[ ….. Accidentally deleted this while trying to edit it -_____________- Anyways.. It’s a story I wrote for my friends on MS.. It’s based on The Odyssey/Jason and the Argonauts, oh heck, even One Piece.. You know, something you’d expect from a bored 13 year-old. >_> ]

He stared glassy-eyed at the contents of the dirty mug before downing its murky contents and belching loudly. A male around his age and what seemed to be a younger boy shied away, as he seemed ready to vomit all over the counter. “ Psssh, King of Ossyria.. What fun is that? All I get to do is sit on the throne all day like a good little boy. I can’t even do whatever I want.. I’m DYING of boredom!” He complained loudly and gave another loud belch.

“ Erg..” The youngest of the three twitched from disgust. “ /Now/ I know why you never drink.. One more round and you’ll regret it..” In defiance of his companion’s advice, Hung banged on the wooden counter with his fist. “One more glass!” he yelled. Moments later, a buxom bar girl in the form of Melissa sauntered up and delivered the requested tankard of beer. The youngest one arched his brows. Since when did the late King Ronald’s precious “ bed mate” start working in a tavern?

“ Nice to see you.. /Darka/,” she smirked before turning to attend to another drunken idiot. Darka grimaced; she thought for sure that no one would recognize her in boy’s clothing.. Oh well.

“ Too bad we can’t really be pirates..” Ken mused, “ I wonder how I’d look in a pirate outfit..” Struck by a stroke on inspiration, Hung heartily slapped his brother on the back. “ That’s it! We’ll gather a crew and go look for treasure! There has to be one somewhere, I know it,” Hung announced.

The other two laugh uproariously. “ Treasure? And what exactly is this “ hidden treasure” that you speak of? You’ve had one too many glasses,” Darka contradicted.

Hung ignored her and went on, “ You know the legendary boss monsters, right? Mushmom, Jr. Balrog, Crimson Balrog, Thanatos, etc. Well, a few years back, I came across a legend of a monster even stronger that all of them put together.. When this thing finally got defeated, the quantity of loot it left behind was so much that most of it was lost.. Now, if we were to find this loot, we’d be rich. I’m talking about several billion mesos per person sort of rich.”

Ken gaped at this, “ Methinks someone’s a little crazy.. You /sure/ you feeling all right? Besides, that’s just stupid. I hear about stuff like this all the time.. You’re just wasting your time on this. And, how do you even know where the loot is?! ”

“ Asinine as it sounds.. I like, I like. Aaahhhhh… Several billion mesos, all mine..” Darka murmured. “ You’re actually agreeing with him?!” Ken interjected.

“ Sssh, even being the Devil gets a bit dull at times…”

“ Well then you genius, there’s only three of us, and we need a crew if we’re going to “explore the sea”..”

“….. Very well then. You there, the girl with the book!” Hung pointed to a demure girl in the corner of the room, who had been silent all this time. She slowly looked up, and meekly asked, “ Me? Are you talking to me?”

“ Yeah, you any good with maps?”

“ Well, I wouldn’t say /good/, but well enough to not ever get lost..”

“ Alright then, you’ll be the navigator!”

“ Navi- what?! Oh… I suppose I could do with an adventure..”

Hung smiled in an ‘I told you so’ way to Uk. Uk scowled, “ Well, genius, you need a cook, some medical assistance, and a lot more people to tend to the ship.”

“ .. It’s not going to be a very big ship, so we don’t need too many people.. The two of us will cook. Darka, you’ll be cabin boy-girl. And since you’re a cleric, you’ll double as a doctor.”

“ What?! Cabin boy-girl?! What the heck is that; are you calling me a he-she?!?!”

“ Boy! The one sweeping the floor!”

The boy cocked his head and answered, “ If it’s someone to help sweep the ship that you’re looking for, I’ll refuse. But.. Make me a full time pirate and I’ll go.” “And if he goes, I go too,” added another young boy about 2 years younger than the first.

Ken glared at Hung, still unconvinced. “ How the heck will this make us pirates?” he asked skeptically. “ Well, because someone’s already claimed it. You remember Ronald and his group of idiots? Well, the same group of idiots have already set out for the treasure. A little competition’ll make it fun,” Hung replied.

“…. Can’t we go in one of those air-ships? Does it /have/ to be those old-fashioned ships?”

“ Yes, because we’ll have to look everywhere for it.”

“What?! Then wouldn’t it make more sense to search for it from the air?!”

“ ….Then what’s the fun in that? Besides, do /you/ have an air-ship? I’m the King and not even I can obtain one for personal use. So there.”

Ken grumbled some incoherent curse, then gave up. “ Fine, I’ll go.. Just to make sure you don’t screw up.”

Hung grinned broadly, “ See? Much better. Everyone, meet me at the dock in Lith Harbor in a week!!”

When two days passed, everyone but Hung was shifting nervously at the rendezvous point. “ Ta-da!!” Hung said, popping out of nowhere. He bowed deeply and extended his arm to a caravel.

“ Finally!” Darka gushed, and rushed on board to the crow’s nest. “ I should mention that there’s one catch to this,” Hung announced solemnly. “ Since this supposed monster was created by divine magic, in order to go on with this little search, we’ll each have to give up something most precious to us.”

The rest groaned and Ken sulked. “ I knew it, why bother going on this stupid trip then,” he complained bitterly. “ Oh, cheer up already, the worst you’ll have to give up is your libido,” Hung snickered. “ I’m not giving that up! Who knows what kind of girls I’ll meet along the way..” Darka dismissed this one setback. “ I don’t have anything to give up,” she declared, then gave a loud yell of surprise. Her staff, which before had resembled a Kage to denote her status as the “Devil”, had turned into a Thorns. Hung looked up and laughed good naturedly, “ Don’t worry, for the time being our thrones will go to Ron for safe keeping.”

The rest of the crew boarded the ship sullenly. In an attempt to cheer everyone up, Hung forced everyone to introduce themselves. “ I’m Tiffany,” the other girl said confidently. “ Name’s Zack, and this idiot over here who follows me everywhere is Ryan,” the boy laughed. “ Well, you know who I am.. The horny guy over there’s my brother Ken, and the crazy one up in the crow’s nest is Darka,” Hung explained simply and pulled the anchor up. “ Well, what are we waiting for, let’s go!”

“ Wait, I don’t want to go anymore!!” Darka shouted and tried to jump back onto the dock, but Hung grabbed her shirt collar. “ Stop whining, it’s already too late, you won’t get the throne back unless we actually get to where the loot is,” he said curtly. Darka looked back to dry land. “ Woe is me!!” she moaned miserably while Hung laughed.