Captured Again!
Characters: Kalz, Kentar, Kluner, Crew(Spoof)
Location: Cliffs, shore
Its now morning and Kentar is slowly waking up after a long night of nightmares. With a yawn, he stands and scratches his ear, looking over the cliff tops to see....ships. His and two others he doesn't recognize, both coming at his ship from different directions, but by the way his ship is turning, he doesn't think it's good. "Kluna, wake up!"
Kluner was curled up right beside him, and he grumbles as he is woken, "Kluna, wantsa more sleepy..." But he gets up, and rubs his eyes anyway. Yawning he looks up at the stoat, "Fajer? Whats is wrongs?" he asks.
Kentar points at the ships. "We'd better get moving." he says. "I don't think thats good." he goes to walk along the cliff tops, not taking his eye off the ships. "Follow me."
Kalz hasn't exactly been idle while they were running all over the place. He's been arranging things via birds. The Seaclawer, Kalz's smaller, faster little ship has been summoned to meet them at the caves and low and behold it's coming in from the north while the Bluddwave picks up speed from the south, all sails billowing and both levels of ores working as both ships move to intercept the third. Another bird has also been sent to the beasts following Kentar and Kluner. Can't forget about them. They've been told they had a few days to catch them before they met up at the caves as well and currently they're about five minutes from the cliffs. Ahh, it's a good day to be on Kalz's side.
Kluner nods a little bit has he picks up some of his rocks he left out. He stuffs his tail in his mouth, and runs to catch up with the stoat. He can just see the ships and tilts his head, "Tha is nottest theres befores?" he asks about the two new ships, "Kluna hopes it goods... Kluna no likes bad..." He mummers to himself.
Kentar is moving fast, nodding. "I hope its good too. But I doubt it." He says before stopping and kneeling down. "Climb onto my back. We can move faster."
Kluner nods some and shoots up the stoats back, wrapping his tail around Kentar's neck, and his paws around his head, to hold on. He says, "Kluna is ready... " Obvious that he doesn't want to go there. But if the stoat is going then so is he.
Kentar stands. He has no choice in his mind. As soon as Kluner is ready, he slowly starts to climb down the cliff, trying to save some time.
Kalz meanwhile is at the helm of the Bluddwave and yelling orders as he gets closer to the enemy ship. Grappling hooks are readied, bows are out in force on the deck. The crew is looking for blood. The gang he sent to find Kentar has just come out of the woods to see the ships too. A harsh laugh as they recognise two of them and wander up to the edge of the cliff. So far they seem to assume Kentar and Kluner are already on the ship.
Kluner closes his eyes, not wanting to see the ground. He gives an involuntary squeeze to Kentar, "Tent-Tar? What happens... If da is bads beasts?" he asks muffled.
The other vermin ship, the bigger one, and the faster one has already turned. Orders are being shouted by their captain. "Come on you useless dogs, get those arrows ready! Turn the ship, make full sail!" a large ferret bellows to his crew. "Capin, there's another ship, starboard side!" "Great...just great. Archers! Fire when ready!" And as soon as the two ships are in range of the archers, flaming arrows fly towards them. Kentar just climbs down slowly. "Then we'll have to run like anything." he says, still focusing on getting his footing but the rock he tries to use gives out and they both fall. While they fall mind you, the stoat grabs Kluner in his arms to protect him.
Kluner gives a small yelp, as he is held tightly in the stoats arms. Then he grunts as the stoat lands, and waits. He crawls out, and taps the the stoat in the chest, "Fajer? Yous Oh k?" he pokes again.
The smaller Seaclawer is the faster of Kalz's two ships and there first but it doesn't engage with Kentar's larger ship, skirting just in the range of the arrows, taking a few, the fire quickly put out. They're the distraction though, wasting arrows while the Bluddwave chooses a more direct approach, full sails and ores at work as he heads directly for the other ship "Brace for impact!" Kalz's yells. He's going to ram them, the handy bit stretching out just under the water from the front of his ship is designed just for that. The gang on the cliffs though hear movement from below them...it's Kentar and Kluner! "Get the ropes!" one yells, a couple starting the climb down the cliffs without them while the others get a couple of ropes set out to climb down.
