Chapter 1
“What are you doing?”
I’m not going to tell you.
“Why ever for?” you may very well ask
“Well” says I, “it be for the reason tis not to m y likeing to be saysin what I do”
You’d look at me a might bit confused. And I? I’d look at you and lean down in your face and say
“Savvy?”
And then i’d spun around on my heels and prance off compass in hand. For today mate, i be going wherever the wind may take me. Aye. That is correct, I have taken to piracy.
“The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her bones
the seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we’ll roam”
That song is about the breathern court and Calyspo.
‘Ere by my side is me trusty mate Boot Stealin Betty a fellow swashbuckeler
*ARR swash swash buckle buckle*
So off we be going I the Captain scarlett buckthorns the name and Boot Stealin Betty to pillage and plunder and commit the oldest sins in the newest ways. Yarr.
You scallywag are probably thinking to yourself
“These fwels, their brains are full of poppycock” and you say to me “YOUR MAD!”
“Thank God!” says I “If i weren’t life wouldn’t be very much fun now would it mate?”
I hear some grumbles from the brig, for i have locked some of my crew away in there.
“Why?”
You ask again because you are so nosey
“Why not?” I take off my hat and lighty brush off some dust “I say it makes for a much more exciting adventure when you have prisoners in the brig” I pause, “Weather they are from my own crew or not”
You just stare at my blankly thinking to yourself “How did i get myself into this abusurd situation?”
“Thats easy!”
I shout to you from the helm. You are puzzled at how I heard your thoughts.
I contiune “The minute you started reading this story”
*cue pirate music*
You look down at your feet and thats when you realize you are fully decked in full pirate garb. You look up with shock written all over your face. You glance around and see that you are on a ship. Yes Devin, a pirate ship. You spin around to see me your captain at the helm, map in hand. Betty scurrys by you.
“Captain!”
“Aye!”
“In my daily surveying of the supplys i have seen evidence of a possible stowaway”
“Betty, your sure of this?”
“Aye captain, i’m sure”
“Devin!”
you find yourself compelled to answer. “Yeah?”
“Is that anyway to speak to your captain?!”
“Umm..Aye Captain?”
“Better! Now, since your new on this ship i have a job for you. Go fetch me some rum and while your at it look for that blasted stowaway! Now be off with you!”
You look around still unsure of your surroundings and you head down into the hold. As you walk down the stairs you see a tall fellow very dirty looking with a mop and pail. He sees you out of the corner of his eye, grabs his mop and shakes it in your direction.
“Ae! Who ar you? What ar you doin ere? You the stowaway Betty was talkin bout?”
You wave your hands franticly.
“No! No, Captain sent me down here to get her rum and to find the stowaway”
The boy with the mop squints his eyes at you examining you to see if your telling the truth
“Right then you seem to be truthful” he extends his hand “the names Floppy i’m a deck hand on this ‘ere vessle. And the guy asleep in his drink over there…”
He points at a rather excentric looking fellow, true to the statement asleep bottle in hand and keys to what appear to be the brig. Another feature you notice is he seems to be missing a leg that has been replaced by a rather primative stick.
“We call him ‘Peggy’” Floppy continues “his real name is Jonathan, but as you can see Peggy fits him better”
You nod, rather overwelmed by all of this still
“Captain sent you for rum eh?”
“Yes, yes she did”
“Well you better get a move on, captains not one to be kept waiting” he points down the hall “Gallys that way”
You nod with a ‘thank you’ and make your way down the hall to the galley. You slide open the door and search around in the darkness for the rum that the captain so adimently craves
“Ah there it is” you exclaim
You grab one of the bottles and something catches your eye. You stand very still thinking maybe your just seeing things. Then you hear a clink of bottles hitting together. You whip around and pull out your pistol and point it at the strange figure in the dark. ‘Where did this gun come from?’ you wonder
“Don’t shoot!!” it yells
It, you notice is a young girl darker in skin than most, in clothes that dont suit her at all, they look like they must have been stolen from various crew members.
“Parley!” she shrieks
You look at her having no idea what she is talking about, nevermind trying to understand her accent. You keep the pistol pointed at her and drop the rum.
