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The mage's shock-wave attack was dispersed by Travis' own lightning strike before it could touch the ground. Coupled with Zoey's shurikens action as a lightning rod once they were embedded into his torso, he was easily fried to a crisp. The man fell dead to the ground heavily, unable to bring his attack to fruition.

It seemed the coast was clear until a small chuckle broke the silence. "That was quite the light show there." Said a man now standing roughly twenty feet from the group. He had a snide tone is his voice, with a faint Irish accent. Adorned in a rugged, somewhat torn, navy sailors uniform with a brown leather jacket worn over it. He had a grenade belt worn like a sash underneath, and various knifes of different sizes sticking out of pockets all over his outfit. He had medium length orange-ish brown hair, a slight stubble with a more prominent thin mustache, blue eyes, and looked to be in his early thirties.

Judging by the description, the man was likely Reagan "Roy" O'Harris Decker, the witch hunter of the crew.

Roy pulled three knives from his jacket and started to juggle them around. "Let me show you some-a my party tricks now." He stated before hurling all three of them towards the group, one for each member. Someone with keen enough vision would notice that the tips of the knives had a slight purple glow to them. Before he threw them, Roy coated the daggers with a small spell that would cause them to puncture any magic barriers put in their way, or cancel any attempt to use a type of telekinesis to offset their trajectory.




The long haired brother used the side of his blade to block the bullets one by one, clearly their reflexes were impressive. The brother then used his speed to sidestep Raiya's jab before falling back. "You intend to fight us with such a small blade?" The brother's both said at the same time. Something that would make sense to Raiya, but likely confuse Nemo when he was already handling a sword.

The long haired brother dashed back to his comrade, locking hands with him to charge back up, before being flung back at blinding speed towards Raiya. He extended his blade out to try to pierce her. Should he miss, at the speed he was going he'd likely stab his blade into the metal wall.

Nemo stepped forward and used one hand to thrust the katana at the shorter haired twin as if he was using a rapier. The twin deflected his attack, but Nemo then followed it up with a more traditional two handed overhead slash. The twin blocked the attack, locking their blades together.

Judging by how the exchange was going, Nemo seemed to overpower the man with their blades locked. The twin struggled to keep himself from being pushed to the ground. Nemo abruptly slid his blade upwards and out of the lock, causing the twin to nearly lose his balance. He then ducked down and spun, slashing across towards the man's stomach.

The twin was nearly cut in half, but saved himself with his enhanced speed by dodging back, only suffering a moderate cut to his midsection.
"I just hope that they'll allow us to fight separately." Nemo replied.

The two twins suddenly locked hands, the action seemed to temporarily merge their two manapools together into one, powering them up with excess energy in the process. Even if someone wasn't using manalysis to pay attention to their pools, the longer haired brother's suddenly flowing hair was enough of a visual cue to tip someone off on what was going on.

The twins suddenly let loose of their hands and began to rapidly zig zag across the room towards Raiya and Nemo with enhanced speed, making it hard to track their positions. The brothers both reached Nemo and Raiya at the same time, drawing their swords and slashing at them from the top down.




Nemo drew his sword and blocked the incoming attack in one fluid motion. His draw speed on the sword was just as good as his revolver's. He pushed forward to knock the short haired brother back, then issued his counter attack by spinning around and slashing at an angle from the top, whipping the sword around with one hand for extra speed. The brother blocked the attack with his blade, but it left him open for a sneak attack from Nemo's free hand. The brother took a heavy punch to the gut, causing him to retreat back to regain his composure.
The two mages held up their shields during Travis' barrage of gunfire, while the untalent ducked back behind cover. The shield's held up, but eventually the weaker of the duo's shield started to crack. It eventually broke after taking a shot from one of Travis' more powerful weapons, leaving him defenseless from getting cut to ribbons from the firearms.

The shotgunner was just about to pop back up to try to put an end to Travis' assault, however Zoey's attack caught him by surprise. He was blown back into the cover he was hiding behind with an audible thud from the force of the shot before falling to the ground, dead.

While still holding up his energy shield, the final remaining attacker began to sling out rapid explosive energy blasts of his own to attempt to stop the barrage. Six in total, three at Travis, two at Zuri, and one at Zoey. He then charged up a teleport, re-appearing above the trio with his shield dropped and bringing down a charged shockwave attack towards Travis with his hands. It would activate as soon as it touched something solid, be it Travis himself or the metal deck.




"Who would I be if I wasn't? Is it not an entertainer's job to create a spectacle?" Nemo replied as he continued on to the next room.

