The Captain's Nephew - Chapter 4
#4 of The Captain's Nephew
"Continue the story! I like it." The young badger told the raccoon.
"Hold on, friend, I'd like to take a breather for a short while." The raccoon's story took place quite awhile ago, almost a decade, and even he wasn't too sure about everything he's shared with his friends in the pub. He took a swig of his drink and laid back in his seat.
"So, the panda couldn't talk, he could only write, and he was the Captain now?" A boar sitting opposite the raccoon had asked.
"At that time, yes." The raccoon replied.
Just then, a huge figure wearing a black cloak had entered the pub. His face was obscured by the hood over his head, and with the dim lighting, the raccoon and his friends could barely make out what animal he was. The figure sat at the bar.
"Cheapest whiskey you've got, please."
The raccoon stared at the figure's back with a puzzled look on his face.
"...That's...strange...Is that-"
"Something wrong, raccoon?" The badger asked.
This snapped the curious raccoon out of the stare and he turned back to the badger and boar.
"Err, no, I'm alright. I guess we can continue now...where was I?
Everything seemed to be fine after the speech. The Captain and I stayed outside on the deck and watched the shipmates doing their chores. The superiors were eerily quiet, though.
"I think you've got the shipmates on your side now, panda." I said.
He grinned and nodded at me, and playfully picked me up off the deck floor and hugged me like a child would a plush toy. I chuckled at this.
"Let's go down and talk to them." I said, "We'll ask for their opinions on your new rules."
The both of us got down on the main deck, and asked some of the shipmates how they felt, specifically, the ones who started to hug each other. We went up to one.
"Morning, sir. The Captain and I couldn't help but noticed you hugging another shipmate after I had read one of our new rules."
"Yes, I was hugging a shipmate who I've been...playing around with for awhile. Now that the polar bear's "no homosexual activity" rule has been removed, we don't have to hide our feelings anymore."
"Rahh!" The panda yelped a delighted roar. He smiled at the shipmate.
"Thank you very much, Captain. I feel I need to apologize if I ever hurt you in the past. Some of my friends have been kind of mean, too."
The panda just smiled and nodded. The shipmate went in to hug him, which the Captain was happy to return.
"I'm glad you like our new rules, sir." I said to him.
"Oh, very much. You and the panda have been very close recently, too. Are you two also...?"
"You could say that." I replied. The panda and I put our arms around each others' backs.
"We have to talk with other shipmates. I wish you and your mate well, sir."
The panda picked me up and sat me on top of his shoulders, on the back of his head. He walked us up to another shipmate.
"You there, sir!" I shouted, "What do you think of our new rules for this ship?"
The next shipmate, as well as the others, all liked our new rules. Some liked the equal treasure share rule more than the others, but no shipmate seemed to have anything bad to say.
We went up to the arctic wolf.
"I have to be honest, wolf, you and the other superiors' silence is sort of worrying the panda and I. Is there something wrong?"
"...Some superiors don't really like the rule about our cut in share."
The panda looked concerned over what the wolf just said.
"Err, well, what about the other big rule change?" I asked.
"What, the fag one? We don't care, fuck each other all you want. We don't like the lower shares."
"Well, these rules were all written by the panda. Captain, do you think we might be able to give them a bit more of a share?"
The panda scratched his head for a minute, but it looked as if he felt a little bad. I knew why immediately.
"Sir, the panda was previously a shipmate himself, so he understands how low they got in share. I think he really wants to give them more for all they do for us."
"Don't you realize you're getting a cut in share, yourself?"
"Yes, and I really don't mind."
"This is nonsense. We'd like it if you could change that rule back."
The panda started to get agitated.
"Err...nnn..oh! No." The panda mumbled, and shook his head.
"The Captain seems to want to keep the rule the way it is, wolf."
"I know what he said, racc...waitaminute!" The wolf started to look at the panda as if he grew an extra head.
