Alister was furious as he tried to confront him about the robbing incident but Arielle stopped him from starting another fight.
"Well, well, well...What a small world. I didn't expect to see each other again." Luther said.
"You're the fucking thief who robbed the merchants and shot me with your bloody toy!" Alister furiously said to him as Arielle held him.
"Forgive me for that my friend, I've got to pay for the damages of my lovely Stacey (He means his ship as he kissed it after saying it)." he replied to Alister.
"Will you take us to Atlantis, as soon as possible?" Arielle said to him.
"Okay, how much?" Luther asked.
"Fifty gold coins?" said Arielle.
"A hundred? you know, the ocean isn't that friendly." Luther said as he asked for a much higher price.
"What that's too much! how about Seventy?" Dante replied to him.
"Seventy-five!" Luther finalized the deal as Dante seconded. "Deal!"
It's going to be a long journey of crossing the wide ocean to reach the Atlantis as huge waves, storms and sea monsters will slow them down.
Greenish blue water, seemed like to be endless as they departed onboard. The ocean can be treacherous, because it hid many hazardous and unpredictable dangers that were not the same in the land. Its ethereal character that was so extremely delicate and so perfect for this world.
"Although it has a lot of unfriendly characteristics, in the end, you can find it extraordinary, mystical, and impressively beautiful if you'll never get tired of understanding it. It's just like women." Luther said, talked about his opinion for the ocean.
"As if you knew all about women, huh?!" Arielle said as she was offended by Luther's words.
"How many days does it take to get there?" Dante asked Luther, as he felt sick on riding with the ship in the wide open ocean..
"Three to four days maybe? It depends on how strong the winds that takes us and what we face on our way." Luther replied.
"I hate this guy!" Dante whispered.
"Yeah, Don't mention it." Alister agreed.
Dante ran onto the bow. Vomited all the meats that he ate on his last meal.
"I've never thought, demons can be pregnant?" Luther mockingly said when he saw Dante spitting out.
"I'm just wondering, how could you make a deal with us? I mean, I have some demons with me." Arielle asked him.
"As long as there's money, I'm down for it. Money and treasures make the world go round. I don't care if you're a demon or something more evil. Just give me money and I'll give you my service." replied Luther with a serious facial expression and a grief in his eyes upon saying those words to Arielle.
Dante was struggling onboard as seasick, dizziness and an unpleasant feeling as if he was going to throw up again, so he took his rest inside of the cabin, a room in the ship where passengers can take their sleep. Peebles and Alister went to the ship's Cockpit, a part of the ship where the wheel which controls the direction of the ship.
"What are you doing with that thing admiral?" Peebles asked, with a deep hoarse voice of a big man.
"Admiral? Captain? yah, I'll take that. But do you know what my real name was? I AM THE GREATEST MONSTER SLAYER! AND THE MASTER OF THE SEA! I AM.....THE LONE-PIRATE." Luther uttered in a thrilling way but cringed. But naive Peebles was still amazed with his words. "Whoah... lone pirate."
"What a geek.." Alister whispered to himself.
While Alister, Peebles and Luther were busy talking, Arielle was up on Crow's Nest. Which is a structure in the upper part of the main mast of the ship or the structure that was used as a lookout point. Arielle was there curiously looking out using the navigator's telescope that was placed there. Apart from the distance, rumbling sound of thunder as the devastating lightning strikes at the sea. Thick cumulonimbus clouds that create shady skies covered up the wide ocean on ahead of their path as the merciless winds caused the enormous waves to crash.
"Hey, Luther! Luther!" Arielle yelled at him but Luther was playing deaf.
"No, I'm not going to answer that bitch if she will not going to call me my real name, hahaha." Luther whispered to Peebles.
"Hey jerk! are you listening? there's a storm coming!" Arielle madly yelled again. She rushed down to him furiously. "Luther! there's a storm you son of a...."
Arielle was petrified because Luther still insisted on continuing to go through the storm. "The Lone-Pirate isn't afraid of anything! WHHHOOOOOOOHOOOOO!"
