Captain Bull and the Calico Avengers

By Ardyth DeBruyn

Captain Pit Bull is the terror of the seven seas, plundering ships traveling to Catland with his team of scurvy sea dogs. Two young kittens, Patrick and Nathaniel, are galley slaves, chained to the oars below deck. With the help of the brave cabin pup Rifky, the kittens escape. Patrick swears to return and defeat Captain Bull, but can he do it before the pirate captain realizes Rifky's mutiny?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ardyth DeBruyn
• Release date: Feb 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311350244

Ardyth DeBruyn

Ardyth DeBruyn is a native Oregonian with a restless nature and a degree in Anthropology. After hiking over 1500 miles across Europe and living on the Mexican border for a year, she settled back in the Pacific Northwest (for now) to write fantasy stories. She has decided she can type herself into adventures faster than walk. She has fiction published in a number of webzines and two children's novels, "Chosen Sister," with Wild Child Publishing, and "A School for Villains."

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Captain Bull and the Calico Avengers

Ardyth DeBruyn

For Malakai

Copyright © 2014 by Ardyth DeBruyn

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CONTENTS

One -- Captain Pit Bull

Two -- The Escape

Three -- Washed Ashore

Four -- The Prisoner

Five -- Patrick’s Misson

Six -- Pirate Battle

Seven -- Trouble

Eight -- The Avengers Attack

Nine -- Calico’s Revenge

Ten -- Port Mews

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Chapter One

Captain Pit Bull

A sailing ship bobbed up and down on the waves, her sails limp and lifeless. The setting sun cast orange rays on the pirate flag hanging from the mast. On the flag was the image of not a human skull and crossbones, but those of a dog. This was The Jolly Growler, the ship of Captain Pit Bull.

On the deck stood Captain Bull, an enormous pit bull dog. He liked nothing better than attacking merchant cats as they sailed to Catland. He sniffed the air and studied the clouds, trying to predict the weather. They had suffered two large storms in just a week and the crew was tired. Now the wind had died down and the ship was stranded. After days of rowing, land showed on the horizon like a long green haze.

Captain Bull wore a black pirate hat, and his clothes were red and blue silk. A curved pirate sword hung on his belt. His crew of sea dogs were skilled pirates, fearsome to the last dog, but Captain Bull was a nasty old cur, unequaled in his skill with the sword. He could out-fight and out-smart any dog or cat across the seven seas.

Satisfied with what his nose told him, he muttered, There’ll be a good wind tomorrow. Turning around, he called to his crew, All paws on deck!

The fierce and tattered crew, a collection of dobermans, boxers, and rottweilers, came running. Arf, arf, Captain! they barked. Drooling, they gathered around.

Tomorrow the wind will pick up, so we can reach land. Captain Bull scratched his ear with a paw, then grinned at the crew. "So tonight we