Disclaimer: Pirates of the Caribbean, the Black Pearl, and Captain Barbossa are not and will never be claimed by me.
This will be a short companion to Shipwreck: Murtogg and Mullroy.It explains the Charleston Boy's first encounter with pirates. Please be warned, Charlie can wander off track quite a bit.
Before the Shipwreck
An account in his own words of how Charlie Mercer met the notorious and most evil Captain Barbossa of the Black Pearl
Intro
It sure was something I'll tell you, just like in those stories. You know, the ones about pirates? I've heard plenty of 'em. Sacking towns and poor little ports, slicing through the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea, the African coasts, the Orient, meeting with other ships manned by parrot-on-shoulder pirates with eye patches and gentlemen's swords, though they weren't any such thing.
Any story 'bout them I've heard, sure as my name is Charlie Mercer. 'Course my mum probably tell me to introduce myself all right and proper and be proud of being Charles Mercer, but I don't think I'm a Charles yet. So call me Charlie, not Chuck 'cause that isn't me either. Now what was I talking about? Doesn't that bother you when you lose what you were saying? Oh, I remember. It would've come faster if Ollie was here-were here. I know what he would've done.
He'd say "Aw, Charlie how did you forget a thing like that? You were going to tell 'em 'bout the pirates!" And of course he'd be right and I wouldn't have to have you wait for five minutes just because I forgot. Anyway, you might not believe it, but I met a pirate.