Liberation of Slaves (Venir RuLush, Ziska, Skyllon)

Venir couldn't help but hear a familiar sounding screaming despite the chaos. Following the scream was a splash although there were countless splashed to be hear with many of the lowly slavers abandoning ship. The scream sounded similar to...."No way!" She dashed towards the edge of the ship to peer over the railing, her metal boots making loud clicks upon the wood of the ship. "Skyllon!" The young mage shouted over the railing searching the sea's for a somewhat familiar guild mate. There were plenty of slavers floating in the water but she couldn't quite spot Skyllon. A harsh shove from behind sent Venir toppling over the edge of the ship, hitting the cold waters with a splash. She resurfaced, strongly to stay above the water, her armor not exactly fitting for swimming.

The sea water burned her eyes making them water, and whenever she attempted to take a breath the water ended up getting caught in her throat. Despite that she spotted a familiar figure clinging to the side of the ship. "Include." She croaked up more sea water, but the card she placed on her staff listened to her plea. It absorbed with ease, and the power of flight was granted to the practically drowning girl. She moved quickly through the water, grabbing onto Skyllon by the hood and flying the two back up to the deck with quite a bit of struggle. She dropped her guild mate onto the wood, while she herself hit the deck with a thud. "Ow." It was quickly followed by a fit of coughing, trying to get as much sea water out of her lungs as possible. However, the young mage did not notice the forgotten slaver, with his gun pointed at her head.

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Briefly, Venir felt someone poke her. She managed to open one watering eye as another coughing fit enveloped her. Skyllon was obviously the one who had poked her as to why she couldn't discern at first, couldn't he see that she clearly almost drowned? Yet finally her ruby gaze drifted towards the gun pointed at her. All she could do was freeze as she looked down the barrel of the gun, a familiar feeling ripping through her abdomen as memories washed over her. Her job with Lekuna, a disaster of a job that nearly resulted in both of their deaths. Lekuna's nearly at Venir's sword, and Venir's nearly at Lekuna's gun point. The platinum haired girl still bore the scar upon her belly from where the bullet had hit her. It was only natural that she disliked gun and even more natural that when one was pointed at her that she freeze up.

Just as the gun made a click, and a shot echoed through the air a body tossed itself in front of her. Instinctively, Venir had closed her eyes from the the loud and terrifying noise, preparing herself for the pain to come, or even for the cold embrace of death. Yet neither of those came. Slowly, Venir opened her eyes to see Skyllon in front of her. "Y-You-" She choked out glancing between her injured guild mate and the one who had hurt him. She rushed forward towards the gun wielding slaver who was hurriedly trying to reload his weapon, "Ahhhh!" She slammed her shoulder into him, taking both of them over the edge of the ship once more, but only one of them could fly through magic. As the gun wielding slaver hit the water Venir once more landed upon the deck, her armor still dripped of sea water but her lungs were finally clear of it. It appeared to be just her on the deck but Skyllon was nowhere in sight, and the only sign of him was a trail of blood, "Oh no...." She gasped before moving to follow the trail.

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Venir had only just begun to follow the trail of blood when her injured guild mate had reappeared. She hadn't even left the deck yet, for an injured man Skyllon moved awfully quickly. "What are you doing!? You shouldn't be moving around like that." The platinum haired girl scolded what appeared to be her elder though in reality it was the other way around. Skyllon had managed to utter some words that Venir could relate to, apparently they had found something in common in rather bleak circumstances. Her blue haired guild mate had managed a rather pathetic attempt of a smile before collapsing in a puddle of his own blood. "What an idiot." The irritated but twinged with worry thought traveled through her head as she went to move him as carefully as possible. She had dragged him to the edge of the deck, to keep him away from harm's way before she inspected the wounds upon his chest.

They were grave, any regular human would have been dead by now. Yet it would appear that Skyllon was anything but regular, the wounds slowly but surely already beginning to heal. Of course it appeared as though they needed a little help, something that Venir was able to provide. She slipped one of her cards out of its frilly holster and placed it upon her staff. "Include!" She muttered, the card absorbing with a flash of light. She then placed the staff over Skyllon's chest, right where the wounds were. The golden star, with white wings on either side of it, hovered but a few inches over his bloodied chest, "Heal!" Crimson orbs burned with determination as the golden star emanated a soft yellow, warm glow. It would heal much but hopefully it would help close the holes, or at least aid her guildmate's quick healing abilities. However, as she focused on the healing of Skyllon, Venir almost didn't notice the enemies coming up from below. Apparently, Ziska was unable to hold them off, or at the least had managed to bypass them or even went protect the women in the cargo hold as Venir had requested.

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It was the only thing that Venir could think of after hearing the familiar click of a gun behind her. Guns still terrified her but these gun wielding mages were becoming rather pesky to deal with. Even more pesky was her persistent guild mate who seemed intent on getting himself shot, perhaps he had some secret death wish? If it had been anyone other than a guild mate Venir would have been rather irritated at the situation, more at the slaver than the mage, but luckily it was her guild mate and instead she seemed almost worried. However, it would do her no good to check up on the blue haired mage while the gun wielding slaver still lurked about. He easily could have put some bullets in her while she tended to Skyllon, and another bullet within her body was not something that Venir would have enjoyed.

Subconsciously her fingertips brushed over her abdomen, ghosting over where the silver scar lay upon her flesh. Those fingers clenched into a fist and with a shout she charged at the slaver still stuck reloading his weapon. It was rather difficult to reload guns and it was one of the reasons as to why Venir never used them, along with her dislike of them of course. "Ah!" She shouted her standard battle cry and brought her staff down as hard as she could upon the slavers head. Despite her apparent size and age, Venir was still a more than capable mage, and along with being a mage she had a lot more strength then most grown men. The curious metal of the staff connected with the slavers head perfectly, a growing lump forming upon his skull as his body hit the deck with an audible thump. "Now to check on Skyllon-" She thought with a relieved sigh but still more enemies rushed to the deck much to Venir's dismay.

