Hello everyone and welcome back to the start of chapter 44 of the story! Hope you are all enjoying Faerie (Scum) Land with your favourite waifus and that the gods of gacha are having mercy woth your rolls.

Anyways, with that said, let's start the chapter!

DISCLAIMER: All the Nasuverse characters belong to Nasu and are property of Type-Moon, with the exception of the OC's that belong to me, the author.


With the Queen Anne's Revenge making a stop on the next island, the servants that where on the ship landed on the beach alongside a big percentage of pirates fromthe drew. Even Blackbeard himself as well as Ritsuka and Peko exited of the vessel. As the pirate captain had said, information about a goddess being on this territory reached to his ears and so Blackbeard wanted to make sure that the such rumored goddess would be captured. Only Hector and a small group would stay behind guarding and protecting the ship.

"Watch out for any incoming enemy ships nearby Hector!" Blackbeard told to the spearman. "We may take some time hunting this goddess."

"Aye aye captain. This old man will do his job." Hector said from the ship, rubbing his ear.

"Before we proceed, any more information about the deity cap'n?" Anne asked to Blackbeard.

"Not much. All that we know is that there is a goddess on this island. So be careful." Blackbeard responded before looking at Ritsuka and Peko. "Specially you two. I don't wanna lose me two best friends!" He said in a saddening tone, hugging both the two bays, making them slightly uncomfortable.

"D-Don't worry. We will make sure to be careful and close." Ritsuka said as laughed nervously.

"Y-Yeah. No matter what happens we will stay by each other's side." Peko added.

Blackbeard was happy to hear that. "Ah, thanks for being such great weeb friends you two."

"He's still calling us that..."

"He's still calling us that..."

"We better get moving..." Mary told them.

"Right! Can't waste time speaking or else the goddess will go away in the meantime." Blackbeard said, walking on the front and about to enter the deep forest with Eric right behind him and the large group of pirates "Follow me!"

Ritsuka and Peko obeyed, following the group from behind.

"You think we have a chance to escape here?" Peko whispered to Ritsuka.

The master of humanity looked over the shoulder to spot that Anne and Mary where behind them, cautiously making sure that the two wouldn't run away. "It's a bit difficult but let's hope so." Ritsuka whispered back to Peko.

Anne was able to hear the chatting noises from their voices. "Less talking and more walking!" She ordered the two as they were now some meters into the forest.

With some minutes in the hunt gone by, the crew was still exploring the insides of the island, trying to find any sight of the so rumored goddess. However, it was clear that up until now, Blackbeard and his men still hadn't found anything.

"We should have got a clue or vestige of her by now." Anne said, starting to lose her patience. "Are you sure you had that information right?"

"I'm sure of it woman!" Blackbeard responded. "Me instincts don't fail me. And they say she must be here!" He then gave a pervy smile. "I also wonder if she's sexy. Aren't you thinking the same boys?" He asked to his crew who all unanimously agreed.

"Yes we do cap'n!"

"What about you two?" Blackbeard turned his head to Ritsuka and Peko. "Aren't you eager to find a beautiful deity with such awsome body and booty?"

"Hum...Y-Yes?" Peko asked with some nervousism.

"God, you're such a pervet..." Mary said, bored.

"From a scale of 0 to 10, I'd say you are on 11." Anne also commented.

"Hey now! I may be a pervert but I'm not like that pirate dude that gets aroused by just seeing girls with bangs covering their eyes!" Blackbeard protested, bringing another's pirate weird obsessions to protect his own.

Ritsuka moved his head upwards as he spotted something at the top of a palm tree. "I see something on that tree!" He exclaimed. The sun was hitting his face so it was a bit difficult to see what exactly was. Everyone proceeded to look at the exact palm tree.

Peko walked a bit more to the front in order to see what it really was. "It's...a coconut."

Anne stopped looking just like everybody else as soon as Peko said that. "I don't know why I was expecting more. Let's keep goi-"

"WAIT!" Blackbeard yelled. "We need that coconut!"

"For what exactly?" Ritsuka asked Blackbeard.

"Because resources AND it tastes very good!" Blackbeard responded. "My time on the Carribeans wouldn't be the same with that fruit."

"Now that you talk about it, I think I wouldn't mind tasting it!" Ritsuka said, only once in his entire lifetime being able to prove coconut and it was already some long time ago.

"I never taste it before. Is it good?" Peko asked.

"From what I can remember, it's delicious!" Ritsuka answered.

"Oh, then I'd like to prove it as well!" Peko said happily.

As much as she knew they should be looking for the goddess right now, Anne didn't saw much trouble in the crew sparing some seconds to grab the fruit from the tree. "Alright, guess we can pick it up then."

"But be quick about it." Mary told them before looking at Blackbeard. "Have Eric catch it for us."

"He's the strongest of all of us here. Makes sense." Peko said.

Hearing the suggestion, Blackbeard looked to the axe wielding Berserker. "Alright Eric! Bring that coconut dow-" The captain was caught off guard as he was grabbed in the leg by Eric who then swinged his head against the palm tree.

"AH! HE USED CAPTAIN AS AN AXE!"

All the subordinates of the crew yelled in shock.

"That must've hurt." Peko commented.

"It was funny honestly." Anne giggled.

"It almost made me smile even..." Mary said.

"Hey Teac- I mean, Blackbeard, you okay?" Ritsuka asked him, with the slightest amount of concern.

Blackbeard pulled his head away from the tree's trunk and normally put his feet on the ground and adjusted his face. "Never been better friend!" He said with a smile. "It needs to be more damage if ye wanna take this sea dog down" Gyahahahahahahaha-" Then the coconut fell on his head, knocking him out.

"CAPTAAAAAAIN!"

The men in the crew all yelled to the sight of their leader on the ground, unconscious.

Anne couldn't help but burst in laughter. She was enjoying every second of this moment. Even Marie, that had her mouth covered, expressed a small smile under it.

"Now I know why we ended up joining him! Hahahahaha!" Anne said, trying to control her laughter.

"For a clown he does quite a good job!" Mary speaked with amusement.

As for Ritsuka and Peko, the two didn't exactly knew how to react to such ridiculous scenario.

"Should we be concerned about him?" Peko asked to Ritsuka.

"My bet is that he'll be okay." Ritsuka tried to dismiss it.

"Ow...me head." Blackbeard was starting to come back to his senses.

"See Peko? Like I told you." Ritsuka said to the boy.

Before any of them could proceed to say or do something, a noise came from some bushes and trees behind them, putting everyone on alert.

"What was that!?" Blackbeard suddenly was back on his two feet again. A not very intelligent action. "Argh, me head!"

"It can be the goddess!" Anne shouted. "Hurry! Before she escapes!" She runned into the trees alongside Mary. Every crewmember did the same, following the exemple.

"Wait! I'm the captain here!" Blackbeard yelled as he and Eric runned after the rest. "Also I'm the only one allowed to touch her!"

With all the euphoria and excitment that they left in a hurry, Ritsuka and Peko seemed to have been forgotten by the crew, staying behind. The two stood silent, not believing how easily Blackbeard's crew, servants and even the man himself had completely left their 'hostages' all alone.

"Soooo, I guess we can escape now." Ritsuka said to Peko.

"Sure seems like it." Peko responded.

"This island is big enough. We sure can find a place to hide and wait until Mash, Nala, Drake and the rest arrives here." Ritsuka told the boy.

