In the sky…
Kikimora was already in hot pursuit of the palisman and the two members of the Royal Family via Princess her Hand Dragon.
The hand demon spotted the alleged ship carrying the missing Palisman and prince and princess. The right hand knew that this required a little finesse and timing. Plus, where there is the Blood Crusaders, there could be…
"ROAR!"
"What's wrong, Princess?" Kikimora cooed her pet as Mr. Tophat was squeaking a warning from above.
"Been a long time, hasn't it Cousin?" A male voice smirked, sounding a lot like Kikimora.
"Ukobach!" She snarled at it left to a tussle between two dragons!
Inside the Palisman Hive…
Luz stirred from her sleep as she realized where she was.
She then spotted her cousin, Hunter sleeping with Flapjack.
"Hunter? Hey." She whispered as she tried to shake the boy.
"Snort! No, no four slices of bacon and as many pancakes as you can give me." Hunter mumbled in his sleep.
"Wake up!" Luz shouted before slapping him!
"Ugh! What? Luz, you know I hate it when you do that!" Hunter shouted before noticing the problem, "Oh, we're moving."
Both cousins popped their heads outside to see that they were in the air, then looked up to see an unknown ship.
"Hijackers, huh? Not on the Golden Guard's watch." Hunter declared as Flapjack was in staff form, "Watch over the Palisman, Hermana Lavanda. I got this."
Hunter climbed the rope as Luz and a… once shy but now interested little Palisman that looked like a flower that frowned was on her shoulder.
"You think we should go after them?"
The orange tulip Palisman purred in agreement.
"Yeah, me too."
Luz then followed Hunter as they reached the deck to see a strange girl whistling as she was steering.
"Luz, what are you doing?" Hunter whispered harshly, "And why is that Palisman with you?"
"We wanted to help out. Who is she?" Luz wondered.
"Don't know, but we need to get her away from the wheel," Hunter informed.
"Leave that to me." Luz purred with a glyph in her hand.
Carefully, Luz crept behind the mysterious woman, then…
"Hah!"
The girl felt someone whack her!
"Huh?" The girl uttered then screamed as she was sent flying in the air!
The cousins watched it all.
"I'm sure she's fine," Luz said.
"Probably." Hunter added, "Okay, now let's turn this thing around."
"Oh, if you pull that thing."
"Oh thanks-huh?"
Luz and Hunter gasped to see the girl!
"Hi~" She greeted before she tied them up.
She approached them and then tied them up. The woman looked at the pair.
"So, am I to guess that I am in the presence of the Princess of the Boiling Isles and the Golden Guard himself?" The mystery girl scoffed.
"Yeah, and you would be?" Hunter growled.
"Someone who is getting these wild magic freaks to our true leaders and reclaiming the purification of the lands." She declared as Hunter realized what they were dealing with.
"Blood Crusader. Thought you guys were banished from every island in the Demon Realm. Still sore when my uncle kicked your-?"
"But all of that is going to change, brats. For we're taking our islands and making them pure again." She declared.
"Pure?" Luz questioned.
"Ignore her, Luz. This chick is a pigeon short of a full pie. Their insane cult followed their dead insane leader who insanely believes that insane invaders from long ago were Gods-OW!" Hunter yelped as he felt a jolt from the girl's artificial staff.
"So… to add with this vile palismen that are going to be sacrificed, we'll add you two as tribute."
Luz pouted and spotted the staff, looking just like her father's design but modified and changed in style.
"I see you guys hate my dad but love his inventions," Luz smirked while the girl was focused on piloting.
"Even an imbecile like him can make something useful." She uttered while she was still steering.
"Did you know that artificial staff require constant care and work? You need to make the combination just right or they could short-circuit." Luz babbled as she drew an ice glyph.
"Cute, but I don't see where you are going with this."
"Well, artificial staffs are made with love, work, and years of studies of… GLYPHS!"
The ice glyph activated as she lost her staff, and the cousins laughed. But before she could do anything, the dragons' tussling knocked them out of the sky!