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Gideon wakes to see the blue sky above him. Seagulls fly and caw, welcoming the giant, or laughing at his situation, which ever it was, Gideon didn’t want to pay them mind. As he picked his head up from the water, he looked about to find himself in the middle of the ocean, the only landsource he could see from his position was a good number of leagues away.

After swimming for a few minutes, the giant came to the realization that the island is in fact Jaya. “No!” his frustration came back, all the trouble he had been through was for not, finally getting back with the crew after losing everyone, now he is the one who’s lost.

“What happened?” as he swam for Jaya, he tried to recall what had happened between him and the rest of the Phantom Raider pirates; A storm, sudden and quickly that rocked both boats and sent wave after wave, pressing Gideon away from his shipmates.

He felt that his life was bound to this place, no escaping Jaya’s grasp.

After two leagues of swimming, Gideon finally found ground to stand on, leaving the water level just to his neck. He took the moment to pause and think of a plan, anything that could get him out of the clutches of Jaya.

Then something hit him, an idea from nowhere. Walking a bit more so that his shoulders were above water, he tapped the den den mushi that sat on his shoulder, “Vizmir! Do you read me!? Vizmir! It’s Gideon!” he called.

After a moment of silence, a call finally came through, “Enough with the yelling” came Vizmir’s voice from the snail-phone, “Yeah I can hear you, though, why haven’t you left the region, Gideon? Given that you still have your den den, I’m guessing you didn’t get captured”

“No, but a rogue storm separated from from the crew, now I’m swimming back to Jaya” Gideon continued his swim.

“Try to make it to Concert Island, the eight island in the Long Ring island chain, I’ve managed to sail your ship there” Vizmir said plainly, though there was a hint of annoyance in his tone. Gideon then began making his way towards the direction of Concert Island.

Unknowing of Gideon and Vizmir, their conversation through the den den mushi line were being listened to by a third-party, Apollo Entreri was sitting at his table within the rented room in one of Jaya’s inns. The entire time he had been on Jaya, which was a total of two full days, he had either taken small necessary trips to get food or to the restroom, or sat in his room, listening to his den den mushi which sat on the table connected to a black den den mushi. They fed him communication from other den den mushi lines circling the island. He hadn’t found what he was looking for until he heard the name “Gideon”. Apollo sat up and listened carefully. “Bingo” he whispered as he gathered his equipment, then donned his black cloak, his weapons, then made his way out the door.

With a whistle, he called upon his giant southbird who flew down and landed before the assassin. The southbird, as all southbirds, had it’s head pointing south, as it always had and will, though this bird was large enough for a normal sized human to ride on it’s back, which is why Apollo Entreri fastened a saddle on the bird’s back and bit on it’s face. Though the bird was irritable with his situation being this man’s rider, he couldn’t fly away because of what’s on the man’s wrist; a log pose, but not any log pose, the one log pose that a close friend of his had worn in the past and had left to him on his deathbed.

“Found him, now let’s go, we’re going to Concert island” Apollo ordered as he jumped up and sat himself onto the southbird’s back before he flew to the sky, making their way towards Entreri’s target.

Gideon reached the shore of Concert Island by the time the sun was well over the horizon. The sky had lost it’s blue hue and was replaced a brilliant orange that washed peace and tranquility over the area… until the strum of an electric guitar rang through the air. It seems a concert was about to begin a quarter mile away, no surprise there, the giant had figured this when he heard of the island’s name.

”Good to see you again, my giant friend” Vizmir greeted Gideon as they approached one another at the docks.

“You don’t look it” Gideon smiled, he towered over the smoking middle-aged man.

”Can you blame me?”” Vizmir said as he stared towards the light show of the upcoming concert, ”You and your crew have brought nothing but trouble” he didn’t look at the giant. Gideon didn’t need to say a word; Vizmir could feel the regret from the giant’s silence.

