Treasure

Carl:

If I die today. I'm going to die with rum in my hands.

He turned and looked at the navy ship. It was huge.

He turned at the youngsters.

"Move men. All hands on deck!" He yelled

People started swarming on the deck.

The captain came up and started speaking.

Chris:

The captain started shouting out orders over the roar of the navy galleon's cannons, "Prepare for combat, lad an' lasses! Navy prefers us alive to make examples of. This won't last much longer!"

The other ships cannons roared again, and the captain grabbed Chris and pulled him aside, "Size 'er up, Bosun. What do you think?"

Chris squinted, "Two decks, I'd guess at it having seventy four guns. Looks like we really got on the navy's bad side if they're sending something like that at us."

"Can we outmanoeuvre them?"

"I doubt it. It's not so big that we could do that, and besides, we're better off trying to close. If we spend too long alongside them, there won't be much left of our ship."

The captain nodded, even as the two ships drew closer together. The galleon's cannons fired again, tearing holes through the deck and killing several more crewmen. "What are our odds?"

"They'll have around seven hundred to our four-fifty, minus losses on both sides. We'd be better off letting them board us, they'll be used to more space than they'll have on our ship."

The captain grinned at him, drawing his sword, "Good man, Chris. God knows what I'd do without a good bosun." He turned walking off even as the ship rocked beneath him, apparently unaffected, "First mate! Get everyone ready to be boarded!"

Chris drew his own cutlass and looked up at the galleon again. Despite what he'd told the captain, he didn't like their odds. Then he froze, Velna! She's not even armed! He ran belowdecks again, looking for the hostage.

Carl:

The galleon, crashed on their ship.

Carl was with the cannons, under the deck.

He was about to jump into the other ship when 10 men behind him came and asked "Carl. What are you thinking."

Carl smiled "Aye lads you are just what I was looking for. Folow me."

"We can't jump over that, We'll drown"

"Jump." Carl looked confused. "Who would be so stupid to jump over that?" He looked at the ten men "I have a rope under ther... look"

The ten men bend over to look from the small cannon hole, when Carl pushed one of them. The man flew to the other ships cannon hole.

"Lads... You can jump it.. and you will jump it." Carl said smiling, with a slight threath in his voice.

The men gulped and jumped, Carl came behind them.

"What now?" Carl looked at the man

"We blend in."

Velna:

Velna looked around for some sort of weapon when she heard the fighting get close to where she was. She bit her lower lip and looked instead for a hiding spot. SHe ran onto the deck and towards the crows nest. She was about to it when a pirate she had never seen jumped in front of her with his sword drawn. She started backing up her breathing heavy.

"Hello, little missy!" He smiled. She shivered at his smile and started to back up. She turned on he heels and started back towards the cabin, but there were several people in her way fighting. She spun back around and looked at the pirate. He was moving closer to her.

Carl:

He and his companions had stolen some navy clothes and were now walking, steadily.

Carl and the other walked to the captains door, there were guards.

The guards stopped them.

"What is your bussines with the captain?" Asked the guard

Carl showed his (or the persons he had stolen the suit from) cordinators mark. The guards let him and his companions walk in.

When he was in he met more guards and a flok of officials.

one of them (propably the captain) lifted his head. "Who are you?" He asked suspisiously

Carl drew his muscet "Your death." He pulled the drigger.

Chris

"Hello, little missy!" He heard the voice just as he was returning to the deck, and saw one of the pirates advancing on Velna, sword drawn. He started forward, trying to get to her but finding his way blocked by the fighting. With a growl, he brought the pommel of his sword down on the head of a naval soldier and pushed another one out of the way, reaching Velna just as the pirate did.

Chris' sword swung into the way of the pirate's blade, then his free hand closed into a fist and he punched the surprised man square in the jaw. The unknown pirate staggered backwards and hit the mast, slumping against it, unconscious.

Chris drew his second sword and offered it to Velna, "Sorry I'm late."

Velna:

Velna swallowed. "Ya, thanks." She managed to push out. "He was a pirate right?"

"No, Navel officer." He replied.

"Oh." She nodded and clutched the sword. "Can I tell you something?"

"Sure." He said looking around.

"I don't know how to use this." SHe replied.

Chris:

He laughed despite himself, he hadn't thought of that. She gave him a hurt look, and he looked away, "Sorry. I wasn't laughing at you." He shrugged, "Just swing the sharp edge at someone. But if you haven't been trained in swordplay, you'd be better of trying to avoid getting into a long fight. Try one of these, instead." He handed her a pistol, "It's easy, just point, keep you hand steady and shoot. But stick with me and I'll try to make sure it doesn't come to that."

Velna:

Velna nodded and staywed with him. She held hte gun in one hand and hte sword in the other. She suddenly froze. "That's my dad's ship!" She gasped.

"What!" HE growled.

"That's my dad's ship, I was taken off of it a few years ago by another ship before someone took be form them, then someone on this ship took me here." She replied.


**I forgot she should probably know how to use a sword. Oh well**

Chris:

"Ah, Christ." He muttered. Things were less predictable now, after all, she'd spent a long time on board their ship, and one of the naval officers had shown her a pretty bad side, but at the same time, family ties almost always remained strong. He turned back to her, "Whose side are you on?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Are you going to fight for your father, or for us?" He paused for a moment, "For me?"

Velna:

"Chris, my dad was killed when they took me. They killed him in front of me." She said tears rolling down her cheeks at the memory. "But that is, well was, his ship!"

"Still..."

"I'm staying here, they would treat me like trash, Chris." She said. "It's a navy saying that if a woman is left on a pirate ship for over a year, even if it is several that she should be treated like...like a whore." She said swallowing. "I rather stay."

Chris:

He looked horrified, despite the stories most people heard of pirates being barbaric, most of the pirates on their ship took a dim view of that kind of behaviour, and Chris more than most of them. Like a whore...?

"Son of a bitch!" He shouted, to no one in particular, drawing his pistol and firing it into a navy soldier.

Velna:

Velna swallowed hard when he got mad. "Sorry for making you mad." She said softly as he shot another navy soldier. She felt someone grab her from behind and she tried to scream but a hand was clamped over her mouth. She tried to shove her sword back at him and he dropped it. She couldn't move her other hand so she just fired into the air hoping to get Chris' attention.

"Stupid, whore!" They navy soilder holding her hissed.

Chris:

His sword whipped out and sliced through another navy soldier's throat, "Bastards!" Then he heard the shot, spinning around again to see Velna being dragged backwards by one of them.

"Stupid whore." The man hissed, shoving her back into the arms of another two soldiers, who started dragging her up the boarding ramp to their ship. The man who'd captured her lifted his sword into a guard position, and Chris leapt forward at him.

Sparks flew from their swords as they clashed, the officer a better swordsman than Chris had expected. Not so good that he'd last, but good enough to hold him off while his friends pulled Velna back to their ship.

Chris' free hand drew his last loaded pistol and fired it into the soldier's stomach, making the man double over in pain as Chris pushed him out of the way, running up the ramp after Velna.

Velna:

Velna struggled tears rolling down her face. "LET ME GO!" She screached as she was shoved into a cabin and tied up a gag shoved in her mouth.

"Listen, we know you were kidnapped, I remember your father. But sense your fighting we have to tie you up." One hissed.

"You don't have to explain anything to the whore, she'll probably not last until we reach the next shore anyways." The other growled. Velna whimpered and curled up.