Imuhulk: Origins V [Chain/Hohotaro,SolomonxKing]

Quest:

The ship docked at a harbor on an isolated island somewhere on the trade sea. The guards began to disembark and the other ship hands. Hohotaro waits for all of them to disembark before slipping off to the side and remain with the ship. When Hohotaro is sure that no one else remained around his vicinity he removed his disguise. "Whew finally, that armor feels like shit and smells like feet..."

Hohotaro climbed the mast to have a better vantage point on where they are. He sees a building not far from them. The building have uncountable amount of guards. He also sees Imuchaks being contained inside cages, from where Hohotaro is standing he can see about 10 of them, there might be more but he's not quite sure. Hohotaro wanted to help these Imuchakks but the amount of guards makes it hard. He feels that they won't be able to take down this facility on their own. They would need to find some reinforcements to be able storm this building and save those Imuchakks. If they attack now it would be dangerous for them and specially for the captives.

Hohotaro climbs down the mast and started to look for Solomon. "Mon~... Where are you~?" Hohotaro looks for Solomon in a sing song voice.

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Solomon could easily tell when they docked, and he was very surprised that they did not attempt to search the vessel for him prior he knew that Hohotaro must have done something about that. After silence would befall the ship he would then attempt to climb out of the crates only to trip on another, the silence would definitely be broken with the sound of him falling. He would quickly stand and look around like nothing happened as he would then make his way for the latch above him, before opening the hatch Solomon would hear Hohotaro almost singing asking where he was. Solomon would open the hatch and jump up and finish the song, "And here I ammm!" with his singing voice.

Solomon would then put his hands down and look to Hohotaro with a pause, "So what is going on?... Figure anything out while I was hiding from a beating you almost brought on." Solomon would listen to what ever Hohotaro had to say before asking, "Did you scout at all? What is it looking like?" he would reply to the answer with, "hmmm, that is quite a bit of people, this time I am thinking that we have to remain stealthy but again none of their armor will fit, so we will have to rely on you... the only plan I can think of is possibly you take me as a captured Imu to one of the cages below and just do not lock it, then you explore, but did you have any better ideas?"

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"I had a plan... not exactly a brilliant plan but yeah... That's water under the bridge so let's just move on haha... ha...sorry...." Hohotaro laughs awkwardly. "Anyway... eherm back to business..."

Solomon asked. "Did you scout at all? What is it looking like?"

"Yeah yeah... I was getting to that..." Hohotaro answered. "I climbed the mast and had a look around. From what I saw we're in an island in the middle of the ocean. And there is a well guarded structure over there." Hohotaro points at the direction where he see the facility that is guarded by uncountable men. "I assume it's something important based on the amount of guards I can't count exactly how many were there. I also saw some Imuchakks in cages about ten of them from what I can see."

Hohotaro thinks about Solomon's suggestion. "Yeah... we could do that... But... it's very risky." Hohotaro scratches his head. "We can get in but the problem is getting out, we would be surrounded. We would be in a worse position than if we just attack from the front." Hohotaro saw the effects of his rash thinking with Solomon on the ship. He was being cautious this time around.

"Maybe we can start by searching this ship here. My grandpa's ship have this room that have their travel manifest and maps maybe they also have it here..." Hohotaro started walking towards the back of the ship. "If we know exactly where we are then we can get help from the main land then return here. What do you think?" He turned around towards Solomon asking him of his opinion.

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OOC: We're gonna go to the navigation room and look for maps, records, manifest... anything that can be used as evidence when we go get help :D

'Eh bad plans happen, I could have taken them but then I would have had to destroy the ship, and there is no way in hell I was going to swim all the way here." Solomon would listen to Hohotaro's suggestion, "hmm I did not even think of searching the ship.. it is a good idea, lets hurry before they decide to come back." Solomon would then take a moment to look across the ship from where he was, he was see the obvious masts and the hatch he had come from, "well the best place we could possibly search would be the captains quarters no?" Solomon asked as he pointed towards a door, "nowhere better then the guy leading the way right?" He would then move towards the door, but then stopped and looked at Hohotaro, "Wait a minute... how did you plan on heading back? ... I know just the two of us could not handle such a large vessel." Solomon would wait looking at Hohotaro knowing what the possible answer could be, "Don't tell me it was the same way we got here?" He would sigh as he then continued towards the captains quarter, the door was obviously locked which was understandable since the captain would not like just anyone looking upon his plans and stealing his items. But chances were slim that anyone would hear him as he just decided that he would kick in the door, which was quite simple with his Imu strength, and if anyone would hear him he would let Hohotaro who is still dressed up to deal with that.