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The enemies that had found themselves on the deck were not your average slavers. One of them was woman and the other a man, but the two of them carried themselves differently. "The Captain and the First Mate." Venir briefly realized as the two made their way onto the deck with a certain sort of swagger. The two of them looked so natural as if this was where they belonged and were destined to be. The light from overhead sun caught their weapons just right creating a glint that Venir noticed causing her heart to almost stop. "More guns." She paled at the thought but despite wanting to cry or run away she held her ground. She had a guild mate, no make that guild mates, and an entire ship of slaves to protect. Skyllon had fallen out of Venir's crimson eyes sight, wherever he was she could only hope that the male was safe and not totally bleeding out. If she was lucky perhaps her job partner would actually step in and help at some point, provided that he didn't get shot again. At least she had managed to retain their attention, perhaps the captain and her second in command hadn't noticed her guild mates presence aboard the ship.

Gritting her teeth Venir fished a card or two out of her card holster. The captain and the first mate approach, no one had dared to draw their weapons just yet. It was a quiet sort of recognition, each of them recognizing eachother's strengths but weaknesses had yet to be determined. Well, almost undetermined save for Venir's rather obvious one,

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The young mage shouted as her eyes widened in surprise at her injured comrades sudden appearance. Even the Captain and her first mate seemed mildly surprised at his appearance as well. Enough so that Skyllon managed to take the First Mate on armed with a pole. Instinctively, Venir winced at the sound created by the pole and the man's back. That was a terrible sounding crack, and one that Venir could only pray wasn't fatal. She would be sure to lecture he guild mate on the importance of both life and death at a later and less dire time. A time in which Skyllon currently wasn't getting shot at by the rather enraged captain. "Include!" She slipped a card upon her staff, the object glowing in her hands for a moment as it changed its shape. Hardly a moment later a gleaming longsword was held delicately in her palms. The blade itself was almost as large as her body but she lifted it with ease, and it seemed almost natural in her hands.


She yelled catching the captain attention. The platinum haired blonde raised the blade high above her head, charging straight towards the captain whom had aimed her only partially reloaded weapon. A shot rang through the air but the Ace of Eclipse Soul was just slightly faster bring her blade out so that the bullet made contact with her weapon, reflecting off and digging itself into the deck of the ship. She turned, putting her shoulder into the woman's abdomen knocking her back with more strength than the captain was clearly expecting her to have. Venir was more powerful than her childish appearance often let on. Still, the young girl was relentless, twirling the blade effortlessly and striking the woman's wrists one shallow cut on either side to make her drop her pistols. She had managed to avoid knicking any vital parts much to the captains dismay.

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At Brennan's appearance Venir could only curse. He had done his part what was he doing putting himself in more danger for nothing? The Captain apparently saw this as an opportunity of sorts, one that she would attempt and fail to take. Twice, the captain had tried to charge at Skyllon, apparently she had already learned that Venir and her were on two totally different levels. However, the cpatains wounds and lack of weapons made even her a simple target for thr heavily injured but rapidly healing Brennan. His strength wasn't one that Venir should have underestimated but she wasn't smiling in approval. It felt as if Brennan had been mocking the woman while she tried her best to attack him, though perhaps it was not entirely out of anger but instead in an attempt for the captain to die at anothers hands rather than by the noose that was awaiting her when they reached land.

"You're lucky." The young girl muttered, checking upon the captain and first mate for signs of life, both of them still breathing. "If you were slightly off you could have knicked a vital point." She was refferring to the captain and the knife wedged into the junction where neck and shoulder met. Much like Brennan she too wanted to go home, "I'd love to get going but you wouldn't happen to know how to steer a ship?" In the meantime Venir had gotten to tying the two groaning slavers up together, apologizing for causing anymore unnecessary pain. The two of them might have been bad people but they had already received their fair share of pain from the two mages, and Venir was not one to take pleasure in harming others. Besides the two of them had a worse fate waiting for them back at the docks.

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The young mage grumbled, not necessarily in annoyance. She was sleepy after such an eventful day. "Be sure to go check on Ziska and the slaves below." With that the young ace dashed towards the wheel of the ship. It took her easily an hour to turn the ship around and head back towards Hargeon Town. The rocking of the boat had almost lulled her to sleep a few times but she managed to just barely stay awake. Docking the ship proved to be a far more difficult task than steering it. "Ooops." The ship shook, and the a terrible scrapping sound echoed through the air as the wood upon both the dock and the ship collided, sending countless boards up splintering them into pieces. A few startled passerby's had narrowly avoided the ship shouting out in dismay at the young captain, "I'm sorry!" She called out, peering over the railing making sure that no one was seriously injured, "Are there any Rune Knights about here?"


Sometime later the Eclipse Soul Trio was once more on land, the Rune Knights having just finished interrogating them as to what had happened. Despite saving the countless women aboard, and turning the two running the operation in, the mages still received quite a scolding. "I'm sorry." She made sure to bow her head, and both of her companions heads as well, "I swear we will never steal a boat again or destroy the dock again." She crossed her hand over her heart and even offered her pinky to the Rune Knight who looked at the young mage skeptically, still wondering how on earth she of all people had managed to help put an end to a slaving operation. With the Rune Knights gone, and the slaves free at last, every single one of them having thanked the Eclipse Soul mages, Venir finally turned her attention to her guild mates. "I think it's time we go home." She chirped brightly before adding with a rather sly grin, "And I have a rather long lecture for you two on the importance of life while we're walking!" After all, the two of them were far too reckless for their own good!

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