Hello, all my faithful readers! I'm so glad to be posting again! Even though I haven't written any stories in a while, I have still been coming up with ideas with my sister Kaitlyn. In fact, we came up with a new Chipmunks Go to the Movies parody that is (very) loosely based off the Pirates of the Caribbean films. We were only going to think about one story, but we ended up coming up with four to five different plots, one for each of the Pirates movies. If anything, just think of these as the Chipmunks being pirates and please suspend any historical inaccuracies.
There are a lot of different characters in here, so I have a cast list for you to refer to throughout the stories (You'll probably be referring to this list often). Kaitlyn did a lot of research on pirate history and the jobs they had on a ship.
The Cast
Captain Jake Cardinal of the Scarlett Ruby, based on William Turner and Captain Jack Sparrow ~ played by Alvin
Becky Goose, based on Elizabeth Swann ~ played by Brittany
Nelson, based on James Norrington~ played by Theodore
Matthew Mimosa, based on Hector Barbossa ~ played by Simon, former first mate and now Jake's rival and captain of the Viper
Allison Fairchild~ played by Jeanette, captive of the Viper
Nora~ played by Eleanor, second mate of the Scarlett Ruby
Scully, based on Joshamee Gibbs~ first mate of the Scarlett Ruby
Tobias Threepwood~ third mate, bosun who controls the anchor and the ship's rigging
Thad Coldsteel~ quartermaster who controls the treasury
Cutthroat Pitzel, based on Pintel~ played by Kaitlyn's OC Arnie, the helmsman
Ketchum Kert Spaghetti, based on Ragetti~ played by my OC Roger, master gunner
Wally Nipperkin~ played by Kaitlyn's OC Walter, carpenter
January Jones~ navigator
Pugwash~ Chinese chef
So without further ado, here is the first pirate adventure.
You are about to step into the age of buried treasure, ambitious young sailors, and pillaging pirates. The year is sometime in the 1720s. The place is a quiet little English town near the English Channel. There in the tall weeds of a grassy hill, a young girl with a strawberry blond ponytail was running down, her plain pink dress and petticoats in hand. Not far behind her, a lad of about twelve was yelling behind her.
"You can't escape me, Becky!"
She laughed loudly, "I'm faster than you think, Jake!"
She slowed slightly as she reached the bottom of the hill, but that gave Jake just enough time to catch up to her, and he tackled her to the ground.
"Ooohf!" she grunted.
He was half leaning on her, pinning her arms over her head. A large grin was on his face. "I told you. No one can outrun me."
She squirmed free and pushed him aside. "I would have won." She smoothed out her hair. "I just let you win."
"Ha! Sure you did!"
"I did." Becky rose to her feet and shook a dirt clod off her skirt.
Jake rolled his eyes. "You just keep thinking that."
They both stared out at the harbor ahead of them. The two were still on a hill, so they had a clear view.
"There are a lot of ships out there today," Becky observed.
"Yeah," Jake said in a distant voice.
"I see Daddy's ship at the docks. It's the one with the red flag."
"I wonder how old you'd have to be to join one of those as a cabin boy someday."
"You can't be a sailor! That means you'd leave me."
This snapped him out of his reverie. "You're right. Who would be here to beat you in races?"
She frowned playfully and jabbed him in the arm.
"Oh, I nearly forgot to show you what I 'acquired' today." Jake pulled a pocket watch out. "Isn't it a beauty?"
The watch was made out of gold and trimmed in a few tiny diamonds with a bluebird painted on the face.
"Jake! You're stealing again! No one in town will trust you if you keep this up."
"It's just a little trinket."
"I don't care." She crossed her arms. "I want you to return it."
He rolled his eyes. "Alright, Mom."
"You'll thank me one of these days."
Jake said nothing and put the watch away. He didn't think it mattered much, but if his friend was so worried about it, he'd return it anonymously in the night.
"Hey, Becky, look who's coming."
She gasped, "It's Nelson!"
A rather short and slightly overweight boy around their age was puffing up the hill. He was walking up slowly in order to avoid dirtying his store-bought clothes.
Jake grabbed Becky's hand, and they ran down the other side of the hill, hiding on a ledge.
"Becky! Jake! Where are you guys? I know," he huffed, "you were here a second ago."
They tried to stifle their giggles as he continued searching. Nelson was rather boring most of the time, and he always bragged about the great things his father bought for him. Becky and Jake found it more fun to evade him, even though they were the only friends Nelson had.
After reaching the top of the hill and not seeing them, Nelson gave up and turned back towards home.
Jake stood on his toes and peeked through the grass. "He's gone."
"You know," Becky began as she tried jumping up the ledge, "we should be a little nicer to him."
"Ole Nelson will be fine. He'll probably show up at your house bright and early tomorrow to hang with us." Jake pulled Becky up, and they walked down the hills together.