Hello everyone and welcome back to the start of chapter 46 of the story!

Hope you're having or had a good day by the time you're reading this. Good luck with your rolls both in NA for Melusine and JP for Bhima and Duryodhana!

With that said, let's start it!

DISCLAIMER: All of 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 heavy rain falling and strong winds passing through, countless pirates fought in the slippery wodden floors of two ships. Outlaws from the sea, participating in perhaps the biggest naval fights of their lifes under the flags of their respective captains.

"Pay attention!" Anne said as she fired her gun torwards Peko whom parry it. "Oh, you actually paid attention!" The pirate woman said before dodging a slash from Peko's sword. "Good one boy!" She proceeded to do a kick on her enemy's right side. Peko blocked it but almost got shot in the head by another fired bullet from Anne's gun.

"Tsk! She's predicting my every attack! Altough not as strong as Spartacus she's way more unpredictable and agile!" Peko analyzed after deflecting Anne's bullet with his own bullet. The fight was already making him sweat. "I need to find a way to best her!"

Right by their side, Nala and Mary were having their own battle. Nala would do some kick strikes that despite coming near, unfortunately would result in nothing as Mary kept dodging them.

"Hm? Why haven't you attacked me with your sword yet?" Mary questioned after dodging one more kick from Nala. "Did my words about your sword skills caused an impact on you?"

Nala dodged a slash from Mary's blade. "Ah! You can put it that way!" She responded, creating a powerful quick kick strike that Mary managed to block with effort on the last second, making the short pirate girl's body to take some steps back from the impact.

"Ggh!"

"But that only made me want to better myself!" Nala said with conviction. "This time, I'll defeat you!"

Even tough her mouth was covered by her clothes, Mary expressed a small smile under it. "I hope that you really have improved. For my amusement sake."

Nala charged at Mary, doing a quick combination of kicks and at the end, a slash with her sword, going torwards Mary's face. And with the anticipation of already predicting where the stroke would go, Mary was still surprised when the sword of the enemy clashed with much more strenght than she was expecting to.

"Kkgh! Her hit with the sword now didn't felt as shallow and soft as the other times! If I didn't saw the attack coming initially she would have slashed my face!"

As the sparks flyed, Nala remembered the short training she had with Heracles. "Channelize the mana of my arms into the muscles and convert it into pure strenght. Same with the legs. A stronger grip and pulse always helps too. Thank you for that lesson, Berserker!"

Seeing the other fight her friend was having, Anne had an idea. "Oi Maryyy! Wanna change opponents for a bit?" She proposed, keeping changing blows with Peko in the meantime.

Mary's eyes took a second to stare at her friend on the side. She ended up sighing. "Fine." She was about to step away from Nala.

The girl wasn't fond of it. "Hey! Now that we're on equal foot you decide to scramble out of here?!" She complained in anger.

"Sorry 'bout that. My partner is a very insisting person when it comes to her own ideas." Mary responded. "But don't worry. It's only for some minutes."

Peko was dumbfounded by such sudden decision and change that came out of nowhere. "What are you planning to do with this?" He demanded to Anne as she also quickly stepped away to change positions with Mary.

"Just a small change." Anne giggled before doing a fingergun at Peko. "Better play nice you two!"

"Huh? Wai-" Peko was thinking about going after her but was stopped the moment Mary stepped in front of him.

"Your sister had quite the improvement." Mary told him, showing Peko her sword. "Now how about the other one?"

Peko gulped. He hadn't fought Mary before. This would be his first. But Peko would make sure to himself he would do his very best. If Nala and everyone was, he too had to do it. "I'm more than willing to show my skills!"

"Good. You looked so tedious as a hostage." Mary replied, finally being able to test him out after some days of having Peko around but not picking her intrest.

"Hphm!" Mary sprinted torwards him, cutting Peko in the cheek. Initially caught off guard, Peko was able to block the other two attacks from Mary.

"Her combat style is more melee than of her partner!" At the same time Peko was taking mental notes of his new adversary, he was trying to ignore the slight discomfort on his other arm. "Despite the mana beam not applying the same damage to my arm, I'm still feeling some tingling in it! It's disturbing my focus on this fight!"

Mary swinged her sword torwards Peko's chest, with the boy able to block it by an inch. "You are clearly subpar when compared to your sibling." She said, shaking her head in dissapointment. "How can Anne take so much time to defeat you?"

Peko recomposed his battle stance. "Because I have more than just swordfight!" Peko responded, firing a light bullet that came inches close from eating Mary who dodged. "I have to think on a way to defeat her!"

Meanwhile, Anne was also testing out her new foe. She was quite liking her combat skills in peculiar.

"Oh oh! You don't fight bad at all girl!" Anne said as she spined her body to dodge the blow from Nala's sword and then point her gun at the girl.

"Hm!" Nala quickly reacted by lowering her body, avoiding the shot and then kick Anne in the hand she was holding her weapon. "Thanks but I wished to be fighting the other one!" She responded, slicing Anne's shoulder.

"Hey now! Don't you think some variety is good too?" Anne replied by firing three bullets one shortly after another. Despite blocking the first two, the last bullet hit Nala in her shoulder. It was somewhat a small payback.

"Ggh!" Nala flinched a bit from the pain.

"See? Instead of dying by the slice of a blade, you will die by a perfuration of a bullet!" Anne told her. "But make sure to last some couple more minutes okay?" Anne smirked at Nala.

Nala in return chuckled a bit. "Don't worry." She stopped doing pressure on the wound of her shouder. "I have no intention of going down here!"


"GRAAAAAA!"

"GHRRRRRR!"

Asterios stood with his body in a defensive posture. The minotaur was now blocking the many punches and dodging the axe of Eric. A brawl and axe fight all in one.

The greek servant was making his very best to fend off Eric from Euryale and everyone else on Drake's ship. Asterios would also swing his axes around to knock out enemy pirates in his surroundings before clashing with his enemy. He had a good upperhand on the fact of having two axes againt Eric's single one. Still, the norwegian king was fighting with little to no problem against Asterios two axes.

"Need...to keep...Euryale safe..!" Asterios deflected Eric's attack swing with one axe and stabbed Eric's chest with the other. "Friends need to be safe!" He then greatly launched Eric to the other side of the ship, with the Berserker of Blackbeard's crew hitting his back on the boarder and danifying it upon impact. That however didn't slowed Eric down as he immediatly took out his back from the edge of the ship and charged torwards Asterios, violently swinging his axe around, taking out some pirates of both crews.

Eric raised his giant bloodaxe in the air and proceeded to quickly lower it torwards Asterios, goign for an horizontal slice. Asterios managed to prevent the attack, using his two axes to stop Eric's altough that didn't stop the Bloodaxe King to apply more pressure and force Asterios on his knees.

Shooting down Blackbeard's pirates alongside Artemis, Euryale took a quick glance at her friend. "Hang on Asterios!" She shouted, firing an arrow that scrapped Eric in the back, making his body writhe a bit, allowing Asterios to shove Eric's axe away and elbow the enemy in the face and quickly go for an axe cut on Eric's chest.

Wanting to continue grasping this moment, Asterios was about to go for another cut. Unfortunately for him, Eric had regained his focus and blocked Asterios attack, punching the minotaur in the face and slice him in the stomach.

Euryale watched it very alarmed. "Asterios!" She screamed.

"Do not worry about him!" Orion said on top of Artemis head. "If that guy is really the famous monster of the labyrinth from Theseus legend, then there needs to be more than simple strong punches and slices to defeat him!"

"But-"

"See how hard he's fighting to protect you? If you go there with him you'll only be putting yourself in more danger and difficulting his task!" Orion said to Euryale, interrupting her.

