The Lost Islands

The year is 2014. 

A captain is at his office in his ship preparing his next travel.

After many years in the seas working in fishing ships, warships, transatlantics... and... I do not know what more... damn! How I worked! Since I am a kid I work. I think I lived biggest part of my life in ships. Once I had one year inside a ship, the entire year! Of course my last year of work will be will be in a restaurant! No just kidding you. It will be in a ship! Navigating Of course! Travelling and making some Money. There is no better way to finish an entire life of work than this.

In the next day I gave all the necessary informations to the crew and we leave the port. We got out of Australia having Japan as destiny but something got wrong in the way and... let me explain it well to you. After two days of travel we faced a dense fog and after, I fo not know how many time inside the fog, things started to get weird!

Day 1

During dinner we listened some weird noise coming from the basement of the ship. We runned to see what was happening, when we reached the last floor we saw nothing but we realised that as deeper we go, louder the sounds get and we realised that there was voices coming from the deck and that the voices we was listening to was from other people. We could listen too to some creepy voice coming from out of the ship too.

While we were going up stairs, it got more weird. All ship started to change its shape and materials. 

Metal turned into wood, the brand new rope that I had bought turned into  an old and threadbared rope, the ground turned into a dark, wet, rotten and very noisy wood floor that creak every step we take.

Going up stairs, we realised that the situation in the deck was seriously dangerous, like they were facing a terrible enemy. The screams were getting louder and more intense.

When we reached the first floor a montruous noise came from the outside. Sudenly a enormous snake breaks the wall in the starboard, it passed straight on by us and got out by the canon hole at port that got destroyed to... yes, now my ship have a brand new, not literaly, canon hole.

Now with expressions of desperat, we reached the deck and we could not believe. The ship was like a 17th century ship with vails, masts, and everything else. Luckly we studied about old ships, it looks like that we were gessing that we one day we will have to sail in a old ship. Well, any way, when we looked around we realised that a new crew was in the ship. They said that the monster that was atacking us destroyed thair ship and killed their captain, when they saw our ship they came up aboard and atracted the creature to our ship. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! BITCHES!

Looking to what they were facing, we understand the reason for their desperation. They were facing eight giant snakes that has destroyed two poles.

While we were talking to each other, we realised that our clothes were different too. While we were trying, again, to understand what was happening, a man came running to us, yelling, asking for orders from their new captain. After a few seconds eyed and gaping and my crew looking to me waiting for some orders I finally took some attitude.

Come on sailors! It is time to have some fun! Take this monster dawn!

All the crew perked up again and we started to react.

That words were not mine, the new crew were not my, the ship was not mine and II think that I was beside myself.

But it is not time for it now. TO THE BATTLE!

The monster was really strong and persistent. Even after we explode four snakes, it keep attacking us with more energy and anger. As the snakes were not enough, we discovered that this creature were an hybrid of snakes with an octopus. ITS TENTACLES WERE SNAKES! The octopus itself was under the water trying to destroy the bottom of the ship with its mouth. We had to destroy all tentacles before it destroy the bottom. Fourtunatly we were successful in it. In about one hour, we had destroyed the the other snakes-tentacles as the octopus had no means to hold itself in the ship, it sank and we got rid of it.

2

We took close to three hours to destroy that damned monster. The battle was hard, we used almost all powder we had, we lost five canons and three masts... Oh! Yeah! And we almost lost the ship!

The eight snakes were killed, some of my new sailors were eaten by them, others were smashed or died drowned.

During the battle I realized that the snake had cupping glass and after we had killed that beasts we realized that the snakes were part of an octopus body that tried to eat us before sink in the dep ocean.

But unfortunately our problems had not finished yet. Some days latter, we faced a shark with lobster's paw and tweezers. This other monster made a terrible damage in the ship that almost sank. 

Fortunately we reacted in time to prevent it happen. We turned the canons, that left over from the last battle, dawn and started to shoot that beast that unfortunately were really resistant  adn took two hours to die. At least every attack makes it get weaker and its attacks made less and less damage to the ship. But nevertheless we almost sank because of the damages.