Gideon took one step upon his ship and began checking the sails. He knew this was all his and his crew’s fault, but it was never intentional, to bring trouble, they were just magnets to it. From the slavers to the marines. Then again, there was a point when they had hunted down slavers and another time when he and Yuurei hunted down marines. Maybe they brought this upon themselves.

“Nearly forgot, your friend is in Lulusia Kingdom” Vizmir said this nonchalantly, which caused Gideon to give a table-take, as if he had heard wrong.

“What?” he asked again.

“Yuurei” Vizmir finally looked to Gideon, who’s eyes widen and stood frozen, “Saw him in the papers; he’s to be executed in Lulusia Kingdom” There was then a long pause, silence, as if the two were trying to figure out how to continue conversing about it.

When Gideon finally moved again, he quickened his pace, checking the helm, his equipment, the sides of the ship. “If you wish for us to part ways, I understand, but I’m off to Lusha” his tone was stern, he tried to keep himself as calm as possible, his mind rattled, thinking about what he could have done to change the situation Yuurei was in, what he should do now, and what may happen if he was delayed for more than a minute.

“It’s Lulusia, and how are you going to get there without a log pose?” Vizmir took a pull from his cigarette, watching Gideon moved about, rocking the ship and the waters below the dock.

“I’ll find my way” Gideon seemed as if he was sure of what he was doing, but Vizmir knew the giant had tunnel vision and he was probably not going to listen to reason.

“That’s not good enough, you’ll just get lost and probably starve to death at sea” another puff from the cigarette. Gideon knew Vizmir was right, but his determination to save his friend was too great for logic to take control.

The two of them were silent, both too stern in their thoughts of what was the correct move, but no one pressing the other. Suddenly a pair of shuriken flew through the air slammed into Gideon’s back, though the giant’s skin was tough enough to handle standard pistol ammunition, the power behind the throw was strong enough to sink the shuriken into Gideon’s back, though not deep enough to cause any serious damage.

Gideon grunted in pain. Vizmir looked to the giant and wondered what was wrong, but didn’t realize the situation at the moment. A blur passed by the smoking gentleman. At that moment, the battle began, but no one knew who it was or where they were.

Gideon turned about to find whoever attacked him, the two shurikens clattered to the deck of the ship as the giant moved, his skin too tough for the weapons to sink too deep. All he saw was Vizmir who looked more confused than he did. From the corner of his eyes was movement, but before he could react, something ran up his body and sank a blade into his thigh. Gritting through the sudden pain, Gideon moved his hand to slap away the ‘bug’, but it was too fast. Before the giant, just a few yards away, stood a man donned in black leather armor, even his face was covered by a black leather mask. In the man’s hand, he held a jeweled cutlass, the blade that sank into the giant’s leg, although it wasn’t deep even to leave a serious wound.

“Your skin is tough, as expected” the masked man said.

“What do you want? Because I don’t have time for this” Gideon practically growled, this was the last thing he wanted, another enemy getting in his way, now preventing him from getting to his friend now that he had a lead to where he was.

“My name is Apollo Entreri” the masked man said with a cold and deep voice as if expecting a reaction, though with the sudden quiet and absent response, he realized his name didn’t hold any water, although Vizmir, after taking a few yards back to see the masked man on deck, began to worry, though he wasn’t sure who this man was, “I’ve been sent to kill you” though it was a true threat, Gideon found it more of an annoyance, people have been trying to kill him for a long while now and this was merely a pause in his venture.

“You’re an annoyance and as I said, I don’t have time for this” Gideon growled as he threw a fierce punch, though his reach was short, it was strong enough to send a blast of wind forward, pushing the assassin off the side of the ship, but instead of plummeting, Entreri grabbed hold of the railing. Gideon then closed the distance and reached down to grab the man, but Entreri was quick, once the gust of wind settled, he was already moving, he had leaped onto the deck of the ship again and was about to cut into Gideon’s leg, but the giant reacted in time by kicking the smaller man, but he too was quick and gained distance.

