Hey guys,
Yeah, I know its been like FOREVER since I've written more, but FINALLY I've been give an break from life, and I shall resume writing more! I'm planning on writing another 3 chapter today, and Jack and Barbossa are showing up in the last one I write tonight! I'M SOOO EXCITED! The next one I write after this, is a little more of Bella knowledge for you all out there, but we approach the Pearl after :).
Hope you all enjoy!
Love you all! xx
"So," I stood in front of a very different John from a week ago. Our cutlasses stretched out in front of us like two horns, and already I could see his newly strengthened muscles flex themselves. "You've come for a small test have you?"
"Yes Captain." He replied with newly found strength in his voice.
"What I, am unsure of," I said, as we began to circle each other, "Is why La Mere would send you to me first! I'm either severely insulted or extremely impressed at your progress?"
"It's neither, although you should probably feel slightly proud." He adjusted his cutlass in his hand. "He told me to come here, so then I could see what was really like out there."
"How sweet," I flicked some hair from my face, "He wants to show you how the 'real' pirates fight."
"Real pirates indeed!" He said, the gap between our circle closing in slightly.
"Are you questioning my ability in being a 'real' pirate?" My eyes fixed dangerously on him.
"I don't doubt that you're a true pirate. I'm just simply admitting that I've never seen you in action!" I swear something in his eyes glimmered as he smirked at me.
That's when we started. I swung my cutlass from behind, and he blocked quickly. The fight was intense! I jumped as the swooped at my feet, and as I swung at his head as he ducked. We parried like crazy. I even remember crying over the clashes of our cutlasses, "well you know how to dance with death boy, I'll give you that one!" and I remember him laughing and shouting over the noise, "it was only a matter of time!". Soon enough, I lead him to my door, and I entangled my cutlass into his, and with a flick of my wrist his sword went flying and landed into the floor behind me, and flicking my cutlass into his face he surrendered with his hands above his head.
"You didn't do too badly!"
"I'm assuming I didn't put up much of a fight for you."
"I gave you a bit of a chance, I just doubt that you saw it."
"No!" He seemed shocked as he lowered his hands as I lowered my sword. "I didn't! I didn't have any idea about any of the tricks you showed! It was pure luck until the end!"
"Well as I say, you've done good."
"I have a lot to learn then, if you're one of those at the top."
"At the top?"
"Well," He half scoffed and laughed. "Let's be honest, you're a pirate legend and your a teenager! You already have many fearing you and it's not just because you take out a pistol. You, captain, can dance and jive and trick the dance of death!"
"You're very poetic! The dance of death…" I repeated, as I took the sword from the ground and handed it to him. "I like it!"
"Just the given name, or the dance itself?" He asked curiously.
"I think it's exciting!" I said, shoving my sword back into its hilt. "I like that adrenaline rush that you get and I love the feeling that you know what you're going to do. I like calculating the next move and I like trying to guess what my opponents thinking. It's all part of a game really. It's all a big strategy!"
"I never actually ever thought a real strategy through! No wonder you beat me!"
"Oh Lord!" I laughed so hard I almost fell over. "You think that with your week of training and a small idea of how the fight will lay out will be a batch for my 14 years of training and an already thought through plan on how to kill you!"
"How would you have any idea on what I'm about to do?"
"To be honest John." I sat behind my desk and raised my feet to the table. "You're predictable. Almost too predictable for my liking…" I admitted.
"I just…" he stuttered moving back and forth and pacing a small distance. "I just don't understand how you would know!"
"I can gather what you would have learnt. Within a week I doubted that it would be much, and would you look at that!" I said throwing my hands in the air. "I was right!"
"But what about others?" he gave me a questioning look, "What about those you have never met?"
"To be honest, they become very predictable at times as well. EITC members all fight the same and so the navy officers. They approach pirates in the same fashion making them easy targets. If anything, the East Indian Trading Company have thrown in a trick or two, but that's just about it," As I spoke, I darted a look at him, and he was completed focused on everything that I was saying. "I'd have to admit that fighting another pirate is the most fun! When you fight someone else that you've never met, you have to be on your toes the entire time, and you cannot predict what they're going to do next! They make up their own methods and strikes and movements and it's all very entertaining! I learn so much from battling these people, rather then learning from training."
