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Raiders and Slayers

It was a peaceful day on the Condor… Or at least it would have been if the alarms didn't start blaring. At the sounds of the sirens, everyone quickly rushed onto the bridge to see what was happening. "What is it, Stork? Talons? Raptors?"

"I was getting to that," Stork answered, a bit annoyed that he was being interrupted with reading his poetry. Pulling down the periscope, he surveyed the outside area before seeing what was causing the alarms to buzz. Afterwards he began to mope as he lifted up the scope. "I should have known. It's Murk Raiders."

There was a few seconds of silence before someone raised their hand. "Excuse me for just one seconds, but what the heck are Murk Raiders?" Lina Inverse, being slightly new to Atmos, didn't know who they were dealing with yet. From what she had gather in the short time since she heard about them, they were some sort of bandit gang, not that it bothered her of course.

Piper looked over at Lina, preparing to give an explanation to what they were dealing with. "Murk Raiders are a band of sky pirates that are known for ravaging an airship of everything, even their crew."

"… So, they're pirates, huh?" the sorceress muttered, having a greedy look in her eye. The Storm Hawks stared at her, sweatdropping as they saw her passion. Bandits or pirates, it didn't matter to her. As long as they had stolen treasure, she would face them with the power to overkill. "Alright! Stork! Fly over to that ship and I'll blast it out of the sky!"

Stork stared at her as if she was insane (much more than before). "Are you crazy! You may not have a hard time against these kinds of people, but there is no way I'm risking the Condor from being turn into scrap! So, let's just move away before they even-!" Before Stork could finish, he notice Lina had already gone outside. "… She didn't listen to me, did she?"

Lina's companions, Gourry, Amelia, and Zelgadis, just shrugged it off like it was an everyday thing for them. "At least she keeps things interesting." They soon followed after her to the docking bay, wanting to get on the action too. The Storm Hawks watched them walk out, Stork rubbing his head in irritation.

Finn, seeing his friend's distress, patted his shoulder and smiled. "Don't worry, Stork. If Lina can take care of them, it means less work for us." This didn't seem to lift the merb's mood as he grumbled about it. He didn't know which was worse: Murk Raiders or Lina bragging about how she defeated the most feared pirate gang in Atmos.

Now on the Blood Crow, the sky pirates had already taken notice of an airship near them. For what kind of ship it was, they were just checking on that. But as long as it had supplies, treasure, and crew, they were ready to plunder it. The captain of the ship, Captain Scabulous, sat impatiently in his chair and called to his first mate, "Eyeball! Any report of who is close to our vessel?"

Eyeball, the overweight first mate, was already looking out for the ship. "Almost, captain!" After searching through the clouds, he finally spotted the Condor right by their side. "… Ahhh, it seems to be the Storm Hawks, captain." He sounded disappointed by his find before seeing something of the flight deck. "Oh! But it looks like they got some new crew members!"

"Really? Let me see." Grabbing the telescope, Scabulous looked out and began to examine the people who were out there, beginning with the young-looking red haired one. "Hrmmm… Seems a bit scrawny…" He then watched as she began to yell at her companion. "And bad-tempered." He then looked over at the tall blonde next to her. "He seems to be strong… if a bit stupid." He then turned to another young girl. "Oooh ho ho! There's a cute lassie with them, along with a nice package to match."

"Really, let me see!" Eyeball requested, trying to grab the telescope back from his captain. However, he didn't want to give it up so easily and the two were soon fighting out it. After a while, they both were admiring the girl's… Assets, so to speak.

Grinning from the sight of a beautiful maiden, the two soon looked at the last member, only to be in shock. Despite his overall appearance, he looked familiar, very familiar. Looking over at the captain, Eyeball spoke, "Ummm, do you think…?"

Scabulous didn't have to answer back. He looked back at Eyeball and commanded, "Contact the crew! Tell them to bring out the white flag and ask for a temporary truce with them!"

The first mate went to do so but stopped when he realized something. "Don't ya think the Storm Hawks might find it a little suspicious that we surrender without fighting them first?"

Scabulous growled before slapping his head. "Just do it!" Eyeball didn't say anything more and went to tell the crew of the captain's orders.

Lina and the others had waited for the Murk Raiders to make a move, looking at the Blood Crow directly (Because something with a skull on the front of it obviously screams pirate). After a while of waiting impatiently, they noticed some movement going on the side of the ship. Using Stork's Peepers, Zelgadis looked in its vicinity to see what it was. "… It looks like they're surrendering."

"Wow, they must have heard about you, Lina," Gourry said in his casual tone. Lina, at the moment, didn't know how to feel about this. She should be glad that she was getting notice in the world. However, the greedy Bandit Killer in her wasn't satisfied in being insulted like this.

"Oh, is that so?" She pretended to act all innocent before reverting to her true personality. "Like hell I should care about that!" Gathering fire in her hand, she positioned herself and yelled, "Mega-Fireball!"

Throwing the huge fireball, she and the others watched as it made contact with the ship. Everyone was quite surprise about how much damage the attack spell did to its side, scorching a good chuck on it. Lina smirked at her handy work, despite the shock faces that were present, Amelia's especially. "Miss Lina! How could you do such a villainous act! They were surrendering."

Lina looked to Amelia and answered, "Yea, well, they're still pirates. Besides, them surrendering might have been some pirate trick anyway." The princess nodded, knowing that it would be somewhat true. They did surrender without attacking first. Of course, there could be a number of justified reasons to do so, which was the big question here.

A second later, Zelgadis spoke up after keeping a close eye on the ship, "It doesn't matter now. Looks like they're beginning to attack us." Indeed, cannon fire was heard as blasts were seen heading towards the Condor. Everyone quickly hang on as the ship went to dodge the shots. Lina, on the other hand, immediately cast a levitation spell and was flying over to the Blood Crow. Now, this was getting interesting.

