Anna rubbed her chin. "We need to ruin HER reputation of being some little goody-two-shoes."
She glanced off to the side, as if thinking harder than she usually did. "If we could find some way to make her own prank backfire on her, or pull an entirely new one to make it look like she was doing something terrible and mean, then..."

Laharl scoffed.
"Good luck with that, I think this is the first thing that's she's done even remotely close to that, and we can't prove it."

"Oh, but we can."
Anna grinned, looking towards him. "There's only one room in this whole ship I know of that has a camera. My old ship mate named Abel had one. And only one other person would've known that it was still in his room, and that's Demitri... he must've helped. I can't do anything to him, he dumped that stupid dress for me, but... I can guarantee you I can get him to help me. I know him well enough... I could get him to do it, if I paid his price of course, which is easy. You can use money for anything around here. It always comes in handy."
Anna clapped her hands together, glad she managed to piece this together. In all honesty she felt smarter than usual. "I won't get him to speak out against her himself... After all, this isn't to get him in trouble as much as it is to get that angel in trouble."

The smirk was small, but it was there.
"Wow your vassals sound a lot like mine." He wasn't too keen on the idea of having to work with the inviso-crew, but it was better than nothing...and better than those pictures.

Anna waved her hand around a little, still pretty proud of herself. "Pirates and demons are alot alike, I guess. Well, then... sooner the better."
She raised an eyebrow. She wished Laharl could see Demitri but she did'nt know of a way to fix that in particular.


"Hey, Abel."
Speaking of Demitri, he was bugging the abnormally purple prinny again.
"Yes, Demitri?", spoke Abel, sighing, as if dreading what he had to say.
"Where do you think Asylum is?", asked Demitri, in a dead serious tone.
A pause.
Abel stared, as if trying to figure out why he'd ask that all of the sudden. "I'm not sure... if I knew, I would've told Anna by now. Why, do you happen to know?"
A few more moments passed before Demitri shook his head. "If I did, I would'nt tell. Anna needs to figure this out on her own... unless you can figure it out ahead of time."
Abel was disturbed even more. He must've known, but wasn't telling, which was odd. "Well..."
Demitri cut his sentence short. "There's been a large increase in spiders on the ship here, as of late, hasn't there? I wonder how all of them get on, even when we're out on the ocean."

Flonne was still perched high on the ship, she was feeling a bit odd, now that she'd pulled that prank of Anna and Laharl. It was like she wouldn't be able to stop...it was too much fun. She let out an eep and flailed a top the mast.
"OH NOES!!!" She cried.
"What if I'm turning into something like Laharl!!? What if I become a demon!!" She wasn't sure if that was entirely possible...but she needed to find Dimitri..after all he had been an angel, he would know.

Laharl cackled.
"I'm starting to wish you would become a Demon, the Netherworld won't seem as fun without you there."

((XDD I finally found Laharl's theme!! XDD so funny!))

(Oh my goodness, I absolutely love his theme song XDDD The lyrics to it are hilarious! My favorite added comment in it was 'he doesn't wash his hands after he uses the bathroom', for some reason...)

Anna looked at Laharl, and could again only crack that same, maniacal grin. "Well, I'm sorry buddy, but people on this ship need me. That and, I don't think I could just turn into a demon, unless I got killed and got turned into one of your exploding penguins. Which would just be unfortunate, you know?"

Demitri had skulked out on deck. Talk of Asylum made him paranoid, and he decided to keep an eye on Anna.
Little did he know what would lie ahead.

"OH, DEMITRI!", Anna practically yelled, causing him to jump a little. She ran up to him and threw her arm around his shoulder. "What is UP, man?"
Demitri stared, wondering if she'd gotten into some drug. "Anna... your sudden enthusiasticness concerns me."
"Sorry.", Anna said, coughing and speaking in a lower tone of voice. "I need to talk to you tonight. Got it?"
"Um... sure. Of course.", said Demitri, stil disturbed. He shivered a little, not used to all the touching. "You've been around that demon boy too much, you act crazier every time I see you."

Laharl sighed happily.
"Yeah, that would suck, I couldn't have as much fun with you as a Prinny....Etna'd have you doing all of her chores."

Laharl would never get over seeing her talk to the air like that...he wished he could see whoever it was that she was talking to...that might make her seem a little less....odd.

Demitri quickly withdrew back inside, deciding not to bug Anna anymore than he had to, since she'd spooked him with her over enthusiastic-ness, apparently.

