The Sea's Song

by Kitkat2883

Suzune Yamamoto lives in modern day Japan. She is an average 18 year old girl that loves water and happens to come across a book about the sea that changes her life! Who knows what will happen to her once she opens the book! Is this the chance for her to meet someone or will it make her suffer! (Also this is my first time writing a fanfiction so I hope you will enjoy!)

10. Chapter 10

A/N- Hi guys! I'm sorry for the VERY late update. I hope this chapter will cheer you guys up! :) Maybe I put in too many details? I don't know... I just couldn't stop typing once I started. Hopefully I don't disappoint you! The poll on my profile to finding who gets paired up with Sue is still going, but will close once I publish the next chapter. Vote up everyone! Or review or pm me who you want to be chosen! So far it's tied with two characters! Just a heads up that the second best will also get something special in this story. -thumps up- So I hope you guys will keep that in mind. :3 Also, if you guys ever want to tell me something, I am always open for ideas or suggestions. PM me anytime! Thank you guys very much for supporting me! Please enjoy this chapter and look forward to the next. =(^-^)=

---

-Chapter 10

*BOOM*

"KYAA!" I yell out when losing my balance from the impact.

Just before I hit the floor, I stop in mid-air. I realize then that I had my eyes closed and open them to see that Nathan had caught a hold of my arm. He pulls me up so I could stand again.

"T-thanks Nathan." I barely manage to say, shocked from the unexpected event.

Nathan replies quickly and looks to the side. "No time for rest."

I was about to open my mouth to ask why, but I get stopped by the sound of something shooting and another impact.

*BOOM*

I grab hold of Nathan's arm to keep myself from falling again as the ship shakes.

"What is that?!" I ask out loud.

Nathan responds, "Cannons."

Then Captain Morgan laughs. "Ha! I know only one person who owns a black ship."

Russell runs to the side to look out and yells, "It's the Rika!"

Captain Morgan shakes his head, "It could only be Alan who would do this."

"The Rika? Alan?" I ask them. I look around and don't see anything yet.

I see Thomas run towards me and answers me. "Alan is a rival of Captain. He's the Captain of the Rika. They always follow us around."

"So he's an enemy?..." I say as I slowly regain my balance.

Thomas nods his head.

Christopher quickly comes over to check if I injured my leg. "Are you alright?"

"Yes, but-" Just as I was about to question further until a loud voice was heard.

"Haha! It's been awhile hasn't it, Morgan!" They say.

I look around and finally catch a glimpse of the black ship. It looked like someone was standing on the side with a sword in hand.

I was just slowly taking in his appearance until Nathan yanks on my arm and drags me near a stack of supplies beside the double doors.

"Wha-what's wrong, Nathan?" I ask as he makes me stand behind the stack of supplies.

"Quietly sit here and don't move." He tells me and pushes on my shoulders to forcefully make me sit.

I obliged since I had no room for protest. As I sat there, I listened to what was happening.

"I hope you liked my little surprise before, Morgan!" the unknown person says, but sounded a lot more closer than before.

"Alan. What brings you to my ship?" Morgan replies.

Alan laughs and answers, "Why of course it's to steal your treasures and become the Pirate King!"

'Pirate King? There is such a thing?' I ask myself while trying to get a peek at the scene.

I see the black ship and can tell instantly that it was almost the same size as the Sirius. It was now right next to us. The person I saw earlier was still standing on the side so I could take in his details. A black hat with a purple feather and white cloth hanging from it, his outfit was a coat in purple and black, and he had black hair with beads on the side.

'That's Alan?' I think as I started to peek my head out more.

Right when I fully got his appearance, Alan swings his sword forward and yells, "ATTACK!"

My eyes go wide when I see several people charge from their ship onto ours. Either jumping over or swinging from ropes. I quickly duck behind the supply stack, clutching my legs to my chest. I start hearing swords clashing and gun shots.

I grow pale, 'Is this... What they meant by battle?!'

I sit there, frightened, as I listen to the fighting. Slowly, I come to my senses as I think that I may be in danger if someone finds me. I take a look around me and don't see anyone. I carefully take a sneak peek from behind the barrels and spot everyone one by one, noticing that they were all fighting differently.

The first one I notice was Christopher. He was fighting with just his bare hands! Surprisingly, his opponents were collapsing near him.

Next there was Eduardo. He was using a gun and either made his enemies sword or gun fly away or he grazed an injury on them with it. Russell was using his two swords to fight as usual. He had fast reflexes with those heavy things! Thomas was using a wooden sword. He is small so he could easily move around the enemies and hit them. Captain Morgan had his sword and seemed to be fighting with Alan, if I wasn't mistaken. While Nathan had an unique weapon. It looked like a chain attached to a... sickle? I've never seen one of those and it looked hard to use but he handled it well. Everyone could easily defend and attack against these guys.