Afterwards they would enter and see a basic quarters for a sole person, with a desk in the middle of the room, unsurprisingly they would find maps all over the wall, and papers along the desk but by no means was this place un-organized or messy it was actually quite clean and the most organized that Solomon has ever seen for a captains quarter.

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"Yeap! We already done it one time so I'm sure it will work again this time haha!" Hohotaro laughs as he saw the hesitation on Solomon's eyes. "That or we row all the way back. And I would not suggest about that..." Hohotaro looks up and over towards the horizon. "We have to hurry if we travel fast we can outrun the coming storm." Hohotaro smiles and pats Solomon on the back. "Don't worry it's not a large storm."

Hohotaro stood by and looked around as Solomon kicked down the door towards the captains quarters. It was loud but there are no people around their close vicinity so it's safe.

Hohotaro entered the Captain's cabin and saw the relatively organized room. He have the urge to just mess everything up but that would give them an obvious clue that someone has been here. They want to be as stealthy as possible. They want to keep their element of surprise assuming that they still have it.

Hohotaro looks through the papers but he cannot read it at all. "Uh Mon... can you read? Let me take care of the maps at least those have pictures on them haha..." Hohotaro gave Solomon a stack of papers.

Manifest:

Hohotaro knows how to read maps from his grandfather. He checked the surrounding looking for something and he found it next to the map. "Aha here it is! The pointy circle thing." Hohotaro took the compass and lay it flat on the map. He turns the map around until the north drawn on the map is pointing at the same place the compass is pointing. "So I would guess that we're here..." Hohotaro points at the mark on the map and then he looks for the symbol that denotes the city. "We want to go here..." Hohotaro now figured out that they've went directly west of the bazaar. "Well then.." Hohotaro lifted the compass and lay it flat on his palm careful that he keeps the pins pointing north and south. Hohotaro then points toward the east and said. "That's where we're going! Lets go get our rides! haha..."

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Solomon would look to Hohotaro as he rooted through the things, "There is not need to fully read it all, just take what you think will be good and lets head out... We can fully read it later." He would begin grabbing different pages of information that had anything to do with Imu's and would then grab the nearby map. "How are we going to keep all this dry if we are going to be submerged?" He would listen to his idea before leaving the cabin, then look about the ship, "we will have to recapture more of those creatures but if we do it nearby others may hear... we will have to travel some ways down no?" Solomon would follow Hohotaro on what ever path he would decide to take off the ship, but he would be cautious that nothing would get wet, and that they were not seen or heard in that process.

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"Just stuff them here I guess..." Hohotaro took a leather pouch from the ground and gave them to Solomon. "I'm not really sure what is written on those things so I can't tell what's important or not haha..." Hohotaro scratches his head and laughs. "Let's just bring them all there is bound to be something important in that pile."

"Yeah... how do we keep them dry... Oh right!" Hohotaro quickly peeks his head outside the window of the cabin to the side of the ship. And there it is as Hohotaro expected a small rowboat. "What do you think? Maybe we can tie those deep sea hunters to the boat and make it like a wagon or something? You get the boat, bring it around behind the ship and I'll go get us some sea horsies haha." Hohotaro runs to the back of the captain's cabins and jumps from the balcony to the sea down below.

Hohotaro dives down and started looking for the deep sea hunters they have used as mount when they firs chased after the ship.

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Solomon would not argue with the task he was given as he would take any day going to fetch a boat rather then swimming in the sea, however thinking over it, "the chance that the same deep sea hunters would be found especially after such a long travel is almost impossible and how are you going to wrangle those up without drawing attention." Hohotaro was already out the window before answering Solomon so his head would just drop and he would go out to the row boat. Upon reaching the row boat he would notice it was a dinky little thing that if they happened to hit a storm it would not make it through it, just sitting there it looked as if it was ready to fall apart. Solomon would enter it and jump up and down to test the durability and it held firm, which very much surprised Solomon, so he would then begin to use the ropes to lower it into the water gently so no one would notice. It was not till about half way down till he figured out that the rope was knotted and it did not look easy to get apart, so he would look around quickly then look over the edge of the boat to see how much farther he would have to go which was not that much farther, so he would pull out his axe look to each rope and then attempt to swing his axe and take out both ropes in one swish allowing each side of of the boat to fall relatively at the same speed. The boat fell quite quickly and made much more noise then what was planned, some of the men on shore would look over as the splash was made and walk to the edge of the water to look what happened, "Ahhh the rope was shit anyway." one of the men would say smacking the back of the other which would make him laugh before turning to walk away.

Suddenly if one were to look they would see a head randomly pop up looking both ways from the small row boat, then he would sit up and begin rowing the boat back towards the end of the vessel where Hohotaro originally dived into the water. He would then await to see what was going on, as it was too dark to see into this deep water.

