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Chapter 1- Captured
I awoke to the blasting of a loud horn that could only have come from yet another ship docking at the port which seems to have become an alarm for me
Another day in scrimshaw
I looked around my ship cabin, the wooden floors and walls which creaked with the slightest touch were illuminated by the sunshine peering through the single window opposite from my bed.
Home sweet home.
I walked over to a mirror in the cabin to get ready for the day.
I looked at my features; orange unkempt hair, dark eyes, and tanned skin
a striking image of my father some would say
its been 9 years since I lost my parents. I was 7 years old when we were sailing to Marleybone to start a new life as a family away from pirating. I'm sure my parents only wanted to give up their life of adventure and plunder to protect me and ensure my safety.
"Daniel!" the harsh raspy voice bellowed from the docks
looking out my window I could see Mr. Lew, the wharf rat who took me in, standing on the dock with 2 fishing nets in each arm
"It's Wednesday, gotta restock or we wont have nothin' to sell" Apart from raising me Mr Lew also employs me at the local fishing stand where I've been working since.
Putting on my light blue Marleybonian styled coat passed down to me from my father right before we left skull island
he said if we were to start a new life that we'd have to also start dressing the part of the bourgeois in able to fit in and raise our social status
along with the coat was the captains cap and boots both blue with a yellow trim like the coat.
Looking at myself in the mirror once more I was reminded of my dad again.
Is this the life my parents would have wanted for me? A poor, lonely fisher boy living in an old run-down ship cabin?
"WE HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY, ARE YOU GONNA LET ME BOARD OR WHAT?" Mr Lew's voice boomed once more
"Coming!"
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" 'Ere we go!" Mr Lew pulled in yet another large catch of skyfish from the skyway
"This should be enough to last us for the week" he tossed the fish to the side as I steered the ship safely into a windlane
"Are we headed back home then?" I shouted back ready to get this over with and activate the ships windstone
"Not quite yet, we have some business to tend to out in skull island, set course!"
Skull Island? The land of pirates, where my parents are from. I hadnt been to skull island since I was 7
Steering the ship in the direction of skull island skyway I shouted back at Lew
"Why skull island?"
"Cap'n Avery 'requests our most desirable audience' HA can ye believe it?" he said looking out at the skyway
Captain Avery! My parents were once part of his crew!
I reached into my backpack and activated the windstone
…
The ship was at top speed and I could see the giant skull mountain in the horizon
we were almost there
"Get down!" Before I could make sense of what Mr Lew could possibly be shouting about now a large crash and boom could be heard along with an impact in the ship
cannon fire.
I looked where the cannon had come from and saw an armada galleon preparing to board
the ship was bombarded with more and more cannon fire until it could nearly take no more
one more cannon ball and we'd sink, however, the fire stopped and the ship boarded
a fleet of armada soldiers come flooding onto the ship surrounding Mr Lew and then surrounding me
"Halt! You are within notorious pirate skyways you shall face judgment for the crime of piracy!
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End Ch-1
Flashback:
My mom had been telling me a story of one of her first adventures with Captain Avery on his crew while my dad was steering the ship, my mother was a witch doctor while my father was a swashbuckler.
"And so I hurled a spell right in that cutthroats face knocking him right out" my moms jet black hair blew in the wind as we sailed the skyway looking at me with her deep red eyes
"Wow! What kind of spell was it mommy?" I asked looking up at her in awe
"ah well you see it was a spell Madame Vadima taught me called Jobus rou-" she paused and looked ahead with a face of terror. A face ill never forget.
"Daniel, please wait here I uh.. need to have a word with your father" she quickly got up and walked out of the cabin with a haste
after about 5 minutes of waiting I decided to see what had happened
I reached the deck and overheard my parents near the pilots area of the ship
"Are you sure?" I could hear my dad
"yes! I'm telling you I can sense it drawing nearer every second" my mother argued with more fear in her voice
"Sylvia I'm sure its just the stress of moving this skyway has been clear since we were born" I could tell even my father was nervous
"Joshua I'm telling you-" just then the ship came to sudden halt sending me flying forward against a barrel
"It's here!" my mother shouted as multiple large tentacles emerged from underneath the ship
"quickly Sylvia your staff!" my father commanded grabbing hold of his knives running towards the front of the ship
my mom ran into the ship
being 7 I had no experience in battle nor did I even know what pirate class I belonged to, so I hid within the empty barrel
I watched as the tentacles came flying towards my dad but he managed to dodge each strike and greet them with a stab
another tentacle had snuck behind the ship and managed to catch my dad off guard throwing off his balance and causing him to trip
seeing the opportunity, the tentacles went in for a strike
they were stopped by a group of skeleton soldiers clearly under my mothers control
she appeared out from within the ship surrounded by 3 other of her skeletal minions
"Kraken, reveal yourself!" she cast a mighty spell causing the giant squid to arise from the depths revealing the head of the monster
I looked back to where my father was but he had vanished.