Chapter 3- Reunited, The Fury Of The Order
"She's out cold, we need a healer." the purple eyed boy from earlier was sitting beside Rebecca who had been moved to the bed in one of the ships cabin
I could tell he cared deeply for her, you could clearly hear the concern in his voice
the room was clearly Rebeccas. The red covers of her bed, the buccaneer banner over it, the slash marks all around her walls, the practice dummys beaten to a pulp, and the other banner of a blue rose which contrasted the rest of the room opposite of her bed gave it away
I wonder what the rose was for
"unless ye be a privateer, I suggest not worryin' bout it, all your negativity be givin off bad mojo" the dark skinned girl with red eyes was next to the door leaning against the wall arms crossed looking over rebecca
even though she seemed calm I could tell she was also worried
"how am I not supposed to worry!" the boy grasped rebeccas hand
"Rebecca, my love! Come back to me!" he leaned in and kissed her firmly on the lips
"now ye done it" I heard the girl speak
Rebeccas face turned almost as red as her room
the boy pulled away and looked in awe to see rebecca awake
"Rebecca! My lo- gaaaaaaaah" before he could finish rebecca punched him right across the room
"KEVIN YOU BASTARD I OUGHTTA THOW YOU OVERBOARD" Rebecca was sitting up as ferocious as ever while kevin lay on the ground in a daze
Rebecca grunted and clasped her wound where deacon had shot her
"Easy now Beck, da wound is still healin" the other girl came to rebeccas side and laid her back down
"Alura? Does that mean-"
"Yes, you be safe now on da rose" Alura spoke softly
"Gee Rebecca that hurt learn to keep your hands to yourself" kevin got back up and dusted himself off
"WELL ARENT YOU THE ONE TO TALK" Rebeccas voice boomed
her gaze met mine
"Oh its you." all three were now focused on me. I could feel the tension and awkwardness in the room begin to rise.
Who are these people? Why did they bring me on their ship and what do they want with me?
"so whos this guy?" the boy said suggestively looking me up and down
"You wont believe it he's-"
"Daniel Nightingale, of da Nightingale pirates." Alura cut her off
we all stared at Alura whos gaze was still focused on me
"what? I could sense it."
"So he's the one we were sent to rescue huh? Hey hes kinda cute" kevin said shoving at Rebecca
I was caught off guard and felt the blood rushing to my face
"That's right I swing both ways fisher boy" he winked and sneered
Rebeccas face was bright red again, and yet again kevin was sent flying across the room
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"Ah good yer awake I just came to tell ye we'll be arriving at Skull Island shortly" the red coated long bearded peg legged pirate who I now come to know as boochbeard had opened the door
"As soon as we dock we'll have Rebecca taken to the commodore and Daniel here to meet Avery"
Captain Avery, me and Mr. Lew were supposed to meet him on business. Maybe he'll have some answers for me
"Excuse me" I uttered out to boochbeard
"Aye lad?" he peered at me with his one eye and stroked his long white beard
"Please, I must know when your crew searched the ship, did they happen to find a wharf rat on board? He's dear to me and I have no clue what happened to him after the clockworks separated us" my voice cracked and raised as I tried to hold in all the emotions swarming me from the day. so much had happened in such little time
I could see the look of confusion spread throughout the room as each of the pirates shared glances
"I an I not sense da presence of another living soul aside your own on that armada ship" Alura, who i've come to guess is a witchdoctor, said breaking the heavy silence of the room
My heart sank and the lump in my throat grew thicker
I'm certain the clockworks brought Mr. Lew on the ship with me and if I was the only living soul on the ship then I could only guess the monsters had killed him while I was locked away in the cells
"Perhaps we'll cross paths with your friend along the way young pirate" Boochbeard had put on hand on my shoulder as if to comfort and ease my unrest
"I'm not a pirate" I said snapping out of my own thoughts
"Ye coulda fooled me"
The cabin door was again opened this time slammed open by another pirate, a girl, with snow white hair and sky blue eyes dressed in royal blue navy uniform and decorated with many different badges. From her looks she's clearly an officer with the Marleybonian Navy, what she was doing on a ship riddled with pirates escaped me
strapped to her back was a rifle with a scope. The barrel spiraled throughout the upper and rear hand guard and the stock had the same blue rose emblem hanging in rebeccas room
"Captain boochbeard, sir, we are approaching skull island docks and will be ready to dock within minutes" she stood prominently at attention stiff and still
"Ah Amanda, thank ye I will be up on the deck you stay here and meet our newest member of the crew here" he patted my back roughly to where it nearly knocked me over
crew? Member?