"What about building a raft? Didn't you said you built one while being on...what was called? Scouts?" Peko said to him, remembering how Ritsuka told him one time that he used to be in the scouts when young.

"Oh! About that? Well..." Ritsuka scratched his head. "It wasn't exactly a raft, more like a small wodden boat with sticks and leaves."

Peko was shocked. "Seriously?!"

"Yes..." Ritsuka said with guilt.

"That hurted to hear Ritsuka. Really." Peko said, feeling overdramatically betrayed.

"Hey now. A raft is just like a wodden boat except bigger, right?" Ritsuka tried to turn the situation brighter before the two heard another sound coming from their surroundings. They immediatly went into a defensive posture.

"W-Who goes there?" Peko demanded, summoning his sword.

With the sound coming from the right, Ritsuka and Peko turned their bodies to that side, confronting some moving bushes. Getting prepared for a fight, they were met with a woman with large light blue hair clumsly coming out of the place and falling to the ground.

"Ow! Didn't saw that root! My bad darling!" The woman said as she slowly got up, cleaning her clothes from the dirt of the ground. Her eyes were also blue and her single piece of clothing was a white dress that would end in red at the bottom and a pair of red sandals. Seeing the two youngsters staring at her in surprise, made her cheerfuly smile at the pair. "Surprise in seeing us?"

"Are you...a goddess?" Ritsuka tried to ask as he looked at the woman right in front of him.

She in return giggled. "Correct! Say hello to the greek Goddess of the Moon and Hunt, Artemis!"


"This was the last one! The ship is entirely fixed cap'n!" Bombe told Drake as he and the rest of the crew had finished reparing the damaging hole on the hull of the Golden Hind as well as the lesser damages that the ship had suffered.

"Great to hear! Start packing the things men! We will set sail in a couple of minutes!" Drake told to her crew.

"Speaking of that, where is the rest of our crew?" Mash asked to Jason and Medea who where next to her and Drake. "It's hard to believe that only three of the Argonauts got summoned here."

"It was actually four." Jason told her. "But that one decided to turn her back on us. To be real, she was always a bitchy pain in the ass. So I don't miss her at all!" Jason said with a smile.

"I don't think it's appropriate to talk about our dear crewmates like that Lord Jason." Medea said with a sad face. "Despite your squabbles, you can't deny she always added something more to the Argonauts."

"What she added must have been very small then because I couldn't see it. Besides, we have Herc. We don't need that grumpy cat on our crew." Jason told to the young witch.

"Is she still around?" Mash asked about the whereabouts of the ex-member of the Argonauts.

"Meh, who knows? Probably. I couldn't care less about her." Jason said dismissively. "Anyways, I'm going to hop on the Argo. Medea, you go call Heracles back so that we can set sail alongside them." He told to the Caster before walking away.

"I've heard about jackass captains before, but yours must easily be at the top of the list." Drake said to a saddened Medea.

"Forgive him. Lord Jason is just frustrated that our previous member decided to abandon us. It isn't a easy thing to digest." Medea explained to the two.

"I can comprehend that. Whatever discussion they may had, it sure was bad enough for that friend of yours deciding to leave the crew." Mash said to Medea.

"Sometimes people that disagree just tend to go their separate paths." Drake said. "But if she's still in this ocean, you have a chance to resolve that intern problem."

Medea smiled at the pirate. "Thank you very much for those words Lady Drake. Also, can you please tell me where did Heracles go so that I can bring him to our ship?" She asked, not seeing Heracles anywhere.

"I think he went with Nala to do some training in the forest. Euryale and Asterios also went with them." Mash told her. "Can you also tell them to come since the ship is fixed?"

"Sure!" Medea responded, leaving Mash and Drake behind and going torwards the forest to call the rest of the group back and Heracles back.

Nala, Heracles, Euryale and Asterios weren't that far, being in a nearby zone to the shore. In the hours that took for the Golden Hind being fixed, Nala had spent the time cutting down trees, training the power of her sword strokes. Heracles was next to her, supervisioning the girl as she would cut more trees in half. Euryale and Asterios where watching from behind.

"Ya!" Nala swinged her sword quickly in a vertical line torwards a tree in front of her. She was successful in cutting it completly in half, from the very bottom of it to the branches of leaves on the top, making its two halves fall into the ground. "I did it! In one hit!" Nala exclaimed happily as she cleaned her face from the sweat. "Was it good Berserker?" Nala asked to Heracles.

The greek warrior gently pushed the girl aside, and by putting the slightest strenght on his club, he swinged the weapon at a group of trees, decimating them completly, causing huge shock and surprise on Nala's face.

"No matter how hard you train, Heracles is in a league of his own as the demi-god that he is." Euryale told her. "But it was funny at least watching the training. I can't deny your small improvement."

Asterios also speaked. "Training...to get...stronger..."

"And I hope it's enough to save Peko and Ritsuka." Nala told them before taking a look at her sword. "But seeing how far I am from being as strong as Berserker, I don't actually know if I have the strenght enough to do it."

Heracles gave her a small tap on the back, as if he was trying to tell her to not let those thoughts be in her mind for too long. Just after that, Medea appeard.

"I'm sorry to interrupt the things here but I have good news. Your captain's ship has been repaired!" She told them.

"It was about time." Euryale said. "So I guess we need to go to the shore now."

"That's correct." Medea said. "Both ships will sail in a few minutes. We're going straight after Blackbeard's-"

"Then let's not waste time anymore!" Nala said, interrupting Medea as she runned right past her, going torwards the beach.

"Wow, someone is very energetic I see." Medea giggled. "You must have told her some tricks, didn't you Herc?" She asked to th big man who responded by making a slight noise with his mouth as he started moving torwards the shore to join to his captain. And before Medea could do the same, Euryale wanted to say something to her.

"Can I ask you something, Witch of Colchis?"

"Sure. Go ahead and ask me Lady Euryale!" Medea accepted with a happy smile on her face.

"That captain of yours, Jason. Do you really like him?" The question from the small goddess mouth was so unexpected that Medea stayed silent for some good seconds, unable to answer it.

"Eh?" The witch pretended she didn't heard it well.

"The way he acts and talks with you is nothing of a person that cares about his own crew. He is a supercilious man that is using your and Heracles skills to reach greatness, caring only about himself." Euryale said her opinion about Jason. "I wonder if apart from Heracles, he treats the rest of the Argonauts the same way. Are you really okay of being ordered around like that?"

Facing the rough words that Euryale was telling her about her lover, instead of responding with anger, Medea just smilled and shaked her head in negative. "You don't understand him, Lady Euryale."

"Hm?" Euryale reacted.

"Of course that Lord Jason may seem unapolagetic and arrogant, but deep down he's a great man with a great mind and heart. Sure that he may not be the strongest or the bravest of greek heroes. But one is more than raw strenght and pure courage. Lord Jason has many more characteristics to compensate for those he lacks. That's why someone like him was able to form such legendary group that I had the fortune to be part of. So, as I can comprehend why you think he isn't much of a great leader, Lord Jason is the one that was capable to form the Argonauts through his personal skills alone! That is a big fact enough for me to admire him!"

What Medea was saying was entirely true and Euryale was able to see it. The witch was really compassionate about Jason. "Okay. Sorry for having told that about him then. I respect your opinion Medea."

The Caster smiled in return. "Likewise. Now let's go join the rest on the beach!"

