Disclaimer: I don't own Bravely Second, all rights to the owners.

No, the hourglass can't manipulate gravity in the game. That's something I decided it could do. I was thinking about how Magnolia is from the moon, and the moon has less gravity than Earth, so wouldn't it make sense that Magnolia had some way to adapt herself to Earth's gravity? Hence, I decided the hourglass can (minorly) manipulate gravity. Magnolia used it to lessen Earth's gravity on herself, then gradually reduced that effect over time until she'd fully adapted to Earth's gravity.

I suppose I could have just given Magnolia gravity magic, but that's boring and way too strong for her to have early on in the game, so in this story the SP hourglass can manipulate gravity a small amount in a very limited area in addition to it's time manipulation stuff. Deal with it.

Also, Edea just seems like the natural focus character, though maybe that's just me.


"'It will be fine,' he said." Edea grumbles as she hammers some nails into a plank to plug another leak. "'It will all work out!' he said."

"I said I was sorry too!" Yew says a bit desperately as he tries to plug a leak with his hands. "That counts for something, right?"

"Ne te sens pas mal, Yew. It was a fine assumption." Magnolia reassures, who is using her boots for the same task while precariously manning the rudder from a standing position. Her balance is quite impressive. "Malheureusement, I do not think this vessel was designed for so many people."

"Which we should have known. Considering how small the boat is." Edea insists. "I said it looked too small and I was right!"

"Do not disparage such a noble vessel." Kamiizumi says. He seems entirely unconcerned about the leaks as he stares off into the waves, and he and Tsubaki are leaving all the work of covering them up to the four other occupants of the boat. "It has served me well, and it will see us through this trial as well."

"Not if it sinks it won't." Edea growls. "Tiz-!"

"Busy!"

"I need more nails!"

"Then grab them!" Tiz says. "You're the only one not holding off a leak!"

Yeah, because she's the one fixing them! "Master, can you hand me those nails?"

Kamiizumi calmly uses his sheathed sword to push the box of nails over to her. He also uses it to flick a few escaped nails into the box. "Our destination is merely a week away, there is no need to panic so."

"Master, this boat isn't going to last a few minutes if we don't keep these leaks under control!" Edea says in exasperation as she grabs another board and starts hammering. "Magnolia, can you steer us to land? We can't keep this up."

"Bien s?r. If I can find land." Magnolia says. Her eyes scan the horizon, seeing nothing but ocean. "We should try to locate some before the sun falls, yes?"

The sun indicates it's past noon, so that doesn't leave them with all that much time. None of them want to sleep in this leaking boat. That's a death sentence if they ever thought of one.

They might not have a choice though. They're out in the middle of the ocean, and travel between continents is not a short trip. They've (somehow) lasted a week in this little dinghy, and are crossing at the narrowest point of the ocean, but it's still an ocean. It's a miracle a strong wave hasn't killed them all.

"Forget Harena, we're not reaching Yulyana at this rate." Edea growls, fixing yet another leak. Logic dictates she should probably be afraid of this situation, but it's much more useful to be angry than fearful because you can channel anger into action, whereas fear is paralyzing and useless. "Tiz, do you still know wind spells? Can you speed us up?"

"We have no sail to aim at." Tiz reminds her. "And spells don't have recoil, so just shooting it behind us wouldn't help. Besides, we don't have an appropriate asterisk, because I never learned wind spells independently."

"Mrgrgr…" Edea growls. Of course he didn't, though to be fair, neither did she. Why bothering going through all that magical training when they could just activate the White Mage asterisk and cast Aero without needing to train at all? Of course it helped to train, asterisks work best when amplifying skills and knowledge rather than conferring them, but Edea frankly had better things to do than waste five years of her life learning basic magical theory. "Magnolia, do you have some sort of moon magic that can help us here?"

"Unless some minor gravity or time manipulation would help, non, I do not."

"I thought you said your hourglass was useful!"

"It is!" Magnolia says indignantly.

