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One Piece: New Age

Things were starting to get crazy pretty quickly. They had barely gotten on the island and already they were starting a fight with the marines. As Lenwood, Satoru and Zypha made their way up the trail they were suddenly ambushed by marines up in the trees. They were being rather tricky little buggers as four nets, two on each side of the trail, tried to capture the pirates.

They had been too busy trying to find the marine base and their companions so they had been caught unawares, but Zypha had quick reflexes and a keen mind to keep her safe. Zypha jumped up in the air, hurled a chain-scythe into a big tree branch and swung herself out of harm's way, narrowly missing being caught like a fish in a net. "Looks like they have some brains at least, but ya missed your chance to pin this one down, now come here!"

Continuing her swing she climbed up into the trees on the right side of the path, surprising a few hidden marines who did expect someone to join them up in the tree. She quickly charged them with remarkable balance, wielding her scythes to great effect as she started to slash at the marines while attempting to knock them out of the tree and onto the ground. The battle was on!

The Legend of Zelda: War to End Them All

Soon the royal procession reached its destination and Princess Stella climbed up onto the top of a tall podium erected for her, of course it was decked out with the royal flag and essentially made her the princess on the pedestal. Stella looked out at the expectant crowd who cheered and generally made a lot of noise. Expectant eyes glued onto their noble princess. Stella closed her eyes briefly, put a hand up to her chest, took a deep breath, opened her eyes, and started her speech.

"Welcome honored citizens of Hyrule and visitors from afar. Thank you all for coming to celebrate our glorious kingdom this Founder's Day." As soon as she had started her speech the crowd instantly grew quiet as they listened intently. "As many of your know our Kingdom has not always been stable, wars have broken out, evil has nearly taken over time and time again. But each time the honorable citizens of Hyrule have stood up to this tyranny and fought back evil time and time again. Our ancestor's were great legends who will live on in stories for all to enjoy and marvel about. I know I have from time to time but it is now up to us to keep this kingdom safe."

Stella looked out at the crowd who now had quite a lot to think about. She smiled sagely at some who even seemed a bit troubled. "We celebrate the founding of this kingdom because it started a legend that has continued to this day. Even now our great kingdom stands as a beacon of hope, a shining example, and a pristine bulwark against evil. I love this city, this kingdom, and especially all the people who occupy and visit it." Stella lifted her hands above her head and a great ball of light grew above her and started to trail up into the sky. She then brought her hands together in front of her chest, lowered her head, and closed her eyes as if in prayer, while the ball of light continued to rise.

"I pray that everyone of you will continue to help bring prosperity and safety to this kingdom. May the Goddesses's blessings rain down upon you as we share our experiences together this Founder's Day. Now," Stella smiled, brought her hands out in front of her, palms up, and looked out at the crowd, "may the true festivities begin!" With that royal proclamation, the bands started to play and her ball of light exploded into a cascade of colors, reds, blues, golds, and silvers spread themselves across the sky like glitter. The crowd cheered as Stella gave a formal bow to the people and left her place on high.

As the festivities started to get super rowdy Stella could only think, "Now I just got to figure out how to get out of here so I can check out the Temple of Time! I really need to know what's going on!"

One Piece: New Age

Somehow things turned out decently, it was a bonafied miracle really. Still not everything was peachy as they soon were told by the town that essentially, they didn't have didily squat because were a bunch of chumps who preferred to take advantage of the villagers rather than actually doing their job of protecting them. The marines had helped for a bit before they turned scum. Well that really much they could do, or so she thought but apparently her captain had other ideas.

"What we need is to... stand on top of the food chain... That's it! We can take all the supplies back from the marines. After all, we're pirates! We won't take orders nor being restricted by the laws that bind the marines." Zypha looked at Lenwood like he had lost his mind.

"You're joking right...captain...ah heck you're totally serious ain't ya." Lenwood was already on the move and calling out to her to come along. She gave an exasperated sign and shrugged. "Well what's a girl to do but keep his ass out of trouble." She waved goodbye to the villagers, especially the little girl, and charged after her captain who barraged her with several questions right after the other.

"The heck would I know about any of that? Still, just by looking at them I could tell they were telling the truth. You can get a feel for those kind of things after a while. If there are marines on this island, we better find the others before things get crazy."

