The roar of the beautiful blue ocean was calming, and the warm light from the sun, beamed down on the crew of the pirate ship Adventure Colly. The Colly was a Brigantine with about twenty-five cannon in total and two mortars in the front.
Flying from the rafters was the flag of Sekivo, a black flag with a pentagram on it.
Lying with his feet kicked up on the table, was infamous pirate captain Ragnarol Werz, a stocky Dwarven man with a leather coat with multiple pistols strapped to it.
Captain Werz was nearly sleeping on this peaceful day when one of his crew members shouted.
"Ships! Two of em! One a Pirate Ship and one a Royal Navy ship!"
Captain Werz jumped up onto the table and in a haste he pulled out his spyglass.
Sure enough there were two ships docked off the coast of a small island. One was a pirate Sloop-O-War with torn sails, a broken mast, and smoke coming from the deck.
The other a Royal Navy ship Brig, with no damage at all.
"They're fighting on the beach Captain!" Another sailor yelled.
"Dock the ship boys and prepare for combat!"
The swarthy crew of Pirates grab their cutlasses and pistols.
"Pirates on me!" Captain Werz yelled mere moments before diving off the side of the ship, into the shallow waters on the shore, dozens of men of his crew followed suit and jumped into the shallow water below.
On shore a group of around five pirates stood their ground against about fifteen soldiers. The leader of the pirates was a pale white guy, with jet black hair and all black clothing.
The leader of the Soldiers was a man in a green colonial like officers uniform with a powdered wig on his head.
"Lay down your arms and submit! You're outnumbered pirate!" The Leader of the soldiers shouted
"Damnation seize my soul if I give you any quarter or you take any from me." The Pirate Captain retorted
"Then you have chosen death, gut them boys."
Right as the captain finished his sentence, the unmistakably loud sound of a gun firing was heard.
The captain's body immediately went limp and fell to the ground. Dead as a doorknob.
Completely shocked the soldiers turned to the shore to see Captain Werz and his pirate crew charging onto the beach.
The second in Command of the soldiers raised his sword and shouted.
"Kill them all men!"
The soldiers reached for their pistols, but ever quick to the draw, Captain Werz began to blast the soldiers with his pistols. Around six of the soldiers fell dead from gunshot wounds.
Then the pirates on the beach began to attack the soldiers. A massive melee broke out, one of the soldiers ran his sword through one of the pirates bodies unleashing an unstoppable flow of crimson liquid.
One of the pirates swings his sword and slashes a soldier's throat wide open. Showering everyone in gooey red blood.
Werz's crew made it to the beach and rushed the shore, impaling the soldiers on their swords.
In his dying breath one of the soldiers uttered.
"You'll never be forgiven for this crime. The guillotine is your fate."
After all the soldiers are dead, Captain Werz meets the pirate captain of the other ship.
"Lad you're lucky we stopped to help you or you'd be worm food by now. What have you done to get the king's men all riled up?" Captain Werz said
"Lucky! I didn't need luck. When you're the greatest pirate captain ever luck is not a necessity." The pirate captain boasted
"Greatest pirate captain ever you say? What led you to belief, Captain?"
"Where are my manors, Captain Moby Sly of the ships, Justis and Ravenger."
"Justis you say? The name of the Angel Queen?"
"In no relation to that bitch."
"Hop aboard my ship Captain Sly. The stench of blood covers this beach. We can discuss matters away from here."
The pirates looted the bodies of the dead then packed their things and went back aboard the Adventure Colly.
At the Quarterdeck (back of the ship where the wheel is) both Captain Werz and Captain Sly sit at a table as the Colly sails away from the island.
"It's sad leaving those two ships behind." Captain Werz said referencing the two ships
"Both ships were beached. There was nothing we could've done." Captain Sly commented.
"So what was that back there?"
"A wonderful tale of action and bravery. You see my and my two ships attempted a daring raid on the Royal treasure convoy."
Captain Werz was in stunning disbelief once hearing this. Knowing the Royal Treasure Convey would be heavily guarded.
"You have balls of steel if the tale you spin is true. Not even the likes of Black Bartis, would attempt such a suicide mission." Captain Werz laughed in stunning amazement.
