Lurking Expectation(Private)

Cirven stood in the Valkyrie's bridge looking over what was in the skies in front of them. It was a sense of freedom that came from staring out at it to him. Like they could just keep on going forever without anything being able to stop them at all. This was especially true to him after coming off of a successful job that was now behind them. He always felt more like a pirate when he stared into the sky the way he did but he knew even though they were labeled as such, that there was more to them. They were a crew and every member meant something to each of them even though they might not have been the types to show it.

Not too far behind the Valkyrie flew the SS Myrmidon cutting through the air. Ana had taken the ship up herself after the job and had a small crew on it with her while the Valkyrie held most of the other members they had. The size between the two ships was easily noticeable but that did not stop the SS Myrmidon from being one of their main vessels for travel. It was almost as if that they could not get over their old ship compared to the new one and just kept preferring it over the Valkyrie.

Cirven finally brought his focus back onto what was going on around him and realized that the crew around him were flying the ship and keeping up on any issues they could have been having. The Valkyrie sailed into some clouds which covered the ship from being seen. They had little choice but to go into the clouds because they were in their way. He was only really there for if anything got too out of control it seemed like and it did look like they had a clean get away from those who they had just dealt with. It was pretty much a snatch and run type of job. They found a way into the dirty jewels that a human trafficking rich man had hidden away and got away after dealing with some of his men. The man was known as Leopal and was known to be pretty ruthless but when faced against Black Sails he was pretty much a small fry or that was at least what they thought.

As they sailed out of the clouds a beam of magical energy flew by them and narrowly missed the ship. "What the hell...?" The demon asked the crew around him that could check that out but before they could answer Cirven ran out of the bridge and outside to the deck of the ship where he looked behind them to see the wreckage of the Myrmidon falling from the sky. He looked on in horror at first and then anger before turning to the crew. "We need to get some men down to check on Ana while the rest of us deal with the enemy who shot that beam. Cloak the ship. We are turning around to deal with them now."

His focus was locked on the debris that fell from the sky behind the Valkyrie. That was their captain that had spent all of her and effort into making a guild that they could all work together and possibly fix the coldness the world had inside of it. That was a woman who always was able to calm down the darkness in most of their hearts and minds just by a few wit filled words. She was many things as well but the biggest thing she was to him and most of the crew was their friend.

The thoughts raged through the demon's head over and over again as he tried to feel her magical presence but he couldn't sense it at all. He didn't stop trying though and tried over and over again to try and sense anything that could come from where the debris fell. Nothing was breaking his concentration at all and because of that everything seemed to be moving in slow motion around him. He just couldn't stop for his sake or for the crew's sake.

A voice called out to him from behind that he found was familiar and somehow broke him out from his focus of trying to find any trace of Ana which was shown by Cirven's body twitching suddenly. "Julius." Cirven rarely called the man by that, usually calling him 'Juls' or some other nickname like he did others. This gave the situation a air of seriousness to it. Then to add to the situation Cirven turned his head to look at Julius behind him showing both of his eyes were opened wide in a glowing red. His eyelids came down more over his eyes before he continued speaking but the anger he felt was easy to see. "Julius. I will need you to get some of the men and simply back me up on boarding their ship. I will find their leader and who decided to fire that shot and will deal with them. Make sure who ever is flying sends us under the ship and board after I do.
You will have a obvious signal to do so after I'm on board." Cirven turned back around and went back to looking for Ana. The ship had cloaked some time during the time when Cirven was scanning over the debris and moved through the sky towards the area where the projectile could have been shot. Cirven did not speak but looked like he had stopped trying to find any trace of Ana as they moved by where her ship had been and he did not turn to look at it.

