《Unity》 Prologue +Chapter 1 Prologue- November 22, 1728 The endless seas, the endless possibilities, the endless adventure and the endless despair, this is what my journey into the seas have thought me over the years. I am been sailing into the seas for over 3 years now as captain of my pirate crew, I Arran Osteon, who was just a regular guy with ordinary features like medium height brown eyes and black hair before I breakdown a prison and went to my journey into the seas. We were sailing onto the high tides, the tides which me and my crew have never faced before, the sky today is dark, and a storm was rising in the sea, I have never seen a sea like this, the more we tried to move further the more we are swept backwards, still we can¡¯t stop now, as we all are set on reaching to that side of the world which we have never seen, we have never explored before, to the sea where a whole new world lies, the place my father dreamed of, the sea where the freedom lies. ¡°Captain, look forward we finally ran into it.¡± It was my right hand jack smith who notified me with our current situation, this tall handsome man who set sail onto my journey in the endless seas, this man with sea pearl like blue eyes and black silky hair has always supported me with his aid. ¡°Yes, I can see it too, the Poseidon, the wonder ship of history, it really is magnificent isn¡¯t it.¡± I let out word of praise for the biggest wonder the human hands have ever crafted, the legendary ship Poseidon, the ship which is said to be strongest ship amongst all, the 1000 year old ship which is said to be the strongest weapon which human have ever created. Such is the way the legends describes it, and when I am finally looking at it, there¡¯s no doubt about it, this ship is magnificent something which I could never imagine, but its no time to be happy after seeing it, cause its not here as our allay. ¡°Listen everyone, this is the moment which we were waiting for, our independence, our wishes, and our destiny lies behind that thing. It might be the strongest weapon which humans have ever created but we all together can overcome it, we have done many impossible things before, we have defeated the invincible, so let face it we all united let¡¯s defeat the entire world.¡± I gave a little speech to my comrades in a arms to give them a moral boost up, we all have faced many things together defeats, betrayal and those glorious days, about which I wanted to remind them. We all together united, did what people saw as impossible many times in the past, we showed the world what people can achieve if they are united, what changes they can bring to this world we live in if we held each other hands and look for their back, what is the power lies within UNITY. Chapter-1 Empire June 15, 1724 ¡°Arran, chew your food properly.¡± An old muscular man who is supposed to be my grandfather yelled at me, he is an official at imperial navy and my only parent, he is been raising me since I was 5 year old and need to say this man is got a screw or two loose in his head, he might be old but in heart he is still a 12 year old. ¡°I would have if your freaking ship was not under an attack¡± I yelled at this old man, who was unusually calm at such a moment, we are sailing in one of the ship which is supposed to be under his command, we were returning from an island trip, when our fleet came across a pirate ship, and we are under a battle for around 30 minutes now, the vigorously shaking ship, the noises of cannon fire, the force when ship takes a turn all of this have made even sit steady impossible, at top of this the tension which I¡¯m continuously feeling, has made it impossible to even think straight. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. ¡°Shut up you fool; you are not supposed to talk between the meals.¡± ¨CGrandpa ¡°Are you completely insane, we are under an attack¡± I yelled at him again, looking on his carefree behavior, made me worried even more, I know he had seen thousands of battles in his life time all together with this ship he is so proud of, but unlike him this ship is not well, its wood is tarnished, the flooring and roof has cracks all over it, the ship has lived a long life but now it is slowly losing it. ¡°Don¡¯t you worry about it, everything is under control, and there is no pirate in this sea that can stand against my fleet, idiot, huhh haah¡± My grandfather reassured me of our victory, in his own way. No matter how much of insane he is, the confidence this man got is awesome, he is someone who can make you feel comfortable even in the worst conditions you can think of, not only that but the trust which he puts in his comrades is also something else, for these things this old man got my true respects. After an hour or so when we both were playing a game of cards after finishing our lunch, the noises were already down, the constant uproars were also gone and the ship was moving firmly, the sea was again silent and peaceful as it is supposed to be. ¡°Knock, knock¡± the knock on the door of our cabin was heard following it voice of a young man was heard ¡°Captain Osteon we wish to see you sir.¡± Voice of a navy official was heard. ¡°Yes come in.¡± ¨CGrandpa. On his instructions one navy officer opened the door and entered the quarters, they gave a salute to my grandpa, he was wearing a white shirt and Persian blue trousers, on the shirt with Persian blue color Imperial Navy was written. ¡°What is the report?