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 Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:41 pm
 Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
"Knowing my mother, keeping to her plan of visiting the pirate court," Jack said with a sigh, playing with a piece of Tessa's hair before letting it fall from his fingers. "It is a nice island to be sure...the politics are not my favorite though," He said before looking around. "Which reminds me...I wonder if our friend Mr. Henry is still with us," He said with a small chuckle. "Perhaps I will enjoy going," He murmured, again returning his attention to Tessa with a small smile.
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:48 pm
 --<._.-'--.__Tessa Cortez__.--'-._.>--
So cold... All the same, all about me. The wit, the wisdom. Here I stand, Here I live... The truth of a revelation, frozen in fear. Slowly dying...
Tessa's face dropped, and had Jack been any further away it would have dropped unhindered but it landed squarely at his chest.
"Please tell me you've learned something of mercy in all this? Not that I approve of him going unchecked, but he needn't die... even after my own threats toward him."
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:54 pm
Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
"Death would be too merciful Tessa, have you not considered that this man has a hundred deaths under his belt?" Jack asked before waving away the topic with a flourish of his hand and raising Tessa's head, his lips touching hers softly. He looked into her eyes and smiled, touching his forehead with her gently before taking his head away. "And you, how are you doing, at the end of things?" He asked.
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:58 pm
--<._.-'--.__Tessa Cortez__.--'-._.>--
So cold... All the same, all about me. The wit, the wisdom. Here I stand, Here I live... The truth of a revelation, frozen in fear. Slowly dying...
Tessa giggled lightly and tilted herself back slightly, almost teasingly.
"Oh, well it's become quite apparent that someone's watching over me. If I had a little more confidence in the situation itself I would go into detail but I have my doubts."
She dropped a hand to her side, to the blade she still held from Ilyia's charge. In her thought, a curious frown fell over her face as she looked down to the weapon.
"And yet, it always seems to be that way right before things get incredibly ugly..."
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:10 pm
Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
Jack frowned and sighed, following her gaze. "A solid six months of peace would be nice," He said softly, looking over the sea briefly before looking back at Tessa. "Perhaps one day things will be a bit simpler, no?" He asked, although it was no more than a hopeful statement. Things in the world seemed to be so much different now, faster than before, or perhaps it was his age showing its ugly head.
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:17 pm
--<._.-'--.__Tessa Cortez__.--'-._.>--
So cold... All the same, all about me. The wit, the wisdom. Here I stand, Here I live... The truth of a revelation, frozen in fear. Slowly dying...
Tessa had to fight her desire to look away, but smiled all the same.
"I have my doubts. A pirate wedded to an adventurer is unlikely to not draw hostile attention Jack. Peace is a little out of the question, but I can't help but house an inkling of suspicion that we may find ourselves a few unexpected allies from above."
She shrugged half-heartedly as she noticed Erathis' sudden stare her way. Despite the odd feeling she now felt about her choice of words she laughed it off and waved away her own worries.
"Wild conjecture only, I'm sure." She said more to herself than to anyone else.
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:25 pm
Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
Jack glanced over at Erathis, seemingly unconcerned by his staring, but on the inside he bristled slightly. "Wild...conjecture," Jack said, his voice a near purr as he narrowed his eyes playfully for a moment at Tessa before chuckling. His face grew slightly more serious after a moment and he sighed. "The world used to be far more quiet," He murmured after a moment.
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:48 am
 [_,.-~Crystal Presaren~-.,_]
The first movement must always matter. If you step into conflict, be prepared to step out. Otherwise, be prepared to fall. This time, only the first move matters. Three seconds is all I need. Embrace this moment; It shall be your last.
A small distortive sound marked the appearance of a trans-planar gateway halfway between the Cortezes and their unexpected company, through which stepped an oddly purple-skinned girl holding a chain in her hand with several blades to every link and a curious smile on her face at seeing Tessa.
"I thought Neszarine had killed you," she said simply, "this is certainly a first."
Tessa's skin crawled for a moment, but she moved out from behind Jack and rested her hand on the hilt of her weapon with a look of massive irritation in her face.
"She didn't have to; she had to manipulate my lover, you swine," she countered, "and if you have any value for your own life, you'll le-"
Her sentence was cut short by a bladed chain hurdling through her left shoulder and a release of an odd purple flame through the chain itself into her being. Thus weakened, Tessa fell to the floor and the chain was promptly ripped out.
"I don't think I'll be leaving... not yet."
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:10 am
Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
"Tessa!" Jack cried out, firing off a shot from his pistol reflexively before dropping to the deck beside his wife. He glared at the woman who had appeared and the crew stopped in their activities, drawing either swords or pistols, in some cases both.
Inside the cabin, Calypso whipped her head back towards the door before hurriedly making it to the cabin door and opening it. She raised her hands and tendrils of water shot from the ocean, hurtling towards the woman.
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:03 am
[_,.-~Crystal Presaren~-.,_]
The first movement must always matter. If you step into conflict, be prepared to step out. Otherwise, be prepared to fall. This time, only the first move matters. Three seconds is all I need. Embrace this moment; It shall be your last.