They drifted into the raging storm. Gigantic waves were crash the bow but Luther and his ship seemed to be used to this kind of situation in the sea because all his life he grew up a pirate and a treasure hunter. Huge waves in the stormy seas were nothing to him. Unfortunately, they don't know that it wasn't just a storm that will cross with their path. A gigantic and long tentacles of an octopus maybe forty to fifty foot long, gigantic head and face of a squid with a shark's huge razor teeth inside its huge mouth as it showed up from the sea.
"Finally...FOR ALMOST FIVE YEARS OF WAITING! I KNOW WE'LL MEET AGAIN! I'M GONNA TEAR YOU TO PIECES YOU FUCKING SEA CREATURE!" Luther yelled furiously.
Alister, Peebles and Arielle were freakin in hell. Knowing that this wasn't an arena they used to explore in their whole lives and it was their first time to be in the sea.
"What the hell was that?!" asked Arielle.
"That...That was the 'Kraken' the one who took my wife's and kids' lives together with some of my crews." replied Luther as he headed towards the Kraken.
"Are you CRAZY?! maybe we should turn around to another way? I think this ship can't take care of that monster." Arielle said again, freaking as Alister and Peebles too.
"No way! I will never going to miss this opportunity to kill this monster!" Luther madly said.
Luther sailed his ship together without thinking about his freaking out passengers towards the kraken. Arielle tried to control the stirring wheel but Luther pushed her violently that made her unconscious as her head smashed on the anchor behind them. Alister helped her up and tried to wake her up but she turned out unconscious as her forehead was bleeding slightly fortunately her pulse and heart still beating. Alister carried her into the cabin but the kraken wrapped its tentacle to their ship as Peebles and Alister dropped on the ship floor while carrying Arielle. Luther with his pirate sword and his pistol charged towards the kraken as he used its tentacle that wrapped his ship to pass and get closer into it. He sliced and dodged every tentacle that was coming to slap him and he kept on going. After he got closer to it, he shot the kraken's left eye with his pistol six times until his bullets were out. He blinded the kraken's left eye but it just made it go madder. The kraken wrapped Luther with its tentacle almost tightly but Luther escaped it as he shape shifted into a jellyfish and slid down and changed back into a human again. "In your face you big asshole!" Luther yelled to the kraken. Its other tentacle slapped Luther out of the way. The kraken pulled the ship into himself and took Arielle who's just got back from being unconscious. Arielle froze up the water and some of the kraken's tentacles but it just slammed her ice magic and it just caused to give some damage as it scattered and shattered back into the ship.
"Alister! HELP! HELP!" Arielle yelled desperately yelling for help as the kraken wrapped her up into its mouth.
Alister rushed onto the kraken by passing through its tentacle. Climbed up to its body as he tries to save Arielle using his vampiric claws but the kraken slapped him with its gigantic tentacle back into the ship. Suddenly, there was a sweet and soothing music that was sung by something, another sea creatures who inhabited some of the seas and islands in Atlantis region. Naga Sirens, are the good races of the sirens, a half human half fish creatures, sometimes they called them mermaids. Naga Sirens often help some troubled travelers in the sea. Through the song they sang, they will make the kraken run away and get back into the deepest sea down into the darkest trench in the ocean where its home was as the kraken hated the Naga Sirens' song so much in an unexplainable reason.
The storm has calmed down, shady clouds were slowly fading away as the sunlight started to show up. Arielle was dropped in the water after the kraken threw her away when it left. She doesn't know how to swim because it was her first time ever to explore the ocean. She was drowning down as she slowly drank some of the salt water filling into her stomach. Alister swam down into where she was and he reached for her hand and he grabbed her and he shared his breath with her so that she can keep up and then he grabbed her with him up until they reached their ship.
"What was that for?!" she madly said to Alister. "Why did you kiss me, you pervert?!" as she slapped Alister's face.
"No, I didn't kiss you on purpose. That wasn't even a kiss. I just shared my breath with you cause you are drowning to death, you should try to realize that you dumb ass! You should be grateful that I just saved you from the pit." replied Alister.
"A lot of water has entered our ship. I guess we're gonna drown again." Peebles uttered.
Their ship was almost drowning with them but fortunately, Naga Siren pulled their ship using sea vines. The Sirens helped them from drowning and pulled them into their island, the 'Naga Island'.
