Hello everyone and welcome back to the start of chapter 45 of the story! I...that trailer of the first Ordeal Call chapter was...I don't even know how to describe it...I'm so confused right now. (That's what I get for not learning japanese and being unable to read the goddamn kanji letters!)

Good thing I don't have to worry about it for two years and in the meantime I can continue my hateful (and righteous) genocide on those faeries! (I completed the first part by now, BUT I STILL NEED MORE! MORE SHITTY FAERIE BLOOD TO SATISFY MY HATE!)

But with that now out of the way, let's start it!

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. (You may haven't noticed and you won't now that I fixed it, but I forgot to put this part on the previous 2 chapters xD )


With the sun shinning on a new day, Peko and Ritsuka went back to row in the vast sea, now accompained by the greek goddess of the moon and hunt Artemis and her most notorious hunter, Orion. The two's stay proved to be very helpful to Ritsuka and Peko by being doing surveillance during the whole night while the two boys peacefully slept, preventing the small boat to be attacked from any hostile sea creatures. Not only that but in the early hours of dawn, the greek pair catched some fishes that served as breakfast for Ritsuka and Peko.

"With how long we've been rowing now, I'm surprised we still haven't spotted a new island on the horizon." Peko said, moving his paddle alongside Ritsuka.

"We are on a small boat. It doesn't have the same speed as a main ship." Ritsuka told him before looking at Orion and Artemis. "How long have we been rowing since we started today?"

"Hmmm, for about ten minutes." Orion responded.

"And thirty-nine seconds!" Artemis added.

"That is totally an unecessary detail." Orion said unamused.

"Thankfully for us, we got a big upperhand over Blackbeard." Ritsuka speaked, refering to how far they were able to distanciate from him and his crew on the previous island. "I think we still have some good hours until his ship starts to catch us. What do you think Peko?"

"..." Peko didn't respond, being too absorbed with his own thoughts.

Ritsuka had to call him out a second time, poking the boy with the end of the paddle. "Hey, are you listening Peko?"

"Hmm? Ah! S-Sorry Ritsuka! I was distracted thinking." Peko said, snapping out of his inner mind.

"Thinking about what?" Ritsuka asked him.

No words came out of Peko's mouth as the boy wasn't sure if he could or should share information that only he knew. However, the silence only made Ritsuka insist more.

"Are you thinking about Nala?" Ritsuka asked, wanting to check if Peko wasn't feeling somewhat anxious by having stayed far from his sister for quite some time. In Ritsuka's mind, it perhaps was that.

"...It actually isn't that...for the most part." Peko responded, now rowing with less itensity before coming to a full stop.

Ritsuka eventually did the same, staring at Peko with slight worridness. "Then what is it?"

The silence beetween the two could be felt so much that become even larger the moment the small boat stopped, standing paralyzed in the calm and also silent sea.

Artemis and Orion could also feel it as well.

"Hum, is it so-"

"Don't say anything Artemis." Orion advised his lover. "This is clearly something only involving them. We should have no bussiness in that matter." Saying that, he and Artemis opted to temporarily ignore the two boys, giving them what could be considered some privacy by looking to the other way.

"Listen, if you don't feel comfortable on sharing something, it's alright. I'm not forcing you to do it." Ritsuka said to Peko. "I just want to make sure you're good."

"..." Peko still didn't respond, turning his head to the side.

Ritsuka then leaned a bit over him, smirking. "Is it about you having a crush on a loli?" He teased the boy.

Peko immediatly turned his head around, staring at Ritsuka with a blushing red face. "I-IT'S NOT THAT!" He yelled embarrassedly.

Ritsuka chuckled. "I know, I know. Just messing with you."

"You're mean." Peko said, looking at his friend with a unhappy face. "Are you going to say I'm in love with a dragon next?"

"If the opportunity presents itself..." Ritsuka continued joking a bit. "But that aside, if you don't wanna say it, I understand." Ritsuka said with a gentle smile before grabbing his paddle. "Now, we should res-"

"I...I have been having some strange dreams." Peko finally confessed, gaining Ritsuka's attention. "It were dreams that felt...familiar to me."

"How so?" Ritsuka asked, clearly curious.

"There was those where I am just standing in vast wide green hills, and there's a painter in it." Peko explained. "And, when I approached to look at that man's face, it was like staring at someone I once knew. Someone I was familiar with." Peko stare at his own hands. "My heart, my mind, my soul. It all reacted when I saw glimpses of that painter's face."

"Can you remember more details about that dream Peko?" Ritsuka made another question. This was definetly something of intrest that also needed to be shared and discussed with Mash, Nala and the rest of Chaldea. Possible clues could be resided within Peko's dreams.

"The painter had black hair. It was kinda like mine but spikier. He was also wearing priest's clothes as well painting a canvas of a duck." Peko informed Ritsuka. "That's all I can get from those dream before everything turns black and I wake up again."

