The Bladed Rose

Chapter twelve: YOU ARE A PIRATE!

   So, as the name suggests; pirates. This chapters gonna be about pirates. Yar har fiddle dee dee PIRATES. It started out with me asking Mariza where she wanted to go after finishing adventuring throughout this fantasy world. Her reply? A world dominated by pirates. And who am I not to oblige someone such as her? Answer: I'm not. So I did the glitch snap and we ended up on a port, a place where sea faring ships rest and get cleaned. We wound up wandering (wearing the same clothes we came in so we got weird looks from literally everyone) Till we came across a lady pirate with pale skin and bright red hair. We asked her for her name and we got Captain San-Marie. We sheepishly asked if we could join up with her for a time (after the seemingly unending barrage of questions from Mariza) She agreed... for some reason. Maybe she was bored or something. Anyhoo, we start out our chapter on calm waters.

   "So this everything you wanted and more?" I ask Mariza whom was sitting next to me.

   "Weelllll, I could do with some pirate duke-outs, some buried treasure, some pirate singing, you know the stuff like in all those stories!" She replied with that always grin of hers. Of course she would say that, the thriller seeker adventurer she is.

   "That'll come, that'll come. Well, maybe not the treasure part, that's actually pretty rare. And we've just set sail, the songs will come when the crew is bored, or when the captain demands it." I say matter of factly.

   "I know, but you asked me! Haha, this is going to be so much fun. Maybe I'll finally be able to display more of my useful survival skills!" She sounds quite enthusiastic.

   "And what skills are those?" I question curiously.

    "My fighting ones of course! You've already seen some of my wilderness ones, and of course my swimming ones~" Again, that quick switch from kid with candy to seductive mate.

   I blush a bit, but after the months I've become a tad desensitized from the flirts, still affected but I don't turn into a tomato anymore at least. I retort with, "Indeed I have, and you've seen mine~" HAHA I CAN DO IT TOO! Ooohhh god the cringe here is real, many apologies readers.

   She giggled slightly, smirking now. "Oh yes I have, and I've seen much more than just your swimming~" She about whispered that, very seductively might I add. That got me red, it's only been a few months.... I'm not telling you anything about what that flirt means, NOTHING...... even though it's obvious.... But we haven't really passed third base as of yet, hell we barely are even there. I get to flustered and wind up hiding in a tree or something, the most we've done is hold each other in our underwear.... Yes, I am THAT much of a pussy. Anyhoo, moving on.

   I giggle a bit and lean on her, then notice a ship out in the horizon. It wore the black flag so it wasn't a nation ship but a pirates, likely wasn't friendly. I yell from the deck to the captain, "PIRATE OR PRIVATEER SHIP OFF THE BOW! 5 O'CLOCK NORTH EASTERN!" She straightens up and smiles deviously "THEN LETS GO PAY EM A VISIT BOYS!" she exclaims as she turns the ship to go full speed towards this ship.

   I stood and pulled out my knives, "Ready for our first naval battle?" I ask Marzia.

   She grinned again, very widely. "Oh yes!" She exclaimed very excitedly.

   As we careened to the ship the crew got into battle ready stances before we up and rammed into the enemy ship, cleaving into them but not breaking the ship in half, the captain yelled in glee, "BOARD!!" then all the crew ran and jumped onto the enemy ship instantly attacking the enemy pirates, I grabbed Marzia's hand and joined them stabbing and slashing into the pirates laughing maniacally.

   Marzia quickly grabbed one of her small hunting knives and joined in on the fun with her wide grin. She attacked any pirates that were hostile towards her with glee, sometimes straight up stabbing them dead or fancily carving into them. Wow. And I thought I was genocidal. I think she topped me on that.