¡± my grandfather asked them, though the marine hadn¡¯t said even a single but my grandfather had that awful look on his face, deep within he already knew that there were great number of causalities. ¡°Sir, we were successful in capturing the pirate crew one of the navy officers said. ¡°What is the number of causalities on our side?¡± grandpa inquired from them. ¡°Sir, twenty four are injured.¡± ¨CThe navy officer. ¡°I¡¯m talking about complete report young man.¡± ¨CGrandpa. ¡°Sir, we lost 5 of our fleet members, the ship Flamingo, is in no condition to move any further.¡± ¨CThe navy official. ¡°oh, I see, that¡¯s a sad news.¡± ¨CGrandpa. ¡°Sir, if you order us then, we will proceed towards the HQ.¡± ¨CNavy officer. ¡°No, we will first drop this young man at Skies Island then; we will proceed towards the HQ.¡± ¨CGrandpa. ¡°As you insist; sir.¡± Navy officer finished with his report and went on upper deck, following him my grandfather also went upstairs to look at the condition by himself leaving me behind in the cabin. For the rest of the trip, grandpa didn¡¯t uttered a single word from his mouth, he just kept silent and stayed in his quarter, the only thing which he could found upon the deck was despair, destruction and demise. Even if we came out as victorious in war but still all a war can bring is sadness and nothing more, in this endless era of war I don¡¯t know which war I¡¯m going to fight and on whose behalf. Chapter-2 Chapter-2 Racism ¡°So, I¡¯m leaving for the HQ now, take care of yourself.¡± Grandpa was biding his farewells to me before he went to navy HQ, navy HQ is a place which is situated at group of island in Pacific Ocean, even with a high speed navy battle ship it takes around 5 days to reach HQ from Skies Island. ¡°Yeah, don¡¯t worry about me, and just get going already.¡± ¨CMe ¡°I know that, but don¡¯t do anything funny, like kicking asses of some idiots.¡± ¨CGrandpa. ¡°Yeah, you don¡¯t need to worry about that, I¡¯m going to Aunt Jenny place.¡± ¨CMe ¡°Aunt Jenny, oh so you are going to Tiffany place.¡±-Grandpa. ¡°Yeah, so what?¡± -Me ¡°You, don¡¯t need to be shy or hide anything, if you want to go out with that girl then do so, I would love to see my Great Grandchildren as soon as possible, ahh huh aahh.¡± ¨CGrandpa. ¡°What are you saying you idiotic old geezer.¡± I again yelled at him, this old man really get on my nerves, he search for every possible reason to goof around and test my patience. ¡°What was that you brat, what is wrong with an old man like to wish for some grandchildren.¡± ¨CGrandpa. "I don¡¯t know, but don¡¯t say things like this in public.¡± ¨CMe ¡°Ok, ok I won¡¯t say it again, now let me go for my job.¡±-Grandpa. I hugged my grandpa and like this we both took, our leave. The Skies Island is a really small place with nice ocean currents throughout, which makes the climate here pleasant; it is situated in Pacific Ocean, I was brought here after my parents death, my grandfather took me here, since I was not born on this land so my features are a lot discrete from the others who live here, live my black hair and brown eyes, everyone on this Island have light brown hair or golden hair, though some have same color of eyes as me but majority here have blue eyes, so these features of mine make me unique, but uniqueness is not always good, not only that this hair color of mine is considered as a bad omen here, but black color the color of pirates, evil and crimes, and when you are son of an infamous pirate you are been seen as someone unwanted, all people sees me as I¡¯m some kind of monster, an entity who shouldn¡¯t exist, someone who very presence can brought calamity to this place. The kids playing on the narrow streets of the town, women buying the groceries from those old stalls, old men taking a walk around the temple grounds, all of them ignore me, but still in this cruel land there are some people who don¡¯t look to me like that, and that would be aunt Jenny and her daughter Tiffany, aunt jenny was childhood friend of my mother so she treats me like her own son, she runs a Inn on the island, named Crystal Inn, which is the only inn on the island, so they quite often runs into the weird guys, government official and pirates or bandits. I entered the Inn which Aunt jenny runs with her husband Uncle Joseph and went to counter, in hope to meet aunt jenny, but it looks like my luck is with me instead of aunt jenny I ran into Tiffany, Tiffany is my childhood friend we both have been together since we were kids and now we both are 19 year old, tiffany is a beautiful girl with long silky golden hair, her beautiful green eyes looks like a diamond sparkling, she is undoubtedly the most beautiful girl on this island, a guy with all normal features like me should consider myself lucky that Tiffany even talks to me. ¡°Hey, tiffany.¡± I went to the counter and started flirting with her. ¡°Ohh Arran, can you help at bar, we are short of staff.¡±- Tiffany, who was already worried ask me to help her out with bar, right off the bat. ¡°Hey, is this the way you should treat a guest.¡± I started teasing her like I always do, her reactions, her expression are cute whenever I did that. She beat me on my arm gently and said ¡°Hey, don¡¯t joke it¡¯s serious we are out of staff today, there are a lots of drunk perverts there who knows what they do with a young, beautiful, fragile girl like me.¡± A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.¡°Ok, enough with the blackmail, I will do it.