Bounty Hunter Bash Pirate Lock Arc Part Eight

 The Rock And The Hard Place


After they all shared the spoils and Gurter, Bash, Kira and Steel all took out two baths and took a soak. 

"Wow! There are two more here! I'm so glad!" 

"Speak for yourself!" The other girls said.

"Oh! Come on! Until she arrived I was the only girl in the Captain's crew! This is gonna be so much fun!"

The rest groaned.

"So does anyone have a crush?"

"No!" Said Steel.

"Nah!"

"Not really!"

"Really not one? Come on, you're all girls aren't you? There must be someone you like!"

"I find Jax fun yet I don't think I love him." Kira admitted.

"And what about you, Steel?" 

"I found Captain Herlock attractive. In fact he was one of the first to actually treat me like a woman and not a man with breasts. He also found a good use of my incredible strength. However, the second one who treated me like a woman, I punched."

Bash looked aside as they all slipped out.

"And was that second one Cerpheres?" Gurter asked as she put on her clothes.

"Who else? I mean he keeps asking for it and why does he look as if he always gets off on it?" She asked, putting her clothes on.

"I don't think I want to know. I mean how did Captain Gerald pick up a crash like him?"

"He asked to join the crew and the Captain did not have a reason not to. Honestly, sometimes I could swear that one of them is going to kill the other one of these days."

That was when they heard the wind as they finished putting their clothes on. Bash looked out of the window and saw that the clouds were forming and soon they were eclipsing the sky. She looked down to see that the waves had started to become more and more aggressive. She could feel the damp atmosphere and smell the scent of warm salty water enter her nostrils. As the ship sailed on the clouds became darker and darker. Then the waves became more and more aggressive and bigger and bigger. The wind became stronger and stronger. Then the ship became rockier and rockier until it started swaying from side to side.

They then all raced to the decks. Steel was already looking around as the manager of the sails swung off their sail and flew into the ocean too far to be rescued.

"Alrigh', brace ye selves lads 'n' lasses! We're in for a long ride!" Captain Gerald shouted.

"Alright I'll handle the sails." Steel spiked as it started pouring it down.

"Alrigh'! Just be careful! I don' wanna 'ave anymore deaths!" He said as another member was flipped over.

Bash ran to him and quickly caught him. She then struggled to pick him up as he committed into the ocean. She then pulled and pulled. She could feel him slipping in her wet hand. Yet after she was able to pull him up. Then she looked down to see that the waves were getting higher and higher. Soon they were sailing in waves so large that the ship was crashing into them and some thrust the ship moments in the air. This was followed by a hard crash into the waves. Steel held on as long as she could and continued her work on the sails.

That was when she saw Gurra empty the contents of his stomach and he hit his near on the ship. She went to run over to him but they rode up on another high wave and they were in the air. His body flew up and for a moment they were all suspended in the air and they crashed into the water below. His body flew overboard and was hit by a wave and sank beneath the waves.

She looked for others that she could save knowing that he was already dead. She soon found Coran and Jeff and Jax. She ran over to them and threw them below the deck. Her eyes dated atoms and she saw Kibbit and ran over top him, just as the ship was back in the air,  she was able to grab him by the scruff of his collar and threw him down with Coran, Jeff and Jax. 

She car another and raved to him and he too was overboard the moment that she reached the edge. She then spotted a great wave coming. One that was high enough to be just above the ship. Knowing what was about to happen, she ran away from the edge. Then the wave hit and she felt helpless as she was pulled back. She looked down to see that she was going to go overboard if she did not do something. She looked around for something to home onto but there was nothing that she could grab. She was about to die and she knew it. Then she felt two hands grip tightly to her wrists. She looked up and saw Cerpheres and Chashathrophogh. They started to pull her up and she noticed that both men had stabbed the deck with their daggers to keep them from falling off the ship.

"Don't you dare let go girl!"

"I won't!

She tried to hold on as tightly as she could but the wetness of their hands caused them to become slippery. She could feel her hand slipping. She could even see her hand start to move fishery and further out of theirs. Then the ship was thrust back into the air and they were able to pull her up as their bodies rose from the deck. Then they wrapped an arm around her as they crashed into the wood. They hit their heads but were able to minimise the damage.

Just as they thought that their situation could not get any worse they looked at the hole in the water in front of them. When they looked closer and their stomachs dropped upon seeing the spiraling water of a whirlpool!

They all looked pale as the ship moved closer and closer to the edge of the spiral. The captain did all that he could to steer the ship away from it however it did nothing. The ship raced closer and closer to the whirlpool. Then they entered and stated to drop. They heard a shopping of a scream and saw Nator fall out and was thrust right into the center of the whirlpool leaving nothing but a clouds of blood in the water. 

The three looked at each other and willed the ship to get our and away. Yet even this was useless. Then they all willed the water to rise and become steady. This caused the water to flatten out and they managed to keep the water form returning to a whirlpool until the ship was safely away.

Yet they knew that they were still not in the clear. She heard another scream add someone else took the death plunge.

Is this really all that I can do? Come on there must be more! If only the storm wasn't here!

Wait, 'if only the storm wasn't here'....

Could I? Is that really possible?

Well, there is only one way to find out!

She closed her eyes and focused and concentrated all her magic to the storm. She willed it to calm and the clouds to part. Yet, even though she could feel the clouds moving, she knew that she was just not enough. She tried to clear cloud after cloud and stop the wind but the clouds seemed to many and the wing was just to strong for her to calm. In face the most that she could do was weaken it slightly. She could not do it alone.

At that moment lightning struck party of the ship. She willed it top be put out.

"We need to stop the ship!" She shouted at the other two.

They nodded and as they started to will the storm to go they spotted a tornado in front of them. The Captain steered the ship accordingly and Steel raced around that sails accordingly. They all looked at it.

"Alright! I think one of you should focus on that and the other focus on the storm." Cerpheres sang.

"I will do the storm, girl, you do the tornado."

"And I will enhance your magic power. Also! Cari! With the wind inside the tornado out. That ought to do it!" He sang.

"And you should know?"

He put on a mischievous smile.

"Of course!"

She closed her eyes and focused on the tornado. Soon the spy was getting closer and closer and they all could feel the power of the wind as all clung on tightly as the ship started to lift. She focused her power to the center of the tornado and pushed all the power she could to will the wind outwards and the ship was driven back and flew in the air for a moment as the tornado vanished. This then gave her an idea and willed the ship to fly onwards as far as she could and then let the ship gently touch the waves. She felt a great tiredness overwhelm her as she knew that she had pushed herself too much.

Yet she did what she could to push herself on and used the last of what she had left to will Chashathrophogh to become stronger and the storm soon vanished. She smirked slightly as she collapsed.

"Oi! Ye three! Ye stopped the storm?"

"Yes we did!" Cerpheres purred, his cheeks and forehead were red. "It was good! You two are so,  very good!"

"Stop it!" They said together.

He put on a false innocent look.

"What? Now if you don't mind Captain, I'll be taking a bath."

"Go on ye lo' ye earned i'!"


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