“Charge!” Yunga jumped off the boat and so did all of the other crew members as they jumped off the boat after Yunga did. Some of the night patrol saw Yunga and the rest of the crew, but it was too late to wake up all the others. Yunga and her crew were already at the tents, and they started slashing at the night patrol. Many of the crew members went inside of the tents and killed the people inside.
Yunga was the head of the charge and was the first person of the crew to get a kill, as she slashed some of the night patrol. She also would go into tents and kill the people sleeping in the tent.
Hillanter was slashing people away, and was looking through every tent to see if Brentha was in one of them. But every slave that he came across in a tent was human and not Purk that they were looking for.
Zunci was also doing the same thing as Hillanter, but she was more quick than any of them. Going from tent to tent, killing the people inside and freeing the slaves that were in the tent. Yet, no sign of Brentha anywhere in any of these tents.
Shanta was blowing people with her magic. Blasting little shocks to people and lifting up tents to check who’s inside but yet again, no sign of Brentha anywhere. Shanta kneels on the ground in a safe spot and focuses real hard. Her head started to glow purple, and after five seconds she turned to Yunga. “Brentha is at the tent on the top of the hill!”
“Really? How do you know that!?” Yunga yelled back.
“Just listen to me and let’s get there! We won’t have much time!”
“Got it!”
Yunga looked around for Hillanter, Zunci, and Shug. She is able to spot Zunci coming out of a tent and waves over at her to get her attention. Zunci doesn’t see her at first but looks over at her and quickly runs over to her.
“What’s wrong!?” Zunci frantically asked.
“We need to get to the tent at the top of the hill, that’s where Brentha is being held.” Yunga exclaimed. “Get Hillanter and Shug, then we charge the tent on top of the hill!”
“Speak of the devil!”
Hillanter came running up. “Why are we stopping here!?”
“Brentha is at the top of the hill!” Yunga quickly responded.
“Alright let’s go!” Hillanter started charging up the hill, with his weapon raised to the sky.
“Wait, where's Shug!?” Zunci quavered.
“Don’t know, but we don’t have time right now!” Shanta voiced. “We need to get up that hill, we can search for him later!”
Shanta rushed right after Hillanter.
“He’ll be fine. I promise!” Yunga said. “We just need to get going now!” Yunga followed suit after Hillanter and Shanta.
“God, I hope you're right Yunga.”
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“Well isn’t she a cute one.” A drunken man said, leaning over towards Brentha’s face. Brentha was tied up and her mouth was covered. Her long black hair was covering her face, but you could still see the tears rolling down her cheek.
“Back off man! I thought we agreed that I would get the first round!” Another man butted in, pushing the guy away from Brentha’s face.
“Come on man, I’m just admiring her. Cut me some slack here would ya?”
“Just move out of the way, and sit down. It’s getting late anyways.”
The guy began to walk over to Brentha and kneeled down to her. “Don’t worry darling, this’ll be over quickly.” He took off her mouth cover. “Let’s see that face fully, without this silly thing in the way.” As soon as he takes it off of her face, she immediately spits at him. The guy lunges back and stumbles.
“You motherfucking bitch!” He yelled, wiping off the pit from his face. The drunken guy is having a laugh, and is immediately kicked by the guy who got spit on. “Shut up, fucking dickhead!”
Another guy runs through the flap of the tent out of breath and shaking.
“Guys!” The man who just ran in trembled.
“What?” The other man who got spit on by Brentha said, still wiping his face.
“There’s just a bunch of pirates who are raiding us!”
“Shit. Are they slaughtering everyone down there?”
“Yes! Next, they’re gonna come for us!”
The man’s tough demeanor dropped and he looked directly at Brentha, still tied up on the ground. “They have to be Velantriff’s men.” He quickly ran over to a case and opened it up so fast, you swear the hinges would come off. He reached down into the case and pulled out three rifles and some bullets, and threw them at the other two men. “Tell me when they are coming this way!”
The other guy dropped the rifle on the ground and quickly picked it back up and loaded it, his hands were shaking and kept dropping bullets on the ground. The drunken guy didn’t even catch the rifle, only let him hit him in the head. The rifle had to have sober him up, as he quickly stood up and loaded the rifle.
