Chapter-4 The Prison

The Prison of Sapphire is one of the most secure prison build by the Imperial navy, it is constructed over a small island situated in vast pacific ocean, the prison is been naturally protected by the great pacific ocean, the security level of the prison is moderate as it used for imprisoning the low profile criminals, whose criminal records aren’t something to boost about, here the one who are imprisoned are thieves, local thugs or pirates of small crews.

The prison comprise of three sections, the Staff section, it is the section of the prison which is present at the front of the prison, the section comprise of the kitchen, meeting room, warden quarters and most important Weapon Section, the prisons which are situated in middle of oceans like this are very useful for Imperial Navy as it can be used for weapon storage, emergency shelter and first-aid. The islands like this provide a great aid to the navy soldiers.

The section two is the main prison; it contains cells of all the prisoners the section is most secured section of the prison, there are continuous guard shifts, around the cells, the section being present in the center of the prison is having a solid architecture, the walls here are more than two feet thick, the stone with which the floor is furnished is rough and hard, the cells of the prison are having bars to lock the prisoners in their cells.

The third and the last section is an open area, at the back side of the prison there is a lawn which is used by the prisoners, in the time of the evening when outside weather is pleasant the prisoners are brought here to take some sunlight, where they can witness how big is the prison, from here all he prisoners can have a clear view of all the forces which held them here, the rigid walls which reaches the skies, the blood thirsty hounds whose fangs can tear them to shreds, the fire power and artilleries which keep enemy forces from reaching here.

Arran who was being captivated was brought here, after his meeting with his grandfather he was brought here by guards to his fellow prison mates, bonded with the chains he slowly walked through the narrow passage which leads to lawn, surrounded by the blood thirsty hound he walked straight in.

The guards unlocked the chains; the hounds smelled him for the confirmation of alien materials and when all the checkups were finished he was released so that he can walk to the place.

“oYe, Isn’t it the navy child.” A group of delinquents walked towards Arran, they blocked his path and started bullying him, the group had three men in it, all the tree men were tall, muscular and evil with the looks, one of them was a bald man with a big scar on his head, rest two were tall muscular man with black hair.

“Just, get out of my way; today I’m not in exactly the best mood” Arran made a threat to the group.

“Ohh, did you hear that the little boy made a thread to us”

“Ohh, so this chicken can even speak”

While the group of delinquents made a joke on him, Arran walked past them; this group of bullies had been treating him like a weak dog, a dog which they can play around whenever they want.

Arran who wanted to avoid them and tried to move silently out was stopped by that bald guy, he placed his hand on Arran shoulder from backside, arran had already moved some distance away from them, he didn’t wanted to mess with these guys at all cost, but now they are in a mood to mess around with him.

“Oye where are you going, I didn’t allow you to go, my pet.” -The balm guy

The Arran who used to stay calm at these time now had lose it, he moved his hand of his shoulder with his left hand hold it, subsequently he turned round and hit his head with his right hand, knocking him down unconscious.

The bald guy fell unconscious on the ground that huge tall man fell on the ground like a stone, it was hard to believe but Arran who had a medium built and height had knocked him unconscious with a single blow, all the man present in the area man had their eyes all over him, they were watching it like a spectacle, meanwhile one of the two remaining man who tried to bully him rushed towards Arran “You little shit”

He tried to punch Arran but Arran who had excellent reflexes blocked his attack, he lowered his body a little, just enough so that the man punch which was directed towards his face would be just exactly above his shoulder, as soon as his hand was at right place, that is on his shoulder, Arran grabbed his hand with both his hand, and gave a jerk to his hand, with a cracking sound the screams of the man echoed everyone’s ear, even the guards became aware of the situation.

“Shouldn’t we stop them?” -A guard

“No need to do that, if they kill each other it will be good for us, our work load will decrease if those scum kill each other and at top of that

we don’t have to take responsibilities for their action” –Another guard

All the guards were watching on the situation but no one cared to stop them, for them it was a mere entertainment, and even if any prisoner died they won’t have to take the responsibility, rather the number of prisoners they need to look after would reduce, all they need to do is make sure no one escapes from here.