As the two alongside Asterios walked torwards their destination, Euryale couldn't help but think of something. "She really is in love with him. Poor thing. I speculate if this was her older version she would think the same."


"G-Goddess Artemis?" Ritsuka speaked in shock as he and Peko stared with their mouths wide open to the woman in front of them who revealed to be the greek goddess of the moon and hunt, Artemis.

"Yeah, that's meee!" Artemis shouted happily. "But I think we shouldn't make too much noise. It was a bit troublesome for us to evade those pirates."

"Us?" Peko said confused.

"You can't say something like that when you just ended up screaming!" An angry voice sounded out of nowhere.

"Hm? Is there someone else here?" Ritsuka turned his head around, looking at every side around him.

Peko was doing the same. "We can't see it."

"Oh! Now that you say, I too can't see where you are darling!" Artemis moved her head, now also trying to find the source of the voice.

"I'm right here Artemis!"

"Where?" The moon goddess looked to the other side.

"Here!"

"I still can't see you darling!"

"Goddamnit! I'm right behind you!"

"Really?" Artemis turned her body around.

Doing that, allowed for Ritsuka and Peko see something that was kinda glued to Artemis back. It was tiny and wasn't human at all.

"Is that...a plush?" Peko speaked as he and Ritsuka saw a small brown plush of a teddy bear wearing caveman acessories on the goddess's back.

"Who are you calling plush eh?!" The teddy bear immediatly shouted at Peko, scaring the boy.

"Aah! I-It talks!" Peko exclaimed.

"I swear that some months ago this would look like a strange dream." Ritsuka said in shock. "But you're real, aren't you?"

"Hmphm! As real as the ground your feet are stepping on right now." The bear plush responded before Artemis arm went behind her own back and grabbed him.

"Aha! Found you darling!" Artemis said happily as she rubbed her cheek on the face of the teddy bear with affection. Perhaps too much affection.

"H-Hey Artemis t-that's enough please!" The teddy bear begged as Ritsuka and Peko would stare at the pair with total confusion. And the two tought Blackbeard was the weirdest individual they had found in this Singularity.

"Hum, and who is he?" Peko asked to Artemis about the teddy bear's identity.

"This is my lover and only lover in my life! There's no one like him and there will never be one!" Artemis grabbed the teddy bear with her two hands and extended her arms tk the front to show him to the two boys. "My husband and greatest hunter, Orion!"

"What the hell are you talking about?! We aren't married!" Orion, the teddy bear, yelled at the goddess.

"Yet." She giggled.

"I'm sorry but I never heard about you before." Peko said. "Did you knew about Orion, Ritsuka?"

"Hmm...I've heard that name already somehwere before." Ritsuka tried to remember. "Gosh, if Mash was here she would answer easily."

Noticing the difficulty that Ritsuka was having, Orion ended up sighing. "Do you know the constellation of Orion?"

Ritsuka snapped his fingers. "Oh right! It came from that!" He said. "But I think I forgot about the part you where a hunter of Artemis."

"Figures." Orion said unimpressed.

"But if you were supposed to be a hunter, why do you look like a plush instead?" Peko asked him. "Is that what you really look like? A hunter bear?"

"No. My actual appearence has nothing to do with this one." Orion responded.

"So how do you come look like this?" Ritsuka made another question.

This time Artemis was the one responding. "Well, because Orion and I both think he's cute like this-"

"That's not what happened!" Orion shouted to the goddess. "What actually happened is that when I was about to be summoned she invaded my Saint Graph by lowering her Divinity. As consequence, I was transformed into a teddy bear and she came along with me!" He explained.

"Sorry darling! Silly me!" Artemis tried to apologize. "But don't you think it's great that we can stay with each other longer?"

"So Orion is the actual servant here?" Ritsuka asked.

"Yes I am. Altough Artemis serves as the main body for my Saint Graph now." Orion said with a sad face. "A great hunter like me...reduced to a teddy bear."

"Makes sense why Orion would be the one beetween the two." Peko speaked. "Dr. Romani told us that powerful gods can't be summoned as servants on their normal state. So Artemis being here was only possible by lowering her divinity and getting into Orion's Saint Graph while Orion himself is technically still the servant."

"Correct boy!" Artemis confirmed. "As one of the Twelve Olympian Gods, being summoned as a servant with my normal divine status would be impossible. Thank goodness I was still able to come along!"

"By doing hijinks that is." Orion murmured. "Anyways, changing subject, you aren't with those pirates that have just reached this island, are you?"

"Kinda..." Ritsuka answered.

In that moment, Artemis summoned a bow and pointed an arrow at him, staring at his face with scary eyes. "So you also want to capture us and hurt my darling!"

"Nonono! They captured us as well!" Ritsuka tried to explain. "We are actually hostages of the crew you just saw arriving."

"True! We don't have any intention in capturing you!" Peko supported Rituska's explanation.

"Oi Artemis. I think these two kids are telling the truth." Orion told to the goddess. "Also, they don't appear to be anything pirate like."

"Hmmmm, you're right." Artemis lowered her bow and smiled happily at Ritsuka and Peko. "Sorry for scaring you."

"Her mood changed so suddenly." Peko said to himself.

"If you were captured by them, does that mean that you come from a village in another island or something?" Orion asked before having a tought that made him a bit excited. "Does the place where you come from have nice and beautiful gir-GAH!" Orion was immediatly thrown at a tree violently by Artemis, much to Ritsuka and Peko's shock.

"Come on now darling, you didn't meant to say that, did you?" Artemis asked in a menacing way as she approached Orion who had suffered a great damage on his plush body.

"N-No Artemis..." Orion responded, wanting to be spared by his lover's rage.

"Good!" The goddess went to smile again as she grabbed his small body.

"She's scary."

"She's scary."

Magically healing his own body by just shaking it, Orion went back to do questions. "So where do you come from?"

"We come from another pirate group-" Ritsuka was interrupted when he spotted the slightest movement of Artemis arm on her bow.

"But a GOOD pirate group! We swear!" Peko continued. "Our actual crew and captain isn't searching for gods to capture but actually searching for us! We don't mean no harm to you."

Artemis went back to lower her guard. "And do you know where that group of yours is now?"

"Being hopeful, they're probably on their way to rescue us from the current pirate crew you saw docking here and the one that also wants to capture you." Ritsuka said.

"Okay. Then I believe we can trust you two." Orion said, convinced in what these two people told to him and Artemis. "But one more question. Where are we? Me and Artemis can't recognize these seas and islands. We fear that this isn't Greece anymore."

"And it isn't." Peko answered. "What you are in now, is actually a Singularity."

"A Singularity?" Artemis repeated.

"Yeah. A point in a specific time and location of the past that is trying to distort human history." Ritsuka speaked. "By changing an important event that happened in actual history, humanity collapses and the future ceases to exist."

"Hmm, that does sound terrible." Orion said. "So I guess that this is an anomaly."

"Yep. And we need to destroy it to guarantee that human history prevails." Peko told him.

"Then you are saying that me and darling won't be able to live forever in these romantic islands?" Artemis said with tears in her eyes.

"Y-Yeah. Sorry about that." Peko said, not wanting to hurt the moon goddess feelings.

As Artemis started to cry, Orion did his 'best' to console her. "Now now Artemis. There's no need to try. Nothing lasts for ever." "And I hope not even this bear form does."