'Wow...' I was amazed until I realized that I have no way of defending myself if I get caught!

I worriedly look around. 'I have to be very cautious...'

Then all of a sudden someone lands on a barrel that I'm hiding behind! I quickly move away and try to hide on the other side, but the person who landed, spotted me.

"Huh? A woman?" A man voice says.

I move without thinking and quickly jump on a box to keep my distance from him, but in the process, I revealed my location to everyone.

I grow a bit pale when I notice some unknown eyes are on me. I look over to the man who was on the barrel.

"It is a woman! I didn't know Sirus had one too!" The man declared and was apparently Alan.

'Not good, not good, not good.' I repeat in my head, panicking.

I notice Captain Morgan trying to come over. "Alan!"

Alan turns to see Captain coming over and looks back at me. He repeats looking over and back.

"Could you be Morgan's new woman?" Alan asks while taking a step closer.

I waste no time to respond and jump to the top of the stack so I could grab a hanging rope.

Alan watches me and coos. "Oooh. She's a fast one."

He grabs a rope lying on the stack and throws it at my feet. I was able to catch one of the hanging ropes in time before he caught one of my legs. Thankfully, I didn't lose balance.

"I happen to love ropes." Alan responds with a big evil grin on his face.

He began to pull on the rope and cheerfully declared. "I've taken a liking to you! I shall steal you away from Morgan and make you my woman!"

I wasn't enjoying this one bit. I try my best to pull my leg away and attempt to keep it at the edge of the box that I was standing on, hoping I might tip over the box it with his strength to sent it rolling.

"Come to me, my pearl!" Alan says and pulls hard on the rope.

Just as the crate was slightly tipping over, I started to feel some pain in my thigh. I grimaced and almost let go of the box until Captain Morgan cut the rope Alan was holding.

"Alan! I won't let you harm my crew!" Captain angrily said and attacked him.

While I almost fell over the boxes from the release of the rope, thankfully I was still holding on the hanging rope and began to swing over the deck.

I was about to sigh with relief to the fact that I escaped, but I swung too close to someone's sword.

"Eek!" I quickly lift up my legs and jump to another rope to dodge it.

I look around below me and find out I was getting too much attention. Some enemies were now aiming their guns at me. Then I heard some of the crew yell out my name or yell for me to stop and hide. I really had no plan and their voices weren't helping either. I was really scared and the only thing I could do was swing to dodge the shooting. I was freaking out. Frantically looking around for some cover, I spot another stack of supplies that could cover me long enough for me to dive into the waters unnoticed. I decided to go with that plan and was able dive in without anyone seeing or interrupting me. When I was in the water I finally was filled with relief.

After a moment I go back to thinking on what I should do.

'I have never been in a fight before let alone a full battle between pirates!' I tell myself, realizing I was shaking a bit.

After I calm down, I think about everyone else. 'Everyone looked like they could handle themselves but... was it really alright for me to be the only one that was safe?'

I recall how everyone was surrounded when I swung above them. Christopher and Thomas were helping each other out while Nathan, Eduardo, and Russell were spread out, fighting by themselves. Captain Morgan was still fighting with Alan.

'Will they really be okay?' I think worriedly.

I was about to climb up the rope ladder to check on them until I suddenly hear Cari's voice next to me.

"Sue! What do you think you're doing?" She called out to me.

I turn towards her. "Cari..."

She bites on my clothes and pulls me back in the water.

"Wait, Cari! I need to know if everyone is safe!" I tell her as I fall back into the water.

Cari keeps her hold on my clothes and somehow talks. "Oh no you don't. I will not allow you to be involved and get injured even more."

I start to protest. "But I-"

Cari cuts me off and quickly declines, "Absolutely not. You will only get hurt if you stick your head back on there."

She pulls me away from the ship far enough so that the noise of the action wasn't as loud and clear.

I was still worried about the others and struggled against Cari, still wanting to go back until I heard Master Bruinen speak to me.

"My child, are you alright?" He asks, his voice filled with worry.

I stop my struggle and quickly swim to him once Cari lets go of my shirt. I go to up to him and somehow hug his front to reply, "I'm okay, Master Bruinen."

Master Bruinen pushes me a little and gently speaks, "I am glad, but why do you not look happy, Sue?"

It was as if he sensed that I wasn't happy about being fine.

"Master Bruinen... Everyone on the ship... Will they be okay?" I ask honestly.

Cari swims to me and pokes my side with her mouth. "Why are you worrying about them instead of yourself?"

"Well..." I start but look down.

Master Bruinen soon responds. "I don't see why they wouldn't be alright."