Kentar grunts as he lands on his back, actually landing with such force that he bounces on the ground. He's out cold for the moment, the stoat not moving. Until now anyways as he groans and slowly tries to get up. "I hate rock climbing." he mutters. The big ferret on his ship looks over to see the Bluddwave speeding towards them. "Eeveryone get on to this side of the ship, now!" he calls out. "Brace yourselves! Swordbeasts at the ready!" The captain is to busy directing his crew to notice that he will have no time to move. "Ignore the slaves! They're expendable!" "Capin', watch out!" And the ferret turns to see the Bluddwave crashing down on his ship. He grabs the wheel of his ship and closes his eyes. "Goodbye my wife..." the captain says quietly, knowing now he'll never return to the ship's port with the goods he promised his wife and family. There's loud crashing, and splashing as the deck breaks and shatters, falling into the sea, the part where the captain is, totally destroyed.
Kluner pokes the stoat a little more, "Tent=Tars! Are yous Oh k? Is its Brokeded?" He winces at the loud crashing, "Tent-Tar! Da ships!" He points off in that direction, with open wide mouth,
Kalz clutches onto the wheel, his crew holding onto railings, ropes and anything attached to the ship. They're pretty good at it by now, a couple fall overboard but they're left to crawl back up themselves as Kalz returns to steering, turning his ship and the one attached to the front of it towards the shore as his ore slaves are whipped back into action. The crew recover quickly enough, a volley of arrows firing over onto the other ship just before the sword beasts jump the gap, boarding the other ship and starting to battle the crew. The gang on the cliffs are getting closer to Kentar and Kluner with the ropes to make it all easier. The first beast to the ground, a rat, gets there by falling, knocked out for a few seconds before he starts to move again. He didn't fall quite as far as them.
The beasts on the ship are panicking. And slaves that have been freed because of the ramming pour onto the deck, only to go right back in after seeing what happened. Since their captain is dead, the next in command takes control. "Abandon ship! Abandon ship!" Beasts fight hard but most of them jump overboard and swim for shore. Kentar slowly sits up and looks at the sea with surprised eyes. "No! Gekor!" he growls, punching the ground before standing. "I guess I wont be getting my favors anytime soon." he sighs, not knowing there are any beasts after them.
Kluner watches the ship and Kentar, with a sad expression on is face. Mostly for Kentar though. He blinks a few times and hears what sounds like a thump and his attention goes to the rat that had fallen. He goes wide eyes and yells, "Nots good! Stoaty! Beasties!" He goes to hide behind the stoat.
The Seaclawer is free to head to the shore as well, the captain even having a laugh and going to sail right over a couple of the escaping crew beasts from the other ship before he stops near the shore and launches the long boats. Half going to the shore, half headed to pick up the beasts still in the water. The crew of the Bluddwave meanwhile are still fighting, trying to round up the crew, alive if possible, dead's just as good. A few going to take on the slaves and get them back under control. The rat by the cliffs is joined by another couple of beasts, one ferret hauling the rat back up and swords are drawn, the gang spreading themselves out to make the main escape route back towards the ships "Give up an' maybe we'll just work ya t'death"
Kentar was still distracted by the destruction in the water, until Kluner speaks. His head jerks towards them, eyes widening as he jumps to his footpaws. "Kluna, run!" he growls, pushing the young weasel in the direction of the ships, taking off after him. The crew of the Leviathan give up after a while and surrender and the slaves are taken easily too, too scared to do anything.
Kluner looks around a few times before heading off the direction of the ships. He hopes the stoat has a better plan in store. Even though running is the best thing going for him at the moment.
The Bluddwave grinds to a halt, the Leviathan partly beached and still stuck to the front of the big ship. Boats are launched to get more beasts onto the shore, the crew forcing the captive crew and the slaves off of the Leviathan and onto the shore as well. Get them disarmed and in separate little groups of crew and slaves. The crew of the Seaclawer who've reached the shore early are securing the area and they've spotted the beasts coming their way as the gang following Kentar and Kluner charge on after them, roaring loudly and waving swords about in the air.
