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Lydia groaned to herself as the group she was chasing began to split up. The shy one had run off by herself somewhere, and the pirate imposter girl managed to split off from everyone else in the confusion. Fed up with those two in the first place, she decided to even the odds a bit and simply pursue the boy. He was the one she wanted to fight originally anyway - men were always so much easier to defeat. There was no way that ditz with the ribbon was ever going to find her way around the lower levels of the ship anyway, so either way it didn't really matter much. Letting Makie and Tomoro out of her sight, she tore down the passage after Kurai, finally pursuing him without any distractions on either side.

"You can't run forever! Your little girlfriend isn't here to get in the way now, so just give up and fight me already!" she called out ahead of her, dashing through the corridors as quickly as she could in an attempt to catch up.

God, what a pain in the a**, she thought to herself. I almost don't even feel like fighting anymore. Stupid kids. I'm going to give someone the beating of a lifetime today - I don't even care who.

" Gordon! I told you to stay put! Here I find you talking about fighting styles and giving raptor rides. Wheres your warrior spirt Gordon? You don't need help. I dispatched them easiuly before and so can you." Shepard said coming from around the corner. He smiled as he cracked his neck.


Gordon rolled his eyes. " This is Celeste and her daughter Joy." Gordon said pointing at both at them. Shepard seemed uninterested. He started coming back the way he came. He stopped suddenly and turned back and stood next to Gordon ready to fight.

Mergex appeared next smiling. He held a girl by her wrist. " Little b***h tried to stab me. I broke both her hands. But now lets get rid of the trash and get down to busniess" He said sliding the girl torwards them.


Gordon picked the girl and layed her her against the wall. He turned his focus back on Mergex. Shepards blue aura started to show while Gordon's red one did also. " I'm not here to fight you..you see there have been some others planning worse than me. THey plan to unleash an army of shaows upon the world soon. I suggest you get stronger. These people are strong." Mergex said the smile fading and turning into an angery glare.

" Why should we believe you? You just broke a poor's girl's wrist." Gordon said angerily. hIs fist clenched and his nails dug into his skin. He tryed to control his anger. He couldn't risk turning into his "dark" form. Not yet.


" Believe me. If i had the power I'd kill them I would." Mergex said smiling before his body liquidfied and shot off through a crack in the wall. Gordon looked over at Shepard who was thinking. He knodded to Gordon and they put there defenses down.

Joy watched all the excitement happen with indifferent eyes. Her happy level went down to normal, the violence sparked some interest, and she looked at the little girl with broken wrists. "Mama..." Joy turned her head to stare at her mother, sending comforting vibrations her way. She knew her mother couldn't stand it when a child was harrased.

Celestial stood still, her legs spread, her hands by her side fists clenching and unclenching. Her Violet eyes lightened into a crisp, angry controlled glare. Her jaw was set and one corner of her black-painted mouth was turned down.

Her hand was tingling, aching to back hand the guy who had done it. The girl may have tried to stab him, but he only needed to knock her out.. not break her hands. Her fury was mounting, disturbing her daughter to no end. The comforting vibrations were soon corrupted by her fury.

Celeste stomped over to where the girl was. Forcing herself to take a deep breath, she smiled at the girl, her eyes darkening once more into a kind and warming gaze. "Hello there, my name's Celeste, it's a pleasure. Cand I see your hands?"

The little pirate girl nodded sheepishly, brushing her eyes on her shoulder to hide her tears. Celestial took the pirate's forearms and gently examing the break. It was nice and clean.. she could tell without even using her healing magic.

Slowly, a white shine illuminated the girls' limbs. Gently, Celeste prodded with her healing powers, growing bone spurrs and connection nerves, burning away any sign of infection and healing muscles. Releasing the newly healed hands, she patted the girl on the head and then spun around, a full-on glare, 5 times worse then her daughter, fury seeping from every pore of her body... just in time to see the man vanish into a crack in the wall.

Celestial let out a long stream of curses, all of which Joy sensed. Joy burst out laughing at her mother, shaking her head at her mother's childisness. Although... htose curses would be useful later.

Lydia, already more than tired of small talk and stupid tricks by this point, simply glared angrily at Kurai, her hands twitching impatiently as her daggers flicked back and forth with them. She took a few steps closer to him, wondering why he seemed so reluctant to fight. As she walked toward Kurai, she began to subtly wiggle her hips back and forth, humming a tune in her head and dancing along with the beat.

Let's see what kind of man I've cornered here... If he's as abnormal as he seems, he won't get distracted by the dance and we'll be able to have a good fight, she thought to herself.

...If he actually fights at all... she added as an afterthought.

"You're cornered! No more games, no more talk! Now, we fight!" Lydia yelled as she lashed out with one of her daggers, pivoting in time with the music and spinning around to slash at Kurai with the other as well.

