(Tula and Cham Cham are waiting patiently on the Wraith while Tam Tam and Ren look for Ren’s other crewmate, Ioz, so that they can leave port. Tula & Cham Cham have been having an… interesting… conversation though Tula looks as if she’s having an aneurysm to figure her out. However, the confusion was about to end.)
Tula: …so that is a “Green Hell in Cell”.
Cham Cham: Right. Cham Cham have fought in three matches… three “Green Hell in Cells”. Cham Cham fought Stupid Dragon Boy and won. Cham Cham fought Woman with Blue Blood and lost. Cham Cham fought Manly Woman and won Belt of Gold. Now Cham Cham face Other Woman with Blue Blood to defend Belt of Gold.
Tula: This “big ring” you talk about sounds like some place. I wish I could go there and see what it is like for myself.
Cham Cham: Pink Woman come with Cham Cham to big ring?
Tula: I’d love to, but I can’t. There’s Ren’s quest to end the Dark Water. I can’t abandon him. It would seem like… a betrayal.
Cham Cham: Cham Cham understand.
(Just then, from behind, a big bunch of pirates jump onboard the deck of the Wraith, catching Tula & Cham Cham by surprise. The two stand their guard.)
Tula: More pirates? Noy-Jitat!
Cham Cham: Ewww… they stinky! Need bath!
(The pirates bum rush the two. Tula fended some of them off with her dagger while Cham Cham attacks them all with her sharp speed and her trusty boomerang. With one Supercharge, Cham Cham managed to sent at least three pirates into the drink. Unfortunately, the pirates’ numbers became too great for the two to fend off.)
Tula: They’re too many of them.
Cham Cham: Cham Cham no like odds. Cham Cham finish off stinky, dirty men!
(With that said, Cham Cham performed one of her most powerful finishers: The Super-Deformed Transformation. She became encompassed in a bright, orange aura, shaped like a tiger, frightening the pirates. Cham Cham ran toward each pirate, one by one, and shoved them all overboard. Just as Cham Cham finished her attack, she sees Tula beind held hostage by another pirate.)
Pirate: Call of your witch, or she gets it!
Cham Cham: Oh no! Pink Woman in trouble!
(Or so she thought. Unbeknownst to Cham Cham, Tula is an ecomancer. Secretly, Tula uses her ecomancer energy to create a waterspout. She controlled the waterspout to splash away the pirate holding her captive.)
Tula: That is no way to handle a lady.
Cham Cham: We safe now! YAO! YAO! YAO!
(That safety did not last long. Another pirate came on board with about a dozen more lackeys. The ringleader had a metal claw for a hand and a very big nose! His name… Joat!)
Tula: *gasp* Joat!
Cham Cham: That guy has big nose! Must have big boogers!
Tula: Ugh! That’s disgusting!
Joat: I thought I’d never see my ship so open again! You’ll rue the day you stole my ship, you jitatan thieves! >:|
Cham Cham: Does Big Nose need tissue?
(Joat’s lackeys begin laughing at Cham Cham’s remarks at Joat’s very big nose. Joat, however, doesn’t have such am much a sense of humor as the others.)
Joat: Stop laughing! Get them, and get my ship back!
(Tula & Cham Cham begin fighting the pirates once more. Cham Cham uses her Boomerang Gut Buster on one pirate while striking at another with her Leaping Face Rip. Tula, meanwhile, was fending off at least two pirates by herself, and her only weapon is a mere dagger.)
Cham Cham: Pink Woman in trouble again!
(Cham Cham catches her boomerang as it rebounds, and uses her Boomerang Beheader at one of the pirates that was attacking Tula. Cham Cham jumped to Joat and begin fighting with him!)
Cham Cham: Big Nose in big trouble! Big Nose leave ship!
Joat: Leave my ship?! What have you been smoking, little savage?!
(Cham Cham attacks Joat with her boomerang. Joat, meanwhile, counters Cham Cham’s attacks strike for strike with his metal claw. As Cham Cham quickens, so does Joat. Eventually, Cham Cham slashes Joat’s face with a Fire Claw, ending with her most powerful finishing move: The Doomsday Driver!)
Cham Cham: Big Nose go bye-bye now!
Joat: I won’t lose my ship again!!!
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
(Cham Cham uses her Doomsday Driver on Joat, making him land head-first into a barrel full of dead, decaying fish carcasses. Cham Cham laughs at “Big Nose”.)
Cham Cham: LOL! Big Nose smell like Big Poop! >:]
(Meanwhile, Tula manages to conjure up several more waterspouts, washing away the rest of the pirates on the Wraith. All is now well on the ship though Joat is cursing like a sailor after being thrown head first in the barrel.)
Joat: You jitatan dartha eel! When I get out of this thing, I’ll skin you alive, chop you up, and serve you up to the leviathans!
Tula: What harsh language!
Cham Cham: *PUSHES THE BARREL OVERBOARD*
(Joat is now floating in the barrel, unable to reclaim his ship again. The other pirates swim for shore, leaving Joat as a makeshit buoy. The water’s current whisks Joat away with the other pirates.)
Joat: My ship… I will reclaim my ship again… @_@ Noy-Jitat! This thing stinks!
(Back on the streets of Pandawa, Tam Tam & Ren are looking for Ioz within the local bars and pubs, thinking that he’d be there. Alas, he was not. Ren seems rather worried about his comrade.)
Ren: That is odd. I could have sword he’d be in the local pubs. I wonder where he may have wandered off to.
Tam Tam: Sounds like your friend loves to drink.
Ren: That is an understatement, Tam Tam. He love his grog… and his gambling. Gambling! Noy-Jitat! I should have known!
