Yo ho a pirate's life for me

Okay, it had taken them few days to figure out where they were. More importantly, what time. Tidus and Mariella had found themselves coming through one of Tidus portals, and now they were stuck on a pirate ship. At least Mariella's abilities had been in their favor. Which meant her and Tidus now were in control over the ship.
"We seriously need to find a way home," she sighed and looked at a map. Mariella was from the future, used to be surrounded by all types of technology - out here was nothing. Not that she minded, she was a child of the sea. A siren. Being here on the open ocean, it was calming and unlike the others - she didn't fear any future storms hitting them - she could survive if they sunk. Maybe if they were lucky, they could find Fox. She knew her dear cousin had her own list of time travelling - or maybe if she found Amaryllis older sister Joy. "Are you seriously drinking rum right now?"

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His whole life, he had always searched for a adventure like this. Yeah... they were captured back in the time for at least a month... BUT! It was in the pirate era and they were pirates! Could anyone ask for more? It was an escape from reality!
Ariel on the other hand... seemed to be done with the whole pirate stuff. she looked at the map and just seemed to search for a way out. Tidus knew that he couldn´t make a new portal back before some days. Maybe... but then he had to use a whole bunch of power and pass out in the try. Which would just be a bigger struggle.
He stood next to her, taking a big sip of his even bigger bottle of the rum. The best of this ship. It had rum enough for years. It was a dream come true!
as Ariel asked if he seriously was drinking rum, he laughed and waved with the bottle in front of her face. "Of course I am! the question is: why are you not drinking rum!?"

Mariella was restless, which was nothing new. She had just spent ten years in Hell, just got Reginald back - and then this. There was never a thing called a break in her life, or maybe this was it. The break. Sailing on the deep blue sea, catching the salty waves in her curled brown hair. Mariella took a deep breath in as he asked why she wasn’t drinking rum. She rolled her eyes before she took the bottle away from him. She took a large sip of the strong liquid and handed it to him. “Happy?” She asked with an eyebrow slightly raised. Mariella looked over the open ocean, she had never been the type of person to be homesick. Right now, she was, but she found comfort in that once they returned to 2019 - it would be as if they never had left. Mariella should be used to it at this point, living without her loved once - she had done it in Hell for longer.
“So, what do you want for dinner? Pickles, eggs or pickles?” She knew he was vegan - for herself she would just dive into the sea and eat some fresh fish - but she liked teasing Tidus.

As Mariella took a big sip of the rum, he smiled a victorious little smile and nodded proudly. “You bet I am!”
Of course, he could also see the shit situation they were in. They both had a life at home. Someone who probably waited for them and expected to see their smiling faces soon.
He sighed and smiled by the thought. “Do not worry… I just need to collect some energy and then I might make a portal back… but beware that I might pass out! And then you have to drag me fast through the portal!” He smiled at her and then leaned up against the railing. Just relaxing a bit and enjoy the feeling of the wind on his face. For a second he closed his eyes and just… enjoyed the moment. The sound of the sea was a cure on its own.
As he heard the music of Mariellas voice again, he opened his eyes and looked over at her. Her little teasing made him laugh lowly. “Pickles doesn´t sound to bad… Buuut… I think I might need to steal a soul soon…” with a carefree smile he looked forward again. “If we will ever see land again.”

“Always good to know,” she chuckled a little. But of course, she would drag him through the portal, she wasn’t that selfish. “Just make sure to do it when I’m not seeing it. I hate seeing those bonds between people break,” she wasn’t kidding about that. It wasn’t always she felt it, but it was like a heart break when bonds broke.
“I can see if I can locate any nearby islands on my next dive,” she pointed out. Last dive had told them land was very far from them. Hopefully, they were closer this time. “On way our another we will see land again, that I know. You are sailing with a siren, don’t forget that,” Mariella reminded him with a cheeky smile. “The only thing we need to worry about is other pirates.”

He nodded to her words. He shouldn’t be taking souls in front of her. God it.
“I promise not to steal any souls in front of you,” he said with a finger lifted and a slight smile on his lips. Just like her, he stared out in horizon and listened what she had to say about finding land. When she mentioned she was a siren, he clicked with his tongue and looked over at her. “Oh I know. I´m very lucky to be stranded on a pirate ship with queen of the sea.” He winked at her and then took back the bottle of rum. When she mentioned other pirates, he shrugged and came out with a naaaah sound. “We have been here for a week and haven’t seen any other pirates. We probably wont see anyone!”

"Oh dearie," she said shaking her head a little, "with my luck. We will see some. As far as I can tell.. this has been the most chill week I've had in a long time," she moved her gaze to the sea. "For every chill week there is one month of chaos," Mariella breathed in the salty air. She had just been reunited with her husband, and she was already away from his side again. It ached in her heart to get back to her heart. "And you promise me we will be back the same time as we left?" She needed to be sure, even through he had told her plenty of times already. Mariella didn't want Reginald to spend time hopelessly searching for her while he was still recovering. Mariella had gone through that and it was a pain she didn't want anyone to feel.
"You seem to be enjoying this, I'm beginning to think you planned this just to get away," she gave him a teasing smile.

