Battle of the Worlds
Ch.2
By: Cutegirlmayra (KingIsle games are seriously the best online games. Literally, sincerely, they're great.)
-Time Skip to modern days where are lovable pirate, Dreaming Jewel Kidd, has just successfully defeated an enemy ship on the wild skyways…-
"Alright lads! Take your plunder!" Jewel kidd jumped down from the side of the deck of the ship, swinging her staff around, switching it out from each hand as it spun. "Make sure you take all the Yum too, yes?" she slammed the tip of it down on the ship, and struck a smug smirk as her eyebrow cocked up at her request.
"Captain.." Ratbeard walks steadily up to Jewel, his wooden leg hitting the wood as he walks with a 'Thunk, thunk, thunk.'
"Premission to speak, Sire."
"Granted, what is it, you mangy rodent?" Jewels said this with a kidding smile on her face, folding her arms, and showing off something she was famous for…
Her joking sense of humor.
"Aye, Captain, but we be hearin' word from ye old shipmate. Know any Crazy Maya Cringle?" He handed her the Private messaging chat box. "She be a ringin' for ye.."
"Thanks, mate." Jewels took the message box and looked it over,
(Crazy Maya Cringle): Hiya! Hope you're having fun in the skyways! But listen.. Do you see that?
Jewel's face turned to a scowl.
How was she supposed to know what to look for?
She walked over to her ship, got a bottle of Yum in her hand, and called her red Batacuda that she had tamed with her mojo over to her side; stroking it slowly.
(You): What in the Spiral am I suppose to be looking at?
(Crazy Maya Cringle): T-that! That shooting star headed for Skull Island!
"What?" Jewel looked shocked and confused as she quickly got to her Ship's front.
"Bonnie! Turn her around! Face the skull!" ordered Jewel.
"But Captian, we're already-" Bonnie Anne began, as she was steering the ship, due to her being the first mate.
"Don't be messin' with me, vixen! Turn her around!" Jewel seemed to be fearing something, the unknown gave her shivers.
But also excited her spirit of adventure deep within her.
"Aye, Captain." Bonnie nodded and got the ship back to Skull Island skyways.
There, they saw a small shimmer of light in the above winds, it flew down and landed somewhere on Skull Island.
"What the..?" Bonnie moved herself to the side of the ship's wheel, mesmerized.
"What be it, Captain?" Asked Bones Mcgee, "…Can I shoot it?…" he lifted his gun, with wide-eyed wonder.
"Put that thar gun away!" Angrily spat Ratbeard, as he knocked the gun down with his sword.
"This be unnatural, Capt! We should leave it be." he warned behind her.
"I dares says, it not be anythings I knows of, Captain my Captain." also responded Old Scratch.
"Mormo scared…" Mormo moved behind the pillar of the mass of the ship, looking out at the strange comet that finally landed somewhere, but no loud explosion or even a look of such was found present on Skull Island.
"Maybe the crew's right, Captain. Maybe we shouldn't get ourselves involved." Birgus Latro defended the crew's position, trying to convince Jewels not to pursue it.
"…Are all ye turning this 'ere crew into cowards?" Jewels turned around, a spark of fire in her eyes, and the crew grew silent. "Are we not Pirates?"
The crew smiled.
"Is that thar shooting star not signal for us to wish upon it? And what say ye we be wishing for?"
"TREASURE!"
"And..?"
"ADVENTURE!"
"Aye, my favorite things that end in -Ure. Like the pleasURE of being the first to see the mysterious shooting star! Now who's with me?!"
"ARGH!" The crew shook there weapons high in the air, cheering.
"ARGH me hearties, that be right! Kan Po, you're the wisest of us all, what do you think of this?" Jewels turned to her loyal companion, the first to have become one.
"Hmm… The mysteries of the world are far beyond our knowledge, young dragonfly. But that does not mean that the water does not still believe it flows to one day meet the ocean." Kan po spoke very poetically.
"The goat said what now..?" Ratbeard looked around for an answer from someone.
"…It means, I say, let's go." Kan po summarized.
"Well said, My friend." Jewels winked to Kan po who bowed respectfully to her.
"Off to Skull Island then! Man the ship, ya land lovers! Tie the mass and let's set sail for the wonders of the spiral!" Jewels, acrobatically, moved herself up to some ropes on the side of the ship. With one hand on the rope and the other on her staff, she gazed at the island steadily approaching and grinned with anticipation.
She then ran along the pillar of her ship where the rope was tied above, and jumped down to swing to the tip of the ship, a foot up on the very outer layer of it's rim.
Her red hair blew beautifully in those strong winds, as well as her strong will did propel her to explore the things that made her fear.
To conquer her fear of the unknown,… was the most exciting thing she has ever vowed to do.