3

After two weeks of travel we arrived in Nazon. The ship got in the shipyard for eight months. After this torturou time in land, we finally could come back to the ship and to the sea. Lets come back to action!

Departing from Amerov port we sailed in direction to what ever. What realy matters is that we were sailing and being in the sea.

This new world is great! Full of monsters, of creatures. And the seas... oh! The most beautiful and dangerous I ever saw in my entire life.

Now, to Tolbutir! To the Big Sea!

When we were close to Tolbutir, about to 10Km, we faced a storm the worst storm I ever faced in my life. The ship almost turned with all that wind and waves but we faced the brave brave Big Sea and we overcome them. After almost one day of storm it finaly finished but our nightmare was only halfway. When the day was starting to get beautiful, the ship shake strongly while we listened to a noise.

One more time we were facing another one of that damned shark. But this time we were prepared for that and we killed it fast and furious. Unfortunately not so fast and not so furious enough. The ship almost turned up side down. This was a strong one. Everytime it hit the ship with its body, it looks that the ship will turn. The botom got really damaged but not enough to make we stop or sink. Fourtunately, in the end, we won.

We shoot that best hard, we broke its claws, holed it in the middle of the body. We brought it up and cutted it. When we arrived in Tolbutir, we sold it in the market.

4

Arriving in Tolbutir, we let the ship in the shipyard, for more four months and a half for fixing. In this wonderful city, we enjoyed the bars, the women, the beers and the fights exactly like in Korumaji.

In Tolbutir, I discovered that in Xozesir island there was a misterious creature guarding a secret. Some say that is a powerful weapon, others, a treasure, others says that the creature itslef was the secret.

After informing the crew about our new quest and prepared the ship and ourselves with the necessair equipment we leave.

We took four months to arrive, we faced lulls, headwinds, storms and very low tempertures.

Fortunately and weirdly we had no bad surprises besides those, any bizarrice from nature tryed to have us for dinner.

When sighted Xozesir, we finally breathed relieved. What a beautiful island! No human life, only the wild. After a short speach to encourage them, we started to explore the island. Some were unhappy with our destiny, others with the fact that nobody had a map of the island but fortunately all of them supported me until the end.

5

In the first day we had no problem. The entire day was a ride in the park, even the weather was good. We advanced approximately ten kilometers.

The next day was very different. We woke up with an attack of another bizarrice. A mixture of monkey with scorpion's claws and tails. Fortunately we were prepared with our fire weapons and swords. We were caught on surprise because the two of us who were charged of the vigil were sleeping.

I woke up with one of those damned monkeys trying to take the rest of in my hand but I went faster than him and cut his head with my sword. Immediately two more came to me looking for revenge. One of them came by my back and grabbed my thigh with its claw. I roared in pain and I shot him in the throat. The other one grabbed my other thigh, I turned in his direction and I hit it cutting half of his head.

When we finished we started to care the wounds we suffered. None got poisoned, they tried but we got fester, we only got some cuts.

After the break, we were back on the road again, cutting the plants we found in the way, going up and down hill, this time paing more attention to what was around us. The island was always in silence so, every time that we listen to some noise, all of us imediately turn in the direction of the noise. The entire afternoon and night we had peace.

During twilight the ones who were guarding woke us up. This time a big two head snake was hidden in the bushes. One of my litted the fireplace and prepared torches for we use against the beast. The monster lunged and all of us dodged, the snake fell over the fireplace, the monster writhed in pain spreading the firewood and ashes. The two heads tried to attack in different directions nullifying their attack. We shot the snake, jumped over it with our swords and torches in our hands, the attack was massive, some of my fellows got under the animal but fortunately they suffered no hurt.

 6

After one week and a half walking and facing dangers, we discovered a small hole in the ground, a smokey hole that took us under a mountain. The caves were enlightened by mushrooms. The top of the cave was covered by a odorless grey smoke.

In the cave we lost the notion of time. We had to sleep over rocks, no leaf-bed anymore. We started to feel the abstinence of the sea. The consume of tobacco and alcohol started to grow and in two days we had consumed all alcohol and tobacco for two weeks . After one week wasted only for resting, we started to move again. Fortunately food was not a problem, even in the cave.

