Plants grow on land

Dear diary,
These days on the sea are very nice. The weather is great, the winds blow stronger everyday and I saw a whale for the first time! Nixie was right to choose this way!
 
Everyone on the ship seems to be doing well. Well...everyone but Drenizek,who seems to be barely able to walk. But we are trying our best to get to the miracle elvish city. And we have found some plants that may help him.
 
A few days ago, while we were sailing, Pullius's ghost saw some people on the land. I don't know how he does that, but he has some very useful magic. We decided to stop and see what was going on. Since we didn't know if they are dangerous, we decided to send a few people to see what was going on. We couldn't risk the lives of everyone. And who else to go, if not the "WE WANT BUM-BUM" team? ( Heron and me, Pullius, and Eve). Heron is the big muscle guy, who intimidates his enemies just by walking at them and then it’s me, who not only am made of fire, but also have two very cute black fiery swords. Behind us, it’s always Pullius, who usually just heals us, but when you angry him, he can exterminate half of the enemies with one blow. And then, it’s Eve, who always jumps the first one on the fight. I would be a bit scared to be her enemy. When you see a small girl running at you with a knife, you don’t even know what to expect. I liked this combo but it has one little tiny flaw, we do miss the diplomacy.
 
So, dear diary, we wanted to leave to the island. Drenizek insisted he wanted to join, but the others didn’t agree. To be honest, i think it would have been good for him to come with us. Not fight, but come on the beach with us, stay on the boat. I don’t like treating him as a sick person.It feels like treating a soldier who lost his arms, as if he wasn't a soldier at all, ignoring that in his heart, he still wants to fight. But since all the others didn’t want him to come, i decided to leave it be and just go. They are probably right, he can barely walk after all.
 
As we were getting closer, we got to see a lot more of what was happening. The 3 soldiers were actually 9, and they were attacking… i didn’t know who that was, but they were attacking her. That wasn’t a fair fight at all. Pullius fastly told us that the girl was some kind of fishy person (they call them stregians or something…). I wasn’t sure that we should go and help her or not, but until i decided, Eve was already swimming to the shore. Well, seems like we will be fighting after all. Of course we followed her. I mean we are the “We want BumBum team” for a reason.
 
When they saw us, the soldiers waved and seemed like they thought we will help them.We didn’t really understood each other, but we tried to warn them to run. By the time i got to the shore, Heron already threw Eve in front of one of them. But a few of them jumped on Eve and threw her knife away, trying to stop her. Of course, i reacted as I knew, did some woosh-woosh with the sword and killed them. I saw Heron fight somewhere in the back, and the fishy girl fighting the remaining ones. After she lost her knife, Eve got an axe, and went to hit another one. The other guy stopped her and wanted to hurt her. But Pullius did some magic shield around us so she was fine. But noone tries to hurt our little brave girl while i watch. This time however, i only put the guy to sleep. We were already winning the fight, so there were no need for more deaths.
 
Then, i went to another soldier, who stole the fishy girl’s sword. He was so scared that i didn’t even hit him, and he already fell on the ground. Then, slowly, they started to run away.
Heron wanted to follow them and kill them, but i didn’t want to. If they were to come after us, then we would fight, but for now, we did enough.
 
After things calmed down a bit, we talked with the fishy girl. It was hard since we don’t know how to talk with each other, but Eve did have a few good ideas. The fishy girl asked us if we can help her get the other sword back. We did agree, but we had to talk to the others as well. So we brought Nixie and Bart here as well. We told them what happened and decided to try have a deal with the men. We gave them back the prisoneers and they gave us the sword. So we went into the woods, to find out where they hid.
 
In the end, We did find them…a lot of them actually. And they had some kind of trap for us. Then, they saw the prisoneers and Nixie, an elf, and started to talk with us in elvish. The conversation was long, and I didn’t really understand much, since i am one of the only ones in the party who doesn’t speak elvish. The others were trying to translate, but they were a bit busy with the negotiations. I did get the main idea: they wanted to kill the fishy girl and then they would help us with what we needed. And they were upset that we killed their men and they wanted something back for it.
I believe the negotiations were not easy because everyone seemed very stressed. At some point, Nixie and Bart, who were visibly mad at us, came and asked why did we kill those man. Eve jumped and said it was her fault but it really wasn’t.
The reason why I killed those man was because, we were in a fight. And in a fight, you don’t expect the other side to hit you with a wooden sword. You go there, prepared to actually fight, and die if needed. I didn’t know how powerful those man were, nor had time to ask them if they are good or not. What I saw, were 9 men attacking a girl. We could have jumped in front, but we would have risked being attacked from both sides. I do believe that sometimes choosing a side is better that fighting both, especially when we were only 4 people.
 
