"Wings" Chapter 2

   The wind rocked the ship back, and forth. The waves crashed up against the hull of the ship, lulling most of the crew to sleep. A woman paced back and forth, across the captains quarters. A big Brown pirate hat, rests on her head, a scarlet ribbon is tied around her waist. A white ruffled shirt is draped around her shoulders. She grabs her head out of frustration. She walks over to the door, and out onto the deck of the ship. She moves over to stand by the railing, overlooking the sea. She takes in a deep breath, smelling the saltiness of the sea breeze. The sound of footsteps can be heard from behind her. Alarmed at the sound. She reaches for her sword, holstered by her side. The steps continue.

   "Four Feet away, three, two." She quickly, pulls her sword out of its scabbard and points it at the mans throat.

   "One." She instantly recoils, after seeing it was her first mate. Belphor. 

   "Well, aren't you a bit jumpy today?" 

   "Oh, sorry Belphor. Its been a long week on the sea." She winces as she rolls her shoulders.

   "I think most of the crew would agree to that." He moves over and stands next to her, hands in his pockets. Quiet overtakes both of them. Until a high squeaky voice rings out 

   "CAPTAIN, ISLAND STARBOARD BOW!!" A voice shouts from above, She looks to the left side of the ship to see a set of lights. A smile lights up her face. "Wake the crew up Belphor, we have an island to explore!" 

He smirks and walks over to the hatch on deck, with heavy footsteps. 

   "ALL RIGHT, You lazy shipwrights!! Get up, we have a Island to explore!!" A commotion can be heard coming from below the ship, along with a series of shouts. She runs over to the ships wheel, and turns it 180 ͦ  degrees to the left. Making the ships right side kiss the ocean, and salt water to slash on deck. After all of the crew gathers on the deck and a few orders had been relayed, by Belphor. She orders all of the men to stand on deck. 

   "When I say for you to be ready at anytime, I mean it." . All of the men look at her with fear in their eyes. "I'm known as The Scarlet Queen for a reason, you know." She smirks as the men drag off the dead body and throw it over board. "And that goes the same for any of you, If you fail to complete my orders. Now, back to your stations." The men walk back to their stations on the ship. She walks back into her quarters, and walks over to the chest in the room. And grabs the key from her hip, and opens up the chest. Maps over flow from the chest, some tumbling to the floor. She opens a few of the maps, discarding them after looking at a few of them. She picks up the sixth map, opens it up and smiles. She runs over to a stomach high table and spreads out the wide paper, she pulls out a compass.  

   "Hullcoorte. Sounds like a nice place to stop by and restock." She smiles as she walks back out on deck and looks to the Island.  

 "What's the name of the island?" 

She looks back at the crew, and smiles. "The name of the isle is Hullcoorte! We will stop here to restock! And to have some fun!" the crew roars in agreement.