Ritsuka had an idea. "Hey, since you two seem to not have anywhere to go, why not join us and our actual pirate crew in resolving this Singularity?"

Peko liked that idea. "One more servant to help us would surely be good."

Orion, without thinking, made a question that he would regret, betrayed by his own nature. "And say, does your crew have any pretty gi-gah!"

Artemis hold Orion's plush head tightly in her hand. "How dare you say that darling? You need to be punished!" She yelled, about to throw Orion with all her strenght.

"Argh! Looks like we still weren't lucky mateys." A voice came from behind the trees. Ritsuka and Peko instantly recognize it.

"Oh crap! They're here!" Ritsuka exclaimed right before Artemis threw Orion to the trees in anger. What she didn't know, was that a group of people appeard behind it. Blackbeard and the rest of his crew were back to the same area after chasing what they tought to be the goddess.

"But dread not! For I believe we'll struck golden and find tha-Grgh!" Blackbeard was so distracted speaking to his men, that he was caught by surprise when Orion, the teddy bear, hit his face with great impact, making the captain fall to the ground.

"Man, it was the third time today! I could get used to this!" Anne said happily.

"Same here..." Mary added.

"What the hell was that?" Blackbeard hold his head with a hand while recovering from below. That's when he saw what he has been looking for. A goddess right in front of him. He started analyzing Artemis from afar. "Nice sculptured face. Divine and perfect clothing. Long splendid hair. Chest and curves...of a waifu!" Blushing greatly, Blackbeard smiled widely. "We found it men! Our booty! The goddess is right here!"

All the pirates of the crew yelled in excitment, drawing out their swords and guns. Anne, Mary and Eric also were ready to fight since they saw Artemis was armed.

"You are invited to try." Artemis said with a mean glare, preparing her bow. "No one will take darling away from me!"

"This is bad! They're about to fight!" Peko exclaimed before Blackbeard patted him and Ritsuka in the back.

"Well done guys! You were able to hold her that long for us to arrive? Man, you truly are the best friends a pirate like me can have!" Blackbeard said with a genuine smile. "Now you can rest. You did a good job!"

Ritsuka decided to play along. "S-Sure buddy! It was hard but we managed in the end."

"And oh man, I can't wait to have such beauty in my crew!" Blackbeard said. "Just imagining the things we will do together. Does she likes seinen or perhaps shoujo? I hate that I'll have to sacrifice her to the ark but in the meantime I'll make sure to also give her the best of meals! And perhaps I may be able to kiss her! Who kn- Aaah!"

"Artemis is mine you pervert!" Orion yelled angrily at Blackbeard as he jumped to the top of the pirate's head and started to bash the club he had on Blackbeard's head several times.

"Owowowow! Stop that you damn bear!" Blackbeard struggled against Orion to take his plushie body out of the top of his head while his legs would move randomly to any direction.

At the same time, Anne, Mary and Eric where all engaged in a fight against Artemis who was shooting down Blackbeard pirates from all sides. The area was in complete chaos. Even Ritsuka and Peko weren't being able to flee due to how many people were blocking their way out of it.

"There's too many people in front of us!" Peko said.

"Damn it! We can't escape like this!" Ritsuka cursed on his mind.

Blackbeard eventually was able to remove Orion from his head and throw him away. "What the hell was that thing?" Blackbead speaked as he regained his breath.

While fighting, Artemis noticed Orion flying in her direction. "Don't worry darling! I have you!" She stepped out of the fight, dodging from Anne, Mary and Eric's attacks and catched Orion.

"C'mon men! Don't stand around and help us capture her!" Anne told to the pirates of the crew who all came together to surround Artemis and Orion.

As it seemed like the pair didn't had nowhere to run, Artemis opened a way by shooting an arrow at the pirates, using that to flee back to the forest alongside Orion. She was escaping Blackbeard's crew.

"We can't let her go away! Chase her!" Anne ordered to the pirates, making all of them start running into the forest in order to catch the moon goddess. "Let's go captain before she dissapears!"

"Not with that bear from hell around! That creature was scary!" Blackbeard said as he got up from the ground.

"You're chickening away from this?!" Anne replied back.

"No! But in case things go wrong, someone should be left to tell the story. And by that I mean me and me friends will return to the ship." Blackbeard, without looking, pointed at Ritsuka and Peko who where behind him and sneakily trying to get away from them but stopped the moment they heard Blackbeard mentioning them.

"We're spotted!" Peko screamed inside.

"Hey. You aren't thinking on leaving us here alone to die, are you?" Mary questioned Blackbeard, doubting her own captain.

"Of course not! That would only weakened me ship! I ain't dumb!" Blackbeard responded. "Plus, I'm sending Hector and the rest of the crew to aid ye get that goddess while me and me friends stay on the vessel protecting it!"

"...You are actually going to watch those weird shows with them, won't you?" Anne said, figuring out her captain's intention.

"It's called anime and it's art!" Blackbeard shouted. "And do ye honestly think a pirate like me would do that in a situation like this?! I care for me ship so of course I'm not gonna do that!" He pushed both Ritsuka and Peko to his side. "We won't go away until ye all return with the goddess! That's a cap'n promise!"

Not wanting to waste any more time, Anne just accepted. "Alright! But you better be! Or else I'll hunt you down!" She gestured to Mary and Eric after saying that. "Let's go quick! This goddess won't go anywhere!" With the trio gone to join the rest of the crew, Blackbeard alongside Ritsuka and Peko were left alone to return to the crew.

"So we go back to the ship?" Ritsuka asked Blackbeard.

"Aye." He said before giving an happy smile. "I have a planned marathon of the SpaceStars Mecha series to watch with you!"

"He really just wants to watch anime!" Peko exclaimed internally.

"How the hell does this guy prioritizes that over the main goal!?" Ritsuka also exclaimed in shock.

The three started to walk together to the ship, with both Ritsuka and Peko having to bare the constant talking of Blackbeard about his planned hour long watch of his favourite series. It only made the two regret even more not having been able to escape some minuted ago.


Some hours passed and the ships, Golden Hind and Argo, where sailing into the sunset, going torwards the location of Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, according to the coordinates that Romani had shared with them.

"How much longer until we arrive Mash?" Nala asked the shielder, doing her best to keep patience.

"It will still take some hours." Mash responded.

"And it doesn't matter asking the ship to go faster." Drake entered the conversation. "All the flags are operative and the Golden Hind is sailing as fast as it can."

"But don't worry. If master and Peko are still alive, then it means Blackbeard doesn't intend to kill them." Mash told to the girl.

"I don't want to be a person of bad vibes, but I think there's a reason for why Blackbeard didn't killed them." Drake said, staring at Euryale. "You are probably thinking the same, don't ya mini goddess?"

"Hm hm. That deranged pirate is much likely using those two as bait." Euryale responded, saying what Drake was thinking. "He can be waiting for us and setting a trap. He knows we wouldn't let Ritsuka and Peko behind and is utilizing that fact to his advantage."

"So when we meet him again, be on alert for any kind of tricks he may use." Drake told. "Pirates like him can be cunning."

Nala closer her hand into a fist. "Trap or not, we will punch that bastard and get Peko and Ritsuka back! Don't you agree Mash?"

"Absolutely. We will save them regardless of them being indeed bait to lure us." Mash responded.

"But hey, Euryale, since you are his main target, you better stay hidden." Nala told to her. "We can't afford to lose you."

