The room filled with a haze from the fire that engulfed the rest of the ship. The smell of burning wood and flesh permeated the room, the room rocked violently as it was struck with cannonfire and splinters fell to the ground around Rizi.
She tried to jiggle free of her chains but couldn't do it. The sound of metal clashing against metal, gunfire and men screaming drowned out any of her cries for help. Yet she still tried.
"Help!" She screamed at the very top of her lungs.
Soon the sounds of fighting ceased and were promptly replaced with the sound of cheering. The door to the room was kicked in by two men with guns.
"Take whatever's in the cargo hold lads." One man said.
The man in front was a muscular man who wore dirt boots and pants, he wore no undershirt but had a leather jacket on. He was bald and had an eye patch but his head was covered by a captain's hat.
He walked up to Rizi and glanced at her figure.
Looking up from her black wedge boots, he looked at her nice olive colored legs and bare breasts which were in a black leather bikini. He looked up to meet the gaze of her ocean blue eyes.
"Well well well. I didn't expect eye candy when I took this ship." Captain Gillion said.
"Don't just stand there, untie me." Rizi demanded.
He drew his cutlass and slashed the chains from off of her hands.
Be pulled her up as she nearly stumbled over again.
"Thank you." She said,
"The names Gillion. Captain Gillion." He said
"Rizi, Rizi Dr Grundpra."
"What are you doing in the cargo hold of a privateer ship?"
"I've been here for months. I was captured when they raided my ship."
"A pirate? I thought so."
"Yeah, I sailed with Captain Jalkan. They attacked us and for some reason only spared me."
"I think I know the reason why." Gillion laughed as he looked at her once again.
Rizi pushed away from the man. She pushed her long curly black hair out of her face and began to walk up the stairs. She looked up the staircase to the near blinding light and assaulted her eyes. She hasn't seen the sun in months and the light gave her the worst headache she could ever imagine.
She slowly made it up the stairs battling the blinding bright light and made it onto the ships quarterdeck. The first thing she did was accidentally step in a pool of sticky gooey blood. She blocked the sun with her hand and she could make out the deck of a ship being littered with mutilated bodies.
Many of the slain men wore white coats military coats which appears red due to them being drenched in blood. She stumbled onto the ships wheel and laid her head down for a bit to deal with the headache.
"Drat they freed the prisoner." One man said.
Rizi looked up to see about a dozen white coat men kneeling on the ground being held at gunpoint by a few pirates.
Rizi, under the influence of rage, got up and powered through her headache to walk towards the men.
"You bastards killed my crew, you imprisoned me!" She shouted
"You deserved so much less too." One of the men replied.
Captain Gillion walked up the staircase to see Rizi barking at the men.
Gillion walked up to her but whatever he was about to utter was interrupted when one of the men aboard shouted.
"Enemy ship! It's the Flaming Justice!"
A lookout said.
Gillion's heart dropped to his stomach as he looked out over the horizon to see a red corvette off in the distance with bright orange sails.
Rizi nearly fell over.
"Who's that?" Rizi asked in terror.
"It's a pirate hunter who has been hunting me for quite a while. They've found me!" Gillion shouted.
He reached for his cutlass and asked Rizi.
"Have you ever captained a ship class?"
"No, I was just a regular crewman on my last ship." She said,
"Well get on the helm and try your best!"
She looked at the men kneeling on the ground, the men who had held her prisoner and killed her crew.
"I need you men to help me captain the ship." She pleaded.
"Fuck off." The man who caught her attention originally said.
She looked at a corpse a few feet away and saw a pistol in the fallen man's hand. She grabbed the pistol and shot the man in the head.
The other men looked in shock as their colleague fell dead.
"Anyone else want to talk to me?" Rizi demanded
The men all shook their heads in disagreement and she cut them all loose.
"Any one of you try anything to escape and I'll cut you to pieces! Now beat to quarters!" She shouted.
Gillion and his men ran over to his ship which was docked right beside hers and they then took off. Rizi ran to the bridge collecting weapons from the slain on the way. She grabbed two cutlasses and in her haste noticed a pistol lying next to a hook that was still attached to some rope.
She grabbed the hook and wrapped the rope around the pistol barrel and put the hook into the barrel.
"A grappling hook? This could come in handy." She said to herself. She reached the wheel and began to pilot it towards the approaching enemy vessel. Gillion's ship was around the size of two of Rizi's, he sailed a brig with a giant ram in front. Rizi's was a small Sloop OF War that had been damaged in battle and was now running with a skeleton crew.
She sailed behind Gillion as the Flaming Justice approached. As they got closer the Flaming Justice unleashed a huge wall of fire from the ship's bow which had a flamethrower attached. Gillion's ship met the brunt of the flames head on and went head on into it. The entire ship was then engulfed in flames and burning uncontrollably.
Men jumped from the side of the vessel prefering to drown than to roast. Gillion's ship managed to ramp the bow of the Flaming Justice, sending the front of both ships skyward.
Water sprinkled down on Rizi and her crew. Both ships splashed back down on the ground. Causing a wave which struck Rizi's ship. The wave nearly capsized her vessel, a crew man or two was thrown into the restless ocean water to drown.
She held onto the wheel and turned it. She looked at the Flaming Justice and noticed that its bow had been caved in from the massive blow. Over with Gillion's ship the game was done. The masts had begun to collapse as more and more men threw themselves into the water. A thick plume of black smoke emanated from the vessel as the masts fell onto the ship's stern. The masts crushed the back of the ship. The wreckage then quickly descended below the water. Survivors climbed aboard Rizi's ship, nearly overwhelming it. One pirate ran up to Rizi and said.
"Captain Gillion's dead. You're the captain now!" He shouted as he dropped with salt water.
The cannon on the Flaming Justice came to life hitting all around Rizi and her vessel. Vertical towers of water shot to the sky and fell down on the vessel. The blood from all the slain bodies was washed away as well as some of the bodies.
Rizi looked up at the Flaming Justice's masts and realized she could reach them.
"If I use my grapple gun I could get up there." She thought to herself. She pushed the pirate who ran up to her onto the wheel and said.
"You take the wheel."
She ran towards the side of the ship then jumped off the side. She fired her grapple gun at the masts and then soared into the air.
The crew of both ships looked in amazement at this sight and could barely believe their eyes. She landed on the top masts and looked down on the ship, she saw the scout in the crowsnest and pounced on him. She landed on him and stabbed him through the heart with a knife.
The men began to rush up the sails and rigging to reach Rizi. She looked down and saw the ships magazine. She grabbed the musket and steadied her aim towards the barrels and bags of gunpowder. She fired as soon as they reached her. The magazine exploded with enough force to rupture the deck of the ship. Flames shot not with enough force to knock Rizi to the ground and the pirate's off the rigging.
The ship torn in half and both sides began to rapidly sink. Rizi jumped off the crows nest and swan dived into the choppy water. She swam over to her ship which was cheering as they grabbed her out of the frigid water.
"That was amazing." One man said.
"A grapple gun? Who would've thought of that?" Another man cheered.
They gathered around her as some of the pirate crew took muskets and fired on the survivors of the Flaming Justice as revenge. The pirate she pushed onto the wheel walked up to her.
"Captain? What is your name?" He asked.
"Rizi, Rizi De Grandpra." Rizi replied.
"What do you want to name the ship?"
"I'll name it after my previous ship. The Black Spear."
The men cheered for Rizi as they sailed into the sunset.