Kentar keeps running but then stops abruptly. "Darn it!" he growls. The stoat turns. "Kluna, get behind me!" he says, seeing the boats coming to shore. Kentar turns to the group following them, running at them, dodging one or two swords, tripping up one rat, and flattening him on the ground. But sadly, after a few moments, he's over powered and held to the ground. "Run! Run quickly!" he should make up his mind what he wants Kluner to do.
Kluner goes to hide behind the stoat, but then the stoat goes to attack the group. He bites his tail as thinking at what to do, and decided to attack them also. He is just about on them, when the stoat yells for him run away. He stops and blinks a few times, then runs away from them, at least away from the conglomerate of beast.
The beasts with Kentar move to tie him up with a couple of belts, keep him pinned to the ground still while three of them take off after Kluner. The beasts by the ships though are just waiting for them to get closer.
Kentar closes his eyes and can't do much to fight back against the beasts. "Run Kluna...run..." he sighs quietly to himself, watching to see if they catch him or not.
Kluner doesn't have very long legs, so they easily catch up to him. When one reaches down to pick him up, the little weasel bites him in the paw, and runs off in another direction. He now runs on all fours, to try to get away, but it is just a matter of time.
The other beasts continue to chase Kluner, one more joining in now that Kentar's secure, one particularly angry since he's been bitten. Two just aim to slash out with their swords when they get close enough to the dibbun.
Kentar blinks and shouts. "No! Duck Kluna, Duck!" he closes his eye, tears flowing down them. "Please don't hurt him! I'll do anything, just don't hurt him!!"
Kluner is getting tired of the chase, and doesn't know about the slash until Kentar yells, he quickly ducks as the sword slices right above him. But that cause him to trip in the sand, and lay in the dirt, scrambling to get pack up. But instead is picked up by the tail, and he screams, lashing out with fangs and claws.
Kentar cries and gets mocked by the beasts that are holding him down. "Just don't hurt him, oooh! I will do anything, oooh!" they laugh. "Please...just...just don't hurt him!"
The beasts tire of Kluner too and soon as he's caught by the tail one aims the butt of a spear at the dibbun's head to get him to stop lashing about. Kentar just gets a kick and more laughing for his yells, the beasts finally going to haul him up and drag him off towards the ships.
Kentar grunts at the kick and doesn't resist much when he's dragged towards the ships. His eye locks to Klnuer for a few moments before sighing. Now there's two beasts in is life he failed.
Kluner has his eyes closed when he was lashing about, so he doesn't see the spear coming. With a clonk, the weasel is out immediately, his tail gives an odd twitch now and again.
The triumphant vermin head back towards the ships, dragging Kentar and carrying Kluner by the tail still. Meanwhile with the ships the Leviathan has had a few long ropes attached to it, making the most of the captured slaves to pull it further up onto the beach and away from the Bluddwave that is slowly being rowed backwards, all the sails now furled. It takes a little while but the ships are separated, the Bludd is anchored as the bow is inspected by a couple of beasts and a few more long boats head for shore, one carrying Kalz.
Kentar looks around slowly and then is set down into the sand, forced to kneel. Kluner is set near him, beasts gathering around. "Kluna...I am so...so sorry." he whispers over to the weasel, hoping he can hear him.
Kluner slowly awakens and looks around, and immediately tries to get away, with no luck. He eventually gives up, and looks back to Kentar, "Is Kluna... gonnas get killded?..." He looks down and begins to sob a bit.
Kentar sighs and shakes his head slowly. "No Kluna, you wont. Nothing bad will happen to you. I promise...I promise." he sighs, himself sobbing already.
Kalz has a couple of things to do first. The captain of the Seaclawer is met up with and given a few words of satisfaction. It's a good job well done and they have a third ship in their paws, Kalz sending a few smarter beasts to inspect the damage done to the Leviathan, see if it's fixable. The Leviathan's crew get a look but he doesn't deal with them yet, just makes sure they can see as he waves his Bosun over and heads for Kentar and Kluner, tower nicely over the pair with a very smug evil grin "Welcome back to captivity" he says to Kentar.