Anna watched him head back inside, and sighed. "Geez. Well, atleast I'll be able to talk to him about it tonight. Anyway..."
She turned back to Laharl. "Like I said, humans can't just poof into demons... and even if I could, the Netherworld doesn't have an ocean like this one, that I can actually sail on."
After a minute, she looked a little bummed. "I'm thinking Demitri will close up the portal connecting my ship to the Netherworld after all of this with Asylum is done, though... I don't think he likes me hanging out with you guys too much. Geez, all of my crew members are so weird over this crap, you know? Demitri's just weird in general, though."

He smirked.
No less than you. He thought.
"Ahhh, well nothing we can do about it....Wait...WHAT!!! What did you say what's-his-face was going to do to the portal!?" Laharl's jaw dropped a full two inches as his eyes hit his hairline.

"Dimitri!" Flonne hissed make her way around the ship avoiding Anna and the others.
"Dimitri!!! I gotta ask you something!" She was pale...well, for her that is.

Anna looked a bit sad, scratching the back of her head. She hadn't really wanted to talk about it. "Yep. Demitri plans on closing up the portal after all this is over with, so... after this, I won't get to see you again..."
The Captain furrowed her brows. I'm gonna miss him when he's gone... I guess that's why he doesn't want me talking to any of them too much.


Demitri caught sight of Flonne. Wow, she looked pretty mortified. He quickly approached, slouching a little and yawning, as if he were tired. There again he always done that. "What's up, Flonne?"

"NNNUUUUU!!!!!" Laharl hit the deck on his knees and let his arms hang limply.
"He can't do that! That'll ruin my plans to take over!!! He'll be shutting off a completely easy area!!! HAAAAAaaaaaa!!!!!" He flailed about thinking of how all his plans were being flushed down the drain, all because of one person..er...Ghost....er....whatever he was!


Flonne hopped up and down her hands gripped tightly together.
"Dimitri...is it possible for an Angel to become a demon? Just like that?" She snapped her fingers looking about nervously.

Anna grinned nervously. "No, no. You might be able to find portals to the human world, but they'll be really far from here. I'm talking like... possibly other side of the world. But even finding those would be lucky. Demitri will just be closing off the one that's connected to this side of the human world."

She sighed, shaking her head. The world would probably explode if he tried to take over, but she wasn't going to tell him that. Oh, boy...



Demitri stood there for a minute, before cracking up, as if her question was hilarious. After he calmed down, he decided he'd answer either way. "No. But you can turn into a fallen angel, in which case you'll be sent to the Netherworld. I'm one of those, but I got off easy, I guess, since I live here with Anna."
That wasn't necessarily easy as Anna was slightly insane, there again, so was he.

Laharl sighed.
"Well that's no fun." Where he was seemed the perfect start to his campaign.


"It's not funny!!" Flonne hissed.
"This is baaaadddd!!! I think that's happening to meeee!!!" She wriggled back and forth uncomfortable with her new found knowledge, and deciding that it really wasn't a good thing, all that time Etna, Laharl and her were spending together.

"Well, bud..."
Anna held her hands up and extended her arms, holding her hands out. "I'm sorry to say you're outta luck! There're more people on land, anyway. So maybe you're IN luck. After all..."
She looked at him, grinning and glaring a bit. "The seas are mine, andif you try to take them over, you're gonna be in for it big time."
This was probably some sort of bad Anna-humor that very few people got but, who knew.


Demitri rolled his eyes. "Calm down. It's not that bad. You've got more freedom as a fallen angel, anyway... Celestia's got some strict rules."

Laharl stood and out his fist out to her.
"Please, when I make it back here, I'll be strong enough to take you and whatever Pirate army you have! The world will be mine!!!" He looked out over the ocean with a smirk.
"Maybe then I can stop all this 'progressive' nonsense."

Flonne's eyes went twice as big.
"THAT'S NOT GOOD!!!" She flailed around.
"I'm supposed to be an Angel-in-Training!!! I haven't even been made an ANGEL YET!!! I can't fall now!!"

Anna crossed her arms, smirking. "There's no way I'm lettin' you take this ocean from me!"
"Geez, you two are just full of it... those pictures were right, you make a good couple."
Anna blinked in surprise, and anger at that, spotting the orange haired girl, who offered a wave, if anything. "I came out to tell you something but I got distracted... so..."
She stepped past Anna, glaring down at Laharl. Even she seemed taller than him. "You're the Overlord of the Netherworld? What in the..."
The girl looked a bit shocked. "Martha was right, you are tiny..."

