Chapter 4: Captain Acorn

I've got nothing much to say, sooooooooo…

lets get to the story.

At Castle acorn, the detectives were helping out King Acorn and were just about finished when Elias (King Acorn) asked them about one of his ancestors.

"Do you know my ancestor named Captain Acorn?" he asked them.

"No, the name doesn't even ring a bell." Vector answered. The other two detectives shook their heads no as well.

"Oh then you must hear the tale, please come to the living area." Elias Acorn said as he motioned them to follow him.

The living area was quite massive, it had huge pictures on every wall and in the back, there was everything you needed to make tea or hot chocolate or whatever. Closer to the front of the room were two huge sofas and a couple big easy chairs with a nice black big coffee table with an oval shape. at the wall closest to the sofas and easy chairs was a fire place. And when the detectives looked up, they saw a pull down flat screen TV. The walls all had a reddish-orangeish color with so many bright lights on the wall or lamps lining the wall. Elias Acorn sat down in an easy chair and asked the detectives to sit down on the sofa beside him.

He started "Well, hundreds of years ag….". "Wait," Charmey interrupted. Everyone turned towards him. "Is this going to be a scary story?" Charmey finished with a nervous look on him. Elias guaranteed Charmey that this wasn't a scary story.

Elias started again, "Hundreds of yea…". "Wait," Charmey interrupted again. Everyone looked at him again, Vector though, was beginning to look ticked off. "I'm thirsty," Charmey finished.

"I'll make tea, does that work?" Elias asked. The three detectives shook their heads yes, Charmey shook his with a little more desperate look than the others. He came back a minuet later.

"It'll be a little bit before it is done so I'll start the story." He stated. Everyone looked at Charmey.

"What?" Charmey asked, confused.

"Have anything else to say before we start?" Espio asked.

"No," answered Charmey, a little ticked off.

"Ok, then," Elias said, "Hundreds of years ago, closer to the first King Acorn, there were two brothers. And one of the two ended up becoming king. The other however was not mad or jealous in any way. He was happy for him and ended up becoming Captain of their navy. At that point they were about the strongest in the world and the kingdom under the rule were safe from any attack from countries across seas."

He stopped, because the tea was finished he got up and left for a minuet. The three detectives waited patiently for him to come back. Soon, Elias came back with four cups and a bowl on a tray. He handed each detective a cup. When that was done he asked if anyone wanted sugar. Charmey immediately raised his hand and shook it eagerly till Vector grabbed him an said, "You don't need anymore sugar, Charmey. You just had five ice cream cones on the way here."

Charmey got free of Vector's grip on him, and said with an upset look on his face, "Fine, one scoop please." and was served.

"So, you were saying," Espio asked Elias.

"Yes, ok." Elias answered. "When it was time for the king to pass the throne to his brother, Captain Acorn, Captain Acorn refused it and let his brother keep the throne."

"Wow," Vector said, "Imagine that, giving up all that luxury."

"It definitely would be hard to say no to that offer." Espio chimmed in.

"Not for Captain Acorn," Elias said. "He said no like he was sure about it. You see, Captain Acorn loved the seas. He loved a sailing ship like it was his home and child. A while later, Captain Acorn did not feel like running the kingdom's navy, so he told the whole navy crew that he was going to retire and sail and anyone who wished to come was obliged. After all that was through Captain Acorn took one of his favorite ships, and sailed off.

Captain Acorn soon became a pirate, he did not, however, attack ships for his home kingdom or its allies. Captain Acorn visited his kingdom and family every once in a while too. Captain Acorn always turned toward adventure and always jumped for a fight. He always came through with very little or no loss to his crew. Soon he became the wealthiest pirate known."

"Amazing," said Charmey. "You know, I always thought of pirates as big scary people with a long beard, a hook for a hand, an eye patch, gold teeth, and lots of treasure, but your captain ancestor seems really cool."

"It gets better," Elias said, "the ending is a mystery, which is part of the reason I wanted to tell you guys."

"Go ahead and tell it then," Espio said.

"Alright," Elias said, "In his late years, Captain Acorn knew he was to die soon, and he didn't want greedy people to get hands on his fortune, so he some how hid all his money in secret, people suspect that his crew helped him hide the treasure. Legend has said this riddle, 'For my treasure if you wish, use the key from my stitch' and so far, no one have been able to solve the riddle yet."

"COOL," said Charmey, hopped up now on the sugar.

"Captain Acorn is the main reason I wanted to be an adventurer," Elias said.

"Well," Espio said, "we can help you find the treasure, we'll just need time."

"Follow me," Elias said, "I'll show you his grave"

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The king and the detectives had arrived at the grave of Captain Acorn, the riddle Elias said was engraved on the grave along Captain Acorn's name and how long he lived. The grave was kind of a cross between a casket and a grave, it was above ground and more of a caveman bed with a lid than a grave.

"I don't see anything here," Espio said. "Did he have any stitches at all?"

"No, not that I know of," Elias answered.

"Well," said Vector, "do you know of anything that ties Captain Acorn and a stitch together?"

"We can look in the castle library." Elias replied.

"You know maybe there is some sort of secret passage under the grave," Charmey guessed.

"I doubt it," Vector mentioned.

"Yes there is," Charmey chimed.

"No there's not," Vector said back.

"fine, but if there is a secret passage under the grave, you owe me five bucks."

