This journal is amazing! I've never found anything like it before.

[A small clearing of the throat and an attempt to sound older, wiser beyond his years. He is not entirely successful.]

My name is Sinbad the Sailor. I'm not sure where I am, but that doesn't matter. The sea is calling my name, the wind is coaxing me to the sea and I am in need of your help to man a decent sized ship. I've got a lot of experience and I can navigate the seas like no one else. There is no safer vessel in which to travel.

I'm looking for people with big dreams, a thirst for adventure and a desire to have a lot of fun. It doesn't matter if I know where I am right now, there's a vast sea to explore and probably some other islands too. Think of all the creatures we can find and eat, sampling the delicacies from around the world!

Join me now, serve under the captain that will become the best King of the best kingdom in all the lands!

[There's a pause.]

Oh yeah. I have a first mate, his name is Ja'far. Don't mind him, he just likes to scream a lot because he's so small.

[ Look, there's that old-fashioned and sort-of neat handwriting belonging to Dantalion. Except today, he doesn't mention Solomon, or the demons that he might usually talk of. To be honest, he doesn't even seem to get that he's writing where everyone can see. ]

It I don't get back soon and get that firewood, father is going to really upset. Mother is going to be really worried and angry if I don't, too. The water doesn't get itself from the well.

What the hell is up with this, anyway? Tiny people and pirate ships - what even are pirates? - and why am I at sea? I haven't been on sea even once, I would remember going.

[Mitsunari's voice may not be a familiar one as he uses the journal so infrequently. Today he's actually bothering with it because he's realized there's a practical, productive use he can get out of the darn thing. What is that, you ask?

He can spread propaganda for a dead guy!]

"Hideyoshi Toyotomi."

If you have never before heard this name--my lord's name--commit it to memory immediately. You are no longer allowed to claim ignorance of his existence.

Lord Hideyoshi was an exemplary person. A paragon! His noble ambition was to unify the Land of the Rising Sun once and for all! Though his life was cruelly extinguished by Ieyasu Tokugawa, I am speaking now to ensure that his memory persists.

When you hear that name, understand that it commands respect! Know it belonged to a man whose magnificence will never, in all of time, be matched by another!

...

And if you are aware of my lord's works and still choose not to acknowledge his greatness, know that your behavior is absolutely unconscionable!

[So! ...Any questions?]

So.

We having fun yet?

Dear...bugger it, not in the mood—

Potter seems to have pissed off back to our world, which is just typical. Always has to have things just handed to him because he's the bloody Boy Who Lived. I bet Dumbledore gave him the House Cup the second he walked into the Great Hall, too, just because he finally bothered to show up for classes halfway through the year. Probably gift-wrapped it, at that.

1000 points to the arseholes of Gryffindor because Potter's not stuck in some stupid bleeding pirate world anymore.

- Draco Malfoy

P.S. Help, my ship has been taken over by ninjas and one of them is wearing the most ghastly and horrid shade of orange and another has pink hair that I think actually might not be dyed or charmed. Why do I have to still be stuck with these nutters when Potter isn't????

There are four things I need. Information about this island and the quest that the poem on the fountain suggests, a ship, crew to man it, preferably people who are at the very least familiar with taking orders if not those with sea experience, and a good cup of tea. Perhaps with something a little stronger in it. While I cannot say I was looking forward the day of meetings I had scheduled, this was not the diversion I had in mind.

Kidnapped and left on a god forsaken Spanish island? The only way this could be worse would be if it were French. [This line is heavily crossed out.]

I think it best we start with where I can find some proper tea before we move onto further information.

-Arthur Kirkland

I've been wondering how big is to big for a ship's pet? They didn't allow animals on the Yamato and they were getting very rare in general. I haven't seen any of the adults but the other creatures on this island are big. And Xun Yu said something about it knocking over trees.

[text]

[Flowing, almost archaic script starts to inundate the page.]

Dearest Brother,

I do not know if you will ever receive this letter. All I know is that I have been spirited away to this dastardly, horrid, menacing, troubling, and mysterious place known as Isla Empieza. I am very much afraid – who knows what the people here would do to a young maiden such as myself? Oh, oh, my dearest brother, my virtue is at stake – you must come at once! If I die here, I will come back to haunt you and you will never hear the end of it, so I suggest that you come and fetch me at this very moment! One such man asked me my name, and I threw him off the dock. I am truly helpless, waif-like, and defenseless, and I need your aid!

Please, also let my darling fiance Ranma-sama know that I am longing for him. I will simply not entertain thoughts of any other until I find myself in his arms once more. I know how he grieves, but console him, my dearest sibling. How he must pine for me – it is unthinkable.

Brother, I will put this letter in a bottle and hope that it reaches you. I will perhaps ask a turtle to bear it for me. When you receive this, please come and rescue me!

Love,
The Star of Hope of the Gymnast World
The Black Rose
Your Beloved Sister
Kodachi



[voice]

[Some time later . . .]

I can't rip the page out! I've been trying for hours! It just . . . flies back into the journal . . . !!! Magic exists, but only to taunt me! The fates are against me! I'll never be rescued now!

[Cue shrieks, wails, and sobs. When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.]

How incredibly amusing. [ Despite his words, the man with the pointy ears and sharp teeth sounds completely unamused. ] I must say, I did not expect to end up in a place like this. In a place where from I can't return to Hell, that is. It's most curious how it's even possible, is there something very different with this worlds Hell? Or does it not exist? What about Heaven?

None the less, I suppose this is a chance to take a break from being treated as Solomon's house-keeper. This place looks like it could provide its fair share of entertainment, and as long as no one I know is here, I think I'll do just fine. Anyway, I'd be bored just being stuck on this island, so if you have any suggestions on where I could go, please do give me a heads up.

[ And he's done. Being polite is so tiring when you make public announcements, and he can't see how Solomon handles it so well. But the human is the king, so he doesn't have any choice but to choose his words well, he supposes. So he's ending it there.

For those that are around, they might see a man sit floating in the air, He might be heard muttering to himself. ]

Frogs doesn't even have hair, not even demon frogs has hair. What is this person trying?