Fay backed away from the repetitive jabbing motions Yellow Tooth was making with his cutlass until she found herself next to Barnaby in the hallway.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSo boys,\u201d said Yellow Tooth with a horrible, leering grin. \u201cLooks like we\u2019ve got our recruits after all!\u201d He chuckled and lowered the cutlass, but continued to stare mockingly at Fay and Barnaby. \u201cI hope you pups like looting and ransacking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tJimbo, the fat bald pirate, sniffed and wiped away a tear. \u201cI\u2019ve never had children of me own,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThey ain\u2019t children any more!\u201d crowed Yellow Tooth. \u201cThey\u2019re pirates!\u201d He brandished his cutlass at Fay and Barnaby once more. \u201cAnd they\u2019re about to prove it!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFay did not like the sound of that at all. Would she have to get a tattoo? Or worse, a pegleg?
\n\t\u201cHow do we prove we\u2019re pirates?\u201d asked Fay. Maybe a show of cooperation would buy her a chance to escape.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWell, first off,\u201c said Scratchy. \u201cWe\u2019re gettin\u2019 powerful hungry! You gots to help us stock up. On provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s right,\u201d agreed Jimbo with a fatherly smile. \u201cFeed yer\u2019 crewmates, be brothers forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not sure you were brotherly with Mr. Twicky,\u201d observed Fay.<\/p>\n
\n\tYellow Tooth swung around, his sword cutting the air with a whoosh. \u201cTwicky\u2019s a numbskull!\u201d he bellowed. \u201cHe can\u2019t fix nothin\u2019 but chicken and hardtack! What we need is Jolly Rogers!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cCinnamon!\u201d yelled Scratchy.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cPlain!\u201d chimed in Jimbo.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt don\u2019t matter what kind!\u201d concluded Yellow Tooth. \u201cSo long as it\u2019s got that crunchy goodness!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBarnaby had been silently glowering at the pirates, but now his mouth curled into a smirk.
\n\t\u201cSo why don\u2019t you crunch on back to the cereal factory?,\u201d he said. \u201cOr did you pig it all up when you were there before?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI told ya\u2019 we shouldn\u2019t of been so piggy-hoggy,\u201d whined Scratchy to Jimbo with a sniff.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMaybe the guppy don\u2019t understand the life of a pirate,\u201d said Yellow Tooth with a glint in his eye. \u201cMaybe he don\u2019t know just how hungry we get what with all the raiding and looting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tScratchy and Jimbo nodded their heads vigorously.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMaybe,\u201d continued Yellow Tooth, \u201cWe need to show \u2018im.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tScratchy and Jimbo nodded harder.<\/p>\n
\n\tYellow Tooth stretched to his full towering height and pointed his cutlass at Barnaby. \u201cSo get moving boy!\u201d he roared. \u201cLead the way to more Jolly Rogers!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so proud,\u201d said Jimbo wiping another tear with a dirty fist. \u201cTheir first assignment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFor a moment, Barnaby just stood gaping dumbly at the fluorescent school lights glinting off the blade of Yellow Tooth\u2019s cutlass. It seemed to Fay that the usual crazed gleam in the pirate\u2019s eyes was growing gleamier and crazier, until WHACK!<\/em> The cutlass, in a motion too swift to catch, had cleanly sliced Mr. Officer\u2019s cardboard head from his cardboard body.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGo now boy,\u201d Yellow Tooth suggested.<\/p>\n \n\tBarnaby went. With Fay and the pirates right behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fay backed away from the repetitive jabbing motions Yellow Tooth was making with his cutlass until she found herself next to Barnaby in the hallway. \u201cSo boys,\u201d said Yellow Tooth with a horrible, leering grin. \u201cLooks like we\u2019ve got our recruits after all!\u201d He chuckled and lowered the cutlass, but continued to stare mockingly at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilygillespieclement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}