The two looked at one another, Gideon annoyed and Entreri smiling underneath his mask. Vizmir, meanwhile lit another cigarette. Though he was a bit worried, he knew he couldn’t do a thing to help and the other two knew this as well, the middle aged man was practically not there.

Skill:

“You have one chance, if you don’t retreat now, I will put you in the ground” Gideon gave his only warning, not only because he found senseless killing immoral, but because every second he spend docked on the island was a second closer to Yuurei’s death.

“Your words fall on deaf ear” Entreri moved so fast he seemed like a blur. Gideon moved his foot just in time to dodge the cutlass from digging into him, but the assassin didn’t slow, he jumped up and managed to slice his cutlass against Gideon’s leg. The cut sliced the pant leg but didn’t slice into flesh, but hardened material; Gideon had used armament haki to defend against the attack, he couldn’t afford to allow anymore attacks to prod at him. Although these attacks were little more than serious papercuts to him, enough of them would cause serious damage.

Gideon retaliated by punching downward, though he didn’t managed to hit the evasive assassin, the wind pressure of the strike was brought down, then blew outward, pushing back the assassin and forcing him to tumble towards the other side of the ship “Kazeken” Gideon simply said, naming his attack before he turned towards the assassin. Entreri ran towards the giant, trying to meet the foe head-on, but Gideon chose not to toy with the man any longer, he took a deep breath and exhaled a stream of fire that engulfed half the ship.

Apollo saw this coming, he heard of this skill when he was briefed about Gideon’s attack style, so he quickly jumped up and ran up the nearest mast to escape the flames. As the flames dispersed, Gideon looked up to see Entreri leaping off the mast and throwing down a handful of shurikens, the giant countered by giving one strong arm swing to cause a gust of wind to protect him from the shurikens, deflecting them away. As Entreri fell, Gideon took this chance and gave another strong punch, Entreri answered it with a kick, empowered by armament to counter the force, but the wind pressure of Kazeken blew him away and plummeting towards the water, suddenly a chained grappling hook shot from beneath his sleeve and latched onto the mast, causing him to swing back onto the deck of the ship.

“Annoying” Gideon growled.

Skills:

Once Entreri landed upon the deck, Gideon looked upon him in awe and annoyance, this was more than trying to swat away a fly, this was more of a mosquito.

“I’ve been batted away by worse foes, so trust me when I say ‘Your death will be the only reason for my leaving’” The assassin said as he readied his jeweled cutlass in hand. But before Gideon could reply with a banter of his own, Entreri was already bolting towards him.

So agile was the smaller man, that he barely made a sound upon deck and so quick was he that Gideon couldn’t keep his eye on him.

The sound of metal against metal rang as Entreri’s cutlass slammed against Gideon’s hardened leg, the giant knew this would be his best line of defense, his armament haki, he would then attack as a counter, or so he thought, instead, Entreri moved on with his attack, he ran up Gideon’s leg, his cutlass slicing through the giant’s pant leg, scraping against the hardened skin as he edged closer to the groin area.

“No you don’t!” Gideon cried out as he threw another fierce punch, determined to cause the wind to knock the assassin away, but his reach was too far out and Entreri was able to round about the arm in midair, land on it and moved towards Gideon’s head, ready to drive the blade into his eye-socket.

In an instant, Gideon spat out flames that engulfed his whole whole with Entreri as well. The assassin quickly jumped out of the flames as fast as he could, then landed sideways on the mast, the sharpened claws on his gloves and spikes on his boots kept him from falling. He looked to giant, smiling, thinking that the big guy managed to sacrifice his own own just to protect his eye, but as the flames dissipated, he saw that the giant had coated his own arm just in time to protect against the flames. Enteri himself had his leather armor protect him against the flames, though not entirely, the heat was intense and a second longer would have left at least first degree, maybe second degree burns.

“You will leave my ship in pieces, know that” Gideon threatened. His anger was obvious, halting him in his quest to find his friend after he was sent back to Jaya unexpectedly had put a stone in his shoe.

