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Griffon observed more than anything as the pirate departed and the Scrauser's temper flared up. "Angry Scrauser," Griffon whispered to Rro, "this one's all you. Good luck." And with a pat on the pirate lord's back he walked off. "I'm going to go look at the fire cannon," shouted Griffon over his back as he walked off to find the cannon. Of course, this would have to be part of his stories, if anybody would believe it. Regardless, he approached it and inspected it.

((So what does the cannon look like anyway?))

Sam's ship approached the Void quicker then Roger's, "drop us a bit Yang!" The Admiral was determined to take Rro down for good, he would not capture anymore damn pirates! "We take no more prisoners! Kill the pirates from hell!" The men cheered, mostly at the fact that they could tell that they vastly out numbered the pirates, but secondly at the fact that once Rro's head was off his body they could all go home to their wives and families.

"If you'd like to fight you may," Sam handed Iveth a sword, "but when this is all over promise you will take no man but me..." He had been ignoring her denying him. He saw it as playing hard to get up until this point. But he was truly blinding in the fact that she was more blood thirsty then she appeared. All pirates were. "Prepare the gravity stabilizer!"

The ship crossed the waters edge and dropped a few dozen feet before catching the wind. It glided upward but not as a normal Aqua Void crossing would. The ship was spiriting in the mid section of the watery wind tunnel. Binding it's time before they could attack, "cannons to the sky!" The Admiral's sanity had begun to slip a little bit after fighting dinosaurs. "Drinks on me once we get to Port Fireball!"

((OOC: Dragon Cannon's look like the one from Kung Fu Panda 2...))

Rogers ignored the pig man for the most part. His powers came from years and years of ninja training from being in the blade lands. They were one of the main reasons, apart from his greed for gold, at why he was among the four pirate lords. Why take the time to explain that to one crew mate when he had a fight to prepare for. "Their dropping first..." That meant they'd point their cannons upward and destroy the pirates hull.

"All cannons to the bow!!!" Rogers had a plan, crazy or not it was a plan. "Leave the Dragon cannon, but the rest bring up deck to the bow!" The pirate ship approached the Aqua Void where just forty, fifty feet bellow them the navy awaited. "At the last minute as we tip push the cannons off the boat before we pull the sails up!"

He paused smiling, "also, don't pull the sails right away... If we wanna win we have to drop bellow them or we stand no chance!" The men did as requested and as the ship peaked over the edge the cannons were pushed over! This sent heavy iron cannons raining down of the Naval ship, screams echoed upward as the ship slipped from the falls and plumited downward! "Brace yourselves you scabbers dogs!!!"

The sails were pulled as the ships slid against each other, splinters flew like birds across both decks and the pirate sails barely caught the heavy ship. 'Captain we've fallen bellow the dry line!' A crew mate called as another vomited over the edge. The dry line was a safe height high enough in the Aqua Void where water didn't splash as much. This water now had the potential to soak the sails and kill them all. "I know, I know..." Rro needed to think, what the hell now?

Iveth oddly would have no trouble keeping the promise. The solution, if he hadn't noticed, had slipped through his lips. There simply will be no man. Very negotiable. She swiped the sword of from his hand, appearing to grin as she watched the tip of her ship emerge from above. Her swordsmanship was decent, but hand her a crossbow or a rifle and she'd hit the apple every time- most of the time. This only means she'd need a legitimate excuse if she ever somehow missed.

Eager to see her ship, Iveth was pacing to the front of the deck, however she paused on the way. Hiro was still strapped to the mask and she was sure he'd try anything to make a way out, even breaking the mask of he had to. Well it appears there could be some use of the sword she was given. "Make yourself useful," Iveth muttered out before she dug the tip of the sword under the ropes and sawed through them. "And choose a side," she added sternly. She'd hate to see Hiro go back to that deceitful bastard of a pirate: Rro. "Remember what h-" the first of the cannons came, crashing right through the deck and lowering the ship due to the weight and as Iveth looked up more followed. Her cannons were being tossed overboard?!

In seeing another about to make impact nearby she shoved Hiro away from the area, keeping note of how many canons plummeted down and nearly through the ship. How much weight could the ship handle before they get below the dry line? Should it be the weight she was worrying about or her ship falling into the Aqua Void? She was nearly knocked off her feet when her ship had collided with the Navy, pushing them more towards the raging walls of water, but even though she took this opportunity.

Iveth grabbed the rifle that she'd picked up prior and sprinted across the deck to cross over to her own ship. There was nothing more she was concerned about than putting a large round led bullet through Rro's skull.

