Battle of the Worlds
Ch. 1
By: Cutegirlmayra1
(Haha! I wanted to do this for so long! I'll continue my other stories after this chapter, but for now, I really just wanted to get this started!)
2 souls remained in the prison cell of a clockwork's ship, having been arrested for righteous crimes as they were concerned, and trying desperately to start a conversation.
"Ehem… so… your name, mate?" asked one who had a look of annoyed boredom on her face.
"….Crazy Maya Cringle, swashbuckler. You?"
"Hah! A swashbuckler! Interesting… I'm in to voodoo, myself. The names Dreaming Jewel Kidd, try not to forget it. I don't show mercy all the time for that mistake." she tried to lighten the air up, but Maya just chuckled and looked at the ground. Her arm up on her lifted leg as the other rested on the ground. She leaned against the cell wall and sighed.
"Hey, Kidd. How'd you get into this mess?" she asked, making Jewel jump a little in her spot.
"Oh, uh.. Long story, mate." she scratched her head.
"I'd like to hear it." Maya smiled over to her.
"How 'bout we make a deal, see? You tell me your end of the story, and I'll tell you mine. Do we have an accord?" she held out her hand to Jewel, after having gestured to each other to tell the grand tale of their situation.
"Ha, alright. Ya convinced me. Story time." Jewel shook Maya's hand. "Now let's see,… sorry, I don't really have any puppets with me right now but…"
"No problem,… here, take mine." Maya handed her a puppet theater in her inventory.
"Ah… quite handy, aren't ye?" Jewel kid. After putting the show together, she began her tale…
"Long, long ago, in the skyways. There was a ferocious beast, called the Sky Squid!"
"I thought it was called the Sky Kraken?"
"Oi, oi, oi! Whose telling' the story 'ere?"
"Sorry, mate…"
"Now, as I was sayin'…" Jewel gave Maya a cruel look, indicating she was expecting another outburst, but she was only playing around.
"This 'ere Squid was no thing to mess with, see? And one day, a ship happened to appear in it's waters…."
A ship sailed the mighty skyways in search of treasure and gold, but one day, it was attacked by a Sky Squid. It was said; the Sky Squid left none living, except this one peculiar day…
A mother rushed to some drift wood, after having ripped a piece of trim from her dress, and tying it around her child's eyes so she couldn't see the horror of her family dying. Then, ever so gently, she attempted to place her child on the drift wood, until one of the Sky Squid's legs slashed into the ship once more, rocking it to where the mother had to fling her child onto it. The child, gripping to the drift wood, cried out in sorrow and confusion. All she could hear were the fatal cries of her family and their beloved crew, as the ship went down in utter ruins…
The drift wood carried her through the winds of the skyway, till she felt something hook onto it.
There was a tug, and she braced herself as she felt she was being pulled in somewhere. A 'Thunk!' was heard as she bumped into something too,land.
A crocodile lifted her up in his sights, and took the binding off the child's eyes.
He stared at her with strict discipline, as she stared at him with horror. She cried again, not knowing what else to do. The croc smiled and nodded only once, then gave command to his men to take the child to the local coliseum. To be trained to fight for the Crocotopian Empire.
As she was raised by the spear, and battled in wicked and heart-pounding fights within the coliseum, She was then picked to serve an elderly witch doctor; a true voodoo master, who trained her diligently in the ways of the spirits and undead, which at that time, her only true friends.
Then, once again…
On another 'one day'…
They were learning about the secrets of voodoo brewing, when the Armada attacked.
Slamming the door open, one clockwork spoke out in a metallic voice, "Witch doctors… magic is forbidden. Seize at once!"
My master, having been trained to worry about his own life above others, teleported within a crystal, telling me my final task in voodoo was to live, and not become one of the spirits I had befriended. Till this day, I do not blame my master for fleeing, and I await to find the meaning of my destiny… within the skyway winds…
"My dream… is to sail all over the worlds… learning magic to improve my voodoo skills… and to be the most renowned pirate of the spiral!" Dreaming Jewel Kidd put the puppet show away and gave it back to Crazy Maya Cringle. "Well? How do you savvy that?"
"I savvy it well." Maya smiled and set up the show once more. "But I believe mystory will trump your own… no offense, of course." she grinned slyly.
"Really…?" Kidd folded her arms, and then smiled cockily. "I'd like to see you try, love." she leaned against the prison cell as well.
"Alright then! Ehem." Cringle moved herself up, getting excited, but then serious again. "You spoke of the Armada, did you not?"
"Aye,… yes I believe I did." Jewel responded, sitting back and nodding her head, smugly certain this story couldn't outmatch her own tragic tale.