“Fine, no more games” Apollo Entreri said as he threw, what seemed like, a black ball at the giant. Gideon reacted by putting his black arm in the way, but once the ball made contact, it exploded into some kind of gas. Gideon coughed and tried to keep his eyes open, but the gas was irritating them, forcing him to close them. Entreri had launched grappling hook which latched onto Gideon’s exposed shoulder, blood was drawn, then the assassin swung about as the giant tried to swat him away, but missed entirely. Once behind him, Enteri swept along the giant’s back, leaving a long cut, blood drawn as second time, but that didn’t stop Enteri, he continued his motion, continued his assault on the blind giant.

Armament Used: 2/10

Vizmir watched, his teeth gritting. It has been a while since he’s seen a battled that has got him on his edge. He has always seemed laid back and no matter what the outcome or the possibility of what would happen to those around him or to him specifically, he would never worry because he has lived a long life and always stated he was too old to worry about things, but seeing this assassin cutting up Gideon made him worry for the first time in a while, but there was nothing he could do, if he tried to help, he would be killed before he could even get on the boat.

Gideon swung his arms about, but Entreri dodged his swings and swung about, slicing up the giant, his left leg, right shoulder, his right thigh, on and on and Gideon couldn’t react fast enough, he didn’t know where the attacks would come next because his eyes stung too much from the gas that had hit him.

“Call me ‘David’, because you will fall today, Goliath” Entreri laughed as he continued to swing about. The next time the grappling hook latched onto Gideon’s shoulder, he took the pain but immediately reached for it, grabbed it and quickly swung it about, allowing the chain to wrap around his arm until Enteri was forced to let go of it and land on the giant’s back. When Gideon felt the smaller man on his back he jumped up and allowed himself to fall, slamming his back onto the deck of the ship. Entreri, not being able to move out of the way in time took the brunt of the force and they both sank through the wooden deck and into the compartment below where kitchenware were kept.

Gideon, halfway into the compartment, tried his best to wipe at his eyes, though he could see just a bit, his eyes still stung. “Did I kill him?” he asked, though he figured it might have been too easy.

Entreri moved about the compartment like a mouse, trying to find a way out while Gideon shuffled himself out of the hole above him. Once the giant managed to get to his feet, the light of the setting sun allowed him sight, which he took advantage and jumped out of the compartment and back onto the deck, he quickly made his way towards Gideon and sank his blade into the giant’s shin. What he didn’t expect was for Gideon’s reaction to kick him back so quickly, the giant was so use to enemies attacking his feet and legs that kicking back was a normal reaction. Entreri was thrown aback, but not too far, he simply tumbled on deck.

Gideon rubbed his eyes again, he could see through tears that the assassin was trying to go for another strike.

As Entreri neared the giant, intending on delivering another strike, Gideon was prepared and threw a punch downward, but the assassin dodged and as a reaction, threw a handful of daggers which sank into Gideon’s chest all the while running up his arm to try for another attempt at his eye socket, but the giant wouldn’t allow this, gritting through the pain of the daggers that hit his center, he swung his arm upward, launching the assassin into the air. Gideon forced his eyes for open long enough and focus enough to keep Entreri in sight, he brought his arm back, his palm open. With no grappling hook, the assassin couldn’t defend himself as he plummet to to oncoming attack; Gideon swung his arm and spiked the assassin like a volleyball so hard that it sent the man soaring through the air towards the sea, then skipping across the top of the water until he was out of sight… well in a manner of speaking, given that he was already out of Gideon sight the moment the giant had to blink, allowing tears to fall down his face.

“Is he gone?” Gideon continued to rub his eyes, standing his guard, trying to listen.

“As far as I can see” Laughed Vizmir as he boarded the ship. His sigh of relief became Gideon’s relief, “Maybe we can now take a rest and think about our actions” he said as he peered about the deck and noticing the large hole that led to the kitchen compartment.

“No, the sooner I leave, the sooner I can leave this God forsaken place” Gideon’s voice was stern in his decision so Vizmir didn’t object again.

