Pirate101 VI- The Wild West
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Chapter 1- The Red Pirate Returns
A Galleon docked at Skull Island Docks. It flew a red flag, with a green circle. Inside this green circle is a red skull. Two sharks watched this ship dock.
"Are you going to challenge him? He did beat you twice, a real man would want to fight him again," the hammerhead shark told the other shark.
"Yes, Mordekai, I'm gonna challenge him. And thanks to your training and teachings... I'm gonna win!" the other shark exclaimed.
"Hahaha," Mordekai chuckled. "Good luck. I'll be watching."
Two pirates left the galleon and started walking towards Avery's Court. One pirate was a twenty year old man with red hair. He wore a red had, a red coat and red boots. On his side he had two swords attached to his belt. One was a katana, the other a wakizashi. He had an Aztecosaur eyepatch covering his blinded left eye. The other pirate was a woman a year younger than the man. She also had a katana and a wakizashi. This beautiful pirate had dirty blonde hair and wore the average brown leather pirate clothing, with grey pirate boots. Suddenly, a bolt of electricity flew towards the red-haired pirate's head. The pirate raised his hand and simply pushed the electricity to the ground, unharmed. The red-haired pirate smiled.
"You're aim was 100% perfect and your intensity has improved. A new gun, Annie?"
A fox walked out of the bushes and showed the red-haired pirate her gun. "A scaramanga. Valencian. The best. Ol' Fish Eye has made me an official sharpshooter, no longer your average musketeer. Still, it wasn't good enough to get a shot at you, Captain!"
"No surprise there. Nobody can get a shot at me, because I hardly ever let my guard down. Right, Emma?"
"Right you are, Jimmy," Emma smiled. It was the greatest assassin of Skull Island, Sneaky Emma Everhart. She was 100% accurate with all her shots and she was a very adept swashbuckler. The red-haired pirate was her Captain, James Hawkins, otherwise known as Red Jim. The fox was a very good sharpshooter, an ex-rebel from Albion Skyway, Anne Fox, also known as Bonnie Anne. She is also a member of James Hawkins' crew. Then James saw a familiar skeleton.
"You have a stornger mojo, Scratch?" James asked the skeleton. His name was Old Scratch, an undead witchdoctor, and another member of James' crew.
"I an' I have defeated another member of Dark Crawler's Alliance- the evil bird named Skreech. Malistaire and Morganthe have both left his an' his alliance as well. Dark Crawler be the last enemy fer I an' I to fight," Scratch explained proudly.
"That's good," James smiled. "You'll beat him. I know you will. Wasn't Skreech the one Jojo Mojo worked for? Remember, the monkey I killed unfairly?"
Scratch nodded, "Aye."
"Well, anyway, let's go and see Avery."
"Welcome back, Captain," Avery smiled when he saw James. "Was your training fruitful?"
Before James could speak, someone else did. "You better hope it was."
James, Emma, Anne, Scratch and Avery spun round to see their old enemy, Fin Dorsal, a cutthroat shark pirate. Next to him was Mordekai, the buccaneer trainer in Skull Island Town. All five trainers had taken an official student for the two years that the Five Captains were training for. Mordekai's student was Fin.
Fin grinned. "Because if it wasn't fruitful, you won't stand a chance in our fight! I challenge you!"
James smiled at this challenge. "Very well, let's place our bets. If I win, the Cutthroat Pirates disband and you, the Commodore of the Cutthroat Pirate Fleet, will join my crew. Also, your crew members will become my fleet and will fly my colours. I will become the Commodore of the Red Pirate Fleet and the crew of your non-main ships will will be the crew of my non-main ships."
"And if I win," Fin added, "your ship, your crew and all your riches will belong to the Cutthroat Pirate Fleet. You will lower your flag and replace it with the Cutthroat Flag."
"Deal."
James and Fin stood in front of each other, weapons in hands, neither of them underestimating the other. The match began when Shockley banged the gong. Fin charged at James, ready to strike, but James simply did nothing. Fin knew James wasn't doing this for the hell of it, so he gave James no chance and cut him into pieces. Everyone gasped. It couldn't be over for James already could it? Emma chuckled. It was an old trick Monkey King taught James when they played pranks together on Shunzang. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. The pieces of James disappeared in a puff of smoke and James came crashing out of the ground and punched Fin in the chin. The shark was knocked out in a single hit. No matter how much stronger he had become, he still was no match for James Hawkins. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu worked by using a rare magic energy only a select few have. This energy is named chakra. Using certain hand seals, James can create a complete clone of himself, every detail exact, made entirely out of James' own shadow. These clones are named Kage Bunshin in MooShu, but elsewhere in the Spiral they are named Shadow Clones. If these Shadow Clones are killed then it disappears in a puff of smoke. James made a Shadow Clone before the match and had the clone stand before Fin, while James snuck under the Battle House. Using these clever tactics, James easily defeated Fin with trickery. Now, Fin would join James' crew and the former Cutthroat Pirates (now renamed the Red Pirates) would be at his command. Things would go a lot smoother now.
Shockley snickered at James' apparently 'hilarious' tactics and shouted, "The winner is James Hawkins!"
James was at the dock waiting for any of his crew members that have returned. Then he noticed a certain ship flying his flag. The cutthroat ships hadn't finished changing their flags yet and it wasn't a ship James owned, so James decided to take a look. He boarded the ship to see three familiar faces staring at him. Egg Shen, Nanu Nanu and Gaspard DeVole.
"Captain!" the three of them shouted and rushed over to their friend and Captain.
Egg Shen was James' First Mate, while Nanu Nanu did all the maintenance on the ship (and he was a fighter) and Gaspard was just a fighter, yet a very good one.
Egg Shen was overjoyed to see his lifelong best friend once again, "Captain, it's so good to see you. Ratbeard's at Scrimshaw waiting for you. He's just giving his son one final fighting lesson until he gives him to the Frogfather to look after. He says he'll meet us in Cooper's Roost, Cool Ranch, tomorrow at noon after he takes his son to Gullet."
"Ratbeard's got a son?!" James exclaimed and Egg nodded. "Who's the mother?! Oh wait..."
Egg chuckled, "That's right. It's Sarah Steele from Dino's crew. Their son is only a year old but Ratbeard trains him nonetheless. The kid is already strong and fairly soon he'll be the strongest in Scrimshaw!"
"What's his name?" James asked.
"Ratbeard's true name is Ralph Beard as you know, so his name would be Rupert Beard," Egg replied. "We'll see him in Cool Ranch."
"Cool Ranch?" James asked, confused.
"We're going there. Avery assigned the Five Captains to certain worlds," Egg explained. "Nathaniel is also assigned to Cool Ranch, whilst Rebecca and Dustin are assigned to Krokotopia and Dino, being a very capable and tactical man, went to Zafaria. This is because Avery has leads on pieces of Marco Pollo's map to El Dorado being in these three worlds. Both Marco Pollo and his First Mate Cooper Clark came from Cool Ranch, so we're going to Cooper's Roost to search for a piece of the map. When Captain Gunn was a cabin boy, he served upon Anubis Mubarak's ship, so Avery believes that Mubarak's grandson Adofo Mubarak has a piece of the map. There are also rumours saying that a man stole a piece of the map from a member of Marco Pollo's crew and that man is in Zafaria. Dino will take care of that one. But we, however, are going to Cool Ranch."
"Well let's get going then," James smiled.