"Thank you for helping us, we don't know what's going to happen to us if you didn't come." Arielle gratefully said to the Queen of Naga Sirens.
"That was our duty. Saving every troubled travelers in our seas." the Queen replied.
A sea sickened Dante, who just came out from his cabin, "What did I miss?" naive from everything that happened recently. "Ahhh, finally a land." A soothing feeling when he finally sees that they already arrived at the certain island.
"Welcome to our island. You can spend a few days here until your ship is fixed. Be feel at home but, but behave yourselves properly." the Naga Queen said. The Naga Sirens walked away after their conversation, slithering into the sand heading into their Lair inside the big lagoon cave on the island and they called it the Naga Cove.
Dante constructed a hut with long tree branches served as its beams and coconut palm as its roof and Peebles made a bonfire for them while Alister and Arielle were sitting on the huge rock near at the seashore.
"So, what now? what's gonna happen now? Luther is dead, and we're stuck on this island with a wrecked ship and a group of creatures that doesn't have any experience of this arena, I mean the ocean." Alister said.
"I'm glad you are concerned about our situation right now." Arielle replied.
"Of course I am... What do you think of me? a...." Alister responded to her, as he misunderstood her statement about being concerned.
"No, I mean, what I mean to say is, all I know about you demons were heartless and cold-blooded. I'm happy right now, though you are, both of you Dante were demons but still I can feel there's something human inside of you two. You still have a kind heart. I am sorry, sorry for calling you a pervert and accusing you of kissing me. I'm sorry for getting mad, I just.. I just couldn't help myself with it. My actions were limited. If it wasn't, then everything will not gonna end up as hard as this." Arielle explained.
"No it's okay, if I was in your place, I would probably be angry at Alister, too." said Alister.
"And please, next time don't ever attempt to put your lips to my lips. Just let me drown if possible. Just let you know kissing, even if it's not a real kiss or intentional, please don't. That will put me into trouble." Arielle explained to him.
"So, are you afraid of falling in love, aren't you?" Alister asked her with a question that gave her an uncomfortable feeling.
"Uhmm, something like that but in another situation, much worse than you think, maybe. I mean myself, my whole self will be in trouble. I cannot tell you about it because I wasn't supposed to." Arielle answered.
While they're looking at the sunset, on the way ahead of the sea where they're staring at, there was a shark fin that was approaching quickly into the direction of where they are. Alister and Arielle stand up as if they are ready to face the indistinct trouble that's coming to them. Out of the sudden, the fin disappeared but Luther jumped out of the water as he surprised them.
"Speaking of the devil." Alister whispered to Arielle.
"How can you still be alive? We thought you were eaten by that giant monster." Arielle said to Luther. "If we turned around, your ship will not be destroyed and everything of it will never happen." she madly complained to him.
"I'm sorry my bad, but at least I tried to avenge my family." Luther replied.
"I didn't know that you're a mage, a shape shifting mage. I always thought that you were just a fraud thief!" Alister mockingly said to Luther.
Alister was about to start a fight with Luther again, fortunately Arielle stopped them from doing it.
"Even if you fight! That's not gonna change what happened here. So, you both stop it! or I will freeze you to DEATH!" Arielle furiously yelled at them, very mad.
They laid down onto the smooth, soothing fined white sand under the hut that Dante made as the mild chilling sea breeze with the illuminating moonlight above the starry night upon them. Alister was always wide awake, sitting on the rock where they were last moment ago as he heard an annoying hoarse sound of the snoring pirate.
At early dawn, Luther got woke up out of the sudden. He got up and headed to Alister's whereabouts.
"Yo, what's up mate? Why you're still up all this time?" said Luther.
"Demons don't sleep.... I mean vampires." Alister replied. "I'm sorry for getting mad at you recently." He apologized.