Asterios, gathering his strenght, managed to get back up and clash with Eric just before he could cut the minotaur again, letting out a piercing growl as his body was still up for the fight.

"Look at him. All that effort and endurance to keep you and everyone else safe. That fight is his fight! Do not throw yourself in the middle of it young lady!" Orion advised to Euryale, sure that Asterios would end up as the winner in the fight against Eric.

Euryale, altough initially unresponsive, agreed with the teddy bear. "Okay then." She said before going back to shot down more Blackbeard pirates that would try reach to the two greek goddesses and Orion. She gave a glance at Asterios, watching is now injured and bloodied body going up against Eric. "I believe in you, Asterios."


"Uh! Nice block girl!" Hector said after his spear attack was neglected by Mash's shield. "You are giving this old man a good warm up." He laughed a bit.

Mash on the other hand was already panting from having to consistently having to defend herself and Ritsuka from the servant's spear. She would try land a hit on him but the man just proved once again to be a league above her. "Master, do you know the identity of this servant?"

"Humm, I guess his name was Hector or something like that." Ritsuka answered to his servant. "Is he well known?"

Mash then looked at him with a face of pure disbilief at hearing such ignorance coming from his mouth. "Master...Hector was the legendary trojan hero from the Iliad! He is Achilles main rival!" She exclaimed. "How did that name went over your head?!"

"Oh! I see." Ritsuka put a thumb under his chin. "That name kinda seemed familiar..."

"Don't pretend that you had the slightest idea of who he was ." Mash sighed.

"Looks like I have an admirer here. Wanna have an autograph?" Hector smiled amused at Mash knowledgement about him. "Or perhaps you are more of an Achilles fan? Eitherway, I warn you that my caligraphy isn't the best." He joked.

Mash recalibrated her shield. "Sorry but this is no moment for chat!"

Hector eyes widened a bit at the demi-servant's response before he scratched his chin. "Yeah. Ya right. The autograph can come later." He rotated his spear a bit. "But only if you survive of course."

Mash eyes locked on Hector's.

"You got this Mash!" Ritsuka said behind her, raising his hand with the Command Seals. "If you need any backup just say it!"

"Understood master!" Mash responded. "I shall defeat the enemy right in front of me!" She then jumped torwards Hector, using the sharp part of her shield to clash with his spear. "So if you're Hector then this weapon must be the Durindana! There's no doubt! The mana power coming from it confirms it!"

Hector unmade the clash, much to Mash's surprise who tripped from the sudden lose of pressure she was doing on Hector's spear. The trojan hero proceeded to make a superficial slash on Mash's abdomen. "Always make sure to be aware of the opponent's tricks girl." Hector said before kicking Mash in the head.

"Ggh!" The shielder's body stumbled backwards a bit before regaining control just in time to dodge from another attack of Hector's Durindana. A tray of blood descended from her forhead.

"Mash!" Ritsuka yelled worried for his servant.

"It's all right senpai!" Mash yelled back. "I'm still capable to fight!" She was gazing at her enemy, unsure on how she would injure such warrior like him. "But I don't know if alone I'll be capable to defeat him."


Drake, from the beggining of the battle to this point, was still at the helm, manuvering it so that the ship wouldn't lose control and be swallowed by the whirlpool. Even if the helm was slippery because of the immense rain, she maintained a tight grasp on it. With the explosions and screams from the huge battle on the deck, Drake couldn't continue to ignore them. As the captain of this ship and crew, she was deciding to help them.

The only problem was to find someone else who could substitute her in taking control of the helm. With some of her men holding down the enemies that would try come closer to her, Drake's eyes spotted Ritsuka on the deck, right behind Mash as the shielder was foughting one of Blackbeard's servants.

"Yeah! That's it!" Drake had found her replacement. "Hey! Ritsuka!" She called him, making Ritsuka shift his attention to Drake despite still being on alert for any attack in the proximities.

"What is it captain?" Ritsuka asked her.

"I'm going down there to fight!" Drake told him, shouting. "You get here and get control of the helm in my absence, savvty?"

Ritsuka was surprised by being given such task. "Y-You sure captain?"

"Go to the helm master!" Mash told him. "Don't mind me! I'll make sure Hector doesn't go near you!"

"Oh oh?" Hector rubbed his goatee. "Are you sure abou-" Unwarened, Hector moved his head to the side, escaping from a bullet that came toreards him, fired by Drake.

"Ya won't lay an hand on my subordinate!" Drake told him, giving a dead serious glare at Hector.

Even if the trojan hero wasn't very threatned, he could tell that Drake's words were very true. "So it will be like that eh?" He said, moving his eyes to stare at both Mash and Ritsuka.

"Hm! Go to the helm master! I'll cover you!" Mash told Ritsuka, promising to keep Hector off him.

Ritsuka nodded. "Okay! I'm counting on you Mash!" He then started running torwards the stairs that would lead to the helm. "Coming already captain!"

Hector looked over Mash to stare at Ritsuka. "Oh well. You ain't gonna let this old man get him I suppose." He then threw the spear torwards Ritsuka. Mash blocked the attack, using a lot of her strenght to push it back.

"No I won't!" Mash replied.

"Just what I tought." Hector said, grabbing back his weapon. "Let's see for how long that shield of yours can last!"

Now in the back, Ritsuka was in a hurry to reach the helm while dodging from the pirates that would try attack him. Drake was giving him cover by shooting the enemies down as the master of humanity approached here.

"Quick! Over here!" Drake said as she shot down a pirate behind Ritsuka, with Ritsuka himself having to knock down another enemy as he climbed the stairs to reach the helm.

"I'm here captain!" Ritsuka told Drake, standing by her side.

"Good! Have you ever navigated a ship before?" She asked him.

"No captain!" Ritsuka responded.

"Then consider this your lucky day!" Drake handed the helm over to Ritsuka. "Just make sure this wheel doesn't start turning to the right or left! Keep the vessel steady!"

"You sure I can do this captain?" Ritsuka said, unsure of himself. For an inexperienced like him, taking control of a ship would be difficult. More so under these conditions.

Drake tought otherwhise. "Of course you can! You have deal with harder things than this right?" She said, giving him a confident smile.

That made Ritsuka feel more motivated. "Aye aye captain! I'll take control of the ship!"

Drake smile grew a bit. "The Golden Hind is in your hands for now! Make it proud!" She said before jumping down the deck and shooting down any of Blackbeard's pirates nearby. "Whoever tries to mess with my hearties will have to deal with me!

Bombe spotted his captain near him. "Cap'n! Glad to see ye joining the good fight!"

Drake stared at her crewmate, taking out an hatchet. "You already know what I think of good fights Bombe!" She smiled. "These are things that we pirates live for!"


At the helm of the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard observed Drake going to the battlefield, fighting his crew. "Grr! Drake ye hag! If you want to fight someone, I'll give ye that!" He said, thinking about leaving the control of the ship and helm to someone else of his crew. All his servants were occupied with their own fights, so they were unaveilable. It had to be a random member from his crew. He picked up a guy near him.

"Hey you!" Blackbeard called him.

"U-Uh? What is it cap'n?" The member asked him.

"I need ye to be in the helm now! I'm going down there to fight!" Blackbeard explained.

"Oh! Understood cap'n! I'll-" The guy was then hit by an incoming arrow on his back, knocking him down. "Gah!"

"Damnit!" Blackbeard cursed. "Now I have to-huh?" Blackbeard saw the man who had just been hit by the arrow slowly get back up. "Oh! You're still alive? Great! That mean you can-"

The crewmember's eyes weirdly transformed into hearts and the man himself seemed to be under some kind of spell. "Euryale-chan! I'll protect you!" He shouted, rising his sword to go and slash a confused Blackbeard.

