Captain
Chapter Ten
Following Orders
It's been nearly two weeks since we received word from China that an imperial ship had been looted by a group of pirates. Luckily we were no more then a week away from China's West borders. We've passed the Southern borders and are continuing east where the robbery took place. What was left of the ship and any mates left aboard were said to have docked in a town not far from Hong Kong.
What really caught captain Struet and mine's attention was the name of the pirate ship. Red Baron. I've got a grudge against the lot of them abroad the Red Baron, especially the captain, Hook, the bastard!
Back not long ago the navy had caught a few of Captain Hook's men. Struet and I were in our teens; his father had been the one to capture Hook's men. Well we angered Hook I reckon and so he went and abducted Struet and an old friend named Gregory. The bastard was only in his twenties, but that didn't stop me from cutting his right hand off! Struet's been my best friend since I can remember, and the bastard Hook lied to me, saying he'd gone and killed him! Well, as a payback I had to do it, but what I didn't know is that Will and Greg had escaped by then.
Since then Captain Hook and I have had quite a large grudge against each other. When Struet became Captain you'd be damned if Hook hadn't attacked to try and take this ship just when it was under new command. Kill the bastard next time I see him, I swear it!
"Peter! Get those sails down!" Struet's voice rings above any others.
"Aye Captain!" I call back automatically and scramble around untying sails while the rest of the crew goes around pulling ropes to lower them. It took only a moment, and a moment was all the crew and I needed to have the sails down.
"Land, sighted off port bow!" A man on The Watch calls from the crow's nest. "We're coming in fast captain!"
"Throw anchor, have the boats readied to row ashore!" Times like these I'm wishing my hearing weren't so terrific. Struet's a loud man, he is. Make a blind man go deaf, they say around here when one hears him yelling. The crew's gone busying themselves with his orders while I go and help throw the anchor.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Slow and short chapter, but I got bored. Thanks so much for the reviews, and thanks for reading!
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