Some Quarter

"Some Quarter" is a [SEASON NUMBER] thread started on [IRL DATE] and finished on [IRL DATE].
==Summary==
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It was a seemingly normal day on Haligan. Birds were singing, the sun was shining and there was a decent breeze coming from the north and it seemed it was going to a beautiful day. Then a canon ball smashed through a house. Guards rushed to the edge of the islands and there were at least 7 ships on the horizon and closing in at a supernatural speed. They flew a black flag adorned with a crow skull and 2 pairs of manacles crossed behind it, below it was an hour glass. They would arrive in less than half an hour.
Mar 13, 2021
Four months had passed since the Battle of the Jaw and the end of June 1071 was approaching, and while there were some occurrences, things had been fairly quiet on Haligan Island and in the Rebellion. The Chief continued to check in on the Rebellion, and she was also considering setting out to find allies for the Rebellion. They needed more men in order to take down High Central. 
However, that all changed when a cannon ball suddenly crashed through a house, and the look outs saw 7 ships on the horizon. She looked through a spy glass as well. They had a black flag with crow skull and two pairs of manacles crossed behind it, and they were coming towards her island. She glared. Someone was about to attack her island. 
“Someone get my husband! Gather the men!” the Chief shouted angrily, “and send word to my niece at the Jaw! The island is under attack! Take your battle stations!” She climbed on Shadow, and they took off into the air.
Mar 13, 2021
The ships were surprisingly fast for their size, even the smaller ones. It was almost as if the water carried them on its hands. Suddenly a large wave began to form off the coast of the island. It grew larger and larger until it smashed into one of the watchtowers. Another followed it, taking out another and another. It was almost like the sea was pissed at the island for whatever reason. All the while the ships drew closer and closer.
Mar 13, 2021
“Grey!” Brandt shouted as he ran over to Grey and Shadow as they flew in the air and watched as Shadow touched down on the ground. “What’s happening?” 
“We’re under attack,” Grey said. “I need you to lead the men on the ground. I will lead the first line of defense and hold them off for as long as I can. Also, get Hroar to lead the evacuation and make sure the kids are there.”
“Mom!” a voice shouted. Both Grey and Brandt looked as they saw their oldest son and two younger daughters running over to them. 
“What are you doing here?” Grey asked. “You need to find Hroar and Grandma and get off this island.” There was another boom as another watchtower went down.
“I want to help!” Sven said. “I can help you out there.”
Grey stopped and stared at Sven. He had mentioned possibly trying to work more in the Rebellion, but he hadn’t complete his training with Malak yet. Not yet. “You haven’t completed your training yet, sweetheart,” she said gently. “I know you want to help, but you’re not ready yet. I need you to help Hroar and Grandma lead the evacuation. You need to make sure everyone including your sisters gets on the dragons and fly over to the island.”
Sven deflated and nodded knowing that this wasn’t the time to argue. So, after they quickly shared a group hug, the kids ran off to find Hroar, while Brandt prepared the men on the ground and on the ships while Grey gathered the men and the dragons.
Mar 13, 2021
And suddenly the ships were on top of them, close enough to be heard at least as a voice rang out across the water. "Hello hello stooges of the Rebellion!" It was the voice of the captain of those supposed traders from months ago. "I wanted to come and speak with you. Now, normally we would not be doing much the talking and the speaking and the blah blah blah blah blah, but today is a special day and I wish to offer you..." She audibly hums and holds her fingers a bit apart. "Some quarter.
"Your precious goddess and her little storm routine cut into my profits quite a bit, so now I'm here to collect merchandise to... Recoup, some of those losses. I give you my word that if you surrender now, I won't kill you. However if you don't..." Ai shrugs. "Mmm, well, we'll just have to do it the standard way where I kill you soldiers, take you people and leave your island burning. You're choice, you have a minute."
Mar 13, 2021
“I know that voice,” Grey said to herself as she watched the ships on Haligan’s borders. But there was no time to unpack that at the moment. She needed to focus on defending her home...her family. She glared and tapped on Shadow’s neck urging her forward. 
