𝐙𝐚𝐤 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 - 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝟐

《4 ~ Errands in Marituga》

Marituga was already in sight and I went back to the command center. Bones was still standing there looking at me for a moment. The demoniac then docked at the harbor and we left the ramp with some skeletons and entered the dock.

Marituga wasn't the way I saw it for the first time two years ago. There were still so many people on the market, but their faces indicated fear and grief. Some people looked at me, they knew that I was Zak's sister. At first I thought they were all mad, that Zak was gone just because of me, but then they understood that I was just a pawn for Skullivar and couldn't fight back...

"Don't make trouble here, Storm!" Bones said, and I swallowed briefly as I remembered a situation 6 months ago...

| Flashback - 6 months ago |
"So you are this girl, what's the fault of it all!?" said the boy, who was about a few years older than me and grabbed my shirt.

"It wasn't my fault Skullivar had used me!". He pushed me against a wall and I couldn't free myself. "Don't lie, you just didn't want to be one of the weak!" I whimpered and he threw me away, banging against some crates of a stall. The owner looked at me angrily at first, but then realized that it wasn't my fault.

The boy grabbed me again and punched me in the stomach. I twisted my face in pain and spat on the floor. "Stop it!". "I stop when I want it! You have the triangle betrayed you little bastard!", He raised his hand again, I shut my eyes and waited for the blow. But nothing happened.

I opened my eyes and saw how Bones had grabbed the boy with his hooks. Normally I would have been glad he came, but he hated it when I let myself get ready ...

"How dare you beat Sora Storm, servant of Lord Skullivar and ruler of the Bermuda Triangle, you naughty fellow!" Bones asked angrily and he hurled him to two skeletons. "Lock the villain in a cell on the Demoniak! He has just won a free meeting with Skullivar!". Bones then turned to me and pulled me up. "And you, you will be punished for your behavior by the master!".

| Flashback end |

I nodded. "Won't happen again...", I said and then turned left into a side lane, Bones with his little troop skeletons to the right.

When they were out of sight and hearing, I slammed my fist against a wall and winced. "Ouch!".

"The wall isn't a good opponent for you," I heard someone say behind me and turned around. "Sassafras". "Sora Storm, you wanted come to me, am I right?" I smirked something. "Yes... can be...". She walked past me and I followed her into her house.

"Sassafras, I have a question... Can you find people through dreams?". She looked at me slightly confused. "Some dreams can become a reality, which became true, for example, through your captivity at Skullivar, but to locate people isn't possible. My eyes briefly looked down. "Because... Because I saw my brother in a dream, he was locked up in ice... and in a lightly lit cave ..."

Sassafras looked at me. "You saw Zak Storm, it's because you're siblings, when Skullivar gave you the serum for the nightmares back then, he had slight visions of you in danger sources, now you have it, just the other way round." I nodded.

"And you told me about a cave?" Another nod and she pulled out a card. "There are many caves in the Bermuda Triangle, only a few are marked on the map and unexplored". "And Skullivar was certainly not so stupid and hiding Zak right in a cave next door," I said sarcastically. "Exactly, are you looking for your brother?"

I grabbed my chest. At first I gave up the hope of ever seeing Zak again, but for months I felt more and more the urge that I can do it and do something. "Yes... I miss him... and without Zak is nothing like it was before! I have to do something!".

"Well... if you want to do that... then-"

"Stooooorrrrmmmm!!!".

I slapped my hand on the head. "Grrrr!!! Bones still drives me crazy!! So... have to go Sassafras, see you". She nodded and I sprinted out of her house straight down to the harbor, where a slightly irritated Bones was waiting for me.

"Where have you been?" "I was at Sassafras...". "This old witch will put you brainwashed in your head sometime, so stay away from her! Come on! The patrols in the seas still need to be done!" He said and I rolled my eyes annoyed as we got up again at the demoniac and took off.