A/N: Devil's advocate says: hola! Hello mi ppl! This is the episode you've all been waiting for…Drumroll please…where our Ublaz (hottie emperor himself) reveals his sinister plot!

Hope y'all like it.

SWEET SAMPETRA SEASON 1:

Episode 6: the one with the "skinny dipping".

In the sweltering heat brought by the merciless mid-day sun, the corsairess, Rinj, watched the sleek silhouette that was the arrogant Emperor Ublaz through eyes narrowed with obvious dislike. She had heard from Rasconza (who said he'd heard it from a "reliable source" a.k.a. Sagitar Sawfang) that Ublaz was up to something, and the cunning fox captain also had confided her with a scheme he had concocted to unveil Ublaz's scheme. Rinj, of course had been all ears until she'd actually heard the plan.

"All you have to do", Rasconza had said, "Is work your little seductive spell on him so he," he grinned mischievously, " lost in your deep emerald eyes, will accidentally let his plot slip."

Frantic, she had come up with a hasty excuse she hoped would satisfy the captain.

"But what if it doesn't work?"

" I bet there's not a single guy on Sampetra who can resist you", she felt her face burn at the complement, "If this doesn't work, you can skin me alive and tell everyone Groojaw's my gay lover."

After Rinj had seen Rasconza with Sagitar on the spy-cameras (obviously doing a little more than kissing) she would have wanted nothing better than to skin him alive and tell everyone Groojaw was his gay lover. But, even though her loyalty remained faithfully true to the fox, she was not going to follow a scheme that involved her getting whisker to whisker with that rich bastard of an emperor—or so she had thought.

Taking a deep breath, and unbuttoning her tunic's neckline down a little she stepped forward and (I so would never do this if it weren't for Rasconza) she slid a paw on the pine marten's shoulder, whispering to him;

"And what is such a handsome emperor like yourself doing all alone on the jetty, my lord?"

Though he cast his gaze seaward, apparently impervious to her taunting him she could see by how he let her draw closer she'd succeeded with the "my lord" bit. She almost scowled, disgusted at how he took pleasure in her gilding him with such titles, like he had power over her. She could have snorted, you wish.

"What ever happened to putting an end to my tyranny, Rinj ?", he coolly replied. His pale eyes searched her but she did not waver for even a moment. Since she'd arrived at Sampetra she'd heard corsair whisper fearfully of the one they called Mad-eyes. Of his stare that could bend anyone's will, to make them do his bidding. Rinj thought this was crap.

Reluctance squeezing at her, but with Rasconza in mind, she snaked her arms around his neck, "I like tyranny ", she flashed him a sultry look but paused a moment locked in his strangely hypnotic eyes… she attempted to avert her gaze but she couldn't look away…

"Why did you really come here?", Ublaz asked her.

To her own dismay, words rolled from her lips smoothly that she did not intend to let escape. She continued looking straight ahead, unblinkingly as though mesmerized.

"Rasconza suspected you were plotting something. He sent me to find out what."

"As I suspected," the pine marten seemed satisfied. He blinked, snapping the connection. Ublaz's sabre point caught the corsairess by the chin.

Though at first she was confused, his blade made a clear point; she'd been discovered.

Straining for some excuse or explanation she knew hope was lost, perhaps Mad-eyes wouldn't even hesitate before slitting her throat…

Suddenly something small cannoned out of nowhere into Rinj's side. She teetered for a second on one footpaw before losing her balance and plummeting over the side of the jetty, and into the watery depths below.

"Er…no offence, Ublaz but it didn't look like things were going to well between you too," Barranca said as he peered at the ocean's once glassy clear surface which was now shattered by ripples and foam. Rinj's form was just visible beneath the waves.

Ublaz sighed, "No kidding.", then flashed Barranca a mischievous grin, "Nice work, kid."

"Well, the plan is the plan, boss, now it's time for your part."

The emperor's grin widened and he said in a mock-distressed tone:

"We've got a Latino beauty overboard Barranca, guess I might as well save her."

Conva's kid brother rolled his eyes, "Go get her, tiger."

Rinj felt as though the powerful current was squeezing the breath out of her lungs. She fought back, striking her arms and footpaws out behind her, and after a moment her head broke the surface, but not for long enough. When she opened her mouth she inhaled a mouth full of liquid that was sickly salty and laced with stringy seaweed. The tropical sea engulfed her once more, dragging her, kicking, into its watery embrace, until her oxygen-starved brain succumbed to the darkness that suddenly felt so welcoming.

