Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page124 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n day. The mountains of Eryri with their glistening peaks, off to starboard, a gorgeous, luscious green coast unfolding up ahead, thronged with gulls, herons and cormorants, soaring, swooping and dancing around the rocky promontories. A beautiful, calm blue sea stretches out to port, meeting the sky at a distant horizon before the naked eye can pick out Mannin. This is as good as it gets when working in the maritime navy.<\/p>\n Looking to the port aft, the view of Puffin Island should complete a picture perfect scene. Except there\u2019s a giant, ugly black, brig in the way! DynamoDave instantly knows what this means. Instinctively he reaches for the ship\u2019s bell, sounds the alarm, and calls to the crew. Everybody aboard both ships hears the commotion and they all know exactly what\u2019s coming next.<\/p>\n SilverCloud leaves her cabin and is up on the poop deck within seconds, the regular crew members are instantly above deck, and MaxChaos emerges from the galley to hear shouts of, \u201cpikes, knives, swords, now,\u201d and, \u201cprepare to repel invaders!\u201d<\/p>\n The purser opens up the armoury, and the crew select their favourite weapons. MaxChaos looks around, he\u2019s never experienced this before! The pirates are about 200 metres astern, and they\u2019ll be level in less than sixty seconds. He\u2019s the last one to approach the armoury, and he picks out a long bow and a quiver of arrows.<\/p>\n Dashing back to the galley, MaxChaos is going the opposite way to everybody else! SilverCloud notices, but she\u2019s too busy to do anything about it. She and DynamoDave are shouting instructions. They cannot afford to allow any one of the pirates to set foot on the deck.<\/p>\n The strategy is to fend them off before they gain a foothold. That means avoiding the flying grappling hooks and severing the ropes and the nets which trail behind them. Disabling all means of allowing the pirates to climb aboard.<\/p>\n From here the perspiration on BlackDog\u2019s forehead becomes clear. On the back of JumpingJack\u2019s neck the hairs are standing up. Tense with fear, the crew aboard The Frabjous <\/em><\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page124 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page124 \u2013 Next day. The mountains of Eryri with their glistening peaks, off to starboard, a gorgeous, luscious green coast unfolding up ahead, thronged with gulls, herons and cormorants, soaring, swooping and dancing around the rocky promontories. A beautiful, calm blue sea stretches out to port, meeting the sky at a distant … Continue reading “Chapter 16 The Battle of Puffin Island124”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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