To go with your crew...

[highseasmods]

Who: Everyone who is fighting in the battle to kill the witch.
Where: The Black Fortress in the East
When: Jan 24th-25th
What: The grand battle to get back what you have lost, get revenge for what was taken, and avert disaster.
Warnings: Language. Death. Victory. Defeat. True love. Miracles.
Style: Text or prose
Status: Open to all



The black fortress ripples with shimmering iridescent energy, the piles of black coral heaped on roped together barges around it, bobbing in the waves. On the largest barge stands a slender man with a copper belt, wearing a face mask, orange red hair flecked with black from ash or dust. As the dawn slowly folds over the ocean, he'll look up, as if hearing some hidden voice.

At the top of the fortress, a figure climbs into vision, a woman, dressed in gray, features obscured by a hood with impenetrable darkness behind it. She staggers a moment as if she is weary, then straightens to her full height. As she speaks, her voice comes out of the journals, echoing over the water, low but clear.

"This is no small task ye do. She that rots within'll do anythin' ta stop ye. Don't hesitate to kill what ye find. If they were human once, they hain't no more. Watch out for her golems, too, or they'll drain ye dry quicker'n a wink. But if ye can get rid of 'em, it'll weaken her." She hesitates, cants her head to the side. "And if ye lot aren't as much of a bunch'a idiots as usual, ye might come out alive through this."

That said, she raises her hands. After a moment so does the man on the barge. For a moment, nothing seems to happen and then iridescent light shimmers over the coral, seeming to match that which surrounds the fortress. It crackles and dances like a fire, and then without warning bursts into a furious life, slamming against the energy of the fortress. There is the sound like thunder and light snaps and crackles, zipping with energy. Then with a woosh the light flies upward, taking the figure with it. The man on the barge lets out a cry like a seagull and dives into the water as if intending to swim after her.

For the boats that remain, a part of the fortress will crumble away into the sea, revealing a small harbor and an open doorway. Enter all ye who dare.


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Comments

[allendsmeat]

[it doesn't do much good and now the thing has Sanji. It's going to eat him. Luffy can see through the dull edges of his vision that the things mouth is opening as it draws Sanji closer, all the water rushing down. He can't punch it . He can't kick it.

But he won't let it do it! He won't let it hurt Sanji! Heat boiled through him, like gear second, sluicing hot through his veins. He just found Sanji again and his nakama had already been hurt enough and they were going to get back to the ship so they could eat! This thing needed to get

out

of his

way!

It jerks through him hot and fast, sending a ripples shooting through the water and he can feel the tentacle lose its grip before he's swept into black.]

[serving_love]

[The not being able to breathe thing is really starting to become a problem. Sanji's cheeks bulge but he's determined not to open his mouth.

Then something rushes past him. Over him, around him, and it's not exactly unfamiliar, he's felt something like this before, and whatever it is it's strong.

He looks around at Luffy, eyes wide, but Luffy's head is already bobbing forward and there's a rush of bubbles escaping his mouth and more importantly he's starting to sink in the water.

Sanji grabs for him, noticing at the same time that the tentacle isn't squeezing the shit out of his leg anymore, and after that the only thing that matters is getting to the surface in time. Luckily he's a fast swimmer, but they're down pretty deep and his vision is starting to black out around the edges and—

He explodes through the surface of the water with a loud gasp, sucking in much needed oxygen and quickly hauling Luffy up with him. Much as he'd love to hang out and catch his breath, though, there isn't time for that and he scrambles up onto the jagged remains of the floor on the outskirts of the room. Sanji turns Luffy onto his side, pounding on his back until he expels a rush of water, and he thinks he's breathing—he'd better be breathing, hell if Sanji is doing CPR right now—so now the goal is getting the fuck out of this room.]

[allendsmeat]

[Luffy stirs to semi-consciousness as he hacks the water out. He's being carried. There's too much salt water to really move or think or do anything but under the water he can see the thing coming for them and coming fast.

They're not going to be able to get away. He has only has enough time to limply grab Sanji's arm in warning before water erupts around them and they're sucked into the things huge mouth]