Story Time wrote:"Don't yah think we should start looking? For that shipwright or whatever they are called. I think the Captain will be a bit mad if we aren't at the spot with his ship, and you know the rumors about what he does to people who make him angry." An marine would say to his pal who was jerking around chatting to some woman they had just met, basically having a swell ol' time. Though the Marine that was telling the other, his buddy, that they should start looking was also enjoying himself. He had an large jug of booze and and this was his second one. Where theses two Marines were having a good old time was some strange place they had found when they were searching for a Shipwright.
"Nah, we are good for now. Remember Captain D did say we could take our time as he was in no rush. And also he told us to enjoy ourselves! And if I am not mistake his words were... I am on vacation but need a few things. You guys are also on vacation to, because it wouldn't be fair for just me to be on vacation. But you must get me a ship before coming back to me. Don't worry though you can take your time. Though it is pivotal that you bring it to theses coordinates in five days. That is all.... SO we got time man!" The Marine would say getting every word down that their Captain had told them
"Oh, yea you are right." The Marine that was worrying would say. He would take a drink from the jug and kick his feet up on the table. He had a wife and kid so he didn't hang out with any of the woman, as he wanted to be faith to his old lady. SO he would just settle for a drink, or seven of them. Though something would hit him and his eyes would grow wide as he spit out his drink, it getting all over the other Marine and the tramps.
"WHAT THE HELL MAN!?!" The Marine that was spit on as he would stand to his feet. he would try to clean himself off as he yelled at the other Marine."The freak you do that for bastard!?! You want me to kick your ass or something?" He would ask as he would walk over and grab the other Marine by the collar.
"IDIOT!" The Marine that was grabbed would say, he would slap his buddies hand way. "Do you not realize we are supposed to meet the Captain tomorrow with the ship! We have been taking it too easy and lost track of time. Man oh man.. we might be screwed on this. He is going to have our asses. I just know the Captain will find a way to have us go through hell. Shit, we goofed! MAN WE GOOFED!" He was loosing his shit right now but his buddy seemed to be relaxed. Well seemed from a first glance.
Looking at him closely you could see that he was in tears. "DAAAMMMEEE IIITTT!" he would yell out as he would fall to his knees. The two of them would them hold each other and just sob. The really sad thing was is that they both were pretty drunk and were over reacting. So one of the tramps would shake her head and walk over to them. "Guys..guys....GUYS!!" She would have to yell at them for them to look at her. They would stop their drunk cries and look at the pretty lady.
"Since you guys are really loud with your conversation I think I can help you. Well help you help yourselves. First you both need to get some rest, cause you are pretty fucked up right now. I will tell you the rest in the morning. Early in the morning...." She would then lead them to the back room and lock them in. They needed to rest up as they would have to run around all day tomorrow.
The following day....
"ALRIGHT GET UP!" She would yell as she began to kick one of the Marines that was on the floor instead of the bed. He would grunt and mumble as he would lazily get up, his head pounding. They both would be up now and looking at the screaming lady, already not wanting her help. "Okay now that you two are up we leave now! No breakfast no nothing! We gotta find you guys a heavenly sent shipwright! Now lets GO!" She would say as she would begin to leave the room. Though the Marines would just be looking at her with dumb founded looks. She would sigh and grab them by the collar, dragging the idiots out." Come on. Come on. I am helping you bastards out so put up some more effort, damn!" She would say. They now where out in the streets. They were heading to the docks first to see if they could find anyone there.
The two Marines would look at each other as they are dragged across the streets. "I think we should put in more effort. It is only right she is after all helping us with our task. She doesn't even have to do anything... especially since she isn't going to get paid."
"Nah, I kinda have accepted my fate." The Marine would responded to his buddy not even looking at him but rather picking his nose. He kinda liked being dragged by a woman, it felt weird at first but it quickly grew on him.
"You serious dude?" A sign of concern would come over this man's face at what his buddy would say. He hoped he wasn't serious as that would make him also just want to accept their fate for failing this task.
"Hell naw! Lets sop acting like asses and get shit done!" He would say as he would break free from the ladies grasp and begin to walk beside her, his buddy follow in suit. They were determined now and were going to get their Captain his damn ship before the day is over.
The rest of the story isn't near as good as that part... But lets just say the did find a rather good shipwright who was able to build an amazing ship for them. However it was rather unfortunate for the marines that the shipwright they had found had a particular hatred for marines... Or rather the woman who found them also didn't care particularly for marines and lead them to a particular shipwright for a reason, and she was paid, quite well. Now I know what your thinking but this shipwright wasn't Loki. It was the master Shipwright Loki was working for! Now Loki and his master used this money to get to work. Naturally the marine's that hired them out underpaid for what they wanted to be built but Loki's boss really didn't care where the ship ended up as long as the marines didn't get it. Normally his boss would simply have overcharged the group but they were adamant on not paying full price so this drove his boss to the next string of events that were to follow. Now as most workers do they gave a time fram for the ship to be built that was a few weeks longer than needed mostly due to the fact that something bad could have happened and production could have been delayed but this wasn't the case. Everything went quite smoothly. Bit by bit Loki, his boss and a few other hired hands would come in and help. They started with the fram while they curved the wood that would soon become the hull of the boat.
The days they spent working on the ship turned into weeks, and the weeks into months as they worked long hours to finish the ship as early as they could manage. The ship looked nothing like the typical marine ship though this should have been an obvious outcome seeing as Loki's boss had no intention of giving the ship to the marines. The ship even lacked the proper artillery slots. Well it all worked out in the end. Due to the fact that the ship was nothing the marines were looking for it became harder for them to find. Well that and the fact that it was stolen by pirates. Well certain pirates were blamed for it anyway. When the ship was done Loki told his boss that he was about to set sail for new adventures and his boss offered the ship to him not for free however... He held Loki's pay for the job but in the long run it was quite the steal. As for the pirates that took the fall for stealing the ship? A duo known in the area as The Lone Rangers, were quite hungry for the credit of other work. It wasn't the first time they attempted to steal other credit as well. All it took was his boss dropping their name, and a small sting operation where somebody mentioned some unknown pirates stealing a ship and the two gladly jumped on the opportunity to claim the notoriety for it. In some stroke of luck everything went quite well in "Stick it to the Marines" plan, two pirates were hung almost immediately and Loki sailed out a few weeks before hand on a brand new ship. The ship itself was still rough around the edges but it was a nice ship indeed and would take him anywhere he wanted to be in the four blues. Loki never forgot the kindness his boss showed to him, even if his boss didn't consider it a kindness but rather a prank of his own. He still wouldn't forget the opportunity he was given be it the job or the ship, so he vowed to return one day and pay his old boss full price plus interest for the ship. Of course this was going to be well after he built it up into a grand masterpiece that would be worthy of his name.