This Party is a Blast!

Pike is on his boat, trying to have some relaxing time; he sips some of his ale and looks around.

Oak comes walking in, Morrax and Maxtor trailing behind him. "Ello, is 'dis 'de boat?"

Pike looks down and grins "Tis be the boat, me home...and has been me home fer a while now...you can come on board if like"

Morrax looks around and shakes his head. "I do not want to get on this boat, it is very troubled"

Maxtor slaps his forehead and addresses Pike. "Just ignore him, he always says stuff like that, it gets rather annoying sometimes"

Pike blinks, "Me boat be safe, trust me...never failed me so far"

Oak smiles. "I don't doubt 'ye me friend, if 'ye asks me 'dis 'amster is a bit loose in the head"

Pike chuckles and takes another swig of his ale, he gets some hotroot and places it in a small bag and ties it to his side and grins “Me hotroot..Got lots of it...real HOT hot root too mates"

Oak stares at the hotroot and shakes his head. "Ahh, no...No thanks"

Morrax is not really paying attention to the hotroot, as he boards the ship he looks around and says. "Like hotroot burning and fire's coals...The Bloodyclaw will strike"

Pike raises an eyebrow and shrugs "Ya drunk?" he looks at the hamster and yawns, he looks up at the sky and smirks" Nice night, little cloudy but that’s alright mates....tis a good night for a little fun and a party..what ya say mates?"

Maxtor nods. "It'd be good to relax after all the trouble we've had with Bloodclaw"

Oak grins. "Tis a good night 'fer song....I'm workin' a song...it's about Bloody the Tailless"

Morrax laughs.

Pike hmmms as he gets some more ale and he seems to have like 10 barrels of it, he grins "Dragon's Breath anyone?"

Maxtor blinks. "Dragons...what?"

Oak laughs. "Yeah, sure"

Pike grins "Dragon's breathe...tis strong ale"

Morrax's eyes are still cloudy, after a long silence he faces the other three in the ship, and stares blankly, with an expressionless face. "The Dragons Breath looms here, like a silent predator, waiting to strike, and the Bloody claw will awaken it"

Maxtor ignores Morrax and shakes his head. "No, I think I stick with October Ale, got any of that?"

Oak also ignores Morrax, but he holds out of flask and says. "I want some"

Pike grins and pours some Dragon’s Breath Ale for Oak.

Maxtor waits for a response to his question.

Pike hmms and frowns "Sorry don't like the stuff much, like me own ale best matey...October Ale not strong enough fer me"

Maxtor frowns. "Do you have any.....eh...Water?"

Pike chuckles "Lots of that around...oh one sec matey," he steps down below deck to find his jug of clean drinking water and comes back up with some water for Maxtor to drink in a small glass,"ere lad..."

Maxtor nods his thanks and drinks some water.

Pike chuckles and looks at Oak to see if he is going to sing or not.

Oak smiles, as he drinks his ale, he grins. "What? do 'ye wants me to sing now?”

Morrax nods. "Sing, we need something to lighten our spirits"

Pike grins "Singing be cool matey and relaxing too...sing"

Oak smiles, and swings his flagon of dragon's breath back and forth as he sings. "Oh, 'tis be 'de ballad 'o Bloody the tailless, 'afore 'ee came 'ere 'ee was failless, then one day he went from sea to land!!!". He takes a short breath and continues. "He killed a real old sea dog's mommy, by the end of the day 'ee was sorry, cause good 'ol Pike went 'an burned 'is shiiipppp". "Then out for Revenge in the village 'o Jattle, 'ee met the sea dog 'inna battle and good 'ol Pike left the rat fer deadddd"

Oak then breaks out into the chorus. "Oh, Bloody did a whole bunch of bad stuff, plunderin' and murderin' it 'twas nasty 'n ruff, basically if 'ye moved, Bloody didn't like ye!, killin' every single beast 'in'is path...until the day 'ee went from sea 'te land"

Morrax smiles. "Good song, good song, keep singing"

Maxtor laughs. "Bloody the tailless, hahaha, Torry did a number on him"

Pike listens as oak sings” ‘How ya know that matey?”

Oak keeps singing. "Oh, Bloody ran off and you'd think 'ee was stupid, but 'ee ran amuck killin' all that was movin', until he came to good ol' Redstone wallll"

Oak sings on…"Oh, he went off to kill a scared shrew, but killin' fer bloody was really not knew, until the old hare dropped a 'ornet's nest!!!Oh, Bloody ran off, for a while he was quiet, but if your really thought you were going to buy it, Bloody got you when he returned from injury"

Oak breaks into chorus again

Maxtor laughs. "I wander what he's gonna say next, this is getting interesting"

Morrax isn't paying attention, he mumbles under his breath. "Danger approaches"

Oak continues. "Oh, he got a fox in a strange robe, dragged 'im to the abbey by 'is earlobe, and said in three days 'ee was history..We found out the old fox was still alive, but 'afore we could stab 'im wid a knife, Bloody decided to go and kill old hares"

Maxtor glares at Oak. "That's my Grandfather you’re talking about!" then he smiles. "Ha, Bloodclaw keeps failing"

Pike frowns a little as he listens, he looks around slightly and yawns, he is a bit bored but smiles as he listens to the song.

Oak thinks. "Can' think 'o 'de rest 'o 'de song...I'm workin' on it 'doe" He goes to get more ale.

