high_seas | Brought to this world...

Entry tags:

dust,
musa

Brought to this world...

Who: Dust and OPEN
Where: Isla Empieza, all over
When: The 11th
What: Dust chooses to explore rather than testing the journal
Warnings: Possible violence.
Style: Whatever!
Status: Open

With the Blade of Ahrah held in customary fashion, reverse-grip behind him, Dust stalked the streets of Isla Empieza, searching for something.

Every so often, he paused to call out a single word: "Fidget!" After a moment, when no response came, he made a low, angry noise in his throat and moved on.

After ten or fifteen repetitions, he finally said, "Ahrah. Where could she be?"

The sword replied, its runes glowing with each word, "I do not know, Dust. She was not far behind when we were brought here, but that may have been enough. This is not Falana... it is nowhere I know."

"That's not what I want to hear, Ahrah. And I'm not giving up yet."

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[Musa had finished gathering the last few things, checking off her list as she did. Food, check. Livestock for fresh milk and eggs, check. Fresh clothes, check. She was ready to start heading back to the ship and making the last few arrangements. It seemed that new arrivals had already joined crews and so she knew there wasn't much in that way now.

As she walked, listed still up to her face, her focus entirely on it. Until of course, she hears a voice. Glancing up she spots someone who she is pretty sure is talking to themselves.]

I know that being alone sometimes can make one a little crazy, but even I find talking to ones self to be creepy.

There's plenty of me to talk to... but I was talking to Ahrah.

[These creatures... they look closer to Moonbloods than Warmbloods, but something about them suggests the latter. Still, this is a town and they don't seem to be attacking, so though he doesn't put the blade away, he isn't in a hostile stance either.]

Ah-rah. What the heck is Ahrah anyway?

[She crosses her arms over her chest as she watched. She actually had no idea of who or even what that was that.]

That would be me. [The sword speaks these words, the runes on it glowing with each word.]

[Dust nods, holding the blade out to the side slightly.] The Blade of Ahrah.

[She was surprised if only for a moment or two. it kind of reminded her of the Sirenix book, although that would only speak when it had a riddle one must solve.]

So it's a sword that talks. I guess that can be kinda handy to have. [She pauses for a moment, shaking her head slightly, okay she should be nice.]

Anyway, since I'm assuming your new have you got a grip on where you are yet and what one has to do.

The first thing I need to do, before anything, is finding Fidget. She's probably in trouble without me -- some sort of monster or something, knowing her.

I've never heard of anyone here under that name. If they were here I'm pretty sure they are either on the is;and still or a crew has gotten to them.

[She pauses.]

Although it's hard to tell which.

You'd know her if you saw her. She's a nimbat. Kind of stands out, since I haven't ever seen another one, here or there.

She wouldn't have left without me, I'm sure of it.

Sorry to say I haven't seen anyone with that name or... That stands out as you put it, but then again everyone who comes here stands out.

[Compared to the natives of course they kind of do.]

Fidget... where did you get to?

[Dust exhales sharply, frustrated and worried all at once.]

Could you tell me where I am, at least? I don't recognize this place. Or remember it.

You are currently on an island simply known as Isla Empieza. it's kind of where everyone rocks up on when they first arrive and always around the same time.

[That's what she knew of anyway.]

First arrive?

I'm not the only one? [How could there even be another Sen-Mithrarin? That can't be possible!]

Not at all. This has been going on for about five to six months now.

[Which is a pretty long time, but it doesn't distress her that much.]

There are many more people in the same situation such as yourself. It's a bummer and totally not cool, but it happens.

How can there be more Sen-Mithrarin?! Five to six months' worth -- what could possibly drive so many of us here? How could there be so many of us to begin with?!

Not like we come here willing, someone that calls themselves Davy Jones apparently brought us here.

So have you found a crew yet?

A crew?

[Now she's completely lost him.]

Yeah. I mean you can't really stay n this island for too long.... [How does she put this in the best way possible.]

The natives will basically run you off the island. So usually we get a boat or join a crew and sail off into open waters.

So the native people try to drive us off...

[Is he supposed to fight them? That doesn't seem right, and yet...]

[He looks over his shoulder, back in the direction he came from.]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here.

You should do like the rest of us do. Go join a crew, travel and have fun....To an extent because there are things that aren't so fun.

[Like fights will happen sometimes, which she wished wasn't the case but yet she knew it wouldn't be that easy.]

Fun's not much in my vocabulary... any of ours. [Dust, Cassius, or Jin -- though Jin came closest to remembering it.] But if you're telling me the answers aren't on this island...

