When I awoke, Sam held me in his arms and we were in a cave. I shifted to look at him,
"Hey." I kissed his jaw,
"How are you feeling?" He asked
"My head hurts a little but I think I should live." I grabbed his hand, "Is Nate with us?" I asked him,
"No we got separated. I tried to do some looking but I didn't want to leave you." Sam told me,
"We need to find him. Did anything survive?" I asked him,
"A flashlight and that camera you bought." Sam laughed as he handed me the camera, "And are you sure you're okay?" Sam asked me as I started to get up,
"Nothing feels broken so I think I'll be okay." I looked at him,
"It might be slippery on anything we climb so be careful." He looked at me sincerely,
"Of course. How long was I out for?" I asked Sam,
"Not too long but I thought I lost you at first when you didn't wake up right way." He said sincerely
"Nothing is going to happen to me as long as you protect me." I looked over to him before kissing him. "Let's go find your brother." I told him before venturing out of the cave and into the rain.
"I think the rain is letting up at least." I turned to look at him as he followed me out.
"Yeah. Hey if we get up there I think I might be able to signal him with this flashlight." Sam pointed to the cliff above us. I nodded before I started to climb up with being as careful as possible. I leaned against a rock while Sam was using Morse code to try and signal Nate. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed a few figures coming towards our location.
"Sam we have to move." I tugged on his shirt before we reached a safe place we could hide.
"I just saw them." A male voice spoke,
"Their boat crashed and they're probably dead." Another one spoke. I peeked out from behind the giant leaf to see just two men. Sam and I could take them and take their weapons as we had lost ours. I looked over to Sam as he was thinking the same thing. When both backs were turned, we took them out. The rain finally stopped when we reached the top of the mountain. I heard a man's voice and held up my gun as Nate climbed up from the ledge.
"I nearly shot your head off." Sam told Nate
"Sam, Alex…you guys are okay." Nate spoke as he sat down on a rock,
"Yeah. Nothing I can't walk away from. It's good to see you're alive, little brother." Sam patted Nate's shoulder before he backed away, "C'mon We got a treasure to find." He told him,
"Hold up, man, I mean—What are we doing?" Nate asked
"What do you mean?" Sam asked,
"I mean our supplies are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean." Nate told Sam,
"Okay, so we go steal some from Nadine's army." Sam suggested,
"Yeah, and there's that…We're going up against an army!" Nate told Sam,
"We've been holding our own so far." Sam looked at Nate,
"While being marooned in the middle of nowhere." Nate told Sam,
"We were trying to get here, remember?" Sam looked to me in hopes that I would back him up. I put my hands up and took a step back, this was between the two of them.
"When we had an escape plan. Okay. Just hear me out—crazy suggestion…let's go down there and at least secure one of Rafe's boats?" Nate suggested,
"The boats can wait. You want to know what we're doing here? We are buying my life back. Okay? And we're doing that by stepping into that jungle and finding Libertalia." Sam told him
"Have either of you seen any signs of a massive pirate colony? 'Cause I sure the hell haven't." Nate told Sam his doubts,
"You're a little late to start developing doubts, don'tcha think?" Sam asked,
"Look—can we at least acknowledge the chance that maybe Avery's idea for a secret pirate utopia didn't pan out?" Nate got up and confronted Sam, "And maybe we're just swept up in this fantasy, when instead we should be looking for a real way to save you?" Nate asked his brother,
"I'm gonna scour this island inch by inch if I have to until I find that treasure. Now, if you're confused about what you're doing here then you can go home, Nathan." I heard Sam tell his brother as I turned around and started to look around,
"Wait, wait, wait, I can go home? Do you have any idea what I put on the line to get you here?" Nate asked his brother,
"How about what I put on the line? Okay? The last fifteen years of my life—" Sam started. I rolled my eyes at the two as I noticed a rock covered in vines. I moved them out of the way to see Avery's insignia,
"If you guys are done fighting, you should look at this." I called
"Holy crap." Nate spoke as he looked at the stone
"You still wanna go home?" Sam asked Nate
"Let's just see what else we can find." Nate looked to him before continuing.
As we continued further into the jungle there were man made stones until Nate found a way into one of the structures. There was some heavy lifting as we traversed a small crawl space until we exited and made our way up the building carefully as it was dilapidated from the centuries since people lived here. After Nate pushed down a crate for us, I climbed up first and stopped in my tracks at the sight before me.
