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[lil_lollypop1]

Greedy Fat Cat

((*poke* *poke* You ok there?))  

[Greedy Fat Cat]

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╔═ High winds roared in the skies, tugging on the goldish cream sails that seemingly reflected the sunset orange and pinks of the heavens. Her boots clicked on the polished wood, as if signaling to the men around her to prepare for whatever was about to leave her lips. That which curled into a slight smile, familiar to a smirk, Eureka's glittering eyes looked straight up, the winds whispering her victory in her ears. Her dark hair whipped about her face, having not tied it back, so that she looked like some sort of wild beast. Alas, she lowered her head with her chin ever so slightly high as she raised her hand for the attention of her crew. "Prepare my men," she called, her voice mature and sharp. Her crew had already been endowed for what was to happen next, some looking nervous while others looked eager to get their hands on treasure. A few handful of well-trusted crew members stood by the side of the boat, leaning on the railings as they waited for her lead. She looked at her crew, confident in success before she grinned cheekily, "for tonight, we dine in hell!" She yelled, to which many cried in unison.

The Galatea was already in preparation, already running from the Adallan police as it circled its palace. High strung beams shot from the side of the ship, creating a zinging sound to the air as they unwrapped from their coils at an alarming speed. The beams darted through the air, piercing the palace walls with a crack through their surface. The beams taut, the ship groaned as it was anchored briefly. The handful of crew jumped the side of the boat, riding the beams to the wall at high speed, making this mission quick and efficient. Eureka peered over the railing, watching as some of her crew was infiltrate the Adallan palace before she, herself hopped the railing. Landing on the palace wall, she looked about herself as her men overtook the palace. Eureka laughed as she walked forward, her deep crimson cape draping behind her.

The plan was complicated, which had come with months of planning. It was a spontaneous and absurd idea, but Eureka was a spontaneous and absurd person to begin with. Kidnapping the twin girls would require the utmost attention, which was why Eureka had handpicked the crew to be her infiltration team. Blindfolded and binded, the twins were thrown over two burly mens' shoulders and taken to the regrouping spot. Eureka found them there, with a nicely packaged bounty in her hands before scanning the remaining group. "Where's Yanis?" She asked, her voice demanding yet disappointed. A scrawnier looking man spoke up, shaking his head. "Dead, cap'n," he informed. She looked saddened briefly, kissing two fingers before raising them above her head in solitude before turning.
The palace sounded in alarm, shots firing at the group. The ship trembled above, having been shot at as it swayed there. Eureka grit her teeth and grabbed the latch on the beam before raising her other hand and striking the beam hard with a slip of blue, it furling out of her fingers like a blade. The others used their blades, snapping the beams free from their attachment as they ricocheted forward in momentum.

Success. With the two twins on board, there was no wrong besides the death of Yanis. After everyone had climbed on board, the crew was set into motion to escape, with palace forces shooting at their iron belly. Four police airships loomed behind one of the palace towers. Eureka shouted several orders before taking the wheel of the ship and made a sharp turn. They were the ever elusive Galatea and Eureka was set on not being captured. ═╝

[ The role-play has begun (like the reference I used in it?). Both military forces ships are active and until the post of Okami Ameras, those who are in the Erebus would have to wait. ]

 

[lil_lollypop1]

Hector bowed before the king and queen of Marus as they looked down at her proudly. "Hector Thunderbird, because of your previous exploits in battle, we are proud to name you as the new captain of the imperial flag ship Valkyrie. Effective immediately."

"Thank you, your majesties." Hector stated with a bold but calm voice as she was awarded with a medal.

"Ahh... good. I suppose you shall go ahead and get to work." The king asked. Hector nodded.

"Of course." She replied.

"Dismissed then." The king wafted as Hector raised her head and walked out of the room. She headed down from the palace to the harbor where the imperial flag ships were located. She wondered down the deck, hand over her sword, as she began to approach her new ship for the first time.

