110 Into The Atlantic Rim III : Negotiation (1/2)

”Wait! I'm coming with you guys.” I heard Raven Song say behind me as he walked towards us. I raised an eyebrow at that, but I didn't really mind either way. The border patrol guys like they wanted to say something too, but Mack just had to flash the crest he was holding, and they swallowed their words.

Me and Raven Song huddled onto the floating platform, right in the middle of these guys who after repeated warnings, still want to fish in troubled waters. The platform went up, moving steadily but also rapidly as it approached the airship. The wind flew past us, ruffling our clothes as the ever imposing structure of the airship drew closer to us, it was a rather daunting experience, but I've seen whole cities go up in smoke, this was nothing to me.

Doors underneath the airship slid to the left and right, opening up to a cargo area within the airship that at the moment was fully surrounded by other officers. The doors closed shut beneath us, and the floating platform went up a bit, before placing us on a platform that stretched from one side of the ship, to what looked like a floating office or was it a cell. I didn't need to tell Raven Song to be prepared for things to go horribly wrong, but since these guys haven't made a move yet, I guess we could just indulge them.

We followed them into the office, which was larger than it looked from the outside, there were three cells at the edge of it, while there was a single desk within it. The guy with the spear pointed at a few seats in front of the desk asking me and Raven Song to seat while he and his three friends went around the desk. That's when his leader, just as I suspected, finally took the seat in front of us. I felt it was ridiculous though, you had us out numbered and over powered, so was there any need to go through all this trouble to hide your identity? That was just a question in mind, I didn't really care enough to ask him about it anyway.

”I will not waste your time captain Seven, you know why you're here, so instead of beating around the bush, hand us the legendary weapon and we can let you go without a fuss.” The voice behind that gleaming silver helmet is female, I'm sure there's a story to tell somewhere, probably a quest too considering how much lengths she went to divert our attention to someone else. Didn't work though.

”I'm pretty sure both you and the person with the spear knows that it doesn't work like that. Even if I hand you my weapon, which I won't! It's already bound to me, and only if someone else with another legendary weapon connected to mine kills me, will that connection be broken and the weapon left unclaimed. But given how precarious both our positions are, I'll say that puts you in a really tight spot, you don't want to cause a diplomatic situation do you?

Because if you do so, you will expose the existence of both weapons, and not even the power they wield would save you from the trouble that's going to come knocking on your door. Plus you're not the owner of the weapon, what's it to you?”

I took a cursory glance around the office after I finished speaking. The walls were made of metal, though I suspect it's hollow given that it was about three feet thick, however the only windows here shared the same amount of thickness, like some sort of block shoved into the space made for windows. I would need a significant amount of force to break through it should the need to escape arises.

There were cameras within the office, which means I might not be able to take these guys out silently and escape without alerting the rest of the airship. Of course it might be too early to worry about a fight, we were not done negotiating, but I don't feel this is going smoothly.

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”It doesn't matter what you say captain, if you have to surrender your life in order for me to get the legendary weapon, then so be it. I will deal with the consequences of my actions later, in fact there might not be any consequences at all, not when I have the power of the seas with me.” The leader said to me with type of voice that left no room for argument.