“You!” you say shaking “i’m supposed to bring you to the captain”
You grab her arms and pull her up to the deck with you.
“Captain!” you yell “I found the stowaway!”
“Aye, that you have. Bring her here”
You walk with her as she strugles.
“As if you have anywhere to go, we’re in the middle of a bloody ocean” you say to her. She stops her squirming.
“You there” says captain ” Why are you on my ship?”
She refuses to speak
“Going to be a tough one eh?” She looks at you. “Wheres my rum?!”
You remember you dropped it when you found the girl.
“I must have left it down below”
“Well a lot of good its doing me down there now isn’t it?! Go back down there and get it for me! And on your way throw this scallywag in the brig” She says shoving the girl at you/
“Yes ma’am” you say grabbing the girl and leading her to the brig.
“Oh! And!” Captain shouts “You can let the other two out of there. Just wouldn’t be a proper brig without a few bodies in it, but just one will do for now”
“Aye captain”
‘wow im really getting into this’ you think to yourself
You get down into the hold and you make your way over to the brig where Peggy is still fast asleep. You wonder to yourself wether it is wise to wake him or just try to pry the keys away from him.
“Hello?” you say softly
You clear your throat hoping that will wake him. Unfortunately it doesn’t. So you decide to try and take the keys. First you tie the girls hands to a post in the room so she does not escape.Then you think of a way to pry the keys from his hands for he does have quite the grip on them. First you try lifting his fingers off but thats not working.
“Blast!” you say louder than you hoped
You see peggy twitch and he snorts of waking up, but still stays sleeping. Now the stowaway knows what your trying to do and wants to foil your plans. So while your not looking she kicked peggy in his good leg waking him up. Peggy utterly startled by this sits up straight and with a yelp yells
“Davy Jones locker! What rotten scallywag no good son of a bligerat dares to wake a man while hes sleeping?!”
You stand back trying to become invisable. He looks right at you.
“That wouldn’t be you now would it?”
“Nnnoo, no sir”
“Well then i suppose your gonna tell me it was a ghost that did it, hmm?”
“It was the girl peg” chimed in Floppy
“Oh was it now?” Peg paused “You wouldn’t lead me astray Flop” he looks directly at you “what arr you doing in my face anyway and who be you?”
“I’m Devin sir, captain sent me down here to put this stowaway in the brig and release the other two”
“Did she now? To be honest i havent the faintest idea why these two are in here “
Floppy interupted “Captain said it weren’t right haveing a empty brig so she picked the first two people that walked by her. All seems a bit daft to me but orders are orders and captains not one to be trifled with”
“Aye, that about does it. Well out with ya” Peg said as he opened the door to the brig.
That when you laid your eyes upon 2 girls who we called Ochre Mistress a young maiden who wass quite filthy looking, the result of being in the brig and along with her Peg Leg Sally, slightly taller than Miss but equally as filthy. You think to yourself ‘ flithy must be the dress code around here’ You untie the girl from the post and whisper to her “you think your real funny eh?” she snickers at you. You decide that you better get the captain her rum. ‘Filthy creature that captain is’ you think. You go back to the gallley and find the bottle you dropped. And back up the stairs you go bottle in hand. When you get on deck you see a lot more people than you had originally in the first place.
“It’s about bloody time you got that!!” Says Captain as she walks toward you.
You notice that Miss and Sally are following her looking quite distraught. Captain grabs the rum from you and takes a long swig, turns to the girls, smiles and slinks away.
“Your not going to get away that easily!” Miss calls after her “I want a good reason why we were down there!”
Captain swirls around and looks at her.
“Listen love, as captain of this ship i do as i please. Sometimes not thinking…err..yes…..” She trailed off. Something seemed to be bothering her.
She looked up at the crows nest at Hales who was searching the seas for land or danger using her knife to shade her eyes from the sun. Miss was about to make a statement in retaliation when captain held up her hand and spoke
“I know your going to say that i am a terrible captain and you should muitny against me and other things of the sort, but before we get involved in such affairs i would be very much obliged if you would attend to the stowaway who became your replacement in the brig, and find out the name and purpose of hiding on my ship of said stowaway.”