¡± I agreed to her without making any argument at all, sometimes I fell that I get easily played by her, I easily say yes to anything she says, I¡¯m not at all immune to her. Without any questions, I simply went to the bar and started attending the customers on the counter. The bar which Tiffany family runs is like any normal bar, everything here from mugs to tables, from flooring to celling all are made up of wood. This old bar which tiffany father runs, her father is middle aged man, he is one of few people who talks to me normally, for some reason he is not present in the bar, was passed down through their lineage from generations, my only wish is that, I could inherit this bar of her family. It always smelled of the mixed beers and other alcohol drinks which I simply hated, the smell of alcohol is something which I couldn¡¯t get used to even after working here for three years I am still a teetotaler, same goes for Tiffany she never enters the bar because of this ridiculous smell, there was an incident a year ago when there were suddenly too many of the customers Tiffany came to help but after vomiting three times she fell unconscious and then never entered the bar again. While I was helping out in the bar, a strange men came to the counter, the man had fair complexion and blonde hair, he was muscular and well dressed, the strange thing about him was, that I have never seen him before, at top of that that luxurious suit which he was wearing is something which no one on this island can afford to wear, the beautiful red coat which was rounded around his chest, the gold pendent which he was wearing, and even the beautiful platinum ring with a precious yellow stone, all seemed to flashy and expensive at the same time. ¡°Sir, how can I help you?¡± I asked the man. ¡°Do you people have Mc flarco.¡± he asked me. ¡°Yes sir, we have Mc flarco.¡± I replied. ¡°Great, then bring me one and kid give the whole bottle to me, I like to drink it straight.¡± The man asked me, his way of speaking was also not like that of people here, plus Mc flarco is an expensive vine which people hardly order here. I brought him the bottle and handed over to him, the same time a different customer arrived at the counter and I started attending him, that very instant I saw something coming straight towards me, I tried to block it with my hands, I brought my right hand in front of my face, which received an impact from a bottle of wine, the bottle was hit so hard that, it shattered into the pieces as soon as it came to contact with my hand, I felt some pieces of glasses stuck to face while a steam of alcohol ejaculated on me. ¡°You got nice reaction time boy.¡± The man called me, the man who ordered the bottle of Mc flarco was standing near me. He was holding a smashed bottle of alcohol in his right hand; he also held a pistol in his left hand which was pointing towards me. ¡°What, is meaning of this?¡± I asked him, I kept my voice low, even though I was pissed at him. ¡°I¡¯m Captain Roger from Imperial Navy I¡¯m here to arrest you.¡± The man replied to me. What the he is in Imperial Navy, so why is he arresting me, I haven¡¯t done anything wrong, so why? ¡°Can I know what crime I have committed sir.¡± I inquired him. ¡°Crime, being son of an infamous pirate, isn¡¯t that enough to get you arrested¡± ¨CCaptain Roger. The fuck he is saying, being son of a pirate is a crime, I spoke in my mind. ¡®Don¡¯t dare to act smart, if you do something funny, I won¡¯t hesitate to shoot you scum, if you wish for your betterment, don¡¯t resist at all and come with me.¡± ¨C Captain Roger I who was being stuck in a hopeless situation decided to submit myself, it made much more sense for me to submit myself, I haven¡¯ done anything, I would be easily released later on when grandpa returns. The man, who gave his name as captain roger, handcuffed me and took me to the jail. Chapter-3 Chapter-3 His Words ¡°Are you alright?¡± captain Aryan Osteon who was going through mental dilemma asked his grandson, both of them were locked in a room which looked similar to that of a cell of jail with four guards, the room had really thick and a wooden gate for entry and exit, there was only a ventilation in the room which brought a faint brightness to the room. Both of them were sitting on wooden chair while 4 guards looked over them, the old man Aryan Osteon and his grandson Arran Osteon were separated by a table, it was a heartbreaking moment for captain Aryan Osteon who had severed imperial navy for around 50 years, still he kept his calm composure while looking at his grandson handcuffed. ¡°Think you can say that, I am unharmed till this point.¡± Arran said in a dull voice, his eyes were red, his face was swollen, his hands were having scars and blood stains from bleeding. ¡°Oh, I see, don¡¯t you worry, I will get you out of here pretty soon¡± ¨CCaptain Osteon ¡°Huhh hhh¡± Arran laughed out of blue with a smirk smile on his face, watching this reaction of him, his grandfather suddenly become worried. ¡°What is it, are you alright, oye arran.¡± Captain Osteon spoke in a worried voice, watching his grandson lose his control made him. ¡°Nothing, now just tell me, when they are going to execute me.¡± ¨CArran ¡°Idiot, where did you hear that from, you are not going to execute, till the point I¡¯m alive.¡± ¨Ccaptain Osteon ¡°don¡¯t lie, I already know that, those bastards are going to execute all those people who are related to the pirates, parents, in laws, off- springs all of them, without any discrimination, that¡¯s what your state has decided.¡± ¨CArran ¡°No, you fool, state won¡¯t punish those who haven¡¯t uttered any crime, the state is justice, justice won¡¯t do anything wrong, you won¡¯t be punished.