"If you put up enough of a fight to amuse me, maybe I'll tell you where your pretty little friend is being held!" she grinned. Maybe that would get his blood pumping a little.

Kurai seeing no response other then her begining a small dance with some fancy dagger movements Kurai's eyes began to wander a bit. "funky... funky..." Kurai nodded and then lowered both of his hands into a semi-defensive position seeing she won't be stopping in her small dangerous walk twoards him.

ok... ok... so she obviously don't like the idea of talking huh.. Kurai nervously tapped his forehead and then fully brought one of his hand in front of his face and the other hand, the right one fingers slightly curled and ready for any movements of the daggers.

"You're cornered! No more games, no more talk! Now, we fight!"

"I noticed..." Kurai spoke up with a slight smile. why me... Before Kurai noticed Her steps seemingly on cue with her own lil beat she poduced leaped in a strange yet exotic and slightly seducing manner twoards Kurai. Kurai not ready for such a strange yet sudden movement Kurai stumbled backwards in a wild dodge flailing his left hand into the air bonking his head backwards on the wall which he forgot was so close behind him. Once feeling the hit on his head Kurai quickly reached widly with his left hand to find something to grip on.

Fourtantly for him There was a nearby tube to who the heck knows what was used for which he gripped onto tightly with and then swung himself twoards the right making some akward knee bent steps twoards his direction, the daggers cutting some of his hair off. Kurai throwing himself to the right released his grip on the tube and rolled about the ground before he could push himself off the ground with both free hands.

Kurai frantically brought himself against the other side of the wall in the narrow hallway.

"Man... so dishonorable.. an amazing female warrior like you fighitng a man who is disarmed!" Kurai said with a smirk and a shrug of the shoulder. he then remembered he picked up a dagger from the other female and then looked at his belt. Quickly he looked at it and chuckled nervously.

"never mind. " Kurai said rubbing the back of his head and pulled it out. "Ok! well uhh.l you still have two you know!" Kurai said with a somewhat grin, His chains shook about his body as he leaped back into a defensive position this time with his right hand holding a dagger in front of him.

"If you put up enough of a fight to amuse me, maybe I'll tell you where your pretty little friend is being held!"

"Oh for goodness sake! Why would i care where that 'pretty' princess is being held?" Kurai groaned and then bit his bottom lip. "wait.. i do want to know.. never mind..." Kurai then tossed the dagger in his right hand upwards once and then caught it again.

"But man... you sure want to fight real bad don't ya lady? this certainly isnt just to shoo me off the ship eh? whats the matter? I suppose to other crewmates just dont give you enough excitment?" Kurai smirked and then gave the dagger which he held in his right hand a few twirls.

"Fine fine..." Kurai then slowly brought up his left leg onto the wall behind him and gave it a lil push to leap forward a bit trying to stab her abotu with the dagger.

"I can dance too lil gal..." Kurai said mocking her feet movement by trying his best to keep with her own lil beat she created.

Kurai took another wild step backwards, he was glad to close the space between Lydia and himself with that push between the wall and her, otherwise he would have done again and hit himself on the back of his head.

"Pirate shmirate. Your right.. Honor ain't somehting ya pirates are too fond of i forgot." Kurai chuckled. Each time he hopped about with her battle dance his chains which warpped about his body gave off more jingles. "But mannn you certainly are one of em more active pirates aren't ya?" Kurai said trying to keep his words together and still have enough mindset on how she was going to attack. Going around in her lil circles certaintly didn't help either.

"It looks like your blood is finally boiling, boy. I hardly ever see any action around here. Play nice and give me a good fight, and if you survive, maybe we can talk about visiting your cute little friend. Let's see how well you dance!"

Kurai chuckled at this. "Visit huh? Man.. it almost sounds like you have some 'honor' into this fighting eh? Or is this just one of em. 'pirate' deals?" Kurai asked as he slowly twirled the dagger he held in front of him some more. "KEEY!" Kurai yelled out in some fear as her feet seemingly floated off the ground and made a wild lunge twoards Kurai's body. Kurai's own lil dagger shot upwards trying to fend off both dagger she had in her hand. This proved very difficult with only one blade against two which could reach about anywhere in Kurai's body. holding up his other hand to push the one blade he only had against the two proved difficult repeatidly Lydia's ballerina like movements thrusted back and forth at Kurai's single defense. Each Strike shuffled Kurai's feet backwards, Already Kurai forgotten how to dance like Lydia and instead was doing a dance of life and death.

"Clam down Gal!" Kurai yelled out angrily and with that said the next strike Lydia did struck off his dagger and off it went flying through the air clattering to the floor into the dead end which Kurai once stood. Kurai with no more defenses wildly covered his head and made a quickly wild run twoards Lydia herself. Hoping he would have shoved her off with some wild and reckless defensive manuever. Unfourtantly doing this Kurai retrived two very clean cuts about his arm.