"We're getting close." Nemo commented as he reached another hatch-style door. He spun it unlocked with a flick of his wrist and a simple spell and let gravity ease it open, revealing a much larger room with two men standing beside each other in the middle of it. Judging by their opposite appearances this was obvious the twin swordsmen Nemo spoke about earlier Sap and Sin Tao.

Both of them seemed to be of identical height of around 5'9", asian, tanned, and wearing similar dark blue rugged militaristic uniforms. The only thing that was different between them is one brother had much longer black hair than the other, with the shorter haired brother wearing a red scarf around his neck. Both of them were wielding Thai Dha swords with runes etched into the sides of the blades.

"You know I was kinda hoping it would be them." Nemo said, leaning towards Raiya and whispering. "Do you think they'll like, both talk at the same time? In harmony? That would be really cool." He added.

"You've both come this far to die, your fate was sealed the moment you set foot on this ship uninvited." Both the brothers said in unison, causing Nemo's eyes to light up. He turned to Raiya with an excited 'Did you hear that?' look on his face. Nemo then spawned his katana, figuring the two swordsmen were the most fitting excuse he was going to get.

"Have any preference on how we handle this?" He said, still whispering. "We could fight them together, or one for each of us, or one of us could just take both of them on." Nemo asked. "If you want to do it together I hope you have a plan, because I just realized all the ones I thought of were way too complicated."
Nemo turned the corner letting out a small clap as his surveyed the results of Raiya's offense. "My, my, I didn't know you were such a crack-shot, Raiya." He commented as he walked down the hallway past the bodies and into the next room. Before he could get a good look at the room, the heavy footsteps of sailors coming up the stairwell broke his concentration. His walk suddenly turned into an outright run to beat the sailor to the exit.

Just as the seaman made it out of the staircase Nemo shoulder charged him into the wall while letting out an excited shriek. The heavy slam disoriented him enough for him to not see Nemo throw a savage right hook directly into his face. The sailor was knocked over and sent tumbling down the stairs.

A second armed sailor mid-way up the stairs had to dodge out of the way as his buddy crashed down the metal staircase towards him. He tried to aim and shoot at Nemo with a black metal sub-machine gun but the diversion bought Nemo enough time to cast a spell. The area from Nemo's hand down to the sailors hand and gun suddenly distorted in a zig-zag like pattern before the effected space seemed to implode, destroying the gun and crushing the man's hand as well. The man let out a howl of pain and tried to go for a backup pistol, but found Nemo's boot planted into his chest before he could reach it. The sailor was sent flying down the stairs and impacting into the metal wall next to his comrade with an even louder crash.

Nemo descended the rest of the stairs by sliding down the railing. He entered the next room and was met by three more sailors taking cover, two armed with firearms, the other likely a mage. He rolled to the side behind a metal table as they began to barrage him with shots and spells. A flick of his fingers knocked the heavy table on his side so he could use it as a shield.

Soon the barrage stopped, and one of the goons walked out from his post with his gun at the ready. Hearing his footsteps, Nemo used his magic to suddenly propel the metal table outwards at high speeds. It caught the man and brutally sandwiched him against the wall. Nemo rose back to his feet and turned to the other gun user and flicked his fingers in the air the same way someone would flick a bug off them. The action caused another rift in the air towards the man before his neck abruptly snapped to the side with a sickening sound. The man limply fell to the floor, leaving only the magic user left.

The final sailor began to sling multiple green blasts at Nemo from both his hands. But his sole efforts weren't enough, as Nemo easily absorbed each blast one by one with his gloved hand, creeping ever so closer to him after each attack. Nemo suddenly jolted forward, reaching the man and grabbing his arm to prevent him from casting any more spells. He forced him around in a circle, causing the man to nearly stumble over before being cast off towards a desk. The man crashed into the desk from the throw, but quickly got back up and drew a large knife from his side to combat Nemo.

Nemo made the motion of pushing his open hand to the side, causing another distortion that violently forced the man telekinetically into the wall. He followed it up by rushing him with a high pitched laugh, alerting the man and resulting in the sailor panicking and throwing out a wild slash with his knife. Nemo blocked the man's attack with his left forearm and picked up a pencil from the desk, stabbing the pointy end into the man's throat. The sailor let go of the knife, letting it drop to the floor with a metallic clang, and grasped his neck as blood began to pour out. Nemo then stabbed the pencil in one of the seaman's eyes and forced his head face first into the wall, driving the pencil further into his brain.

With his face still pressed up against the wall, the last sailor slowly slid down to the floor while leaving a trail of blood. He was dead.

Nemo stepped back and walked towards the middle of the room to survey his own carnage now.
The two unarmed mages generated shields to cover them from the hail of magic attacks, however the shotgun wielder wasn't as lucky, suffering two unpleasant looking gashes before he could take cover under a metal rafter. The shields began to buckle under the rapid hits, but still held up.

