The huge man with the battle-axe was in their lead, and even if Darok had been certain of no interference from the rest of the pirates, he would have hesitated to take the battle-axe on. He ran to the nearest ratline and leaped, grabbing the rope and climbing up it. Shouts and jeers rang out from the ships on either side as the first of the pirates landed on Daystrider’s deck. Darok clenched his teeth. He had to get as many of them aboard as possible, but enduring those scum on his ship was like watching a cockroach crawl across his dinner plate. Forget it. He kept climbing, praying none of them would decide to loose an arrow at him. “Get the hatches!” the pirate captain shouted. “I’ll take care of him!” You do that. Darok reached the first platform on the mainmast, thirty feet from the deck, and dared to look down. Pirates swarmed his deck like rats, scurrying to smash open the bolted-shut hatches. One man, much to Darok’s fury, planted a banner showing a broken chain on the prow.
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