Matoya the Witch Appears: A missing Crystal and PIRATES?!

[Nephrite]

Quatre ran a hand through his hair. "Hoo boy..." with that, Quatre began chanting protection and speed spells to benefit Craig, focusing on helping him get the upper hand in the battle.

[Dracos]

The pirates were caught off guard by his sudden attack, but they got numbers on their side as they held him off, only one of them falling to his sudden spinning slash from no where as he charged the lot of 'em.

"Eh?  What's this?  Resistance?  Kill him!"

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

Craig slid backwards as he twitched and turned this way and that, eyes narrowed in concentration as he focused on letting his body do what needed to avoid being cutty stabbified by the forces in front of him.

There!

Springing forward, he ran up the sword of one of the pirates and slammed his feet into his face so he could spring forwards in a flip, landing behind his foe and jamming his blade into the back of his head before twirling off from any counteract.

[Zenthor]

Zack rubbed his hands together.  At last, enemies who froze easily!  He tried to keep his excitement at a minimum firing off as many ice spells as he could at the pirates.  He conciously avoided Lightning and Fire spells since they had too much of a chance to hit Craig since he was in the middle of the fray.  Not that it didn't stop the spells from veering wildly off course at times.

[Dracos]

Things happened at once, Zack's bolt of ice splattering over the ground, turning it into an icy landscape as Craig's nifty acrobatic feats left him landing on it, the force of his stab and yank out sending him sliding past the other pirates on the plane of ice towards... Bikey's ship!

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

Craig blinked, and allowed himself to keep sliding down towards the ship. "I'll go secure the ship!" He used his natural agility to its best as he skii'ed down towards the pirate's base. Best clip their escape while he had the opportunity.

[Dracos]

"Yarr!  Yarr Shall not pass~!"  Bikey pulled out a wicked sabre.  "Ye not comin' but one step further!" He got ready to swing at Craig as Craig slid within jumping distance of the boat.

The other pirates starting to get a grip on the new ground and turning to the mage.

Dracos

[Nephrite]

"Aha... ha..." Quatre took a step back, frowning a little bit. "Well, I can try and slow them down with my magic, and you can try to disable them, Zack?"

[Zenthor]

Zack grinned under the mask, acknowledging both of his cohorts comments.  Now nobody was in the way.  He rubbed his hands together.

"Don't like ice, eh?  Let's see how well you burn, then."  He began throwing fireballs at the pirate gang, taking a mild glee in burning flesh. A bit too much glee, since he started throwing them as rapidly and wildly as possible, so long as they didn't hit the pirate ship or his cohorts.

[Nephrite]

Quatre held his hand forward and simply tried to slow the movements of the pirate crew in order for Zack's spells to work a bit more effectively. "I sure hope this works..."

[Dracos]

Well, it did work.

Even if it sort of lit the wharf on fire, flames melting the ice and beginning to burn boxes and protective wrapping and...this was going to be a firepit pretty soon.  They should get out of there!

Dracos

[Nephrite]

"Oh... dear." Quatre tried to grab for Zack and start running towards the ship with him, before they all just got engulfed in flames. "This has -not- been our week."

[Zenthor]

"Hehe... ah... whoops.  Time to run... again.  Hope the whole town doesn't light on fire," he said to himself as he ran towards Bikke's ship with Quatre.

[Olvelsper]

"Don't you have something to put that fire out?! I rather like this port myself! Try to cast a firebolt or something to cause the water nearby to try and put the fires out or something!" Craig had meanwhile thoroughly engaged the pirate leader, blades crossing with the captain, blurring as he slashed and parried his foe's attacks.

[Dracos]

The bulky pirate was a fiercesome swordsman as he held his ground firmly, "Yarr, you won't get by me scalawag!"

Dracos