Hiro's body was still weak from the battle on the island and from having been forced still against the mast for so long, but after being tossed around during the battle, he was eventually able to wake himself up and move freely. Still not at his full power, he still managed to move freely enough to keep up with Iveth.

As for Ro... Hiro needed him alive, and the only way for that to happen was to help get the pirates out of this chaos. All he could do now was get to the pirate ship.

"This way!" Hiro saw an opening between the falling cannons, grabbed Iveth by her clothing, and flung her to the deck of her ship. All that was left was to get to the ship himself, but how? His legs were too badly damaged to make the jump all the way to--

'Screw it!' he screamed in blade speak. He jumped from the Navy ship's railing and landed chest-first onto the deck of the pirate ship.

"Iveth!" Skyra called out as the ship started to sink. He didn't know if she could hear him from his location, but he still wanted to talk. Skyra slammed a stake into the ship to keep himself anchored. "Iveth! Can you hear me!?" He wanted to know more about her and Rro. But right now he was just trying to stay on the ship. "Hey! Asshole!" Skyra called to Rro. "Anything I can do to be useful to you stupid humans?" His dislike for humans grew more and more.

With his focus on the fire canon, Griffon didn't hear the call about the approaching ship. He was, however, woken to the world around him when the first canon crashed onto the neighboring ship. "Holy ship!" Of course it was a pun from the lighthearted storyteller. He heard Skyra from across the ship, angry as usual. "If you're on a human ship rather than a Scrauser ship, then we can't be that stupid!" Griffon yelled to Skyra as Griffon looked for a vantage point.

He spotted it. "Rro," he called, "killing good guys isn't my thing, I'm sitting this one out mate! Give a good show!" Then he grabbed a and hoisted himself onto a more precarious, less accessible edge of the ship. He balanced himself on the small, raised wooden beam beside the mast, still holding on to the rope, and looked down below. This would be interesting.

Men jumped and dodged the falling cannons, would it be too much weight? Sam had to deal with the enemy bellow them first, make sure they were all dead. "Wait Iveth!" She leaped over like a bird fleeing a cage, kinda with some help from the tiger Blood brat. He looked around, about thirty men not including Yang and he, "lower the ropes!" Admiral Thorne yelled, "We have to kill them before they take out our hull with anything they may have left!"

'How many men sir?' Yang called, being immediately met with a response of rage! "Twenty men down, ten ready to defend!" Men tossed ropes down, out of the port holes the defenders open fired on the pirates with crossbow bolts! As for the twenty attackers they landed with ease slaying one, two... A bolt took out another crew mate. "Kill them all," Thorne yelled feeling betrayed by Iveth, "even the woman, KILL EVERYONE!"

Bolts flew downward and steel clashed, pirates fell left and right before only the five heros were left. All the crew had been murdered only able to take out one or two navy so far. 'Charge men!' A random crew mate yelled running at Iveth! One poked Hiro's body wondering if he had died in the fall. The rest raced for the Scrauser and Griffon. Everyone would die, there would be no prisoners this time!!! Water soaked the sails as the pirates ship lowered in altitude...

"Welcome back Iveth!!!" Rro looked around, a bit out numbered. It was apparent these men had survived the previous events for a reason, they were the best the admiral had to offer! "This ships not gonna make it..." They needed to get aboard the Navy ship but with the crossbows they'd be killed climbing those ropes. Maybe Rro could blood bend a distraction for the and someone fast like Skyra or Hiro could get back on the navy ship.

"Skyra, the Admiral is your target. Kill Thorne, we need to take their ship if we wanna live threw this!!!" Rro called, he opened his hand. "But first let's wake up the little killer," Rro's hand contorted bending Hiro's insides forcing an unhealthy amount of adrenaline into his blood stream. "Come back to the party Hiro!" Rro laughed spinning the ship throwing a few people off balence.

He opened his hand and bent an archers blood to fire a bolt at the marksman next to him causing him to fall towards the deck. A few archers turned in to see what happened. "Griffon will you take the wheel? Hold her steady for me?" He asked taking out his pistol. He was fairly tired from all this use of his ninja arts. It was time he joined the battle in a more... Explosive way.

If anything she avoided falling on her still healing leg. Despite that she could walk her leg would always be vulnerable to anything too extreme if she pushed it too far. Instead she hit the deck, winded as the air was shoved out of her lungs. Nevertheless she hauled herself back to her feet, her name ringing from every direction. One had called from above while the other two she could identify as Skyra and Rro. Her eyes flung between the two, realizing she hadn't seen them in months, however nothing had changed about them as far as looks.

