Hello! I'm back. I want to say a few things before we start the chapter.

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Now. To Chapter 6! But first, a flashback of chapter 5.


"Alright students, please sit down." I heard Teague say.
The boy didn't listen, he got up and came over to me, "I be willing to guard you if you come back over there." He smiled. I had had enough of his funny business. I slapped him as hard as I could, his head whipped around to JohnDavid, who just rolled his eyes. Jack rubbed his jaw, "I'm not sure I deserved that." The slap got the attention of Breanna and she came over to us.
"Why are you over here with her?" she asked, nodding to me. When he didn't answer, she raised her hand and brought it across Jack's face with enough force to snap his head around to Danielle.
"I may have deserved that." Dani giggled. Fuschia approached and… you guessed it, slapped Jack, this time to me.
I beat him to the punch, "I'm guessing you didn't deserve that one either?"
He looked at me, "No, that one I deserved."
"You stole my ring!" She accused, raising her hand again. In what looked like an effort to save his face, he pulled the ring out of his pocket and tossed it to her. The girls smiled and walked back to their seats. I sat down next to JohnDavid and Dani.
"Jack Oops Sparrow Jr.!" Teague shouted. "I thought I told you to sit down?" His middle name is oops?
"But, Granddad! I'm talking to the new girl!"
…Granddad?

Chapter 6

I didn't know what to do. I had just inadvertently figured out the reason why the man and boy looked so much alike, and a probably very embarrassing secret the boy, Jack, kept. Jack glared at me, as if daring me to say something. I raised my eyebrow as if to say, 'Try me'. Jack huffed and went to sit down.
"Right, now that the incident is cleared up, we be going to start reviewing what we learned last week." Said the Captain.
"We'll help you, the captain doesn't really baby anyone and will only yell at you if you ask him for help." Dani whispered in my ear. I smiled at her gratefully.
"We will review the Pirate King'" I sat up at this. "What does the Pirate King do in terms of duties Breanna?"
She looked at me haughtily, "The Pirate King can declare war and parlay with adversaries."
"That is correct, Breanna. Now, how is the Pirate king elected,-"
Jack interrupted, "By popular vote o' th' Pirate Lords."
"Thank you, boy," Teague said sarcastically, "Now who is the current Pirate King, Danielle?" Dani paled.
"I-I don't know, sir."
Teague looked around, "Do anybody know, I know this is new, but ye should know this, I'll give ye a hint their last name is a bird."
A squeaky Spanish accent cut in, "The Pirate King is never around. How are we supposed to know who he is?"

I suddenly remembered something: "Thank you, Tai Huang, for bringing the Empress for me." "Of course, anything for the Pirate King, and our captain." I gasped, "Not He, She. It is Elizabeth Swann." All eyes in the room turned to me.
"How do ye know this, missy?" I looked at the captain, then quickly to the floor.
"She is my mother."

I heard the collective gasp, "You mean you're a bastard?" Fuschia squeaked. I stood up and marched over to her.
"No, her last name is now Turner. She got married. Apparently after she became the Pirate King."
I heard heavy-ish footsteps behind me. "Aye, that she did, me father was there and performed the cer'mony himself."
"What?" I could say nothing else. I was in shock. My mother had a pirate perform her wedding ceremony?
"Oh, aye, Miss Turner. It was the Battle of Calypso's Maelstrom, and they were battlin' Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company. The pirates were greatly outnumbered. Yer dear parents were fighting side by side in the rain. That's when they asked me father ta perform the weddin'" I turned to look at the boy wearing a big hat.
"Really? Because that's not what she told me."
"Well, apparently she didn't tell ye a lot of things, missy."
"Shut up, Victor." I looked at Jack in astonishment. He was actually standing up for me? Victor rounded on him.
"I don't recall askin' yer opinion, boy."
"You're technically just a boy as well." I put in. He turned to glare at me. I thought to myself, If looks could kill. I felt a hand on my arm, pulling me back to my seat. I looked over my shoulder to see JohnDavid. I turned and went back to my seat with him.
I sat down to see a heated argument between the boys, but that didn't register with me. The big thing that I noticed was that Captain Teague was just sitting in his chair strumming an old guitar.
"What is he doing? Why is he not breaking up this tiff?" Dani got this look on her face, one I'd seen too many times on Anna's face. It was a look of knowing, surprise, and excitement to tell a story or a fact that someone else doesn't know.
"Their fathers are arch-enemies, fighting over the same ship. Have been for years, since way before we were born. The kids 'ave inherited their quarrel voluntarily."
"You mean that they are arguing just because their parents aren't getting along?"
"Well, yeah. They think this matter is reasonable. We're talking about the fastest ship in the Caribbean."
"The Numerator?"
"What? No, I'm talking about the Black Pearl. Whats the Numerator?"
"The fastest ship in the Caribbean. The pride of the royal navy."
"Oh. Actually, it's the second-fastest then. The Black Pearl is the fastest ship. The navy probably doesn't include pirate ships."
"Hmm." I sat back in my chair to think about what Dani said.

