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[ ? ? ? : Caribbean Sea : Black Pearl ]

As the Pearl slowly entered the deadly storm, the currents grew intense, lightning streaked across the sky, the wind and thunder roared...

No... that was an actual dragon's roar.

Another flash of lightning lit up the black sky, and the illumination revealed the source of the roar. Streaking through the stormy sky was a strange, serpent-looking entity... all too familiar to those who had been present during the Replica Riot at Beast's Castle. The source of the roar was none other than the 'dragon' formed from a combination of massive spears, and upon those spears stood the same three Nobodies: Xaldin, Luxord, and Larxene.

"Know despair!" Xaldin roared, his voice carrying like booming thunder as the trio came upon the Black Pearl. Without warning, the Spear-'Dragon' roared once again, this time releasing a powerful stream of wind across the entire deck, powerful enough to sweep anyone off their feet and forcefully knock them into the railing if their guard wasn't up in time.

[Joe: Caribbean Sea: Black Pearl]

The male heard James. Everyone was preparing for this storm, though Joe thought nothing truly of it. This was just a storm on a ship. He went overboard? He's just swim. Wasn't a hard concept for him.

Of course, what with the giant dragon of doom decending on them as Joe unwrapped his legs and hopped off the railing, one word popped into his head. And quite prominantly, too.

F***********************ck.

His own wind kicking up as he guarded and braced himself, Joe hardly moved with the gale, his feet only moving a few inches as he was braced and his own wind was fighting and pushing back. Oh, he did not see this coming. At all. He was getting rusty, already, apparently. Leave it to a video game to throw in a random twist at the unsuspecting heroes.

[Amy : Angel Grove : City]

Amy raised a hand to her forehead, shielding it from the rays of the sun, as she considered the small bit of commotion in the distance. She wasn't too far away from the building, certainly within eyesight, but she couldn't quite catch what everyone was saying.

It was hot and bright out, and she could feel a sunburn threatening to appear. Not an enemy in sight, either. She moved for the church building, aiming for a glass of water.

[Jenny :: Caribbean Sea :: Black Pearl]

Jenny was in the middle of moving herself towards the center of the ship when the roar bellowed angrily through the sky. That can't be good- she thought as she automatically turned her head to look behind her. All she got was a glimpse of a dragon, and three figures she could hardly identify before her vision altered. The mage watched the sky sweep past her eyes before landing painfully on her bottom. It was then that the ship decided to lurch, throwing Jenny onto her stomach.

"Not cool!" Jenny gritted her teeth as she dug her nails into the knotted wood of the deck to keep herself somewhat steady. Of course, I need my hands to cast most of my magic. You suck life. She could feel the splinters biting into her skin but it didn't compare to the fear that gnawed at her stomach, the fear that she could possibly drown if she was knocked back any further. Why here?!

{Leon : Angel Grove : City}

Leon had remained mostly silent after the replicas disappeared, despite their efforts, they had succeeded in destroying an entire city block. Though the damage was definitely kept to a minimal since it seemed like their intent had been to destroy the whole city. In between fighting off the groups of Heartless and Tengu that would show up, he would just be leaning his back against the wall. His gunblade leaned against the wall next to him as he looked down at the floor his eyes closed, deep in thought.

'I couldn't protect this group, or this city... Just like what happened at the Garden. I'm not fit to lead this group, I didn't even want to lead a group.'

His eyes opened as his head raised as he looked around at the group of earthlings, his gaze observing, questioning before he turned it away again to look down at the floor.

'These kids are far too obvious for their own good. I wonder if I would have had these issues if I had gone on my own...'

His attention turned to Kyla as she said that she was going to go check on something and then go to the base.

'That's just a reckless decision...'

He pushed off of the wall and grabbed his gunblade before making his way over to the group. He wasn't about to let any of them run off on their own, despite how much he wished he wasn't stuck watching after them.