One guy looked out the tent to see the carnage, as the original guy, who threw the rifles, pointed it at Brentha’s head. “We’ll have to make sure they won’t just come in and kill us easily. I’ll go down fighting.”
“They’re heading right for us!” The guy on lookout shouted into the tent.
“Tell them that we’re gonna shoot the king’s daughter in the head if they get too close.”
The guy put his head out of the tent and yelled. “We have Brentha at gunpoint! If you come too close we will shoot her!” At Yunga, Hillanter, Zunci, and Shanta and they all stop twenty feet from the tent.
“Shit! They know we're with Velantriff.” Yunga said under her breath.
“What the fuck do we do now?” Zunci asked. “We need to get in there!”
“Don’t you have magic Shanta? You can just blow away the tent!” Hillanter exclaimed.
“With Brentha in there? I’ll basically kill her along with those guys!” Shanta explained.
“The fuck do we do now!?”
“I don’t know.” Yunga said defeatedly. “If my leg wasn’t so injured, I would just speed in there.”
The crew couldn’t come up with anything and we’re now stuck outside of the tent at a standoff. The guy looking outside of the tent ducked his head inside.
“We need to think of something fast!” Shanta said, rubbing her fingers through her hair.
“I don’t know! We’ll just get Brentha killed if we just rush in-” Zunci couldn’t get her sentence over with as what happened next shocked her.
Shug came running by them, and ran all the way past them, charging into the tent.
“Wait!” Yunga shouted at Shug, but it was too late. Shug ran through the flap of the tent.
Shug came flying into the tent unexpectedly, the people who were in the tent were too shocked to do anything as Shug came in. He was flying through the air and punched the person who was holding the gun at Brentha’s head. The guy dropped the gun and went crashing into the ground.
“What the fuck!?” The drunken guy yelled, scrambling to get his gun pointed at Shug and is gonna shoot but is stopped by Zunci stabbing him in the throat. The guy stumbles around, holding his neck and falls face first into the ground.
The guy that stuck his head out of the tent cowers in the corner as Yunga comes in and stabs him in the head.
The man that Shug punched, gets up from the ground and kicks Shug in the face and points his rifle at Shug. Hillanter swoops in and stabs the guy in the back and through the chest. The blood sprays onto Shug but he is unfazed by it and quickly goes over to Brentha.
“You ok?” Shug asked.
“Y-Yes.” Brentha sniffled, still crying from earlier.
“My name is Shug and I’m working for your father to save you. You’re safe now.” Shug got Brentha to her feet and untied her. Brentha immediately turned around and hugged Shug.
“Thank you!” She cried, grabbing on to him tight.
“No problem.” He responded, being crushed by the hug. Soon after, Yunga and the others charged in and stopped when they saw Shug.
“Holy shit Shug!” Zunci said, impressed with Shug’s fighting skills. “That was fucking sweet of you!”
“Where were you!?” Yunga asked.
“I was sneaking around the perimeters, avoiding the main fight in the middle of the tents.” Shug responded. “I was getting all of the tents that were all on the side and working myself up when I saw this tent. I heard Brentha scream for help and the rest is what you can see now.”
“Nice fucking going!” Shanta complimented.
“Thanks.” Shug nervously responded.
“Now that we have Brentha we can go back to the ship now. The rest of the crew should already be done with the others by now.” Yunga said, in a sigh of relief. “Really thought we were gonna lose you back there Brentha.”
Brentha then thanked everyone for helping her to be rescued and they all left the tent and looked over the destruction of the place. Tents were being burned down and blood was all over the grassy null, which was the main part of the battlefield. It looked like the fighting and chaos was dying down. All of the crew was now escorting Brentha all the way back to the ship. When they passed by the other crew members were bowing down to Brentha.
Everyone got back on the boat and sailed back off, leaving no one alive back at the small island. They were all heading back home, Yunga was taking it all in on the side of the boat looking back at the carnage she left behind. Zunci came right beside her, also looking back at the small island.
“We really did leave our mark back there huh?” Zunci joked.
“Yeah, and to think we were just gonna give up.” Yunga said, looking back at Zunci.
“Thanks to Shug we didn’t. Also thanks to him, we also got out of that tough pickle we were in.”
“Mmhmm.” Yunga then looked back at Shug who was sitting by Brentha. He gave her a blanket to help her with the cold. “I do owe him an apology.”
