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Oriens Academy [Phoenix Game]

There was nothing heard on the other side. All seemed calm, and fine on the Cargo Ship, well for a few minutes anyway. No, the peace wasn't meant to last as a new group teleported onto the ship. In total, there were five new individuals who boarded the Cargo Ship.


Two of the force were two large abominations, which stood at 8'3" feet tall. They both opened their jaws, revealing serrated iron pieces, which were sharpened into fangs that replaced the teeth that these creatures had. Their yellowy skin was visibly stretched, as their faces showed all the arteries and muscles beneath, and their eyes were completely pale and devoid of life. They were completely un-affected by the metal scrap on the ground, as the soles of their feet had iron soles grafted onto them. Metal was woven throughout their bodies, as to the point it almost appeared as if they were armor, with flesh woven in, instead of the other way around. They opened their mouths as they licked their own maws, with rotting purple tongues, which visibly had something crawling within the tongue itself, as flesh moved about.


Behind them was an individual, who was dressed in hooded black robes, that had two skulls on her shoulder plates. She peered forward, revealing a mask, which gave her a cyclopian red eye which continued glowing. She flicked her finger, as the corpse of the Gecko Bruiser who was in the cockpit, was writhing back with life. It's arm, which was destroyed from the explosion made a snapping sound, as it worked fully again. The hand, which had been pierced, was now having it's own flesh twist around it, as it was sowing itself back together. While that was going on the Gnome's head snapped back up, as the Gnome opened it's mouth and allowed the blood to drip from it. The two of them shambled back, towards the new group, as if they were just learning how to walk again, which, was probably quite true.


The fourth member of the crew was a Lamia, who had a large barbed hunting spear which was slung over the back of his chest. He had a short black beard, and cropped hair. He raised himself up, with his dark green scaled tail. He peered forward, as he took off his barbed spear and aimed it towards the individuals in front.


And finally the fifth member of the boarding ship was a dark brown fur covered Bugbear, who had an ear piece in his right ear. He stood at 7" feet tall. He was wearing chain-mail armor, and had a large black square shield on his back, and a spiked cudgel on his right side. He cracked his knuckles, as he retracted his claws. He opened his mouth as he smiled a tooth grin.
 
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"Well, I guess that settles it." Richter said, entering the closest hall. He'd ascend the next flight of stairs he could find, and go straight to the top.


"Fluffy, come out and play~!" he called, running his fingers along the walls.


"It's greedy to hog such wonderful things to yourself!"


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"Lily, what are you even doing back there? You aren't do-" Anya had removed her fingers, and crept around the crates to view Lily, letting out a tremendous gasp.


"He got up and left without us!" she pouted. "Lily, I wanted to see him go all accordion; why didn't you call me?"


"....Did you get a haircut?"
 
Curtis turned around as the newest wave teleported onto the plane, "Oh, those guys? Yeah, they look pretty hardcore... I dunno, you sure we can't just, you know, talk this out with them?", he watched over as the two corpses rose back to hellish un-life "They seem like reasonnnnevermind."


"So, uh-", he looked over at Skyia, "-you think they'll let us surrender? No? Maybe? I'm guessing no."
 
Skyia just looks at this new barrage. Welp... this isn't good at all.


She shook her head. " N-no, i don't think they will. " She said, looking at the group, trembling around with her spear, the brightly colored lamia bringing her tail in closer to her body. Just trying to prepare herself to fight back now, how even does she fight these guys?
 
Richter successfully made it up the stairs as far as he could. The flight of stairs he chose led to a dark brown door with no windows.


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Meanwhile, back at the dining hall, Reggie quickly parried the blade, and punched her square in the kidney. Her eyes watered, as she vomited onto the floor, as fell unconscious, in that same vomit. The room had no more combatants able to battle the party.
 
"A door?!" Richter asked. There was only one way to deal with a door in the way, and that was a boot kick directly into it; there was no time for the stealthy approach.


He jumped into the room after the door, carrying a freshly created halberd with him.
 
"..... There's..... nothing....."


-What... does this mean... why isn't there anyone on the other side...?-



Azure looked toward the others


"This..... this probably isn't good..."


That's when everyone else came aboard... it intimidated Azure especially with the two disfigured beings.


"Uh....."


As the two that were slain previously came back to life, Azure realized what it was that the cloaked elf must have been doing, but not without freaking out a bit as they passed by as they regrouped


"... ugh..."


-Necromancy..... this is..... terrible...-



He looked over the others sizing them all up. Although the 3 giant members of their gang were incredibly dangerous in their own right, the true danger was the elf. He realized that as long as he was at the very least conscious, they wouldn't be able to stop them, as he could reform them. He was definitely of the highest priority. He went over toward Curtis and Skyia.