“I’m Chief on this island,” Grey shouted back, “and while I am sorry that your business went under...then again I’m not, I’m afraid we will not surrender. You have a minute to turn around before I have my dragon burn your ships where they stand.”
Mar 13, 2021
Ai hums. "Oh I see, well in that case I suppose we'll just be turning around and-" As she spoke she was gesticulating wildly and suddenly another wave, larger than the others, surged forward and crashed over where Grey, Shadow, and the rest had gathered. Shortly after, cannons from all 7 ships began to fire cannon balls of various sizes, continuously at the island, some of which exploded on impact. The damage to the island and their fortifications was tremendous.
Mar 13, 2021
“For Haligan Island...CHARGE!!” Grey shouted at the top of her lungs as Shadow immediately charged forward and began firing at the ships with the other dragons not too far behind. 
The Chief herself formed fire balls in her palms and threw her plasma blasts down at the offending ships. 
Mar 13, 2021
As the fire approached the ship the a thick wall of water rose up, extinguishing them. Cannonballs pierced the wall and flew at the soldiers in the Island. Most now exploded on impact, it seemed she was now out for blood.
Mar 13, 2021
Brandt watched his wife lead the 200 men and their dragons in the air and shoot at the ships. However that didn’t stop as the offending ships continued to fire back at the island. Brandt watched as the men pushed out the catapults, given to them by Dixie and other weapons. 
“Ready the catapults!” Brandt shouted. The men gathered torches and lit them and fire pits and set fire to the balls of oil and straw. “Ready! Aim! FIRE!!!” 
They released the catapults and fired at the ships. 
Mar 13, 2021
Well, those catapults needed to go. Ai took the water wall she created and pushed it out towards the catapults. Once they were fully engulfed she quickly froze them so they were unusable, and if a couple soldiers were in the way, all the better.
Meanwhile the crews on board the other ships began to focus on the dragons. They fired harpoons, nets, bows and arrows, and even cannons at them. The sloops and a galleon had broken off and and we now making their way to shore.
Mar 13, 2021
Brandt and the soldiers were able to step back away from the ice that formed around the catapults, and he noticed that a couple of soldiers weren’t so lucky and were frozen right along side the weapons. He glared and turned to his soldiers. 
“I NEED MORE WEAPONS!” he shouted. 
Meanwhile, Grey eyed Ai as she created the water wall, and she and Shadow fired plasma blasts at the ship in hopes to distract her and cause her to falter. 
Mar 13, 2021
Ai moved swiftly and pulled some water on deck to put out the fires. She saw the need to impede the dragons' movements. She took a deep breath and pulled decently sized spikes from out of the water in random locations around them and froze them solid. It would make it harder for the dragons to get around at least. And hey, if she speared a few dragons and their hapless riders along the way then all the better.
The ships had made landfall, the galleon had loaded the rowboats and were being sent out as the pirates from the sloop began to charge onto land and began fighting the soldiers.
Mar 13, 2021
Grey screamed as she yanked on Shadow’s reigns pulling her back as the spikes shot out of the water. Some soldiers and their dragons did not see it coming and fell into the water below, and Grey groaned in frustration. The ships made landfall, and the Chief could see the soldiers clashing on land. 
“Go back to the island!” Grey shouted to the remaining men. She looked down at Ai glaring at her. “I’ll deal with her myself.” She guided Shadow toward Ai ready to face her...hoping to throw her off her game. 
Mar 13, 2021
Ai watched as the chief descended to her ship. "Ah, chief Grey, come to surrender I take it." The Half-Nix said as she lifted a beautiful ornate goblet to her lips and took a drink only to find it empty. She turned it over just make sure there wasn't even a drop of wine left before humming in disappointment, shrugging and tossing it over her shoulder.
Mar 13, 2021
“Quite the contrary, I’ve come for your surrender,” Grey said as she unsheathed her sword and Shadow growled at the faction leader behind her. “The goddess has been long gone for quite a while now. You have no reason to quarrel with us.”
