Cannons were being fired, you could hear the sound of death and blood. It was a terrifying experience, but it is not new for an ordinary soldier like myself. 'BOOM' cannons are fired with their deafening sound. "LOAD AGAIN" yelled the captain of the ship. "For fuck sake, when will he shut up," said Frank, He was next to me helping to load the cannon. "He's terrified that's why he doesn't shut up," continued Frank, "Bastard doesn't do much besides yelling orders." The cannon was ready, I took my aim and calmly said. "Get ready I'm firing." 'BOOM' the cannon went and hit the deck of the pirate ship.
"Nice!" said Frank, "That was one hell of a shot." The captain gave new orders to get ready for melee fighting. We got armed and waited for the second ship, frankly, half a ship was coming at us, because it was already burning and the desperate pirates wanted to get out of their ship. We can't turn around anymore so this situation is unavoidable, the ship hit us and we got aggressively shaken.
I took on arms and got ready to fight, Pirates coming from every direction, swords colliding and a man dying. I swing my sword right through the man's rips, he gasped for air, before falling unconscious. I couldn't hear the general giving orders, This situation is getting worse by the second. I took down two more pirates, one tried to grab my sword with his rope, but I quickly went into brawl fighting technique. I kicked him to the ground and pierced the sword right through his neck. The other guy tried to stab me from the back, I dodged the sword and slit his throat.
Cannons are being fired at us from the other pirate ships, especially from the one that I destroyed their deck. 'Curses' I said, our backup hasn't arrived, because of the storm and we don't have enough supplies to handle two ships. The storm is getting stronger, for some reason, I can feel it. I couldn't find Frank or the General, so I pushed through some more pirates. Killing them without a second thought, death becomes meaningless after you serve in the army for more than 5 years.
I gave up on searching for both of them, it seems like I have to lead. "Soldiers get in a group, we can't handle them alone!" The guys listened and suddenly they got into a shield wall position. We fought off the pirates in a teamwork effort, they kept coming and we pushed back, it's like they have infinite numbers of men. The ship shook again and I couldn't hold my stance and I fell to the ground. "Fuck, help me up guys." they didn't listen, they were staring ahead and I saw what they were seeing.
It was a new ship, this ship was bigger than any others I encountered in my time, serving the military... It had Golden cannons with heartwood materials that I wasn't familiar with. I wasn't able to see the flag in the thick mist, but something caught my eye, a fire. A man was standing on the deck, and the fire was coming out of his hand. First, it was red like ordinary fire, and then it became blue, then purple, and finally white. 'What in the-' I got cut off before I could finish my sentence. A fireball kind of cannon shot came right at us, it was faster than our reaction time and so we got hit straight away. Many men were ahead of me, so I didn't directly got hit, but I saw clearly how the men were burning to their bones. It was magnificent, the most beautiful fire I have ever seen. The fire blasted us away, I couldn't stop the impact and I was thrown into the sea, and then everything went black.
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