I'm sorry it's been so long since I last updated. I've been working on a novel and bet my boyfriend I could get to 15,000 words by a certain time or else have to do a Warhead challenge. I lost... and not looking forward to warheads. But now I'm gunning for 20,000 words.
James walked Linebeck up towards the front of the room. Link, Tetra, and Jolene filed in after Link's Uncle Kerk. Tetra's crew sat in the row behind Tetra. Sturgon was at the front of the room and nodded towards Linebeck and James.
"It's good to see you Linebeck. We were wondering what had happened. Hopefully you can shed some light onto this mystery." the old man said.
The room felt really warm to Linebeck, but he figured it was just nerves. Linebeck glanced over to the side an noticed a few set of encouraging smiles. He could get through this. He'd just tell it how it happened and everything was going to be okay.
Linebeck cleared his throat, "Well, I guess I'll start with the Ghost Ship. We were forced to either be a part of its crew or die. You can guess what option we went with. But it turns out that the ship was cursed. It was slowly draining the life from us. We tried to escape, but there were... complications. The plan for the escape wound up failing. James thought a mutiny and taking over the ship was the best plan. I suggested we go with a more tactical and quiet approach. Since there were only a few entities on the ship that weren't a part of our crew, we went with the full force plan.
It turns out the ship was a cover for an evil entity named Bellum. It was ran by the Cubis sisters who were actually monsters. They served Bellum ran the ship and left everyone weak to the point that escape was futile for most of us.I was the only one who managed to get off the Ghost Ship, while everyone else was trapped on the ship. After I escaped I searched for years trying to find out all that I could about the Ghost Ship. It took eight years for any progress to be made.
Meanwhile in this realm, Link and Tetra set out to look for the Ghost Ship Tetra wound up getting trapped on the Ghost Ship. Link got knocked off the ship and woke on Mercay Island. It's an important and key island in the realm where we were in. So Link set out to find Tetra and the Ghost Ship to save her. At that same time, I'm was Mercay Island looking into the Temple of the Ocean King to find out anything on the Ghost Ship. Link and I found each other and we set out for a long quest to find a bunch of things to locate the Ghost Ship. We had to find three spirits, and three metals that can be forged into a blade to defeat Bellum. He's basically the squid version of Gannon in that realm. Link defeated Bellum and we were sent back to this world. I was just sent back with Link and Tetra."
"So why is it that you were the only one able to escape?" Sturgon asked.
James was eyeing Linebeck, waiting for his answer.
"It has to do with being related to the Heroes of Hyrule. It gave me and James more of a resistance to evil magic than others, Link more-so than either of us because he's the recent incarnation on the Hero. James was also really close to escaping, but the Cubis sisters managed to stop him." replied the former captain.
Sturgon stroked his beard thoughtfully, "James, Link, Tetra, Kerk, anything you would like to add to help clarify this muddled mess?"
Kerk stood up, "As I've said before, when it came to the plan, Linebeck did voice how the plan could go wrong. A majority of the crew sided with James, so that's what we went with. He didn't sabotage the plan, he wanted off the ship as much as any of us and certainly wouldn't leave us hung out to dry. The second we fought back those things did their magic voodoo or whatever. Linebeck and I were the most tolerant for the longest and got further than the rest once things got bad." With that, the man sat down and crossed his arms and glared at James.
Link swallowed and stood up, "My dad's right about the hero's blood thing. When we went back onto the ship and wound up fighting them we had a hard time resisting the magic of just one of them. I couldn't imagine multiple monsters like that. If it wasn't for Tetra and the help of a fairy named Ciela, we would have been trapped on that ship too."
"Look." Tetra stated with crossed arms, "That ship was just a bunch a bad news controlled by evil entities to steal the lives of people for an evil incarnate. I don't know what kind of grudge those two have, but it has nothing to do with a plan that was probably going to go south anyways. It was a cursed ship. What did you expect? That everyone was going to escape without a scratch? If that's the case you have a series ego problem as a captain. There will always be risks no matter what plan or what approach. When things go wrong you suck it up and take all the responsibility."
After that outburst, Sturgon cleared his throat, "James, anything to add?"
James was clearly not happy. The man had always had issue with his ego being taken down a notch, especially by someone younger than him. Maybe it was just an older brother thing. There was an apparent scowl that James was failing to hide. Linebeck didn't care about Jame's foul mood. He had cleaned up whatever mess his former captain had made and he was ready to get back to his visit.
"No. I think that clears everything up." the blond quickly stated as he tried to hid his annoyance.
James gave Sturgon a quick nod, and flashed Linebeck a mawkish smile as he turned towards the exit. Boy, did that man get on his nerves sometime. It was just a silly reason to be mad, and it happened years ago. He really should have gotten over it already. Linebeck figured sometimes people didn't really change.
"Glad I could help." Linebeck murmured sarcastically as his green eyes bored holes through his brother-in-law.
