The Origin of Roh-Shan

F: Twin Ships

"You're all gonna die! Getting on that boat is a ticket to the grave!" One elderly man stood on the second boat, shouting at the few people who were climbing down to board the sailboat Roh had brought for their mini-army.

"Sir, please. Stop." Maita groaned. "Seriously. We've heard enough."

"Don't make me restrain you!" Haider threatened.

"I'm just trying to save their lives!"

It was clearly having an effect.

"Hold on! I wanna get off!" Someone already on the boat said.

"Good on ya, son! Save your life! Save your family!" He said as the man climbed back onto the passenger ship.

Maita flipped the old man the finger.

"You too, young lady! You're gonna get yourself killed out there!"

"Kill me yourself, coward."

His eyes went wide.

A massive screech filled the air, and Haider looked up. Iden and Ara's red dragon circled around above them, and swooped lower. Ara jumped off and onto the deck, and the dragon circled above them, awaiting his next command.

Roh climbed up from the sailboat onto the deck. She landed on the railing and crouched down. "You come for a fight? I'm not sorry about what I did to her."

"Did to who?" Ara asked. "Did you do something to Iden?"

Roh frowned carefully. "Uh... no?"

"I came here to find out what's going on with the boats." He gestured to the sailboat. "What's this?"

"Why would we tell you?" Haider shot.

"Because my brother's on his way here with a battleship and I really want him stopped."

"A battleship!?" Someone in the crowd shouted.

Roh gripped the staff harder. "I'll take Suley. You guys start rowing toward shore. Haider, fill our troop in on the plan on the way there. Dagon and Maita, take the bison and do some fly-overs, see what we're up against, find a clear path. Is this everyone?" She gestured to the sailboat.

"Yep, that's everyone." Dagon put his hands on his hips, looking warily at the group.

Roh counted less than fifteen people.

"Wait, this is it?" Someone in the boat said, standing up. "I change my mind. We definitely can't take them on. They have tanks and swords and komodo-rhinos!"

Ara clicked his tongue. "Yes, but we have a dragon."

The red dragon swooped low, shooting out a heavy fire blast across the water that could easily incinerate nearly anything in its path.

The man sat back down in the boat.

"Hell yeah we do!" Haider jumped onto a crate at the stern of the small boat. "Men, are you ready to take back your homes!"

Half the voices on the boat shouted yes.

Haider looked around. "Uh, and women."

Everyone shouted a very hearty, "Hell yes!"

Dagon and Maita climbed onto the bison and took off for the mainland. Roh jumped down onto the sailboat, and started bending wind into the sails, and they sped off toward Suley's battleship, which loomed just off the shore.

Before they had even gotten past the passenger ships, a small red fireball shot into the air from Suley's ship, reaching high into the sky, before bursting with a BANG into a thousand smaller red fireballs that rained down above the boats, fizzling out before they made contact.

The traditional red firework: a warning shot.

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