"What do you see?" Sam asked us
"No houses. Wide street. Clearly a commercial district of some kind." Nathan spoke,
"Yes…thank you for that, Nathan. C'mon. What do you see?" Sam asked Nate,
"You just wanna hear my say it, don't you?" Nate asked,
"Really want to hear you say it." Sam told him,
"All right. Libertalia." Nate spoke,
"Libertalia!" Sam exclaimed as he was laughing, "The long-lost, legendary pirate utopia. Discovered, after three hundred years, by one Samuel Drake." Sam spoke,
"And?" Nate and I both asked,
"And…and his younger, slightly less charming brother who happened to be tagging along for the ride. You know, I always knew you'd make something of yourself one day." Sam patted Nate's shoulder before looking to me,
"And the most beautiful woman I have ever known who also happens to be the mother to my children." Sam told me before kissing my temple
"Just so you know, it's not my first lost city." Nate told Sam
"Shh…shh…just…Enjoy the moment." Sam looked over to Nate as he draped his arm around my shoulder as we looked at the city. I took out the camera and hoped that it still would work as I snapped a photo,
"So where do you want to start?" Sam asked Nate,
"How about that building right over there?" Nate asked as he pointed to it,
"Oh, you mean the one with the massive guard tower?" Sam asked Nate,
"Yeah. I say we go see what it was guarding." Nate told Sam.
"Works for me." Sam told him before he jumped down, "This is—I mean—I'm speechless." Sam spoke as Nate and I jumped down. Sam picked me up and spun me around,
"Holy God damn shit!" Sam exclaimed and I laughed,
"That's your idea of speechless?" Nate asked as Sam put me down,
"God. How long do you think it took to build this place?" Sam asked us,
"Year. Decades, even. How did they keep it a secret all that time?" I looked to the two,
"It's just…this place…even without the treasure, this is quite the find." Sam spoke,
"I can't wait to tell my father." I smiled as I went into a vacant room that looked to be a blacksmith forge. "Maybe I can take him here and it would be the find of the century if it doesn't get destroyed." I looked to Nathan
"No promises." He held up his hands,
"Avast, you dirty dog-!" Sam interrupted as he came forward with a cutlass before it broke. I laughed,
"Nice." Nate chuckled.
"I was doing the—"
"Oh yeah, no, I know." Nate cut him off
"That was doing a thing…"
"Right…Right" Nate cut him off again, "You're a horrible pirate." Nate told Sam before I looked at the building nearby.
"Looks like we can get up there." I pointed to the building before I climbed up. Nate and Sam followed to the old room that had a barrel with two cups and two chairs. Nate sat down and Sam fixed the other chair and sat down in it.,
"Not a bad view." Sam commented as I looked around the room.
"I'm going to look around. You two have brother time." I patted Sam's shoulder as I dropped back down to look around the main street. I noticed another house and I climbed up to see a table and one of those wooden horses that children would play on. Families had to have lived here back when Libertalia was inhabited. I took a picture of the room before leaving and heading down the stairs on the side.
"Babygirl?" I heard Sam call,
"Over here!" I called before turning around and seeing the Sam behind me
"Where's Nate?" I asked him,
"He's looking at something." He grabbed the back of his neck,
"I can't get over how incredible this place is. Imagine what it would be like during Avery's time?" I put my hands on my hip as I turned to look at one of the buildings,
"And just think, we found this together." Sam spoke as he wrapped his arms around me
"I know. After all this time it's been untouched. I'm surprised that no one has found it by now." I rested my arms on his. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath in as I wanted to enjoy this moment.
"How do you think the kids will react?" Sam asked,
"Both surprised and jealous but I think Sam will be a little more jealous than Avery. He loves hearing stories about his grandfather when he was younger. Maybe I can get some sort of archeological dig orchestrated and not tell them about the treasure." I smiled,
"Have I ever told you that I love the way you think?" Sam asked before spinning me around and kissing me.
"Hey did you- Really, guys?" I heard Nate asked,
"Sorry, little brother." Sam spoke as he pulled away and tucked a stray hair behind my ear, "Do you remember what I told you fifteen years ago?" Sam asked me as I assumed Nate went to go look in a nearby building to give us our privacy for another minute or so,
"No." I shook my head,
"I told you I would kiss you here." He smiled,
"Well that makes two things crossed off the bucket list. All we need to do now is find the treasure and buy your life back." I smiled before giving him a quick peck.
"Hey guys, we can continue through here." Nate spoke as he brought our attention to the door, "As I was saying did you find anything?" Nate asked me,
"I found out that Families lived here." I told him,
"You're kidding me. Why didn't you tell me?" Sam looked at me,
"I'm not and I was a little preoccupied." I looked over at Sam.
Sam and I followed Nate's lead to a hideout underneath the stone building we passed under. There was a map of the commercial district and the same skull symbol on the statue of Avery we passed. Nathan found a way down and that lead us to more of the colony. I was in awe that Libertalia was right underneath everyone's nose. Of course, I couldn't be in awe for long as there were mercenaries and they needed to be dealt with. We made our way through them but it wasn't quiet as they had caught me trying to take one of them out. After the mercenaries were dealt with we did a lot more climbing before finally reaching the treasury.
I looked to the courtyard before the building to see so many skeletons. Was this the cause of Libertalia's downfall?
