Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 | Page 123

"Whoops, I forgot about that!" I chuckled an turned around to bare my teeth and growl at the other
warriors who were lying down after the pirates had let them go, they stood up as fast as they could running
across the plank but one walked slower than the other,
"Get a move on, we don't have all day!"
He turned around and sliced me across the face with his sword, I fell back, feeling blood dripping down the
cut on my face but got back up to see him, walk across the plank and curse at me in Chinese, I jumped
across and knocked him over. I turned to Zheng he pulled out his gun and aimed it at me, I let down my
hair out my bandana,
"You wouldn't shoot an old betrayed friend, would you? The Sink Hound's Galley?" My voice cracked, as I
remembered the memories with my old trainer.
Zheng looked confused for a moment but then he went pale. "A-Ana, it's you, but how why?"
"You betrayed me, Zheng. You left me one day without telling me, I thought I would never see you again.
I want to thank you for my training but after you left, I joined the pirates. They trained me even harder and
I felt like I had a family." I looked towards my adoptive family, the pirates. "Why didn't you come back or
tell me, Zheng, I thought you had forgotten me." I looked around to see a broad circle around us aboard
this massive ship, many staring eyes but I didn't care.
"I came back, they had told me you were captured by pirates, I thought you were dead, I tried to forget you
but I couldn't." He looked at me, I remember those eyes, they were the last ones I saw before he left,
sadness.
"I was there, you shoot me, I was 17, Zheng! I can't believe you would shoot a seventeen-year-old girl! I
didn't recognize you. Look at what you have become Zheng an amazing warrior, kind, strong but a
murderer, you have killed some many people!" I had tears running down my cheeks "Continue your life but
don't forget that you had a life that you were carefree and only cared about the people that you loved, not
the entirety of the Ming Dynasty. Go back to the Sink Hound one day, I will be there, if not, don't worry, I
will go back there someday dead or alive"
"Ana... I'm so sorry" He looked broken
"Sorry won't cut it, Zheng."
I jumped off his ship and dove underwater, popping back up at the stern off the boat and climbed up,
steering the boat away from the Admiralty as a nice quick breeze started moving us along, I had tears
running down my face, when Captain Jack came up to me I turned around ready to face a harsh punishment
as I let them go, but his face was pitying he held out his arms, he felt like a father to me, I ran into his warm
embrace.
"I didn't know that the leader of the Ming treasure fleet was your trainer, no wonder you where so good
when we recruited you, you are only 20 but you have been through so much, now let's tend to your
wounds," He lead me across the ship down to the main part to see all the other pirates, I tried to walk but I
fell and was caught by Jaxon and Connor,
"Cmon, Lillian lets get you cleaned up, you will get scars though," Jaxon said with a worried face
I laughed and traced the cut with my finger, starting at my eyebrow and ending under my mouth, "Does it
matter, at least everyone else is ok, I hope?"
"Yeah, everyone else has only minor injuries, but you where amazing taking on Zheng like that, thank you
for saving me." Connor said.
“It was worth it”
I thought to myself, I wonder what's going to happen next, the life of a pirate is an adventure in itself, with
or without the hardships I loved it all the way.