"Alright!" The evil captain slammed his mug down on the table after he took a
swig of his rum. Jace, his crew, and Cindy were all sitting at a large table across from
the evil captain and his four crew mates. There was so much tension in the air that it
was almost tangible. Everyone who sat at the table each had drinks. But Jace and his
crew and Cindy hadn't touched theirs while the evil captain and his crew mates were
chugging away.
"So, you're all wondering why I'm here. Well, I'm here to talk to Jace." The evil
captain gestured his mug towards Jace, causing the black rum to swish back and forth
smoothly in his mug. Jace perked up his head sharply and gave attention to the evil
captain with a stressed look.
"Why do you need to talk to me?" Jace asked with his voice cracking.
"I need to talk to you because you've been causing a lot of trouble for me, my
fellow other captains, and The Shadow. You went to a very important island, found and
took the thing we've been looking for for months, and destroyed a good portion of our
men and destroyed tons of valuable resources. The Shadow has been on my ass to find
and talk to you. And also to find this Port too. I've been patrolling these waters for
weeks and couldn't find anything until The Shadow alerted me that one of our ships
entered unmarked waters. So I went to check it out, and I found you and the Port!" The
evil captain said with prideful confidence.
"That's all you wanted to say?! Why was finding Port Savvy so important to The
Shadow?!" Cindy asked with frustration. The evil captain took the last sip of rum in his
mug. He slammed his mug down again and shook the table. He swallowed his rum with
a gulp and spoke with a smile.
"Remember when I said I just wanted to talk? I lied." The evil captain lifted his
right hand and lifted two fingers up, his index and middle finger. He then gestured them
forwards and pointed towards Jace, his crew, and Cindy. After he flicked his fingers,
everyone could hear a rumbling explosion and the sound of whistling cannonballs. The
evil captain used a silent incantation spell and commanded all of his loaded cannons on
his ship to fire at Port Savvy and the ships in the harbor. The ground shook and
everyone in the Pirates Guild except the evil captain and his crew mates fell to the floor.
Another loud rushing sound of artillery could be heard approaching the Pirates Guild
and a blazing fast volley of cannonballs ripped the roof off of the Pirates Guild, sending
debris, glass, and wood everywhere throughout the building and surrounding area.
"Let's do this, Jace! Let's see what that cutlass can do!" The evil captain taunted
Jace as Jace, his crew, and Cindy got up from the floor and got ready to fight.
"That's it! I've had enough of you!" Jace yelled out in anger. Jace's crew were
also pissed off and so was Cindy. They all grabbed their weapons. Cindy grabbed a
dagger she had hidden on her thigh. Casie grabbed her dagger angrily from its sheath.
Flamett furiously generated the brightest fireballs she had ever created in her hands
that burned with her anger. And Thrasher pulled out both his cutlass and saber at the
same time with such force it caused sparks to fly. Lastly, Jace grabbed the handle of his
cutlass. It started to glow a rich gold glow and hummed with angry energy. It was almost
like the cutlass was reacting to Jace's emotions. Jace ripped the cutlass out of its
sheath with extreme force. The cutlass riveted the very fabric of the air around it as it
swung, causing waves of energy.
"Ooh! That thing looks powerful! But you can never beat me!" The evil captain
shouted as he too, unsheathed his cutlass that hummed with intimidating power as well
and glowed a crimson red. Beside the evil captain, his crew mates also unsheathed
their weapons.
"Good luck with these guys! They're my first mates and my best fighters!" The
evil captain exclaimed.
"You guys handle the first mates! I'll take the evil captain!" Jace said with a
commanding tone.
"You got it Jace!" Flamett said in agreement.
"Leave them to us!" Thrasher stated with confidence.
"Once we've beaten these guys, we'll come help you finish off the evil captain!"
Casie said with enthusiasm.
"Let's do this!" Jace yelled as he and the evil captain lunged towards each other
at sound breaking speeds. Jace and the evil captain clashed blades and a massive ball
of explosive golden and crimson energy filled the Pirates Guild. Jace's crew and Cindy
got down behind a table, and so did the evil captain's crew mates. The ball of energy
spun and swirled aggressively until it swiftly exploded and destroyed an even greater
chunk of the Pirates Guild by disintegrating most of its walls and rooms. Jace and the
evil captain were flung to a field by the explosion and landed close by BOOM!