The only answers are that fountain, but after that we have to travel in order to do what we are suppose to. [She gives a small shrug.]

It's the only logical thing.

I can't argue with that, I suppose. So finding a crew is my next goal...

Absolutely and I might have an idea for your crew.

[Now seems a good time as any to try and get more people.]

I'm the captain of the ship called Queen's Gambit. If you'd like you can join my crew.

Queen's Gambit?

[If he has a slight reaction to that, it's because of personal history, and the distant role of a king in the conflict that had engendered his creation.]

[The odds are slim that it has any relation, but he can't help but ask.]

What's the name from?

[She shrugs slightly. She doesn't know Ciel's reasons for the name, but she keeps it because it's in memoriam of him.]

Honestly, I haven't a clue. The captain before me choose it for whatever reason and we keep him because of him.

I see.

[Dust thinks a moment more, but he really had no choice.]

Well, if you have a place for a swordsman on board...

We have place for everyone, if you'd like to follow me.

[She turned around, pausing for a moment before turning her head.]

Unless you want to keep doing what you wanted to for a little longer?

Wandering around trying to figure out what to do seems like something I ought to stop. Especially since Fidget doesn't seem to be anywhere...

Sorry that you couldn't find them. It's awful to not have anyone you know, but at the same time it might be a blessing in disguise.

...There's no way missing Fidget is a blessing of any sort. Except that she's not here to hear me say that.

You'll find out why I said that soon enough. I think it's a good thing that my friends aren't here personally because this place is just more dangerous than one might expect.

I haven't gotten into one battle since I've been here. By Falana's standards, this place is a sanctuary.

That is your world, but the battles here when they come they hit hard and fast. If you aren't use to fighting on the seas then it's much harder.

[Dust smiled, entirely confident.]

I think you may be underestimating me. Besides, it can't be much harder than fighting in a volcano.

With a volcano the temperatures would be a lot hotter, but unlike a volcano on the seas you don't fight in close combat most of the time. Then again I wouldn't know if the case would be the same in a volcano.

[She knows a bit about them however.]

Then the trick is just getting up close, isn't it?

[Dust remains confident, almost a little cocky even.]

In the sea, if you fall, you can get back out.

Yes, but with cannons firing at you, easier said then done. I mean I can at least close closer, but not on a ship.

[She nods slightly. It might be true but yet at the same time...] Depending on how the ocean is that day that is true. If it's stormy, more likely to drown. It's why I keep an eye on Dog's weather reports sometimes. That way I know where not to go if there is a storm.

Trust me -- there's no situation in which falling into the sea is more likely to kill you than being swallowed alive by lava. Even if I'm here again.

[He holds out his free hand, flexes it, still not entirely certain he really is...]

I'm not worried. I just want to do what needs to be done.

[She soon reached the docks, turning around hands behind her back.]

Here we are, on the docks. The ship is this over there. [She moves her right arm and points towards the correct ship.]

[Dust comes to a stop as they reach the docks... and truth is, he's not above just a little slack-jawed gaping. He hasn't seen the ocean before, nor grand ships of the sort that sailed these waters. Neither had Jin. Cassius had, but Cassius had very little sense of wonder about him...]

Amazing.

[Musa crosses her arms slightly, looking over.]

It is pretty neat, right? Though they are very hard to steer and sail if you don't have the experience, but you'll learn with time.

It's like nothing I've ever seen.

[It's a little intimidating, as well. But Dust doesn't much go in for backing down.]

Guess I'd better start learning fast, then.

[She smiles putting a hand on his shoulder.]

We'll be happy to help you learn the ropes.

[The casual touch startles him. He isn't used to physical contact that isn't Fidget or violence. Fortunately, all it manifests as is a twitch of his head as he looks her way.]

Given what those sails look like, you mean that literally, right?

[She nods.]

I really do mean it quite literally for once. [She soon let go and made her way up, she had a few things she had left to do.]

You can look around, get use to the place before we head off tomorrow.

I'd say we were moving fast, but a day to just look around is probably more than I've ever had. Fidget, what--

[Dust freezes as he remembers that his companion isn't there. For a moment, he'd forgotten.]

[She wasn't exactly sure what else there was to say except...]

Well if you'd like to keep looking around you are free to do so and if you want me I'll be in my room planning on what to do next.

I should get to know the ship. Especially since I'd be surprised if we didn't end up in a fight on it, knowing how these things go.

...thank you, by the way.

No problem. I'm glad to have helped you get one step closer to getting home.

[She smiles firmly before she heads off to do some work.]

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