( Catching up now )<br/><br/>Sin's first order of duty was to get the ship moving. Once they were on open water, the likelihood of reinforcements dropped to zero, basically, so taking over the ship completely should be an easy matter.<br/><br/>To their credit though, the crew must not have been ENTIRELY as stupid as she thought as some of them were actually rushing across the docks trying to reach them. Good for them. Too bad she was prepared for that. With a grin she pulled out a small bomb. It wasn't much of an explosive, but certainly enough to blow apart the planks of a pier and cut off the crew's path... striking a match on the wheel she lit the fuse, then tossed it at the pier. The explosion serving its purpose and cutting off the crew from their path.<br/><br/>But then a new problem arose. God, those hired hands were stupid... well, that's what you get when you're forced to settle for what's available. At least now she didn't have to follow up on any promises to pay or compensate them... not that she necessarily intended to anyway... I mean, she knew she would need some extra hands to get the ship ready to take off quickly, but anyone stupid enough to agree to raiding a warship in the night with questionable characters in the hopes of a quick payday really didn't have much going on upstairs in the first place right?<br/><br/>Didn't matter, Sin knew not to hesitate, not even for a second. The moment this old dragon stood still she had already drawn, aimed, and fired!<br/><br/><br/>Sin wasn't foolish enough to leave her post to chase after the man. They had the ship now, he would either run into one of the others, or have to come back out on his own at some point, instead, she prepared, waiting and ready for the next strike.<br/><br/><br/>Though one would think the fireballs would easily be enough to chase Sin back, Grandus would instead find that the tigress didn't budge, figuratively speaking... Instead, Sin's technique was to counter a strike, with a strike. She had specialized equipment just for that purpose. Tipped claws that made them stronger and sharper, able to dig into or cut through materials she normally wouldn't be able to, gloves to protect her hands, her thick coat, etc. there were reasons for every part of her setup, aside from just presenting an intimidating look.<br/><br/>As he charged in after lunging his halberd at her, she fired off her second shot before drawing her own sword to cut and deflect the ball of flame he'd tossed at her, before it became a more traditional battle of blades.<br/><br/>By the way she moved it was obvious, despite being as large as she was, Sin was used to battling up close and personal, she preferred it. Though it would seem the dragon was capable too, that was fine, they had numbers on their side now as she knew the rest of the group was already taking control of the other areas of the ship and working their way back towards her. It was just a matter of time...<br/><br/>Or not... Suddenly there was a new contestant, with some very new tricks. Sin hopped back as Zaleila began to directly challenge the ships former captain.<img alt=";)" src="./images/smilies/wink.gif" title="Wink"/><br/><br/>Flying... well, that was something she couldn't do... back to the wheel to keep them headed out to sea, and to maintain a good position to fire at anyone else who wasn't part of their group that might try to come up from the lower decks.<br/><br/>---------------------------<br/><br/>Melissandra would smile as she successfully shut up and chased the dogs away. Not that that was a major accomplishment or anything just, personally fulfilling. "So... not that this isn't fun and exciting or anything, but... WHY are you guys doing this again?" Melissandra asked Seydon and Wiska, though mostly Seydon since she was on his shoulder right next to his ear... "I mean, you're both aquatic so... do you really NEED a boat? And, why is a prince taking orders from an alcoholic pirate tiger and hanging out with... whatever that horned woman is? A LOT of this just, doesn't make much sense." She stated, though, as the outsider, it would make sense that she wouldn't really be up to date with what was going on or why.<br/><br/>In her mind it just seemed really strange that a prince, would need to steal someone else's boat with such a weird group. Couldn't he just like, have one of his servants MAKE a boat for him? It was weird. It also sounded like things were getting pretty intense above deck, explosions and gunfire... this was really happening...<br/><br/>----------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Spectra was annoyed that, it seemed, she wasn't being understood. It would seem that was the extent of her involvement in the battle. Once her choice was made, she was locked in, now with nothing to do but watch. This wasn't the fun kind of watching though, not like when the group came across Melissandra, and she knew that things would likely turn out ok. No, this was different, now she had to watch and hope the people she loved, she'd chosen, were truly as exceptional as she always encouraged and told them they were.<br/><br/>She didn't even care about Grandus' words, as far as she was concerned that was fine. Let him waste time searching for her, split his attention, that would only provide more opportunities for Zal, Barusa, Sin, and the rest. She was still concerned though. Even though Sin had managed to hold her own when she and Grandus were face to face, she wasn't sure the captain truly grasped just who and what she was dealing with in this situation. Sin was exceptionally skilled for a mortal, but from the moment they met up with Yggdrassil, the captain wasn't just dealing with other mortals any more... perhaps this really was all her fault. Spectra putting her attention on the captain drew other eyes to her as well.