"Captain! Come quick we've found something!" an exasperated sailor called as he rushed into the captain's quarters.
"What is it Bill?"
"We think it's a body. A ghost maybe. Everyone's freaking captian! The whole crew is nuts. You'd better come out and calm 'em down."
"A ghost? Bill did you say a ghost?"
The young boy shook his head up and down so hard his cap almost fell off. "It's in a cube of ice. Like a coffin or something."
"Peculiar. Take me to it," the captain commanded. Bill nodded, turned, and flew out the door, with the captain close after his heels.
When the captain approached the upper deck he saw the whole crew gathered on the side of the ship. They were leaning over the edge pointing and yelling at something that was blocked from the captain's view. The young boy that had brought the captain up joined the rest of the crew in pointing at the strange ghost.
Slowly the captain walked over to the side and peered over to see what everyone else was obsessing over. What he saw made him almost lose his calm. A large hunk of ice, precariously hanging over the water, was attached to the scuba crane. Inside the ice chunk was a shadow that outlined that of a man's.
As the crane lifted the chunk of ice onto the ship's deck the crew members formed a circle around it while taking amongst themselves in loud, unknowing voices.
"What says you it is mate?"
"I'll reckon it's a dead body trapped away for thousands of years."
"Might be a member of that shipwreck 'bout a century ago."
"Yah. Maybe this poor creature was one of them ones that got all frozen up."
"Captain," rang out young Bill's voice as he hurried over to the captain's side. "What do you think it is?"
"If the stories I heard when I was a boy are correct this may be one of the poor souls that died off of the Titanic."
"Titanic? Is that that big boat that sunk a long time ago? It hit a big rock or something."
"Iceberg. It hit an iceberg in its haste to get to New York before everyone was expecting. It was the captain's ego that got it the way of the safety of the ship."
"Who do you think this poor guy is captain?"
"Well why don't we find out lad? Tell the crew we're going home, where we'll un-melt this poor soul."
Author's Note: This is my first fanfiction, so tell me how it goes. There will be more chapters to come, so give me feedback on what you think so far.
Also, since I'm a newbie (joined a couple days ago) how is one supposed to add Author's Notes. Is it just adding a line under the story and typing away. That's what I did, please let me know if there is an easier way to do it.
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