"What the hell?!" Blackbeard exclaimed confused as he slashed the possessed looking crewmember of his down. "Only I can admire Euryale-chan! What has happened to you?"

Luckily to him, there was a subordinate around to explain. "It's the arrows that the goddess is shooting at us cap'n! Once hit by it, it makes the person obsessed with her!" He explained, pointing to the deck of Blackbeard's ship where there was already a few infected. "Some of us have already been affected!"

Hearing that made Blackbeard slightly angry. "Darn it! It wasn't supposed for me to have competition on Euryale-chan's admiration! Now I'll have to kill me men as well!" He yelled.

"I-I guess so cap'n..." The other member of his crew responded, sweating nervously.

Blackbeard's eyes went back to stare at Drake. "But most importantly..." Without announcing, Blackbeard let go his grip on the helm and started running down the stairs. "You are in control of the ship now!" He ordered to the man who was near him.

Even if confused, the subordinate decided to not questionate his captain. "S-Sure cap'n!"

Blackbeard runned across his ship's deck, only having a target in mind.

At the same time, Drake and Bombe where gunning and slashing down every enemy pirate they would fought together.

"Man! It has been quite the time since we where in this sort of battle, ain't it right cap'n?" Bombe speaked to Drake.

"Aye! Much more on in a strom like this!" Drake responded. "All this adrenaline is pumping me up!"

Bombe laughed at that. "Just be careful to not take me other eye cap'n!"

Drake chuckled. "No worries. I won't!"

"Drrraaaaaaaaaaaake!"

"Huh?" Drake turned around to see Blackbeard jumping from his ship to hers, passing through everyone as he runned torwards her. Bombe tried to stop him but was quickly kicked to the side. "Bombe!" Drake yelled for her companion before clashing with Blackbeard's blade. "Finally decided to come here and fight like a real pirate, ain't ya?"

"Whatever ye say hag! You'll go to Davy Jones locker alongside ye ship!" Blackbeard said.

Drake's reaction was of a defiant smile. "Then come and try ya scallywag bastard!"

And the battle beetween the two rival captains that had been building up, was on.


Euryale kept shooting down the enemies alongside Artemis, enchanting them with her magical arrows that would make anyone hit by it fall in deep affection to her. As she was doing that, Euryale's mind still insisted to stare at Asterios from minute after minute, wanting to make sure her friend was doing well with his own battle.

Both the greek servant and Eric were equally injured and bloodied. Their bodies despite having remaining energy, were already sweating and worn out. The next attacks would be crucial. The bloodaxe king's muscles tightened and expanded. What he would do next, could very well be the stroke that would put an end to Asterios. The minotaur on the other hand remained a bit calmer, giving the chance to attack first to Eric as both Berserkers stabilized their breaths.

With a growl, Eric lashed torwards Asterios and started to violently swing his giant axe torwards the enemy. Asterios dodged as many times as he tried, with his legs taking backsteps to get away from the range of Eric's axe. But as he continued, a painful pinch came from his left calf, forcing Asterios to slip to the side, blowing up his own defense.

Seeing the opportunity, Eric quickly descended his weapon torwards Asterios who tried to block the incoming blow with his own axes but unfortunately was too slow. Asterios ended up having his shoulder be massively sliced by Eric's giant axe. Euryale could only watch it terrified.

"A-ASTERIOOOOOS!" She screamed in horror, watching from afar the severe injury her friend ended up suffering.

Artemis and Orion also had seen the moment.

"Oh no! That was a massive damage!" Artemis exclaimed.

"Crap! With such a blow like that I doubt Asterios can still stand up fighting!" Orion added. And it was true that Asterios was now in a pretty bad shape. His body was almost out of mana and energy. He hardly had a way to keep fighting.

"Body...feels...weak..."

But as Eric was ready to deliver the final blow, Euryale came running torwards them, shooting an arrow on Eric's neck. "Get away from them!" She shouted, only thinking about saving Asterios.

"Wha-! Don't do it! Get back here!" Orion shouted in alarm, seeing the small goddess rushing to the much bigger servant.

Altough it didn't killed him, the arrow perfurating the neck was enough to make Eric's attention switch to Euryale as he turned his body around to caught her preparing another arrow to shot him with.

"I'm your adversary now!" Euryale shouted, about to shot her second arrow.

"Whim of the Goddess!"

Using one of her skills to power up, Euryale fired a more powerful arrow torwards Eric. The Bloodaxe King tried to parry it with his weapon. Initially looking like the arrow would break his defense and hit the head, Eric, in his brutish berserker strenght, managed to shove the arrow away, much to Euryale's shock. "I-It didnt worked?!"

As Euryale stood paralyzed, still in denial that her attack had failed, Eric put his giant axe in the air, about to rip the small goddess in two.

"Get away from there!" Artemis yelled at Euryale alongside Orion. Even if she changed her target to Eric, the moon goddess doubted if she could obliterate his body before Euryale was cut down. But to her surprise, that wasn't needed.

Much to the surprise of his enemy and friend alike, Asterios still had enough strenght and energy left within him. The minotaur quickly grabbed Eric's arm, denying him the opportunity to slice Euryale. And taking the chance of the surprise factor, Asterios used his other arm to make a huge slice on Eric's back with his axe.

"Asterios?!" Euryale exclaimed, seeing her friend standing up.

Now that his enemy was stunned, Asterios grabbed Eric by the face and violently smashed it to the wodden ground, damaging it. Asterios however still wasn't finished. With his renewed strenght back, the minotaur started to agressively drag Eric's body across the deck while still maintaining his face against the ground, scrubbing it against the floor. Making a deep monstrous scream, Asterios then bashed Eric's head against an iron part of the Golden Hind.

Eric was so stunned and damaged that he couldn't properly react to the slaughter Asterios was subjecting him to. This was an hint of the brutality the monster of the labyrinth could achive. The one that used to install fear in its legends.

Doing the next movement equally fast as the previous ones, Asterios swinged his axe with immensive strenght and fatally slashed Eric's chest. The Bloodaxe King tried to react or do something about him, but it ended up in vain as the norwegian servant felt all of the mana leave his body before his eyes went soulless and the limbs got limp.

The first fight was over.

Both impressed and relieved, Euryale started running torwards the minotaur. "Asterios! Oh thank goodness that you're alive!" She said happily with a big smile on her face. Asterios, with his entire body in pain, slowly turned around to stare at Euryale coming torwards him. Seeing her happy and safe was all that he needed. With the enemy defeated and his body in the limit, Asterios finally relaxed his muscles. Yet...

"Asterios! Behind you!" Euryale screamed as she watched the lifeless body of Eric go back to life and the Bloodaxe King immediatly going for a cut on Asterios head, wanting to finish him off by surprise. Asterios had no time to react at all. He could only slightly move his eyes to the side before the giant axe of Eric caught him. Thankfully, someone else acted quicker.

Firing an arrow from her bow, Artemis hit successfuly Eric's head, blowing it up. In the second that followed, the headless body of the great Bloodaxe King of Norway fell emotionless to the ground, letting the axe that gave him such fame separate from his hand. Shortly after that, his defeated body faded. Now the fight was over for good, with Asterios coming out of it as the winner, altough with great injuries.

Orion exhaled. "Phew! That was close! Nice call Artemis!"

"Thanks darling!" Artemis replied, getting closer to Euryale to help her treat the wounded Asterios.

Watching him in such state was hurting Euryale's heart. She knew what he was deep down, and so see him that wounded and injured was all too saddening for the small goddess who put an hand over his arm, as a way to make Asterios feel slightly better knowing he had protected his friend.