We started to walk and discovered how huge was the cave, we saw an enormous opened areas with a very big lake, a lake with some bad surprises. The mushrooms this time were under the water, unfortunately, they do not helped us too much because we only discovered the piranha-crabs when we were inside the lake being bitten by them. Back to the margin, we discussed about what should we do and to take care of the hurts to.

After one hour I decided that we should stay where we were for some time for we rest and when we be recovered come back to the forest to take some wood for we make boats and acroos the river.

We got up and and imediatly started to cut some trees to make to make the boats. One entire day only to cut the trees. In the first week we had some trouble with some bugs and verms that were bigger than they should be, than we captured such a big one that fed us for some days.

The second and third week was worst. The weather this time was our enemy. In two weeks, we faced all seasons more than once even snow we faced. It make our work get our weeks late. Fortunately some animals were caught on surprise during all this crazy wether changes and we got some food for us and clean water too.

We finished our work, after one month and a half. Fortunately, during all this time we faced no big deal until we come back to the lake.

7

Back to the lake, exactly where we had stopped, we started to prepare ourselves to across the lake when...

We started to listen some noise, a very loud and profound noise. We looked to the lake, to were the sound were coming from and we saw the damned lake freezing. After some time it stopped. Waiting for something more happen we started to discuss about what to do.

Some time passed and I decided to send some of my fellows to catch the opportunity to explore the area but they discovered nothing, there were no place to go.

I though for a while and started to think that the way maybe continued under the lake. Maybe what was looking like a problem was actually a big help.

We started to break the ice with improvised tools, I do not know how much time we spent digging that damned way down, but it was worth it.

8

Passing by many frozen pirana-crab, we digged until we finally reached the end of the lake. Unfortunately we had to keep making our way through a tunel that took us to another lake and only after it we got a free way. If the lake were not frozen, I believe that will be impossible to reach the other side.

We rested for some days, at least I think, and came back to work.

In our way, that deep noise could be listened many times, what make all of us start to get... I will not say worried, no, we never get worried, but thoughtful about how was the monster making that noise.

One day when we were resting under the light of the mushrooms, one more time, we got attacked. Well... not exactly us,... our food was attacked. Ants of many sizes and species  were taking all our supplies, making a terrible noise due to the movement of the legs. I do not know how much time we spent to scare that bastards, they are really persistent! I just know that it took a while.

After our battle against the little bastards we finally had some time to rest and to recover our energy.

As always, going down, the temperature started to get low. And that wonderful and misteryous melody started to get loouder and more deeper.

One more time we got problems. In a new area of the cave we discovered a very dark area, darker them a shadow in a dark cave in a moonless night. Even in this dangerous situation we keep going, no body got scaryed... no body.

9

Progressing in the darkness the vapor started to get out of our mouths, our muscles started to shake, our teeths started to battle against each other. The pace started to get heavy. This cold was extreme! It was colder than when we faced that crazy weather changes some time ago.

Our torches were burning, enlightening all the way. Suddenly we listened a huge crack and we felt. 

One more time we were over the freezing ice and in front of us an ice giant facing us from the top of its impressiveness.We took some seconds to prepare ourselves. The giant started to run in our direction, screaming, making the cave trumble. The giant prepared a massive knock, we split ourselves into two groups and the monster  hit the ground, an astonishing noise came to our ears echoing through the huge cave. The sismics of the knock that shook the cave and made some stalactites fall. Fortunately none of us got hurted. Some hide under some rocks others dodged.

As we were in his back, we got some advantage. Bullets hit the ice giant without effect, the monstruous creature turned to us with a short scream. One more time the giant was running in our direction preparing one more agression. He passed by some of my fellows that, screamin, jumped over him and started to hit him with full force with our improvised tolls, and shooting him.

The monster held his arm in the ice, what gave us time to get away from him and lit our torches again. Surrounding the monster, all torches were pointed to him. One more time we shooted him. While we were using the torches to irritate and distract him, we started the attacks with the picks, what caused more damages.

The irritated monster tryed to step us without success but it made the cave shake again and more stalactits fall, this time four of my were hit by them and died. Another one got stuck in that trap, fortunately the giant was hit to what made it get dizzy because of the knock. Imediatly we restarted to attack. First the shots, them the picks and the torches.

