Aphmau's Secret

Chapter 16 - EDITED

"Alrights! Comes with mes Jets." Barney gestured. He led me into what seems to be his quarters and showed me a map that was pinned on a wall.

On it, were many res

d X marks. I always wonder how pirates know the locations of treasures. I mean, it's not like when other pirates bury their treasure, magical red X marks would appear on maps, right?

Also, who would bury their treasure? If it were up to me, I'd build a village with that money and rule over it as the Lord. Phoenix Drop would be a nice name, wouldn't it?

"So, which X are we hunting down?" I asked as I eyed the variety of them.

There were so many of them, some hidden deep in the depths of the sea, some in tall and dangerous volcanoes, some on deserted islands (typical) and some even on clouds (how?). Man, this is starting to turn into One Piece. I wanna be Luffy.

"It's this ones" Barney pointed to an X much farther than any of the X marks on the map.

I studies it, the island seems small and quite far off compared to the other islands. That's when it hit me, I know that island, Sky and I used to camp there during one of our nightly patrols. Our patrols not only consist of patrolling near O'khasis, but all over the world and this was a particular Border that we pay close attention to.

In this world, after it's rebirth from the devastation caused by the great war of the gods, Borders and Gateways to other worlds then opened, allowing creatures of both good and evil to travel with their own free will.This caused chaos and devastation to a lot of worlds as creatures and beings waged war for the lands that they wanted to claim.

Due to that, we ourselves formed the Divine Warriors, we fought in countless wars and brought peace and tranquility one by one to the worlds. However, due to this as well, the Divine Warriors disbanded, each of us wanted to do different things to the now newly reborn world and because of this as well, we were slowly forgotten as centuries passed.

However, there were some copycats in this particular realm. They all were religious and looked up to the different Divine Warriors and this realm was hit the worst with war, famine and devastation. Due to this, they started to create replicas of our powers, or as they call it, relics. They gave the relics to the powerful and influential, I know for a fact that Esmund's relic is in the blood of the sons of O'khasis, Zane and Garroth.

My relic, however, is with me. I managed to attain it thanks to the wyverns who snatched is for me, for that I am forever grateful to them.

Now, back to the story. This particular Border is the gateway to a realm where the dead roam. If people are able to reach here, it will be equal to unleashing all evil back into the world again and because of this, Sky placed deadly creatures and poisonous smoke surrounding the Border to avoid that from happening.

"That one?" I ask again, "Yups, I hears they says thats the place is haunteds because ofs Sky, sos only ones pirates manage to hides his treasures theres."

"Sos yous ins or nots?" he questions again, "Heck yeah." I replied with a single smirk on my face. This is going to be so fun.

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Heck. I wish I'd asked Jess about the mission more clearly first. I, Sky the King of Budder, am now stuck in some type of jungle and I have no idea where I am.

Well, I guess the only way is to go straight and hopefully run into something useful.

Oh! Look at this! I've reached some sort of civilization...well doesn't hurt if I go ahead and check it out right? besides, maybe they have some type of exotic budder that I could bring home for Jess and Zane...maybe not...

'Why?' you may ask, well, this is because while I was having my internal monologue with a bunch of people probably imagining what I'm doing right now, an arrow just flew past my head. Followed by a woman landing right in front on me.

1. Yes, a woman

2. Double yes, feet first

Now, was I scared? Yes... Am I about to pee my pants? Probably... Should I stay and find out about the outcome of the second question? Wheezy! No! However, because of my internal monologue again, I am captured by some type of golden rope.

I'm doomed... there's only one thing to do now, summoning my power that was buried deep inside me, covered by layers and layers of my pride,

"HHHAAAAALLLLLPPPPPP!!! JEEESSSSSS!!! WHYYYYYYYYYY???!!!!"

I felt better after that. Seriously.

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"Gets back to works!" Barney shouted as he exited his quarters, "Sets sails for Dead Man Islands!"

"Aye aye Captain!" his crew replied back in unison as they hurried to set their course straight for Dead Man Island, "Umm Captain? What should we do with the woman?" a crew asked.

"Oh! Jets here wills be the firsts mate froms now ons!"

"What?!" the crew shouted in unison as the chaos that once.

"That can't work Captain!," a pirate shouted, " She's a lady! That's bad luck on the sea!"

"So whats? I says she first mates so she first mates, any question?"

"No, sir..."

And that was the start of my tyrant reign on the ship. I hope so...