The boat gets hit by a wave and tilts steeply to one side, and as everyone lurches to that side it seems like the boat will capsize. Three things then happen in rapid succession: Yew falls over the edge of the boat, Magnolia shouts "Bravely Second!" to activate the time slowing effect of her hourglass (which from Edea's perspective means Magnolia suddenly moves at triple speed) and snaps an arm out and grabs Yew by the shirt to stop his fall, and she also lifts a leg and plants it on the raised side of the boat and shifts her weight to bring the dinghy back on level until everyone can get back into position.

Magnolia's balancing act has become truly absurd. One foot is plugging a leak, the other is balancing the boat, one hand supports Yew, and the other controls the rudder. It's a miracle that she doesn't fall over. While doing this she looks at Edea slightly smugly, and says: "See? Was that not useful?"

Edea rolls her eyes and starts looking for the nails that went skittering across the boat when it tilted. "Show off."

The next two hours, like the four before, are filled with frantic hammering, plugging, and bailing. The sun sinks lower and lower until it starts to sink into the ocean, casting rays of orange and red across the sky. Edea is resigned to the fact that they'll have to find some way to deal with this through the night when Magnolia suddenly shouts. "Land! I see land! To the right!"

Everyone's necks crane to that side, straining to see over the rolling waves and to the shore. A shock of green momentarily peeks over the water, and Edea breathes a sigh of relief.

"Yew, grab the rudden and turn us about!" Edea orders. "Tiz, take the hammer and boards. Magnolia, we're rowing, grab an oar, and Master-"

The swordmaster slightly turns his head and raises an eyebrow.

"Do something already." She says- no- commands. "This isn't the time to be stubborn about your stupid boat. Either take Magnolia's oar or help plug leaks already."

Kamiizumi blinks twice, the closest he's ever come to expressing confusion in all the time Edea has known him. He then sighs quietly and, with as much grace as the action could ever have, steps down from the front of the boat and takes Magnolia's oar and sits on the rowing bench.

"I thought I was supposed to be the leader." Yew mumbles as he grabs the rudder from Magnolia.

"Not the time Yew." Tiz warns.

Edea and Kamiizumi quickly and easily synchronize their rowing, the boat swings around as Yew strains against the rudder, and Magnolia and Tiz keep the vessel from sinking with hammers and hands and a bucket.

With their new angle, the boat can't easily knife through the middle of waves and is instead smashed in the side with them, with each hit sending a spray of water up into everyone's face. Kamiizumi is sitting on that side, and therefore gets the worst of it as he tries to row.

An hour of wet, slow, exhausting rowing gets them within ten lance lengths of the shore before Kamiizumi suddenly speaks up.

"There are rocks before the shore." He announces, and stops rowing. "I will not have my vessel run into them. We must find another landing point."

"Like hell we're doing that." Edea thinks, pursing her lips. She's not waiting until they find a beach. That might take more time than they have daylight. That said, just ramming the ship onto the rocks might end up injuring someone, so they need a way to get the ship aground without drowning everyone. "Magnolia!"

"Yes?"

"You said your hourglass can manipulate gravity, right?"

"Oui, un petit peu."

Edea is going to assume that means yes. "Could it get the ship over the rocks?"

"Perhaps?"

That's good enough for Edea. "Full steam ahead Master!"

"But-"

"We don't have time to find somewhere else. We're going over!"

Perhaps realizing there's no arguing with his pupil, Kamiizumi reluctantly starts rowing, and picks up speed when he sees Edea doing so. Edea doesn't know how long the gravity magic will last, so a bit of momentum can't hurt.

A wave hits the boat, pushing it upwards, and when the wave passes the boat doesn't go back down. Instead, the boat floats, carrying the sideways momentum of the wave hit as well as the forward motion of the rowing. Everyone collectively holds their breath, watching over the side of the boat as it drifts above the water's surface.

Everyone is looking down except for Magnolia, who stares intently at her hourglass. The time sand doesn't matter here, it's the glow of the gem in the top of the hourglass she's paying attention to. The glow is rapidly fading, and Magnolia silently wills it to last just a few seconds longer.

