The Siren System Pirate

Evelyn woke up and rolled over to see Ember lying next to her, peacefully sleeping. She smiled and whispered, "You're so cute."

 "You're up!" Freya said.

 Evelyn winced to the sound of Freya's voice ringing in her head. "I literally just woke up."

 "But the shop is open," Freya said. "I'm excited to show it to you!"

 "As interesting as it sounds, can we just wait for a second?" Evelyn yawn, still groggy from waking up.

 A knock at her door made her sigh in relief to see Fawn standing there. "Hi," Fawn smiled. She gave Evelyn a piece of paper and said, "So we have a bathing schedule for the guys and girls. I thought since neither of us have bathed since we got on the ship and after the work you put in yesterday, we could relax a bit before Jackson signals the okay to pull into the docks at Waterworld."

 Laylee peeks out from the corner and says, "Let's go girls!"

 Evelyn smiles and says, "I'd like that." She grabs a change of clothes from her room and follows them into the hall and says to Freya, "Just let me relax. And then we can do what you want."

"I understand," Freya says. "I forget you're not an all-powerful Siren with limitless energy."

 "Why do I feel like that is kind of an insult?" Evelyn responds.

 "If my powers were based on a system when before I gave my powers to you, my Vitality would be somewhere in the millions," Freya said.

 "Oh so it WAS an insult!" She thought to her.

 "You just got some growing to do," Freya giggled.

 The girls went down the stairs to the floor under the kitchen and dining room. Evelyn peeked over the edge of the winding staircase and noticed it went down even further. "Honestly. How much more is there to this ship?"

They go through to door on the level they were on to see an open room, the size of their bedrooms, with a machine, baskets, and cubbies and a door. It had a pleasant feeling with soft dark midnight navy blue carpet and light copper tan walls. The Machine was a pristine white, the baskets were woven, and the cubbies were a nice craftsmanship cut and stained wood. "Kanaka really put a lot of attention to detail throughout the whole ship, didn't he?" Evelyn said.

 "Oh yeah," Fawn said. "I actually remember meeting Kanaka when he was six feet tall before he got jacked. He was one of Godric's companions for a long time whenever he would leave the Kingdom and I was stuck on my lonesome. After a while he stopped coming back with my cousin. That went on for a few years before Godric was deemed a pirate and left the Kingdom indefinitely. At least until he snuck back in and offered to take me to the south sea. That's when I saw Kanaka again, the way he is now. And had finished building this ship."

 "And you really haven't seen nothing yet of what this baby can do," Laylee laughs as she opens the machine and starts, "Anyway, here is where we do our laundry. This machine washes them and then dries them. Then we take the baskets and put our clothes in them. Then you can bring your clean clothes to your room and put them away or however you like. Or, like Captain, you can just throw them wherever the hell you want them."

 "You've been in Goob's room?" Evelyn said.

 "Yeah. He likes to see my maps when I finish them."

 "Well what I heard when you said that is that my cousin is still the slob he was when we used to live together in the Golden Empire," Fawn laughed.

 "I thought there was a romance blooming," Evelyn winked.

 "No," Laylee said sadly. "Kanaka won't give me the time of day."

 "KANAKA?" Fawn and Evelyn exclaimed.

 "Wait! No! I-" Laylee began blushing.

 "Take your clothes off! Get in the bath! Girl talk! Now!" Fawn demanded stripping down to nothing. Grabbing a towel from the cubbies and walking through the door to the bathing room.

 Evelyn and Laylee exchanged looks and Evelyn said, "Is there anymore instructions?"

 Laylee laughed, "No. Not really. But yeah, the cubbies are labeled with your names so just take a towel and go."

 "Then I'll see you in there," Evelyn said stripping down and going through the door after Fawn.

 Laylee began undressing and said, "Yeah, I love the oaf, but I didn't expect to say it out loud to anyone." She faced the door and said, "Well here goes nothing," and walked into the bathing room.

The bathing room on the ship was impressive. It wasn't as big as the one Freya had in her temple, before it was destroyed, but it was a nice size compared to the ship. Unfortunately no healing properties like Freya's temple either. But with her Siren Powers and the regenerative ability of how her HP recovers on its own, it doesn't matter to her too much. The girls all dipped into the hot water and submerged themselves and then sat back to bask in the steam and the water on their body.

 "So," Fawn finally said, "Spill the beans girlfriend."

 Laylee was staring at Fawn and said, did it hurt when you got those pierced?"