"If they weren't shooting at our airship earlier, I would of wanted to talk this out... but... I think they intended for us to die, even though they said they wouldn't hurt us..."


-Is this what pirates are? I heard from Kylier about these sort of things... but I think she downplayed how it really is...-



Azure looked toward the wand for a bit, he wasn't certain if there was anything in there at could help him, his real issue was getting to the necromancer. He's effectively has 4 undead teammates, and he thought, that the fire he had gotten earlier would work greatly in stopping them, but... he probably wouldn't be able to get close... that's when he looked to Curtis.


-I... can support him, and give him the fire fists... gloves that that gnome had done earlier-


He talked quietly to Curtis and Skyia


"I have a plan... if we can't avoid fighting..."


Azure stepped forward a bit, still keeping some distance between him and the Pirate Possy.


"What do you want, why are you attacking us with your airship and you guys..."
 
And Richter found himself in a kitchen. There were several pots and pans, which were still soaking inside the sink. There was the smell gruel which permeated the kitchen room, and most of the knives, axes, and other carving tools were hanging in place. Another door opened, as out stepped a Red Oni, who stood at 7'8", who was wearing a large white's chef hat. He stared at Richter, as he grabbed a massive meat tenderizer, in one hand, as his veins bulged out from his chest. "FRESH MEAT FOR MY KITCHEN! GLORIOUS DAY!"





Well, something was clearly happening on the other side of the Dining Hall, as the furious yelling indicated.
 
"Well, uh, um...", Curtis pointed at the boarding party and swallowed hard.


"Uh, HEY. HEY, YOU GUYS! YEAH, YOU!", he said, "You better not hurt anyone, or I-I'm gonna- I'm gonna... do... uh, do... stuff. I mean it, you guys! You should- you better get ready! I'm gonna... mess... you up? Is that right?"
 
"Don't be a fool!" Richter pointed his halberd at the Oni.


"Vampire meat is rough, despite being naturally aged, unlike a normal human's! You're no gourmet at all!"


The vampire spun the halberd over his head before pointing it at his foe, then extending it, firing the head towards the demon.
 
Reggie, dagger still in hand, shook his head as he dragged the woman away from the pool of her own vomit and sat her up with her back against the wall that she may not choke on it should she continue puking. "See? Told you guys I could handle it. No one that interested in a sword for its price alone will ever be a challenge for me" he said as he retrieved Belarios from the floor, the blade coming lose with a single tug, and replaced it back in its sheath. "So, now what? My idea only went as far as boarding the ship and taking out everyone in here". A bout of loud yelling gave him an idea of where he might head next, however.
 
The Oni glared at Richter as he slammed his tenderizer against the halberd shot smacking it to the side as it banged up some pots. He flipped his tenderizer as he held out the jagged edges of it towards Richter, "You just don't know how to work with a tougher cut! First you need to TENDERIZE THE MEAT!" He rushed towards Richter as he swung the meat tenderizer to strike him in the torso. "Don't worry, I will make sure to braise you. Though, of course I will need to fillet you first. But first I shall see how tenderizing your flesh goes, before switching to carving the flesh."  
The Lamia responded, "Give us the pilot of the vessel. Do so, and I will not skewer you on my spear. Perhaps even allow the vessel to land safely." The Gecko and Gnome zombies, quickly realized how to walk again, as their shambling increased in speed as they went to the left and right side of the Necromancer, respectfully.
 
"Well, it's done," thought Lily, still laying against the crate, "She's safe for now. She doesn't have to be an adult yet, and she shouldn't need to be. She's too young for this sort of thing."





Lily remembered the day she became a real adult. It was much like what Anya was going through now, except there were more people and she didn't have a friend to help her. But this time would be different.


The Alraune nearly jumped when Anya had called out to her and peeked in on her from behind a crate. If the Neko had been there but a few moments sooner... well, Lily didn't even want to imagine the scene she would have witnessed.


Lily got up, obviously angry, grabbed Anya by the shoulders, and pinned her to one of the crates. She didn't even hear the new boarding party come in- she was too frightened and furious to even consider anything else at the moment.


"Anya... I told you to stay in the corner. I told you to close your eyes. I... I told you not to wander off. What. Are. You. Doing?"


Lily wasn't shouting. She wasn't screaming or yelling. Her voice was horrifically soft and menacing like the low growl of a tremendous beast before its roar.
 
Robin glanced at Zhuoru, as he simply nodded. Zhuoru began slithering off in the opposite direction of the kitchen. "Well, Zhuoru will engage in scouting duties. I will then inform on the proper area of attack. At the moment, there are several actions we could take, clearly there is going to be someone piloting this craft. We could head in that direction, and stop the ship from attacking at all. Or another course of action would be disabling all of the guns on board the craft, however that would be too laborious to do." Espinosa glanced towards Robin, "Take out the Head of the operation and the Regime will fall. For awhile anyway, which is enough for our purposes." Robin nodded, "Or we could go do that. There are many plans which could effectively work, however I will hold off on judgement until I get useful information from Zhuoru."





