Island Cove: The Truth

  Previously on Island cove...

 I couldn't believe my eyes! Once they pulled me up I was so thankful to the PIRATES!!! The pirates had pulled me up and saved me! But I had so many questions, How did they escape the cursed barrier? How did they know I was here? Why did they help me?! Little did I know..they knew everything.

After helping Shelly out; Shelly asks the pirates questions she had.

The Pirates explained “After we fought the dual, one of our pirates accidentally tore a piece of paper from the book. We read what it said and because we were the 6th generation of pirates the curse had become weak and only needed the reversal spell to be read. We all read the reversal spell and we were free! 

Then we wanted to bring down some medicine and food to you and your crew because we felt bad for fighting you for no reason at all, but we overheard Xander talking to your crew about killing you at The Death Creek after finding the treasure. We had made a plan to kill Xander before he could do you harm but he spotted us and killed our eldest pirate. We suffered a great loss and were thrown off track. We knew you would be at the death creek but we were uncertain if we would be too late… When we came to The Death Creek when we saw Xander push you off the cliff. We hid behind a bush so he wouldn’t see us and hurt us again and then came to rescue you.” 

I couldn’t believe what I had heard… The pirates were quite smart for not being educated properly their whole life. I felt really bad that they had to go through all this trouble and lose one of their members so I promised them some gold from the treasure.

I had a new crew now. A crew I could depend on. A crew I could trust. 

We were moving towards the end of the island; packing swords, smoke bombs, etc.

We planned and planned on how to defeat Xander and finally came up with a foolproof plan.

Finally, we saw Xander; Two other crewmates of mine and I dressed up as Xander’s crewmates (my old crewmates) and slowly kidnapped each of his crewmates. Any crewmate who made noise or tried to warn Xander was sliced in half. After we had kidnapped all of Xander’s crew we finally decided to face Xander. 

The war was brutal… The swords clashed, the blood splashed, people screamed, but my mistakes were redeemed. Before I knew it, everyone was dead except Xander and me. We stared into each other's eyes and saw the hate for each other burn into flames. I was shocked to see him drop his sword and bend down on his bloody knees.

He said “ I’m extremely sorry…. I cannot believe I did it…. You see, I am the grandson of Joan’s commander-in-chief; Marlon Ray and it was an order from my father to find the gold and bring it back to the family. I tried everything to resist falling in love with you but I couldn’t help myself”.  This didn’t make sense to me, how could he love me if he had pushed me to my death! He said that he was being monitored and had to send a pigeon every day about what was happening to his family and yesterday he had gotten a message saying his grandfather (Joan’s commander-in-chief) had died and the family had no longer cared if he had redeemed the treasure or not. He was devastated but not because his grandfather had died but because he had thought I was now dead. He knew he could never forgive himself and so cut off the leg he had pushed me with. I felt sorry for the guy and decided to give him a second chance. Before I could say another word, Xander pulled me towards him, his lips pressing against mine, he helps my waist and clenched my arms. Should I trust him? Was he really a good person? Was he really forced to kill me? Couldn’t he have lied and told me?

he was going to kill me instead of actually killing me? The unthinkable happened; Xander turned to the side I was standing and a man from my old crew (wearing a mask) stuck a dagger through his back. 

He looked at me in pain and whispered softly before falling to the ground “I’m sorry, goodbye” I looked at him in pure agony and was crushed inside to have found out that he had sacrificed himself to protect my life! I quickly removed the dagger from Xander’s back and shoved it into the crewmate’s chest. Then I removed his mask and I couldn’t believe who it was! It was Marlon Ray!! It was Joan’s commander in chief!!!! I was extremely confused and wondered if Xander had lied to me again! But then I saw a book similar to Joan’s in the hand of Marlon and as he fell to the ground I snatched his book and cried on Xander’s body. Wishing I had known that Marlon had been with us this whole time... I now knew I couldn’t get back what I had lost but I tried my very best to keep Xander’s memory alive. I had never fallen in love with Xander while he was alive but now that he was dead I couldn’t help but think he was the only man I loved. I gently kissed his cheek, wiped the teardrop from his face and hugged his body which was now covered in blood. I needed to stay strong for my crew but I couldn’t help feeling helpless and weak. But I was their leader, so I put on a strong impression and asked my crew to bury Xander in the ground. I couldn’t do it myself, I didn’t have it in me. Till the crew was burying him I opened Marlon’s Journal and found out what had been going on.

But that my friends are a story for next time...