Sabertooth in: Free the Slaves! (A liberation of Slaves)

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Itori nodded as Mashyuu complimented her illusion, refusing to break the image of herself being a frightened girl but still feeling proud about her own work. These illusions wouldn't last forever, but for now they would at least be detailed and thorough enough that only another mage, and quite a perceptive one, could stand a chance of seeing through them. A slaver and his newest catch would have no trouble getting onto the ship.

The Kumiho's attention was caught when she felt a new soul arrive in the area. This soul was one which made her frown, as she recognized it. It was a demon, a creature she personally considered most foul. Kumiho sometimes were mistaken for demons, but quite honestly any Kumiho would destroy a demon given the chance. Demons were dangerous and had a tendency to like playing with Kumiho, in ways that the foxes could not appreciate properly. That and they both had a tendency to hunt for souls, and nobody likes that kind of competition.

The demon turned out to be summoned by her leader, which made Itori somewhat wary of him. It's too late to be truly doubtful of him now though: they were too far into the plan to disrupt it, and so far Mashyuu hadn't given her any reason to doubt him besides his apparent consorting with demons. Itori made a face at the idea of having a demon with them, but quickly hid her under her prepared façade as she nodded and let herself be 'pulled' along by her 'captor'. She could ask him what the deal was with the demon afterwards.

It looked like the illusions were of high enough quality, seeing how the three of them (counting the demon) got safely onto the ship. Mashyuu quickly brought her far enough that it was time for them to split up, Itori nodding and shooting a glare at the hip thrusting demon. It was most likely inclined to be male if it acted like that, but if he actually thought he could do anything funny she'd eat him whole. Just because she didn't like demons -honestly they tasted awful- didn't mean she couldn't eat them and their souls given enough reason.

However that wasn't the goal here. If that demon was going to watch her back she would deal with it, although she doubted that she would need it. Mashyuu was already turning around to prepare himself for the upcoming fight, leaving Itori to her own devices. The disguised Kumiho could now do things her own way, which mostly meant that she could avoid getting into trouble as she sought to accomplish her own objectives. Mashyuu would deal with the fighters: she would have to find a way out for the slaves and keep the slavers from following.

This turned out to be a whole lot easier than she expected, as it was at that time that she encountered Miyuki leading all the slaves out of the ship. Looked like at least one of the siblings had managed to make themselves useful. Itori wasn't too happy about how she had been the one who refused to work together, but if she had results and wasn't harmed the Kumiho didn't have a lot to say. Although looking at the escape plan Itori had a feeling she could still be useful. The women were all safely escorted outside, but their method of leaving would attract a lot of attention. Blasting a hole in the ship's hull and escaping through it... The fox girl could already hear people running towards this location. It might not have been the biggest explosion, but in a ship like this any kind of explosion strong enough to create large enough a wall for an escape would be noticed.

At least, if it was left alone. The fox girl wasn't planning to let the slavers know how the slaves got out. She didn't alert Miyuki, as she was already outside of the ship together with the actual slaves. Instead she just focused as she created yet another illusion, her main weapon and skill. The hole in the wall created by the siblings as a path to freedom was closed, this illusion a bit easier on Itori because she only really had to fill in a gap rather than recreate another person. Of course she had to make sure the new wall looked realistic, and it couldn't be too different from the rest of the ship, but since she had plenty of example to work with it didn't take long before the hole might as well never have existed. Unless of course somebody forcefully pushed their way through it for some strange reason.

Now that the escape was covered Itori had to figure out her new objective. The slaves were now basically home free, as the slavers would have no idea how they got out: although they might still see them run outside and go after them... The Kumiho shook her head. As long as they couldn't just chase the slaves through the hole it would take too long for them to reach them. By the time that the slavers reached the females they would already be too far on the docks, where trying to recapture them all at once would backfire on them. Still, better to make sure, so as Itori changed herself into a slaver she went deeper inside the ship. She could create another distraction, a really big one this time, drawing the attention of all the slavers who weren't busy dealing with the other intruders.

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Mashyuu meanwhile would feel his disguise slowly fall apart. It looked like changing her own disguise, creating a fake wall and keeping it up, together was enough that Itori could not spare her magic to also keep Mashyuu undercover. Well, he shouldn't need her help at this point anyway.

The image around Mashyuu faded around the same time that a blast rocked the ship. Mashyuu balanced himself as the ship rocked on the still water and slavers all started to shout orders to each other. The ones who were at the edges of the ship looked out and shouted something while calling out in shock. Five men rushed past Mashyuu, thinking that Mashyuu was simply a new slaver, not a Sabertooth guild member. From the captain's quarters an attractive woman with red hair stepped out from the doorway and glared around in a panicked state. While she shouted to get her men under control Mashyuu casually stepped up to the middle of the deck.

