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Short Story Of The Island

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“Oh captain it looks like an abandoned Royal’s ship.” Everybody turned to see the large ship floating towards us.
“Check the ship.” My co captain turned to look at me bewildered.
“What check the ship?! It could be a trap. We could all be thrown in prison.” I twisted my spyglass closing it after I looked at the ship.
“Then don’t get caught.”
“Robert and Alberto your group check below deck. Everybody else will look above deck.”
“Ah captain you may want to check this out!” cried Gibson, my co-captain. I rushed into the captain’s quarters with my sword in my left hand along with some of my other crew members. Inside the small room there was a guy about my age chained to the dresser next to the window with a sword in it’s right hand. “What …show more content…

Something didn’t seem right. The bird flew out the cabin room almost hitting me and I followed it. The bird landed on the bulwarks of my ship. A couple of gunshots were fired and the I saw the couple of men that I had left on my ship to make sure it doesn’t sail away drop to the deck floor with a bullet in their chest. The mysterious man smiled at us.
“Thank you mateys for the ship.” Crash! The mysterious man clasped to the floor as Demetri, my older friend that has accompanied me and my crew as a doctor, hits the man in the back of the head with a lamp.

“Jack.” I turned away from the tiller to look at Demetri.
“Alberto’s died.” Demetri nods his head and I lift the tiller up locking it in place and stepped away from it.
“Did the drink poison him?”
“I’m not sure.” We stand in silence letting it sink in. If the other guy was able to drink it and survive then it must have been something else that killed him.
“The other man should know.” Demetri looked at me shocked.
“Why ask him? He could lie?”
“Yea but it’s worth a try.” I walked down to the brig. The man was laying flat down in one of the ship's cell below deck.
“What do you want you blaggard?” I walked up to the cell but didn’t go in.
“You said earlier that the drink was poisonous to me, what do you mean by that?”
The man sighed.
“Why should I tell a lubber something like that.”
“Because I saved you from that ship.”
“Saved? Ha! More like you just made my death bed come sooner and more painful.”
“I’ll get

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