I snap my head up to his reply. "What makes you say that?"

He slightly nods his head towards the ship and I look back to see that some enemies were now dropping into the sea.

I somehow feel a bit better knowing the crew was winning, but then I start to feel bad for the enemy and think that fighting isn't right.

"Why fight?" I quietly ask.

Cari answers, "It shouldn't be surprising. You humans always fight."

Master Bruinen continues, "Everything will be alright. I'm sure that male human we met will take care of things."

"I guess..." I say, relieved a little.

Just when I want to relax, my stomach starts to feel like it's burning up. I clutch it and grab hold to Cari.

"What's wrong?!" Cari quickly asks.

I take in small breaths and reply, "It's... my stomach..."

"Stomach?" Master Bruinen questioned.

The moment I was about to lift my hand off my stomach, I hear my name being called.

"Sue! Sue!" Two familiar voices call out to me.

'Those voices... Are they?..' I slowly turn in the direction where they came from and spot the two seahorse sisters. They seemed to be rushing to me with some urgent news.

I lightly smile at the girls. 'I knew it.'

They suddenly stop when they spot Master Bruinen and slightly bow their heads to greet him. "Greetings, Master Bruinen. We didn't see you there."

"It's been awhile. Aqua. Bay." Master Bruinen replies.

Cari asks, "Why were you girls calling for Sue?"

They quickly move closer to me and announce, "Oh! Sue! Quickly! You mustn't let the map be in the wrong hands!"

I stare at them with confusion. "Map?..."

Cari seems to tilt her head in confusion. "What are you talking about?"

Aqua and Bay reply, "Sue knows it! For sure!"

I look back at the Sirius and after a few moments of thinking, it hit me, "Wait... You don't mean the new map we just got... Right?"

The sisters silently nod their little heads at me.

"How did you know we had it?" I ask, curious as to how they knew.

"The cave that guards the map only opens for a certain time period once a year. The moment your ship came near the island, the cave was suppose to be closed but it mysteriously opened for a man that ventured out from your ship." The sister begin to explain.

Master Bruinen interrupts, exclaiming, "What, they have the map?! How could you let them!"

The sisters jump at Master Bruinen's angry voice. Even I was surprised by it.

"We are sorry, Master Bruinen, but we couldn't prevent it! The cave itself opened for the man!" They explain desperately.

I watch their exchanges and turn to whisper to Cari, "Is there something special about that map?"

I feel Cari nod her head under me, "If they are talking about the map located on the ice island, then that is not something we would like humans to have their hands on. Usually the cave guards it and prevents humans ever reaching it."

I tilt my head. "Why can't humans have it?"

"Well-", Cari was about to answer until Aqua and Bay interrupt.

"Sue! We need you to get the map back!" The girls proclaim.

"Me?" I look at them surprised.

Master Bruinen mumbles something before saying, "Sue. That map is important. I insist that you find where it is."

'They need my help? Why?..' I ask myself.

I was a bit hesitant to reply so Master Bruinen continues.

"Sue, you are the only human to understand us and we trust you. So I hope you will agree and bring the map back to ... your ship." Master Bruinen tells me while slowly saying the last part.

"Back to the ship? So, the people on the ship I travel on, are allowed to have it?" I question, confused why he would say that even though he was angry about it a moment ago.

Master Bruinen sighs. "It seems that the map was safe with you and the other humans since it wasn't reacting."

'Reacting?' I was puzzled, but I don't ask why and I look towards the sisters. "Where is the map now?"

They answered. "We think someone has stolen it."

"Stolen?" I turn to the ship and think who could have found the map.

'Sure there's a fight on deck, but who knew about the map?' I think about it.

Right when I was looking at the ship, I spy a familiar hat trying to move around that looks suspicious.

A name pops up. "It could have been Alan!" I say aloud.

"But..." I turn to the sisters again. "How did you know that the map was stolen?"

The sisters grow stiff for a moment, but answer my question. "We... don't know how to explain it, but... Whenever the map is near something or someone that doesn't deserve it, it reacts... Um how to put it... It gives off this sign. Not many can sense it, even the other sea creatures, but since we have been near this island for a long time, we can sense when the map is reacting."

"What's the sign?" I say tilting my head.

Aqua and Bay ponder for a moment until Master Bruinen speaks up.

"The man with the hat and cloth is getting away." He informed.

"Ah!" The sisters yelped when they looked to see Alan sneaking off to his ship.

I quickly turn to Cari. "Cari. You need to get me on the black ship."

Cari doesn't move. "And let you get in danger? No."

"Cari!" I plead, but right then, my stomach starts burning again.

I yelp in pain. "Ouch!"

Aqua and Bay quickly come to my sides. "Sue, are you hurt?!"