"Hmm..." She muttered, looking to meet the first mate as she boarded the ship. 'Where is he? He better not keep me waiting...' She thought.  

[Okami Ameras]

The chase started. The Adalla ships were right on the Galatia's tail when the world grew dark. Clouds were building, and rain started to fall in blinding sheets. Lighting flashed in brilliant arcs, dazzling those who were unlucky enough to be looking in that direction.

Tailing the two Adalla ships, was a third. It was black as night, and as the ship grew closer in the stormy weather. They were unaware of it's presence... at least until it was too late.

Lightning struck one of the ships, frying a few of the crew and sending the Astralla ship sinking fast. The Erberus slipped through the momentary lapse, before catching up easily through the lashing storm towards the Glatea.

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"Are ye sure this is a good idea Captain'? Eurka isn't one tae cros lightly" Asked one of the crew members.

Tondra turned, and smiled sweetly at the crew member. She flicked her soaked blonde hair, and winked with one of her baby blue eyes. She was standing infront of her ward as the ship gained on the Galatea, and it was glowing half-heartedly..

Let's just say... she purred. After this, someone from Astralla going to owe me a big favor~ Anyhow, as long as the storm keeps up, Miss Pyro won't be able to do a damn thing. She said in an affectionate tone. This was the first time Erberus ever moved against the Galatea, but the Fire Woman was not unknown to the woman known as Tempest-- and to think that Tempest was unknown to the Fire Woman would be folly. Nice, perhaps, but still folly.

"Should we activate the ward more?" Asked a crew member. Tondera shook her head, pulling a soaked sheet over the ward.

No. Wait till we get back aboard with our prize. Then... turn it up to full blast.

Soon the other ship was more then a dark shape in the rain.

She smiled.

NOW! She bellowed, as Erberous slid up smoothly alongside the Galatea. Grappling hooks flew out from the side, lashing the two ships together for a few precious moments as Tondra and a few choice mebers swung aboard.

Chaos ensued as fighting broke out across the ship. Swords clashed, gunshots fired. Yelling as the Galatea's crew was thrown into chaos at being caught so quickly.

Eventually, Tondra bounded out from below deck, where the twins had been thrown. She had only one over her shoulder, the girl awake now but still bound, and struggling madly. With a few great leaps she bounded over the railings back onto her ship.

She called out a couple choice commands, and the crew of the Erberus immediately retreated back to their ship. The crew member left to attend to the ward activated it fully, the lashing rain started to pour even harder and the lightning grew even more frequent. The grapples were cut, and the black as night ship slipped into a cloud-- gone.

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I woke to the sound of swordfighting and yelling. Someone picked me up and threw me over their shoulder-- why the devil was I in a burlap sack!?

A few moments later there was the sound of heavy rain that soaked the bag I was in, in seconds. I felt someone jumping, and I decided to hold still as I heard the creaking of timber and rocking of... and airship.

Oh no-- my sister and I had been kidnapped by pirates!

A moment later I was taken somewhere out of the rain, and dropped rather unceremoniously onto something that could be remotely called soft. My back protested at the drop, and I groaned.

Oww...  

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

The Goliath was on its way to intercede the Galeta and not let it escape with the twins. Victor had been enjoying some tea when an order came in to stop it and that it was also a rescue mission to bring back the twins, so they had to refrain from totally destroying the ship on sight.

The captain was overseeing the flight towards the castle and kept an eye out through his binoculars. "Aha" he said to himself as his ship began closing in. However, he then spotted a lightning strike. He took the binoculars away from his eyes and saw a fellow Adallan ship take flame. "That wasn't natural" the captain thought out loud. He ordered a few soldiers with offensive-type abilities to stand guard.

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Erik was making a round of inspections when he saw Hector board the ship. He walked over until he was just a few feet in front of her. The lieutenant recognised her as the captain instantly from her military decorations and insignias. "Lieutenant Erik Westerbrooke reporting for duty, sir" the soldier announced while giving the superior officer a proper military salute. "I have been assigned the role of your First Mate for this mission, sir." No doubt Hector would at least recognise his family name. It was quite famous in Marus. However, not everyone thought positively of it.