“Expand the sails and I’ll take the helm” Vizmir sighed as he walked over to the helm. Gideon smiled, glad to hear that Vizmir, though they didn’t count one another as friends, would be joining him. He felt around for the mast and once he found the appropriate ropes, he unfurled the sails and soon the ship was on it’s way out to sea, “You know we’re going to get lost”

“We’ll find out way” Gideon said with a hopeful but desperate tone.

Apollo Entreri finally stopped skipping across the across the water and fullen fell below the surface. He gained his focus, took a moment to find out which way was up and swam for the surface. He took in a deep breath and looked about, all he saw was water until he looked directly behind him, the island, though it was a way off. He was now irritable, it was shameful for him to allow a foe to send him flying in such a manner.

“No matter” he told himself, trying to keep his calm. Soon enough, as he had expected, his giant southbird had arrived. The bird wouldn’t allow him to be out of sight because Entreri held the Log Pose that it wanted, that it felt it had a right to, “About damn time” he said as he pulled himself upon the bird as it swooped down and scooped him up from the water. As Entreri mounted himself properly upon the bird, he pulled on the reins, forcing it to fly towards the island, “We’re not leaving until I get my job done” he growled threateningly as he forced the southbird’s head to turn southeast, causing it pain before releasing the grip and allowing the damn thing to return it’s view southward; forcing a southbird’s head to point anywhere but south was more than disrespectful, it was uncomfortable. They headed back to the island in search of the giant, for Loki wanted his head, and with that, Entreri wanted his payment… and his win.

Gideon had finally gained his vision back, he was relieved to be on his way out and he was hopeful that nothing would keep him from escaping Jaya. He turned back to concert island just as the sound of band began their show. The giant wasn’t upset to miss it, it was a small price to finally leaving to find his friend.

“Haven’t seen a bird that big since-” Vizmir began to speak, looking upward to an incoming bird, but Gideon’s sudden movement caused him to cut his statement short. The giant was struck, several new daggers replaced the ones he had to pluck out recently, “Here we go again” Vizmir sighed worriedly.

Entreri returned, dropping from the passing southbird and on his way down, he ran a long slice along the sail of the back mast. He then landed on the deck, facing Gideon, “Loki told me to make sure your head is removed from your body”, he drew his jeweled cutlass and walked forward threateningly.

Gideon stumbled from the dagger attack, but caught himself; he faced Entreri, plucking out the daggers, readying himself to once again deal with the annoyance. Then something caught his ear, the name ‘Loki’ changed the atmosphere. “Loki sent you?” it was a whisper, but loud enough to be heard without trouble.

Seeing the look in Gideon’s eyes made Entreri smile, he had finally set the giant off balance, triggered something. Loki did say using his name would have an effect, but the assassin figured it was merely boistering, “Indeed, he also said to give your father his best wishes” a lie, but he knew well enough of Gideon to know what would strike a nerve.

And a nerve it struck indeed.

Gideon’s face said it all. His anger was set to boil, enough to prepare a batch of diced potatoes. He had been hunting Loki down but had yet to find any lead to him, then suddenly this gift was given to him, or he would have though it to be a gift, Loki had sent someone to be rid of him, to get him off his tail. Gideon wanted to demand answers, to find out where exactly Loki was, what he was doing, why he did what he did, but then the wise-crack Entreri gave concerning his father set him off. The sound of an egg timer went off and Gideon bolted so quickly and suddenly, that the bolt rocked.

Once close enough, Gideon brought down a fist that slammed down where Entreri just was, cracking that spot. The assassin was a few feet away, about counter with a strike with his cutlass, but Gideon was still moving, with his free hand, he brought two fingers together and moved them close to Entreri, planning on flicking the assassin with the strength of a giant, Entreri saw this coming and brought his cutlass close, intending to slice off the giant’s fingers, seeing this, Gideon hardened his fingers using armament, not planning on losing his fingers, noticing the coating, Entreri used his own armament and hardened his blade. When they finally made contact, unswept dirt kicked up, but Gideon’s flick was stronger, with a snap, Entreri’s blade was deflected and he was sent nearly over the edge of the boat, but he was quick enough to catch the railing, and quick enough to barely miss seeing Gideon grab his nearby sword… a thirty foot long sword.