Master Bruinen speaks, "Sue, if you are in pain then I will not allow you to go. We can follow them for the time being."

I deny and hide my pain. "I'm fine. I just had a cramp."

I look at Cari again and ask her again. "Please Cari. Can you take me to the enemy's ship? If not, then I will swim."

Cari stays silent and still for a few minutes.

Master Bruinen calls to her. "Cari."

She starts to move after hearing her name. "Fine."

I smile at her. "You are so stubborn."

"Hmph." Cari quickly swims over and start to bring me to a ladder of the ship.

...

(No one's POV)

Master Bruinen stares at Sue in shock as Cari swims off with her.

The sisters look at him in question, wondering why he is so quiet.

"Aqua. Bay." He suddenly speaks.

The girls slightly jump to his voice, but reply, "Y-yes, Master Bruinen?"

Master Bruinen turns towards the seahorses and slowly asks. "Did you... notice Sue's stomach glow?"

"Glow?" They ask, puzzled. "No, we didn't see anything."

"If you didn't see that's alright, but the mark I saw is troubling me." He tells them.

He turns to where Sue swam off. "It looks oddly familiar... Like I've seen that mark before..."

...

(Back on the Sirius)

-After Sue jumped into the water

The Sirius crew fought the enemies and easily were overpowering them, but there were a lot in numbers.

Thomas and Christopher gathered close and talked to each other.

"Thomas, did you see where Sue went?" Christopher asked.

Thomas shook his head and smacked an enemy beside him. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't see where she landed."

Christopher pulled someone's arm behind them and threw him towards a group, making them all tumble off deck. "I hope she didn't get into trouble. We can't save her in this state."

Russell starts to make his way towards Christopher and Thomas, but he gets stopped by two figures.

Their swords crash with his and the fight begins.

Russell yells at them. "Get out of my way!"

"Ha! You will have to go through us!" One of them in a green vest says.

The other one in the red vest continues. "That is, if you can defeat us."

Russell clicked his tongue. "I don't have time to play with you twins!"

He slashed at them with his swords, slowly pushing them near the side of the ship.

The twins were blocking all his attacks with smirks on their faces. "What? That's the best you can do?"

Russell looks at them with disinterest and then smirks. "Is that what you think?"

"What?" The twins look surprised for a moment.

Russell quickly ducks and circles around to wham the twins in the stomach.

They weren't prepared for the sudden attack and fall over the side of the ship. "Damn it! You won't have it easy next time!" One of them calls out.

"Ya right. Like you ever beaten me." He says as he heads back to Christopher and Thomas.

"Oy! Have you seen Captain?" He asks as he gets close enough.

The two of them shake their heads while pushing another group off deck.

"I haven't seen him, but he should be fighting with Alan." Christopher tells him.

"Hmm. By the way, where did all these guys come from?!" Russell replies, while dodging, smacking, and slashing some guys at the same time.

"No clue!" Thomas responds. He looked tired and was sweating a lot.

Christopher kicked a man that almost jumped on Thomas. "My guess is that Alan hired recruits."

Russell cursed under his breath. "This isn't getting us anywhere."

...

Meanwhile Nathan and Eduardo regrouped and were dealing with enemies near the rear end of the ship.

"Tsk... There's no end to them!" Eduardo yelled with annoyance.

"They interrupted an interesting event and I was just about to cook. I'm in a bad mood." Nathan scowls as he swings his weapon about to send enemies flying off or falling on each other.

"Did you happen to see where that woman went off to?" Eduardo suddenly asks.

Nathan doesn't reply as he thinks about it. "... I think she hid behind supplies again."

Eduardo shoots behind Nathan as someone almost shot at him. "How troublesome."

"We need to regroup." Eduardo suggests.

Nathan nods in agreement and they both slowly head towards the deck.

...

Captain Morgan was still fighting with Alan.

Alan was parrying with Captain Morgan and was jumping around.

"Alan, what are you up to?" Morgan questions. He wasn't even swinging with his full strength as Alan manages to dodge.

Alan just smiles. "Nothing really."

"Then why are you on my ship?" Morgan asks as he sighs. "Quit followin me around."

"I don't know what you're talking about. It's just a coincidence that you always end up where I go." Alan replies.

Then Alan frowns, "Though, it's mostly because a certain someone was dying to meet someone."

Morgan lifts a brow. "Someone?"

Alan points his thump to side.

Just in the distance, there was some racket and a noise that sounded like a cow.

Morgan turned to look and noticed something charging wearing a pink outfit.

"Fuzzy?" He mumbled. He turned back to Alan only to find he escaped.

"Ugh. I should have known." Morgan runs towards his cabin.

...