" I cannot believe you!" He said looking directly at me. I couldn't tell if it was excitement in his eyes or anger. "I cannot believe you could dance in the eyes of death and walk away smiling and laughing and begging for more!"
"It's just dueling John. Every pirate's got to do it. It's second nature!"
"It's second nature!" He spat back at me. "I cannot even BELIEVE that you could believe fighting for you life is entertaining! And now you tell me that it's second nature to you!" He was about to storm out the door when something inside him shifted. He turned back. "Your so young, you shouldn't have to fight for your life with a piece of metal over gold and jewels."
"I don't tend to." I said with a slight hint of poison. "I tend to fight for my life. Not over gold and not over jewels. Not for influence even. I fight to stay alive."
"Bella," He said coming back to me and sitting in the seat in front of me. "Why should you fight like this!"
"I choose this lifestyle. I am a captain. There is not much more I can ask for."
"Captain, please," it was as if the word felt weird to him. "You have to listen to me! This is all wrong! You can have a better life than this!"
"There IS no better life than this!" I almost screamed back.
"Back home I…"
"Back home?" I almost scoffed. "Home? On land? Where you are bound by people and by the chains of your country! You'll have no freedom, and you WORK tirelessly to put bread on the table? THAT is the life?"
"It's not like that!" he screamed back at me.
"YES IT IS AND WE BOTH KNOW IT!" I screamed back.
"AND HOW WOULD YOU KNOW!" He shouted back at me.
"I'VE BEEN THERE!" We both stood. "I'VE BEEN ON LAND, I've done that. I hated it, why do you think I'm still here? Sailing on the sea."
"You can only go around in circles for a certain amount of time. Captain."
"Not quite John. Not quite…" I said slowly… "… I've known people to travel off the edge of the earth John. I've known people who have been there and back!"
"Oh do you?" He said incredulously.
"Your related to one, if only you'd actually admit it!"
"Myths don't really count."
"It is not a myth!" I said with determination.
"Then prove it!" He screamed back.
"I…" I shot back, but then realized, "I… can't…"
"So you've made me believe the whole lie…"
"It's not a lie John!"
"Oh isn't?" He said, as he was about to run out of the room.
"I didn't lie about helping you find your mother John. I promise you, I will go to the ends of the earth to find her!"
"Why?"
"Because I.." I couldn't tell him about my plan! "Because I feel sorry for you!" I turned on my heel. "Because you shouldn't be left alone, no one should be left alone to fend for themselves…"
"Well then," He slipped his sword into his hilt and walked to the door. "Thank you for thinking of me. Captain." He managed to slam the door after him, raising the attention of the other crew members. Not willing to face the crowd, I sank down in my chair and rested my face into my hands.
Why did I just say that?
Why did I just say that I CARED for him? What is wrong with me! I'm Bella! I don't do that!
As I replayed the past few minutes in my head, I couldn't help but see how handsome his face was, and how tanned and toned he was now. It complimented his chocolate brown eyes and his father's same hair colour beautifully…
Oh God….
Thoughts of him won't leave my head!
This can't be…
I think…
No.
I know…
I am in love with John.
I am HOPELESSLY in love with John.
Damn it.
Well isn't that just fantastic! The infamous Bella, known for slaughtering at first sight, has fallen for a boy she barely knows. Maybe, just maybe, I am an ordinary girl after all. I always thought I was different from all those other girls, but clearly not. Apparently (even though I wield a cutlass and they wield a umbrella) we're all the same, apparently we're all hopelessly falling in love with one boy who just takes our eyes and steals our hearts, like a pick-pocketer steals candy. I never imagined, that some boy, just SOME boy, could come along and steal mine like that! This couldn't be me! I'm no frilly, fan-flapping, stupidly giggling girl… but apparently my heart is…
I am a PIRATE! NOT a lovebird! I tried to tell myself.
But my heart told me,
You may be a pirate on the outside, but like a passion fruit you're soft and goey inside, You melt just like all those others. You may be feared, but your still a girl, just like them…
