"Captain." Said a big burley man with one eye as he came to stand beside the tall, skinny man with a funny hat, standing closest to the girls.
"Whata ya want?" Barked the man in a gruff voice. The two men put their heads together and whispered in low tones that the others could not hear for a few minutes.
The other men were gathered in bunches along the beach with their swords out, ready and nervous, as if knowing something would attack them.
Lacey's eyes drifted over the men, they all looked hard and weather worn. Some even had limbs missing which were replaced with pieces of wood. She tensed when one of the men looked right at their bush.
Soon the man that had addressed the man he had called captained barreled out orders to start going inland. Silvia rose but stayed low she began following the men as they started through the brush.
Lacey stayed where she was for a few more moments and then began following Silvia.
There was over 30 men stumbling into the forest, but they all stopped and stared in awe at the giant trees and different shrubs and plants of the forest around them.
"Stay alert!" Yelled one of the men leading the group. "There seems to be a path here!" Barreled out one of the men. "It may lead us to a monster!" Cried the big burly man beside the captain. "Follow it!" Barked the captain.
The girls continued to follow the men as they moved down the path heading in the direction of the lagoon.
The path went under their tree and as the men passed under it the girls jumped up into its branches and on up to the big limb that held the first floor of their hut.
Sitting down the girls watched them for a few minutes. "I wonder where they are going." Lacey wondered, to no one in particular. "I don't know." Replied Silvia. "but let's grab our spears just in case."
The girls moved up the tree and grabbed their spears. Climbing back down to the ground they continued following in the direction the pirates had gone.
They headed toward the lagoon at a run but still high on the alert. When they got close, they climbed up into a tree along the path. Just as they got into the tree, they heard voices and shouting.
The pirates came running down the path screaming and shouting tumbling over each other as if they could not get out of their fast enough. Pushing and shoving the tangle of men and their limbs flesh and wood was a sight to see.
It was a mad rush with pulling and screaming and pushing. Men tumbling over and scrambling over others to get down the path ahead of the others.
The girls looked up the path to see if they could see what had them in such a ruckus. As the last of them were running past Lacey let out a gasp at the sight of her dress flying through the air, fire hot red waving it's sleeves which had lengthened to their maximum length.
Silvia burst out laughing beside Lacey which caused her to start laughing too. The dress stopped at the sound of the girl's laughter. The girls climbed down from the tree; Lacey caught the dress just as it started to fade to pink and float to the ground.
"I didn't know you could fly!" She exclaimed as the dress faded from pink back to its original blue. Silvia stood beside her "I thought we were going to have to fight them.
I am going to make sure they leave." She announced, as she turned and headed down the path. Lacey grinned down at her dress "You are just full of surprises." She beamed and headed toward their tree.
She still needed to mend it from when she fell and got caught in that tree.
Silvia's senses were on full alert as she ran down the path to the beach, by the time she got there the men were already in their boats and halfway out to their ship.
She watched out of sight for a few minutes to make sure they did not come back. She had had a bad feeling all day and when Lacey had burst into her workroom to tell her a ship was coming close to the island she had panicked.
She stayed hidden as the last of the men made it onto their ship. With much shouting and noise, they got their sails up. As the Ship disappeared out on the great ocean Silvia headed back up the trail to their tree.
As she came close Lacey jumped down from the tree in her dress. "Are they gone?" She asked. "Yeah." Silvia replied. Lacey smiled down at her dress "I hope you don't mind that
I used some of your thread to mend my dress." She said, as she pointed to the nicely mended rip.
"Of course, it's fine." Replied Silvia. Lacey jumped back up into the tree. "I will grab a spear and let's go hunting for some dinner." She said as she disappeared into the branches.
"Okay." Replied Silvia. Soon Lacey was back and the girls headed back up the path towards the lagoon, animals came to drink from the fresh water stream there so all they would have to do is wait for a small animal to come and then they could pounce.
They walked in silence. Silvia lightly juggled her spear in her hands as she walked. As they got closer to the pond she was so focused on her hands and the spear that her foot caught, tripping her and sending her spear flying through the air to stab into the ground a few feet away from them as she fell face first in the dirt.
She heard a gasp from Lacey as she went down. Dazed, she quickly jumped back up, shaking her head to clear it from the fall. She quickly turned around to see what had tripped her.
She knew this path better than the back of her hand. She gasped at the legs sticking out of a bush bound at the ankles. Parting the bush, she gasped at the boy bound and face down in the dirt. Lacey was staring in shock at him.
Great, just what she needed was another person to be among and have to feed. Not that she didn't like Lacey, she had grown to love her like the sister she never had and she was glad for someone to talk with sometimes.
She quickly grabbed her spear from where it had stabbed into the ground, then using her foot she pushed the boy over onto his back and placed her spear at his neck.
She had never really seen a boy before, yes, she had seen and met men before, but never a boy. His face washed ashen white with fright and his big eyes with surprise.
She could tell he had not expected to see them, he had probably thought they were a monster.
To be continued-