After two long months here it is!

I have no one to blame but myself for this.

But now I've written something I kind of like with this chapter so here you are!

I.O.N.

Enjoy!

Dylan paced back and forth in his cabin. He'd gone off rumor after rumor, but it seemed that the pirate captain Ladybug and their ship Tikki had fallen off the face of the Earth in a single year. Not only that, but the stupid map he had received from that trader had done absolutely nothing. It infuriated him, to no end.

A familiar voice cut through Dylan's inner rant, "Wow, you really are a sad sight. I mean, before you were kinda sad, but now you're just full-on pathetic." He whirled around in time to see the mysterious traveler from the year before. Charter was giving Dylan an exaggerated look of pity.

"You." The sneer in Dylan's voice was almost visible.

Charter ignored it in favor of examining the room, "You know, most people I trade with are at least able to do something with what they are given. In fact, you and the lovely miss Lila might be the first people I've ever given exactly what they need to succeed and then do absolutely nothing with it." Charter looked over his shoulder and gave a mocking grin, "Congratulations."

"Is there a reason you're here or can I just skip to the part where I shoot you?"

Charter pouted, "Now that's just rude. Here I am going out of my way to give you a second chance and you go and threaten to shoot me!" Hands-on his hips, Charter moved until he was sitting in the Captain's chair. "You're lucky I find you amusing. Now sit." he said gesturing to the chair on the other side of the desk.

Dylan moved to sit warily. It wasn't every day, after all, that a possibly supernatural creature waltzes into his cabin and starts ordering him around. Once the young man was seated, Charter leaned across the desk, "Now normally I wouldn't give you the time of day after you wasted my last gift. But this isn't a normal situation." Charter tapped Dylan's nose, "So this first piece of info is... given at a discount: Ladybug will return five years from now. Until then you, my annoyingly stubborn friend are going to look for and find the mysterious island harbor. When the day comes that you find the harbor, you will know that Ladybug is due to return."

"What on earth is that supposed to mean?!"

Charter shrugged nonchalantly as he walked towards the door, "Figure it out!" By the time Dylan had stood up and raced to the door ready to demand answers from Charter, the other man was gone.

Tom and Sabine had just closed up the bakery for the night and were getting ready to go visit Gabriel when it happened. The dock was lit up with the sound of cannon shots, the sound of shattering wood, and the heavy stench of smoke. Gabriel met them as they were running towards the burning ships.

"Tom! Sabine! What's going on?!"

"If we all survive whatever this is I'll tell you!"

But before they even saw the docks, however, all three of them were jumped from behind and something blunt hit them over the head as they were forced to the ground.

The last thing Sabine heard before everything went black was a young man's voice saying, "Sorry ma'am. I'm jus' followin' orders."

Tom saw his wife and friend go down and tried to stand and protect them, but the throbbing in his skull was too much to ignore, and he barely took three steps toward them when another hit sent him to the ground again.

By the time the three of them were being dragged toward the scent of fire and smoke, Gabriel had regained just enough consciousness to feel every time he hit a particularly large and rough cobblestone. Before long Gabriel felt himself being lifted and the swaying of a boat only served to make him feel sickly.

Whoever was carrying him obviously didn't care how their captives were feeling because Gabriel was unceremoniously dropped onto the wooden planks of his cell. After that, he drifted in and out of awareness and he's pretty sure he emptied the contents of his stomach at one point.

Time passed but meant nothing to him, until suddenly there was a loud and sudden hammering at the door submerging him into the conscious world.

"LET ME OUT OF HERE YOU YELLOW BELLIED COWARD! FACE ME LIKE A PIRATE!" Sabine's normally calm and reserved voice was shouting itself hoarse as she shook the bars. Gabriel would be lying to himself if he said that the sight didn't frighten him to his very soul. Tom was still unconscious and Gabriel couldn't help but envy the larger man not having to see such a terrifying sight.

Just as Gabriel was going to attempt to speak to Sabine, the door opened and a young man walked into the holding cell. The growl Sabine sent his way would've made braver men falter, but was either extremely cocky or completely sure that the bars would hold the enraged woman.

"You know, for such a small woman, you have a surprisingly powerful voice." The young man said as he walked closer to the bars. His first mistake.

With the grace and speed of a woman who knows what she's doing, Sabine reached through the bars and grabbed the young man's coat and pulled him flush against the bars. "My voice isn't the only powerful thing about me! Now tell me who you are before I do something only one of us will live to regret." The anger and strength in her voice was enough to send Gabriel to the other side of their shared cell.

But to Gabriel's surprise, the young man just yanked himself out of Sabine's grip, "I'm sure you would ma'am if you were in your best fighting form, but you've suffered a rather nasty blow to the head. You can't be feeling too strong right about now." He straightened his now wrinkled coat and continued, "You're lucky. After all, if I didn't need all of you people alive, you'd already be fish food." He strode towards the door just before he left the young man turned around and said, "But since you went through all that trouble, you may call me Captain Dylan."

So! Surprise treat if I can get it out in time! The big 1 8 is happening for me on Friday and if I can, I'm gonna post a second chapter for y'all! A treat from me to you!

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