Mar 13, 2021
Ai drew her sword and flourished it, a cutlass of beautiful craftsmanship. She laughed at Grey as she began to step around her. "A quarrel with you? No, no, you misunderstand. This is purely business. Were it not for you and your little rebellion we would have been out trading and stealing to our hearts desire.
"But instead we had to wait for months on end for her damned storm to blow over and lost a fair bit of coin because of it. As such compensation was required." She grins as she sizes her up. "And oh what a price you'll fetch. Lady Grey, of the original Rebellion. I'm certain someone in High Central will pay a fine bounty for all the Hel you helped raise."
Ai had walked enough so that Grey's back was to the side of the ship. She quickly raised a hand and several slim tendrils of water rose up from the ocean, poised strike at a moment's notice. "So are you sure you don't want to surrender?"
The Chief eyed the faction leader as she circled her listening to her explain their motives for attacking Haligan Island, and she couldn’t help but roll her eyes mentally at how the business failed because Hel marked them with a storm cloud. She recognized the leader from the one encounter they had when they passed by Haligan Island, and she knew she should’ve questioned further. Nevertheles, she held up a hand to silence Shadow to not attack just yet. 
Then several ocean tendrils rose from the water aimed at her and Shadow, and when the leader asked her to surrender, she raised an eyebrow and readied her sword and a plasma blast. “It’s going to take more than your water tricks to convince me to surrender,” she said with a smirk. 
Mar 13, 2021
She shrugged and without another word the tendrils surged forward to wrap around Grey’s limbs, rather than hurting her. Ai, rather than attack the chief, went for her dragon, slashing at her wings and tail.
Mar 13, 2021
Shadow roared as she took off into the air avoiding the ocean tendrils, and Grey yelped as the tendrils restrained her limbs. She struggled to get free to help Shadow, but it was useless. She was stuck, and she dropped her sword when the water grabbed her. However, she had one trick up her sleeve when she noticed that her hands were free. So, she opened her hands revealing the plasma blast to free her arms. 
Mar 14, 2021
With the dragon taken off Ai was able to focus on the Chief once more. Seeing that she’d managed to free one hand she had the tendrils force her other arm painfully behind her back while getting another tendril to form and recapture her wrist and do the same as she did for the other arm. She quickly made her way behind her and wrapped an arm tightly around Grey’s waist, holding her blade to her throat. “Tell your men to surrender or your head will not be the last to roll.” She whispered coldly in her ear.
Mar 14, 2021
A shiver went down Grey’s spine as Ai whispered her threat in her ear. She stayed practically still as a statue eying the sword that was all too close to her throat. She breathed through her nose trying her hardest not to move. She wasn’t sure which was worse…the blade against her throat…or Satine’s garrote strangling her 26 years ago. 
Shadow growled from above as her eyes narrowed into slits ready to attack Ai, but she knew she couldn’t attack without hitting Grey. The Chief took a deep breath. 
The Chief considered, but no, she couldn’t surrender…not when they were so close to defeating High Central. Brandt could lead the men on the land. 
“Why would I surrender to the likes of you?” Grey said through clenched teeth. 
Mar 14, 2021
“Because if you don’t, you’ll die anyways.” Ai replied. “I’ll kill you, your husband, all your soldiers. But one way or another, Haligan will be mine.” With that she began to press the blade against her neck, very close to where Satine had strangled her.
Mar 14, 2021
Grey’s blood ran cold…ice cold through her veins as Ai threatened her, her husband…her soldiers. She didn’t mention her children…or her mother, but…chances were they would be on that list. If she died, she wouldn’t be able to protect them…any of them, and at that thought, her breathing became very erratic. She shook against Ai’s grip. 
“Wait…don’t kill them…please…” she said as she clenched her eyes closed. “Just…t-take me…take me instead. Y-You can have the island. Just…just let my husband and my men go…” and my children and mother… “take the island and take me as prisoner. Just let them all go.”
Shadow crooned in shock.
Mar 14, 2021
She grinned and the pressure on her blade lightened. “Call off your dragon, and call off you men, and we will have a deal.” She said, turning her so she could face her home and tell them of her defeat.