All which was said so fast so fast that all one could do was nod and carry on with the dutys set before him. Miss completely irritated headed down below as was ordered Sally accompanying her. They approached the brig where the girl was sitting in the corner looking just as irritated as the two of them.
“You there!” says Miss “what be your name?”
The girl just stares blankly at her.
“Come now, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, its either I or captain you’ll be speaking to and believe what i say, you’ll be wanting it to be me.”
Finally with a long sigh she mutters something
“Listen you’ll have to speak up or we’re going to get nowhere”
“My name is Karenhapooch, you may call me Pooch if you’d like”
“Now where getting somewhere, its a pleasure to be making your aquaintance Pooch. I be Ochre Mistress, most call me Miss and this ‘ere is Sally, Peg Leg Sally they call her. And you’ve just happened to stow yourself away on our ship. Welcome to the Behemoth”
Pooch looked slightly amused by her greeting. ‘Treating me awfuly nice for a stowaway’ she thought.
“Now Pooch” started Miss “What be your purpose for stowing away on our humble ship?”
Pooch turned her back and sat down refusing to speak further.
“I see how its gonna be. Sal!” Miss said raising her voice “Stay here with Pooch while i report to captain”
“Aye Miss, that i’ll do” Sally said taking a seat near Peg who was sleeping again.
“Captain!” Miss shouted
“Aye?”
“The stowaway, her name is Pooch thats is all i know as of yet, she refuses to speak further”
“Well we’ll have to make her now wont we?” she replied with a bit of evil in her voice.
“Captain!” a voice came from the crows nest.
“My i’m quite popular aren’t i?” she looked up and yelled “Yes Hales what is it?”
“There seems to be an enemy vessel approaching!”
“Oh bugga” the captain grumbled as she took another long drink from her bottle.
“Orders ma’am?!” Betty called from the helm
Captain looked around for a moment at her crew.
“All hands on deck! Lower the sail! Run out the guns! Hoist the colors!!!”
Chapter 2
“How in the bloody world did anyone find us out here?” Captn thought to herself as she paced the ship. The crew was readying themselves for battle. “Maybe it was that blasted stowaway! Miss!”
“Captn?”
“Go ask that stowaway if she happens to have anything to do with out little attack.”
“Aye”
Miss hurried down into the hold pushing Sal out of the way she called to Pooch
“So how’d you get them to follow us?”
“Who?” Pooch said looking quite confused
“You know who, your little friends. Thats who!”
“I know nothing of which you speak”
All this commotion had woken up Peg up but not wanting to have to work he kept silent.
Sal questioned Miss
“whats happening?”
“theres a ship coming up behind us, enemy ship”
as miss said this a smile danced across Sals face.
“Sal…” Miss said
She smirked with an evil grin and grabbed her pistol.
“Well Miss its been nice knowing ya” Sal said pointing her pistol at her head.
Miss then realized they had all been fooled by a traitor
“You wouldnt dare” miss said with anger through clenched teeth
“Oh but i would”
Thats when Peg grabbed her free arm and held his dagger to her throat
“Not today Sal” he said feeling mighty accomplished. Miss grabbed the pistol out of her hand and pointed it at Sal
“I think we found our traitor peg, bind her arms and take her to captain”
“Aye Miss with pleasure”
Miss ran up to the deck
“Captain! We’ve found our traitor!”
“Bring the scallywag here, i’ll give them whats coming”
Peg struggled to get Sal up to the deck
“Here she is!”
“You” Captain said “Oh, i’m going to have fun with this”
Peg brought Sal to the captain
“So if you dont mind telling me who are your little friends who are daft enough so follow ua all the way out here?”
“No one you’d be interested in knowin, then again after they take over the ship you wont have much time to get acquainted “
Captain stared straight into her eyes
“you think your clever dont ya?” she said as she reached for her pistol and cocked it pointed it between her eyes “well guess what, you’ve got another thing coming”
Capt pointed her gun at the sky and fired, a hush fell over the ship
“Listen up everyone! it seems we have a mutinous dog among us. Now does anyone here think that i should spare the life of this waste of life?” None of the crew said a word. “thats what i thought, any suggestions?”
