Disclaimer I Do NOT own anything from PotC or the .Hack//sign songs at all what so ever! If I ever did, I wouldn't be making fanfics, now wouldn't I? .
Anyways, on with this fic!
Chapter 2Just a few moments after the Shrieking Nightmare had left port and sailed about on the open water, rain had began to pound down on the lovely pirate ship, the sails whipping rather violently. As the ship sailed farther and farther, it seemed that the thundering rain had turned into a horrendous storm of thunder and lightening. Kaillena, of course, was at the wheel, her luminous blood red eyes staring through the rain as her crew hurried around to secure the sails and, basically, the entire ship.
"Men! Just secure the masts and head down into the ship!" Kaillena yelled over the thunder a strand of lightening striking down behind her in the backround, her soaked sun-tanned face looking rather fierce that had startled the crew.
The shipmates quickly secured the masts and rushed down, Jack having been up on he upper deck, with her.
"Jack, get down there too." Kaillena stated, turning the wheel rather sharply, missing a wave and riding down another.
"Love, you may be a captain but I'm not going to leave a woman, such as yourself, up here on deck." Jack sated with a nonchalant grin before grabbing the side of the ship's steering wheel.
Kaillena blinked a few times, rain and ocean water dripping down her face and clothed form. She smiled and stepped aside, gesturing for him to take the wheel, which he gladly did.
"There is only one way that a savage beast can be calmed…" Kaillena grinned as she said this, walking down onto the main deck, ocean water lapping and showering the ship's fine oak wooden deck.
"And what might that be love !?!" Jack shouted over the thunder, lightening strike noises, and the crashing waves. He looked up and over at Kai, his eyes widening at the sight if Kaillena climbing up on the railing at the port of the ship.
"No! No! No! What are you doing!?" Jack yelled, nearly letting go of the steering wheel.
"Just gonna put on a performance." Kai said the wind whipping her braid around, furiously, until the brain unraveled, her hair trinkets clanging in the wind and her long hair lashing in the wind.
"What!?!" Jack exclaimed, trying to see the drenched female captain through the rain.
Kaillena closed her crimson eyes with a smile before breathing slowly. The Shrieking Nightmare captain turned her head, just so that one crimson eye was looking at the infamous captain steering her ship.
"I'm going to serenade the sea, mate!" Kaillena grinned before turning back and taking a deep breathe before she began to sing, her voice cutting straight though the storm.
Jack, the well-hear-of pirate captain of the entire ocean and a man that has seen well mostly anyone and anything, had his jaw wide open in amazement as he watched the first female captain he had ever seen sing her way out of a storm.
"Open your heart
To eternal dimension
Open your heart
For love and affection
Open your heart
Your every emotion
Open your heart
For tears and rejection"
Jack gazed on, watching as the rain lightening up, the thunder and lightening ceasing and the clouds seeming to clear. Kaillena's eyes were closed as she sang, a few other voices below, within the sea, joining in as an echo.
"Open your heart
To eternal dimension
Open your heart
For love and affection
Open your heart
Your every emotion
Open your heart
For tears and rejection"
Kaillena then opened her crimson eyes, revealing a black, two ocean-wave like iris, the complete and true shape of her iris. The captain smiled up at the skies, a few drops of rain hitting her completely soaked face. She raised her arms out, at her sides before her eyes blinked a few times before her ears twitched and she lowered her arms, staring out towards the sea.
"Oi! Jack! Inform my men to get their hard-workin' arses out here!" Kaillena stated, turning her raven-haired, trinket-scattered, ocean-whipped and sprayed head.
Jack's brow furrowed in confusion. Kaillena narrowed her eyes, her sharp blood red eyes so fierce that they might, or could have possibly stabbed him like a dagger through the heart. Jack's eyes widened in slight fear before abandoning her post at the steering wheel and going off to gather Kaillena's men.
"Oh!" Kai turned back towards the sea. ", And tell then to ready some ropes!" Jack looked up from the door and nodded before doing the small task.
Kaillena then grinned before taking a breathe and using one of her many calling songs that her 'sisters' had taught her.
" Can you hear the calling of the raving wind and water?
We just keep dreaming of the land 'cross the river
We are always on the way to find the place we belong
Wandering to nowhere, we're paddling
Down the raging sea"
"Who can cross over such raving wind and water?
On the rolling boat we sit, shivering with coldness
Come by an island, come by a hillock,
It's just another place, we paddle on
Down the raging sea"
"But in one morning we'll see the sun
Bright shining morning dew singing
They who will search will find the land
Of evergreen"
"Can you hear the calling of the raving wind and water?
We just keep paddling down the sea, up the river
No destination, but we are together
In the silent sadness we're paddling
Down the raging sea
Down to no where…"
Kaillena smiled as she paused, her sister sirens carrying on the song and the female captain spotted what she, indeed, had seen that had caused her to have Jack get her men. A small rowboat came into view with a good six people in it. Kaillena nearly cracked up at the sight of another infamous pirate captain!
