Burr awoke all tired and groggy from partying with the band the night before. He could barely remember what happened after he had disturbed Tanner's and Midnight's night together and had no idea if he had won the knife game.

Burr did not even bother going to bed in his tent, he had just fallen asleep by the fire along with almost everyone else.

Burr looked up at the sky from where he lay, he noticed that the sun was particularly high up, usually by now Tanner would have been moving on somewhere else, but for some reason he had not.

Burr lifted himself up slowly. Every bone in his body ached from sleeping on the ground that night and he knew it would not be a fun walk today.

Tanner, you there, it's late and I know how you feel about late starts," said Burr half asleep.

There was no answer, not even a shuffle. Burr then opened the tent and looked in. It was empty.

"Tanner?" he called worriedly.

Tanner was no where to be heard. Burr then decided to look in Midnight's tent hoping to find him there, but to his surprise Midnight was not there either. Now Burr was very worried.

Burr ran back to the group and tried to wake them.

"Wake up guys, Tanner is missing and so is Midnight," said Burr.

A stoat named Gringe opened his eyes and looked angrily at Burr. "What is the matter with you, can't you see I'm trying to get some sleep," he said.

"Yeah, leave us alone, Tanner's probably out bathing in the lake or something," said a ferret named Lurge.

"But we should be traveling by now, Tanner is not like this," said Burr.

"I know where he is," said a tired stoat named Jule.

"You do? Where?" asked Burr who then started walking around him wanting to know the answer right away.

"Yeah, I saw him go with Midnight into the forest last night, he was going in the direction of where the ocean is," said Jule.

Burr jumped up and down happily. "Oh thank you, I could kiss you but I don't want you to punch me in the face or give me germs," he said.

Jule just grumbled and lay back down pretending that nothing happened and soon started snoring.

Burr then ran as fast as he could toward the ocean, hoping to find them and hoping that nothing was wrong.

When he arrived at the beach, he found it quiet and empty. Burr looked around and noticed that there were many paw prints in the sand; they were calm at first until he found many paw prints together an indication of a scuffle.

"Oh no," said Burr not liking the looks of this. He continued to follow the paw prints until he came across Tanner's dagger, something he would never leave behind. Burr picked it up and surveyed it. There was a little bit of blood on it an indication of a fight, now Burr really wanted to know what happened to him.

Burr continued to follow the tracks until he noticed how the sand had been sifted near a rock. Some paw prints were leading away from it and toward the water. Burr followed until he found that they were heading to a rocky outcropping that went a few ways out to the sea. Burr looked to see if he could find anything. That was when he saw a lone figure standing at the edge. Burr knew it had to be Tanner and ran to see him.

When Burr reached Tanner. The wolf did not even turn around; he just stared out at the ocean, clutching his injured arm.

"Sir what are you doing out here, we should be traveling by now. I found your dagger in the sand, and where is Midnight?" asked Burr.

Tanner grabbed the dagger from Burr and continued to stare out at the ocean before he spoke.

"You see that ship out there?" he asked in a sad voice, something that Burr had never heard before.

Burr squinted his eyes and looked out on the horizon; he then saw a small ship disappearing in the southwest.

"Yeah I see it, what does that have to do with anything?" asked Burr.

"Midnight is on that boat, Agra took her. That damn ferret took her," said Tanner clutching his fists as if he wanted to punch someone.

"Agra! You mean the ferret that always thought you were a bad leader?" asked Burr.

"The exact same, one of his damn members knocked me unconscious before I could even save her," said Tanner.

"Oh well, at least you did not loose your life and there are plenty of fish in the sea for you," said Burr.

Tanner turned to Burr and grabbed him by the collar. "Say that again and I will drop you into the ocean down there," he said. Tanner then pushed Burr hard and Burr landed on the edge of the cliff.

Burr looked down in shock and backed away to where Tanner was standing.

"So what are we going to do?" asked Burr.

"You see those abandoned boats over there?" asked Tanner pointing to the other end of the beach.

Burr looked to where Tanner was pointing and saw ten rather broken down boats, obviously abandoned from a long time ago.

"Yeah I see them," said Burr.

"We are going to take five of them to rescue my mate, you go back to the camp and get me twenty men , tell Slater he is in charge until I get back and tell the ones who are coming to bring five tent sheets, it will help us go faster with the wind. Also bring food, we may need some," said Tanner.

