My Blog List

Monday, July 16, 2018

Negotiating to Escape

"Lylla, Lylla, Lylla when will you LEARN?" Eva berated her with a mocking grin and a gun pointed at her ship.

"There is plenty for you, your men, and myself!" Lylla proclaimed to the Privateer-Corsair. She let out a nervous laugh as a bead of sweat came down her forehead.

"Pfff ha ha ha ha ha! Lylla you know every time you find something this big I will always be there or someone else will be there to take it from you. Unless through sheer luck you happened to evade that situation." Eva stated after laughing. Her own crew of Corsairs, and Privateers who became corsairs laughed as well.

"I was just going to bring this treasure to the nearest Lord, no a Sultan of the  Bazul Oasis." She replied to Eva hoping she would buy that.

"Huh, the Sultan of the Bazul Oasis? Hmmm I have had the pleasure of talking to his skeleton just last year. You cannot fool me Lylla Loving Bones I know you keeping that treasure to yourself and your band of misfit adventurers! Hand it over." Eva saw through the lies Lylla was trying to pull in order to get out of this.

"Can't we just make a deal-" Lylla tried to speak but was cut off by a loud voice through a loud megaphone.

"DO NOT MOVE PIRATE SCUM! VICEROYALTY BARTOLO DE TAVIRA HAS CLAIMED THIS TREASURE IN THE NAME OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDRE III OF HOUSE RIBERO!"  the voice demanded from both vessels, one full of corsairs and the other full of adventurers ready to leave at any given moment.

Both Lylla and Eva looked up to see a huge Galleon that must have been crewed by 177 soldiers/sailors and garrisoned with an additional 84 drafted auxiliary troops from the Ribero Empire. It almost came in between them , but had to stop since there was little to no room for it. On its deck hundreds of sailors, and soldiers stood armed with guns, swords, other melee weapons, and prepared to board both vessels. The officers stood at the vessel's bow dressed in that orange, green, and red uniforms. All the soldiers either wore green uniforms with cuirasses over them or the orange uniforms. Most of the soldiers wore either a Morion helmet, or tricorne hat. The rest wore caps, and other hats suitable for airship sailing.

"Greetings to you oh great soldiers of his Majesty I mean Divine Monarch the Great Alexandre III!" Lylla said as charmingly as possible while speaking loudly for them to hear. She hoped someone else would arrive such as the Carvetian Empire, the Lexurns, or that newly formed Central Trading Union.

"WHO ARE YOU? STATE YOUR NAMES WHO ARE YOUR CAPTAINS SENORITA?" the officer with the megaphone asked.

"My name is Lylla Loving Bones Captain of the Crowned Sword also known as Delusional Heck! I am only a female adventurer seeking fortunes where ever she may find them!" Lylla said forcing herself to spill out the truth to a group of male officers of the Ribero Crown.

"Senorita you are on a ship seeking fortunes like a common back alley thief and dirty explorer? Madam you must have lost your way while becoming a lady." the officer replied sounding a little more softer this time. His attention turned to Eva's ship. Eva bowed to them revealing her cleavage to the well dressed men of the Ribero Crown.

"Eva Xander Captain of her Majesty's Navy Queen Olivia IV of Carvetia. My ship is the Black Star's Demon. Perhaps you have heard of it?" Eva introduced herself with another bow to these fine Celberian gentlemen.

"Senoritas you both are Captains of your ships. Uh eh Perhaps you two shall dine with us and other Admirals of the Celberian Navy. It may be suitable for women of your stature to delve in the life of a Lady or a Nobles's lifestyle." the one with the megaphone spoke with a hint of nervousness in his voice. He nearly stammered when he noticed he was speaking to women. Lylla eyed him closely noticing he wiped away sweat from his brow.

"I believe that will not happen!" Eva spat out but seemed to take the words back. She pondered for a moment then something hit her. "We were just on our way out of here. You see Captain Lylla and I were just discussing terms of one ship following the other out of this dreadful wasteland!"

"Senorita Xander we must insist on our invitation to you and Madam Lylla. Both of you have been invited to dine with us." the other officer replied turning Eva's offer down. Two more Galleons appeared in the scene each one full of Celberian sailors and soldiers. Both ships flanked the Delusional Heck and the Black Star's Demon.

"Very well then we shall take your invitation only if our ships and crew are spared and pardoned." Lylla replied for Xander who was flabbergasted and could not speak. She watched Eva gulp before accepting this invitation to dine with the Admirals and Captains. Eva turned to Lylla's direction and gave her a loathing glare. It was apparently not her plan or on her agenda. She had dragged her own rival into a night of dining with a supposed enemy. That is if these men knew who they really were and they had bounties on their heads. 

No comments:

Post a Comment