Captain's Legacy

Pirate Dreams

Chapter5: Pirate Dreams

"It's been two weeks Rose I'm bored." I say spinning my knife on the stair. "You're the damn Captain. Lead us to somewhere fun. Like a party." Rose says. "Damn that. What do you say we find ourselves a treasure aye Lockjaw!?" I ask him. "Sounds great Cap but I'm pretty sure none of us know how to get a treasure map let alone read the thing." He says.

"Then that settles it first we gather food and supplies, then we find ourselves a treasure." I say highfiving Lockjaw. "Hell yeah!" He says. "What the? Are you two idiots? Did you not hear the words that just came out of your own mouth? We can't even read a treasure map." Rose says ruining our good moment.

"Yeah well I'm sure we can figure it out. Besides you got all those old dusty books in your cabin I'm sure you can find something." He said. "I guess I could look but...wait you went in my cabin?" She asks frustrated. "Well yeah James and I were looking for extra bullets to shoot bottles with." He says adjusting his eyepatch.

why the hell would he tell on me too!? She kicks me in the bullocks. I roll down the stairs. "Bloody hell woman! We were just getting bullets! And in my defense he wanted to put corks in your ears and place the bottles on your head and shoot them! But I said no." I yell coughing.

She looks angry. I get up and grab her hands. "Ya see love he's the bad guy." I say to her. She looks at me and then looks down. "Ya know what it's no big deal. I'll just have to plot my revenge my sweet sweet revenge." She says as she kisses me on the cheek. "Marine ships ahead James!" Lockjaw shouts.

"Ok now we've planned for this. We don't yet have a pirate flag so they might just go right past us but just in case everyone go put on your fancy clothes and John get your sparkly eye patch." I demand. We all meet back on the deck. I'm wearing a dark blue suit.

Rose is wearing a big poofy yellow dress and hat. And Lockjaw is dressed as a butler. They drop anchor right next to us. "Damn." I whisper. Their Captain comes aboard. "Hello Mr.Marine sir,I am sir Hawk. James Hawk of the Hawk dynasty. This is my lovely wife Rosebeth Hawk. And my butler and bodyguard Bobby Franklin." I say rapping my arm around Rose.

"Quite the ship you have here Mr.Hawk. if I didn't know any better I'd say this was a pirate ship. But that'd be ridiculous you obviously aren't pirates." He says looking around. "For heaven's sake I assure you we aren't pirates. The ship itself I'm not quite sure of. I got it for free for saving some old mans life." I tell him.

"Mind if my soldiers and I have a look around?" He asks. "If you really must. But please hurry. Our daughter has been spending time with her grandparents and we're already running late to get to her play. She's worked so hard on it. We're already running late I'm afraid." I say.

"I guess I can let you go. My wife is a fan of theater so I kind of understand your haste. Carry on and say hello to your little girl for me." He says returning to his ship.

We sail off as quickly as possible. Once they were out of sight we changed back into regular clothes. "I can't believe that worked." Lockjaw says. "Well I am a master of disguise my friend." I say. "Yeah right, if it weren't for me saying that we should prepare for things like that you never would've even gotten the idea." Rose tells me. "You're just mad because me and Lockjaw looked like wealthy men and you looked like a cheesecake." I tell her.

"Should I shave the beard?" Asks Lockjaw randomly. I turn and look at him. He's looking at his face in the mirror. "No, it complements the eye patch." I tell him. Rose rolls her eyes. "Yes shave it off, beards are disgusting and are for savages but then again that's exactly what you are." She complains. The entire time she was talking I was behind her shaking my head. She turned and slapped me and walked away.

"She loves me." I say looking at Lockjaw. "So, what's your dream?" I ask. "Huh?" He asks confused. "You know your main life goal. The one thing you'll dedicate your life go gaining. Every Pirate has a dream." I fell him. He thinks. "Well, I read a book once, yea don't be surprised. And it was about the world's most dangerous people. And one man was able to master 75 weapons. I thought it was amazing and I decided to get 100 before I die." He explained.

I gotta get in that book. "That's a great dream lad, I'll help you make it happen if you help me with mine." I tell him. "And that is?" He asks handing me a cup of water and sipping his. "I wanna be the new face of pirates. Show the world that not all pirates are bad people. Let them know that I can drop anchor and they don't have to run and hide. But still be feared and respected by other pirates ya know and still go toe to toe with marines." I tell him. "Thats not gonna be easy Captain but every Captain needs a crew and last time I checked I'm part of yours." He tells me.

Rose comes back. "Hey Rose what's your dream?" Lockjaw asks her. "To prove to the world that a woman is just as good as a man. We can do just as much, maybe even more. My stories are gonna give women a backbone." She preaches. I see the island from afar. "That's great love FULL SAIL!! ISLAND AHEAD!" I shout in their ears. "We are right here!" Says Lockjaw going for the sails. "I know just always wanted to shout that." I say smiling.

I look over and see a small boat with a weird green pattern on it. heading for the same island. Strange. I saw that same boat docked on Guapito Island...