Part 7 --Yorkston Break--

''"Now we go, to Valereena, back again from where we came from" Dad said. What a shanty that was, my favourite one by far. Now we where sailing for Valereena.''

''"Where's the food all gone?" Dad said to himself. "Oh no! We ran out of food!" Dad exclaimed. "What'll we do now?" Mom said. "Starve to death, I guess" Amelia joined in. "Nonsense" Dad said to Amelia. "Valereena is like 4 days away, i'm sure we'll not starve, we'll probably just get really hungry" "Better than that, we could sail to Yorkston, its close to us. We could dock their and get food" I suggested an idea. "Good idea" Dad patted me on the back. Men, turn to Yorkston, east. We'll get food from there" Dad said to the crew. "Aye" Responded a deckhand. "Captain orders a turn to east, to Yorkston" The deckhand informed the crew.''

''"Hey you, go help the riggers, move the boom" The Quartermaster ordered me. "Aye sir" I accepted. I helped the other sailors  by turning the boom of the masts. It was hard, but we managed to do it. Now we where ready to sail for Yorkston. I knew it will be a short journey, just 2 hours away. But I wanted to do something. I grabbed a broom and swiped the deck. It was boring, but at least better than nothing. After 25 minutes, I was really tired, so I went inside the cabin for a rest. I laid on a sofa and accidentally fell asleep while I was resting. I woke up after a few hours when I heard dad ordering the crew. I went outside and saw that we docked at Yorkston. "Dad what happened? I accidentally fell asleep" I asked dad. "We now just docked at Yorkston, I'm right now going on land to buy hard biskets, legumes, rum and water, are you coming with me?" Dad said. "I'll come with you dad" I replied. I left the ship for the first time in 3 or 4 days.''

Just as I first stepped on the cobblestone pathways, a man exclaimed

"EVERYONE, GO BACK TO YOUR HOMES, THE IMPERIAL SERAPHINE NAVY HAS ARRIVED TO CAPTURE YORKSTON, SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY"

''"Oh no, what are we gonna do, let's hide in small streets, the navy will sink our ship if they saw people in it" Dad said to me. "MEN" Dad shouted. "Come with me! grab as many weapons as you all can, and hide with me!" Dad ordered. Many men came and hid with dad in a narrow street. It was very awkward seeing them. I felt squeezed and uncomfortable there, so I sneaked out and went to "spectate" the battle. I escaped from that crowded mess and followed a military division. I hid behind trees or houses to not get caught. "March men march! for Artuva your motherland!" The officer leading the battalion exclaimed. "Musicians, play "Recapture!".''

A second after he said that. The drummers, fifers and pipers of the battalion started playing their instruments. Making an absolutely outstanding tune.

''It was a great sight to see people with muskets and sabres. I went to a wide empty street - Probably empty because everyone was hiding in their houses - I ran forward and saw that the Seraphine military was coming. An Artuvan infantryman was sniped by a Serpish rifleman, and they all engaged in combat. I sneaked to his body and took his sabre and his reserve flintlock. I took his cartridge back and hid behind a tree. I saw the soldiers reload their guns. They first took a cartridge from their ammunition bag. Tore it with their teeth, put a bit of gunpowder in a hole close to the trigger, took the weird metal stick thing that was attached to the bottom of the musket, and put the rest of the powder and the musketball in the gun, and used that metal stick to push it deep in the gun. Then cocked the hammer and it was ready to fire. I followed the same with a pistol, thinking it would work with a pistol too. I peeked just far enough for my hand to aim the gun and my eyes to see. I aimed for a Seraphine troop, and pulled the trigger. I missed, but I found out that the reload technique works the same with the pistol. I reloaded my gun and aimed again and saw only one Artuvan left, the officer. He immediately surrendered and the Seraphine soldiers took him, and murdered him! They committed a war crime! They killed the surrendered. I was very angry at them so I fired at their officer, and he fell. One of the soldiers spotted me, and I was found. I ran away from the troops. They chased after me. They where shooting at me, but somehow they missed - Probably because hitting a fast object is difficult - A soldier came very close to me, and caught me. I was now in the hands of a Seraphine soldier. I couldn't escape, his hands were too tight. So I bit him. A very weird thing to do, but when your caught by a Seraphine soldier as a Valereenan citizen in an unexpected raid in Artuvan territory just after killing their officer. You have to do it. A Seraphine soldier shouted something in Serpish, I didn't understand it but it probably mean't "Get him". I turned around used my sword and attacked a soldier. It was very hard because I was fighting a man trained by possibly the most powerful army in the world. He went for a stab with his sword, and I dodged him, but I fell in the hands of another soldier. He couldn't catch me because I fell on him. I stole his LOADED musket, threw my sword and flintlock, and attacked with its bayonet. I attacked and killed the soldier I fell on. And the soldier I was previously fighting was unprepared for such an unexpected move, so I took the advantage of that and stabbed his neck. 2 more soldiers joined in. I shot the farthest one and took advantage of the length of the bayonet and stayed away from my attacker. The soldier went for a thrust but couldn't reach me, I also went for a thrust and stabbed him, he didn't die but received a lot of pain, I immediately stabbed him after his sword fell from his hand. He went down. There where only three soldiers left, still a lot. But 2 of them where musicians. The other troop fired a shot at me, and it hit my left arm. I screamed in pain and fell to the ground. The soldier came close to me and took his sword and- I kicked his leg and he fell. I took his sword which was on the ground. Then I chopped his head. Which looked horrifying. The musicians took out their daggers. But daggers don't do much do they? I attacked them and their daggers fell from their hands. One of the musicians surrendered and the other ran away. I took another loaded musket and shot the drummer that was running way like a villain. It hit his leg and he fell. He then crawled to me for mercy and surrendered. 2 captives.''

