Chapter 167 The Pirate Lord (1/2)

Aegin thought he was drowning.

He'd hit the water pretty hard. In his desperation to get himself and Ebony out of the way of the falling mast he hadn't really braced for the fall. He'd barely even taken a breath. Landing on his back hadn't helped. It'd jolted the air from his lungs and he'd let go of Ebony in his desperation to get it back.

But just a glance up was enough to acknowledge that going up was a bad decision, he reached out and yanked Ebony down further with him, just as the scattered debris from the mast's fall broke the surface of the water and began to sink down. Ebony flinched and cried out, swallowing a mouthful of water as a rapidly sinking cannon barrel hit the bottom half of her leg. She slapped her free hand over her mouth, but Aegin could tell the damage was already done. Now she was drowning too.

Lungs burning and darkness closing in around his blurry vision, Aegin tried to pull them both up to the surface. But it was too far away.

Losing the last of his air, Aegin's world got darker and darker.

Just on the edge of unconsciousness, he felt a force propelling him and Ebony up to the surface, and he gasped as they broke through, a thick shadow depositing both of them haphazardly on the end of the fallen mast, right where the broken crow's nest floated.

Aegin knew that shadow. He coughed and spluttered as he did his best to look around.

”Rassa!” he called.

The fight was still going on just to his right. It looked as if the force of the mast crashing down had been enough to cleave the pirate ship on the port side of the Miranda in two. It seemed almost impossible, but that lightning had no doubt done its fair share of damage before the mast fell. Aegin's eyes fell on the still unconscious Ebony.

”Shit, Ebony?” asked Aegin as he pulled himself up and dragged her across the mast towards him. He shook her, but there was no response, ”Ebony!”

It was to no avail. Aegin pinched her nose and brought his mouth to hers, blowing air into her lungs.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths.

Ebony coughed violently as the water that'd been in her lungs was expelled back into the ocean. She gasped for air as Aegin held her so that she wouldn't fall back into the water. He caught a glimpse of her leg then, the one that'd been hit by the falling barrel.

Broken. Definitely if the angle of her ankle had anything to say about it.

”My leg,” Ebony managed through the coughing.

”Broken,” Aegin replied as he helped her stabilise on the mast.

Ebony looked down, tears coming to her eyes at the pain.

”Ow,” She whimpered, trying her best to fight through the pain.

Aegin looked around again, ”Rassa!”

The reminder seemed to break Ebony from the pain, ”Is he okay?”

”I don't know,” Aegin replied, ”We're not exactly in the best position to see the fight. Pretty sure it was his shadows that brought us up though”.

”Brought us up?” asked Ebony, eyes wide, ”You don't think…”

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Aegin dove back into the water, swimming through the debris as he tried to get a view of the water below, blurry as it was. But it was too shadowed from the hulls of the ships above, and the rest too dark to see anything. Aegin burst back above the water about ten metres from Ebony.

”Is he down there?”

”I don't-”