Chapter 40 - How to Cure Boredom, Louis Style

" I'm bored. " Louis says out of the blue during breakfast on a monday.

" Your friends with a dragon, lion, griffin, unicorn, squid that lives in the bottom of the lake of our school, and many others I don't want to name. Hiw can you be bored? "

Richard asks tempted to flick a piece of meat at Louis for some odd reason.

" I don't know, but I am. " Louis played his head on the table in absolute boredom. And nothing could cure it until it passes.

Annie notices something in the corner of her eyes and looks out the great hall. And in the air looking quite frantic, was Gideon.

" Louis. " she calls for him gaining his attention. " What? Can't you see I'm dying of boredom here? " Louis wails out pathetically as he turns his head to her.

Poking her head to Gideons direction subtly Annie receives a weird look from Louis which makes him turn his head to the Griffins direction out of curiosity.

" Gideon? I thought he went for a fly above the sea. " Draco looks confused by the sentence. " He said it was for a change of perspective. " Louis clears up only making Draco all the more confused.

" I'll be right back. " Louis says as he drags his body up the table and off his seat, headin fir the exit.

" Five dollars that he won't be back till the end of the day. " Annie bets " Ten to him coming back tomorrow. " Richard adds. " Fifteen to him bringing back another friend. " Draco says making them realise that it might really happen.

Louis turned invisible and met up with Gideon back at the forest. " What happened to make you look so panicky? " He asks the griffin in a calm manner.

' Pirates - sea - danger - attacking - Soon. ' Was all Gideon was able to say making Louis scrunch his eyebrows.

" I thought there weren't anymore pirates in the sea? But what do I know, I live in a wizard world where technology isn't really present. " Shrugging his shoulders, he climbs onto Gideon and the two take off into the sky.

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" Oh this is So Cool. " Louis says when he recognises a ship decked with cannons all over. " Is that guy wearing gold? " Louis rhetorically says as he squinted his eyes to get a better view.

" Wait, it's not gold. It's a python that looks like gold? " Now Louis was very confused on why a pirate was wearing a python looking like gold around his neck.

" Oh wow, the whole crew is filled of weirdos. " He says when he notices that the one man was wearing a knight's armor, and another was wearing Pineapples?

" Oh nevermind. His just wearing something that looks like pineapple. " Gideon, without any warning, began skydiving straight towards the ship.

" HO MY GODS. GIDEON!! " He shouts out in pure shock with the wind in his face. The shout however, gained the attention of the pirates, making them look up.

All hell broke loose on the ship. " AHH WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! " One man screamed as he ran around like a headless chicken flinging his arms in the air.

" HOLD YOUR GROUND MEN. IT'S NOTHING TO FEAR. " The man in knight's wear exclaimed bravely as he faced it. " YOU DEAL WITH IT THEN. I'LL BE BELOW DECK WHERE THE FOOD IS TILL THEN. " A firm shut of a door was heard followed by an awkward silence.

" So...should w-! " The poor pirate wearing nothing but pants was cut off when the griffin along with the shout of terror, crash landed onto the ship making it highly unstable.

When the ship became steady once more, and the pirates were able to see without having the urge to puke.

They did not expect to see a boy on the back of the griffin.

" Uh...Hi? " Louis greets awkwardly with a wave of his hand.

" CAP'N! WE'VE GOT INTRUDERS! " The pirate wearing the pineapple-looking clothes guy hollers out as all hands on deck took out their swords and guns, pointing them at Louis.

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" Why yer here boy? " The captain on the ship asks as he pets his gold looking python.

" Better question, why do you have a gold looking python and can I pet it. " Louis says as he stretches out his hand to the python.

" NO! " The captain shouts in anger as he slaps Louis' hand away. " Rude much. " Louis says attempting to calm the now angry Gideon.

' I'll RIP him to shreds and feed him to the sharks for hurting Louis! ' The very aggressive threat was put to a halt when he felt Louis stroke his feathers in a calming manner.

" Answers my questions boy, I don't have a lot of patience. " The agitated captain threatens while his men laugh aloud.

" No. " Was all Louis said making the laughter stop.

" No? " The captain repeats

" No. " Louis confirms.

" NO? " The man repeats again this time with steam pouring out if his ears.

" Yes. " Louis says with a smirk.

" YES? " The repetition was quite funny to see.

" Are you deaf? Or are you just dumb? I said no, and no means no. Which was why I agreed when you asked for confirmation on my answer. " The captain had enough.

Pulling his pistol from behind him and pointing it at Louis he opens his mouth to speak " Did you just pull that out of your butt? Gross. " Louis shudders at the thought.

The captain shot near Louis' feet. " I'll give you to the count of three or I'll feed you to the hyenas. " He threatens as he reload his pistol.

" You have hyenas on board? Why on earth do you have hyenas on board? I must see these hyenas. " Louis abruptly decides and heads to a random door.

The crew was about to move until Gideon threatened them to take a step with a glare of his eye.

" Why does the Griffin scare me? " One whispers in fright. " Why does a Griffin exist? I thought they were only in stories?! " Another whispers scared.

" ARGHH! " The captain shouts with a red face as he lunges at Louis. " Huh? "

Turning around to find the source of the shout, the captain was only a hair's width away before a swift kick from Gideon sent him flying and crashing into some crates on the side.

" Thanks for that Gideon. Now let's find the source of your worries before I see those hyenas. " When the two were inside the ship and out of view from the rest, they all shakily fell on their knees in terror.

" D-d-did tha-at Gr-Griffin just K-I-ick the ca-cap-ptain? " A pirate wearing feathers shakily points his fingers at the door the two had entered.

" Where'd they go? " He questions in a dark voice to his men. " T-There cap'n. " The pineapple-looking shirt guy answers while he was on his b.u.t.t in pure terror.

" Pathetic. " The captain mumbles out darkly as he stalks to the direction the man pointed at.

" I'll deal with you lot once I've dealt with the stupid boy and Griffin. " And with that, he was in the ship with his pistol in hand.

" Can I resign? " The guy who had left the food below deck after the rough impact, witnessed the whole thing and promptly decided that being a pirate wasn't for him.

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" Maps? " Louis asks as he picks up the things in his hands and examines them. The two had wondered the ship, randomly chose a door and entered it only to be greeted by the very messy map room.

" Are these battle plans? " Louis asks incredulous as he looks at a well planned out battle plan on a piece of paper on the messy desk.

' This is what I found while I was flying about. ' Gideon confirms as he observes the room closer.

" But the question is, who are they planning on attacking? " Louis says as he looks throught the desk drawers.

' Louis, over here. ' Gideon calls for the boy as he looks at a specific piece of paper stuck on the wall.

Louis walks over and looks at it, eyes filled with curiosity when he looks at the paper. " An island in the sky is what their after? And the plot gets more weirder and weirder. "