"Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum!"
Lima and Big Joe rowed back to the ship.
When the yawl is beside the hull of the Kernel, Lima bellows to the crewdogs on deck:
"Ahoy mates! Ahoy mates Ahoy!" Lima bellows.
The crewdogs on board the Kernel hear Lima's voice and they make it to the starboard, and look down at the yawl in the waters.
"Set down all yawls and load them with the booty and lots of rum drums, and let's make it to shore!"
"Aye! Aye!!" All the crewdogs exclaim, and they get to work to set down the yawls and to load them with goods of loot and rum.
The dogs work in unison, as they lower all the yawl rigs, and they stand in a line row, each dog in front of another, down into the ship's hold, and up again to the main deck, and unto the yawls, passing the chests of small moons from dog to dog, and lots of rum.
The crewdogs burst into a shanty - a Pirate's song as they work and load the yawls.
And their pirate chantey goes as thus:
"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break O'Day in a boozing ken.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!"***
(***The pirate song: "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" as it appears in this story are adapted from the words from Robert Lewis Stevenson's 1883 novel, 'Treasure Island'; Lyrics are from the song "Yo Ho Ho!" by Craig Toungate).
The dogs shanty as they load up the yawls.
And shortly they rig five more yawls into the sea full of fifty chests of small moons.
Ten chests per yawl, the sixth yawl is full of rum drums, and all the crewdogs row in the six yawls to the shores of the Dragon's Keep.
The dogcrew rowing the different yawls burst into a second shanty as they row the boats to the coast of the Dragon's Keep.
Their chantey goes as thus:
"I sail the seas, I sail the seas, I sail the seven dogseas!"
"Upon the decks, upon the decks, upon the Kernel's decks!"
Benny Blanco and Azkat hear the voices of the crewdogs afar as they shanty and row into the coast.
Benny runs up to the precipice of the crater that overlooks the island's coast and the magnificence of its view grandeur.
In excitement, Benny raises his blunderbuss pistol and fires a shot into the air, in salute and commemoration of the entry of their loot into The Dragon's Keep.
The crewdogs let out a unified howl as they hear the gunshot.
Akzat releases a second shot into the air as well.
Benny and Azkat burst into a series of repeated gunshot salutes into the air, each dog reloading to fire a shot before the other.
In the excitement of the gunshots, the dogcrew howl louder, they shanty, bringing in the small moons into the Dragon's Keep.
The yawls touch down on the beaches, and the dogs set to work, they stand once again in a line, and they toss the chests and the rum barrels from one dog to the other.
They sing once again about sailing the seven dogseas upon the Kernel's decks.
They toss the boxes and the drums halfway up the hill, with the last dog uphill - Lima the setter, keeping the loot and rum up the hill as they pass them to him.
They form another line from halfway up the hill.
Lima runs up the hill now into the crater, to be the last dog once again in the line, he runs inside the Dragon's crater.
Benny and Azkat were at the crater's entrance to welcome in Lima with the first chest of small moons, Benny orders them to carry the chests into the cavern.
The dogs pass the chests and drums up the hill from dog to dog.
"Move the chests into the cavern Mates!" Benny says to the dogs as they make it into the Dragon's crater one after the other.
Other dogs come into the crater, and Benny orders them to set up a burnfire.
All hands were at work when Benny remembers his smoking pipe.
He asks if the crew brought his smoking pipe.
"Did anyone bring my pipe?" Benny asks the dogs moving the boxes into the cavern, and those moving the rum drums to the bonfire spot at the center of the crater.
"Did anyone bring my smoking pipe!" Benny asks in a bellow.
Chip hears the captain's call, and he runs around the dogs, echoing the words of the captain.
"Did anyone bring the captain's pipe?" Chip says as he trots around the crater, asking every dog at work.
"Nay,"
"Nay,"
"Nay,"
The crewdogs answer in a distorted rhythm, as they continue their work.
"No one brought your smoking pipe, captain," Chip reports back to Benny.
"Lima! Lima!" Benny calls out.
Lima runs to the captain.
"Aye, me captain," Lima answers, as he runs up to Benny.
"Did you bring my smoking pipe?" Benny asks.
"Nay, me captain, we forgot ye smoking pipe upon the ship," Lima says.
Benny trots around like a horse and bellows:
"Chip! Big Joe! Ye come with me, we are going back to the Kernel. Lima you come with me too," Benny says to the dogs.