The chubby girl with a pink revealing outfit kept on running while shouting a name.

Fuzzy yelled. "Master Eduardooooo!"

She charged straight into everything, even her allies and sends them flying off.

Everyone was complaining, but none could do anything as she tossed them aside anyways.

Eduardo heard his name and looked to his side with disgust. "Not again."

Nathan nudged him. "Seems she's here again."

"Like I haven't figured that out." Eduardo rolls his eye.

Just as he said that, Fuzzy was then standing right in front of him.

She excitedly called to him. "Master Eduardo! I've missed you so much!"

Eduardo growls and tries to maintain a safe distance with the girl.

"I've begged Alan to take me to you! Are you surprised to see me?" She innocently says while looking extremely happy. She's walks after Eduardo and pushes everyone that are in her way.

"Well explains the sudden attack." Eduardo mumbles to himself with his eye twitching.

Nathan glances at the guy. "There has to be another reason."

Right the same moment, the sound of cannons ring in their ears and the whole area gets filled with smoke from the blasts.

In the distance, Alan's laughter can be heard. "Hahahaaa! The Captain of the Rika has taken what he has come for! Until next time, Pirate King!"

The smoke clears after a few moments and the whole crew can see the Rika had completely disappeared along with the enemies.

"The only thing Alan is good at is running." Russell says under his breath.

Captain Morgan appears behind him with a serious face. "Ya got that right. What's worse is that he stole something."

Russell turns and exclaimed, "Woah Cap." Then he starts to glare. "Wait, he stole something?! How?!"

Eduardo comes over and answers. "He used the smoke to escape."

"Urgh. I can't believe that Alan." Captain Morgan holds a hand to his head in frustration.

"So what was stolen?" Nathan asks as he walks up to the group.

Captain Morgan replies, "The map to Skull Island."

"What!?" Russell exclaimed.

Eduardo clicks his tongue. "Tch. We should have known he was following us for the same target."

Christopher and Thomas run over towards the others.

"Did something happen?" Thomas looks at everyone's faces worriedly.

Russell shouts. "Of course! Alan stole our map!"

Christopher rubs his neck. "That's unfortunate. We just got it..."

Morgan speaks up, declaring, "Men! We are heading to Skull Island before Alan does!"

"Alright!" Russell grins. "Time for revenge!"

Then Morgan turns to Eduardo. "Im sure you took a good look at the map."

Eduardo nods and smirks. "Of course. It's not the exact location, but I can find it."

"Alright. Set sail for Skull Island!" Captain Morgan swings his arm to signal them.

Just before everyone went to their posts, Thimas speaks up. "Captain.. Um.. I'm sorry but have you seen Miss Sue?"

Nathan speaks up, "She's not behind supplies?"

Thomas shakes his head. "We checked everywhere already."

Captain Morgan looks surprised. "She's not on ship?"

Christopher questions. "Captain... You don't suppose Alan also took her?"

"... There's a possibility. Afterall it was Alan who discovered her." Morgan answers while folding his arms.

"Great. She's more trouble than we thought." Eduardo says while glaring to the side.

Thomas worriedly says, "What should we do? What if she's hurt!"

Christopher had a conflicted face. "I knew I shouldn't have let her move. Her leg hasn't healed yet."

"We could follow Alan." Nathan offers.

Russell points out towards the sea. "Just how can we follow him when don't even know where he went?"

"Hm.." Captain Morgan stares out at sea while thinking.

Eduardo suggests. "They could've started to head to Skull Island already."

"Then all we need to do is just go there like we planned and find Sue, right?" Thomas says with begging eyes.

"True." Captain Morgan smiles and turns to front of the ship. "Well let's set sa-"

Then a whale could be heard as well as dolphin near by at the same time.

"What the.." Eduardo started.

Captain Morgan stayed quiet as he stepped towards the side and looked down to see the dolphin.

She floats near the ship and starts splashing water like crazy.

The rest of the crew joins him near the side and notice the dolphin too.

"What's it doing here?" Russell lifts his brow.

"No clue." Eduardo responds.

Thomas asks, "Maybe something is wrong with it?"

"Or lost?" Christopher continues looking a bit sad at her.

Seeing her continuously flapping her tail, Nathan speaks, "It might be trying to tell us something."

Captain Morgan glances at Nathan and looks back at the dolphin then mumbles, "Could it be?..."

Russell, who was standing next to him, questions him. "Did ya say something, Cap?"

"Nah." Morgan answers as he stares down.

Cari looks at the crew in anger. "DANG IT! Stupid humans! I'm trying to tell you to follow me! Sue may be in danger..."

She stops flapping her tail on the water and looks away. "Fine..."

Cari turns her back to the crew and looks at them. "Old man, get the message already!" She yells.

