The Misfits of Dametreos

Chapter 1: Reno

       Reno took a light sip from his glass of ale and scanned around; a brawl was going on in the corner of the small tavern. Reno took a last sip and exited the inn. Reno had traveled a lot and was in a small Crusaders town, south of a Forestmen forest. Reno began to walk down the street and heard a sharp scream. He immediately gripped his sword and pulled it from its sheath. He turned and faced the direction of the scream.
       “Come on darlin’, I ain't gonna hu’t ya, am I?” said a pirate who was holding on to a young women.
       Reno pushed the pirate off the young lady and noticed the lady had plate amour on, which was very uncommon for a lady to wear.
       “Watcha doin’?” the pirate screamed at Reno.
       “Leave her alone!” Reno shouted, sword in his hand.
       “Whatcha gonna do?” asked the pirate, taking his cutlass out and swinging Reno.
       The pirate was clearly drunk. Reno parried the swing and battered down on the pirate’s sword until the sword fell out of the pirate's hand. The pirate stood and ran off.
       “Why, thank you, young sir.” the lady was saying. She was a young lady and talked very well.
       “Don't mention it.” Reno began to turn around.
       “My name is Rosa, do you have a name?” the lady asked Reno.
       “Reno, Reno is my name, but I have to go now, Rosa,” said Reno as he began to walk down the street.
       “Nice meeting you, Reno.” Rosa called out after Reno.
       “You too.” Reno muttered under his breath, “You too.”

       Reno wandered down the street without a care in the world until he came to the docks.
       “Oh.” Reno looked around and realized he had ventured too close to the pirates docking area, as around him were at least ten pirates with cutlasses in their hands.
       “Yeah, boss it was him, boss it was him!” cried the pirate who Reno had scared away.
       “Well...sorry lads, I'll just be going then.” Reno said, turning around to walk away.
       “You threatened my brother, did you not?” the pirate who looked like the leader was now addressing Reno.
       “Well, I am sorry, but he was threatening a women!” Reno said fiercely, “Be off with you!!”
       The leader and his men turned and boarded their ship, which was the biggest in the dock. Reno turned around once more and began to walk away until...
       Crack!
       A sharp pain shot through Reno's head. Reno turned around hazily to find a pirate with a broken barrel in his hands. Reno collapsed and the last thing he felt was being dragged along the floor.
       Reno woke up, focused his eyes, and rubbed his head. Standing up, he immediately fell back down. He stood up and used the wall for support. From what he saw he was in some sort of prison. He made his way up towards the gates and rattled them, but they were securely locked. He took his shoe off and in the heel, like it always was, was his trusty lock pick. He realized he was on the pirate ship, and that it had stopped. He began to pick the lock.
       After a couple of minutes the door swung open and Reno hurried out up to the deck. From what he could see he was on Black Falcon mainland, in the port, he could tell because there were plenty of Black falcon soldiers unloading the ship. Reno looked around to find everybody busy so he picked up a box and took it off the boat and scurried off towards town.

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