The Crystalline Pirates and Arland and James Black from the Bloodstone Pirates were riding in an automobile that Bobo conjured up down a road leading into Sharsen's desert area of the continent. The Crystalline Pirates were all geared up in their usual beast hunting weapons and armor. James and Arland exchanged sidelined glances to each other thinking the same thing to one-another, "We're so underdressed."
"You guys aren't very experienced in Beast Hunting, are you?" Wasabi laughed. "These bad boys hit harder than being wake food for a ship."
"Should I be constantly on standby?" Taco teased.
"Oh now now," Goob cut in, "Don't tease the lads so harshly. They're not accustomed to Beast Hunting." He paused and then asked them, "Actually, what do the Bloodstone Pirates do? Obviously, we don't hear of them hunting beasts, surely don't conquer Kingdoms. We know you don't pillage, rob, loot, or run an international business. And since you're pirates, surely, you're not bounty hunters… What do you guys do?"
"We're unlawful do gooders," Arland answered. James jabbed his elbow into Arland and after reacting said, "What the hell? We are."
Straightening up, then sighing, James said, "Okay, yeah. Arland's right. We don't like telling everyone that, but we are."
"What the hell is a do gooder?" Laylee asked.
"Imagine coming across a pirate ship and crew looting and pillaging a village, town, or a normal civilian transport ship on the sea," Kanaka started. Once everyone nodded noting the picture he was painting for their imagination, "They would come in an as the original pirate crew would pillage the village, their pirate crew would pillage the pirates. Being as they are unlawful, mercy is subjective to if those pirates live or die."
"Oh," Laylee laughed. "Do gooder as in you guys do good. Not sure how that one flew over my head."
"It flew over my head too," Wasabi smiled. "I just didn't say anything."
Confused about the whole thing, Captain Good said, "Horseshit." His comment shocked them all. "You want us to believe that the King and Queen of the Pirates go around doing police work that nobles usually do? But along the lines that cross the line. You expect us to believe that? Then why the hell are we hunting beasts? That makes no bloody sense."
"Captain," Bobo called from the front seat, "It's best to not dig too deep into it. They do what they do and we do what we do. That's it. It's just what we do seems to come together temporarily right now."
"Come on, Bobo. You sound you knew their Captain. Tell us, what do they do?" Wasabi pleaded.
"It's not my place," Bobo replied. "Yes, I did know their Captain. But, besides, I don't know if she does the same thing she did when I knew her. So, I could just give you false information."
"Well what did she do?" Goob asked.
"She was the type of woman to kill with no remorse or care," Bobo answered.
"Then not much has changed," James confirmed.
The automobile stopped and Taco, who was behind the wheel, asked, "Up ahead. Is that one of them?"
In front of them were dunes of sand and swirling beneath the surface looks like a serpent about a mile long.
James swallowed hard and replied, "I didn't realize that one got out."
"A serpent is not that big of a deal," Kanaka said nonchalantly. "Our last sea beast kill was a serpent."
"No," James corrected him. "That's a Jarwazee."
Most of the Crystalline Pirates turned to look at James. James felt uneasy with the death glare he was now receiving.
"A Jarwazee," Goob said slowly. "I thought the only Jarwazee was on Ultra Beast on the island of the Bronze Kingdom in the northern seas."
"It is," James admitted. "I admit I was a little ambitious. But a new one spawned in the arena anyway after I captured it."
Wasabi, Taco, and Kanaka were laughing until Wasabi said, "Oh my goodness. You literally let a contained Ultra Beast loose and uncontained on a continent full of people who have no chance against it."
"So what is a Jarwazee," Fawn finally spoke up, being the quietest person on the whole trip. "All I see is a serpentlike creature swirling through the sand, but you said it's not a serpent."
"A Jarwazee," James started, "Is a Jaguar-like beast with a long serpentlike tail. Its tail's purpose is to track prey and is also used like a battering ram against foes. The tail itself can be adjusted in size. Right now, it's tracking the sand for movement for food. Whatever hits the ground after it gets a feel in for it, it's snack time."