 "Don't you change the subject, missy!" Fawn said. "And no, it didn't."

 Evelyn looked over, "Could I get them?"

 "As your adoptive mother, not yet" Fawn joked.

 "If you get the chance, ask again. I never had the pleasure of doing it myself when I had a body, but you mother had them," Freya said.

 "Fawn is my mother," Evelyn thought to her.

 With a slight laugh she said, "No, your biological mother."

 "I did not need to know that but what is this hint you're giving me? I can narrow down who my biological mother is by women who have their lady bits pierced?" Evelyn joked.

 "Your father has his nipples pierced too!" Freya added.

 "WE'RE DONE! DAMMIT! WE. ARE. DONE!" Evelyn yelled in her mind.

Fawn was addressing Laylee again, "Out with it."

 Laylee, blushing again, "Okay. I admit it. I have a crush on Kanaka."

 Fawn was giggling, "Okay so, when did that start?"

 "Oh my Orc. Fawn, do you live for gossip?" Evelyn was smiling.

 "Shut up," she said. "I've been couped up with four old ladies for 10 years. I'm living my life freely again."

 Laylee sighed with a chuckle and said, "Anyway, yeah, so like a few months after I joined the crew I started to get attracted to him."

 Evelyn processed the math in her head and said, "So you've liked him for six whole years?"

 "SIX YEARS?" Fawn exclaimed.

 Blushing even more red, Laylee winced out, "Yes."

 Fawn was now laughing loudly. She calmed down and said, "I'm sorry honey. It's not funny. I just didn't expect that at all. He's so big and you're just so-"

 "Tiny," she interjects.

 "Exactly," Fawn smiled.

 "That's sort of," she pauses and lets it all out, "I think he's hot. He's just so big and I just want him to take me and throw me around and-"

 "OH MY ORC! NO! STOP!" Fawn and Evelyn are now laughing loudly now. "We didn't need you to go that far!"

 Freya chimes in, "Ugh. Why did that women tell her to stop. It was just getting hot."

"I think being horndogs is something you and her have in common," Evelyn thought to her. "If it was possible, I'd introduce you."

 "I'm sorry," Fawn said again. "I didn't really need a description like that. So why haven't you told him? Aside from, that 'stuff', what really drove you into liking him?"

 Laylee sighed and said, "I know what he likes in women. He prefers women with purple hair." She points to her head because she has purple hair, "He likes girly girls. I get pretty girly since I became a pirate and no longer am a navy rat." She then says shyly, "I'm obsessed with guys with big muscles. And the dark chocolate of his skin makes me drool, truly."

 Evelyn was realizing her sighing was actually her breathing trying to keep herself from getting turned on thinking about Kanaka.

 "Well I think the crush on him is adorable," Fawn smiled. "And I think after six years means you should woman up and tell him. How old are you again?"

 "24," Evelyn answered for her.

 "24?" Evelyn nodded in confirmation. "Okay, 24. Yeah, you need to tell him."

 "How to do I do that?" Laylee asked.

 "Well you could do the Evelyn approach method and kiss him out of the blue," Fawn said.

 "Hey, wait a minute!" Evelyn said surprised.

 Fawn said, "Oh come on. Don't pretend like I don't see you kiss Jackson from time to time. He's a little dense to never see it coming but you literally have a hard time keeping your lips off that boy!"

 "Well, I mean, yeah. But he started it!" Evelyn admits trying to defend herself.

 "Really?" Fawn asks.

 "He kissed me in his office before I ran away from the island," Evelyn says.

 "How did that come up?" She asked.

 "I was mad at him, and I thought that was his apology," She said now blushing as well.

 "Did it work?"

 A little annoyed at her answer, "Yes."

 Fawn turned to Laylee, "See? Why don't you try that?"

 Laylee, giggling a little, says, "I'm five feet tall! That hunk towers three feet over me! I'd have to climb a ladder to do that!"

 "Well you have to come up with something," she said. "Six years and nothing? That extracurricular activity you dream of having with him could have been a reality a long time ago!"

 "Well what about you? Don't you like anybody?" Laylee said.

 Fawn laughed, "Honey. Not only have I not been here long enough, Bobo, Taco, and Wasabi are for sure NOT my type. Kanaka is not on the table because he's surely all yours, Jackson's a wee little boy and Evelyn's man. And my cousin is more than anything ever even on the table because we're related. By blood too." She chuckles and sighs, "but my cousin is dangerous."

 "Why do you say that?" Evelyn asks.