"Wow! That cutlass of yours sure does pack a punch! I thought I was gonna lose
that clash!" The evil captain complimented smugly.
"You were a pain back home! And you're still a pain here!" Jace shouted.
"So you do remember me." The evil captain commented.
"You put me through so much in school! I'll never forget the ways you humiliated
and picked on me!" Jace yelled as a raging golden hue of flames surrounded him,
originating from his cutlass. As Jace and the evil captain stood in the field, ready for
another clash. The evil pirate's ship's cannons could be heard and seen firing at the
Port and the ships in the bay. Explosions could be heard all throughout Port Savvy,
leaving behind wakes of destruction. After another ground shaking explosion hit the
Port, Jace and the evil captain leaped at each other in blurs of speed. With teleportation
like motion, Jace and the evil captain traded equally powerful, air rippling blows that
flashed with golden and blood red radiance. Their blows rapidly spread across the field
they were in and the explosions could be heard all throughout Port Savvy. As they
continued to fight, Jace's crew and Cindy were dealing with the four first mates the evil
captain brought with him.
"Ye landlubbers don't stand a chance!" The taller of the four first mates taunted
Jace's crew and Cindy. The four evil pirates smiled and drew their weapons as they
stood in the rubble of the Pirates Guild. The tallest evil pirate, who wore a red bandanna
and a pitch black jacket with a beat red undershirt, drew a large saber from a sheath
that was on his back. The two averagely tall evil pirates who both wore matching black
hats and classic pirate jackets with red undershirts, similar to Flamett's, both whipped
out two daggers each and got ready to fight. And the last evil pirate, who was the
shortest of the four and wore a brown jacket with a blue and white striped undershirt,
drew a cutlass and got into an attacking position.
"I got the taller one." Thrasher said confidently.
"Sounds good Thrasher. Flamett and I will take the two twin looking guys." Casie
stated with courage.
"Right!" Flamett agreed strongly.
"And I'll take the shorter one!" Cindy shouted.
Thrasher, with his saber and cutlass at the ready, instantly leaped at his target.
But his target did the same and they clashed mid-air and seemed evenly matched. They
sent sparks and gusts of wind all throughout the room and were both flung to the
opposite ends of the room after their clash. When they landed and got ready to fight
again, they shared a confident smirk and started to both dash around the room slashing
at each other, sending more sparks and bursts of wind everywhere with each clash of
their blades. For a second, everyone watched in awe, but quickly regained their
postures. Flamett, who had angry and blindingly bright red spinning fireballs in her
hands, locked eyes with her enemy and his confident smile quickly disappeared.
"Take this you scumbag!" Flamett yelled as she started throwing relentless
fireballs at one of the evil pirate twins. It didn't take long, but she was chasing her target
around the room while throwing fireballs. All the evil pirate could do was run and deflect
the fireballs he couldn't dodge with a frantic look on his face while sweat dripped off of
his brow and chin.
"Looks like it's my turn!" Casie said excitedly and started to announce an
incantation. She grasped her dagger, held it above her head and said. "Wind, come to
my blade with your power. Form bullets of piercing energy and force!" Right after she
said those words, wind came rushing into the destroyed Pirates Guild and surrounded
her dagger in a cylinder of raging wind. She pointed her dagger at the other evil pirate
twin, and insanely fast bullets of cutting wind shot at her target like bullets from a gun.
The evil pirate twin confidently dogged them. He started to make his way towards Casie
and danced through all her bullets of wind. Casie started to get worried as the evil pirate
twin closed the distance between them. As Casie got more stressed, she started to get
more frantic with her shots and they were going everywhere around the evil pirate twin
until he leaped at Casie and clashed his daggers with hers. When their blades collided,
the evil pirate's daggers interrupted the wind on Casie's dagger and sent an explosion
of wind all throughout the Pirates Guild. They both held each other at bay with grunts of
effort in a lock of blades that caused sparks to ignite with each grinding inch of their
daggers.
"Ye think ye can beat me with yer wind?" The evil pirate twin stared sharply into
Casie's eyes and challenged her.
