|The Past|
TPW and TM float aimlessly with their sails furled on an Ocean, under a pink sky.
Baki is sitted all worn out on the edge of the Wheel Section, by the extreme left side of the Wheel's front.
Every soul on both ships are tired as well.
"How long has it been?" Baki asks while looking down on the deck.
Tempest replies while sitted on the edge, facing down, by the extreme right of the Wheel's front...
"I don't know. A year...or two?"
"You lie." Emelia says and they both look up.
They see her sitted on the Chair; legs far apart, face to the sky, hands felled by the sides.
"Have you any change?" She asks.
They blink and look down, replying...
"No."
"Then it's a lie." - Emelia.
"I feel it, Eme. I feel...older." - Baki.
"A feeling? This is obviously that thing." - Emelia.
"Then how do we get out?" - Tempest.
She sits up and replies while going on a 'wonder' posture...
"I...don't know." - Emelia.
"Hopeless!" Tempest says and gets down.
She looks back with sharp eyes.
"I will box those eyes." Tempest says while approaching.
Some of the crew chuckle.
She gets up and walks to the left.
He aligns himself by the right of the Chair while stands directly by its left, with her hands in her Trench Coat's pockets.
He sits and puts his right leg over his left thigh.
They stay silent.
Suddenly, he shakes subtly (forth and back), stops with his back against the Back Rest, and says while looking to Emelia...
"I could get used to this."
She snaps and shuts her eyes while letting out a slight grunt. Then opens them.
"Yeah." She replies, all fed up and he laughs.
She loses it and calls with force, while facing back from the right...
"Bakiiii!!!"
"Ah, darling!" He responds and the crew laughs.
A majority of the crew on TM watches and a few amongst them chuckles.
They see Emelia actively losing it while Tempest chuckles in scorn.
A gaze goes to the left and lays upon Baki, who holds a nonchalant demeanor.
"Even the man don't give a fuck!" The man who stares says and chuckles.
"Hmm. Women." Another responds.
The first man is sitted on the left edge of the ship close to the entrance, facing it. He is sitted with utmost aura.
Grand
Age: 40
Pirate (TM)
The second is sitted as well on the edge, before Grand, facing TPW directly.
Samuel
Age: 400
Pirate (TM)
"Am I right?" Samuel asks and goes for a dab with his right hand.
Grand sends his and they clash.
A shockwave comes forth, spreads and rocks both ship, likewise the water underneath.
Some of the crew in both ships collapse.
The men become scared.
The main dudes, just go on like nothing happened.
Baki snores and attempts to fall multiple times, to the deck before him.
Gastiny snores as well on his Chair, elegantly.
Grand and Samuel hold themselves tight.
"Thank God, we are weak." - Samuel.
Grand gulps and nods.
Suddenly, a great lightning stream comes down between both Ship and splits the waters underneath into an abyss.
The sky turns dark green immediately, and the air becomes chaotic.
Screams of terror come in both ships as the Captains come alert.
All sails unfurl. The ships move.
Baki quickly gets up the Wheel section's edge while looking ahead with nothing but dread.
"Baki!" Emelia calls and he looks down.
He sees her looking with worry while she holds strong with The Magnet beneath her feet. Tempest too.
He holds his gaze for a bit while showing off a slight grit.
"I know." He assures and turns on The Magnet below his feet.
The Ships rock violently and everyone shouts.
"Is this...the end!" - Man.
"That's...nonsense!!!" - Woman.
In the thick darkness, underneath a green sky, the Pirates sail.
Baki's legs shake from the excess sways and he jumps back.
He lands on deck, with a grunt, and holds strong.
The wind hits the ship powerfully and throws Emelia into Tempest's arms.
She grunts.
"Hold strong, men!!!" - Gastiny.
The Ship sail across the turbulent waters, split apart.
Erika spins the wheel to the left.
The ship turns and dodges a watery, wind crescent slice.
The Crew shouts.
One man calls...
"My God!"
"He's right there!" - Mecca.
"Nigga." - Baki.
"What was that?" - Tempest.
