Sezato, Lemurian Belt

  It has been three days since The Xen Grand's Capture, the crew have been forced into the Sezato wilds, they have been forced to prepare to participate in a deadly combat ritual that begins in an hour

  Neve is training in solitary away from everyone else but someone accidentally stumbles into her

  Hyuken: Hello, who else is here?

  Neve: Leave me alone

  Hyuken: Oh it's just you

  Neve: Yeah…just me

  Hyuken: I hate you by the way, you've got a problem with me and Kiqi you just aren't saying,

  Neve: I don't think you deserve to know

  Another walks in on them

  Kiqi: Oh..hello

  Neve: You sycophant, spineless and gutless, leave me alone

  Kiqi begins to move but decides to stay

  Kiqi: No

  Neve: How many times do I gotta get it into your head, I'm not interested in your friendship

  Kiqi: Yet the minute an extremeist old money asshole shows up you want to bring him aboard and make A STRANGER part of the guild ON A FUCKING WHIM

  Neve: ….

  Hyuken: He makes an excellent point, would the defendant like to respond

  Kiqi: You would have rather had an actual human-sized sack of shit on the guild, one that runs a paramilitary group as a side-hustle, over two trained and devoted members of the Century Corps

  Neve: It's not all about loyalty and training…

  Kiqi: Is it about where I'm from then? Who my parents are? Why is love between two foreign forces SO HARD FOR YOU TO GRASP!!

  Neve: I'm pregnant, and that "stranger" is the father

  Kiqi falls to the ground head in his hands

  Hyuken: You sicken me….

  Kiqi: All this time I looked up to you Neve….all this time….

  Neve: You're mistake, sorry I didn't embody the woman you thought I was, but the man I let into my heart has nothing to do with it

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  Kiqi: I'm disgusted by how shallow you really are

  Suddenly another figure appears

  Thechr: Alright that's enough from you three

  Neve: Sorry Captain

  Kiqi: Sorry for the trouble

  Hyuken: It won't happen again

  Thechr: We've got limited time before the rite let's spend it productively

  Soon it is time for the rite, and everyone has filed into the arena box

  Demeui: Is everyone ready?

  Kelpie: No

  Demeui: Well, we have to go in anyway

  Yuteyh is overlooking the arena where The Century Corps will fight with Odio. He pulls out his megaphone to announce the beginning of combat

  Yuteyh (Over Megaphone): Hello followers of Sheyane, today we will punish the Century Corps, the eight members before you will be punished for their sins, we will unleash our most elite warriors to destroy them: The Swords of Sheyane.

  The Century Corps are thrown into an arena as heavily armed cultists emerge

  Yuteyh (Over Megaphone): Begin The Rite

  Elghene: If we want to live, we're gonna have to fight harder than we ever have before

  The Rite of Punishment begins

  After 20 Cultists are defeated

  Odio: This wasn't part of your plan?

  Yuteyh: No?

  After 30 Cultists are defeated

  Elghene: We might actually do this

  Kelpie: Hell yeah we will

  Iaray: I find it hard to believe we are still alive

  After 50 Cultists are defeated

  Odio: Aren't you worried, at this rate they might kill the entire stadium

  Yuteyh: No, because the true punishment is on the way

  After 75 Cultists are defeated

  Hyuken: We're doing a lot better than before

  Neve: ….

  Kiqi: Alright, press on

  After 100 cultists are defeated, the ground begins shaking

  Odio: What is happening?

  Yuteyh: Punishment

  A massive spider emerges from the watery depths

  Thechr: Let's call off the celebrations

  Yuteyh (Over Megaphone): Behold, The Titan Ayyakino. Ayyakino is also known as The Lemurian Terror

  Iaray: Well, what's the gameplan?

  Hyuken: We kill it to death

  Demeui: I like that plan

  Fight against Ayyakino

  When it is at 80%

  Odio: Why aren't they dead yet?

  Yuteyh: …

  Resume

  When Ayyakino is at 60%

  Hyuken: Kiqi boost me

  Kiqi helps catapult Hyuken through the air so she can land a powerful blow on Ayyakino

  Iaray: Good work, now let's go for the legs

  Demeui: I'll assist

  Iaray and Demeui throw their projectiles at the beast, making it lose a leg

  Yuetyh: We may have more trouble then what we bargained for

  Resume

  When it is at 40%

  Kelpie: Captain, allow me to assist

  Thechr: I shall

  Kelpie wraps a seaweed tendril around Thechr which binds the beast

  Resume

  When it is at 20%

  Yuteyh: This has gotten out of hand

  Odio: May I suggest ending the rite and allowing them to live

  Yuteyh: NO, that would be disgraceful

  Resume

  When Ayyakino is finally felled, it creates a large panic among the cult

  Yuteyh (Over Megaphone): ORDER ORDER, DO NOT LET THEM ESCAPE

  Elghene: Alright everyone follow my lead

  Thechr: Lead the way

  Elghene: I'm going to

  Elghene leads the party out of the chaotic arena and onto Yuteyh's personal barge

  Elghene: Free ride

  Thechr: What about my ship?

  Kelpie: The real ship is in the hearts of the crew

  Demeui: That doesn't even make sense

  Elghene: No I agree completely

  Iaray: Hey guys, is this important

  Iaray points to one of The Portal Batteries

  Elghene: Well we scored The Jackpot