Ahulia, Way To Freedom - BOOK 1

Chapter 8: Panic.

The next day, in the morning, they are all outside of the hold but still on the boat, the sea is calm and there are not a lot of waves, not at all, it is flat. By the way, during the night, they navigated a lot closer to Golden Hook, yet they are still a bit far away from its dock. Symone and Vek are next to each other, admiring the sea and acting as if nothing happened between the two of them last night. At least they are not showing the other pirates that they got pretty close, keeping it as a secret. By the way, the demon has fully healed and rested from all the energy he used the day before, he healed fast. Amber approaches the two new pirates glancing at both of them before saying, joyfully :

-"So.. Symone ? How was your first adventure as a pirate ?"

The elf turns around, ending up in front of the small, blond and blue eyed pirate, the green one takes a short time of reflexion before answering with a huge smile :

-"At first, it was scary. But it was fun to look for the treasure, I really enjoyed it."

-"Nice, I hope you and your friend will keep going on adventures with our crew !" Amber says, really happy that these two new guys have chosen this galleon, then the blond pirate looks at the demon and informs him, "The captain wants you to go and sell the treasures with me, since we did nothing to find it."

Vek nods his head positively, agreeing on what Amber just said without debating or anything like that. The demon feels like he has to do it because he didn't help at all the crew to find the treasures, even though he saved the entire ship and the almost entire crew from the megalodon earlier.

After a few more hours navigating they finally arrive back at the main dock of Golden Hook, a bunch of pirates get off the ship to attach the boat to the dock with some big and extremely solid ropes. While doing this out of the ship, the ones who are still in the galleon are gathering some food leftovers and non-used things, not forgetting all of the treasures they gathered during their really short adventure. To take all of this off the boat, a simple plank is placed going from the boat to the dock, it is not really secure but it is enough for the ones used to walk on a really thin and shaky path. Of course Symone and Vek aren't used to that, so the green one is a bit scared, it was shown before that he certainly might have a fear of height.

Before going to sell the treasures, Vek, who is now on the deck, watches around him, looking at the sea for no reason then he suddenly sees a light blue shape in the water, the colour is slightly different from the water. He frowns his eyebrows, trying to guess what this shape could be, then a small part of it goes out of the water, a merman is now observing the demon. It seems like the mercreature is doing that on purpose, acknowledging that any other pirate would try to kill this blue mercreature. Vek finally recognises the merman Byoryth, from what Amber described him. The demon tries to approach, wondering why he got expelled from the crew, was he a bad person ? A bad pirate ? Or is it just because he looks like a merperson ? It can't be the only reason. But as soon as he gets closer, Amber yells Vek's name to tell him to go help him with the treasures.

Once all of the stuff is collected and now outside of the boat, Amber and Vek are now on their way to sell some of the trinkets which were with the treasure. So they walk for a few minutes towards the downtown which is full of pirates, merchants and fisherpeople. This city was a fishing city before its inhabitants slowly decided to become pirates, not all of them of course. The two young men end up in front of a shop. The walls and the windows of the shop are really damaged or just really dirty as well as the streets surrounding it. But as they walk inside, everything is weirdly cleaner and there's a lot of different trinkets, those are probably some uninteresting treasures sold by other pirates. They both head in front of the one buying and re-selling various products, the person say :