Simon's Story

 Simon’s Story









 “Hey Simon, What are you doing after work?” a voice said next to me, it was one of my best friends Damon.

 “Oh hey Damon, I think I’m just heading home and helping my mom”

 “I was kinda wondering if you wanted to go to the base today, I found something interesting in the woods and thought you’d like to see, Sarah’s coming to see later, you should too” After saying this Damon steered off down the path to his job at the mine and I continued to the farm.

 It was a nice day here in the south blue, everything was peaceful and the sun was shining bright on this almost cloudless day, and then something disturbed the silence, I heard shouting at the end of the road where Mr. Charles’ farm was. There seems to be some sort of argument going on, no it was…Pirates!!

 How did they get this far inland? What are they doing here? What are they after? So many questions spinning in my head, without reason I snuck up to listen to them. “Where is it? Where is the Container?” I heard from what seemed to be the captain wearing a long red coat and a typical feathered captain hat,

 “I don’t know what you’re talking about” Mr. Charles sounded worried but truthful as he was held on his knees with his hands bound behind his back. I was scared, watching them rip apart the farmhouse and beating Mr. Charles for answers.

 Without thinking, I ran at the pirate holding Mr. Charles down and my foot made contact with his face before I could turn around to look at the captain I was on the floor with my face being pushed into the dirt.

 “Let him go he’s just a boy” I heard Mr. Charles yell “I don’t know anything about a Container”

 “Well my associate here” the captain points at a captive with bound hands and a gag “says he left it around these parts, and the only people that could have found it out here would be you” There was mumbling from behind the captain, the captive was trying to speak, the captain held a knife to the gag and cut it off allowing the captive to speak but also slicing his lip a little.

 “It isn’t here, it’s in the woods” the captive said stuttering.

 “If you’re lying, I’ll cut more than just your lip” the captain said pointing the knife at the captive’s throat “bring the boy” My hands were bound and I was pulled up and led down the path to the woods leaving Mr. Charles on the ground with bound hands. “Why do you want me?” I asked the pirates “What could you possibly want with me?” “We need a new deckhand, that’s you” The captain interrupted with a grin “Plus the more people we have, the easier we’ll find this damned container”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> What was in this container? And why was it so important? So many questions left unanswered.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> We walked around for what seemed to be a whole day but I could tell it was only around seven hours, through the trees I could see the smoke from the village as people started to light their fires the daylight starting to leave the skies and our surroundings getting harder to traverse. I hear voices quietly in the distance and realised that the base was nearby and that Damon would be bringing Sarah there to see what he had found, I started whistling a song quietly but loud enough to drown out the voices of my friends, the captain seemed to get annoyed by this and turned to look at me.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “Stop whistling you brat” he sneered at me with a look of disgust. “What exactly are you looking for anyway?” I asked him

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “That’s none of your business” still sounding annoyed and turned away “stupid brat”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “Maybe I’ve seen it, I do come out here a lot” his interest seemed to grow as I said this.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “A Box, maybe the size of a chair without a back” he said in a slightly kinder voice probably trying to gain my trust.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “And what if I tell you what I know? What’ll happen to me? And that guy?” I moved my head towards the captive as if to point at him.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “We’ll let you go” he smirked

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “There’s a waterfall…just up this slope” I smirked back “Take me there, to the top and I’ll show you exactly where I saw something like that” The captive gave me a strange look and the Captain just smiled and nodded.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “Okay boy you have one chance…if you disappoint me…you’d better hope it’s a quick ending at the bottom of that waterfall” He looked slightly impressed by my cooperation and possibly at my guts for talking to him like that, I led the way to the top of the falls and asked for my hands to be unbound so that I may point exactly where I saw the container.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “You see that tree with the strange shape over there?” I pointed towards the area where the Admiral Wolves make their home. These wolves are extremely versatile and deadly but are also intelligent, as long as you respect them they won’t harm you and may even help you if you earned enough trust.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “Thank you Captain” I grabbed his hand and shook it leaving a little of my blood from when I was pushed into the floor on him and turned to face the village “A deal’s a deal” suddenly his hand was on my shoulder.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “You really thought we’d let you go?” he pulled me back and stood me next to his captive right above the waterfall.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> “This is why I like kids….so gullible” he said and started to laugh, he raised his hand with two fingers and motioned to his crew to take care of us, almost instantly we were both pushed from the cliff falling fast to the pool below, I grabbed onto the captive and made sure we didn’t get split up and that we both held our breath deeply and then –SPLASH– we hit the water at an amazingly high speed and caused a huge ripple in the pool, still holding on to the captive I pulled him along whilst swimming and found the opening to the base, I swam along a little longer and saw the light inside.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"> Once we came out of the water I saw Damon and Sarah and they spotted me too, they rushed over and helped me up along with the captive I was still holding on to, I let go of the captive and muttered the words “bring…the doctor” coughing a few times, the lights went out…I was unconscious.