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[h3][color=fff79a]Kasugano Sakura[/color][/h3]
Level 4: 27/40
Location: On the Atomos over Black Bay.
Word Count: 1,054
Points Gained: 2
New EXP Balance--- Level 4: 29/40 [/center]

	Sakura tensed up a little bit as Rika boldly strode out into broad daylight. But, it worked out. The Admiral was nice, and had already been told of Rika's existence. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief.

	[color=fff79a]"You know...people are nice."[/color] Sakura concluded. It seemed like Geralt had expected something worse to happen.

	[color=fff79a] "So far I'm like, 3 for 3 when it comes to trusting people to do the nice thing. Even that Master of Masters lady helped out in the fight. I wonder where she is now?"[/color] Sakura looked around for her but if she was there, there's no way her mysterious figure could spotted so easily. She thought back to Mym the Dragon, right after she stopped being Galeemified. Everyone was scared, but then the dragon was nice, and so everyone else turned nice, too. Then she thought again about Geralt, and figured the majority of the people he had met in his life had been very not nice. It was complicated, she guessed. 

	Sakura smiled and waved at Ranger. [color=fff79a]"Thanks for the save! Nice outfit! But...man. Where I'm from, there's [i]no way[/i] any navy would let you dress like that."[/color] She said that last part a little quieter.

	Suddenly, Cadet and Link, caught onto her about her comment. Cadet noticed her different appearance and quickly put something together. Sakura nodded sadly. [color=fff79a]"Yeah, I did absorb a spirit. I'm gonna give it back, though. I-"[/color] She was cut off. Things were happening right now. [color=fff79a]"We'll talk later."[/color] She sighed. She began to jog int othe Atomos interior proper, waving as she went.

	[color=fff79a]"See you, guys! Bye bye!"[/color] She waved. The door closed and they were away. Bowser, Kamek, Junior, Geralt, Rika, Bella, Ranger, and her, Sakura. 

	[color=fff79a]"Boy. Remember when it was just the four of us?" [/color]She gestured to Kamek, Junior, and Geralt.[color=fff79a] "The ship must have felt so empty."[/color] She smiled, sitting down, thinking of her new friends. Of the fun she had last night with Rika, Junior, and even Bowser. As well as her talk with Geralt. Bella, the sweet person that Sakura managed to save, and Ranger, who was just straight up heroic. 

	[color=fff79a]"I'm uh, I'm glad I met all you guys. Even if we're far away from home."[/color] She said.

	Sakura watched the sight down below, wincing and turning away. She shared the same thoughts as Rika did. It hurt to watch. There was some solace to be found in that it was only the lost potential of a life, not the life itself. Still. It was hard to watch. Seeing the Abyssals in their original form reminded Sakura of how mean the Water Princess was, before she turned into Bella. If Sakura didn't have the ability to Friend Heart, what other option would there have been? Sakura decided she would focus on defending her friends. And if she did have to fight, try to fight the Abyssals that didn't look like they could talk or think for themselves at all. The ones that looked like bone robots. But did that make it okay to kill? Just because they looked different? What if she gave a Friend Heart to them, too?

	Sakura wore these troubling thoughts on her face. She was biting on her lower lip and holding her own hand, sweating a little. It's too difficult. Sakura didn't know if she could do it.

	[color=fff79a]"Man. I've been on high alert for like, two months. After this I hope we get to take a few days off. I miss sleeping in."[/color] Sakura laughed nervously. She turned and looked out the window. At the beautiful cape of the Black Bay. The ship girls were truly a force to be reckoned with.

	They weren't the only ones, though. The battle quickly went underway right before her eyes. The ship girls lacked the close combat skills that Sakura did. She couldn't really help much from up here. Much to her own shame, Sakura was a little relieved that she wasn't down there. Sakura rose to her feet and slapped the sides of her head, steeling herself. 

	[color=fff79a][i](Come on, hero mode. Hero mode! We're heroes! We have to save Limsa and stop the bad guys so we can blow up Galeem and save the universe! Get it together, Sakura!)[/i] [/color] She hopped up and down.

	Bowser and Kamek were making their place. It was certainly spectacular. Bowser got really big and ontop of the bridge. The entire ship was painted with his face now, and now he himself was decorating it

	[color=fff79a]"The King of Awesome, huh?"[/color] Sakura raised a skeptical eyebrow. His display of power was indeed awesome, though. He was destroying the enemies back lines. Shippy, however, was directly in trouble. If the people on Shippy could break through, they wouldn't meet much more resistance thanks to Bowser. But right now any ranged attack on the enemies boarding Shippy would probably lead to Shipp themself getting hurt.

	The ship was also lowered into range of the water. Sakura gulped.[color=fff79a] "Um...well, okay, I guess. Here we go."[/color]  Sakura stepped outside of the bridge and onto the outside of the Atomos. Her hair 
 and clothes began to be whipped up all around. Her longer sleeves were a little in the way now, so she rolled them up to her elbows. Her bandana was flung out to the side. She probably cut quite the dramatic figure. She was on a flat part of the Atomos, infront of her was a railing, and to her side was a path away up to the rooftop of the Atomos where King Bowser was. The water was closer now, but they were still a little above the action. It was chaos down there. Every combatant was extremely mobile. It looked like something out of National Geographic. Bees vs Wasps.

	 Sakura took a stance and began firing where Bowser was shooting. [color=fff79a][i]"Hadoken! Hadoken!" [/i][/color] Her familiar cry rang out. This time she also fired some of her cannons in her rigging, aiming for the enemies around Shippy. Basically just saturating fire.

	As she did, she began shouting over the wind, turning her face a little. [color=fff79a]"I'll follow your lead, Ranger, if we do end up needing to go down there.  If any of 'em try to get onto the Atomos, that'll be their mistake, because then I'll just kick 'em in the face. [i]Hadoken!"[/i] [/color] She imagined Bella, Rika, Ranger and herself would make quite the formidable squad of ship girls were they to be on the water. But the Atomos and Shippy were on their own mission. They pushing through and forward to a secondary objective. 

	They were, after all, Seekers. That was what they were called now. Sakura found confidence in that title. [color=fff79a][i](I'm a Seeker. Cool.)[/i][/color] Sakura gathered up another bright blue ball of energy and let it loose in tandem with a cannon shot.