I didn't immediately realize that the panda verbally declined a rule change until that moment. I turned to the panda who looked frustrated. The wolf, not happy, walked away, and went to socialize with the other superiors.
That night, in our cabin, the panda and I enjoyed each others' company, again in our normal sleep attire, the panda with his shirt and myself with my nightshirt. He took some of his parchment and started writing.
"The shipmates were all very happy today." The panda wrote down.
"Yes, they were. I'm still worried about the superiors, though. You spoke to the wolf! I'm proud."
The panda smiled. He wrote again.
"Did my voice sound like my voice in your dream last night?"
I had completely forgot about that dream until now. I thought about it for a minute.
"Kind of. You spoke more clearly in the dream."
The panda looked a bit discouraged, and wrote some more.
"Could you teach me how to speak? I'd like to try now."
I smiled. "Sure. You already know how to write the language, so you're halfway there already. We can start right now. What am I called?" I asked.
The panda had opened his mouth and tried to sound out the letters.
"R...ahh...ckk..Rrrr...ckk..ooo"
"You've almost got it..."
"Ra...Racc...oon."
"Very good!" I grinned. He grinned back.
"Now, what are you called?"
"...P..Puh...nnn..duh..?"
"Close, the 'a' sound in panda is the same as raccoon. Try again."
"...Paahh...da...Pan..da."
"Good, good!"
The panda wrote some more.
"This is embarassing. I sound like a baby trying to speak!"
"Well, baby steps first, panda. You won't sound coherent in just one night." I replied.
We continued on simple words for awhile, from things I pointed out in our cabin. He sounded kind of like a mentally challenged or deaf person, with strained sounds when he was able to complete a word. He seemed to grow bored of learning after awhile, so I came up with an idea of how to keep his interest.
"Alright, Captain...What do you call THIS?" I lifted up my nightshirt.
The panda's interest immediately returned.
"K....ah...kk...C...aww..k...Cock?"
"Well, yes, you CAN call it that, but the real name for it is 'penis'."
The panda snickered. He started writing.
"That's a funny word."
"Heh heh, I guess it is a funny word. It's fitting, because it's a funny thing. Fun to touch, too. Try and say it."
The panda opened his mouth again.
"..Puh...Pee...ni...szs...Peniz...Penis."
"Hahaha! There you go. You learned that one quicker than all the other words." I laughed.
"Penis!" The panda shouted and chuckled, "Heheheheh". He then started pointing to his own and labeling it "penis". He started touching and playing with it.
"...Mahh...ss.."
"Hm?"
"Mass...ter...ba.."
"Ohh! Heh heh, go on..."
"Mastur...bayy..teh...Masturbayt-eh." The panda played with himself as he tried to sound his actions out.
"Yes, yes, you're masturbating." I don't believe I ever said those two words together in a sentence.
He grabbed for my cock and started playing with it as well. Getting a little tired of playing teacher myself, I gave in to the advance.
"Alright, enough speaking today then." I said.
I sat on the bed with him and started playing with his member while he played with mine. Before long, we laid on each others' respective sides and continued stroking each other.
The panda was much more vocal now than he ever was. In the past he was fairly quiet save a moan or two, now he was quite loud, chuckling, and groaning in pleasure as I stroked him.
We both spurt at about the same time. The panda again gritted his teeth while he released.
After a minute of afterglow, the panda decided to speak again.
"T...Tan...ks...Tanks."
I chuckled at his attempt of thanking me.
"Any time, Captain."
Months passed. Every so often I continued to teach the panda to speak, though he continued to favor communication via quill and parchment over vocal communication. He learned to say new words every so often, albeit strained and broken in pronunciation.
We started to see a few displays of affection between shipmates, a few of them holding hands, hugging, and so on. The shipmates who had no interest gave weird looks over these displays, but rarely said anything, if ever.