Euryale chuckled in return. "Wasn't expecting that worridness coming from you. I appreciate it but you have to be a even bigger idiot if you think I'll hide and do nothing. As a goddess, altough not a major one, I'll show that pervert and his crew my power!" Euryale looked at Asterios. "Also, don't think I have no one around to protect me."

"Protect...friend...Save...friends..." The minotaur said. Even if he knew this group for a short time and fought with them, Asterios was able to see they were good people.

As the group would chat with each other, Jason would observe them from the Argo.

"The captain and the girl with the shield wouldn't be a bad addition at all. The goddess there I'll have to eventually get rid of her. Same goes for that stupid minotaur if I wanna take the goddess. As for the brat...Heh, mopping the deck's floor should be good enough for her." Jason smirked at visualizing the final picture of those thoughts. He didn't cared at all about saving the two members of Drake's crew. He then sat on his chair and relaxed on it. "Ah, there's really no one with such great mind as yours Jason." He praised himself, closing his eyes and enjoying the breeze.

"Lord Jason!" Medea appeard behind him, calling her captain and lover in an alarming tone.

Jason opened an eye and looked at her with a slight bothered face. "Hm? What is it Medea?"

"I spot hostile pirate ships up ahead!" Medea pointed at a enormous curtain of fog ahead of the two ships, with several ships coming out of it.

"Skatá! You can't be serious!" Jason instantly got up from his chair. "Just when I was having a good time!"

"Fou fou!" On the Golden Hind, Fou had also spotted the forming fleet before anyone else.

Once they all spotted it, Drake started to give instructions to her crew. "Slow the ship down men! I repeat, slow the ship down!"

"I can confirm there's at least fifty shi- no. The signals are detecting way more beyond the curtain!" Mash exclaimed.

"That damn scurvy dog!" Drake hissed, insulting Blackbeard. "He called a fleet to finish us off!"

"Strange. I can't see his ship anywhere." Nala said, trying to spot Blackbeard's ship.

"He's probably behind all those ships. What a bastard!" Drake replied before looking to her men. "Get your swords and prepare to fight lads! They'll try to sink us down with everything!"

"AYE AYE CAPTAIN!"

"And it appears the Argonauts are ready to fight too." Euryale said, seeing Heracles and Medea getting ready for combat on the Argo.

Mash quickly adopted a combat posture. "Ofensive and defensive outputs prepared! Ready for combat Nala?"

Nala summoned her sword. "Ready!"

With everyone in the crew now weaponized, Drake ordered her men to increase the speed. Shortly after that, the ships started firing cannon balls at Drake and Jason's ships. They quickly got a reply by having Heracles easily destroy three of them and the cannons of Golden Hind destroy other two. As the battle continued, more ships would emerge from the fog wich the Golden Hind and the Argo would start getting closer. In a short time, they where inside the fog, now with limited vision altough clearly with enemy ships still around them. Nala and Mash would hop into the enemy ships and defeat the pirates boarding it while Drake, Euryale, Asterios and the rest of the crew would stay on the Golden Hind, defending it from invaders of other vessels.

"Any sign of Queen Anne's Revenge?" Drake asked after defeating a couple of enemy pirates.

"Still nothing of it!" Euryale responded as she and Asterios would also take down some foes.

"Appear already Blackbeard! You are hiding somewhere, aren't ya?" Drake was finding weird how Blackbeard's ship still hadn't appeard and they where already some good minutes inside the fog fighting the fleet.

"This can't be right." Mash said as she and Nala had finishing defeating one more crew.

"What is it Mash?" Nala asked her.

"Blackbeard's ship isn't anywhere to be found! I can't even detect it!" Mash responded.

"Are you implying he isn't even here?" Nala made another question.

"Unless Queen Anne's Revenge can camuflate, yes. It's likely that his ship isn't among the fleet!" As Mash said that, a cannon ball hit the Golden Hind.

"Crap! We can't be wasting time here then!" Nala exclaimed. "Even if we end up defeating this entire fleet, our ship will go to the fight against Blackbeard's ship with some significant amount of damage!"

"That's exactly what Blackbeard wanted! His chances if winning will be high, no matter if the Golden Hind makes through this!" Mash added.

Nala looked around and saw more ships incoming. "And they don't stop appearing! Damnit! If it continues like this we won't stand a chance!" She prepared to invade an enemy ship right in front of her before it was annhilated by Heracles who landed on the current ship Mash and Nala where in.

"Having trouble?" The voice of Medea sounded as the Argo approached them.

"Yes! We can't find the Queen Anne's Revenge anywhere!" Mash told her.

"Hop on to here then!" Jason said to the two girls who did as told alongside Heracles.

"Something in mind?" Nala asked him.

"Yep! We are going to hold this guys down while you and your crew advance forward." Jason told her, shocking Mash and Nala

"What?! You sure you ca-" Mash was interrupted by Jason.

"We're the goddamn Argonauts! A fleet like this isn't much of a deal for us!" Jason said. "Heracles himself can wipe out every single ship here."

Heracles made a sound in reaction.

Despite knowing of the warrior's incredible power, Nala still wasn't fully convinced. "Are you su-"

"Hey, if you doubt about my friend's capabilities I'll throw you into the sea!" Jason threatned her.

"We'll be okay! No worries!" Medea said. "You and your crew have a destined battle with Blackbeard and this fleet is slowing you down. Allow us to remove that problem for you."

Mash wanted to argue but Medea's words made her understand that indeed they couldn't waste any time here. The faster they would catch Blackbeard's ship the better. "Okay. I'll trust you!"

"Mash-" Nala felt a touch of Heracles hand on her back alongside a grunt from his mouth, making the girl stare at him. "Can handle it Berserker?"

Heracles nodded his head, making another sound with his mouth. Even if it weren't words, it was surely a sound of reassurence that Heracles made to Nala.

Seeing that, Nala gave him a small smile. "Then good luck! And thank you for teaching me somethings." She tighten the grip on her sword. "I promise to put them to good use in my next battle Berserker!"

Heracles smiled in return, happy to hear that.

"Pff! If there's something that he doesn't need is good luck!" Jason said.

"The moment you get on Drake's ship, tell her to just go forward with full speed and leave us behind!" Medea told the two girls. "We're rooting for you!"

"Sure!" Mash replied. "But how we will reach them? The Golden Hind is a bit far!" She said, seeing the distance of the Argo to Drake's ship.

Jason smirked. "No problem! Herc, if you will..."

Heracles picked up both Mash and Nala with his bare hands and threw the two torwards the Golden Hind.

Drake got scared and surprise like everyone else when she saw Mash and Nala landing right next to her feet. "Ya two alri-"

"We must leave now captain!" Nala told Drake. "Full speed ahead!"

"What are you talk-"

"Blackbeard's ship isn't here! The purpose of this fleet is just to slow us down!" Mash told to Drake about this fleet's purpose. "The Argonauts will handle the rest captain! We must get out of here before the ship sustains serious damage for the battle against Blackbeard and his crew!"

"Crap! Of course that man would pull something like that!" Drake said, feeling stupid for not realizing this scheme from the get go. "Men! Ship at full speed! Let's get out of here as quickly as possible!" She ordered to the crew. In no time, the Golden Hind was now going away from the battle at an intense velocity. The enemy ships still tried to attack it but they were all being destroyed and sunk by the Argo and its crew.