"So, how long have you been having them?" Ritsuka asked.

"I think since the very first day at Chaldea. But it isn't only the painter that I dream of." Peko continued to speak. "I've had some dreams where I think I was with my dad and Nala. And recently, I also had somewhat a dream of a woman's voice. I wondered...if that was my mom."

"Then you also have a mother?!" Ritsuka tried to act surprised, since he knew that information beforehand when he and Mash listened to one of Peko and Nala's conversation while hidden. "That's nice! It means some memories might be getting back to you!"

"I want to believe it is." Peko said with a down mood. "But it's all so fragmented and blurry. Too sudden and confusing to get a clear answer. I'm not sure if it's just a dream, memories or supposed to be something else."

"I never had amnesia, so I don't know exactly what it feels like or the effects. But perhaps it can be exactly those feelings and conditions." Ritsuka told him. "Does Nala have it too?"

"I guess so. She told me she suspected about our mother's existence for quite some time." Peko responded. "It's very possible that Nala has it too." Peko said before looking at the sea. "Now all of that makes me wonder if...if that painter I saw in my dreams, might be our dad."

"Does it give you any hint about that possibility?" Ritsuka asked, hearing it with attention.

"Well, the man who appears with me and Nala in the dreams gives me almost the same vibes as the painter when I'm close to him. Altough I never seen his head, that painting of the painter was on a dream with him. There must be a correlation for it to be there, right?" Peko said as his head tried to connect the unfinished dots on his mind. "So for now, the painter is the closest thing I have to know what my dad can look like."

"And what about your mom?" Ritsuka asked, curious on why Peko didn't went too much in detail about his mother.

"I didn't saw much of her. I couldn't even see her body properly. My eyes just caught some glimpses of her hair wich are some kind of purple." Peko responded, trying hard to remember of his dream like memory of his mother. "But of what I could figure, she seemed to care alot about me." Peko said with a small smile.

"Good mothers are just like that, aren't they?" Ritsuka said, changing his sight from Peko to the sky above. "It's a luck to have them."

"Is your mother very caring Ritsuka?" Peko asked to the older boy and his leader.

"The most caring woman that I've known in my life." Ritsuka responded with a smile, the soft breeze hitting his head. "With Da Vinci coming second of course!" He mentioned.

"Wow, she must be an amazing mother!" Peko exclaimed. "Maybe, when humanity is finally restored and me and Nala have our memories back, we can go see your mom Ritsuka!" He said happily.

Ritsuka however didn't shared the same sentiment. "Hmm...Y-Yeah."

Peko noticed the discomfort on Ritsuka's voice as he said that. "Hum? Is there something wrong with that?"

"No no!" Ritsuka immediatly responded. "Of course we'll go see her and everything!" Ritsuka said with a smile to Peko. "She would even be happy I was able to make a friend like you..." "But what matters for now is to encounter YOUR mom and dad." Ritsuka said, patting Peko on the head.

"Hahaha, yeah. You're right." Peko replied happily.

And as everything seemed to have turned into a good mood, Orion happened to enter the conversation, but not in the way he wanted with Artemis near him. "Is any of your mothers hot by any cha-..." The teddy bear quickly covered his own mouth in panick, realizing his own mistake.

"Darling..." The goddess said in a somber and menacing tone as she stared creepily behind him.

"Crap!" Was all that Orion tought before being grabbed by Artemis and having his body violently shoved inside the water, struggling against Artemis in order to not get drown.

"What happened to the part where we should have no bussiness in their mattern eh?!" Artemis said angrily as she kept Orion's body inside the water while Ritsuka and Peko would nervously watch the two on the other end of the boat.

As the two where thinking of they should calm Artemis down or not, they noticed that the sky was starting to get filled with more grey clouds and the sea current was starting to get agitated. That could only mean one thing.

"A storm is coming." Ritsuka said. "We better continue rowing now."

"I doubt we can reach an island in time before the storm beggins." Peko said. "If we had some kind of motor to speed up the boat."

Meanwhile, Artemis finally let go off of Orion, allowing the teddy bear to breath. "Bwaaah! The water is cold as hell goddamit! Also a storm is coming you say?"

"Yep." Ritsuka replied.

"Then start moving those peddles! I ain't gonna fall on this freezing water again!" Orion yelled before stretching his arm to Artemis. "Artemis!"

The goddess responded by handing him the megaphone. "Here you have darling!" She said happily, acting like she wasn't drowning him seconds ago.

"Alright! Just like we did before!" Orion said to the two with his megaphone in hand. "One Two! One Two! One Two! One Two!"

The boat was starting to get wonky as the waves movement would increase.

"Everybody here knows how to swim right?" Ritsuka asked as the waves splashed against the boat. The wind was also getting turbulent and the clouds darker. It would be a matter of time until the rain and lighting bolts would appear as well.