"Grr, you think, hmph." Casie tried to talk as she grunted with fatigue. "I can't fight
with a dagger? Grr, I can fight without my magic. Let's see who's better." Casie returned
his challenging stare with an intense and focused stare that surprised the evil pirate
twin. After they exchanged words and stares, they flew away from each other with a
loud ring of steel and leaped at each other again. Trading blows and clashing evenly,
sending sparks onto the floor.
"Ye don't stand a chance against me!" The short evil pirate shouted at Cindy as
he approached her.
"I think you might be in over your head here mate." Cindy said with a smile as
she approached the short evil pirate as well. They both met each other, both in ready
attacking positions. Cindy towered over the short evil pirate, she was about two feet
taller. The short evil pirate looked up at her as she stared at him with a confident smile
and a readied blade.
"Ye are a lot taller than I thought… but I won't let that stop me!" The short evil
pirate jumped up at Cindy's face and swung his cutlass with strength but was stopped
instantly in mid-air by a wall of defense. Cindy blocked his attack just before it hit her
face with her dagger. She almost made no flinch of strength when she blocked the short
evil pirate. The short evil pirate fell onto the ground as he lost all his attacking
momentum.
"Oh shit…" He said blankly as Cindy flung her arm back to swing at him with her
dagger. "I'm gonna die!" The short evil pirate closed his eyes and held up his cutlass in
front of himself just in time to block Cindy's strike. Cindy struck the short evil pirate's
cutlass with such insane force and strength that his cutlass was thrown from his grip
and he was flung to the wall, making it crack when he smacked it. He opened his eyes
while nervous sweat poured down his face. Cindy smiled at the short evil pirate with a
cheerful smile and leaped at him from across the room with speed. The short evil pirate
closed his eyes and covered his body with his arms in protection, but he didn't feel a
slice or a hit. Not even a nudge. All he felt was a rush of wind and heard a loud clanging
of blades. He opened his eyes slowly and was shocked to see that the taller evil pirate
had come just in time and blocked Cindy's attack with ease.
"Oh my word! Thank ye mate! That was too bloody close! Where's the guy ye
were fightin'?" The short evil pirate asked his comrade.
"Look to yer left." The taller evil pirate said as he sent Cindy flying across the
room with a strong deflecting parry. The short evil pirate looked to his left, and in the
center of the room on a broken table was Thrasher, who had a deep and bleeding cut
across his torso from top to bottom.
"Hey! Good job mate!" The short evil pirate complimented.
"It was no problem, we were decently matched, but I ended up on top." The taller
evil pirate shifted his attention back to Cindy who was back on her feet and ready to
fight again. "Now for ye." The taller evil pirate quickly lunged at Cindy and they both
started clashing blades in flashes of sparks and flurries of wind.
"Get back here!" Flamett was still chasing the other evil pirate twin and he was
still frantically deflecting her fireballs everywhere and dodging them.
"Oh my goodness! Ye're crazy you know that!" The evil pirate twin shouted as his
hair was being signed by all the close calls he had with Flamett's fireballs. "My daggers
can't take much more of this either!" The evil pirate twin's daggers started to almost melt
from all the fireballs he had been deflecting, they were glowing a hot red and were at
their limit.
"I know I'm crazy! And I love it! Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!" Flamett laughed out loud in a
crazy manner and kept on throwing fireballs.
"My daggers are gonna melt soon!" The evil pirate twin said out loud, but it was
his lucky day because the last fireball that his daggers could repel, deflected one of
Flamett's fireballs back at Flamett. Flamett's eyes grew big with shock and she was hit
directly with her own fireball. She was sent flying and was instantly burned and got
knocked out.
"Holy moly, that was close!" The evil pirate twin said to himself as he panted and
wiped sweat off of his forehead.
In blurs and flashes of speed, skill, and sparks, Cindy and the taller evil pirate
were still clashing and fighting each other until they both locked blades.
"Look around ye! Ye can't win, One of yer friends is about to lose! And Ye've lost
two of yer other friends, and both of them need healin' right away and ye're the only one
who can heal them." The taller evil pirate taunted Cindy as she struggled to hold him off.
"Looks like you've got me at checkmate huh? I'll play into your hands, but only
this once." Cindy, with the last of her strength, flung the taller evil pirate away and yelled
out a healing incantation. "Light of the earth! Fill this room and mend what needs
mending!" Golden particles all of a sudden filled the room with a flurry of radiating light.
