Estella stories - episode 004 - The beginning of Estella

part 30 The pirates

Estella turned back to the pirates.
She began assessing them for what they could be doing on her island "why have you come here? This is my island if you're planning on invading you have a war on your hands and believe me we don't want that either because the truth is we'll win, we will completely destroy you, and then when you return to the mainland with them believing you'll have treasure all they'll get is a couple of pirates with shit in their underpants and no one wants that" the captain stepped forward "we believe there be a map to treasure on another island" Estella frowned "on another island? No, no you've got it all wrong... or maybe this is your lucky day" "why?" "The treasure is here, on this island, that's why we assumed the man who arrived with it was coming here because he was following it, how did you know it was here? The map I mean?" "We were following our prisoner who escaped with it" "well isn't it lucky he arrived here. Now I know exactly where the treasure is, the only way we can get there is if you're with me, understand?" they all nodded "good, we will leave in the morning" Estella turned as the captain stepped forward "wait, can we not leave now? We've been looking for this treasure for years, we need it" Estella turned back "does it look like I give a fuck, you've waited for years I'm sure one more day won't change anything, you clearly haven't had proper food or water in a while, if you continue like that we won't even get there, so you will wait and eat" they looked at each other "alright, okay yeah we can wait until morning" "you have no other choice in the matter"
Estella turned to three natives.
She signed for them while also speaking "take these men to the empty huts at the back of the village, give them some food and give them some coconuts and bring me a bell pepper, you guys have got me addicted to them, so you need to feed my addiction, I eat like 8 of them a day and that still ain't enough" the natives nodded to them then gestured them to follow. Estella turned to them "follow them, they'll give you the stuff for your stay here" they did. They were placed into a large hut. They drank some coconut water hearing Estella outside. She was gesturing by raising her arms up and down yelling "fire big, big, yes big, flame big. Burn big, yes, yes flame burn big, big burn" she entered into the hut making the beads at the entrance clink together. She looked at them "why do you all look like you don't take showers" one of the pirates laughed "well there aren't really baths on a pirate ship" "you're in the ocean mate, now go to sleep" She walked out allowing them to sleep.
A few hours later, it was dark.
The captain awoke and could not get back to sleep again. He went outside looking at the view of the mountains and the stars then noticed Estella standing above him watching the wind move through the trees, she seemed to be listening to a CD player just watching the darkness. He went to her "what are you doing up here?" she turned to him "oh hey just... thinking of all the mistakes I've made that got me right here. I've made a lot of mistakes in my small life. You know what my biggest mistake was... never listening to that voice that is constantly screaming inside my head to just walk away and forget the past... because, all the shit I did wasn't even worth anything, my friend who I tried to save is probably dead now... anyway" she turned going to the balcony putting her hands on the railing looking at the ground. The captain went to go by her side however she jumped back kicking the gate screaming in pain and anger "FUCK!!" she put her hands to the side of her head "I just fucking wish I had someone to hug at night, but I don't. I wish my real parents weren't such assholes, I wish me and my sister could see each other again, I wish my grandfather was still alive, I wish I didn't wake up every morning feeling like shit. I hate that the only fucking thing in this world that reminds me of the only man who ever liked me and accepted who I was is a fucking CD player and a book about a game that depressed the shit out of me... and yet I still listen and read that book" She fell to her knees "I'm so fucking full of rage all the time. I was left on this stupid fucking island because I was the bad guy. I don't feel like a bad person, I just feel misunderstood and... broken, all I did was save someone, for all the things I've done in my life-saving someone was the stupidest thing... I don't deserve this" The captain sat next to her "well maybe someone can fix that" "like who? I've been on this island for a year you're the first people to even come here apart from a prison we beat to death"
They paused for a moment.
The captain asked "how old are you?" "I'm 13, why?" "Well I'm just wondering why out of all the people who are on this island, why are you the leader?" "I wondered that at first and one day I asked them, apparently one day a child was born on the island, and they had something no one else had, they had dark red hair they had never seen anything like it, they grew them up like usual and began to notice they were able tod o some amazing things they changed this island forever, then they died, they were the ones who taught the rest how to do sign language without ever seeing anyone else do it, they believed they were a God, and when I washed up on this island they believed the first red head had come back to life and had come to save their little world. They have made me the leader because of my red hair and I have changed this island like they did, so their religion keeps going on and on, and on" The captain frowned "why do you have red hair" Estella paused "never heard of the red heads?" "No, I've spent most of my life at sea, so I don't know a lot" Estella explained "for a very long time people in the world have been born with red hair like mine and for reasons scientists don't understand people born with red hair have strange abilities, they have high intelligence, high skills of adaptability and other abilities, scientists don't even know why it happens, it has nothing to do with family genetics, where they are born, how they are born, nothing it just happens, there is also a group that maybe don't even exist, but I do they call themselves the red-headed gang, and they are... dangerous, insane assassins capable of making an entire city fall to ash and dust in one day" "that is kind of cool" "right, if they do exist they were interested in having me in their group they seem pretty fun. Anyway, you should go back to bed leave me in my sadness" the captain paused then went downstairs "goodnight Estella" she nodded "goodnight, captain, I'll wake you in the morning"
He went to sleep, the next morning.
They woke up and ate their breakfast while Estella explained everything that was dangerous on the island, it was more the environment that was dangerous like different rocks and mountains to climb, but she still insisted she was the best person to come with them because they would die without her. They began to walk through the island towards the treasure site being guided by Estella who knew the island very well having made a map on the island because she was bored and figured if she was ruling the island she may as well see what she was ruling over. Estella walked ahead knowing the island better than anyone even the natives "I must admit, I knew someone would one day come and get the treasure" "did you know it was here?" she nodded "yep, I sure did "then why didn't you ever take it?" "What would I do with it? This treasure is bait for people like you" replied Estella cutting bushes out the way. The captain was a little worried by her saying 'bait'
After an hour or two of walking,
His worry was made worse when they stumbled across a horrible sight; 4 human bloody rotting heads were impaled by sharp wooden pikes. Estella casually walked past them like it was a normal sight. Captain Carter looked at Estella passing them, he shrugged muttering "so we are just going to pass that off? Yeah, this be totally normal, I see heads on pikes all the time" they continued moving like nothing happened. The captain went to Estella "is it normal to see heads on sticks on this island?" "Before I arrived the natives had a problem of people stealing things so they enforced a law anyone who did anything bad was killed and eaten, however they didn't like to eat the heads, so they put them on poles to show the others" the captain nodded "yep, that's nothing just normal entirely normal" Estella sniggered "it's funny you say normal, the longer you stay here on this island the more you forget what normal is until eventually the not normal is just normal"