The Treasure of Pinkbeard - Pirate Booty

[seraaches]

*trying to come up with something when she's not exhausted and/or drugged* ><;;;

[Spiderfly]

I need to be entering mah boys! Doing it as a fanfic sort of thing X3 It just flows better this way. AHHH SORRY FOR THE LONG


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Rajekhri and Khizr had been planning for months. They had little else to do with their time really. All the two really wanted was power, in the courts and over all those around them. What better way to do that than to 'procure' magical items? So the two spent every spare moment gathering information and lore on the grand vault of the court of hearts, certain what they sought would be there.

One night they finally made their move. The last bit of information was the hardest to find, and that was how to open the door. Olden day court magicians really knew their stuff, and the wards upon the door were known only to the Queen and to that Queen's select Kings. In the end it had been a chance finding of a book, whilst rifling through Bernard's office one day, that had provided them with the answer.

They stood before the door, saying the words they had both memorized together, and drew a symbol upon the door with a claw. Slowly, the door began to open. It was amazing, not a creak or a groan was heard as the large metal doors swung open. Yes! Both rushed inside to begin their search.

. . . It was two hours later and Khizr was about ready to kill Rajekhri. The doors had since closed behind them, so no one could hear them. "YOU IDIOT. . ."

"How the hell was I supposed to know this was the junk fault?" Rajekhri hissed back.

"All it is is gold. And that's too obvious to take." Khizr hissed out. "And children's books! And non-magical items! What a waste." He stamped a cloven hoof on the ground before nosing through some more stuff.

Rajekhri sat down in a huff, his brother was going to hate him for a while. His eyes fitfully scanned the crowd of objects in front of him, wishing for something useful to pop forwards, if only to satiate his 'darling' brother. And then. . . Raj suddenly stood, and jumped into a pile of books.

He came forth with a tome clenched firmly between his teeth and set it down to start flipping through it. Ahhh, The Legend of Pinkbeard. Hehehe He had loved the myth surrounding the once great chipmunk from birth. Though was always slightly disappointed the great man wasn't a carnivore. He glanced at his brother before going back to reading.

It seemed as if this was an original copy from when the history was first written down. He knew Khizr would scoff, 'Kids Tales! Nonsense!' he had always said. Well screw him, he was the one who thought this was the main vault in the first place; so he would read his stories and his brother could be an ass and keep looking for something useful.

Suddenly the cat cross stopped dead, eyes flying wide open.

"KHIZR!" He whispered harshly, forgetting that he could speak normally in his excitement. "KHIZR GET OVER HERE YOU GIT!"

The deer shot a hateful look over to his brother before trotting over and looking down. A short burst of laughter broke out of his muzzle. "Oh Raj, you have got to be kidding. Anyways, there's nothing here lets go."

Rajekhri looked up from the piece of vellum that had fallen from the book. The map, in bold, dark red letters was titled. 'Pinkbeard's Treasure Map'.

"It's real Khizr. . it's real. All the stories. . . we found it! Hidden in a children's book!"

Khizr merely rolled his eyes. Oh yes, a fanciful tale of stupidness was all that story was. And his brother had always bought in to it, his whole life. Pity really his brother was so blank upstairs. He snickered before motioning towards the door.

"Let's go Raj."

"Only if I can take the map."

". . . Fine, hurry. We've spent too long in here already."

A few weeks later after much insisting by Rajekhri, Khizr finally analyzed the map. He studied it, comparing it to known maps and strangely enough. . things began to fit. Thing began to make sense. . . So one day Khizr looked straight at his brother and said. "Let's go find the treasure."


FIN!

[seraaches]

In the corner of a bookshop, at the furthest edge of the book stalls of the Bazaar, just past the little stop that sells monkey paste, a small hybrid has huddled in a corner, eyes wide behind round spectacles as he immerses himself in pirate lore. The hand-written journal speaks of treasure untold obtainable only by following the steps and warnings written within. There is a map, hidden in the book's spine, that will lead the wary hunter. But enemies lurked all around, and the author could not retrieve the treasure at the time and hastily wrote the directions out, hiding the map so that his descendants might find it someday.

His descendants were morons. They sold off his diary along with his other belongings and now only the diary remained here in this obscure bookshop. And the winged hybrid must have it.

Rounded ears go flat as he thinks swiftly, then he tucks the book nearby yet out of sight. He hurries to the fat bookseller and worriedly informs the woman that a man has just walked off with two of those really expensive books, and had he paid for them yet? The woman's eyes are like a hawk's and she spies the offender immediately, charging after him with a squawk of rage. Tosiek smiles to himself and swiftly nabs his book and saunters off.

Only to run smack-dab into someone else. Eyes flashing angrily, he looks up to find an equine smirking lightly at him and he gives a bird's hiss of rage.

But this equine isn't afraid of the little boy smaller than him, and instead flicks an idle green tail before leaning down to pick up the piece of paper that has been jostled loose from the diary's spine.

Oh, no! Tosiek hides an inner growl and goes joking, Haha, the teen has found his joke map. He's going to tease his siblings with it later. Won't that be a lark?

The equine isn't laughing; purple eyes scan the paper curiously, then go to the book that Tosiek hasn't yet pulled out of sight. The hybrid curses his slow reflexes. This yearling-esque boy is rather creepy and, when the teenager finally speaks, Tosiek is left with a desire to curse and fuss and throw a tantrum.

'We will find it together,' the teen says, looking down his long, striped face at the younger boy. 'We'll meet up at the entrance of the Bazaar tomorrow. We're going to need some supplies.'

No, no! Tosiek wants to rage, but the equine continues lightly, 'I'll keep the map for safekeeping. You keep the book. I'll see you tomorrow.'

Tosiek's ears flatten and he's about to raise a shout about thievery when the bookseller comes stomping back towards her stall, face red and her eyes dart about as though looking for a small criminal. Blast, blast, and triple blast! He daren't stay here now! Even if he calls her attention to the teenager, -he's- the one holding the book and she'll just label him an accomplice. 'Fine!' he hisses in return, snatching up the book and tucking it swiftly away. 'But be here by 8!'

The teenager smiles mysteriously at him, and begins to walk off, tossing over his shoulder, 'We'll meet at 9.'

And then it's too late to argue anymore; Tosiek has to make a dash from sight.

[The Jenn]

Oh? What's this? It appears that Pinkbeard was a more shrewd pirate than most people gave him credit for. There are in fact two different maps to be found that lead to two entirely different caches of swag. Nifty shiz.

I'll be picking these sometime later tonight. <3

[Shinigami]

WOO! =D

[Nako]

*garbles and rolls around on the floor * the excitement... it's too much to bear!

[The Jenn]

Okay, so the two individuals who have found authentic treasure maps, genuine scrolls hand-drawn and written by the legendary chipmunk pirate himself, are...

...Zuberi and Minh. PM me and we can get started. <3

[Dark]

*PMed just a second ago* X3;

[Nako]

*hyperventilates* !! OMG! I'm so excited.. it's crazy.. I'm so excited I feel kinda queasy D= *screams and goes to tell the boyfriend!!* Oh yeah, I need to send that PM XD

[seraaches]

eehhheeeeh!!! Omedetou gozaimasu!!!! *super excited to see how these go!* <3 Gambatte!!!