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Loda had left after Desert and what Loda guessed was his fiancee and retreated back to his own ship but stopped when he saw Arc. "Arc, it seems we are to get along for now but If I'm right both you and I have at least mild feelings of affection for Syori so that is one reason I don't like you but also I am suspicious of you, why would the Great Lion of the sea want to befriend a simple fish, if we are speaking through our mascots."

Arc just shrugged and laughed once in a cold manner. "I may like that Syori bird but It is my curiosity to team up with you for now. Just keep your eyes open and you back covered, I may change my mind like the wind changes directions."

"Shut up for a minute alright." He took out a needle and tipped it into the pull of blood. "Now let us see what blood type you are Syori." He tasted it and then got a bad look on his face. "Damn, not my blood type, not even close. I need a AB negative for this next part to work." He looked at some of the other crewmen and then his fiance walked in.

"You can use some of mine, it won't be a bother I hope." She looked at the cat then back to Desert. She rolled up her sleeve and took a seat.

Desert smiled and got out a syringe and poked it into Ayane's arm. "Thank you, I don't know how to tell you this much means to me." He smiled as he took out the syringe and placed it into Syori injecting the blood. "I am going to need a little bit more, not from you though Ayane, taking anymore would just give me another patient."

Loda turned to face Arc who had turned his back on him. "Why don't we have a duel. If you win Arc then you get my ship and the sword of the series of Samhain, well actually not the sword. It will eat away your soul. If I win you become a part of my crew and I get everything you own."


Arc nodded and held up his claw gloved hands grinning. "Sure but a fight like this will not let me go easy on you. Also if I win I get everything you own except for Desert and your cursed sword. you said it was a series you go and collect the rest of them and what ever happens I will have under my power."

"Agreed." Loda smiled and took out his gun, taking a shot at Arc right off the bat.
Arc jumped high into the air and sliced the bullet with his clawed hand and reached out to stab Loda in the throat which Loda stopped with his gun before blocking the other clawed hand by grabbing Arc's wrist but recieved a scratch over the eye and cheek.

Desert stopped Syori and hit her in the back of the neck to knock her out cold. He picked her up and placed her back in bed. Then, placing a towel over her head he went outside to the fight. "How much longer are you two going to do this, you just make her worry more. You say you have feelings for her but you can't even wait till she recovers before you do this." He turned away and went back to Syori.

Ayane was sitting at the end of Syori's bed and leaning on the wall. "You are very lucky, Desert rarely does this for just anyone." She looked at the cat and smiled warmly. "Besides, I feel like I have met this person somewhere before though." She shrugged and leaned against the wall and began to drift into a sleep.

Loda and Arc turned to face Desert and Syori once they heard Desert speak up. The two captains glanced back at each other before walking off, Loda jumping over the distance of ocean between his ship and the Black Lion, landing back on his own ship. "Syori, I want you to stay on Arc's ship and heal up, he has better supplies. Desert come back with me and open the flags to catch the wind more. I'll be around. We sail to the Cape of Good Hope of Africa." When Loda said he'd be around he meant in the secret chamber near the bottom of The Blue Pearl that helped speed up or slow down the ship.

Arc nodded and took Syori, turning his head away to hide a smirk. For now he got to have Syori with him, not that he'd harm her but he could try and get her to like him a bit better, hopefully. He wasn't going to force it. "Syori, come with me and I'll let you rest, I can sleep elsewhere tonight, you get my bed. It's cleaned often and I can replace the sheets and such if you want."

(Oops, should have remembered that detail. I can fix that.)

Arc stood up, now holding the sleeping Syori and gave Desert a glare. "I know she is asleep, but don't some people say things to those who sleep in attempt to comfort them?" Arc was grasping at straws, he didn't know if anyone would do that, he's never been near anyone who tried to comfort a sleeping person that way. He took one last glance back at The Blue Pearl and the koi fish carving at the front of the ship. "I will return your Syori bird back once she is in good health, when she is I will then begin to head in your direction but only when she is fully healed or needs you two badly for whatever reason." Arc turned and lay Syori on his bed, tucking her under the covers before leaving the captain's cabin and locking the door just in case the last remaining crews' attitudes and morale spoiled a bit. He went to the front of the Black Lion and stood on the nose of the roaring lion head before climbing into the mouth and curling up near the back of the throat, opening a compartment he took out some tea leaves and boiled them, he sipped on the tea until he felt sleepy and dumped the cup into the sea, rolling it over the top of the tongue of the lion's head and letting gravity do the rest.

Syori shot up and looked around panicking, she jumped out of the bed and went to move around but her legs were not working. She tripped and sent a bowl clattering to the ground the oud sound made her dart back to the wall but she was not excpeting the wall so she darted away from it, knocing over the table and the chairs it tok about three minutes before she finaly clamed down and recognised it as Arc's cabin. She let her self fall to the floor breathing heavly making sure she was still in her clothing. Nina purred, "That was probably the worst attack I've had in years."