She repeats looking forward and back at them then starts swimming towards Master Bruinen.

"Men! I suggest we follow that dolphin." Captain Morgan announces.

"What?" Russell replies surprised.

Christopher asks, "What makes you say that?"

Captain Morgan laughs. "Call it a hunch! Now Eduardo, follow that dolphin!"

Cari hears this and smirks to herself. "Wise choice."

Then she starts to lead them to Sue.

...

(Sue's POV)

'Okay... I got on, so now what?' I ask myself.

I recall seeing how the Rika made their sneaky escape from the Sirius.

I sigh and tell myself. "Well... Everyone can survive. Hopefully I can too."

I put a brave face on and slowly climb up rope ladder.

I had been hanging on it the whole time when coming up with a plan without realizing the time.

'I'll get as close up as I can and try to hear footsteps... If I don't then I'll peek. Everything will be okay...' I think, trying to encourage myself.

As I get near the top of the deck, I hear voices. I stop to listen in on the conversation.

"Are you satisfied now?"

I hold on tight to the rope ladder as I try to hear the rest of the rest of their talk. 'That voice sounds like Alan...'

"Grrr! I can't believe you actually brought us to the Pirate King's ship!"

"I ain't going along with ya ever again!"

"Man, I thought we would win with our numbers, but dang! They were tougher than we thought!"

"Well they aren't called the famous Sirius crew for nothing."

"Anyways. We quit, Alan. We ain't injuring ourselves for yer stupid sake."

'What in the world?' I thought to myself.

Alan sounds annoyed. "Ugh! Fine. Just go now. Shoo shoo."

Then I heard a dozen footsteps going further away from where I was. A big splash could be heard and the sound of a sailing ship. I look around me incase they were heading this way, but there wasn't anything.

I breath a sigh of relief.

A male voice rings out. "Captain Alan! Good job dealing with those rookie pirates!"

"You make us proud!" Another male voice says, a little lower than the previous one.

Alan joyfully laughs. "Hehe! Of course! I'm captain afterall. It was quiet easy to get them to help me out once they got so drunk and made an interesting deal with me."

"What was that deal, Captain Alan?" The deeper voice asks.

"Ha! The deal was to get them to meet the Pirate King in exchange they have to help me out." Alan arrogantly proclaims. "What an easy deal! It was a good thing I made them drink a lot."

"Way to go, Captain Alan!" One snickers.

'... I don't like the sound of this guy one bit.' I tell myself.

"Well I have successfully retrieved the map to Skull Island! Now, let's head to the closest port and start our journey from there! Go on, Tom and Colin!" Alan cheerfully commands.

"Aye, Captain!" Two voices say at the same time.

Then a female's desperate voice comes out. "Captain Alaaaaaan! Why did we have to leeeeave so quickly?!"

My eyes go wide. 'A female pirate?!'

"Oh Fuzzy. Come now! We should be celebrating my fantastic victory!" Alan replies.

Fuzzy cries, "But I wanted to stay with Master Eduardoooo!"

Again, my eyes grow wide. 'Did she just... Say Master Eduardo?' I tried my best to hold my laugh.

'To think someone would like that man! Heh.' I laugh inside my head.

Alan sounds a bit annoyed by her and answers, "Ugh. Fuzzy! You will see him again. Now go ready."

Hearing the conversation end, I slowly lift my head to peek on deck. I spy Alan heading through double doors. I catch a glimpse of the map in hands before enters.

'This isn't going to be easy.' I look around the ship.

I find two figures tying ropes. One was wearing a red vest while the other had a green one. They looked like twins.

'I'm guessing those are Tom and Colin?' I think as I take in their appearance.

Then I look to see someone in a pink outfit standing in the middle of deck.

'That can't be... Fuzzy?' I stare at her in amazement. Then again try to stifle a laugh just imagining Eduardo's face if she was clinging to him.

I notice that it looked she was crying. 'Oh...'

She had a cute pink outfit with a pink bandana matching it.

Then all of sudden, Fuzzy looks up and roars. "Grrrr! Fine! Next time I'll get Master Eduardo's heart!"

She speeds off towards the double doors as well.

'She really surprised me there!' I stare at her and then notice there aren't many crew members here.

Slowly, I climb onto the ship without the twins noticing me and hide behind some supplies.

'Now how to get to Alan without getting caught...' I think as I slowly turn around.

I nearly jump out of my skin when I see someone standing right in front! I stare at the man with wide eyes. He was wearing a black and white striped shirt and a black bandana. Strangely enough, he looked a little like Fuzzy.

I bite my lip as I continue to stare.

He doesn't say anything and just keeps looking at me. He didn't look harmful, but I couldn't trust my instincts. Then he starts to move closer.