Taco spoke up, "Wait a damn minute. You said it's an Ultra Beast. How is the arena big enough for information like that?"
"How many Ultra Beasts have you seen, Taco?" Bobo asked.
"Like two," he said. "The arenas aren't that big."
"As a previous traveling bard, I've seen over 100 Ultra Beasts. Their arenas are all different sizes. Some are huge, some are small. But I do admit many are a distinctively average size."
"He's right," Goob cut in. "The Bronze Kingdom has always seemed like a big kingdom because the Jarwazee Ultra Beast arena habitat is the biggest land mass area on their whole island."
"They also love pirates!" Arland.
"Are you saying this Jarwazee like's eating pirates?" Taco asked.
"No, no," Arland laughed. "The Bronze Kingdom."
"That's true," Goob added. "The Bronze Kingdom own their isle and having the Jarwazee in their backyard, enough people of the Kingdom wouldn't dare fuck with the beast. But they welcome hunters and pirates alike to take on the beast. Comparing the Golden Kingdom to the Bronze Kingdom, you'd think they'd need to switch names for how much revenue that Ultra Beast brings in."
"So," James starts to bring the conversation back to its full circle, "What's your plan?"
Goob exchanges a look with James and then a smiling exchange of a look with his crew and says, "Well, the way Nobles hunt beasts is by a protocol. Well, we're pirates."
With a look of shock on his face, James says, "Oh Neptune. You don't mean-" he gulps and says, "-that's bloody barbaric!"
"I like their style," Arland begins to laugh.
Fawn opens the door to the automobile and steps out and calls out to them, "I imagine you want me to do the honors?"
"Oh please no!" James called out. "At least let us get into position first! Create a game plan! Do this strategically!"
"This is strategic!" Goob yelled with excitement in his voice and he and the rest of the crew started to pile out.
Arland was following them out and James yelled, "Where the hell do you think you're going? They're going to get themselves killed."
"Stay if you want," Bobo said to James. "I conjured this thing up and will dispel it to replenish my magic power for the fight. Whether you like it or not, you're here. I'm just warning you because the position you're sitting in, you'll fall about three feet straight onto your butt."
With that said, James groaned as he climbed out of the automobile and watched as Bobo let out a tune that dispelled the automobile. He looked out to the Crystalline Pirates and his jaw drops when he gets to Fawn.
"This here is my latest creation!" She yelled. Next to her is a colossal sized crystalized cannon with three barrels. One barrel on top of two barrels.
"But will it shoot?" Wasabi asks as he inspects the craftsmanship from Fawns crystal power.
Fawn smiles at Laylee and says, "Let it fly"
Laylee smiles as she pulls back the drawstring on her bow conjuring an arrow and the longer it's pulled back, the more arrows appear until they absorb into one arrow again that is now a lot thicker. "Here we go!" She says as she lets go and the arrow goes into the air above the area of the Jarwazee and then breaks apart into a large cloud of arrows and then rains down on the beast.
The Jarwazze roars as Laylee's arrows make contact as they came down with a violent velocity and an explosion from each on contact.
Fawn jumped onto a seat she conjured at the back of the cannon looking through a scope taking aim for the beast to raise its main body from the sand. The minute she sees it peak, she lets loose on the cannon trigger and now one cannonball comes from all barrels, but it continues to fire like a gun set to fully automatic.
James's jaw is left ajar and he musters up the strength the close it and says, "You guys are crazy."
"Sure, shoot until it dies is a bad tactic BUT it works for us." Goob laughs.
"But you know," Kanaka adds, "This would go by faster if you just let Evelyn join us."
"NO!" James and Arland say in unison.
Kanaka laughs at their reaction and then looks out at the beast and then summing a pillar from the ground, he puts his hand on it and says, :It hasn't yet pinpointed our location yet."
Fawn stopped laughing from the fun she was having as she let off the trigger. Gasped for air and said, "Sorry. I was just-" she continues gasping, "-just sorry. I haven't let loose like that in a while."
