Captain Nymo On Duty!: Volume 8

**Date Completed:**6/8/2021
**Previous Role-Play**: Captain Nymo On Duty!: Volume 7
**Users Involved:** User:Katokonia
**Setting:** Svarga , Oskaraka Temple
**Characters Involved**:
* Nymo
* Kuraokami Coatl (Coa)
* Khamun Set (Set)
* Aldrogo Vaktharr
* Sol Oriana
* Saturn Rezka
* Pyta Ceres

## **Sunset Lullaby**

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Hey everyone, Nymo here. Welcome to the 8th edition of Captain Nymo On Duty.

Let us begin,

This entry might be a little long, a lot has happened since the last volume.

I'd say it's been about a week since everything died down? But since I last wrote it's been at least 3 weeks.

Oh! I finally learned the names of lizard-tail and his friends, at least the ones that stayed in time for the invasion. I'll talk about the invasion in a bit, but first things first.

* Lizard-Tail's name is Rezka. Weird name, I've certainly never heard it before, but the world is a lot more than just this island of course
* The pretty girl's name is Oriana, she has this weird thing where her hair changes color when she gets mad, also she's really strong
* The girl with the white hair and big hat is named Ceres, it turns out that yellow box is called a "Taxi," and she ate a power fruit that lets her turn into it and take people places. She gave me a free ride, it's pretty cool how fast it can go

Right, now we can get into it,

So if I recall correctly, I left volume 7 off right before the invasion...

It was the most eerie thing I think I've ever experienced

We had been waiting for the fleet to attack after we defeated the first wave, but nothing came. They just sat there in the distance, not budging an inch towards the island.

After an entire hour of nothing, Coa decided that if they weren't going to attack yet, that we should bolster our own defenses, and she ran off to go gather as many of the students she could find, and ordered the civilians to take refuge within the temple.

An entire village-worth of our people were already gone, and I, for one, hoped to leave it at that

Day turned to dusk, and dusk turned to night. While the ships did light fires for vision, they still refused to budge. It was on the next day, at almost exactly the same time as when we assumed the first group had arrived, that a giant blast of horns rang across the sea.

Everyone got really uneasy from that alone, a lot of the students that Coa had gathered were definitely afraid...honestly it sent a shiver down my spine too. It was a foul sound, one that could only signal something...bad.

After the horns were heard, Khaza was the first to see that the ships had begun moving towards the shoreline. There were easily hundreds of them, of ships, I mean, compared to our lack of a navy at all, as well as our "army" just being me, Khaza, Coa, Set, and a group of about 100 students in total, some of whom haven't even mastered their Ra Art yet.

I guess that was my signal to do something, since I'm the only one of the people there that had real control over water.

I ran to as close to the shore as I could without stepping in the water, and waited for them to get into range. I was surprised to see Khaza standing next to me, though maybe he was waiting until they got close enough for him to board them.

Out of the fleet coming, there were hundreds of small ships with fighters onboard, but also several absolutely massive ships as well. From the larger ones came a barrage of fire when they neared shore. I was completely taken aback, I mean come on, fire? Luckily Khaza snapped me out of it, and I was able to start using my Art to cancel it out.

I like to write more about others when it comes to these entries, but I think I was the one that did the most at this point...

I used my waterspout to knock as many of the smaller ships as I could into the air, though they caught on quickly and spread out. I did manage to catch one of the bigger ships though, and there was an entire army's worth of yelps when it flew into the air. I would've laughed if this wasn't so serious, but that's about all I was good for on that day.

I hate to admit it, but I'm not that great of a fighter. Aside from my water arts, I can't really do much...especially since I ate my power fruit. While I can still latch on to things with my tentacles underwater, like when I ride Selky, I lost my ability to swim. It really sucks, but I guess it is what it is...anyways,

Before the enemies landed, Set was able to pick off a few himself. He was using his tornado bow, and he picked off a few entire ships himself, though the bigger ones were mostly unaffected. I kept blocking their flamethrowers with miniature water spouts, so at least that was out of the way.

I'm not entirely sure when it happened, but Khaza somewhere during this time boarded one of the big ships, I know he did because of one, the war cries I heard coming from one of the boats, and two, the giant balls of aether being thrown everywhere, slowly blowing the ship to bits.