Gideon brought the sword down from overhead, giving Entreri enough to time barely dodge the attack though still managing to take something of him… his arm. The blade slammed upon the deck, leaving a gash and Entreri’s arm. The assassin didn’t think the giant would be able to hit him, pain ran through his mind, but he had managed to train himself to resist a measure of pain, long enough to keep himself going. He sped along the deck while tossing three black balls towards Gideon’s face. Noticing the attack was for his face, the giant figured it was probably the same ammunition that was used to blind him, and he was right, so he blocked the attack with his darkened arm and closed his eyes.

“Bingo” Entreri said as he saw the explosion of gas cover Gideon’s head, he then moved in to strike, but then a cloud of mist escaped Gideon’s face and ended up engulfing half the ship with the assassin within. Entreri took a quick sniff of the mist and realized it had a strong alcoholic odor, ’Sake?’ he thought. Before he could figure out what the giant was planning, the entire mist was set ablaze.

Gideon had drank a swig of sake from his pouch, then exhaled the mist right before spitting fire and setting it blaze, engulfing half the ship, luckily Vizmir was behind him, safe from the flames.

The flames danced for a moment and dissipated seconds after. Gideon had made sure to order the work of the ship to not be able to catch fire given that he intended to cook right off the deck. Once the flames died down, a ball of fire flew across the deck towards the giant. Gideon was so surprised that he couldn’t prepare himself, the ball of flame ran up his leg and scorched his shirt, a flaming blade protruded from the ball and even though Gideon threw his head back as far and and quick as he could, the blade still managed to swipe against his face, leaving a burning sensation. As a reaction, Gideon threw a punch upward, but the ball dodged it. The ball of fire vanished and a badly burned Apollo Entreri appeared in it’s place.

“You will die here and now!” his voice was harsh and deep, anger seeping from beginning to end, his eyes burning with fury. His cutlass dug into Gideon’s arm, but the giant hardened it to prevent the blade from running along it, opening it up further, leaving Apollo in a stuck situation. Gideon swung his other arm to slap the assassin, but the slippery Apollo dipped out of the way and used his claws to make his way underneath the giants arm.

Gideon roared in pain and anger and once he felt the assassin was behind him again, he jumped into the air to finish off the annoying killer, but Apollo was quick to learn so he jumped off Gideon and tumbled across the deck. Gideon slammed into the deck and made another hole. Seeing the giant in a prone position, Apollo jumped at the chance and made his way to finish his target. Gideon hardened his arm to block the cutlass, which gave him the time to get up from the hole, but it also gave the assassin a chance to move about to try another attempt at carving the giant, but the burning pain throughout his body through his focus off, his effectiveness as an assassin was gone, and even though it was only for a moment, it was long enough for Gideon to get on his feet and finish him off. Gideon threw a punch strong enough to draw the wind towards Apollo, then he clicked his teeth and exhaled another breath of fire which combined with the flame which enveloped the assassin, the torrent of fire spread off the ship and roared like a dragon.

After all went quiet and the fire dissipated, what was left of the assassin was nothing more than ash and a charred jeweled cutlass.

Gideon fell back, his back leaning against the front mast, his breath heavy and his body aching in pain all over. He looked down upon the scorched body, or what’s left of it. After a few seconds of silence and no movement, he could finally call the time of death, the assassin will not be coming back this time.

Suddenly a call came from above. Gideon and Vizmir, who came out of hiding, looked up to see the large southbird fly down, “Vizmir -groan- , take care of it” Gideon slowly made his way to the bow of the ship, trying his best to bare through the pain; blood dropped here and there, though he tried to ignore it for now.

