So I know it's been a while. Sorry.

But also: YAY! This story is even longer than Miraculous Spies! And it's not even a year old!

I.O.N.

Enjoy!

It had been a week since the encounter with the Red Lady's captain, and Lila was fuming. Since that day, Dylan had been extremely insistent that she not wander back into the docks. So she had spent the following days fuming around town as Dylan and two of the sailors followed her around.

The townspeople had quickly realized that the pretty girl with fancy clothes was not to be bothered unless she started the conversation first. So everyone was shocked when a young man went barreling into her. It seemed that everyone in the area held their breath as the teen picked himself up. "Sorry about that ma'am."

Lila restrained herself from tearing the male in front of her to shreds when his voice triggered something familiar in her brain. "Do I know you?"

Nino laughed at how angry the girl was getting, "I should hope so, I mean I know you don't often leave your high horse, but I've only spent the last five winters in your town. And am best friends with the guy you were going to marry."

"Nino."

"Lila."

"What are you doing here? I thought you were some kind of wandering beggar."

"Now that just hurts."

"Ugh! You're as insufferable as always!"

"I do try."

Before their argument could continue, a shout rang out from the harbor, "Someone set a boat on fire!"

Everyone in the area rushed towards the docks, some hoping to put out the fire before it could spread to the other ships, others wanting to make sure it wasn't theirs.

Elbowing her way to the front of the crowd, Lila's heart plummeted. The boat that had been set aflame was the Red Lady. It was obvious that someone had been planning this because the ship went up like a matchbox. As the crowd watched in stupefied horror at what they were witnessing, a very familiar ship was sailing into view.

Dylan, who had managed to find his way to the front, was the first to see. "Pirates!" he shouted, causing quite a few people to run back to their homes and prepare for the worst. Some, however, started jumping into the water and swimming after the red ship. Even Nino, Lila realized with a start. But when Dylan looked like he was about to join in, the clever young woman grabbed his arm and got the two sailors to help her drag him back towards the inn.

"You are not going to throw yourself at those pirates, just so you can get your head blown off! Think like the captain you are." Lila would later say to end the argument between the two over how much right she had to stop him from doing as he wished.

"I wouldn't have gotten my head blown off."

"It's been over five hours since the ones that swam towards Tikki have been seen. I think it's safe to say that they're not coming back."

"Well, it was still the closest we've gotten to a lead on them!"

"A brash captain will throw himself at every fight with no plan. A wise captain will plan ahead and lets others weaken his enemies. Are you brash or wise?"

Scoffing, Dylan skulked out of the room trying to preserve what pride he had left. Nothing on his mind except finding a way to prove that insufferable woman wrong.

Lila huffed as she sat on the bed, and began to seriously question why she had thought it would be a good idea to help Dylan out. He was infuriating.

In his fury, Dylan missed the smirking young man who stood in the shadows, watching. It seems he had found the perfect people to sell his knowledge to. Now he just had to introduce himself.

Meanwhile, the people that had gone after the notorious pirate ship were sitting in the mess hall enjoying the feeling of getting away from what could have quickly turned into a very dangerous situation. The Captain and her five, and Adrien, first mates were laughing and joking with the rest of her crew, putting from their minds problems and thoughts of danger.

That could wait until tomorrow.

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