Story by me.
Proof reading and editing by SeverinadeStrango.
Enjoy.
They soon reached the final cavern and began to enter the old halls.
"So I was wondering, how did such a pirate take custody of such a sweet girl?" Emmett asked Lasko.
"He didn't at first. When Isabel was a small child, her parents were lost to the Armada, leaving her to die in the wreckage that was left of the ship. By the time I got there to look for anything valuable that could have remained, Isabel was weak, starving and knocked out. She would have died if I haven't brought her in on the rowboat. Afterwards, I brought her to Ratbeard's' ship and smuggled her in. It was much later that Ratbeard decided to take her in as a cabin girl and taught her the ways of the pirates." Lasko explained.
"Now, after what Ratbeard did, she's losing her loved ones all over again." Egg Shen sadly explained feeling sorrow for the poor pirate.
"Ratbeard's going to pay for this." Bonnie growled as she punched the wall. She knew what it was like to lose someone, but Isabel lost a lot more at such a young age. Then, Bonnie hit her face on something without looking. "Ouch! What hit me?" The Sharpshooter rubbed her cheek.
"It is more like you hit it." Egg Shen stated as he pointed at something golden. It was an ancient golden door that was shut tightly.
On the floor was a ancient key that had been in the water for a short time.
"This must have belonged to the tribe members that took Isabel. By they way that is left it looks like they were in a hurry." The Monkey Conquistador assumed as she picked up the key.
"Well, let's not wait to have them do this 'ritual' they are planning." Lasko ordered as they used the key to open the door. They soon charged into the unknown world. It was a endless tunnels that seemed to be filled with those of the Dino tribe.
"But I thought their world was destroyed by the witch, Morganthe. As well as those poor souls who inhabit it." Egg Shen gasped as they heard a whistle from an old man. The crew crept silently, trying not to be detected by the hostile Raptor Gloomtrackers.
"Y'all people from the surface?" The prospector asked the goose student as he held his elbow.
"Yeah-" Bonnie answered as the man began to chuckle like a madman and dance around. Lasko covered his mouth to be sure that the Raptors don't hear him.
"Sir, please be quite or they'll hear you." Lasko pleaded as he released him.
"Sorry, y'all. But being cooped up with these man-eater critters is driving me bonkers. Like how I'd be seen another delusion of a little lady being tied up by those tribal varmints." The prospector chuckled madly yet quietly.
"That wasn't a delusion. That was our friend being taken. Which way did they go?" Egg Shen asked the lunatic.
"I can get ya to their hideout, but ya need to get something for me. I've been here searching for gold for fifty years and I don't know how to get out of this snake's den. Get me out of here and I'll point ya to the right direction." The crazy old man offered.
"Alright, but then you lead us to the crooks that took Isabel." Lasko sighed as they were ready to defend the prospector. As they were helping the old coot get pass the Dino Tribe, their path was block by the raptors.
"Oh no! Them varmints came back to gobble the rest of me!" The old man cackled as he ducked for cover, hiding behind the crewmembers.
"Looks like we need to fight. You stay behind us, we'll take care of the Raptors." Bonnie ordered as they fought between the Dino Tribe.
Isabel felt horrid. Physically and emotionally. Her three friends and brothers were gone and Ratbeard had killed them. Ratbeard was like a second father to her, next to Lasko. She didn't even have strong memories of her real parents. She had always thought that Ratbeard was a good guy and would have done anything to help them. But he had just slaughtered Manny, Moe, and Jack for a couple of coins that might not exist.
The source of her physical pain was still a mystery to her. What happened to her? She traced back to what happened after she fled from the crew in distress. Isabel then remembered that the sharks ambushed her and gave her pet her favorite hat so her crew would pay for her return. She would have to make a note to beat the heads of every cutthroat later. But now she needed to re-piece the memories that she had forgotten.
Wait, the cutthroats were beaten. They were ambushed too. By a group of guys that she had never faced before. So what happened afterwards…?
Isabel soon felt the darkness lessen as she soon felt some of her strength return to her. The young Quinn girl opened her eyes to see that she wasn't in Skull Island anymore. She was tied up and being carried to a strange looking temple by the allegedly extinct Aztecans. She thought that they had been wiped out, but it seemed like they were able to survive.
"Hey, who are you guys?" Isabel asked one of her captors. He let out a growl and kept moving. "Hello. Not even going to speak to me. Not even a 'welcome to our island, we have you as prisoner' or 'you trespassed on our land and now you must be sacrificed to our all knowing god' or something like that." The Quinn girl wondered as she was getting on their nerves.
"Shut her up!" On the tribal members commanded as he gagged her.
"As for you. You'll know soon enough. We well need you to claim this land as ours and many like it." The commander cackled as they moved forwards towards the temple.
