I've turned the wheel as fast as possible to our new course. Two privy members of the crew hoisted our new flag on the rear flagpole. The Flag of the Royal Navy is what I've used to create our new one, although it's still a bit visible under the black layer of ink when the sun shines through the fabric, but it's dark, dark as our loyality to the Royal Navy. Commodore Slade, I have to mention it again, these days I've never had a better and more loyal friend than him. He gave some signs of our trait to the other ships of the fleet. Like a goodbye to the ones which stayed with their king. The other crew members on the Octavius which didn't know about our plans before were shocked as they've seen the huge pirate flag on the rear. All of them were running to me. James Drake, one of the strongest crew members, walked in front of me with an upset face. He pushed his flintlock pistol against my nose.
"what the hell are you doing, sir?! Are you insane?! Tell me your plans and you'd better tell me fast cause otherwise I'll shoot you in front of the complete crew!" Slade alredy drew his pistol out to save my life. I kept calm.
"Listen, Mr. Drake. I won't lie to you, most of the people on this ship are traitors. Pirates. We're not in King George's Might anymore. You're free to leave the ship, take a lifeboat and rudder to the rest of the fleet. We won't fight against you. Not this time."
The despair in Drake's face, and the other crew members which didn't know what to do.. I'll never forget that moment. I've still tried to look calm and serious even as I was very afraid of something unplanned to happen. Drake's pistol shook in front of my face. He was going to shoot me, however nothing happend in the next few seconds. But Slade was there and gave drake a bodycheck. So he fell to the poopdeck. His pistol slid down the stairs to the quarterdeck. He then had no might anymore. He had known that. I was able to read all of his thoughts in his face at that moment. He screamed briefly and crawled over the railing, looked at me saying,
"I'm not a traitor! God save the king"
With these words he jumped down into the water. We all watched him swimming back to the fleet, moving around like me when I get drunk. Some crew members came to me and asked shyly and hesitantly for me to let them go back to the fleet.
"We understand your opinion but.. some of us have a wife and children in England. I'm sorry my admiral. We need to leave the ship, but we won't tell anyone about your course."
I gave them a lifeboat and watched them depart from the Octavius. Everything seemed to work well. Slade, the ex Commodore which was now my quartermaster, And I, the ex fleet admiral which was now just captain - Captain Comet - Were still alife and no one seemed to try to fight against us. Step one of the plan was over. We hoisted all the sails we had to be as fast as possible. The wind was with us. The luck was with us. And as we also saw that some ships of the fleet were going with us, it was time to open some bottles of rum!

Mentioned peeps in this story part:
- "V.Ad" Xanthas is  Anya s Fursona.
- "F.Ad" Comet is mine.