“Cut her throat!”
“Let her swing!”
“Gully her!”
we’re the various cried through out the crew
“Nay! I’ve got a better idea, we’ll let her crew decide!” for the enemy was coming up on them quickly “Peg, hold her here. Everyone ready to fight?”
The Crew roared ready for attack. The ship was quite close now.
“Dont let any of those createns step foot on my ship!!! Run out the guns, fire when i signal!”
The ship creeped up along side of them.
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Inside the enemy ship there was quite the commotion Captain Edward was commanding his fleet to attack. First mate Paco was down below readying the quantum cannon balls with his trusty protractor and map. “Captain i believe i have sufficiently deduced the appropriate vector by which to initiate our assault upon the enemy vessel”
“Excellent Paco, well done fire on my command”
“Yes sir”
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Capt was surveying the ship making sure the crew was all ready.
“Where’s Floppy?”
She walked around the ship and looked for him. She finally found him behind a bunch of barrels of gun powder.
“What. are you doing?”
“that ship, they are coming for me.”
“your paranoid” she said grabbing him by the arm “now get out here”
“no really, theres something i never told you”
“Floppppyyyy” she said with a growl “tell me now”
“I….i am…the queens grandson”
“WHAT?! you’ve got to be kidding me! so what your telling me is that, that ship is the queens royal navy coming to get her runaway grandson?!”
“yes” he said sheepishly
“I dont know if your quite aware of what they do to pirates” she said making the signal for a noose with her hands
“yes yes i know, i just didnt think that they would try to find me”
“great, wonderful. Now if they get on my ship we’re gonna die. Not for piracy mind you, but for kidnapping! thats not even a honorable death!”
“I’m sorry ok?! you can just hand me over to them, i’m what they want not you”
“no”
“what?”
“no your part of my ship now, part of my crew, and no ones gonna take you without a fight.”
just then they felt a rumble underneath them
“What is that?!” capt said
Floppy and her got up and ran to the edge of the ship. Paco had fired the quantum cannon ball at them, but being as that he was a bit insane his calculations were a bit off and the cannonball sailed right past the ship. Now this cannon ball was different in that it didnt just hit things, it exploded. So when it passed the ship it exploded causing a huge wave of water to come splashing onto the ship. Capt looked around seeing if her crew was alright.
“Abandon ship!” someone screamed and jumped over board.
“Who was that?” Capt asked Floppy
He shrugged “No idea”
“oh well”
she walked over to the edge of the ship and then she saw the captain of the other ship.
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Captain Edward had ordered Paco to fire on the Behemoth put his fingers in his ears and waited for the sound. Paco peered out of the ship
“Unfortunately sir my calculations we’re incorrect and we have failed to hit our target”
“impetuous youth”
Captain Edward ran up to the deck and saw Captain Buckthorn staring at him
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“Wow look at that old fool” Scarlett thought.
Captain Edward let out a laugh “Hahahaha! that was just a warning! next time we will hit you!”
“Dont lie! You missed!”
“Did not!”
“Did!”
“Did not!”
“Did!”
“Did not!”
“What do you want?”
“Did not! wait, what?”
“I said. What. Do. You. Want?!”
“You have something of mine and i intend to take it back.”
“And this thing that you be wantin, do you intend to take it back without offering me anything in return?”
“How about a warrant?”
Scarlett shot a look at floppy
“You failed to mention a warrant!”
Thats when a extremely tall menacing looking figure stepped on deck. The entire crew stepped back with a gasp, he was so fearsome that even Capt was taken aback. Sir Mason unrolled the warrant.
“For the arrest and capture of one Jordan Miller”
Capt looked at floppy and snickered, he glared back at her.
“His crimes being many. Escaping from the queens royal navy while still enlisted in service. The imitation and mockery of Captain Edward of the queens royal navy. For the setting free of the chickens in the kingdom causing much chaos and omelets. and other crimes such as theses”
The Capt looked at Floppy considering giving him up but then she heard this.