¡± --Captain Osteon ¡°Yes, state is justice, it is justice because it is powerful, not because it is right, state is strong because it is united.¡± Arran words made everyone people in the room startled, they were staring at him continuously with their eyes wide open, their expression which they were showing confirmed the fact that, Arran had said something which is considered as a taboo. ¡°Where did you hear that?¡± captain Osteon said in a shivering voice, his voice was trembling, his expression showed signs of fear. ¡°Why, do you even care about that?¡± ¨CArran. Listening to him talking like that, Captain Osteon suddenly stood up and shouted at him ¡°Tell me you idiot.¡± his was still trembling, his expression was getting more and more tensed. ¡°I heard it from my old man, though I didn¡¯t know its meaning but after coming here, I understood what does this means, these words why they are taboo for that King of yours.¡± Arran ¡°Oh, I see.¡± Captain Osteon calmed himself down, he took his chair and continued speaking ¡°Tell, me what are you planning to do?¡± ¡°Nothing much, I don¡¯t have any sort of support or anything, I can¡¯t believe how powerless can I be.¡± ¨CArran. ¡°Ok, that means, you don¡¯t plan on doing anything stupid.¡± ¨Ccaptain Osteon. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. ¡°No, I am, after being stuck here for a month there are many crazy things going inside my mind.¡± ¨CArran. ¡°Captain Osteon, the meeting time is over, so please can you leave.¡± One of the guards in the room notified them about the timings and both of them now need to leave the meeting room. Captain Osteon stood up from the table and took his leave, he walked straight to the exit and opened the door, and bid his farewell to his grandson ¡°Whatever you do fool, don¡¯t die, I cannot see you dying as well, do you get it.¡± ¡°Yes, I got that, I don¡¯t plan to die either not until you see your grand grandchildren.¡± ¨CArran With this the little conversation between a broken man and his grandson ended. Captain Osteon walked out of the room, their he met up with a beautiful young women, she had silky grey hair which reached till her toes, her silky white skin and white shirt seemed to get blend with each other. ¡°Sir, here is your cap.¡± ¨C The women. ¡°Ah, thanks.¡± Captain Osteon took the cap from him and wore it. ¡°So, how was he?¡± The women asked him with a serious expression while both were heading outside the premise of the prison. ¡°He was ridiculous; those fools at HQ had triggered something which they will soon come to regret.¡± ¨Ccaptain Osteon. ¡°Why you say so, sir.¡± ¨CThe women. ¡°You will soon, come to know it¡± ¨CCaptain Osteon. ¡°Oh, my what a surprise, its fancy to meet you hear Captain Osteon.¡± Someone familiar called both of them from behind, both captain osteon and the women with her stopped and turned backwards, where they saw captain roger, he was wearing a proper outfit for a Navy Captain, which was similar to Captain Osteon. ¡°Oh, If isn¡¯t it captain roger from east zone.¡± Captain Osteon. ¡°It¡¯s a pleasure to meet you sir, I never thought I would come across the legend Aryan Osteon, the Captain of Seagull Fleet, what brings you here at this time of the day¡± Captain Roger ¡°Nothing much, just came to see someone.¡± Captain Osteon. ¡°If I remember correct, your grandson is here and if you are thinking how I know about this, then let me tell you I am the one who arrested him, it was so simple, those stupid boys surrender so easily.¡± Captain Roger said in a giggling voice, the expression on his face was that of a cunning fox, his eyes were that of eagle who were focusing on his prey. ¡°Don¡¯t call him foolish, he did that because he had trust on me, justice and state, but now it¡¯s a total different story, I will tell you that, whatever difference we both might have, don¡¯t let them reach him, otherwise you will soon come to regret it.¡± Captain Osteon. ¡°Why, what can a kid like that do to me?¡± Captain Roger. ¡°Don¡¯t break the sweat, no matter how good you handling at fire or extinguish it, it can still burn you.¡± Captain Osteon ¡°What burn me, fire, there is no fire which can burn me and at top of that, that boy is just a spark, which disappears in an instant.¡± Captain Roger Chapter-4 Chapter-4 The Prison The Prison of Sapphire is one of the most secure prison build by the Imperial navy, it is constructed over a small island situated in vast pacific ocean, the prison is been naturally protected by the great pacific ocean, the security level of the prison is moderate as it used for imprisoning the low profile criminals, whose criminal records aren¡¯t something to boost about, here the one who are imprisoned are thieves, local thugs or pirates of small crews. The prison comprise of three sections, the Staff section, it is the section of the prison which is present at the front of the prison, the section comprise of the kitchen, meeting room, warden quarters and most important Weapon Section, the prisons which are situated in middle of oceans like this are very useful for Imperial Navy as it can be used for weapon storage, emergency shelter and first-aid. The islands like this provide a great aid to the navy soldiers. The section two is the main prison; it contains cells of all the prisoners the section is most secured section of the prison, there are continuous guard shifts, around the cells, the section being present in the center of the prison is having a solid architecture, the walls