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Chapter 2

It had been two days since the island.

Tetra sat at her desk her palms perched under her chin and her elbows resting on the desk as she poured over map after map. She was doing whatever she could to find some inhabited island that they would be able to get the supplies they needed from. But with nothing but ocean in every direction she could feel the worry build in her chest.

They couldn't survive out here too much longer without any food, and if they couldn't find someplace to get some soon, they'd have to turn back, or else they would risk the entire crew starving to death. They had no point but to press on and hope for the best. But they were so far away from home…

Tetra's head was pounding. Letting her head come to rest against the cool desk she began to rub at her temples trying to relieve the pressure. She knew she'd do whatever it took to save her men, her family, but right now, with the risk of losing everything, she felt powerless to protect the ones she love.

Feeling how heavy her eyelids were she felt them slowly drift close. She wouldn't admit it to anyone but she was starting to feel run down the last couple of days and despite what little sleep she attempted to get she still felt awful.

There was knock at the door and he heavy eyelids opened as she turned her head and glared at the unseen person on the other side of the oak door. But reluctantly she slowly got to her feet and walked across taking a hold of the brass handle and pulled the door open.

There in the darkened hallway stood a figure, and when her eyes finally adjusted she found herself face to face with a very sleepy looking Link. He still wore his green tunic, but missing from his customary attired was his green cap and over sided brown boots. His sandy blond hair was a mess with bedhead and his eyes looked heavy with sleep. "Why are you up to late Link?" she asked concerned.

"I could ask you the same question." Link retorted moving into the room without an invitation and sat down on her green couch. Tetra shut the door over and returned to her chair at her desk where she was sitting moments before. Link quickly surveyed the room and saw the maps spread across her desk and the perfect condition of her bed and Link sighed in defeat. "Have you even slept yet?"

Tetra sighed reluctantly turning back toward her desk and staring at the ocean chart before her. "I can't sleep until I'm sure that I can find a way to protect and feed my men, my family. As soon as I can guarantee that they are taken care of I'll sleep, but not a minute before."

Link sighed. "Tetra you'll kill you're going to kill yourself."

Tetra slammed her fist down on her desk in frustration. "My mother would have never given up and I'm not going to give up until I can guarantee that they are going to be taken care of!" she turned to Link and she sighed. "I'm sorry Link, I just don't know what I can do and I could really use your help."

Link walked over to Tetra and pulled the girl into a hug. Tetra struggled for a moment before relaxing into Link's arms and eventually snaking her arms around him as well. The two of them stood together just holding one another, Tetra feeling slightly awkward with this whole situation, but before her thoughts could liger any longer on the situation Link pulled away. Before Tetra could say anything though Link brought a hand to her forehead and sighed. "You're warm; I think you've got a fever."

"I…" began Tetra but she was quickly cut off by Link.

"I know, You're fine, but you're stressed and I'm telling you that you're going to bed right now. You're going to relax and get some sleep, you're no good to this crew on your death bed and if anything happens to you I thing Gonzo's going to keelhaul me." Without another word he led Tetra over to her bed pulling the covers away so that she could lie beneath the sheets. Tetra didn't fight, didn't argue, and instead just laid down in the bed Link smiled down at her pulling the covers up and over her. "Sleep well, and I don't want to see your light back on minutes after I leave, alright."

Tetra chucked softly. She rolled onto her side, feeling her heavy eyelids dip and eventually close as she drifted off to sleep. Link heard her soft, slow breathing, and Link knew that she was asleep. Link smiled reaching over and brushing a stray hair out of Tetra's face before moving from the bed pulling the door open before stepping outside shutting the door soundly behind him.

Link was surprised when he awoke the next morning and the sun was already high in the sky. Stretching, Link looked around the room and saw several other pirates still asleep in their beds and this surprised him, Tetra always had all her men up before the crack of dawn working, even Link, so the fact that Link was still asleep and over half the men were still in their beds made Link wonder exactly what was going on.

He hopped down off the top bunk of his bed pulling his green tunic over his white undershirt, his brown leather boots and hat on his head. Leaving his sword and shield in the trunk at the edge of the set of bunk beds he shared with Niko and turned to walk towards Tetra's room.

Reaching the top of the steps Link was surprised to find that her bedroom door was still shut over as he had left it the night before. Had Tetra not even woke up yet? Making his way over towards the door he raised his hand to knock bit hesitated before his hand touched the wood, should he bother her?

Lowering his hand again he stared at the door for just a second before deciding that he needed to make sure Tetra was ok, the woman never over slept in her life so the fact that she wasn't awake yet meant something was wrong.

Deciding that he would deal with the consequences of a pissed off Tetra Link knocked on the heavy wooden door of Tetra room and waited.

Nothing.

