Note: This chapter is shorter than the last, but it introduces more characters. :) Hopefully I haven't added too many.

----Chapter 2----

Camdyn was enjoying the view of the sky from high up when a huge shadow appeared out of nowhere. It took her a minute to register that this was an airship. The thing was huge.

"There we are! Home sweet home!" Mina shouted back to Camdyn.

"What IS that thing?"

"The Iron Vulture, of course! Home away from Home so to speak."

Camdyn winced. She'd heard rumors about the huge airship when she was in Cape Suzette, but nothing had prepared her for this. She panicked slightly as they flew straight at the airship, and only relaxed slightly when she saw that they were headed for a hangar inside. Mina's plane was the last one in and as it rolled to a stop both passenger and pilot scrambled out.

"Oh, I tell you. Ratchet! You really need to make that seat more comfortable! I can't even feel my tush!" Mina rubbed her rear end. Camdyn couldn't suppress a laugh. She quickly stopped as the big gray dog named Dumptruck walked up leading a large tigeress and a female squirrel. Camdyn missed the wink that passed between the two girls and Mina.

"Uh, der captain says that these two want yer help..."

"Move along there! I've got all kinds of work to be done and you're standin' around yappin'!" the tigeress brandished a spatula like a sword and took a swipe at the dog. Dumptruck stood his ground.

"But, der captain said I had to keep an eye on der girlie-"

"Do you think I can't handle a scrawny little vixen? Huh? Do you?" the tigeress showed her fangs and Dumptruck scrambled off. The tigeress happened to be the cook, and Dumptruck knew full well her methods of getting even with the crew. Last time she'd put so many spices in the food that no one could possibly eat it...well, except Don Karnage, but who knew he liked spicy food?

The squirrel was bouncing up and down in excitement. "Come on! Come on!" she grabbed Camdyn by her paw and before the vixen could protest she was being hustled along corridors and up stairways faster than she could blink. She practically tripped when the squirrel stopped suddenly and opened a door.

"In! Come on!" she pushed the vixen into the room. A few minutes later Mina and the tigeress appeared.

"Ah, I see you've become a victim of The Gwynn Hustle." Mina said with a grin.

"Hrmph. If she'd only hustle like that to get her work done."

"Awww, Sophie. Just because I don't like peeling..."

"No buts. You peel, I cook. It's the way of the world."

"Bah. I hate the world and it's ways." the squirrel huffed as she flopped down and began to peel potatoes.

Camdyn shifted from paw to paw.

"Oh, I'm sorry. This is Sophie and Gwynn, you two, this is Camdyn Everly."

"Hi howareya?" Gwynn said holding out a half peeled potato. Camdyn looked at her as if she were insane. Gwynn looked at her hand and sighed.

"Sorry." she switched the potato to the other paw and shook Camdyn's. "I forget about the potatoes sometimes."

After a few minutes of silence Sophie looked at the vixen.

"So, where are you from anyway? I'm from the Port of St. Init, Bengala."

"Well, I'm from Point Clearwater, but I've been working out of Cape Suzette for about a month now."

"What'd you do there?" Gwynn asked, her tufted ears standing up straight.

"Oh, well, I'm an entertainer. A little song, a little dance you know?"

"Ah, a stage girl?" Sophie asked not looking up from what she was doing. Mina sat in a chair by the door, listening.

"Well, I try to be. Unfortunatly I got stuck with a snooty Cocker Spaniel who was afraid of getting wet. The audiences never really cared for me too much I don't think. On the first trip my so-called agent booked us on the crew told me I sounded like a drunk whale and if I didn't shut up they were going to leave me on an island. This time I end up with pirates!" Camdyn slapped the counter. "Urm, no offense."

"None taken." Mina said, laughing.

"My only thought at the moment is whether I made the better decision or not. I still don't know why Don Karnage let me come."

"He saw potential the same as I did." Mina said.

"I don't have any potential!"

"Well, maybe he was just being nice." Sophie said sagely. "He's a gentleman you know."

"BAH!" Gwynn snorted throwing a potato down and getting another.

Sophie smiled like a Sphinx.

"He is." she said.

"A gentleman does not insult a lady!"

"I told you not to wear that perfume." the tigeress answered.

"He was over-reacting! He said I smelled like a skunk!"

"He wasn't over-reacting, he was telling the truth!" Mina shrieked with laughter.

Sophie watched the bear for a moment then looked at Camdyn. "It was one of those perfumes that was supposed to give you different scents. The ones they found out didn't work."

"Oh! Yeah, they made everyone smell like a panicked skunk..."

Mina shrieked with laughter again, falling off of her chair and onto the floor as Gwynn continued her peeling duties. Perhaps just a touch more forceful than needed.