[center][img]https://image.ibb.co/mGeZ6U/pirate_banner_5.png[/img][/center] [i]Yuck.[/i] Cassandra thought to herself as she hated it whenever it stormed while she was sailing the seas peacefully. She has encountered some storms but the one that was incoming seemed to be a little too vicious for her taste right about now. She could not help but roll her eyes as she stood perched on the deck right now, eyes now trailing up towards the sky to watch the flashes of lightning above her. Cassandra sighed softly to herself as she just thought that if they were to encounter another ship, she'd have to fight in the rain again. Last time, she nearly lost and has the stab wound to prove it. She looked up at the skies again before she turned a swift heel and started a trek to make sure that her crewmembers had readied the boat for the upcoming storm. She needed to protect the Queen of the Revenge, her ship because she was currently on a voyage to raid a very wealthy village nearby. As she walked closer to her crew, she eyed every single one of them before she raised a hand to silence them then parted her lips to speak. "A storm is oncoming, as you guys can see." Thunder boomed almost at the right time whenever she got done speaking those words. "I will be checking to see if you guys have readied the boat for the storm and I hope that you all have. We raid the village of Winchester in a few days so the ship needs to be to withstand this storm." Cassandra spoke towards her crew, who were nodding their heads at just about every word she spoke but when she mentioned the raid, they cheered loudly. Again, she rose her hand up to silence her crew as she then walked her ship. Some guys seemed nervous as Cassandra walked around to make sure her ship was secure as they should've been. She has thrown guys overboard that has been deemed unfit for their jobs or simply did not do their jobs good enough like she had asked. After a few more moments, Cassandra came back around and faced her crew again with a scowled look that had most of the men trembling with absolute terror. She had her face like that for a few more moments because she sort of liked to see her crew tremble. But after a while, she smiled towards them, even showing a few teeth as she raised her fist up towards the sky while shouting. "Queen of the Revenge is secured!" The crew cheered as she chuckled a little bit. "We drink tonight, boys!" Cassandra shouted as herself along with her crew went below the ship towards the bar area. She assigned people multiple tasks to do and altered shifts so that the ship would be protected always and someone kept a lookout on things above deck. [center][img]https://image.ibb.co/eEVXRU/pirate_banner4.png[/img][/center] "Bleh." Stefano said as a crewmember had gotten sick and vomited right in front of him. He scrunched up his face at the male as he rose up from being bent over and faced Stefano now. "Have you no gall?" Stefano asked the crewmember, who did nothing but wipe his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt then laughed. The crewmember walked away as Stefano shook his head while running his hand over his locks of hair and shaking his head. He continued to walk around the ship and even helped a few crewmembers out if they needed it. Stefano helped a crewmember pull on a rope as he grunted with every single pull that he could muster. Once they felt like the rope was tight enough to withstand the impending storm, they relaxed for the moment then went back to work wherever they were needed. His eyes trailed up towards the person currently steering the boat as the roar of thunder boomed above them and lightning streaked its purplish color across the darkening sky. "Heavens," Stefano said as he did jump at the sound of thunder a little bit but hoped that no one saw him as he straightened him up a little bit. He then cleared his throat and was about to go and give the person steering the ship a break so that he could take over but it like Agustine, who stood with Anthony and Daniel, was about to give a speech so he stayed put, for now. [i]What has happened now?[/i] Stefano questioned himself while maneuvering his body through the crew so that he could get a better listen. He had a brow raised the entire time Agustine was speaking then scoffed whenever he mentioned that they need to conserve their rations and a cut back was set in place for their portions. Stefano did not bother to join in on the jeering of the crew as he faced some of them. "At least he told us." A crewmember pushed him and he immediately unsheathed his cutlass sword. "You really want to do this?" As they were prepared for a fight, Anthony and Daniel stopped them just in time. "Hey, hey. No need for violence. I think we all should go and see if the ship is secure." Luckily for the other crewmember that Daniel stepped in just in time. Stefano was about to slice and dice a crewmember and he knew that he could do it, too. He sheathed his cutlass sword then looked over and seen one of the crewmembers, Rowland, walk below deck to go to his room probably. When he saw Rowland drifting off to sleep and he had a smirk tugging at the corner of his lips, he asked for a bucket of water then went over towards Rowland. Stefano stood over him for a few more minutes before lifting the bucket up and letting the water from it flow onto Rowland's face and partially on his chest. "No sleeping this early, ye bloke." He said as he placed the bucket down beside him and walked away as he went to the kitchen to see if he could help out the current cook that they had. Not to say he was a god awful cook or anything but he wasn't the best at it like Stefano.