Link raised his hand and knocked again and heard no movement from the other side of Tetra's door. Link reached for the door handle but hesitated as he went to turn the handle, could he really intruded into Tetra's room like this? Deciding that he needed to make sure she was ok Link preceded into Tetra's room.

The door hit the wall with a soft thunk as it swung completely open and Link slowly made his way inside. He looked around the room lit by the afternoon glow of the sunlight. Making his way over towards Tetra's bed he saw the girl still lying in her bed.

Link tried to ignore the panic that weld up in his chest at the sight of Tetra still in the bed, this girl never overslept and reached out to touch Tetra's shoulder. Link could feel how warm the girl was to the touch.

Link felt the panic weld up inside of him he gripped Tetra's shoulder tightly and began to shake it vigorously. "Tetra, Tetra, wake up!" But the girl's eyes never opened.

Link bent down next to the edge of the bed to better examine Tetra. The girls face was pale and her breathing was extremely shallow, beads of sweat were formed on her forehead and she wouldn't open her eyes.

Link got to his feet and as fast as his legs would carry him he ran to find Gonzo, the two didn't really agree on much but he knew he would do anything for Tetra and that's what he could rely on.

Link's eyes squinted as the bright midday sun hit his eyes and soon as his eyes could focus Link was surprised at what he saw.

"Hey!" cried a familiar voice and Link took a double take and realize that it was Beetle the traveling boat shop keep standing there on the middle of the ship, Gonzo and some of Tetra's other men were loading large boxes of supplies onto the ship.

Link moved over to Gonzo a confused look on his face. "What's going on here?" Link asked.

Gonzo puffed his chest out proudly a huge smile on his face. "We came across Beetle before sunrise, and after several hours of intense negotiations we came to an agreement on food. Miss Tetra will be so proud."

Link mind instantly came to life and he rush to Gonzo's side. "Gonzo, Tetra she's..."

Gonzo eyes instantly went into a panic as he looked at Link. "What happened to Miss Tetra?"

Link, Gonzo, half of Tetra's men and Beetle stood in Tetra's room looking at Tetra. Tetra was sweating profusely and now looked as if she was in severe pain, the girl was writhing on the bed but still unconscious on the bed.

"What's wrong with her?" Gonzo asked panicking.

"I...I don't know," Link began, "I came to check on her late last night, she was fine, pouring over the maps until really early in the morning, but fine and when I woke up this morning I found her like this."

Gonzo knelt down next to Tetra and felt the girl's forehead for a second and pulled away. "She's burning up. We've got to get her to a doctor as quickly as possible."

"How?" Mako asked "We haven't seen land in days if we keep going in that direction who knows how long it will be till this next time we see land?"

"There's no land for days that way." Beetle responded you guys would be better off turning around and heading back the way that you guys came."

"Where?" Gonzo asked "the only island back that way was the one Link and Miss Tetra refused to return to."

Link's eyes shot up and looked at Gonzo. "What did you just say?"

Gonzo looked at Link confused. "I just said the only island that is back the way that we came is the island that you and Miss Tetra refused to return to. We need to press and hope they with the supplies we have we will be able to get Miss Tetra the help they she needs."

"There's nothing out that way!" Beetle cried again, "your Tetra will die before you'll be able to get her the help that she will need."

Link turned to look to look at Tetra again and then to Gonzo. "Turn the ship around."

"What!" cried Gonzo, "you're not in charge here kid, you don't order us pirates around her, I'm the second in command, I'm charge around here and I say we keep on going."

Link moved over to Gonzo grabbing a hold of Gonzo by the arm. "Look, if what Beetle says is true and there really is nothing out there Tetra will die and we will be helpless to prevent it, if we turn around and head back to that island we may have a chance to save her."

Gonzo was quiet for a second as he turned to look at Tetra his gaze not leaving hers for a while. "If you care for Tetra at all you know what's right, that island might hold the key for whatever is wrong with her, and I want to do whatever it takes to make sure she'll be ok."

Gonzo stared at Tetra for a few seconds longer before looking at Mako. "Turn the ship around, we're heading back."

Maki didn't say a word instead ran out of the room along with the other men and Beetle leaving Gonzo and Link with the unconscious Tetra.

Gonzo walked towards the doorway but stopped before he left the room to look at Link. "You'd better be right about this," and without another word left the room.

Sighing he turned to look at Tetra once more before walking towards the doorway grabbing the door handle to shut the door over as he left. "Yeah me too." He whispered into the shut door before making his way up to the main level.


I pretty much completed chapters 1-4 of this story and I'm going to get those up here pretty quickly but after those it might be a while before the updates come out. Thanks again everyone. Don't forget to review please.

-Updated 2/12/2014 for spelling errors and better flow-