Welcome to Gaia! ::

To say Tomoko was useful in a time of panic was an overstatement. In fact, it was a lie. Certainly when s**t had gone down, the Kitsune crawled up onto the deck from her hiding place below-deck (safe place for her ball was safe) to see what was going on!!

The kitsune clutched the ball of stars to her chest as she watched th-

OH GOD, TENTACLES.

Most japanese creatures probably had some ingrained tentacle reaction. Especially little girls. Like Tomoko. Who stared at them. In abject horror. Was the angry demon going to be starring in an impromptu porno?. The thought was vague in the Kitsune's mind before she .... had no idea what to do. Damage s**t? She didn't even know how to bring herself to using a whip ever!

Which was just sad, to be honest.

But none the less, it seemed a good time to put the sharp object she'd just been handed to use.

...
.....

Though she did swing it about while it was set on one shoulder to try and figure out how it was supposed to be used. Unfortunately, the kitsune accidentally fired it off in the wrong direction and hit something else instead.

Something a little more wooden.

And Boatlike.

".... ;_____;"

It might have been customary for one's life to flash before their eyes as they were yanked off of a boat by a giant purple tentacle, but nothing like that really happened for West. Instead, he was reminded of Trixie's overly enthusiastic leg-grabbing and Riley's creepy gesturing hair and all he could think to do was bellow with rage. Prior to this moment, the demon had simply been mildly skeeved by tentacles. Now he was forever disturbed by the things.

West wriggled mightily, holding his right arm in the air and trying to disengage the stupid squid with his left.

"GETTOFF GETOFFFF GETTTTOFFFFFFFF!"

West kept whipping his body back and forth, hitting at the tentacle with all the strength he could muster. Sadly, this caused the squid to squish him tighter for a moment. Maybe it thought they were dancing?

"I hate you," he told the thing. It didn't respond.

It had taken Sepheran a while to find the harpoon he had fire, unhook it from the boat and reset the thing once more. He really needed to remember not to hit the boat, it took forever to load and he didn't want to risk a leak or something.

Moving back to his spot he looked at Tomoko who was also doing her best to save poor West who squirmed for his life. Right! If you fail keep on trying! Hoisting the gun up once more he steadied his aim and tried to fire once more.

"LET HIM GO!" Sepheran cried out before pulling the trigger once more. This time it looked like it was going to hit...but the tentacle moved just in time escaping his hit...drat!

Sepheran hissed once more...why wouldn't the tentacles stay the Jack still?! Sepheran was not at all happy, stupid squid...but at least he should be thankful he wasn't the one being attacked he supposed...

Reloading the gun once more Sepheran began to try to prepare yet another shot. Surely someone had to be able to save West right? Luckily it seemed another crew mate had appeared to help. Thank Jack, Sepheran was beginning to wonder where everyone had gone off too when they were clearly being attacked. He should have known something was bound to happen on this trip, especially after the Christmas Town Raid.

Aiming his shot Sepheran fired again. Please let it fly true and hit it's target this time Sepheran silently prayed...

Boom, Clang,...

Another hit against the poor ship no where close to his target...Sepheran grumbled to himself and slightly to Liannan telling her to aim for the squid not the ship.

Once more the Basilisk had to retrieve his hook from the the poor ship. He patted the wood lightly whispering soft 'sorry' as if the boat was a real thing. Sure it wasn't living but he was just hoping the boat wouldn't get pissed off and throw them overboard...it could happen, at least Sepheran thought so. When it comes to the school he did knew the impossible could happen and he didn't want to take the chance.

After he retrieved his hook he prepared it once more setting it into place in his gun before looking up tilting his head ever slightly so it was easier for him to listen to Liannan's instructions. "Where is the arm?" he asked as he aimed. Seriously, you would think with it being so big it would be easier to hit...

Taking aim Sepheran tried firing once more hoping for better results. Unfortunately his aim was still off...but at least he didn't hit the boat?

The flinch her hit caused unfortunately for Mandy caused the grappling hook to yank out of her hands, toppling her backwards. Landing with an 'ooph' she gave the departing tentacles a snarl and returned it's shaking fist. That's right you flee squidy.

Sending the tentacle one last glare she turned her attention to where West was now, not having really thought ahead more than tentacles = bad. Jack, the ocean. He better not drown after all that effort or else.

Hearing the compliment her fellow student gave her she let a small satisfied a smile flick across her face and a small utterance of "Thanks." before turning back to where the pile of hooks lay. It wasn't like the others where actually here using them. That'd be too helpful.

She was having words with Barth when this was over.

Scooping one up she ran back to the side and rejoined the effort to get West up, taking aim and wondering how one could be careful with a grappling hook.

Well. I guess you could completely and utterly fail to hit anything but water like she just had. That was safe.

Stupid gun. Her last one was better, lucky from being bathed in squid blood. It wasn't that she sucked at aiming guns at all when the target was so much smaller. Not at all.