As for where she was going… that was instinct too. Or maybe she heard a voice, a voice that she recognized… or a combination of the above.

"Mindy! I'm here! Over here!" Mandy was calling her. Mandy was calling her away from the slavers. Mindy ran straight to her elder sister…

Wait. No, that's wrong. She wasn't running. She was flying. How come she was flying.

People were staring. Faces and eyes on the airs.h.i.+ps ahead were staring. Why were they staring? Oh right. Because she was flying. She was flying with Chirpy's powers.

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No, no, no… they mustn't know… Mindy had to figure out some excuse, some way to hide it…

With an inkling of an excuse in mind, she flew over the deck of the airs.h.i.+p Mandy was on, and deliberately shouted, "Cancel magic!"

Only then did she drop down onto the deck, putting away the Phoenix Sword and panting heavily. Straight away, she turned to Mandy. "Sis! Help us! We're under attack by slavers!"

Mandy hesitated and turned to Sir Stout.

"But… they're flying the Aurian flag!" Sir Stout protested.

"It's a disguise!" Mindy said.

"But even so…"

"Help us!" Mindy kept pleading.

***

At the time, Remian was fighting for his life.

"Freeze!" One hand was stretched to the left, the other to his right. "Light!"

Over a dozen raiders were already frozen over, chain nets were sprawled all over the deck, and more and more grappling hooks had sunk in the rims of the deck on all sides. The entire crew had come out to fight off the raiders (since the airs.h.i.+p wasn't going anywhere with those hooks on), and more than half of them had already been entangled at least in part.

"Get them! Get them all!" Asda shrieked.

Remian snarled. He pointed a finger at her. "Fireball!"

Her guards reacted, blocking her off with s.h.i.+elds, but even so, the explosion knocked them back into her. Bowled over by her own guards, Asda screamed and slapped at them in a frenzy. "Don't touch me! How dare you! Exile! All of you! EXILE!!"

Then she sat down and started crying.

A sharp discussion began. A certain word was being thrown around by many voices. "Mutiny!"

Meanwhile, Remian ducked under a scimitar, stabbing his nagamaki in response. The slaver dodged, as another slaver on the other side battered at his back with a club.

"Oof!" that was the first word Remian had spoken in ten minutes that was not a spell. Pain wracked his back and left shoulder. "Freeze!"

Both slavers froze, but another one jumped up from behind them, and two more from the right.

Remian backed away, blocking a cutla.s.s from the right with his teeth gritted. The shock and the impact of the heavy blade on his narrower weapon shook his arms. He braced his feet, trying his best not to stumble, to maintain his balance, but then he tripped over a fallen chain net.

Six chain nets rained down on him instantly. He threw up his hands. "Light!"

They covered him from all sides. Remian crouched under a dome of light under a dome of chains, his head spinning, his back aching, half blacking out from exhaustion and pain, and desperately thought of a way out.

"Remian! Help! HELP!" That was Phoebe's voice.

Sudden coldness flooded his heart. What would slavers do with a girl like Phoebe?

"Phoebe!" Remian roared, sudden shock and desperation filling his mind.

Magic flared. He didn't know what he was doing, how he was doing it, he only had one thing on his mind; Phoebe.

There was a flash of light and Phoebe appeared. She was suddenly there, right in front of him, under the barrier of light with him, eyes wide and staring. "Wha…?"

Sudden inspiration hit Remian. He raised his arms, and raised that barrier expanding it farther, farther, pus.h.i.+ng the chains back, pus.h.i.+ng the slavers back, pus.h.i.+ng the chain nets on the floor back. "Sandra! Gammie! Alex!"

Light flashed. The three of them suddenly appeared under the dome with him, all of them looking surprised and confused.

More. More names. Remian called the names of every crew member he knew, and when he ran out, Phoebe supplied the rest. Light flashed non-stop, until the entire crew was under the dome with him.

Still, he raised his hands. Still, he raised his barrier. It covered half the deck now, and had pushed aside everything that wasn't the floor or inside the barrier itself.

Horns were sounding. Shouts were heard on all sides.

Remian paused, laid a hand on the deck, and said, "Break!"

With a sudden SNAP! All the safety rims on the sides of the deck broke away, taking the grappling hooks with them.

"Get us out of here!" Phoebe yelled to the crew.

Remian finally let the barrier go, only to see the raiders had already fled the deck, leaving a lot of chains and weapons behind. As if by mutual agreement, their airs.h.i.+ps and his separated in a hurry.

"What happened?" Remian blinked.

"I think you scared them off." Phoebe suggested.

Remian frowned. "No, I don't think that's it."

Then he collapsed, panting heavily. Pain surged.

"Remian!" Phoebe laid a hand on his chest. Light glowed. Warmth flooded him.

But still, his head spun. Consciousness began to fade.

"Wait… wait… I still…"

But there was no staving off exhaustion.

The last thing Remian said before everything completely went black?

"Mindy."

***

Mindy suddenly appeared on the deck of the Red Fang, eyes wide and wondering how the heck she got here.

"Wha…?" she gaped.

"I said the same thing." Phoebe agreed.

"How did…"

"He did." Phoebe pointed to Remian.

"Remian!" Mindy gasped. "What happened to him?"

"Overdid it. Again." Phoebe grimaced.

Mindy looked around. "What happened to my airs.h.i.+p?!"

Phoebe's grimace only grew more p.r.o.nounced. She didn't say anything.

"And Mandy…" Mindy faltered. Then, "Take off the Aurian flags! Set course for the Ashdalian fleet!"

"Ashdale?" Phoebe blinked.

"We need repairs and rest." Mindy said decisively. "And my sister is there."

"Oh."