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"Wheee!!! That was fun!!" Marcus gleefully exclaimed as he bounced around. He enjoyed killing the palace guards, especially the ones guarding the twins. The only problem was that he wasn't the only one who was. There were others who got to take down some of the enemy as well, which meant less kills for Marcus. That made him a little sad, but he quickly got over it. He then heard a storm and a crash of lightning from nearby. "What was that?!" he exclaimed. It made him stop bouncing around.  

[lil_lollypop1]

In the Goliath, Lina was sleeping at her post with a book over her head. She snorted when she felt the vibrations of the ship moving but only flipped over in her bed and kept sleeping. A few minutes later, Lina heard a banging on her door, but ignored it. One of the crew members peeked a head into her room and let out a small silent swear before trying to shake her awake. Still, she wouldn't budge. He then reported back for duty. The crew member went immediately to Victor and Luke, seeing how busy they were.

"P-pardon me, sirs." He stated, saluting the captain and vice captain. "The unnatural electrostatic effects are causing some of the pressure gauges to act erratically, and though the navigator is using the calculations previous to the electrical strikes, he needs them calibrated. ... and Lina's asleep again."

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Hector was silent, her face calm and expressionless though her eyes were piercing as if looking straight into his soul. She looked neither impressed or irritated at the mention of his name. She was completely indifferent. She only gave a small nod before lifting her hand slightly as if telling him to proceed. It was obvious by her countenance and the air about her that she was not someone to be taken lightly.  

[Shiningdragon21]

The difference between the good guys and the bad guys

During the raid a single person of the Galatea seemed to be missing during the entirety of the commotion. The right hand man of the ship, it's second in command Joesph. His own part of the raid being much less direct in fact but one that was easy to notice as many of the soldiers upon the ships in pursuit of the found his oversight deadly. Nearly a mile away nestled into a small single man air ship hidden in the dark clouds the first mate lay. His own power finding it's use quickly as one by one soldier and guard caught in his cross hairs found themselves stripped of life all too soon.

"Seventeen....Eighteen...Nineteen" he counted. Each number issued after a light recoil as the custom rifle he used pushed back as the round left the chamber and barrel. Rocketing across the open sky and find it's mark each time in the chest of a soldier. The sound of the now empty shell hitting the deck of the skimmer he sat atop echoed even as around him the storm raged. The cold torrent of rain seemingly unnoticed by the sniper as a final round ripped thru the sky finding it's mark easily as a click issued from his rifle. The last round having been spent the magazine was now empty. With a sigh and a slow movement Joesph slowly began to get up and change magazines. "Any second" he muttered to himself moving towards the controls of the small ship. The passing time for the Galatea would be in approximately two minutes giving him just enough time to get back to the wheel.

Nestilng himself snugly behind the controls of the vehicle Joesph looked at his watch. "Ten" he muttered beginning a count down as the skimmers engines roared before shooting off from it's hiding area just ahead of where the Galatea was heading towards. The maneuver was one they had done hundreds of times as a mechanical click issued from the side of the skimmer. As it did two hooks shot out into the sky just as the ship passed by being snagged by the skimmer and nearly yanking it apart as the hooks stuck fast. The maneuver tho done hundreds of time was in no way a comfortable one as the skimmer rapidly reeling in the line slammed harshly into the broad side of the Galatea as Joesph climbed onto the ship and headed towards the helm.

Is whether they use a human shield or make themselves one.