"Hey. Asterios..." Euryale called him. Asterios reacted by staring at her, his body almost unable to stand up. "You did greatly! I'm happy for you! But next time...you don't have to do it all alone." Euryale said with a sad smile as she massaged his arm. Before, she would despise the idea of getting her hands stained with blood. But now, she didn't even tought twice. Being there with her friend was all that mattered to Euryale.

Asterios smiled back at her. "S...Sorry..." He said weakly. "Me...doesn't like...friend in...danger..." And then his eyes closed as Asterios body gave up and the minotaur's back hit the ship's boarder.

"Asterios? Asterios!" Euryale exclaimed in panic and confusion, trying to get him to wake up again.

Orion didn't lost any time to react. "Quick Artemis! We must tend his wounds!"

"But what about the other enemies that are still around?" Artemis asked her partner.

Orion looked back to observe the battlefied. "They are occcupied in the meantime fighting our forces. Let's take this opportunity to heal him!"


"It's terrible! Eric has fallen!"

One of the Blackbeard pirates announced to the rest. That caused different types of reactions on the two crews. While the Blackbeard crew got demoralized and frustrated by it, Drake's crew saw it as an incentive to keep pushing.

"Tsk! That idiot..." Mary commented, displeased by the news.

"That must mean that Asterios has won!" Peko exclaimed with a smile.

"Nice one Asterios!" Nala also expressed her happiness when she heard the info that Asterios has defeated Eric. "That means Balckbeard's ship has gotten weaker!"

Anne sighed unhappy. "Sincerely, with how buff and big that guy was, how can he be the first one to go down?" She said, feeling more annoyed than sad. "Even then, he wasn't exaclty the most talkative of the bunch. Hell, I forgot he was even in the crew with us once due to how silent he was when not fighting! Sooo, rest in piece Eric."

Nala pointed her sword at Anne. "And get ready to be the next one in line!"

"Uh, very threatning of you girl!" Anne replied, loading her gun. "But only after you first!" Anne yelled, firing a bullet at Nala who managed to dodge.

The girl gave an answer by swinging her sword torwards the pirate's face, cutting a bit of her head and some hair. "How about this?"

Anne cleaned the blood from her face. "You did well. I'll give ya that." She said before rushing torwards Nala, raising her leg to kick her. "Now it's my turn!" Fastly, she kicked Nala on the side who only had time enough to tank the blow with her arm. The hit was strong enough to make a slight crack on the bones of Nala's arm, causing the girl's body to falter. Anne then pointed her gun at Nala's face, and the girl reacted by lowering her head, cauing the bullet to pass very closely to her cheek.

With her back on the floor, Nala kicked one of Anne's legs, making the servant to fall backwards altough she then used her hand to pull her entire body back up on its feet. As soon as Anne had her body up, she fired two bullets torwards Nala who dodged the first and blocked the second, quickly approaching Anne to try and stab her on the chest. Anne dodged it by bowering her back and then grabbing Nala's pulse in order to push her and kick the girl on the stomach.

"Gah!" Nala gasped for air as she fell to the ground and went back up on her feet, controling the fall.

Anne giggled at seeing Nala's figthing. "For a kid you do give someone an hard fight! You would make a good addition to our crew!"

"As if I would accept that offer!" Nala replied back.

"No offer. I was just wondering really." Anne told her before she and Nala went back to clash againt one another.

On the other side of the Queen Anne's Revenge deck, Mary noticed how her companion wasn't able to finish off her opponent yet, even having some difficulties. "You should do less talking and more fighting Anne! That girl can finish you if you don't be careful!"

"Take this!" Peko shouted as he fired a light bullet torwards Mary who blocked it with her sword. The boy was more injured than her. Despite that, he was still in the fight and trying everything that was possbile to win against Mary.

"How many times are you doing that same trick? Haven't you learned that it became useless after the firt few times?" Mary questioned her opponent, slightly annoyed and dissapointment in seeing that Peko still opted in doing the same attack movements. At least she was having more fun with Nala. The same couldn't be said about her brother.

"I-I'll keep...pushing againt the wall until it breaks!" Peko said, breathing tiredly. "No matter how many times it takes!" Even if he knew that the adversary was clearly some levels above him, Peko wouldn't give up. He had to try to the very end.

"Hphm. I would compliment your effort if it wasn't so miserable." Mary sighed, pointing her sword to Peko. "I'm going to end-" Mary got interrupted as Peko fired another bullet from his finger. She was ready to slash this bullet as well. "How-" This light bullet however moved to the side, dodging Mary and go behind her, proceeding to turn around and about to perfurate the servant's back. Unfortunately, Mary antecipated this. "-predictable." She slashed the light bullet anyways.

"Damnit! It didn't worked as well." Peko said to himself as he looked way up to the masts of the ship, thinking about how he could critically damage his opponent.

"You really tried to pull a surprise on me with that one, didn't you?" Mary asked. "Well, it was at least a good last attempt." She prepared her sword. "Get ready to die now." She charged torwards Peko, pulling her sword to deliver the final blow.

"Hm!" What seemed to be in desperation, Peko abruptly moved his arm, firing a light bullet from his arm as the other one barely managed to stop Mary's sword. The attack had been so hopeless that the light bullet went upwards, no way near torwards its supposed target that was Mary.

"C-Crap!" Peko said scared.

"You are so frightened by the fact you're about to die that you can't even aim right anymore." Mary said. "Just accept your death already. It will be less painful that way." She then pushed Peko to the ground, staring down at him.

However, despite seemingly be at the verge of losing and not knwoing what to do anymore, Peko turned his head around to smile at Mary. "You better think again!"

Mary raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Hm? What are you talk-" Hearing a sound of a rope being cut, Mary looked up to see that the light bullet Peko had fired before actually hit a rope that was holding an heavy cargo of treasure boxes and other valuable items. That had been Peko's true intention. That bullet wasn't meant for Mary but to that rope instead! Now with it cut, the heavy cargo was about to full on top of Mary.

"So this was your plan?" She said and with a normal swing of her sword, Mary cut the entire cargo apart, destorying it into smalle pieces. "Honestly, how did you-hrgh?!" Mary's eyes widened in pain as she had been caugh off guard and allowed for Peko to perforate her stomach with his sword. The cargo had been nothing more than a distraction.

"You're right that in comparison to my sister, I may not be as strong or as fast as her!" Peko said, still having his sword stuck on Mary's body. "However...strenght alone isn't all that is needed to win a fight!" He said to her face, fully sure of his words. "Wit is also an important aspect!"

Mary coughed blood as Peko saw her mouth for the first time, with the pirate angrily cleenching her teeth at him. "D-Damn you..!"

Staring at the side, Anne saw her friend in distressed. "MARY!" She never tought she would see Mary badly hurt like that. But it looked like it happened. And so, Anne immediatly tried to support her friend. She quickly kicked Nala away despite the girl defended herself with her sword, and then pointed her gun to Peko. "Get off of her you bastard!" She yelled, firing a bullet torwards Peko direction.

Thanks to Anne's yell however, Peko was able to dodge away from the bullet, resulting in him taking out the sword out of Mary's stomach. "Oh!"

Mary put an hand to her wound, holding it tightly. "A-Anne...you idiot..! Now I'm bleeding out!"

"Mary, are you o-"

"Anne behind you!"

"Wh-Gargh!" Anne was so focused in saving and checking on Mary, that she ended up forgetting about the enemy and overall fight she was having. Nala took the opportunity and slashed the back and front of Anne's body, critically wounding her. "Dammit! I was distracted!"

Nala then pointed her sword to Anne's chest. "This is it!"

With her body incredibly wounded, Anne pratically had not much energy left to dodge, she would end up perishing here. "Khh! Sorry Mary. I-"

"NO!"

