The group began to work on rebuilding the Mayor's building, Bren said it was the biggest building and it had an underground basement for the former mayor's bedroom. This would be the best bet for defense in case this island didn't have any friendly locals if it were.

"Ok we need more wood" Bren said as he finished patching up the front door, "Got any more?"

"I do"

Bren looked at Gale who had a large bag of buildable wood, Bren could only grin

"Gale you never fail to amaze me" He said taking a board out and working on the wall.

Over with Nick and AJ they were working on setting up some tents, while the project of fixing up the Mayor building would take another day, sleeping without anything over their head was out of the question.

"Hand me the pole" Nick said to AJ as he began to pull up the Camo Green fabric.

"Right here" AJ said handing it to Nick who finished putting up their tent

Gale walked to the last tent, unlike Bren's Black one, and Nick and AJ's shared Green tent, his was a dark purple, he drew his personal want and with a few magical waves it lifted up.

"Got to love the magic" Nick thought putting his stuff into the tent.

Bren groaned in pain, he had hit his finger with the hammer.

"You ok?" AJ called out to him

"Yeah…just stings a bit…know what it getting late lets continues tomorrow" He said sucking on his index finger.

True to Bren's word, it was becoming sunset, and this was the time of day when people went in for the night.

"Ok" They said going into their tents and quickly went to sleep.

When they awoke the next morning they heard something strange, it sounded like snoring.

Bren looked at the beach and saw a longboat, right on the beach.

"Guys did the sailors leave their longboat here?" He asked, Nick and AJ drew identical iron swords

"No" Nick said and they carefully went to the boat and then nick let out a sigh

"Its safe guys check it out" He said pointing to the unknown figure in the boat.

Bren and Gale walked to the boat, both munching on some bread. They looked at the figure in which they figured out where the snoring came from. It was a man in a red captains uniform…a pirate Captains, and this man was dead asleep, in his hands a bottle of Dwarven Ale.

Bren face palmed

"Are you serious?" Bren asked as Gale used his wand to poke the man in the head, the man didn't stir

"…get some water" Bren said and Gale pointed his wand at the ocean and some water flew up and then slammed itself onto the man's face causing him rise up with a shock and yell, "OK I'm up is the navy attacking?!" He blinked a few times and looked at the four

"…uh did I get captured again?" He asked

Bren didn't know what to say, is this guy for real?

"Uh no, we kinda found you like this, who are you?" Bren asked

The man got out of the boat and then cracked his back and said with a voice full of pride, "The Dread Pirate Ryan, Captain of the Toxic Demon" He said…and then looked around

"Wait how did I get here?" He asked now confused

Gale looked at the ale and then said, "Perhaps you got drunk on your ship and slept on a long boat, it fell down and you washed up on our shore" He said

Ryan looked at the boat and then said, "Sounds like me…so let me guess gonna turn me into the Navy?"

Bren shrugged his shoulders, "Well we are the only 5 on this island far as well know, so no we can't, I suppose since you don't seem to have any weapons on you, I don't think you pose a threat" He said

Ryan let out a hearty laugh, "Smart man…cept I got this!" He called out drawing from inside his jacket a flint lock and pulling the trigger on Bren….only it didn't go off

"Oh yeah that's my bluff flintlock…." He said, Nick just groaned while AJ laughed, "This man is a riot" AJ said

"He is a pirate, what kind of crew would follow this man" Nick asked quietly

Ryan didn't hear and he put the worthless flintlock back into his jacket, "Sorry bout that, so uh….sir, mind letting me stay on this island, before I was a pirate, I was a carpenter" He said

"…why would a carpenter become a pirate?" Bren asked cocking an eyebrow

"Well long story short, a rival try to take business from me, I took it back, found a love on the seas, so that's where I "bees" He said with a slight chuckle

Bren could only smile when he extended his hand to the pirate, "I'm Bren T. Hunter, this here is Gale, Nick, and AJ" He said shaking the pirates hand

"A pleasure, so got anything I can hammer, if not anything for me to drink?" He asked and Bren shook his head, "follow me, we got a project going on" He said leading Ryan to the Mayor's building, unaware they were being watched by a creeper in the nearby woods

Bren pointed to the walls, "I don't need to tell you that the walls are rotting away, we are trying to set up a town so we need to fix up these buildings" Bren said explaining, Ryan half listened and then turned around and drew a flint lock from his jacket and unlike the other one it fired, right between the eyes of the creeper that tried to be stealthy

"Damn creeper" Ryan said and Bren looked at the flintlock and Ryan said, "Don't worry, I wasn't really gonna shoot you, just a joke earlier, this was my only other one on me, so don't expect me to watch your back like that again" He said drawing a dagger from his belt and going into the creeper's dead body and cutting it up, he soon found what he was looking for, "Gun Powder, Notch" He groaned, he had no idea what kind of god would create a creature whose only purpose was to explode.