''"Citoyens de Yorkston, sortes de chez vouz. Séraphine a gagné la bataille" The last two Seraphine soldiers exclaimed in Serpish. I don't know what it means though. But because of the way those guys where saying, it probably mean't "We won the battle".''

''The only 2 Seraphine soldiers marched near the dockside while I was reloading a musket. The townspeople and my dad's crew, my family came out of hiding and accepted defeat. "Bow to us" A soldier that knew Christonian said. I just couldn't watch my father bowing to Serpishers, who commit war crimes, kill innocent civilians and such. I shot one of the soldiers. Threw my musket, grabbed a sabre and attacked the other remaining troop, who was an officer. The civilians and dad's crew where shocked. The officer, unprepared responded. He grabbed his sabre and slashed hard. It hit me on my left arm, which was already injured. I went for his head and created a cut in his forehead. He went for a stab and I blocked it. Then I made a quick dash and went behind of him, facing his back. And stabbed him from behindI stabbed him from behind very hard. He fell, and then died.''

''A VICTORY. "WE ARE SAVED" the crowed shouted. I looked at my Dad. And his faced showed a thousand expressions, shocked, surprised, astonished, happy, and most importantly proud. He said to me "You have to be a swordsman or the captain of 1st rate. How have you defeated them all? its the most powerful nation in the world!" Dad proudly appreciated. "I defeated an entire military regiment, and captured 2 musicians" I said to dad, with exaggeration. "Thats impossible!" Dad said. "Look left" I responded to his claim Dad saw the musicians and the dead soldiers. He was shocked. "No time to talk about this, your simply too great, it'll be too awkward to be that happy in front of a whole town, let's just go do what we came here for: food" Dad quickly spoke. Well him proudly appreciating me was already awkward, corny and "cringe" for you readers.''

''He went to a bakery and ordered for hard biskets. "How much for 200 of these?" Dad asked. "Free" the shopkeeper said. "Free? how?" Dad questioned with confusion.''

''"Your son saved our town from the brutal Seraphine rulers who could have killed us. Thus, for a gift, we'll give you all the biskets that we have for free, 200 of them" The shopkeeper answered. "Wonderful" Dad joyfully said. "Let's go back to the ship with these heavy bags of hard tack, Arthur" Dad told to me. "Men, come and take the bisket bags and barrels from the bakery basement to the Starlight" Dad ordered. It took many minutes for many men and me to take many bags to the ship. "Let's buy some rum now" Dad said. "Men, buy 20 caskets of rum and 10 barrels of water from the Tavern" Ordered dad. "Aye" Replied the crew. It took time for them to get the supplies -they also got it for free- At last, finally the crew was on the ship, and the ship was food full. "Arthur, Amelia and Clara, come aboard the ship" Dad said to us. We went back aboard. I went inside the cabin searching for bandages to heal my wounds. "Alright then, set sail men" Dad ordered. "Bye Yorktonians!" I said to the citizens. The crowd cheered us as we left the docks. And we now headed to Valereena.''