"I think servants know how to swim. Plus you can't die from drowning right?" Peko asked to both Orion and Artemis.

"Yes we can't so there's no need to worry with us." Artemis replied.

"But I can't swim!" Orion yelled in fright.

"Wait really?" Ritsuka said.

"I know that as the son of Posidon I should be very skilled on the water, and truly I am! But on this body and in a storm like this I'll sink!" Orion explained.

"But can't you fly?" Peko asked, remembering that he saw Orion's body standing in the air sometimes.

"I can float, not fly! That's different. And even then I'm not able to float for that long." Orion said, revealing that the ability he had couldn't last forever when used.

Artemis hugged him. "Don't worry darling! I'll protect you from this bad sea no matter what!"

"Now that I think of it, you can float too Artemis. And for much longer than Orion I assume." Ritsuka talked to her.

"I sure can." Artemis replied.

"Then do you think you could be able to carry all of us if the boat turns upside down?" Peko asked her, checking that possibility.

"Hmmm, yeah. While my divine strenght was reduced, I still can carry you two if needed!" Artemis confirmed.

"And since she can float really high, I think we're safe from the storm getting us!" Ritsuka said. "Phew! Good thing you decided to come aboard with us!"

"Well, it's also good to have some company that isn't pirates trying to chase us." Orion responded, lying his body on the top of Artemis head.

In that moment, the loud thunders started to sound in the clouds, gaining the group's attention.

"This isn't looking good." Peko said a bit scared.

"Do you fear thunders?" Ritsuka asked him.

"When they appear out of nowhere like that. Don't tell me it doesn't scare you as well." Peko replied.

"I'd say clowns are more scarier." Ritsuka gave his opinion.

"Seriosuly? Clowns? But they're just goofy, not scary!" Peko responded, not believing that Ritsuka found clowns way scarier than thunders.

"That's because you never saw one with evil makeup! Those will send chills on your body when sleeping!" Ritsuka explained.

"Oh please! That can't be true! That's just being a pussy!" Peko responded, continuing to not believe a person could have a fear of clowns.

"Look who's talking!" Ritsuka said, mildly elbowing Peko on his shoulder. "I bet you sleep with a nightlight near your bed!"

"That's not true!" Peko shouted at him.

"Yes it is!" Ritsuka teased him.

"No it's not!"

"Yes it is!"

"It's not!"

"It is!"

"It's-"

"Are you some kindergarten children to be doing that now?!" Orion yelled at him, not standing the minor squabble beetwenn the two. Ritsuka and Peko immediatly stopped that and stared at Orion.

"Sorry."

"Sorry."

"Sincerely." Orion sighed, scratching his own head. "But can we at least agree that spiders are more creepy?"

"...Yeah tottaly." Ritsuka agreed.

Peko was on the same page. "True. Specially the big ones."

Ritsuka then put an arm above Peko's shoulder. "And beetween the two of us, you would be the first one to flee if you saw one." He said with a smile.

"Nah. That would be you." Peko responded, smiling as well.

"No I wouldn't." Ritsuka replied.

"Yes you would." Peko insisted. The two continued a little more on their banter, acting as if a storm wasn't about to happen. Orion could only stare at the two boys with a frustrated face.

"These two are...Hey Artemis! Come help me remind them of the situation we're in!" He requested to his lover who now was trying to spot something in the distance.

"Hmmm..." Altough in the middle of the beggining of a turbulent sea, Artemis eyes were able to catch a ship in the distance. "Oh! I see a ship in the horizon!"

Orion as well as Ritsuka and Peko immediatly shifter their attention to her.

"A pirate ship!?" Ritsuka asked the moon goddess.

"Seem so!" Artemis replied.

"It must be Drake's ship! They found us!" Peko exlcaimed happily.

"Any more details about the ship you are seeing Artemis?" Orion asked her.

"It has quite a lot of similar details with the one on that previous island we where." She responded, giving it a brief discription.

That however, made Ritsuka and Peko walk to the other end of the boat to Artemis side and see that ship for themselves. That's when the hope they had was immediatly crushed. That ship didn't looked at all with Drake's Golden Hind.

"That's...That's Blackbeard's ship!" Ritsuka yelled in panic.

"They are already on our tail!?" Peko exclaimed. "I tought we at least had some few hours until they came close to us!"

"Artemis you dumbhead!" Orion slapped the top of his lover's head. "How can you not remember of the pirate ship we literally saw yesterday?!"

"Sorry darling..." Artemis apologized with tears in her eyes.

And as if the things couldn't get worse, the waves were becoming brutal and shaking the boat, making both Ritsuka and Peko lose their balance and fall to the ground.

"Ah!" Peko exclaimed as his body hit the floor.

"You okay Peko?" Ritsuka asked him.

"Y-Yeah." Peko responded while slowly getting up.

Ritsuka tried to think of any possible way that they could escape from this terrible situation. "Crap! What do we do now?"