It looked like it was going well, we were doing a lot of damage, but there were just so many of them. Eventually, some were able to land, clashing with the students on the beachfront. Some turned to many, and eventually we started to get swarmed by them. They were like an army of ants, just replacing 1 dead soldier with two more.

Coa was on fire, she went into her snake form and began thrashing entire rows of the invaders apart, but it wasn't enough. I had to fall back a little bit once they noticed me, and I retreated to the treeline.

A thought struck me then, *"Where did those pirates go?"* I hadn't seen those three since the day before, but maybe they could help us somehow? I wind whispered to Set where I was going, and I ran off to find them.

It was a quick search though, because right when I started to leave, a giant ship appeared above the battlefield. Literally, above it, in the middle of the sky.

It disappeared as quickly as it had appeared, but I knew the moment I saw three people falling that it was them. Great timing, but I wasn't so sure if three people alone would be enough to fend off this army.

The army of invaders was nothing like I'd ever seen before. They were all fully armored and worked as a cohesive unit as if they thought on the same wavelength. Each soldier was massive in size, and they were all incredibly aggressive.

Oriana was the first one to reach the ground, and all the soldiers around where she dropped immediately fell, dead. I wondered what she did, but now wasn't the time. I climbed up a tree to get a better view of the field, and that's when I saw something terrible. On the far side of the shore, some ways away from here, there was another of the massive boats landing on the shore. I could see troops disembarking, heading straight for Manussa. Manussa, which right now, was almost completely undefended.

There was no way I could defend it alone, so I took a chance and leaped towards the descending Rezka and Ceres. I grabbed the two and told them what was going on, and they seemed to agree to going back. I thought we would use Ceres' transport ability, but instead Rezka grabbed us both under his arms, and a giant blast of energy came from his boots and propelled us towards the temple.

I wasn't able to tell anyone else where we were going, but I hoped that they would be alright.

When we reached Manussa, there were already soldiers looting and burning some of the buildings, but it looked like the citizens were still safe in the hall. Suddenly, a giant blast hit Rezka, and we started falling from the sky. Ceres caught me and we both landed safely, but Rezka crashed into the ground, a giant flaming axe stuck in his back.

I looked to see where it came from, and there stood a behemoth of a man, clad in thick armor and carrying a giant sickle-type weapon. Flanking him were two similarly sized people, but they both had ten arms, something I'd certainly never seen before.

I must have been spacing out, because Ceres had to physically pick me up to evade another massive axe being thrown, this time at us. This one came from one of the ten-armed men, and luckily wasn't on fire.

I wanted to turn back and fight them, but some of the invaders here were making their way towards the hall, so I told Ceres to put me down so I could rush over. I wanted to make sure Rezka was ok, but in the spur of the moment protecting the people took priority. When I looked back, Ceres was completely gone, but I did notice that Rezka had gotten up, and was surrounded by weird purple rings.

I reached the door to the hall. I could hear the citizens crying inside, with some of the men whispering about being ready for when the door broke down. I wasn't going to let it break down though, even if it meant having to fend of hundreds of these feral men myself.

The smoke from the burning buildings was diminishing the moisture in the air, so I wouldn't have much water to work with. So I opted to use air instead, shrouding my arms with a razor-sharp wind.

I charge the closest group of soldiers and started to slice at them. One thing people know about me is that I hate hurting people, but I just dulled my senses to it. This had to be done after all...

I took down a good 20 of them all by myself, but I eventually sliced at one, and nothing happened at all. It was as if his skin was made of earth itself, and he grabbed be when I failed to cut through him and threw me into a wall. I tried to get up, but he slammed into me when I was still on the wall, and my vision started to get really fuzzy. I looked down at myself, there was blood everywhere...

He moved to grab me again, but I used what strength I had left to grab him and make him forget about me. That's my power fruit power, by the way. I guess it does come in handy sometimes, because right as I did, he turned around and started walking back towards Manussa.

But wait, that wasn't a good thing either. I cursed my inability to do anything else, as they broke down the door and I heard shouts and war cries inside the hall. I leaned my head over to where Rezka had been, he was fighting 3-on-1 against the 10-handers and the armored giant. He looked like he was in a stalemate, but I guess he wouldn't be able to save the people while still fighting those three.

