The Devil's Country

Wave Break

(Captain Ozwell's perspective)

I watch as the two ships sail smoothly. I know deep down we are getting to rougher waters. Once we get pass the rough waters. We will be fighting wild whales and sometimes pirates. Pirates are less common. They often see themselves sinking most of the time. The heavy animal presence area is the farthest ever recorded. The rough tides the trick is to always go slow speed towards the island. For the animal area no one knows any tricks. I have a few ideas. They may work. I hear a crackle of thunder. I notice the ship rocking more and more.

"Here we go," I said getting up and walking to the wheel. "Keep it steady men. We must keep a forward speed." The ship gets battered by waves, but the waves always break after our ship.

"Tsunami!!" Someone shouts.

"Sue's new mommy? Who the hell is Sue?" My first mate yells. I chuckle to his comment. However, I see the wave. Biggest wave I ever seen. It speeds towards us at full speed. "Should we pull off?"

"No, keep a steady speed towards the island. Its what the books said." I replied confident in my answer.

"Screw the books, we are going to die!" My first mate, Michael, exclaims. I take the wheel keeping it steady. I see my sailors scramble about. we all know what is going on. It's life or death now. The wave is only twenty meters out. It's picking up speed. I keep the Lin as steady as I can. I check behind me to see the other ship follow suit to what I'm doing. The waves are almost as tall as both ships now.

Suddenly, the Tsunami wave hits our boat with unbelievable power, but something is off. The boat stays dry. I stay dry. The wave went right over top of us, but we are rising not sinking. We breach the surface. I stand in disbelief. We did it. I look behind us to see the other ship gloriously breach out of the water. Both ships sit side by side before heading into the animal infested waters. We sit eating sandwiches and drinking fresh rum. The sun baked ships shine brightly. We have two more sectors to go. The last sector no one has ever returned from. No one knows what it is. All we know is it's dangerous. I look at the sky. It is very beautiful. I finish my sandwich, and I get up. I walk back to my cabin and sit. I wait there calmly. I write about today's adventure. It gets me excited. I personally can't wait to get to the third sector.

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I awake to the sound of men shouting. I step outside to see piles of fish jumping aboard. The amounts of fish is causing us to sink. I see men grabbing buckets and pouring the fish back into the ocean. I grab a bucket myself, and I start pouring fish into the ocean.

"Full speed ahead Michael!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. My trench coat is littered with fish around it. Bigger fish come abroad. I shove them off quickly. Without missing a beat, I hit a shark off the side of the boat. I hate this to my core. I get the feeling I'm going to throw up from the ship rocking heavily. I run back and forth. There's too many fish quite honestly. "Dump oil into the water. when I say let it blow." I dump more fish off the ship. Oil pours over board. I watch as the other ship is getting pelted with fish. Oil pours down. "NOW!"

The ocean goes ablaze. Our ship sails right out of that area. Fire erupts, but the ships were safe. Fish start coming at a slower rate. I smile at this. The final fish get tossed overboard. I sit back in relief. I look above. We are once again in a safe zone, so I thought. I see three huge warships come full speed at us. It's until I saw the fire being launched out of the cannons when I knew it was over.