A piercing glare was sent to Rro, craving to rip apart the map, but her focus was needed elsewhere. Ropes thunked against her deck and with glance upward she saw the Admiral's men raining down from the ship above. While her ears were opened to everything in her mind she was idly surprised as she watched one of the Navy men attempt to assault her. Had Thorne finally come to his senses? He should've known that with any given chance she'd betray him somehow though she held little gratitude. He had all the means to kill her first, but he hadn't. Well, that was his one fault.

Iveth dive under his weapon of choice, evading it and swept her leg- her good one- underneath one of his to get him to fall back. Before he could it the deck she swiped the weapon from his hand, spinning to butt of the gun and striking him across the head. Not enough to kill, but it did leave him cold. With it, she shot the man poking at Hiro. Her attention turned to that above to her masts that were being soaked. Her ship was in no good condition. Neither of them were, but it could be told that if one of them were to go down it would be hers. They were already loosing altitude by the second.

Something happened inside of Hiro suddenly. He found strength in him to stand up, his blood boiling once again. Rather than question this turn of events, the tiger born simply turned his attention to te battle at hand.

(Edit: sorry, I lost track of the flow of battle. I need a quick summing up of the situation really quick so I can post correctly. I'm sorry I didn't catch it sooner)

"Kill the admiral?" This might be a good chance for Skyra to prove himself, but not against someone he had qualms against. He barely knew who Admiral Thorne was, just that he was the enemy of Rro. ...But Rro was already his enemy, did that mean Thorne was his friend? But Thorne's also Iveth's enemy, and Iveth is NOT Skyra's enemy. So what did that make Thorne? Skyra's enemy or not? ...Skyra didn't have time to think.

"Fine, whatever," Skyra said. "But I better get recognition for this." Skyra scaled up the obliterating ship with his spears and jumped onto the side of the Navy ship, grabbing onto the ropes on the side before pulling himself up. He positioned his spears to his feet before climbing up. He saw a few archers at the top and tried transfering a spear back to his had to practically impale them. Rro gave him enough time to do so as the archers were still distracted. Skyra managed to take two out and climb up over the side. That's when Skyra started to seek out Thorne.

"I'm not just a tiny pig creature," Skyra said. "I will prove myself to those stupid apes."

Griffon kicked a sailor that came a little too close with a sword before responding with a loud, "Aye Aye Captn'!" A joke, of course, about his being with pirates. Hopping down from his perch Griffon made his way through the chaos to the wheel. "I've never done this!" Griffon called out excitedly. Grabbing the wheel he held it steady, making sure collisions and currents would not steer them off course. "Got it!" He ducked when as a sword sliced the air where his head was.

"Now now," Griffon said to the sailor, "let's not be crabby," Another dodge, and a kick, freed Griffon of his attacker. "I'd prefer not to have to continue hurting you... then use my diplomatic immunity, but hey, do what you wish," Griffon told the winded sailor.

Yang held the ship steady as two crossbow archers stood between Skyra and Thorne. "Return to killing the pirate, this slimy piece of bacon is to be my supper." The archer nodded and rushed pasted Skyra to the deck bellow to continue firing at Rro, Iveth, Hiro, and Griffon. 'Want me to take this one captain?' Yang asked, Which the Admiral quickly snapped back. "I have escaped a dinosaur, fought off Raptors, and been the guest speaker at four consecutive Admiral Dinners... I can put down a pig."

The Admirals coat dropped and he rolled up his sleeves. He took off his gun belt and tossed his pistols over by Yang. He tossed one of his sword sheathes to his first mate as well which landed at the Blade mans feet. "I will use my special weapon, a good warm up before I go down and put Rro down like the dog he is." The special sword clicked, gears inside it grinded together and six different parts in the blade unlatched.

"Say hello to the Hangman's Edge," The sword whipped across the deck shattering a thick wooden railing instantly. "I can cut you, stab you, or hang you," Thorne was a bit overwhelmed at this point in his emotional roller coster. He was done, "I'll slice you up and feed you to my crew for a victory dinner." The sword whipped around with wires inside throwing the blade toward Skyra!

Rogers left the top area of the ship, "just hold stead adjust to the winds!" Flying a boat meant for the sea wasn't easy by any means but at the same time Griffon seemed neither death wishing nor stupid. "Just don't kill us," he laughed and he dodges a large rock. They were sinking once more, just as easy in the air as it was in the sea. Rocks, rotten wood, and confused fish flew on board the ship hitting naval men and the hero's alike. A black arrow head looking knife flew across deck and stuck itself in the wood of the ship. A gun shot disarmed a naval man and he saw the knife like blade, grabbing it he ran at Griffon.