A clash of swords happened as Mary jumped in front of Anne and blocked Nala's attack, much to the two's surprise.

"This isn't over yet!" Mary shouted as she continued to strongly pressure the steel of her blade against Nala's own blade.

"M-Mary?!" Anne was surprised in seeing that her friend could still fight despite her wounds.

"We still need to become captains of our own crew right? So until that happens, I'm not planning on both of us to die here!" Mary said to her.

Nala retreated, creating distance beetween her and the pair of servants. Peko came running to her side.

"Sis! Are you alright?" Peko asked to Nala, seeing her wounds.

"Some cuts and injuries here and there but still alright." Nala responded, looking at her brother. "You?"

"Same here. I can also continue." Peko responded.

Nala nodded. "Great! Now we can beat them twice!"

Peko sweated a bit. "I think that's not how you put it..."

"Markmanship!"

Mary casted a skill on both her and Anne, gaining Nala and Peko's attention. "The time for talking is over!" She said to the two kids. "I'll end you both even if-"

"Pff! D-Don't say stupid shit like that Mary." Anne chuckled, touching Mary in the shoulder. "We two will end them!"

Mary calmly turned her head to look at her friend. "So you can still keep up?"

"To the very end."

"Combination!"

Now it was Anne's turn to cast a skill spell. This would either end with victory or defeat for them.

"Now, ready for the fight Mary?" Anne asked, recomposing her body and grabbing her musket.

"Always." Mary responded shortly, also feeling her strenght slightly returning. "After we make that bastard filthy rich, we will be the next ones rulling the seas!"

The siblings prepared for anything that the pirate duo would throw at them.

"Stay focused!" Peko told to Nala.

"I will!" Nala replied.

"Focus, focus, focus." Anne repeated. "Having it or not, it won't matter when BOTH OF YOU DIE!" She shouted, firing a powerful bullet to the enemy duo.

"Watch out!" Nala grabbed Peko by the collar and alongside her, pulled him out of Anne's attack. As they did that, Mary rushed torwards them and jumped, swinging her sword to attack.

"Hm!" Peko immediatly fired a light bullet from his finger, clashing it against Mary's blade and cancelling her attack, forcing the pirate to take a step back.

As Mary's feet landed on the ground, Nala came for her, with the two now clashing and dodging several times from each other's attacks as they moved across the deck.

In the back, Anne was firing from her gun again and again, trying to aim and shot Nala as the girl would move fastly while fighting Mary. "C'mon girl. Stay put..." She hissed while trying to have a clear target and ending up shoting down others pirates around Mary and Nala. However, that wasn't being such easy task.

"Hey!" Peko shouted as he appeard on Anne's left side and swinged his sword against Anne's musket. "I'm still here!"

Anne retreated to gain some distance from Peko. "Then here's a gift for you!" She yelled by firing three direct bullet to Peko.

Even if he escaped from the first two, Peko got hit in the leg by the third one. "Argh!" He yelled in pain as his left leg kneeled from the pain.

Anne fired another bullet, trying to kill him but Peko was still able to block it even with the state he was now in. Unfortunately, he still wasn't able to block Anne's leg that kicked him the head, throwing his body to the side.

"Peko!" Nala yelled as she saw her brother in the ground.

"Look at me!" Mary shouted as she clashed again with Nala. "This ain't over yet!" She said as both swinged their blades against one another, delivering a blow to each other.

Damaged and bleeding, Mary stepped in front of Anne. With only one stare at her friend's face, Anne comprehended what Mary was planning to do now.

"Anne-"

"No need to say it! I'm on it!" Anne replied, accepting it instantly.

Mary smiled slightly. "Good..." She then looked at Nala in front of her. "You were an enjoyable fighter. Too bad that you're going down here." Mary held her sword in front of her face, vertically. "But, since you and your brother gave us such an hassle, consider this as a sign of our respect for you. You pushed us to our limit!" In that instant, Mary's blade started to turn into a bright vivid red.

"Go now Mary!" Anne shouted as she put herself in position with her gun behind her companion. This was it. Their Noble Phantasm.

"Wings Abrest...

Mary lashed at a great speed torwards Nala, about to slash her several times, screaming at the top of her lungs.

Nala prepared herself for it. Thanks to that fight against Jing Ke, she was better prepared for these kind of strokes.

"Air Step!"

Nala started to dodge Mary's insane slashes at an even more incredible speed. However, Mary's swings were being able to keep up with Nala's dodges. It was absurd on how fast both the two girls were moving.

"...as If Treeswith Entwined Branches."

With a last forcing swing, Mary was able to cut Nala on the torso, altough not with getting slashed on her body as well.

"Gghrg!" Nala coughed blood from her mouth, while Mary stepped behind her.

"Blurghhgh!" Mary vomited blood as the pain from her most recent wound caused her to lose her grip on her weapon. Even then, she didn't let that keep her from finishing her and Anne's Noble Phantasm. Turning around, she looked at Anne and yelled the order. "RIGHT HERE ANNE!"

With the signal given, Anne spinned her musket and charged for the most powerful bullet that she would fire from her gun. "Back at ya Mary!" She said, about to press the trigger.

Peko, on the ground and unable to get up, saw what was about to happen. He had to do something or else Nala would be gone. "Nala! I need to act fast!"

Raising his hand to point and charge his finger, Peko gathered a large amount of mana to his hand and index finger, flowing it inside his body. It would be all or nothing. Peko wished that this would work. He even felt the mana of his Magic Crest on the back crazily running. Putting all of that energy in it, Peko pressed the trigger at the same time Anne pressed hers.

"Carribean Free Bird!"

As the powerful mana bullet was ready to obliterate Nala's head, a more powerful bullet in the form of a fast ray of light clashed with it, deflecting Anne's bullet, much to her and Mary's shock. Their Noble Phantasm had failed.

And as Anne contemplated in shock and confusion fo what just happened, Peko reunited all his strenght to ignore the pain on his leg and run torwards to her, swinging his sword to finish her off.

Nala was about to do the same with Mary as she and Anne's mind could only think of one thing on that moment now that defeat was apparent for both of them, with their eyes slowly watching the steel blades about to deliver the final blow


"Hey! Hey! You there!"

"Hmm? Whattdya want? Didn't Jack ordered you to go check the sails?"

"Meh. That can wait! I wanna talk with you instead!"

"Piss off...I have no intrest in talking with a moronic girl that wants to fulfill her wannabe pirate fantasies."

"You're a woman, aren't ya?"

"N-No! You have quite the nerve to mock me like that ya shithead!"

"No need to lie girl! That voice of yours really sounds like of a girl pretending to be a man. It's a bit convencing, but not to me hahaha!"

"Hurgh! Fine...I'm indeed a girl!"

"Wooh! Nice! I never expected to meet another fellow pirate woman while being on a crew!"

"Are you always that...annoyingly joyful?"

"Hmmm perhaps. But hey! Nice to meet ya fellow pirate gal! Name's Anne Bonney!"

"Hphm! I think it isn't bad to have another woman on the crew I guess."

"Yes it ain't!"

"Then I guess I can trust you to be a competent crewmember. Welcome aboard. My name is Mary Read."


Mary fell to her knees and then to the ground as her body had run all out of energy after Nala's last attack and the release of their Noble Phantasm. She and Anne had lost.

"We did it..." Nala breathed heavily. "We won..."

"Yes...you did..." Mary responded in a low tone with her eyes looking up to Nala's face. "It was...a good fight...Thanks for that." She gave a smile of appreciation to the girl.

Nala did the same. "Yeah. You were a good opponent to fight against." She responded. "Thank you for making myself do better." She then walked away and left Mary's body behind who was now starting to fade.

