Emily's Saga by Travis Bughi

Author:Travis Bughi [Bughi, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: female action fantasy, female action hero, female action adventure, myth adventures series, female adventure hero
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Emily had once thought pirates moved fast at the sight of a storm. Now though, when compared to the sight of vikings, she realized the pirates of The Greedy Barnacle had moved like slow behemoths before. The moment Carlito was shot, Mosley turned to the crew and began barking out orders. Carlito fell to the deck where he twisted and gurgled through the two holes in his throat. The agony alone might have prevented him from stopping Mosley from resuming command, but the inability to speak put a final nail in that coffin.

“Get your weapons ready, lads!” Mosley shouted. “Don’t just stand there, you blasted idiots! Get to the cannons! You there! Go below and get the powder. You! The cannon balls! I need shot, and I need it now! You men there, get to the rigging! You! The sails! The vikings are already at full row, so let’s get moving! Damn it! NOW, LADS!”

The pirates erupted into a flurry of activity like nothing Emily had ever seen. So great was their haste that a few of them slammed into her in their hurry to get moving. None of them stopped to question the fact that just a moment before, they’d all denounced any authority Mosley had over them, which in a way was a tribute to both their fickleness and the urgency of the situation.

Emily found Priscila in the crowd.

“Why didn’t you warn me?!” Emily demanded as she jumped in front of Priscila.

“This isn’t the time, Emily!” she screamed back.

Priscila forcibly shoved Emily out of the way and bolted to the hatch. Emily followed and fought her way into the crowd of pirates that were trying to get down in the hull as fast as possible. Emily elbowed, shoved and pushed until she finally caught back up with Priscila down in the armory.

“No!” Emily yelled to the older woman. “I demand an answer! Why didn’t you warn me? I thought we were friends!”

Priscila gave a deep and hearty laugh as she grabbed up an armful of axes and began passing them to the pirates choking the area. The men were everywhere, rolling barrels of gunpowder to the hatch door, carrying cannon balls with locked arms, lugging boarding axes, sheathing daggers, adjusting cutlasses, and strapping on bucklers. They were arming to the teeth, and Emily thought of her bow and quiver in her room.

Priscila stopped laughing and gave a heavy sigh.

“You are so naïve, Emily,” she smiled. “You really are an amazon, aren’t you?”

“What does that mean?”

Emily hadn’t told anyone that she had been a farmer on the Great Plains. Only Captain Mosley knew, and he hadn’t bothered to mention it either.

“I’ve heard the stories,” Priscila rolled her eyes. “You forget that pirates and amazons visit the same tavern in Lucifan. Margret told me all about your concepts of family and how you all call each other ‘sister.’ All of you place so much trust in each other, like children. Naïve concepts for a naïve people. You do what you must to survive, Emily.

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