Jameson
The waters were rough and my feelings were rigid. I was out of my depth, that was for sure and I had a lot at stake. The princess had seen me and I wasn't sure if she would be sending out her army to retrieve me or get their boat back. I also didn't know how Violet would react to me coming to live with her, or if she would welcome me at all. Would I ever find her? I could only rely on the diary. I flipped it open as waves crashed against the shell of the boat. It was such an unfamiliar feeling being on unsteady ground and that in itself was unsettling. "I first found Suki in the depths of the ocean while on my travels. She came into my vision and my life in a moment of weakness. I was in rough waters and she came to my rescue. I had a family and a wife back at home that I had all intentions of coming back to when the time was right - but the time was never right. She swept me off my feet with her auburn hair and her dark eyes. She had shimmers of beauty on her tail as it reflected the sun and she captured my heart within it all. She made me forget about my family and head into the deep." I followed his coordinates right to the place where he found her. Every hope I had was spent on the possibility that her home was Violet's home.
Sleep was a sweet gift after the chilling winds on the ocean. I was rocked to sleep like a baby and enjoyed the dreams that were coaxed by the newfound freedom I had. My dreams turned wicked as I was stabbed in the chest with sharp metal. I shook my head and let my eyes fly open to stop the dream in its tracks when blood spilled out from my side. My eyes met with those of an untidy man with matted brown hair and torn clothing. A true pirate. After a few microseconds of realization that this t was actually happening, I gasped for air as the sharp object held me taught against the boat and the hard place he had me in. Until this moment, I hadn't experienced the true pirate life like the diary had spoken of. Besides a few storms, when I questioned if I would make it out alive, it had been pretty smooth sailing. "What do you want?" I panted. He held up the diary, letting out an evil chuckle, "This looks like a pretty good book." He mocked, waving it around drunkenly. I turned my eyes to my right to see a wooden boardwalk and a rusty shack. I had floated over in my slumber, unaware of the attack I was facing. "Give that back!" I swiped at him, revealing a dark husky voice that I didn't know was there. I had a fight inside of me and it took until now for me to see it. With the swipe of my arm, I was able to knock him off me, grab the book and fly to my feet. I wasn't going to use my magic here, but it was worth every bit of regret, to see the look on his face. I was eight feet tall, and towering over him. He stumbled backward at the realization that I could overpower him easily. I touched my side to heal the open wound and kicked him off the boat with a heavy foot, swiping his liquor bottle. He fell into the ocean with a splash and I got out of there as fast as I could. Just because I could overpower one pirate. It didn't mean I could do it again. And I was determined to do this without magic.
Paddling away from civilization, I headed back toward the ocean. When I was a safe distance away, I took a swig of the drink. It warmed my belly instantly. I held the bottle up above me and inspected it, "Why are you so good? You are from the land of humans..." Putting it down, I clutched the diary to my body. That diary was my map to Violet, and I wouldn't let anyone take that away from me again. I opened the map of Suki's home. It pointed north east, so I steered my boat in that direction. I was guided by my own compass, one that I had found amongst my fathers treasured possessions. It was all that my mother had given me when I was three years old and she had told me of his existence. Of all of those items, this was my most treasured. As a child, I would use it to guide me through the Isle, on all of my adventures in the gardens and ponds as I pretended to be a pirate in a vast ocean and a hunter in deep forests, and now I was living out my childhood fantasies.
I took another big gulp of the yellow liquor. I had drunk the entire rest of the bottle now and my body was starting to sway with the ocean. I threw the bottle into it, "I hope you find your owner." I chuckled, falling back into the boat, my fingers gripping the book so tightly that it was leaving indents.
