Create your Fairy: Challenge
by @snook
Image by A Boat Full of Holes
In a tavern at a local fishing port
Pirate: Arrr, let me tell you me hearties about me fairy. It was a hot afternoon and me was in the middle of the sea in a boat full of holes.
*smashing his tankard on the table*
Person in the Crowd: "Why in bloody blazes where you in a sinking boat? or maybe it was your tub that you took out to sea!"
*crowd laughing*
Pirate: *lifts his pistol above his head and shot the ceiling*
*a chicken fell from above*
"Listen now, ye mangy seadogs, there was a storm! It took me far off the coast, and there me met — the fairy. Some would call her a mermaid, but I tell ye, she is an entirely different creature I say!"
*the crowd sat back and listened*
Pirate: "Ah, thar ye go... hehehe, now listen and listen well."
"This creature is called a 'Merrow'."
"Aye, Sea fairies some of ye Old Salts may know."
Crowd: "Aye!"
Pirate: "Aye! Akin to a mermaid... but this one has hair like fresh seaweeds and scales shimmering like a lush green lagoon..."
"...and like all Merrows this one has a red cap adorned with feathers."
*he put his feet on the chair and look each one on the eyes."
"Aye, I can still remember it like yesterday's breakfast."
Sorry for the rough sketch, it has been "years" since I last draw... and I just want to show @takuris that I can draw more than stick figures 🤣 (it took me an hour to make the rough sketch but the finishing and detailing is what takes too much time, so I won't go there and Matrean is my other name)
Merrow
Pirate: *crying in the corner of his small boat full of holes*
"Oh please, great goddess of the sea... don't ye eat me!"
Merrow: *clinging on the side of the boat*
"Mister Pirate, I am but a humble Merrow."
Pirate: "Aha!"
*regained his courage*
"Me knew ye were a lowly Merrow all along, now get away! Need to get me boat to shore, before she sinks, and me end up in Davy Jones Locker."
Merrow: "You will not ask for help?"
*she dove beneath the boat and emerge on the other side*
Pirate: "BLIMEY!"
"Don't ye scare me like that lass."
"No! Me father told me of ye ilk, the sailors ye merrows help, never return."
*he started paddling and at times he took his bucket and threw overboard the water accumulating on the boat*
Merrow: *swimming on the side of the boat following him*
"I tell you what Mister Pirate, If you strike a deal with me not only will I help you get back to dry land but I will help you become a world renown pirate."
Captain
Person in the Crowd: *slams his tankard on the table*
"So, that is how you became a world renown pirate, by striking a deal with a sea wench!?"
Pirate: *smiled from ear to ear*
Door of the tavern slammed open
Crowd: *mouth wide opened, as they look at a young female captain, sporting the jolly rogers on her red tricorn hat, with her wavy green hair overflowing from her shoulders garnishing her black buccaneer coat*
Captain: *took out her pistols and started shooting the ceiling*
*chickens fell like rain*
*she spat out aiming straight towards the spittoon*
"You mangy seadog, didn't I tell you to make haste!"
Pirate: *cold sweat dripping down his forehead*
*Aye Captain! Me hearties are just — celebrating our safe return from sea."
*forcing a smile*
Captain: *pulled another pair of pistols and started shooting the ceiling... again*
*a part of the ceiling fell*
Pirate: "Aye Captain!"
*started running towards the exit*
Captain: *staring down the crowd*
*she spat at the spittoon again*
"You landlubbers better not think of laying a hand on my Pirate."
*she turned her back and walk out the tavern*
After the Captain left, the chickens stood up one by one and left the tavern
Crowd: *mouth still wide open*
FIN
Notes:
Pirate became a world renown pirate and retired happily on a small island.
Legend:
Character, “Spoken word”, ‘Unspoken word', *action*
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