Servants in Remnant

The Sea is a Cruel Mistress

A large Grimm Serpent floated on the water lazily, no land in sight. Ships rarely came out this far into the ocean - they stuck to certain paths between the continents to avoid confrontation with Grimm as best as they could. If he was closer to those paths, he'd normally stick to underwater, but he instinctively enjoyed being in the sun, so unless he got hungry, he avoided the busy areas.

Therefore, he was surprised when he heard started hearing an increase in noise, as well as sensing a source of negativity. Annoyance mostly, a dash of exasperation, small bits of panic...

After rousing himself from his nap, he looked around and was surprised to see a large ship with several masts speed by in the distance. It wasn't nearly as large as some of the cargo vessels that it had attacked before, but it was bigger than many of the ships that usually carried people.

What was even more intriguing is the speed of the ship. He could see from the sails that they were straining at the masts, and the ship itself was going far faster than he would expect. Yet, when he sensed the wind himself, he could only feel a small breeze...

Behind them, it could sense a very large Grimm chasing them underwater, managing to just barely keep up with the ship.

Giving into curiosity, it dove down, then leapt out of the water and spread its wings, going after the strange vessel.

"Push those winds faster you lazy Archer!"

"Any more power and the ship will be torn apart you crazy Rider!"

"HA! I know my ship better than you do oaf, and she's got plenty more to give!"

"Oh, and that's why I hear the masts cracking then, is it vlakas?!"

In the middle of the normally calm ocean, in a stretch that usually only held Grimm, two voices could barely be heard over the sound of roaring wind, their vessel being propelled quickly through the waves by a strong wind.

"Hah! That's just them getting a good stretch in! But if you don't want to give us more speed, why don't you help us navigate to land so I don't have to constantly use my Noble Phantasm, eh?"

"Don't start that again! I'm also constantly using my Noble Phantasm, and you know very well that it's impossible to navigate properly!"

"Not that we haven't tried", he muttered to himself. "The stars are all different here, and even though we've got a map of the world in our heads, if we don't know where we are that doesn't exactly help us! We don't even know if the sun rises in the east and sets in the west!"

For somebody like him, after all that he had experienced, being lost like this was bringing back some terrible memories. Not that he intended to share that with her

"Oh big whoop, all you're doing is standing there holding a bag you pansy! I have to control the entire ship and - STARBOARD INCOMING!"

The rigging and the sails adjusted automatically, and he quickly directed the wind as best as he could, the ship started making a lot of uncomfortable noises. But it shifted just in time to avoid a blast of lightning from a flying serpent that had joined them.

He groaned, "So not only do we have some kind of giant creature chasing us" he looks at the tail and dorsal fin of the creature underwater, them being the only part visible of the thing. "We also have a Sea Feilong on our tails. This has turned into a fine summoning indeed!" He griped.

After a second of silence, he looks up at Rider and sees her glaring at him.

"You were slow, and now my ship is damaged!" she growled out at him.