[Anthony ~.~ Caribbean Sea ~.~ Black Pearl]

Anthony had nearly drifted off to sleep when suddenly he heard the great roar of the dragon as the Pearl began to rock violent up and down, causing him to flip out of his hammock. "Holy apocalypse, Batman!" he shouted as he quickly recovered from the fall. "What was that?!" The boy quickly scampered to his feet and rushed to the deck just in time to see Sayrike flip overboard and three individuals leap off a dragon and land on the ship.

"Sayrike!" the warrior-knight cried out!

Purely instinctual, Anthony grabbed a coiled rope on the wooden floor beside him and dashed to the frontmast of the Pearl, sloppily tying one end of the rope to it and the other end around his waist, then leaped overboard, much like how he first leaped onto the Challenger with his arms and legs cycling through the air, and splashed into the ocean.

"Sayrike!" Anthony cried out again as he resurfaced, coughing up some salt water. Oh, how he despised salt water... Though the violent winds and waves would've made the swim much more difficult for the boy, he found it to be relatively easy. However, he didn't give it much thought as he credited it to his newly found abilities and the persistent nature in which he tried to reach his friend. Luckily, Sayrike hadn't drifted that far from the ship and Anthony was able to reach her without using up too much energy fighting the current. He reached out and grabbed the girl's hand and pulled her towards himself, then wrapped his arm over her chest.

"I got you!" Anthony shouted reassuringly over the roaring winds as he held onto the rope with his free arm, both bodies being dragged across the water by the ship. As they were being dragged, the boy noticed something strange beneath the water. At first he thought they were giant sea creatures attempting to nibble at them as if they were bait meant for big game, but at a closer look he realized how wrong he was... "What the deuce?!" Anthony shouted in surprise. "Don't freak out, but I think there's somethin' fishy goin' on here!" he said to Sayrike, whom he continued to hold onto tightly.

[???? : Angel Grove : City]

As the group of Earthlings focused on setting Headquarters and helping the people of the city, a figure, that at first appeared as a speck of light, flew from the volcano. It flew at incredible speed towards the headquarters that had been made. Just as it would of came into view of anyone outside, it unleashed a massive Flare onto a building near the church that had been aiding the Earthlings. Though no one was in the building, the shelter blew up at impact of the exploding spell, causing debris and glass from the building to fly in all directions, likely to hit anyone who had not been inside or protected.

After the explosion, the figure started to float down, to land in front of the destroyed building. As the figure came down, whoever was outside would be able to see what appeared to be a young woman with long green hair tied back in a ponytail. She was wearing a red dress and boots with a purple cape that moved in the wind.

When the woman landed her back was to the church entry, but she appeared to look over her shoulder, waiting for her targets to come out.

[Carribean Sea ~ Black Pearl]

Noelle could have sworn she heard someone call her name as she drifted between dreaming and reality. It was one of those irritating states of sleep where she couldn't fully drift off. Just as the rocking of the ship was finally starting to lull her back to sleep an unnatural roar could be heard from outside. She heard someone else in the room shout something about Batman before flipping out of her own hammock. The blonde drowsily got up, trying to keep on her feet as she raced for the top deck. She didn't know what was going on but it wasn't hard to tell that things weren't good. As she came up on deck the cold of the wind throttled her back to being fully awake. It was a good thing too, because she found this situation to be too risky to be sleeping through. The agromancer hardly noticed as her dress sphere adjusted for the chill of the storm, equipping her with her jacket as she summoned her spear. She looked around, seeing that she had ended up coming into things around the middle because most of the others had been knocked back to the railings. She stood on guard, knees bent.

'Prepare to be useless, Human.'
What?! You jerk, what are you--
'Don't be a fool, your strength is magic! Don't get yourself killed trying to fight one of these guys in hand to hand combat!'
Yeah shuddup, I'll be doing whatever I can to help whether you like it or not.
'Fine, your funeral. Tell me, how many healing items do you have?'

The girl cursed herself. She had none. Maybe she was going to have to be a little more careful then she previously intended. Prote was up on deck before the samurai could shout his warning. He phased, drifting through the ceiling up onto the deck where he materialized, also near the middle of things. He looked about blankly, not taking stance or forming a weapon.

Jack glanced between the nobodies and Barbossa, a slightly apprehensive expression on his face. "Oi . . . you're captain."