Sally and Semya get back to the surface and they find themselves at a small lake with a nearby waterfall. Soon they are once again drenched and their clothes are wet, quickly soaking the water off their clothes they took a quick scenery on the lake around them.
"So Stowaway do you know where we are"
"This is the east side of Erpath, we're not too far from the village. Follow me"
"Well it is your home after all."
Then walking towards the direction Semya is going with Sally back to the village and it's not too far away. But as they got closer towards the village Sally suddenly smelled something, a scent of ashes in the air.
"That's not good. Semya we need to hurry."
Then they ran as fast as they could heading back towards the village until suddenly someone tried to ambush them swinging their sword towards Sally but was quickly punched by Semya launching him towards a tree and knocking him unconscious.
"That attire. That's one of Bulgoar's men"
"Did they follow us?"
"Not sure but, they are always cowards, come on the other might be in trouble."
Quickly they ran, soon as they ran out of the forest, they see themselves back in the village but in blazes huts on fire bodies stained as some of the villagers are fighting back, along with Captain Moed and his crew also fighting back against Captain Bulgoar's men.
Luughead, Captain Moed, and a handful of his crew are fighting back, while the twins and Narrow are helping the wounded villagers and some of their friends wounded by the enemy. Sally and Semya are quick to run towards the Captain to help him, but are quickly cut off, as three men from Bulgoar's crew then surrounded the two stopping from getting to the rest.
"We don't have time for this" then Sally pulls out her flintlocks and immediately shoots the two enemy pirates before kicking the last one in the face.
"Come on Semya we need to Hurry"
"Are you always armed with guns?"
"Now's not the time, the Captain is probably waiting for us."
Then quickly running towards the group that's Captain Moed is with "Captain!" Sally screams his name to get his attention. Captain Moed quickly turning his head as to where he heard Sally's screaming his name, as he took a quick glimpse to then see Sally and Semya running towards him "Sally, Semya, thank the heavenly seas your alright" Captain Moed feeling a joyous smile upon his face seeing his crew members again "Captain, what in the devils clam is going on!?" "There's no time to explain. But I'll fill you two in quickly."
Captain Moed then quickly explains to the two.
During Sally, and Semya's separation with the others. Milo was quick to panic as to what happened to them, but couldn't help them and had to leave due to Captain's Moed orders. Then continue while Milo is leading the group out of the door in the ruins then meeting back with Captain Moed, as he is with Luughead, and his group.
"Milo there you are… wait where's Sally, and Semya?"
"They fell through some sort of trap door formed below them and they fell. And it formed back into its original state after they fell"
"They feel through some magical floor is what you're saying"
Milo nods "yes that's what happened when we heard their screams whey were gone"
Captain Moed sighs in disbelief "I'm afraid if we stay here any longer then we might get attacked as well. I hope that Sally, and Semya find their way out soon."
Then Captain Moed waved his hand to command the other crew members to leave the ruins. One by one the pirates leave the ruins and Captain Moed is the last one to leave the ruins. As the rest of the crew of Founders Seek, quickly ran out of the ruins they notice that the twins, Kalkeck, and Narrow are nowhere to be seen, near the entrance of the ruins, but then continuing heading back towards the village, one of the members suddenly sees someone coming towards them.
It was Narrow "Captain! We need you Captain!"
"Narrow what happened, why weren't you watching the entrance"
"I apologize for ignoring your orders, Captain. But a gang of pirates are attacking the village"
"A gang of what?! Everyone, we need to get there now!"
Then everyone then begins to run as fast as they can back to the village "Narrow what exactly happened while we were gone"
"While you guys were gone for a while. I notice something from afar, a pirate ship heading toward the island. I think it had Bulgoar's insignia"
"Captain Bulgoar, of course it was him. Where are Kalkeck and the twins"
"They are the village Captain. They are trying to help the village in defending their village but only the chief and a few others were only willing to help"
"Alright I'll give the order what to do when we get their"
Narrow looks around the crew he notices two people are missing "hey Captain where's Semya, and Sally?"
"From what Milo told me, they got separated from a trap door and they fell somewhere"
"You think we can still save them?"
"We will, if we stop Bulgoar's army."
As they all get back to the village they immediately help Kalkeck and the twins in building the defence and gathering more villagers to fight against Bulgoar and his crew.
Meanwhile Captain Moed then went to look for Chief Mazof as he sees Chief Mazof gathering people who can fight for the village.
"Captain Moed. Praise the Dragon Keeper you're alright"
"Of course but we're missing Sally and Semya, we were separated in the ruins"
"Oh dear, are they alright?"
"They will be soon once we handle Bulgoar and his crew. Chief and I need your people who can fight towards the defence my crew is making, and I need some of your people who can navigate in on the island to take them towards the safest place they can go until the battle is over."
Chief Mazof nodded and ordered his people to go along with Captain Moed's plan, sending half of the villagers who can fight, and another half to head towards the safest area they can go, towards the ruins they found. Then as the others are soon to finish the village's defences the crew of Founders Seek, and the people of Erpath are ready to fight for their village against Captain Bulgoar and his crew.
(End of chapter 17)