The quarrel broke into my thoughts as the boys got louder.
"You snot-nosed Daddy's boy!"
Apparently they've abandoned the issue about the ship, and are now just insulting each other.
"Ha! You're a rum loving, cowardly, ship-stealer!"
Jack seemed to falter at that. "Well, you... You... You smell funny!"
Victor just laughed and walked away, knowing he just won the fight. Jack pouted and sat down.
"Now, can we continue this class wi'out any more interruptions?" I looked up to see Cap'n Teague standing at the front of the room in all his captain-y glory. He walked over to an enormous book laying on a table.
Anna would be in heaven here. I thought. Until I remembered that all my friends hated pirates. I wonder how they're all doing. Anna, Rose, John, Abbey, Nathaniel, even the school's queen-bee, Madison Heartlig. Nate is probably calling on Anna right now. I hope Abbey is better. It would be nice to see her running around laughing with her twin Brandon again. Madison would probably be bossing somebody around again. And John... John, I hope he still likes me. I wonder if he misses me and is wondering where I am. At least I hope that Madison Hasn't-
"Miss Turner!"
I jumped, startled. The whole class except Dani and JohnDavid fell apart laughing, even Jack was smirking. I felt my face warm up. "That's the fourth time I've called yer name. Just b'cause it's yer first day here does not mean that you c'n be daydreamin' in class. I'll ask again, what happens to a pirate captain who does not do a good job captainin'?"
"I don't know sir." I answered.
"He be marooned. Left on an isle with only hisself, an' a pistol with a single shot. Let this be a lesson to ye. Don't let it 'appen again."
"Yes, sir."
"Now, where was I? Oh, right. Now, class, tha' pistol won't do much fer huntin', but in three days tha' pistol will start to look real-" He was cut off as a dog with a piece of paper in its mouth trotted in. He sat right at Teague's feet. Teague reached down and took the piece of paper and gave the dog a treat. It trotted back out of the room. Teague unfolded the piece of paper and read what was on it. He turned pale. "Class dismissed." He said then left the room in a hurry.
I turned to Dani and JohnDavid, "What's going on?"
"I don't know, this has never happened b'fore" JohnDavid said.
I saw the paper lying by the door, dropped as Teague left in a hurry, unnoticed by the students as the left the classroom. I walked over to it, but just as I bent to pick it up, so did someone else. Jack grabbed it first and looked at it. "I can't read what it says." He informed us. I looked at it, It was faded, written with horrible, cramped, rushed handwriting. And to top it off, it was written entirely in Singaporean.
"It must be bad, he left in quite a hurry." I decided.
"Yeah, I dun' know what it could tho'"Jack agreed.
"Maybe it's a ransom note."
"A ransom note fer what?" Interrupted JohnDavid.
"My mom, she was kidnapped by a pirate ship that attacked us on our way here. That's how Mr. Gibbs got with us." I explained.
Jack shook his head, "Naw, we pirates really don't care if the pirate king dies or gets kidnapped, in fact most pirate lords would want to see her die so the spot would be open fer them. But, they won't kill her themselves, and they usually won't have someone else to do it for them because if they were caught, they could be executed." he trailed off. "Wait, did you jest say Gibbs? As in me uncle Joshamee Gibbs?"
"He didn't say anything about having any nephew, but his name is Joshamee." I said.
"Well, lets go give him a visit. Lead the way, luv!" He headed off in a random direction.
I looked back at Dani and JohnDavid, "Are you guys comin' or what?" They looked at each other, grinned and we ran to catch up with Jack.


I'm so sorry it took so long! I meant to get this up in May, but I got busy and didn't have time to finish it, so please forgive me! *Gives virtual cookies* R&R! Bye!