Once it was over the shotgun wielding sailor popped up from cover and fired two buckshots, one at Zoey, the other at Travis. Followed by one of the mages shooting out a wide slash of energy long enough to hit all three.




"If it's considered a weapon chances are I'm competent with it. Give me a fork or a pencil and maybe things will get a bit more complicated." Nemo replied. He pondered the thought of what to use for a couple moments before deciding. "Firing a gun down here isn't going to be pleasant to the ears, that's for sure. The sword's more suited for a finale instead of cannon fodder, so I'll probably use the opportunity to use some spells and stretch my muscles."

"Ah, the single action army, my personal favorite. My own revolvers are a heavily customized version of that." He said. "I just wanted to know what you thought of them is all. So what did you think?" Nemo asked. After walking for a bit Nemo turned a corner to a long hallway. However he was surprised to see a sailor crouched on the ground with a bipodded heavy machine gun in front of him. He immediately began to open fire.

Nemo was nearly too late to use his warp to fade back behind the corner for cover. Thankfully Raiya was behind him so she didn't risk getting hit. The extremely loud gunfire continued on for a couple seconds even after Nemo was safe. Once it ceased Nemo slowly turned to Raiya and whispered. "I think they've set up a ambush." He returned to a normal tone. "There's one on the machine gun, two to the left, one to the right from what I could see. Probably more past them. I could use a spell to disperse them unless you want to take a shot at it?" He asked.



With the orders sorted out Nemo nodded and slipped his revolver back into his jacket after reloading it. He walked off towards an entrance into the ship and used his magic to spin the hatch and unseal the door. "I can't decide, sword or guns? What do you think Raiya?" He asked, thinking of all the choices he had, as well as remembering the katana he showed her earlier.

With two fingers Nemo flicked the heavy metal door open and stepped inside. The lights inside were somewhat dim, something that didn't bother Nemo one bit. However what did bother him was the sorry aged state the interior of the ship was in. Apparently no amount of magic spells or incantations would save this vessel from the hard wear of the sea.

So far the inside was vacant, no sign of resistance in sight. But that didn't surprise Nemo, he knew that Seidon preferred a smaller more tight-knit crew than most ships did. Nemo wandered around the hallway till he found a set of stairs going further down. "Have you ever used a revolver before?" He asked as he began to descend the stairs.




By this point three sailors had come into view for Travis & Co. Two of them unarmed, likely mages, the other brandishing a pump shotgun. Though it seemed they still had more time before the sailors would reach them.
"I'm always willing to go guns blazing." Nemo replied to Travis softly, putting his hand into his jacket and retrieving his silver colored revolver. "It might be a good opportunity to grab a weapon if you want as well, Travis. They're free." He suggested, cocking the hammer back on his pistol. Soon after a sailor reached the group's container and banged on the side of it. "Here she is o're here!" He called out, gathering the rest of the sailors over.

"Well don't just stand there, get 'er open!" The leader commanded back after walking over.

With those words any way avoiding confrontation went overboard, but Nemo didn't seem to be worried one bit. If anything he seemed to be interested by the challenge. As they began to unlock the door Nemo closed his eyes for a moment and put all his focus on locating exactly where the sailors were standing. "Three directly in front of the door, two off to the left, one off to the right." He whispered. "No worries, luckily I have six shots and brought the right ammunition to pull this off." He added, speaking slightly louder.

As the sailors got close to unlocking and opening the door Nemo started rapidly spin his revolver in place with one hand. "I suggest you cover your ears... this is going to be loud." The door suddenly came ajar, then swung open, revealing three ruggedly dressed sailors standing in the dark dreary weather. "Hu-?" One of them began to question before immediately getting cut off by Nemo abruptly halting his spinning and fan firing all six shots of his revolver off. The speed at which he was able to fire the gun made it hard to discern how many shots he fired, the gunshots all seemed to blur into one.

The first three rounds took out the three standing in front of the door from left to right. However the other three intentionally missed, instead hitting another metal container across from the group and ricocheting off with a metal ping to kill the three unseen personnel in an impressive display of marksmanship. Afterwards all six of the sailors fell dead on the floor without a word.

Satisfied, Nemo returned to idly spinning his revolver and slowly walked out of the container. He silently inspected his handiwork, and once finished turned back to the group. "Anyone want to place bets on when security measures kick in? My money is on twenty seconds. Twenty dollars on twenty seconds." Nemo joked to break the silence.

Nemo checked his manadial and was no longer able to get any communications or maps to work. He then turned to the sky, which was filled with dark clouds, making it appear as if it was night, and it only got darker the way the ship was headed. The only thing that lit up the sky was the frequent flashes of lightning. The sea was erratic with heavy waves as well.