"The shits." - Emelia.
Gastiny, his Vice by his right and his Crew watch with awe.
"Ahead!" Grand says and they all look.
Five sharp looking things approach them.
Gastiny, Chlorine and the rest's gaze become keen.
The sharp objects come clear; it's the same slice that attacked Baki.
Gastiny, Chlorine and the crew's eyes open. Then Gastiny commands with a slight look to his upper right...
"Hard to Port!!!"
The woman behind the Wheel, spins it to the right.
Grand and Samuel land on the edges besides the left entrance, and quickly engage The Magnet under their feet.
Grand: his initial spot. Samuel: opposite.
Together, they push their hands and shoot forth winds.
They fly through, hit an invisible wall and pushes the ship completely to its right.
The slices come through with great force.
TM sails far, in its NE direction.
While so, TPW's crew chants.
While looking, Baki lets out an open smile.
A circular, black hole starts to open above them. Baki feels this, cuts his smile, looks up and becomes terrified.
Emelia and a few of the Crew look down the left edge of the Ship while Tempest (still sitted) looks up; together with another set.
"It's not only there." She utters and Baki looks at her. Then to his left, over the ship.
As he does, a second hole completes its cycle beneath them.
Both holes complete as one and release a vaporizing blast that covers the ship in the way of a gigantic cylinder.
While performing, TPW finds itself sailing far ahead, in the direction of its Northern West.
A tip of its uppermost sail facing the right burns.
A man who stands near the right edge, close to the entrance, quickly busts some moves.
A splash lifts from the same direction.
The man channels it, puts the flame out and plunges it back into the water, through the left.
He stands erect facing where it dropped.
"Slick move, Garret." Tempest comments while looking at him with a smile.
Garret blushes and makes out amusement sounds while rubbing the back of his head (slightly bowed) with his left hand.
Thunder strikes and the light covers them.
Everyone shouts. Garret takes it to next level.
"HEEEYYYY!!! HEEEYYYY!!!"
The light dies down and shows them in a different point of the Ocean.
Erika, Baki, Tempest and a bit of the Crew look ahead and their eyes open. While a different set, same with Emelia, wonder where they are.
"Even the girlfriend!" - Mecca.
"Yes. Even the girlfriend." - Baki.
"What the fuck!" Baki says and everyone faces front.
They see before them, the edge of the world; water pouring down.
As they approach, Garret asks...
"There's an edge!"
"No! It can't be! The World isn't Flat!" Another man replies by left side of the Ship's nose.
"But there's an edge, we're gonna fall off!" Garret says the first while pointing his right index ahead, and finishes; bringing down his clenched fist, looking as well in direction of the man.
The man grits and forms a globe Doris above his left hand, faces front and tosses it ahead.
It reaches a good distance before them and stops. Then explodes. Doris becomes large with bright, shinning colors.
"Wowwww!" The Crew goes. Baki, Tempest and Emelia too.
"Even you too!" - Mecca.
Baki laughs.
A small prototype of TPW forms on top the globe and steadily sails down the right side.
"Now if you look at, gravity pulls everything to the centre so there's NO WAY in hell there's an edge!!" The man declares and the display ends.
"Quite the explanation." - Mecca.
"So it's a Manipulation?" Garret asks while looking to him.
He replies back while facing Garret...
"It has to be!"
Then faces front and concludes...
"There's no way Doris is flat!"
"There's no way." He says again with bulging eyes.
"Why's he so desperate?" - Mecca.
"Y'know it's a nightmare when everything you know, turns out to be a lie." - The Man.
"Baki just be saving people." Mecca comments and the people laugh.
Aquinas Odera
Age: 600
Pirate (TPW) [The Man]
They close in and enter.
Everyone lets out a yell.
"I think you're wrong, man!" - Garret.
Aquinas with an all out grit, says in desperation...
"No, no!"
Baki, while looking ahead in great awe, faces his upper right and sees TM closing in on the edge. On it, Gastiny stands frozen, with an open mouth in front of his Seat.
They pass halfway through the edge and everyone screams. Baki faces front right as this happens and quickly goes to his right.
