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»Anything within these thingys are my ramblings that aren't actually part of the story. It is here I try to justify myself to you.«

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The ship, with ship's cat, sailed along peacefully for some time, with few events worth note.

Well, it was peaceful until The Retribution met a French ship, called La Commode, whose captain was a very unpleasant man called Jean Rouge »Yes, I know that means the chest of drawers, or something simimular, but I wasn't feeling particularey inspired.«, and they engaged in combat. And combat isn't really very peaceful.

La Commode, sadly, was a bigger, more heavily armed ship, so they succeded in boarding The Retribution.

This meant that there was a ferocious battle taking place on the deck of The Retribution. Horatio was engaging the enemy captain (Rouge) in a sword fight.

Archie was being incredibly helpful. At the fist sign of danger, he did what any self-respecting cast would have done. He ran up the mast and, digging his claws into the timber, went to sleep.

As a human, he would have been fighting side-by-side with his dear friend, Horatio. As a cat, he just left his friend to get on with it.

The ship lurched, as it wasn't really very good weather (it was raining. A lot), and there was no-one who was really stearing the ship, as most of the crew where busy fighting.

The lurching of the ship caused the mast to move in such a way that caused Archie to fall screaming through the air.

And land on the head of Rouge, who was currently in a position of having just disarmed Horatio.

Archie's claws fitted neatly into Rouge's eyes, to help prevent him (Archie) from falling.

Rouge screamed and started thrashing about, as most people tended to do when some cat has just landed on your head and sunk its claws into your eyes and scalp.

Archie screamed at the attempts to dislodge him (he'd fallen enough for one day) and subsiquently dug his claws in deeper.

This caused Rouge to scream louder and thrash about more.

All the sailors, from both the ships, stopped trying to kill each other, and watched in amazement as Rouge keeled over due to pain and bloodloss, into the sea. Archie jumped off his head, just as he realised that the man was heading towards the Evil Wet Thing.

The crew of La Commode retreated in poor fashion, once they'd realised that The Retribution's cat had defeated their captain.

It was a victory for Archie and The Retribution.

Archie curled up in a coiled up rope and returned to sleeping.

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