I have noticed that I am making Toki talk a little bit too much like Skwisgaar... Let's just try to slowly make him sound more like himself then, I suppose, because I do not know how to edit already posted chapters... Also... I feel like I am kind of dragging this out a bit too much, so I'll try to get on with the excitement... Nothing very exciting has really happened in a while... I'll try to change that...
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The four walked over to the port and sat down on a bench near a row of large ships,which were being loaded and unloaded,and listened to nearby sailors and merchants, trying to get an idea of which ship was leaving the soonest, and where it was going. Toki found this to be extremely dull work, and soon occupied himself by examining his new teddy bear. His 'fur,' which was really just a soft material, made Toki very happy. He petted the bear's head, and curled it's demon tail around his finger. He loved his new possession, and hugged it up toward his cheek.
By this time is was rather late at night. Toki was so tired. He sighed and looked around at the various shady characters lurking the streets at this time of night. There were, of course, a lot of sailors, many of them laughing near the entrance of a pub. How would they drive the boats if they were drunk? Toki wondered. There were also many tired-looking men who were carrying various crates from a ship, and others who were carrying different crates onto another ship. The ship that was being loaded with crates was probably the one that they would be sneaking onto, Toki imagined.
Toki felt someone tug on his arm, and he looked up to see Skwisgaar, "Comes on," he said quietly, "Dats boats-ships leaves soons." he pointed at the ship to which men were carrying the crates. Toki stood from the bench and followed Skwisgaar.
While no one was looking, the four of them slipped quietly through the door through which the crates were being transported, and they quickly ducked behind the crates and waited. Before long the crates were all loaded, and the door was shut, causing the entirety of the cargo-hold of the ship to turn pitch black. Toki breathed in nervously. He wasn't sure if he would be able to find Skwisgaar again, in the dark, but also wasn't sure if it was ok to talk yet.After a few moments, when he felt the ship began to move through the water, hedecided that he might as well say something before it was too late. He didn't want to get separated from the older three.
Toki prepared to call out to Skwisgaar, but felt a hand slip over his mouth. Terribly frightened, he kept quiet. Either the hand was that of Skwisgaar, who wanted him to stay quiet, as to not give them away, or the hand was someone else's... Someone whom Toki did not know. He brought his own hand up, instinctively, wrapping his fingers partially around the arm that held him. In his other hand, he grasped his Deddy Bear tightly.
He felt himself being pulled away, and did not struggle. It was so dark; what would he do even if he did manage to escape the grasp of whomever held him? He was pulled into a hallway, which was also too dark to see anything, and then into another room, where a light was turned on.
"What are you doing in here, kid?" an unfamiliar voice spoke, "Are you related to one of the sailors, or what? You just thought you'd sneak in for a free ride? What?"
Toki looked up at the man who looked angrily down at him. He didn't know what to say. He just looked worriedly back up at the large man.
The man, whose hands still grasped Toki's shoulders shook him, and asked him again, "What do you think you're doin?"
"I-" Toki began, "I just... I needed to... get to Englands?" he said, in a quiet voice.
"So you just decided to sneak a free ride on this ship?" the man yelled, shaking Toki again.
Toki felt a lump rise in his throat. He wanted to cry, and was just about to, but tried very hard to keep himself from doing so. His lower lip quavered. He looked down at his feet, like he often did lately when someone was yelling at him; he noticed that he still grasped Deddy Bear.
"I asked you a question, boy!" the man yelled out, shaking him again.
This was getting a little bit old. Toki was sad at first that he had been caught, but his sadness was quickly turning into anger. He frowned as he looked up at the man, "What do you wants me to say?" Toki stammered, defiantly staring the man in the eyes, "I sneeks onto the ship. Now what? Oh, what do we do? What you want me to do? Turns the ship around; I leaves. Gets on another ship. What do you wants me to say?"
The man looked down at Toki, and smirked, "You're coming with me," he said, pulling Toki along after him as they walked through the hallway and up some stairs, "We'll let the captain decide what to do with you."