They swirled beautifully like a galaxy and bathed the injured who were in the room.
Thrasher's cut healed just enough so that the bleeding stopped, but he still wouldn't
wake up. And Flamett's burns healed, but she also wouldn't wake up. After Cindy said
the incantation, the golden particles slowly fell to the ground and she fell to her knees in
exhaustion along with them, and with the last of her energy she shouted at Casie.
"Casie! You need to leave while you can! Get Jace and leave Port Savvy!"
"What?! I'm not gonna leave you guys!" Casie shouted as she and the evil pirate
twin locked blades again in a fuse-like flurry of sparks.
"You have to! Don't worry about us, just leave and regroup!" Cindy said and fell to
the ground unconscious with the rest of the golden particles as they dwindled and
dimmed to darkness.
"I guess I have no choice, if I stay I'm just going to be defeated. I need to get
Jace so we can figure something out to win." Casie thought to herself as she started to
conjure some wind. "Wind! Come to me and share your power!" Caise shouted. And as
she did, some rushing wind came into the Pirates Guild and surrounded her in a funnel
of fury. The evil pirate twin she was fending off got flung away and she jumped as hard
as she could. With a burst of air, she launched upwards through the broken roof of the
Pirates Guild and into the sky. She launched upwards above Port Savvy and noticed
with worry that it was decently destroyed by the artillery of cannon fire. She also noticed
the two ships in the harbor that were defending Port Savvy, were sinking with smoke
billowing from them.
"This isn't good. How did this happen so fast?! And where the heck is Jace?! I
need to find him!" Casie was floating in the air with a funnel of wind surrounding her.
She heard loud and deep explosions coming from the field where BOOM! was in. She
directed her attention to the field and saw golden and red bursts of light with every
explosion she heard.
"There he is!" Casie put her arms above her head as if she were going to dive
into some water, and she shot towards where Jace and the evil pirate captain were
fighting.
"BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!" Jace and the evil captain's blows were getting
stronger with every hit, each explosion sending even more powerful shockwaves
through both of them and the earth, shaking the rocks that were buried deep in the
ground and cracking them. Jace could feel his bones rattle with each strike he blocked
and threw at the evil captain. But every time Jace got angrier and put more strength into
his swings, the evil captain's swings and blocks got stronger, and Jace was starting to
not be able to keep up with the evil captain's strength. Jace and the evil captain leaped
at each other in another flash. They locked blades and sent a pulsing shockwave
through the air and the evil captain spoke to Jace haughtily.
"You won't be able to win this Jace! Port Savvy will be mine!"
"I can beat you! Don't get ahead of yourself!" Jace yelled as his anger started to
get more intense as he remembered getting bullied in school by the very person he was
fighting now.
"You just don't get it do you?" The evil captain said with a smirk. "Your anger is
just making you lose." After the evil captain said that remark, He made a snapping
forward thrust on Jace's cutlass and sent Jace off balance, the evil captain flung his arm
back and swung at Jace's waist with extreme speed and force. But Jace just barely put
his cutlass in the way of his strike and was sent flying by a mind blowing explosion of
crimson and golden energy. Jace was knocked out cold as he slid and rolled on the
ground, leaving an indent in the ground where he slid and rolled, as if a plane had
crashed landed in the field. Jace stopped rolling and tumbling and laid motionless on
the ground, still clutching his cutlass and the sheath in each of his hands, the cutlass in
his right hand and the sheath in his left hand. The evil captain slowly walked over to
Jace with a smile on his face.
"I knew I'd win, even when we first started fighting. Now to finish you off!" The evil
captain raised his cutlass above his head with two strong hands and swung a powerful
strike at Jace, but he ended up not hitting anything but the ground and it cracked with a
deep breaking of rock with his strike.
"HUH?!" The evil captain exclaimed in upset. He looked all around and finally up
to the sky and saw a young girl carrying Jace as she flew away. Casie flew in at mach
speed and scooped up Jace right before the evil captain could land his hit. "No matter,
you can live this time Jace, but I have a feeling you'll be back to save the rest of your
friends. Until next time. But for now, I have work to do." The evil captain smiled to
himself, sheathed his cutlass, turned and walked towards the smoldering and smoking
remains of Port Savvy as the sun started to set in beams of intimidating reds and
oranges.