"You kids are wild," Bobo chuckled.
James, sweating bullets, says through his gritted teeth, "We're going to die. We're all going to die."
Wasabi starts beating on James back and says, "Lighten up, man! This'll be done before you can figure out how to learn a different language!"
"That's a horrible comparison! That would take months! Maybe longer!" James said dreadfully.
"My point exactly!" Wasabi laughs.
Kanaka's earth pillar descended back into the ground, and he said, "IT'S COMING!" And the Crystalline pirates scattered in all directions from the spot they were grouped in and James and Arland exchanged looks of being discombobulated in the spot the other crew has left them in and then decided the directions they were going and sprinted just in time for the Jarwazee to lunge out of the ground where they used to be and dive back down once it realized that it's prey had ran away and all that was there was air.
Catching up to the area Goob and Kanaka were, James yelled, "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND? YOU JUST RAN! WE COULD HAVE DIED BEING LEFT BEHIND!"
"COULD HAVE?" Goob laughed back, "SURE! YEAH! YOU COULD HAVE! BUT DID YOU?"
"THAT'S NOT THE DAMN POINT!" James exclaimed trying to keep up with their speed as they began to round their position and slow down.
"So we don't have a plan when we start," Goob admitted as he pulled out his crystal trident and summoning a crystal crossbow and musket he attached to his back and waist.
Kanaka, enforcing his bat made of rocks and spikes and a gun made of rocks to his back, added, "We just make it up as we go. On the fly, you might say."
"If we made a plan beforehand, it'd be a simple procedure that happens all too often," Goob said locating the beast over the horizon among all the sand dunes, "Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails," Goob launched crystals into the sky and then Kanaka batted a barrage of rocks boulders at them, shattering them and descending a mist of glitter to the ground below, Goob continued, "Throw away the plan."
"I think I've heard that somewhere before," James muttered.
"So have we," Goob said. "I don't remember where, but it's a good plan."
"It's not a plan!" James exclaimed.
Bobo was driving a dune rider he conjured with Fawn on top with another crystal shooter she created, Laylee peering from the passenger seat with her arrows, and Arland was up in the mix hanging off the back using his wind to brush off any dust from the desert so they always had a clear line of view.
"That's quite a useful power you got there!" Fawn yelled over to him over the sound of shooting, whistling of Laylee's arrows, and the dune rider. "Just keep on doing what you're doing!"
Fawn was shooting the Jarwazee's massive tail, so it shrunk down to size to the main body of the beast. The Jarwazee's massive tail is a hazard when it's in its long and bulky state. Being hit by it is the equivalent to getting run over by a large ship on the sea around 50 times. Just going forward and then backward and so on. Just a bad day for anyone unfortunately to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Laylee supported her explosive arrows from the passenger seat of the dune rider next to Bobo. Since Fawn was shooting "gung-ho", she was providing more precise attacks.
Back where Goob, Kanaka, and James were, Goob handed a crystal to them and said, "Smash this onto the bottom of your shoes. The crystal particles we shattered lets you use these crystals on the bottom of your shoes glide over the sand like skating on ice." He then handed a few more to James and said, "No movements on the sand, no way for the beast to find us without his tail. It also looks like your brother and the others have worked out their own plan to shrink down its tail. So go Find Taco and Wasabi and give them these too."
"What?" James asked. "Why me?"
At that moment, Goob launched more crystals into the sky in a different area with Kanaka's boulders in tow. "Because we still need to cover more ground along the sand. We're shit out of luck if the beast retreats to an area where we have to run when skating is faster."
"Won't it target me?!" James cried out. "I'm not in this to die!"
"Are you out of your mind?" Kanaka laughed. "You think you running to find two people is going to make more of a commotion than we are right now? Man, oh man. Get your mind right!"
James took off once he realized that Kanaka was right and once we was out of earshot, but could still see Goob and Kanaka, he saw the Jarwazee leap out of the sand and take a boulder to the face knocking it sideways. As it was trying to stand up and regain its focus, Goob and Kanaka took that moment to disperse and move to a new area.