"Uh thanks" Bren said rubbing the back of his head

"Don't mention it, if you got killed on my watch, those two knights would run their swords through me" He said folding his arms, "So want to get to work?"

Bren nodded his head and the two began to work.

Back with AJ and Nick, they were at the farm, working on the fence, they wanted to make sure their only source for calcium wasn't going to get up and run, though judging by how Mia didn't leave her spot since the night before and didn't pay them much mind, she wasn't running anytime soon.

"So AJ trust Ryan?" Nick asked using a hammer to send a wooden stake into the ground while AJ held it in place

"Well he does seem to mean well, maybe he is a good pirate" AJ suggested

"You mean like the bandits who burned our village to the ground, Ryan may not be the most competent of men, but I don't want anyone to lose track of him" He said, venom in his voice, AJ sadly nodded his heads, they then heard a loud bang and ran back to Bren and Ryan

Gale was looking through his magical spell tome, it looked beaten and well thumbed, and that was true, he had for years and he needed to find a certain spell.

"….illusion, detecting motivation, perfect" He thought running his fingers through the words. While Bren and AJ seemed to trust them, and he could tell Nick didn't care for their newest member of the group, Gale wanted a more….precise understanding of him. He had no reason to doubt the man, he could smell the booze from the pirate captain and his story would make sense. But why would a man like him be a pirate, he was hiding something, that was something he could sense.

He was continuing to read when he heard a loud bang and he let out a,"Damn it" and ran out to investigate.

The trio ran to Bren and Ryan and they could see a dead creeper and then they heard Ryan say, "…so want to get back to work?"

"What in blazes happened?" Nick asked as he tried to figure out what happened, Gale on the underhand was quick to deduce the situation

"Ryan shot a creeper that tried to attack Bren here" Gale said, "….hence the bang, I assume he had one more flintlock on his person. He wouldn't be stupid to kill Bren without more than one to take us all on…am I right?" Gale asked

Ryan drew the flintlock and said, "That is correct, I saved him by using my last shot" He explained

Nick glared at him, but he had to admit that Gales logic was sound…he hated it but it was in Ryan's favor.

"Guys its ok, I'm not gonna get killed by a pirate, I according to a strange fortune teller, my demise will be from being involved in an airship accident driven by an idiot dwarf wearing pink armor" Bren said, "I don't think Ryan qualifies as the ship, dwarf or pink armor" Bren said and Ryan had to let out a chuckle at that logic, that and the oddly specific fortune.

Nick rolled his eyes while AJ smiled; Ryan wasn't a bad guy after all

Gale didn't need to use the spell after all, he could already figure out his motivation, survival, on the surface Ryan was a slight idiot, but deep down, he was smart enough to know when it is wise to attack and when to retreat. He may have his secrets…but perhaps it is for another time.

"Come on Ryan let's get back to work" Bren said as he and Ryan began to hammer away at the boards they were replacing.

When nightfall came Bren and Ryan were done replacing the rotted and broken woods, and used the scrap to start a fire, they were telling stories around them. Bren and Ryan decided to stay in the basement, Ryan making his own bed out of nice leaves and a spare pillow the group decided to give him, along with a spare blanket. They would find something else that would make a better bedding tomorrow

"…and now the man uses his hooked hand to stalk young couples who stray too far from their villages…and then try to find a hand to replace his lost one" Ryan said finishing his story, while Bren and AJ were a little freaked out, Gale and Nick where not as amused. Nick because it was a clichéd story, and Gale not because of the story, but the story he heard a thousand times back at the academy.

"Well lads, I say it's time to turn in" Ryan said and the group nodded their heads as they turned in for the night.

A few days passed, and they used the time to begin working on a few more things, for starters they chopped down some trees to collect more building wood and fixing up some of the other housing, soon all of them had a wooden roof over their heads.

On the Fifth morning something happened….something far stranger then Ryan's arrival.

Bren was collecting water at a nearby lake when he saw heard a scream, he looked up and saw a swirling vortex of blue energy and he saw a man in a black hood fall right out…into the lake.

To be continued….

Character Info

Nick

Age 20

Occupation: Mercenary

Nick growing up was an orphan, he had to earn his keep, doing jobs he wasn't always proud off, like pick pocketing, spying on town residents, but he learned he had to do what he had to do….that was when he was 10, he and his close friend AJ's lives change forever, when bandits came and torched their village, leaving barely anyone alive when the fire settled. When he was 15 he joined the legendary Fighter's Guild and learned how to be a mercenary.

Interesting Fact: He met Bren by complete chance, Bren was traveling along a road about to be ambushed by some highway men, when Nick and AJ took care of them, AJ had the idea to tell Bren about this, because of this Bren thanked them with a nice meal and they became fast friends, later traveling with each other.

Actors seen in this episode.

Bren T. Hunter: Played by Bren Tenkage

Nick: Played by H3LLHOUND308

AJ: Played by SloanRangers1

Gale: Played by Gallum14

Ryan: Played by KanjoLuBoku