On a sunny evening in the seas of the southern hemisphere, waves were violent as the results of the crying ocean, Five battleships in various sizes of 325m to 263m engaged a single 100m sized ship in battle,a light skinned skinned individual with short dark hair in a long grey coat was standing on the open enjoying the view and the violent sea breeze as he stared at the gigantic sized ships.
"Captain ! , we've been firing none stop and none of our attacks have done a single damage...huf ! huf! ,but on our end only four out of nine battle ships remain..."Bang'! a shot fired, coming from a pocket filling pistol a man who was standing by the door drops on the floor from where he was standing as addressed the person from the inside, his flowing blood made trail all the way from the door reaching underneath a desk inside the cabin where the shooter was the trail ends at the shooters long dark boots, the man wearing them gave orders.
"Alert all the captains tell them to fall back... and throw his body to the ocean on your way out." A musculine voice came out of the full bearded man in a brown long coat with a silver insignia.
His other subordinates didn't hesitate nor question him but did exactly as asked.
Even though he had managed to keep his cool the man was devastated by his looses, not only did he lose his people but all his efforts to take "him" down had now gone to waste.
Two of the five remaining ships were submerged, while the other three were torn to pieces over five thousand bodies were floating on the seas as their blood had turned the seas red, the sea creatures had started appearing lured by the cent of blood.
" Retreating after interfering with my business hahaha !... Kyle send these pirates to the underworld will ya."
"Aye Captain!"
The man in grey gave orders as the black flagged battleships were pulling back in sign of retreat, a gust of wind blew as another person a formally dressed gentlemen with short silver hair raised and reached out his hand " Wind hurricane !..." a calmed voice came from the lips of the blue eyed nobleman as commanded.
The four ships were pulled together crushing each other to pieces the waves became more violent as the creatures came, the sea creatures found a blessing amongst chaos as they tear apart the sinking ships ,the fleet Commander and his captains could not manage to avoid their brutal fate and accepted defeat. The people responsible for these damages sailed away to avoid the current harsh waves from causing any type of damage to the ship's weakened defences, the ship with the crow jolly roger sailed away.
In the Southern Region
Somewhere in the southern parts of the ocean, within the boarders of the Migalo kingdom one of the nine powerful kingdoms in the southern region, a wrecked ship was spotted by a person sailing on a boat.
"All this cargo !, did the ship get attacked by the sea monsters or was it targeted,..if it was the target... why was all this cargo left like this !?" The person was muttering to himself while sailing towards the ship, a humanly figure was spotted as the person got closer only to find a female floating on top of a broken door seemingly belonging to the wrecked ship.
The female was dressed in a long torn up fancy blue dress , her long wet brunette hair covered most of her face , bruises and small cuts all over her light complexion arm.
"She seems to be still breathing." The person mutters checking up on her before lifting her and carrying her inside the boat.
After some hours later the young lady opened her round brown eyes , to find herself in an unfamiliar room, she first scanned and analyzed the room.
The room was small with the small dresser next to the bed with a lamp on top of it, the walls were covered with papers filled drawings and writing, the drawer facing the opposite of the other one was filled with research information. She could still tell based on movement she was still in the seas.
As she continues to look around, a young man enters the room , her eyes met his, the young man was tall, dark skinned with a hair cut "Didn't expect you to be up so early !" the young man spoke with a relaxed comforting tone of voice.
She immediately snapped back to her senses as she was about to get up she suddenly noticed she had different set of clothing than she had previously, ' How did I get to these clothes' She thought. "Who are you ? Where are my clothes and where are you taking me ?" She said with a harsh yet concerned tone of voice, her arms were covered with bandages, along with her left cheek covered in bandaid.
"Your dress was soaking wet so I changed and dressed you with my spare of clothes, don't worry I didn't do anything inappropriate...but I do apologize for any offense and touching you without permission. My name is Yanga." He said as he extended his arm for a proper greeting.
After a moment of awkwardness with just her glaring at his eyes, Yanga pulled his hand back as he received no response or reaction, "I've made something to eat so if you hungry you can help your self, and your dress is hanged on the outside line maybe it's already dry by now, you've been out for a while." He said still feeling the awkwardness then left.
After sometime the young lady joined Yanga in the diner, "I wanna apologize for earlier,you were trying to help me and I was being rude not to thank you ...thank you...I'm Melissa". She said while pulling the chair to sit down, "I understand, it's no problem..it's nice to meet you Melissa". He responded while fixing her something to eat.
