After many debates with my lazy-ass self and a few pushy emails from my friends, I've decided to continue the story.
Megan and Jaden sat below deck with the crates, hoping for no more jobs to be appointed to them as they listened to the rest of the crew hustling about on the deck above their heads. Suddenly, Megan broke the silence with a fairly good question.
"Why us?" She asked looking at Jaden. They were both quiet in consideration in the dim light as the morning sun shone down the steep steps and into the cargo area, where the two sat.
"I dunno." Jaden answered with a shrug of her shoulders. She got up and finished fixing some crates against the walls and tied them together and from there into some loops on the wall to keep them from moving.
"Maybe somehow they know we've faced them before." Megan added as she continued to sit and remember all that's happened before.
Megan thought back to their last adventure. When Roberts was teamed up with Demeta- once the most powerful sorceress in the world- set off searching for a legendary amulet of Invincibility. They all landed on the island and it almost ended badly as Shavai had been killed, Demeta pulled herself and Jaden off a cliff and Roberts and Jack had ended in a foot-race uphill to get the amulet. Megan found herself killing the person she had tried to save from the darkness she found herself running from all her life. The past never died, Megan found herself to believe, one day -sooner or later-it always came back to destroy whoever was running from it.
Suddenly she was brought back to the present to find Shavai thudding her feet down the stairs.
"What the fuck is going on with that, that- NUN woman?!" Shavai said angrily as she threw the crate on the floor and sat ontop of it. Folding her arms infront of her chest. Jaden looked fascinated at the numerous small gypsy tattoo symbols wondering how they got such numerous and small designs to fit. They looked like henna tattoos that were permanent on her dark tan skin.
"What do you mean?" Megan asked as she adjusted her blouse.
"She keeps asking me if I'm saved and asking if she can baptize my kids! It's annoying." Shavai all but yelled her answer at Megan. Benjimen and Sydney ran down the steps, clanging the miniature swords together made for them by their adopted father. Their footsteps were added onto as the nun followed them down the stairs.
"Aren't you a little too old to be babysitting?" The nun asked Shavai. Shavai gave a look that was a mix of being between offended and about to kill somebody. She stood up.
"Number one! They're adopted, you know nothing twit! Secondly, you're pushing your limits! Thirdly, you're only old when 3 things happen to you: number one you lose your memory, and-and, I don't remember what the other two are so shut up!" Shavai yelled as she fell back into her sitting position on the crate.
"God knows whether or not you're lying. It's obvious you're a philanderer with no intentions of staying true to your husband." The nun snickered to herself.
Suddenly, Shavai jumped from her seat in a fit of rage and unsheathed her sword. Megan jumped up and held her back as Jaden continued sitting and watched.
"You troullup! I'm going to slit your throat, cut off your arm and ooh! By the time I'm finished with you, no one will know who you were!" Shavai yelled.The nun shreiked and hurried up the steps. Megan looked back at Jaden.
"I demand a satisfactory explanation why you didn't help me, Jaden." Megan replied walking calmly over to Jaden with her hands on her hips. She replied calmly.
"Simple. I wanted to see if the man she put her faith into would come and save her with some devine intervention or something." They laughed. Suddenly, they felt a jerk. They ran to the top deck.
"No!" The nun screamed as the ship cast off and began to get slowly farther from the deck. Shavai sat back with a smug smile.
"Too bad, deary. Looks like I'm your God now."
After things had calmed down, and Jack and Jaden and Megan and Brandon went off their seperate ways, Shavai and Will managed to find some alone time as the sun set in the distance. Will stood with her back to him with his arms wrapped around her. Shavai held her hands on his arms, keeping him holding on.
"This is nice." She said as the sun turned to a deep neon orange and the clouds turned hot pink and the sky turned a light lavender in the distance as though it were too far away to bask in the sun's warmth. Will agreed.
"Remember when we first met?" Will asked Shavai. Shavai tilting her head back and gave him a kiss.
"How could I forget? You were standing there with your fluffy hat on...the one I didn't like." Shavai added remembering the hideous fluffy feather that billowed in the wind that haunted her dreams - and more importantly blocked her view of his well-sculpted face. She spoke his name in against the wind. "Will?"
He looked at her inquisitively.
"What would you do if I died?" She looked back at him. "Would you remarry?" He thought for a moment before replying.
"No. No one else could take the place of you in my heart." He answered.
"I want you to remarry. The children need someone to watch after them." Shavai said.
"Okay then. I will remarry." He added.
"Would you wait an entire week!?" She said in a rage as she grabbed his arms and flipped over one side of the deck into the cold water below as the ship slowly left him behind.
"What'd I say!" He yelled as soon as his head bobbed above the surface.
At night, Jaden walked by Megan on the top deck.
"Hey." Jaden called back to Megan, as though she had been invisible till she spoke her name.
"What?" Megan asked as they turned to face each other.
"I've been thinking about all this, and I've been wondering a few things."
"Like what?" Megan asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Like, how did he survive? Where is he now? And for once, I'd like to be certain that we were going to make it."
Megan sighed and looked around in the dark waters as if she could find an answer there.
"I frankly, have no idea. But, it'll work out okay...it always does." With that, Brandon came to Megan's side, drunk.
"I would very much enjoy your company." He said as he began to kiss Megan's arm up and down to her neck.
" 'Scuse us Jaden." Megan said as she began to walk by her. Jaden sighed to herself. Sometimes she felt so ignored by her friends. For a moment, everything was very quiet. Nothing but the creaking of the rocking ship and wind through the sails could be heard, when suddenly, there was a large THUMP!
Jaden halfway ran to the cargo area as she pulled out her sword. Something was in the dark.
And it was laughing.