“failure to surrender will be punished by attack and possibly destroying your” he looked up and snickered “pathetic excuse for a ship”
“Thats it” capt said “this is war” she raised her sword and yelled “Fire the cannons!”
“Fire!” Betty yelled down below
the crack of cannons sounded out loud. The 2 ships shot back and forth at each other. One of the crew members on the queen Roberta, a little Spanish girl, threw her dagger at the Behemoth and somehow managed to hit Floppy in the eye. He fell on the deck screaming in pain, Hales ran to him and pulled out the dagger and rushed him down below and yelled to Devin to patch him up. Capt saw this and it filled her with a rage. She grabbed her pistol and yanked Sal by the hair.
“You hurt one of mine, i take one of yours” she muttered
Hales seeing what was going to happen took it upon herself to sneak upon the Roberta. She put her knife in her mouth and dove into the water. She swan toward the ship and climbed aboard and got down into the hold and managed to disable the ruter, no one noticed her because of what was happining . Everyone had turned their attention the the Behemoth and realized that Sal had been discovered.
“Now if you value the lift of this worm i suggest you surrender or i’ll send her down to meet Davy Jones!”
“We’ll never surrender!” Edward called “and you wont kill her!”
“Oh? I wont?” she said cocking her gun “I’ll give you 3 chances, now surrender!”
“No!”
Captain shot her in the foot
“surrender!”
“No!”
Captain shot her in the shoulder
“Last chance! Surrender!”
“Never!”
Capt shot the final bullet into Sal’s head throwing her overboard.
“Now don’t think i wont do the same to all of you!”
“You black hearted she devil!”
“Thats captain she devil to you!”
During this time Hales had snuck back on the Behemoth.Hales called to Capt
“Theres a storm coming, we should head out. Besides we shouldn’t be wasting our time with these fools anyway”
Captain grumbled “your right, lets move out slowly so i can still blow these fools out of the water”
“Aye Captain”
“I’ll keep these guys busy you get the crew to make this ship go.”
Hales nodded and ordered the crew to set this sails. Thunder cracked over head. Edward called out
“I could arrest you now for murder and piracy and failure to comply with the queens requests!”
“Ah! you old bag! I’d like to see you try!”
“Why you awful little insubordinate…”
“Pirate?”
Edward growled at her
“Well Ed”
“Its captain Edward!”
“Right. Well Ed its been lovely chatting with you but as you can see there is a storm coming and we really must be off”
“Your not going anywhere, you really think your just gonna sail off?!”
“Mmm, yeah, thats about right” she said as the ship started to move. Edward called to his crew to make way.
“Uh..Captain” Paco came to him.
“What?”
“The ruter has been disabled”
Edwards face turned red with anger and he ran to the side of the ship.
“I’ll catch you blasted pirates!”
Captain Buckthorn stood on the back of her ship, took off her hat and bowed to him.
Chapter 3 (unfinished)
Captain put her hat back on and jumped down.
“Don’t you think that was a little over the top?” Hales asked.
“Of course it was,” Capt replied “but do i do anything that isnt?”
Hales shrugged and nodded “how true”
Over head the storm rolled in. The menaceing clouds would make any sailor nervous. Thunder cracked as rain started to fall, all the crew readied themselves for they knew it would not be an easy night. Capt ran to the helm to steer the ship as the waves crashed over the sides throwing the ship around.
“Gunther! Hold the ship steady while i check down below!”
Gunther nodded and took the helm as directed. He found himself thinking.
“There is no order on this ship, now that ship the roberta…their captain seemed a bit off but as for that hereld. he seems like a man with authority. As soon as we make port im off this blasted ship.” He said just as a huge wave crashed on deck.
Capt ran down below, her feet sloshed through the water.
“Bloody ship is leaking” She looked and noticed that there was no one in the brig. “Blasted stowaway escaped! what a day.”
“Captain!” Devin yelled from above
“Aye?”
“We’re gonna die!”
She shook her head and climbed back up deck. “Devin, we are not going to die! Now find the stowaway the bloody fools run off!”
“Now?!”
“Yes now!!”
“Oookay” He scurried off down below to find pooch.
Scarlett thought to herself “Who let him on board?”