By the looks of the five men that were in the boat, her song had reached them… But what kind of surprised her was that the sixth person was a woman! Well… Not surprised her… More like startled her slightly, seeing as she was a woman herself and a captain…
Kaillena shook her raven-haired head slightly before she lowered herself down a bit so she was sitting on the ship's front point pole. She then yelled down to the sirens, waving to them in a gesture of 'Goodbye and thanks!' The said singers from the deep smiled, waved back before diving back down into the sea. Kai then looked up, still smiling and having noticed that the men had come to, thanks to the female in their boat.
"Ahoy! Where yah be heading to!?" Kaillena called, waving both of her hands over her head before her men all came from their holdings, on deck, getting ready to hoist the boat up, along with Jack.
But… It seemed that just as soon as Jack had spotted just a small glance at the woman, he quickly turned around. Kaillena, obviously confused, blinked at him before placing a hand on his shoulder.
"You all right, Jack? You seem a bit…. Well scared…" Kai looked over as her men lowered a few ropes down to the boat, so the people in the boat could tie them to it and whatnot.
"Just wasn't looking forward to having to see a few people, is all, darling…" Jack sighed as Kai's crew began to hoist up the small rowing boat.
"Well… You have a choice to or not to meet them. I'm not going to force it. If you wish to, you can hide in my chambers. I'll be out here and I'll probably just pop in there a few times." Kaillena smiled with a nod, lightly patting the pirate captain's shoulder.
"Thanks, love." Jack said before Kai gave him a key and he quickly scurried off, in through the front doors, to the room under where the steering wheel was, and closed the doors behind him.
Kaillena shook her head before her men secured the ropes so the six boat passengers could step out of the boat. The female captain turned around, walking over to greet the new ship-boarders.
"Lost, are we?" Kaillena smiled before she extended a hand out to the only pirate she clearly recognized, Captain Barbossa. "It is an absolute honor to meet a captain such as yourself, Captain Barbossa." The mentioned pirate captain nodded and shook her hand.
"I'm betting it is, lassie but we be not lost at all… Just searching…"
"Ahh… And what might this being-searched-for object be, if I may ask?" Kaillena questioned, half-expecting the answer that she had in mind.
"It be more of a person, by the name of Jack Sparrow." Barbossa replied, Kai nodding mostly to herself with a smile, as she was right about her assumption.
"Ahh… Captain Jack Sparrow, loves his hat, kinda loony up in the attic area and has a tendency of causing mischief for the others and himself…?" Kaillena asked, lightly picking the small scum and dirt from under her index nail.
"Aye, that be him."
"Never seen 'in before, sorry but you are welcome to come to Tortuga with us, seeing as it looks like you might be in some need of food and water." Kaillena grinned and nodded her head lightly.
"If it'd not too much…" The female of the group spoke up.
"Not at all, deary. We've got plenty of food down in the gallows." Kaillena replied, lightly waving her hand in a gesture of 'no problem.'
"Thank you, Ms…" The rather young-looking man said.
"Ah, my name is Kaillena, Kaillena Daciana, Captain of the Shrieking Nightmare, the very ship that we are standing upon." Kaillena bowed rather swiftly, causing Barbossa to raise an eyebrow.
"Ms. Daciana, we thank you." The boy expressed again, a sort of tender smile crossing his face.
"Neh, think nothing of it." Kaillena smirked, placing a hand on the young pirate's shoulder. "Just make yourself comfortable. We'll be arriving in Tortuga in a few days." The matron captain nodded before she heard a small crash coming from her cabin.
"What was that?" The female asked, looking around Kai the said woman looking at her cabin as well.
"Damnit… Should have told him not to touch anything too…" Kaillena whispered to herself, narrowing her dark blood red yes before she turned back around, her dangerous gaze gone and a look of a rather nervous yet happy expression replacing it. "I'll just be a moment, in the mean time, you can do whatever, find food, ask the crew about anything, and whatnot." Kaillena then quickly rushed off, taking out a small skeleton key that she had gotten, just in such a case.
Kaillena opened the door quickly before the new comers, that Jack really didn't want to see, saw him.
"Oi! What'd yah do?" Kaillena scowled at the infamous captain, the said pirate flinched while holding his hands up in defense.
"Ah well… I was wandering and stumbled upon a rather lovely yet antique looking instrument that, I'm assuming, you se in your little performances." Jack explained while walking idly around the room, waving his hands a bit. Kaillena's eyebrow rose as she watched the pirate pace slightly.
"You're hinting about my violin, aren't you?" Jack nodded and glanced over at Kai's desk, which the rather medium-sized wind instrument laid.
Yes, sadly, you couldn't hear it in the pub… That was one of the normal violins that Pop's usually provides… This one," Kaillena walked over to the desk, picking up the said classical instrument. ", Was given to my by my father." Kaillena lightly picked the strings, the light harmonious sounds escaping the violin.
"Oh? And just who was your father…? I'm sure if I could recall the boy's, William, the young gentlemen out there on you ship, father than I'm sure that I can peg yours."
Kaillena stared down at the violin in her hands, her crimson eyes slightly glinting in the sun's light that peeked in through her cabin windows. She then closed her eyes, a smile forming across her sun-tanned face.
