The Legend of Atlantis

"Well, get out of those clothes and cuddle up with me." Maple smirked. "I dont feel like making this explicit again."

Derak sighed and undressed and hopped back in bed. " Better? "

Maple kissed his lips gently and smiled as she nuzzled against him and nodded. "Very."

Derak smiled and lightly hugged her. He slowly began drifting off to sleep.

Maple licked his cheek and giggled as she fell asleep again as well.

Odessa felt the blood in her veins pulsing and looked down at her wrists again. She gasped lightly as she watched her blood, red still, glow dimly and steadily in the larger veins. "I'm not a damn lantern, Cthulhu." she jumped away from the wheel and headed back to the cabin. Odessa stepped in the door and grabbed a navy coat she found, throwing it on to hide her arms. Aware that the gods of atlantis may be pulling her apart, drop by drop, despair fogged her brain and she held back the urge to scream angrily to the skies. Walking back out on deck, Odessa crossed her arms for warmth and exhaled, watching her breath in the air.

Orca had finished his charm. It was a necklace, and the charm was a very good depiction of the sea goddess Calypso. He kissed it once and hung it around his neck. He wasnt the one for pirate religion... but this was a good a time as any to become a bit superstitious.

Odessa gagged once and ran to the edge of the ship, letting out another load of blood and became lightheaded. She stood up quickly, wiping the blood from her face. An epiphany had reached her mind and now she knew what They were up to. "One body could be destroyed under the pressure of hosting two souls for long amounts of-" she trailed of speaking quietly and quickly to herself. Odessa clapped a hand over her mouth, wide-eyed and spoke softly to herself once more. "Ayna?" a slight pause inbetween another voice, coming from her own mouth but sounding unlike her own. "You.... will die for this!" Odessa quickly clapped both hands over her mouth, not allowing herself to speak... or.. Ayna to speak. She pulled her hands away slowly and waited.. nothing... Oh the hierarchy will pay for this! You still can't stop me from giving her back to her body.

Orca slid down the mast and landed gracefully by the helm, steering the right course and smiling. "Almost there..."

Odessa realized now that the necklace would no longer burn her for the soul had already been pushed into her body. She sighed.

Orca winced a bit as the charm around his neck felt like dry ice, he looked down and saw that the wooden carving was looking back up at him, standing on his shirt. "You did a very good job crafting the image of my beauty into this little charm. I commend you, I didnt think a Commodore had the knowledge of my image."
Orca looked shocked, his charm... his charm of Calypso... was talking to him. It walked up to his shoulder and kissed his cheek gently, giggling as she sat down on his shoulder to watch the stairs. "You dont mind if I stick around to see how your little adventure plays out do you? I might even lend a hand if you do the right things."
Orca stammered a little. "I uh... thank you... goddess Calypso."
"Just call me Calypso, it's easier than having to include the goddess part. So... your sister Ayna, correct? She's the one you want back so badly?"
"Y...yes."
"Well, good luck. Cthulhu has a serious problem giving up the souls he's had taken."
"Calypso, will you help me? If I 'do the right things'?" He smirked a little.
"We'll see, you may not even need my help." she smirked and jumped down into his shirt, becoming a lifeless charm again.
Orca shook his head and smiled, he had a Goddess on his side now, he hoped.

Odessa stood, looking out over the seas. I'm in your head, too. Ayna spoke in her mind. "Yea and I'm keeping you in there till we get to Corpacus." Odessa said quietly back to herself. You and your other soulkeeper friends took my life away! Odessa sighed, "It's still here, just not in the right place. That I HOPE we can fix." You all need to pay for this. Odessa shook her head, pushing Ayna out of her mind again. "I'm the primary, and stronger soul of this body. You stay out of it."

Orca felt more confident in himself as the sun slowly began to rise in, making a strange yellow oval appear on the sea as it rose up. He spotted part of the sun's reflection that didnt show and was a dark long smudge on the horizon. "Corpacus. Only a few hours away."

