User blog:Ore-samma/My Kraken (Ship Crew) (Disappearance)

Hello Fans, Ore-samma here!

And here is day 21 of the halloween one-shots!

Hope you like it!

Ever your Servant-

Ore-samma

“Blast this infernal fog!” Captain Barnes muttered as he strode to the bow of the ship. “Can’t see your hand in front of your face!” He tilted his head up and cried out to the crow’s nest.

“Decker! You see anything through this piss?”

“Nay, captain!” Deckard called back through the formless grey soup. “Even the light of the moon aint reaching much up here.”

“Keep the sailed held up, maintain anchor and position! We aren’t about to wind up on the rocks or sand!” Barnes barked at his Bosuain.

“Aye sir!” Bosuain Jeebs acknowledged, and ran off into the fog barking the necessary commands. “You heard the captain! You dogs couldn’t see worth anything even in the clear sky and daylight, but your ears are still working! All hands asides from Decker to the line! Keep your steel at hand! No one sleeps till we can see and be underway!”

“Captain, this fog is too unseasonable and uncanny.” James, his first mate said, stifling a shiver. “It almost feels like it's bewitched.”

“Aye, agreed. But what to do about it, James? We have no choice but to wait, the sunlight will burn off this fog, and we can still make it into port on time.”

“Aye sir. I’ll check the aft.”

Barnes looked off into the senseless, formless grey backdrop and closed his eyes, listening. There was something wrong about the way the waves lapped at his ship. Something seemed to be in the water with the ship, but what could it be? He knew the sound of seals, fish, dolphins, even the mighty whales and larger tentacled krakens….but this was different, this almost sounded….like a human swimming down below.

“'Stand to! We’re missing a man!'” The Bosuain cried.

Barnes rushed over and met with the rest of his crew by the mainmast. The Bosuain looked over his shoulder and gave a somber nod.

“Captain, we are missing Leroy. I checked below decks, no one has seen him in a quarter of an hour.”

“Fell overboard?” Barnes said, giving a quick headcount of the rest of his crew.

“It’s possible. But Leroy was off duty and asleep this shift, one of the lads went below decks to wake up the rest of the crew, but he was missing.”

“Right, groups of two- no man walks the deck alone!” Barnes barked. “Look through his belongings and report anything out of the way!” I motioned to my first mate with a head gesture and we entered the command quarters.

“Leroy overboard?” James said with a quizzical tone. “Don’t seem quite right. He was set to make a fortune off his share of plunder.”

I nodded. “Just what I thought- keep the morale in check, we need to-” I stopped as I heard shouting and quickly rushed out, only to hear Jeebs and his second cries that were stopped by an ominous splash.

“'Stand to! I said Stand to!'” James cried out. “What happened? Did anyone see that?”

“They were roped and pulled overboard!” A jittery youth stammered, his face flushed red. “I saw it, Captain! There’s something in the water!”

“Stow that nonsense! What could be out there that would throw a rope!” I growled. “There’s no ships or land for leagues all around!”

“I’m not staying here!” The youth stammered back. “We’re safer below decks!” He started to rush off when James collared him and tossed him to the deck.

“Maintain order!” James barked. “Look at you men! Hallucinating from a little mist and slippery decks! Deckard!”

“Aye, sir?”

“Stand to! You and I are taking the row boat, and searching the area! They are likely just flopping about in the water!”

“But if they were, we’d hear them crying out!” The youth whimpered from the deck.

“Then they’re drowned! But I’ll be damned if I don’t recover their bodies to give them a proper burial once we reach shore! Find your courage, men! Find your sea legs!”

Captain Barnes breathed a sigh of relief to see some of the men’s courage come back to his fiery first mate’s bravado.

“Lower us in!” James said with a curt nod once they were in the row ship and started to row about the ship.

Barnes closed his eyes, listening to the familiar and distinct sounds of rowing and the new addition of the row boat to the water broken every so often by James’ voice….then…..