Anna was seen snickering madly in the background.


Demitri sighed, shaking his head. He placed his hands on her shoulders and leaned down to look her in the eye. "Flonne. What do you think of your new friends? Etna, Laharl... and for that matter, Anna."

"Well, then fight me for it! When I come back, we'll settle our score once and for all!" His head turned with Anna's and glared...even harder when the girl called him 'tiny'
"SHUT UP I AM NOT TINY! I'M ALMOST AS TALL AS ANNA!!"

Flonne stopped then blinked in surprise as she thought.
"I like them..they don't seem as bad as they try to make out...and Anna's got a really good heart if she'd admit it."

Anna cracked up, and the girl also looked entertained. "You're KIND of close, but definetly not almost."
Anna tried to make herself shut up. It WAS pretty funny. "Okay, anyway..."
She pushed the orange haired girl aside, raising her fist. "Alright, then! It's settled! We'll fight for the ocean when you return, but... I'm not getting my hopes up."
Anna swatted her hand a little before continuing. "After all you might not even pop up again."
"Oh, Demitri and the portal thing.", spoke the orange haired girl. "Yes. He's quite unenthusiastic about you being around the demons, especially the brat here..."


Demitri narrowed his eyes. "Then, answer this for me. What could Celestia and all of the angels think of them? And what would they expect for YOU to think of them?"

"We are so close. You're just blind." Laharl smirked.
"Fine, and believe me..I'll pop up again...even if I have to beat those old farts into letting me." He turned to the other girl and snorted.
"Heh, Dimitri can go dunk his head for all I care. He can't run either of our lives."

Flonne tilted her head the other way this time.
"Seraph Lamington was the one who sent me to the Netherworld in the first place, to see if Demons knew of Love...but...I haven't heard a lot from him or anyone else for a long time, so I took it upon myself to teach them about Love in the meantime!" She smiled, completely forgetting about her former crisis.

"He can certainly run Annas.", said the girl. "The ship would be over-run with spiders if not for him. You know how she is over those. And besides.. he certainly CAN control the portals. Unfortunate, huh?"

Anna shuddered a bit at the thought. That would suck big time. Either way, this was odd. She looked towards the girl. "This is pretty out there. You never talk to us, as much as you can avoid it, anyway... we don't even know your name."
"I told you guys to just call me Fifteen. That's how old I am. Names aren't important in things like this, anyway.", she responded, glaring. "Whatever, though. I guess I'll leave you guys alone."


Demitri stood there, before withdrawing his hands and standing up. "Try to think about what I'm saying for once, Flonne. That guy can't change everything. Angels will always hate demons and people who are relatively like demons... no matter what you or your Seraph do."
He shrugged. "Whatever. See you."
He turned around and headed towards Anna's bedroom, deciding he'd stalk for a while and see how things were going.

Laharl glared, this was certainly odd...but he turned back to Anna as the girl left.
"You could always squash them yourself you know. Just get really angry at them instead of fearing them." He smirked.
"That's what I do when I get around Sexy women....well, that or close my eyes." He crossed his arms and nodded.

Flonne's head bowed as Dimitri left...he...he was right. She concluded. Demons...were always the butt of jokes in Celestia...but...was it really that futile?

Anna looked kind of spooked. "But the... legs... they would'nt be as freaky if not for those legs..."
Anna plopped down on a nearby crate, appearing very irritated. "Demitri has been there for me often, though. If not for him I would've been killed along with the rest of my old crew."


"Oh... Miss Flonne!"
Abel stumbled towards her, looking stressed. "Er... listen, I need to tell you this. It will sound odd."
He reached his flippers out, looking deseperate. "If something were to happen to me, you can't tell Anna anything about who I am, alright?"

"Ignore the legs. I dunno, pretend their......sticks or something." He nodded after a moment conceeding the fact that Dimitri had saved her life.
"Okay so he's not ALL bad.....but that's still demerits in my book."

Flonne turned back to Abel and she looked confused.
"What's the matter with you? Why do you think something's going to happen to you?"

Anna laughed a bit. "He IS pretty out there, but I don't guess I can really change him."
Anna gave a drawn out yawn and stretched her arms before she leaned back against the rails, still sitting on the crate. "But I guess I'll have to deal with him."


Abel looked nervous, more than he had before. "Erm... well, Flonne. I think I know about where Asylum is, but I'm not sure so I can't say anything right now."