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The castle library was pretty big, it even had a second floor to reach all of the books. Everywhere were bookshelves, tables, ladders, and chairs except for one area, which is where lots of artifacts were kept or hung. One everyone admired was a blanket that was handmade, it had every color thought of all jumbled together.

Soon everyone was looking through books. "None of these books help," Vector noticed. But kept looking through them anyway. After a while he took a glance up and saw Espio standing in the middle of the artifact section. Staring at the handmade, rainbow blanket.

"Something is odd about this blanket," Espio said.

"Wadaya mean by that?" Charmey asked, hovering beside him.

"I'm not sure, but it feels like there is more to this blanket," Espio answered.

"Hey look," Charmey pointed out, "there's a plaque." Indeed it was, a plaque that hung on the wall to the blanket's right.

It read:

Ancient Mobian Egyptian Coin

Time era: unknown

Maker: unknown

This coin and million others were the currency of the ancients of Egypt, unlike our money though, the Egyptians didn't have paper money and used gold, silver, and copper to make the coins.

"Charmey, you idiot," Espio said. "The plaque is on the other side."

On the plaque to the left, it read:

Handmade blanket

Time era: unknown

Maker: Capt. Acorn

Capt. Acorn handmade this blanket in his late years. People found this wonderful blanket in a case. We took the blanket here and hung it up and took out the glass.

"King Acorn, come over here," Espio yelled into the big room.

Elias soon appeared and walked in their direction, with Vector following.

"Yes, what is it?" Elias asked. Espio answered "Do you know anything more about this?" pointing at the blanket.

"Yes," Elias said, "it was made by Captain Acorn. He had no help at all, he made every single stitch in that."

Espio's eyes grew wide. "That… that's it!" he exclaimed. He started feeling all over the blanket.

"What are you doing?" Elias asked.

"Captain Acorn's grave said 'find the key in his stitch', and he hand stitched this whole blanket, the key is in here!" Espio explained. Ehen he started to pull something out. When Espio finally got it out, it was a key.

"This has to be the key to his fortune," Espio said.

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Back at the grave, Espio slid the key in. "Moment of truth, guys," he said as he started to turn the key. As he turned the key, a little cabinet opened on the other side off the grave. Everyone looked at it oddly.

"THIS is huge fortune?!" Charmey said surprised and a little disappointed.

Vector tried to pull it out but it was jammed, he was pulling as hard as he could and the grave started to slide.

"S-stop! You're moving the grave!" Elias called. "No! Keep going!" Espio yelled.

Soon, Vector was pooped, he was catching his breath on the grave, huffing and puffing. What he didn't know was that when he pulled the grave, he opened a secret passageway.

"Whoa!" said Charmey. "It is a secret passageway. Hah! Pay up Vector."

"ohhhhh… fine." said Vector, grumbling, and handed Charmey five dollars.

"Come on!" Espio said, "lets get going."

"I've brought a list of everything Captain Acorn has hidden," Elias said. "Just in case anyone stole something.

The four of them walked down the winding stairway to a room with treasure galore. The detectives were speechless. The treasure shone brightly and lit the whole room with its laminating glow.

"AMAZING!" Charmey said. "WE'RE RICH!" exclaimed Vector.

"Oh NO!" Espio said. "Were too late" pointing at a huge hole in the wall. "They must have dug in here and stole something."

Elias said, "There are a few things missing."

"What is it?" Espio asked.

"Seven large diamonds about the size of the chaos emeralds, a little bigger."

"Beware!" someone said in a spooky tone, the four of them turned around and saw a ghost! It was about the king's height. And looked like Elias. Only he wore an eye patch, pirate hat, and a pirate's uniform. It was Captain Acorn.

"Beware," the captain said, "horrible things are going to happen. You must never let it fall into evil's hands! I warn you, you must stop them, there is not much time left!" then he disappeared.

"What was that all about?" asked Vector.

"The people that broke in here must be the one he is warning us about," Elias suggested.

"I don't thing so, said Espio, "I think he is warning us about something bigger."

"Wait a minuet," said Charmey, "do you guys hear a snake in here?"

Everyone got quiet and listened too.

"That's no snake, Charmey," said Espio with a worried tone, "that's a fuse."

"Everybody out!" Vector yelled in alarm. Elias was the first to leave the room, followed by Charmey, then Espio. Then Vector left the room.

About a fourth of the way up, a huge explosion took place destroying the treasure, the room, and working its way up the passageway, the detectives could feel the strong shockwaves and could barley run up the stairs. Charmey didn't have as much trouble as Espio and Vector though, because he can fly.

"We better get moving!" said a worried Charmey. The four of them dove out of the passageway with less than a second to spare, cause the Explosion was so close, that even when they dove out, Vector's tail got fried.

"Ow ow," said Vector, patting his tail.

"Man, that was close." Charmey mentioned with a relieved look on his face.

"All of Captain Acorn's treasure, gone," said a depressed king.

"Why would someone do that?" Espio said, "And just what was Captain Acorn's ghost talking about?"

"I don't know," said Vector, "but I got a bad feeling that were gonna find out soon."

*dramatic music* alright, end of chapter 4, I hope you all enjoyed it.

Elias Acorn is a character in the Sonic the hedgehog comics by Archie comics. And if you read them, you'll understand. Captain Acorn is a character I created.

I don't know how many chapters yet there will be in this story and it might be a while till the next chapter comes out because I'm working on another story that is not published yet. See ya next time readers.

Stay cool.