Waking up

My head was banging. Everything was dark and quiet. I moved my aching hands only to feel a sticky warm liquid. A flow of light shown down on me and I reeled from the brightness. I looked around, I was in a box shaped room with the no ceiling, only looking up to a bright light and some stars. From the smell and rocking I guessed we where in a boat. Then I noticed the warm liquid was coming from my head, and relised I was bleeding. “Aye, he’s up!” I heard a deep voiced man say. “W-what, where, where am I.” I rasped “Auh shut up you lil brat.” I looked around again and saw some feet leading up to a body hidden in the darkness. I couldn’t tell If it was a boy, man, woman or girl. They hadn’t gotten up yet. I heard a thump and turned around to the deep voiced man standing behind me. He had jumped down from the deck and was moving closer to me. “Now, Lil one your gonna do excacltly as I say,” I scooted back and hit the body behind me. I yelped. The body stirred and the man laughed. “Oh so you’ve met the other one I see, ya know he was a fighter. Whining about how we shouldn’t tear his precious lil night gown.” “Ya spoiled lil brats.” He said gruffly. Clink. He pulled out a knife and swung it toward my face. “P-please*!* I-I’m sorry*!* Don’t hurt me-“The next thing I know a thin, pale body pushes himself in front of me. “Don’t you dare touch him, don’t bring anybody but me into this.” All this was to much to me, my head was beating louder than before. My mind was racing, what was going on? Everything went blurry and my head hit the ground.

I woke up to seagulls screeching and the nauseating smell of the sea. As I opened my eyes that thin pale figure was standing over me. It was morning. “ Oh, your up. I hope you don’t mind but I tried to clean up your head a bit.” His hands were dabbing a small piece of cloth over my head to stop the bleeding. “Thank you.” I replied. He smiled and continued to clean up my cut. “What...well, do you know what happened, and where are we?” His grin faded a bit as he looked down, and his eyes reflected a type of sadness, not just fright but more like he had been through this before. He swung his head up and with a bigger smile than before pushed his hand out in front of me, “Hello, my name is Saryis I'm from England. what’s your name!” Bright pink blush filled his cheeks. “You can call me Sary for short.” He exclaimed proudly. “H-hi, Sary,” I stuttered. “ My name is Barrinn.” “Sorry,” He frowned, “Am I being a bit to much.” He blushed again. “ You know what I’ll just get straight to the point. I am the son of a rich merchant, that man you saw, the one who threatened you, him and his friends are Atlantic pirates that were tricked by my dad on some Eurpean goods and they took me as a hostage for ransom.” He explained. “Do you know why I’m here?” I asked.“Oh, you don’t remember?” “When they pulled me along, I was blindfolded by the way and you have no idea how uncomfortable it is, anyway I think I heard them talking about how there was a kid on the docks. They must have took you along thinking you might snitch.” Memories flooded back from that night, it was dark and I had gone to the docks to get away from the other kids, I lived on the street and felt like taking a stroll. Then I saw three men hassling a small boy, he was trying to get away so I assumed I should help, but of course they knocked me out in the head and I was taken along. And now I’m here “Hey, um Barrinn was it, look I’m really sorry for getting you into this.” He sighed. “No, no it’s ok life by the docks wasn’t the nicest, and who knows mabey we’ll go on an adventure.” We both smiled but were interrupted by a loud crash on the deck

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