Immediately as Jack's pistol shot had fired, the girl's eyes flashed indigo and she deftly wove out of the trajectory path, while the oncoming streams of water wound up breaking away on a hastily-formed barrier, and Jack's moment of weakness in coming down to Tessa merited yet another lash of her chain.
However, a strike of lightning from the side quite easily deflected the offensive, and Erathis moved after it to come to a crouch next to Jack, eyes not once leaving the intruder.
"Leave her to Lucas, Jack," he said hastily, "she'll make it, but we'll need your help in his absence."
Karl had already drawn his blade and was poised for a lunge. It seemed as if he was waiting for a mark, however...
Lucas had come over to Tessa's side as quickly as Erathis had, and quickly wove a small web of white over her frame, through which her shoulder wound began mending, however frighteningly slowly. Still the Eldiri maintained the entirety of his concentration to her aid.
"Oh, so the Order comes to save the day, do they?" The girl laughed as she looked around, "Come and get me, all of you! See if you even can..."
She readied her chain again, while massive violet flamelike wings erupted from her back, and similar - yet smaller - ones from her outer wrists and ankles. Her smirk never once faded.
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:08 pm
Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
Jack rose and reloaded his pistol before firing off another shot, glancing at his wife for a moment before stepping to the side to reload again. Calypso's eyes were narrowed as a great wave of water crashed upon the ship, hardening into sheets of ice before they broke upon the girl.
"What is your purpose here?" The goddess called angrily, raising a hand. Off ship several tendrils of water rose, appearing as if kraken tentacles, poised for attack.
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:19 pm
[_,.-~Crystal Presaren~-.,_]
The first movement must always matter. If you step into conflict, be prepared to step out. Otherwise, be prepared to fall. This time, only the first move matters. Three seconds is all I need. Embrace this moment; It shall be your last.
The girl vanished at the second shot, and reappeared a scant two steps in front of where she had been. She cast a half-pout at Jack before turning her head to face Calypso, whereupon she shrugged non-noncommittally.
"What reason do I have to surrender my purpose, hm?" She laughed, "Perhaps I'm here on orders... perhaps I'm here to enjoy myself. What's it to you?"
Erathis did not move, though for his proximity to Jack he knew things would get ugly if his tactic of choice kept up.
"Lower the gun, Jack. She can move fast enough that you're more likely to hit your own crew than to land a strike on her. As for us, I can explain once she's out of here."
The wound on Tessa's shoulder stopped closing suddenly, and Lucas frowned at his misfortune with a glare at the intruder.
"Best make it quick then... she's closing off my capacity to heal any further than I have."
He drew his own longsword and regarded it for a moment before flipping it around in his grip and handing it hilt-first to Jack.
"You're probably better off with it than I am for now."
The girl smirked, though it was clear in her face that a hint of irritation was building in her mind.
"Come now, are you going to stand there and plan before I slaughter you all or are you going to make this unpredictable?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:39 pm
Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
"You think me ill armed?" Jack asked, unsheathing his own cutlass and shrugging his left shoulder, effectively loosening the sheath ever so slightly before striding forward, his vampire senses sharpening and his reflexes becoming alive. He swung out with his right hand, left hand curled around the sleeve to catch the knife when he would need it. Calypso stayed her hand, silently waiting for her son to clear away before deciding on her move.
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:51 pm
[_,.-~Crystal Presaren~-.,_]
The first movement must always matter. If you step into conflict, be prepared to step out. Otherwise, be prepared to fall. This time, only the first move matters. Three seconds is all I need. Embrace this moment; It shall be your last.
A quick rattle of chains and a reflexive shift caught Jack's blade in a binding knot, while the girl still had a hand on either end of it, though she did not bother trying to pry the blade loose from Jack's hand but rather somersaulted over both the chain and her adversary, and with his weapon thus held momentarily, released one hand from her own weapon and swung it fast enough to have the entire chain taut in the vast area it had taken.
"I think it's much more difficult to parry two blades with a chain than one," Lucas remarked, "but if you insist."
He sheathed his weapon and crossed his arms diagonally in front of him as a buildup of power rose within him, and with the sweep of his arm it mirrored in both Karl and Erathis, though he frowned upon seeing it fail to catch on with the crew.
Karl sprung forward and cut across, but to his dismay the girl vanished again out of sight, and fortunately her chain with it - as several were in its reach that could easily have been decapitated.
"Coward," he muttered.
"What was that?"
She appeared again, this time above the rest with her chain still in motion. Quickly wrapped around the middle of his armor, she yanked back on it and drew him up with the links, only to catch him by the neck. Almost before they had even come in contact a surge of violet shockwaves shot through and immediately about him, and she dropped him unconscious to the deck below.
"Would anyone else care to make such a reckless move?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:08 pm
Jack------------------------------------------
------------------- Cortez Of Blood and Gold I know,
of the freedom of a ship,
and only the wind holding you back.
"It was rightly stated," Calypso said, stepping away from the cabin wall, the tendrils of water writhing, forming ropelike mixtures of ice and water that lashed out at the girl violently in sporadic patterns, acting very much alive as Calypso summoned a third wave, one that rose up behind the girl and crashed down hungrily upon her, steaming as it hit the deck into nothingness
This is what I loved...And lost.[OutrageousObliviousCats: ---]
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