The boat drops, someone yelps, and a loud crack can be heard. The boat tilts backwards, half on land and half in the water, and everyone scrambles out the front.

Edea's shin hits the rim of the boat and she faceplants into the dirt, though only her pride is truly injured. She quickly scrambles to her feet, and helps her master haul the rest of the ship out of the water.

The boat looks terrible after it's rough travel. The pressure of the water around it has forced boards apart, the rudder is bent, and the boat is only still a boat and not a pile of scrap wood because of all the nails and boards that have been hammered into place on the inside.

"My ship." Kamiizumi whispers, stroking the nose of the boat. "You have served us well."

Edea wants to point out that the reason they almost died was because the ship was just that shitty, but that seems rather insensitive even to her, so she refrains from commenting. Instead, she turns to talk to her other companions. "We won't be getting to Harena without another ship. We're either going to have to repair this one or make a new one."

"I don't suppose anyone knows how to make a boat…?" Tiz asks hesitantly.

"I do!" Yew says, sticking a hand up in the air as if this is a school class. "I've studied that before!"

Of course he has. Why isn't Edea surprised? "Good, then we can make one."

"It will take a year-"

"A year!?"

"Well, if we're making a galleon-"

"We only need a dinghy Yew! Something a little more durable than Master's boat."

"Oh, right." He rubs the back of his head, embarrassed. "Well, we can probably make something serviceable within a week, though it will be difficult without the right tools."

"As long as it won't sink."

"It won't! Probably."

Well that's reassuring.

"This is great and all." Tiz interrupts. "But can we please set up camp and dry off? I'm freezing and wet and hungry."

"O-Oh, right!" Yew stammers, like this is somehow his fault. "I'll get the tent up Sir!"

"Stop calling me 'Sir' already…" Tiz mutters, but Yew doesn't hear him. He's too busy pulling the magic tent out of his pack.

While her master mourns his boat (while sopping wet no less), Yew sets up the tent and everyone else tries to get dry and warm. Magnolia squeezes out her hair, which has fared remarkably well considering all the salt water it's been blasted with for the last week, while Tiz removes his gloves and boots. Edea decides to make the productive move of taking an axe to a small tree for firewood, because they need fire to cook after all, and fuel for that fire.

Edea wishes she could remember what sort of monsters there are in Yulyana's woods. Her eyes dart to every shadow cast by the dying light and every slight movement caused by the wind. Nothing emerges, but she doesn't quite feel safe nonetheless.

"The tent is ready Sir!" Yew says, snapping a thoroughly unnecessary salute. Tiz sighs at the title, and steps inside the tent to change out of his wet clothes.

"You were the best of vessels, a shining example of your kind." Kamiizumi whispers, stroking the nose of his ship. "You shall be remembered and immortalized."

Edea rolls her eyes at her master's continued eulogy. She distinctly remembers him telling her that a swordsman values nothing but their blade and their honor, the hypocrite. Besides, they're probably repairing his ship rather than making a new one. His mourning is entirely unnecessary.

Everyone cycles through the tent to change into their spare clothes and then gathers around the fire Edea has made with the wood she gathered and a quick fire spell courtesy of the wizard asterisk. Only Kamiizumi doesn't change, as he stands vigil over his "dead" boat, eschewing the warmth of clean clothes and flame like a fucking drama queen.

While her master is busy pretending he's in a stage play, Edea is trying to convince Tiz to let her cook (he absolutely refuses) while watching the usual Magnolia and Yew routine.

"Mon dieu je suis encore froid, même avec du feu et des vêtements secs." Magnolia murmurs, hugging herself in a very obvious and exaggerated way while looking sidelong at Yew, even though he (and everyone else) can't understand a word she's saying and she showed no signs of being cold ten seconds ago. She then pointedly shifts closer to him, stopping just short of making physical contact.

Subtle Magnolia is not, but incredibly dense Yew is. "Are you still cold Magnolia?"

