Chapter Twenty Four

"Care to tell us why you're looking for him?" Ian asked the girl.

"Simple," the girl stated, "my boss told me to find him and bring him to her." She stated bluntly.

"And why do they need to see him?" He asked.

"I dunno really. I was just told to find him."

"Well he isn't here right now," Mia said joining in on the conversation. "So I guess you're gonna have to wait."

"That's fine with me," the girl stated, "I've been here all day so far."

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With Shayne and Kan in the town:

"Look we're sort of in a rush and need to get past here," Shayne said as he tried to squeeze past the two girls.

"Like we said before," the younger girl said, "we can't do that!" She then took out a knife from her pocket and tried to attack them.

"Woah!" Shayne said dodging it. "Why're you attacking me?"

Then the other girl shouted down from on top of a building, "Hurry up Aby! I've already got the other one!" She yelled down. Shayne then noticed that she had taken Kan captive and was holding him under her arm.

"Kan how'd you get caught so easily?" She asked.

That was when he didn't notice that the girl had went up behind him and knocked him unconscious.

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Back on the boat:

The crew had all went up onto the deck and begun doing what they usually did waiting for Shayne and Kan to return. As the young girl just stood there watching them walk around.

"Hey what's your name?" Scout asked as she jumped in front of her to face her, with Barry right behind her.

"My name?" She asked.

"Yeah," Scout said introducing herself. "My name is Scout. What's yours?"

"It's Penny," she replied under her breath.

"Well Penny," Scout began, "tell me something about this boss of yours. You seem to have a high respect for him."

"My boss..." she began. "Well, how do I put this, we're actually a crew of pirates. And boss is our captain."

Then Yousef came up and couldn't help but overhear their conversation. "Hey your boss is in charge of pirates. Doesn't that make you a pirate too?" he asked.

"Well, yes it does," she replied.

"Then what makes you think that we are gonna let you get anywhere near Shayne!?" He asked while shouting, this also drew the attention of everybody else.

"What's this about another pirate crew?" Blade asked as he walked up.

Penny then shot up from her sitting position, "NO! NO! That's not what I mean!" She said. "Our captain just wants to make an alliance with you guys, that's all!" She said.

"Really?" Blade asked.

"Yes! Really!"

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