Espinosa glanced back towards the kitchen, "For now though, let's just see what is causing all that ruckus."
 
"..."


Azure listened to the Lamia speak... and from that, a lot of bad memories involving PERHAPS and SAFELY and KYLIER WHY.....


"....."


He couldn't help but have a face that just said..... 'Really... are you sure about that' and looked toward Curtis and Skyia and Rose, and spoke quietly...


"I'm just saying... and this comes from almost a decade of experience... but anytime anyone says that... they fully intend to destroy you, by this false hope... so..... not to catch you off guard... or anything... but, don't be surprised if I all of a sudden attack... I just highly recommend it if we want to live through this... and not crash and burn... the only thing keeping them from shooting this airship down... is the fact that the pilot is on-board..."


-Or at least until they no longer hold value in his life at least...-



"3 on 1 was one thing..... that I barely got by when the pilot helped me... I think we can do 7 on 4... I can count on you right... Curtis, Rose... Skyia?"



He really didn't want to fight on his own... illusions could only take him so far...
 
Anya instinctively froze, staring at her friend. She wasn't sure she'd seen Lily act like this before, and instinctively held her arms in front of her chest.


"I-I just wanted to see what you were d-doing." she whimpered, trying to wiggle further back. Her ears lay down flat and her pupils retracted into slits as her breathing became shallow and panicked.


"Please don't get mad. I just wanted to see."


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Richter created several blades to deflect the oncoming strike, backpedaling a bit.


"A mallet that large would crush any steak into common hamburger!" he stated.


"If you're going to continue these shenanigans, I'll just fillet you."


Richter created a weapon resembling an oversized chef's knife, and swung hard overhead at the Oni.
 
Skyia nodded and raised her spear. " Y-yea. " She said, keeping her eye on the combatants. Still shaking, but it looked like she was gonna wind up doing something she never enjoyed to ever do.


That particularly being, hurting another sentient being, but she had to fight... There was no where else to go if she didn't. She didn't want to let her classmates, and friend, be harmed either, so she stayed there, holding the spear outwards to them.


" I'm t-trying not to be mean, but I dunno if we can trust pirates. " she said, shaking in her place still.


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Interesting swordsman, obviously knowing how to use a blade it seems, even as small as a dagger, and a interesting technique as well.


As Espinosa offered a idea what to do, Victor nodded, holding his rifle at the ready, following along to see what was going on in the kitchen.
 
"..."


Azure wasn't sure what to think... he felt bad asking Curtis and Skyia they didn't seem like the type to fight at all... the only reason Azure was able to... was because he developed a battle instinct from his years with Kylier. Despite gaining that, his kindness didn't fade away, obviously, along with his other emotions, as seen... He looked at Curtis about what he said earlier... still talking quietly


"Well... about what you said..... if they are sizing you up... they'll think you're a pushover at least, and underestimate your true strength?"


Azure realized that Curtis's strength, actually could be a disadvantage here... his extreme power, could very well destroy the very airship there were on... and Skyia obviously didn't want to fight at all... he was at a loss of what to do.


-Handing the pilot over is an instant loss for us... we can't fly this thing... so we have to fight. Rose can fight, I don't think will back down if there's no choice... ugh... maybe I can get some information out of them-





He turned back toward the hostile group


"I don't believe you, once you have what you want, there's nothing stopping you from shooting us down... or otherwise killing us, on who's word do you have it that you'd let us go..."
 
Reggie shrugged "Alright then, Zhuoru takes care of scouting and the guys with swords are mine, you guys do whatever else you want. But for now we follow the screams. If you don't mind...". And with that he approached the door and kicked it down, staring at the kitchen and the battle raging on inside, a massive red oni almost as tall as Curtis vs...he thought that was the one teacher that'd walked out of the plane but he couldn't quite tell with all the blood and injuries. Reggie returned the dagger to its sheath and placed his hand on his sword's handle. "Anyone need a hand here?".
 
Richter's over-sized chef knife, swung towards the Oni, who hopped back from the strike. "You think you can fillet me IN MY OWN KITCHEN!?" From the opposite end, Espinosa entered, followed by Robin. "Well, this should be interesting then..." The Oni glanced back at the new-comers, "OH MORE MEAT! JOYOUS DAY!"