"Okay! If you're getting serious…" She flew at a close range before throwing various spells at the pirate airship. Using the air currents, she weaved through the barrage of shots while making sure not to waste her power so she didn't fall. After a while of nearly destroying one of it, a voice shouted among the racket.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, MISSY!" Lina stopped for a second, before looking at the source which was apparently the strangest (if not ugliest) humanoid she had seen. "Why are you attacking my ship! We don't want to pillage the Condor right now!"

The sorceress blinked in confusion before glaring at the pirate. "Yea right, you cyclops!" While she and Scabulous began to get busy by yelling insults at each other, the Storm Hawks quickly headed to the flight deck to check on Lina's team.

"Hey, are you alright?" Aerrow asked as he watched them get up. Even though he was glad that Stork did evasive maneuvers to dodge cannon fire, they had forgotten that others were outside and one of them didn't have the magic to save himself. Of course, he was glad to see them all there.

"We're fine, Aerrow," Amelia replied as she and the others got up, "However, Miss Lina went off to fight the Murk Raiders by themselves. So, I don't know if she's okay or not."

Piper grabbed the Peepers next to Zelgadis and began to review the battle. "By the looks of things, she did a number of their ship." After looking through the damage, she noticed Lina and Scabulous yelling at each other. "Okay, I see her. It looks like she's talking to Captain Scabulous." Suddenly, a loud blast was heard as more smoke began to emit from the ship. "… And I think he made a comment about her chest."

"… Maybe we should help her," Junko suggested, a bit worried that Lina could be in over her head. It didn't take long for everyone to agree as they quickly headed back inside to secure their rides. They didn't doubt Lina's abilities to make big explosions. However, they had a feeling that she would be in trouble if she had gotten onto the airship itself.

A moment later, Lina had finally made it inside the Blood Crow, slapping her hands in pride. "Well, now that I'm here, I should grab stuff before this thing heads down… And maybe get back at the jerk for calling me flat-chested." She began to search for the treasure room though it was short-lived. Before she could walk out of the room she was in, she saw what she consider the most horrifying thing in existence.

"GYAAAAAAAAA!"

It took a while for both the Murk Raiders, the Storm Hawks with Junko having tissues in his nose, and her friends to come to Lina's rescue. Quickly, she hid behind Gourry while staring at the creature with a fearful expression. Now, it was strange to see her like since she seemed so active before. However, they didn't know that one of Lina's biggest fears was slugs, especially giant slug-like monsters.

"S-s-slimy creep… Go away!" Lina yelled from behind Gourry. The Slug monster, though very scary looking, seemed upset by her ranting and began to cry. It wasn't slimy. It was his natural look.

Eyeball looked over at Lina and said, "Hey, Gromie is a very rare Dusky Slug. Their skin is used to make a very good, low fat butter substitute." Those who weren't used to that kind of butter simply made a face of disgust. They didn't need to know that. Besides, it wasn't helping Lina's fear of slugs or slug monsters.

"I don't care! Just keep it away from me!" After minutes of relocating themselves that was away from the slug, everyone soon found themselves in a much bigger, more appropriate room where they could have their epic battle. Lina, now back to her normal self, cracked her knuckles and smirked. "Now, that's out of the way, time for us to get this on."

Now, everyone was expecting the Murk Raiders to fight since that's what they normally do. However, this time was different as their leader made his way over to the group, more specifically over to Zelgadis. Once in front of the chimera, he put his hands on his shoulders and smiled. "Ah, so it is you, isn't it, Zelly-boy?"

Zelgadis was extremely confused by this but remained relax if not a tad nervous. "… Do I know you?"

Scabulous chuckled before he explained, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Captain Scabulous. Me and the boys are a friend of your grandfather, Rezo." Everyone snapped up at Rezo's name. Of all the strange things that had happened involving the man, this was probably the strangest thing they encounter. And it was going to get stranger still. "Not only that, you can consider me your godfather."

"My godfather…?" Zelgadis murmured at the idea, before exclaiming it in shock, "MY GODFATHER!" Lina, Gourry, Amelia, and the Storm Hawks went into shock upon hearing that. Even though Rezo the Red Priest did do things that many had consider helpful for people and the magic community, he did have his own twisted sense of humor to his devices. However other than turning him into a chimera, Zelgadis considered this to be one of the worse things his grandfather ever done to him.

"I can't believe someone from your world has been here before," Aerrow commented.

"I can't believe Rezo made him to be Zel's godfather," Lina commented too while placing a hand on her forehead.

"I can't believe this isn't butter," Gourry said as he ate the Dusky Slug Butter substitute. Lina soon punched him for making such a bad joke.

Author's Notes:

YARGH! Happy Pirates' Day, peeps! To celebrate, I decided to upload this new crossover oneshot/drabble to celebrate one of my favorite pirates, the Murk Raiders. Despite them being only used a couple of times throughout the Storm Hawks, I really like these guys as some sort of Chaotic Neutral to the black and white setting the series is set in.

Now, to explain the ending to this, I had some sort of idea of Captain Scabulous being a parental unit to Zelgadis. Now everyone who knows the Slayers series can say that he has plenty of those with his own band with Rodimus and Zolf. My argument for this is that Captain Scabulous is a parental figure that is alive and would be able to act with Amelia while they didn't. Also, this may be my own head speaking but wouldn't it be fun for Scabulous hanging out around Zelgadis… I'll shut up now.

I do not own the "I can't believe this isn't butter" line or the entire joke. They belong to their own creators. I do own the Dusky Slug despite Lina not wanting it to be in this fic.

I would also like to add that there will be a part two to this that I hope to write soon.

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