"My father… Captain James "Redd Brose" Daciana…"
Jack's eyes widened at the mention of the nickname of "Redd Brose." Kaillena continued on, not bothering to open her eyes again to look at the rather amazed pirate.
"He had everything as a pirate… A respectable crew… Riches of many different ships that he had taken over and bombarded… The reputation that had the King's navy on their toes… the figure and fighting skills of a God… But… One thing that he could not find… was a love."
Kaillena then opened her eyes, the pattern of waves that had appeared when she had sung the storm away and sirened new comers to her ship and looked over at Jack, still smiling.
"Jack, do you know why my eyes seem to have this odd iris shape of the ocean waves?" Jack blinked, peering rather closely at Kaillena's crimson eyes.
"Hmm… Not exactly, love." The nefarious captain replied, lightly scratching her chin while still peering at her eyes.
"My father, when I was young, told me that I had my mother's eyes…" Kaillena then patted Jack's head before staring into his dark brown eyes. "Jack, my mother was a siren… She's one of the many that help me in taking what others have with our voices…" She then lightly stepped back, turning around and lightly placing her violin next to a small musical device, that Kai had just accidentally hit with her hand, the small object playing it's tune.
"And what might that be, Kai?" Jack inquired, walking over and peering over her shoulder at the tiny golden musical mechanism.
Then, out of the almost nowhere, the boy that Jack knew as "William", burst in, sword out and all, looking around for someone, other than Kaillena, obviously.
The boys eyes did land on Jack though, which his expression turned from surprise to confusion then, finally, anger, aiming his blade towards Jack.
"Whoa, young lad! There'll be no fightin' here… Not in my cabin!" Kaillena moved so she was between Jack and Will.
"Please, Ms. Daciana, move… I do not wish to fight you." William stated, the other shipmates that Kai's crew had hauled up on her ship rushed into the cabin room.
"Aye, so you were hiding him!" Captain Barbossa declared, unsheathing his sword from its sheath, pointing the weapon at the female pirate captain.
"Ms. Daciana, why would you want to hide such a nefarious pirate?" The only other woman aboard her ship questioned.
Kaillena smiled with a small shrug, shaking her head.
"I'm not even all too sure about it myself… Call it 'a sense of curiosity,' if you will. "Kaillena mused, with a small chuckle. "But… If you're going to condemn him to death, here, on my ship… Then I guess I'd have to protect him as best as I can…Cause from you, William, I sense jealousy within your eyes…" The said young man's eye's widened slightly as Kai stared at him before switching her gaze over to Barbossa.
"And you... you seem to hold a small grudge is all... "Kaillena grinned before backing up a bit, pushing Jack back a bit as well.
Kaillena then turned her boy towards her left before kicking both Barbossa and Will's hands. This action caused the two men to drop their swords and an advantage to Kai as she quickly, before retracting her foot, kicked the swords toward herself, picking both of them up.
"As much as I understand these feelings, I can not allow for you to kill Mr. Captain Jack Sparrow here... Call it whatever you will but I will not let you past to get to him, all right?" Kaillena explained, both swords up and aimed at the two men.
Jack blinked at the woman standing in front of him, swords up and ready for anything. But then one of her crew mates burst in, blinking a few times at the scene.
"Yes, what is it?" Kaillena questioned, not taking her gaze off of William and Barbossa.
"Umm... Ma'am, we've reached Tortuga..." The man said slowly, seeing as he was completely confused on what had been happening in the room.
"Lovely, much thanks Alan!" Kaillena grinned before tossing the swords behind her, the pointed edges of the swords sticking into her cabins walls and desk.
"Okay, now, are you two willing to forget this for a while?"
Jack, William, and Barbossa looked at one another, Jack nodded with his hand on Kaillena's shoulder. William looked at Kaillena, who was smiling before sighing with a nod, Barbossa just stared off to the side a bit. Kaillena clapped her hands together once before walking past the others, outside of the cabin. The female captain grinned up at the evening sun, the warm beams of heat shining down.
"Come now, out on deck, you lot!" Kaillena ordered, her crew and the other people such as Jack, Barbossa, William and whatnot to her ships top deck.
"Now, lads, we'll be splitting up into two groups... One will consist of myself, and... you..." She pointed towards the woman. ", and Jack.. And the last will be of the rest of the crew with William and Captain Barbossa." Kaillena explained as the Shrieking Nightmare came closer to docking.
"Make sure that no one takes my ship or I'll resort to carving the skin from your skulls and then feed your shrieking form to Set... After eating your soul through your eyeballs!" Kaillena said, oddly cheerful with a bright smile across her sun-soaked face.
Jack, William, even Barbossa stared at her with a look of fear in their eyes. Kaillena just simply laughed as a walking plank appeared, down to the docking area. Kai turned around, waiting for her squad to follow after her.
"Oi! Come on! Ain't got all day!" Kaillena yelled before her squad came down. "Kay, now! We're goin' to go and get my missing crew mate, Daniel!" She grinned before walking off of the docking area, straight into the lively city of Tortuga.