing deeper. "I'm sorry, I just had something on my mind."

"Uh, Belle?"

"Yes?"

"Well, I-"

Just then, a cannon ball hit not too far away from them. They gasped and Scott took his hands off her, taking his sword back from her in a hurry. They turned and looked up into the sky, they were shocked. It was the Armada, they had managed to find Vyse's base, and were attacking it. Scott took Belle's hand and quickly led her to the cave as a safe spot. They heard a bundle of cannons fire off, and when they turned to see what was happening, a shower of cannonballs rained onto the island, destroying the fountain and putting large holes in the buildings. All the others who were also left behind had already taken refuge in the hanger, so Scott and Belle hurried to the hanger as well. All they heard for the next few minutes was cannon fire.

Just at that moment, Vyse and Co had gotten back to Crescent Isle. Enrique was no longer with them; he had left to go warn his mother of Lord Galcian, commander of the Armada's, treason.

"It's the Armada!" Vyse exclaimed, pointing out the obvious. "How did they find our base?"

"I don't know, but we have to stop them or they'll burn it to the ground!" Aika said.

They unloaded at the flagpole. Fina's flag had been torn and burned in the mayhem. All the buildings in sight were reduced to rubble. Vyse was furious; all they worked for was now destroyed. So he hurried towards the base, when a group of assassins stopped them. They began a small battle, Vyse was hitting each of them with a barrage of cutlass attacks, while Fina and Aika were defending from whatever hits they took.

The last assassin was about to cast a spell on the group, when Scott came charging out of the cave, his katana drawn. He hit the assassin with all his fury, hitting him time after time after time with the precision of a samurai. The assassin was easily defeated. But they couldn't rest, as Ramirez appeared.

"Ramirez! How did you find our base?" Vyse asked, as angry as ever.

"Ha, when you left Dangral Island, a small scout ship followed you all the way here." Ramirez answered, smirking a bit.

"You'll pay for this!" Vyse said through gritted teeth.

"Don't be foolish. Now hand over the Moon Crystals and I'll spare your lives as well as this ruin of an Air Pirate Base."

"No way!" Aika exclaimed.

"You'll have to kill us! There's no way I'm just going to hand them over to you now!" Vyse replied.

"You'll regret that decision." Ramirez said as he drew his sword.

Vyse and Co already had their weapons out, ready to keep those Moon Crystals away from Ramirez at all costs. They knew Ramirez was very skilled, but there's no way Vyse was going to give up.

"There is light." Ramirez said, running his hand down his face. "And there is darkness."

The whole world seemed to go pitch black. No one could see anything around himself or herself.

"What's happening? Where'd he go?" Scott asked, looking around, confused.

They all heard Ramirez's voice say "Sword of the dark moon." They all blinked, trying to take a stab at what direction it had come from. But they suddenly felt excruciating pain, as if a sword's blade had been skewered right through their guts. It was followed by four or five more doses of the same feeling, the last one more painful than all the others. It had quickly brought Vyse and Co down to their hands and knees, it was just too much for them to handle.

They were helpless, unable to keep Ramirez from taking the Moon Crystals. But they only had the Red, Green, Blue, Purple, and Yellow. Ramirez still needed to get the Silver Crystal. But he claimed that the only reason they needed Fina was to get the Silver Moon Crystal, and began to withdraw a piece of it out of her body. It was going to kill her; all they could do though, was watch. Ramirez had then revealed a lot about the Rains Of Destruction, and the truth about the Silvites. Everything began to make sense to Scott now; he knew this was much more than some silly adventure.

But before Ramirez could get the crystal from Fina, a cannon ball came close to hitting him directly, causing him to lose his concentration and let Fina go. Vyse and Co all looked up to see none other than Glider!

"Good thing that guy's long winded." Glider said, smirking.

"What a bother." Ramirez said, annoyed. "No matter, I'll get the Silver Crystal yet!"

And with that, he disappeared. Vyse and Co were left alone on the island.

"This is horrible." Fina said weakly.

"What are we gonna do Vyse? Ramirez just walked off with all of our Moon Crystals!" Aika said, pointing out the obvious again.

"He was a great fighter." Scott said. "Even I couldn't follow him."

"I'm not going to give up!" Vyse proclaimed, which brought a slight smile to their faces. "Ramirez still needs the last Moon Crystal right? If we could just beat him to it, then he won't be able to call The Rains Of Destruction!"

"Yes, that's right." Fina said.

"And we're gonna do it!" Scott proclaimed.

"That's the way!" Vyse said. "But right now, we have to try and get the island back together. We'll do it first thing tomorrow morning."

So the next they, they got started on clearing all the rubble. It was hard work, but everyone was helping. Glider, Clara, Belle, Belle's friends, Izmael, Brabham, Lawrence, Don, Polly, Robinson, Pinta, Marco, Hans, Pow, Tikatika, Merida, Ozman, Kirala, Urala, Moegi, Vyse, Aika, and even Scott were working like bees all day. But no one had seen Fina all day, she wasn't helping, all of the events that happened the day before must have gotten to her.

"Vyse, Fina has been in the meeting room all day. Maybe you should go talk to her." Aika said.

"I can't possibly imagine what she's going through. Alright, I should go talk to her, it's the least I could do." Vyse said, heading up to the meeting room.

He knocked on the door. "Hey Fina, it's me Vyse."

Fina looked at the door, "Oh, Vyse."

"I know that everything that happened yesterday must be hard on you, but I think you should come down." Vyse said to the door.

"I'm sorry Vyse, but I'd rather be left alone right now." She responded.

"I understand."

He turned and left her alone. She walked over to the window and looked down at everyone, they were all working hard.

"Hey, I'm a guest here! Why do I have to do this work?" Glider complained.

"Quit your whining, I'm helping too you know!" Clara scolded.

Everyone was working to pick a big huge block of stone that came off one of the building. A few others were clearing the smaller pieces out, all standing in a line, passing them to each other. And a small mount were chasing the chickens around, trying to gather them up again. Belle was chasing after a chicken, and accidentally ran into Kirala, a head-to-head collision. She fell back onto the ground.

"I'm sooo tired!" She complained.

"They're going too fast!" Lawrence exclaimed. "Somebody cast a spell or something!"

The rest of the day pretty much went like that. Fina eventually came out of the meeting room and walked over to Vyse.

"Um, Vyse." She said. "Do you actually think we can stop Ramirez?"

"Of course we will!" Vyse responded, smiling at her. "He's up against The Blue Rouges!"

Vyse then gathered Aika, Fina and Scott and went and boarded Fina's ship. Heading off into the sky, towards The Silver Civilization.

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