With one arm around her waist, Ublaz pulled Rinj up onto the jetty. She gazed at him blankly for a second before slipping into unconsciousness with a groan, her head lolling forward onto his chest. He laid the water-logged black rat on her back, then looked up at Barranca for help.

"Hemlic manoeuvre?", he asked dubiously.

"That's for chocking, Ublaz. Now what you need to do," Barranca smiled impishly, "is a little thing I like to call mouth-to-mouth CPR."

The emperor's jaw seemed to unhinge itself.

"You serious?"

"Deadly."

Mad-eyes looked from Rinj's limp and sodden form to the ferret, then back to Rinj again.

Deciding the situation was desperate, Barranca said, "Unless you want me to do it, of course."

That got Ublaz moving. He straddled the wilted corsairess and leaned forward, then lifting her head up, he took a deep breath and, with his mouth to hers, he exhaled. Conva's little bro paced the dock as a sentry, as he was pretty sure what Sagitar would think if she saw the scene, and it definitely wouldn't be pretty. Ublaz forced another breath through Rinj's lips, but still she did not stir.

He's probably enjoying every minute of it, Barranca thought darkly. It was so unfair. Ublaz's life was already every pirate's fantasy, not to mention he had Sagitar all to himself. That, however, according to Rasconza, wouldn't last for long.

With a sputtering cough Rinj fluttered her eyes open. For a second her emerald gaze wandered, but then came to a rest on Ublaz, who still had his body pressing her down and his mouth a hairsbreadth from hers, and she, with a gasp, exploded into a torrent of rapid-fire Spanish that Barranca knew couldn't mean anything appropriate for his young ears to behold.

"Get off me, puerco, pig!", the Latino rat pounded on the young emperor's chest fiercely with her fists, trying to throw him off.

Ublaz slid off her and leaned on a dock stanchion, his eyes glinting with amusement, "Nice way to thank someone who just saved your life."

Rinj, who had jumped onto her feet and dusted herself off as though she had just been touched by something rather filthy, stopped dead, and looked up at him sharply.

"What?"

"You probably would have drowned if I hadn't got you out of there."

Her eyes were kindled with defiance as she spat, "Callabero is what you think you are, Mad-eyes, a gentleman. But you are far from it."

With that she turned, her dark fur still slick with seawater, and marched haughtily down the jetty away from him. Barranca glanced at the pine marten with a bit of sympathy.

"You must be crazy, going for a chick like that. I gotta hand it to her, she's not only the hottest girl on Sampetra, but also the cruellest."

Ublaz, ever the optimist said, "Well, at least this time she didn't slap me".

Romsca had just about fallen asleep at her desk when she heard the familiar beep of an incoming e-mail. Rubbing her hooded eyes, then groping around for the mouse, she clicked on the window that had popped up in the corner of her apple-mac's screen. She groaned. It was from (a.k.a. Barranca). With great reluctance she opened the file.

OMG! Guess wat I saw when I went 4 a stroll on da jetty! No, not Rasconza making out with Sagitar again. RINJ SKINNY DIPPING WITH UBLAZ! Spread the rumour 2 every1 u can, or else!

Barranca.

Snatching up her desktop wireless, she muttered in a sleepy emotionless drawl, "Your Mightiness, this is Romsca. I've got some news I think you might want to know."

There was a sigh on the other end.

"O.K. What did Sagitar do this time?"

Swinging restlessly in his hammock, Rasconza's pondering was suddenly interrupted by a knocking on the captain's cabin window. He thought he was having something like deja vu when he saw a female rat outside in a jolly-boat, soaked from head to footpaws—except this time it was not Sagitar but Rinj, and she was looking very, very murderous.

The rebel leader sat carefully back down in his hammock and was sure he probably wouldn't be sleeping too well tonight. Not to mention, he'd no doubt have a Latino rat trying to skin him alive the next morning, and have the whole Sampetra convinced that Groojaw was his gay lover.

To be continued…

A/N: yeah , sorry about the whole "gay lover" thing, I am not a homophobe it's just that a random gay joke here and there are actually a little funny…in my opinion anyway.

I know I've got already one review but, yes I'm sorry to say, I will continue to pester you devoted readers about R & R –ing as all us aspiring authors do.

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