Here there be monsters...

[crankyshark]

 Who: The Bloody Roses

Where: on the open sea enroute to Gun Frontier

When: 5/19ish

What: fighting a sea monster!!!

Warnings: blood and violence! Hopefully...XD

Style: Any!

Status: closed to bloody roses and anyone invited by a member of the crew

Thash wanted to to bring back some good fish, but nothing like this...


oh yeah, and feel free to start your own threads if you want to fight the monster but not necessarily interact with Thash! It'll fight anyone that comes out to challenge it! ;3

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[crankyshark]

[the hydra saw him running and followed him with the boiling breath. It was gaining on him! But just before the water hit him, he'd reach the safety of a mast. It blocked the water long enough for the dragon to run out of it, coughing a little.]

[while the dragon ducked its head into the water to take in more of it, it's two tails came after Arthur again. It wasn't watching him right now so instead of precise attacks they just sort of flailed at him, hoping to smack him. If one did hit him, it would try to curl around him again]

[english_dignity]

[Ironically, it was one of those flailing tails that finally knocked into him, driving Arthur towards the rail as he tried to get himself back upright. This was bad, very bad.]

[crankyshark]

[the tail wasted no time in coiling around him like a snake, probably pinning his arms to his sides unless either of them had happened to be over his head when it happened. The tail tightened a little as it pulled him over the railing, dragging him straight into the water]

[Thash, who had just finished trying to distract the monster so Faye could shoot it, glanced that direction when he heard a splash. He expected another tail was coming up to attack them...but wait, one had gone away? And had there been something colorful held in it...?]

[english_dignity]

[Arthur struggled wildly as he was pulled over, maybe even panicking a little (okay, a lot) as he was drawn down into the water. Opening his mouth to yell for yelp, he quickly got a lungful of sea water when he was yanked beneath the surface.]

[crankyshark]

[while Thash wasn't sure if he'd seen something grasped in that tail as it left the deck, he definitely heard a yell just before the final splash. Well, crap. Hoping Faye would have luck shooting the heads without him there to distract them, he jumped into the water]

[the tail pulled Arthur lower heedlessly. The monster wasn't even paying attention to him anymore, knowing that pretty much whatever it's tails grabbed and pulled into the water ended up dying pretty quickly. Then it could just sort of drag him along for a while until it got hungry...a snack on the go]

[it held tightly despite Arthur's struggling, until about 30 seconds later when it felt a piercing pain near it's intended snack. Thash had stabbed his sword strongly into the tail. It was hard to get leverage in the water so it didn't go all the way through, but it was deep enough so that when Thash pulled sideways on it, it split the tail open and caused a tremor to spread through the water as the monster jerked in pain.]

[the tail let go of Arthur and Thash grabbed him, swimming towards the surface. The dragon's third head was down there checking him out by now and bit at him as he swam. The shark hybrid yelped in pain when the dragon bit his tail, but managed to kick it in the eye before it had done any deep damage, getting it to back off. That bought him the few seconds he needed to scale the side of the ship with his claws, hauling Arthur's soaked body to the safety of the deck behind a stack of crates. He paused, panting as he checked to see if Arthur was breathing now that he was out of the water]

[english_dignity]

[The nation wasn't breathing at all, having inhaled far too much water in his fight to get free. He flopped limply down onto the wooden deck.]

[crankyshark]

[When Thash realized he wasn't breathing, his worry shot up. He had a vague concept of how to provide rescue breathing but hadn't exactly ever been taught. Well, everyone else on deck seems to be busy fighting so, it was up to him]

[Thash did think this was strange....but not because Arthur was a guy, more because Thash had purposely drowned people before and now he was trying to reverse the process.]

[he rolled Arthur over for a second to get excess water from his lungs, then returned him to his back. The shark hybrid put his mouth over the country's, breathing into it a couple of times. When he realized air was escaping trough his nose, he reached up to put a hand over it then continued, hoping it was working. It'd be pretty crappy to lose a crew mate to some stupid hungry sea monster

[english_dignity]

[Nothing seemed to happen at first before he got a good breath of (somewhat fishy) breath and jerked with a gasp, his eyes shooting open. Arthur's hands came up to shove Thash away, the nation running on instinct at first as he automatically searched for the sword that'd been knocked away before he'd been dragged overboard, only starting to come to his senses after a few more gulps of air. Coughing, he rolled over to expel more water from his lungs.]

What- [Cough.] What happened?

[crankyshark]

[Thash let go of him as soon as he started moving, not offended by being pushed away. He heaved a sigh of relief, glad it had worked. He stood up as Arthur coughed up the excess water]

You were dragged overboard, so I brought you back. You okay?

[he had a sense of urgency in his voice, ready to jump back into the fight now that Arthur was breathing]

[english_dignity]

Bloody hell. Now I remember why I hate sea monsters. Where's my sword?

[Because from the sounds of it they obviously weren't done fighting the thing.]

[crankyshark]

Ummm....[Thash retrieved his own sword that was lying nearby, but had to peer around the stack of crates they were behind to spot Arthur's]

It's about fifteen feet to the left of the mast....but be careful, another one of the tails is coming up. [he ran out from behind the crates, going to deal with the tail and try to distract the monster more so Faye could land enough cannonball hits to drive it off]

[english_dignity]

Thank you.

[Peeking out from behind the crates, he dove for his sword to rejoin the fight.]