 "Yeah," Laylee says. "Captain seems harmless."

 Fawn smiles and starts, "Back in the Golden Empire, he was 'missing' or just hadn't been seen for a month. He turns up and was beaming with happiness and excitement for a whole week which at first was weird until out of nowhere, he's throwing me a ball with over 50 suiters competing for my hand in marriage."

 Both girls giggling, Laylee says, "How is that so bad?"

 "Because," Fawn says, "Godric knows damn well what type of men I like and all 50 of these guys were not it. And this wasn't the first time. He did it AGAIN and the second time all 50 men WERE my type, so I was 100% overwhelmed! It was nerve racking!"

 "So you didn't choose a single man?" Evelyn asked.

 "Higher nobility is allowed to have multiple husbands or wives. I would've taken all 50 of those men who were my type if the fact of the multiple spouse rule wasn't capped at five." Fawn pouted.

 "So you chose none?" Laylee asked.

 "Yeah. But I was already planning to leave the Empire at that point anyway," Fawn said. "It was a week after that ball we finally get the report that Godric had become a Pirate and had a bounty on his head."

 They all giggled at this point and felt a shift in the ship. "Op, Jackson must have given the signal that all is clear." Laylee said. "Guess we should get out then and get ready to dock and have a little bit of fun!"

 They all exited the bath and got to their rooms to get ready. Once Evelyn got to hers, she sat on the bed and said, "I'm ready now, Freya."

"Finally," Freya said. "You should realize by now I say these things because they're important for you as a Siren." She pulled up the shop interface. It had a photo of items on the left-hand side and its name on the right. At the top it had a category sorter of 'items', 'weapons', and 'armor' and another box at the bottom that was grayed out that said 'sell'. A box at the top right-hand side had a line that read 'coin' with the number '25' next to it.

 "So what am I looking at?" Evelyn asked.

Freya started to explain, "This is the Siren system shop. As you can see there are categories of items, weapons, and armor. You can buy and sell, but at this time sell is not available."

 "Why is it not available?" Evelyn asked.

 "Because you have nothing," Freya said.

 "That's a pretty shitty way to tell me I'm poor," Evelyn sneered.

 Laughing, "No. No. As you fight people and monsters and defeat them and gather items and gold. You don't need to harvest or loot them; they'll be auto secret awards that'll show up once they're defeated. Coin is random though. Coin isn't listed for mission rewards, but there'll be rewards there too. Level 5 reveals a lot of fun stuff!"

 "It says I have 25 coins," Evelyn said.

 "Yeah," Freya stretched that response. "So, at base ranks, killing someone will by default give you 10 coins. Killing stronger people will vary in multiples. Using a supercharge will give you five and go up in multiples of it at higher levels too. Killing beasts and missions will vary."

 "So what should I get with my 25 coins?" Evelyn asks.

 "A weapon," Freya responds. And the weapons tab opens.

 "Wow," Evelyn says. "You're not really giving me a choice, huh?"

 "Sorry," Freya laughs. "I took the liberty of looking through the shop already and you can't afford anything right now except for a few class weapons. Everything else costs much more."

 "I see," Evelyn says as she starts to scroll down the list. "So, the brawler class weapon are gauntlets?"

 "That's right," Freya says. "Though being a Siren, they do more than just punch. Well, no, all they do is punch. But that's not what I mean," Freya stutters over her words as Evelyn is laughing at her. "What I meant is you can fire fireballs with punches. And in close combat, your gauntlets would be laced with scorching hot temperature so when a punch lands, it would burn your opponent."

 Wide eyed, Evelyn responds, "That sounds lethal. You sure know a lot about them."

 "Well, my time as a Siren, all 2,000 years, I had a lot of time to learn them all. Even develop new weapons as they came into existence. Copying whatever the humans made." Freya says proudly. "So, any of these catch your eye?"

 "Two do," Evelyn said. "Or just one but one is grayed out and I'm curious about it."

 "Well the ones grayed out; you just can't afford yet." Freya says.

 "I guess as much but that's not the ones I'm talking about," Evelyn says. She scrolls to the bottom of the list to the only gauntlets that are pale blue. "It says special exclusive."

 "I- I- I actually don't know what those are," Freya says.

 Evelyn waited for a moment but could tell from her tone she wasn't lying to her. "Well, I guess I just have to upgrade my class level until I can get them. It says unlocked at max class level. How many class levels are there?"

 "Hopefully 30," Freya says.