"Huh? The air is bustling way more now." Nala said as she noticed the sudden change of pace in the air alongside everybody else aboard the Golden Hind.

"Now that you say, the sky is getting way too clouded." Mash commented. "Could it be..."

"A storm." Drake responded as she observed to the movement of the waves. "Prepare for anything! During a tempestuous sea, if you fall to the water chances of having you back to the ship is of almost zero."

"Does your ship handle it?" Euryale asked the captain.

"Heh. The Golden Hind as gone through enough tough storms already! This will be one more to the list!" Drake replied with proudness of her ship as well as an encouraging tone. "Get the sails of the ship ready men! We're about to enter a stormy zone!"

"You heard the cap'n!" Bombe passed Drake's order to the rest of the crew. "Prepare the sails and watch out to not fall to the sea!"

As the Golden Hind was now sailing against increasingly stronger waves, the hologram of Doctor Romani appeard.

"What is the situation doctor? Apart from the storm that is." Mash asked him.

"I don't know if this could see as good or bad news but, Blackbeard's ship is nearby!" Romani told them.

"What? Is it true?" Mash asked in surprise.

"Yeah. My monitor sensors are detecting a huge signal of mana alongside smaller ones alongside it." Romani told her.

"It's true!" Nala exclaimed, leaning her body on the boarder of the ship. "I see another pirate ship in the horizon!" She pointed torwards a far ship that had also entered on the storm.

"I see it too now!" Drake said, using her telescope to spot Blackbeard's ship on the distance. "So he came to try finishes off huh?"

"Don't lean on the ship's border like that Nala! You might fall off!" Mash warned the younger girl.

"Eh! R-Right!" Nala responded, about to move away from the border when she caught glimpse of a smaller thing in the middle of the waves and not very distant from the ship. "Wait! I'm seeing a small boat on the water!"

"A small boat? Why would there be a small boat in the middle of a storm?" Mash questioned.

"My sensors are trying to detect any signal coming from-" Romani came to a stop when his monitor showed whose vital signs coming from the boat were.


"So, did we all learned a lesson with this?" Anne asked to Blackbeard as the man was on cotnrol of the helm, eyeing on the small boat in the middle of the stromy sea and in front of the ship.

"That perhaps I should have introduced a different anime to them..." Blackbeard whispered to himself, still distraught over the betrayal of his two 'friends'.

"Wrong answer idiot!" Anne punched him in the head that apready had three bumps from getting a beating yesterday when Anne and Mary both beat their captain up when they found the ship burning with a huge hole in it and that their hostages and escapes with the goddess.

"You're right Anne. I give those two friendship and in return they spat me in the hand." Balckbeard said with a voice full of grudge while continuing to stare at the small boat. "I won't be giving them any second chances."

"Man, I know you are really pissed and all but, is it really worth it to have been chasing them for this long now?" Hector asked to his captain.

"They have our target. It's only natural that we would go after them." Mary told to the spearman.

"And one that backstabs Blackbeard would be foolish enough to think that I would just let it be." Blackbeard added. "I will kill them myself! Stare at their faces as I watch life exiting from their bodies! That's the price for being traitors of a weeb like me!"

Anne sweated a bit at hearing the last part. "At least you got the spirit..."

Eric made some random noises, catching the pirate woman's attention. "Hm? What is it big guy?"

Eric pointed at a ship from afar, making Anne observe it with attention. It was Drake's ship.

"Looks like we have old company. You're friend is back cap'n!" Anne told Blackbeard.

"Does that mean is fightin time for this old man?" Hector said, flexing his spear a little.

"Most likely..." Mary responded.

Eric growled, putting his axe ready for the upcoming fight as well as a rematch with Asterios.

"That witch hag Drake thinks she will have her payback eh?" Blackbard laugh. "Brahahahahahaha! Then she's welcome to try!" He then looked at his men. "All hands on deck mateys! A battle is up ahead!"

As the entire crew prepared themselves, it started to rain hugely on the sea, tge thunders became more frequent and the seas into pure wild territory. The storm had been unleashed.

With a smile in the middle of the beard that gave his famous name, the captain of Queen Anne's Revange eyed at his enemy ship on the other side of the turbulence.

"Come at me Drake. I'll crush ye barnacles."


Meanwhile, in the smaller vessel, Ritsuka and Peko were trying their hardest to keep the boat stable but it was clear that it wouldn't last long until it would be turned over by the current.

"We'll have to abandon the boat!" Ritsuka told them.

"I was already counting on that!" Orion yelled as he tried to maintain his grip on Artemis head as the waves would rock the boat left and right.

"With Blackbeard here I don't know if we can get out of this!" Peko said, holding himself on the boarder of the boat.

Artemis was ready to fire an arrow at Blackbeard's ship. "Then we fight back!"

"The sea is too violent! You sure you can hit the ship with this much movement?" Peko told Artemis.

