[center][h1][color=lightblue]Link[/color][/h1][/center]
    
    [center]Word Count: 531 [/center]
    [center][color=00aeef][b]Level 4[/b] [/color] - (27/40) + 1 [/center] 
    [center]Location: The Edge of Blue ~ Cute Girls Doing Naval Warfare[/center]    

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Link aimed, sinking another arrow right into eye of one of the abominations sinking its fangs into the side of their rabidly disintegrating ship. One of its mate took notice as the thing broke off and sank under the water, aiming her battery of cannons at Link. He dove away from the hole in the railing he'd been firing through as thunder resounded, it's shots firing off into the sky, but the noise was lost among the countless other explosions that went off every second. He rolled back into his position and put another two arrows into the one that had shot at him, but it wasn't enough. It was would never be enough. 

He left fighting any boarders to the likes of Glenn and Ms. Fortune. Chao had been right, the boarders were an afterthought to the Abyssal's. Something to distract them while the meat of their attack were focused on their vessel. He did his best with arrows, but he could imagine there were attackers that he couldn't even see hiding under the waves. There were certainly a few inside the ship itself, he had seen them swimming in through the gaping holes they'd put in the ships hull. 

He considered that they may have to abandon Shippy for the Atomos, but that presented its own problems. It was getting hammered only slightly less, and it was already so low that he didn't think the airship could take the extra weight. These problems only compounded when he heard a screech even over the din of this battle and turned momentarily to spot a dark shape take wing out of the abyssal base and began  flapping its way toward the airship. That was...interesting, despite everything. How had they allied themselves with a giant bird?

Fortunately it didn't seem like that was an option they would have to take just yet, as relief appeared in the form of Blazermate. After topping the defenders off she set her beam to the ship itself, Link backing away as the chunk that had been blown out of the railing in front of him reformed as the beam did its work. 

He heard the Cadet call out that he was going below deck, presumably to take care of their stowaways, but Link hadn't expected him to do so over the side of the ship. That was a good plan. Blazermate would have an easier time keeping up with the damage if it wasn't coming from both inside and outside. "I'm going with him." He called to the others. He looked over at Blazermate, who already had at least one abyssal bodyguard now. "Blazermate is our lifeline. When it's clear down there we can move her inside where it's safer. Keep her from getting blown up till then."

With that he ran across the deck toward the below decks entrance, along the way scooping up a pair of Abyssal spirits rolling around on the deck and crushing them in each hand. He hoped they turned into something interesting as he threw open the door and jumped down the stairs into the hold, ready to catch the intruders in a pincer attack with the Cadet.