 Evelyn stops her scrolling at the gauntlets that caught her eyes, radiant red gauntlets with gold embossing pattern that looked like a rose that were titled 'Delicate Bashers' and she said, "The hell do you mean hopefully?"

"Well I had some input when the system was created. I requested 30 class levels." Freya said.

 "I haven't had many chances to get my class level higher, so I hope 30 is the max as well," Evelyn says as she presses purchase and the gloves materialized onto her hands. The system screen popped up.

[Equipped: Delicate Bashers]

[Weapon Type: Gauntlets]

[Required Class: Brawler]

[Delicate Bashers Active Skill: Hercules]

[Hercules: Able to pick up and grab objects 50 times your weight]

[Stat Increase When Equipped: Strength +10]

[Strength: 12] [+10]

"Oh wow," Evelyn said. "I'm slightly turned on." Snapping back to reality she says, "I can't just walk around with these on at all times."

 "True," Freya said. "Too bad."

 "Freya!" Evelyn whines.

 "I'm only joking. With weapons you have a hidden passive skill called equip. I used it when you had your eyes closed and was wearing armor when you opened them when we were back in my temple. Just simply 'will' it and your hands will engulf in flame and the gauntlets will disappear. Cast that fire again and your hands will engulf in flame again, equipping to you again."

 Evelyn followed Freya's instructions and said, "Well that's that." She looks out the window and can just see the ivory marble colored outer wall of Waterworld and says, "OH YES! WE'RE HERE! I better get out there to see if they need me! Come on Ember!" Ember, who had been sitting quietly and staring at Evelyn with admiration in its eyes, quickly floated along Evelyn and then absorbed itself into Evelyn's body.

"There you are Evelyn! We're here!" Laylee yells over, seeing her emerge from below deck. "And now we need to get you, Fawn, and Jackson swimsuits! Captain Goob, if you would please-"

 "No," Goob said. "I know what you're trying to do. You're going to get them swimsuits and while you're at it, get yourself another one."

 "Well of course captain. I need one too!" Laylee smiled.

 "You have 20 already!" Good exclaimed.

 With adorable puppy dog eyes, she says, "Please Captain. What's just one more little itty bitty swimsuit?"

 Goob sighs and says, "Fine dammit. But please have something more modest than your last swimsuit. There was almost nothing to it."

 "You're no fun," Laylee smiles as she takes the coin bag from Goob's hands and Evelyn, Fawn, and Jackson follow her off the ship.

 "And don't you dare overspend!" He yells out to them.

 Laylee led them through the gates and Evelyn's eyes lit up with amazement. "This is Waterworld?"

 She was looking at the first amusement park she'd ever been to. And despite the sea beast attacks it's had, it's still the best one on the planet. Though only a fourth of the planet has been explored so it's the best amusement part that their side of the world has known of.

 Waterwold is so massive man-made island created by the independent billionaire mogul Popeye S. M. Spinach. After serving in the Navy for three different Kingdom fighting Pirates for 30 years, he was awarded wealth to the limit that he built his own island and seated Waterworld atop. Despite its fall and rebuilt of sea beast attacks, people keep coming back and continue to grow Spinach's wealth.

 Waterworld's design was very thorough and planned out to entertain any, and all guests. Walking through the front gates, to the left is their biggest attraction, a giant pool. Giant being used as an understatement of this large body of water. Along the edge of the pool is a long shoreline for people to relax in lawn chairs or bask in the sun to get a tan. Or people can sink their feet in the sand or soak them in the water. It was also a big attraction for kids to play in the water and build sandcastles. There was even people Evelyn assumed were around her, Laylee, and Jackson's ages playing sports in the more sandy area throwing around a disc or hitting a white ball over a net back and forth to each other.

 Further out in the giant pool, it opened up more in width and there is where the pool would conjure artificial waves where people who enjoyed surfing would hangout to catch waves to ride on. A safe distance away from interfering with the people having fun at the pool's shoreline.

 Past the line, where the waves would conjure for the surfers, was the biggest body of water of this huge pool. This area was for people to ride around on motorized single person vehicles to glide on the water at ridiculous speeds and hitting waves and doing tricks. She remembers the pamphlet she had and lost before she ended up at Freya's Temple. From memory they were called wave runners, which was rode in a sitting position, and jet skis, which was rode standing.