It was almost a year since we saw land of any sort. The day we saw something in the horizon, almost all the crew had jumped for joy. Many shipmates thought we had been going in circles for awhile with the previous Captain.
We circumnavigated the island a few times to confirm it was on one of the panda's uncle's maps, one claimed to have treasures.
Many of the shipmates were quite happy to stretch their legs after getting off the ship.
The panda and I got off the ship with a handful of shipmates and superiors, while most of the crew stayed on the ship and awaited their fortune.
"Happy to be off the ship?" I asked the Captain's Nephew. He nodded his head and smiled at me.
The arctic wolf lead the group, holding the map, navigating. Within a short time we found the point where the treasure was told to be by the map.
"Alright, we start digging here." the wolf said.
"Okay, you heard the wolf, shipmates. Have your shovels?"
The shipmates held up their shovels and walked to the spot, and started to dig.
One shipmate tossed dirt on another by accident while digging. Some of the crew found this only slightly humorous, but the panda held his sides in enjoyment.
"Hahahahahaha!" The panda had a hearty laugh.
The dirty shipmate saw the floored panda and started to turn red in anger. The Captain saw this.
"No, no!" The panda said while holding his hands out. He pointed to himself, then to the shipmate, and then to the pond nearby. The shipmate looked confused.
"The Captain wants you to follow him to the pond so he can help clean you off." I said to the dirty shipmate. The panda nodded his head at this.
"Oh. Alright." The shipmate agreed, and went with the panda, while I stayed and watched the digging some more.
The digging remained quiet, yet the actions of the panda and shipmate were overheard by me and the others. I decided to look on.
"Off." The panda said to the shipmate, pointing at his shirt. He removed his shirt and gave it to the panda to wash in the pond, while the shipmate cupped some water in his hands to clean off his face and head.
"What are you doing with my shirt?" The shipmate asked. The panda remained quiet as he cleaned it. When he was done, he shook it for awhile to dry it.
"Clin." The panda said, holding up the shirt to the shipmate. He hung it on a nearby tree branch. "Lit dry. Dun laytur." He said to the shipmate.
"Err, thanks." The shipmate said to the panda, who beckoned him to return to the group.
Digging continued for awhile, and was thought to be hopeless until the shovels hit something hard. They started to dig around the hard area until a big wooden box was uncovered.
A superior took a crowbar and pried it open, revealing a load of gold coins. The shipmates "ooh'd" and "ahh'd" at the spectacle.
"Alright, we'll be dividing this up, then. 65% for superiors and 35% for shipmates." The wolf said.
The panda did a double-take and looked at the wolf.
"Hay!" The panda shouted, annoyed.
"No, wolf. We changed the rules. Everyone gets an equal share. Remember?" I said. The shipmates all nodded and agreed.
"To hell with that rule. This treasure was on the panda's UNCLE's map. It should be under HIS rule." The wolf objected.
"You're a greedy bastard, wolf." One of the shipmates said. The panda chuckled at this.
"Eekwal." The Captain said, after shaking his head at the wolf.
"So, the panda can say words now, can't he." The wolf said. The panda looked annoyed at him.
"Stop wolf, he's not a child. You know that." I said. "You're STILL getting treasure under his new rules, be happy you're getting even THAT." The shipmates and Captain agreed again.
The superiors remained annoyed, but went silent.
The box was carried back to the ship, where all the other shipmates looked on in awe over how much gold was in it.
"Everyone, since the superiors are having a hard time adjusting to the rule, we would like to ask you if you'd let the captain and I count the treasure ourselves so you all get an equal share, instead of the superiors, who'd probably give you less."
The shipmates all agreed, and helped the Captain and I into getting the box into our cabin.
"We'll count it tomorrow, for now, the crew is free to roam the island for the rest of the day." I said, locking our door with my key.
We left two shipmates to guard our door. I turned to the wolf.
"If we catch you trying to get in, wolf, the Captain has agreed to leave you on the island when we disembark tomorrow." The panda nodded at this. The wolf blankly stared at him and I.