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Hohotaro dived deeper and deeper in search for the deep sea hunters. They have the name for a reason, they regularly dwell on the deeper part of the ocean. They were lucky to be able to see deep sea hunters by the shore back on the plains. The pressure of the the ocean is starting to build up around Hohotaro along with the darkness that surrounds him. He is starting to worry that he won't be able to find any deep sea hunters just for the reason that he cannot see anything in this place where the light of the sun cannot reach.

Hohotaro is just using his hunter instincts that he nurtured all his life hunting wildlife around his village. He is trying to sense any life force around him, any movement that might indicate that a large predator is close by. "Note to self... get something that can help me see in the dark..." Hohotaro thought to himself as floats quietly in the middle of the darkness.

A short while has passed, the deafening silence of the deep echoed around Hohotaro. It was calming and he feels relaxed and as if every worry he have is being cleansed by the never ending flow of the ocean. Suddenly, movement broke the serene atmosphere. Hohotaro's mark comes baring down towards him in it's maximum speed.

Hohotaro raises his hand in front of him and readies himself. He already know what these creatures are capable of so he knows what to expect amidst the darkness. He just needs to watch his back for anything that is trying to grab him and everything would be fine.

As soon as the deep sea hunter appears in front of him trying to rip him apart with it's bite, Hohotaro parries the attack with his bare hands and maneuvers himself to grab it behind his back just like what he did before. He was successful on his maneuver and he started directing the creature towards the sea's surface.

The deep sea hunter tries to break free from Hohotaro's grip. He lifts his arm and drives his elbow directly on the nape of the creatures neck to try and pacify it. The attack worked and the creatures thrashing weakened.

Light comes back and Hohotaro can finally see everything around him. Just then he noticed two more deep sea hunters are on his tail giving chase. He can also see the boat floating on top of him and he thinks that it must be Solomon. Just before they reach the surface Hohotaro punched the creature to the side of it's head rendering it unconscious. He resurfaced and said to Solomon "Tie him up I guess we just need one this time to pull the boat right?" With this Hohotaro dives again to face the other two deep sea hunters that is giving chase.

Hohotaro covered himself with magoi in defense to anything they throw at him and began to charge the monsters head on. He decides to fight the creatures deeper down the ocean so that they won't make too much commotion on the surface.

The creature spins around and uses it's tail as a whip to attack the fast incoming Imuchakk. Hohotaro receives the attack with his body knowing that he is protected by the magoi shield and clutches the creatures tail. He drives his elbow on the tail to stop it from thrashing around by breaking it's bones. He then pulled the creature hard towards him and at the same time throws a punch to connect with the creature's head. That last attack is enough to render the creature unconscious and unable to fight.

Hohotaro then turns towards the other deep sea hunter but it's natural instincts of self preservation might have kicked in seeing how easily this small imuchakk took care of the other deep sea hunter and it just dived back into the depths as quickly as it could.

After the fight Hohotaro then resurfaced and board the boat and say. "That takes care of that... I'll go sleep... tell me when we reached the main land." Hohotaro gave Solomon the compass. "Just keep it like this and we should reach it in no time." Hohotaro points at the needles of the compass. With this he makes himself comfortable and falls asleep.

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Abilities:

Solomon would only see Hohotaro momentarily as he brought up one of the deep sea hunters, he would tie it to the boat as Hohotaro would then re submerge himself, but so the fish did not go on forward himself leaving Hohotaro behind Solomon would sit with his arm wrapped around it. Solomon would then await for Hohotaro to resurface, after coming aboard struggling as Solomon would attempt to make sure the boat did not tip over. Solomon was not happy that he would have to travel again about the sea but he would not complain as it was better then there route here as the previous time he did not have the boat between him and the water... "Really your going to sleep?" Solomon would ask as Hohotaro got comfortable, it wouldn't be something Solomon would be able to pull off not at this time. Solomon would be tense most of the journey but there was no troubles during the travel and as Hohotaro said it went by at a quick pace.

"So I hope you were comfy" Solomon would say as he pulled the small row boat into one of the nearby docks of the bazaar. The morning was now coming and the bazaar would only be seen full of early bird elders who were awake just to go for a stroll, or that of drunkards that were just making their way to bed. "If we are to find help we will have to wait some time most likely, and who did you have in mind?" Solomon would ask, he would listen to what Hohotaro thought before looking around and thinking, "Well Hoho this may be a bad time but I will have to leave for a little while, you will find out why when I return It should only take me a couple days." He would then wait for Hohotaros reaction and a place they could meet up before running off towards the plains, if Hohotaro wished he could follow him but Solomon would not understand why he would want too, that and he did wish to have some time to himself to be able to train. Solomon knew of the perfect place already with many trees and the quiet space he seeks, it would be the place that he had helped people previously with their snake situation.

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