Welcome to Gaia! ::

::And he was stopped. The Doctor raised his hand up as if to say "Hold on", and then peeled back his collar and spoke into it.::

Verified?

::A crackly voice returned.::

Yesssshhhh ffassssher...zzt.

::The Doctor nodded turned back to Silver, lowering his left hand and kindly saying::

Please continue.

::And he would let Silver continue as he stepped forward and made his way to the massive steel doors and pressed a single red button beside the doors, and then turned back to Silver. The technical specs Silver was describing would be akin to a child today explaining how awesome his Atari is when compared to a PS3, or Xbox 360. Its antiquated, its old, and hearing about it is sort of cute. That would explain the smirk on the Doctors face as he patiently listened.

It would take about a minute and a half before the enormous clangs filled the room. It honestly sounded like shafts of metal the size of tree trunks were clanging against each other This was followed by a low and loud grind as massive gears the size of most entire vehicles sprung into motion and gnashed against each other. And slowly, but surely, the massive doors at the front of the tower began to open.

The Doctor continued to ramble but made his way to the coat rack and put on his fluffy white lab coat and offered Silver a small blue winter coat with a hoody and gloves in its pocket. He was human now, and it was extremely cold. For even as he continued talking...if he continued talking, he would be able to feel the biting cold slipping through the growing opening in the unbelievably huge door and snipping up his Yukata.

It was take another 3 minutes before the door was opened and the Doctor finally cut Silver off, but in a kind way.::

Yes, she sounds beautiful I cant wait to see her. Come, lets go outside.

::And with that the Doctor stepped out of the tower and into the black night that rest outside, his silhouette was visible as the red light from the red cross atop the tower shined forward on the ground and showed a clear visage of the Doctor waving for Silver to come out and enjoy the weather.::

Silver would continue to talk, even as the metalic noises filled the room. He would continue onto ever tiny detail, even begining to absent mindedly wandering into the magical aspects of the ship. However, when offered with the coat, he nodded and took it. It was a good thing he had the insight to wear his boats instead of his normal footwear, or his feet would have surely frozen.

"Why, thank you."

He put the jacket on, the gloves as well. Putting the hood over his head, Silver wouldn't speak again for a while, meerly in thought as he followed the Doctor outside. He gazed up into the night sky, staring upwards for a good moment as the tundra air chilled him. It was surprizing how quickly the storm had faded around the tower, but Silver thought nothing of it at the moment.

The boat gently moved sideways as the oarman pushed the small boat sideways. AS he did so 2 ropes dropped down, the oarman tied one in a ring at the back of the boat in a complicated looking knot as the older 'knight' as they called themselves in the front used the same knot on a ring in the front of the boat.

A rope ladder rolled out slapping against the hull of the large boat.

The two boys went up the ladder first, as he waited one of the women pushed him towards the ladder and he began to climb.

as each person climbed up the side of the vessel the rope creaked gently.

as he reached the top strong arms grasped his forearm and helped him the rest of the way up while looking at him puzzled. AS he looked around his eyes seemed to grow in his head, all around him were these 'knights'. The same armor as the 4 he had seen all gleaming in the dull light. All doing thier assigned task, the ships entire deck was buzzing with activity.

The boats constant swaying set him off of balance though these people walked as if they belonged here he was a little off balance while walking. The two men who had brought him here motioned for him, he still had not heard a word from them. Leading him to a set of stairs leading to a door they opened it, showing a dully lit interior of part of the ship. It was a hallway with small lights dotted on the walls. They led him down the corridor and down another flight of stairs before stopping. Pointing at a door one of them opened it and motioned for him to go in

"you'll be here until the captain see's you and decided what to do"

the young man said politely, but his words held nothing but polite formality, he was little more than weight on the ship it seemed for all the man cared, but as long as they didn't throw him off the ship he could be deadweight.

As he walked in one of the boys closed the door and he heard a light click as the bolt was set into place. looking around his vision helped by another light he saw furnitre, a desk chair and bed. Moving he sat on the side of the bed and lay back.

It was actually relatively warm in the room and he enjoyed the contrast from the cold outside. closing his eyes slowly he drifted into sleep.

"the captain wants you to come, wake up"

someone said near him loudly. Opening his eyes he saw an unfamiliar boy about the age as the ones before wearing the same uniform.

As he got up and rubbed the top of his head slightly he followed the boy out of the room. Their boots making hallow clicks as the nails in the sole hit the wood. Turning down a seperate hallway he knocked on a door.

"you can enter"

said a gruff voice, the captains he assumed. as they entered he found he was mistaken.

A soldier standing next to a woman sitting in a cushioned seat spoke again in the same resonating tones.

"is this the man?"

the boy nodded before saluting and leaving the man in the presence of the soldier and the woman who had to be captain.

She was lean, her skin darkly tanned and smooth except for a pale scar on her left cheek. she wasn't smiling at him but looking at her sword as if it were the most interesting thing in the world. and it was interesting, longer than the swords he had seen on this ship the hilt was silver with a basket on the front of the hilt. the sheath gleamed with a silver emblem, 4 spears crosing eachother making an odd type of star.

She wore a pair of dark shiny boots, propably water treated like the others. Her pants were thick black whool and her coat was thick and gray, much like his own it had white rabbit fir inside the hood and around the neck. Her dark brown hair falling down into the fir on the coat.