I close my eyes tightly, awaiting an impact...But there was none. I slowly open eyes only to see the man walk past me.

Staring at his back, I secretly thank him.

He glances back at me, but silently goes up to the wheel.

I take a deep breath. 'I may have gotten off the hook with this one guy, but the others don't look as forgiving.'

I look to see the twins were now heading to the double doors as well. I quickly follow them and put my ear against the door. I hear their footsteps get further away.

'Hmm... So they may have a long hallway or a big room on the other side.' I think while biting my lip.

I know I agreed to do this, but this isn't going as planned and it's quite frightening.

I turn around and look up and spy their crow's nest.

I decide to climb it and hide in it. I quickly act on this plan and also bring a hanging rope with me that might help me.

As I step in the crow's nest, I meet the gaze of the man from before.

I smile at him wryly and mouth 'Sorry' to him.

I duck in it to get away from attention and come up with a plan as I wait for Alan to appear.

Unfortunately, my stomach burns yet again as I was about to grip it, I finally notice that my stomach was glowing blue!

I stare at it, shocked. 'Wha... What is this?'

I lift my shirt to see that it wasn't my stomach that was glowing, but the mark I had on it.

'Why is this happening?.. Is something wrong with me?!' I ask myself, starting to jumping to conclusions.

Just as I start to panick, the glow dims and I hear the double doors open.

Then Alan cheerfully calls out someone. "Hey Dozzy! Let's celebrate my grand success together!"

I look out and see him facing the man near the wheel. 'So his name is Dozzy...'

I shake my head. 'This isn't a ine to memorize names!'

Quickly, I grip the rope I had in my hand and step on the edge of the edge of the crows nest. I ready myself to swing at Alan, as I saw him waving the map.

I take a deep breath and embrace myself as launch myself at him.

Alan, maybe heard something and turned to face me right as I let go of the rope and land on top of him.

Alan eyes open in surprise and speaks. "Why isn't it you? My pearl?!"

I use that moment of surprise as a cue and quickly grab the map away from him. Then I quickly get up and run around.

"Wait a second! My pearl! Where do you think you are taking that map?" Alan shouts at me.

I hurriedly run up to the side of the ship. As I was preparing to jump in again, I noticed that Cari and Master Bruinen were nowhere to be seen.

"Wha!" I open my mouth in shock.

'And here I thought that they would help me as an escape route!' I bit my lip again.

I turn around in haste only to meet the eyes of Captain Alan.

Alan looks at me with a very amused look on him. "My! You are as lovely as I thought you would be!"

He smiles and comes closer to me.

"D-don't come near me!" I attempt to threat him, though inside I was horrified.

"Come here, my pearl! Let Master Alan have you." He continues to come closer while smile turns more creepy.

I stand there, frozen stiff. Until I finally decide to run off again, but it was too late as Alan had gripped my arm.

"Now don't be shy. I shall take good care of you." He says.

I struggle against his hold. "No!"

He tightens his grip and gets ahold of my other arm. "Hmmm.. I wonder how you will look all tied up in a rope..."

Finally, I realize just how creepy and dangerous this guy is. So I reflexively kick him in between his legs and make a run for it.

Alan falls over in agony. "That... wasn't nice, my pearl!"

As I run towards the rear end of the ship. I spy the Sirius in the horizon and I smile despite the situation I was in. I was going to dive into the water, but something shines in my view and I stop.

It was a sword and now it was up to against my neck. Then another one appears.

I sweat as I hold my ground. "What is this..."

Two voices ring in my ears. "Don't think you will get away after what to did to our Captain!"

They push their swords into my neck and I tightly close my eyes. Then they take the map from my hands and harshly push me into the sea.

When I notice I was in the air I open to see Tom and Colin holding the map with smirks and head off.

I reach out and yell. "No!"

With a splash I sink into the sea. I feel my stomach start to burn again. It took all my strength to swim up to the surface for air, but the burn had a bigger impact then. As I started to sink again into the water, I feel my body being pushed up. I look to my side and find Cari there.

Once she brings me up and gasp for air. I cling to her. "I'm so glad you're here!"

Cari nuzzles my side with her mouth. "You're alright."

Then I remembered. "Where were you?! I thought you would at least help me escape from there..."

"I brought company with me." She nodded towards the Sirius.

I look at the ship and stare back at her disbelief. "I can't believe you would actually ask for their help."

"Humph. It's not that I needed it. Master Bruinen was the one who requested it." She says stubbornly.

I tenderly smile at her until I remembered my stomach pain. I clutch it as I talk. "Cari... Take me back to the enemy ship."

"What! No." She rejects.

I shake my head at her. "No... I really need to be near that map as much as possible. You have to take me back there."

