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A very dark pub for pirates and mercs that have perminant resident as part of the crew come to hang around, drink, gamble or just have a classic bar fight. Though it is allowed it is not often wise for anyone who is not a sky pirate or mercenary of the sky fortress sagittarius who enters here is not particularly welcome unless they have a good reason and a good amount of money to hire someone, if they are so stupid to come in terwise they can be expected to meet alot of trouble as this is prefered to be a crew exclussive area, though it is an unwritten law of sorts.

Junichiro was rather bored in the fortress, surrounded by what most of the world would regard as the filth of society. This however was not where his bordom originated, it was that he was seing the same faces day in and day out, and while his brother was now out on a mission that was taking surprisingly long to finish he had very little to do and very few people he had the will power to talk to. Junichiro in most situations would just go work or train, but too much of that can be a bad thing, and so he made a visit to the jackals den.

He yawned as he made his way through the front door glancing around aimlessely. All the men and women who noticed him respecfully made gestures of common folk such as slight hand waves, crude smiles, nods of the head, quite litteraly the kind of stuff you would find of those living in the less fancy kind of lives. Though members of the sky fortress were more well off usually than they let on and this was just natural upbringing habbits the crew had developed from one another over time. Junichiro simply smiled back to his crew as he made his way through the bar.

There was nothing new or special here for him, though after a short while he came to the part of the bar where gambling was at its heaviest, full of drunken big headed crew men who had money but not brains. Junichiro noticed someone new, someone young. Most of his crew were usually older, given though ages varied. Junichiro took an interest as he recalled a new applicant to the fortress and logically thought that this kid was likely to be him since this whole bar was specially made for his crew. He casually walked over with both hands in his pocket and stood quietly and motionlessely just to one side behind the boy.

He motioned his head just next to his and whispered. ''you will have a hard time making friends with the crew if you just go picking up people money without thinking of trying to find the owner you know.'' Junichiro said in a calm but mature tone of voice, he had that sort of aura about him as compared to his brother Asura. Junichiro then pulled back and layed one hand on the boys shoulder. ''It is however up to you what you do with that money, I was just giving friendly advice...I am guessing you are the new guy who applied to join my jolly crew, If so then introduction are in order I would think, I am you'r knew captain, Junichiro Watanabe, the other captain you will be other is my twin brother....Asura Watanabe, and you are?'' Junichiro asked politely with a friendly tone.

((Intersting personality combo for you'r swords, its a similar relationship between Junichiro and Asura, Junichiro being the righteous brother and Asura being the more sinful.))

''Im sorry me, my brother and some of my crew are nto native to this land...I do not know much about these lands, this fortress is from a very secluded kingdom that likes to stay hidden from matters of the rest of the world and stay quite to itself.'' Asura said as he stepped back and gave the boy some room. Junichiro noticed his excitement as he rambled on quickly through topic to topic. Junichiro laughed happily at the boys enthusiasm, but not in an insulting way.

''Well regarding you'r training...most of the crew is not suited for teaching, myself and my brother both are skilled in the art of alchemy, but duel swords is not really either one of our preferences, and Asura is away so he can't really train you since he is away on a mission. If you really do want training from us however you really would need to be prepared as our methods of training can be rather harsh.'' Junichiro said in a seriouse tone of voice, but not to intimidate but to make his point that he was not joking around about it.

((got my characters from myself, i make all my characters based from a fragment of my own personality and fill in the blanks around that accordingly.))

''Well done, seems you are not just some rude punk afterall, I like that...just because we are sky pirates does nto mean we are horrible murdering theives...sure some of us may be but it is not something you have to be...remember that...'' Junichiro smiled in a friendly manner as he spoke quietly in a very calm tone as he gave advice to the new crew member. ''Well now that we have that out of the way I better let you in on you're training'' Junichiro reached behind him grasping a chair and pulling it back as he sat down.

''Take a seat and I advise making mental notes....Sky pirates as you can imagine opperate best in the air, and as such alot of our time goes into making ships and bettering them, though we are capable of vehicles on land nd sea also....but in the air it is rare that we are out matched...now actual combat between one another without vehicles of some kind, we are still capable of because ships can be boarded and we do need to prepare for that.'' Asura paused held his hand in the air and snapped his fingers together, as his hand then opened a bottle of beer flew across the room into his hand.

Junichiro placed the beer on the table and pulled the metal cap off with his bare hand, not a hard task, but still Junichiro did this compulsively. ''Now you said you want sword training, I can offer all the training your require including weapons, but I will be using my weapons of preference to give you the fullest effect of weilding a weapon....and whether you like it or not as a member of my crew you need to be able to skillfully pilot a vehicle...and if this fine with you I would like to sort out a vehicle for you as proof you are a full fledged sky pirate of the sky fortress sagittarius.'' Asura quickly raised his beer and downed the whole thing and throwing the bottle across the room where it smashed somewhere.

''If you manage to complete pilot training then the rest will begin, understood kid? If you agree to thes terms you will be a member of the crew, though not completely until all initial training is complete, now if you agree, please follow me to Hanger B where we can arrange a vehicle for you. Come on over when you are ready, just don't make me wait to long alright?'' Junichiro stood up and casually walked out from the jackals den holding his hand up and tilting it to the side as a sort of salute, wave mixture as he left for Hanger B.