"Captain Scarlet right? I'm Mashyuu's Sabertooth Wizard. I'm here to free your slaves. Well me and a few friends. Turns out, they already did that part. So I guess it's my job to bring you in. In fact, you and your first mate the the only ones that are wanted. The rest of these fine sailors can be on their way. That leaves just me and you." Mashyuu shouted, knowing he had no earth to use here. He was on his own, aside from his shadow magic and his mothers jacket to keep him protected.

Scarlet glared at Mashyuu with narrow eyes and was about to dive over the ship until she realized that a Wizard Slave could bring in a good price. She drew a gun and took aim just as Mashyuu dropped into a low stance, ready to fight. She fired a shot off, Mashyuu ducked out of the way. A second shot, the sound of her trigger finger pulling alerted Mashyuu to hang to the left, letting the small lead ball wiz past the Wizard. He knew they were enchanted with magic as the third shot went off. The blast barely missed as Mashyuu cast a spell he had never used before. "Earth Dragon's Scales!" He called out. His skin hardened while part of his life energy was sapped from him to fuel the spell. The Earth Slayer raced forward at high speeds, aiming his almost clawed hand right for the woman's chest...

WC: 359

Mashyuu Status:

Rocky Status:

Itori sighed as she slowly allowed her human form to disappear, replaced by her Kumiho form. It just felt a whole lot more natural than her human form, and right now she didn't need the advantages that the human form offered. Sure, her illusions weren't quite as powerful in her Kumiho form, but these slavers weren't of a level where she had to worry about them detecting anything. They weren't powerful mages or particularly perceptive. At most they could be said to be suspicious, but that just meant that she should avoid drawing their attention.

Of course she still kept up the illusion which disguised her as a slaver. Being able to both change her shape and create illusions which made her appear different could sometimes be a hassle, but in this case it meant she could use her Kumiho form without it being seen by these mundane humans. Sniffing the air and twitching her ears Itori frowned, as she heard the sounds of battle from upstairs. Actually, she could hear two. It looked like Mashyuu had gotten started with his fight, and if what she could sense was any indication the male part of the siblings was also busy. Itori just hoped they could deal with their respective enemies without needing her help, since she could hear people coming her way. She would have to deal with those first before she could see what the others needed and if she could offer it to them.

Although honestly the people chasing her were most likely the unlucky ones. Itori wasn't very good with mercy when it came to slavers, and she wanted to get rid of them quick.

Footsteps were about a dozen, all males, and their souls weren't too impressive, although there were two worth watching. Would be troublesome if she had to deal with all that on her own. Luckily she was in the depths of a slaver ship, who most certainly had other things with them than just slaves, and was given a little headache of a demon to help her out. Itori headed straight towards the hold, the lowest and deepest part of the ship she could find where they hadn't bothered putting the slaves because other things had already been hidden in there. Why only deal in slavery when you could also do some light smuggling on the side? And seeing how she already had heard two explosions up there, and she knew how to use explosives...

First things first though, she'd need the demon's help. Itori had moved towards the deepest part of the ship as fast as possible, and now pointed at her shadow, making several hand signals. As despicable as demons are they're usually also very clever, so she expected this one to not need any more complex commands than the one she had just given it to be able to do what she wanted it to do. Sure enough, while it made another vulgar gesture at her (she was going to eat that little thing after this was over) the demon disappeared back upstairs, where he would lead the slavers into this direction. It would take a while since he first had to attract their attention, and since Itori could move rather fast when she needed, but that was all right since Itori still needed to prepare her surprise for the slavers.

Looking around Itori closed her eyes and sniffed, quickly catching the acrid smell of gunpowder and explosives. If you had smelled it once you could recognize it anywhere. Dropping her disguise the Kumiho got to work gathering all the explosives, then rearranging them throughout the hull as she heard the footsteps above mull around, before the yelling started and they became hurried again. Looked like the demon had managed to catch their attention. Now to hope she could finish her own part of the plan before they got here. The slavers were pretty fast, and the demon had managed to get them to chase him faster than she had expected...

Eventually Itori had to give up on furthering her plan. It was already basically complete, but she had hoped to improve upon it a bit to ensure she would get every single one of the slavers. Well, this should already do the trick. If one happened to remain standing afterwards she would just have to take care of them herself. A task she wasn't looking forward to, but one couldn't be picky when they had a time limit attached to their work. For now the Kumiho retreated to the wall right next to the entrance to this particular section of the hold, lying in wait.