"Never doubt a goddess kid! Specially Artemis!" Orion responded to him. "Watch it!"

Artemis charged her arrown and despite not being able to get her aim still due to the sea, she fired it anyways. A powerful white beam in the form of a arrow went torwards Blackbeard's ship at all speed. All that power to only miss the ship by a few meters to the side.

Orion and Peko were both shocked by seeing the failure.

"Ups! Got a bit to the right. Sorry!" Artemis clumsly said, preparing to charge another arrow.

"How can you miss like that Artemis!?" Orion yelled furiously.

Three seconds after, cannonballs were coming off of Blackbeard's ship, traveling all the way to try hit their boat.

"Nice! Now they're shooting at us!" Peko exclaimed, seeing the cannonballs drop meters away from them.

Ritsuka looked at the seas around them in the middle of the storm, somehow trying to find a way to escape. "We'll have to get away from them as-" His eyes then spotted a ship that was in the storm as well and sailing in their direction. And this was one that Ritsuka was happy to recognize. "Hey! I see the Golden Hind! They are here Peko!"

Peko went quickly to his side. "Really?" He then spotted Drake's ship as well. "It really is! They came right on time!"

"Is that your friends ship?" Orion asked them.

"It is!" Ritsuka said as he grabbed the paddle. " Let's try to reach closer to them Peko!" He told to his friend.

Peko went to grab his paddle too. "Understo-ah!" A strong current hit the ship, almost turning it around. However, it was enough for both paddles to get loose of Peko and Ritsuka's grip, falling to the water and getting lost in the sea. "No! We lost them!"

"We're stranded! Damnit! Now how we will approach the ship?" Ritsuka cursed as without the paddles, the small boat was now being thrown around by the waves. The splashes were hitting them in the face as they tried to stay on the boat. But it was clear that the poor wodden vessel wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer. It would be either destroyed by the waves or by the cannonballs of Blackbeard's ship.

Despite that, Artemis was still firing another beam arrow to repel the cannonballs and even had one scrapping the hull of Queen Anne's Revenge. "Tsk! Almost had it!"

"Keep trying Artemis!" Orion motivated her.

"At this rate the boat will sink!" Ritsuka said, trying desperatly thinking on something until he saw Peko's arm. "That's it!" "Peko! Your arm!"

Altough initially confused, Peko did stare at the arm he used to shot his light bullets. He quickly comprehended what Ritsuka was trying to say. "Aye aye!" He then went to the other side of the boat, charging his arm in the process. It has been sometime since he used this. "Hope this works!"

Orion noticed Peko putting his arm, that was now glowing a bright light, on the water. "Heh? What are you do-"

"Brace yourselves!" Peko told the two, before triggering his arm's power. "Here goes nothing!" Shooting the powerful beam of light from his hand, the boat immediatly flew to the sky like a projectile. But unlike the previous time that it had happen with Artemis arrow, Peko's arm was weaker but the ideal solution to launch the boat high and forward without being with too much distance. The move was made so that the small vessel could approach Drake's ship. And it was approaching so well that it was about to fall near the Golden Hind.

"They're right above us!" Nala shouted, staring at the boat in the sky falling torwards them.

Mash then prepared for the possible situation. "We have to catch them Nala!"

On the falling boat, Ritsuka looked at everyone on the ship's deck and then at Peko. "We have to jump Peko!"

"Really?!" Peko exclaimed in surprise.

"Yeah! Don't worry! They'll catch us down below!" Ritsuka told him.

Peko nodded. "Okay!"

"Ready?"

"Ready!"

Orion saw what they were about to do. "Wait! That isn't necessary! Artemis can-"

"NOW!" And both jumped off the boat torwards Drake's ship.

As for the crew on the ship, Romani was giving instructions to Mash and Nala in order for them to catch Ritsuka and Peko. "Right! Right! Right! Wait! Left! Left! Left! A bit to the right!"

"There!" Mash extended her arms and jumped forward, her hands reaching in time to grab her falling master. "I did it!"

Meanwhile, Nala was also able to catch Peko, altough the boy fell right on top of his sibling "Hergh!"

"Yes! We saved them!" Romani exclaimed in joy.

Ritsuka smiled to Mash as she put him down. "Nice saving Mash! I knew you could do it!"

Mash nodded, smilling happily for seeing his face again. "Welcome back Senpai. Glad to see both of you are back!"

"Is it my impression or you got heavier?" Nala asked to Peko as both got up from the ground.

"Hey! Is that the first thing you say when seei-" Peko was cut short by a sudden hug from Nala.

"Of course I'm happy to see you again idiot!" Nala hugged him happily, feeling all that anxiety and stress from her last days dying out.

Peko hugged her back. "Heh. Same."

Nala then stared at Ritsuka. "That goes for you as well Ritsuka! It's nice to see you both alive and still kickin!"

"Of course! I would be damned if a pirate crew was the thing to put us down!" Ritsuka replied to her.

