[Audio] ALL THE DRAMATICS! A cry for anarchy! This is war!

[fierybluebird]

Pirates of the world, RISE UP I say!

This world claims we do not belong here! The people of this world say we have no home, no place on these seas, in this world! I disagree! [Oh lord, Marco's going full steam here.] My world had no use for monsters like us either! My world made it a sin and a crime for some of us to even be born. Well, to hell with that, say I! ARE WE PIRATES OR ARE WE COWARDS?!

I FOR ONE, BEAR THE FLAG OF MY FATHER AND BROTHERS! LET US TAKE OVER THESE SEAS, AND CLAIM OUR PLACE IN A WORLD ONCE AND FOR ALL! LET US SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE WILL NOT BE DENIED OR IGNORED!

Let us show the world that this era is OURS!

[AND WITH THAT: he lets out a huge phoenix cry of victory.] SCRAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

[We now return you to your daily journal entries of everything else completely different.]

Comments

[fierybluebird]

[Just laughs.] I'll leave it to you to figure out.

[theartofboom]

Probably. Once I figure it out myself.

Either way, we're not staying here forever. Fuck that.

[fierybluebird]

I don't see what's wrong with making this world our own.

[theartofboom]

It's just one world. I'd rather have an infinite number of them.

[fierybluebird]

Sounds like fun.

Thatch and I used to talk about mapping stars, eh?

[theartofboom]

Well then you can help me map the Eternities. There are more of them than stars.

[fierybluebird]

So much the better, eh.

[Happy flomp backwards.]

Thank you Chandra.

[theartofboom]

For what?

[fierybluebird]

Everything.

[He sits back up, and leans over the stern of the ship. Backwards, the way they came from. It's almost metaphorical really.]

For wanting to take my brothers with you even before I asked. For agreeing to take me and --

[It's been a messed up time. For a long time. It seems so long since he could say things were "normal" so maybe this is normal, because it's so fucked up and confusing, and hell if that isn't what he's used to.]

For giving me hope again.

[Real hope, he wants to say. Hope that isn't just a vague hope that Ace's little brother will change the world. Hope that isn't a slim chance some of his family might survive the incoming wars. Hope that is selfish. Hope that lets him be the pirate he wants to be.]

[He doesn't know if he wants to laugh or cry, or a hundred other things. His face is as deadpan as ever as he turns back to face her.]

My only hope for the last year before coming here has been desperate and not at all for own my sake. You're letting me make a very selfish request, and you think nothing of it. That deserves at least a thank you, eh.

[He wonders idly if he's going to spend the rest of his life indebted to redheads that never let him pay it back except in confusing ways like Grell and Shanks. Probably. But more importantly, he's not sure he has a problem with it.]

[theartofboom]

[It really, really is just absolutely nothing to her, letting him ask that of her. She'd want to do it anyway, and she was pretty sure the others would agree with her. If she could regain her planeswalking ability, why shouldn't she change fate? Davy Jones had nothing on her, ruling this one plane while she had an infinite number of them. And why not take these goofs along?]

If you say so. [She shrugs and pats his arm.]

I'm happy to have friends and I'm greedy enough to want to keep them.

[fierybluebird]

And that's exactly it.

My greed is the same, but I've never once been allowed to indulge in it before.

[theartofboom]

Oh, why not?

[fierybluebird]

I'm a phoenix, Chandra.

Forever has a different meaning to my brothers than myself usually.

[theartofboom]

And? It's not like immortality is really all that difficult to find if you have somewhere to start looking.

[fierybluebird]

[A wry sad grin.] And do you really think that's what they want?

[theartofboom]

I don't know. I know I wasn't given the choice. That's why I travel between worlds. Eventually I'll see them all.

[fierybluebird]

So long as they're happy and I can selfishly spend more time with them, I'm not sure I care where.

[theartofboom]

Well, they might...

[fierybluebird]

[Sticks his tongue out.] That's where the part about them being happy comes in, yoi.

[theartofboom]

Well an infinite number of universes to explore and all that freedom? I think it'll be good for them.

[fierybluebird]

Aye, I quite agree, eh.

That's the hope and I'll stand by it.