"Yeah, yeah," Nikolai said with a yawn as he made his way to the crew quarters. Thankfully, he was intimately familiar with the workings and arrangements of a navy vessel. He ended up falling asleep fairly quickly.

It seemed as if the night would be completely tranquil. The seas were calm and not a single ship approached them. It wasn't until the merest glints of the sun came over the horizon that anything happened.

"Help!" A pair of voices called from the port side of the ship. "You're the navy, right? Please, help us!"

Jade's ears perked up as she heard voices coming from the side of the ship. Looking over the side, she saw two people in a tiny boat, pulled right up next to their ship. 'Huh... well that's a thing' she thought. "Uh... yyyyeeess. Yes, we're Navy. Just give me one minute to get my captain and we'll be right back" she darted down to the crew quarters and woke Nik from his slumber "Hey. We got some guests. Two of them. They seem like villagers. I didn't want to do anything stupid, so I came to get you. They say they need help. Oh, and I told them we're Navy, so yeah" she said quickly while she dragged him to his feet and pushed him out the door. By the time she stopped talking they were at the edge of the ship "Hi! We're back!" she waved, grinning sheepishly towards Nik, who she could already tell wasn't too terribly excited.

Nikolai was rubbing his eyes as he came up from the lower decks. 'What the hell was she thinking?' He thought to himself as he approached the two who had come begging for help, one a grown man and the other a young girl of no more than eight.

"Mr. Navy captain!" The young girl pleaded. "You have to help! The pirates took my mommy, and..."

The man placed a hand over the girl's mouth. "Sir, please... A couple weeks ago a group of pirates came to our village and took over... They destroyed any way we had to communicate with the outside world. They've taken all our food, our homes, our livelihoods... My wife..." He looked at the teary eyed girl. "Please, sir... We had to sneak out on a rowboat by the dead of night. The Navy can-"

"WE'RE NOT THE NAVY, DAMMIT!" Nikolai roared, his body shaking with irritation as he turned around. "Shit... this id exactly what I didn't want to happen..." He turned back. "We're pirates too."

"Please, just save my mommy!" The girl cried out.