Kluner hears Kentar sobbing and looks to him "Fajer... Its okays..." An then he hides his face from Kalz, trying not to be seen, but he knows there is no hope of that. He just continues to sob, but quietly now.
Kentar looks back up and slowly closes his eyes. "Don't hurt him please...I'll do anything you want, but I beg you, don't hurt him." he looks to Kluner then to Kalz.
Such pleading doesn't work well with Kalz, indeed his grin just grows "Y'have nothin' I want and can do nothin' for me. Y'are worthless and he shall suffer for your actions" he nods to the bosun as he steps back "Give the child twenty lashes for the stoat's escape...and another ten for calling me 'fluffy'" he smirks, smug smug smug. Holding up a paw to just stop the bosun for a moment "Then give the stoat his thirty too and another...hmm, twenty for the dibbun helping him. Nice even fifty" he's turned an ear to the crew of the Leviathan though. Judging their pirateyness while the bosun gets his whip out.
Kluner tries to get away as the punishment is given, but the whip quickly stops him, as he yells with pain and falls to his face. He cries out loud, and continues to try and get away.
The Leviathian crew seems to know Kentar and look extremely sorry for him. "No! Please! Let me take it all! All please!" he begs. He'd gladly take every lash of the whip for Kluner. "Please, give me double total, just do not hurt him!"
Kalz seems to enjoy the sound of pleading coupled with that of pain and the whip. Ahhh, like music to his ears. Yeah, he's crazy. A number of his crew seem just as bad though, some laughing, a rare few commenting on the whip technic, none moving to help at all. The bosun just carries on regardless, waving in a couple of beasts to hold onto Kluner to try and get him to hold stiller. Soon as they get to thirty lashes though they just move to drop the beast in the sand.
Kluner drops the ground, he passed out about the ninth hit. He just lays there unmoving, not even his tail cares to twitch. The open whip marks on his back bleed slightly and drip into the sand, As also the young weasels tears.
Kentar watches and cries, eye closing, sobbing as he hears the whip cracking against Kluner. "I'm sorry...I'm so sorry Kluna..." he whispers to himself, still sobbing. His turn is coming up next and he's not looking forward to it. "I will get you for this, fluffy. Will skin you alive..." He growls. "You hear me fluffy!?" he growls. "Damn cat."
Kalz raises a paw to the bosun to stop him again "Slow learner this one. Another twenty lashes to the child and then the stoat" he looks back over to Kentar as the bosun goes to start whipping Kluner again "Do you want to go for an even one hundred for yourself or do you think the kid will have had enough with his fifty?"
Kentar looks to Kluner and gives a look of absolute horror. "No! Please stop! Do not punish him for me! Please stop, I beg you!" he cries out, now a total mess and he's not even been whipped yet.
Kluner is picked up again, and positioned so he can receive his next twenty. Crack!, goes one, but there is still not movement or sound from the tiny weasel. He just takes them one by one.
Some of the leviathan crew cant stand to see their friend like that. Its almost more torture for Kentar to know Kluner is getting hurt then being whipped himself would ever be. And so the leviathan crew start to fight against the other pirates, attempting to help their friend. Kentar just cries more then anything. He's so scared that the whipping to Kluner will kill him and he can't bare the thought of losing him.
Kalz directs the bosun to continue while he waves to some other of his crew to follow him as he moves to deal with the crew of the Leviathan. Going to surround them, have a few shot with arrows "Continue to fight and I will slaughter you all" Kalz yells. The bosun finally finishes with Kluner and directs beasts to keep a good hold of Kentar even if he is bound, the beast going to make a start on Kentar's lashes.
That crew doesn't stop, they don't seem to care. They're captain and first mate dead, and their only friend and the only one able to lead them is about to get whipped. Kentar keeps his eye on Kluner before crying out as the whip strikes his flesh, cutting his back, making him bleed, tears flowing down his cheek as bad as if it was raining.
