The Beauty and the Kid

Part 1

Chapter 1

Above a gorge flew a ship with an large shark-inspired balloon along the area, that had a large abyss, that led down to a river heading to a valley.

Inside the ship, the crew consisted of a few pirate men and a younger adult woman standing behind the wheel dressed in a red coat, blue pants, and a lighter blue headband. She had in sight their route along with the teammates working along the board with taking care of its load. The captain named Alfida took out her binoculars to analyze the route along the canyon to recognize down by the river a partition, therefore, she opened her map to analyze the way.

"We're going in the right direction," Commented Alfida with a smile, then looked down at her team to see a brunette man with beard cleaning the ground by the stairs. "Inkbeard, I need your eyes at the bow," Ordered the raven-haired woman watching the man put the broom aside and ran aside from the boat to get to the front. Alfida took a look around the ship to check for her teammates and noticed, that someone seemed to be missing. "Where Rollan?" Questioned Alfida furrowing her brows in wonder at the Spaniard's absence.

Rollan was inside the cabin standing in front of a mirror with the signature of master Vegard's mirror store seeing himself in the mirror. He was readjusting the lapels of his shirt, then took a closer look on the mirror to see his own face. Rollan smiled seeing everything was fine, afterward he walked to the barrel between the two hammocks to grab from a standing box with cookies in it and took one out to take a bite of it and moved forward to the door, which was plastered with images of his and Alfida's common friends. In one of them, Rollan stood together with his girlfriend Gerda, where they stood somewhere by the fjords together. Gerda had her hands placed against his chest, while Rollan had his right arm behind her back and looked along with the girl with a smile plastered on their face at the fourth wall. Most of the images were in black and white, also contained in the corner the signature of King Harald and his son Prince Anders. The original creators of the image. Little known fact, those so-called pictures aren't any sort of drawing. They're called snapshots and according to the king, it's made by a device he created along with his son to make instantly an image of a person instead of painting it in a long process of time. To spare time and money for certain people, this is the quickest option villagers around would have to have a memory of something or someone. Out of all the available pictures, that one was Rollan's favorite. Both were shown in their most comfortable position together and there was no need of extras to make it look authentic.

Before opening the door, Rollan pecked the image with his lips and placed his hands on the door handle before opening it.

"Hasta lluego, mi amor," Rollan left the cabin, then moved to a pirate, which was washing a shirt inside a barrel filled with rainwater. Rollan glimpsed at the man's work, then the pirate stared at the brown-eyed boy.

"You're not here to help me, aight?" The pirate asked, then the pirate captain whistled calling Rollan's attention. Alfida waved at Rollan, ordering him to come upstairs to see her.

"I gotta go," Announced Rollan running upstairs to the raven-haired girl, then saluted at her. "What do you need?"

"Razorbeard has the map for the tomb. You go along with him in there. The tomb is narrow and you two are the shortest and flexible ones out of the crew. Is that clear?"

"It's clear," Responded Rollan making Alfida nod. Rollan got down to encounter the thin man, which stood on the other side of the boat analyzing the route into the tomb. "Found anything specific on the map?"

"The X, that tags the treasure, hopefully," Responded Razorbeard making Rollan nod.

"You think, that will bring us much gold?" Questioned Rollan making the pirate nod.