Rro aimed and fired but not before a second nay officer delivered a hard kick into the temporary captains side. Bang! Bang! Within a second moment another shot blew the mans brain out, Rro now focused on the man who had grabbed the black blade... he had collapsed. No seeming reason, he would have killed Griffon, "I... I missed..." Rro said confused at how the man died meeting Griffon's eyes, "how did..?"

The metal legged man was take from his thoughts by a heavy battle axe tearing into the railing inches from his position. Withdrawing his first pistol and revealing a second he shot the poor officer point blank. "As soon as we get a sign from Skyra we climb up to the navy ships!" Another shot was fired by Rro, this time up to an archer, man and crossbow fell a few feet before slamming down dead on the pirate's deck. Fourteen navy officers down bellow and still five cross bow archers up above still fired at them.

The battle had come to them, and the young fighter charged with all of his might. His mighty fists crashed through armor and bone, snatched bolts out of the air, and all around brought hell itself to the ship.

Fourteen navy officers would not be enough to stop the Tiger Born.

Like a wild animal riding on a lightning bolt, Hiro darted around the ship, making short work of any naval officers he came across. The surge of adrenaline through his body was unlike anything he had ever experienced. All thought was instinct, all pain was ignored, all he could think of was destruction.

Hiro would run out of officers to fight before long. He needed more. He needed so much more. He then set his sights to the navy ship above them, then, taking a pair of arrows to use for grip, he began climbing his way up to the enemy ship without bothering to wait for a signal.

"Ugh, and the pig jokes begin," Skyra said as he saw Thorne wield his weapon. It was a large whip sword. But Skyra had a strong weapon too: a couple. "Exactly the attitude I'd expect from a simian smart alack. But I am not just a pig, I am Skyra Ravul, and your claims of fighting dinosaurs doesn't impress someone who's gone claw to claw with a dragon, ape man. Now let's see how you face against... errr... Tagora's Nets... of pointy doom. ...I don't have an actual name for these things, but I assure you they are much capable of defeating you. I fight with power AND defense and I REFUSE TO LOSE TO A STUPID HUMAN!"

Skyra started to strafe from side to side. He was waiting for Thorne to make another move before using his "Tagora's Nets of Pointy Doom" to try and deflect his weapon. Tagora was an ancient deity of Scrauser belief, said to be responsible for all of the world's fish.

Griffon struggled to keep the boat steady as they went down into the aqua void. A kick to his side made him temporarily lose his grip on the wheel. A moment later the man lay dead, a bullet having pierced the man's skull. Griffon grabbed the wheel again, steadying it just as the ship started to spin. Another attacker fell dead beside Griffon. He hadn't heard a gunshot. How strange.

Then Griffon saw the blade. It looked familiar. His eyes widened as he realized what it was, and how the man died. "Don't touch the blade!" Griffon yelled as it started sliding down on the deck.

Sam composed himself as the Hangman's Edge withdrew into the hilt and click a series of times. It was now ready for another thrust, "sleep well piggy." The sword shot forward cutting into the deck slightly sending splinters upwards the sword was like a train, a thrust like this couldn't be caught, or blocked. The first throw was the most powerful, tilting slightly to the left should have hit Skyra but missed by just a hair.

"Nice dodge," Sam's hair fell a bit from his normal clean cut, slicked back look. "Since when did the littlest pig fight for the big bad wolf any way?" The Admiral pulled the sword out of the wood work with a jerk, whipping across most of the deck. Not as powerful but just as fast, it swung in Skyra's direction. Soon the little pig man would be bacon shavings, not a warrior. This would end before it even began!

'Sir!' Yang yelled firing a bullet into Hiro's shoulder as the little man tried to climb over the railing. The boy was now plummeting downward into the abyss of the Aqua void. Most likely gone for good as a clash of metal sent more of the wooden railing flying. Had Thorne finished off Skyra??

Rro reloaded, four shots, four archers. Hiro had taken out the rest on his way up and only a few officers were still conscious down on the pirate deck. "Iveth, get anything you need bellow deck!" Rro aimed his two pistols upward and fired sending two archers plummeting downward. A third shot was heard and Hiro began to fall from that ship through the gap into the void! "Damn!"

Rro fired a shot at one of the archers and missed, firing another he hit the man. Still one left, but now wasn't the time. "Get to the Navy ship!!!" He yelled grabbing a rope. He tied one side around him and jumped! Falling and in mid air he caught Hiro, "don't go and die on me yet you idiot! We still have training to get done!"

The other side was previously tied to a railing and the two swung under the ship and back up to the other side! Landing rather sloppily he reloaded one of his pistols and fired upward. This killed the last Navy archer. The knife didn't concern him to much as he untied himself and made for one of the officers hanging ropes, "up! Climb! Now!"