Seas of War Saga

The Seas of War Saga is an ongoing story arc that has been going since around March, 2023. It is currently the second longest running story arc as of August, 2023.

## Timeline of Events

### Xenia's Raid

2 years after the defeat of the Azure Midnight Cult, a new threat had emerged to the Fairy Continent from the seas: A band of pirates known as the Violet Claw Pirates. They might not have seemed like much at the time, but they were some of the most feared in all of Emera, and now they had their eyes set on Fairy Continent. With their leader and pirate queen Xenia, "The Nightshade of the Seas", leading the charge, they landed at the sleepy Drussel Village looking for the one and only Joseph Marriott. Xenia claimed that she had heard about Joseph's feats from her time in Warrior's and she wanted him to join her crew. When she learned that Joseph had left, she and the pirates scoured the world in search for him. One brave soul named Jebediah Stone stood up to Xenia and unfortunately... his naivity led to his entire village being burned to the ground. Stone later fled to Diamond Town with a plea...

### Joseph's Awakening

After not using his spirit powers since his fight with Lord Zygarde, Joseph had pushed his boundaries by using them during the fight with Kitsune Cantus. His powers unfortunately overloaded him, causing him to go into a 2 year coma. When he awoke in Rosa's clinic, it was found all his memories were gone and that he could only speak French. In addition, Joseph also had a lot of trouble doing basic tasks since well... his memory was basically completely fried. Rosa and a few others helped get him back on his feet towards the Regret Cafe where he tried to remember Dewa. Following this, Stone warned all the Twilight Travelers of Xenia's arrival, causing them to spring into action. It was found Xenia was in the Falleluv Forest nearby, so Joseph, Dewa, and Neon White sprung into action, fortunately catching her off guard. However, she wanted to challenge Joseph to a one on one fight in Drussel Village, and so for the next couple days, Joseph trained, regaining some of his moves back.

### Xenia's Challenge

Back at Drussel Village, Xenia was awaiting Joseph's arrival, along with her crew. Joseph had prepared well for this moment (including brushing up on some English!), and he felt ready to tackle Xenia head on. Dewa, Pastel, and Haruko came with Joseph to the fight to cheer him on. The once sleepy village was now a warzone with fighting going on left and right. Joseph was busy fighting Xenia for a while, using his re-newly mastered attacks, but it just seemed like it was no use! Meanwhile, Dewa was fighting off hoards of pirates and Pastel and Haruko searched a bush to find Toro, a cat who claimed she wanted to become a human someday. In the midst of the one on one, Joseph was hit by one of Xenia's iconic purple fireballs and he had an epiphany. He rose off the ground in yellow light, eyes glowing. For the first time in this moment, Xenia was visually afraid and so she decided to call the fight off for now, fleeing to her ship to think of another plan. The day was won.

After the battle, Joseph had a sit-down talk with Dewa about what he'd learned when he rose off the ground. His old master who trained him spoke to him in a vision, reminding him about Sion Crystals, the secrets to Joseph's powers and how he could maybe get his memories back. He was told that he was sensing strong energy coming from a mystery dungeon called Summerstone Cave.

### Broken Pride

Out of desperation to try and find the secret to Joseph's power, Xenia would send her lowest ranked captain, (or captains) on the totem pole back to the Fairy Continent to scout things out. Demetrius, Nervatius, and Angelikos, most commonly abbreviated as DNA, came to Xenia and she'd immediately sent the bickering trio off towards Fairy Continent to look for clues. An oversight on her part however led her to forgetting that DNA was holding the important prisoner they'd captured a few months back, the Brazilian DJ, Lucio. DNA's crew then ventured into Summerstone Cave upon arrival.

### Summerstone Cave

After a couple of months, Joseph was ready to tackle on Summerstone Cave and find out its secrets. Together with Dewa, Lyse, Oz Bon, Cybele, Calyrex, and the then-possessed Vincent, Joseph went down into the cave, finding crystals and slowly regaining back core memories from his childhood. However, what was peculiar was that they'd been finding strange skeletons attacking the group. It was a mystery dungeon yes, but it was still very unusual. Something wasn't right. Eventually, the group stumbled across a pirate with Lucio's equipment which they promptly defeated. After a couple hours of walking, the group entered a massive chamber room with a giant Sion Crystal, but also DNA and Lucio in a cage. During the fight, Joseph destroyed the crystal, causing him to gain all his memories and air and water powers back. The group would also free Lucio from his cage. However, it all seemed DNA couldn't go down at all, but they found out that Vincent's screams could damage them, so they had Vincent scream loudly, so loud in fact that DNA became deaf from the screams for a while and his ears were permanently damaged. The Twilight Travelers decided to take DNA back to the cafe for interrogation, setting them in a bed in the basement where he still remains to this day. Vincent, Dewa, and Lyse all teleported out with DNA, but Joseph stuck around.

### Risen from the Ashes

Eventually, due to the weight of the crystal not being supported for so long, the remaining group of Oz, Joseph, Calyrex, and Cybele all fell due to the chamber room's floor crumbling. The group would fall to a strange underground lake. In there seemed to be a sunken submarine and a strange monster, with the submarine belonging to the Alterra Corporation. Joseph investigated the submarine, finding a datapad. On the other side of the Lake's shore, there was a strange door with a skull on it. Using a skull that Oz had found earlier in the dungeon, the door opened leading to the crypt of Captain Flameheart who was transported here from the Sea of Thieves. Joseph accidentally leaned on Flameheart's sarcophagus, releasing the ghostly skeleton from inside. The Lord of Flame was now in Emera. Seeing that they'd freed him, Flameheart tried to recruit the group to his side, but they weren't buying it. Flameheart then released an army of skeletons on them, with almost no way to get out until a turquoise green flame engulfed them, transporting them out. Unbeknownst to them at the time, their rescuer was Belle, who told them she'd speak with them later.

### Belle's Warning

During a beach party celebrating Daiki's defeat, Belle once again appeared to Joseph and a bunch of others celebrating, but she was in a serious mood. Belle approached Joseph and Dewa, warning them of what had happened with Flameheart. She told them his backstory and how he got here: How her, the pirate lord, Arthur Pendragon, and others performed a ritual on him, banishing away from the Sea of the Damned and the Sea of Thieves. It turns out, Flameheart just so happened to end up here in Emera. Belle traveled across the Sea of the Damned to get to Emera, and she wanted to gather a group of fine people to stop Flameheart before he amassed a fleet large enough to rule the world. One of these people was Xenia, who she'd been eying up for a while now due to a large fleet of her own. Even though Joseph hated Xenia, he was willing to work with her to try and save the world he cared about. Belle handed Joseph a magic quill and pen, where he'd have to write her name down, and she'd be instantly called into action.

That is the story so far.