here are more than two feet thick, the stone with which the floor is furnished is rough and hard, the cells of the prison are having bars to lock the prisoners in their cells. The third and the last section is an open area, at the back side of the prison there is a lawn which is used by the prisoners, in the time of the evening when outside weather is pleasant the prisoners are brought here to take some sunlight, where they can witness how big is the prison, from here all he prisoners can have a clear view of all the forces which held them here, the rigid walls which reaches the skies, the blood thirsty hounds whose fangs can tear them to shreds, the fire power and artilleries which keep enemy forces from reaching here. Arran who was being captivated was brought here, after his meeting with his grandfather he was brought here by guards to his fellow prison mates, bonded with the chains he slowly walked through the narrow passage which leads to lawn, surrounded by the blood thirsty hound he walked straight in. The guards unlocked the chains; the hounds smelled him for the confirmation of alien materials and when all the checkups were finished he was released so that he can walk to the place. ¡°oYe, Isn¡¯t it the navy child.¡± A group of delinquents walked towards Arran, they blocked his path and started bullying him, the group had three men in it, all the tree men were tall, muscular and evil with the looks, one of them was a bald man with a big scar on his head, rest two were tall muscular man with black hair. ¡°Just, get out of my way; today I¡¯m not in exactly the best mood¡± Arran made a threat to the group. ¡°Ohh, did you hear that the little boy made a thread to us¡± ¡°Ohh, so this chicken can even speak¡± While the group of delinquents made a joke on him, Arran walked past them; this group of bullies had been treating him like a weak dog, a dog which they can play around whenever they want. Arran who wanted to avoid them and tried to move silently out was stopped by that bald guy, he placed his hand on Arran shoulder from backside, arran had already moved some distance away from them, he didn¡¯t wanted to mess with these guys at all cost, but now they are in a mood to mess around with him. ¡°Oye where are you going, I didn¡¯t allow you to go, my pet.¡± -The balm guy The Arran who used to stay calm at these time now had lose it, he moved his hand of his shoulder with his left hand hold it, subsequently he turned round and hit his head with his right hand, knocking him down unconscious. The bald guy fell unconscious on the ground that huge tall man fell on the ground like a stone, it was hard to believe but Arran who had a medium built and height had knocked him unconscious with a single blow, all the man present in the area man had their eyes all over him, they were watching it like a spectacle, meanwhile one of the two remaining man who tried to bully him rushed towards Arran ¡°You little shit¡± He tried to punch Arran but Arran who had excellent reflexes blocked his attack, he lowered his body a little, just enough so that the man punch which was directed towards his face would be just exactly above his shoulder, as soon as his hand was at right place, that is on his shoulder, Arran grabbed his hand with both his hand, and gave a jerk to his hand, with a cracking sound the screams of the man echoed everyone¡¯s ear, even the guards became aware of the situation. ¡°Shouldn¡¯t we stop them?¡± -A guard ¡°No need to do that, if they kill each other it will be good for us, our work load will decrease if those scum kill each other and at top of that we don¡¯t have to take responsibilities for their action¡± ¨CAnother guard All the guards were watching on the situation but no one cared to stop them, for them it was a mere entertainment, and even if any prisoner died they won¡¯t have to take the responsibility, rather the number of prisoners they need to look after would reduce, all they need to do is make sure no one escapes from here. Arran and the last guy rushed towards each other, both of them were approaching each other with their fist as tight and hard as rock, both of them tried to land a blow on each other faces, Arran moved swiftly and dodged the punch of the man while scoring a hit on his face, Arran punched on his face with caused the man nose to bleed, the man who received the blow was experiencing a great pain, he held his node to stop the bleeding while he received a rotation kick from Arran on side of his face knocking him down. ¡°Oye, punk do you know with whom you have been messing with, they are the part of Gale Pirate Crew, our pirate crew.¡± A group of more delinquent¡¯s walked to Arran, they were here to fight Arran, it was a group of about 7 people, in middle of the group a middle-aged handsome man was standing, he had sharp and distinct features like Green eyes, silver white hair, he had a good and firm muscular built with a crew cut he look liked some sort of Captain, while all the man surrounding him looked like some regular bandits, one of the bandit who had a corn row haircut was the one who tried to pick up a fight with Arran. ¡°Wait, Brian, we didn¡¯t came here to fight¡± The silver hair guy stopped his fellow mate to get some sort of trouble here. ¡°Hello, my name is Chris Beckman, I was supposed to be the captain of pirate crew called Gale Pirates, and the one whom you have knocked down were supposed to be part of my crew.