The mosnter, one more time, hit the ground with its feet trying to kill us. My fellows who was stuck by the stalactit was already free for along time.

All of us hide when the monster rose its arms and hit the ground making the loudest noise we ever listened in our lives. Neither all thunders we listened in our lives could be as loud as htat scream.

That was the last scream that it gave because it was muffled by the noise of the collapse of the cave's roof over its head. During hte collapse we sould see a huge ice rock falling over the giant and breaking it in the middle while we were running to the hole made by the giant in the wall.

Passing by the the hole we discovered a ship but not any ship. That ship was alive it was an octopuship!  Yeah! An octopuship with ples, sailing ship and everything else! The best ship I ever had in my life! We got closer, carefully, not to scare it. We gave it some food, tryed to loock friendly. 

Later we realised that it was burned by the ice and one of its tentacles were stucked in the ice.

We took care of him and conquered its friendship. We got out of the nest of the enemy alive and with our new ship. Now with two ships we departed to Zubushi. Of course, first, we took some food and we decided to take the oportunity to take some bizarre animals to make some money.

10

We spent two months and a half in Zambushi where we discovered another "job". There was a rumor that in Ranin another treasure was hidden... maybe we will have to face another monster.

One more we time we prepared ourselves for a new travel, for a new adventure.

Two weeks latter we were sailing to Ranin hunting our new treasure. In the octopuship the problems that we faced in the way to our desteny were not a real danger. We even had to use our canons to respect ourselves. All monsters that tryed to attack us had as destiny the octopuship mouth.

In the Island, the problems started to get really hard. From the first to the last week, we had problems.

11

On the first day, few seconds after we arrive, our welcome party started. A beautiful and terrifying flying tiger attack almost put an end in our adventure and in our lives. Fortunately we were still in the beach and the ship was there to help us. Our new friend hitted the tigers with its tentacles making them fly away, far away, others were ate. Close to fifty tigers tried to have us for lunch but they turned into lunch for us.

As we had already realised that the situation in the island was really hard, the most intelligent thing to do was keep in the beach for a while and explore first only the beaches and then get inside.

For one week we explored only this part of the island and nothing happened, we discovered nothing. 

Some got courageous, convinced that everything was OK and our task will be easy. Others were paying attention to everything, preparing themselves for the worst. For those, this quietness  was only the calm before the storm. I talked to the ones who were too convinced of our success and carefree, to make them stop with that bullshit and be careful. Any carelessness could be fatal. That is what I listened in Zambushi.

The second week proved that the warnings were for nothing. when we started to advance, some of us got traped in a quicksand unfortunately, that was not the only one problem that we had to face that day. While we were beeing rescued from that trap when we were attacked by by six lions with bat wings, snake tail and eagle paw. Imediately our fire guns spited fire and iron over that monsters. 

Fortunately luck was in our side because one of them were hitted in the head and got out of combat. 

The other six gave us a little more of trouble. Two of them picked myself and another one of my from the quicksand and led us to some other part of the island. But we were close enough to see what was happening however before we met again, we had to save ourselves from our predators. One more time we shot them hiting bouth in the heart when they were coming to the quicksand to take more snacks for them.

My fellows got more problems them us. Some almost lost their arms or legs, others got some scratches or got poisoned by the snakes. None of them were enough to make we fall. Two of them lost their heads and the last one was sucked by the quicksand.

Now the group was divided. Myself and one of my fellows in the lions nest and all the others down there trying to get out of the trap and continue the travel. I concludes that would be better we look for some other place for we hide ouselves whlile we wait for the group. We though that if the lions putted us their, probably others will come to the same place.

12

Going to the part of the mountain that we had marked to met, a damned winged gorilla give us a stone rain. When we looked up to discover what was making that thunderous noise, we saw that imposing creature holding a very big stone with its wings opened, shouting with all its strength. The monster throw the stone on us. After we had dodged all of them, our weapons answered to the monster's attack. Unfortunately we missed.