Arran and the last guy rushed towards each other, both of them were approaching each other with their fist as tight and hard as rock, both of them tried to land a blow on each other faces, Arran moved swiftly and dodged the punch of the man while scoring a hit on his face, Arran punched on his face with caused the man nose to bleed, the man who received the blow was experiencing a great pain, he held his node to stop the bleeding while he received a rotation kick from Arran on side of his face knocking him down.

“Oye, punk do you know with whom you have been messing with, they are the part of Gale Pirate Crew, our pirate crew.” A group of more delinquent’s walked to Arran, they were here to fight Arran, it was a group of about 7 people, in middle of the group a middle-aged handsome man was standing, he had sharp and distinct features like Green eyes, silver white hair, he had a good and firm muscular built with a crew cut he look liked some sort of Captain, while all the man surrounding him looked like some regular bandits, one of the bandit who had a corn row haircut was the one who tried to pick up a fight with Arran.

“Wait, Brian, we didn’t came here to fight” The silver hair guy stopped his fellow mate to get some sort of trouble here.

“Hello, my name is Chris Beckman, I was supposed to be the captain of pirate crew called Gale Pirates, and the one whom you have knocked down were supposed to be part of my crew.” The Silver haired man introduced himself to Arran, he was calm and composed his voice was gentle, the way this person represents him makes it hard to believe that he is captain of a pirate crew.

“So, why are you here, to take revenge of your crewmates?” –Arran.

“NO, I simply came here to introduce myself, those idiots got what they deserved to get, so” Chris moved his hand forward to greet Arran, Arran without any hesitation accepted his greeting, wearing a smile on their faces they shook their hands.

“My name is Arran Osteon; it’s nice to meet you.” -Arran

“What, Osteon” With a surprised look on his face Chris spoke, me moved his hand away right after he heard

“Yes; Osteon.” –Arran

“Are you related to captain Aryan Osteon somehow?” –Chris

“Yes, he is my grandfather.”-Arran

“Grandfather, that’s interesting, I heard that he only had a daughter who passed away more than a decade ago.”-Chris

“Yes, she was my mother; Captain Aryan Osteon is my Mother’s Father.”-Arran

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“That means you are son of Gale Rydberg, aren’t you.” Chris shouted out loud, so loud that everyone present around them could hear him, he

had a strange smile on his face for some reason he was extremely happy to know that he was Captain Osteon son, all the people who were already having an eye on him stood up their faces showed the expression of amazement, their faces clearly showed that they knew something completely outrageous.

“Gale Rydberg, as far as I remember my father name was Clark Rydberg.” –Arran

“Yes, Clark Rydberg the third in commands of Euphoria Pirates, also known by the name of Gale Rydberg was a legendary pirate.”-Chris

“I never heard about it” –Arran

“For sure you never heard about it, the pirate crew Euphoria was disbanded even before you were born, it was said that they witnessed something so cruel while sailing that they didn’t had courage to sail in the seas any longer, the sea which they were supposed to rule had become something which they started to fear, just think about it 86 battle ships over 1200 pirates united under a single flag, was disbanded all the pirates surrendered to the Empire, no one knows the reason behind it but just think what could that thing be doesn’t that makes you curious.”-Chris

“Do you know, half the things which you said, do not even make a single bit of sense.”-Arran

“Oh really, then this might make sense to you State is justice, it is justice because it is strong, not because it is right, state is strong because it is United.”-Chris

“Where did you hear it?” –Arran asked him in a clod voice, he didn’t change his expression; he kept his calm composure in order to put some pressure on Chris.

“It was the last words which your father spoke at time of his execution, I was ones pirate who used to set sail under the flag of euphoria Pirates, I was present in city of Crocus when your father was being executed.” –Chris

“So, what are you want from me?” –Arran

“Nothing, I just wanted to tell you this, I thought that your grandfather kept you in dark so I told you this, but I guess you already knew about this” –Chris

“Yes, I knew about this though not entirely I only knew half of this.” -Arran

“Oh, I see, so now I’m taking my leave.” -Chris.

“You know something Chris; I’m not going to die the same way as my father did.”-Arran

“So, what are you going to do breakdown from here.” –Chris

“Damn, straight.”-Arran

“Did you all hear that, this boy here is saying that he would break out this prison all alone?” Following Chris all the prisoners started laughing

like crazy, it was a joke to everyone, escaping out of one of the Imperial Empire prison was something which only someone stupid can think of, all of the people were making fun of Arran, while laughing like crazy, making some rude comments.

