No reason for caution

[Firestripe]

*Zeph had been making his way towards the top deck when he heard her call for help. Even as annoying as Natasha had been towards him, she was still captain and that wasn't something he could rightfully ignore. Well, actually he could, as most pirates would, but he wouldn't. He hadn't grown up killing for no reason and he didn't intend to start now. All the beasts that had tormented him in his past home and past ships had been the kinds of beasts that would have let her fall. He didn't want to be what he hated. He dashed over to the side where Natasha was holding on for dear life, leaned over the rail and grabbed her forearm so as to pull her up.* "I got ye, Captain, I got ye..." *He said as he pulled her up from certain death. She wasn't overly heavy and he was pretty strong so it wasn't going to be much of a hassle for him to do so. Even so, he knew that he should get this done fast as she could easily slip from his grip what with all the water and stuff. He gave it one mighty heave which did indeed get her back up on deck in a hurry, if also causing her to careen into him and knock them both down, with Zeph breaking his own fall and her's. OWWWW he thought to himself while he did a good job at hiding his wince, this was the back he'd just fallen from the mast on and it was still very much sore.*

[Scarlet]

Natasha was actually surprised to feel a firm grip grasping her arm. She grabbed onto Zeph's arm as he hauled her back on deck. With a thud Natasha landed straight on top of Zeph, before rolling off of him. " You okay?" She asked him, though by the looks of him, her wieght combined with his crashing down on him wasn't very good at all. " Hey, thanks.." Natasha added before holding out her paw to help him up. Natasha was still shaking from her near death experience, so her grip wasn't the firmest at the moment, but she didn't doubt in her abilities to help Zeph back onto his feet. That was the least she could do, anyway, since he had just saved her life.

[Firestripe]

*Zeph took the paw she offered and got back on his feet with much pain coming from his back.* "No problem." *He said as he finally got back on his footpaws. He stretched his back out gingerly, trying to relieve some pain and only worsened it briefly, which in turn caused him to wince a bit.* "Oh, wow, that's gonna be sore in the mornin'... well, sorer..." *He said to nobeast in particular. He looked down at his arms and paws and saw some blood on them, blood that wasn't his own. He then noticed Natasha's bleeding claws.* "You should probably get somebeast to fix that up for ye, captain." *He said, indicating her paw, which were still very much bleeding. Zeph himself didn't plan on going to any type of healer on board, doing that would only get him bunked for awhile and he did not want that...*

[Scarlet]

Natasha shook her head. "I need to negotiate with the other ship. My paws will have to wait." She said, before darting up to the front of the ship, hurrying in the case of another wave knocking her over. She made it to the rail up front before a wave struck the side of the ship. This time she did not fall over and nearly die. She noticed the waves were getting smaller, and the sky overhead clearing up a bit. Even so, there was no way that the she and the other Captain were going to be able to hear each other through the noise and distance. Natasha then decided that it would be best if she and about ten or so of her crew crossed over to the other creature's ship and negotiated there. She realized that her paws were in fact paining her badly, as she had not noticed it before. She cursed aloud, then ran below decks, using the rope to steady herself this time, as she did not want to slip and fall again. Her footpaws falling heavily on the stairs, she ran to the cannons, where quite a few crewbeasts were still standing around. " What are you doing, just standing around?" She exclaimed, before sighing and then pointing out the strongest, most loyal crewbeasts in the room, which was about four. " You, follow me!" One of them looked as if she were going to protest, but quickly averted her eyes when Natasha glared at her. Running to the weapons room, she found a bunch of vermin getting ready in the case that they were going to board the other ship. Again, she picked out some select crew members and told them to follow her. No one protested. Going back up onto the deck, she looked around for Zeph; Him saving her life at his own expense was obviously showing of his loyalty, or whatever reason he did it for.