 

[lil_lollypop1]

((La gasp! Shining! I haven't RPed with you in forever! Goodness, there's so many people and we're all on! It's like a miracle! *squees out of pure excitement*))

Greedy Fat Cat

Okami Ameras

Eternal_PrinceOfFire

Shiningdragon21

 

[Okami Ameras]

((~Dances around in the thread~))

 

[Greedy Fat Cat]

╔═ The Galatea groaned, the winds breaking through the deck. Eureka squinted her eyes, barking orders as the storm wreaked havoc about her ship. The rain poured, soaking her body and making her clothes stick to her skin. And then the ship tilted with a loud crash, making Eureka fall forward with a grunt, her chest slamming into the wheel of her ship. Eureka made a small, pained noise. She whipped her head, her gold eyes looked around to spot the dark, looming ship besides hers and some mischievous thieves boarding her ship. She frowned, now annoyed. So this was the Tempest and her ship the Erebus? Finally showing up to play a dirty trick, she guessed. She scanned the black ship, looking for the woman who decided to cross her.
Eureka had heard of Tondra many times before and despite them never once meeting, their reputations sort of had a rivalry about them. Eureka ruled these skies, not some b***h who hid in the dark.

The Galatea could do little about being boarded, only to fight that vixen’s henchmen. Nor could it do much about the shuddering of the ship, mainly because the electrical currents in the sky were bearing a little too much on the ship. She hoped Jake could manage for the time being. And then the blonde captain hopped over the Galatea’s railing. Eureka caught her blue eyes, but did not move to stop her as she bounded in the lower deck. Of course no one could stop Tondra as she did this and came out with one of the twins over her shoulder. Why not take the other? Eureka’s fist tightened, but she did not move as she watched her hop over the railing.
At last, Eureka let the wheel go and hopped straight from the high deck to the lower one, landing with a hard and loud thud before darting after Tondra. The last of her crew had retreated back on her own ship and the grappling hooks were cut. Eureka darted forward to the railing, peeling of one of her soaked gloves as she ran forward in the rain. The rain was not going to stop her, if Eureka could help it.

She certainly was not going to let the Tempest go without some calamity, especially after taking her latest bounty. She used the railing as a stepping stone, leaping into the air before swinging her arm through the air in a hard motion. A spiraling flame the color of a evanescent blue unleashed from her finger tips like a whip from the back of her before she stroke down with some of her might at the side of the Erebus, using the high winds as a fuel for her attack. Of course, it wasn’t as much damage as she would’ve liked, especially because of the rain, but Eureka wanted to leave a lasting scar on the b***h’s ship as a reminder of who she had just made an enemy out of.
Eureka caught on one of the beams from the invasion of the palace with her gloved hand, burning the fabric as she fell before she stopped, swinging at the end of the line. Eureka gasped, though not out of fear of heights but out of exhaustion. With a huff she began to climb, watching as the Erebus separated itself from the Galatea’s path. Eureka cursed, watching the wretched black thing leave with her bounty. Tondra will definitely have to pay.

And then the ship gave a very heavy shudder and began to tilt to the right very, very sharply. Eureka yelled, though to no avail. What the hell was happening up there? Eureka continued to pull herself up before looking behind the ship as it curved, there seeing an Adallan ship in the distance. “s**t!” She cussed. They were shooting at them and the Galatea was evading. It was quite the elusive ship, but she knew that they wouldn’t last for long if put under stress. She dragged herself back to the side of the ship and climbed the rest of the way before heaving herself over the railing. Many of her crew was scattered, scrambling to prepare defense mechanisms. A few checked to see if she was okay and reported that the ship was indeed an official military Adallan ship.

The ship creaked again, though this time accompanied with a loud ramming noise. Right, Joseph was to be back at this time. But her priority was on other things, and Joseph would either be at the wheel or come find her. Lenore watched the ship behind them. She knew they would try to board them to get the other twin and avoid blowing up their ship. They probably didn’t even know that woman had stolen the other one yet. Eureka glanced back where the Erebus used to be, having now disappeared in a cloud. Eureka swore again before climbing the side of the stairs back to the upper deck to the wheel, finding Joseph there as if he had never left. “We’re gonna run ‘em, boys!” She yelled to her crew, glancing to Joseph with a small, irritated look. He could probably tell she wasn't in the best mood, especially after being chased now by the military after having half her treasure stolen from right under her. She had escaped the police before, she was sure she could do it again. She straightened out the ship as ordered the sails to be full cast before calling someone to get her a new pair of gloves. ═╝