“I can’t fight, nor do I think the bird is here to fight” Vizmir faced the bird but kept his distance. The southbird walked over to Apollo’s severed arm and tried to pluck something tied to it. Gideon opened the compartment to the kitchen began moving equipment about, trying to put a meal together.

Vizmir got closer to realize the item the bird was trying to pluck from the severed arm was some kind of log pose, “Let me get that for you” the man said as he walked over carefully and bent down, once he saw the southbird wouldn’t attack him, and unfastened the log pose from the wrist. He took a moment to look at the thing, then looked at the bird, “Apologies about your rider” he said, though by the tone of the bird’s cew and it’s movement, it didn’t seem upset, maybe even relieved. Vizmir took another look at the log pose, he knew this item was what they needed to get about the grandline, all they needed was a navigator, “You wouldn’t be able to navigate the seas, would you?” Vizmir asked the bird jokingly, though when the southbird cawed, he got the feeling it might have said ‘yes’.

“Lulucia Kingdom, do you know how to get there?” Vizmir asked with a raised eyebrow, his hand slowly moving towards the bird, half handing the log pose to it. The southbird gave a quick nod before opening it’s wings. “Hey, Gideon! I think the southbird can take us to Lulucia” Vizmir called to the giant.

“Yeah, sure” Gideon called back with groaned, his mind was too focused on trying to prepare a meal that would help with his injuries and the pain clouded much of his thinking so he didn’t truly catch what Vizmir said.

The southbird took the logpose in a claw before taking to the sky. Vizmir caught the hint and ran to the mast, he took the wheel in hand and moved the ship into position, following the southbird’s direction, though one of the sails was done, it only slowed the boat. Once the boat’s direction was adjusted correctly, the southbird turned about and landed upon the deck again. It seemed more happy as far as Vizmir could tell. The old man walked over and did the bird a favor and unfastened the bit and the reins to allow the bird to be free, which it cawed in greatfulness.

After an hour, though Vizmir had to cut in halfway through, the meal was finished. Diced fried salmon with mashed potatoes and spinach. Gideon called it ‘Bedside Fluff’, a meal which is best recommended to those who are injured, it’ll speed the healing process and leave a ‘tummy happy’ as he stated. After the meal was served, Vizmir had spoon fed Gideon as the giant laid upon the deck of the ship. The torn back sail was used to bandaged up his wounds while he rested.

After tending to the large pirate, Vizmir kept his post at the helm as the giant slept. The southbird would remain kept at the tip of the main mast and every so often it would fly off in a direction to make sure Vizmir didn’t veer off course. Sun was finally gone for the night and the night sky was young and beautiful, though Vizmir didn’t intend on locking the wheel until the night was midway.

“This day has been too hectic and I don’t doubt the Phantom Raiders would lead to my death, I’ll find my off out of their situation soon, as soon as I dock somewhere safe” He spoke to himself. The quiet movement of the sea waves answering him back. Looking up at one point, Vizmir spotted the southbird to be asleep, which gave him the signal to lock the wheel and head to bed, allowing the ship to sail off in the set direction.

Days had passed and Gideon was back in fighting form, though not entirely healed. Vizmir looked up to the giant, who wore bandages more than clothing. One set of bandages covered his left eye, luckily for him he didn’t lose the eye, but a wound that ran over it and across his face vertically would scar for sure.

“Are we getting close, Beaks?” Gideon looked up to the mast where the southbeak sat. It cawed with it’s wings flapping. The giant smiled and continued to stand at the bow of the ship, staring off ahead, during these few days, he, Vizmir, and the bird they named ‘Beaks’ have become closer, and though Gideon was the only one intending to dive into a fight to rescue Yuurei, the other two were more than willing to help with support, waiting at the ship.

“Don’t worry, Yuurei, I’m almost there” Gideon whispered to the eastern wind, he gripped the handle of Jormungandr tightly, he wasn’t planning on allowing another death that he can prevent… not anymore. And one day… he’ll find Loki, matters not if he knew or not.

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