"Holy crap." Nate spoke,
"Well, I see our missing colonists. Some of them anyway." Sam pointed out
"Jesus. Canons…improvised barricades. What the hell happened here?" Nate asked
"Some kind of battle by the looks of it." I answered,
"That was a rhetorical question." Natespoke as he was writing down something in his journal. We headed inside to the building to see tall statues of angels in the hallway leading to a door. I took out the camera and took a picture of it before handing it to Nate, "Could you hold this? Your pockets are bigger." I smiled to him,
"Why can't Sam hold it?" He asked me,
"Because I'm asking you. I figured you may want to take some pictures. Improve your photography skills." I shrugged, "Please?" I asked him,
"Fine." He sighed as he put it in his pocket as he went over to pull the lever to open the door. It didn't open so Sam and Nate pushed it open to reveal the treasury but it was completely empty.
"It's empty." Sam spoke,
"'Coure it is." Nate looked to Sam before walking to a table
"You think Rafe?" Sam asked,
"No. Nothing's been touched in here for hundreds of years." Nate told us,
"Right. Well…search for clues?" Sam asked,
"Yeah. Search for clues." Nate confirmed as he three of us split up. I was finding nothing as it was wiped cleaned until Sam called us over.
"Libertalia money." He flipped the coin and Nate caught it,
"We're rich." I sarcastically remarked"
"This has Avery's sigil on it…" Nate spoke, "He must have melted down the gold and minted his own currency…" Nate looked at the coin,
"So based on that, all the manifest on the shelves…the treasure was here." Sam pointed to the both of us.
"Yeah. That leaves the bigger question—where is it now?" I asked,
"Okay…so we know that there was fighting outside," Sam started,
"Yeah and inside." Nate added,
"What, you think the colonists stole it?" Sam asked Nate,
"No… I think they were trying to reclaim what was theirs." Nate spoke as he gave Sam the coin, "Look." Nate pointed to the pictures above, "Here's Avery, Tew…Founders of Libertalia. All marked with the word 'thief'. Not 'murderer'. Not 'tyrant'." Nate pointed out to us,
"'Thief'. So by the time the colonists busted in here… treasure was already gone." Sam spoke,
"Yeah, because there guys had already taken it for themselves Pirates will be pirates, right?." Nate told us,
"Yeah pirates will be pirates." I agreed
"Huh." Sam sighed as he looked over at Nate and I, "I know where they moved it." Sam told us,
"What? Where?" Nate asked as Sam pointed up, "It's a map." Nate stated as we looked up,
"Yeah, right there…that's our treasury…" Sam pointed out,
"That's a map of Libertalia." I spoke,
"Right, so follow it to the other side of the island and look right there." Sam pointed to a map of a another city,
"'New Devon'. Wait. Avery was from Devon, England." Nate spoke
"Yes he was." I smiled as I continued to look up at the ceiling, "Those are some seriously large mansions." I commented
"Each of them has its own sigil too." Nate added,
"Because that's where they lived." Sam laughed
"Whaddaya say we uh—climb that watch tower huh? Get our bearings." Nate asked
"New Devon here we come." Sam smiled.
We climbed out the treasury by swinging across the chandelier and climbing some of the paintings. After we climbed the guard tower everything seemed to go downhill from there. An RPG shot at the tower separating Sam and I from Nate for a few seconds before some of the building almost killed the both of us. As the building was collapsing we were sliding and then had to run through a collapsing building while being shot at by a RPG! When we were safe from the falling building, we kept running and Nate ended up falling and being separated from us. Sam and I were shooting at the son of bitches so we could catch up to Nate.
"Alex, just stay out of her way." Sam spoke we reached to wear Nadine had corned Nate. Sam had jumped on Nadine before her and Nate down fell to another building. I followed Sam and determined to help them fight Nadine.
"Come on Nadine, I know you're a badass and all but there is two of us." Nate told her,
"Three." I spoke as I dropped down,
"Alex I told you-" Sam started,
"Save it." I looked to him as Nadine was talking.
Nadine was a tough fighter as the three of us kept coming after her and her punches and kicks hurt like a bitch. Sam tried to take most of my blows as I was sure he didn't want me to get hurt. Nadine ended up kicking Nate out the window and started to attack Sam and I (being mostly Sam). That was until Nate came in and jumped on Nadine and caused the floor to collapse sending us down to the cliff where her gun had fell to. I winced in pain as I got up to try to go after the gun but Sam got to it before me. He pointed it at Nadine,
"You're fast but you're not that fast." He told her before getting up
"Hey, forget about her. C'mon, we gotta get out of here before they…" Nate started before Rafe and two of Nadine's men showed up. Shit.
A/N: Oooh Cliffhanger! The start of the next chapter is the big reveal! :o I hoped you liked the small Libertalia fluff with Sam and Alex as I felt bad about cut this so short but I like cliffhangers : ) also sorry about lack of detail with the fight scene, I suck at writing those. Anyway until next time!