"It's too late for them to turn back now, us being seen wont call off anything. After they crossed the threshold Seidon might as well have let go of the controls, which means he isn't really needed anymore" Nemo assured them, stopping once he heard the ships horn sound out in alarm. His gaze was drawn to the bridge, which was suddenly covered in a large yellow magic barrier. Nemo looked back to his watch, "What did I tell you? Twenty seconds." He noted with a chuckle.

"That barrier is too advanced to be taken out by force, but it can be disabled by destroying it's emitters. One is located up here." Nemo pointed out a large antenna glowing the same color as the barrier at the other end of the ship. "The other is below." He explained. "Raiya and I will take care of the antenna below. Travis, you'll lead Zoey and Zuri to disable the one up here."

"You'll obviously run into some resistance on the way, likely Seidon's crew. Luckily you wont be going in totally blind, I've researched the important ones beforehand. We've got Caspian Crowhurst, Seidon's first mate. Lori Mizzen, a untalent sniper. Roy Decker, a witch hunter. Finally Sap and Sin Tao, two identical twin swordsmen." Nemo finished. "Any questions?"

"Untalent... I never really liked that term. Always seemed so negative. Plus it's hardly accurate, I've met many of 'untalents' more talented than any 'talent' could ever be." Nemo commented.

Before he could say any more, the ship blasted off a horn to signal it would leave the harbor. The crate shifted a bit when the ship lurched forward, returning back to it's home out in the sea. "I hope everyone is comfortable, because we're gonna be here for a while." Nemo said, leaning his head back and closing his eyes.




Roughly three hours had passed, but it was hard to tell exactly where they were. Seidon's ship clearly traveled faster than the most ships were capable of, but from within the dark container it was hard to tell just how much faster it was going. By now heavy rainfall and wind could be heard crashing against the crate, the storm made Nemo think that they were getting close. Before Nemo could try to approximate their location any further he heard the heavy footsteps of a group of people through the rainfall. They had heard various crew-mates walk about the ship, but none seemed as rushed and organized as these did.

"Alright you lazy asses! If you can find the new shipment of munitions before my boots get filled to the brim with water you'll get extra in the messdeck tonight!" The leader called out, followed by an "Aye aye!" of the seamen in unison.

The command caused Nemo to open his eyes, now on alert. He got up from his seat and stepped over to one of the large cargo boxes and pulled the tarp off it, revealing multiple army green metal containers. If that wasn't enough, he flipped one of the cases open to reveal multiple firearms stowed inside and padded with foam. "Uh oh." He mumbled.

Now that they were in the confines of the small container, keeping discussions discreet was out of the question. Which made Nemo a bit more uncomfortable while responding. "I say it because as you know I wasn't born a talent. Hence the term, 'untalent mark'." Nemo said. "I can't really say what caused it or didn't cause it, and it's unlikely I'll ever truly know. But that doesn't bother me much anymore. The origins of my condition were only something I toiled on long ago." Nemo finished, just in time for the blaring horn of a ship to be heard off in the distance.

Soon enough a soft ring sounded out of the manadial Nemo grabbed from Logan. He was quick to answer it before anybody outside of the crate might of picked up on the sound.

After a moment of pause, the sound of a gravelly older man's voice broke the silence. "Logan... I trust there haven't been any hiccups on your end? I don't need any bad news today."

Nemo placed his hand on his throat and adjusted his voice. "'Course not Paul, what do you take me for here?" Nemo started lightheartedly. "We had a slight technical difficulty earlier, but I checked it out, salt just rusted part of the comms to shit. But I trust that wont be a concern for you?"

"Ah yes, the effects of the sea's cruel presence. She's fair... but you just have to deal with her little quirks to appreciate her beauty. Perhaps I should have one of my lads come down after my return to show you a spell that could help you out."

"A quirk huh?" Nemo replied. "That's sounds great Paul, really, but I've got a quota to fulfill here and money to make."

Captain Seidon let out a small gruff laugh on the other end. "I understand, you're just like your father Logan, always so busy busy. Anyway, I'll dock the ship and let your crew load my shipment."

"Sounds lovely." Nemo finished, ending the call.

From inside the container one could hear the sounds of the ship getting closer and the dock workers getting busier. Eventually a crane picked the container up and loaded it on board. Nemo leaned up against the wall for balance and kept his fingers crossed in case of an alarm. But there wasn't any, and they were set down without a hitch.

"So far so good." Nemo commented.
Will be posting later tonight.

Also, @Dawnpath OC made it into the container? That's the main thing I am waiting on.


I just kinda had to imply everyone got in cause it was taking so long.
Container is already closed too.
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