"That's the spirit Fujimaru!" Romani told him.

"Nice to see you again as well doctor!" Peko told him.

"Yeah! I was already getting sad from not seeing that face for quite some time." Ritsuka said to Romani.

"Fu fou!" Fou jumped up and down, being notices by the chaldeans.

"We're happy to see you too Fou!" Ritsuka said.

Fou jumped to Peko's arm, having missed him. "Fou!"

"Was missing you already as well." Peko said with a smile.

"It's nice to see both of you again." Euryale told them, staring at Peko. "Guess that makes you a brave boy for saving me back then. I have to thank you for that."

Peko slightly blushed, looking to the side. "I-I did so that Blackbeard couldn't catch you."

"Glad for...having friends back..." Asterios said with a smile.

"Escaping that bastard mustn't have been an easy task." Drake said, approaching them. "I mean, he's still on ya tails but it's good to see ya two are back unscathed. Welcome back to the crew boys!" She smiled at the them.

"Aye aye cap'n!" Ritsuka replied.

Peko rubbed a bit his head. "I wouldn't be so sure about the unscathed part..."

Nala immediatly got worried. "Why? Did that monster hurt you!? Tell me and I'll beat the shit out of him!"

"No no! It wasn't exactly that..." Peko said, remembering all those 'anime' stuff he saw. "He's just...too much of a wacky individual let's say."

"But nothing serious." Ritsuka added. "We still have all of our fingers and limbs after all!" He then remembered of Artemis and Orion, moving his head to look at them descending from the sky and into the ship. "And two new allies as well. They both make the same servant...I think."

Everyone's attention then shifted to the new duo minus Ritsuka and Peko.

"Who are they?" Nala asked.

"Wait! If the readings I'm receiving now are correct..." Romani analyzed the data on his computer. "They are-"

"Goddess of the Moon and Hunt Artemis in the area!" Artemis presented with a big smile while holding Orion and showing him to them. "And this is my greatest hunter and future husband, Orion!"

"Hi there." Orion raised his arm, greeting them with not so much energy as his lover.

Out of all of them, Euryale seemed the most shocked. "Artemis? Goddess Artemis?! How can a Olympian deity like her be summoned as a servant?! Also, there's no way that teddy bear can be Orion. I always imagined him to be different."

"It's because Artemis lowered her Divinity to be summoned alongside Orion or something along those lines." Peko explained to the minor goddess.

"Artemis appearence here as a servant is quite inconceivable." Romani speaked, thinking on what Peko said. "But if that's what happened then it is well within the realm of possibilities. Even if she's not in her true goddess status, she's can still be of great help to us!"

"And what about me?" Orion protested.

"Hum...Yeah, Orion is also a great help I suppose." Romani added.

"Heh. Have I had my true body you would see..." Orion said before staring at the female members of the ship. "At least they have some beaut- I mean-!"

Artemis tightened her grip on his body. "You mean what darling?" She asked, trying to maintain her smile in front of everyone.

"I mean that they at least have some capable warriors here! Like, isn't the purple girl over there a goddess?" Orion reffered to Euryale as he tried to defuse the situation he put himself in.

"Oh! Now that I thonk of it she is!" Artemis said, forgetting her anger and going torwards Euryale. "You are one of the Three Gorgon Sister Goddesses, aren't you?"

"Yes, that's me. Euryale, the middle one." She said to Artemis. "You are being chased by Blackbeard's crew as well, aren't you?"

"Yeah. They are a persistent bunch, I have to say." Artemis replied. "Thankfully, me and darling were lucky enough to find those two that gave us a ride!" Artemis said with a smile to Ritsuka and Peko.

"Nice to see you two were able to bring a main goddess to our side master, Peko." Mash speaked to the two. "But we also made some allies so to speak."

"Really?" Ritsuka reacted surprised.

"They where a trio of sailors. They called themselves the Argosomething." Nala told him. "Nice guys- Well, almost nice guys."

"Hm? The Argonauts? You meet with the legendary greek crew?" Orion asked, curious in finding out that the Argonauts where in this Singularity as well.

"Ah! Then it means she can be here as well!" Artemis exclaimed.

"Cool! Where are them?" Peko said, trying to see if the ship had some new faces that he didn't noticed.

"They hold a fleet back to make way for us." Nala answered sadly.

"Oh." Peko reacted. "I see."

"Kinda hard to imagine that coming from that selfish captain and some others of the crew." Orion said. "But there are indeed a couple other members that I could see doing that."

Ritsuka sighed. "Looks like I missed the chance to met him."

Drake stepped in. "Getting to see them or not, that doesn't change the fact we have a jackass on-hgh!"

The ship suddenly shakened, getting everyone off guard and lose their balance as it started to tilt.

"W-What's happening?" Ritsuka said as he held Mash to keep her balance.

