This map is carved on the bottom of a ship, it was carved almost 150 years ago. The map is a design of a pirate flag, the flag is so big it takes up half the bottom of the ship. when you look at it, you can't tell it is a map, to see the map you need to look really close. It has tiny words all over it, written in three different languages, English, French, and Spanish.
Renzo Darnell is an explorer. Renzo was born in Rome, his father is American and his mother is Italian.
When Renzo was nine, he and his parents moved to America. His father Hector Darnell, owns a big ship port in New Orleans. Renzo didn't like New Orleans very much, he liked being in Italy were his friends and family were. He started liking New Orleans when his father told him a bedtime story about a famous pirate Jean Lafitte. One of Jean Lafitte's ports were in New Orleans, he died in the Gulf of Mexico because of a hurricane around the 1820s he was supposed to have something valuable on the ship.
Now, Renzo is twenty-six and works at his dads port, he also spends time researching and trying to find the location of Lafitte's ship. Renzo is six feet tall, has black wavy hair about shoulder length. Renzo is fit because his favorite sport is soccer, and every Saturday, Renzo and his friends play it all day at the local field.
Renzo Darnell lives in an apartment building in New Orleans, its pretty small, but it's the biggest room there and Renzo likes it. Renzo lives on the third floor, and to get to his room, you have to take the elevator in the lobby. The front desk very old, the lobby only gets cleaned once a week and they always miss the ceiling. Behind the front desk stands a short, stubby man named David Mott. David always wheres the same ugly, old fashion brown sweater, and jeans. David has gray hair that's starting to recede. Ever since Renzo moved in, in October last year, David didn't really like him, the only reason he tolerates him is because he needs the rent money, David is really bossy.
Renzo's room is actually pretty clean compared to the lobby. Right when you walk in Renzo's room, you see a the living room, it has a small couch against the wall on the right side, on the left side you see a t.v, in the corner of the room is a desk and there's a lot of pictures of Rome on the walls. On the desk are paper, pens, pencils, and on top of the desk is the mail he has recently received. If you walk down the small hall in Renzo's apartment, you see on the left side, Renzo's bedroom, on the right side is the bathroom. If you keep walking, at the end of the small hallway, there's a tiny kitchen with a stove, refrigerator, sink, and a tiny freezer on top of the counter. In the corner of the kitchen is a small table of everything he has on Jean Lafitte, and where he thinks his ship went down. In Renzo's bedroom, he has three bookshelves that take up his hole right wall, a lot of those books are about the Gulf of Mexico, and New Orleans.
Jessica Mott is Davids daughter. Jessica is thin, has strawberry blond hair, loves the sea. She likes Renzo and helps him with his research on Jean Lafitte. Jessica and Renzo hang out a lot. David doesn't like it though. Jessica is secretly in love with Renzo but no signs that she is. Jessica likes to be called Jess instead of Jessica. Jess is 22, her hobbies are, jogging, swimming, hiking, and mountain biking.
It was a foggy night, Renzo had just gotten off from work, it was around 7:30pm. Renzo was going home on his new motorcycle. He wanted to go home and watch the soccer game on his tv. He got on his motorcycle, put on his helmet, and took off.
The apartment building Renzo lived in has its own parking garage. He parked his motorcycle and started to walk near the door to the elevator to get inside, when just then four muggers jumped out, and surrounded him. All were holding large crowbars which wade about 10lbs. "Give me your wallet!" yelled the head mugger. Renzo noticed that they now had formed a circle around him, the leader in front of him, one to the right, and one to the left, and one behind. The one behind him came at him, but didn't succeed, Renzo made a round-a-house kick whacking the mugger clear off his feet and he hit his head on the floor knocking him unconscious. The head mugger lunged his fist at Renzos face, Renzo grabbed his fist right before it hit him in the face, and at the same time kicking the mugger to the right of him on the mouth. Two left thought Renzo. The one on the left came at him next, Renzo quickly pulled the head mugger in front of the hard blow of the unmerciful crowbar knocking out the leader. Blood was everywhere. The mugger Renzo knocked out first had awoken and looked like he was about to kill. His eyes showed death in them. Renzo got punched in the face, his lip gorged blood, the mugger laughed and came at him again. Renzo punched him in the gut then did an uppercut and the mugger fell on the floor, nose broken. The one on the left of him grabbed his arm and throw him into a car windshield shattering the glass. Renzo now found himself in the most pain he had ever been in before in his life. He rolled onto the hood of the car then onto the concrete floor. Renzo felt helpless like a wounded rabbit. Then the last mugger who was six and a half feet tall, pick him up onto his feet, the mugger now drew back his unmerciful crowbar and struck him up the side of his head. Renzo now felt a stream of hot blood drip down his face like a small stream. Renzos eyes were blurry, fighting to stay awake, Renzo heard the mugger laugh, then gave in, he couldn't hold on any longer, his face hit the floor then all went black...... Everything was black it was like a never ending hallway. No matter how fast Renzo ran, he couldn't find any light....
"AAARRRGG!" screamed Renzo panting. Sweat was all over Renzos shirt. He felt his head where the crowbar had struck him.
"Huh... Thats strange."
Renzo awoke in a dark room barely able to see. There was nothing but mops, buckets, brooms and a bunch of cleaning sprays.
"What are you doing here!?!" said a man standing at the door. Renzo couldn't tell what he looked like, it was too bright.
"Ummm....I'm not sure how I got here, where am I?" asked Renzo
"Why you're at the National Hurricane Center." said the man
"Really? Wheres that?"
"Miami."
"Whoa... Thats strange...I didn't catch your name."
"Rick, my names Rick, you?"
"Renzo."
"You have a nice accent, where are you from?" asked Rick
"Italy."
"I always wanted to go there." said Rick. Renzo enjoyed the tour Rick gave him. They talked all day.
" May you tell me where the bathroom is?" ask Renzo
" Sure, just walk down the hallway and its to your left."
Renzo didn't really have to go he just wanted to look around for himself. He stumbled upon a room with a desk with a lot of papers on it. He went over and looked through them, they were about some map that could control hurricanes. He looked and found out that most of the research was done by Rick. Just then he heard security running down the hallway, he panicked and started to run but slipped on the wet floor. Just before he hit his head on the hard cold floor, he woke up.
"AAHHHH!" yelled Renzo panting like a dog out of breathe from running. He curiously looked around wondering how he got to a hospital. He felt his head where the muggers hit him, it was patched up. He turned his head around to find Jess smiling at him in relief that hes alive. He smiled back.