Before another word could be said Boochbeard was out and shut the door behind him
the room was once again silent and once again all eyes were on me
"HIM?" the disgust in Amanda's voice was as clear as day
"I an I knew da captain be plottin sumtin from da beginnin of dis rescue mission" alura grinned
"Well duh why do you think I allowed myself to get captured anyways? I went through allot of trouble to find him" Rebecca added still sitting up in her bed
"Well it'll be nice to have another guy on the team" kevin leaned his arm over my shoulder
"Ugh! I should have stayed with the navy" Amanda began pacing
"Hey so whats that supposed to mean huh we aren't good enough for ya?" rebecca began shouting
"tis da best we can do in our current situation Amanda girlie" alura went to appease
"Amanda's just jealous all my attention isnt on her anymore" kevin pouted as to mock amandas misery
Amanda drew her rifle and aimed at kevin through the scope
Kevin drew his two daggers from behind his back
"HEY!" rebecca grabbed a large war hammer from underneath her bed and held it firmly
"if you two trash my room again so help me god!"
Alura summoned her staff with a poof of whispy black smoke
Everyone stood weapons drawn ready to attack. I could only sit back and watch as the 4 stood still as day. I held my breath hoping they woudn't completely destroy the ship. I stood completely still knowing any sudden movement would trigger an attack
"welcome to the team" kevin laughed hysterically and withdrew his knives back into their holders
Amanda scoffed and put her rifle back on her back
"I guess it would be an effort to defeat all three of you" she crossed her arms and held her nose in the air
I felt welcomed already.
"Well allow us to introduce ourselves" on cue the 4 moved into formation to make a line
"I am Noble Amanda Deveroux, the best musketeer to ever humble these skyways." she bowed "I hail from the marleybone aristocracy and was the first of boochbeards crew to join." amanda stepped off to her right allowing the next person in line
"I an I be the Witchdoctor, Mystic Alura Crafton" Alura spread her arms and began to levitate along with her snake headed staff "I be from a dark land known as darkmoor and I be the niece to me auntie Vadima, I also be the second of the crew to join" Alura hovered back down and stepped off to her left to allow the next
"You already know me, the names Reckless Rebecca Armstrong, Buccaneer by heart I was raised in skull island where I learned to fight and trained to become the strongest girl in the spiral" she clenched her fist and punched her palm and stepped off to the right
"Well hey there!" Kevin winked "I'm Sneaky Kevin De Bouff, I was born in Valencia, but was forced to flee when the Armada took over. There it was natural for me to learn the art of fencing making me a swashbuckler, I was the last to join the crew" he stepped to his left
"We are The Order Of The Blue Rose" they spoke in unison as if this had been rehearsed
that must be what the blue rose banner was for
"You people are insane" I laughed
Each of them smiled. For the first time in what seemed to be ages there was relief in the room.
End-Ch3
Flashback
I looked all over for where my father could have gone but could find no trace. Had the tentacles gotten him?
"Daniel!" a hissed whisper surprised me from behind
I turned to see who it was and was relieved to see my dad
"you need to hide! Me and your mother will take care of this okay? Go over to that life boat and hide for me little guy, yeah?" he pointed to the raft which we kept on deck in case of the ship sinking
all I could do was nod and run
when I got to the boat I looked back and saw my dad was gone again
my mother had been holding off the giant squid but I could see the beads of sweat riddling her forehead as she hurled spell after spell towards the beast
she had been using an enormous amount of magic energy to fight the squid and maintain her skeletal army all at once
the stormy clouds surrounded our ship and the skyways were rougher than ever
3 more tentacles appeared from the deep and shot straight for my mom
before they could reach her my dad reappeared slashing the tentacles in half with his fencing sword
"I see you brought the Excalibur on board" my mom mocked as she fought more tentacles and summoned more skeletons
"Yeah, well turns out we did need it after all" my dad argued sending multiple throwing knives at the squids head one of which struck the squid right in the left eye causing the monster to squeal and withdraw from the ship back into the deep
my parents both panting began to relax as they had won the battle
"Daniel, is he okay" my mom asked in short breaths
"hes... fine... hiding" my dad said keeled over
"We're getting too old for this Joshua" my mom said as my dad laughed laying on the deck next to my mom
"well retirement's just 2 storm gates away, dear" she said stroking his hair softly
"you said it" they laid completely at ease
The ship was then snapped in two by the same squid who was back for revenge.