• Characters
    -Conrad-sailor
    -Acayla-winged girl
    -Drake-sailor brother of Conrad
    -Thedric- pirate lord
    -Ivan- first mate


    Conrad shrugged his pack on his shoulder as he and captain Thederic started walking across the streets of the city. They were on the unnamed island, in the city of Anode, it was surprisingly normal. Conrad had not seen any of the others, just normal people. The captain was leading Conrad all through the city. He finally paused outside plain windowless house with a thick wooden door. Captain Thedric smiled softly and pounded on the door.

    "now my boy, you will see how real men make their money." Captain Thedric spoke for the first time to Conrad. The door opened, A tall spindly man stood at the threshold, he looked bitter. His hair was red and thinning, and he had cold grey eyes.

    "Ah, You must be Captain Thedric, I have some great supplies for you." The man spoke in a oily voice. He pointedly ignored Conrad."please come in sir. Lets go to the Business quarters"

    They entered a plain hallway, there about a dozen doors on both sides. The doors where heavy and wooden, they each had a strange marking on it with white chalk. He led the way to the only unmarked door at the end of hall. Inside was a dimly lit room, there where a few chairs and a small desk. The man sat behind the desk and grinned, his teeth were as disgusting and rotten then Ivan's. The captain sat in the chair closest to the desk. When Conrad started to sit, he received a sharp blow on the head and stumbled out of the room dazed. He sat just outside the door ans tried to clear his head.

    Conrad was only in the hall for a minute before the main door opened. Two men entered carrying a third. The third man was a chubby white man, he was crying and begging with the other men.

    "please, please spare me, i have a wife and children. They need a father!" the man wailed and cried. The two men opened a door and threw the man in. The looked alot alike, they where both muscular and tattooed. They did not notice Conrad on the floor at the end of the wall.

    "jeez that guy was a tough one. He took awhile to track down." the first guy spoke.

    "He was not much of a fighter though... Lazy ********." the second guy spat.

    "yea... Wait who the ******** are you?" they finally noticed Conrad sitting in the corner.

    "I am Conrad, i came with Captain Thedric. He said we were buying supplies." Conrad believed the easiest way to stay out of trouble was to be polite.

    "Ha he's with Thedric, good man, the captain gives us a lot of business." the first man said. "I'm Felex and this is my brother Ian. We currently work with ol' Charles but We are going to join your voyage and head over to the capital."

    The captain came out of the room with Charles.

    "come on boy, lets gather the supplies." Captain seemed happy with the meeting. The thin man led them to one of the doors with the chalk and opened it. Inside was a group of about half a dozen men and women, Conrad could clearly see that they were some of the others. Most of them looked like normal men and women. Several stood out, one women was pure blue, one man had tattoos in strange pattern. Then Conrad saw her, she was breathe-taking, she was a young girl, about his age. She had long brown curls, and beautiful blue eyes. She had two sweeping god wings, they were made form pure white feathers.

    "hahaha good lot this time. Boys, come in here and help me string them up." The captain broke Conrad's assessment of the others. Felex and Ian walked into the room with several lengths of cord.

    "Ok you disgusting beasts, line up and stick out your hands." Ian shoved and pushed stragglers into the line. Conrad realized something with a horrible gut wrenching feeling. They were slavers. Drake and him never realized it because they were trying to avoid Ivan and the rest of the crew. He had signed on to be a cabin boy, not a slaver. Slaves were legal on about half of the islands, the islands who did not support slaves were often hit by slavers.

    " You, boy get to work or else i will beat your slimy a**." The captain yelled, causing the weaker slaves to cringe. Conrad took a step back, he would not do this.

    "no, no no no no... I can't do this. Its wrong." Conrad had always been told that slavers did horrible things. Captain Thedric turned and looked at Conrad with furious contempt.

    "Boy, i expected better of you, seems like your just filthy gutter scum." Captain Thedric reached back and punched Conrad so hard that He saw stars. Stumbling back the last thing that Conrad saw was a boot heading towards his face.