The Legend of Zelda: War to End Them All

Gonna have at least one more post before princess Stella can make it over to the Temple. A princess can't just ignore her duties on a whim after all. Gotta give her speech first. Not sure if you want to but you could have something interesting happen during this time. Otherwise I'll just have her finish up with the parade and speech then find her way over to the Temple.

The Legend of Zelda: War to End Them All

"It is almost time for the royal procession your majesty." A messenger announced to the princess.

"I see, them them to set out as soon as I arrive." Stella commanded the messenger who gave a quick salute and went off to tell the royal procession. Stella steeled herself and started to walk toward her intended starting point when she noticed a certain man in the area, Rikshath the Sheikah. She had seen the man on very rare occasions but had never had the chance to speak with him. The Sheikah were the ancient protectors of Hylian royalty but most of their work was done in the shadows. She of course knew that in the past the princess had a royal bodyguard, traditionally called Impa but in this age there was no female Sheikah that could be her personal bodyguard, as men were not allowed such a task she had to be content with the royal guard.

It had taken some digging around, asking various servants and nobles but her curiosity would not be statisfied until she knew who he was, as a Sheikah was a rare individual to see. The man's name was Rikshath and apparently he was a fairly accomplished sage, capable of some incredible magics. Besides his name and a few other trivial details however, the one rumor of interest was that he was related to the famous Impa, her ancestor's bodyguard and confidant for generations. There was no way to learn besides asking the man himself but there was little to no time for that because of her position, also the man was hardly ever around.

As she walked she directed her path to pass by the man so she could at least give him a proper greeting. She stopped, folding her hand together in front of her dress and gave a small, polite bow. "Sage Rikshath, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." She resisted the urge to ask him a thousand questions and quickly wrapped up the small greeting. "I fear I have duties to attend to but I hope you will continue to provide support for my Family and I in the years to come. May the Goddesses guide your steps." With a gentle smile she managed to walk to her assigned place in the parade without cracking her mask.

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The parade itself was an astonishing sight, now made three times more exciting for the people when the royal procession joined in. Royal guardsmen in their flashy armor flanked both sides of the open-air carriage Stella currently sat in along with her personal attendants. Hyrulian flags were everywhere, people of every shape and size watched the procession with a wide variety of emotions. Trumpets sounded, flutes sang, ocarinas hummed, and so on as he made her way to the podium, set up above the crowds where she would give the Founder's Day speech.

She smiled and waved at the crowds, careful to keep composed at all times. "Please hurry up carriage, I just want to get this over with so I can investigate the Temple of Time. I need to know so please Goddesses, don't let there be any unexpected delays!" Stella prayed in her heart while she graced the parade and festival with her presence.

The Legend of Zelda: War to End Them All

Hyrule Town: Royal Event Hall

Stella Vanessa Vi Hyrule was the crown heir and princess to Hyrule; therefore, she also had a lot of responsibilities to take care of. Today was Hyrule's Founder's Day. The day when residents across the land traveled far and wide to pay homage to the great nation and in general just have a ridiculously good time while doing it. It was a great, grand festival and this year was suppose to be especially eventful, which meant much more work for her.

"Princess, is the royal parade to your liking?" Asked one of the even organizers.

"Yes, it will do quite admirably." Stella replied as politely as possible.

"Princess, can you approve this change to the schedule?" Another organize inquired. Stella nodded slowly and take a pen from his hand to sigh the form he was holding.

"My lady, are you sure you do not want any adjustments to your dress? Perhaps we could add just a bit more decoration to it." Questioned one of her ladies-in-waiting.

"No, that is quite alright. My current attire is more than adequate." Stella tried to assure her. She was already dressed up in her royal best there was not need to any more extravagant. She already felt a bit like a walking parade with the extra festive jewelry and extra fancy gold circlet with precious red and white gems set in the crown.

All this was happening in a rather large building near the center of the square that had been procured ahead of time for the event organizers and royal family to prepare for the event. Of course things were just getting busier and busier as the event was getting underway and as princess, she had a lot to take care of. Still her resolve was astounding as not once did her polite smile waver as she dealt with each new thing was it came along. On the inside she was thinking. "Man, I really hope I can find some time to listen to some of the stories being told around town. Adventurers always have such exciting tales, as long as they aren't along the lines of 'there was that one time I actually met the royal princess...'."

