Hey guys! Sorry for the slight delay, but I was sick then I had to go to work then I had to finish school work and all that super fun stuff. Well at least you guys get to read a longer chapter this time. This chapter has Dick, Kori, and Victor in it too. Thanks once again for the reviews! Hope you all enjoy!
Chapter 4.
Arrival
It was mid afternoon the next day as 'the Loner' was nearing Port Royal.
"Are you sure it's a good idea that we dock right at Port Royal? After all we are pretty wanted pirates right now. What if someone recognizes the ship?' Garfield anxiously asked, waiting for Raven as she was getting dressed in her 'peasant clothes'. Garfield just threw a long coat over his outfit and looked like a peasant.
"Ships go in and out of these waters all the time. Our ship would hardly be recognizable. Besides, they are after us, not our ship." Raven said as she stepped out of the room she was changing in. There really was nothing to worry about. The ship had no name on it and no unusual features that would make it stand out.
Raven was wearing a light baby blue color dress with a few ruffles around it that came off her shoulders. She hated the dress, but it did come in handy in times like this. She had her short hair tied back with a few pieces of hair hanging down. She had dark lip paint on her lips and white powder all over her face.
Garfield gave a smile at her. Her features softened so much when she had different attire on.
"Ok, let's get this over with." Raven said feeling uncomfortable as Garfield looked her up and down.
As they neared the Port, Garfield took over the wheel. Raven hated giving up the wheel, but she knew that it would look suspicious if a woman came in at the wheel of a ship.
The two pirates came down from the ship and started waking up the long dock.
An officer stopped them to ask their names. "Bond, James Bond" Garfield said trying to sound important. "and this is my sister. He continued pointing to Raven who gave a smile that quickly faded away as the man wrote it down in the book.
"Iit will be one shilling to tie your boat at the dock" the man said after he was finished writing.
Garfield handed the shilling over just before the man went on to the next person that just came into the port.
As they walked off the dock Raven eyed the bag of shillings the officer carelessly left lying on the stand. Being the pirate she was, she quickly and discreetly lifted the bag and handed it to Garfield, who hid it in his coat with a smile on his face.
Raven and Garfield stopped at the corner of a cart.
""Ok, so did you bring the message" Raven asked.
Garfield pulled the letter out of his pocket "So what does the note say?"
"It tells Dick to meet us behind the black smith shop. Hopefully, from there we can meet up with Victor too." Raven said trying to keep her voice down so no one would get suspicious. "So I need you to knock on his door, leave the note and meet me at the sore by the black smith shop. All that without being noticed by others. Do you think you can handle this?"
Garfield looked at her with wide eyes and didn't say a word.
"Ok, good. Now hurry up and get to Dicks house, Quick. I don't want to stay around her any longer than I need too." Raven said looking around cautiously. She had a weird feeling that they were not the only Pirates there.
As Garfield walked off, Raven began to look at whatever the lady was selling at the cart to try to fit in.
Garfield walked slowly up to the house that he so fondly remembered.
Raven, Victor, Kori and himself used to always go to Dick's house to 'play pirates'. He and Raven would always play the pirates while the others would be the officers. Funny how things sometimes go in circles.
Garfield quickly knocked on the door and put the letter on the ground. After he ran to the side of the house to watch as the butler came and picked up the letter. He silently congratulated himself as he ran off to find Raven.
Meanwhile, Raven was on her way to the black smith store, when she heard a familiar voice coming from behind her. As she looked over her shoulder, she was shocked to see a certain blond haired, blue eyed girl. She was asking a woman if she had seen a suspicious looking people around recently.
Raven quickly ran to the statue before someone would rat her out. She had almost reached it when she ran into Garfield.
"I just spotted Slade back there" Garfield said in a panicky voice, while hiding behind the statue.
"Yah, I just saw Terra back there too" Raven said while joining Garfield. "They must have followed us from Tortugas or something of that sort" she continued looking around, making sure Terra and Slade were not nearby.
"Holy Mosses, there hi is" Raven said in an almost spell bound voice.
"Slade? Where!" Garfield yelled.
"Not Slade. Dick" Raven said still spell bound.
Dick was a tall limber young man with a mess of jet black locks. He had dark brown eyes and tan skin. It was easy to see why Raven had a thing for him.
Dick looked around cautiously, no knowing what to expect. The letter had no name or address on it so it could be any one.
All of the sudden Dick felt himself being pulled behind a statue.
"What the bloody…?" Dick was completely shocked when he was the face of his capture. "Raven?" He sighed, stilled not believing his eyes. He looked over Raven's shoulder and saw Garfield looking back at him.
"What are you two doing here?" Dick asked in an almost angry voice as he remembered that they were pirates.
"Well, nice to see you too!" Raven said sarcastically, as she continued to keep an eye out for their enemy. "Listen Dick, we need your help. There is this mad man out there trying to kill me and now I have no crew and he is going to torture me and throw me to the sharks and I am going to die!" Raven yelled, now trying to catch her breath. This had been Raven's first mental break down in a long time and it was actually over due.
Dick looked at her wide eyed. "Ah…who's trying to kill you and why?" He asked a little confused.
Raven took a deep breath and explained the whole story to him. Even though she would never admit it, Raven always secretly enjoyed opening up to Dick.
Dick was quite overwhelmed. Here was the love of his life that he had not seen in years. She had taken a path he could not follow. Raven was more beautiful than he had remembered and she was asking desperately for him to help her. This was all just too much to take in at once for him.