After all, she wasn't afraid of the spirit world, being into voodoo and all.
So that 'unknown' was already considered a understood, and even a friend.
"Aye, Captain!" the crew cheered again as they all began to man there stations, as she looked back to them, proud to be apart of a mighty fine ship of brave souls.
"Ya ready, Mister cuddles?" Jewels looked to her other side to see her darling pet, a Ebon Spectre.
He motioned his arms in circles, showing his excitement too, and made low hissing and growling sounds as his eyes were orange-ish pink lights that made a half circle to show his delight.
(Crazy Maya Cringle): Helllllo? You still there?
(You): I'm on my way! Meet you there to party up?
(Crazy Maya Cringle): Oh! Jolly good! See ya there!
Maya exited her chat box, "Alright! I've got a friend on the way! All sails pointed to Skull Island!" Directed Maya Cringle, her crew responded with a happy, "Aye!" as they began their voyage as well.
"Bonnie, isn't your twin sister with Jewels?" Asked Maya, making her way to the wheel of the ship.
"Aye, Captain. I have many sisters in the skyways." winked Bonnie Anne.
"How will I be able to tell ye two apart?"
"Oh, Captain, I wouldn't worry. Our colors be different, you see! And if you need to, Just call me Anne!" She smiled kindly to her and then shifted a little to the side, "Do you wish to take the wheel, Captain?"
"Aye, I would." Smiled back Maya, taking the ship's wheel and looking out ahead of her, the wind wiping past her blonde pony tail as she tried to see her heading.
"Captain! It's the Armada ships! They're coming too!" Sarah Steele ran up with distress and pointed toward some Armada ships, heading to the port of Skull Island as well.
"Well, let's take care of a few of them then, eh?" Maya looked with crazy revenge in her eyes as the crew knew her story and her hatred for the Armada.
"Captain, let us be wise." Subodai put a hand on Maya's, trying to calm her down.
She flinched out of her oil-lust and turned to her friend behind her, leaning back quite a ways, due to his height.
She blinked a few times, as if innocent.
"Let us reunited with your ally, only then can we strong enough to take them down. But first, the prize is the moving glowing light." he removed his hand as Maya nodded to him, not wanting to endanger her crew.
They weren't as strong as Jewel and her crew, and with her help they could probably get a good number of those Armada ships out of the skyways.
"You're right, let us focus on our mission. Quest update, to investigate Skull Island!"
"Aye! Captain!"
Her Vermillion dragon, King Dancer, moved gracefully like a wave around her shoulders, laying like a scarf, as he looked at her with a type of loving concern.
She smiled and patted its head, "Do not worry, King. I shall not let my past jeopardize my crew or our Quest's mission."
King dancer nudged against his master's cheek and looked onward to Skull Island as she giggled in glee.
"You're so cute~" She nuzzled her cheek next to his head, smiling.
The two met up and headed for where they heard from Blind Mew that a pair of strange foot sounds had entered the sewers…
They had odd smells to them, and that there presence made him shiver with some unknown fear.
He also said he heard a crash, or some sort of teleport sound, before he heard them rush into the sewers.
He mentioned the splashing of the water still echoed in his ears, and that they were very close.
"I'll keep the Armada distracted, you go on ahead! And be quick about it."
"Thanks, Blind Mew!" Jewel's ran off to the sewer entrance.
"Uhh, uh.. We appreciate it, Wait for me Jewel!" Maya bowed respectfully to her elder, and dashed to keep up with her.
-Within the sewers of Skull Island.-
"Yuck! You said this was a portal to a new 'unopened' realm! This world doesn't even look like it HAS wizards in it!" A young Storm user, Roslyn Dragonstalker, walked uneasily through the sewer water.
"And then those masked guys had to shoot at us while in mid flight, who do they think they are?!" She lifted up her dress, "Ugh, wearing a dress in a sewer… not the best idea…"
"Calm down, Roslyn. We need to figure out where we are without being spotted and starting an uproar." A master Pyromancer, Myrna Rainbowdreamer, moved her staff out of a crack it had been stuck in due to her trying to walk and find her place in the darkened and smelly place.
"Where ever we are… it's not someplace were suppose to be… that's for sure…"
"Did you contact Ambrose?" asked Roslyn, looking more worried by the minute. "I'm only an Initiate Diviner! I'm not used to big adventures like this!"
"Shh! Someone's coming!" Myrna slammed her friend up against the side of the sewer walls.
"Yuck…"
"Shh! You fool!"
"Hhhheeeellooo~? Little aliens? Or perhaps a genie in a bottle?" Jewel called, smiling and looking excited.
She shifted her head each way, cocking it side to side, trying to see if anything was around besides the usual pests of the sewers.
