The world is in turmoil. Pirates have been struggling to survive with the Armada muscling in on them. However, there is a prophecy that the greatest pirates believe in. That five pirates from five corners of the Spiral will join together to defeat the Armada. The prophecy is nigh. On an Armada ship, five pirates are stowed in the brig. The five pirates formed a small crew before getting arrested by the Armada. But today, they are being freed. A pirate named Captain Boochbeard is breaking them out.
The leader of the small crew, a young man with blonde hair, one blue eye, and one red with a scar over it, heard a small explosion and said to his crew mates, "John, Mary, Charles, Susan, you all hear that?"
The girl in the cell across from him, who had light brown hair and mossy green eyes nodded saying, "Yeah, what the hell's going on up there?"
he other girl, who had ebony skin and black hair chuckled, "I told you I did. The prophecy, she be coming true."
John laughed, "Yeah right, that prophecy is nothing but a stupid myth Susan."
The leader growled, "That's enough John."
John cringed, "S-Sorry Caelan, but..."
The third boy, Charles yelled, "Don't question the cap'n John. We owe him our lives, so show some respect!"
A new voice could be heard, "I found them capitaine!"
Followed by another voice saying, "Good job! Let's get them out of here."
When the second new voice came into view, Caelan stood up in his cell and looked at the man, who had a scruffy beard and told him, "Boochbeard, I've heard of you. I suppose Susan was right."
The man laughed heartily, "Aye! Let's get you lads and lasses out of these cells!" As the two pirates let the others out, Caelan's cell door got jammed as it started to open.
Caelan sighed, "Leave me, follow the prophecy without me."
Mary looked at her captain and said, "Absolutely not! You're our captain through and through, until the end! I'd sooner join the Armada than leave my captain!"
The other three pirates nodded and yelled, "Aye!"
Caelan chuckled, "I suppose my bullheaded personality's rubbed off on you guys. Charlie, you've still got yer gun don't ya?"
Charles nodded and said, "Aye cap'n, but I don't think my gun's tough enough to blast through these bars."
Caelan chuckled again, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch Charlie. See the back wall behind me? Why don't you give it a kiss with a bit of spark powder?"
Charles smirked saying, "Aye, I'll-"
Before Charles could finish his sentence, John found his old battle axe and slammed it against the bars of Caelan's cell, and said, "Nothing a good smashing can't fix, right boss?" Caelan stood up and stepped through the gap that John's axe had made in the bars.
He smiled and said, "I suppose brute force has its advantages at times. Well then Boochbeard, why don't we get off this ship before it gets blown to bits?"
The pirate nodded laughing, "Aye, that'd be a good idea." and the pirates followed their rescuers off the ship. When they reached the docks, Boochbeard told them, "You best find an old friend of mine, Captain Avery. He's always looking for pirates for a scheme of his."
Caelan and his crew walked into an office and he asked, "You must be Captain Avery."
The man with a white beard and a cockatoo sitting on his shoulder said, "Ah! You must be the pirates that Boochbeard told me about! Yes, I am Captain Avery. I'd be honored to hide you from the Armada, but I don't run a charity. I do have a problem that I believe you can help with. One of my more willful crewman, a Buccaneer named Finn stole a pair of rare obsidian daggers from me. He fled to Skull Mountain and roused the native Troggies, and they're bombarding us now! If you can get my daggers back, I'll reward you with your own ship. Do we have a deal?"
Caelan nodded, "You've got yourself a deal Blake." And so begins the tale of five pirates... Dead-Eye Caelan the Swashbuckler, Bloody Mary the Privateer, One-Shot Charles the Musketeer, Sneaky Susan the Witchdoctor, and Rock-Hard John the Buccaneer. Together, five orphans who lost their parents, five ordinary teenagers. Together, they are destined to save the Spiral from the tyranny of the Armada, and find out what happened to their parents.