Stella had had the unfortunate luck on rare occasion to hear such a tale when she managed to listen to a story unnoticed, which, while interesting in its own right did not really sate her over the top curiosity. But she had a lot of things left to do, like be in the royal parade and give the Founder's Day Speech. Being a princess was always very tiring work and did not give her much 'me' time. As she kept helping people out and giving out orders a voice echoed in the back of her mind, "To the Temple of Time, your destiny awaits."

She almost didn't realize it was there because of how busy she was. For a second she almost thought it was someone around her who said it but quickly realized it was the feeling of telepathy. Instantly she was filled with curiosity and a great desire to go immediately but before she could even consider slipping away one of the helpers asked, "Princess are you alright?"

Stella quickly realized she had forgotten to answer the attendant's question about the festival. "Forgive, I was just distracted by a stray thought, please tell me again what you needed to know?" She responded sweetly, it was unfortunate but her curiosity would have to wait for a bit. She had her duties after all.

One Piece: New Age

"I didn't know you're good with children." Lenwood teased Zypha, causing the young woman to give a little sigh on the inside. "Keep joking like that and I might punch your lights out." She thought, then the parents came out to protect their daughter, hugging her and begging for her to be spared. "Yep she defintely has it better than I did."

Zypha got off the ground and brushed the dirt off her pants as Lenwood tried to calm the people down. The he saw him panic and turn to face her his eyes pleading like a lost puppy. "You're kidding right? You're asking me to take care of this?" Zypha's face scrunched up in disbelief, then relaxed as she gave a long sigh, a huge puff of wind escaped her lungs.

Well there was only one way to go about this then...make a scene. "Took your asses long enough to show up, ya bunch of cowards!" She raised her voice for as much of the town as possible to hear. "Well at least one family has some guts," she grinned at the man and his daughter. "I see the look in your eyes and I know it all too well, you've given up and lost all hope it seems. Well fine, I don't give a crap what you guys do every time someone comes here to take advantage of ya, but one thing I can tell ya. You can either cower all ya want in your little hovels or you can all get to work and open up shop right now! So what's it gonna be? You gonna stay and home and let us just take whatever the heck we want or are you actually gonna give us some service and sell us your junk? Just one look around tells me you guys can't survive much more of people just taking whatever."

Zypha felt was if she had just given the worst and most stupid speech imaginable. It would have been easy pickings to just take whatever the heck they wanted but seeing that little girl, well it hit home to be sure. "Oh and if you're man enough to open shop don't try to jack up the prices cause I'll know! We need supplies: foodstuffs, water, medicine, some wood to reinforce the hull, anything else of use for a voyage. Now get to it or I'll just be rummaging around on my own for stuff!"

Yep, today she was a bit of an idiot.

One Piece: New Age

The problem is we don't have much to work with here at the moment. Should we make up some of our own npcs/events as we explore the town? Also is the little girl only yours to command? We need to know what we can work with here to make any more progress. @Jensoman

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Present and accounted for.

One Piece: New Age

While several of the crew headed into town Zypha was giving the old tub a thorough look over. So far she had already located a few weak points in the hull thankfully her search had revealed nothing major so all the boat really needed was a little reinforcement to make sure the hull stayed stable. "At least our captain didn't get a total lemon..." Zypha checked all around the hull to make sure she did not miss anything. Finally satisfied she decided to leave the ship and head toward the town, good chance there was at least some opportunity there.

When she arrived deeper in the town she saw a rather stupid sight. A young girl, who apparently had not gotten the memo to head indoors, had bumped into Lenwood and was now frozen in pure terror. She also noticed Asus putting his hornets to good use but that wasn't of too much interest, the poor girl, with eyes wide as saucers and nearly shaking in fear caused Zypha to laugh out loud. "Ha ha ha! Captain it seems you have just gotten your first fan, I'm touched." She wiped a mock tear from her eye and stalked over to the pair, a big grin on her somewhat handsome face.

Zypha unceremoniously plopped herself down, cross-legged in front of the girl. "You know, when you meet a big nasty fellow you should probably run instead of stare." She grinned at the young girl and attempted to ruffle her hair. "Still I'm pretty sure you got nothing of worth on ya so you'll be fine kid, heh you look better off than I was back then."