The four dogs run off up the cliff.
They run past Azkat, who quickly asks:
"Where are ye going thither, me captain?" he asks Benny, as the captain runs by.
"To get me smoking pipe on the ship!" Benny says as they run along up the crater.
"Hmmm...." Azkat hums, and a sinister look trails his snout, and he observes the four dogs running up the crater.
At the shores, Big Joe and Lima take the row saddles for Chip is a small dog, it can't fit in a regular dog saddle, small dogs have their dog size saddles in Dogworld because they are of a different size from regular dogs.
Big Joe and Lima row the boat back to the Kernel, as Chip and Benny, observe the sea view.
Midway to the ship, Benny asks the dogs a question:
"Ahoy mates! If I were to swear thee a pirate's oath, would ye bid me thy trust?"
"Aye! Aye me captain!" the dogs answer in unison.
"Down to Davy Jone's locker!" Chip says boisterously.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha," Benny laughs a sinister laugh, "Down to Davy Jone's locker you say eh?"
"Aye, Aye me captain," the dogs answer again.
"But what bid thee ask us about this Master?" Chip asks.
Benny keeps mum for a while as he observes the calm night seas, then he speaks:
"I bid thee swear me that what I say to thee here and now, remains on this boat amongst us four dogs, and no other," Benny says.
"We bid thee!" the dogs answer in unison.
"Right," Benny says.
"And ye pirate! Lima! Would ye rather betray me trust Lima?" Benny asks Lima.
"Nay, me captain, ye are me captain now, and to thee I pledge ye me loyalty master," Lima says, as he rows.
"Aye then!" Benny says.
This Benny asks because Lima was part of the Kraken's crew before they joined the Kernel as pirates.
The Kraken, Akzat's former ship, was not a pirate ship but a rogue ship that stole items at seaports from Bambuktu and sailed into the sea.
They didn't sail on any pirates' code on the Kraken, they have never heard of such code.
Askat joined the Kernel as a friend to Benny Blanco, thus he and his crew, became pirates.
Lima pledges his loyalty to Captain Benny.
So Benny let the dogs know of what he perceives could be a problem amongst the Kernel's crew.
Benny is a french bullhuahua, and even to their Earth's lords, bullhuahuas' have a distinctive instinct, a kind of a "sixth dogsense", or intuition.
"Now, I believe that Azkat hides a sinister thought, but I bid thee, that you all keep an eye on Azkat and the rest of the crewdogs, is this clear sailors?" Benny says to the dogs.
"Aye! Aye! Aye!" the dogs answer in unison.
"Now, let no one speak if he sees a boat set out far at sea when we make out sail from the Dragon's Keep," Benny says.
Every dog on the yawl was astonished by captain Benny's words.
Why did he need a boat set out at sea?
What was the captain's plan?
The dogs get to the Kernel, and Captain Benny goes up on deck while the other dogs wait in the boat at sea.
Benny goes into the captain's cabin, he picks up his pipe on the tabletop, he trots to a shelf by the wall, he brings out a bag from the shelf, he refills his smoking pipe with some reefs from the bag, he puts the bag of reef in a pouch attached on his waist belt.
Dogs wear 'waist belts' attached with pouches in DogWorld.
Tis' to help aid the attachment of many things like tools, saddles, guns, and all, just like men wear regular belts to hold up their trousers and pants.
Benny lights up the smoking pipe, and he puffs out a cloud of smoke.
The captain looks at his navigational map on the table, he observes the navigational chats for a moment, observing when there could be a chance of a storm.
It happens he believes a storm could come by tomorrow's night, so they better sail off the Dragon's Keep before tomorrow's dusk.
Benny has a fear in him, but as a seasoned seafarer, the only remedy to fear is to be prepared!
Benny goes over to the chest at the corner of the cabin, he opens the chest, and brings out another blunderbuss, he affixes it to his waist belt.
Benny now wears two blunderbuss pistols on his belt.
He checks the chest once again and brings out a bag of blunderbuss pellets and a small bag of gunpowder, he loads a small pouch in his belt with the pellets, and he snuck the gunpowder into another pouch.
He closes the chest and trots out of the cabin.
Benny gets upon the poop deck, leans out, and looks behind the deck, at the ship's stern.
The captain observes the ship's stern for a moment, he puffs out a cloud of smoke, then he makes it down the ship into the boat, and the dogs row back to shore...