Pirate101 II- The Isle of Doom
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Chapter 2- Enslaved
"Well," Malistaire said, "I've told you my name, what's yours, Pirate?"
James was frozen. Malistaire Drake was an evil wizard, a traitor to Wizard City bent on reviving his wife even if it means destroying the entire spiral doing it.
"Red James Hawkins," James said. He had to be bold, "Captain of The Dashing Fortune and former student of Kobe Yojimbo of MooShu."
"I see, well I need your help," Malistaire said and James looked at him, "I need you to get some ingredients to create a potion. This potion will help me defeat someone who is tracking me down. A powerful storm wizard from Wizard City. If I drink it, then it will boost my power a lot."
"What's in it for me?" James asked.
Malistaire replied, "Safe passage back to Puerto Mico. I trust your ship is still there? This could help you save your friends."
James thought to himself. All he had to do was get some ingredients together and he could stop his friends from being executed.
"Ok," James said, "Where can I find these ingredients?"
Only five ingredients. That's not too bad. First ingredient: Tail of a Bone Drake. James searched high and low, but he couldn't find any Bone Drakes anywhere. Then, he saw a whole horde of them in the sky. Malistaire knew James couldn't go out there without his ship. What was the necromancer thinking? Then, a bag went over his head.
He heard someone say in a Marleybonian accent, "Well done, Malistaire. Here's your payment. Now I'll take the pirate to Port Regal and sell him as a slave."
James didn't like the sound of that. However, he could use this to save his friends. He took the bag off his head as soon as Malistaire had walked away and held a knife to the Marleybonian's neck. It was a bulldog merchant.
"I'll go quietly with you on one condition," James said, "You ensure my friends are not executed. Is that clear?"
The bulldog nodded and said, "I have a friend that's an Admiral in the navy. I'll ensure that your friends are freed. What are their names?"
"Dino Voss, Bonnie Anne, Sarah Steele, Nanu Nanu, Lucky Jack Russell, Old Scratch and Ratbeard," James replied and they began the journey to Port Regal.
The Port Regal Market was hustling at the fact that a pirate with such a high reputation is being auctioned off as a slave.
The bulldog was shouting out prices until he came to a conclusion, "Sold! To Albert Graves for 100,000,000,000 gold!"
Albert walked up to the podium and collected James. Then, they walked to Graves Manor, for James to start his work as a slave and bodyguard.
"Right," Albert said, "I need you to clean every room in the house, do the washing up, do the drying up and then make my bed. I will go to the market to get you a sword for when you need to guard me from bandits and perhaps assassins."
With that, Albert left the house and headed back to the market.
Meanwhile, on the HMS Executor, Admiral Edward Nicholas was walking to the prison cells. He stopped and opened the cages of seven pirates.
"A friend of mine has requested your releases and I have granted them. That friend of mine is a bulldog merchant. He probably has a friend that's friends with you," Edward said and walked off.
"Friend?" Ratbeard said, "Could he mean Captain Hawkins?"
"Probably," Sarah replied, "I've heard from one of the redcoats that a bulldog merchant recently captured James and sold him as a slave to Albert Graves. We better go and save him!"
The pirates then ran to find the ship's deck to save James. On the deck, Admiral Nicholas was steering the wheel towards Port Regal. The pirates attacked the redcoats and naval officers and one by one, defeated them. Sarah ran to the wheel to kill Admiral Nicholas and commandeer the ship to Puerto Mico, but Major Murgatroyd intervened and prepared to kill Sarah. Ratbeard pushed Sarah out of the way and got cut himself. Not fatal, but very serious. Nanu Nanu then charged at Murgatroyd knocked him off the ship. Then, Nanu Nanu lowered the anchors so that they could save Ratbeard. Sarah pushed Ratbeard's chest to try and keep him breathing. Dino ran up to Admiral Nicholas and stabbed him from behind. He didn't notice that him and his crew were dead until it was too late, because he was too busy sailing the ship to Port Regal. Nanu Nanu lifted the anchor and Dino steered the ship to Port Regal.
"What are you doing?" Sarah asked, "We need to tend to Ratbeard!"
"Captain is Privateer," Nanu Nanu replied, "Captain heal hurt rat."
"Aye, but ye should keep tending to Ratbeard, while the rest of us look for Captain," Old Scratch added, "I an' I hope that he not be hurt."
James couldn't cope with this. He normally made Emmett do all the work, as he was part of the strict Marleybonian Navy. James used to be part of the Armada, but he and Egg Shen were favourites of Kane's, so they never did any work. He ripped off his slave scarf and ran to find his old clothes and his weapons. His clothes were in Albert Graves' wardrobe, but his weapons were on the HMS Executor, where he was captured and thrown into Dragonspyre. He searched the wardrobe and changed into his pirate togs, which were made so that he could hide Ninja Pig weapons in his clothes. His weapons, along with The Grinning Grouper and all of Dino's ships except The Jolly Roger were lost now. James still had The Dashing Fortune, but he had lost a lot of what he needed as a pirate. His weapons, one of his ships and- of course- his crew. They were soon to be executed by Major Murgatroyd if they haven't been already. Then, the door to the mansion exploded and there, among the rubble were his crew (minus Ratbeard, Gaspard's ghost and Emmett) and Dino's crew (minus Sarah Steele).
"That was unexpected," James said, "Now, let's get back to Puerto Mico."
The pirates walked out of the mansion, but there, standing in their way was a funny-dressed man with white skin, long black hair and a long black beard.
"Malistaire," Old Scratch said grudgingly.
"Scratch," Malistaire sneered as a reply.
James was confused, "Wait, you two know each other?"
"Aye," Old Scratch replied, "He be an ally of Dark Crawler, me former master."
