Prologue
"Your a Pirate?!" Exclaimed a little boy, about 7, as he looked up to a man getting off a ship.
"Yeah, one of the strongest," the man told the boy. The man was tall, muscular, and and looked as if he fought many battles. He had a scar going up the left side of his face and if he were to take off his shirt, he had another won on his stomach from where a cannon had shot him. "Say boy, do you know where I can find the Blue Moon Pub? I hear its the name of the pub on this island," he asked the boy.
"Ah, Mommy works there. She told me earlier to come down here and a pirate would come today. She said to bring him to the restaurant. I guess that's you then."
"Hm, I guess so then," the man said as the boy led him in the direction of the place.
"Mommy the guy you told me to bring is here!" The boy yelled to his mother as he walked into the restaurant.
"Ah, so you finally return, Den?" She said as she looked at the man, who had a childlike expression on his face scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah I have. Say Jane,who's the kid?" He asked the woman.
"His name is Shayne, and he's your son," the woman said with an angry expression on her face.
"What you're joking. It's been at least seven years since I've been here." he said
"And he's seven years old," she replied.
He sighed and looked at the boy. The boy did look like him. He had the same tan skin tone, black hair, black eyes, even the same triangular birth mark on his right cheek.
"So he's my Daddy?" the boy asked his mom while pointing at him.
"Yes. Now Den!" she stood up and pointed at him. "As long as you stay in this town you have to watch over this boy. And I don't want him coming back acting and talking like a pirate you got that!"
"Fine fine," he said. "I'll watch over him."
For the rest of the week the boy had followed Den around town and as the boy took a liking to him, so did Den. Then one day Jane finally asked him, "So how long do you guys plan on staying anyway?"
"Huh, do you got a problem? I mean I'm watching this kid like you told me to."
"It's been a week. I've never known you to stay in one place for a long time."
"We're leaving tomorrow."
"Oh really," she said. "You're just gonna leave the boy like that?"
"Why do you got a problem?"
"He's taken a liking to you."
The next morning Shayne and Den were at the docks. "So you're leaving?" Shayne asked Den.
"Yeah, why," he asked.
"It's different with you here. Say are you gonna come back?" he asked as he stood up?"
"Don't know. If I am it won't be for a while though. You might be grown up by then," he says as he looks at the boy. "Say how 'bout this, when you get older you become a pirate and come looking for me. How's that sound?" he asks as he stands up to be looking over him.
"Fine then I will," he replies. "And I'll be better than you to!" he shouts as Den boards the ship before it left the docks.
"See you when you're older!" Den shouted when they got farther out to sea.
"What's he talking about?" Jane asked her son.
"Nothing," he replied. "Just nothing."