"Come on, that's nothing man. I bet you're worrying about her?" Luther said to him again as he asked a question that made Alister become awkwardly uncomfortable but Alister just dodged his question and just stayed quiet. "Why don't you try this?" Luther offered him to drink some whiskey inside of the small liquor container or often called as 'hip flask'. "Come on mate, you can drink it. Your amulet helps. You can eat, drink, and taste mortals' foods with that." Luther forced him as he convinced him to take his offer. He smelled it as the strong cent of caramel with the complex smoky flavor of malty aroma especially bourbon with a briny taste as he took a sip of it. "I never tasted liquor before for over four hundred years when I was a human, but that time, I was a child tho... I just found it tasted great." Alister said as he complimented Luther's whiskey. Dante surprised Luther as he suddenly came along beside him. "What in the hell are you two doing out here?" he said.
"Come on mate, join us. Help us celebrate something this shit." Luther said as he offered Dante his whiskey. Dante joined them and got drunk up with them as Luther left them for a while to find some bottle of liquor from his damaged ship. Luther came back with a bottle of unopened whiskey.
"Here she comes, sad to say that she's the only survivor." said Luther as he meant about the only bottle of whiskey left in his ship because the rest were broken and spilled out.
From early dawn, they drank up until the late dawn came lying down on the big rock where they were, left with hangovers on their heads.
It was brunch when the three hangovers woke up. Peebles poured an iced cold sea water made by Arielle to wake them up. The three got mad at Peebles but Arielle threatened them so they just left him alone. Arielle freezes the water to make their path heading to their ship as they fix it together. Dante and Alister went to get some logs and woods inside the island's jungle and made it into a vast woods as Peebles went with them to pick it up and deliver it to their ship to punch the holes and damages of it. While Arielle helped Luther in carpentry.
It was late noon when they finished fixing their ship. Luther released the riggs of the ship as the wind blew to it and push the ship towards the direction of their destination.
After a day and a half, they finally reached in the Port of Atlantis. Tall decent buildings made by marble stones, wonderfully carved, twenty foot tall statue of Poseidon meet them at the entrance of the huge city island of Atlantis. Different races such as humans, dwarves and elves were decently living there by the day since the place was created by Poseidon and his own legion.
"Whoa, It was my first time to go in here ever since in my life. This place was so amazing." Dante uttered with amazement.
"Yeah, I need to explore this place." Alister concluded.
"Since we already got in here, I can assure you my beautiful blonde friend that there's no any single danger in this place. I think we should split up for a while. I think you can handle it alone looking for whatever you were looking for, we can see you're such a strong, independent and a beautiful woman. And I will give a tour for these boys to have a good time." Luther said to Arielle, kiddingly complimenting her so that he can persuade her to do his stupid idea and luckily, Arielle agreed. "Come on boys!" Luther uttered.
Arielle left immediately to go find Hermes while on the other scenario, Luther, together with Dante, Alister and Peebles went to the caravan fair somewhere in the city. In the fair, Luther took them into the huge tent where there was a freak show competition, a contest which included some shape-shifter mages and showed their best and freakiest form ever to win a treasure chest of gold coins and pearls. Dante, Alister and Peebles took their seats in the audience while Luther went out there to join the competition. The first contender showed up an ice breathing dragon, a 'wyvern' as her freak form and the judges gave her three ten. The second contender shifted into a twenty foot tall ferocious reptile, a 'T rex', the creatures who were living in the southwest region of the GreatLand called 'Sill Plains' known as the sanctuary of dinosaurs. But the judges gave him two eights and a nine. The next contenders did their best but it wasn't enough to beat the first one until it was Luther's turn. Luther shifted into a forty foot giant sea creature called the 'Megalodon', a shark and one of the top predators in the sea and the judges gave him all ten that made him tied up with the first contender. Because of the tie incident, the judges made a tie breaker. The first contender transformed herself into a giant mythical fiery-fire bird called 'Phoenix', these creatures were so hard to find as it lives in the far far east region of the GreatLand across the desert of Alcatraz, a wide desert that was composed of tall maze valleys that will made some of the travelers lost in there. The contender who shape-shifted into a Phoenix got all ten and then everyone saw the unexpected. Luther transformed into a fifty foot tall, huge and the greatest predator in the ocean called the kraken. The whole place in the fair was devastated as the people in there were amazed in the shock. Dante wondered how the hell Luther did that, as he knew that you could only transform into that beast if you got something from it like its blood, hair, or anything that came from that creature and you put its essence into the rock of your mage's ring. Alister told Dante everything about it during the fight incident with the kraken in the ship. Alister suspected that Luther got it there during the encounter with the kraken, Dante wasn't with them in the fight that time as he was experiencing sea sickness inside the ship's cabin. After a few seconds of being in the kraken form, Luther quickly changed back into a human again. His contender picked up his hand and raised it up in the air as she declared Luther as the unanimous winner of the contest. Luther, together with the boys took the prize with them and then went out for a celebration.