Tam Tam: Your friend likes the casino?
Ren: That jitatan gambler is probably at the local game house! Follow me!
(Tam Tam follows Ren to the local game house, ironically, the only game house in Pandawa.)
***
(In the game house, we can see all the pirates drinking the grog like its water and others playing poker, craps or other popular gambling games. Ioz is at the poker table with five cards in his hands, playing a tight game of poker.)
Ioz: Hmmm… I wonder…
(Ioz’s hand is three 10s and two 9’s. He decides to play his hand.)
Ioz: Full house! Beat that!
Zoolie: *lays his hand* Straight flush! You lose! >:)
Ioz: WHAT?!
(Ioz notices that Zoolie’s hand is of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7… off of which are spades. Ioz loses the game. Poor Ioz…)
Ioz: That’s robbery!
Zoolie: Looks like you owe me another 30 pieces of gold!
Ioz: Aye-Jitata! >:|
Zoolie: Relax, my friend, I’ll put it on your tab. That raises it up to about… 500 gold pieces you owe me.
Ioz: FIVE HUNDRED?!?! Where can I find that much gold?
Zoolie: You’ll figure it out soon enough. You wanna play again and win back your debt?
Ioz: You bet I do! :|
(Ioz might not get the chance. Tam Tam & Ren enters the pub to find Ren’s crewmate. Unfortuantely, Tam Tam & Ren had to leave their weapons at the front door. It’s their policy.)
Ren: Ioz, we have to leave. We have to find the next Treasure of Rule.
Ioz: And miss this game of poker? I have this guy begging for mercy.
Tam Tam: is your friend always like this.
Ren: Sometimes it’s worse ~_~…
Ioz: Hey, who’s your masked friend, Ren? I’ve never seen anyone like him around these streets.
Ren: This is Tam Tam. He came from another world through the dark water and…
(Ioz gasps and drops his hand on the floor.)
Ioz: You befriended a Dark Acolyte? What were you thinking?
Ren: Relax, Ioz. I checked him out. He’s not of dark water origin.
Ioz: Good, ow I can return to my game. Three cards, please!
(Ioz discards three cards and picks up his three new cards. This time, Ioz has a big ass grin on his face. He has a 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace… all of clovers!)
Ioz: I win the game… Read them and weep! Royal Flush!
(Ioz lays his hand on the table, shocking everyone… even Zoolie!)
Zoolie: Looks like you win, my friend. That’s 600 gold pieces!
Ioz: ^_^!
Zoolie: However, you do have that debt you owe me, so that leaves you with just 100 gold pieces!
Ioz: Only 100?! Noy-Jitat!
Ren: Ioz, let’s go!
(Ren carries Ioz with him as step away from the poker table. The three pick up their weapons from the front door and leave the game house. Ioz begin shouting as they leave.)
Ioz: Once I get back, I’m gonna win much more gold that just 100 gold pieces!
***
(Now, Ioz, Tam Tam, and Ren are at the docks. Tula & Cham Cham have been busy cleaning the deck while they were away. Watching Tula clean the deck makes Ioz grin even bigger!)
Ioz: Now THAT is what a woman should do… cleaning!
Tula: Could you give me a hand here? This deck is so big!
Ioz: Bah! Cleaning is woman’s work!
Tula: Woman’s work? You are such a pig, you know that?
Ioz: Tell me something I don’t know.
Ren: Ioz, Tula, let’s not argue, okay? Let’s see what the compass reads.
(Ren holds out his magic compass and spins it around. From the compass, a beam of light heads to the west.)
Ren: The 10 Treasure of Rule is to the west. Tula, plot a course to the west. We have a treasure to recover.
Cham Cham: Wait! Where’s Ape Bird!
Ioz & Tula: APE BIRD?!
Ren: She’s talking about Niddler. Where is that greedy monkey bird anyway?
(Niddler comes flying toward the Wraith with an even bigger batch of minga melons to feast on. Struggling to bring his catch, Niddler drags it to the surface, making sure that none of them are bruised or wasted.)
Niddler: *SQUAWK* I got enough minga melons to last for a whole week! Maybe this time that little girl won’t feast on my…
Cham Cham: O_O! FRUIT! *DROOLS*
(Cham Cham has that infamous “can I have some of that” look in her eyes as she looks at Niddler’s new batch of fruit.)
Niddler: Not this time! You already ate 12 minga melons not too long ago! >:|
Cham Cham: *stomach growls* Yeah, but Cham Cham still hungry! ~_~…
Ren: Now that you got your fruit, Niddler, it’s time set sail.
(Ren steers the Wraith out of the docks of Pandawa to set sail to the west, hoping to find the next Treasure of Rule. Meanwhile, on the Maelstrom, Bloth isn’t too happy with Konk. Konk arrived on the Maelstrom, his mission a total failure!)
Bloth: So you tried to get the Treasure of Rule, lose it, then lost to a pair of savages?
Konk: Sorry, Bloth. :(
Bloth: I send you to do a mission and you failed?! You know what this means/
Konk: Please, Lord Bloth! Anything but…
(Bloth picks up Konk by the back of his shirt and opens up trap door. Konk KNOWS what’s in store for him!)
Konk: Mercy, Lord Bloth!
Bloth: This is for failing me, Konk. It’s the Constrictus for you!
(Bloth throws Konk into the trap door, leaving Konk to the “Constrictus”. Many other pirates sees this happening, and they start making bets.)
Pirate: I bet 2 pieces of gold that Konk returns.
Pirate2: I say Konk is gonna be eaten by the constrictus.
(The pirates begin making their wagers, seeing if they can make a killer gamble on Konk returning from the den of the Constrictus or not.)