Kurai quickly leapt backwards and examined his wounds. "Ohhhh hoo.. dangg..." Kurai looked at them and smiled nervously. A gasp of air came out from his mouth as he shook his head about getting the hair out of his head. Two crimson lines along his arms dripping blood down onto the cold steel floor of the airship.

"nice nice..." Kurai then brought back his defensive stance of his left hand covering half his face and his right hand straight back at Lydia.

"fine fine..." Kurai smiled. "Come at me again... i think ill stick to my own dance this time..."

Daze, Tiff, and Kiyowa slowly walked down the hallway. They went pass room after room after room, it seemed like a maze. Daze took the lead with Tiff at least one step behind her and kiyowa two steps behind Tiff.

"So how are you Daze?! And how is Maxi, June, and the whole starfish crew?!"
"Im fine! The crew is good as well! Lately we have been getting alot of nice members! Maxi is still the perverted pirate we all know and love and June is still trying to get Maxi's attention.
"Hehe, Just like the good old days."

Daze and Tiff both giggled as they thought about the past. Even though Tiff was a Starfish Pirate for 2 weeks, it was still pretty crazy and whacky. Tiff then looked over at Daze's wings and smiled.

"So how are Shadow and Luna?"
"Oh...their fine!! I've been finally able to control them...well, not totally. Luna seems to be obedient towards me and the others, but Shadow on the other hand, still needs issues to work out."

Daze rubbed the back of her head and gave out a dull chuckle. Tiff just giggled and blushed, while Kiyowa just silently listened in. For a few more minutes it grew quiet again. Their pace seemed to be getting faster, maybe they were almost there. Tiff just looked at the ground, then at Daze...she couldnt hide it any more, she had to know.

"But seriously Daze...how are you?"

Tiff's tone sounded more concern.

"Fine, Fine..."

Daze then looked at the ground. Her hair covering her eyes. Kiyowa knew where this was going, so she just kept quiet and decided to let Tiff handle this. Tiff just sighed and looked straight on ahead without looking into Daze's eyes.

"It's ok Daze...I know, it happened to me too."

Daze just froze for a moment, and looked at Tiff. She was afraid that she might say that.

"It happened during Holloween, I presume thats when it happened to you as well, correct?"

Daze just gave a melencholy stare towards the floor.

"Yes...that's when the Ouroborus and the ancient 7 sins tatoo's appeared on my body...Do think that the other Majinculous could have went through the same thing?"
"Possibly, but what my question is, why now, and how was it triggered...it doesnt make any sense..."
"Do you think it was a sign of some sort?"
"Maybe...but I have a bad feeling about this...something just doesn't add up....hmph, maybe the plan is finally getting into action..."

Tiff just smirked at the thought. Kiyowa just sighed and decided to ignore the conversation and Daze gave no signs of emotions. Letting go of the thought, Tiffany turned to Daze and Kiyowa a gave out a huge smile.

"But lets not worry about that now! We have plenty of time to think about it later, right now we have to go rescue Ai!!!"

Seeing Tiffany cheery again, made Daze happy. Daze just smiled back and nodded. Suddenly the trio came to a halt. In front of them was a door, and Daze just smiled. She then turned to Tiff and Kiyowa and gave the thumbs up sign.

"We are almost there!! We just gotta get across the deck and *bam* we are in Maxi's captian quarters!!"

Daze then opened the door, and all that can be seen was pure bright light. The three girls then stepped onto the deck and took in a deep breathe of the outside air. It felt so good! The birds were chirping, the air was clean, the sun was bright, and the weather was just right. Tiff stretched out her body and started to take a few steps forward. It felt so good to be outside again. Daze just followed Tiff with Kiyowa right behind her.

The girls were about half way through the deck. Tiff felt tension rising, she was about to see Maxi again. All she could think about was how Maxi was gonna lay all these lame pick up lines at her. Her thoughts were cut short however. Tiff sensed something coming straight at her. With great spead, Tiff managed to dodge the object. The object was a dagger that had the initials Aug on the handel. Suddenly a snotty laughter could be heard from above the captian's HQ. All three girls looked up to see who it was. Daze just sighed, Kiyowa shrugged her shoulders, and Tiff just sweat dropped.

"Long time no see, Miss Savior!"

The young girl then jumped down from the deck and ran up to her dagger and pulled it out. Tiff just smiled and gave a response back to the girl.

"Well, Well, Well, it's nice to see you too...August."
"Well, so you do still remember me!"
"Why wouldnt I?! Anyways, you need to let us through becau..."

Tiff tried to walk pass August, but August blocked her way.

"Oh no you dont, remember, you made me a promise that one day we would have a rematch and see who truly was the strongest out of the two of us!!"
"Oh ya, I remember!!"

Tiff just smirked and cracked her hands.

"Well, I guess we can do it now..."