"But sir those boats are so broken down, you'll be sunk before you even get into the water," said Burr.

"Then tell them to bring some wood too, we will fix them as fast as we can and we will get to Agra as fast as we can too," said Tanner.

Burr just nodded and ran as fast as he could back to the camp while Tanner continued to look out into the ocean.

About an hour later Burr returned with twenty stout individuals. Tanner walked over to look at them and smiled. "Very good, are you ready to take this mission and die when you have to?" asked Tanner.

All twenty of them nodded.

"Good, Agra only had nine other members so we will outnumber them and easily destroy them, now go fix those boats, and use the tent sheets as wind breakers, I know Scarface has done that before," said Tanner who looked over at a scarred rat who had been a pirate before joining Tanner.

"Yes I do sir, I will do all of them for you," said Scarface.

Tanner nodded and watched as his men ran over to the boats and started fixing them as fast as they could. It only took them a few hours to fix and once they were all done, Tanner was ready.

"Alright now I want four per boat, I will lead you all through this ocean and those who slack off will be thrown into the sea," said Tanner.

Everybody nodded as each of them climbed on the boats. Once everyone was settled, Tanner pushed off and they began their travel through the perilous ocean hoping to find and see Midnight again.

Three days passed by as Tanner and his crew scoured the ocean for Agra's ship, the ocean was so empty and lonely. Tanner kept wondering why anyone would want to make a living wandering the sea all their lives.

On the fifth day the crew was still searching when a wolf named Cutthroat spotted the ship. "Is that it sir?" he asked.

Tanner squinted to look. "Why yes it is, if it weren't for those rain clouds it would have been hidden with the sky," he said happily.

Burr looked at the clouds and did not like what he saw. "Sir those clouds look like they are heading this way and it looks like a bad storm is coming," he said.

"You're right but we can make it if we hurry. We can at least catch up when the storm hits, that would be a fun battle aboard that ship, now row as fast as you can," said Tanner.

The twenty vermin tried their best to row as fast as they could but the storm beat them and soon the ocean was a danger zone. The waves got bigger every second and the rain fell in buckets.

"Sir I don't think we can make it," cried Burr through the loud thunder.

"Oh yes we will just hold on when we go over waves," said Tanner as loud as he could while the thunder roared.

Suddenly there was a great white flash and a cry of pain from one of the members. Tanner looked over at the boats wondering what happened.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Needles is dead sir, lightening struck him," yelled a ferret named Rags.

"Oh dear, well throw him overboard, I guess he is no use to us any more," said Tanner.

Rags then grabbed Needles and dumped him over; the rat sunk like a heavy weight and was soon gone from view.

"Sir, I think we should wait for the storm to pass before any more of us get killed," yelled Burr.

Tanner thought for a moment and looked at his crew; they all looked quite scared and seemed to be giving up hope.

"Fine then, lower the sails and let the storm carry us, but as soon as the light returns raise the sails back up," he said.

The vermin did what they were told. Before one sail could be brought down though, lighting struck it and the rat that was holding it got electrocuted. The rat fell in a smoking heap while the sail started burning.

"Sir, Lefteye's been burned and so has the sail," said Cutthroat.

"Is Lefteye still alive?" asked Tanner.

Cutthroat ran over to the hurt rat and called his name. "Lefteye, can you hear me?" he asked.

The rat opened his eyes and looked at Cutthroat. "Yeah I'm alive but I got really seared, I don't think I can make it," he said.

"Oh just hold on, we'll help you once we get out of this blasted weather," said Cutthroat.

Lefteye just nodded as Cutthroat helped the rest of the crew lower the burning sail which they had to throw over the ocean before it burned the rest of the boat.

The crew then began to hold on as the storm began to move them every which way. The boats were soon starting to separate far apart until Tanner decided to hold them all together with an extra rope they had.

But that would not help with what happened next. Tanner looked up just in time to see a huge wave coming straight at them. A few seconds later, they were swallowed up by the sea.

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There is the next chapter for you. Nice cliffhanger huh and sorry if this chapter was kind of boring. My next chapter will be up sometime next week and hopefully I will have two chapters again that week. I think that is all I have to say for now so have fun writing your stories.