Welcome back my wonderful readers. We return to the tales of Bess and Nessa, (the names were coincidence). I hope all of you are enjoying the story. I understand it is starting off a bit mainstream, abducted by the Armada. But two pirates not just one? Don't worry I got my own spin to put on this. Now enjoy
LAST TIME
"Nessa, sometimes I wonder why I'm friends with you" I said rubbing my face.
"Because I'm pretty darn awesome" She said "But real talk, what were those?" She asked
"I don't know. The Armada is getting stronger, more powerful" I saw Nessa scowl
"I know. These guns you found should have taken 4 shots to take down that angel. But it took like 10. Something is wrong; we need to talk to Captain Avery."
"I should go home, I shouldn't be doing this" Ness grabbed my hand
"Hey Bess, you are a pirate. So were your parents. Nothing around here in this time is a normal death. I all but am certain the Armada is behind it. Please, I can't do this without you." I sighed
"Fine, but I am so going to regret it later."
We arrived on Skull Island after about 2 hours. As soon as Nessa and I got off the emergency boat. It fell down losing all of its magic, we didn't really protest it. Both of us were exhausted from the journey and battle. Both of us trudged away from the dock and up past the Life Fountain to go to Captain Avery's place. Just as we were outside the door I stopped Nessa
"Nessa, maybe we shouldn't" I said biting my nail. I was never the best at confronting people. Nessa sighed and took my hand leading me a bit away from the door.
"Bess, I know that you are nervous, but something's up. We need to tell Avery" I looked at Nessa; she never seemed so focused about something. I nodded
"Fine, but I refuse to say anything." I said plainly and Nessa smiled
"Of course" With that we walked into the office. Captain Avery's space was swarming with people. I suddenly felt very, very small. I walked closer to Nessa, as she pushed her way through the crowd. Stomping right up to Captain Avery Nessa looked at him.
"Captain Avery, we need to talk!" She shouted over all of the noise and Avery looked at her
"What is it what do you want" Avery snapped at Nessa and Nessa held her head higher.
"We just escaped from the Armada, we have very important news" She said as she followed Avery who seemed to not care what she had to say.
"On the run from the Armada, hmm? Well this is a pirate haven I run around here not a charity case. I don't hide just anybody. You want a place to stay and people to listen to what you have to say. You need to work for it." He said in a matter o' fact tone. I shrunk back feeling my face pale at the thought of fighting more of those creatures that were on the Deacons boat.
"What do you need us to do?" Nessa asked, always looking for a challenge
"One of my willful crewmen. A Buccaneer named Fin, stole a Jade Amulet from me. I need it back! Fin fled to Skull Mountain and roused the Troggies- now they're bombarding us! Get my Amulet back. Report to chief Rigby at the West Bastion. If you two are who you say you are, and you want to be pirates. You're going to need a shop. So I'll tell you what, you do this right and I'll give you BOTH one. You have my word of honor." He said before turning to his back to us. Nessa turned and grabbed my arm dragging me out of Captain Avery's quarters. Once we were outside and a safe distance away she looked at me smiling.
"So, do you want to get some sleep or go right now?" She asked. My eyes almost popped out of my head.
"WHAT! I don't want to go at all. You of all people should know that. I like being part of the background, blending in not barging out there for battle you know that." I said and Nessa blew a stray hair out of her face.
"Look Bess, you do the sneaking and grab the Amulet while I got this Fin guy distracted. I trained you, I know how to handle Buccaneer's" Nessa said with a smile and I rolled my eyes.
"Not like you can take me anymore" I mumbled underneath my breath "All right let's go" I said not even bothering arguing anymore. Nessa squealed.
"YES!" A blast was heard in the distance "Come on. We better hurry." We sprinted past people weaving in and out of the crowds. Suddenly someone shouted
"LOOK OUT!" Nessa and I ducked right as something flew over our heads. "Keep your heads down unless ye're looking to be blown to bits today!" someone said to us. I looked up to see a man standing he helped us up
"Are you Chief Rigby?" I asked surprised that I was the one asking.
"Aye! That'd be me, Blasted Troggies, they've gone mad, they have!" He said scowling to an island across the way. Nessa took a step forward.
"That's why we are here, we have come to help!" She said sounding as proud as ever. Chief Rigby looked Nessa and me over
"You two? I ask for help and the give me a bunch of newbies and two girls." Nessa scowled and pulled out one of her guns blasting another flying object out of the air in one swipe.
"Look here Rigby, Bess and I here single handed escaped from the Deacon himself. That blasted Avery won't listen to what we got to say unless we get a stupid Amulet of his back. You take the blessing you got or we go into battle without your orders!" She snarled at him obviously in a bad mood.
"You want to help? We need to stop this bombardment. Bonnie Anne is across the bridge, trying to teach the savages a lesson. You would do much better there. Plus the Troggies are the things blocking us to get anywhere near Fin. would need to take them out first" Chief Rigby said. Nessa nodded and turned to me
"Let's go" We took off across the bridge trying to stay out of the Troggies line of fire. Once we made it across the bridge we approached a fox that was shooting down line after line of Troggies
"STAY BACK YOU BEASTS!" The fox yelled as she shot another line down.
"HEY!" Nessa yelled over gunfire "Are you Bonnie Anne?" She asked the fox turned to her
"Yea, what's it to you?" She said in a bit of a bratty tone
"Chief Rigby sent us to help you with the Troggies, said we needed to wipe them out to get to Fin." Nessa said returning to snootiness
"Good, we need all the help we can get. That Fin, riling up ill these blasted Troggies, now they are mad as badgers. They raided us last night-took tons of our powder stores. We have been trying to fight back, but they are flinging our own supplies back at town. If you go soften them up a bit while I fix myself up I'll help you find Fin" Bonnie said gesturing to the cuts and scrapes she had. Nessa nodded
"Course, common Bess, we got work to do." I nodded and Nessa and I charged into battle ready to take down some Troggies.
Whew, that took a while. I hope you all enjoyed this episode. I love the contrast of Bess and Nessa's personalities in this story don't you? But don't you worry readers out little Bess will come out of her shell soon. Hopefully very soon. Feedback isn't mandatory but it is welcomed. WRITE ON!
