Once the battle with the druid was over the party started to caat healing spells on themselves and readied for the more deadly battle to come. Morning and Grey moved over to the ballista at the bow of the Sea Wyvern, preparing it to fire when the other ship came into rangs. Even at this distance the other vessel was clearly flying the flag of the Scarlet Brotherhood, a splinter group of the Lotus Dragons. As the ships came within long range of each other Nimo cast a spell and a ball of sonic energy hit the other vessel's rigging, although it still came onwards. The other vessel, now identified as the White Shark fired its ballista at the Sea Wyvern but failed to do any damage. At this point a caster on the White Shark created a storm of ice and snow immediately in front of the Sea Wyvern. The Sea Wyvern, unable to change course quickly enough sailed through the icy patch, causing several of the crew to take damage from the extreme cold. Seki, taking a lift from his dire bat moved forward, flying towards the White Shark. At the same time Morning fired the ballista at the White Shark, doing some collateral damage to the other vessel's hull. The caster on the White Shark, who had been identified by Nimo as a warmage cast a storm of sleet on the deck of the Sea Wyvern, making the whole deck extremely slippery and preventing easy movement.
A group of fighters on the White Shark had spotted Seki flying towards them and opened fire with light crossbows, failing to hit either Seki or his dire bat. The captain of the White Shark also fired at Seki, but likewise was unable to hit. By this time the two vessels had started to move closer to each other. Grey, standing on the prow of the Sea Wyvern, fired a shot at the wamage and hit, drawing blood. In retaliation, the warmage cast a spell and a bolt of fire hit the crow's nest and rigging of the Sea Wyvern. Unfortunately Nimo had been standing in the crow's nest at this time and his charred and lifeless body fell to the deck. Meanwhile the dragon shamans fired another volley at Seki and once again failed to hit. Seki, by this time had moved closer to the deck of the White Shark, hitting the warmage. In retaliation the warmage mumbled to himself and a creature from Seki's worst nightmares appeared to come into existence, attacking him. Seki was unable to resist the effects of the spell and dropped into the swirling ocean. literally frightened to death. But by this time the tide of the battle was starting to change. The warriors on the White Shark once again failed to hit Seki's bat and so did the ship's captain. Sanagaya threw a mindblade at the warmage and he lost the spell he had been preparing to cast. With a resounding crash both ships hit eah other, the Sea Wyvern ramming the White Shark.
Scarlette, the cpatain of the White Shark, moved forward to hit grey but failed, whilst Sangaya hit a rogue who was trying to sneak aboard. Morning failed to hit Scarlette as shemoved past and the rogue Sar Pios hit Morning in return. Scarlette too hit Morning as the melee fighting intensified. Working together Morning and Grey moved in to attack Scarlette and Sar Pios. Aust's minion also joined the fray, trying to hit Scarlette but failing. Morning, with a mighty roar criticalled Sar Pios and he fell to the floor, pumping blood. Grey likewise hit Scarlette twice and she too fell to the deck, dead. Soon the battl was over the remaining warriors either dying or surrendering before the advancing party.
After resurrecting their fallen comrades who decided they would like to retire from adventuring for the time being, Aust used the Lyre of Building to restore the damage to the two vessels. Placing Nimo in charge of the Sea Wyvern with a token crew, Snagaya and the rest of the party decamped to the new vessl which they christened the By Default. And so the fleet of vessels commenced their journey southwards.