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Epic Tale - Chapter 1 - Part 4

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The girls arrived in a great hall. Huge chandeliers hung down from the ceiling and some musicians played. The walls were covered by expensive loking picutres or tapestries. Another male servant stood at the entrance tot he hall and introduced every newcomer. "Lady Kyra from Nirgendwo" he shouted as Lady Riddle walked passed him. She did not pay any attention to him and so did Kris. The other pirates followed their example.

So far, everything had went according to the plan, to Lady Riddle's surprise. Only female guests arrived, yet every woman was accompanied by a man who could only be described as "Prince Charming." Strangely, a hostess was nowhere to be seen.

"Lady Kyra.", Lady Riddle heard a voice and one of those "princes" stood right in front of her. His mouth was smiling, but his dull green eyes were not. Lady Riddle disliked him from the very fist second and smiled sweetly at him. "With whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?", she asked and reached out her hand. His lips touched it and he said: "My name shall be whatever you want it to be."
Inside her mind, Lady Riddle rolled her eyes. By the Gods, that had to be pure unadulterated kitsch. "Then I will call you Stultus." she smiled once more and hoped the guy never learned latin.
He didn't.
"Very well, my dear." he smiled in a way that could be charming. but only if you have a thing for mindless idiots.
Out of the corner of her eyes he noticed the other girls met their annoyance for the evening, too. Linda's eye caught Lady Riddle's and her mouth formed the word "Help".
When Sarah Grace came in, she caused the same effect on the princes as honey has on flies. Soon she was surrounded by them, leaving behind reliefed Crystal, Kris and Linda and some envious other women. Sadly, Stultus was still with Lady Riddle.
Soon Vixen entered the hall, saw Sarah Grace and immedieately tried to gather more men around her than the wind nymph, thus ensuring most of the pirates being alone. Except for Lorién, Allana, Hayes, Zoey and Lady Riddle, who was still cursed with Stultus.
At least that annoyingly stupid guy was a great excuse to dance. Therefore Lady Riddle could monitoring the hall. Crystal and Rowan were nowhere to be seen. Lady Riddle smiled and pretended to listen to Stultus's annoying sweet talk.
After a while Crystal returned.
"My dear! What a surprise to meet you here. It's been such along time. How are you?" Lady Riddle greeted her.
"Uhm.. quite fine, I think. Thank you." Crystal answered.
"I have heard you had lost something very precious to you. Have you been able to find it by now?", the fake Lady Kyra asked.
"Indeed. Actually it was not hard to find, but hard to get back. I am also reliefed it wasn't even scratched."
"Princess Rycella! What a lovely surprise. You will not believe what our dearest friend just told me!", Lady Riddle had spottet Lyra and waved at her to come over.
But before Crystal could speak again, Lady Riddle excused herself and went over to Kris and Lorién, Stultus directly behind her.
"You will not believe what has happened!", she said to them and gave them no chance to reply. "You know Lady Marianne had bought the forsaken Foremore manor, don't you?"
"Yes, of course!" Kris said, playing along instantly.
"Now, I have heard, they have found prisoners in the basement, still alive.", Lady Riddle whispered without actually lowering her voice.
"You don't say!", Lorién exclaimed.
"Yes, unbelieveable, isn't it? But the Foremore family had always been strange, if you ask me. I wonder how the poor Lady will take care of those mistreatened souls."
After a while of more chit-chat, Lorién excused herself. Followed her mindless companion she met Yvonne and told her about a made up cousin, who had found a treasure beneath a special tree. Yvonne went over to Hayes and soon every crew member knew the men had been found and were unharmed.
Under the retext of searching for the still missing Rowan, Katelynn went down to see the prisoners were the empath was waiting. The male crew members were in one big cell and with them, was a singing siren. The song was still mesmerizing, but the effect was not a strong as before. It did not affect the two girls at all, but still ensured nobody tried to escape.
Katelynn looked at the bars and smiled. It was simple work, with a bit help it should be easy to break it. She only needed fire and ice.
Satisfied she and Rowan returned to the hall to inform Lyra and Yuki.
None of them was accompanied by a man, so Katelynn dared to speak freely.
"We can get the others out by breaking the bars. I need you to heat up the metal and then to cool it down again. Always work altering and the metal will become brittle. Then it should be easy to break it. Afterwards we just need to get rid of the sirens.", she whispered.
Rowan claimed loudly she had been to the wonderful gardens and told the others how beautiful they were even at night. Lyra and Yuki pretended to go there to see for themselves and left the hall.