Nala watched them, seeing the vision of Heracles and Medea destroying ships slowly fading away in the fog as more enemy ships would get closer and closer to the Argo, about to surround it completly. The sounds of explosions and cannon shots got lower until it stopped after some seconds of not seeing the fight anymore. Now it was just the lonely Golden Hind and its crew sailing through the misty sea.

"They did their best to make sure we could proceed." Mash said, standing next to Nala. "Even if they come out of that alive, we can't let that sacrifice be in vain."

Nala nodded her head. "We won't." Altough slightly saddened by having to part ways with them and specially Heracles, she would make sure their valuable effort here wouldn't go to waste.

Sailing some more, the Golden Hind ended up finally exiting the huge fog area, being greeted by the night. It really made the crew think how long they had been battling that fleet and travessing the fog. Standing on the ship's head, Drake could only feel one thing.

"We are getting closer."


"So what was your favourite part friend?" Blackbeard asked as he and Peko stood at the border of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

After returning to the vessel, Blackbeard told Hector and the rest of the crew that was in the ship about the situation and the encounter with the goddess and ordered them to go aid the other servants and part of his crew. That made Blackbeard, Ritsuka and Peko the only people currently in the ship. By the time they had finished the marathon of the SpaceStars series, it was already night and Blackbeard's servants and men still hadn't returned.

Peko was with a pale face and feeling dizzy. "It was...hold on a second." He immediatly leaned over the boarder and started to throw up. It wasn't like the series he saw where bad. It was just the amount of flashlights the boy had seen in the span of those hours where too much for his brain. "It was...those scenes with the mechas. They were incredible!"

"I know right?" Blackbeard replied.

"Still that time travel and parallel worlds stuff looked way too convuluted. Hearing the explanatiom was like being in a fever dream." Peko explained.

"When ye get older you'll understand. That's how life is." Blackbeard told him. "Like the sea, everything in the beggining seems so confusing and unknown. But as you dive more into it, you'll get to discover and comprehend the things it has to offer."

Peko wasn't expecting someone like Blackbeard to say those type of things. Guess everyone had a bit of a philosopher inside themselves. As Peko's eyes stared at the man, he caught sight of the Holy Grail stuck on Blackbeard's waist. "Oh yeah! He has the actual grail we need to clear this Singularity! If only there was a way to take it from him and escape now..." Thinking of stealing the artifact without Blackbeard noticing, Peko decided to make a question. "Hum, speaking about all that sea and life stuff, why did you decided to become a pirate?"

Blackbeard liked that question. "Oh, you see, when I was a kid a lot of pirates would come to town. I guess it was an important point of the internation market trade or something like that at the time. So I would see all those people in the weird costumes and..."

"Yeah keep monologuing." Peko slowly stretched his arm torwards the Holy Grail as Blackbeard continued talking about his past.

"Just a little bit more." Peko's hand was inches away from touching the grail. With a quick move, Peko would be able to steal the grail from Blackbeard.

"And it's done!" Ritsuka came out of the bathroom. "Did I miss something?"

Blackbeard immediatly turned around, forcing Peko to pull back his arm. "Dang it! Almost had it!"

"Nah ye didn't friend!" Blackbeard said to Ritsuka. "Just a story of me past. By the way, is the bathroom free?"

"Yeah." Ritsuka replied.

"Alright! I won't take much time!" Blackbeard said as he runned torwards the bathroom and locked the door.

Now the entire ship was free for Ritsuka and Peko to wander around. Having no one on the vessel besides Blackbeard that was now in the bathroom turned their objective to escape way more easier.

"Hey Ritsuka, come look at this." Peko called him and showed a small boat that was attached to the main ship. "We can use it to escape. Since only Blackbeard is here we wouldn't have much trouble."

"That still wouldn't be enough. This ship is fast and could quickly caught up to us if we were spotted sailing away." Ritsuka told him before smiling. "Fortunately, I have a way to slow the Queen Anne's Revenge down. Follow me." He told to the boy.

The two went down some stairs that would led to the interior of the ship's hull.

"What do you want to show me?" Peko asked.

"I discovered this while walking around. We can use it to our advantage!" Ritsuka grabbed a huge white cloth that was covering some object. Upon removing, it revealed numerous barrels full of fireworks and other explosive content. It was like they had just fell into a mine full of dynamite. Ritsuka grabbed a sack full of gunpowder. The plan here was clear. "Are you thinking the same thing as I am Peko?"

"Yep."

"Will you feel bad about it?"

"Nope."

"Then help me here." Ritsuka said as he started to lay out a trace of gunpowder near the fireworks and explosives with the help of Peko. This would give them a great help in their escape. Unfortunately, they weren't the only two inside the storage room.

"Whattye two landlubbers are doing with that?" Blackbeard said as he appeard behind the two, looking at them with a skeptic face, making Ritsuka and Peko's entire body freeze. They had been discovered. Or perhaps not yet.

"We...We...We were preparing these fireworks for a celebration!" Ritsuka lied on the spot. "Isn't that right Peko?"

"Y-Yeah! S-Sorry for not telling you! It was supposed to be a surprise." Peko played along, smiling clumsly. They weren't sure if such lie like that would work. It was their only hope that it could.

"..." Blackbeard didn't say anything, instead staring at his two friends in silence.

"He doesn't seem to believe it! We're done for!" Peko exclaimed in his mind.

"Thankfully he is only one! I'm sure that if we defeat him before the others arrive we-" Suddenly, Ritsuka noticed something on the pirate's face. "Is he...crying?"

Blackbeard was now sniffing and sobbing with tears falling down his face. "I-I can't...believe you were going to do that..!" He said with emotion. "I can't believe...you two actually remembered me birthday!" Blackbeard said before crying abudantly, much to Ritsuka and Peko's confusion.

"Your...birthday?" Ritsuka said.

Blackbeard tried to explain as he controlled his crying. "I tought no one in my crew...cared about that. So I never got to celebrate my birthday with them! Hell, even some members don't know when the day of my birthday is! But...you two figured it out it was today without me even telling you! Bwahahahahaha! Thank you for being such great friends!" Blackbeard went back to cry uncountrollably.

"T-That's what friends are for, right?" Peko tried to calm the man down. "Thank god he didn't realized our actual motive."

"So how about you help us lay this line of gunpowder all the way to the beach and lit these fireworks up eh?" Ritsuka told Blackbeard with a convincing smile. "What do you say about that Teach? In honour of such great captain!"

Blackbeard cleaned the tears off his smile. "Aye. Consider it done friend!"

"Also, can we utilize the small boat that is on the side of the ship?" Peko asked to Blackbeard.

"Hm? Why?" He asked.

"For nothing much really. We would just love to see the fireworks going off in a different perspective." Peko told him. "Seeing the explosions from a distance in the sea would surely be nice."

"...Aye, I can do that too." Blackbeard responded with a smile.

"But one of us has to ignite the powder line on the beach. Can it be you?" Ritsuka requested to Blackbeard.

"Of course! Anything for a friend that wants to give me the best gift of all!" Blackbeard said willingly.

"Cool!" Ritsuka said happily. "Now help us take this bag outside please."

"Aye aye." Blackbeard replied, now helping both Ritsuka and Peko lay out the gunpowder line across the ship and leading it into the beach. With that part done, the three came back to the ship where Blackbeard would make the small boat available for Ritsuka and Peko. The two jumped on the tiny vessel and rowed some meters away from the ship, staying at a good distance from it as Blackbeard stepped into the beach to lit up the gunpowder line.