Drake rushed to the helm and quickly tried to take back the control of the ship in the storm. "Gggrhg! C'mon Golden Hind! Don't give up on me!" With all her strenght and against the mercilles current and the strong wind, Drake was able to wheel the helm to the other side, regaining control of the ship and balancing it.

On the deck, Mash saw that something didn't looked right with the water. Instead of doing waves and moving around violently, it was now spinning around them, with the shielder noticing that they seemed to be in some kind of watery spinning hole. "We- We are in a whirlpool!"

"What!?" Ritsuka and everyone else exclaimed in shock. Except for Peko and Nala.

"I don't know what that is but it must mean bad stuff certainly!" Nala said.

"And we're inside of one!?" Peko added.

"All that you need to know is that if we are in one, it's almost certain dead end for us!" Ritsuka explained to them.

"Not exactly! Altough big, this whirlpool doesn't seem to have the strenght of a maelstrom!" Romani told them. "I believe it's possible for the ship to get out of there!"

"Great to hear that!" Drake exclaimed. "Let's get out of he-"

"Aren't you forgetting a certain someone Captain Drake?" A loud voice echoed as another ship entered the whirlpool. It was the Queen Anne's Revenge. Blackbeard was navigating it at the helm as he laughed from the top of his lungs.

"Tsk! That bilge-sucking bastard is planning to fight us here?!" Drake questioned as she watched Blackbeard's ship descend on the giant whirlpool. Many of his ship were trying to keep their balance.

"You are fuckin crazy for this!" Anne yelled at her captain.

"Oh please lass. That is part of the pirate's charm." Blackbeard responded her.

"Unbelivable..." Mary commented.

Hector on the other way seemed happy. "Wow! Now this seems quite the adventure I signed for!"

"Eric!" Blackbeard shouted at the Berserker that was on the deck. Eric stared at his captain. "Scupper them."

Hearing the order, Eric gestured to the pirates of the crew to start firing at Drake's ship.

"They're shooting at us!" Mash exclaimed.

"Men! Respond with the same way!" Drake shouted at her crew, who immediatly put the cannons in position and started fiering at Blackbeard's ship. A naval battle had just started.

Both Euryale and Artemis procceded to use their respective bows to block the cannonballs that were heading torwards them. Asterios would break a half with his own punches and with the other half he would grab them and send it back to their sender, just like it was when the two ships first fought each other. Mash blocked some cannonballs with her shield while Nala would cut them in half with her sword and Peko would fire light bullet's at them. But they weren't the only ones doing that.

Blackbeard's crew was also doing the same. Eric doing exactly as Asterios and sending the incoming cannonballs the other way around, Anne would take it down with her gun and Mary and Hector would slice and pierce it with their weapons. Some cannonballs would fall short in the water, others would be destroyed along the way and there were few that actually hit the targets. The two ships continued to sail around the whirlpool with the unfolding of the battle. Altough not greatly damaged, the Golden Hind was looking slightly more in rough state than the Queen Anne's Revenge.

"Damnit! Is there any way we could damage that ship!?" Orion yelled in frustration, seeing how the damage of the cannonballs weren't making such effect.

"Blackbeard's ship is nearly invincible!" Peko shouted. "There has to be a way for us to destroy it once and for all!"

"And there actually is!" Nala replied, more than happy to share.

"How so?" Ritsuka asked.

"As we were discussing about Blackbeard, Edward Teach's backstory, we came to the conclusion that his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge is his Noble Phantasm!" Mash explained. "It doesn't exist anymore in real life since it was destroyed. It's a ghost ship as well as the crew! Blackbeard summoned it through the magecraft he has as a servant! What powers the vessel are the actual servants of his crew that are in it!"

Peko gasped at the realization. "Then that's why we managed to damage the ship that time! No one was aboard it except for Blackbeard himself!"

"Then we defeat the servants and the ship weakens? That sounds logical." Ritsuka commented, now knowing the way to defeat Blackbeard once and for all.

"And one more thing. The whirlpool seems to be the result of the two holy grails being in confront!" Romani told them. "All this collison of two high magecraft relics is causing this phenomenon! Remember, we get the actual invading holy grail from Blackbeard and this Singularity is resolved!"

"Wich means the final battle is right here!" Nala tightened her fist.

"Seems so! This is it guys!" Ritsuka said, looking at the trio. "Defeat Blackbeard and we get another Singularity cleared!"

"Understood master!" Mash responded. "But unfortunately the two ships are away from each-huh?" She and the group noticed how Drake and her men were lowering the speed of the Golden Hind as a way for Queen Anne's Revenge catch them up. "Huh? C-Captain?! What are you-"

"If we wanna defeat that scoundrel by taking down his mateys then we need to approach the ship! Plus I wanna fight him myself!" Drake explained as she observed Blackbeard's ship coming from behind, noticing the change of pace of the Golden Hind. In no time, both pirate ships were sailing at the same pace, by each others side.

