Aura's POV

"Let's see if these dogs are good sea dogs."

Did he REALLY just...?  Wooooow.  Douche move Herobrine.

Wait.

SEA dogs?

Oh no....

I clutched spark closer as she growled at Herobrine.

'He's gonna regret that!'  She growled.

Skybrine shoved us through the portal, and the throne room changed into...a pirate ship?

Both spark and I yelped as we fell a bit and hit the deck of the ship.

'Owowow....'

My eyes were half-shut, but I opened them more to see a couple pirates and...a purple dinosaur?

Wait...purple dinosaur...Barney?!

I held spark closer, if that was even possible, as I heard swords unsheath all around us.

It seemed to be sunset, as well....

The man up on the steering wheel gave the wheel steering job to another pirate and slowly came down the stairs, his hands clasped behind his back.

He looked really familiar.  He had brown eyes and ginger hair.  Little white dots were above and below his face...like teeth.  He seemed to have some kind of red suit around his head past his ears, but it was mostly covered by pirate stuff.

Wait.  Red suit....

Could that be...?

"Well then!  This is quite...unexpected."  Red said as he reached the bottom of the stairs.

Barney stared at us in surprise.

I got poked in the back slightly and I yelped, turning a bit too swiftly.

I hissed in pain slightly as I looked up to see another man with a bushy brown beard and mustache and brown eyes.  He also looked fairly familiar.

Ah...Pre...Pres...Preston. PrestonDanger!

There were several other pirates around us pointing their swords at us, though I didn't really recognize any of them.

Red came close to us and looked down on us with a questioning stare.

spark whimpered.  'Aura, I don't like this....'

I tensed under his stare.

It was REALLY starting to freak me out.

"Preston, take 'em to the brig.  TimTim, Barney, my quarters, now."

Ok, I half expected this, but come on!

A pirate came and pulled spark out of my arms.

She whimpered and struggled a little, but she yelped in pain from moving and went still.  I reached out to her, but I winced from the pains on my arms.

"Up we go."  Preston said as he hooked his arms under my arms and started dragging me somewhere behind him.

I cried out in pain from the wounds all over my body.

spark growled but did nothing else as we got dragged to the brig.

The pirates did stare at us as we passed.

After being painfully dragged down a bunch of stairs, Preston practically threw me into a cell and shut the door, locking it.

spark was thrown into the opposite cell from me.

Preston and the other pirate looked at us for a moment before leaving.

I slowly dragged myself over to the bars and leaned against them in a way where I could still see spark.

"H-Hey, at least you aren't in a cage."  I said with a slight smirk.

She laid on the ground and huffed.  'Haha.  This is just an oversized cage.'

Then she looked at me, her eyes filled with worry.  'Aura...what's gonna happen?'

I shook my head slightly.  "I dunno.  You saw Barney, too, right?  Did you see his expression?"

'Yeah....  He looked surprised just like the rest of them.'

I gave her a look.  "Have you forgotten that he's seen people like us before?"

'...Wait, at Becca's execution?!'

"Yeah.  His was a surprised recognition look.  He recognized us."

'But...I don't think we were there when it happened....'

"But he recognizes our dimensional look.  He knows who we are in a sense."

'But then it raises the question of why the heck is the super optimist on a pirate ship?!'

I thought for a bit.  "Didn't Becca say something in the finale of the last book that Barney should see the sights of the world or something?  Like, traveling?"

spark scoffed...kinda.  Can a wolf pup scoff?  'Again, pirate ship?!'

"I can't answer that.  Maybe we'll find out...at some point.  I dunno how long we're gonna be here...."

We sat in silence for a while.

My bleeding had stopped, but if I moved even a little bit, one of the wounds would break and bleed again.

Let's just say...I'm a bit dizzy from blood loss.

spark's been pretty quiet, too.  I think she fell asleep.

While I was a bit tired, I didn't want to fall asleep here of all places.

Not exactly the safest idea....

Time continued to pass slowly as our bodies continued to heal even slower.

I actually did fall asleep for a bit, but I was awoken by a way-too-cheerful voice.

"Good morning!  Rise and shine, prisoners!"  Red exclaimed as he came in.

I blinked my eyes and looked up at him.  spark growled lightly.

He looked back.  "TimTim, you do hybrid wolf over here.  Imogen, you do wolf pup over there."

I think I knew, kinda, what he was doing but I still tensed when TimTim entered the cell.

He was quite young looking.  He had brown hair and blue eyes.   He also had a barely-noticeable mini-beard and mustache.

I scooted away slightly as he knelt next to me, which I then hissed as I reopened more wounds.

"Hey, it's ok, we're not gonna hurt you."  He said.

"Said every kind of person good or bad ever."  I retorted.

He smirked.  "Touché.  But seriously, hold still."

I narrowed my eyes at him but did as he asked.

I flinched as he touched one of my wounds.  "Woah...I've never seen these kinds of wounds before...I've only read about them...oh dear...."

I looked outside the cell to see Barney leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

TimTim stood back up.  "One moment.  Lemme go get that book...."

He left the cell and then left the room.

I looked over to spark to see her looking at me, pain in her eyes.

'It's...ow...ok, just being healed painfully over here....'

I giggled, which caused me to wince again.

Ow...I think I cracked a wound open again....

At least it was small openings...right?

Red and Barney just watched us until TimTim came back in with a semi-thick book.  He brought it in and sat down, opening it to a bookmarked page.

"Let's see...here!  'Insanabile vulnus, the unhealable wound.  A very powerful dark magic spell that cause wounds on the victim to never be able to fully heal.  Too much movement will cause these wounds to continually reopen until the victim dies of blood loss.  Only one person had ever been seen using this spell.  Herobrine.'"

Well then....

That's just great....

"Does...spark...have these?"

The other pirate girl, Imogen, looked over at me.  "No, hers aren't reopening constantly."

"Hold up, there's a bit more.  'Only the power of a god or an EXTREMELY' extremely is in all caps, 'powerful being can take away the effect of the spell.'"

"So...basically...I got freaking cursed by Herobrine.  Nice."

Red held up his hands.  "Woah, woah, woah.  Let's back up a bit.  How in the world did you even get here?!"

I sighed and spent the next 30 minutes telling him what had been happening.

"And done."  Imogen said.

'Finally!'  spark exclaimed.

I giggled again.

Imogen backed up and let spark stand up a bit wobbly.  She shakily began walking and exited the cell, walking over to mine.

Once she reached me, she sighed and curled up against my side.  'Das better.  I be getting lonely over there.'

"Barney here explained that he's seen your type before."

"Like from Becca's execution?"

Barney jolted slightly and looked at me with wide eyes...eye.

Eyepatch...yeah....

"That ones!  That's where I saws them befores!"

Red facepalmed.  "How much story am I missing here?"

"A LOT."  I said.  "It would fill 2 long books.  That's how much."

Red shrugged.  "My crew can take care of themselves.  Go ahead and tell the story from the beginning."

Barney sighed.  "I guesses I will starts, then.  I wokeded up in a strange rooms...."