"Do you have a torch in hand?" Ritsuka yelled to Blackbeard, as he couldn't see them due to the ship being in front of their vision.

"Affirmative! Ready whenever you are!" Blackbeard yelled back, prepared to blow up the fireworks.

"Okay!" Peko shouted. "You can-"

"Mind us to sail alongside you?" A voice came from behind the two boys, being clearly right next to them on the boat. It was Orion and Artemis. The two had appeard out of nowhere, scaring Ritsuka and Peko.

"What the-! When did you two get here!?" Ritsuka exclaimed.

"Hey! Is everything alright there?" Blackbeard yelled, hearing the slight strange commotion.

"Yeah! It's nothing!" Peko yelled back.

"Me and darling were able to outwit those pirates just some minutes ago." Artemis told them. "They're still inside the island looking for us. I wonder if they already realized we escape."

"So you're telling us that the rest of Blackbeard's crew as well as the servants may be on their way back as we speak?" Ritsuka asked to the moon goddess and the teddy bear with some nervousism.

"Yeah. Sorry about that." Orion responded. "But you seem to have already a escape route, so better start fleeing now."

"Alright then! No more waiting!" Ritsuka said before looking at Peko. "The moment Blackbeard ignites that line we'll start rowing and won't stop, understood?"

"Understood Ritsuka!" Peko answered, already with a paddle in hand while Ritsuka was grabbing the other.

"Oh! Can I be the cheerleader that gives you motivation?" Artemis asked them, intrigued.

"Nah! I'm the one who gives better motivation out of us two." Orion told her.

"Whatever! Just please stay in your places!" Peko said to the pair.

Ritsuka took a deep breath before looking behind. "Do it now Blackbeard!" He shouted as high as he could.

"Aye aye!" Blackbeard said with a smile on his face, igniting the gunpowder line with the torch in his hand.

"Now Peko! Now!" Ritsuka told to his friend as the two started to tirelessly row.

Orion then took out a megaphone behind his back to motivate the two boys. "That's it don't stop! One two! One two! One two!"

Artemis giggled at seeing Ritsuka and Peko rowing nonstop. "This so much fun!"

Meanwhile, as Blackbeard saw the fire on the gunpowder line making it's way to the storage room of his ship, a tought ocurred in his mind. "Wait. We didn't took out the fireworks, did we?"

It was already too late to think that as an enormous explosion came from the inside of Queen Anne's Revenge.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah! Me ship!" Blackbeard yelled in terror as some fireworks would come out from the huge hole on the hull and explode. Running to the left side of the beach, the pirate captain was able to see Ritsuka and Peko sailing away in the boat. Alongside Artemis and Orion. In that moment, the huhe betrayal broke completly Blackbeard's heart. "Grrrr! HOW COULD YE DO THIS TO ME!? YE DAMN BILGE RATS!"

"YOU KIDNAP US!" Peko yelled back, still putting all his energy into rowing. The boat was now gaining distance from the island.

"I TOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!" Blackbeard shouted angrily and heartbroken. "I EVEN SHOWED YOU MY MANGA AND ACTION FIGURE COLLECTION!"

"YOU TRIED TO KILL US! WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Ritsuka told the hard truth to Blackbeard. "ALSO...YOUR TASTE IN ANIME AND MANGA SUCKS!"

Blackbeard gasped in shock and disbelief. "H-HOW COULD YE! I'M...I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Blackbeard shouted with tears on his face. "BY MY REAL NAME, EDWARD TEACH, I'M GONNA KILL YOU TWO! EVEN IF IT TAKES ME TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD, I'LL END YER LIVES AND FEED YOUR BODIES TO THE FISHES!" Blackbeard proclaimed in full rage. What he originally tought were his friends that he could count on, backstabbed him by running away with the goddess while damaging greatly the poor pirate's ship. Now, he only had desire for vengance. Whipping out his tears, Blackbeard stared angrily at the small boat sailing away into the horizon. "Next time we meet, it shall be our last!"

On the distance, Ritsuka and Peko stopped rowing after some minutes. The two took time to regain their breaths.

"Phew! That was quite the excercise. Did we distanciate enough from the island?" Ritsuka asked.

"Hmmm, I'm not sure if the progress you did was enough." Orion said as Ritsuka looked behind and saw the island still in the distance. Altough they where far from it, they weren't totally out of Blackbeard's ship reach.

"It's only a matter of time until Blackbeard repairs the ship with his grail and comes after us with the rest of his crew!" Peko said. "If only we could go further before the ship starts sailing again."

Amidst the two boys dreadness, Artemis had an idea. "No worries! I can solve that!" She happily got up from her seat and walked to the other end of the boat, passing past Ritsuka and Peko.

"W-What are you doing Artemis?" Orion asked her, having a feeling that whatever his lover had in mind, it woldn't be such great idea.

"You'll see darling!" Artemis said cheerfuly. "Just hang on tightly to the boat." She said while pointing the magic arrow of her bow to the water.

Ritsuka and Peko immediatly hold on to the boat without questioning while Orion realized what she had in mind.

"Wait! A-Are you crazy!? Don't do this Artemiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!"

Firing the arrow, the small boat was projected forward to the sky at an incredible speed as if it was a rocket, making the group move futher away from the island and Blackbeard. Everyone screamed in panic except for Artemis herself, who smiled as they would face the wind going against their faces.


"Next time, I'm the one coming up with the ideas." Orion said, recovering his breath and heartbeat alongside Ritsuka and Peko as the three have passed from the near death experience and huge scare.

"Hehe." Artemis smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about that."

"N-No stress..." Ritsuka replied as he slowly got up from his seat. "At least...we're still alive."

"That's true!" Artemis exclaimed. "Oh, by the way, what are your names? I guess we never asked you that."

"It's Ritsuka. Ritsuka Fujimaru." He introduced himself. "Nice to meet you two."

"And I'm Peko. Pleasure meeting you." Peko also said his name.

"Ritsuka and Peko? Definetly not greek." Orion commented.

"And you reached to that conclusion only now?" Peko replied with a forced smile.

Ritsuka stared at Artemis. "So you really are the famous greek Goddess of the Moon and Hunt?"

"Yep! In flesh and bone!" Artemis responded happily.

"Man, that makes me feel really lucky." Ritsuka chuckled. "It ain't everyday that you can see a god right in front of you."

"They don't exist in the current time, do they?" Peko asked.

"No. That era of gods roaming around the earth's surface have already been gone by a long time." Orion answered. "Age of Gods. Eh, different times."

"You were alive back then Orion?" Ritsuka asked him.

"Yeah. Magecraft would flow abundantly in every corner of the world. A time when mystic and mystery was very alive." Orion said. "I dont miss it thou. Gods in my opinion were always kinda of jackasses."

"Hey!" Artemis said indignated.

"Except you of course!" Orion immediatly replied back.

"So since you are known for a constellation, it's backstory must be your backstory as well." Peko said to him.

"Yeah. But it's honestly a story that I don't have too much intrest in telling now." Orion said.

"All that you need to know is that the constellation was a way to perserve my darling's body and memory." Artemis said, hugging Orion.

"So the constellation of Orion is indeed the constellation of Orion." Ritsuka said. "That's cool! If everyone could have a constellation in the sky for the people down on earth to remember them, I guess that would be pretty nice."