While he does, he slightly coats himself in spirit aura and orders...
"Erika, shift!"
"Ah!" She says while looking at him and does as he says. She lets go of the wheel.
He grabs it, fully coats himself and makes his irises glow.
"Everyone! Let it rip!" He commands.
The ship falls, they take off The Magnet and let their Spirit auras fly.
They scream with glowing irises while the vessel surges down with force.
Baki grits, releases his aura while letting out smoke from his teeth, and the ship settles with a bottom drop. Then it soars up straight, to the unknown!
They fly in the midst of a dark, slightly reddish space filled with endless stars.
"Is this...space?" Garret asks.
"I thought I told you!" Aquinas replies with a big smile while looking to him by his lower right.
"Something feels...off." - Baki.
"Captain, please! This could be that feeling! First time for something!" Aquinas says with a smile again, while looking at Baki from his left.
He faces front and says...
"Let's check out the things we can destroy."
"That galaxy over there." He says with the point of his right index at one by his fore right.
"Oh another, how fascinating!" He says while pointing to a new one by his fore left.
"Look at those stars! Very prettyyyy! Pretty asf!" He continues and moans the last while everyone gives him the fed-up look.
"What's he on?" - Mecca.
"On sum." - Clifford.
"Hey, even that black hole over there!" He says with a heartful smile while pointing his right index at the great black hole, far, far ahead; sucking things in its path.
He brings his hand down as the lot develops keen interest.
The place shakes and they become agitated.
Baki grips the wheels tightly and looks around in panic.
Tempest grips the Rests firmly with bulging eyes while Emelia looks ahead in worry.
Yes and Erika are also in distress.
The galaxies, the stars and the black hole pointed out comes to one and a powerful, black beam shoots at them.
"Baki!!!" Tempest and Emelia call.
"Why-why're they calling you?" - Mecca.
He grits with widened eyes, locks in and spins the wheel to the left.
While he does, his current self says...
"Main character?"
The ship turns immediately and blasts off.
The beam passes their back right after and pursues.
TPW soars in highest of speeds. As it goes, TM comes by its right and aligns with it.
All members are covered as well in aura, with glowing irises.
"Gastiny!!!" - Baki.
"Now's not time!" He replies while sitted majestically on his Chair.
"That thing is sucking everything in!" Gastiny says while Baki looks at it from his right, together with his people.
They see it approaching, eating everything and increasing in size.
"We have to get out of here!" He says while Baki and Erika face front.
"Shit!" - Baki.
"So it's not real!" - Garret.
"Stop saying that nonsense, this shit is!" Aquinas rebukes while facing him.
"Quit living in denial!" - Garret.
"Are you saying Doris is flat!?" Aquinas asks while fully facing him.
"Damn bruh, you done lost it." Garret says with bulging eyes while waving his face, subtly.
Molten rocks come flying towards the front of both ships.
The Captains see it and their glowing irises become the defined.
Aura coats their ships and assimilates.
The rocks collide with the ships and the people scream while taking guard.
The vessels slow down while the Eater comes. Closer and closer.
The Captains, with worried grits, lock in and make their glowing irises more defined. Smoke comes forth from Baki's teeth.
Then they scream together and force the rocks back with surging blasts from their ships' front.
Their vessels go back, close to the Eater.
They die their yells while firing.
Hold grits tight with worrisome eyes.
Emelia faces back from her right while Tempest makes a jump, spins horizontally at the spot to the right and lands facing back too, with his left knee on the Chairs' Butt Rest.
He now puts his right hand on the Head and together, they raise their indexes. Emelia (her right), Him (his left).
They hold them perfectly inclined and shoot powerful beams towards the Eater.
They pass far over Baki's head and surge.
They reach the Eater, enter and push it back. Gradually, gradually. BUT NOT ENOUGH! The distance between it and the Ships become a little wide.
They hold strong grits and make veins come all over their bodies.
It moves back a little more.
They grunt, let out an accelerating shout and sweat starts to form. The force from their beams increases but nothing changes.
