160 Io Reyes/Penelope Jones (1/2)

On our maiden voyage, back when we had to go look for some fruit called the shade of Amara, a fruit which now that I think about it, I never got to know it's use. But none the less we had met a blockade, we rammed it, turning quite a few of them into a pile of rubble, and then we took the fight to a massive white yacht, and lost, of rather we couldn't even out a single dent on said ship. And now here it was asking towards me with a whole lot of people on board, and flying a guild flag that I now recognized. Qitar came up behind me and said.

”Captain it's the Dragon God guild.”

”I know Qitar, but whatever it is they want, they take it with a healthy dose of steel, flesh and blood. Keep your eyes peeled and keep the ship's guns at the ready. Speaking of which how are they doing?” I asked her as I moved to the port side of the ship, watching as the yacht which still dwarfed my ship came close. If I had to be honest I would say the wasn't a yacht but a luxury cruise liner.

”Most of them are offline and badly damaged from the way we've had to use them, but they're being fixed quite rapidly by the ship, I reckon they'll be online and ready for a fight in fifteen minutes.” I nodded my head at her and shook it, telling her to move backwards as the massive ship came to a stop besides ours.

For a second everything was quiet as we watched, our hearts stuck in our throat as we waited from the promised fight, however even if the situation did not seem to favor us, and having an elemental dragon sleeping on my ship's deck more than made it seem like I was guilty of something. However we weren't shaken, by this point I'm pretty sure we've all developed spines of steel due to the things we've all seen and experienced. Someone came up the side of the ship and looked down on us, he seemed like a dwarf, or a variation of a dwarf as he was a pit taller and he had elfin ears.

”Her Lordship Io Reyes of the Dragon God guild will like to invite Captain Aá Seven of the Acheron for lunch. To show our sincerity you can bring you weapons an two partners, no more no less.” His voice was a bit nasally, almost as if his trust couldn't decided whether he had a low baritone voice or a high pitched one.

”Captain don't do it, it's a trap!” Mack said from behind me.

”Of course it's a trap Mack, but I'm still going anyway.” I said to him with a smile.

”Darke, Persephone let's go have lunch, the rest of you...… keep our ship safe.”

My current crew was very unlike what I was the last time we went up against the dragon God guild, which if I should be honest was like 10 or twelve hours ago. Respawn in the game doesn't really take long unless there are special circumstances in involved, so I wasn't surprised this Io girl was right back on my tail, but she never did die anyways, so there's that to consider.

Anyway seeing as this might actually be a trap, it would be better to carry either Zareth or Raven Song along, since as it stands now, Raven Song might actually be the strongest person on the Acheron, however they would both be better suited to protecting the Acheron from any other threats. However Persephone didn't seem all to keen on following me.

”Sorry Captain but I rather sit this one out.” I narrowed my eyes in submission and maybe a little bit of anger, I'm not really used to having people question my commands on my own ship. But there's nothing to be said, Persephone is not really a member of my crew, she's just someone tagging along and soul actually have an equal standing to mine since she was also a dragon avatar.

But none the less she wasn't coming, so it's just going to be me and Darke on this ship. It would be even more dangerous now, but so far I've not seen anyone as good as Darke in hiding in plain sight. And even though my shift skill was still on Cool down, I have other ways with which I can actually escape from these guys should things hit the fan, we'll be fine.

As Darke came closer, I placed a hand on his back and flapped my wings, flying into the sky and bringing him along. I landed softly in front of the dwarf that came to call us and gave him the most dull and uninterested look I could muster. I know I could have refused, but I doubted they would have left me alone, so it wouldn't have made any difference if I say yes or no, this was just a situation where I had to go with the flow and make up plans and counter plans as I went.

The dwarf gave us a simple nod and led the way into the ship, here were multiple levels on it, and the one we had landed on seemed to be an infirmary of sorts. Darke an I ignored the scent of antiseptic and looks of injured AIs as we were led to an elevator that went up. We spent 30 seconds in it , before it doors opened up into the upper deck of the ship. There was a pool glistening under the sunlight, and after we moved forwards a bit, there was Io Reyes in all of her glory, glad in nothing but a purple bikini and dark shades. There was guy with wolf like features sitting next to her, he had a wolf head, a tail and class, but he was very much humanoid. Probably a beast kin player.

Then Io turned to me and said In an annoyed voice that I didn't think most of the players paying attention to her has ever had. ”Aaron what the fuck are you doing messing with my guild!, Are you asking for a beating you idiot!”

So maybe when she called my name I was left shocked and caught off guard, but there was only one person with the guts to threaten me like that. I gave a loud groan as I moved forwards, Darke keeping pace with me and keeping his guard up. But apart from the five of us, there was no one else up here.

”Hey Penny! It's a small world right?”

”There's nothing small about this world Aaron, and quite honestly I would have loved to not have ran into you. You know I wasn't exactly sure, I just thought some other players had modified their Avatar to look like you, but no, it turns out it's just you, an idiot who didn't see the need to alter his real looks. You're so smart!”