While sitting on his rock tranquility began to wash across the entirety of the young man’s body a sense of relaxation caused him to drift off into a relaxing slumber. After he awoke he realized that the sun had already set; he had fallen asleep. “Mother!” He would shout as shear terror began to instantly sweep across his person. He darted off at full speed in the direction of his house, and upon entering a dark presence was encompassing the home. Walking over to his mother he tapped her on the shoulder, and she didn’t respond. “Momma, I am sorry I’m late I fell asleep looking at the ocean. Are you doing okay?” He would then look at her chest for any signs of breathing, but to his dismay her chest was still. Running his hand against her once warm cheek he felt nothing, but the cool touch of the reaper.
Tears would begin to well up from deep within Daniel; the woman that had given her life to take care of him for all his life had left him alone. “No, no, no! Mother you can’t be gone, how am I going to live without you?” After a few weeks of weeping he was lost in what he was going to do next. He sure as hell couldn’t stay here, the thought of being in that house without his parent’s was too much for him to deal with. He was going to have to find his way out, he had been training under a traveler who claimed to be a sniper, and he was now a decent marksman. If he wanted any chance at satisfaction he would have to become the pirate he once dreamed of being.
His thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of gunshots whistling through the air, and the screams of the townspeople in the city. “What the hell is going on down there?” He made his way to a hill overlooking the city he noticed some marine soldiers causing trouble down in the city. “Those bastards just think they can come here, and bully people for no apparent reason. What the hell gives them the right to do that?”