¡± The Silver haired man introduced himself to Arran, he was calm and composed his voice was gentle, the way this person represents him makes it hard to believe that he is captain of a pirate crew. ¡°So, why are you here, to take revenge of your crewmates?¡± ¨CArran. ¡°NO, I simply came here to introduce myself, those idiots got what they deserved to get, so¡± Chris moved his hand forward to greet Arran, Arran without any hesitation accepted his greeting, wearing a smile on their faces they shook their hands. ¡°My name is Arran Osteon; it¡¯s nice to meet you.¡± -Arran ¡°What, Osteon¡± With a surprised look on his face Chris spoke, me moved his hand away right after he heard ¡°Yes; Osteon.¡± ¨CArran ¡°Are you related to captain Aryan Osteon somehow?¡± ¨CChris ¡°Yes, he is my grandfather.¡±-Arran ¡°Grandfather, that¡¯s interesting, I heard that he only had a daughter who passed away more than a decade ago.¡±-Chris ¡°Yes, she was my mother; Captain Aryan Osteon is my Mother¡¯s Father.¡±-Arran You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.¡°That means you are son of Gale Rydberg, aren¡¯t you.¡± Chris shouted out loud, so loud that everyone present around them could hear him, he had a strange smile on his face for some reason he was extremely happy to know that he was Captain Osteon son, all the people who were already having an eye on him stood up their faces showed the expression of amazement, their faces clearly showed that they knew something completely outrageous. ¡°Gale Rydberg, as far as I remember my father name was Clark Rydberg.¡± ¨CArran ¡°Yes, Clark Rydberg the third in commands of Euphoria Pirates, also known by the name of Gale Rydberg was a legendary pirate.¡±-Chris ¡°I never heard about it¡± ¨CArran ¡°For sure you never heard about it, the pirate crew Euphoria was disbanded even before you were born, it was said that they witnessed something so cruel while sailing that they didn¡¯t had courage to sail in the seas any longer, the sea which they were supposed to rule had become something which they started to fear, just think about it 86 battle ships over 1200 pirates united under a single flag, was disbanded all the pirates surrendered to the Empire, no one knows the reason behind it but just think what could that thing be doesn¡¯t that makes you curious.¡±-Chris ¡°Do you know, half the things which you said, do not even make a single bit of sense.¡±-Arran ¡°Oh really, then this might make sense to you State is justice, it is justice because it is strong, not because it is right, state is strong because it is United.¡±-Chris ¡°Where did you hear it?¡± ¨CArran asked him in a clod voice, he didn¡¯t change his expression; he kept his calm composure in order to put some pressure on Chris. ¡°It was the last words which your father spoke at time of his execution, I was ones pirate who used to set sail under the flag of euphoria Pirates, I was present in city of Crocus when your father was being executed.¡± ¨CChris ¡°So, what are you want from me?¡± ¨CArran ¡°Nothing, I just wanted to tell you this, I thought that your grandfather kept you in dark so I told you this, but I guess you already knew about this¡± ¨CChris ¡°Yes, I knew about this though not entirely I only knew half of this.¡± -Arran ¡°Oh, I see, so now I¡¯m taking my leave.¡± -Chris. ¡°You know something Chris; I¡¯m not going to die the same way as my father did.¡±-Arran ¡°So, what are you going to do breakdown from here.¡± ¨CChris ¡°Damn, straight.¡±-Arran ¡°Did you all hear that, this boy here is saying that he would break out this prison all alone?¡± Following Chris all the prisoners started laughing like crazy, it was a joke to everyone, escaping out of one of the Imperial Empire prison was something which only someone stupid can think of, all of the people were making fun of Arran, while laughing like crazy, making some rude comments. ¡°Shut up you ball less bastards, what so funny about it, huh.¡± ¨CArran shouted out ¡°The funny is the fact that you think you can get out of here.¡±-Chris ¡°Who said that I¡¯m going out of this shit all, you all are coming with me.¡±-Arran ¡°Oye boy, enough with this crap, no one get out of here alive.¡±-Chris ¡°We can get out of here and that too alive if all of you nit weeds help me break out of here.¡±-Arran. ¡°Enough with the joke kid, if we try to get out of here many of us will end up being dead.¡± A man standing in the crowd spoke, the man was aged, he was supposedly in his 50¡¯s, the distinct feature about him was his big black beard. ¡°I know that some of us will die, but just think about aren¡¯t we all going to be executed anyway old man, if we are going to die anyway why not sooner than later, I know that this might sound crazy, but why the hell we all are afraid of doing this, we all together count over hundred, there are hundred guards surrounding us, the only difference is that they are united and we are not, otherwise we are no less stronger than them, so why can¡¯t we break this chains.¡± ¨CArran ¡°It seems that saying goes correct, like father like son.¡± ¨COld man ¡°Hey old man, tell me are you Cartographer Smith.¡± -Chris asked the old man ¡°Yes, I¡¯m cartographer smith.¡± ¨COld man ¡°I heard that you were kept here.¡± ¨CChris ¡°But, I think we are missing the main point here, we were talking about breaking out of here.¡± ¨CCartographer Smith ¡°Yes, I have a plan for our escape, but I will need contribution of each and every one for that.¡±-Arran. ¡°Count me in¡± someone spoke out from the crowd; he attracted the attention of all the people quickly. ¡°What, do you want to say young man?