Real Pirates
Blood coated Alwen's hands, Wraith's blood. By the goddess she didn't even know his real name. She had tried to save him but he died in her hands and there was logically nothing she could have done differently. But logic didn't hold back her tears, nor could it drown out the pounding sound in her ears as her heart thundered in her chest, harder than it had that day on Parox.
A roared "Alwen" snapped her out of her shock and panic. Sean had taken cover behind a table and was looking for her in the fracas, he caught sight of her and tried to run over.
"Stay down you mor-"Alice roared as a rogue shot vaporized his head, Alice stopped short as she realized Sean Douglas was dead. She peaked around one edge and muttered under her breath. "Fuckin thirty of them."
"Who are they?" Alwen cried.
"Other pirates, asshole slavers!"
"I thought pirates wouldn't attack other pirates?"
"Well that sure as shit isn't stopping them. Fuckin shit, they've got us boxed in!" she then roared in that disconcerting way Feliniod's had "MARINES ON ME!"
Fires began to bloom and burn around the room from the pulse fire, the other patrons who had been chatting and drinking happily were either dead or cowering. The enemy pirates didn't seem like they cared much for their safety. There was a large rumbling sound of shredded metal as a massive explosion went off outside. The SS would likely be too busy to help them, they were on their own. Alwen fell into another daze and only snapped out of it when she realized that Alice was strapping something to her waist. Alwen looked down and with horror realized that it was Wraith's sword belt. She tried push her hands away weakly "I can't, I'm sworn to nonvio-"
"I don't give a shit! Pacifism is great until your under fire, then its just cowardice. You see some one coming for your head, you take out this blade!" she put her hand on the big one "and you cut them with the sharp side, you got me?" Alwen shook her head in dismay, Alice slapped her with the back of her hand "You listen to me! Someone comes to kill you, you fight, you got that? I don't want to lose you to some stupid stubborn superstitious vow." Alwen wanted to protest but Limey jumped over the barrier and joined them.
"Thirty odd Egh'ahds out there, heavy repeating canons and combat harnesses. They aren't letting us in, buggers are just saturating everything in heavy fire and sweeping forward!" there was a sudden woosh as the bar exploded in a ball of fiery liquor.
Alice saw the attacking pirates back up from the flames, some catching fire, and realized that was their only chance even though they had only just assembled "Rush them, NOW!" she roared and dragged Alwen over with her. Alwen let go of Alice's hand so as not to hold her back and charged forward, suddenly thankful for all the intense training sessions with the Virtues. Alice didn't look back, she dropped to all fours and rushed ahead with leaps and bounds. Alice blind sided a large lizard like creature with a neck three times long than its body, like the Oroptith from her home world's oceans. Once thought to only be mariner's legends and myth until people began hunting them for their blubber.
Alice clamped around it's neck with her jaw and tore its throat out with a savage ripping sound. She grabbed its canon and lifted herself back up to a two-legged stance and hammered iridescent blue bolts into the other lizards who were only now trying to turn. Similar scenes played out around Alwen as skilled and enraged marines and armorless deck apes flanked the enemy and stole their weapons, seeming to emerge from the inferno of the burning bar. Alwen moved to the center of their formation and tried her best not be a hindrance, pain bloomed in her arm as she realized that one of the Oroptith pirates had bitten into her shoulder. Without conscious thought Alwen slashed at it with Wraith's knife.
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