“Shut up you ball less bastards, what so funny about it, huh.” –Arran shouted out

“The funny is the fact that you think you can get out of here.”-Chris

“Who said that I’m going out of this shit all, you all are coming with me.”-Arran

“Oye boy, enough with this crap, no one get out of here alive.”-Chris

“We can get out of here and that too alive if all of you nit weeds help me break out of here.”-Arran.

“Enough with the joke kid, if we try to get out of here many of us will end up being dead.” A man standing in the crowd spoke, the man was aged, he was supposedly in his 50’s, the distinct feature about him was his big black beard.

“I know that some of us will die, but just think about aren’t we all going to be executed anyway old man, if we are going to die anyway why not sooner than later, I know that this might sound crazy, but why the hell we all are afraid of doing this, we all together count over hundred, there are hundred guards surrounding us, the only difference is that they are united and we are not, otherwise we are no less stronger than them, so why can’t we break this chains.” –Arran

“It seems that saying goes correct, like father like son.” –Old man

“Hey old man, tell me are you Cartographer Smith.” -Chris asked the old man

“Yes, I’m cartographer smith.” –Old man

“I heard that you were kept here.” –Chris

“But, I think we are missing the main point here, we were talking about breaking out of here.” –Cartographer Smith

“Yes, I have a plan for our escape, but I will need contribution of each and every one for that.”-Arran.

“Count me in” someone spoke out from the crowd; he attracted the attention of all the people quickly.

“What, do you want to say young man?” –Chris asked to the young boy, he was about same age as Arran; the boy had medium built, blonde hair and a really handsome face.

“My name is Jack Smith, I’m someone travelling on the same boat as this guy Arran, my father and mother both were pirates, I was raised by my aunt and now soon I will be executed, I guess it doesn’t matter what matter is I was already planning to escape from here, the very first day I arrived here I started making preparations for our escape, I already have talked to many people here and majority are with me.” –Jack smith the young guy.

“So, what exactly are you trying to apply?” –Arran.

“Well, what I am trying to apply is that, if we are going to work together we all need a leader, and I want to be that leader.” –Jack

“What the, aren’t you crossing the line kid.” –Chris.

“I agree.” –Arran

“What are you speaking boy are you even sane right now.” –Chris.

“Yes I’m, but first tell how many people are with you?” –Arran asked Jack

“Nearly 183 people are with me, aren’t you guys.” Following jack all the people who had already teamed up with jack, started howling in agreement with him

“That’s more than half of the population here and with all of us combined it’s a pretty good number.” –Cartographer smith

“Oye, don’t ignore me.” –Chris

“Just calm down, hey jack ask all the people to go move away, they can get suspicious about us.” –Arran

Hearing upon Arran request jack and Chris both made a gesture and the people surrounding them moved away, Chris pirate crew carried the injured members of his crew.

Now only Jack, Chris, Old man smith and Arran were the only people who were standing at their place.

“Now, Chris what you say this guy had everyone assembled, if we want to get out of here, we need him.” –Arran

"Ok, I agree with it but till the point we are out of here, then we need to properly choose a leader.” –Chris

“What do you mean later, after this stuff is over, this collaboration stuff is over.” –Jack

“And you call us our leader, are you an idiot.” –Chris

“What was that you old hag.” –jack

“Jack, he is right” –Arran

“If you are going to breakout from here, you cannot survive on your own; we all need to stay together afterwards.” –Old man Smith

“Keeping that aside, tell me old man smith, what all I have heard about you is it true.” –Chris.

“What rumors are you talking about?” –Old man smith

“Like, you can draw man of entire place; just by felling the flow of the air around the place.”-Chris

“Do you want to test it?” –Old man smith

“Yes, for sure, I want to test you.” –Chris

Old man smith picked up a stone and drew the entire map of the island and prison with pin point accuracy.

“Let me tell you three days from now a storm will hit this place that would be ideal day for our breakout, if the storm doesn’t hit the island, then don’t believe on me and my map you young fellows.” –Old man smith