At The Dragon's Keep.
The bonfire can be spotted from afar off, as the four dogs rowed back to shore.
The dogs on the island had set up a fire, and its flames rises high into the pitch-black nights.
The yawl touches the sandy beaches and Benny was the first to step out of the boat.
He trots uphill, as Chip follows behind.
Big Joe and Lima hull up the boat, up the beach by pulling by their teeth, they run up behind Benny and Chip who are already uphill.
Soon Benny and his crewdogs join the other dogs at the bonfire in the center of the Dragon's crater, the dogs trot from paw to paw, and from side to side in a rhythmical dance trot, around the bonfire.
They chant the "Yo Ho Ho" shanty once again as they trot around the bonfire.
"There was chest on chest of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there that took the plum
With sightless glare and their lips
struck dumb,
While we shared all by the rule of thumb,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!"***
(***Lyrics are from the song "Yo Ho Ho!" by Craig Toungate).
The dogs chantey, trotting around the flames and rum drums.
Captain Benny fires a shot into the air as he enters the crater, and the pirates howl in unison.
Azkat looks and sees Benny and the crewdogs of Big Joe, Lima, and Chip return back to the crater, he runs up to them.
"The bonfire is on, me Capitaine," Azkat says excitedly.
"Right First Mate, let the rum drums roll, and let's have a bite!" Benny says.
Pooky, the Chow Shepherd and the Kernel's chef, with the deckhands, were at the fire, spinning upon the flames - hunted down rabbits!
Captain Benny fires two more shots into the air.
The pirate dogs howl louder, trotting from paw to paw and from side to side in what seems like a slow match rhythm, they shanty in unison around the flames of the bonfire.
Benny leaves the bonfire and trots up the crater, at the precipice that overlooks the shores, he sees the Kernel afar off about five hundred meters away.
He runs along the rim of the crater, peering at the horizons on all corners, under the Moonlight.
He sees a red illumination from a distance, deep inside the island forests.
Benny peers at the distant illumination for a moment, the crewdogs shanty can be heard from a distance, but Benny didn't hear Azkat when he snuck upon him.
Benny quickly pulls out his blunderbuss, as he spins around to see Azkat behind him.
His blunderbuss was right at Azkat's snout.
"It is I, me captain," Azkat says.
Benny stares at him for a moment, then he withdraws his blunderbuss pistol, he retrieves it back to his belt.
"Aye, first mate, what the matter now, you sneak up on me like that?" Benny says and continues his walk along the edge of the crater.
"Aye, me captain, I want to seek your attention again for us to divide the small moo..."
"What!" Benny retorts and interrupts Azkat. "...with sightless glare and their lips struck dumb, while we shared all by the rule of thumb, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!...is that not what the chantey says, first mate?" Benny says to Azkat.
"No one is talking of no rum, me captain," Azkat says.
"No not the rum, first mate, not the rum, while we shared all by the rule of thumb, it says, so for now, let's make merry, Yo Ho Ho, and let's drink rum!" Benny says, and makes a fast trot, like a dance. "But, I don't want to talk about this anymore"
Azkat follows behind with a slow pace to show dejection or dissatisfaction.
Benny runs down the crater, and joins the other crewdogs in the chantey dance, they trot from paw to paw, and from side to side, in a synchronized rhythm, like a slow match with a bounce.
Azkat, sits by the fire, as Pooky serves him up a barbequed rabbit on a stick.
"Get me the bosun Mungro," Azkat says to Pooky, as he leaves.
"Yes, sire," Pooky answers.
Pooky the ship's chef serves up his barbeque to the crewdogs, he whispers a word to the bosun's ears, Mungro a German Shepherd Rottweiler Mix.
Mungro runs around in a circle like it wishes to chase its tail, then he runs to Azkat who is sitting away from the bonfire.
"We launch code red as we sail," Azkat says to the bosun.
'Code red' in most pirates' ships is a signal to prepare for battle, a mutiny, or a marooning.
"Aye, Aye, me captain," Mungro says to Azkat.
"Get me Avexen," Azkat says to Mungro.
"Aye, me captain," Mungro says to Azkat.
Mungro runs to the other crew dogs and whispers a word to the Navigator's ears.
The ship's Navigator, Avexen, a Chinook, runs up to Azkat.
Now Benny, though he was full of grog, three sheets to the wind, he still could tell of the frequent movement from Mungro to Avexen going to speak to Azkat and back.
Avexen meets up with Azkat.
"Dead men tell no tales, Avexen," Azkat says to Avexen to mean there will be a mutiny.
"Dead men tell no tales, me captain," Avexen replies, with an icy cold voice.
"Tell the tale to the tail of Alaska," Azkat says.
"Aye, Aye, me captain," Avexen says.
They refer to Azkat now as 'me captain' because the mutiny has already begun...
The dogs feast on their rabbit barbeque, and they glug on grog till they are full to four sheets to the wind!
The crewdogs pass out, and most snooze right by the fire.
The deckhands, Jack, Jocky, and Jakes, sleep upside down, with their four hinds up in the air.
Benny sleeps by the fire, his ear twitching at every sound, he is more awake than asleep.
Azkat and the other dogs sleep at different positions around the crater.