"Really? I tought constellations were representations of families." Peko said. "Like, every single star that forms a constellation represents an individual family member and together they form a family."

"Hmm, that also doesn't sound bad." Ritsuka said, liking that idea.

Even Orion was amused by hearing Peko's opinion on what he tought constellations were. "It's indeed an endearing way to look at the constellations, I have to admit."

"Does that mean..." Artemis tightly hugged Orion. "Your constellation represents the two of us and our possible children? Just like an happy family?" She asked with a huge smile.

"Y-Yeah...Perhaps is that Artemis." Orion responded. "Or it represents me and my crushes, but there's no way in hell I'm going to tell her that."

As they were talking with one another, a sound came from Ritsuka's stomach. "Well, looks like it's dinner time...and we don't have nothing to eat."

"Perhaps if we could catch some fishes." Peko said, looking at the water. "A shame that we can't see nothing in the water."

Artemis got up from her seat and took out her bow. "Then let me he-"

Ritsuka, Peko and Orion immediatly went to refuse the goddess helping.

"T-There's no need for that thank you!"

"Yeah. You already did us an huge favour!"

"What did I told you about having ideas Artemis?!"

"Oh, okay." Artemis said sadly. "But just let me do this for a quick instance!" She said, waving her hand in the air. By doing that, the moon appeard behind the clouds, shinning greatly on the sea and bettering the vision around the small boat. "Better?"

"Well, now we can see definetly see better." Ritsuka said, pushing up his sleeves. "We can't clearly see the fishes still."

"Hmm, how about this?" Peko had an idea. Using the magic on his body, Peko created a light ball and poured it into the water, lighting up, allowing them to see some fishes swimming nearby. "This should do."

"Nice one Peko!" Ritsuka patted the boy in the head. "Now let's catch some fish!"

"Be careful for your hands to not be eaten by a shark!" Orion warned them as he saw the two putting their arms on the water.

Peko gulped at hearing that. "Not helping."

After a minute or two, and even with some help of Artemis, the group was able to catch a good amount of fish.

"Good! Now we have dinner!" Ritsuka said happily.

Peko however still saw a problem. "But...are we going to eat them raw?"

"Crap! Didn't think of that!" Ritsuka cursed.

"No worries. Let me handle that." Orion said as he took out a large grill out of Artemis back.

"Should we be concerned on how you were able to do that?" Ritsuka asked Orion.

"As long as you have dinner, who cares?" Orion said, grabbing a fish. "I hunted for years. Cooking animals isn't strange to me."

"Can you do one of those special fish dishes darling?" Artemis asked to her lover.

"We aren't in a resturant! Plus you are a servant and goddess, you dont need to eat!" Orion replied.

"Well now I think I'm just going to lay back and relax in the meantime." Ritsuka said, laying his body on the seat of boat.

"Think I'm going to do the same." Peko said, about to do the same. But when the boy was about to do that, his ears seemed to have catched a sound coming from the water. "Hm? What was that sound?"

Peeking on the water of the sea, Peko saw, even if hardly being able to spot it, a small glowing yellow light on the water. But it didn't seemed it was on the surface. Instead, it appeard to be deep below on the ocean. "What is that thing?" Peko leaned more, not being able to stop looking at the mysterious glow of the light. It continued to shine and unmoving, staying among the darkness of the ocean. Peko's ears captured another sound, increasing the boy's curiosity. It seemed almost like he was being called. Called by the deep mysterious yellow light in the dark abyss of the ocean.

Peko slowly stretched his arm. "Why is it calling-"

"Peko! Peko!" Ritsuka touched the boy in the shoulder, taking Peko out of his semi-trance state.

"H-Huh? What was it?" Peko asked Ritsuka.

"Dinner's ready!" Artemis said with the dishes on her hand.

"Eat now. And don't worry about any spine." Orion told them. "I made sure to take them all out."

"Thanks Orion." Ritsuka said as he grabbed his dish and Peko's, handing it to the boy. "Here's yours."

"Thank you Ritsuka." After receiving his dish, Peko stared back at the sea water again, only to see that the yellow light had dissapeard. "Weird."

"Hmm, it's actually good!" Ritsuka said after taking out a bite of the fish.

"My darling is the best cook in the world!" Artemis praised Orion.

"Nothing speacial really. It was something that came with hunting experience." Orion said.

As Ritsuka was eating his fish, he stared at Peko who was with a pensative look on his face. "Thinking of something?"

"Kinda. Blackbeard got really mad at us with that, eh? Hard to think he genuinely tought of us as friends." Peko told him.

"Yeah. But I guess that was one of the things he wanted to have so much." Ritsuka responded. "I can comprehend his frustration. If he wasn't our enemy, perhaps we could have hanged out with him."

"Same." Peko responded. Altough being a dangerous pirate,he couldn't deny that Blackbeard was somewhat a funny person to see around.

"Also, how does it feel like to possibly be a prince?" Ritsuka asked him.

"I don't know. It's just, complicated to think about it." Peko responded.

"Wait! The kid here is from royalty!?" Orion exclaimed surprise. Artemis was surprised as well.

"We aren't very sure about it yet but he does have a tatt- I mean, magic crest of a crown on his back." Ritsuka told them. "So we assume he might be one."

"Hmm, intresting." Orion said. "But what do you mean you don't know exactly? Isnt he capable to tell you that?"

"I don't remeber anything of my past." Peko said sadly.

"Oh!" Orion isntantly regretted making that question.

"That wasn't nice to ask darling." Artemis said dissapointed.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it." Orion apologized.

"No problem. You didn't mean it." Peko forgive him.

"Whatever is preventing you from remembering your memories, I hope you are able to get them back."

"So it means you two aren't brothers or anything of the sort." Orion said.

"No we aren't." Ritsuka said.

"Hmmm, then care to explain to us your background? How did you met and why this 'Singularity' even exists?" Orion asked nicely.

"Well, I guess we do owe you an explanation." Peko said. "You see, we actually aren't real pirates."

"Yep. We come from the future. At least centuries after the time period this Singularity is happening." Ritsuka proceeded to explain, making Artemis and Orion curious. "We come from a place called Chaldea."

The minutes passed as the two boys continued to explain their origin and mission to the moon goddess and her teddy bear hunter. The ocean was calm and quiet. Peaceful as it was shinned by the moonlight. Such vast area, covering large part of the Earth. Till today, some parts of the largest body of water remained unexplored, being the lair of undiscovered and outwordly species and among other things left for the imagination of the curious. The ocean is truly a special concept. And a scary one as well. For even in a day where the sun shines the brightest, there's only such depths where the light reaches out and the human eye can see inside the water. Beyond that, lies the darkest deeps of the ocean, an abyss of unknown fear. And as they say, when staring at an abyss, the abyss can stare back at you.

To be continued...


And that's it for chapter 44!

God, this one was a bit of a pain to write! But it's here, and that's what matters. Either way, I don't have much to say on this one, my head is completly on LB6. I'll go back to my quest to destroy Fae Britain. Expect fights to happen on next chapter.

See you next time on chapter 45, Peace!

P.S:

Ritsuka: Hey Mash!

Mash: What is it Senpai?

Ritsuka: Watch this! (Grabs Peko and Nala and the three fuse their hair colours together)

Ritsuka, Peko and Nala: Onigiri!

(Mash spits the coffee she was drinking)

Kagetora (Passing by) : Nice hair colour scheme.