Waves continued to crash overboard all night. In the morning Scarlett snuck up behind Devin who was sound asleep on a bag of gunpowder.
“Devin!!”
“AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!” he jumped and fell over
“Sorry to disturb your slumber but did you find the girl?”
“Err umm uhh”
“The answer i believe you are searching for is no, because i have an empty brig and do you know how i feel about that?”
“You dont like it?”
“righttttt”
Devin glupped
“Now i suggest you find her or you’ll be the one taking her place!”
“yes capt!” He jumped up and ran off
“You know, maybe you should lighten up on him” Miss said sitting down next to Scarlett
“Why?”
“He doesnt seem like this is his type of place. He’s gotta get used to the fearsome Captain Buckthorn” She said with a chuckel
Scarlett raised an eyebrow “are you mocking me?”
“just a bit”
Scarlett rolled her eyes. Beans McKraken, the ships cook came running over.
“Scarlett!!”
“Yes Beans?”
“We lost a lot of supplies due to the storm last night and now i have nothing to make!” He said soundind rather distressed.
“Not to worry Beans, we should be making port soon and you can restock”
“Excellent!” He said and ran off
“You’re nice to him!’ Miss pointed out.
“Yes, well he feeds me. And he’s been a part of this crew for a while.Dont worry Miss” She said with a pat on the back “the hazing is almost over, we’ll see if he survives it”
“Land ho!!” hales yelled from the crows nest. Capt jumped up.
“Ah there it is…”she paused “Kacobungus” she said sounding disapointed
“last time we were there didnt you…” Miss started
Capt cut her off “we dont ever talk about that…EVER! understood?”
“Yes Scar..”
Scarletts thoughts trailed off to that night, as floppy came and sat down next to Miss
“whats she dreaming about?” he asked miss
“just wait…”she paused
“Miss!” yelped Scarlett “do NOT let me drink while we’re here!” She shook and walked away
“so what happened?” Floppy asked again
“well” miss looked around to make sure Scarlett was gone ” last time we were here Capt had a few to many bottles and almost ended up a wife, thankfully Hales saw what was going on and stopped her before the knot was tied. Good thing too, that drunken sot may be the most obnoxious bugger ive ever met”
“you two, stop lollygaging and get ready to make for land!” Captain said stomping by
“as you can probably tell shes still a bit sensitive to the whole ordeal” Miss said jumping up “come now we best do as she says”
“uhhh” floppy stood there looking offended “im missing an eye here!”
“if you dont get to work you’ll lose the other one!” Captain yelled from the helm “and remember, i saved your butt so you owe me!”
“my foot she did” he muttered
“i’ll have your foot too!” she shouted and then raised her telescope to her eye. They grew closer and closer to the island. Capt sent Hales, Gunther and Betty to dock the ship.
“Alright crew!” She called everyones attention “We’ll only spend as much time here as we need. everyone knows what they need to get so no lollygaging i want to get back out to sea as soon as we can!”
“cant we spend a few days on land?” Floppy whined
“NO!” she yelped “The sooner we leave…” she was cut off by the sound of someone yelling
“Scarlett!!!!!!!”
“the better…” she mumbled, and turned around the voice yelled again
“You bring me some treasure woman?!”
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Caleb is only the temp. name for the character he’ll have a better name soon i promise
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Floppy leaned over to Miss “Is that?” he whispered
“Yup” She nodded
Scarlett cringed. She motioned the crew to the dock and they all jumped down. She stepped off onto the dock, adjusted her hat and shouted over to Caleb.
“Its been quite some time hasn’t it?”
He smiled smugly “Admit it Scarlett you missed me.”
” I haven’t even been here for 5 minutes and i already need a drink”
Caleb leaned over to Devin “That means she missed me”
Scarlett rolled her eyes “Alright crew! get what you need…now!” She spun around on her heels, she raised her hand to say something to Caleb, but sighed instead.
“Yes yes i know you need a drink, lets walk”
They walked into a near by tavern. Caleb slapped the bar “Two ales wench!” he shouted. The young girl at the bar scowled at him and poured the ale. “Hea” she said slamming them down on the bar.
