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His eyes fluttered open, he sat up and instantly regretted it, his head suddenly felt like it was about to tear in two. He squinted up into the sun, using his hand to shield his eyes from its glaring heat. Where am I? His mind in turmoil, his body felt baked from the sun rays. He tried to recall what happened to him, but he couldn’t think of anything, not just about what happened, there was nothing. He couldn’t remember who he was. He peered around the area, taking in the shattered beams of wood and crates, one of which was cracked open with what looked like.. Tea? Maybe he was on a trading vessel and it crashed at sea? He tried to stand up, but fell almost instantly. His legs felt like jelly, he decided to sit for a while and let himself recover. Suddenly he felt an intense tugging on the back of his head, almost like someone had reached into his skull, gripped his brain and pulled. He turned towards the sea, his mind-numbing pain forgotten, there he saw a ship sailing towards the shore. The sails were deep black, with an orange shape in the middle.

The mark of the Kraken.

He must have passed out once more for between the dazzling light shining through the gaps of his fingers, shielding his eyes from the sun was the boots of men in front of him. 'Five in all, I can take three at the most before they get me'. He shook his head in frustration, then realised that it didn't hurt. His splitting headache that had been crippling five minutes ago was completely gone, in fact, he felt good, amazing even. But even if he felt amazing, he still couldn't battle five pirates all at once. The captain stood only three metres from him, surveying the wreckage. "So, who ar' ye?" The captain asked, with no response, "What's yer name damn it" The captain glanced over at the crate of tea spilled out behind him, a teabag was stuck in this washed up man's hair, The captain sniffed, "Where did ye come from tea man?" The captain queried once more, "this'll be yer last chance lad" The newly named "tea-man" opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly his mouth felt like it was suckered shut by an external force. He felt a rage and bloodlust writhe inside him, as if a tentacle had twisted around his body. "I wish to join your crew" He announced, staring the captain dead in the eye. The captain met his gaze for about two seconds, then burst out laughing. "Yer tellin' me, ye wish to join me crew?" The captain said, holding his hands to his sword, "I could skin ye like a goat matey" the captain mocked, he stared at the sea-beaten boy in the eye and simply turned away. The next few moments were a blur, tea-man's rage reached it's apparent limit, he swirled around him thwacking one pirate in the side of the head. The others attempted to step in, but were caught off-guard by a low leg sweep, tea-man whipped around to face the last pirate lackey, smacking his sword sideways and stealing it from his grasp, but before he could turn his blade upon the captain he felt the tip of a sword against his neck. "Now just calm down matey" The captain sweated intensely, "this is all a misunderstan-" "I wish to join your crew" Tea-man repeated, interrupting him "Aye lad, that can be arranged fer sure!. Don't be doin' anythin' rash now ye?" Tea-man lowered his cutlass, and the captain sheathed his whilst the other pirates were recovered their weapons and footing. The captain jerked his head towards the ship, gesturing to get back on. "I must warn ye lad, where we're goin', it ain't the place for land-lubbers" "Why? Is it dangerous?" Tea-man queried as they hopped onto the ship, "Aye, we're about to fight a war tea-man" The captain informed him, then yelled a few orders at his crew, "Who? Who's fighting? And stop calling me tea-man, just Tea is fine" The captain looked over at him with a sidelong face, "Neo and his Urakan lads, we've set sail for the Isle" When they arrived, there was smoke and cannon-fire everywhere and the sounds of clashing steel ringing through the streets, "What the hell is happening?" Tea asked the captain, who glanced at him before turning and yelling more orders to the crew "Uraka has attacked earlier than expected, if ye wanted to join me crew, now's yer chance to prove yerself" He said, grimacing at the same time. "Ye wanted to be a Barbossan matey" The captain pulled his cutlass from it's sheathe and tapped it on each of Tea's shoulders, "Welcome to ye crew" The streets were littered with bodies and filled with smoke as Tea sprinted through the chaos, as they moved in on the citadel. He found a group of Barbossans desperately fighting off the Urakans scaling the walls, and he leaped into battle slashing left and right, taking down the Urakans he went. But no matter how many he killed, there seemed to be an endless stream of men from the other streets flooding towards them. The captain turned to him and the surviving Barbossans, He thought for a second, and shouted "Follow me" The remaining group went through the back alleys killing all the Urakans they could, but men were falling on both sides,

This war was lost.

Tea turned back to face the remaining pirates, "We need to leave, or we'll all die" Tea began moving back the way he had come from the port, the Captain looked at him and nodded, then began to lead them down towards the harbour. They reached the ship Tea had sailed in on, hopped aboard and began scrabbling to depart. Tea made ready the sails as the Captain yelled over the sounds of the fading battle, "We're leaving. Now. And check the cargo holds for the Urakans." Some men nodded and began to head down towards the holds, they had just pushed off the pier when a strangled yelp echoed from the hatch leading down to the cargo. "Men ready!" The captain cried loudly as they prepared to be attacked, and as predicted four Urakan men showed their faces through the hatch. Tea hacked and sliced at the enemy, fighting viciously to break his opponents guard. Eventually the Urakans began to falter under the pirate and Tea's endless barrage of attacks, and they gave up ground to them. The last Urakan threw down his weapon and fell to his knees, "Please! Don't kill me!" But Tea had no remorse, he plunged his sword deep into the man's chest. Tea wiped his blade on the dead man's clothes and turned to the captain, "What's our heading". The Captain grasped the wheel and replied, "Uraka, the battle of the Isle is lost but the war has just begun." Tea turned to the inferno that blazed behind him but noticed the Captain's face remarkably turn to a smile and out the Captain sang,

Yo ho yo ho the pirates life for me...