"The hell has gone on here?"
and Petra have just arrived back outside of the mine returning from the trade deal trip, took roughly two weeks and have co across a pretty nasty looking sight outside the cave. All eleven of our workers are outside sitting down looking bruised, beaten and so even bloodied.
"*Cough cough*... damn chest, apologies ma'am, we failed to uphold our duties"
Jaxon is the first to answer and looks the worst out of the lot, he might have a few broken ribs and a busted arm. Thankfully enough, I've always got sothing to fix injuries like that but it would've been nice if Ariza were around right now.
"I've already told you to stop calling us ma'am... here take these, apply it on the injuries, it'll hurt like a bitch but it will help a lot"
While responding, I get out a handful of healents and pass them around the broken miners, all of them start to apply the solution onto their wounds while still conversing with .
"Thanks ma'a-, Ikarus. Sorry again, a group of pirates followed us from town, beat us to a pulp, then took all the gold we had stockpiled that hadn't been transported over just yet"
"Fucking pirate scum"
"One of the bastards caught my good eye"
"Damn! That potion hurts like shit, sorry about losing your ore"
"Sorry bosses, nothing we can do against people like that"
The vocal four can't help but join Jaxon is his response, I'm a little annoyed at these lot right now but clearly not for the reason they think. As for Petra, she also seems a little concerned about what's happened but hasn't said anything this ti around.
"For the love of God, will you stop apologizing for one second..."
I have a few questions about everything that's gone on but for now, there's a more imdiate issue at hand. I don't really understand why they even went into town since I made sure to give them enough supplies before leaving and I could've just transported the stockpile myself later on. That fact that a bunch of pirates decided to beat up our workers like this though... I'm about to leash my full wrath on them. I couldn't give a shit about the lost gold.
"... Money's just money at the end of the day. Be positive about this, all of you are alive and don't look to have any serious injuries... Jaxon, how long ago did this happen and are they still close by?"
"Several hours ago and one their ships was anchored off the north shore, they took rowboats into the town... you're not going to chase them, are you?..."
I don't need give a response to him or even say words with Petra, it's now ti to start the hunt, these bastards won't get away with this, mark my words...
"... *Cough*, already know I can't convince you otherwise but there's another issue that's co to light as well"
'Oh great, another problem'
(Petra) "What's the issue Jaxon?"
The scrawny kid ends up pausing before responding to Petra's question, he even looks to be more concerned about this than getting his arm broken and bloodied from the pirates.
"The Lord of these islands is demanding tribute in exchange for setting up a business here without permission... we thought we were being secretive enough about this but clearly we were too incompetent"
"So let get this straight then... while we're gone setting up a deal, pirates co stealing our product and now the Lord is basically demanding taxes? For fuck's sake! We've just gotten back and two annoying things have co up... I'm not pissed at you lot, just I wanted a slight break after travelling, that's all"
Also, I was kinda hoping Petra would feel a little tired so we could sleep together as humans again, don't really do that while travelling since constant form changes can be annoying and feathered form is warr at night without a bed after all. Even though I say that, I did manage to convince her to have slight nap up against my feathers one back at my parents cave but Petra's really not the type of person to enjoy being smothered all nice and cosy like that. Even though she said it was nice, my lie detector ability kinda said otherwise so I won't force that on her. I bet I'd like it being the other way around but that's only a thought for when she's no longer in pain and doesn't have to switch form... maybe I'm reading into it a little much but I'm guessing she'd rather not be spooned as well then.
Conveniently enough, thinking about Petra has led to her coming up with a solution for our problems though.
"Ikarus, you handle the pirate situation while I go deal with the mundane stuff. Whoever this Lord is, he isn't going demand anything from us and doing it this way ans we can relax quicker... just be safe and not reckless about it, okay?"
"Hey, I'm careful, you know? I an, it's not exactly like I can afford to be reckless now... even if there isn't any particular reason for it"
"Heh, love you too, my adorable tsundere lovebird"
Even she's starting to call a tsundere and she's even used that lovebird thing I like; I'd pout about her for understanding what I was getting at but there's people to be killed right now and it's not exactly like we're in a private place. The workers do know there's sothing between us and so are extrely supporting about it, it almost seems a little suspicious but not the ti for pointless thoughts.
"Urgh, see you then Petra... l-l-love you too"
Before we split, need a quick kiss, really don't care that much about privacy now, despite literally just thinking otherwise...
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'The targets are in sight... that's a pretty big fleet though'
Up in the skies of the northern shore of the mining island, I can see what basically might as well be an armada of pirate ships. Seriously though, I'm obviously exaggerating but there are at least two dozen ships all flying the black flag with the skull and crossbones on them. I may be quite high up but one of them I'm sure has a pile of our gold ore sitting on the deck, it's ti for a little payback. You take my gold and injure my workers; I take every single one of your lives...
'I'm seriously going to fuck all these up now'
Before I even have the chance to think in depth on how I'm going to go about this, Aesa can't help but warn .
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'This a perfect opportunity though...'
I'm past caring about the EXP nor any lost gold, most was already transported to the blacksmith according to Jaxon but we still would've lost a bit. I wouldn't even say I'm angry, this is just a stubbornness thing about people getting hurt trying to protect our product and being stolen from. I'm pretty calm about this which surprises a lot.
'... Can I at least use atomic hellfire? It holds a lot less power and still should get the job done'
I think the concern might be causing a tsunami than anything else, even though there are like zero settlents in this part of the region that would actually get affected by a huge wave. Seriously though, look at a map, there's no way a tsunami would get any known settlent because of either cliffs, other islands being in the way or just that they would be too far away to be effective. Still though, using supernova might be a little overkill, that needs to be reserved for when there's bigger fish to fry, a small nuke should get the job.
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Aesa does have a big point, I'd have to wipe out the entire deck of pirates by hand simply because I wouldn't be able to return the ship back into port if it was covered in fla, there's only so much I can absorb back in when everything starts to go uncontrollable. Also, how the hell would one bird command a ship all by her loneso? Yeah, that lost gold is now rmaid currency... huh, I wonder if they even have rmaids in this world.
'Fair point, maybe I could've tried to get more EXP from that encounter but oh well, no regrets... even if I did co pretty close to doing sothing really sinister'
Now and then, I do start to get feelings like that, unsure if its prophecy related or just simply because I was raised by dragons. One day, I can see myself doing sothing really morally questionable or dark and not caring in the slightest. That's enough about this dark side crap though, ntioned it enough tis already and it's ti to return...
'Let's see how Petra's resolved this tax situation...'
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'The fuck... what has Petra done!?...'
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