It was night on the Nocturne and Grace Tempest lay on her bed thinking about the previous night's events, finally she was with Lorcan and they could be together forever literally. There was a knock at the door and Darcy's voice came through the door saying "Umm Grace there are some pirates on the deck demanding to speak to you."
"What?" grace jumped off her bed and ran to the door and opened it, she saw Darcy's face."Why are they here Darcy? Did you see what ship they on?"Grace asked
"The Diablo I think," she answered.
"Oh god, what on earth do they want?"Grace muttered.
"What I'd like to know," Darcy said"is how they got here?" They ran across the deck to meet the pirates.
"Why are you here?" she hissed at the pirates, who looked a bit shocked for a moment but quickly recovered. Molucco Wrathe stepped forward and said "hello miss tempest we come to ask you to comeback to The Diablo and leave the vampirate realm."
"No way." Grace exclaimed. Molucco Wrathe said solemnly "I'm afraid you must-"
"make me" Grace said spitefully.
"You're comin' with us" a well built pirate said and grabbed her arm.
Grace twisted around and some how managed to throw the pirate over her back. "Wow Grace, I never knew you could do that!" Darcy exclaimed.
"RUN" The pirates shouted and they fled to there ship.
"Well that takes care of that." Darcy said in deep voice. Grace gave Darcy a confused look "it's something I heard in a movie once" Grace sighed "do you think I overdid it Darce?" Grace asked in a whisper
"Probably but, one that was awesome and two the crew thought it was cool too," Darcy replied. Grace looked around and saw the crew were looking at her in awe. "Umm Darcy, where's Lorcan?"
"I'm behind you Grace," Lorcan whispered in her ear. Grace turned around to see Lorcan smiling at her.
"Um I'm going to leave you two lovebirds alone," Darcy walked over to a group of vampirates.
"Finally," Lorcan sighed out. And the pair melted into a kiss.
Connor tempest sat on his bed; his mind going over what he learnt last night, he was a dhampir and Sidorio was his father, it was the worst possible outcome. He was a mutant, an outcast, a monster. The others must have noticed something was up.
Connor sat up and decided he should go look for Cheng Li; he got up and left the sanctuary of his cabin. As he walked down the corridor connecting all cabins he bumped into Bo Yin who said
"Connor Tempest, I know something is wrong, you can trust me, Bo Yin very good at keeping secrets." Connor thought for a moment and decided he could trust her.
"Bo what I'm going tell you, you can't tell anybody else OK?" Connor whispered to her.
"Of course Connor," Bo Yin replied in a whisper. "Well, I just found out that Dexter Tempest wasn't mine and Grace's dad," Connor sighed " ...and that we have the worst possible parent. "
"I don't think you could have a worse dad than mine," Bo Yin said crossing her arms. "Oh really try having Sidorio as your dad, were called Dhampirs which makes immortal." Connor exclaimed. she was shocked.
"What you're serious?" Bo Yin asked him. Connor nodded "whoa, I never would have thought-"
"That I'm the enemy," Connor butted in.
"No, that you're immortal." she whispered. "Yeah, well Bo that means I have to watch my friends grow old and die, I'd rather be hunted down because I'm a monster." he sighed
"Connor Tempest, do not say that or I'll hit you!" She said angrily
"Umm Bo I really need to go see Captain Li now." He told her.
"OK, I'll come with you," she replied. And before he could protest, she grabbed his arm and pulled him to the captain's cabin.
He hesitated before Knocking, deciding what to say because Bo was there: but she already knew what he was so it didn't matter, "hurry up then" Bo Yin said impatiently Connor knocked on the door.
"Come in" came Cheng Li's brisk, business like voice. They entered her cabin and Connor asked
"Captain Li, do you have any updates from Commodore Black?" Connor closed the door and said "Bo Yin knows about me being a dhampir, captain." Cheng Li's face was a mask
"And does anyone else know Connor? Cheng Li asked "no one. Should I tell them?" Connor asked
"That is entirely your choice Connor," Cheng Li replied briskly. "And to answer you're previous question, I've not had an update from commodore Black but I've had one from my informants on the Blood Captain and your dad is searching for you and is killing anyone who gets in his way."
"anyone we know?" Cheng Li shrugged and said " I haven't been told but I think I have a guess who is or was a target."
"Whoa, wait a minute," Bo Yin said quietly, all eyes were on her, "Captain you said you had informants on that ship, well why would some vampirates talk to you? Is Sidorio facing a rebellion?"
"No, it's just if Connor and Grace get on The Blood Captain they'll probably lose their positions on the ship, and that's too good to lose for the joint deputies." Cheng Li explained to Bo Yin.
"Who are they? What are their names?" Bo Yin asked in a rush. "well one of them is called Jonny Desperado and..." she glanced at Connor, " the other is called Jez Stukely," She finished.
