Nadine

The boys get us closer and then the people on the island start throwing spears at the boat.

I run back over to the wheel thing. "I don't think they want us to visit."

"Yea there's no dock anyways. I need to look at the map." Kane takes off for the office. "Don't get any closer." Dipak and Tre take off with him.

Mary goes down too.

Me, Thora, and Tye just look at each other.

Something manages to hit the boat. Thora looks at Tye. "Just back up a little."

"Should be fine. They aren't going to damage the boat from there."

I look over and the men are pulling little like 6 person boats out of the trees and putting them in the water. They are coming for us. "UM TYE!"

He looks at the island. "Oh ok." He kicks on the engines. "There's no backup. Need to go forward." So he goes forward and just turns away from the island. He gets the little boats behind us and they keep following.

Kane and my boys come back up. "Why did you turn the engines on?" Tye points.

They all look at the same time and see the little boats chasing us.

Kane cracks up laughing. "This is the weirdest chase I've ever been in."

The boys all stand there nodding.

All of a sudden someone on one of the little boats throws something. It doesn't hit our boat, it hits the water. But then fire burns on top of the water for a minute. We all stare at it.

Then Kane looks at the controls. "Time to go." He drops all the sails and takes the wheel. The second the wind catches the sails he turns off the engines. We take off so fast. Everyone but Kane falls on our asses.

I flip over backwards and do a summersault Tre grabs my ankle.

Kane looks at us all picking ourselves up. "You should probably hold onto something when that happens."

"Maybe a little warning next time Kane." Thora stands there brushing herself off.

"Sorry but we have to be careful around fire. Especially something that burns on water. That would take the boat out."

He gets us far away from them. Far enough we can't even see them. Then he puts all the sails away.

"Water is calm enough. We can let the boat sit and go have lunch. Figure out where we are. Then we can go again."

Everyone nods and we go eat in the dining area.

Then we go to the captains office and look at the maps at the conference table.

Kane points at an island. "This is where we were going. This is where we left from. As you can see it's south west. The water was pushing us south so we just needed to go west. However, the kids went entirely to fast, so the water did not push us south enough. We are somewhere in these islands here. They are not friendly. Also not advanced in weapons or anything. Mostly spears. As you seen. However now we need to go south and a bit more west to get to these islands. Now the water will be pushing us south. So we'll just have to go 1 click more west to counter that. So we're going to have to go south with 3 clicks west."

Thora raises her hand. "What's a click?"

"A click is the little mark on the compass. So, it's not going to be directly south. It will be south, but 3 clicks to the west."

"How did you get the first 2 clicks west?"

"You look at the map Nadine. This is called a compass rose on a map. It will show you N,S,W,E. See?" I nod. "So you line it up. We're here." He points at the compass rose. "Directly south, would put us here. So how many clicks west would you need to go to get here?"