Mar 14, 2021
She hated this. She hated this with every fiber of her being, but it needed to be done. It needed to be. Her mother, children, and those who did not wish to fight had to have been off the island by now. So now that left Brandt, Shadow, and their men. She looked up at Shadow, who looked directly at her with great sadness and fear. They had never been separated like this…since Midgardsormr. 
Grey managed a small smile as best as she could. “Shadow…go back to the island,” she said. 
Shadow crooned clearly refusing. 
“Shadow,” she said gently, “it’s okay, girl. I promise, but you need to leave…help Brandt protect the tribe. Please…everything will be okay.”
Shadow crooned sadly. She wanted to nuzzle Grey…to tell her that everything would be okay and that she and Brandt would help her, but there was no way Ai would allow that. She closed her eyes and flapped her wings and took off…without Grey…and flew back to the island…back to Brandt…
Grey felt tears form in her eyes as she looked to the men on the island. She took a deep breath steadying herself. She had to stay strong. She was still their Chief. “Haligans! Brandt! STAND…DOWN!” she shouted. 
Brandt and the rest of the men thankfully heard her and stopped as they looked out at the ship. Sure enough, hearing his wife’s voice, he looked…and his eyes widened. Grey was being held captive by the leader…with a knife to her throat…and Shadow flying back to him. 
“G-GREY! NO!” Brandt shouted as he ran closer as if that would save her. 
“Brandt…you need to take the men and get off the island…NOW!” she said. “She agreed to let you all go! Please!”
“I’m not leaving you!” Brandt said as Shadow stepped in front of him crooning up at him sadly. 
“You have to! Our family needs you…our tribe needs you! Lila needs you!” Grey shouted back. 
Mar 15, 2021
Ai grinned as she watched Grey’s men hesitate and wait for confirmation. The Half-Nix let out a sharp whistle. Several of her men started to put a muzzle over her mouth and throw a weighted net over her. The rest quickly began restraining Brandt and the rest of the soldier.
Mar 15, 2021
Before Brandt could even react to Grey’s pleas and Ai’s whistle, his arms were suddenly yanked backward as he was restrained. Shadow roared in defiance as Ai’s men netted her and muzzled her. All the Haligan soldiers protested and yelled as the pirates restrained them one by one. 
Grey’s eyes widened in horror as she watched this happen before her eyes…especially her husband and her dragon. She shook her head. “No…no, we had a deal!” she said frantically struggling to get away. “You said you would let them go! Please!”
Mar 15, 2021
Ai pressed the blade against her throat again. “Pirate, remember? Too bad the rest of your people ran off, so I’ll just have to take you and your soldiers instead.” Several men came up from below deck. “Chain her up and get ready to take us ashore. Oh and make sure it’s one of those special cuffs that goes over her hands.”
They nod and attach a set of manacles to her wrists and hands. They were clenched into a fist and covered so she couldn’t use her plasma. Another was wrapped around her neck and the chain placed in the Captain’s hand. She chuckled darkly and gave a slight tug on it. “Oh you’re going to fetch me a fine price indeed. I’ll have to send word to my contacts in High Central, tell them I’ve got the ‘Lady of the Revolutionaries’. I’m sure I’ll have more than a few people interested in keeping you as a prize.” She smirks.
Mar 15, 2021
The Chief glared hard at the Captain as her fists shook under the manacles that held her hands tightly in fists and as Ai pulled on the chain that was attached to the one on her neck. Her heart pounded but she refused to show this lowlife any fear. She had a Nix go get Lila. Surely the Rebellion would be there in moments ready to help, and then she would be the one to put Ai in chains. 
However, she couldn’t help but think of her children and her mother. So long as they were off the island, they would be safe, but Brandt wasn’t with them. Hroar had to be. He could work with Lila and help fix this. 
“You won’t get away with this,” Grey said to Ai through clenched teeth. “The Rebellion and Haligan Island will prevail.”
Mar 15, 2021
She rolls her eyes. “Yes yes, as if I haven’t heard that a thousand times before.” She looks to her men. “Put her down were we put the others until I’m ready to depart.”
