Chapter 3: New pirate.
The morning after, as Squint ordered her, Shira started her ship-chores. Now she was a pirat.
Shira's POV:
I woke up on the same place the day before: contemplating at the continent, but now it was lost at the horizon. However, I did not woke up by myself, it was a shrill voice and not threatening. Squint.
When he shouted on my ear, I startled, because, as I said, I listen ten times more than any living thing. When I got up completely, I growled showing my teeth, crouching to eat him.
Normal POV:
"Be careful with what you're doing, kitty!" - Squint said, pointing Shira again with the same bone-knife.
At that words, Shira pounced on him, remembering that heavy teasing from her pack.
"Don't call me kitty." - And her snout approached on him showing more her teeth.
Fright, Squint used his knife in defense, without seeing where he pointed, when he touched a cartilage, that was Shira's. The tigress roared for pain, stepping aside, covering her right ear with her paw. Blood drops were falling from there.
"You, idiot!" - She cried in pain, but anger was consumed in her mind. - "You'll see." - She bellowed.
Shira launched on race to get Squint, when the rabbit jumped on Gutt's shoulder, who, angry, turned away and shouted:
"Enough!" - and he hit the ice.
Shira stopped, slipping, terrified about captain's expression, apart that all crewers stopped to look at her.
"I... I'm sorry, captain." - She sighed. - "Your first mate bothered me."
"Who, him?" - He noted Squint. - "Haha no, no, I don't believe it."
"Captain, he did this to me!" - She said, noting her ear. - "I don't know how to do to stop it."
"Ah, simple". - Raz said, who came jumping.
She was brought two strange little, flat bones with strange colors to be bones. With violence, she held Shira's head, and with strength but without careful, she put that bones in her scars as earrings.
"Hey, be careful!" - Shira complained.
When Raz let her go, Shira examined her ear, and passed one finger between the bones.
"And what is suppose to be?" - She said. - "It hurts!"
"Now, it'll stop bleeding." - Raz smiled. - "You're welcome, mate." - and she had gone.
"But I must coexist with this the rest of my life?"
"If you pluck them, they'll start bleeding again, it'll have no case!" - Squint laughed with mood.
"Depart, you did enough!" - She growled.
"How did you talk to me?" - Squint whispered, angry.
"Ash" - She retired to continue doing her chores.
At night, Shira was ready to sleep when Flynn pushed her with his fatness.
"Hey, what's up with you?" - She said with nuisance.
"I'm sorry, orders." - He said, gently.
"Which orders?"
"The crew must sleep inside."
"And inside is?"
"There" - He said noting the ice.
Shira looked, stunned, that huge ice 'cave', so she dodged Flynn for walk to Gutt.
"Captain, can you do an exception, don't you?" - She said.
"What?" - He growled.
"You see, I..." - She tried swallow her nervousness. - "I never had slept in the ice."
Everyone exactly, started to laugh. Shira crouched her ears, distressed, because she didn't know why they were laughing.
"Aw" - Squint sighed sweetly. - "The sweetness little girl has cold!" - He became serious. - "We're on the Ice age, mature!"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm a girlie, and whatever you want, but don't-remember-it-to-me." - Shira said growling. - "I don't need you saying thins I know, and first, I don't need listen to you."
She gave them her back, and went to lie at the same place. Gutt approached to her in strides and growling, when he hit the ice again with strength, breaking it a bit.
"Obey!" - He shouted.
With sadness, Shira passed him walking, crouched because she felt scared. She followed the crew, who entered in the ice cave.
Shira's POV:
All were sleeping separated, but I slept more far away, I didn't know them and I wanted to sleep totally separated, specially away from that rabbit and that nasty pork. My life were a mess, tigresses were right. I left a pack where I was treated badly, I joined a violent saber and now I was forced to be a pirate, and I wasn't accepted. They all were unknown, and I was away from my truly home. I hoped not having to roam the sea forever.
When I had slept deeply, I dreamed a very strange dream: I was happy as a pirate. I was everyone's friend, specially Gutt's, until all that happiness (my new true home), was interrupted by a family. I did not distinguished them well, but I hated them. But something weird happened: I started to hate Gutt and the others, because one guy told me about a family, not a pack. I left with them, and when I did it, I started to feel satisfied and cheerful. Was they my birth family?