Chapter Four

Pirate Sanctuary

Aradia slept fine through the night except for when the cold wind blew through making her shiver. She was half asleep and half awake at the time and could find no warmth. She then felt the warm body of the evil captain and without thinking had wrapped her arms around him and hugged his back and smiled as she felt the warmth come to her body. That is what happened during the night and now as the golden sun rose over the waves of the ocean a smiling Aradia slowly opened her eyes. Her vision was a blur and it soon fixed itself and her smiled went to a combination of disgust and worry.

As she found herself hugging the man who had put her through so much hell. She shrieked and let go of him moving away and out of the bed which was bad cause it hurt her whip wounds. " Whats wrong, you were different last night, its seemed you were warming up to me," came the voice of Sollux. Aradia backed up against the wall as he got out of the bed and smiled at her.

" Well if I hadn't been half asleep I would have rather killed you than do what I did," Aradia growled at him. Sollux smirked and chuckled as he walked towards her until he stood infront of her.

"Really, I actually had other things in mind you could have done for me," Sollux said leaning down to her. He stopped as his face was right in front of hers. She tried to move but her placed both his arms on each side of her. " Would you have liked that," he said grinning as his face moved closer to her. He was just infront of her when Karkat came through the door.

He looked to see his captain pinning the girl to the wall. He frowned and looked as his captain turned and glared at him. " What is it," he growled.

" Captain Sollux we have arrived," Karkat said. Sollux frowned and looked at Aradia before he backed away and grabbed his coat, hat, sword, and boots. He placed them on and gave a small smirk at Aradia before he and Karkat were gone. As the door shut Aradia slid down the wall and sat there her heart beating fast. She was thinking about what he was going to do to her. A small blush came to her face but she shook it away remembering he was just a evil, disgusting pirate.

Sollux walked onto deck where his men were working around the ship. He grabbed a teliscope from Equius and looked through it and smiled. He was looking at a large town port set right in the middle of a giant rock island. He tossed the scope back to Equius and climbed to the helm. " We have arrived, to our pirate sanctuary," Sollux said smirking.

A few hundred or so miles away from Sollux and his crew's postion, the Queen's ship that had docked at Port Royale was now sailing after the pirates. The young boy's known as Tavros, and was with a few more people were on the ship as cabin boy's. Tavros sat alone on the edge of the ship thinking about the coming battle they might have with Sollux Captor.

He sighed and looked at the passing water under his feet as his friend Jade joined him. " He Tav whats wrong, you've been depressed ever since we left the port, be happy, we might get to fight some real pirates," Jade said laughing.

" I wish I could Jade but, its just, oh nothing," Tavros said looking away. Jade sighed and patted his friend on the shoulder before going back to his cleaning duties. ' I don't wish to fight my brother, only bring him back to what he once was' Tavros thought.

Sollux came down from the helm as they we're docking at the port. " Karkat keep the slaves here and have them clean as I go to see him," Sollux said. Karkat nodded to his captain as a few men placed a wooden plank down. Sollux then turned and walked down the plank to the busy town where other pirates were. They were fighting, drkining, shooting, having sex and other vile things in some people's eye's. Sollux smirked and made his way to the center of town where a large and expensive looking house sat.

He walked in and knocked down a few servants to get them out of his way. He made his way up some stairs and then kicked in a door where a chair sat the back facing him. " never knew how to knock hey Sollux," a voice came. Sollux stood there as the chair spun around to show a tall guy with a weird looking face and neck. He wore black clothes with a shirt under.

" I guess my parents didn't teach me well, Diamond," Sollux said smirking at the man behind his desk.

Aradia sat on the ship in her dirty undergarments again as her friends and she washed the deck. He stopped and ran her fingers through her hair which was found to be sticky and dirty, not to mention it smelled like week old maggot trash. She cursed and looked around at the area, the port full of ships and the busy town. If she could get off the ship, she could probably lose them in the town, but her friends. Aradia looked at them and was sadden by their condition, even Kanaya looked bad.

She looked up and saw that Karkat was distracted by another pirate at the moment and if she did not take this chance she would never get off. She would escape and bring the whole Queen's Army here. She then finally made up her mind and went for it. She got up quick and ran to the side of the ship where she leaped and dived into the water. She then resurfaced and heard the shots of the pirates and then a few more splashes. She turned to see a few pirates swimming after her.

She began swimming towards the port and found herself to be faster than them. She soon reached the port and shivering from the cold water ran into the pirate town to hide.

" So you attacked Port Royale one of the Queen's main port, you sure are crazy Sollux Captor," Diamonds Droog said smiling. Sollux smirked and looked at the town's mayor.

" So I guess you got a good plunder," Diamonds asked.

" Of course, my men will unload half of it when I return, as long as you provide us with our provisions," Sollux said. Diamonds smirked and wrote down on paper a order for food and weapons to go to Sollux's ship. Sollux smriked and then turned to leave. " Oh and Sollux, it seems your head has risen to $500,000,000 now after your attack," Diamond said.

Sollux frowned and looked at a wanted poster of himself Diamonds had. He tossed it away and chuckled as he left. "They got my picture wrong," he said laughing to himself. He walked out into the sun and looked down at his ship and raised an eyebrow as he watched his men panick on the ship and run into the port. He then glared and made his way into the town.

Aradia ran fast on her bare feet until she stopped and ducked behind a building. She tried to catch her breath when she heard some coming behind her. She turned her head to see three or four dirty looking pirates behind her with sword and grins. " Well look here jents, it seems a cute young girl has stumbled onto our terrain," one said. The other three smiled and glared at Aradia's half naked body and grinned. They then ran at her and grabbed her two arms and pinned her to the ground.

The leader of the group smirked as he stood over her. " This will be fun," he said as he began to undo his belt. Aradia looked up at him with shock and tried to move but could not. He man smiled and pulled his pants down and got ontop of Aradia and began kissing her as she screamed. The man laughed but then her yelled in pain.

Aradia looked up as blood dripped down onto her stomach. A sharp blade had piereced the man's stomach. He then fell off Aradia and she looked up to see Sollux holding his sword which blood dripped off it. Sollux glared down at Aradia but then turned his back to her to glare at the three remaining pirates. " Hey buddy you'll pay for killing our leader," they said drawing swords.

They charged Sollux who frowned and blocked all three swords. He then drew a pistol and fired a shot into one man's head making blood splatter everywhere as his limp body fell. Sollux then deflected the last two swords and spun around sliting both men's thoarts. The two men slammed dead onto the ground. Aradia looked at Sollux with wide eyes as he cleaned his sword and sheathed it. Tears began to fill her eyes up as she stood.

Sollux glared at the dead pirates and grunted. He turned to Aradia to give her a good yelling and maybe a smack when he was hit in the chest by her body as she wrapped her arms around him and cried into his chest. " Thank you, for saving me," she said between tears as she cried into his chest. Sollux looked down at her in shock as she cried. Aradia knew she was hugging a man who treated her horrible, but he had just saved her from being rapped and she was just happy he had.

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