Ahalivia Thief Fic

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Chapter 11: Mutiny Aboard

I awoke suddenly from my sleep. I felt the ship rocking about back and forth. What was going on? Are we going out to sea?

I pulled out my bow and shook my head, looking at my armor. I really should have repaired it when I had the chance. I opened the door slowly of the creaking ship and noticed a man in armor ahead of me. I walked up to him. His name is Lynch, and he said he was part of the Blackwater Brigand. He asked me who I was and I told him I was merely a passenger. He was a bit surprised, groaning that he had just locked up the bouncer in the next room.

He decided to take his frustrations out on me and we did battle. I managed to roll out of the way and fire arrows at him. He stumbled back slightly, but still kept coming at me. I retreated to my room and closed the door, but he began hacking at it, trying to get in. As soon as the door was broken, I fired my bow again. He then swung the sword at me. It hit my armor and I decided to flee the room. We were out in the hall and I managed to defeat him. I caught my breath and began searching for the key to the storage room. I also found his instructions on what to do. Apparently, he was part of a four person group that was hell-bent on robbing the galleon. But, of what? I freed the bouncer, a large Orc. He was grateful, but he was not used to dealing with well armed thieves. He said that the only way out was for him to get to the steering wheel of the ship. However, there may be more.

I sighed and, taking the boots off of Lynch, put them on me. I left my old ones in my room and I walked up to the tavern. There, I saw a Dunmar named Mynx patrolling the area. I fired my bow in the shadows of the ship, or what I could pass off as shadows. She was hit and came at me. I kept firing, dodging some of her strikes against me. She did manage to hit me, but nothing serious. She was dead before she could make a sound. I hoped that the fighting did not attract anyone's attention. I found the key to the top deck and, after healing myself, went topside.

On the deck, I saw a third member of the bandit group, Wrath. I told him that I was in on the gang and that Mynx and Lynch were dead. Wrath smirked, saying that the treasure would be split only two ways; him and Selene. So, that was the name of their leader. Selene.

Wrath came at me. I jumped over, dodging his sword strike. I flipped and ducked around the deck of the ship, attempting to dodge attacks and make counters with my bow. I nearly got hit with the sword as it hit the mast. He swore in frustration and I only smirked.

I killed Wrath and got another key. The Orc bouncer said that Selene had the bartender hostage in the next room, behind the counter. She was a ruthless woman, sounding like an Imperial. I healed and went inside. Selene was standing in front of the bartender and threatened to kill me. She tried to hit me, but I fired my bow first. The battle went on for a little bit, but her sword was unnatural. I was struck by it and I could feel myself getting drained, feeling weaker by the moment. I had to end this fast; several times I had lost my footing and I needed a place to recover.

The battle in that room ended as I fired the last arrow into Selene's chest, killing her. The bartender was grateful for rescuing him. He came clean about something; he had started a rumor that the previous captain of this ship had hidden a Golden Galleon aboard. It was a way for the bartender to perk up business and get people talking. For a while, it did work, but the bartender had no idea that this would happen. He said that I could stay down in my bed while he took care of the bodies. I went back and I slept, exhausted. I was nursing cuts for some time.

When I awoke, it was nightfall and I talked with the bartender once again. He said that the thieves all had bounties on their heads, and I was given the bounty of gold. I smirked, but I also did manage to get that sword off of Selene. That will fetch quite a bit of money.

Since it was nightfall as I disembarked off the ship, I thought it would be high time to find the Thieves Guild…

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Initiation