Chapter 17

Skully One Eye though that things would improve on the ship without Bella Dizzy or Venom Kisser, but they weren’t any better, in fact they were getting worse.

Radley Cutler was still on the ship writing about his time on the ship. His presence really didn’t seem to have any effect on anyone on the ship.

When docking at a nearby port Skully One-Eye got word from Spain that the Queen has found out that her husband was a criminal stealing money from her. She sentenced him to death, he was not the father of Audra Bellamy or her sisters (her father died from a heart attack a few years before), but instead he was Queen Sophia’s second husband.

Skully began to think that it was a little weird that the crew never got to meet him when they were visiting the Queen. Vacsa then mentioned to Skully that he in fact once knew of the king. His real name was Bully Hayes Bluebeard. He was a major enemy of Vasca and many other pirates. Bully Hayes family was involved with the Opium trade, they were evil pirates whom no one trusted. They planned to mask enough money through their Opium trading and stealing to gain enough power to control the seas, making pirates into slaves, and eventually becoming stronger than all the royal families in the world. Bully Hayes was Darius’s father. The BlueBeard “family” was controlled by the grandfather Clegg Bluebeard. It wasn’t know how big their venture had gotten, or who else was involved with them. Skully wasn’t very surprised to hear that Vasca knew Bully Hayes, because Vasca knew everyone from sometime in his life.

Skully was gazing into the water when he thought he saw a mermaid swimming by. It just must have been a dolphin or his mind playing tricks on him.

Finale was getting increasingly more frustrated with seeing Maximo and Hackin Eve. Coupled with the fact that she missed Jolly Roger. Finally Finale snapped she couldn’t take it anymore. Finale run over to Maximo picked him up and dropkicked him off the ship. He went flying into the water screaming “eeeeeeeee”. Hackin Eve screamed as Maximo landed in the water. Maximo wasn’t a great swimmer and would die in the shark-infested waters. Hackin Eve jumped into the water risking her life. Eve saved Maximo and climbed on board the ship. Hackin Eve walked up to Finale soaking wet and slapped her across the face. Ursula whispered to Skully One-Eye “I got 10 down on Finale”, Skully put 10 on Hackin Eve. The fight raged on with screaming, slapping, and hair pulling. Finally Lurg walked over and ripped the two apart from each other, throwing them to either side of the ship. No winner was declared.

As day became night the crew went to bed.

The next morning Hackin Eve and Maximo decided to leave the ship and visit with Maximo’s family on Tora Bora Bora. Finale also decided to leave the ship that day too, she hopped on to the back of a manatee and set out to find Jolly Roger.