((BAM! Lol glad to see you're alive Grax! :hug:))

Azaela was swimming hastily towards an area in the sea she had once seen an island, so she thought she recalled it anyway. She was no longer shedding tears or spitting words of anger, she was just swimming, farther and farther from her kingdom.

Suddenly she stopped. In the distance she could hear the faint sound of, battle? It was a very similar noise to that she had heard before boarding The Captain's ship. She knew it wasn't possible that the source of the noise was that of her dear friend's ship, but still, she couldn't help but feel too curious to continue on and ignore it.

After a few minutes Zae popped her head up above the surface of the water to see two ships, side by side. One seemed badly damaged and the other in perfect condition. Neither of those ships were that of her dear friend, or the other pirate that they had come across in the ship with white sails.

She swam closer to get a better look at what had happened. Being the naive mermaid princess of the sea that she was, she didn't assume that any ill-will had gone on here, but that instead, one of the ships was merely having a hard time and the other had come to it's aid.

As she swam between the two ships, she wondered if she should call out and offer assistance. That would sure irritate her father, Poseidon, and that's exactly what she wanted to do. But, she didn't want to make any more human friends and cause them any harm and end up losing them, too.

In the distance, in multiple directions, shark fins could be seen slicing through the surface of the water, following the scent of blood. Had Azaela been paying attention to more than the Commodore's ship she might have noticed, but as it stood, she had no idea how much danger she currently waded in as she stared up curiously at the ship.

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Nodding lightly at Ryek's command, Gemma felt slightly annoyed. She never had 'duties'. She couldn't cook, she never did any sort of cleaning or laundries. She knew how to run a ship, steal, fight and find treasure. Those other things? Pfftt, those were for women tamed. Gemma was too free a spirit to get bogged down by that stuff and now, to be allowed passage on this ship, she was being forced to do things she wasn't even good at.

Before she realized what was happening, Ryek had turned to face her once again, pulling her close and into a kiss. That, she was good at. When he took a step back, a lot of things were running through Gemma's mind. She wondered what game he was playing, if any, and if she could use that to her advantage. Quick, before he walked away, she had to make a decision!

Slap the man, or try and seduce him into letting her do what she wanted... The last thing she wanted to do out at sea on a beautiful day was be forced to clean below decks. Finally she smiled seductively, another thing she was good at. She'd used this smile to get a lot of things she'd wanted in the past, it couldn't fail now either. After all, Ryek was only a man.

Gemma closed the space between them now and allowed her breasts that overflowed from the tiny corset to brush tantalizingly against his masculine chest. Emerald eyes sparkled with deceit. Would he notice? She trailed a finger delicately over his lips and down his chin to his chest.

"Come on Captain," she started, her velvety tone implying that she just might do whatever it took to keep from having to do any servant-like chores, as Bell did on a daily basis. "Don't you want to keep me around on deck? I can be very entertaining." With each word, Gemma's lips inched closer and closer to Ryek's until they were nearly touching once again.



((Whoa Gemma! Lol watch out Ryek, those lips might be laced with venom! :P))