Sailin' The Seven Seas

You see a diary.
On the front cover, it's written with gold inscriptions: "Journal"

If you open it, you see an empty page. You turn the page, though, and you see: "Linda's First Journal", written with fine ink.

When you turn the page, you could see on the headline: "Here, I put my memories of traveling around the world." Below the headline, you can read: "First adventure: Sailing The Seven Seas."

The following story is written with a strange handwriting, but it's still readable.

"Day 1
I arrived on the dock. It was the place where I was supposed to be picked up by a ship by the name of: "Elaine"
I was going on a trip to experience traveling on seas, on a ship, being moved by the calm waves of the sea. I just have to hope everything goes well. I'm going to travel like this for a few months, to see the world a bit and get new experiences on sealife. It felt strange... almost euphoric to step aboard on Elaine.
I hope the adventure that's coming up will educate me well. Should teach something, no?

Day 2
We've been sailing on open sea. Oh my, I'm a bit lazy to write anything here... watching the waves move besides the ship is better. Oh well...
Seagulls follow us around. They're hoping to steal some food on board. It's sunny. Well, it's great also I'm not seasick and I do enjoy sailing. Really fun! It's also very calming. The crew is friendly, seafood doesn't taste bad and above all, it's so... exciting to sail! Never been on a ship before!
Besides, I get to paint! I have finally time to deal with art. I have been waiting for this for so long! Heh, it was about time to quit the 'land-rat' life... or how they pirates call it? I'm not on a pirate ship anyway, haha!

Day 3
The Captain of Elaine said the seas are going to be restless. I'll be staying inside and just draw. I think the waves are increasing...

Day 4
The wind's blowing all the time. It's clearly going to be a real storm soon... The waves are really big. They're moving the ship around. I don't even feel like we are sailing the right way now! It's going to be a thunderstorm soon... I don't feel secure here at all. There's a real reason to be worried now!

Day 5
This ships going up and down by the giant waves its really crazy! My hands are shaking, I dont like it at all... theres thunder raging outside and its pouring I dont feel secure I just feel like I want to go back to land and never sail on a ship again!!! I just wi--- (the handwriting stops here with a big, thick dragged line across the page)

Day ...
When did I last touch this diary? Feels like weeks now.
I have quite a story to tell.

When Elaine was hit by the storm, it, was badly damaged by the wind and waves so it sunk... I don't know what happened to the crew, if they survived or not, but I managed to escape the ship somehow... the small mast crushed in my wall and and water poured in, threatening to drown me. But the mast tore the whole wall to pieces and I didn't even realise it when I escaped the ship by swimming out of the open wall, trying to avoid the horrible trash filling the place. I managed to swim out of water, now floating with the waves and not even knowing where I was supposed to go.
I took ahold of a random big plank of the ship, but I was carried away by the waves, far away from the ship. I was a bit beaten, not even knowing h o w I survived.
I lost the sense of time and I was swimming with the weird plank across the waves... soon the storm stopped, and I was carried on by the wind. It seemed very scary to float in the midst of the sea, I was almost freaking out.
Then, a macaw came out of nowhere and just sat on the plank, twittering things to me what I didn't understand. It seemed it wanted to keep company to someone who was going to be eaten by sharks or something... yeah, I felt I was dead then.

I was floating there a very long time, hungry and scared... when a strange ship arrived onto the horizon. It sailed towards me. There were people who actually wanted to save me! But I was crazy enough I thought it was a pure hallucination. But no, soon a rope ladder came over the ship's deck, and I didn't hesitate to climb up (when not even knowing it's real). The macaw followed with delight.

As I arrived on the ship's deck, I was helped aboard, almost dead. Wet and soaked, I laid on the deck floor. The ship's crew figured what to do, while the macaw wildly dancing around my head and cawing into my ear.
"W-where am I?" I asked, after a few minutes.
"Ye be on Sangue-Padre, our ship." replied one of the crew, who seemed to be the Captain. He had a funny accent, reminding me of... pirates!
"Vague-Padre..." I mumbled. My hearing was terrible then.
"No... our ship's name be Sangue-Padre." he repeated.
"Right... who are you folks? I'm dying over here, I was floating there a day or two... not much for kind talk, people!" I said, trying to stand up, but ending up helplessly sitting on the deck. I was really frustrated.
"Hehe, easy, ye be going to trip and fall back in tha sea like that! We be the Black Fedora Pirates! We be going to conquer The Seven Seas!" said the Captain.
"Black-what pirates?" I stared tiredly at the pirates gathered around me.
"Black Fedora Pirates. Welcome aboard Sangue-Padre. An' do be try to be polite. We are fearless pirates, after all!" the Captain exclaimed, with all the others in the crew bursting in laugh.
"Right... sorry..." I said and watched the pirates. It was sure embarrassing to be here. I still don't know how to talk to pirates!

But right now, it's going all right. They've accepted me to the ship and I've made friends over here. And they let me stay... I think I'm going to be one of them, soon. They are really interesting, friendly and great, despite of my stupidness after I was almost beaten way out.
Besides, Sangue-Padre is a lot more interesting ship than Elaine! That's for sure, hehe!

Oh look... is that a... water dragon!? This needs to be pictured!"

ARTIST'S COMMENTS:

This is supposed to be the approval job done to join the Black Fedora Pirates! I hope it's good enough!

I forged a picture with Sangue-Padre (my first ship that's ever been done so well!). The pirates' emblem is a white flag with a black fedora with crossed cutlasses behind it. I tried to design the look a bit. xD
Also, I promised to draw a dragon for Captain Chenbeard. Have one Chinese water dragon. xD
On the picture, aboard Sangue-Padre, I've also pictured some people whom I pointed at with arrows, writing something near them. xD
There's Captain Chenbeard, who's supposed to watch the Chinese dragon following their ship. And there's Cop-Captain Bootstrap Hayes, who's watching the seas with a spyglass. Also, there's me behind the easel, picturing the water dragon, and there are some other pirates too. Finally, there's my crazy macaw flying around. XD

And I forged a long rushed background story, too. Hope that all's good enough. Sorry for stretching it all so long. >.> *faints from all the work*