Kluner is dropped to the ground again, and lays there, but he is slowly coming around. He starts to visibly shake, and mutters out, "Tent-Tar..." He he slowly begins to move again, regardless of pain, bleeding, or spasm. His tail twitches slightly, and he forces all his effort to get up.
Kalz apparently is sometimes at least a beast of his word. He waves a paw to the beasts around the crew "Kill them" his beasts going to start cutting them all down.
Two or three of them, the bosun, look out, and slave driver give up. They're tugged off to the side as the rest of the Leviathan crew is taken and killed. Kentar could see his friends get killed, right in front of him, more tears falling. With each crack of the whip, he jerks forward and lets out a loud cry of pain, loud enough for even the deaf to hear. But, being stronger then Kluner, he's still awake by the ninth strike, And now, there are only 3 survivors of the Leviathan of about two hundred pirates, and another hundred slaves.
Kalz keep an eye on the three crew beasts who are brought out while it all happens. Watching their reactions. The slaves he keeps, the slaves will be strapped back to the ores anyway, they don't get a choice and they're not a danger. The crew was. The key word being 'was'.
Kluner is actually able to get up, and stand on his knees. He seems dazed, as the blood pumps through him at an alarming rate to the wounds on his back. He watches as the two hundred pirates are slain. He blinks a few times, as he collapses on his legs. Not really believing what was going on...
Kentar cries out more and more with every crack of the whip. The three members of the crew that were saved, pay no more attention to Kentar, or his cries. Every crack of the whip brings a louder cry then the last, blood starting to spray around as the whip cracks against him. Finally, every lash is given, and when he is let go, he collapses face first into the sand, panting hard.
Kluner manages to look to Kentar, and tries to go over to him, with no success, "Tent-Tar... Is... Gone... bees Ohs'k..." He manages to mumble out, his tail wrapped around his body, as if not knowing what to do.
Kalz wipes out almost the entire crew of a ship. It's a shame really, he'll need to find more pirates to work for him to crew the third ship now. Still, better no crew than a mutinous one. He heads for the three remaining crew beasts, see what to make of them "Where do yer allegiances lie then?" His bosun meanwhile puts his whip back away again, nodding to the beasts he told to hold Kentar "Tie them both up to each other"
The three officers peer to Kentar and Kluner for a few moments before back to Kalz. One of them speak up. Its the look out. "You can chain me up as a slave, because I would never serve you." he spits at Kalz's foot. The other two sigh. "With you, Captain!" They both say. Kentar and Kluner are tired back to each other, Kentar struggling to stay awake. "Kluna...are...y-you...okay?"
Kluner nods quite slowly, "Kluna backs... Hurtded..." He sniffs a bit, "Kluna... is ... oh'ks..." He makes no effort to fight back, to tired to try.
Kalz looks down at his boot briefly before he suddenly draws his sword, simply going to cut the beast's head off, those loyal to the old crew can join them in death. He draws out an old bit of cloth from a pocket to clean off his sword, looking to the other two "Enthusiasm next time. Your positions?"
They watch as their friend appears to have lost his head. The quickly looks up. The stoat that's there, has a head wound. "Slave driver." that one says. The big ferret, probably the captain's brother, also speaks. "We're both slave drivers." he says. But the ferret's real position was being kept a secret.
Kentar sits there and sighs. "I'm sorry Kluna...I am..." he then goes limp and hunches over.
Kluner sniffs a bit, and then notices that he has gone limp, and he tries to nudge him a little bit, "Tent-Tar?.... Tent-Tar!... Fajer!... Wakey... please wakey!..." He begins to sob again.
Kalz raises a brow, slowing the cleaning of his sword for a moment "You are both slave drivers?...How unruly are these slaves of yours?" a little rock suddenly flies at Kentar and Kluner. One of the crew having some fun.
"They were quite bad, sir!" the ferret says. "Until we broke them. Took a while. And was the captain's brother. I enjoy working with the slaves, sire..." The ferret continues. "He gave me the position I wanted." Kentar doesn't wake up and if the rock hit him instead of Kluner, it wasn't noticed.