Peko was on the ground, tired and exhausted with his injured leg hurting alot. Despite that, he smiled the moment he saw Nala appearing in front of him. "We won?"

Nala smiled and nodded. "We won." She then lowered herself down to help her brother get back up on his feet, supporting him. However, Nala found it strange how Anne's body was nowhere to be seen near him. Has she vanished already. "W-Where is the other one Peko?"

Peko then pointed to the front. "There." Nala looked to where Peko was looking at, seeing Anne sitting next to Mary and putting her friend's head in her lap as the two were fading away.

"So...I think this also wasn't the right time yet..." Anne said sadly while staring to Mary's face.

"Yeah...I'm sorry Anne..." Mary said weakly. "We tried..."

Anne giggled at hearing that. "It's alright...we may have another opportunity...Third time's a charm ya know?"

Mary smiled a little. "Yeah...perhaps you are right...we will become great captains together one day...just like you said..."

"Exactly! And...since when do I use to get wrong?"

"Heh...Now that I'm not so sure about..." Mary said before looking at Blackbeard on the decl of the other ship fighting Drake. "But for now..." Mary inhaled all the air she could before saying one last thing to her captain. "Hey! You stupid cap'n!"


Clashing with Drake, Blackbeard's ears capted Mary's scream, causing the man to turn around and look at the deck of his ship on the other side. "Hm? What is it Mary-chan? Do ye need me-" Blackbeard lost his voice when he saw that both Mary and Anne were dissapearing. First was Eric, now those two.

"Our time here seems to have runned out!" Mary exclaimed as her body started to fade.

"However, that doesn't mean we still won't beat your ass if you end up not finding that treasure ark!" Anne added. "Do us all a favour and get that damn thing! Do you hear me captain?"

Blackbeard started to emotionaly cry as he made a salute gesture to both Anne and Mary. "Bwaaaah! Of course I will! I promise on me manga collection to not let ye down!"

Anne smiled. "Great to hear that! Now give those fools hell ya stupid lame captain!"

"I will!" Blackbeard promised. "When I get that ark, I won't forget of ye two, Eric and everyone that made it possible!"

Mary sighed as she was about to dissapear. "Really...How can we have such bad luck when it comes to pirate captains?"

Anne laughed. "But you have to admit he was quite entertaining! If only he was more competent..."

And then both the bodies of the two most famous female pirates dissapeard right in front of Blackbeard's eyes.

Drake also saw it too, seeing it has a positive since with another servant of Blackbeard's defeat, his ship was becoming weaker. "Well, that puts only you and that spear guy remaining. And I believe Mash will defeat him as well." She said, targetting Balckbeard's neck with her hatchet. "But if you want, I can make you go right now!"

Blackbeard quickly turned around and block Drake's hatchet with his blade. Even if the odds were now starting to get against him and the tides were becoming one sided, a pirate such as Blackbeard wouldn't see it as reason enough to retreat.

"Keh! Ye really are a hag Drake!" He grinned at her. "Difficult and dangerous challenges like these, are what we real pirates like, dont ye agree?"

Drake couldn't help but smirk. "Now you said it ya bastard!"


At the helm, Ritsuka was having his own battle in keeping the ship steady as he fought against the strong winds and rain. The skin of his hands could feel the slippery touch of the helm as he tried to make sure the helm wouldn't spountaneously turn right or left at any moment. It was difficult to keep the boat on the path but he was doing all the effort to be that way.

"Gghh! This is heavy!" Ritsuka said, making force on his hands to hold the helm in place as it was starting to move to the left do the unstable waves and winds hitting the sails of the ship.

As Ritsuka was doing his effort, Fou appeard besides him, jumping on the helm and lending a help to Ritsuka by also pushing the helm to the opposite direction that it was going. "Fooouuuuu!"

The two kept doing effort, resulting in the helm to finally get back to normal but also making Ritsuka slip to the ground as now that the helm wasn't doing a forced movement, the pressure of Ritsuka's hands made it spin to the other way.

Hence why the Golden Hind accidently hit on Queen Anne's Revenge, the impact shaken both decks and the battlefield all together, making some pirates lose their balance.

"Oh crap!" Ritsuka immediatly got up and tried to fix the situation.

"Fu fou!" Fou exclaimed in a hurry as he jumped to Ritsuka's shoulder.

Ritsuka grabbed the helm again and rotated it to the other way, stabilizing the ship. With the situation controled, Ritsuka sighed with relief. "Man, navigating a ship is difficult, don't you think Fou?"

"Fu fou."


"Look on this Drake!" Blackbeard yelled as he lighten up a bomb and throw at her. Drake jmped over it, avoiding the explosion and hitting her hatchet on Blackbeard's blade.

"You have to do better than that!" She yelled at him.

"Don't worry Drake! This was only the beggining!" Blackbeard replied, stepping back and grabbing two barrels full off powder. He picked up a cigarette from his hair and fired it up. "Now to escalate the things..." He launched the two barrels. "Eat this hag!"

"Hm!" Drake grabbed her two guns and fired at the explosive barrels, covering her face from the strong wind of the huge explosions.

Blackbeard jumped into the huge smoke, landing in front of Drake, attacking her again, managing to scratch her arm as Drake rolled to the side. "Did ye liked this one?" Blackbeard asked with a smile as he showed Drake's blood stenched on his blade to her.

"Tsk! That was nothing but a scratch!" She started firing at him. "I tought the so famous Blackbeard would be able to deal more damage!"

Blackbeard dodged in his way, meaning, he started running around clumsly as he would avoid the bullets. "Me body is still umscratched Drake! I think it's ye who needs to do better!"

"Fine then!" Drake guarded her guns and in turn took out her pair of hatchets and approached Blackbeard. "C'mere then!" She swinged her weapons torwards Blackbeard's face who wasn't stopping from evading them while mocking Drake as well.

"Aha! Miss me! Do better! Skill issue!" He then blocked the last one with his blade. "Whattye gonna do now O Captain Drake?"

"This!" Drake responded, about to kick Blackbeard in that spot. The man however antecipated that and protected the place with his knees.

"Ahahaha!" He laughed. "Ye have to do be-hugh!" Blackbeard got interrupted the moment his nose and mouth got punched by Drake's fist, caughting the man off guard. Drake also managed to slightly slash his chest as Blackbeard tripped over and fell on the ground due to the punch he had taken.

"Hope this was the answer you wanted ya damn bastard!" Drake said with a smirk.

"Pirate's Honor!"

Using a skill, Blackbeard got right up, striking a pose in the process. "Bah! This is nothing to me hag! I let you know that my daily excercises consists of watching and reading inspirational anime and manga while doing push ups! Ye have to-"

"Oh shut the hell up already!" Drake said, firing a bullet that passed closely to Blackbeard's face.

"Oi oi oi! Do ye really tried to pull that one on me again!?" Blackbeard said with indignation. "First time is fun! Second time is already exageratting!"

"So shut up and fight before I do it a third time!" Drake replied.

"Oh! Ye bet I'll give ye the fight you want!" Blackbeard said, running torwards Drake.

The two captain pirates were now relentlessly trading blows and slashes against each other. The two were so focused and obssessed in their own fight that the wet floor wouldn't cause no effect in their steps and all the other pirates around them would be ignored as the two leaders of each crew only thinked about defeating the other. The sparks of the hatchet and blade flew while both Drake and Blackbeard jumped on top of the ship's border, maintaining their balance perfectly despite the wheater conditions.

The two eventually pressed their weapons against one another as their bodies stood atop of the border and their feet firm on the material of the ship as the countless raindrops felled on their boots.

