Harvest Moon Island of Confusion

A tale of two men.

"That's impossible! Witch!"

"Huh? How strange?"

Chelsea tilts her head in confusion, as the blade to Lord Yuuki's sword appeared bent and damaged. He tried to pierce her skin once more, when yet again, the blow of his blade was deflected.

"What do you know?" Chelsea asks, giddy. "I appear to be momentarily immortal?"

Yuuki's eyelids dropped at the sound of her laughter. Although her gown had been poked and slashed, her body, her skin.. remained perfectly intact. Yuuki was frustrated. It wasn't the first time that he had seen such witchery, and upon seeing Chelsea's smirk, he drops his weapon.

"You are really something" he says with a sigh. Chelsea's raises her brows. "Who would have known that you befriended that Witch" he grumbles once more.

"You seem to be quite knowledgeable regarding my homeland." she states. "Who is it, that you bare such a strong grudge against?"

Yuuki lowers his broad shoulders, and moves back to sit on his father's throne, soon to be his own. He stares Chelsea directly into her eyes, and sighs as he begins to rub his temples. "This is just ridiculous!" he snarls. "I should not feel so at ease with a captive, let alone it being you!"

Chelsea sighs, trying not to take offence. "What does that mean?" she snarls back, obviously offended by his words anyway.

Lord Yuuki just glares. "You, are no ordinary woman! You are deadly!"

"Deadly....?"

"Correct!" he bellows out. "You have this certain power, that soothes even the the most rage consumed foes, and when they least expect anything, you strike!"

Chelsea was dumbfounded by his statement. "Wouldn't that be the best time to attack, regardless of your position!?" she shouts back, but was silenced by Lord Yuuki's finger pointing.

"See!" he asks, that very word being directed towards Kenji, who had appeared behind Chelsea. His eyes too, were lowered by his master's assumptions and he was forced to sighed irritably.

"Please" he begged, eyes now shut due to annoyance. "Leave me out of this, sir"

"Kenji?" Chelsea was genuinely surprised to find her brother here, and wondered to herself why he left his post to appear here, of all places. "What are you doing?" she question. Kenji blushed.

"That is a really good question" he mutters under his breath. "What the hell possessed me to even listen to those girls?!"

It was then, that the thought had struck him. He mechanically shifts his head in the direction he came, and covered his face with his hair as he had let his thoughts sink in. "Those sly wenches!" he thinks, drawing his sword, and dashing back through those doors.

Chelsea blinked rapidly at the sight. "What on earth?"

............

"They have dismissed the Navy" Denny says. "They must be making a return trip to the island"

"That, or they predicted our arrival? Either way, this will not be good for that second ship at all" Hiro adds on.

Both Cam and Vaughn maintained calm, and each stood by the front of the boat. Vaughn was observing Cam, and noticed the small, yet lethal chain hanging from his jeans pocket, loosely. He chuckles, then grins having obviously agreed. "Well it's about time" he sneers, reloading his revolver.

As their ship inched in closer to that belonging to the stranger's, Mark, followed by the rest of his men, watched open eyed as many soldiers that had boarded the ship, were thrown overboard. "What?" asks Mark.

Once Denny's ship rocked side by side with the second boat, they were surprised to find another group of rather aggressive men. more Navy vessels approached, and before they knew it... both ships were completely surrounded. "Heh. Well, it's about time!"

Vaughn repeated his sentence, though this time, he did so with much bitter and hatred. He pulled back on his gun, and catapulted himself over into enemy territory, sticking the landing perfectly. "That man is insane!" Hiro shouts with covered eyes.

Mark laughs. "Aren't we all?" he asks back. "You're pretty nuts yourself for setting out on such a dangerous task also"

"To save Lillian, I'd do anything"

"I like that" Mark rubs the top of Hiro's head, seconds before he turned his gaze onto the strange men. "Let us fight along with you!" he shouts.

A man finely dressed, wearing delicate glasses, and a head filled with hair as dark as blood, caught Marks attention as his head swiftly turns to face his direction. "Who are you?" the man asks.

"I am Mark." he answers. "And I can guarantee you, we are after the same thing"

Before that man was able to reply, more soldiers dumped their wooden planks out onto their ships, and quickly boarded them. Mark, Kana, Denny, Eliot and Hiro, followed by the four new men they had only just encountered, attacked all enemy forces. Fighting with everything they had.

...........

"Where is she?" Kenji asks.

"Find her yourself" Rachel replies. Her smug expression causing Kenji's blood to boil.

There he stood, in the room which the two captives were designated to. He stared Rachel down as she now sat in that same room, but alone. "You expect me to believe that she just vanished?"

"Poof."

He grumbles at her commentary. He searches the room for Lillian, and when she was not found, he threatened Rachel with his blade, as Yuuki had once down with Chelsea. "Where is she?" he asks.

Rachel sighs. "She had to go, something rather urgent had come up." she answers. "She detected a strong spiritual presence making its way towards us with a rapid speed"

Kenji releases an audible breath of air, as he lowers his weapon slightly. He gazed at Rachel, having her receive a rather irritated, yet questionable look. She giggles, enjoying this moment with him. "What on earth are you on about? Spiritual presence? This is ridiculous." he exclaims.

"Is it?" Rachel asks, but this time taking things a tad more seriously. "Tell me, do you believe in the Harvest Goddess?" his eyes opened slightly. "I am well aware that Lord Yuuki and his father, their actions somehow has a connection with her. Now, I want you to fill in the blanks"

"If I refuse?" he questions.

"Then you will never know where Lillian has gone" was her response, standing also to push his blade aside. "Now. Let's have a talk"

To be continued.
The Harvest Goddess.