ASINIA OF THE BLUE ISLES
PART 1
On occasion she would
meet up with airship pirates. One ship, The Sabina was ruthless. Their captain,
Naiad, was a rival of Karina’s. She always tried to steal and one up Karina but
she wised up fast to her. Karina would send her hawk Blue to fly ahead and warn
her if she was close by.
Today Karina didn’t have
time for any confrontations with anybody. She had an important shipment of sapphire
ice to deliver to the farthest reach, the Obian region that made air ships. Max
who owned the main shipping company was giving Karina extra to make the
shipment of sapphire ice as quickly as possible. Karina never asked why when he
offered. She didn’t care as the money would go towards ship repairs that were
needed badly.
Her crew member, Simon,
was the one who did the repairs and he did his best with what he had to work
with but Karina knew that if she didn’t get the repairs done properly that she
would not be flying the skies. She needed this job.
Sapphire ice was very
valuable so Karina instructed her crew not to say anything about what they were
delivering. She didn’t need to fight pirates today. Kat, her second in command,
told her they were ready to sail. Karina nodded and everybody took their positions.
Blue was perched on the top sail. She would fly ahead of them keeping a sharp
eye for trouble.
The sky was the best blue
for sailing in Karina’s opinion. That pale blue with hardly any clouds in their
way and the wind was always in their favor on days like these. They would make
good time. That’s what Karina was hoping for.
Everything was quiet in
the air today and it was getting warm but Karina didn’t mind. Blue was circling
above them and as she looked up at him through her sun goggles, his huge wing span
cast a shadow over her. Simon rushed up to her taking her out of her quiet
moment.
“We’re making good time
but the levers to shift the sails are weaker. I might have to manually change
them ourselves.”
“Do what you have to do
Simon, we have precious cargo on board.” She hardly got the words out of her mouth
when a huge creak and groan shook the ship. Simon went off running. Now the
ship was free sailing. “Everybody get to their stations, we have to guide this
ship by our own hands!”
And if not to complicate
things any worse, Blue starts squawking. Karina instantly looks around and
there it is, the Sabina with Naiad at the helm looking through her glass scope.
A huge howl came from the Sabina and Karina knew who or what it was. Standing next
to Naiad was a cat mage! Karina cursed under her breath. She hated those
things. Karina had taken shipments there and also did some scavenging. It was
almost not worth it. Blue let out a screech. Karina could see her pointing to
the sky showing the cat mage Blue.
Karina instantly went and
got her trusty bow and arrow. The magic tips on her arrows could main any ship.
Now the Sabina was very close. Naiad shouted over. “Having trouble are we? I’m willing
to take over your delivery for you.”
Karina laughed despite
the attack she knew that would soon take place. Naiad never willed any help to
anyone. It would a steal and sell to the highest bidder help. Karina gritted
her teeth. “No, we do not need your help. We have everything under control.”
“Doesn’t look like it to
me. You are free floating, not going to make good time that way,” she shouted
over.
Karina tightened her grip
on her bow, ready for anything. She would not let her steal this valuable load.
The Sabina was now right alongside her. Karina and her crew who now jumped into
action ready to fight. Blue was still flying above them.
“Let’s not fight,” Naiad
quipped. “I’m just here to help.”
“You never help, you only
help yourself,” Karina retorted back.
Suddenly Blue let out a
loud squawk from above. Karina looked up and her eyes went wide. Over the
mountains came storm clouds. Karina had seen this happen on days like this.
Calm and perfect one minute and the next a storm to cause chaos. Naiad looked
up as well. She shouted to her crew. She knew better as well.
“I wish you the best and
all.” Off they took off leaving there in their free floating stage. Karina knew
that they would be back to pick up the sapphire ice off her ship once they were
blown away by the storm clouds bellowing over the mountains. She would not let
that happen.
Her crew scrambled to manual
steer the ship and take advantage of the wind that had just picked up. But Karina
knew that the wind would get stronger and would be hard to work with as it
picked up strength. Her ship would be tossed and torn up in the winds hands
like paper. She had to get out of here!
Her ears heard a
wonderful noise. The gears of the ship started to creak and groan. Simon had
convinced them to work once again. With a little help from the lively winds,
they were on their way to their destination. They managed to clear the
mountains and get out of the storms way.
It didn’t mean though
that they were out of danger. They had to stay in front of the storm and not
lose ground and get caught in it.
They sky behind them was
black as midnight.
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