Her "First" Mate

By Xenny Diemes

My name is Timothy Biggens. I was a junior seaman for the Royal navy under the diamond fleet the largest fleet in the world. I wanted to join the navy because it was something to pay a few of my debts while filling my wants to see the world as far the empire stretches out. Well actually it was something I was pushed into against my will by my parents in order to pay off their debts. I really wasn't the most well liked back home being pushed around by the more popular boys back home. In fact I get pushed around with little respect even by the love of my life. I couldn't blame her, I'm not much to expect for her or any woman wants in a man.

Maybe my time with the navy would man me up and that way I can get the respect I so wanted while getting to see and do new things. Unfortunately the same cruel acts that I get from home carry-on with my time with my shipmates. Then on the night before while sailing across the Pacific that they are going after a being that command says is the most dangerous being on the planet: Darquebane. The name alone sends shivers down their spines but they are confident that their mightiest fleet would bring her down once and for all.

Then it was the day when me and the other ships were against one ship: The Night Splinter. Before the first cannon shot was even fired, she made her move. The first ship beside us exploded without anything hitting it and then another and another until the first wave was destroyed. Followed by what next was the most horrific slaughter I've ever seen. Other ships in the fleet attacked and aimed for both the ship and her. Everything was like a total blur when she arrived on our ship, some ships didn't escape her wrath or her army of undead that stormed the others.

I was fighting the best as I can but we were outnumbered. We had no nice but to abandon ship. However to my unfortunate luck my own mates took all of the lifeboats and even the captain kicked me back in the boat saying that I needed to man the ship or else I'll be hanged for disobeying his orders. I knew he did this out of cowardice and wanted one less loser on the boats that fled while others were getting killed by a ungodly woman. There I was alone in the ship with nowhere to go other than to hide in the ships gallows. I felt safe for a brief moment while there was death and destruction all around me. And then it stopped.

No more explosions, no more haunting howls, no more evil laughter under the deafening screams. I felt that since I was in an abandoned ship maybe I'll be spared, that is until it exploded in flames sending me flying into the ocean. There I was floating on a piece of the deck while witnessing everything that one ship has done to the once mighty diamond fleet. Ships burning, bodies strung everywhere and burning on the pieces of ships that were sinking to the bottom. I was cold, scared and alone seeing all the death and destruction around me, I felt that I was going to be left to drown until I saw emerging from the smoke... The Night Splinter itself. It stopped close to me and I was approached by a boat full of undead soldiers of her ship. I struggled to not get on board but they were too strong.

I was boarded onto the great, scary ship carried by two of those things and thrown to the deck. My heart raced, I was shaky but not from the cold water on my fur but of the shaking of the deck with each footstep of who is about to approach me. And there she is, the stuff even nightmares fear to have. With those fiery red eyes, insanely bulging muscles just barely being contained in her clothes and that fierce snarl, I came to scared to even relieve myself for she'll kill me where I stand with her bare hands. I didn't know what to say or do. I can't fight her, I'm a weakling, I can't negotiate, I'm a coward and I can't even run because where would I run to? Staring into those crimson eyes was like staring into my very soul as her snarl slowly subsides and turned into a soft smile. It's like she knows something I don't though I couldn't say anything until she said those words that still echoed in my head:

"You're cute, mortal."

I couldn't believe what she said, this is the woman who just killed nearly everyone in the fleet and the only thing she thinks of saying that I'm cute?! I did say something to her asking of what does she want of me her answer was straightforward other than me being "cute" She is in need of a first mate someone who can show her the ways of this new world for she's been behind in the times and also to keep her company. Being around your unstoppable army of undead does make her lonely. So she made the offer: Become her first mate or join my fellow mates at the bottom of the sea. A fate, as she puts it, more "merciful" than having to go back to the people who never showed her the respect and care she can only give.

I didn't stop to know how she knew that but I'm dealing with a titaness with powers a god should only possess. I had little time to weigh my options, saying yes would make me a traitor and saying no would mean my death or return to my terrible life which was worse. She was growing impatient but I couldn't know as of me being so scared but I finally relented and said yes. That's when she grabbed my arm and then hugged me up close. What I felt was mixed, my whole upper torso was dwarfed by her massive, hard breasts. It made me want to swoon but then that fear still there because those breasts are attached to a monster. I looked up and she was smiling at me and I felt too shy to respond.

"I'm very pleased you've decided to stay and be my first mate. I'll promise you that it's a choice you will not regret. I'll give you all the respect only I can give you."

That was five years ago, and that promise sticked. Despite being totally evil and cruel to all those who stood up against her. For all the robberies she took on ranging from lonely ships to great fleets and the ever mounting battles against the supernatural forces that will want the ship for themselves. She never raised her voice to me, she never (well not always) belittle me when I screw up and actually treats me like a real person even during defeat, she will always come for me. Even till this day I don't know what her reason is for wanting me as her first mate and frankly, I don't care anymore.

That was five years a ago, I was a weakling that the world would never care if I had lived or died as long I provided myself to it as its living doormat. Today I became the first mate to the most dangerous woman the world has ever known. And it was just the beginning of my journey.