Her attention shifted to him in an instant though and he shifted his gaze as to not make her think he was staring.

"Why were you in guldor?"

her voice sounding almost girlish in large comparison to her appearance.

"Looking for a place to stay"

he said in reply smoothly, truthfully.

"but why would you want to stay in a place such as this?"

she said again motioning towards the small porthole behind her were snow was falling lightly

"It's like where I used to live"

he said trying not to lie to much, he didn't know what she knew and what would happen if she found out he was lying.

"can I have my weapon back"

he said hoping she would allow it but she shook her head

"I don't know you, nor can I trust that you won't attack someone in my crew."
she said lightly.

"I don't care who you are as soon as we hit port again you're getting dropped off, you can do as you wish until then, don't step out of line"

she said motioning for him to leave. He did so without making comment, she had a weapon he did not. whether she was a woman or not if she was a captain she could fight, so he wandered the ship, he didn't know how long it would be until they hit port, they weren't even moving yet, but he didn't think it would be a very good idea to get lost in the boat.

he wandered the great ship for an hour or so before he heard something interesting. The shouts and clash of blades and wood that might be heard in battle. He entered the doors that led to the sound and found himself in a small training hall. A mat in the center for sparring where spars were happening. Captains that he could now recognize fighting 2-3 even 4 knights at once and most of the time coming out on top while the captain watched looking for knights to take officers places if the need became important.

As he watched he laughed as a man was thrown halfway across the room by a well placed kick of one of the knights. It was a mistake he realized as the officer glared at him. He could fight well but he wasn't sure if he was strong enough to beat one of these officers.

As he reached the officer the man smiled warmly, though his eyes gave away his anger at being laughed at by an outsider

"is there a problem"

he said quietly

"no....er no sir just watching the fight"

he stuttered remembering the honorary title 'sir' just barely.

"why don't you join us and do something other than wander around?"

the officer insisted shoving him towards a weapon rack holding wooden weapons for sparring.

"I guess it couldn't be a problem"

he said trying to please the people he would rely on for awhile.

pulling out a blade that looked much like his own but smaller and made of wood he grasped the leather wrapped handle and moved onto the mat where the officer he had laughed at grinned at him holding the wooden short sword.

The officer moved forward quickly and brought his blade into a vertical slash. Matt pushed his blade up and hit the officers blade moving to the side and making a quick stab at the officers side. The officer moved quickly bringing the crossgaurd of the blade into the way and pushing matt away. Matt moved quickly to the side of the officer and slashed hard horizontally bringing his blade at the officers throat where it was stopped but the officers sword, the moment the blades hit matt dropped down and swung his heel around slamming into the officers heel. As the officer lost balance and fell backwards dropping his blade to catch himself matt moved, kicking the blade away and dropping down onto the officers chest with his knees holding his blade against the mans throat before getting up and letting go.

Moving back he smiled as the officer stood up grunting and mumbling angry curses afraid to do much more than that in front of his captain. But the captain wasn't watching from her usual seat anymore. Laughing she had clapped her hands slowly as if applauding and moved in front of him a wooden rapier in her hand.

"ready for a real target?"

she said joking moving right as she spoke. Her blade whipped forward into a short stab that hit nothing but air as matt moved. Bringing his blade down on the rapier blade trying to knock her off balance he grinned as he darted forward blade held to stab. But she seemed to be a blur as she moved out of the way and put her foot out tripping matt. As matt fell onto the floor with a dull thump and a woosh as the air left his body he felt the p***k of the wooden rapier tip against the back of his spine right below the base of his skull.

Laughing she walked off without comment matt rolling and putting the blade back, before walking quickly out of the room and back to his quarters angry that he had lost to her.

Pah...zheres only so much you can do vith a rotten egg.

::The Doctor said as he stepped forward toward the wreckage, he shuffled through a bit of wreckage until he came upon a tiny piece of wood from the wreckage, a tiny piece of metal from the engine, an even smaller piece of liquid which he smeared into a tiny vial along with the bit of wood, the bit of metal and he lifted the vial up to the red light with a smile before tucking it into his pocket and making his way to Silver.::

Itz all in zhe spice Mr. Moonblade.

::With that he walked past Silver and back into the main facility. Where he turned around with a bright smile.::

No time to play in zhe snow, ve've losts of vork to do. Come vith me!

::And with that he made his way back toward the elevator where he would wait for silver whilst swishing the vial in his hands. When Silver entered he would press the button for the 86th floor and sit in wait as the elevator took off toward his lab.::

He walked onto deck, the captain was standing where she usually did when nothing was happening. Leaning against the mainmast while her feet rested firmly against a rope ladder leading to a platform above her.

As he walked by she halted him

"take that bracelet off"

she said sharply speaking of the bracelet on his right arm

"Can't"

he said casually not looking at her avoiding eye contact. She was fierce but annoying with how gung ho she seemed to be.

"and why can't you?"

she asked sarcastically

"not something you need to know"

he said a little more sharply then he had meant though it got the point across as she glared at him. The hair on the back of his head prickled lightly, as if she were staring into the back of his skull.

turning he walked back the the main stairway and went down back into the interior of the ship before he made her even angrier. He walked back to his cabin, already he was beginning to recognize parts of the ship, as he walked in and closed the door he lay down and dozed off.