Sail a Beauty
Jack Sparrow stood on the Flying Dutchman, staring at the black ship that was anchored in front of him. This was what was left of the Wicked Wench after Beckett got his small, girlish hands on it. A charred, blackened hull; sails as dark as the soul of the Devil; just as torn, too. He absentmindedly rubbed his arm, the one with the new brand.
"Move it, you bilge rats! Or it's the cat fer yeh!" The Bosun of the Dutchman yelled in the background. Jack was only knocked out of his trance by the THUMP step THUMP step of the Captain.
"What are yeh plannin' on namin' her-uh?" Jones asked. Jack hadn't really thought of renaming her. But he knew he couldn't keep the Wicked Wench.
"Hadn't really thought 'bout it," he said matter-of-factly. "I've been through the Locker and back to get her… she's all I've got." Sparrow paused. "She's a pearl. A black pearl." He smiled, having a small epiphany. "That's it. She's the Black Pearl."
He stared at her a moment longer. She's a real beaut, he thought to himself. After a moment, he moved towards the ladder, so he could personally greet his new raison d'être. However, what the Sea Devil said next made him stop, and a shiver rain up through his whole body, down to the very core; one that he wouldn't understand until thirteen years from then.
"Remember, Sparrah; If ye thinks he be ready to sail a beauty, ye better be willin' to sink with her."
It's shorter than most one-shot I've written, about a page. But I like it.
So I just finished opening presents, lots of good stuff :D
Sorry I haven't published anything new in a while; I tried writing a little Christmas piece, but I just couldn't do it. *shrugs* I didn't like the way it was turning out. But I'm going to write a new piece soon, called "Vengeance Most Foul." I'm kind of busy over this vacation writing wise, but I'll try to write in A Debt to Pay a little. However, mid-terms will be coming up soon, so I can't guarantee I'll write a lot :/
Published: December 25, 2011. I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean. If I did, I'd be tanning on the Dutchman being fed exotic fruits and torturing Beckett and Calypso :)