The boat had been sailing for hours and still had few more to reach its destination, Yanga and Melissa had free time in their hands with nothing to do... trying to break the silence Yanga asked Melissa about the incident,to which she responds "I was trying to get away from someone when I hid into a cargo ship headed to the main land , but the ship got caught by a massive storm and I happen to get lucky and survived."
"I see !...so your headed to the main land ?, I'm actually going a different direction. " Yanga said. " Where your headed ?" She curiously asked, " Hout Island , I'm looking for someone, actually I stubbled upon something interesting so I wanna get this guy I'm looking for to go get it." He responded, she glared at him for a moment with a face full of curiosity.
"You said you were running away from someone, does that have something to do with your bruises and stretches ?" Yanga asked her not out of just curiousness but with a face full of concern his expression could tell without one needing to ask.
"The people I'm...I don't know ,I think the lesser you know the better." She says looking down as she walks out the door she stood by after getting up, she stretched her body trying to relax her muscles whilst enjoying the breeze she felt from the ocean.
Yanga didn't push things over and respected the young lady's decision as to not pry into her business, " When we reach the island you can have the boat ! ," he said standing next to the door with his arms crossed, "I appreciate it...I know it's silly to ask after not giving answers to your question,but like you I'm kinda curious to why you headed east, I kinda saw the papers in your room." She said turning to face him , "Treasure hunting !..." he responds.
"I'm on my way to meet someone a soon to be friend if I may say..." .
"Your a treasure hunter ?" she interrupted.
"Sorta..." He responded, "Which guild are you a part of ? " She asked.
" None ...well... not anymore, think of me as a free agent." He hits back.
"I see... " She says and did not ask any further, her eyes were filled with wonder and curiosity but her guilt could not allow her to voice out her thoughts, she couldn't answer one question of his what gave her the right to be all over his business she thought to her self.
In a certain hill middle of the forest in Hout Island a young man pulling a heavy carriage seemingly getting inside a rundown workhouse ,inside the house was full of steel of all kinds of weapons and armours.
The young man is visited by a young female from one of the nearest Villages seemingly around the early age of her twenties, "You working hard as alway...Kai!". She says dropping a heavy bucket.
" I brought you your order!" She continued.
"You shouldn't had, I was about to head down to get it... must've been heavy." The young man says with the sound of laughter in his tone.
"It's nothing, I needed to clear my head anyways." the female said while she tours the workhouse feeling the hardness of the amour with her fingers as she silently admires the work of this young man.
Three figures came from a distance ,as they get closer the three men are seemingly carrying weapons.
Kai had taken notice and had already sensed the malice brought by the trio, "Asa !" He called out. " Will you do me a favor...?" He says " What is it ?" She asked.
"Get inside that room whatever you hear do not come out or make any sound...can you do that for me ? " He said, looking worried she nodded as words could not escape her mouth.
The three finally made their way to the workhouse, Asa did as she was told and only Kai was at the sight of the three men, "Can I help you gentleman ? " He asked wiping his hands with paper towels, "Yes ,we heard about a blacksmith that conducts business around these parts ...we just came to tell you that your business is now under our protection, so from now on all you gotta do is pay us that protection fee and have no worries about any thieves or bandits within the area that will try to do anything funny." One of the three men explained the situation as the other two were standing guard.
"Im sorry if I gave you the wrong impression but,if I need security I will put out a request in one of middletown's guilds." He responded.
The men glared at each other and a sound of laughter broke out, "I don't think you get it young man ... We not asking you we simply telling you." One of the guys said drawing out his axe. "You the ones who don't seem to be getting it...I don't know which merchant guild sent you but if you don't leave my property...you might end up like the previous ones that had been sent before." The three launched an attack with their weapons drawn out, two were carrying axes as their leader charged with a blade, calmly Kai took two steps back and reached for his forging hammer on top of the table behind him.
He parried the blade of the seemingly leader, dodged an attack aimed at his neck by an axe as he countered with his hammer aiming lower breaking the guy's leg.
In the eyes of the young man the movements and attacks launched by the three were slow which made them easy to parry and dodge as he had expected, the leader saw he stood no chance and called for a retreat, Kai did not persuade the matter as he considered it a headache and allowed them to escape.
"Is it over ?" Asa asked as she came out of the room after a long moment of silence.
" Nah ! they'll be back." He responded getting back to his duties.