He looked again at the dock to see the the ship he had been rejected from, The Cochran, was gone. Good riddance.
He sighed as he saw a ship coming in the distance and from the look of it, it was a pirate ship. Aiden smiled as he waited patiently for the ship. He had a good feeling about this ship. It was his ticket out of this hell hole of a living. How wrong was he...
XxxX
Aiden let thirty minutes pass after they docked. The main crew, save for a few who stayed on the ship went into a tavern across the Broken Barrel, The Flaming Goose.
He walked in after them and the usual bustle of glasses clinking, drunks talking, men wolf whistling at the barwomen, and the frequent holler of laughing filled Aiden's ears.
He sat on a stool at the bar, and watched the pirates gather at tables slamming their hands down for a drink of brandy.
"What would you like sir?" A barwoman came up to Aiden, fluttering her eyelashes and sashaying, her cleavage bouncing with every step and her red dress flowing behind her.
'Bloody hell, she's beautiful' Aiden thought as she bent over her cleavage nearly spilling out of her corset.
Aiden had trouble keeping his eyes on hers.
"No, no thank you. Just water." Aiden said, suddenly looking down at the bar counter with great interest.
She dissapeared, then came back with a pitcher of water and a mug.
"Tell me if you need anything else, and I mean anything." She said with a seductive voice, her full lips enunciating every word perfectly before walking away. Aiden couldn't help but look at her backside as she walked away.
Aiden shook his head, poured himself a drink and took large gulps, trying to take his mind away from the woman.
Aiden didn't notice the Captain glancing at the boy...
XxxX
Aiden followed the men out after they had their drinks. Some were thouroughly drunk, their words slurring greatly. Others had simply passed out from the alcohol, and the lesser drunk ones were carrying the ones who passed out.
The Captain slowed his pace as his drunken crew moved past him, his first mate looking at him warily before continuing on.
However the Captain had none. Not a sip. And he knew the young man was following them.
'Was he a spy for the King?' The Captain thought, and in a second, pulled out his pistol and aimed it at Aiden's head.
"Why do you follow us?" The pistol clicked, the chamber of the gun filled with a bullet as it aimed between Aiden's eyebrows.
Aiden was three things at that moment: happy, wary, and frightened as much as a pirate was afraid of Davy Jones.
"I-I didn't mean to!" Aiden stuttered as the words came out shaky.
"Bullshit boy! You've been trailing us every since we docked here! Tell the truth, or I shall not be afraid to send your soul to the Locker!"
"I- I'm sorry! What I meant was I wanted to talk to the Captain of this vessel!" Aiden said, sweat of anxiety beginning to form on his forehead.
"Oi! Well now you're about to be killed by him unless you spill it!" The Captain roared.
"Are you a Navy Boy? Are you tryin to send Captain Hinder to the gallows!? You spyin on Captain Hinder?" Captain Hinder said taking a step forward, his finger tightening on the trigger.
"No! I hate the Navy! I came, I-I wanted join your crew!" Aiden yelled in a attempt to let Captain Hinder hear his reason, before he ended his life.
Captain Hinder paused, flicking his pistol up in the air, away from the direction of Aiden's head, however it was still cocked and loaded.
"Well chap its a good thing you siad something, or you'd be a dead man now." Captain Hinder said casually, now eying the young lad.
Aiden breathed a sigh of relief and took a step forward, but once again the pistol was aimed at his heart.
"I didn't say you could come aboard, however. Why do ye want to join The Death Seeker?" Captain Hinder said, his black goatee connected to his sharp and angular face. His eyes was a hazel, glaring at Aiden with uncertainty and skepticism, and also confidence.
"I want to join your crew." Aiden said again.
"But why?"
"I need to get away from this desolate other reasons as ta why." Aiden mumbled.
"Speak up boy!" Captain Hinder reprimanded.
"I need to get away from this place! The looks I get from the people here! About what's been done ta me!"
Captain Hinder felt a pang of familarness in his hardened cold heart. He was once in that situation long ago before he had ever became Captain Hinder of the Death Seeker.
"What exactly been done ta ya? I dont let just any pitiful soul come board my ship." Captain Hinder stated.
Of course, anybody in Hinder's crew knew that the man let them join his crew in order to start a new life. Hinder gave everyman a new start.
" Me parents. One a scalawag bloke, my mother um, murdered. Please dont let me have ta say anythingng else." Aiden said softly.
Captain took a hard look at him.
"I suppose we could use another crew member, however ye not be getting fair share of booty. I let you on me ship, see if ye worthy of sealegs."
Captain Hinder holstered his gun in his belt.
"You can start by cleaning the crew quarters."
Aiden smiled gladly. He was finally away from this island.
"Thank you Captain." Aiden said his heart thrumming with excitement and joy as he boarded the ship behind the Captain...
