S:22 High Octane Stabs

The sun blazed down on the all new planks on the Blazing Chariot as a set of hands set about scratching the first mate. Artemis curled up sunbathing next to Alceaus as he and Morrigan sat having tea after an early morning sparring session, "So you truly ran from your ship, on top of the water, all the way around the island just to challenge this guy?" Alceaus went over the distance in his head and let out an impressed whistle, "Orri that is nearly over three hundred feet!" Morrigan tilts her head and smiles, "Oh...is that a l..." Alceaus interrupts, "Yes it's a lot!" Orri nods and takes his word for it, "Anyway, the general guy that challenged us was crazy strong! I tried to take all the stuff you taught me and apply it. It was so much fun, he was even faster than me!" Alceaus looked worried, but saw no new scars on Morrigan's body he calmed a little, "But you seem to have come out alright, not like the fight with Drake." Orri touches the scar on her face and chest, "Yeah that was a good fight as well!" Alceaus looks a little concerned and watches as the man who gave her those scars swing his blade up and down on the other side of the ship. He seems about to remark on the wisdom of inviting the man to be part of her crew and then the image of the Admiral strikes him, and he hears her odd catch phrase, "Welcome to the crew!" The Hive seemed filled at this point with previous "enemies", himself included to be honest. He found himself chuckling softly, "So how did the actual fight go, Captain Anaxa mentioned she had to heal you." Morrigan nodded excitedly, "YEAH! It was incredible, her magic must be super strong, because it actually worked on me! So this guy yelled some stuff, all I really heard was "I challenge you" so I ran over to join everyone, because the guy went the wrong way around the island." Morrigan repeats her annoyed face that she had at the time as Artemis rolls his eyes.
 
"I leapt right at him and he moved SO fast he nearly vanished, but I could sense him with my energy. He fought a lot like my Uncle Chuchu! You should have seen it, I have to try and train so I can move that fast, it was unreal!" Alceaus was ready to take what Morrigan said with a grain of salt, but remembers hearing Anaxa mention that the general was nearly invisible with how fast he was moving. "It's hard to imagine someone moving faster than you Orri." The demi human smiles, "Aww thanks my friend! He also really knew how to stab someone, he got me in so many of those super important places on my body...umm" "Vital Areas?!" Alceaus asked with concern. Morrigan smiled and said with joy, "Yeah it hurt like crazy, but I bared through and kept fighting, it was so much fun! so umm exis...exit...that thing that means super exciting." She stands up making a dramatic pose and making a fist, "I had to use ALL my cunning to survive the fight!" Artemis and Alceaus both glanced at each other as Orri used the word "cunning." Behind her the entire crew of the Blazing Chariot stopped what they were doing and stare in disbelief, all but Drake. Drake stopped swinging his sword and nodded in agreement with her statement. For odd yet powerful people like Morrigan and Drake, cunning, has some other more direct fighting meaning, that no one else will understand.
 
"I also used it as an extreme training chance!" Morrigan said bluntly, leaving Alceas to look worried and skeptical, "You have to promise not to tell Anaxa....or anyone else, but I didn't use my Crimson Ignition Drive transformation during the fight, so I could test how far I've come in my normal form!" Alceaus blinks a few times, "You mean that thing you do when you explode in a fiery aura and become stronger?! You DIDN'T use that?" He seems less shocked than he should be, knowing Orri so well has shaken his ability to be shocked at most things she does. Morrigan looks at him, "I think Anaxa would get really mad if she knew, like when the Admiral gave me that look after the poison incident. Maybe I should get gifts for everyone.....sometimes I feel like they are angry at me a lot." She then remembers something and mumbles to herself, "Did Zephy call me fat?" Alceaus puts a hand on her shoulder and gives her a reassuring smile, "You do just fine, I think they care about you, and know you well enough to understand how you are." Morrigan nods and gives Alceaus a tight hug. The two finish their tea and continue training for the morning.
 
The afternoon hit the two new combatants facing each other on the main deck, Morrigan was speeding around a young man with a massive sword, "Can you still see me?" she does her best to go past her max speed. Drake watches in bemusement, "Yeah kid, I can still see you." Orri stops, breathing heavy and suddenly explodes with energy attempting to take her speed to the limit, flashing back and forth, her red aura making her terribly visible. Drake watches as he grabs his sword and a spherical blast of fire sends Orri flying off the ship. Quickly running up the side of the boat she places a hand on her chin, "Hmm what am I missing? How did he move so fast, in armor as well! I'll have to ask Uncle ChuChu. His spear moves crazy that fast." Drake looks at her and, "Like this?!" His sword comes speeding toward Morrigan, and the two get distracted with an intense training session that fills the rest of the day.
 
A bright light begins to luminate a vast and seemingly endless dry landscape, sandy texture on the ground, and no foliage or animals. Slow heavy steps disturb the ground, a young woman stranded in a barren wasteland, "Oh man....I'm so hungry..." A large dog floats by, "It's a desert momma, you need water." His fur getting wet then he disappears, leaving only his face. Orri's eyes widen, "Mmmmm dessert..." "NO NOT....ugh..." The dog's face fizzles in the fog of the distance and the sand begins to form a structure, in front of it a young and attractive man stands before the slowly forming ship, "Oh hi there! I'm cute, but say some alarming things and looooooooove Zephy." Morrigan looks at the ship made from sand and sees a majestic form of an elf appearing at the bow, Orri's eye's light up and she yells, "ZEPHY! Thank goodness. What's happening?!...also I'm hungry." The elf vanished from the ship that is now emitting a green liquid, and she appears next to Orri, "Hungry?...ha..hahah....hahahahah HUNGRY?!" The visage of Zephyria begins to distort and grow fangs, her hair turning a dark purple and claws scrap Orri's skin. Her voice a cacophony of evil laughter, "OOO petal! Poor hungry Orri! I'm sorry, but I have a ship to run now....no...time....to....cook!" The light and the sand and everything around Orri disappears as she yells into the air, "NOOOOOO"
 
Her eyes open again to find herself sitting in the lounge chairs she has commissioned, her breath calming down. Next to her was Ifegenia relaxing on a similar chair, "Oh Iffy, I'm so happy to see you!" Morrigan's sweet natured and kind cook looked back at her with a smile. "Iffy, you wouldn't happen to have any of those snacks you prepared do you?" Morrigan said hoping, her hunger getting a little worse. A small laughter came from Ifegenia's closed mouth, her head slowly spinning in a 360 turn and her empty sockets looking directly at Orri, "Oh captain...you gave me the day off!" Morrigan hands slap against both sides of her face and she looks at the camera screaming, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
 
Suddenly sitting up and breathing quickly, her shaky voice panicked, Artemis jolts up and licks Morrigan's face, "Momma! what happened?" Orri turns to him trying to catch her breath, "Am I out of the nightmare?" Artemis nods his head, and then shrugs, then thinks better of it and nods again, "It's subjective...but yes.....it was a nightmare about food wasn't it?" Orri is quiet as she reaches to her nightstand and takes out a large plate of jerky, slowly eating the entirety of it, giving a piece here and there to Artemis. Her faithful hound nudges her back on the pillow and rests his head on her abs, relaxing her to sleep, "...no..food..." She mumbles as she falls asleep, Artemis sighs, rolls his eyes, and falls asleep on her belly. Dubbed by Edea as The unstoppable monster, Orri is quelled and subdued until the morrow.