The demon didn't take much longer to burst into the hold, followed by the group of slavers who were searching for the one who had allowed the slaves to escape. Itori rolled her eyes as the demon was now dancing on top of one of the barrels, shaking his behind at the slavers and giving them the finger. Honestly she didn't know where Mashyuu got his hands on such a bratty demon, but she would be having words with him afterwards about it. Well, her own version of words, since she wouldn't actually be talking. Maybe just write down the words and give them to him. However that was for later.

While the slavers all looked confused at the demon who was just making fun of them at this point Itori slipped out, then summoned nine pale blue small flames at the same time as she dropped her disguise. One of the slavers happened to notice the new light and turned around, raising a hand to point at her and shout a warning. However at that point Itori had already sent her Kitsunebi towards the nine knots she had placed throughout the hold, nine places which, once ignited, would cause the network of explosions that Itori had set up to explode nearly simultaneously. Since she had anticipated the slavers to stay near the entrance the concentration was thickest there, which meant she had to retreat a fair bit before launching her ghost flames.

Everybody on the ship would be able to both hear and feel it as suddenly a good part of the hull was ripped apart by a series of explosions much larger than the couple of dynamite sticks that the siblings have been using. The entire ship shook and shuddered, although it didn't go so far as to outright collapse.

Itori drew her katana and peered through the smoke, trying to see if there was still a slaver alive that she had to take care of. However when the smoke cleared the only thing she saw was the wreckage she had created with that little stunt. An entire section of the ship was just missing, and the immediate surroundings were an utter mess. If it wasn't for Itori being very careful when placing the explosives this would most likely have made the entire ship tear in half. As it was she would rather get off before it decided to do that anyway. As for the slavers, Itori wrinkled her nose as she saw the bloody and ripped remains. Not a single one of them had managed to survive that sudden barrage of explosive might. Which had been her intention, but seeing torn off limbs, exploded ribcages, and several other body parts which weren't supposed to be treated like that still made her leave this part of the ship quickly.

So, a good part of the slavers had been disabled permanently, and she was pretty sure that the two allies of hers that remained on the ship were taking care of the high priority targets. It was a good thing that the bounty only stated that the leaders had to be captured alive, because otherwise Itori would just have made her allies lose a hefty sum of money. Then again, better that than having to kill all the slavers one by one.

Mashyuu's hand started to spark with electricity as the element coursed through his jacket. It took the wizard almost not time to discharge the coursing energy straight into the Captain's torso, blowing the woman back hard with the sudden force. The blast sent her rocketing back as she fired a blast from her own gun, the round lead ball hit the ground next to Mashyuu and exploded. While caught off guard it didn't blow him back but still did damage to the Wizard.

What the Captain didn't know was that the Dark One had already started to make it's way back to Mashyuu to help it's master. "Sin I need you!" Mashyuu called out and extended his palm, letting a black demon like mass erupt from his hand and lunge at the Captain. In fear she opened fire at Sin, blowing a hole in the monster, only for the wound to seal shut. Sin opened it's acidic fangs and latched down on Scarlet's arm, draining her life force and healing it's master in the process.

Mashyuu rushed out of the smoke from Captain Scarlet's first strike and transformed into lightning, his mother's secondary magic taking Mashyuu and guiding him to his target. The Earth Slayer used the bolt to avoid the two shots aimed at the Slayer. Mashyuu appeared at Scarlet's side and spun on his feet, ending the motion with an open palm to the back of her head and a knee to the gut. Scarlet doubled over and dropped a gun to the floor.

The Dark One appeared atop Sin while Scarlet tried to lift her gun and end her own life but as she pulled the trigger the gun was gone. The Dark one held it in it's hand, looking it over curiously while standing on the rail of the ship. "How this work Master?" It asked while aiming the barrel at it's face.

Mashyuu shook his head from side to side then glanced at Sin who had managed to keep hold on Scarlet for a long moment. Together the two raised a leg and tail up and blasted Scarlet in the stomach with hard strikes, driving the wind from her body and knocking the captain out cold. "Good job, get rid of the weapons, I'm going to meet up with the others." Mashyuu ordered his summoned creatures while using rope from the ship to tie Scarlet up.

Together with Rocky, Mashyuu made his down the ship with Scarlet slung over his shoulders. The Wizard couldn't make out the smells as he made his way through the damaged ship. The Earth Slayer cleared his throat and called out. "Anyone alive down here!?"

WC: 445

Mashyuu Status:

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