“James?” Barnes called out, rushing to the side of the boat where he last heard the rowing. The ship was there! He could still hear the distinct lapping of the water on it...but no rowing….no voices….He was just...gone.

“We be on cursed waters!” The youth moaned and suddenly screamed. “'''Captain! Look'''!”

Barnes whirled around and looked behind him….no one was on the ship, save for himself and the youth.

“Alight, laddie. Quickly! To the command deck!” Barnes hollered. Letting the boy go first as he backed up into the command deck with his sword drawn and slammed the door.

The boy whimpered in the corner while Barnes wracked his brain, wondering what in the nine blazed could have taken his crew like that….without a sound….a whisper….

A sudden intrusion of light and shadow cast from beneath the door sill and the youth backed up to the far corner.

“No! You fool!” Barned cried out, just as something shattered the glass window, looped around the boy and pulled him out, screaming.

“Alright you devil!” Barnes cried out, his heart racing. “You’ve taken all me crew, so what are you waiting for! Come and get me! I’ll give you a taste of my steel!”

As if in response the door burst open revealing a shadowy figure with glowing pink eyes. The mists spilled into the room, gutting out the lanterns.

“Right then, you devil!” Barnes seethed through his teeth, closing the distance between him and the figure. “I’ll give yeh a taste of me steel and-” He stopped as something wound around his legs, body, arms and plucked the sword from his hands….tentacles! Crap!

The shadowy figure held out its arms and Barnes was pulled closer. He set his teeth and jaw firm and kept his eyes open. He had never been called a coward and even now...at this moment...faced with the most horrifying evil he could ever imagine….

Through the mist a beautiful woman’s face emerged, her eyes full of delight and joy, a warm smile showing her pearly white teeth and a pink blush to her cheeks accentuated by the soft pink light of her eyes.

“Husband!”

Barnes’ jaw slacked open and his mouth was immediately filled with the woman’s tongue and kiss.

“H-hu-husband?” Barnes, stuttered. And was immediately kissed again the moment his mouth was opened

“MmmmmMMmmmm-UA!” The beautiful woman moaned as she finished her kiss. “Yes! You brought so many men for my tribe! I had to have you for myself! You are so wonderful, husband!”

“Not your husband!” Barnes growled. “Let go of me, sea wench! Me name be Barnes!”

“Oooh! Even better!” The woman purred, her tentacles fondling his body and pulling his clothes off. “My name is Amelia! Come! Let us leave this moldy ship, and come to my palace! Our wedding bed awaits!” She cheered as she started to move out of the command room, over the deck, over the rail, and into the water with Barnes screaming.

''Relax Husband! I have already given you gills!''

Barnes suddenly felt a strange current flowing around his neck and chest and noticed he had gills just like a fish, his eyes immediately saw clearly in the water and his heart burst with joy seeing his men all in a similar state with a strange assortment of fish-like women.

What devilry is this! Barnes shouted in his mind.

''This? This is just my tribe, we went searching for husbands, and now we found them!'' Amelia pointed to a large coral structure lit with all sorts of magical light. ''There is my home! I can’t wait! I have been yearning for a husband for quite some time now!''

''Off me, woman! Off!''  Barnes wriggled free and looked at the small village like place where he saw his men all enraptured. He tried calling to them, but they were spell-bound by the ethereal beauty of the woman who claimed them.

He turned back to Amelia who just stared with a happy face.

''You mean to keep us down here forever? We all have lives topside!'' Barnes protested.

Amelia pointed up and Barnes noticed his ship still there.

Then we can come with you! Amelia said with a head tilt. ''You are our husbands now! Please? Don’t you like me? Won’t you be my husband? I will follow you everywhere!''

Barnes felt his resistance crumble before the large pink eyes of his wife.. Was it really unreasonable what she wanted from him? He sighed, loving how different the water felt versus the sea air and moved closer, his body almost trembling with ecstasy and joy from the touch of her many tentacles and surrendered and relaxed in her grip.

He had always said the sea was his home…..but now, for the first time; if felt like he at last returned to it.