The sun started to set, and a bunch of shipmates have left the ship to roam the island. Some got some wood and started some fires, and caught and killed any birds they found to eat for dinner. They all agreed that it was better than the offerings in the mess hall.
We went back onto the island ourselves, the panda now wearing his shirt, being cooler than it was eariler.
We saw two shipmates going behind some bushes. They started to laugh a bit, and some clothes started to fly from the bush. The panda and I saw this.
"Heh heh, that gets me in the mood." I said to him. The panda smirked at this.
We started our own fire a bit far from any shipmates and got intimate. I removed my breeches as did the panda.
"Would you like to do the thing we did the day after we first met?" I asked the panda. He nodded.
We immediately stiffened and went to town on each other. The panda played with most of my lower body while sucking on me, while I was content to squish his sack in my hand while holding his cock in my other for awhile.
As I was inching closer to climax, I took him out of my mouth and moaned.
"Ohhhh, that's great, Captain..." I put him back in my mouth and continued to suck him.
"Mmmmm..." the panda moaned while sucking me, getting close himself. He opened his mouth.
"Yuuummmmm..." I couldn't help but laugh at this.
We both spurt into each others' mouths, enjoying the seed and swallowing it.
We removed our shirts and used our clothes as makeshift blankets, and laid back, holding each other by the fire.
Two shipmates, the ones who fooled around earlier, seemed to find our fire. They entered our area, completely naked.
"Err, hi." One of the naked shipmates said.
The panda waved at them and smiled.
"Something wrong, sir?" I asked.
"Yeah...Have you seen our breeches? We both threw them off in excitement and can't seem to find them." One said.
"That and the other shipmates won't let us join their fire." The other said.
"Oh. I'm sure they'll turn up somewhere in the morning, when it's light out again. You may join the Captain and I. How long have you been waiting behind there?" I knew they were hiding.
"Oh...not too long, we saw that you two were...busy...and so we waited."
They sat down across from us in the fire, trying to cover their penises from us. They seemed to be a bit curious over us.
"Are you two...naked under there?"
The panda nodded, and lifted up his side the clothing blanket to reveal his penis to the two shipmates. They chuckled a bit.
"It's pretty small, captain!" one of them said.
The panda chuckled at this. He gestured with his hand, his index finger and his thumb close together, with the finger and thumb going farther apart, then clasping both his hands together and putting them near his face.
"He loves the smaller ones that grow." I translated for the naked shipmates. "I think that's one of the reasons he likes mine, which isn't very big either." I said, lifting up my end of the blanket to reveal my own penis to them. The panda nodded and stared at it as I revealed it.
"Hawt." The panda tried to say.
"We love the ones that are always big." The shipmate said, now unblocking his pendulous member from our view, along with his mate.
"Heh heh, very nice." I said.
"Kohld?" The panda asked the shipmates.
"Err, actually, yes, it's gotten much cooler out tonight, and I sort of wished we hadn't thrown our clothes away like that."
The panda threw his shirt over to the shipmates, which was just big enough to cover both their lean figures. He was content with my jacket and his breeches covering him, while I had my shirt and breeches covering myself.
"Thanks, Captain." The shipmates said in unison. The panda just smiled and nodded.
"We'll be sleeping here for the night. I think that's what most of the shipmates out here are doing. Would you like to stay with us?" I asked.
"That's nice of you, raccoon. Thanks." One of the shipmates said.
Within a short while the 4 of us had fallen asleep while the fire died down to nothing.
I awoke to see the fire burnt out, the panda snoring loudly, and the two shipmates sleeping underneath the panda's shirt.
"CAPTAIN!" a shipmate had shouted while running to us.
The panda snapped awake. He looked a bit confused.
"What's wrong, sir?" I asked the shipmate who appeared in our circle.
"The treasure...it's not in your cabin! The two shipmates guarding your cabin were shot!"
