Lucas' team was lollygagging around the ship eating and partying. Except little Rael. Rael stood at the ship's dock looking out into the ocean with a genuine smile on his face.
Soon the ship began approaching shore. Lucas was gathering everybody around to develop their game plan of obtaining a ship to take them to the next continent. The murderous hobos each threw in their opinion on how they can obtain a ship. Rael then asserted himself saying "I already have a boat". The team glanced at Rael still standing at the dock, looking out at the land.
Hours later, the ship hit the docks. "I'm home" said Rael with an innocent smile on his face. Lucas demanded that everybody including Rael was to stay together.
At the direction of Rael, Lucas led the team through town. People were walking without shoes. Women were walking with breast exposed. The designs of their clothes varied with shapes and colors. Lucas, Kilkyl, Zarz, David, Vagron, even Ponto looked and saw savages. Rael then laughed pointing out the body shaming of women that takes place in their country. Kilkyl tried to dismiss Rael for being a know nothing child. But Rael pointed towards the fact that they were all harshly judging other cultures for living differently. Lucas then noticed something strange. The people were actually staring back at them.
After not too long after, Rael had led the team to a much smaller dock where fishermen came. There Rael navigated everybody to a wooden cabin where a fisherman sat on a stool reading through the news paper. "Mr. Ferguson" shouted Rael repetitively. The older fisherman on his stool looked up. "What are you doing her Rael" he asked. Rael immediately asked for his help by lending the boat. But Mr. Ferguson only asked why Rael came back. Lucas then budded in asking if there was a problem. Mr. Ferguson then stated that the island does not work with the elf kind. Rael's little heart fell as he heard Mr. Ferguson's words. "Excuse me" asked Lucas. "You came here and lied to us. brought about your treachery. threw us in danger pretending to be some innocent child" Mr. Ferguson said in a harsh tone. Rael's eyes grew big with tears. his eye brows then began to lead downward into an angry yet frustrated face. Lucas then questioned Mr. Ferguson as to what he meant by "Elf". Mr. Ferguson then explained that elves have ancient abilities that threw the world into ruin and that one of these abilities is shape-shifting. Everybody then began to understand now why Rael was so powerful for a child. Eyes in the shifted towards Rael who only stared back with the intent to fight everybody. Rael's ears grew out to elfish points. His hair grew and spiked out. His teeth morphed into fangs. And his pupils became slits. He then introduced himself as Rael Galanodel a half-elf.
Lucas only smirked and returned his attention towards Mr. Ferguson. "So about the boat" he asked. "Did you not just hear me" yelled Mr. Ferguson, "the boy is an elf". "Okay" replied Lucas, "but we need the boat". "Come to think of it, you hate him so much because he is an elf. But what about before" asked Lucas. Mr. Ferguson explained that Rael use to help him fish all the time for food and money. One day while out at sea, a giant see serpent attacked the boat. It was only due to Rael launching a spear embedded with his lightning magic that Rael defeated the serpent and saved the ship all by himself. Lucas then replied "Oh, so he saved, you, your men, your business of which you need to support your families, and he continued to work under you for a long time for the small pay people like you typically pay your quick hires. And after all of that you can't lend him a boat? Listen, he's was happy when he got here because he was planning on seeing you people. Now he's pissed. I'm pissed. We are all pissed because you are ungrateful for all he has done for you all because he is an elf. So what are you going to do"? Mr. Ferguson hesitated, but knew he had no options for Lucas was ready to kill him if he had to.
Mr. Ferguson gathered a few men and prepared his ship which had a powerful steam engine. Mr. Ferguson was to sail all the way to Port Ikhoboka where he will drop off Lucas and his men. Lucas and his men where all boarding the ship when Lucas stopped Rael by placing his hand on Rael's shoulder. "You're still part of the team ya know" said Lucas. Rael said nothing and continued to board the boat.
Mr. Ferguson sailed the ship out and approached the sea. Just as before, Lucas and his men strolled about the ship. The ship sounded off its siren leaving most of the crew members scurrying to the inside of the ship. Lucas looked up asking what was the signal for. Rael pointed out a giant sea serpent approaching underwater. The serpent was immune to fire and surely Zarz's magic would at best destroy the ship to ward off the sea serpent. Lucas had no plan to combat the beast. Mr. Ferguson ran out yelling for everybody to get inside in hopes that the creature does not wreck the entire ship. Lucas then asked if they had any weapons to which Mr. Ferguson replied "no". Lucas began to run inside with everybody else when he noticed that Rael remained hunched over the edge of the ship. Rael did not care and waited patiently for the sea serpent to draw itself closer. Lucas and Waateef stood by the inner ship's entrance yelling for Rael to come inside.
