Chapter Seven
Karma Aids the Captain
The screams of the crewmen finally turn to shouts of joy when the two bone cages finally manage to keep tethered to the overgrown rock wall. "Put your legs through! Start to climb!" Gibbs instructed.
"It will take all of us to crew the Black Pearl," Will said, happy his plan was working, hoping to motivate the troops.
Unfortunately, Leech, the semi-treacherous, dark-skinned, Indian man, broke in at this point to point out that they wouldn't need them all, and that "about six would do."
The caged pirates stared intently back at each other. It was then, in that tense silence, that Captain Smith realized something.
"The… the drums have stopped." Her voice was slightly stammering. Will recognized the same empty, ghostly face as he first found her with. Her breath was shallow. Will felt a low blow in his own gut, just a lesser mirror of the Captain's own pain, Will was sure, but altogether painful, as the crew of assorted pirates recognized their own captainlessness.
"Oh dear," Leech said, forebodingly. The bone cages would have to race to the ship in order to be the winner, the new captain of the Pearl, Will realized. Ugh, pirates, he thought, so ready to betray each other. No sense of loyalty at all. But, still, Will bargained, his team would have to win.
"Hurry!" Will urged, brown eyes flashing with excitement. The crewmembers shouted with rousing encouragements, so much that it took them a moment to realize the Captain was even speaking.
"Would ye all shut yer bloody traps?" she screeched suddenly. The crew looked at her with confusion, when she, as the Pope presiding over schoolboys, simply pointed her single finger up at the approaching cannibal man whose attention had miraculously not yet been caught by their loud competition.
"Stop! Shhhh!" the men in the Captain's cage warned the others, too scared to do anything else, while standing in the frightening woman's shadow.
Leech, the bloodsucking little parasite he was, stared haughtily into the Captain's steely gaze as he gestured to the men in his cage to continue advancing up the canyon side. Gibbs widened his eyes and shook his head in frustration as he realized they would be left behind when the other cage made it to the Pearl first. But it wasn't long until Leech, receiving his coming karmatic justice, grabbed a snake and, with the whole lot of dirty pirates screaming, all fell to their deaths at the bottom of the canyon.
The Captain, innocently blinking, though dripping with smugness, stated inoffensively, "Now, boys, we've let them know we're here, would ye like to keep going, or just wait for them to come and kill us?"
The boys, truly as they looked up at her childishly for orders after the shock of the death of half of the remaining crew from as simple a thing as grabbing a snake from the cliff's edge, continued up the side obediently. It was then that Will understood how such a woman could be captain.
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Author's Note: Yeah! Another chapter! Lol, well she has to take after Laura in some way. ;)
Disclaimers: I don't own Leech, Bell, Will, Gibbs, Jack, The Cannibals, Some of the Lines, and other such Disney owned things! Don't sue, please. :]
-Piratess-Bell