 On the opposite side of the pool were waterworks of activities, rides, and slides. There was a roller coaster that winded around an artificial mountain with a drop at the end dowsing the riders in water. There were also slides to go on of different sorts. Some that required a raft, and some that didn't. The slide she was most interested in was the tallest slide there. It was around four stories tall and was a straight shot down in a pitch-black tube.

 As for the slides that required a raft, the slide that interested her the most was the largest and longest slide there. It was half enclosed and half open throughout the ride. However it worked, it was a waterslide that would go down, left, right, and with mindboggling sorcery of however a waterslide can operate in this type of way, go up. Evelyn was eager to get a two-person raft to go on it with Jackson.

 The other section here on the fare side of the part was something the whole team talked about and had their eye on to meet up close to the end of the day when the sun set. An event Waterworld held where people can sign up as a group to take a race on single person rafts down a watery slope. The winner would just have bragging rights against their friends. Kanaka and Goob boasted between each other who would win. Now seeing it in person, Evelyn's personal goal was to come in as the underdog and win.

 "Are you sure you don't want me to make that a system mission?" Freya asked.

Tiredly, "Yes, Freya. I'm sure. It's just a friendly competition between friends. I don't think it's going to affect me becoming a powerful Siren."

 "But it'll give you exp. And more coin," Freya said trying to entice her.

 Groaning, she replies, "Just be a good little system and have a fun time with me today."

 "Like I have a choice," Freya said sarcastically.

Evelyn grabs Jackson's arm and says, "Can we make this a date? I want to ride them all with you," Evelyn said.

 Shocked at Evelyn's request, and happy, Jackson said, "Yeah. I think I would love that!"

 "Not just yet, love birds," Laylee said grabbing Evelyn and pulling her along with them into the shopping district that was immediately to the right of the park entrance. "You won't be allowed on anything without a swimsuit."

 They went into a couple of shops and Fawn or Laylee would keep pulling Evelyn back whenever she spotted a food stand while Jackson wouldn't help them out at all and preferred laughing at them struggle instead.

 "How could one girl be this strong?" Laylee said.

 Panting, Fawn said, "I have no idea!"

 Trying to catch his breath from laughing so hard, Jackson said, "Now you see why I'm not helping you guys?"

 They finally got Evelyn to submit at the specific swimsuit shop Laylee wanted to shop at. Jackson started to look at some swim trunks as Laylee led Fawn and Evelyn to the lady's section in the back. "Well, here you go ladies. Pick what you like!"

 Fawn only looked for a minute until she said, "Laylee. These are almost like lingerie." She picked a two-piece swimsuit where the bottom half just looked like string. "Like there is nothing to this."

 "Do you want to look sexy or feel comfortable?" Laylee asked.

 "Feel comfortable," Fawn and Evelyn said together.

 "Oh," Laylee said embarrassed. "I just thought… Well… Never mind. I guess this section isn't for you." She took them to another women's section with more, appropriate, choices.

 The girls looked through the swim wear and once Evelyn found something she shrieked and then left the section to go find Jackson.

 Fawn smiled once she found something too and headed to the changing rooms to try it on. Laylee found something as well and headed to the changing rooms too. As they were in there, Evelyn and Jackson occupied the last two rooms.

 Laylee was out first. She was in a lavender colored two-piece swimsuit with a thin lace shirt to tie around her waist. "I like it she smiled in the mirror outside the changing room.

 Fawn stepped out and Laylee's jaw dropped. Fawn was in a light blue one-piece swimsuit. It had support in the upper area, the back was a low cut, and the sides had holes to show off her curves and an opening in the middle exposing her belly button which Laylee responded, "You have your belly button pierced too?"

 Fawn looked down at her crystal belly button piercing and said, "Yeah." She laughed and said, "You noticed the girls in the bath we had but not this little thing?"

 Laylee blushed and said, "The teasing was too much notice much of anything."

 Fawn laughed and looked at herself in the mirror and said, "I think this actually qualifies as sexy while also comfortable. And it makes my ass look amazing if I must say so myself." She started to admire her butt in the mirror. "And man did it fill this swimsuit well."

 Evelyn stepped out of her room and Laylee exclaimed, "Evelyn! We're twins!"

 Evelyn was wearing swimsuit identical to Laylee's except it was red and the lace skirt was black. Evelyn saw Laylee's swimsuit, smiled, and said, "Not exactly."

 The door to Jackson's room opened, and he was blushing the same shade of red as the underwear shaped swimsuit he had on. "Evelyn, is this necessary? These are not swim trunks at all. I don't think my legs are not meant to be this exposed." Jackson said is his fire red speedo.