"I have to say...Ya really are a persistent seadog Teach! I'll give ya that!" Drake commented on Blackbeard's capability to fight.

"Hehe! I ain't known as the most famous pirate in the world for nothing!" Blackbeard responded, somewhat surprised from Drake's compliment. "Now when I'm down with ye and your crew, me and me men will take that grails of yours as well as the goddess and open that ark! I do wonder what treasures it contains in it." He then blushed while doing a stupid smile. "Hmmm, just to think of the possibilities already puts me more motivated! So give up and bite the dust already ye scallywag!"

Drake felt Blackbeard putting more strenght in his blade, making the pirate woman's feet to be slightly pushed on the ground. Still, Drake fought back. "As if I would ya bastard! You and your crew will be the one sleeping with the fishes today, not us!" Quickly, Drake undid the clash and put her body sideways, avoiding Blackbeard's blade as the man slipped on the ground from the sudden lose of pressure and fell on the deck.

"Crap!" Blackbeard curse as he started getting up. "Damn ye for that Dra-ugh!" As he was turning his body, Blackbeard got fatally shot in the chest by Drake, wounding him.

"You let your guard down!" Drake shouted as she proceeded to fire more bullets from her gun, with Blackbeard retreating to the other end of the deck as Drake continued to shot at him.

As Blackbeard got his back against a wall of the ship's cabin, he tought he was done for when he saw there was no more escaping to go from Drake's next bullets. Thankfully for him, Hector appeard right in front of him, deflecting the attacks.

"Ya good cap'n?" He asked, watching Blackbeard get up.

"Aye. Thanks for that." Blackbeard responded, making pressure on the bullet hole in his chest and recovering his breath while staring at Drake on the other side of the deck. "Ye...Ye shoot me well Drake." He coughed a bit of blood after saying that.

"And there's more from where that came from." Drake replied as she stopped walking when she saw Mash joining her by the side.

"Captain! Good to see you are okay! Sorry for not being possible to deal with the last servant yet!" Mash told her, feeling bad for not being able to put an end to Blackbeard's last servant yet.

"No worries!" Drake told the shielder, raising her gun. "We will finish them both!" She said with a smile.

Mash nodded. "Aye aye captain!"

"Keh!" Blackbeard reacted with a short laugh. "Then it's two versus two now?"

"Correct that!" Nala shouted as she appeard by Drake and Mash's side, helping Peko to walk in the meantime because of his injured leg. Not only it was the two that would be joining the fight, but also Euryale, Artemis and Orion who approached Drake by the other side. Asterios was more in the back, resting due to his deep wounds that needed healing. Now Blackbeard and Hector were outnumbered. Not only on that front but also with their crewmen as Blackbeard looked to the side to see now only a handful of his men remained against Drake's pirates that were clearly in the majority. The chances of Blackbeard winning now were slim to zero.

Ritsuka was watching everything from the helm. "There's no way we can lose this now!"

Even with everything going against him, that wasn't motive enough to faze the legendary pirate. "Heh! Be it ten or a hundred enemies it doesn't matter! Me and Hector will still moop the flor with ye lot!"

Drake grabbed her hatchet as everyone by her side prepared their own weapons and entered into their battle poses. "So allow me to rpove ya wrong." She said, staring coldly to Blackbeard's eyes as he did the same.

"Hey Hector. Even if we lose, I'm grateful for ye service for being a fellow and strong matey alongside everyone else." Blackbeard told to the spearman. "Will ye fight alongside me till the very end?"

Hector got slightly surprised before going back to his normal relaxed smile. "Sure cap'n. Trust in me to always aid ya."

Blackbeard smile at that before taking a deep breath and looking at Drake and everyone else in front of them. "Okay! Listen here Hector, I get Drake and one half while ye get the oth- GRHGGH!?" Out nowhere, Blackbeard felt a piercing pain on his back as he violently coughed blood with a shocking face.

Even Drake and everyone else were surprised by what they just witnessed. "What a-"

"Heh. Sorry captain. It seems this old man lies as well. My bad." Hector said while still maintaining his calm and happy smile while his spear had ended up stabbing Blackbeard on the back, coming out on the other side of the captain's body. "Also, like you pirate people say: Dead men tell no tales."

"H-Hector..." Blackbeard hissed as his teeth cleenched in anger.

"W-why he did that?" Ritsuka murmured as he and Fou observed it the act of betrayal from Hector.

"What the hell have you done?!" Drake shouted to Hector. "Isn't he your goddamn captain?!

"And aren't you is servant that he summoned?" Peko questioned him.

"Hmm, nope. Never was in the first place. Unlike the other servants, I was never summoned by cigarette hair captain here." Hector explained as he took out the spear from Blackbeard's body who was now bleeding out instantly.

"Then you were planning to betray him from the start?" Mash made another question.

"Exactly! This old man was never really part of the crew. Besides, how did it felt using the grail cap'n? A nice gift from me, don't ya think"

"What did you say?" Nala asked, thinking she heard wrong that last part.

"H-Hector...ye damn scoundrel..." Blackbeard cursed him weakly, turning his head to look at the traitor. "You gave me that Holy Grail...to buy my trust in you..."

"What?!" Drake exclaimed surprised.

"Sure did. The moment my ears heard you were also after the ark and the goddess Euryale, I was sure you would be of great assistance to the plans of my actual captain." Hector said before looking at Drake. "A shame that you had to appear however. Guess nothing can be easy to this old man."

"Then who do you work for? That actual captain of yours, who are they?" Drake demanded to know.

"An annoying guy really." Hector gave an answer, but not the type they wanted to hear. "But hey, if it makes you feel better, you are a lot more fun as a captain than him." Hector said, looking down on Blackbeard.

"I should...never had trusted you!" Blackbeard hissed.

"And you certainly didn't. Well, not fully at least. The moment when we first got that goddess, all that I needed was to take her and the grail away with me. But damn you were always with that stuff near you." Hector said. "You knew that someone could take the Holy Grail from you at any moment right? That's why you were always on guard despite that idiotic nature of yours. It was all but cover to your actual side. A cautious pirate."

Blackbeard smirked. "Ye damn right about that..! Never would I let anyone get near the grail! Not even my own crew!" He said, sneakily reaching to his hidden gun. "Including you...ye traitor!" He yelled, shooting at Hector who easily dodged and grabbed the Holy Grail from Blackbeard.

"Ups! Almost got me!" Hector chuckled as now that he had revealed his true intentions and got the grail back, decided to look at Drake and her group, specially Euryale. "Welp, with that said, this old man better do his part at last." He then quickly sprinted torwards thr small goddess.

"Watch out Euryale! He's after you!" Nala warned Euryale in panic as she saw Hector get near her in no time.

"Ah!" Euryale screamed in surprise with Hector being right in front of her and grabbed her by the torso with his arm.

"He got her!" Ritsuka yelled in shock.

Mash tried to stop him. "Let Euryale-chan go!" She moved her shield torwards Hector who quickly stopped it with his spear and fastly started to walk away with Euryale on his shoulder.

"Sorry! No can do!" Hector said, running to the border of the Gilden Hind

"He's about to escape with Euryale!" Peko shouted. He tried to shot at Hector but his the mana and energy were almost entirely out by that point after spending a lot during his fight with Anne and Mary. "I ran out of mana!"

Nala charged up her legs. "Then I'll-"

"RAAAAAAAH!"

Nala got surprised by seeing a furious Asterios get up and run as fast as possible to reach Hector, desperatly wanting to save his friend. "GIVE EURYALE BACK!"

"No! Don't do that Asterios! You-" Euryale tried to warn him of the danger of moving his body like that. Wich ended up happening. Asterios wounds opened up again and the minotaur fell to the ground, only meters away from Hector and Euryale.