Cari stays still at my words. "Are you serious right now?"

I nod.

She sighs and takes me back. "Fine... Again."

As she takes me back, the Sirius follows right behind our heels and gets on Alan's ship.

I climb up the ladder and meet their gazes.

Russell starts first. "I can't believe you! If you were safe you should have thought how to escape!"

Christopher quickly checks my leg and then exhales with relief. "You didn't open the wound again. Thank goodness."

"Miss Sue! I'm so glad you are alright!" Thomas says as he hugs me.

I look around at them and then notice that Alan and his crew were all tied up.

Amazed, I ask, "How can you do that so fast?!"

Captain Morgan laughs at me. "You look too amazed, Sue. Alan can never keep up with us."

"Grr... Morgan! You will pay for this!" Alan says across the deck.

I show a conflicted face. "I had such a trouble getting the map, but you guys make it so easy."

Nathan comes over and pats my head as a way to comfort me. "Ya did alright."

"You really did more than we expected you to." Captain Morgan continues.

Eduardo stares at me and then opens his mouth, "Not bad for a kid."

Just as I was feeling better, Edaurdo just had to ruin it.

"Must you always say something like that?" I frown at him.

Eduardo turns away. "Hmph."

Russell then wraps an arm around me. "I know I just yelled at you, but man! I'm actually surprised."

Christopher strictly says. "But never do that ever again."

I lightly laugh. "I guess... But I just really needed that map."

Nathan nods his head. "No surprise there."

"Don't worry now, Sue! We have the map back!" Thomas smiles as he hands me the map.

I stare down at the map in mystery. 'I still don't understand... Why I can't part with it.'

Without thinking I put the map in each of the crew's hands to test something.

They all look at me with question as to what I was doing.

As I notice that my stomach doesn't burn I walk over to Alan with the map in hand.

As I stand in front of him, he almost jumps with joy. "Oh my pearl! Have you finally decided to be mine?"

I ignore his comment and put the map in his lap. I wrap my arms around my stomach as I slowly walk away from him. The burning does indeed start as I move away.

I quickly run up to take the map and sigh. "This doesn't make any sense." I say to myself as I stare at the map again.

"Miss Sue? Is something wrong?" Thomas calls out my name in confusion.

I turn to the crew and try to smile. "Oh it's nothing. Just thinking. Let's go back to the ship and on our to Skull Island."

I walk over to put the map in Captain Morgan's hand and walk over to the Sirius.

I glance back to see the crew exchange puzzled glances with each other.

...

- A few hours later

Night falls and the crew celebrates the return of the map without a care.

I'm starting to think that Captain Morgan just does this because he wants to.

I laugh as I look around the table.

As I was about to get up to go to bed a voice calls out, startling everyone. Mostly Eduardo.

"Master Eduardoooooo!" Fuzzy pops out of nowhere and tries to hug Eduardo, but he dodges it.

"Wha?" I say as I was surprised to see her here.

Captain Morgan exclaims, "Fuzzy! What ya doing on my ship?!"

"I've decided to stay here with Master Edaurdo! I don't need Captain Alan! I would like to stay on the Sirius." She happily announces.

Everyone goes quiet while Eduardo just couldn't take it anymore. "Go back to ya ship!"

"Master Eduardoooo! I will never leave my darling again!" She says as she clings to his arm.

I hear him sigh deeply. I laugh a little and earn a glare from him.

Morgan just laughs. "Interesting! So you want to stay on this ship? But you will have to entertain us."

"Oh no problem!" She says cheerfully and starts moving her body.

"I've always danced well!" She proudly announces.

Russell points and laughs at her. "You call that dancing?! You're just moving your belly too much! Fatty!"

Fuzzy retorts. "I'm not fat! I'm gorgeous!"

I watch her and Russell exchange words, then I burst into laughs with everyone except Edaurdo.

Captain Morgan seems to be entertained and announces, "Alright! Fuzzy joins the crew!"

He stands up all of a sudden and says, "Except! We don't have spare rooms so you gotta share with someone!"

'Share? That's a first.' I thought to myself.

Fuzzy quickly seizes Eduardo's arm and proclaims, "His room! His room! Please!"

Eduardo glares at Captain. "No."

"Why not? Are you shy?~" Fuzzy says.

I look at her surprised. 'How can she like him so much?...'

Eduardo shrugs her off his arm and answers. "Because it feels like you will attack me in my sleep!"

As they start arguing, Captain Morgan turns towards me.

"The same also goes for you too, Sue." He says.

"The same?" I lift a brow at him.

"You don't mean sharing a room... Right?" I ask a bit hesitant.

He nods.

"Wha..." I open my mouth in surprise.