 

[Greedy Fat Cat]

◢ Amory paused, lifting her head to listen to the movement above her. She heard several footsteps scuffling hurriedly, which wouldn't have been much of an issue if it weren't for the fact that today was the day that their new captain would be appointed. Guessing that he had already made his arrival, she lifted herself out of her cot, a hammock like bed that swayed ever so slightly, and sauntered over to the door. She looked disheveled, having slept the whole day off because of the lack of orders in her area. After creeping to the top of the ship before peeking out to take a peek at the new captain.

He looked so young! But then again, he was probably a few years older than Amory was. She spotted Erik, who was the same age as Amory, greet the new official captain the Valkylrie. She hummed a little before coming out from her hiding spot. Her hair was tied up, usually so that it didn't look so messy, and her clothes were loose. She wore a light tunic and a pair of pants; not to mention she was barefoot. She didn't care to wear her official mechanic uniform jacket, since she was in bed most of the time. She also didn't like the idea of wearing shoes, especially so if she was the mechanic of this ship. She liked the feeling of the wood, its liveliness under her feet. She wiggled her toes before striding over. She bowed her head, an appropriate greeting in her village. "Hello, I'm your assigned mechanic, Amory Fortuna from the high mountains of Marus. A pleasure to meet you, Captain Thunderbird," she said appropriately. She knew that it was a little informal, but it wasn't like she was a military official. She then looked up into Hector's face, noticing that he looked a little disinterested. He had an air of intimidating stature about him, it made Amory feel slightly uncomfortable. ◤

 

[Eternal_PrinceOfFire]

Victor was overseeing the attack on the Galatea. "We want to bring it down, but not too hard. We need to make sure the hostages come out alive" the captain ordered. If the twins suffered some bumps and bruises, then oh well. Too bad for them. It would toughen them up a little in Victor's eyes. However, the important part was to bring them back alive and in good shape.

He then got the message from the crew member. "Well then go throw water on her and drag her out kicking and screaming. I don't care. Just bring her out!" Victor snapped. He'd be having a private meeting with Lina later about her habits.

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Erik nodded and resumed his duties. Hector certainly had a confident air and one that meant business. Erik admired a soldier that took his duties seriously. It was someone worthy of respect and Erik intended to show he was just as dutiful a soldier.  

[lil_lollypop1]

"Yes sir!" The crew member replied with a salute. Not too long later, the crew member returned with a drenched Lina being dragged by her boots to the main area. She was still sleeping like a log. "I- I'm sorry sir. The water didn't work... nor the dragging..." he frowned, letting go of her boots as she curled up into a ball on the floor.

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Hector began to inspect the ship as it was loaded, saying nothing to anyone. She only nodded to Amory before turning and moving on. When something needed to be moved, she would point at it, then to where she wanted it, and it was promptly moved as she directed. When everything looked in order, Hector made her way to the control center. "We have orders from his majesty to patrol near the border for pirates. We shall circle from post AA2357 and AB0049. Move out." She stated with a booming voice before taking her chair.  

[Okami Ameras]

"Capin!"

I stayed still in the darkness of the burlap sack. There was the chatter of the crew around me.

"Emory managed to leave a right long lash mark on the side of ship, capin', before we got away."

Let her have her lash-mark. If she thinks I'll be riled by a petty mark to my ship's vanity, then she'll be in for a surprise. I didn't become one of the most notorious pirates in the skies for being stupid.

"Out o' Curisety... why did ye only grab one o' the twins? Ah thought we were goin fer both!"

... Mallik died in that hold.

Silence.

He was supposed to grab the other one. And with the way this one was kicking and squirming-- I couldn't carry both at once. I think she cracked one of my ribs.

"Captin, ye should let Lucky take a look at tha. Especially nou tha' we pissed off The Fire Woman."

I fished around my sleeves. Didn't have have a knife in here? I wanted to see who kidnapped me...