"S-sh-should you real-really be calling them like that?" Maya looked a bit scared, not sure what to expect.
She too, hadn't been on too many adventures like Jewel, having stuck around to train her and her crew up more for safety.
"I mean… you're a voodoo pirate right? Can't you… um… curse them if they turn out evil?"
"I'll curse you if you don't toughen up." Jewels responded coldly, but again, her joking humor as she turned around and smiled with an amused face.
"It's alright, I'll protect you, Lil swashbuckler." she said cutely, as if to a child, and ruffled her hand into Maya's hair, making her lean down before coming back up with messy hair.
She once again blinked her eyes, not used to the odd gesture of affection.
She then pouted, straightening her arms down to her side, "I may be a lower level than you, but don't think ye can call me little! I'm strong for my level!"
"Do you think their friendly?" Roslyn whispered, hearing them talk, and looked slightly over to Myrna. She mostly just moved her eyes, too scared to move and have Myrna push her back against the nasty and damp sewer wall.
"….Maybe… to make sure…" She got out one of her pets, a heck hound she had through thin and thick, Princess Mia.
"Alright, Ol'girl. I haven't equipped you in awhile. Show mommy you still have what it takes! Go, go…" she gently pushed her heck hound toward the voices.
"Woah! A dog?" Crazy Maya leaped up, and then cringed behind Jewels as it barked.
Jewel only moved her arms back and up, before raising an eyebrow at the sudden appearance of the strange, foreign creature.
"…Sit..?" Jewels spoke with little to no commanding voice.
The heck hound whimpered, looking to its original master as she gave the hand command for her to sit, so she did so.
"…Looks tamed…" Jewels loosened up, and walked to it.
She gently poked it with her staff, "Good doggy… nice doggy.." she reached to pet it.
The dog looked to her master.
"Okay.. Now we see if they're any threat…" Myrna gave the command of 'defend'.
The heck hound growled, turning back and pounding it's front paws down and splashing up some water from below.
Its fangs weren't what spooked Jewels, it was when it's eyes burst into fiery flames as it seemed to have suddenly snapped from tame to wild!
"Eep!" Jewels fell on her butt as her own pet held out his hand threateningly back at the mutt.
The Ebon Spectre made the poor dog freak out, having never seen the creature before, and bent its ears back in scared curiosity.
It sniffed it, and the Spectre's personally went from 'enemy' to 'HAHA! That tickles!'.
"Uh.. I'm not sure if I should say 'good boy' or…" Jewels thought to herself out loud, and then laughed.
"Guess I spooked the little thing. I kinda want it now though…"
"Don't you dare touch it again!" Maya said, hiding behind a corner, waving her hand out again and then pointing to make her statement seem to have more authority.
She cringed at seeing she was in the sight of the dog, and fled back behind the corner. "Eee!"
"I was taught that once something shows its teeth, let it be until the proper time to be friendly again." Jewels withdrew her hand to her knee, looking back at her friend and relaxing again, before turning to look at her pet making friends with the fire dog.
They splashed around in the water.
"Your Mooshu jibber-japper is best said out of my Goat's mouth…" Jewels rolled her eyes, knowing Kan Po could have said it a lot prettier than that.
"Mooshu..?"
"You know of Mooshu?"
The two wizards moved out of the shadows, where they had been hiding.
The two pirates were still, Myrna called back her heck hound, and Roslyn's own spectre pet looked at the other spectre in shyness.
"W-…what are you wearing?" was the first thing Jewels said after seeing the two, before stumbling up and moving back slightly.
"Pfft… it looks…haha… so weird!" Maya couldn't help but kinda laugh at it, coming out and behind to the side of Jewel.
She felt more comfortable seeing people, and thought because of their staffs, they may be a different class of pirate, or something.
"What? Is that the first thing you say to someone you just met?" Asked Roslyn, but seemed to fidget with her dress.
"Sorry, love. We're pirates! Manners don't really apply in our field of expertise." Jewels still was laughing under her breath, but trying to hold it in.
"..Pirates..?" Myrna looked at them oddly. "You don't look very 'thieving' to me."
"Ha! We're a special kind of pirate, mate. The good kind." she winked, "Hey, Maya. Let's tell these blokes our names, eh? I think they're alright."
"Can pirates even be good?" Roslyn leaned over to whisper with a hand up to Myrna, who hit her leg to not say that. "Ow! Ow, ow, ow.." she lifted her leg and held it, hopping off the pain.
Even if it wasn't loud, it was still insulting to the only people that they actually had a chance at befriending in their current situation.
"What about the shooting star, Jewels?" Maya put a serious look on her face and held Jewel's shoulder, looking forward again at the two wizard's suspiciously.
