A Tale of Two Sailors (Len x Oliver)

Chapter Four

~Len's POV~

It's been weeks since we were left on this island. Rin ended up getting a job as a waiter in a nearby cafe. Kaito ended up working at the ice cream parlour next door. Miku ended up singing in the streets, how did that happen? I don't know either. As for me, I got to work at the convenience store nearby, it's not that bad.

For the past three or so weeks, we've been saving up to get a new ship, and if our maths are right, we should have enough by today.

"Hey, Len!" My twin greeted me. I sat down on the sofa and sighed, "anybody else here yet?"

"No...but they should be here soon!" She assured me.

I laid my head back and closed my eyes...

"Still thinking about him?" Rin asked worriedly.

"Yeah," I sighed, "I can't understand why though. There's no way I could have feelings for a random pirate I met at sea." I whispered the last part as to not bring any unwanted attention.

"You never know, Love is a mysterious thing." She shrugged. I thought about it for a while, I guess she was right.

"If you do decide to pursue him, then we will help you, all of us." She smiled. wait...all of 'us'?

"All of you?" I questioned her. She couldn't have told the others, could she? I began to get suspicious.

"Well, you were obvious about it to be blunt." She told me, "everyone figured most of it out in the first week of us here."

"O-oh." Was I that obvious?

Before long, everyone gathered and we gathered our money. 'Is it enough?' I felt my heart racing, 'I hope it is... we hope it is...'.

"Excuse me, can we buy the ship please?" I asked a man at the counter.

"Sure." He answered. We handed the money to him and he started counting. With every count he made, I could feel my heart beating faster and harder... it was intense, to say the least.

"Three thousand, three thousand and five hundred... that should be enough." He said as our sighs of relief filled the room.

The man lead us out to their shipyard and showed us one of the ships from the many they had.

"Here's your new ship." The man told us as he showed it to us. The ship wasn't grand or anything like that, we could only afford a simple vessel, one that would be just enough for our purposes.

"Thank you, sir!" I smiled. The feeling I had was barely explainable, it was a mixture of excitement, joy, and with a hint of nervousness.

The man left and let us to ourselves. At that moment, the atmosphere started to rise.

"Your orders, captain?" Kaito asked.

"All aboard!" I shouted, running towards our new vessel, everyone else followed suit, we were all smiling.

When we got on the vessel, we did a quick check to see if everything was okay, and it was. We spent the rest of the day gathering supplies and by night, we had everything ready.

"Time to set sail!" I mumbled to myself happily. The wait was finally truly over.

"Where are we heading to?" Kaito asked, slightly tilting his head to his left.

"Hmm..." I said aloud as I gazed to the starry sky. I do want to find him. Rin did say they would be okay with it.

"You want to meet him again don't you?" Kaito asked, chuckling. As if he knew what I had been feeling- no, he knew about my feelings.

"he could be anywhere by now, you know?" Kaito said, slightly frowning for me. It was true, and it did hurt a little... okay a lot, but that doesn't matter.

"Let's just go home, we'll run into them again someday." I sighed, thinking it's probably the best thing to do right now, "I hope".

"Aye" everyone shouted in unison. As we agreed, we set sail for home.

***

"Len- Captain! A storm is coming!" Miku shouted.

"Can we manoeuvre around it?" I asked her.

"We could try, but It's a big one."

"Do it."

"Aye aye, captain." She said, smiling.

Miku tried to steer the ship away from the storm but to no avail, we just ended up horribly off-course. I cursed under my breath and tried to calm myself down. We'd been through storms before, surely this one won't be that bad.

I walked onto the main deck and began, "Miku, Gakupo, get the sails! Rin, try to get water off the ship! Kaito, stay on watch!" I shouted, "I'll steer the ship!".

I took the wheel from Miku and began steering the ship off any hazards, while trying to get away from the storm as quickly as possible. It was nigh impossible, no clear skies could be found anywhere in the distance. Soon, we couldn't even tell if we were still on the right track.

Suddenly, with a flash of light, lightning struck the main mast, damaging it and the sails. Debris flew everywhere like bullets, luckily nobody was hurt, but it did damage many other parts of the ship.

"Shit" I muttered. It was much too dangerous to continue to sail this ship in this weather. But there were no harbours near us that we could see, so we had no choice.

After what felt like hours of adrenaline flowing through our vessels (no pun intended) we finally found a glimmer of hope in the distance.

"Land ho!" Kaito shouted excitedly, "to starboard!"

"Got it!" I quickly turned the ship to my right and tried to reach the mentioned land, steering left and right to dodge the sea stacks.

Before long, we beached our ship onto the coast. We all sighed in relief, we were now safe on land.

Our crew joined together inside the crew cabin.

"That was intense" Gakupo said as he dried his hair.

"Sure was." I replied, leaning towards the door, "but we're safe for now."

"Wh-what if we are on a deserted island?" Rin suddenly panicked.

"We can get our ship off the coast somehow." I tried to calm her down, "it still floats."

She sighed. I sighed afterwards although for a very different reason, Girls... always so panicky... or maybe that's just my sister?

Thud.