Steampunk

Chapter III

I woke up feeling horrible. Everything was blurry. I was in a iron cage. Guards walked past me. They wore the sign of Trelinster. I sighed. My first worry was getting out. I looked down to were my sword should be. It was gone. So was my gun. I called out to one of the guards. I had a plan. I could up with plans very quickily. That was why the army had taken a liking to me. The guard ignored me. "Oi, Fat-Face!" I yelled. He looked my way with a scowl on his face. "Do you what to get beaten up?" He asked in a confinded voice.

"If you can get you fat fingers through the bars, sure." I replied in a insuting voice.

"You know I think that Boss will forgive me. Just this one time." He said as he walked towards me. He drew the key and opened the cage. Emmedatly I swung into action and kicked him the stomach. He went the ground winded. Then he jumped into action and threw a punch at me. I doged it easily and grabbed it. Then I pulled on it, throwing him to the other side of the cage. "Thanks for these." I said, as I picked out the keys out of the lock and walked after locking him in. I was now in a stone corridor. I carefully made my way towards a wooden door and pushed it open. There were signs above it. I then saw the word ARMOURY. I decied to follow it as my first objective was to get weapons to defend myself. I went along a stone walkway until some stairs. I went up them and was shocked by what saw. I had just walked onto a stone wall. Plains were all around me. I was in a fortress. Below me was a town with people walking around. There was a market place and lots of soilders. This was defentally not the amoury. I made my way quitelly down the stairs. There was a door. Fannilly i had found the amoury. I made forthe nearest bunch of weapons. I picked up a sword and put in my sheath. Luckally that hadn't been taken away. Next I got a pistol and 17 rounds of bullets.

I was ready now. I ran out of the room and made my way to the way to the walls. When on top of them I ducked and carefully lowerd rope down the side. But before I went down I made sure I did something that they would remember me by. I grabbed a torch from one of the battlements and threw it down into the town. Then i jumped, hopeing that my rope would hould. I grabbed on and slowly slid my way down the wall. At last i reached the bottom. A house had now set on fire. Soon it would spread to the houses around it. Screaming had started. Panic would soon spread though the whole town. I started to run towards an Areoship. There were two gaurds at the gates of the dock. I ducked and levelled my gun. I shot at one of them, taking him down. The next one, shocked that he person he was just talking to was dead at his feet. His hesitation was he downfall, as I put bullet In his head. I then ran swiftly into the docksand made my way to the smallest ship. The suddenly the ship in front of me burst into flame. I looked across to see two men, one holding a bow. I drew my sword. Then two more men charged at me from behind the smaller boat. Before I could raise my gun to shoot they both fell to the ground. They both had an aroww enbedened them. I looked up and saw the man lower his bow. I was ovisoly not one of them. Cautlsioly I walked towards him. He lowerd his bow. Then he raised his hand. "So good to see you, my friend!" He yelled across the dock. He then started to run. I then reailesed my 2nd officer. Jak. "Hi! You here as well!" I shouted back. Next to him an other soilder ran. I recognised him from the front line of the battle.

"We should get into one of these Areoship's!" He said when he came. I nodded. "But we do not number enof to man them." I replied with worry.

"We shall pick one of the smaller vessels." He said. We clambered onto a small ship and he made his way to the steering wheel while the other man loosed the rigging. "Seems you started a pretty large fire back there." He said. As we started to acendend a patrol of men (five) walked into the docks and levelled their gun. As they started to shoot, I clambered into one of the smalled guns this ship had and shot back two men fell but the other three kept on shooting. More men arrived. "Get going!" I shouted over the roar of the wind and fire. I sniped a few more. Bullets whistled past me and hit the sail next to balloon. A hissing sound started as the air started to drain out of the ship. "Crap!" I yelled. I jumped up to some spare cloth and stuck it over the hole and applied some glue it stuck in moments and I was back to killing all the men on the ground. Anti-Aircraft Cannons roared into action. They were obviously not afraid of wreaking their own ship. When we had reached 1,500 feet I looked below to see the massive fire that I had started. The town was made fully out of wood so the fire spread in seconds. People ran for their lives. I saw two ships acending after us. I yelled out to Jak. "WE GOT COMPANY!" Over the roar of the engine. Almost emmadaly after I said that there cannons fired both missing. We returned fire as more cannons joined the fire-fight. Soon we had reached the town wall. The fire had spread immensely. The noise of wooden houses crashing to the ground filled the air. The two ships that had been chasing us fired again. Luckly one of them missed but the other hit our hull, sending a rock through out the ship. I almost fell over but used the handrail to steady me and push me back on m feet. I ran over to the stairs leading to the lower deck and went down them. A meter wide hole met me. I was shocked and called out to Jak. "THERES A MASSIVE HOLE IN OUR HULL!" I ran over to the spare wood and plastered it over the hole. I then used a hammer to hammer it back in place. I then rushed up back to the gun and shot back. I ship was tinny compared to theirs. Our only chance were to get one on either side. "Go into the middle of them!" I yelled.

"That's madness! We will be killed." Jak yelled back, preoccupided with steering the ship. He trusted me though. Even though he thought it to be madness I could feel the ship turning towards the enemy. I shot my gun and saw it hit the other ships hull. "YES!" I exlamined. I reloaded and aimed for my next shot. We were now pointing directly toward them. All we could do now was steer straight forwards. Bye getting inside of the enemy, we could get all our guns to bear. The risk was that by getting inside of them they also had all there guns to bear. We had soon entered the area between the boats and the moment that happened all hell broke lose. They launch there cannons at us and both hit us, one on the mast, one on the hull, not piecing. I fired then reloaded as fast as I could. My shot hit the deck ripping through it. A man screamed then jumped overboard as a cannon ball ripped through him. The other ship fired their cannons one missing but the other hitting the hull right were I had fixed it. I didn't bother this time. We were now right next to the two ships. I drew my pistol and shot the man opposite me. He fell dead and the man next to him rushed over to take over the gun. I lined up my shot and fired. The cannon ripped through the ship and hit were they stored the gun powered. The ship exploded in a roar and flames burst from. One ship down. One to go.

Two more guns fired from the enemy ships. They both hit the hull one penetrating and one bouncing of, inches away from the magazine. The next shot and we were down. The mast had almost fallen, the hull had been penetrated two times and the magazine was dangerously open. Jak knew this as well and tried to turn the ship around but it was two late. Before we knew it the enemy cannons were loaded and were ready to fire. We knew this was our last moment. I sent a quick prayer up to the Havens and waited for my death to come,. Every thing happened in a split-second. The sound of cannons being fired and every thing roaring into flame. On the other ship. As it slowly fell downwards three massive ships came into view with the Icreses flag flying over there masts. Jak and the man with him broke into cheers as the three ships roared into battle firing all of there cannons, taking down the ship that had long chased us. The ship burst into flames killing all that were in it in seconds. Cheers burst out of the newcomers as well. Soon the three ships sailed along side us and threw boarding ropes for us to cross. I carefully made my way along the boarding line and jumped into the ship. People greeted me. That surprised me. If anything they would have shouted at me for failing to complete the campaign. No doubt that the Elders back in Icreses would want the entire note on what happened. I was lead down to the lower decks were a bed and food had been prepared for me.I didn't bother with the food even though I was so hungry. I just fell asleep and reminded myself on what had happened today.