"Oui, I am." Magnolia nods. "I could use a bit more warmth."

"You should move closer to the fire then." Yew says concernedly.

"But I do not want to burn my skin!" Magnolia says, lying through her teeth. "I am quite pale, and so I burn quite easily."

"Oh, right." Yew frowns, and starts to think intensely for a solution.

"So, perhaps." Magnolia says, leaning against him just a bit. "You could help to warm me up?"

"Of course I can!" Yew says. He then abruptly stands up and nearly causes Magnolia to fall over. "I'll go and fetch a blanket! The tent has several! Don't worry Magnolia!"

Yew rushes inside the tent, much to Magnolia's exasperation and Edea's amusement. He comes back out with a really heavy blanket that's almost certainly meant for winter (and is also rather elaborately embroidered; that's not a cheap blanket) which he tucks around Magnolia. The blanket is huge and thick, and is way too much for however theoretically cold Magnolia might have been. She's going to be sweltering in a matter of moments.

Edea is too amused to say anything, and Magnolia doesn't want to shoot Yew down when he was just trying to help, so it's Tiz that speaks up. "Uh, Yew? That might be a little overkill. It's not winter."

"Oh." He says, looking embarrassed at his overenthusiasm for a moment. "I-I'll get a lighter blanket then!"

He charges back into the tent on a mission, and Magnolia pushes off the ridiculously heavy blanket he'd handed her and sighs quietly.

Yew comes out of the tent holding a blanket with a visibly wide weave (you can see all the little holes between the threads) and drapes that over Magnolia instead.

Magnolia turns her head to look at him. "Um, Yew-"

"Don't tell me, it's too light isn't it?" Yew despairs.

"Well-"

"I'll get it right this time! I swear!" He says desperately, and for the third time in as many minutes he rushes into the tent.

Tiz shakes his head silently and goes back to focusing on the food while Yew frantically searches for a blanket that Magnolia definitely doesn't need.

Dinner is fine, by the way. Tiz isn't the fanciest cook, but he's experienced, so his food is always good, if basic. Edea is of the opinion that he should be using more sugar, but no one else seems to agree.

Sometimes she swears they have no taste.

"You don't put sugar on steak, Edea." Tiz says firmly.

No taste at all. At least her master finally stops stroking the boat and comes to eat the not-sugared steak and dry himself by the fire.

He rejects the invitation to sleep in the tent with them though, instead choosing to "stand vigil over the fallen warrior" through the night.

Again, drama queen.

All things considered, it doesn't take horribly long to make Kamiizumi's ship seaworthy again. It takes a mere four days, and that's only because Yew was quite thorough. Their repairs were functional by the third day, which was well under the week estimate Yew originally provided.

Yew also had the (rather smart) idea to carve a long pole that they could use in the future to carefully navigate through rocky areas, rather than needing to use gravity magic or oars which simply weren't designed for that purpose.

With the boat fixed and their new pole in hand, the group finds a spot along the coast where the rocks aren't plentiful, slide the boat into the water, and carefully navigate out into the ocean again. They make sure to keep the coast in sight, as there's no longer need to travel across open ocean now that they've found Yulyana. They'll be able to see Harena's coast from Yulyana just fine when they reach the narrowest point.

It takes another week to get to their docking point on Harena, then two days to get to Al-Khampis, and their improved ship sees them there safely and without incident.

Kamiizumi refuses to acknowledge the repaired ship as the same one that ran aground, claiming that "my ship died so this new vessel could be birthed", like it isn't just his ship but fixed up to not be as shitty, but that's neither here nor there.


The Bravely Second wiki is barren, it's weird. I knew the game wasn't all that popular, but I didn't realize it was so unpopular that the wiki doesn't even have basic information like pages for every location, enemy statistics, or even an in-depth plot summary which is bog standard for most games. I say that like there's one central wiki, but there isn't. Heck, I've had to use Neoseeker to find most of my information, and even that site doesn't have all that much.

Ah whatever. Such is life.