The panda looked annoyed.
"Ugh, must've been the wolf..." I sighed loudly.
The Captain and I got dressed, the panda letting the two shipmates have his shirt while they looked for their clothes. We ran to the ship and to our cabin.
The doctor on board was treating the bullet wounds in the two shipmates, who had been shot with a revolver, the one the panda threatened to use on a shipmate as I addressed the crew months before. Their blood had formed small pools outside our cabin. I opened my door, and, sure enough, the box of gold coins was gone. Our cabin looked like it was raided too. The panda's parchment had been strewn about, some messages had gone missing.
"...Damnit, wolf..."
We heard laughing coming from the upper deck of the ship. The Captain and I went up there to see the wolf holding the box on the edge of balcony. He held the revolver up at the panda and I.
"What are you doing, wolf?" I asked, slowly.
"Well, I WANTED to have my fair share of this treasure, but the fag panda says I should get less."
The panda rolled his eyes at this.
"Wolf, did you HELP in any way to GET the treasure? You stood and watched as the shipmates dug for it. You were still getting a good amount of treasure for yourself." I said.
"I don't care." The wolf replied.
"Wolf, if you throw that treasure overboard, the panda and I will let you join it overboard. We promised you that yesterday."
The wolf looked at the two of us, and smiled, tipping the box off the ship, letting all of its coins fall out. The shipmates all watched this in horror. The wolf walked up to me.
"If you leave me behind, your "loyal" superiors will imprison you in cargo."
I looked behind me to see the superiors. I turned back to the wolf, who was walking backwards to the balcony again.
"Now, we'll go to another island, and try this again. If I don't get my original share that time, this will happen aga-"
The wolf had slipped on some parchment and lost his balance. He pulled the trigger of the revolver as he went past the balcony and fell off the ship.
The panda shouted in pain. The bullet had hit his arm. He crashed to the deck floor.
"AAAAGH. GO!" The panda shouted to the navigator to leave the island and the wolf behind.
The superiors started to me. I ran to the parchment that caused the wolf to fall.
"I love you too." The panda stayed on his word, alright. I tried to show this to the panda, but he had lost consciousness. The superiors grabbed me and dragged me to cargo.
For the last months of the voyage I was in cargo, chained to the wall. The shipmates were nice enough to bring me food and inform me of the panda's condition after being shot. The said they hated the new superiors' rule and wished they could have the panda and I back.
One day the shipmates gave me a sheet of parchment from the panda. Before I read it, the shipmates told me the superiors were forcing me to stay for a week after the crew disembarks from the ship.
"Hello, raccoon. I loathed going on my uncle's ship. I didn't want to do the things he did. I never told you this, but before you decided to talk to me, I contemplated going overboard myself. Now, I'm glad I got on the ship, because it allowed me to meet you. You were the first person to be nice to me on the ship.
They're forcing me to part from you when we disembark. Please realize though, that I love you, very much. I will miss you so.
Thank you for making my life worth living.
The Captain's Nephew"
One of the shipmates hugged me after I read the message. I don't remember much after breaking out in tears reading it.
I kept the parchment as I left the ship. I tried looking for the panda, but I was never able to find him. One day, I just sort of...gave up." The raccoon said.
"Do you still miss the panda?" The boar asked.
"Of course. I haven't really met anyone that could fill the hole like he did." The raccoon replied. He took another swig of his drink, and sighed.
"I'm sure he tried looking for you, too." The badger said.
The raccoon just shrugged.
"Did you tell them the part when I aimed the revolver at that guy who shouted before you read my address? That was funny."
"Oh? Yeah, I told that part. Yo-" The raccoon paused in confusion. He knew that voice from somewhere...The one in his dream. The raccoon turned around to see the figure looking at him through his hood.
The figure took off the hood of his cloak to reveal himself.
"Hello, raccoon."
The raccoon smiled.
"...Hello, Captain."