Piers acting like a pirate and trying to get Felix to act like one too!
For gondowan!
Plus: Bonus Swampshipping!
Felix couldn't believe Piers sometimes. For someone who was probably older than Kraden, he could often be such a child. Sometimes, he would run around, marvelling at the sights of different trees, or at people of different colour, or fruits, or different buildings. Yes, it was all very amazing experiencing the vast diversity of the world. But the way he looked at everything with such childlike wonder was as annoying sometimes as it was cute and endearing.
Somehow, Felix knew visiting Champa to get Briggs to atone for his crimes would have an even more profound effect on the Lemurian than usual. It was a sailing town after all, and nothing was likely to amaze a sailor like Piers more than Champa.
So, with the smell of salt and the seas strong in the air, Felix did his best to endure Piers' antics.
"Arr! Avast, ye landlubbers! I'll be 'avin ye walk the plank!" Piers loud calls, in some horrific interpretation of the Champan accent.
Felix struggled not to slap himself in the face again, but failed gloriously as Piers began poking him in the side with a training sword.
"Ah-har! Me first mate, Felix! Where be your trusty parrot?" Piers bellowed out heartily.
Felix gritted his teeth as Piers continued to poke him right between his ribs with the point of the blunted sword, "I've never owned a parrot, Piers." He responded as calmly as he could.
"Gar! That's 'Captain Piers' to you, first mate!" Piers replied throatily, "And how could ye not own a parrot!? E'ery pirate needs his trusty parrot! We'll be getting ye a new one right away!"
"No I don't think that's…"
"No I don't think that's!" A loud feminine voice called out from behind him.
Felix glanced to his side, to find his sister hanging onto his shoulder tightly whilst looking off into the distance blankly.
"Jenna… what are you…"
"Jenna! What are you!" Jenna called out loudly, her gaze still inexplicably unfocused.
"Surrounded by idiots…" Felix grumbled quietly, trying his best to make sure Jenna could not repeat anything he said.
"Ah-har!" Piers exclaimed joyously, wrapping his arm around Felix's free shoulder, "Now ye be more like me pirate, mate! Ye just be needin yer hat! Swab!"
"Yes, Cap'n!?" Sheba's loud voice yelled across the deck.
Felix did his best to turn around, instantly regretting it as well. Sheba was marching up to them, wearing a bandanna, an eye-patch, and had torn that particular outfit to give it a more pirate-y look.
"First mate, Felix, be needin' a hat!" Piers ordered, tussling Felix's hair as he did.
"Ya-har, I be 'avin' just the hat for 'im!" Sheba called back, tossing a hat in Piers' direction.
Piers caught the hat with his best pirate-y laugh and shoved it onto Felix's head. Felix merely sighed, slumping in defeat as his hair was pushed over his eyes from the way the hat was shoved onto him.
"Arr, cheer up, mate!" Piers said heartily, gesturing to Sheba and Jenna that they could take their leave. The two girls ran off, understanding what Piers meant, giggling with what they had done, and at what Piers planned, "Tis, not every mate who can share a bed with the captain!"
Despite how annoyed, and naturally steadfast, Felix was, he struggled to keep his cheeks from reddening any.
"And ye will be sharing me bed." 'Captain' Piers whispered in his ear, "Captain's orders."
It wasn't as though it was a break from the norm. The two of them often shared a bed, cuddling together as they drifted off at night. Jenna and Sheba often teased Felix for how gentle and sot he was when it came to his relationship with Piers. It wasn't as though he could help it.
"Not if you keep up this pirate thing." Felix said stubbornly, refusing to get in on this game he and the others were playing.
Piers chuckled a bit, "You need to learn to loosen up a bit, Felix. Being so rigid and serious all the time… well… it's not necessarily the best for morale."
Felix raised an eyebrow and turned to Piers.
"I understand our quest is important and it does require a level of dedication. But, think of how much more comfortable Sheba and Jenna may be if you took part in one of their games. They are so young after all, and are faced with the possibility of death and this immense burden every day."
Felix had never really considered this. After all, the majority of his teen years were spent in Prox and they were not the happiest years of his life. The training sessions and the possible beating Saturos, Menardi, or Agatio put him through to 'toughen him up' for the quest were something he would rather forget. Piers was right, his sister probably missed him, and Sheba was the youngest, barely even a teenager. Maybe just putting aside an hour each day to play their games with them wouldn't be the worst.
"…Arr…" Felix grumbled quietly, in his best Champan impersonation.
Piers laughed and kissed the leader before breaking back into character in full, bellowing pirate slogans he had heard from the Champans around the deck. Sheba and Jenna re-joined them before long.
Felix had to admit… letting loose did feel good. Seeing Jenna and Sheba's joyful gazes and hearing their giddy laughter as he acted as a pirate with Piers was especially heartening.
There you go!
Hope you liked it, gondowan.
Personally, I'm unsure of it, and think it could've been better.