That was the last thing I remembered, as I slipped unconscious.

The next thing I knew, I was waking up in bed. Coa was asleep next to me, but when I woke up she immediately burst into tears and started crying about how everyone thought I was dead. I asked how long it had been since the attack, and she said it's been a whole five days already.

Five days...I guess that means it's all over one way or another. Seeing how I woke up, I guess that means we won? But I still need to find out what happened inside the hall, and I guess at the beach as well.

I'm writing this just after I talked with Coa after waking up, she's still next to me in fact. Just felt that I needed to get this written down now, before anything else happens.

Well, hopefully things aren't too bad. As one of the leaders it's my job to stay strong and act like everything's going to be ok.

Because everything IS going to be ok, I'm sure of it...

Stay tuned!

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Hi guys, Nymo here

So it's the night of the first entry I made in the volume, but I've pretty much learned everything that went down after I passed out, so I'll just be talking about that here

So first on who the invaders are,

They come from a place called Kurzhen, apparently it's one of the closest nations to us on the world map. Looks like they haven't found us before due to the storm I had in place, though it looks like the storm isn't doing it's job anymore.

The people in the hall did end up having to fight them, a lot of the citizens died brutally, though I really prefer not getting into detail on it, it's sickening.

It looks like Ceres, when she disappeared, went back to go get some people from the beachhead to help at Manussa, bringing back Khaza, Set, and Oriana. When they returned, Rezka was allegedly still holding off the three giant warriors, though Oriana went to help him out meanwhile Khaza and Set went to save the people in the hall.

They did it, they won, but it was a pyrrhic victory if anything...

Coa did a great job at keeping the fleet on the beach at bay though, and it seems like when Oriana and Rezka eventually defeated the armored guy with the flaming axe, the rest of the army began to retreat. Though not before almost half the students that helped out at the beach had perished as well...

Rezka told us about the Kurzhen, he said that a fleet of that size was one of the smaller ones. He also said that since they lost their commander and retreated, the flaming axe guy having been their commander, they're going to return to their homeland and come back next spring with even more troops.

I think as a nation we've lost more than half our entire population in the last week, so it's a pretty grim notion to think that they'll be coming back again...

Also maybe even worse is the fact that the citizenry is in complete chaos right now...

There's talks of rising against the Temple because of our inability to protect everyone, and it looks like we might destroy ourselves before those "Kurzhen" even have a chance to in a few months.

What are we even supposed to do? Everyone's at a loss as to how to fix this mess...

I'm starting to regret our decision to isolate...Looks like all that happened was that we fell behind the rest of the world, and now we just look like a big red target for anyone looking for an easy fight. Sigh...

Well, Stay Tuned, I'm sure we'll figure something out, though it'll have to be quite the plan...

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After some talking, Khaza came up with an idea that could potentially solve some of our problems...

He told us about the fruit that he had Set eat. Apparently it allows the user to lock themselves and the zone around them in time, until it reaches what he called a "critical point."

Meaning, that he thinks that if Set uses this power, we may be able to build up enough for the next invasion in the spring.

But that doesn't really do anything about our second problem, and honestly the more important one in my opinion

The people have been getting more and more aggressive in their calls against us, and honestly I can't blame them

It's true, so many died because of our flawed strategy of protecting them. If we had led them farther into the jungle maybe they wouldn't have been caught in the crossfire of the fight, but we had them remain in a place that was targeted for looting.

So yea, I can see why they would want us out, but if we just leave them then what happens in the Spring? We can't just leave and let them all die...

I think we are going to go ahead with using Set's fruit for the time being, haha "time," get it?

But yea...we're going to lock ourselves in time here to get as much time as possible to prepare.

I think I might have an idea that can solve the animosity and distrust going around, but it's kind of an all-or-nothing

Maybe it'll work? Wouldn't that be something... Though of course it'll be some time before it would work out smoothly anyways, so for now,

Stay tuned! Edition #9 might happen sometime, though probably not for a while. Now is the time for rebuilding! Gotta stay cheerful...