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He let her lecture and go on, feeling no need to respond in kind to her words. He had his reasons and that was plenty. But he also understood why she was so upset and knew it would take her a bit to get over her anger. Thus he removed himself from her presence and went back to scrubbing the deck.

Startling in surprise as Chy bit the dust, he took a deep breath. The bird's energies were far from lifeless and he knew it would take a lot more than that to destroy Chylithair. That didn't make it any less startling. And then Savvy was back up to her old tricks and he was suddenly in control of a snorting, pawing Nightmare. He so hated horses. Holding the reins to keep the horse at least under the illusion of control, he let her toss whatever it was she had and monitored her energy levels. "Don't overdo, Savryn."

Eilynne was watching it all with a serene expression. She conferred with Rahsaveer once more and then watched as Fang's ship was literally tilted on a wave of sand, moving left and then right, faster and faster and faster. Fang wasn't moving forward anymore because whatever forces were controlling things had formed the sand into a bit of a cinder block, stopping the Serpent neatly. The ship continued to rock, tossing men and anything else free as it groaned mightily and very nearly capsized. At the last possible second, it settled back on the sand and began moving again as if nothing had happened minus whatever it had lost.

Bouncing and giggling as things began to pick up again, she honed in on the struggling thing in the jar moments before it was bounced into the sand by the rocking movements of the ship. "It's leaking..." That was gross. "A treat for the icky scaly things. Now it's leaking in the sands..." Which would mean lots of sand sharks or whatever else were coming to gobble the wounded creature up. "Boom."

He continued shouting at pirates in various nonsensical lingo that sounded close to the actual but only enough to be funny. The pirates ignored him for the most part, a few lifting their heads and giving a chuckle now and then. Cyvalor didn't care, he was rather enjoying stomping around deck and yelling.

Fang saw it hit the dirt, and cursed lightly.

"All hands, Brace for impact, use the washes. Make ready we're about to have company."

The crew worked dilligently, neverminding anything else, and Fang picked up his things and looked at the Gale Claw. she was out of gun range, but she wasn't going to be out of range of what was coming. serves them right.


The sand bulged massively, and the little jar was soon swallowed in a black fanged pit. tentacles the size of ships, sporting barbs in such numbers thrashed up through the sand, slamming the Serpent and finding only wood. it bellowed and the tentacles slunk back into the sand, but the surging sands soon slammed up under the Gale Claw, slamming along the deck, almost noticably going after Logan and the little gold...while others seemed to be acting like feelers, shifting in the air like they were looking for something.

"I can hold it for a while." Ears twitching though at the sudden changes in the ground around them. "Kelligrin, eyes, now." Something was happening and it sounded big and nasty and she didn't want any part of it, thusly giving silence energy made commands to bring about her creature. Now she was at a disadvantage with things and she didn't like it.

Gem couldn't help but give a laugh in victory a bit. "Serves him right, I'm not going to die here or by that things hands." Though things were getting really bad really quickly and she saw it coming. "Brace boys!" Keeping from falling as that impact hit. "Get to defense boys! Fire cleanses all!" Grabbing hold of Cyvalor as he had rolled by her from impact.

Nodding lightly to him, "We'll be safe." Though safe was a relative term it seemed as things quickly went down hill as...something came at them and instantly started to wreck havoc. She reacted on instinct, sliding Sky off her back and rounding around the front of the ship, pouncing on the squid with electricity still lacing her talons that were duly sunk the creature as well as fangs, wings flared for balance as she clawed.

He could say he was amused by all of that really. Fang pushed everyone's buttons it seemed. Even him though knew the danger that came from what he clearly recognized. Giving a growl he turned in the sand and in quick strides was over with a stream of black fire. Frankly he didn't care if the white got hurt or not by any of it because there was a greater worry here that had to be delt.

"well. you don't see that everyday."

looking through his spyglass at the Gale claw, Hunter gave a small smirk.

"Serves her right for being so uppity and wanting to get out so fast. but we're in no position to help...it's out of range for us."

though taking a look at the sails.

"Mister Richards, see if we can coax a bit more out of these sails. Better late then never."


the squid let out it's bellow, but wasted no time at all. this creature ate dragons, and it was going to prove how deadly a predator it was. Jae's talons tore into flesh, and the reaction was the tentacle she had hold of snapped around her, the barbs piercing and already starting the effect she'd be quite familiar with this time around.

