"Where's Joanna?" asks Poppy
"I'm going to find her." answers Paul
"Wait, what happened?" asks T.J.
"She went in first, a few seconds later she is screaming for help. I was leaning on the wall so it took me a few seconds to get in there. I go in there, and she is over his shoulder. I yell her name, she leans up, and yells for help. He pulls her down, turns her around, and puts a sword to her throat. He said if I wanted her to make her 16th birthday, you'll cooperate. A minute later he grabs her, jumps out the window, and everyone who came with him follows." says Paul
"Oh no" says Poppy. Tears start coming to her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Poppy." says Paul
"It isn't your fault, you would of got him, if he didn't have Joanna at sword." says Poppy
"Of course, Poppy, I would have never let him get away with Joanna. Don't worry I'll find him. I need you two to call the police. I'll try to find Joanna, and bring her back. " says Paul
Paul goes out the door, his sword in hand, and sees a trail out of some of Joannas' jewelry. He follows it for two hours, up to the necklace that she wore on the first day, he meet her. He picks up the necklace, and continues sneaking around the building. He finds a window, looks down, and sees chained to the wall, trying to get out of the restraints is Joanna. He puts her necklace inside a pocket. Joannas' eyes goes wide when she hears Paul breaking glass. Paul jumps down, and gets near her. He looks Joanna in the eyes, and tells her to shh.
"Calm down, we are going to get you out of here. " whispers Paul
She nods silently, Paul cuts the chain with his sword, and leads her to the window. He helps her up, and out of the window, she does the same with him. They run for a half- an- hour, stop behind a store, and they sit on their knees. After catching their breath, Paul smiles and looks at Joanna.
"I rescued something for you, turn around." says Paul. Joanna does, and he gets out the necklace and places the necklace around her neck. She turns back around looks at him, and fakes a smile.
"Paul, promise not to judge me, or tell anyone?" asks Joanna
"Sure, wait, why?" asks Paul
"Because, I'm going to do something, I have not done in years." says Joanna. She clings onto Paul, and starts crying, he puts a comforting arm around her.
"It's okay, and you didn't need me to promise not to judge you." says Paul
"I didn't ?" asks Joanna
"No, it's normal to be scared and crying." says Paul. She tries to say something, but he can't understand. "What?" She lets go of him, and stares at him.
"I wasn't afraid." repeats Joanna
"Then why are you crying?" asks Paul
"Okay, I was afraid, which I'm not proud to say." admits Joanna
"Why?" asks Paul
"Because I'm a pirate, and pirates 'spose to be ruthless." says Joanna
"Yes, you are a pirate, but your a 15 year old girl, first. If Poppy was here, or your mother was, I'm sure they would say the same thing." says Paul. He wipes tears away from her face. Then out of nowhere Captain comes out.
"Wow, people will love to hear tha- ah." says Captain. He looks down as he falls, and sees that both his feet are hacked off.
"Who did this?!" Captain demands
"I did!" answers Joanna. She is holding Pauls' sword, now dripping with blood, Paul and Captain look at her shocked.
"How'd you grab my sword,, without me knowing?" asks Paul
"Oh, who cares, when or how. " says Joanna. She digs through the pile of stuff and finds a wheel barrel. "Perfect, Joseph help me give him a burial at sea.
"Sure." says Paul
They put Captain in the wheelbarrow. They take a shovel, and shovel up his feet. They put shovel, and all in the same wheelbarrow. They push the wheelbarrow, the forty minutes to see, and pushes wheelbarrow and everything in it, into the sea then it starts raining.
"That should wash off all the blood in the ground." says Joanna
"Come on, let's go home, and get cleaned up. " says Paul
The run all the way home, and hide in the bushes. Until the police leave, then they go in. Poppy and T.J. get them upstairs, and they get undressed in one of the two bathrooms. They get showers, get dressed in different clothes, and put their clothes they did have on earlier in trash bags. They put the trash bags, and put them in the trash. They then join Poppy and T. J. in the living room on the couch.
"What happened ?" asks Poppy
"When I left, I noticed a pile of jewelry, I followed it, and it lead me to Joanna. I followed it, and it lead me to Joanna. I broke a window, hopped down, cut her chains, and helped her up. She helped me up, and we ran for half-an-hour. We took a break, and I gave her the necklace, that she was wearing on the ship, back. Then Captain, came up, and before he finished his sentence, Joanna used my sword, and cut off his feet. We put him in a wheelbarrow with his feet and a shovel. We dumped him, shovel and wheelbarrow into sea." explains Paul
"So, Joanna killed him." says T.J.
"No, he grabbed his dagger, and stabbed his own heart. We left it in there." says Joanna
"So, he died by his own hand. What about the others?" asks Poppy
"Don't worry about them, Pirate code." answers Paul
"You're going to have to be more specific with Poppy. T. J. understands since he is a former pirate, but Poppy isn't. Pirate code states if your captain is gone for a certain amount of time. Other pirates are to consider him dead, and move on." says Joanna
"That's correct, but how do you know?" asks T.J.
"Joanna, truth time." says Paul
"Alright, Jo is not my brother, I don't even have a brother. I am Jo, the greatest pirate ever. " says Joanna
"So, I'm under your rule, not his?" asks T.J.
"Yes" says Joanna , sheepishly.
"Okay" says T.J.
"Really?!" says Poppy, Paul, and Joanna, in shock.
"Yeah, nothing changes, I can't say a word about it." says T.J.
"One more thing, what's your real name?" asks Poppy
"Paul, the greatest swordsman of the sea." replies Paul
"Alright, that's enough excitement for a long time, off to bed you two." says Poppy
"Yes, Poppy" they say