Sineater

The fliers attacked.

With their invisibility gone, their options were to attack or retreat and they were focused on their prize. All six of them went straight for the princess.

Vin and Uziah were both readying attacks that were large enough to damage ships. They could obliterate one of the Sively, but that would be a waste of a large attack. Especially when we were more than capable of handling that few.

My sword was out and I stepped out of the way of the one on my side to dodge his curved blade while slicing off his left wing. He hit the deck and rolled until the princess’ sword stabbed through his back and pinned him to the deck.

As much as I wanted to be amazed by the princess, I couldn’t take the time to appreciate her ability to adjust to a follow up.

Frosu blasted icicles at the fliers, driving them to the deck. Garm had his ax out and was swinging at one of them, while Starna was busy fighting another. Hyer had one of them by the neck and there was another one missing a head at Storbek’s feet. That left only one for me to focus on.

I ran past the princess and blocked his sword, then took a step back as Wizz jumped off the top deck and kicked the Sively in front of me in the back of the head. He stumbled, allowing me to slip past his guard and stab him through the heart.

There was a crack of thunder and I looked at the front of the ship, seeing one of the two ships come into view. Vin fired his ballista, splintering against the barrier shielding the enemy ship. The Camadt reached for another harpoon and began loading it for a second shot.

The other Sively were all dead as I turned my attention back to the fight on our ship. I lowered my sword. “Anyone hurt?”

“Keep yer head on the fight!” Garm slapped my shoulder as he ran to the front of the ship. Both of the ships were getting close and the whole ship shook as rocks the size of my fist began to rain on us. They had either an elementalist or a mage, but either way, they weren’t very strong, which would be irritating, but not deadly..

“We lost our rudder!” Frosu had both hands on the deck. “I can’t keep this up..!”

A larger rock hit the mast halfway up, raining splinters on us. Starna had her hands up, creating a barrier to shield. Vin dropped the weapon he was holding and jumped over us, grabbing the falling mast and dropping it on the deck.

“You octopus tentacles!” The Camadt ran past us, destroying the barrier and letting the wood fragments fall on us.

“Stay away from me you void!” Starna clenched her fists as she screamed at my brother. “I’m using magic here!”

“Sorry!” The Camadt started picking up speed and threw himself into the air. “HYER!”

The Griffon blasted my brother with wind, throwing him further to land in the water over halfway towards the unveiled ship. There was a line of bubbles streaming towards the ship, then Vin shot out of the water with Forst right behind him. It sounded like glass shattering as my brother broke through the barrier and landed on their deck. I could hear the screams and smirked. They weren’t prepared for a Camadt.

“Hyer!” Garm looked over at the Griffon. “Cover him!”

The birdman took to the air and shot over to the ship. I saw blood in the water and knew that the other two were fighting something.

“Brace for impact!” Storbeck moved past me and grabbed the princess under his arm as he grabbed the railing in front of the wheel.

I grabbed Starna’s arm as I wrapped my other arm around the destroyed mast.

The whole ship shuddered as the other pirate ship hit ours. With the front of their ship over our deck, we weren’t going anywhere and it gave them the ability to jump down onto our ship.

I let Starna go and began climbing the mast. There were plenty of dangling ropes, so I used the closest one to swing over the head of the attacking pirates onto their deck. If I could capture their captain, then I could end this. There was a problem with that plan. While our ship kept only a dozen crew, pirate ships the size of this one usually housed over thirty. They had to have a base somewhere close, because it wasn’t viable to live on a ship that crowded for very long.

I let the thought of possible backup fuel my determination as I yelled and charged.