The angry animal jumped in our direction throwing rocks and almost smacked us. But the situation turn in to our side because we got to different directions and now the beast is between us. Now flanked, the gentle creature, realizing that was in a bad situation, flew out of the mountain. We tried to shoot him again but he avoided and was in the direction of my friend . When the creature turned its back to me I drew the sword my sword, jumped in his back and cutted its wings. It screamed loudly and full of angry; I saw in its eyes the hate. But it has no time for reaction because my fellow cutted its throat. I jumped, back to the passage to see the monster with its hands in the throat, making a horrible expression of pain and trying to scream of pain, stagger to the edge and fall, beeing swollowed by the trees.  

Only in the end of the day we met again to tell the meetings we had that day.

In this day, during night, we had no surprises but during morning when we were scaling the mountain with difficult, the friends of the winged gorilla came for revenge. From the high trees they came upon us, screaming, with anger in their eyes.

Eight of my were catched by them, from the mountain, fire and metal were spat by our guns, all of the monsters were hit but they made no effect. I sent ten of my to help our friends, me and the others keep in the way to the top of the mountain.

As the mountain were not so big, we reached the top of the mountain in the end of the day but we do not had too much to celebrate because during all night we listened a scary noise coming form the top of the mountain.

During morning we took advantage of the sun light to explore the top of the mountain. After some ours searching for an entrance, we finally found one and we got in.

Now, inside the mountain, we discovered something that was one of the best prizes we ever had but unfortunately, the price was exactly our enemy. A gold giant! Yes, my friend! A shining gold giant!

I commanded all of them to come back to the top of the mountain and their I planed our actions.

I decided that, now that we discovered our priceand enemy, we shold help our friends in the rescue of the ones who were captured.

13

In one day we descended the mountain. We were hopeful to keep the way to rescue our friends but when we walking, another group of explorers met us and they were not interested in talking. They shot us and attacked us with their swords. We respond to their attack. They felt the taste of our metal.

Luck, one more time, was in our side. Their bullets hit us gazed and they were not so good with their swords. Finally we could rest.

We spent all night with no problems. In the next day, we resumed our quest.

Going in the same direction of the flying gorillas, we discovered our friends in the end of the morning having lunch and the monkeys fallen over their own pool blood.

We join us to them and told them what happened during all those days. In the next day, we decided what to do with our prise inside the mountain.

We spent all day thinking in what to do to defeat the giant. In the beginning of the morning, the plan was drafted. Soon we started to work. What we decided to do was melting the all that gold. We did that transforming the mountain into a boiler.

As we will take lots of days to do all that work, we do not got a little sad when the beasts started to attack us because like this we got some food.

Everyday, when the sun appears in the sky, we started to cut the wood. One group cut the trees, another one cut the trunk into six sections, the other one cut those sections into smaller pieces and the last one, take them to the mountain.

We took eight months doing that. Finally the great moment has arrived. I gave the order and my fellows made it burn. In minutes the entire mountain were under fire. A giant fireplace to kill a giant creature. This fact turned into a myth that passed from generation to generation. The smoke covered the entire world for six weeks. Not totally, of course, it was possible to see the sunlight.

During the burning, that took four weeks, we were inside the octopusship that came to the surface for some hours evrey day. We only came back when we stop listening to the screams. It was so hot that the water close the island flavoured.

14

The great day has finally arrived. We came back to the island that still hot. We had to use gloves to touch the ground, the water was warmed. We had to cover our faces too, because of the smoke and the soot.

After cleaning the way to the inside of the mountain, we could see teh result of the our work, spread, melt, and very, very hot.

Four months was the time necessary to make all that gold in pieces and two months to take it to the ship. We rested for one week, during this time, we made plans for all that gold that we had, already divided between us.

After this resting week, we were sailing one more time but this time, to enjoy, to have fun.

15

-Hey! Captain! Come on! It is time to wake up! Let's sail again!

The captain finally wake up.

-What?! What happened to me?! Where am I?

The captain see itself in a hospital bed.

-We arrived two weeks ago, captain. In the first day of our travel from Australia to Japan, during a storm, you fell down stairs and hit your head in the ground so we came back to take you to the hospital. As we could not lose that load, we decided to look for another captain to take the ship to Japan. Now we are back and finally you wake up!

-OH! NOOOO!