After going to the Caravan Fair, they went into the bar that was owned by Luther's cousin named Cardell Sharpeye. "Hello couz? I want you to meet my new friends. This is Dante, Alister and the big guy Peebles."
"Yo! welcome to my bar. Feel yourself at home and get drunk until you spit." A brown haired, good looking young man of his early twenties, warm-heartedly welcomed them with the sky high looks in his eyes.
"Are you really cousins? cause one of you has a black and the other one has a brown hair, and it doesn't tell much about your bloodlines." Alister said.
"What are you doing with that?" Dante curiously asked Cardell about the thing he's holding in his hand, a cigar weed.
"Ugh? what? this?... Oh, hahaha...This was my latest discovery. I found these plants in the Sill Plains. I found it so addictive, I called it a cigarette. I think all of you should try this." replied Cardell, as he handed a piece of the lighted cigar weeds to Luther, Dante, Alister, and Peebles. "I'm planning to name this my new discovery to my two beautiful ex's. Maria and Juana."
"Gosh! this is so good." Luther uttered, as he tried the weed that Cardell gave him.
"Marijuana, marijuana sound better." Dante told him.
"Yeah, good idea, thanks." Cardell said gratefully. "You know, we people here in the Atlantis were pioneers, because we're smart of discovering something that's why almost all of us in here were living in a decent lives. We're good at making business out from our own wonderful discoveries."
After that, the five of them took their seats and got drunk up with beers.
"Humans were so awesome, my kind were so boring." Peebles said.
"So, can you tell us about some of the amazing things about this place?" Dante said to Luther.
"Yeah, sure mate. Uhmm, once upon a time, the greatest wizards in the Alliance Empire. Odin, Zeus, Hades, Poseidon and others, they're greatly known because they mastered the magic of eternal youth as they had been living throughout the centuries. Until the time passed by, Poseidon decided to be a king on his own kingdom. He separated from his brothers because he knew he had no chance to become a king if he was still with them. So that's why he built up this place together with his legion." Luther told them.
"Okay, there's one thing I have longing to ask you." Alister said to Luther.
"What is it mate?" Luther replied.
"About your family and your history with the kraken?" Alister asked.
<(slurp... ahhh) as Luther drank up his cup full of beer.>
"Me and my wife together with my kid and my crew were moving in here that time. We were traveling in the sea, happy, celebrating. Me and my crew that time got a big shot of treasures. Out of the sudden, that big fucking monster! fucking Hades' pet! Murdered my whole family...." Luther told them about his traumatic past.
"Yah, yah... man it's enough. Now I understand. I'm sorry, why don't we just skip to the good part, shall we?" as Alister interrupted him to calm him down from his pain.
They drank up the whole night like there was no other days to come. This bond made their first friendship. Until they passed out and slept on the floor. Waking up in the late morning with a hangover in their heads.
"Hey drunkards? I have good and bad news for you." Arielle said to them, just came back from wandering around in the city seeking informations about Hermes.
"Well, I want the bad news first." Luther replied to her.
"Hermes was abducted by Lilith." Arielle answered. "But anyway... we can track him using Dante and Alister's scents tracking ability through this Hermes' used clothes." she added.
"Where did you find that information?" Dante asked her.
"From Poseidon himself, he told me that Hermes was favored by Taneisha to deliver her Divine Glaive and handed it to Poseidon. But Lilith broke in with the used of Guardian Amulet. Someone handed the amulet into that demon." Arielle explained.
Luther was awkwardly walked away and went into the bathroom as he heard Arielle's last sentence. Because he was guilty knowing himself that he was the one who sold the amulet to Lilith after she offered him a big price for it.