"Ahoy again Drake! Miss me?" Blackbeard taunted her.

"As much as I miss an empty bottle of rum, Teach!" Drake replied.

"Sink me! Wasn't expecting that reaction at all hahaha!" Blackbeard said. "But I guess ye do have a score to settle with this seadog, isn't it?"

"Teach, you're a goddamn son of a biscuit eater, but I say ya right! I do wanna some payback for what you did before!" Drake responded.

"Great! I also have some grudge against two tars of yers for blwoing me ship!" Blackbeard said as he stared at both Ritsuka and Peko on the other ship's deck. "I still haven't forget it!"

"Then I guess you'll die with that!" Ritsuka replied to him.

Nala poked Peko in the arm. "You were really friends with this guys?" She asked him, a bit concerned.

"No! Not really! He just tried to force a friendship with us!" Peko answered to his sister.

"That still costs to hear ye know?" Blackbeard told to the two. "But well, guess a pirate isn't really destined to have good friends in the sea."

"Speak for yourself." Drake told him.

"Heh. Not me most famous sympathizer." Blackbeard cackled. "Still, ye have some targets that I want! And look Drake! Sine ye have two goddesses on the ship, why not give me one and-"

"I refuse." Drake replied, not waiting for Blackbeard to finish his negotiation.

"Keh. You are becoming predictable Drake!" Blackbeard responded.

"Heh! As if I don't know what you are gonna say next after this."

"Oh really? Just for ye information, I too know what you're going to say."

Both captain cleared their throats for a moment and went back to compose themselves, staring at one another coldly in the eye.

"Attack!"
"Attack!"

And so, the two crews started jumping into one another's ship, the battle now being of sword clashes and gun firings at the members of the enemy crew.

Nala jumped to the Blackbeard's ship alongside Peko and a couple of other pirates. "Come on Peko! We need to start defeating Blackbeard's servants!" She told him.

"Called for us?" Anne said as she fired torwards Nala's face. Peko reacted by shooting a light bullet at it, cancelling Anne's shot.

"Precisely that!" Peko answered.

"You came back for more?" Mary questioned as she moved her blade, pointing it at Nala.

The girl got ready. "This time it will be different!"

Eric jumped to Drake's ship and runned torwards Asterios, growling along the way. The two berserkers punches clashed with each other, with Asterios besting Eric and hitting him in the face.

"Protect...friends!"

And as Ritsuka and Mash were dealing with some enemy pirates, Hector appeard right in front of them. "How ya doing? Prepared to face this old man?"

"Hm! Master, get behind me!" Mash told Ritsuka as she stared at Hector.

"Be careful Mash!" Ritsuka said as he did what she told him while still being on the lookout for any enemy pirate attack from behind. "Even if I didn't saw him fighting, I can tell his dangerous!"

"Is that a compliment? I appreciate it." Hector chuckled, readying his spear for combat. "But let's pay attention now shield girl. We are all on the second round now!"

To be continued...


And that's it for chapter 45!

And I know that the battle beetween Drake and Blackbeard's crews is probably a rip off of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies but hey! If you didn't imagined the battle like that when first playing it in the game then you aren't a true FGO fan! (Yeah! I'm gatekeeping the entire game and franchise now unless the people share the same vision as I. Cry more.)

But with jokes aside, it was a comfortable chapter to write. And that is probably because the previous one was way longer. (Perhaps the longest of Okeanos).

So our main characters are once again all reunited and exactly in time to drop kick Blackbeard. Expect next chapter him and the servants of his crew to walk the plank (or to kick the bucket if you prefer it that way). As well as expect for next chapter to be majorily fights. Oh well it will be a bit of an hard task but I'll give my best!

That's all I wanted to say, and see you next time on chapter 46! Peace!

P.S:

(Nala is happely wandering around the halls of Chaldea while humming a song)

Nala: Strawberries! Strawverries! Red and Tasty Strawberries! La la la! Straw- hergh!

(Nala falls to the ground as she hits Koyanskaya's back)

Koyanskaya (Turns around and smiles slyly): Oh! If it isn't the little bunny hopping around again. You lost?

Nala: No! You were in my way you stupid vixen!

Koyanskaya: And you are as misbehaved as ever bunny.

Nala: Stop calling me that!

Koyanskaya (Approaches Nala): What about if I do this instead?

Nala (Stares at Koyanskaya slightly scared): H-Hey! What are you thinking on doing?! G-Get the hell-

(Koyanskaya tightly hugs Nala and starts headpatting her head nonstop)

Koyanskaya: Cutecutecutecutecutecutecutecutecutecutecutecutecute!

Nala (Overwhelmed): O-Oi! S-Stop that already!

(Koyanskaya eventually stops and recomposes herself)

Koyanskaya (Clearing her throat) : Anyway, that will cost you 200SQ

Nala: YOU'RE THE ONE WHO HEADPATTED ME!