The five pirates made their way to Skull Mountain. On the way there, Mary asked Caelan, "Are you sure Avery will live up to his side of the deal?"
Caelan shrugged saying, "A pirate's a pirate, through and through. The one thing I always made sure was drilled into your heads was that a good pirate looks out for themselves and their crew. Avery's no different. He may give us a ship, but he never promised a good ship."
John nodded, "The captain's right. There's no guarantee that the ship Avery gives us is in good condition. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
The five pirates met up with a fox named Bonnie Anne, who asked them to help with the Troggies that were running wild. Caelan nodded to the girl and said, "Aye, we'll help out. Let's give 'em hell!" the five pirates ran into battle and took down a dozen Troggies.
When they returned to Bonnie Anne, she smiled saying, "You're good to have in a fight. Do you have room on your crew for another?" Caelan smiled at her and said, "Welcome to the family Bonnie. It'd be an honor to have you on our crew."
As the pirates welcomed Bonnie Anne to their crew, a man interrupted them, "Sorry to interrupt, but we've still got the Troggy bombardment to stop. There's three slingshots that they're using to fling powder kegs at the town. Our cannons could easily take them out, if we could see them through the jungle."
Caelan put two and two together, "You want us to mark the slingshots on a map, am I right?"
The man nodded, "That's right, but the third slingshot is out of the cannons' range, so you'll need to set off the powder kegs they're flinging to destroy it."
Caelan nodded and said, "No problem, there's no job me and my crew can't do." The crew snuck over to the farthest slingshot. When they were close enough, Caelan said to Charles, "Think you can hit those kegs from here?"
Charles nodded aiming his gun, "No problem cap'n." He then got down in a sniping position and shot one of the kegs, causing the kegs and the slingshot to explode. After that, they headed back while marking the other two.
They gave the map to the man who asked them for help who congratulated them, "Smartly done pirates, now we'll answer their slingshots with cannons. Now that that's taken care of, you're here for Finn. He fled up the trail and into the Skull Cave. Two of my scouts should be up there, they can help you out there."
As the crew made their way up to the Skull Cave, they got information from one of the scouts, Livesy, who told them, "Finn's in the temple in the Skull Cave. Shepherd must have gone in when we got split up. Good luck pirates."
The group cut their way through the vines blocking the entrance, and then into the Temple of Gloom. When they got to the throne room, they found a deep chasm of water. Bonnie said, "That water's too deep and too fast! We'll never make it through there!"
John grunted, "We will find a way through, Finn's not going to escape us."
Soon enough, they heard a voice say, "You need some help?" and looked over to a dog pirate who said, "The girl's right, the water's too rough to swim. But there's a shrine on the other side of the temple, and there's three keystones. Activate them and the water'll drain. You'll need this to get in." the pirate handed Caelan a key, and they made their way to the shrine. They quickly defeated the Troggies and drained the water.
As they returned to the Throne Room, the dog pirate said, "Good, the water's passable now. I should report back to Smolett, but if you're going after Finn, I'll help you first. I've got a score to settle with Finn." The pirate crew, along with Shepherd, made it into the throne room, where Finn was waiting for them with a group of Cutthroats.
Finn laughed and said, "You made three mistakes pirate. First, you took the job. Second, you didn't bring an army. Last, don't fight me in the dark. The dark is where I shine."
The five pirates each fought one of Finn's men, while Caelan took on Finn himself. Caelan knocked the shark to the ground and as he did, the Cutthroats took off. Shepherd laughed saying, "Good job you lot. I'll take care of Finn, you take the daggers back to Avery. I hope we meet again."
Caelan took the daggers and the crew headed back to Avery's office, where Avery greeted them saying, "You've done it! The Troggy bombardment has stopped, you recovered my daggers, and Finn is brought to justice! You've held up your end of the deal, now here's mine. Take this writ down to the docks and see Dockmaster Dan. He'll see to it that you get a proper ship. Farewell to ye pirates!"