Junichiro lumbers into the bar hunched over with a fatigued expression on his face. He rubbed his lef shoulder while tilting his head and sighing as he made his way past the drunken crew members almost like he was doing a routine dance as he seemed to almost walce in and out between them predicting each ones drunken movements. He evaded glasses flying through the air chairs swinging past his head and even the odd crew member being hurled across the room as though he had lived it all before until he eventually made it to the bar and instantly dropped on the bar stool and crossed his arms hitting his head down on them and remained stationary for a few moments.

After a minute or two had past Junichiro raised his hand slugishly and called for the barman and ordered two sake's which were promtly made and delivered, the barman also doing an impressive job evading any commotion that came his way. The moment the sipping cups of sake touched the bar Junichiro in a lively manner rose up and downed one of them letting out a pleasent sigh of relief and simply held the other and sipped a small portion of it. He spun his stool around and examined the usualy commotion of his crew knowing it was all in their own fun, he then realised however he was expecting another new arrival to his crew, this made him sigh in somewhat dissaproval since had spent a great deal of time training one crew member not too long ago which in turn made him down his second sake to try and keep his motivation up as he then scanned about the bar.

He after a shirt period of time began realising a section of the bar was crowding around a particular person stood up on a chair, Junichiro then saw that it was a younge female who was very....very loud. This made Junichiro think instantly, ''Oh lord...another roudy one...'' Junichiro scratched the back of his head and made his way from the bar over to the crowded area lightly moving his men aside until he made it to the front of the mob where the girl stood tall over them on her chair. in a calm but somewhat lazy manner spoke out to her, ''would you happen to be the new crew member I had been notified to be arriving today?'' He looked up to her speaking while making eye contact with his one visible eye as the other was covered by a black eye patch.

Junichiro though to himself, ''the mannerisms and speech is appauling...'' though with this in mind he held a calm and friendly face as he shook her hand firmly. Junichiro then spoke out, ''yes I am the captain, well, joint captain. My brother Asura is the other captain and is currently out on a trip.'' Junichiro let her hand go and cleared his throat and shouted to the crew surrounding him and nelci in curiosity. ''Alright back off now! Its not the first time you've seen a women you pack of animals now go take your roudyness elsewhere and go back to you're own business!'' The crowed began mumbling and complaining as it was rare a female would join the ranks at the fortress, not that there wasnt any, but the population of women was very low by comparison to the males as this line of business and life style was not a popular choice for women.

As they dispursed Junichiro made his way to the closest table with the least amount of damage or litter on it. ''Take a seat, I would like to discuss a few things with your here, namely how this place operates and how you will be spending you're time as a member of this crew. Junichiro kicked the chair opposit him from under the table moving it just out from under the table for Nelci to sit on. Junichiro then whistled and glanced over his shouder to the barman and waved his hand in a manner he used frequently to make a quick order of drinks. He turned back to Nelci and spoke quietly, ''I hop sake is to you're liking while we discuss things.'' In a few moments after speaking the bar man hastely brough over two large bottles of sake and returned to the bar as quickly as he arrived.

Junichiro tried to speak but immediatly haulted as he watched Nelci chug down the bottle of sake and instantly rambled off into a string of questions. To top it all of his expression still just seeming more blank and confused she ended up becoming rather serious in her final questioning which finished Junichiro as he now sat there jaw hanging and spaced out staring somewhat into space blankly. After a few moments he shook it off and drank a little of his sake and tried to maintain composure to the strange girl and kept a quiet and calm manner of speech. ''I will try and answer those in order....My brother is currently in the water kingdom, I have no idea when he intends on returning, and I already told you what we need to discuss...how this place operate and how you intend on living here as a crew member.''

Junichiro sighed drinking a little more sake thinking to himself, ''She is already ignoring me...this is going to give me a headache...'' Junichiro sighed and put the bottle of sake down and resumed answering what she had to say. ''Well observed to the lack of females and the over population of males, but this is not a life style many women find appealing which is why there are very few. Also regarding you're....um.....physical traits, flaunting them around a crowed like this will cause too much commotion please keep that in mind and do try to control yourself.'' Junichiro glanced away for a moment thinking to himself, ''I am dreading the thought of Nelci and Asura meeting...'' Junichiro then cleared his throat and took a deep breath before resuming.

''In any case it is indeed time we get down to business, and will you idiots stop throwing things around us!'' Junichiro shouted mid conversation looking around the bar causing a large quantity of the crew around the table to freeze for a few moments before taking their seats on the table near them and talked somewhat more calmly and acted a little more civil avoiding annoying Junichiro further. Junichiro then sat back down drinking more sake and looked back to Nelci, ''I appologise for the crew, this is just how they are...Anyway how the fortress works, simple enough, we all work as a team and everyone gets along as though family, this however does not mean arguements and fights still dont break out if you had not noticed already...'' Junichiro glances around to make sure they are still at least trying to behave when near him and sips a little more sake.

''This fortress is basically a safe haven, we are technically a neutral force and we take jobs as we see fit, the only law on this fortress is what me and my brother say is the law. The law of the outside world means very little once you come here and that includes you're status, you can be the strongest richest man with the highest status outside this fortress but when you are on herre the only ones you need to really listen to are me and my brother unless we state otherwise. However this is still a community and we run normal day lives on here so we make businesses in the market place and other area's but we make most of our better wages based on going out as guns for hire. You do not have to take a job if you do not wish but if the fortress give you a job then you pretty much have to...any questions so far?''