It sounded like Mariella had been through some shit. With other words. This could be vacation for her. Unless they turned out to be in trouble. Which it seemed that Mariella expected for them. He smiled weakly at her comment. “It sounds like you could actually need a vacation… or am I wrong?”
with the cool pirate outfit, he danced a bit around and did look like a man, that had just got his first day off. When she asked a bit worried about the time, he smiled calmly and kindly at her. “Yes. I´m sure, we will be back, right were we just started this journey.”
He wasn’t in control of making these big portals more than once a month. But he was in control to make sure they always ended back in their own time.
As she teasingly commented on his way of enjoying the situation, he winked at her and shoke his head. “Of course, I didn´t do it on purpose… but become… you must admit that…” as he spotted a ship in the horizon, he quickly shut his mouth. “Uhmm… I think trouble is getting closer.”

Mariella laughed a little to herself by his choice of words. Needing a vacation? She smiled a little and returned her eyes at the newly turned demon.
"You are not wrong. Add a vacation and a year of sleep on my list of wishes," Mariella folded her lips a little. "Good, I don't want my husband to worry about not being able to find me" she breathed out. It was typical Mariella to find about others before herself, no matter what her own mental health was like. It had never been perfect anyways. Mariella was just about to breathe out and admit that she needed to stop being such a defeatist. Then he said the words ; trouble is getting closer.  
Mariella turned around and looked out. Seeing the other ship sailing towards them.  "I hate to say I told you so.. but, duh," she looked shortly at Tidus. They needed a plan, were they even fit to fight off other pirates? Mariella had been training with Valeria the past months and she wasn't unfamiliar to using her abilities to make herself dangerous. They could handle this. A shot from a canon was fired from the ship in front and headed towards them. Mariella lifted up her arms and tried to use the wind to mask the attack. The round shot was slowed down by the wind, but Mariella struggled to stop the force. It landed in the ocean, making the ship tilt as rocky waves rushed up on deck. Mariella breathed out exhausted.
"What do we do?" Mariella could easily escape, but she had never left Tidus to fight for himself - not at their first meet and now wasn't the time either.

Mariella didn’t even have time to react before the pirate ship had fired a shot from a canon after them, which she handled quickly, by throwing it next to their ship. When the ship rocked, he stumbled a bit to find his balance. It wasn’t the time to get sea sick!
He shook his head, just in time to look over at her, as she asked for his advice. A bit stunned he looked at the other ship. It slowly got bigger and bigger. With his thoughts running through his mind, he bites down into his lower lip and looked around. They didn’t have any weapon there could attack the enemies from this range!
“I could try making a portal big enough, to make their ship sail through… but then you have to keep making sure their cannon balls aren´t hiding us,” he said as he started to go to the tip of the ship. Here he looked back at her with a smile. “Agreed?”

His idea could work. But wouldn't it just slow themselves down in the end? If he made a portal now, would they have to wait another month? Mariella wasn't sure she could handle that, or she knew she could - and that was what she feared most about herself. Everything could go South, she didn't know how many attacks she could block. "We can also just create a distraction. If we get close enough, I can mess with the crew .. or just burn the ship down. Depends what I'm in the mood for," she admitted and looked at him. "You just said it yourself.. that you shouldn't be making portals till you are ready," another cannon ball flew threw the air, and Mariella lifted up her arms as a wall of water protected them and swallowed the ball down to the deep sea. Mariella breathed out looked over at Tidus again. "Or I can just be a typical siren and lure them to their deaths?" It was an option.

If they followed the plan of Mariella, she would be doing all the work, which in Tidus head wasn’t the greatest ide or for that matter, fair. Her powers were strong, he knew that, but if she used them all up now, the chance would be she couldn’t use them later.
This made him jump down in front of her and shake his head. “And let you do all the work and have all the fun? Nah ah.” He looked over his shoulder, back at the enemy ship. “I can make a portal, don´t worry about that, especially since it´s not another dimension portal.” Right in the middle of his sentence, he lighted up, like a child on Christmas. He looked back at her. “How about this? I make a portal over their ships and you fire… fireball through it or something. In that matter, their will be a rain of fire!”

Mariella was used to do the rough work, and do what ever it took. She wasn't use to work together with people for her survival, not anymore at least. She wanted to come back to that, but she wasn't sure how. Mariella nodded a bit when he said he could make a portal, she trusted him on that - she had to. His face lighted up and she narrowed her eyes, waiting for him to tell her what idea he had. Mariella's smile blossomed up when he mentioned fire and she nodded. "See that my friend. Is a glorious idea," everything that had fire included was a secure plan - or maybe not, but Mariella had always loved to play with fire. Mariella lifted up her hand and created a ball of fire and nodded to Tidus that she was ready.