"Shooting star..? You mean our friend's portal driver?" Myrna held out the device.
"Oooh~" The two pirates awed at the shiny object.
"My friend Griffen made it. He said he found a new world that wasn't unlocked yet and we should take a look at it."
"Beta testing, or something." Roslyn shrugged.
"Most likely, this looks like a hack." Myrna turned to show a guilty look of being fooled to her friend, but smiled as if she didn't care at the moment.
"A-a hack!? That's cheating!" she gasped and put her hands over her mouth, her wand sticking straight out in a funny way.
"Woah, hackers." Jewels looked like she just gained respect for these travelers.
"Still,… they've got an odd taste in fashion." Maya leaned over, not so secretively whispering to Jewels as she leaned over, arms folded, and stated that under her breath.
"Ah!" Roslyn, insulted, remembered the last comment they made about their attire. "B-besides that! What are YOU wearing!" Roslyn suddenly jumped back into the conversation, blushing embarrassedly and pointing an accusing finger at the two pirates.
"Those clothes look dirty and absurd!"
"…..Roslyn… Shut up.." Myrna faced palmed herself and then looked to the pirates.
"A little late on the comeback, mate." Jewels gestured her head forward to her, mocking slightly, but in her own way, being friendly.
"We're all in the spiral, this must just be an area Ambrose never told us about." Myrna was mostly talking to Roslyn.
"Whose the man in charge around here?"
"The man..?" the two pirates looked at each other.
"Captain Avery?" they both in unison thought together, looking back to the pirates, as if not sure if that's what they were talking about.
"He does ask a lot of favors." Maya admitted, knowing he was the majority of their main quests, and always had a task for them.
"Avery? Very well. Take us to him." Myrna pulled Roslyn up behind her, making sure she didn't get her into any unwanted trouble, and gave her a look to just remain quiet and that she'll handle this.
"Wow, they really are aliens." Jewels joked.
"Take us to your leader~" she held her hands out like zombies do, and stuck her tongue out, crossing her eyes, and walking in place with stiff legs.
"Haha! But hey, if your not pirates, what are ye? Using portals and all? Are you… really aliens?" Maya hid slightly behind Jewel again, who just snickered at her fear.
Once you're a high level, not many things scare you anymore.
"We're wizards."
"Come again?"
"Wizards, I study fire and she studies storm."
"…You mean like… real magic?"
Jewels eyes lid up.
"…I… I'm into Voodoo myself.. eh-he." she grinned proudly, putting her hand up to scratch her head proudly, but looking rather humble about it. "I've always loved magic…"
"Oh…th-that's nice.." Myrna looked away, as Roslyn giggled.
"W-what's so funny!?" Jewels was upset by her response, she looked offended.
"W-well…" Myrna placed her staff in front of her as she hid her face, Roslyn then stepped out in front of her, being slightly more bold now.
"Voodoo isn't magic! It isn't even a class! It could be labeled under Death I suppose… but it's still just creepy witch doctor stuff."
"…. Not… magic..?" Jewels eyes were hidden in shadows, she looked really ticked off at hearing that, her fist lowering to her side and shaking, along with her body...
"Uh-uh… let's go to Avery's court! Shall we?" Maya tried to calm Jewels down, but she looked like she was about to curse these two into oblivion.
"I'm afraid you are mistaken, you both shall remain in our custody."
The four girls turned around, seeing they were surrounded by clock work fiends.
"You…The Armada…" Maya was about to let out her crazy, her eyes turning into a deadly wild look, but good thing Jewels had snapped out of her own rage to tend to her friend.
She was now holding her back.
"Hang on, love. You'll get your chance…" she promised calmly under her breath, trying to soothe her friend's anger instead of focusing on her own pride's injury.
"Who.. Who are these people?" asked Myrna.
"They're not people, they're evil machines that fought in a old war, and haven't realized it ended yet…" Jewels explained, her eyes glaring, as her friend stropped struggling but showed her teeth in utter hatred.
"Put down your weapons and surrender, or we will be forced to make you yield."
"Hehe~, this should be fun. Hey, Wizzys! Let's see that real magic now! Crew!" Jewel's crew all ported to her location, Maya also summoned her crew.
"Let's do this!"
"Seems like were going into battle…" Myrna said, and Roslyn nodded, trying not to speak and do as she was told.
Myrna put her staff out, readying herself, as Roslyn placed her wand expertly to her side, strategizing.
"They're probably storm class, at least… if they have a class…" Myrna commented, and Roslyn gulped silently as they made the spell circle around them.
It would be harder for her to do much damage…
(Will our friends make it alive? Or will the mystery of that device that allows you to travel to realms be more fully explored? Stay tuned to find out in, 'Wizard/Pirate101: Battle of the Worlds'!)