The sea, blue as the sky and inhospitable as hell, many souls were lost in the ocean since time immemorial, man furrowed the world thanks to the water, but humanity was not the only one, for thousands of years, the gods ruled the earth, Poseidon was the god who decided to stay with the water and turned the sea into his little world, he did not like humans, so he decided to create monsters to kill them.

— Kill the humans and close from my waters!

The monsters that Poseidon created were so powerful and so merciless that thousands of men were victims of his voracious fangs, the other earthly gods were angry with the god of the sea and created an amphibious beast as big as an island, a titan called Nautilus who ended up with Poseidon.

The gods, after finishing with Poseidon, let humans take over the waters, time passed and man, besides controlling the land, now controlled the seas with the arrival of the golden age of piracy.

My name is Larry, and from the age of 14 I decided to become a buccaneer with the sole purpose of following him, the number one enemy of the Spanish and British crown… the only pirate who could get the heart of a mermaid, the great Captain Oliver Pie.

— Captain, the ships are ready to sail! — I informed the captain as he was in his room getting ready.

Captain Pie, was in his room sharpening his two cutlasses and preparing his pistols, he was very calm to be the target of the most powerful crowns on the planet, many believed that the captain was a monster, others that he was a hero, but for me, he was just a man to whom I was inspired.

— Thank you crewman Larry. — The captain takes a small bag of coins and tosses them to me kindly.

— Sir… Why are you giving me money? — I said, shocked to see the fourteen gold coins, more than any buccaneer earns.

— You're a good boy. — The captain walks towards me and asks me something I didn't want to do. — But I want you to quit.

— What! — I gave him back the money. — I can't do that, sir, I refuse, I want to serve you, I want to be a hero like you.

The hero with the white hood, that's what they called the captain, a simple man who fought for freedom and justice, I wanted to follow him to hell, the captain was freedom for my family and the other Caribbean islands, that's why I refused to comply with his request. —

Little Larry, today we will face the Spaniards in an inhospitable battle and I don't want a child

to die.

— Sorry captain… — I took my dagger – but I am not going to die, I want to fight with you, let me do it.

— You are very foolish, you remind me of me when I first picked up a sword. — the captain lowers his head and sighs. — all right, if you want to come then do it, but you are not going to fight, you will only serve as support, understood?

— Yes, sir!

— Then let's go.

We walked to the deck of the ship and all my companions and crew saluted the captain, like faithful soldiers in front of their leader.

— ATTENTION, CAPTAIN PIE IS ON DECK!

Everyone raised their eyes to the captain who stood out because of his white hood, his white suit, his leather boots, his sabers were as shiny as silver, his pistols were made of metal and his gaze was so penetrating that we even seemed to serve death itself.

— Gentlemen, today our blood will be spilled, the taste of death will be on our lips, pain, dread, suffering, and fear will consume us, but that does not have to be a bad thing, because you know perfectly well that it is a very fair price for freedom, our freedom. We are pirates, but we are also free! Our swords will form a future for our families! I want to die in a world where there are no monarchies that starve us to death, the British, and Spanish crowns want to end our home and our freedom, but we will not let them, we will die in battle than live in injustice… Today will be an important day for the freedom of the island of Bourbon!

The captain, having finished his speech, takes his sword and raises it upwards and when he did, the sea celebrated with him, small waves and drops of water, rose to the top, just like our fighting spirit, the Spanish, and the British have always hunted pirates for trivial reasons, but pirates are not simple thieves or murderers, in reality we were always men and women tired of tyrannies. Today we were going to attack Spain where it hurt the most.

— Captain! The Spanish ships are 200 meters away, ready to attack! — I shouted to the captain from the lookout's nest.

— Ready the cannons!

That day, the water was acting strangely and when we started exchanging shots, the water seemed to help the captain. The Spanish ships couldn't even move, the water was holding them back, but even though the Spanish ships were immobile, it didn't mean they couldn't fire their powerful cannons at us.