¡± ¨CChris asked to the young boy, he was about same age as Arran; the boy had medium built, blonde hair and a really handsome face. ¡°My name is Jack Smith, I¡¯m someone travelling on the same boat as this guy Arran, my father and mother both were pirates, I was raised by my aunt and now soon I will be executed, I guess it doesn¡¯t matter what matter is I was already planning to escape from here, the very first day I arrived here I started making preparations for our escape, I already have talked to many people here and majority are with me.¡± ¨CJack smith the young guy. ¡°So, what exactly are you trying to apply?¡± ¨CArran. ¡°Well, what I am trying to apply is that, if we are going to work together we all need a leader, and I want to be that leader.¡± ¨CJack ¡°What the, aren¡¯t you crossing the line kid.¡± ¨CChris. ¡°I agree.¡± ¨CArran ¡°What are you speaking boy are you even sane right now.¡± ¨CChris. ¡°Yes I¡¯m, but first tell how many people are with you?¡± ¨CArran asked Jack ¡°Nearly 183 people are with me, aren¡¯t you guys.¡± Following jack all the people who had already teamed up with jack, started howling in agreement with him ¡°That¡¯s more than half of the population here and with all of us combined it¡¯s a pretty good number.¡± ¨CCartographer smith ¡°Oye, don¡¯t ignore me.¡± ¨CChris ¡°Just calm down, hey jack ask all the people to go move away, they can get suspicious about us.¡± ¨CArran Hearing upon Arran request jack and Chris both made a gesture and the people surrounding them moved away, Chris pirate crew carried the injured members of his crew. Now only Jack, Chris, Old man smith and Arran were the only people who were standing at their place. ¡°Now, Chris what you say this guy had everyone assembled, if we want to get out of here, we need him.¡± ¨CArran "Ok, I agree with it but till the point we are out of here, then we need to properly choose a leader.¡± ¨CChris ¡°What do you mean later, after this stuff is over, this collaboration stuff is over.¡± ¨CJack ¡°And you call us our leader, are you an idiot.¡± ¨CChris ¡°What was that you old hag.¡± ¨Cjack ¡°Jack, he is right¡± ¨CArran ¡°If you are going to breakout from here, you cannot survive on your own; we all need to stay together afterwards.¡± ¨COld man Smith ¡°Keeping that aside, tell me old man smith, what all I have heard about you is it true.¡± ¨CChris. ¡°What rumors are you talking about?¡± ¨COld man smith ¡°Like, you can draw man of entire place; just by felling the flow of the air around the place.¡±-Chris ¡°Do you want to test it?¡± ¨COld man smith ¡°Yes, for sure, I want to test you.¡± ¨CChris Old man smith picked up a stone and drew the entire map of the island and prison with pin point accuracy. ¡°Let me tell you three days from now a storm will hit this place that would be ideal day for our breakout, if the storm doesn¡¯t hit the island, then don¡¯t believe on me and my map you young fellows.¡± ¨COld man smith Chapter-5 Chapter-5 Breakout Four days later on July 17, 1724 just like Old man smith predicted a storm hit the place a day ago, the strong winds flowed throughout the island, strong, violent winds which vigorously flew all around the place, the winds so strong that they could even blow the prison away, at the shore of the island huge tidal waves rise up and fell down at regular intervals while hitting land, trees and walls of the prison, it was impossible to predict that such a violet storm would hit the vicinity during the beautiful month of July, when people expect bright sunny dawn, nice flower scent spread in the air, chirping of beetles, but instead the all the people present here were listening the rage of the nature, the cruel sound of the storm tearing apart everything. All the living beings weather they were receiving protection from a strong shelter or not, none of them were safe, the storm had already destroyed the forest canopy and now the prison cells had already started to get flooded, just after one day of continuous rainfall, the cells of prison were already full of water, the prisoners present were hugely affected by the storm their cells were filled with water to the point where there legs were half submerged into the water, just moving a muscle was getting hard, the foul smell of the contaminated water was completely another story, but these were least bit of worries for them, today was the day when they need to execute their plan, between the splashing sound of the water two guards completely unaware of the situation here walked. ¡°Oye, you shits show your faces.¡± ¨CThe guard, with words filled with insult and with even more insulting and humiliating tone and facial expressions the guards call the prisoner. Arran and his mate who was present in the cell walked towards the bar of the cell, both of them were shirt less, the probable reason might be that in the storm their clothes might have got wet and now cannot be used for wearing, due to the risk of getting caught with some sort of disease or infection. While the other guard was busy in taking attendance of the other cell, Arran made his move, he took his wet shirt and wrapped it around the neck of the guard, though it was hard to believe even after seeing but it was happening, how did he wrapped around his shirt across his neck when there were bars around was really a mystery. The guard who was taking their attendance and Arran prison mate both ware equally surprised the guard who was unable to speak a thing because of the cloth choking his throat was stabbed by the Arran¡¯s prison mate, he picked out a stone from his pocket and stabbed the