[Note: Abigal radiates an aura of attractiveness, naturally inducing pleasure and desire while subtly lifting inhibitions. The affected targets remain fully themselves, but can't help but long for the Abigal's favor and affection, and can't bring themselves to cause her harm except as a last resort, like an irreplaceable treasure too precious to be lost.]

"Nah. I would prefer you didn't do that," a voice from behind made Mariella turn around. Abigal. Of course a banshee could fly, how could she forget. She blinked a little. Abigal walked a few steps closer to them. Her aura was strong, making Mariella take a deep breath in. She knew her, but not in this time. They both knew Abigal and that made this event way more dangerous. "I heard a rumor, that you both would do as I say." she spoke with such a warm voice which was sweet as honey luring the bees back home. Mariella clenched her teeth, Abigal had never used her abilities on her before.

Tidus couldn´t believe it. There stood an old friend of his, wearing an awesome pirate outfit, while using that perfection ability of hers. Both him and Ariel were now trapped under her command. Just like Mariella, he had never been trapped under Abi´s spell. It was rather creepy. Now they could just stand there and wait for her command.
Maybe he had been on the sea for to long, but he found Abi rather attractive, which was weird for him. Men had always been his go to. So why on earth was he attracted to Abi all of sudden.
with that thought out in the air, he know started to read the mind of Abi, just to figure out what she wanted. If she wanted them dead, maybe they could react fast, before she gave them an order.
“You would enjoy the rain of fire tho… Ariel here is amazing with her elements,” he nodded towards Mariella with a smirk.

Why did these stupid people act like they were even on the same level as her? It made her snort and cross her arms.
"I'm sure I would. I would enjoy more that your dear friend then stay on my ship," she took a step forwards. Abigal narrowed her eyes and looked into the eyes of the blonde demon. "Who do you work for?" She asked more skeptical and narrowed her eyes. Clearly she thought he was working with another pirate group. "Tidus! Look out-" but before Tidus got a chance to look back he was knocked out from behind. Bash shook his head a little. "Looks like we got a new ship, go check if there is anything we can use," the captain said to Abigal. Abigal walked away to check. "What do we have here?" He then asked the siren.
"Someone who is gonna get really pissed if you don't just leave us alone," she snapped at the fallen angel. He laughed a little. "You got spunk, " - "Yeah, come closer and I will show you what else I got," she hissed and showed of her siren features.

An ability was used, but before she could react she fell into the water. Mariella stayed a little underwater. She needed a better plan than this. She watched as the ship sailed over to the other. This wasn't the Abigal she knew, it would be a lot harder from now on. Abigal sat in front of the demon when he woke up. She clapped him a little on the right cheek. "Wake up Blondie," she grabbed his chin and narrowed her eyes looking at him. "Your little friend swam away," she let go and took a step back. The demon would be tied. Abigal tilted her head a little to the side.

He wasn’t sure what have happened. Someone had hit him back in the head and he had passed out.
Now, he laid here on the ground, with a bit sassier Abigail looking down at him and grabbing his chin. He smiled to her, for a second forgetting that she had no idea who he was. As she walked away, he felt how his hand was tied on his back. Great. Just great.
the words of Mariella leaving him, didn’t worry him, since he knew it would be a lie. A girl like Mariella would never do that. She was probably figuring out a plan by now.
He curiously read the mind of Abigail, just to see, if he could figure out what she had planned next.

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Mariella had to think. She didn’t like this at all and messing more with time itself was something she couldn’t afford. She was desperate to return home and just stay in Reginalds arms forever. Mariella didn’t know this story, she didn’t know Abigal’s past and couldn’t really interfere with it. Or she wasn’t supposed to. She swam under the ship and used the water to move her up over the waves. The waves were fierce and slapped against her back leaving red marks, that she would have to care for later. With help from the waves she made it back on the pirate ship and used her fire abilities to warm herself before heading into battle.


Abigal snorted at the demon. Who did he think he was again? She was curious and simply just wanted to know how two people had come to own their own ship? If they were brutal killers like herself? Forced into hardship in the means of survival. Or what was their stories? “Don’t look at me like that,” she collided her fist with his jawline. Pirates were known for brutality and she had to show a force of strength here. “What is your name?”

Abi punched him. And it hurt! That was quite the punch she got there. Impressive. She ordered him not to look at her like that. With other words… do not read her mind. This made him chuckle lowly. If only she knew, that in the future, they would create a friendship. Wait… did this mean… nah… future Abi would not remember have seen Tidus face before. After all… she had seen a lot of faces through her years.
“Tidus,” he answered and smirked up at her. “The names Tidus. I always wanted to meet a real pirate. I´m sure glad that it turned out to be you. You´re gorgeous after all.”
Maybe he could charm his way out of this Probably not, but still.