Sweat pours out of them.
Baki and Gastiny shout as well.
The 4 shout with all their mights and the place shakes.
Everyone holds tight.
The vibration becomes super enormous and the attacks tear apart.
They stop and they all relax; laugh amongst themselves and chat.
"Oh my God." - Man.
"Wow!" - Man II.
"This shit was wild!" - Man III.
"I swear!" - Woman.
"OH MY FUCKING GOD!" - Aquinas.
"He's always doing something." - Mecca.
Baki chuckles.
Emelia faces her right and goes down.
Baki and Erika face themselves with a smile on their faces.
Emelia is sitted on deck, with her back against the left side of the Chair; her right leg is bent upward and her left, stretched out.
Her and Tempest pant.
Tempest is sitted, balanced on the Chair.
He laughs and she follows suit.
Their sweat completely dries up.
The people laugh and chatter.
Emelia stops her panting, looks to her upper left and her laugh dies.
She sees Erika laughing intentfully with Baki; tapping his right upper arm while doing so.
"Oh you're dead, man." - Mecca.
"She still talks about it." - Baki.
"Whoa!" Mecca goes with a slight chuckle.
Her right eye twitches while she watches Erika get closer and closer.
It twitches again and again.
"Forget about it." - Tempest.
"No." She says with grit and lets down her right leg.
Tempest puts down his face with a smile, and rests it on his lifted left hand.
He exhales with a slight chuckle and says...
"Oh God."
Suddenly, a force starts to pull.
Everyone in both ships faces front.
Emelia gets up and fully the direction the pull comes from.
"What now!" A man in Baki's ship asks.
The pull force gets strong and a Black Hole appears before them.
"What the fuck!" - The same man in Baki's ship.
Both ships get drawn in.
They spin vertically as they go.
The Crew shouts.
Erika holds tight on a struggling Baki.
Gastiny holds firm on his Seat, showing forth a grit while Chlorine lays with his front on deck; hands above his head, whimpering.
They get close and TM Happens by the right of the Hole, attempting escape.
Baki shouts, the ship beeps, stops its spins and launches forth towards the left side of the Hole.
It reaches, attempts escape but gets held in place.
Both Captains struggle.
"Arrg!" - Gastiny.
"Huarrgh!" - Baki.
"It's all fun and games till what you're greater than, becomes greater than you!" Baki says and Erika nods, letting out a cute affirmation sound; still holding on tight to him.
"Erika!" Emelia calls. She looks and becomes scared.
Emelia stares straight through her soul with deathly eyes, talking 'bout...
"Stay away from him."
"B-But I-I need the support!" - She replies.
Emelia tilts her head stiffly to the left and says...
"I don't care if you fly out! Get away from him!"
Erika feels pressure and gulps.
Then walks three steps back.
"Emelia-" - Baki.
"We'll talk...later." - Emelia.
Baki expresses shock.
"It was one hell of a talk." Baki confesses and she face front.
"Mmh." - Mecca.
The suction goes hard.
Baki looks. Gastiny as well.
They face themselves, hold and nod. Then face front and yell at once.
Their auras go berserk and the area shakes.
The people hold firm.
Their shouts intensify, their auras grow and cover their ships while the area vibrates out of control.
They let out the final, shoot it up and flash off with their vessels.
They go like never before while the crew chants.
Erika comes, hugs at the neck and kisses Baki on his right cheek. A beam comes through the right side of her neck to the left.
She expresses shock and collapses on her back.
"She die?" - Mecca.
"No." Baki replies while Emelia with stern eyes, brings down her jammed right index and middle fingers.
Baki doesn't bat an eye.
Both Captains remain sharp while their ships soar.
Eventually, the background changes and they find themselves in God's Swimming Pool, facing The he Flat Doris with a Firmament above.
"THIS IS A LIE!!!" - Aquinas.
"OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE!!!" - Garret.
"I WILL NOT!" - Aquainas.
Everyone watches in awe while Baki says...
"Some of them became believers that day."
"As for me, I was close." He says again while referring to the keen interest he put into the view.
