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He began to wonder if they were still asleep until he heard a small "Eep!" elicited by what he was guessing was the fairy. Though her overly excited personality bothered him at times during the ride, it was an interesting experience. He had even begun to overhear her every now and then referring to him as Nom. He found the nickname odd but felt no need to suppress it.

Shortly after the fairy's shriek, the one brought to his ship by Tserof greeted him at the door. It would seem he was correct in assuming the state of the occupants inside judging from her appearance.

"We have landed at the mainland and will be staying at port for a little while. That is all." he explained before turning to head up on deck.

For those that merely wanted passage, he was sure they'd be happy to hear it.

The rest of the trip was rather uneventful except for Suika's overabundant cheeriness as she talked about whatever caught her fancy to Ariya. The sand came to a halt it would seem as they traversed a more wooded area for a bit before reaching their destination.

Reaching the base, one could see it was a decent size building. In truth, the building went underground for the majority of the building instead of skywards to avoid notice. Most of the rooms at the top were meeting rooms and the like.

As the Volsa members went to the meeting, Mia waved them off before turning to Ariya. She was about to speak when all of the Dark Claws assigned to their respective Volsa came out from their hiding spots. Some stretched while others let out a groan of freedom knowing they had some time to relax. The only perk they could say with having to accompany Volsa members was they didn't have to do anything when their was a meeting unlike unassigned Dark Claws.

"Ahhh~ About time we made it, time for a shower to rid myself of all this sand." a feminine voice spoke from behind them as she pulled the black cowl from her shoulders and began to fan herself.

"Heh, what's the matter Barras? Can't handle a little sand?" came another feminine reply causing her to scowl.

"Hardly the case, you barbarian. Some people prefer places with more life."

"What was that plant B*$%@!"

Watching the two begin to throw even worse remarks back and forth, Mia let out a sigh before returning to speaking to Ariya.

"Don't worry about them. They're always like this. On the same three man squad even. Just follow me." the little caster replied before leading Ariya away and down an elevator to reach her master's personal room. When the door opened, Ariya would see a vast amount of bookcases aligned throughout the room with books of various shapes and sizes, numerous equipment in the middle of the room used for tests more than likely, an area on the leftside of the room which looked almost like a lab, and an ironclad door in the back.

He was enjoying the praise when he saw her go to put her wounded hands into the salt water.
"!?"
He rushed forward to stop her as that would normally worsen the pain, but not knowing her mermaid features he of course was wrong. He stood there stunned himself as she healed.
"huh."
He blinked when she shattered the crab against a rock like a seal finding it somewhat amusing yet seemingly out of character. The allure of her request was too much to bear and the nervousness added to it.
"Sure, sounds fun. Better than the floating aimlessly plans I had... just one condition."
He smirked and walked up to her, placing a hand on her shoulder. His touch felt cold and he closed his eyes, whispering something. His form soon become ethereal and shiny as he finished speaking. A silver lion like seal faded into view on her shoulder as he faded away. He let a moment pass before speaking to her in her thoughts.
'You have a very cheery soul, I'll enjoy being your guardian.'
He gave a relieved sigh, her mood calming him.
'I'm now bound to you. I can merge with you and empower you or protect you from outside. As long as you live, i live. If you die, we both go to the beyond... except I can return. I'll try my best to help you avoid that. ANYWAY! NICE TO MEET YOU PARTNER!'
There was a mental image of him smiling in her thoughts.
'Lead the way.'

"Now that me mermaid is back we can head to that Elder Oasis Island I've had my sights on for awhile." The captain of the submarine nodded to herself, steering the craft so it wouldn't hit the wooden dock. As she watched out the window of Ruth putting down her anchor, her body guard came up to her, "Yer not making me watch the 'hip 'gain, I'm goin' with ye."
"Fine sir...." She sighed.
"Lassie! I"M A GOIN' TOO!" She heard her cat hiss, "I haven' been dry in months! And I'm sick you trying to lure me her to stay with that catnip of yours!" The Captain stamped her foot, "Then whom is gonna watchin' me ship while all of we's are gone hmm?"
Ruth tapped on the window and pointed to herself. Obviously while they were yelling at each other, the anchor was tied down by the mermaid.
The captain half smiled, "Then tis settled, Kitty you carry our food, but this time, PLEASE, don't eat it all for ye self on the way! Guard, as usually, carry the weapons. I'll be carrying the camping supplies." They walked up the steps together, the first one reaching the entrance/exit prying off the lid, and all of them jumping into the dock before sealing the craft back up.
((Aesthir the Winged, I hope that works for the post you wanted))

(He's on Nomaloh's ship)

"That's good to hear." she replied with a smile.

Seeing the excitement explode on Faylina's face, Kathrine's smile widened happy to see her in such joy. Letting out a small giggle, Kathrine made the motions to get out of bed.

"I'm going. I'm going."

Once dressed and ready to leave, Kathrine gave a bow to the other ladies of the room before traversing on deck. The cool ocean air greeted her as she stepped foot outside. She was about to leave the ship when she saw Nomaloh staring out to sea and went over to him.

"Captain of the Karras, I thank you for the hospitality of your ship."

In the shadows of an alley, a man watched the pirates of the Karras going about the town selling their stolen goods while the merchants turned a blind eye to it eager to take such valuables and sell them for a much higher price then what the pirates thought they were worth. The amount the pirates wanted was dismal to the true value of such goods. The pirates were happy to line their pockets with gold while the greedy merchants planned how to sell their new precious belongings. Such displays made him sick.

Planting members of his group among the pirates in their attire, he had them attack some merchants killing them while terrorizing innocents in a mock pillage. Guards began swarming in but the ones that had donw the damage mingled back among the pirates to cause blame to all as the guards threw accusations which the pirates began denying. Then to throw insult to injury, one of his group threw a dagger at a guard injuring his arm causing the guards to attack to contain the threat.

Meanwhile, the other section of his coalition gathered at the pier to give The Karras a "proper welcome". All of his group was prepared to die, if they were killed then it would look like The Karras's crew killed more citizens.