"Sea Battle"

"Sea Battle"

The Extravagant was sailing at full speed in the race for survival against the Whisper. She was an enemy Spanish ship that was perusing the pirates onboard the Extravagant under the command of Captain James Bond.

"Put up more sails and drop some more sail and lighten up our load" yelled Bond.

Meanwhile, over on the Whisper Captain William Shakespeare was doing the same thing. "Throw out some of the water and food."

"Aye, aye captain" yelled the crew.

Up ahead was a large reef filled with sharp rocks protruding from the water like the teeth of a giant shark. "Split the gap between those two big ones in front" hollered Bond.

"Aye, captain" yelled the steersman over the roar of the waves, "it'll be a tight squeeze but it might just work as the Whisper is a slight wider."

The steersman was staring wide-eyed at the narrow gap between the rocks that the Extravagant was just now slipping through. "Shall we follow them captain?"

"Aye" said Shakespeare "just hope that we don't run aground. Also, prepare our broadside to fire"

"Aye sir"

Over on the pirate ship a loud chorus of cheering aroused! They had just split the narrow gap between two of death's fingers.

"Swing 'round and give 'em a nice taste of our cannon!" shouted Bond. The pirates on the Extravagant dropped the starboard anchor and as their ship was violently cranked around they let loose some pirate music. However, it wasn't the prettiest victory ever as their careening ship got lodged in a sandbar.

On the Whisper they saw it all, the blast of the cannon, the beaching of the Extravagant, but they saw one thing to late… They thought that all the cannonballs had missed, not so much. The cannonball sailed through the air and crushed the wheel into a million pieces that flew all around and killed the steersman. The cannonball then smashed into the deck and exploded killing many of the Whisper's crew and shaking it off balance. She crashed into the reef with a horrible crunching sound and sank, never to be seen again.

As for the Extravagant, well she finally got up and moving and then limped, and I literally mean limped, into the nearest port for further repairs.