A moment had passed and Rael was ready to go. Lucas and Waateef were standing close to the entrance to the inner ship attempting to bring Rael inside. Rael stood up right and jumped out onto the sea. Lucas and Waateef called out as they raced to the ship's ledge. There they saw Rael standing upright on the water. Rael ran out far into the horizon prompting Waateef to jump out and follow.
Once he was far enough from the ship, Rael stood staring out upon the vast open ocean. Rael spread his legs shoulder width apart and slammed his hand onto the water. A cyclone of water erupted from Rael's palm and made its way to the sea serpent's head. This angered the sea serpent to rise to the shore to fight its underage opponent.
The sea serpent angrily broke through the sea's surface slamming its body around creating large tsunamis. Mr. Ferguson was struggling to keep his ship a float. Lucas stared at the sea serpent. He took note of its size being longer than any tower and two times wider than the ship. Having no clue on how to beat the creature, and with Rael and Waateef both out in the sea, Lucas a tough decision; to either save Rael and Waateef and risk the lives of his other men or run away and abandon his two men at sea. Lucas made his mind and demanded Mr. Ferguson to head towards the sea serpent while the rest of his team came out on deck to help in the fight. The team however was frightened. "How could we possibly beat that" asked Zarz.
Rael gave zero fucks on whether he had help or not, he was simply determined to kill the beast, let out steam, and move on with the mission. He stared up at the sea serpent's big yellow slit eyes with his palm still flat on the water. The sea serpent shot its out down towards Rael, but Rael dodged and created a typhoon that brought the sea serpent's head into the air.
Rael then began to run off to the side of the sea serpent as it was breaking its head free of the typhoon. Rael was shooting lightning at the sea serpent to keep its attention as he lured it further from the ship. The sea serpent grew angry and began rapidly jabbing its head at Rael. Rael kept dodging the serpent's attacks and countering them with swift lightning bolts. Rael then jumped further away to cast a blizzard spell to send the sea serpent into a cold frenzy. it barely had an effect on the sea serpent, but it gave Waateef to come crashing down from the air onto the serpent's head. Rael quickly ran under the serpent's now falling head and launched a lightning bolt through its neck. The serpent's nerves were still active even though its head was now decapitated and falling in the ocean. Rael then worked a whirlpool to suck the serpents remains starting with is furthest end away from Rael and Waateef. Rael said nothing to Waateef. Instead he began walking towards the ship leaving Waateef in shock in the power little Rael wielded.
Upon the sea serpent's death, the waters had calmed down and Mr. Ferguson gained control of the ship. Mr. Ferguson was going to sail the ship towards Rael and Waateef, but had noticed that the two were already heading over safely.
Lucas was in relief that the sea serpent was dead and shock of Rael's power as a half elf. His power even seemed to surpass Zarz's. Kilkyl then noted that elves are different and see themselves as higher beings. Further, with both an orc and an elf in their team that it could only lead to betrayal. Lucas rejected the thought. Waateef was in actuality a peaceful man while Rael appears to be a lost child.
Once at the ship, both Rael and Waateef jumped up respectively onto the ship's deck. Lucas congratulated the boys and asked for them to never run out like that again due to endangering the rest of the team. Waateef, noted his only reason for jumping out was to save Rael. But Rael remained ignorant and cold to everybody. "Got it" Rael replied as he left to stand alone again.
Mr. Ferguson ordered his crew to get back to work on their normal schedule. The team was continuing their day pondering Rael's newly revealed power. David and Vegron had already believed Rael had more power than he let on, but no idea that it would be at this scale. As Rael stood alone once more, Lucas crept up behind him. Rael instantly asked "what he wanted"? Lucas answered he only wanted to talk. Lucas could tell that Rael was bothered by everybody knowing that he is half elf. So he demanded Rael face him and look him in the eye. upon Rael facing Lucas, Lucas informed Rael that he was still a valuable member of the team regardless of his race. Rael could tell that Lucas was telling the truth, but could also feel the fear and hate in his teammates. Lucas then reassured that the team will warm up to the new discovery and that everything will be alright upon his command. " I will see to the mission's success and the return of all teammates. We will each go from there." replied Rael. Lucas knew that all was not well, but was happy that he could clear things up with Rael.