A few steps inside was the pirate who screamed, we checked her and she was alive but out cold, I was told to stay with her and to firs my gun if I spotted any of the Sirens. I sat for some time with only the light from outside for company, suddenly the pirate I was watching started to wake up.
"Are you alright?" I asked
she nodded and looked at me with frown "Where am I?" she asked
"Your safe, the others will kill the Sirens and return soon"
"Siren" she corrected "there is only one"
"are you sure?" I demanded, her features changed into an old woman's as she reached out to touch me. I pulled back and fired my gun, I was pushed backwards by the explosion and landed with a thud outside the cave. Minutes later the other pirates joined me asking what I had seen. I told them and they were worried for their crew mate. As they talked about what they would do next, their words sounded like they were getting further away and I felt like I was falling into a very deep hole.
I was out cold for two weeks in all, I missed the others finding the dead Siren, my shot had killed it and I missed my dad's crew killing a baby Kraken that the Siren had been raising as her own child. My dad missed that fight too as he sat by my bunk day and night to chase off Davy Jones if he tried to take me away.
When I woke I was home with my mother and brother and they were all happy to see me. My mother took another two years before she let me go out on KAS again. I only have one thing to remind me of that day and that is a white streak in my hair where the Siren touched me. I keep it as a proud mark of my first fight with a monster.
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