The hot sun shined upon the deck of the wooden pirate ship.
Alric started to sweat from the heat of the bright sun. His forehead full of wet sweat.
He wiped his forehead with a piece of his black robs that was covering him, theblack fabric sokeing the sweat but new sweat purred down Alric's face again.
Beside him, Melissa remained cool and collected, her sight fixed on the sky, a spark of fire in her eyes.
Albert however seemed to be really nervous his thoughts running wild.
"Let's flip a coin," Albert suggested, his voice a low purr.
Melissa and Alric starred at each other, carefully decideing there next move.
"Very well," Melissa agreed. "We shall flip a coin to decide who will teach Alric."
Melissa's hand disappearing into the folds of her dress as she reached out for a pouch snuck between her breasts.
She then pulled out a small golden coin that was shining under the bright sun.
It was a small thing, a insignificant thing that could barely get a bread, but now, it was a very important thing... as small as it was... that coin will choose alrics path, it was a gamble for him. And he loved to gamble. Not with his future though...
"What's with her and the pouch between her boobs!?" Alric muttered to himself, the question left unspoken.
Alric watched her closely, looking for ant suspicion in the coin. But it was clean... and clear of any suspicion.
He let out a sigh.
"Heads, I will teach. Tails, you will teach," she spoke to Albert, her voice wild. Albert the ever the lively one, just nodded.
Alric felt a little nervous behind his mask of the 'i dont give a fuck.'
The felt the weight of his importantnce for the right decision. He was nervous but he couldn't do anything.
Soon Melissa's cold voice echoed through the deck of the ship.
"Three… two… one…" she started the count down and the suspense build with every single second.
Alric felt realy nervous while watching this seen happen.
'Why did I even agree to this…? I guess I had no choice,' he thought inwardly, anxiety creeping up him.
The ship was a leviathan of wood and iron.
It creaked with each hit of the large amounts of waves in the ocean. Withstanding each and every blow with not yet a single scratch.
The coin flew in the air, the golden coin shining in the bright sky.
Time seemed to slow down.
Each agonizing second felt like an eternity.
Alric felt a strange sensation, as if the very fabric of reality had unfolded, bringing time to a stop.
He saw the coin that was in the air.
The sea seemed a large endless blue, stretched out to who knew where.
For Alric, the future felt uncertain, filled in a mist of doubt.
He watched the coin falling down slowly.
Finally, the coin fell, landing softly in Melissa's soft but strong hand.
She covered the coin with her other hand. Hiding the result.
"Ready?" she asked both of them. her voice was a low purr, and a mix of nervousness to.
Alric and Albert both gave a simple nod and they held there breaths out of anticipation.
The deck was silent, to silent in fact, It shouldn't have been that silent.
Soon the silence broke from a large wave that hit the ship. The ship creaked a little but standing unfazed.
Slowly and purposefully, Melissa began to lift her hand of the golden coin.
Alric felt a little excited, but only a little, he was still nervous.
What if it landed on tails? What if Albert had to teach him, what if it landed on Heads, Melissa would have to teach him. What if, what if, what if...
Melissa was hoping that it would be Heads. Ofc she was.
And soon... the result was in front of her.
"Heads!" she screamed, her voice with joy.
She started to dance, her joyfull laugh echoing through the deck of the pirate ship.
On the opposite side... well... was it just alric or did Albert seemed to have tears in his eyes?
Soon Albert fell to his knees, biting down on his poor handkerchief.
Melissa stoped her dance and turned to alric with a big and bright, beautiful smile on her face. "How much Access do you have, boy?"
Alric hesitated, feeling dought.
Name: Alric Lyra
Class: —
Skills: —
Access: [2]
Abilities: [Leap] —
"It seems to have increased by one," he muttered to himself...
"Two, my Access is two" he replied to her.
Melissa raised an eyebrow. "Only two? Well, I suppose that's acceptable… So, what exactly's powers are you borrowing?"
Alric sighed, he couldn't keep it a secret for much longer anyways, so he decidedto come out clean. "The Void."
Melissa's eyebrow raised a little higher this time. "Oh… So, what was that stunt you pulled earlier…? I could have sworn you had the power of Teleportation."
Alric scratched the back of his head while he smiled awkwardly.
"Aaaa… That's one of my Abilities… I can leave this world and enter a place where there is nothing… I've decided to call it the Void for now. From there, I can return to this world at any point in side of a certain radius."
Melissa's eyebrow raised to its limits this time. "Oh… That's a pretty handy ability."
"It is," Alric agreed with her and a sense of pride spread over him. He looked at Albert who was still biteing down on that poor handkerchief of his.
"In case you didn't know," Melissa spoke with a mischievous smile, "I am also a relic user."
Alric's eyes widened. "Oh... You do? Whats power are you borrowing then?"
"The Sun," Melissa replied with a mischievous smile.
Alric felt a rush of dizziness getting over him. "Wa- wa- wa- wait, what!? The Sun!? Like…" He pointed towards the bright red fire ball that was in the sky, his voice shakey. "That sun!?"
Melissa just smiled, enjoying alrics reaction. "Yes, yes, that sun." And to make it worse.
Melissa pointed at Alric who was... still biteing down on that poor handkerchief, this time behind a barrel though.
"He is one to, and he is borrowing the powers of wind"
Alric was at shock, at a grate shock, his jaw dropped.
'Didn't people used to worship the sun and the wind back in the days?' A simple question arising in his brain, well, he just decided to ignore that for now.
Back in the royal palace, there were barely fifty known Relic users in the entire kingdom, each one of them with grate power and influence.
And this… this crew of fucking pirates, they had two… no, three including him. This was absurd.
Alric was no longer just a young boy thrown in the world of danger.
He was a Relic user.
Albert finally recovering from... whatever he had and stood up from behind the barrel.
The ship creaked as its ankers were left to wander in the ocean... not to deep because they were near the shore.
"We're here!" the ship's navigator shouted from the top of the ship, his voice echoing throuh the ship.
Melissa's joyfull smile slowly disappeared but there was no doubt, she was in a good mood.
"Alric... tell me... What does a Relic user do?"
"They kill Titans" Alric replied quickly without no doubt.
'Why is she asking that?' alric wondered
"And what do pirates do?" Melissa asked yet another question.
"They loot" Alric answered her question.
"And since we are both Relic users and pirates," Melissa spoke,she jumped off from the deck of the ship and landed perfectly on the soft sand of the shore.
"we do both."