“You sure havent lost your charm have ya?” Scarlett said taking a swig of her drink
“Hey i cant help it if all the ladies are attracted to me”
“Ah..whats in your drink?” she said peering into his mug “its sure got you in a fantasy world”
“Scarlett Scarlett Scarlett, lets put the past behind us aye? what brings you to this fair port anyhow? well i mean besides me…” he smirked
She glared at him ” A few days ago we were attacked by that scurvy cur Captain Edward of the queens royal navy, and the ship took on a bit of damage. And we lost quite a few supplies in that last storm. So that is how i find myself on this miserable speck of land”
“Makes enough sense. Captain Edward eh? Whys that old buffoon after you?”
“Well about a day or so after we left here the last time we picked up a boy afloat at sea. He’d only say his name was Floppy and he’d run away. I honestly didn’t care to know more so i didn’t inquire further. Turns out that hes the Queens bloody grandson whose got a warrant out for himself! I’d just as soon hand him over but they insulted the Behemoth and we both know my temper”
“Aye, you just cant sail away quietly can ya?” he sighed “Who’d ya kill?”
“Just some bloody mutineer, thought she could outsmart me, she deserved it”
“So now they’re after you for a whole lot of reasons now. Wouldn’t expect anything less from you”
“Listen, all i want is to get off this blasted island and back out to sea where it is… relatively safe”
“Well before you go running out on me again, lets have a few more drinks”
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Beans wandered about in the market place collecting all sorts of fine things to eat. Along behind him trailed Devin wheeling a cart full of chickens.
“Don’t we have enough?! This is the second load already!!”
Beans twitched and turned slowly “we…can NEVER have to many chickens!!!!” He growled angrily at Devin “I’m the cook on this ship, not you, now get the chickens to the ship!!!”
Devin scowled and headed toward the ship to drop off the chickens. That’s when Beans spotted her. the most beautiful pig he had ever seen ” I must have her! You my dear” he said strutting toward her “Will be delicious!”
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Back at the ship Pooch had come out of hiding. she crept around the ship trying to get more familiar with her surroundings. She peeked over the rail and realized that this is where she had snuck aboard in the first place. She was surprised it had taken them this long to notice her. She knew that the bloody thirsty Captain was not about to let her stay on board but there was no where else for her to go. “I’ll have to prove myself somehow” she thought to herself “I’ll find a way”
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Hales walked cautiously about town looking for a good blacksmith “You can never have to many knives” She always said. She passed a tavern “well… one drink cant hurt” She said to herself as she wandered in. She sat down and noticed a man next to her. He was a big burly Scotsman who looked like he lived in this ere tavern, or at least owned that bar stool. Not usually what she’d go for but she was attracted to him in a way. He looked over at her “My, your a pretty little lass” he said in a gruff Scottish accent. She blushed “You can buy me a drink if you’d like mate” “Done” he said winking at her.
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“We’re always looking for a few extra hands on deck if you’d like to join the crew” she said extending her hand to him. He took her hand and kissed it “I shall follow you anywhere m’lady”
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As soon as Gunther was out of sight he hopped the next ship he could find to the royal island. “I’ll find sir mason, and then I’ll model my ways after him. Then anyone who dares to mess with the likes of me, oh aye, they will pay. they will pay.
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“Alright Caleb, I’m prepared to make you an offer”
“Aye?”
“Well more of a proposal”
“Scarlett we tried this marriage thing before and you went running off on me. Now I’m willing to give it another try…”
“No you blasted fool! I am not going to marry you, I’m talking about a business proposal “
“Oh aye, you need my expert sense of direction is that it?”
Scarlett rolled her eyes “Yes love, that i do.”
“what you after? treasure?!” he yelped
Scarlett clapped her hands over his mouth “Quiet down! I don’t need the whole armada after it as well”
“Right, so what do you purpose Captain Buckthorn?” He said tapping her hat
“I purpose” she said slapping his hand down on the bar ” That you tag along and help out your favorite captain” She winked “Do we have an accord?”
He stroked his chin thinking “Aye, well i do have a few demands”
“we have plenty of rum”
he shook her hand ” We have an accord”