“Shug!” Hillanter shouted. Shug immediately got up and faced Hillanter, who was furiously walking up to him.
“Y-Yeah.” Shug shuddered.
Hillanter kept furiously walking, drew his fist back and struck Shug in the face sending him flying backwards and into the ground.
“Shug!” Zunci yelled out in concern and ran to his side. Yunga came running over too, and kneeled down near Shug’s side.
“What the fuck were you thinking!?” Hillanter furiously shouted. “You could’ve gotten Brentha killed because of how you rushed in! You are the luckiest motherfucker alive, because if she died. I would’ve torn you limb for limb!”
Shug was bleeding from his nose and he was holding his nose, trying to stop the bleeding.
“Did you even listen to what I said when we docked! I knew we should’ve just tied you up because you can’t stop yourself from fucking up!”
“Hillanter! You can think that, but to hit Shug like that is not a healthy way to convey it!” Yunga exclaimed. “Look at him, you made him fucking bleed!”
“Does it look like I give a fuck!? Does it!?”
“You have no remorse for anything do you!?” Zunci raged.
“Absolutely not. So Shug? Are you gonna let these people speak for you or are you gonna man up, maybe even tell an excuse? That would make me laugh.”
Shug looked up at Hillanter with his bloody nose. “Hit me all you want! All that matters is that I did something useful for once and you still slam me down into the ground over and over. What the fuck do I gotta do, to get your respect around here!? Hell, I don’t even care about yours, anyone’s!? I could cure every single disease in the world and you would still find something to drag me down!”
“Come on Shug, the only one that thinks that about you is Hillanter.” Zunci comforted. “Just don’t listen to him.”
“Don’t listen to them Shug! They are only saying that just so you will feel better and not fuck-up anymore.” Hillanter walked away. “I want to see the looks on their face when you inevitably fuck-up again.” Hillanter walked away from the situation he started and into the living quarters.
Yunga and Zunci helped Shug up from the ground and helped clean his nose up. Luckily, Shug’s nose wasn’t broken but he was still pretty injured from the blow.
“You gonna be ok?” Zunci concernaly asked him.
“Yeah, just leave me alone ok. You guys can go back to what you were doing before. I’ll be fine.” Shug said, sitting down next to Brentha, who was looking at him.
“Whatever you say.” Yunga complied, and she walked away. Zunci than soon followed after, giving Shug a pat on the back before she left. Leaving Shug and Brentha alone.
“Are you warm enough?” Shug questioned Brentha.
“Yeah, thanks for the blanket.” Brentha responded, looking down on the ground. Shug and Brentha sat in silence, listening to the sound of the waves crashing into the boat.
“Nice night out.” Shug broke the silence.
“I guess.” Brentha silently said.
“Say, do you have experience being on a boat?”
“No.”
“Oh, so this is your first time?”
Brentha looked up at Shug, her purple eyes shining by the fluorescent moonlight. “Can you please just be quiet.”
“Sorry.” Shug scratched the back of his neck and looked up at the stars, his hand resting close to Brentha’s. Brentha puts her hand on top of Shug’s hand, and she slumps over onto his shoulder. She fell asleep. Shug moved his shoulder by instinct and Brentha’s head plopped down into his lap. Shug jumps a little as he blushes, and picks up Brentha’s head and puts it back onto his shoulder. He gives a sigh of relief and looks up back at the stars.
“Hey Shug.” Zunci said from across the deck. “You should probably take her to bed and make sure she’s comfortable. She gave him a cheeky wink.
“Yeah, I’ll do that.” Shug stood up and picked up Brentha and walked into the living quarters.
“We should do the same.” Zunci turned to Yunga.
“Was just about to say that. It’s been a long day.” Yunga responded and turned to go down to the living quarters. “It’s gonna be a good day for us tomorrow. We get our freedom.”
“Oh yeah, I kinda forgot about that. Shame this kinda adventure isn’t gonna go on forever.”
“It is, but it had to end one day, didn’t it.”
“All good things do come to an end.”
Yunga and Zunci headed down into the living quarters together.
“Hopefully the king will keep to his promise and actually free us.” Yunga thought to herself as she got into her bed. “At the same time, I kinda wanna be with these people. Maybe he’ll let us do more work for him. Not that I’ll like it, but it’ll be better if I’m with them."229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCy7zWvWoyh