With that, Ai headed to her cabin while one grabs the chain and yanks her down towards the stairs leading down below deck, another stands by and watches. Grey is taken down to the bottom of the ship.
A little bit of water lines the deck and she is fastened to the floor with not enough chain to stand and the whole deck smells of mildew and… Something else she’s not sure she wants to know.
Mar 15, 2021
She didn’t have a chance to respond as Ai’s men grabbed her by her chains demanding that she would be brought down below until she was ready to depart the ship. Gods only knew how long that would take, but that was how it was in captivity. You were at the mercy of your captor, and Grey already hated every minute of it as she was brought below deck. She couldn’t see her husband or her dragon...or her children or her mother. They were on another island, and the last time they spoke, she made it seem like they would see each other soon after everything was over...but it wasn’t. 
The Rebellion still had yet to arrive. She realized this as they chained her to the floor. She tried to move to stand but the chains were too short. However, she refused to let her captors see that it was saddening. She kept the glare on her face...and tried not to focus on the putrid smell of mildew...and gods only knew what else. All she tried to think about was her children, her husband, her dragon, and her mother...praying that they were all okay. By now...they would be moving Brandt, Shadow, and the men to their cells...perhaps on the prison.
“Imprisoned in my own home...” she thought to herself. She clenched her teeth. “My kids...forced to leave their home...the very island they grew up on.” She seethed as the anger boiled through as she stared at her manacles. She sighed. She at least hoped that the pirates would have enough mercy to put her near her husband...and her dragon. As long as she had them, she would gather the strength. That was something her father always told her...family was always the greatest strength a warrior could have, and so long as the Rebellion, Sven, Dagny, Kari, and the council were safe, there was hope.
“Make no mistake,” she thought to herself thinking about the Captain who imprisoned her. “The minute I’m free and take back my island...you...will be the first to die.”
Back on the neighboring island...where the evacuation point always was...Hroar the Young looked through his spyglass. He didn’t see Grey...but he could see Brandt, Shadow...and the other men...his comrades all being restrained and taken to the prison...all to become slaves. He feared the worse for the Chief of Haligan Island, but then he saw her being taken below deck on the ship she was last seen on. They had to be waiting until they had a chance to move her to the prison. That had to be it. They wouldn’t kill her, not when she would be such a prize for High Central, but that didn’t stop the ache in his heart remembering that this Chief...was the very same little girl...who Ingrid gave birth to...who followed him, Magnus, and his friends around when they were young. 
“Aw, kid,” he said to himself. “We’ll fix this, I promise. I will make sure--”
“Hroar...” 
He looked down only to see Ingrid--Grey’s mother--and Grey and Brandt’s children...looking up at him. He volunteered to be on the look out for when Grey and Brandt would return from the battle to inform them that they were victorious. But that never came. Now...he was to tell the Chief’s mother and children that they lost and that Grey and Brandt were held captive...prisoners...to become slaves. He sighed as his dragon helped him down the tree. 
“Where are Mom and Dad?” Dagny asked. 
Hroar opened his mouth and closed it.
“Hroar, please, where is my daughter? Where is my son-in-law?” Ingrid asked. 
“I...I’m sorry, but...they were...taken prisoners,” Hroar said. “The faction has them. From...what I could see, they’re moving them to the prison.”
“No...” Ingrid said covering her mouth as tears leaked down her face and she gathered her grandchildren close to her.
“B-But...we...we can get them back, right?” Sven asked. “W-We can...We can save all of them...and chase those pirates out of there, right?”
Hroar looked at Sven...Grey’s oldest child and sighed. “Yes, we will try,” he began, “but....Sven...there is something you must know. Now that...both the current Chief...and her second-in-command are...not available, the position must fall on the Heir if he has reached manhood.”
Sven’s brown eyes widened. “W-Wait...you mean...?”
“Yes, my boy, now that Chief Grey and Sir Brandt are not available at this moment to lead, you, Sven Felman, are now...acting Chief of the Haligan Tribe, and we are here to serve you...and to follow you as we served and followed your mother.”