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This be the true story of Mad Dog the pirate.
Mad Dog the pirate was one of the most ruthless heartless cutthroat pirates you could ever come across...made Blackbeard look like the Pope. Legend has it that he took no prisoners and never lost a battle. He even took down 4 royal ships at once and didn’t have a scratch on him or his ship. So legend has it……..
Actually “Mad Dog” Harth Eldr was born an innkeepers' son and had quite a talent for storytelling. I was born in 1648 to a William Eldr “a family name passed down science the time of Beowulf”, and a Sara Eldr. I was the first born in Jamaica from my family, poor at first. My father earned money telling tails and singing songs -I guess that where I got it from. He opened a tavern in town called "The Lost Soul", where everyone was welcome and that’s what I called home for many of years. I grew up in the seedy part of town telling stories and singing songs of stuff I heard around the bar. Most I didn’t understand. It worked well, though; my dad and mom made a living off the bar and I got a little for being the entertainment. By the age of 12 I understood what I was singing and by 15 It begin to intrigue me. Not so much the fighting and the bloodshed, but the open water, the new places, and the story of the women. So I decided it was time to leave the nest to chart a new course in life. Coming from a history of seafaring men, I guess the ocean was just in the blood. So I joined up with the Lost Cause, a member of the crew.
So that is the story of Mad Dog the Pirate. How did this
story teller become this heartless pirate you heard of well? That is
actually a very interesting story. It started the day I joined and the
Captain asked my name. I told her me name be Hath the story teller.
The crew proceeded to laugh at that until the Captain looked at me and said,
"Well, that should spark terror in the hearts of or enemies, Harth the singing
pirate!" She continued, "For now you will just be know as the dog of the
ship." Then the day of battle came. It was my first. Most of the
crew at that time wasn’t sure if I could take it. I spent most of my time aboard
the ship telling stories of love and singing songs to make the crew laugh. I
knew the day would come where I would have to draw my sword for real,so I
watched the crew as they sparred with each other, always to timid to sand up and
spar with them. But I watched and learned. The order was given to board the
merchant vessel and the crew followed the captain’s order. Any one who
didn’t would face Moses' law; 39 lashes. I not sure what it was, but a rush of
rage ran through me. I drew my blade and killed any man who got in my way.
The crew said I was a mad man, hacking and slashing my way to the other side of
the ship unscathed, and then I came face to face with the captain of this
vessel. The man must have been 7 feet tall, broad with eyes as cold as
ice. I was relived; I knew this man from stories I had heard in the
bar my parents owned, he drew a heavy truncheon from his side. This was
just to distract me from his other hand pulling his pistol. I swung at him
as hard as I could, knowing that only one of us would walk away from this fight.
I knocked his weapon out of his hand with one swing and placed my sword at his
neck, thinking I had won this battle. He just laughed at me and pulled the
trigger I felt the bullet enter my body. It had enough force to push me
back at few steps. As I looked at the blood on my hand every thing went
dark. I knew I was dead, but I wasn’t going alone. In what seemed
like forever turned out to be a few seconds, I attacked with a fury that I did
not know I had within me and he had no way to stop the flurry of blows that I
delivered. When I awoke later back aboard of the Lost Cause patched
up, the captain looked at me and smiled. She looked at me and said,
"Welcome to the Lost Cause, Mad Dog. You have proven yourself.
I was confused at this. The crew told me later that I begin to foam at the mouth
wile in my frenzy and I was a mad man in battle.
And that’s how Harth the bard became Mad Dog the pirate.