"Daring aye, Me and my two ships, barely made a dent in the ships armor before the convoy escort chased us away. We split up, and as usual I escaped." Captain Sly boasted once more
"So where's your other ship?"
"No idea, but Kalice is in charge and I trust her to not die."
"Guess we better find your other ship so this day isn't a complete loss for you."
"Aye, I last saw the Ravenger near off the Coast of Beber."
"We'll set a course then."
The Colly turned around and sailed towards Beber,
When the ship arrived off the Coast of the Island, the crew aboard were met with a shocking sight. A massive fog, with dozens of Royal Navy ships around,
"Ships captain! Three brigs, up close and two frigates off in the distance."
The man in the crowsnest announced.
"Looks like your shenanigans have brought out the entire fleet." Captain Werz said
"I can hardly control myself. This is the danger I live for." Captain Sly spoke
"You'll die because of it if you aren't careful. Crowsnest keep and eye out for the Ravenger, and helmsman keep a steady pace and steer clear of the enemy ships."
The nice warm atmosphere of earlier is now replaced with a more eerie one
The dense fog blocks out much of the sunlight and in the distance you could make out the masts of distant ships patrolling the parameter.
Eventually they spotted the smoldering remains of a Sloop-O-War, slowly sinking below the waves.
"Is that the Ravenger?" Captain Werz asked
With nothing but dread in his eyes and voice Captain Sly answered
"Indeed."
"Looks like her crew has been claimed by Achelete."
Just then coming out of the fog, the brig with very light to moderate damage and a blood soaked deck approaches the Adventure Colly.
"Beat to quarters men!" A random crew member shouted seeing the ship approaching.
Just as they were about to fire, the voice of a woman shouted out.
"Hold your fire boys! We fly the flag of piracy."
Moby Sly's mode immediately changes to ecstatic hearing Kalice's voice.
"Captain Sly is that you? We thought you'd be at the bottom of the Ocean by now." Kalice said
"That detachment was no match for me." Captain Sly boasted again for a third time.
"I was able to capture this prize because the fog obscured their view. Didn't even see us comin. I named her the the Ravenger."
Then Captain Werz butted in asking.
"Why'd you scuttle the first ship."
"Because we couldn't name them both Ravenger silly. That would be confusing." Malice answered
Out of nowhere the man in the crowsnest shouted
"There she is the main treasure ship!"
Everyone looked off the starboard bow to see in the dense fog the ghostly enigma of a Man-O-War slipping below the horizon.
"With two brigs we could take her for sure." Captain Sly said
"We'll need a plan first. We can return to the Pirate Isle to plot our next move." Kalice replied
"But the ship will get away."
"We know where she's headed. It won't be hard to track her down again. To Pirate Island, follow my lead."
At the Sailor's Inn on Pirate occupied Derzy Island: Kalice, Moby Sly, and Captain Werz all stood around the bar counter looking at a piece of paper that Kalice took out of her pocket.
"There are three ships carrying treasure, the HMS Magic a frigate, the HMS Fortress another frigate, and then there's the mother of all loot. The HMS Opus named after high king Opus himself, a Man-O-War." Kalice said.
"When you guys attacked they split up. So we'll have to attack one and let the other two go." Captain Werz said
"Obviously we go for the big one."
"And how do you suppose we do that? We're outgunned."
"Captain Werz is it. Don't you sail with the likes of Black Bartis, Alexa the Gunslinger, and Sergei Hankock?"
"Yes but I fail to see how any of that helps."
"Black Bartis uses brute force and brutality to subdue his opponents, Alexa uses her fierce accuracy to scare her opponents into submission, but Sergei, Sergei outsmarts his opponents, and that's what we're gonna do."
Moby Sly butted in saying
"And how do you propose we do that?"
"We sneak up behind the ship, use our chasers to disable their rudder, and use gatling guns to rip their sails apart. We'll be able to board pretty easily then." Kalice answered
"That plan sounds lame." Moby Sly said
"Well your plan nearly got us both killed." Kalice retorted.
Moby Sly just scoffed in annoyance
"It's a good plan, should make it an easy steal. Let's go." Captain Werz said.
Later that day they catch up to the HMS Opus, the Opus sailing for the Island of Antosa in the far south, from the deck of the Adventure Colly the Opus appears to be sailing into the beautiful sunset.
