Arc 4: What families entail
Road to a Hero:
Three chances in another world
Chapter 40. BOMBS! GOTTA USE EM’
On the west side of the island, almost out of the forest, Caesar walks with Peter and a few Athens guards moving a carriage of flame crystal boxes toward the Pirate camp.
Peter: “I swear I packed more crystals…like a lot more.”
Caesar: “We didn’t need that much. You used almost all of it.”
Peter: “Yeah, this is like a fourth of it.”
Caesar: “It’s all we need, now drop it.”
Peter: “Whatever.”
Caesar: “Alright, since you guys are cooperating I’ll let you leave once we’re done.”
Athens guard one: “Really? We're talking and we want to fight for the winning side. Your father is the reason most of us joined the army in the first place and Beauregard isn’t like Lincoln, but Leo is.”
Caesar: “Wait really?”
All the guards say yes in unison, all telling the truth.
Peter: “Alright, we’re almost there.”
Caesar: “I’m going to talk to whoever picks it up, to drive home the point that they should get in on their ship.”
Peter: “But what if they don’t wanna do that? How will we know for sure?”
Caesar: “I have an idea, it’s pretty gruesome but trust me. When I go down, and I mean I’m going to go down hard you gotta make sure you don’t interfere.”
Peter: “Okay…I promise.”
They stop and leave, letting Caesar approach the camp with the crystals by himself. Once he gets too close a few pirates walk up to see what’s up.
Pirate one: “THE HELL YOU DOING WITH ALL THAT LOOT!?”
Caesar: “A GIFT! CAN I TALK TO MORO!?”
Pirate two: “NO!”
Caesar: “YOU SURE!?”
Pirate two: “UM…let me think…I’M SURE!”
Caesar: “Damn…”
Caesar kicks some rocks on the ground.
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Caesar: “SO…WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THIS STUFF!?”
Pirate one: “WE GONNA STEAL THAT! GUYS COME ROB THIS GUY!”
Caesar: “OH PLEASE DON’T SELL ME!”
Pirate two: “Hey that’s a good idea, we should sell him.”
Pirate one: “HEY GO GET THE GUY TOO! WE GONNA SELL HIM!”
Caesar falls flat on the ground and puts his hands behind his back. A group of Pirates take the crates and restrain Caesar, taking him into the quickly built camp. The camp is composed of tents, mats, boxes, and about sixty people. They drag him to the biggest tent, throwing him inside. Moro's right-hand man, the blueish-gray, eight-foot tall, muscular, and bald fish-like Demi-human Just One gets out of a chair and walks over to them.
Justone: “What’s going on here!?”
Pirate one: “We kidnapped this guy, he was moving all these crystals outside the camp.”
Justone: “Let me look at him…Oh shit, this Is Caesar!”
Justone quickly jogs out of his tent and runs to the big ship parked on the shore of the beach. He runs into the hull of the ship, entering Moro's room. Swords, skulls, and tapestries laid out on the walls match Moro's personality perfectly.
Moro: “What do ya want!?”
Justone: “It’s Caesar, he has been captured. And he has a lot of supplies with him.”
Moro grabs his long black coat, a cigar, and brushes his mustache, and pulls his long soul patch down. He looks in the mirror and picks food out of his large, sharp, yellow teeth, and rubs his sternal piercing. After all that Moro finally walks off the ship and steps over to Caesar who is still lying on the ground.
Moro picks Caesar up and places him down on a chair.
Caesar: “Hey buddy.”
Moro: “What are you doing here, clown?”
Caesar: “I was trying to give you a gift and I was rudely stolen by your men.”
Moro: “Gift huh, what are you getting at?”
Caesar: “Look…LEO HAS LOST IT! I was talking with him and he was losing his SHIT! ALL THAT DAMN STRESS GOT TO EM’ AND IT’S FUCKING SCARY, HE GONNA KILL ME!”
Moro: “HAHAHAHA! You joined the wrong side buddy!”
Caesar: “But I hear that Beauregard lost a lot of his men. So Leo’s probably planning an attack.”
Moro: “Okay?”
Caesar: “If his attack works you’ll be out of a lot of material.”
Moro: “Then I’ll just steal it, I’ve already done a lot of that.”
Justone: “Hey I’m gonna put a good amount of the crystals on the ship Moro.”
Moro: “Yeah, whatever. Alright Caesar I’m gonna lay this out for you. I’ve gotten too much to move, so I’m gonna take these crystals and probably leave this time tomorrow. I suggest you get out of here by that time.”
Caesar: “So…you’re gonna let me go?”
Moro: “Um… actually no you’ll give too much info away.”
Caesar: “WHAT!?”
Moro picks Caesar up by his head and starts carrying him out of the camp.
Moro: “TAKE HIS BODY BACK! SHOW YOUR FRIENDS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK WITH US!”
Caesar: “WAIT!”
Moro rips Caesar's head off and throws his body into the woods. Moro spits Caesars' blood out of his mouth and starts to walk back to his camp.
Peter watches from afar and panics. He stumbles, slips, and falls multiple times trying to get to where Caesar's body landed. Before he gets to it he’s stopped by a hand on his shoulder. Peter looks to see Caesar smiling at him, with gross teeth and all.
Peter: “I’m going crazy.”
Caesar: “Chill out dude, I heal fast, now let’s go.”
Peter, confused, follows along.
Peter: “So…did it work?”
Caesar: “Wonders. But we gotta move sometime tonight.”
Peter: “So we’ll have to attack Beauregard and Moro at the same time…we’ll have to split power.”
Caesar: “I believe Edward can defeat Moro with some help…but the pirates will be an issue. If we use some of the leftover crystals we should be able to whip up some bombs. Justone lives in the camp so Soku will need to attack there. So we won’t need to worry about her fighting in the water.”
Peter: “And if Justone is on one of the smaller ships?”
Caesar: “There are two other ships, just gotta pick the right one. And hopefully, he isn’t but if he is BOMBS!”
Peter: “Alright I get it…hope, hope, hope.”
They walk back to the catacombs, seeing that the Athens guards have returned. Peter waves at them and then walks to Leo and the others.
Edward: “Did it work?”
Caesar: “Like a charm. Soku, are you sure you can beat Just One? Because if you aren’t Edward can’t take Moro out and we’ll lose the pirates and their stuff.”
Soku: “Look…if I can’t kill him I can at least do some damage.”
Caesar: “But can you do it?”
Soku: “Yes I can.”
Leo: “And he put the explosives?”
Caesar: “Leo, and I heard him talk about putting it on the ship. And hopefully, he puts a little more on the two smaller ships.”
Gray: “How small are they? And how big is the big ship!?”
Caesar: “The big ship is about the size of a normal pirate ship. And the smaller pirate ship that's bout the size of a speed boat, a few cannons, and a place to rest in the back. Big enough for Soku to fight on at least.”
Peter: “She could also glide up to the mast and wait it out.”
Gray: “Oh..not that bad then."
Rosemary: “Hey what’s a speedbo-...never mind I just gotta accept it.”
END OF Chapter forty