Chapter 8: keeping secrets for the devil

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   Jake follows closely to the red headed Satan child because he knew now Lucifer was not allowed to hurt him or let one of the sailors of Christmas past lay a finger on Jake, so help him God. When they reached the top deck of the ship there was a modern day pirate and a talking German Sheppard were conversing with one another.  The latter of the two gave Jake the look you would give if you farted in a elevator with one other person and hoped they didn't make a issue about it look across his face when the German Sheppard who went by Sheppard Davids but he said everyone just calls him "Davey" on account they didn't want to offend him by calling him his dog ethnicity name.

     As Jake closed his wide open mouth to turn his attention to the pirate human that went by "Skipper Jones " who said the long "argggh" with a different letter than an R sound but more of a I sound  before the start of each sentence. "Eyeeee howrs  tha  little Green Horn a riding for tha trip Mr. Ell?" The Skipper asked Lucifer." Should we ties shim from his little shoes up on da front to lead da way? Hady har har." The Skipper who went by Jones but corrected everyone and repeat it correctly and sounded like 'Jones says." And the Skipper wouldn't let anyone leave without saying it to the thick accented irishmans liking. "Shut your mouth Skipper before they will be needing to make you a mouth patch to go along with the eye patch I made for you."

  The talking K-9 said standing on its hind legs with its front paws on the wooden wheel without looking back. "Go make yourself usefull and  see that we leave port in less than five minutes or we will have to tell you how the trip was when we come back. "Eyeee but I can't leave the dock arnless its on da ship captain." He replied referring to the curses guidelines that limited him from either the ship or dock for eternity until such a time he is ready to give up his immortaltiy and take the final sleep and walk off the dock to his final end death or whatever stage is next for immortal pirates on their eternal journey.

  "Well I suggest you see to it that we make my deadline on time skipper."  the captain turned his head around but leaving his paws on the wheel with his tongue flapping as he panted. The skipper obliged and left. The captain turned to Jake and said in his native British accent " sorry about dat boy'oh. The skipper doesn't know how to show his manners eh." Jake just sat there perplexed and still in shock that he was speaking to a talking pirate dog that was going to be driving a Ship full of zombie immortal pirates taking me and Satan on a freaking fishing trip was hard a thing to swallow.

   Lucifer went on the deck to let the sun hit his pale skin and left Jake and Captain spot here to reminisce. "How can you talk?" Jake quickly released the elephant in the room. " Well boy'oh I guess I better tell yo before you have a bloody heat attack eh?" He continued "I wasn't always as handsome as I am right now, I used to look like you and I fell in Love with the love of my life and She turned me into a dog When I refused to not go on my Last voyage as a human." He said

  "Why did you not stay?" Jake asked. "Well telling a Captain of a Ship to give up sailing my boy is just the same as telling a doctor not to save someone or a reporter or journalist not to write the biggest story of their career. He replied as the skipper came in and gave the captain an "Aye aye" they were ready to set sail command. The Captain nodded his head to the skipper and let out a giant howl "Arrrrrrrr arrrrr arrrrrrrrrr" like a wolf would sound indicating full speed ahead. A second later the Ship felt as if a giant rope was tied to the front and a speed boat was tugging them rapidly through the open waters at a very uncomfortable pace for Jake.

   Lucifer returned to the deck with Jake and the Captain and sat down and pulled a pack of cigarettes out  and asked with the cigarette between his lips to the captain mumbling his request "do you mind?" The k-9 captain said "would you mind smoking outside? My smell senses have enhanced times a million since I became a dog and I hated cigarette smoke when I was a human." Lucifer nodded and walked back out into the bright sun and clear skies with 60 mph sea winds were making smoking impossible. Jake did see something kind of cool Lucifer could do and snap his fingers and a flame would spark from his index finger when he lit his cigarette. "If he wasn't the devil then that little trick with his fingers would be classy to a broad if one asked him to light their cigarette for them." The captain joked with Jake.

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