"Asterios..."

"Well, at least he tried." Hector told her as he jumped on a small ship of his that appeard on the water below, using his magic power to summon it. "See ya-hrgh!" Hector reacted to a pain in his body as right in the moment he jumped, Blackbeard managed to shot him in the shoulder, before he could fall on his ship. His eyes slowly stared at Blackbeard one last time."It was nice pretending to work for you, Edward Teach!"

The moment Hector's feet landed on the smaller ship, the vessel started to sail off, going upwards to exit the whirlpool.

"He's running away!" Drake exclaimed.

Artemis stepped forward into the ship's border. "Then me and Orion will catch him!"

Orion however was against that idea. "Don't be ridiculous! Even if you can quickly catch him, you're an Archer and his most likely a Lancer by what I could feel from his Saint Graph! Plus, you are in an inferior body and not your actual one!"

Artemis then steppee back. "I hate you for being right darling."

"Sorry but it's true." Orion replied.

"Still, we need to catch him!" Nala said. "We can't let that gut get away with Euryale!"

"I agree!" Ritsuka shouted from the position where he was standing. "If Hector gets away with her and the grail, it will definetly be of great consequence to this Singularity!"

"Ritsuka's right!" Peko said. "We must chase him as quick as possible." He then stared at Asterios. "We also need to treat Asterios wounds!"

"I'll do that!" Mash responded, rushing torwards the fallen minotaur in aid.

Drake however was finding a problem with this. One that she doubted it would let them go after Hector and Euryale that fast. "I know! But what about Bla-"

"Go! Don't mind me and me crew!" Blackbeard said, to the shock of his enemies.

"What? You aren't going to continue fighting us?" Peko asked to the pirate, astonished.

"I wont...Ye clearly won this battle, Drake." Blackbeard said, looking to Drake. "With the grail gone now...me ship and I won't be going anywhere." He said. After all, the grail was the source of his ship and crew. Without it, they would dissapear alingside Blackbeard that was deeply injured.

"Then this is how our battle ends eh?" Drake said. "I'm a bit dissapointed to be honest."

"Aye. It sure wasn't the ending we were wanting." Blackbeard replied before looking at Ritsuka and Peko. " Despite that betrayal...I'm gonna miss ye!" He started to cry. "I hope we can watch anime together again!"

"Eeeh, I'll think about that..." Peko replied nervously.

"We aren't and won't be your friends still!" Ritsuka said a bit annoyed.

"It doesn't matter what you say now. What matters is the memories we created together." Blackbeard said with a smile.

"That was corny."

"That was corny."

Blackbeard then started to walk torwards the deck of his ship. "Well, call your men nkw Drake. As the captain, I have to sink with me ship."

Seeing that Blackbeard had handed the victory to them and that he and his crew wouldn't be able to go anywhere now since they would dissapear in a short time, Drake indeed called the men that where on Blackbeard's ship back to the Golden Hind.

"Alright. Are we all here?" Drake asked to Bombe.

"Yes we are cap'n! Ready to go too!" Bombe replied, giving confirmation.

"Good." She then climbed the stairs and walked torwards the helm. "You did a good job Ritsuka." She congratulated the master of Chaldea for managing to keep the control of the ship during the storm and the battle.

"Thank you captain!" Ritsuka told her.

"Now step down and join the rest on the deck! And hold tight! We're about to exit this whirlpool!" She ordered him.

Ritsuka did as he was told. "Yes captain!"

With her hands back on the ship's helm, Drake was about to order her crew to set sail. But not before hearing one last thing from Blackbeard.

"Hey Drake..."

The captain of the Golden Hind looked to the side, seeing Blackbeard on the helm of Queen Anne's Revenge. She could tell that he and the vessel would start dissapearing at any moment since the ship was also greatly damaged due to the fights.

"Hm? What is it?"

"I was wrong 'bout ye. Ye are quite one of the most noteworthy pirates I've ever seen on the waters. We pirates live for adventure and treasure! Our sacred codes! And ye really are a great exemple of that! A worhty pirate of a worhty ship and crew." Blackbeard told him. "I officialy declare ye as not an hag anymore!"

Drake couldn't help but to feel confused and weird at Blackbeard compliment. "Thanks I guess..."

"Also, if we do meet again next time...do you want to see my manga collec-"

"Fuck off! Not intrested you filthy bastard!" Drake yelled at him as she then looked to her crew. "Set sail men!"

The crew immediatly moved the sails of the ship and the Golden Hind started to navigate upwards, exiting out of the whirlpool while doing well against the current. The objective now was clear. To go after Hector's ship!


Now alone in the middle of the whirlpool, the Queen Anne's Revenge gave her last breaths alongside her crew and captain. The sails were scratched. The deck was broken. And the hull was destroyed. A now half dead ghost ship that approached to the end.

And on it, its famous captain, Edward Teach, hummed a song from his young pirate days before he made a name for himself as the legendary Blackbeard. Despite being for a short period, getting to experience the sea breeze again, the sound of the waves and the adventure that came with being an outlaw of the sea, was all more than enough for this captain to feel alive again.

And meeting with the likes of Drake only made all this short lived second life even better. Throughout all the years of his career, Teach wished he could have met a Drake like her back in his day.

But even if it the scenario looked sad and depressing for a pirate that knew his time doing voyages with his ship and crew was about to finish yet again, Blackbeard still expressed a wide adventurous smile on his face.

"So you finally decided to come out and play eh?"

The fearless captain stared deep into the watery walls of the giant whirlpool, coming to face a glowing and monstrous yellow eye that was larger than any Man of War that he had ever seen in his life.

The creepy eye stared deep into the captain and the remaining crew souls behind the giant water curtain, capable of sending an immesurable amount of fear to even the most veteran navigators. It was something that could have come straight out of the darkest depths of the ocean to hunt any prey on the surface.

In face of great danger, the captain of the ship only had one thing to ask to his decaying crew as his coat waved in the stormy winds.

"Men! Do we fear Davy Jones locker?"

"NO CAPTAIN!"

All the remaining memebers yelled in unison at the top of their lungs. They were ready to stare death in the eye alongside their captain.

"Then fireeeeee!" The captain gave his last order, with the Queen Anne's Revenge going at full speed into the monstrous identity who had now exhibited its sharp creepy dark teeth in a predatory grin, ready to eat its prey as it started to get out of the giant watery curtain.

"My anger is ecstasy!

I'll be going, I'll be going!"

Retaliation of Her Majesty: Queen Anne's Revenge!"

And so Edward Teach, the great pirate known as Blackbeard, sunk with his ship.

To be continued...


And that's the end of chapter 46!

Sorry if you were expecting this chapter to have come sooner this day. I'm currently in vacations hence why it took a bit more to finish this chapter than the previous ones. Also lot of fights that extended it. Perhaps I should start dividing this chapters into shorter ones...

But now with this, Blackbeard and his crew are out of the way, this time going out more in style. And so the real villains of Okeanos will appear (Geez, I wonder who they might be.)

Also, The release of next chapter might take some time due to things happening in my life right now...coughFF16cough

Anyways, that's all I wanted to say, and see you next time on chapter 47! Peace!

P.S:

(Peko walks torwards Holmes)

Peko: Hey Holmes-san, I was reading some books about you, and could you elaborate better on how you resolved that case involving a bakery?

Holmes: Ah, of course young man. I'll give you a simple summary and explanation. It all started when I was buying bread from a bakery that wasn't the usual one I used to bought bread from...

(An hour later)

Holmes: And that's why void dust should be a legal substance around not only Chaldea but also the entire world. Hope I was able to help clarify this specific case of mine to you, Peko.

Peko: Error404