guard on his forehead, the stone get right through his skull and he lost the most precious thing of all that movement, he fell on the floor producing a slashing sound, and just as planned the same sound was heard twice by all the prisoners. Arran looked straight towards the cell opposite to his, where the same incident took place; the other guard was also floating in the muddy water which was slowly turning red. After a formal exchange of the keys, all the prisoners were unlocked. ¡°Now, let¡¯s move to the phase B¡± ¨CJack said to Arran, both the idiots had a hilarious smile on their face, and eyes filled with insanity, both of them were going to do something completely outrageous today, both of them proceeded towards the exit of the cells leaving others behind. When both of them reached at the exit, they took their positions, both of them stood at some distance behind the door. ¡°So, now let¡¯s get started.¡± ¨CArran He slowly climbed the stairs, he tried to make as much as no voice, since the stairway was not completely submerged into the water, he was successful in reaching the entrance without making anyone outside notice him, he reached the door of the exit, and started to inspect the place outside with the small window present on the door with which he was able to see the entire place. He gave the signal to Jack to come up, jack slowly moved upstairs, the exact same way as Arran, swiftly and silently, and stood back Arran. If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.¡°There are four guards behind the door; I¡¯m able to see the barrels of gunpowder completely soaked in water, it looks like old man was right, we can assume that they cannot use firearms of any type.¡±-Arran. ¡°What is the position of the guards?¡± ¨CJack ¡°There is one guard on each of the corner of the room; except the one who is guarding the door.¡± ¨CArran. Both of them looked towards each other and shook their heads in agreement, Arran opened the door and moving as fast as a panther he strangled the guard standing behind the door, Arran had guard throat in his hand, he pushed the guard towards the edge of the wall, Jack who was right behind him, picked out the sword from the guard and in an instant he made the sword ran across the guard throat. Upon witnessing the situation the other three guards rushed towards them while holding onto their swords, though they had guns with them, but they didn¡¯t used them, either due to the fact that they were unable to use them because the gunpowder was not usable or they just followed their instinct. Both jack and Arran reacted to their movement quickly, Arran dashed towards a guard holding onto his swords, the guard made a sword strike which Arran blocked with his hands, he bend his knees just a little, and got a hold of his hand, Arran then swiftly moved his hand forcing the guard to stab himself with his own hand. While jack had a clash with the other two guards, but unfortunate for the guards they were no match for him, Jack first dashed towards them and when he was about to reach them, he made a slide, he slide for about 2 feet and stabbed on of the guard with his sword, the guard who were completely stunned on his move, they weren¡¯t able to think probably which resulted in the death of one of the guard, while the other guard made an attempt to kill Jack, which jack blocked easily, he picked the sword from the hand of the guard whom he had killed and used it to block the attack of other guard, he tried to pull out the sword which had been piercing the abdomen of the guard but it seems the guard still had some fight left in him, he held the sword which had pierced his abdomen area, to restrict the jack movement, stunned jack who was watching the brave movements of the guards was so shocked that he wasn¡¯t able to move, he was so cautious about the guard that his mind had turned blank he was only watching the bravery and unwavering will of the guard. At the same time Jack was under attack by another guard, the guards were focused on a single objective which they had to accomplish at all costs that was to stop the escapees at all cost, weather they die in the process or kill in the process, the guard had a clear aim at Jack¡¯s had, there was nothing in between of the jack¡¯s head and the sword which can possibly save him, expect something from the behind, before the sword can reach the jack¡¯s throat, Arran approached the guard from behind and in an instant he made the guard hand and head both detach from his body, he raised the sword in the air and made a swing such that first the guards head and following it his hand got cutoff from his body. ¡°Oye, what kind of beast are you, cutting down people like that.¡± ¨CJack ¡°The same as your; monster.¡± ¨CArran Both of them just had finished with clearing the path, sound of people approaching them started to ring in their ears, with sound of water slashing around, the footsteps of the people could be heard even more nearer than before. A man entered the room following him a large group of prisoners also entered the small confined room, they all took the inspection of the room, where the corpse of multiple guards were lying all of them were looking at the corpse with the amazement, they were not able to believe that two men were able to take down four soldiers all on their own. ¡°You, both kids are much worse than I thought what were your parents teaching you.¡± ¨COld man smith ¡°Don¡¯t break the sweat Old man, now since we know how capable they are we can proceed to next phase.¡± -Chris