I didn’t mean to upset Nixie and Bart but i did not agree with them this time. However, they seemed to be very upset, so I tried to apologise and i said that next time we will pay more attention. There was no point on fighting on something like this, especially in front of the negotiations.
 
At some point, the negotiations became very agressive. One of the men shoot an arrow to the fishy girl, who of course reacted by attacking back. Seeing this, the other men tried to attack her. But little brave fighter,Eve, Heron and me, jumped in front of the fishy girl to protect her from being killed. This time, we did not attack but got some arrows in our heads.
 
In the end, it has been decided that the men will help us, if the fishy girl will come on our boat and never return. Then, we discussed with the fishy girl who asked us if she could go to her home, and come back with help. Nixie was harder to convince on this matter, because she had sworn on the holy book that she will take care of the fishy girl, but in the end, we all agreed. Eve did a great job convincing her.
 
The next day, the men came to us, bringing the plants we needed to treat Drenizek, as promised. Of course, they asked about the fishy girl. But there was a tiny problem again. She didn’t come back yet. Drenizek, once again, came to save us, and made deadly combo with Pullius, to win us some time. He started to thank the men for the medicine, and Pullius, who already talks a lot and slow, translated EVERYTHING that Drenizek said, but longer. We could have stayed there the whole day. At some point, even the men lost their patience. Luckily, our new friend, came up from the sea. Bart, who seemed to have a plan, went to the fishy girl, and pretended to take from her some kind of improvised crown, and put it on her head, as a sign of peace. And thus, the men believed his excuse that “the fishy girl went to gather some shells”.
 
And so, we got our new friend, Xi. Her name is longer, but i did forget it already. We then left the land and continued our journey. On the way, the boat started to move very very fast. It seems, that as promised, Xia brought help. On some coasts nearby, we saw a few fishy men who were waiting for us. And a bit behind them, a more powerful fishy man, who seemed to be their leader. They seemed friendly but imposed some kind of respect but they seemed willing to help. Who would have guessed we would have found allies on these lands? I was a bit amazed and very happy we stopped there. And thus, our team gained another important crewmate, slowly gaining new forces on the side of this life. As we passed the fishy men, Xie turned to the boss and bowed, and he slowly bowed back. They seemed to have agreed on something. We will find out what it is, when she will learn common, but until then we have another girl in our Bum-Bum team. And she is super strong. I like her, and I promised Nixie i would take care of her, so I will keep my promise. I guess Xia and me will become good friends.
 
The next day, Xia became hungry, but we didn’t want to stop as we needed to hurry. So Nixie did one of her magic things, and called so many fishes. It was very beautiful. At some point we even flew into the air, because one whale came to say hi. She hit our boat pretty bad, but Xia helped us repair it. It took us a bit of time but we were going fast, so it was fine. I did not like to admit it, but i liked the whale, i have never seen one before. Maybe after this war ends, i will stay on the boat with the crew (and Xebec) and travel the world. I would love the party to be there too. It would be a lot of fun.
 
This morning, something else unexpected happened. Drenizek, wanted to leave the boat and go by himself to a “long journey”. I got what he meant, he didn’t want us to see him die. But there is no way any of us would have let him do that. While before i was sad, now, i look at him and feel motivated to do whatever i can to save him. I don’t care of he likes us or not, or if he wants to leave or not, he is one of us, so we will be by his side. I know he doesn’t want to bother us. Even after we got him the plants his reaction was “Did you do all of this for the plants for me?”. But we will bother him. Everyone, tried in their way, to make him stay. But Drenizek couldn’t be convinced. Until, Nixie, who was in tears, told him that she will never forgive him if he left. That is when Drenizek fell on his knees and started crying. He really must care for her a lot. And she for him. I don’t usually see Nixie in tears, especially in front of others. But this time, i feel like she finally showed her real emotions to everybody. Drenizek soon fell unconscious again, and we took him to Nixie’s room. She remained there with him for the rest of the time. Two days and we’ll get to miracle elvish city. Two days and we finally have a chance to help him. For him and for Nixie.
 
May the Almighty protect them and love us all.