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The Lamia glanced towards Skyia, who was shakily holding onto her own spear.
"Can't trust us because we are pirates? Hmph, that is judgmental especially coming from kin... Well species kin." The Bugbear glanced at Azure. "And what do we get from killing a bunch of children, and shooting down a cargo ship which transports junk? It is a waste of ammunition, and that is truly criminal. Give us the pilot, and one of us will stay behind to pilot this craft down to the nearest land-mass." The Gnome Undead just glanced forward and made a low rumbling noise.
 
Skyia narrowed her eyes, at the Lamia's statement. " What does being the same species matter in here? " she stated, looking at him specifically, her shaking slowing, with a mild look of irritation forming from her after her previous face of fear.


Then hearing the bugbears comments. " That's... kinda true... "


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Victor walks in with the rest, seeing the giant Oni. " Indeed. " he responded to the comment, lifting up his rifle, and would brace it against his shoulder, readying to move after someone makes the first move, planning where to begin to shoot at on him.


And oh hey, Richter's here too, explains why he jumped outside a plane.
 
As Lily stared Anya down, the girl seemed to shrink. She looked frightened. This was usually the part where Lily backed down, apologized, and fawned over her friend, but not this time. It was important that Anya listened this time, and Lily felt somehow more powerful than usual. This surge of strength allowed her hands to maintain their firm grip and her eyes to remain hardened.


"This isn't about your curiosity, Anya. This is a matter of respect. Of trust. If you respected me, you'd seriously listen to what I have to say and you would do as I tell you. If you trusted me, then you'd know in your heart that I only want what's best for you. Even if you don't understand it, you need to trust that I only have the best of intentions when I tell you something."


Lily's grip loosened a little, but her expression was still serious.


"These are sky pirates. They hurt people for a living. I don't want you to get hurt."
 
"I respect you! I trust you!" Anya pleaded, feeling her eyes well up. "I.... I just wanted to help.


Anya was scared, now. Lily never got this upset. This meant Anya had hurt her friend. But that couldn't be right; Anya didn't mean to hurt her friend. She never hurt her friends, and Lily was her best friend. The cat felt as if she'd done something unforgivable.


Anya slumped down to her knees, and began crying loudly.


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"Be sure to cook it evenly!" Richter shouted, spinning the great knife around his body, and thrusting it at the Oni as it morphed into a giant spatula. He gave a great heave, attempting to launch the Oni as high as he could.
 
"..."


-Even if they were being honest... The others are attacking the ship... Once they find that out, they'll try to take us hostage... It helps them out also since they are on the enemy ship. Simply them being here means they won't have to deal with them...-



He looked back to the others.....


"The others are attacking... we don't have a choice... they want us to lower our guard, so they can give our side a clean sweep. If we go down, the others won't have an airship to return to if something happens to the one they are on. It's best to fight while they are all on one side."


He turned to Lily and Anya.


-I'd like to avoid exposing Anya to this if possible as well... And... I really don't want to make a hostage of myself as well with illusions, I need to stay here, for all of their sake...-


He used his weapons illusions to render him invisible and soundless, still appearing there as if he was still there. It turned to the hostile a as Azure moved around them, preparing to fight


"Are you saying that those in your group who died means nothing to you all, even if you brought them back, and that no one in your entire pirate group is interested in revenge?"
 
The Lamia just held his spear outwards. "I just like having very brief little chats with those of the same kind, whenever I see one. Well, I got that out of my system. Alright, let's get back to the job." The Bugbear spoke again first looking forward, then towards the side. "Now, all we want is the Pilot. Do not interfere, we will take him, and leave one of our crew behind to pilot the ship down towards the nearest land ma-" The Bugbear casually backhanded Azure in the face with his brute strength, "Really kid? You really decided to do that? Did you really think that would work? You really underestimate us don't you? Thinking that after the initial scouting, and such we wouldn't prepare for all sorts of tricks. You do know what scouting is for right? Oh and speaking of 'others' as so generously mentioned... " The Bugbear held his earpiece. "If you mates back there don't already know, there is some of the Traitor Navigator's crew over there. Just letting you know."


The Lamia simply cocked his head back. The Necromancer gestured her left hand towards the cockpit, as one of the Abominations began shambling over that direction. The snake cocked his head over towards a pile of crates, "Oh, well, shall we just check on that then?" He slithered over towards the crates as he peered down at Lily and Anya. "Well then. Hello, stowaways?" He flicked out his forked tongue and hissed, as he pointed his spear at them, easily within striking distance, and aimed at their vitals. "Well then, we have hostages now...That always makes things interesting. Hm, I wonder which one I will kill first? I do enjoy devouring cats... But I've never had that sort of plant before. Oh the choices..."


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Richter did successfully toss the Oni Chef into the air, as Espinosa laughed, as she fired a blue flame which struck the Oni in the back of the leg, as he struck the ceiling, as he fell back down with a thud. He charged towards Richter with his tenderizer as he attempted to strike him with the tenderizer in the torso.
 

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