An odyssey in triplicate (for Yazaki)

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Dorset was a tall and muscular man. He had a stern countenance which was partially masked by a magnifying eye piece he wore around his right eye. He had short brown hair that he let flap in the wind. He wore a bright red mantle with his family's insignia on it: A lion subjugating a deer. He wore a thick dark red leather cuirass and black leather armored trousers.

He did not carry revolvers with him. Instead he had a shortened rifle with a bayonet. He used it as a sword in close combat, but his magnifying lens gave him a critical advantage in long distance battle. He saw Umi and saw her run into the captain's quarters. Dorset had ordered the others to avoid killing her crewman, which he believed they would do since many of them were women and his crewmembers loved captive women.

But he ordered them all to stay away from Umi. She was his prize. After the first few rounds of cannon and gun fire, Dorset swung to the opposing ship with a number of his crewmembers.

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Umi took hold of her sword, though she definitely looked like an amateur holding onto its hilt with both hands as if it were broadsword. She hardly had any body armor, compared to the majority of her crew which did have garb that provided excellent protection. Her attire consisted of a leather beige vest with brass buttons, puffy long sleeved white tunic, brown ankle boots, and a burlap skirt that was dark brown. She did have a burgundy headband at some point, but the tussle on the ship knocked it into the deep sea.

Warily, she crept along the corridors with sword pointed out in front of her. Her pale white skin stood out greatly in the dark, as did her bright blue eyes and long blond hair. Umi peered around the corner to survey the fighting on deck. Mostly crew. Actually, all crew. She couldn't pin point where Dorset was with all the moving bodies. Her eyes scanned the crowd feverishly.

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Dorset, being a taller man with an eye piece, found Umi before she found him. He approached her from behind. "Umi," he growled at her. "Throw down your arms and surrender, or I will take you by force." He grinned at the puny girl with her puny sword. His shortened rile with a bayonet was even larger than her sword. He drew it out and pointed it at Umi. He did not anticipate this being a difficult fight, but he decided to give Umi a chance to beg for his forgiveness.

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Umi popped when hearing his voice and spun around to face him. Figures the hulk of a man had a gun with him, Umi thought bitterly. Considering the many missfires of her pistol, no one on her crew trusted her with a firearm. So, that left the toothpick sword for a weapon. Being the stubborn lass that she was, she refused to give in to Dorset, even backing up a foot away from him. "No! Why the hell should I?" Aside from the obvious lack of a firearm, she mulled the addition in her head. "Why are you here Sir Dorset?" she asked. "Thought you wanted take the task your own way. Did your planning fail perhaps?" Umi taunted. Such a stupid way to be going about the whole situation! Yet, stalling was the only thing Umi could come up with.

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Dorset inched towards her, mindful of the edge of her blade. "I don't hear a surrender and an apology," he said. "Besides, it was always my intention of commandeering your fleet. I am the rightful leader of this attack. You are nothing but a..." in the middle of his sentence he lunged at her, keeping his rifle between them to counter any sudden jabs. He grabbed her wrist and disarmed her. He held both of her hands together and quickly tied them together with a leather strap he kept by his belt. He then flung her over his shoulder and placed his hand firmly on her bottom. "I now have what I came for," he said with a chortle.

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Umi tensed up when seeing him rush her. Naturally, she tried to fight against him. Blade might've been more effective, however she didn't really wish to harm Dorset, so she used the hilt instead. Just because she loathed his planning, hardly agreed with any decision he wanted to make, didn't mean she absolutely hated him as a person. That point of view was beginning to change however when she was disarmed and bound, then promptly tossed onto the man's shoulder. "...You came here for me?..." she asked him, baffled by the statement Dorset made. "What for?..." Umi asked timidly.

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"What for indeed," he said as he hopped to the captain's wheel. "Everybody loyal to Umi, lay down your arms. Umi and I have reached an agreement. She will still continue navigate the fleet but from my ship as my servant. All crew loyal to Umi will remain on this ship and operate it. However, if a member of my crew chooses you to be his servant, you will come to my ship as a servant. Understood?"

Dorset's crew was certainly happy with that. They all looked forward to the female "servants" they would take with them. Of course there were a few women and gay men in Dorset's crew that would take male "servants", but the crew was fortunate there were so many females to choose from.

Dorset looked at the battleground. His crew were the more battle hardened and loyal of the detachment, and Dorset had served with nearly all of them before in military expeditions. They were soundly beating Umi's contingency by the time he made his announcement. He his hand firmly on her bottom to show his dominance over her to her crew to encourage their surrender.

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Umi felt the terms to be outrageous! Not only that, she hadn't agreed to do anything at all. Despite her strong disliking of the situation, Umi kept silent and brooding. She watched the floorboards, since that was the only view given to her at the moment. She wore such a bored and irritated expression on her pale white face. Umi's crew were reluctant to obey the invaders demand of surrender. Yet they all did. Well almost all, there was one girl within the group that had the gull to bite a member of Dorset's crew on the hand.

Umi glanced back at Dorset, not really able to see anything but him and the deck. "Perv...remove your hand..." she growled lowly at him.

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Dorset smiled smugly as the crew surrendered. He did not want to kill them all, that would be counterproductive and no fun at all. And this way, he got to please his crew. Grill, Dorset's first mate saw the girl who bit a crew member's hand. He ran to her and bowled her over with his shield, from behind. He disarmed her and bound her and gagged her before putting her over his shoulder. "I like the spunky ones," he called to Dorset.

"My hands will go where I please," Dorset said to Umi. "And trust me, it will get far worse." He carried Umi to his quarters on his ship. "You are to be my servant and by that I mean slave," he said with a laugh. "You can send the navigation orders through my first and second mates, but other than that, your only duty is to serve me."

He sat on a throne like chair that was on an elevated platform. "Come and kneel by my side," he commanded.

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The girl that Grill had tossed onto his shoulder, as odd as it was, was also of first mate status on Umi's ship. It didn't matter if the lass was bound and gagged, at least it didn't seem to matter to her. She'd kick or squirm and yell at the tall male with such intensity that it got the majority of the female crew's attention. Some insults could be heard despite the gag, but most were muffled out and hardly comprehensible.

Umi glared at Dorset and was sorely tempted to tell him off, but her nerves were set on high alert when realizing she was being carried over to Dorset's ship. The moment she was set down on her feet, Umi was tempted to storm out the door. Her curiousity kept her feet planted where she stood. "I refuse to be your slave. You have no right to own me," she snapped at him with a defiant stomp of her foot. "Find some other girl to play with," Umi demanded. With that, she spun on her heels and tried to pry to door open. No luck. It looked like the door was jammed.