The flames got attention, tentacles flailing on fire and one diving under the sand, before several decided apparently that a good offense was the best defense, lashing out and attempting to grab hold of the black dragon while one was slamming around on the deck of the gale claw, sensing a little gold snack was there still someplace.

the sands spread a bit to reveal a huge gaping fanged mouth that breathed horribly rancid breath, already attempting to pull Jae to it, and exposing jut barely the hint of eyes...before it was slung away and buried down, and implosion taking care of that predator.


Fang cursed under his breath, and set about getting his crew together. the black was certain to come down on his head for this, but it had no been his intention for what just happened. that had been the fault of whatever had decided to suddenly lurch and near capsize his ship.

"We'll keep our distance boys. get our things in order for now, there's no point trying to sail if all our gear is going to be shifting around down there. the last thing we need is a munitions fire."

Logan looked at the commander for a moment and he grinned, a lonely fang poked out as if to say hi. "Trust me, this weapon is a lot more stronger than it looks Commander." Logan then quickly moved out of the way as the large tentacle decided to come after him again. "After this is done...I want answers." He didn't know that this was to be expected, Gem owed him an explanation for all of this, the squid, the sudden moving sands, everything.

With a thought to see what was going on Logan went higher, his eyes scanning the surface to see what the creature was doing and what he could do to stop it. So after putting his Gun away Logan decided to change into his dragon form, but before he could even start it the large beast was picked up and thrown away before the sands took it again and then...it was gone for good. With a puzzled look Logan set himself back down on the deck and made his way to Gem, there he set his hand and claw on his hips and looked at her, not with an angry look but one that was just confused. "Okay Gem, you have me as a temporary crew member and just awhile ago things were fine. Now in the span of a moment we faced doom with Fang, his boat got rocked by the sands themselves, and now a squid bent on making me its dinner was thrown away and sunk before being destroyed." He cocked an eyebrow and paused for a moment. "So whats going on here?"

"Adaptations to the environment to survive." Shaking his head and watching as the action more or less just died. "The squid grabbed onto that white dragon but it looks like the red one is taking care of her. She looks hurt pretty bad though." Wincing as Jae's scream affected his sensitive ears. "Squid thing is dead by some supernatural power. Maybe those small creatures with the stars in their eyes? And the other ship is leaving."

"But I don't have fire." That was worrisome since that might cut down on his usefulness. He was still being held but that was just fine with him, he liked being against Gem like that. She was warm and snugly and he knew she wouldn't let anything get him. "Yeah you scaly rag! Call her Cap'n and show some bloody respect." Giving a nod to punctuate that. Then he frowned at Logan and shook his head. "Don't ye have eyes? It 'sploded."

"You should not have interfered." The Laerethe were communicating between themselves with no one else capable of hearing the conversation. Even the Seon's were blocked out.

"It was requested."

"By whom?"

"I am not at liberty to say."

"You know the Rules-"

"Save it, Eilynne. It was allowed. The time is coming and our freedom is becoming more absolute. Restrictions are lifting, don't you feel them?"

She flexed her fingers once and nodded. "Beware of the Line, Rahsaveer. Lest you overstep and displease."

There was but one focus in the world right now. The ship could sail off for all he cared. He paid no attention to the shadow that suddenly loomed over them and Logan merely got a curt answer. "No." No, she was obviously not alright and that scream made him visibly cringe, stomach tightening into its own set of knots. It did not look good. Not only was the blood hideously red against pale skin and gushing out between his fingers, there were pieces of broken scaling that were lodged in the wounds because the transformation didn't accommodate for such physical stress. He took care of the lesser of two evils first, tying cloth around her stomach and then pulling her into his lap to stop potential flailing that could cause more harm. "Sshhh..." The only kind of comfort he really knew how to provide. So he alternated between those soft sounds and occasional murmurings of her name in her ear as he carefully picked broken pieces of scale from her thigh. There had to be something he could do, something to help the pain at least... He had to get her back to the ship soon though, they weren't very safe out here and he needed water and whatnot to clean the wounds more throughly.