Argh!

One day, Marin was happily floating downstairs to get some eats when he heard an almighty crash! He ran to the window where he pulled back the curtain and saw a huge portal in the middle of the road. Excitedly, he rushed outside.

"A portal!" he exclaimed. "Just like in Stargate!" He edged closer to it and peered inside. Wondering where the portal went, Marin stepped through it. He span around for a while, watching pretty swirly patterns and was then spat out at the other end in a heap on the floor. Standing up, Marin looked around. He was on a really spiff ship. He glanced up at the flag waving in the breeze and to his dismay saw that it was a Jolly Roger!

"Pirates!" Marin gulped. He turned to escape back through the portal but it had gone! Suddenly a large net fell on Marin, trapping him where he stood. He screamed like a girl! Then he heard footsteps. About twenty female pirates emerged. Four stepped forward. A small one with curly hair spoke first.
"Who be ye?" she demanded. Marin was confused.
"What?" he asked.
"Who be ye?" she repeated. Marin was silent for a moment.
"Oh!" he exclaimed eventually. "Who am I? I'm Marin. I... I just landed here..."
"Be ye an enemy?" another of the four females asked, a black eye patch with a picture of a silver fairy over one eye.
"No!" Marin insisted. "Are you... pirates?"
"Be we pirates? O' course we be! Shiver me timbers!!" said the third female, who wore a stripy jumper and beret.
"We be an all female crew," said the final female, a parrot perched on her shoulder.

The curly-haired one spoke again,
"I be Black Felix the Third." The other three introduced themselves.
"Bean de la Bean," said the one with the eye-patch.
"Française La Buse," said the one with the beret.
"Mad Lithium Wiggins, an' me parrot Archibald," said the last pirate. "We be the cap'ns. We likes t' share responsibility."
"This be our vessel, the good ship Hippodrome. An' this be our crew," said Bean de la Bean, gesturing to the very fierce looking women behind them.

"Are... are you going to let me go then?" Marin asked.
"What do ye think girls? Ought we let him go? Or ought we make him walk the plank?" Française La Buse asked. From somewhere in the group of girls, one of them shouted to make Marin walk to plank and the others erupted in cheers.
"Fetch the plank!" cried Black Felix.
"Hold on! Hold on! Mebbe we could put him t' good use," Mad Lithium suggested.
"What did ye be havin' in mind?" Bean de la Bean asked.
"Well the decks be needing scrubbin'!" Mad Lithuim cried. Another chorus of cheers came from the pirates.
"Peg-Leg Clarice," Bean de la Bean called out. "Fetch me a bucket an' cloth! The rest o' ye, back t' work."

As the rest of the pirates dispersed, Black Felix cut down the net, freeing Marin.
"Ye can be our slave fer a while," she laughed.
"What? No! If you kindly let me go I'll just get out of your hair."
"We're at sea ye fool. The means by which ye got here has vanished so ye're stran'ed until we reach lan'," La Buse said.
"And if I refuse to do as you say?" Marin asked, although he was really terrified of defying the pirates.
"Thar be always the plank, boy," Bean de la Bean threatened. "Thar be sharks in these waters." As the laughter of the four girls subsided there came a tapping sound... it got closer and closer. Marin spun round to find Peg-Leg Clarice handing him a bucket of water and a cloth.
"Get cleanin," Black Felix said. The four girls turned on their heels to head back to their cabin, leaving Archibald the parrot in charge of their new slave.

Marin bent down and began cleaning the deck of the ship. As he did so he began to think of ways to escape. After a while he gave up, realising that it was hopeless. There was no escape from the ship. They were at sea.
"That's it!" he declared suddenly. "I need a boat." Jumping up, he ran to the side of the ship and peered over looking for a rowing boat. Then he was pecked sharply on the ear by Archibald the parrot. Marin tried to bat away the parrot, but Archibald sunk his beak into Marin's ear and wouldn't let go. Marin screamed and screamed and jumped around, trying to rid himself of the bird attached to his ear. Hearing the commotion the four captains appeared on deck.

"Thar be no lifeboats, matey," laughed Bean de la Bean. "We're nay wimps! Avast, ye scab'r'us swabs!! If the boat sinks, we either swim or drown!" Suddenly there came a cry from the lookout post.
"Ship ahead! Ship ahead!" The four girls looked at each other, their eyes gleaming.
"'Tis time t' go piratin' ladies!" Black Felix exclaimed.
"I love t' pirate," laughed La Buse. "Peg-Leg Clarice! Tie the slave up!"

End of Part One!