Today's #flashfiction #ThePirateCrewmanAndTheTreasure

“Who's on first?”

Babe Ruth* #quote

Today the grass was greener on this side of the fence. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Pirate Crewman And The Treasure

       Captain Husk was the terrifying pirate captain, with a scruffy beard and muscular body fit for a viking. Steve was the pirate crewman. His body could be described as being thin, like a scarecrow with too little straw. But he worked up enough muscle to work on the ship and he was loyal enough to never earn a walk off the plank.

        The entire crew walked an island to search for treasure. The island was where Captain Husk's old associate Captain Zanders stored his ill-gotten wealth. Husk was the one who tortured and killed Zanders for the location of the island.

         Steve's toe bumped into something. The corner of a half buried box. He pulled it out and opened it. Inside he found a jewel. A beautiful specimen. And also the size of a bean! He could easily hide it away and not tell the other search people that he found anything. When they got to land he could peddle it away easy. Though risking the wrath of the captain...he would walk the plank! He looked down and saw that along with the jewel, more valuable treasures lay in the chest. Mostly some coin. Captain Husk told them all to report to him when they found something. What if the captain stole from log from Zanders that listed all the treasure on the island. He would know that he took something.

        He couldn't hide the coins. Only the jewel shaped bean. Steve's mind filled with greed and fear. The coins taunted him. He could hear the other crewman moving around in the distant woods on the other parts of the island. His heart beat faster and faster.

        Steve then did what fit a man with his level of bravery would do servicing a pirate captain. He put the jewel back, buried the box and made sure it looked like he never touched it. It would be someone else's problem. He would wander around the island until the other crewman found this treasure and all the other treasure. If anyone would be suspected of double-crossing the captain it wasn't going to be him.

       Some other pirate named James walked the plank a few days later after the treasure search for trying to take a small, bean-sized jewel from the treasure haul for himself.