"Perfect, so then no explaining is needed there…. My story begins with a dreaded fleet of robotic navy men. Sworn to protect the peace of the world… until corrupted by their very gears…"
Another ship was within the skyways, but this time, not flying the winds… or on another said, 'one day'.
Instead, at a terrifying stand still, with the Armada.
A mother quickly hurried to find a way to save her child, seeing a Sky Whale near her, she flung her child onto it, hoping it would spare her child's life. The child landed, almost slipped, but the Sky Whale tipped itself slightly, giving the child the balance needed to stay a top it. The child witnessed the battle, seeing her family die before her eyes, and seeing the cannons of the Armada ship blast her home away from her. She looked to the ship, which the Sky Whale was going dangerously closed to, and looked up to see the Armada men, all staring at her, guns to their sides.
As an unknowing child, she reached for them, tears staining her face, wanting to be held. An innocent child, they looked at her with sockets of black, like there empty souls. One spoke to its captain behind him, without so much as moving. "Captain, a child had survived, proceeding to await your orders, sir."
The captain came into view, looking over the side of the ship. The Sky Whale moved slightly closer to him, making the child reach even more to be saved. The Armada Captain leaned down, lowering his hand to the child. For a moment, it looked as though the clockwork fends had a heart, till the Armada Captain changed his hand to a point.
"Orders are to destroy all pirates, shoot it."
The Sky Whale felt the pain of the bullets fly, and puffed up its air spout, causing the Armada to be flung back away from the edge of the ship slightly. As they were wobbling for balance and momentarily unable to shoot, the Sky Whale flung the child upward, and swallowed it, holding it in it's mouth as it swam with great speeds away from the Armada ship.
"Shall we pursue, Captain?" a clockwork asked.
"It is but a new pirate, it will not last long without aid. Let it be." the Captain turned around, dusting off it's coat, proceeding on to it's programmed destination.
To search out more pirates to obliterate from the skyways…
The Sky Whale landed somewhere, and opened its mouth for the child to unsteadily climb out of it. Three pigs with ninja attire saw the child proceed out, and blessed it as a miracle. They took the child to Mooshu's grandest general, Moo Ling. To be raised by his wife, Chi Ling, who cared for the child as if it was her own. The child was raised to know many of the Ninja and Samurai ways, also studying under the goat scholars as well.
But one day, and regretfully it was yet another 'one day' much like the others, the Armada showed up again.
Threatening a poor old rat's life who was once part of an elite pirate crew, but retired and made his home in the peaceful land of Mooshu, the Armada were now threatening to kill his family if he did not surrender.
He offered them gold, but they just took it and were about to bind him, when I stood up and fought back for him. They took me instead, as my three uncles skillfully fled with my old rat friend. Till this day, I wish to avenge my family, both before and on Mooshu, and defeat the Armada scum, and bring peace among the pirates and citizens of the skyways!
"I still wish I could of said goodbye to my Mother, Chi Ling…" Cringle added, "But I know I have to stay alive, and make her proud by bringing order to the spiral…"
"But… you're a pirate, mate… the job clearly requires chaos involved." slightly teased Kidd.
"Yes, well. I believe in the yin-yang effect. If light brings darkness, then darkness also brings light. So, within chaos is also order and peace." Maya smiled, "but right now, we need to figure out how captives can become free."
Just then, the two heard a door slam ajar. "Are these the pirates were looking for, Captain?" a monkey looked at the two, outside of the cage.
A big man with a white beard stumbled in a sprint up to them, turning his head to make sure no Armada men were behind them.
He then breathed heavily and looked at the two girls.
"Tell me, ye doves. What be yer names?"
The two girls looked to each other and smiled in unison.
"Dreaming Jewel Kidd, I have cursed the Armada since I was a wee tike." she sat up and smiled, bowing fashionably in front of the two.
"I am Crazy Maya Cringle, I'm the hyper adventurer set on destroying the corrupted Armada fiends!" Maya tilted her hat to them, and got up as well.
"We're here to save ye then! Let's go!" The Captain freed them, and they were about to escape when they saw two people in the cages beside them.
"W-wait! Let us free these good souls as well!" Cringle opened the lock, and a horse appeared before her.
"I will serve you, Captain!"
Jewel helped a goat monk up off the floor, and he smiled to her and said, "Young dragonfly, I will be at your side in gratitude always."
And so… The adventures began, as in some other part of the spiral, two wizards were preparing a dangerous fleet. To jump all the way to another part of the spiral, to a world… without magic…
(Hope you liked the first chapter! Hehe, this is gonna be a GREAT adventure to write, and hopefully for you to read, stay tuned! For more of 'Wizard101/Pirate101's Battle of the Worlds!)