CHAPTER 9

Tydeus raised his big boot and brought it down forcefully on Galdashkeh's testicles, crushing his balls. 

“Aaarrrggghhh! Somebody help me!” Galdashkeh kept shouting and screaming for help.

Gryza immediately closed his eyes pretending to still be unconscious. Tydeus has once broken his left arm, crushing his testicles to be worse.

“This should teach you a lesson. But if I ever set my eyes on you again, I promise you; I am going kill you myself”, Tydeus said angrily to Galdashkeh, who remained on the floor groaning and holding his balls.

Tydeus ran outside the Fortress to catch up with his friends. The whole Fortress continued to tremble with noise coming from the inside, the prisoners continued fighting the pirates to escape.

“Do you need to waste any more time? We were about to leave you behind,” Rakeh, who had been waiting for Tydeus, said with a straight face.

“Yeah, I told you I needed to attend to an unfinished business”. Tydeus replied as he ran towards Rakeh and Apphathorus.

“What business is…”

“Eehhmm boys! We have a problem”, Apphathorus interrupted Rakeh who was about to question Tydeus.

They turned and looked at their front, there were four pirates with bows mounted with arrows ready to shoot.

“Oh-oh”, Tydeus mumbled to himself.

Rakeh pulled Apphathorus behind him as he tried to bring out his axe. As the pirates saw this, one of them was about to shoot and from nowhere, 

A bird flew and distracted him. The bird continued flying and flapping its wings on the heads of the pirates who were about to shoot their arrows.

As one of the pirates got angry and was about to catch the bird, the bird jumped on his head, thrust its beak into the socket of the pirate and pulled out his eyes.

“Aaaarrrgghhh!” The pirate screamed.

“Aeww!” Tydeus exclaimed gently out of nowhere as he and Rakeh continued watching the little bird which came to their rescue.

Suddenly, One of the pirates caught the bird and as he was about to smash it to the ground…

Four arrows flew from nowhere and drove into the necks of the pirates accurately at the same time, sending them into the river.

“What the heck are you all doing down there?” Sakoh, another friend of Tydeus who has also been disguising as a pirate, shouted from the top of a fence where he had been standing as he put his bow back into his bag.

Sakoh immediately took off his pirate's mask.

“Have you all forgotten the plan?” He shouted again as his sparrow flew and landed on his shoulders.

“It was your guy.” Tydeus and Rakeh responded to Sakoh as they pointed to each other.

“Really? The plan was that you navigate your way and meet me up here and I will take you all to the boat. What the heck are you both doing down there?” Sakoh shouted again from the top, where he was.

“You should hold Rakeh responsible, he forgot the escape route he planned by himself”. Tydeus said defending himself.

“Oh spare me! Who wasted my time with the old man in the cell?” Rakeh objected to Tydeus.

“Fine! Where is the boat?” Tydeus asked Sakoh quickly.

“Come with me,” Sakoh replied to Tydeus as he jumped down to show them the boat he had prepared.

Gryza immediately stood up from the floor and went to help his boss. The entire pirates seem to be busy with the prison break in the fortress. He gently took his boss and went to the safest place where they could hide from any other threat: the roof of the Fortress.

All of a sudden, it started raining heavily. Sakoh brought Tydeus, Rakeh and Apphathorus to the boat they were to use to escape.

“Where is the boat?” Rakeh asked Sakoh quickly.

“What are you seeing in your front?” Sakoh replied to Rakeh as he pulled the rope of the boat so they could enter.

“Is this a boat? How are we supposed to ride in this heavy rain with this wooden bowl you call a boat?” Rakeh continued to express his dissatisfaction to Sakoh.

“Just get in, bro; the storm is about to hit the water,” Tydeus said to Rakeh quickly.

“My shoe is bigger than this boat,” Rakeh said angrily as he entered the small round boat Sakoh got for their escape.

Gryza managed to take Galdashkeh to the roof floor of the Fortress. No one can attack them there. He quickly helped his boss who continued groaning from his broken balls under a shelter in the roof.

Galdashkeh managed to open his eyes and looked to his front, he saw Tydeus and his friends Struggling to paddle their small boat in the middle of a storm.

“Very good. These bastards are going to have their boat wretched and they will drown in the water.” He said silently to himself with a villainous smile on his face.

“Paddle harder! Harder!!” Sakoh shouted at his companions; they could barely hear themselves due to the loud sound of the thunder. Their boat was moving very slowly, and a heavy storm was already hitting the waters.

“If we die in this river, it's all Sakoh's fault!” Rakeh shouted as he blamed Sakoh for getting such a small boat.

“Just paddle harder!” Tydeus tried to shun Rakeh.

Galdashkeh and Gryza, who were previously crying, began laughing from the top of where they were. There's no way Tydeus and his companions are going to survive the storm with a small boat. 

“Where is our other ride?” Tydeus shouted to Sakoh as he paddled the boat with all his strength to keep it from sinking.

“It should be here by now, I don't know why it hasn't arrived,” Sakoh replied to Tydeus as he also paddled the boat. The wind became very heavy.

“Oh my goodness, Watch out!” Apphathorus shouted from nowhere.