Morrax repeats himself, louder this time. "Danger approaches"

Pike looks at the hamster "You worry too much matey...relax, drink some ale have some hotrrot.."

Oak passes out from drinking too much ale for his system.

Maxtor stares at Oak. "Umm..Pike?"

Pike looks at Oak and shrugs.

Morrax says a third time. "Danger approaches". A few seconds later he adds. "It is very close"

In the shadows, Bloodclaw has been lurking for the last few seconds waiting to show up, he continues waiting for now, with a few a few of his cronies.

Pike looks at the hamster "Danger..where?"

Morrax points to where Bloodclaw stands in the shadows. "Danger approaches...it has come"

As if on cue, Bloodclaw emerges from the shadows with two stoats and another rat. "Hello, good evening, how's the party....havin' a good time?"

Pike looks down and glares as he comes to the railing of the ship, he looks at the rat "What ye what rat...death?, I will KILL YA.."He grins.

Maxtor brandishes his staff in the air. "Pure steel now rat!, if you go anywhere near us, we'll kill you"

Morrax holds up a short sword, with the Narkus family crest on it and glares. "Taste cold steel"

Pike draws his blades, he looks down at the rat.

Bloodclaw laughs. "I don't think going near you will be a problem, will it boys?" he faces his three cronies and points to the ship. "End this party...with a bang". He laughs maniacally.

Pike raises an eyebrow at what is said and looks at the ones with the rat and growls"Great..friends now"

( One of the stoats brandishes a torch in the air and grins, he throws it as far as he can..and it lands in the water. )

Maxtor laughs when the torch misses. "Hahahhahahahha, you fail!"

Pike grins "bad aim matey, hee hee “He starts to laugh.

Bloodclaw laughs. "More where that came from"

The other stoat throws another torch, and it misses the ship entirely, igniting the grass right in front of Bloodclaw.

Pike starts laughing harder at all this.

Bloodclaw glares at the 2nd stoat. "What was that?, do you think you can make the otter laugh to death....now we're out of torches"

Maxtor laughs. "No more torches huh, go back home and go get some out of your endless supply of torches then, ha!"

Morrax is not paying attention, his eyes are still clouded. "The Day is still dangerous, one of us will not leave this ship alive”

The 3rd vermin (the other rat) pulls out a torch. "Boss...we've still got this"

Bloodclaw glares. "Then throw it, embesil...THROW IT!"

The other rat throws the torch, and it lands on the barrels of Dragon's Breath ale. It is quiet for a split second, then it explodes blasting all the occupants of the ship in opposite directions and knocking Bloodclaw and his three horde members off their feet.

Maxtor gets up and rubs his head. "Oww...Pike are you......" he sees the fire and starts panicking. "Fire! FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!! AHHHHH!!!!"

Oak blinks as he is semi-conscious and rudely awaken, his eyes go wide as he backs up and tumbles off the ship into the water.

Pike gasps as he is blasted off the ship, he surfaces and coughs and looks around quickly as the ship is in flames "Me ship!..Me Hotroot!..Me ale..noooooooooo!" He blinks as he sees Oak sink under the water, he dives under the water and resurfaces with a semi-conscious squirrel and looks around.."Nooo.!!!!!!!!!....."He looks at Maxtor, and frowns “Great..." he gets Oak to shore and looks to get Maxtor and Morrax.

Morrax is not as lucky as Pike, Maxtor, Bloodclaw, and the three vermin. He is blasted off the ship and his clothing and fur has caught on fire, the only lucky thing is when he hits the water the fire is put out but there is still burns on his arms and legs, he sinks and doesn’t resurface.

Bloodclaw gets up on his feet and laughs, he stabs the stoat who set the grass ablaze in the chest with his sword and shoves him into the water, leaving him there. He beckons the rat and the remaining stoat to follow him, laughing manically he says. "Like it hot, woodlander pests!!!”

Maxtor jumps off the ship into the water and manages to reach an area of the shore that is not ablaze, he coughs, and breathes a sigh of relief.

Bloodclaw laughs maniacally as he leaves. "Was that party a blast?...sorry I've gotta go, places to go...beasts to capture and kill...I've got plans"

Pike frowns as he goes to get Morrax and watches as Maxtor gets to shore, he swims to shore and looks at Maxtor “We...need ta get ...to the abbey.....Oak be out cold..the hamster be..." he frowns and looks at Maxtor and looks at the boat and is in tears.

Maxtor frowns. "Try to find him, maybe he's still alive....Oz knows how to deal with fire wounds, maybe not as good as Silverfangs, but maybe we can find him in time to save him"

Pike nods as he as he dives under the water, he is under water for what seems like several minutes and comes back up with the hamster, he checks him and does any needed pushing out of water as he lays him gently on his side, he frowns at the burns and looks at Maxtor “I..not be a healer matey”

Morrax coughs, to show that he is alive. "The Bloody claw has struck....". He passes out.

Maxtor blinks. "I think I know what he means now, we have to get him to the abbey, he's got to live long enough to tell us the prophecy"

Pike nods "Ye be right matey..” He gently picks up Morrax and looks at Maxtor and Oak.

Oak becomes somewhat awake and looks around only half here, he stares at the burning boat.

The boat is in flames and a total loss, Pike starts crying as tears stream down his face, he sniffs “Come…” he says simply and quickly heads to the abbey, injured hamster in his arms.

Maxtor nods and goes to help the semi-awake Oak and they slowly go to follow Pike to the abbey.