Kluner sees the rock coming, and doesn't have to move as it just misses them. He glares at Kalz... as this hatred begins to well inside him... He tries to move again, but he is securely tied to Kentar, and it brings him back to reality, and he sighs, "Fajer... please... Wake..."
Kalz narrows his eyes slightly at the brother thing "And what did he think of his brother? A good answer will keep you from joining your slaves" doesn't ask the ferret, he asks the other one.
Kentar slowly starts to wake up, Kluner's voice getting into his skull. His bigger paw, slowly, and gently takes Kluner's. "I'm...awake." The stoat blinks and thinks quickly. "He loved him sire. If ya ask me it was all quite stupid and a waste of time. Family is no good, sire..." He lies through his teeth.
Kalz glances to the ferret, clearly looking for his answer too. Sometimes it really is easier to just kill everyone. Another little stone flies at Kluner and Kentar followed by another. A little game is forming of who can hit the captives?
Kentar's ear flicks as a stone flies off it, making him wince. He doesn't say anything, not strong enough to. The ferret blinks and thinks too. "Aye, he did love me, but I never loved 'em. Just used em to get a bigger share of the loot, and the job I wanted, yeah." he nods.
Kluner fells his paw taken, and Kentar's voice confirming that he is awake. He sighs with relief, as the adrenaline of staying awake, is put on hold, and he watches Kalz. A stone pops him in the side, and he says, "Ows...ow..." but he doesn't do much, but gives Kentars paw a nudge.
Kalz finally rolls his eyes. He tires of trying to decide what they're thinking, he'll just let them do whatever and kill them if he has to "Right" he points his sword to the first beast "You will be working below my new bosun on the lower level of ore slaves" the sword moves to the brother "You will work on the upper. You will get a place to sleep, food, a cut of any treasure and medical attention if needed. However, like any other member of my crew if you go against my orders you will find yourself punished" sword pointing to the headless beast next to them before he sharply turns, going to head back towards the main gathering of the crews "Get a fire lit and food out here! We have a celebration to hold. Our third ship" the grin's back and he heads towards Kentar and Kluner, beckoning down the captain of the Seaclawer on the way.
Both the ferret and the stoat grin for a second to each other but then stands. "Yes sire!" the chime happily. Kentar just drifts in and out of the waking world right now. His grip on Kluner's paw lightens and he eventually lets go.
Kluner glowers at Kalz, as he looms near. The adrenaline beginning to pump back into him again as Kentar lets go. He grits his teeth together, and his tail swishes to the side of him viciously. He is still not able to do anything, but he doesn't care.
Kentar Whispers quietly before Kalz gets here. "Kluna...incase I can't say this later...I love you, Kluna...your the son I've always wanted...and I'm sorry that I failed you." he doesn't take failure well, tears still streaming down his face.
Kalz can only hope they have the sense to see they're vastly outnumbered and lucky to not only get away with their lives but their jobs too. He can be a good captain if you enjoy raiding, killing stuff and don't try to go against him, his crew's not loyal because he's scary. They're loyal because now they get to have a party and he lets them loot the new ship of valuables. He actually comes to the captives to get the bosun, giving the new, bigger ship to the Seaclawer's captain and the bosun gets bumped up to Captain of the Seaclawer. Finally Kalz looks back to Kentar again, grinning still "I'm almost glad to have fished you out of the water. None of this would have happened if you hadn't told me where to find your ship" he laughs, add two hundred lives to the pile of guilt before he leaves the two to join the party. Only those guarding the slaves, the ships, Kentar and Kluner and the sceptical ones that keep an eye on the two new crew members don't join in with the celebration. It's a good night to be evil pirate.
Kluner continues to glare at Kalz, up to the point where he left. He then relaxes as the we begins to wear out. His tail reaches around to tap Kentar in the side, "We is still alieves... Tent-tar..." he blinks a few times, as he begins to think that that's not a really a good thing, at there current position.
Kentar sighs and hangs his head. "I still failed. I'm sorry." And with that, he's out like a light again.