A short time later the Valkyrie would fly under the ship and Cirven would place his red eyes on the exterior of the ship above them. He recognized it as the ship of the rich man they had just stolen from which was slightly bigger than the Valkyrie with a ethernano cannon on the front of it. He placed his mask over his face, the mask of the Blank Jester before forming into shadow and jumping into the shadows that was projected onto him and the Valkyrie from the ship above them. He would move up through the shadow and onto the ship's side where he casually jumped over it and started to walk on the deck of the enemy's ship as if it was his own. Not even a second went by before the alarm on the ship rang out and then the sound and sight of a large black bolt of lightning ravaged the deck and its occupants.  The black lightning bolt cut through the top of the ship like a spear would a tree. This was Julius's signal to jump onto the ship anyway they could. After his team would arrive on the ship they would hear distant yells and screams of people accompanied by more sounds of lightning raging through the ship.

The ship was covered all over by static caused by black electricity left over by the magic that had ravaged the ship. The team Julius was leading would not have much resistance at all and would mostly see multiple scared individuals who were too scared to attack or unconscious bodies or at least they thought they were unconscious. The sounds of lightning attacks and people being on the opposite end of them would continue echo through the ship and gave the team direction into where they should be going until they finally ended up on the bridge of the ship. Before they arrived they could hear the sounds of two people talking and then suddenly it stopped. When they arrived onto the bridge the sight was littered with more of the similar sights with bodies laid out around it but there was one thing different about it; A demon witha single red eye that could be seen from under half of a remaining mask, pointed furry white ears, short white hair, sharp fangs and claws stood over the body of the man they had just robbed. Blood dripped from his claws and multiple slashes could be seen over the body of the man but he looked to still be alive but just unconscious. "He fired the shot because we stole his jewel. Jewel that he could have easily replaced instead of taking a life. It was as if he was saying that he valued her life as much as the jewel we took from him. Fucking pitiful trash." Cirven spoke out as he looked at the body under him. "Was I right in doing this? Was I right in taking revenge on him like he did her? Am I right for wanting to kill him here and now?" Cirven's focus did not remove from the body in front of him.

Cirven stared directly at the face of the man he stood over. He wanted to slit the man's throat and be done with it. He thought that people like he had no right to be in the world and because of that he wanted to rid it of him. His clawed hand was about to swipe out and slash the man's jugular when he felt the warmth of a hand on his shoulder and heard the voice of Julius/Phantom speaking to him. The words stung at him over and over causing him to stop in his attempt to kill the man under him in small jerks of his body. It took everything he had to prevent himself from going any further but when he finally did he turned away from staring at the man and walked away from him. The devil then lifted his hand up into the air next to him and with a loud growl swung it across the air in front of him. The power behind the attack caused the wall near him to be ripped through in the shape of a large claw mark across it. "You are right." He didn't look at Julius at all because in the state he was in all the man would see was anguish and anger. "This won't bring her back and she wouldn't have wanted us to waste time on trash like him to avenge her." The silver haired devil then made his way to the doorway they entered in from and looked back with the part of his mask that was broken, showing his red eye to Julius. "Let's go. No need to waste more time here. I'm sure with the damage that has been caused to this ship that it won't be staying in the air for long. I'll leave it to fate on what happens to that piece of trash from here and just say that I simply guided it a bit."

Without waiting for too long, Cirven would make his way out of the bridge and through the ship, following the traces of battle he had left from earlier. It looked like a war zone to him and even had him question if it was really all him that did this or something else. Something dark inside of him that he hadn't let out in a long time. He repressed the thought and continued to move through the ship until they were on the deck and could return to their own ship. He looked back to the destruction done to the enemy ship and then turned his head back to keep moving forward. "Get the men back on the ship. We are leaving and going to try and help find Ana." His usual optimistic self was gone for now. The fact that Ana had been shot down had continued to gnaw at him more and more.

They managed to make their way closer to the water below but because of the constant whirlpools the members of Black Sails were not able to find much of any trace of Ana besides bits and pieces of her ship that had not been sucked down into the depths of the water yet. The best they could do was give it some time and see if she showed up which they did but nothing came of their waiting but more regret. The regret that they failed to save their Captain.