— Captain, the Spanish shells are massacring us!

— Don't be afraid, gentlemen, those Spanish galleons are nothing to us. — shouts the captain as he grabs a rope and unsheathes his sword.

And Pie, with enviable bravery, jumps onto the deck of one of the Spanish ships and single-handedly, without anyone's help, kills all the sailors. Captain Pie was so fast and agile that no one could even touch him, but even so, the other ships were going to beat us.

— Captain! The Spaniards are boarding us, we will not be able to beat them… — I said.

But there was a reason why Pie was known as the captain and the lover of the Black Sea, because his beloved was coming to the rescue.

— Easy boy, just let my wife take care of this. — The Captain replies as he puts away his swords and smiles a warm smile at me.

— Wife?

When Captain Pie said that, the sea began to shake, the galleons were lurching from one side to the other and I did not understand at that time what was happening, but, out of nowhere, all the Spanish galleons that were attacking us, were dragged to the bottom of the ocean, there were no shots or explosions, there was no noise, the sea simply swallowed those ships and their crews. My heart froze, and my body did not stop shaking, what happened?

— Captain, what did you do? — I looked into his eyes with fear.

The captain put his hand on my head and helped me calm down, what had happened was not normal, and he only responded by pointing me to his beloved.

— Calm down, I didn't do anything, it was her… — he tells me, pointing to a beautiful sea creature.

I looked at the ocean with huge confusion and when I did, I saw her with my own eyes, a girl, a blonde hair, a fishtail, she was a mermaid, but she was not only an common mermaid, she was the most beautiful mermaid of all, her face was like that of an angel and her hair looked like pure gold, she was wearing a costume of a warrior, and that same mermaid, she was the captain's wife who jumps on the deck of our ship and kisses Pie in front of all of us.

— she is a mermaid!

— a mermaid of the Black Sea!

— that's the captain's beloved!

— Sir!

The mermaid stops kissing the captain and returns to the ocean, we were all shocked, the legendary captain was not only the bane of European kings, he was also the lover of a black sea mermaid, a sea creature that could control the water at will.

— So she was the one who sank the Spanish galleons. — I said to the captain. — Who is she?

Captain Pie was a man of many secrets, some even thought he had fought the devil himself, but we never imagined that a human could be the lover of a mermaid.

— She is Libya, and don't worry gentlemen, that Black Sea mermaid is on our side.

— Impossible! Mermaids kill pirates… — shouts a comrade.

That was true, everyone knows that the number one predator of a pirate, is a beautiful mermaid, but the captain did not care about that, the songs and stories that warned of the dangers, did not stop him from marrying one of them.

— I understand your fear, but if you trust me, then you will understand that my mermaid is not a threat to any of us. - Affirms the captain as he removes his splendid white hood – now I want all of you wretches to prepare for the other battles.

Although it was a surprise to learn that a black sea mermaid was on our side, none of us refused the captain's orders, and we prepared for the other battles that awaited us, although I, for one, wanted to know her story.

— Captain Pie. — I called out to him as he looked out over the ocean with his spyglass. — You have a second.

— What do you want kid? — Pie asked me as he refolded the spyglass.

— I am very curious, my grandfather told me about mermaids and how dangerous they can be, how the hell did you marry one?

The captain laughed very loudly, he was so amused by my question that he couldn't hold back his reaction.

— HAHAHAHA! You remind me so much of someone, I thought he was crazy, too. — He wiped away the tears of laughter and seriously said a few words to me. — Love between a human and a mermaid is a hard thing to believe, but, she is not like other sea creatures, young Larry.

— But… they hate humans. — I interrupted him.

— I know, in fact, Libya has killed a lot of sailors, but, it's funny, I never thought I would be with her. — the captain answered me with a very nonchalant attitude.

— How is that possible? A black sea mermaid is a legendary creature, no human has ever survived her attacks… How the hell did he marry her! —

There… it's a long story, but, if you want to know how it all started… pay close attention…

"Are you ready?…"