Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #26 - The Pirates

(G26 - KT)

It was around lunchtime when you decided against climbing down the cliffs and instead to talk the old rickety walkway which wiggled down for 150ft to the beach below. Raz took the lead and the walkway started to creak and crunch. Shifti was second and the walkway started to wobble even under his well balanced steps. Nobby was next and when she was just 5ft on the slippery slope the walkway creaked and moaned ominously and started rocked back and forth. Either by shear disbelief, stupidity or non existing architectural understanding the three even told Mashai to follow. As soon as Mashai's bodyweight was fully on the walkway, the wooden structure gave way in a loud crunching manner; tumbling down from the top towards the bottom. Shifti's skills kicked in and he managed to run down the slippery slope sliding and snowboarding down the moss covered planks. Raz was running but slipped around 50ft from the saving beach. He manged to cling to the cliffs wall and avoided and uncontrolled drop into the sea below. Nobby was less lucky. She ran but fell and slipped over the edge of the walkway diving into the seas with the wooden structure falling on top of her. Mashai managed to hang on to the cliff and slowly started to climb down towards the sea.

Shifti was immediately dropping from sight, hiding somewhere on the beach close to collapsed end of the walkway. Raz decided to take a controlled dive into the sea and started to swim towards the beach, but he was soon caught in a water eddy and went underwater. Nobby was in an even worse situation. She was about 100ft of the beach. She tried to swim but could just in time safe herself by hanging on to the cliff as if her life depended on it .... well it did.

All of the sudden there was a loud snap and one of the mooring lines from a burning vessel finally gave way letting the burning wreck drift towards the cliff face where Nobby was hanging on but unable to move out of the way. Shifti realized what could happen and came up with a rather ingenious idea.

Meanwhile Raz was dragged underwater but was able to get some firm footing on the bottom of the cove and started a slow march for the last 30ft towards the beach. Mashai was sliding into the water around 30ft behind Nobby and started to swim towards her. She barely noticed the little crossbow floating in the water and grabbed a little item which has come loose and was just slipping from the laces wrapped around the bolt.

With a loud splintering noice the burning vessel crushed into the cliff and both Mashai and Nobby went out of sight. Shifti realized that they may have lost their backup powers. He and Raz were by themselves .... and there was movement on the beach. The moment Shifti shot the crosscow bolt towards Nobby only seconds before, he was spotted by the savage pirates who were left of the massacre that happened on the beach. Three of them charged towards him.