A Lost Boy

Chapter 12

Gray and his friends weren't the only ones on the island who were starting a search. After another failed attempt at trying to kill the boy, Captain Hades had once again gone back to trying to find the location of Gray's secret hideout. He and his screw had scoured every inch of Tendrou Island and yet they hadn't even come close to figuring out where Gray and the lost boys hid. The constant failure was enough to drive the man completely mad.

"Blast that damnable boy!" He snarled while looking over one of his many maps of the island. "I've been trying to kill him for years and yet somehow he always escapes my grasp! How is it that a mere child can outsmart my genius and cunning."

"It's the world's biggest mystery Captain." Capricorn said. 

"It's irritating to no end! Oh I hate being irritated Capricorn! And I hate living on Tendrou Island! And I hate! I hate! I hate Gray Fullbuster!"

"With all due respect Captain do you really think it's healthy to obsess over a young boy for this long? After all what happened with your eye was an accident and it's not like what he did to you was without warrant." Capricorn explained. "I mean you did try to string him up by his neck. Pity you forgot he could fly and well one thing led to another as they say."

"Oh please I could careless for what he did to my eye. I mean it is irritating that I only have half of my vision but I got over that years ago."

"Then why such an extreme hatred?"

"How about the fact that because of him I'll be pursued by a bloody dragon for the rest of my life?!"

"Alright I won't argue you with you there. That is an understandable reason, but again he didn't mean to feed your eye to it. He meant to just throw it into the ocean, the beast was there randomly and swallowed it up."

"I don't care if he didn't mean to do it! All that matters is that it happened! Besides it goes much deeper than that. Just his existence torments me. Seeing his smug face, hearing that mocking voice, knowing that he was born."

"Is that why you tried to string him up when you first met him?"

"Obviously."

"But I don't understand. How can you hate someone for just being alive?"

"You wouldn't understand. No one understands my pain. Not you, not the crew, you're all too stupid to understand my pain. That's all my life is now. Stuck in another world, surrounded by stupid people, and taunted by that boy! I can't stand it any longer!"

"Are you getting dramatic?" Capricorn asked.

Instead of answering Hades went to the back of his quarters and returned with a loaded pistol.

"No stopping me this time Capricorn. This is it." He removed the safety on the pistol and pointed it toward his head. "Don't make a move Capricorn. Not a step. My finger is on the trigger. Don't try to stop me Capricorn."

"Oh not again." His first mate said rolling his eyes in annoyance.

"This is it. Don't try to stop me this time Capricorn. Don't you dare try to stop this time. Capricorn try to stop me."

"Come again?"

"Capricorn you better get up off your ass and get over here!"

"I'm coming. I'm coming."

"This is not a joke! I am committing suicide!"

Capricorn and Hades wrestled for the pistol. A shot rang out but no one was hit and Capricorn managed to get the weapon away from his captain.

"Don't ever frighten me like that." Hades said sternly.

"I'm sorry sir."

"What are you? Some kind of sadist?"