• Chapter Two: the Town of Becket Island

    “the town looks so beautiful at night” Sahara said to her uncle who was standing next to her as the ship pulled smoothly in to the harbor. “it sure is isn’t it?” he said “now how long has it been since you have been here?” he asked her “ a while” she answered “longer then I can remember” Sahara leaned against the railing of the boats bow and looked out over the town. “the town of Becket has changed in the last few years” Sahara’s uncle warned her “how?” she asked him “how has it changed?” “well” he began “they have required a hatred for pirates” he told her “about six years ago after I came and took you aboard my ship when your parents died, a whored of blood thirsty pirates, much like us, raided the town killing more then 100 people and injuring dozens more, and since then they always distrusted and hated pirates” he explained to Sahara “so we must always be careful when coming here to this town”. “then why are we coming here?” Sahara asked, looking a bit confused and nervous, “because” her uncle began “we will be going to the west side of the island, there we won’t be ridiculed for being pirates and we’ll be safe, unless we cross the border in to the south side of Becket island that is”, Sahara looked up at her uncle with some ease and asked, “why is it we can be on the west side but not on the south? What is so different abut the two sides of the island? Her uncle looked out over the nearing town; “well” he said “the west side of the island is used for criminals, they place them there after trial since they don’t really have a jail on Becket Island, and all those people who are innocent and have done nothing wrong stay on the south side, we’ll fit in good on the western half of the island since we are thieves after all”, he explained. “We’ll be safe, so don’t worry about a thing” he assured Sahara as the ship docked at the Becket west harbor. As the ship docked, Sahara watched as Clyde through the rope down to a near by group of men who had been waiting at the dock since the ship had come in to view, “we’re here!” she shouted happily, she then grabbed on to a near by rope a swung herself over the side of the ship and on to the dock where her uncle joined her with the rest of the crew, even Clyde! Who rarely left the ship except when turning in bounty for money. “Now Sahara” said her uncle ‘we’ll be headed for the pub soon and I expect you to be good while we’re in there, since you can’t come and I can’t keep an eye on you!” “oh I will!” she said quickly “I’ll be good! I swear!” “I have full confidence in you!” her uncle told her “and I better not catch you crossing to the south side of the land! And be careful!” “I will” she said as she turned to walk down to the beach “I’ll be fine”, her uncle watched as she disappeared out of site “ah Sahara” he thought to him self “your such a little trouble maker some times, ever since you was little to be exact, I don’t believe that you’ll stay on this side of the island, you never do and I know that as a fact, and don’t think I don’t know what your doing when im not around because I do”. Sahara made her way down to the beach and sat in the cool sand “I wish I cloud see the other side of Becket island, the place I used to live at and every thing else that was that was there too”. She sat for a while and looked up at the night sky, she began to sing to her self, singing the words: oh, full moon watch over me, oh please oh please keep me company, guide me with you burning light and through the darkest of all nights! Oh full moon watch over me! When her song ended she looked out over the water and sighed heavily, “ I really do wish that I cloud go to the other side of Becket island”. “I miss my old friend” she though to her self “I miss Hiro” she said sadly “he was my best friend befor I left this place, I wander if I’ll get to see him before we leave for dead mans cove.” Dead mans cove was a place where a very worthy treasure was buried but no man was ever able to find it and most didn’t even make it out alive, thus they named the place dead mans cove!