By Lady Kasha
Author's Note: Original Battle Plan was a chapter a week until I realized that would be sixteen weeks. I think a chapter a day sounds much better, plus they are short little chapters.
Preface
Off behind the rocks the first mate of the Silver Moon made her morning rounds. She stalked up to the upper deck opening the door to the Captain's quarters. She had pushed in after a knock. She found the blue haired captain sitting in the shadows of her chair caused by the morning light. Elizabeth was in another one of her moods. The first mate would sigh on a normal day, but today the door opened up behind her. Her second was quick to enter with a skip and a smile. This only seemed to provoke anger from the first.
"Captain." The figure looked up from her place in the towering chair seated behind the desk, blue hair covering far too much of her face. She set down the new bounty sheets and smiled widely to her first and second mates.
"Captain, why do you have to go by yourself?" The second mate whined collapsing down on the front of the Captain's desk with a sigh. Her head following her arms in a huff complete smothering the poor desk. "I want to go to." She was immediately hit in the back of the head by her first mate slash counter part and knocked to the floor of the captain's quarters.
"Reading the letter again I see." The first mate said shrugging the large sword strapped to her back into a more comfortable position. The move was soon followed by the popping of knuckles. The second mate cringed from the floor, lifting her self up enough to rest her arms on the edge of the desk. She stared at her captain.
"They are close by…funny…they are catching up to us." The Captain sighed looking from the bounty sheet to the letter. She placed them both back down on her desk and placed her head in her hands.
"Why do they matter so much?" The second asked tilting her head to the side. Her cloak caught in-between her and the captain's desk. The first glared a hole into her crewmates head. One was to never ever ask that question, ever.
"The person who taught your captain how to swing a sword might be of valid importance would they not?" The captain replied with a smile. The first blinked, caught completely off guard by her captain's behavior. The Captain's life before she joined the crew was to never be spoken of. The first mate knew the core facts, but that was as far as they went. No one else knew anything besides the fact the captain had two bounties. That was the reason they kept her identity so well guarded. Knowing who she was would give the marines all the incentive they would need to actually hunt them down. "Come on let's go…we should round up the bounty heads here and move on. Our name has yet to reach the far corners of this world."
"Ay Aye Captain!" Both mates snapped up and followed the captain out.