"Oh and there is one more thing" Garfield chimed in "the ahhh evil pirates are here at Port Royal as we speak."
Dick looked into Raven's sad violet eyes. He had never seen such a helpless look in someone's eyes before. It hurt him physically to continue to look. He closed his eyes and ran his hand threw his dark hair as he thought over the situation.
H sighed, meeting her helpless eyes again as he began to say "Raven…your a pirate! When you choose this path you knew there would be consequences."
"You know what, your right!" Raven said now yelling in his face "but whether I chose the right path or not isn't up to you. I didn't come here to be criticized on my decisions. I came to see if you would help!" She finished almost on the verge of tears.
Dick knew Raven was right. It wasn't his place to tell her she made the wrong decision. It was his place to help her.
Dick looked up at Raven and Garfield and smiled. "It's great to see you two again."
Both Garfield and Raven smiled brightly. Raven couldn't help herself. She hugged Dick. He didn't seem to mind at all.
After reminiscing for a few minutes, Raven suggested that they start gathering up their other friends, if they'd be willing to help also. She thought that they probably would, because Dick had a lot of influence on them.
"I'll go fetch Victor from the black smith. Hopefully he'll know where Kori is." Dick said. "You guys should stay here. If that Slade man is somewhere around here, I want you to stay hidden." And with that Dick was off.
Meanwhile, Terra was walking in an alleyway meeting up with Slade.
"So what news do you have for me Terra?" Slade asked in his normally creepy voice.
"Well, She is definitely here." Terra began while keeping a watchful eye out. "Almost everyone I talked to said that they saw a young woman with dark hair and purple eyes wandering around here. Fortunately for us, I don't think there are many other girls around here with purple eyes" Terra finished with and evil grin on her face.
Slade smiled at his young apprentice. "Well done, Terra. We've got her trapped "
"Friend it is so wonderful to see you after all these years" Raven was instantly devoured by a huge bear hug from her old friend, Kori.
Kori was much taller than Raven. She was even taller than Dick. Kari had beautiful long red hair that came to the middle of her back. She had emerald eyes that were always lit up and completed with a big grin. She was a very attractive girl with a very sweet personality. Kori wore a fancy purple dress with silver lace.
"Oh…Kori…I can barley…breath" Raven muttered breathlessly. Even though Kori did not look very intimidating, well let's just say looks are deceiving.
Raven was somewhat relieved when Kori moved on to greeting Garfield. As much as Raven cared for Kori, there was no doubting that she could be exhausting to be around.
"How's my favorite pillaging and plundering pirate doing?" asked Victor, who was a large muscular black man with just as large a personality.
"I'm doing fine." answered Raven, happy to see Victor again. Victor was always like a big brother that Raven never had.
"This is going to be a very interesting and fun experience." Kori exclaimed happily after everyone had properly greeted each other.
"I will agree with interesting, but…fun I'm not sure about" Raven dead panned.
Victor put his hand on Raven's shoulder while saying "Oh lighten up Raven, how bad can it get?"
"LOOK OUT!" Dick yelled pushing Raven away from the bullet that almost shot her.
Kori shrieked loudly falling to the ground as well.
"No! It's him" Garfield yelled while helping Kori up.
"Raven looked wide eyed while Slade, at the other end of the street, began to aim for another shot. Fortunately, Raven know he was not trying to kill her with the gun. He was just trying to slow her down. Being killed by a gun was to civilized for what Slade had in mind for her.
The five began to run with Slade just behind them.
"Run to the Ship at the Dock" Raven yelled.
As they ran down the street Raven was trying to boxes and carts over making obstacles to slow Slade down. Soon the others caught on and were doing the same thing.
Officers were running everywhere, fortunately, only going after the man shooting.
The friends were almost to the dock when Terra stepped in front of the Ship with a sword in hand. "You didn't think you would get away hat easily did you Raven?" Terra asked with a smile on her face.
"Back off Terra. We have you out numbered." Garfield yelled furiously.
"Numbers don't matter. Especially when the 'numbers' are unarmed" and with that Terra swung at Raven. Only to be blocked by Victors ax, which made Terra loose her grip and drop her sword.
Raven quickly picked it up and pointed it right in Terra's face. "Who's unarmed now?"
With all the commotion going on, it gave Garfield just enough time to untie the boat from the dock and get on with Kori, Victor, and Dick, who was keeping a sharp eye on Raven.
"I should just slice your head off right now!" Raven hissed.
"Why don't you? I did after all betray and lie to you." Terra said taunting Raven. Terra knew as softer than she liked to come across.
Raven looked at Garfield who was watching with horrified and sad eyes as she brought the sword closed to Terra's neck. Raven knew she couldn't do it. Not because she didn't want to, but because Garfield was there and she knew he still had strong feelings for Terra.
Raven narrowed her eyes at Terra, thinking quickly, she pushed Terra off the dock and into the water.
Raven climbed up the already moving ship, with some help from Dick, who pulled her up and over the ships railing. Even when she was already safely on the ship, Dick continued to hold her. Raven blushed, but didn't pull away.
'Maybe this will be a fun experience after all' Raven thought with a smile.
So what do you all think? Please review! In the next chapter there will be a storm hitting the Loner (Dun, dun, dun!). I may not have it up till Monday because I'll be with my friend all weekend but don't worry, I will never leave you permanently! See ya round!
Kissa