Pirate hunting

Famia was utterly caught off guard by the song, yet she saw Zak's ship. This made her uneasy as the child from before, whom she noticed earlier when sh saw them was sitting on the bow of the shit was missing when she heard Zak order a kraken to be released. Her gaze immediately went for the water as her spears were ready to strike, "Captain, I'll stay aboard as long as there is a safe ship to stand on!" she snapped back getting to the side of the ship that flanked Zak's band of pirates, she eyed the ocean for any sign of life. She scanned the sea in a vain hope to see any sign of the supposed Kraken. 

the quarter master smiled "Not yet me boy. The deck guns I'm in charge of fires chain shot in their rigging. Strands the poor ship we're fighting and they can't do a damn ting to stop us. The two decks below fire some standard shot to test their hull and such. No point wastin heavier shot if it'll do nothin to em."

"Ready yourselves men!" John yelled to his crew. "Assassin!" He said before turning to his father. His voice was low, icy and venomous. "Raise the flag." he hissed.

"As you wish captain." The assassin said with morbid excitement. With in a few seconds a brilliant white flag with the black logo of the assassins was raised on the main mast. He returned to the side railing and hoped up on top of it. He grabbed a rope to steady himself and smiled as they pulled up with in 75m of the other ship.

"FIRE!" John yelled to the starboard guncrewas the ship caught a gust of wind pushing the guns that were firing towards the man o wars rigging. ((Leeward)) A thunderous roar was let loose as all the starboard guns fired simultaneously into the enemy ship.

Kraky had made it aboard and tried his best to explain the situation to the large red haired captain in charge. "People... kill... me.... warn... you... get... away... die." It was kind of hard to understand his efforts, but Peder managed to turn around and see the ship as it raised it's flag. He rubbed the orange haired boy's head and began to gather his own mages and send the larger ship ahead with great effort. Maybe it would be enough, maybe it would not be. Needless to say, the fire from John's ship was returned by the larger ship tenfold.

Kraky exited the ship the same way he had exited Zak's, unseen. He floated down to the depths where he couldn't easily be seen and managed to get himself back into Zak's ship. Zak was watching quietly, Din's Avenger sailing the path she was intended to, avoid the line of fire. He wasn't about to do anything stupid. He noticed Kraky was back and knew his friend had been warned. They would fight valiantly.

Zak directed the ship toward the next main continent and sailed on and away from John's ship, Kraky peering from the back rail trying to make sense of the goings-on.

Famia barely heard the orange haired boy on the other ship and soon watched him disappear to the lower decks, his words echoed in her head, it made little sense to her, "People... kill... me.... warn... you... get... away... die... The hell does that mean...?" she asked herself as she thought, and as John's cannons fired, she knew exactly what was about to ensue, "Oh-! AEROGA!!" she yelped putting a heavy wind in John's sails sending the ship rocketing out of the firing line of the much larger ship, knocking almost everybody but Famia on their arses as before the ship slowed a bit, now out of range of the much larger, and now hostile ship, she looked at John, "That damned friend of Zak's gave a warning to the Man of War's captian. I was lucky to hear that... I'm pretty sure we'd be dead..." Famia spoke, with a rather motherly tone, she wasn't scolding John, but more giving a report of why she acted. She could have saved at minimum, herself, but the remainder of the crew, and the ship would have been annihilated, "We're going to have to find another strategy to beat that ship. Since we're heavily under-powered against that beast..."

((We seriously need to start mentioning distances; I inferred that they were still farther away than hearing distance, especially since Kraky literally speaks at a pianissimo. Famia should not have been able to hear him, but since she did we can continue on; I just request that distances are mentioned, GANONDORF (and myself in regards to Zak). -- Spar))

"Oh i guess that makes.." kira was cut off when he fell right into the mast spilling his drink "some warning next time please.. But thanks.. I know how to deal with that ship... FIRE i mean the ship is made of wood so let's set it aflame.. Then arrive and put it out so we don't kill anyone who doesn't deserve it" kira said already preparing the spell

"Fires to risky boy." The quarter master said a mere second before John spoke up.

"Quarter master! Grape shot both sides!" John ordered.