Odessa heard Orca as she walked by. Only a few hours... If I last that long. she gagged once more and held down what was coming, instead it turned into a bloody nose and she held her hand to her face. At this, she ran back to the cabin and shut the door, closing the curtains and keeping it quite dark. Lighting a candle, she held a cloth to her nose until the bleeding stopped. Odessa looked down at her veins, still glowing the faint red and looked in the mirror. Her eyes looked different. "Windows to the soul." She supposed that's why they did. As she looked closer she realized one was different then the other. "Ayna... Keep your eyeball... please now is not the time." Odessa blew out the candle and jumped to the bed, hiding under the covers hoping no one would come to get her anytime soon. She laughed to herself. "I could just wear an eyepatch..." Odessa hid her face under the covers and tried to fall asleep.

Maple woke up first, she looked over to see the rays of the sun slowly growing into the windows, slowly detatching her body from Derak's as she rose, slid on her boots, and walked over to watch the sunrise. She could see it from the window that faced the side of the boat, so she wasnt worried about not wearing anything as she watched the smudge on the horizion. "There it is..."

"Orca, there's something you're going to have to do for me. You know that right?" A small voice came from Orca's chest and he watched as Calypso crawled up to sit on his shoulder again.
"Yeah... I thought there'd be a catch 'if I did things right.'" he smirked and Calypso shrugged.
"You know you'll have to give up your Navy status when all this blows over, and that's not what I'm gonna ask. I'm asking for your ship. When the chips are down I will help, but in exchange I want your ship, and this one too."
"So you want my flagship and the Devastator?"
"Yes."
"Sounds reasonable."
"And the crews."
Orca shrugged. "As long as you win them over. I wont have you simply stealing souls."
Calypso smiled. "With my charm, they'll come willingly, you may have to tie the other captain Derak to a pole so he doesnt come too."
Orca laughed and nodded. "Yeah... but you wont take the crew from the ship we're towing correct?"
"Yes. It would be a waste to leave you with no crew at all. You'd never get home."
"Thank you Calypso, you are very kind."
"It is my pleasure,and I assure you the crew that comes with me will be well kept through the ages."
Orca smiled, inwardly he had been a little worried about what she would be doing to his crew. "Thanks."
Calypso then dived off his shoulder onto the necklace again and spoke no more.

Odessa crawled out of bed quickly and started searching for something to wrap around the eye that she figured looked like Ayna's. Failing to find anything more, she took a sword and ripped the sheet on the bed, wrapping a band of it around one eye. Odessa went to the mirror smiling. "Arrr!" she laughed to herself and pulled the cloth down to look at both her's and Ayna's eyes. Her smile faded and she put the cloth back, maintaining a serious stature once more.

Orca saw the island approaching and rung a bell to his left. "Awake my friends! Corpacus dead ahead!"

Odessa heard the bell and pulled the curtain to peek out the window. Letting it fall back into place she leaned against the wall and sighed, closing her eyes. "This is one big mess."

Maple got dressed, letting Derak sleep because he had been up most of the night, so she made her way outside and onto the Devestator, smiling to Orca, a little strained but still, she walked over and knocked on the door of her captain's cabin. "Odessa... can I come in?" She asked slowly.

Odessa jumped away from the wall and moved to the mirror, adjusting everything and pulling the sleeves of her shirt down. "Yes, Maple." she sat on the bed waiting.

Maple made her way in, her hair a still little trousled from the night's adventures, she sat next to her captain and then leaned over to hug Odessa tightly. "I was worried about you captain..." She smiled up at her captain. "So, what have you done over these few days?"

Orca frowned a little as Maple went inside, was that smile forced? He didnt really want to think about it. The island was at their doorstep and he aimed for the beach side.

Odessa hugged her first mate tightly and sat back on the headboard slowly. "Well.. We went to town and got some food and stuff. Met another Navy commander that says once I leave this ship I'm for the taking." she laughed. "We're almost there. This mess will be cleaned up soon."

Maple nodded. "Well once this is over, we'll be off. The Navy will never catch us. You know it and I know it, we'll keep running, and being pirates." She smiled a bit, unaware of all the problems her captain was facing internally. "I mean... what's gonna happen there?"