A short while after the two girls returned, Yuki went over to Lady Riddle and said: "Lady Kyra, it's good to see you here!say have you beent o the gardens already?"
"Mizuto-sama, what a lovely surprise! No, I did not have the pleasure yet.", Lady Riddle smiled.
"Oh, you really should go there. I heard a nightingale sing in the middle of a field of dragon's teeth. It was almost mesmerizing." Yuki said, hoping Riddle would understand.
"Be aussured, Mizuto-sama, I will mot miss it." the trickster said and she danced with Stultus over to Vixen.
"Emperess Victoria.", she said and indicated a bow.
"Lady Kyra", Vixen nodded with a smile. "To what do I owe the honour?"
"I have heard you are an expert when it comes to birds." Lady Riddle smiled.
"Have you come here for some advice?" It was obvious Vixen enjoyed the situation.
"Yes, Emperess. I wondered how I can make my nightingale sing again. I just of one singing in the garden and remembered my caged one."
Vixen raised an eyebrow.
"Are you sure you want to make it sing? Once it started, it will not stop."
"I can always get a cat or a fox to make it stop, can I not?" Lady Riddle smiled sweetly.
"I get your point, Lady.", Vixen smiled, linked arms with her and said: "Let's take a walk and you tell me more about this nightingale of yours." Only two men followed them and Stultus was one of them. The others appeared next to the girls they had left before. "Let me get us more company." Lady Riddle said and returned with Crystal, Stultus still by her side. As soon as the hall door closed behind them, Vixen said eagerly. "Now tell me, where is that bird?"
"Follow me", Crystal said am the three made their way through the palace. Stultus or one oth the other men didn't do or say anything. But when Crystal was about to touch a certain door, he and the others held her back.
"You must not open the door!", they said with one voice.
"Hm.. but I am so curious.", Vixen grinned. When the men tried to held her back, she easily ripped them apart. She look disappointed at the bloody remains. "No fun at all...", she said. Crystal said nothing and Lady Riddle tried to fight the thought that these men simply may have been manipulated. They reached the unguarded prison. Due to the already weakend metal, Vixen could break the bars without major efforts.
The siren watched her, but did not stop singing. She raised her voice and the male part of the crew altered. The apathic look in their faces vanished and they stared hostile at Vixen.
"Oh, come on!", she said and before anybody could stop her, she tore the head off the siren's body. As soon as the singing stopped, the men seemed to wake up from a deep sleep. Vixen returned to Aslansa.
"Arr, finally that be over." Chenbeard said and stretched his limbs.
"Ye did take some time.", he said teasingly to Lady Riddle and Crystal. Lady Riddle just shrugged her shoulders. "At least we were not zombiefied by the titter of some blasted birds." she gave back and Chenbeard laughed. "Very true me fair trickster. Now, who shall we thank for the hospitality?"
He recieved no answer as someone started screaming above them. They hurried back to the hall to find the rest of the crew fighting the other guests and sirens were singing in the hall. As soon as he saw what was going on, Aslansa used his blood to plug every ear that belonged to a black fedora pirate. Whoever had imprisoned the pirates had not taken away their weapons. They began to fight they way out. the sirens sang on the top of their lungs, but their song had no effect. Their mouthes closed and the guests stopped attacking. Instead, as soon as they realized there were pirates in the room, they panicked and fled. all the servants took flight, too.
Suddenly, a window shattered and another siren entered the room. She was different from the others. More majestic and she wore a crown. She said something, but since all pirates were deaf, nobody heard it except for the sirens.
This seemed to outrage her completely. Her nose and mouth became a sharp beak. The other sirens also turned into huge birds of prey.
They attacked the pirates, but against 34 Black Fedora Pirates, they had no chance. Yuki and Lyra invented a combinated attack, freezing and burning their enemies. Zoey was not hindered by her dress as she threw dagger after dagger at the sirens. Blake, Salazar, Dan, Aslansa and Aisuru wielded their blades with deadly precision. But Kris tried to fight the sirens and stumbled, cursing her dress.
Chenbeard drew his sword and removed the plugs from his ears when the crowned siren was the oly survivor. Her head turned back into a woman's and she faltered her wings.
"Who are ye?" Chenbeard asked and stepped over to her. Aslansa saw his captain talking and prepared to plug his ears if the siren dared to sing again.
But he saw them only talking. Then the captain left and waved at his pirates to follow him. Slightly confused, they follow him and removed their ear plugs.
"What was going on there?" the Co-Captain asked Chenbeard.
"We agreed on a truce. We almost slaughtered her entire kind." Chenbeard answered and changed the topic.
"But tell me, Hayes. Why are all of you girls so dressed up?"
"It was one of Riddle's plans, Captain. She said it would be easier to get you out this way.", Hayes explained.
"Bwahahaha!", Chenbeard started laughing. "Me Lady Riddle never fails to amuse me. Now tell me exactly what happened."
It's not over yet, don't worry.
There will be more to come. After all, Angel and Sparky have their mission, too. :D

I planned on releasing it after :icondarlingangel0565: has finished "A Dream Or Real" and "Dark Redemptions", but I just can't wait any longer.
I don't own any character crew member except for Lady Riddle. The other character belong to their respective owners, listed here:[link]
I am writing "Epic Tale" with :icondarlingangel0565:

Please tell me if I displayed any character in a wrong way!
Chapter 1: Black Fedora Princesses
Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]
Part 3: [link]
Part 4: [link]
Chapter 2: An Unexpected Treasure
Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]
Part 3: [link]
Part 4: [link]
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Yippee! T'was a wonderful story!