"Aye sir!" The quarter master yelled back. "Boy hand these to the gunners." HE ordered Kira pulling out several cartridges. They had a round piece of metal at the bottom to fit the barrel. In the middle was a metal spike with a sack containing several iron balls attached to it. When fired Grapeshot would produce a hideous shotgun like affect on the enemy crew.

((How far away are they from the enemy ship? -SPAR))

"ok will do.. Still I'm sure that a meteor into the mast would be fairly effective" Kira said passing out the ammunition to the crew maintaining his focus "hey you sure about getting close enough to use the cannons because that means that we'd be in range of theirs as well and if they hit use that's going to do more than scratch the hull, shouldn't we shoot some mortars as we approach, because it looks like we're on our own now capt, seems that are friend has left us, in fact it appears as if they have switched sides on us" Kira said as he finished passing out the grapeshot

Famia nodded, "You know, for a fool he is right. A direct firefight with the Man of War over there would end up in our deaths. But using Meteor would put us in a possible firing line too. Plus Meteor is a spell NOT to be used lightly." her words were of thought and she crossed her arms and looked up a bit as if in thought. She saw the flag and how it was blowing in the wind and smiled, "But we do have an advantage... That we might be able to use, since we're a smaller ship and have a better turn arc, I doubt that they can turn as fast as us... We also have a second advantage..." her words were of a seemingly general as she looked at the other ship, her Eyes of Grima had moved around a bit, the spirit of Gunjir was dancing a little bit, knowing what Famia's up to.

(( what areyou talking about eyes and dancing?))

((Gunjir's passive ability, The Eyes of Grima. They are six spears that are almost autonomously controlled by the spirit of Gunjir, bound to Famia. Though they all attack as one unit and can only attack what Famia can see within 25ish meters))

(if they're controlled then it technically isn't passive)

"perhaps... But so long as i angle it just right we should be fine, but a comet or tornado could work just as well.. Umm what's going on with Zak's ship it looks like it's trying to help out the other ship.. What is he thinking, i hope he has his a good reason for it, but couldn't he just send the octopus thing over with a note or something... Looks like the guns are loaded capt." Kira said imaging the many things that could go wrong

John smiled at the good news. "Good work lads." He yelled over the decks. He yanked the wheel hard to bring the ship into range of the pirates. "Fire!" he yelled.

"Fire!" The quarter master repeated as the guns on the side of the ship closest to the enemy fired. The grape shot spread across the enemy deck with grim results. Enemy sailors were torn to pieces and mauled beyond recognition.

((Famia doesn't activate it, nor de-activate it. Nor does Famia control the Eyes of Grima. Thus, passive Slayer))

Famia shot a glare at John, "You suicidal fool!" she yelped seeing the lower decks prepare to fire, "Gunjir! I need your help!" as her voice fell silent and she floated a little, as if picked up and held gently by some unknown force, "Captain, I will flush them out from the lower decks. When I do, fire without remorse. Don't worry my safety. Okay?" she ordered before leaping with a wind-charged jump to the upper decks of the other ship. She landed without a sound, Gunjir had givin her a wind spell allowing her to float, thus she glided down into the lower decks, those whom didn't scramble into her death-trap, that is, if John listened to her.

kira was in disbelieve he didn't think that they would fire without some kind of plan that was something that he would do he didn't expect the son of the ever cautious kriger to be so reckless but he kinda liked it order in disorder it was rather poetic
"stop firing ...hey umm capt...way aren't they firing they could clear the entire deck in one blast off those guns isn't that a bit odd...are we positive that this is the ship we're after, isn't supposed to be a transport ship of some kind,i don't remember any bounties out for a man'o'war do you. i just want to make sure don't want anyone yelling at me for killing people who don't deserve it,not that it would bother me any" kira said confused to way he wasn't missing his upper body considering that he was standing right in the path of one of their cannons

Before anyone seemed to notice, Kraky had boarded John's ship and was making his way up to the top deck. No one seemed to notice his presence, which he didn't mind in the slightest. He located John and tugged on his pant leg.

"Kill... bad..." He tried to formulate what Zak had told him in his mind. "Archers... be... angry." His voice cracked. He was expending a lot of energy. "Take... captives." By Archers, he didn't mean the bow kind. He was referring to the family to which John's female belonged. The boy swallowed hard and was ready to disappear again as soon as his job was finished. Zak had since disappeared, but a Kraken could easily find the ship.