Toki felt a little more confident than previously. The man had been mean to him and shaken him when he stayed quiet, and had been a bit nicer, and even smiled at him when he stood up to him, arguing back. He never used to argue when people yelled at him, or punished him in any other way. Perhaps arguing back was the perfect solution...
The man took Toki up to a man who was presumably the captain of the ship. Toki, instead of acting nervous and looking down at his feet, looked right in the captain's eyes.
"This kid snuck onto the ship, sir," the man told the captain, "What do you want me to do with him?"
The captain looked at Toki, "Ha!" he laughed, "I don't care. He's too small to do any work. Throw him overboard for all I care."
Toki's mouth dropped open in shock, "No!" he protested, "You can't do thats!"
Toki struggled, kicking as the man dragged him toward the back of the ship where no one else was.
"Get offs me!" Toki yelled, "Don't throw me offs da ships!" he kicked and screamed, finally pulling away from the man's grasp, but he only lunged at him, and held him tighter, wrapping one hand around his upper arm, and one around his throat. Toki choked, and felt tears coming to his eyes, as he couldn't breathe, "I hates you," he said, gasping for air.
Just then he was knocked to the ground, and the man who had held Toki fell down along with him, right on top of him, but was quickly lifted off of him, by a familiar, yet frightening man. It was the old man with long white hair, from the train.
Toki's eyes widened, as the old man looked down at him, and then back at the man who had threatened Toki. The old man raised his hand and said something that Toki didn't quite hear. The crew-man of the ship screamed as he faded into ashes. Toki crawled away, hiding behind a lifeboat. The old man looked at him, and then walked away.
Toki peaked out from behind the lifeboat. There were no crew of the ship to be seen, and the older man had vanished. He walked over to where the man had been reduced to ashes, and looked down at the deck as the ashes blew away in the wind. What just happened? Toki wondered to himself... He let out a bit of a laugh, and turned around, walking back below the deck, to find Skwisgaar and the older boys. They would be so thrilled to hear what had just happened to him. What an amazing story that would be to tell people...
He opened the door that led into the hallway he came from, and immediately bumped into someone. He winced, hoping that it wasn't another crew-member, but looked up to see that it was Skwisgaar.
"Where's weres yous?" Skwisgaar asked, "You's sneakings aways all de times! Whats dids I tells yous earlier on de trains?"
Toki frowned, "I didn't sneaks away," he said, as Skwisgaar looked down at him skeptically.
"What's you is doings up de stairs den?" Skwisgaar asked.
"Some guy took me up de stairs," Toki said, "but den some other guy turns him into ashes," he continued, with wide eyes.
"What's yous talkings abouts, Toki? Heh?" Skwisgaar questioned, "Turns some guys intos de ashes? Dat's impossibles."
"Whatever," Toki gave up, "you wouldn't believes me anyways. Let's stay down heres though, from now ons. Not up there where there's guys, okays?"
"Dat was de plans untils yous sneaks offs like dat..." Skwisgaar argued.
Toki looked up at him, frowning, "I don't sneaks off!" he yelled, andstormed off through thehallway, with his fists clenched,back toward the cargo-hold.
Olof and Gustaf looked at Toki, as he stormed off, and then they looked at Skwisgaar. Skwisgaar shrugged and followed Toki. Finally all four of them found a place where they could take a short rest before they made it to England.
The rest of the ship voyage, was rather uneventful.
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Well... I think the story should be moving on a bit faster now... I'll try to finish it up in no more than 5 or so more chapters... I don't think anyone is reading it anymore, so there is no reason to make it too much longer... And look at that... just like I promised... Olof and Gustaf didn't even say anything in this chapter... Of course, Skwisgaar didn't say much either... but, like I said, I will not be over-shadowing Toki or Skwisgaar with my own characters. :)
If you are reading it... yes, I am talking to YOU... review it? Why won't you just do it?