Beside the Adventure Colly is the Ravenger, and with both of them is another ship they brought along, a Sloop-O-War called the Heartless
Looking through the spyglass Captain Werz shouted.
"Full sail!"
All three ships gathered every inch of sail soaring towards the Man-O-War ever confident of their chances of winning.
Onboard the Opus the Captain of the ship looks out of the Stern with a regular soldier beside him.
"Look Captain it's the Adventure Colly and the HMS Wilbern, stolen just today by those pirates that attacked us." The soldier said
"Fire the mortar! Sink them all to the bottom!" The captain shouted
The deck of the Opus roared to life as the six heavy mortars on the ship began shooting hot leaded explosives into the beautiful bluish pinkish sky.
Onboard the Ravenger newly elected Captain Kalice shouted,
"Mortar! Hit the deck!"
The mortar shells splash all around the ships causing mass panic to the crew. Still the move forward.
On the deck of the Adventure Colly, Moby Sly now ousted by his crew stands next to Captain Werz.
"Forward boys! Let's send them all to Achelete!"
As they got even closer the Opus the rear chaser cannons of the Man-O-War opened up with a fiery volley.
The cannonballs flew wildly at the three ships, all of them missed but when they hit the surface of the water they exploded into a ball of fire so hot, the Heartless caught fire just by sailing near it.
"Damn should've known they'd have enchanted cannon. C'mon boys! Abandon Ship!" Said Captain Tamos is the Heartless.
The Adventure Colly sailed up to the Heartless and let it's crew climb aboard.
Captain Tamos was the final one to jump aboard.
Captain Tamos was a black man, with eyeliner around his eyes, dreadlocks and a leather black jacket.
"Good to have you aboard Captain." Captain Werz said
"It's good to be aboard." Tamos said in reply.
Now the two ships, and three crew came even closer to their prize, the rear chaser cannon fired a few more times to no avail.
"Fire!" Kalice gave the order
The front chasers of the Colly and Ravenger come to life, firing multiple chain shot rounds towards the bottom of the ship towards the rudder.
When multiple cannonballs hit the rudder they smash it to pieces, ruining any chance of the ship steering.
With the rudder out of the way, the pirates turn to the sails.
The pirates roll out the gatling guns which look like cannon, except they have many holes in the front for multiple lead balls to fly out of. They rolled the guns to the front then lit the fuse.
The guns fire off from the bows of both ships, five of each on both ships, the ten guns aimed towards the sails guide the hot led balls into the sails of the ships. After half of a minute there is almost nothing left of the sails.
The pirates then board the ship with no resistance from the crew knowing they were beat.
Kalice walked up to the Captain and said
"We'll be taking all your gold, and your silver and everything that's not nailed down."
"Why do you need to rob us? Your father is a wealthy nobleman. You're rich."
The group of pirates gasped as Kalice pistol whipped the captain in the face.
"Rob em blind boys!" Kalice shouted
The pirates immediately forget what they just heard and begin literally taking everything that wasn't nailed down. They pat down the soldiers and sailors and take anything they have on their person. They take the gold from the ships under deck, and wait for six more pirate ships to arrive to help carry all the loot away.
That night on the beach of Derzy, everyone is celebrating their steal, drinking, fighting, whoring, smoking, and pissing wherever they please.
Moby Sly who was almost too drunk to even stand grabbed Kalice by the arm and said
"Come dance with me darling, everyone else is doing it."
"In a minute." She said
Moby Sly fell out on his stomach after that, vomiting out of his mouth as soon as he hit the ground.
Captain Werz who was sitting next to Kalice the asked
"So about what the captain of that ship said earlier."
"Don't." Kalice answered
"Is it true, are you nobility?"
"What he said is partly true, my father is a wealthy nobleman, but ran out on my mother before I was born, so no I'm not rich."
"Which Nobleman?"
"Henry Ruppal."
"Not a very good man, there exists no one in Oceanlandia that doesn't want him dead."
"I don't want him, well I don't know what I want from him."
"Does he know his daughter is a pirate?"
"If he doesn't he will once word gets out about who just robbed the kingdom."
Captain Werz smiled and before he took a chug of his liquor he said
"Till we meet again, Kalice."