A force draws them in and they scream.
The vessels reach the firmament and clash with their mouths into it. It holds them in place.
The force continue to pull and the Wheels shake.
Baki looks down on his and faces front.
The force succeeds and brings them into Doris. Glass particles fall with them.
They pass the stars, the sun and moon, into the clouds and beyond; towards the Ocean while vertically spinning.
They reach the waters and land with their bottoms. Great splashes erupt and a wild wave goes forth. Then they move.
Baki blinks in shock and says...
"That's bad."
Erika gets up.
"There are some isolated Islands ahead! They will serve as a wedge!" Gastiny assures. While does so, Baki shifts his eyes in his direction.
"Oh!" Baki goes and exhales in relief.
"The Prince doesn't know this!" Tempest asks and laughs with closed eyes. Then gets punched at the left side of the face by Emelia's right fist.
Baki, Gastiny and the majority of both Crews laugh. Erika shifts her eyes left and right.
"Trauma!" Mecca says and everyone laughs.
Baki and the rest quit their laughs. He sucks his gum twice and says...
"Let's go home!!"
"Yeah!!" They reply.
|Belt Empire|
The people go about their usual. Animals, Soldiers and Operators alike.
Some of the Nobles likewise the Heads of Houses, move about instigating fear.
Slaves are auctioned, sold, battered, forced and raped.
A normal day.
_10th September, 2010_
Baki and his people arrive.
A male teenager who works hard in the tidying of a boat, together 3 others of his kind (2 females, one male), looks up to his left and smiles. Then he says with the stretch of his left index...
"Look! It's Lord Baki!"
On both Ships, the Captains are sitted with elegance on their Chairs while Emelia and Chlorine steers.
The people around look and express joy.
|West Coast Harbor|
Soonest, the entire Empire and the rest of the World comes aware.
They raise praises...
"Praises to our Lord, for there is no other!"
"Hmm. They already giving you the God treatment." - Mecca.
The Ships dock.
Kelun, in the office of the House Head, is sitted behind a desk, doing paperwork. While Amara plays around on the ground with a toy car.
He looks up, sees her and smiles then goes back.
"Fuck it, what have I done!" He asks in his heart.
"Nto gi! (Serves you right!)" - Mecca.
The TV hung at the wall by his left, comes on and the female reporter declares while showing the footage of Baki with his people, receiving the praises of people...
"Give it up for our Prince! He won and returned!"
Kelun watches with bulging, veiny eyes and an open mouth.
Amara giggles and Kelun shifts his to her.
She goes towards the TV where Baki's face stays, bold.
She comes close to it, stops and jumps; letting out sounds of joy.
"Awwwn!" - Mecca and the Rest.
Kelun watches her with a slight grit together with stern eyes of awe.
Prat stands, all naked in a grand room watching the TV in front of her with a smile. She holds the remote in her right hand.
On top the bed behind her, covered with the duvet on the right side, a black man sleeps sound on his left side.
The Kotetsu's express immense joy in the Castle.
Kenmaru receives a white bag from a woman in front of him and looks to his right while she sits back down. He watches the people go wild.
"He's big now." - Mecca.
"Baki." - Kenmaru.
Baki walks receiving praises with Emelia by his left and right. They pass a junction by their left and see Kenmaru.
All eyes meet and their smiles die.
Baki feels something and faces front with a bright smile.
"Aniue! (Elder Brother!)" He calls with pride as he sees Kelun approach elegantly.
Emelia and Tempest stop while he runs ahead. He reaches Kelun and jumps into his arms.
"I missed you, Aniue!" He says out loud and drops.
They face each other. He blinks twice. Kelun does it once and brings his face towards the right side of his face.
He stops it at the perfect spot and says...
"Mother and Father...are no more."
Baki's smile ends and Kelun takes back his face.
Then he finds himself kneeling completely with his hands on the ground, in the realm his parents were buried, right before the Tombstone.
He cries and puts his face down.
Thick dust covers majority of the place.
Out of it, at his back right, Anarchy Happens and watches everything with her ISMs.
Baki cries it all out.