Sorry, but the worst thing has happened! The computer I type my stories on internet's gone! No internet! So I only have a laptop to use. How sad is that? Very. But at least I have a computer.
A few days ago, I went to see HP 7 Part 1 again at the movies, and Rufus Scrimgeour is played by Bill Nighty, who for anyone who doesn't know, played Davy Jones in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End or for Alex Rider fans, played Alan Blunt in Alex Rider: Stormbreaker. Learn something new every day.
I don't own anyone or anything – if I did Will would have been in On Stranger Tides
Chapter Nine – Another Attack? Can Our Luck Be Any Worse?
No POV
"Let them taste the triple guns."
"That does not sound good," Elladan said to Elrohir, Legolas and Aragorn who all nodded.
"Make fast!" Will's voice came from where he was fixing the sails. The Elves and second-born moved to help out elsewhere. The Black Pearl soon was ahead of the Dutchman.
Aragorn looked up at the crow's nest, where Legolas was looking out from.
"She's falling behind!" Elizabeth said.
"Aye, we've got her," Gibbs said.
"We're the faster?" Will asked the question on the Twin's minds. Gibbs nodded.
"Against the wind the Dutchman beats us, that's how she gets her prey. But with the wind …"
"We've got the advantage," Elrohir beat Will in saying that.
"Aye."
"They've given up!" Marty said and the crew cheered. Legolas up in the crow's nest however, was thinking. Jones wasn't one to give up. Something …
His thought was interrupted up a sudden halt of the ship and heard the jar of dirt fall to the ground.
"We must have hit a reef," a sailor said. Legolas, who had jumped down froze at those words. Will glanced at him. Both knew what it really was.
"No! It's not a reef!" Will grabbed Elizabeth from the rail. "Get away from the rail!"
"What is it?" Elizabeth asked Will. The Twins and Aragorn turned to Legolas.
"The Kraken!" Legolas and Will said at the same time.
"To the arms!"
"Load guns, defend the mast!" Gibbs called.
Legolas disappeared below deck before Aragorn could ask what was going on.
"It'll attack starboard, I've seen it before," Will said. "Roll out the cannons an hold for my signal," he went the same way that Legolas went, under deck.
"What should we do?" Aragorn asked.
"Help them," Elladan said. "After all, we are on this ship and might become its next meal."
"Good point," Elrohir agreed.
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Once mostly everyone below deck, other than Legolas, who seemed to be at the crow's nest after working with Will quickly to form a back up plan and some pirates with spears – including Elizabeth and Elrohir, the cannons were rolled out and everyone saw the tentacles of the Kraken slowly creeping up the ship's sides.
"Easy boys," Will said to the pirates, who looked nervous.
"Will?" Elizabeth asked.
"Steady! Steady!" Will called.
"Will?" Nervousness was creeping into Elizabeth's voice, noted the younger twin. He glanced up at Legolas, who glanced down before turning back to Jones' ship, his Elven eye-sight helping him see clearer.
"Hold. Hold!" Will yelled.
"I think we've held fire long enough," Pintel said, worried.
"Will!"
"Fire!"
Cannons went off, the cannonballs, aimed straight at the Kraken's tentacles. Some of them smashed all the boats, but one before retreating slightly wounded.
"It'll be back!" Legolas called down.
"We have to get off the ship!" Will added.
"There's no boats," Elizabeth said.
"Why not swim?" Elrohir asked.
Will remembered the back up plan in case something like that happened.
"Pull the grates; get all the gunpowder onto the net in the cargo hold," he handed his love a rifle. "Whatever you do, don't miss."
Elizabeth nodded, understanding the plan.
"As soon as you're clear."
The twins and Aragorn helped pull of the grates off, while Legolas stayed in the crow's nest, the look out. He glanced into the water and shook his head, sadly. The last boat was being rowed away.
"We are short-stocked on gunpowder. Six barrel!" A pirate said, with a thick accent.
"There's only half a dozen kegs of powder," Gibbs translated.
"When load the rum!" Will ordered. It got quiet as everyone stared at him. Aragorn smirked. Pirates loved their rum. Will went down steps to the bottom the ship.
"Aye, the rum, too!" Gibbs finally said, silently mourning the loss of rum. The crew groaned, but did it anyway.
"Step to," Elizabeth said and then noticed the rowing boat. "You coward," she muttered seeing Jack rowing away. The ship shuddered again.
"Not good," Marty said.
The Kraken was mad and smashed its tentacles straight into the ship on both sides.
"Haul away!" Will called, up and pirates started lifting the net up with Will hanging onto it.
"Heave! Heave like you're being paid for it!" Gibbs called.
The Kraken in short terms was wreaking havoc, throwing sailors around and breaking anything it could reach.
"I gotcha! I gotcha!" Gibbs had hold of a sailor being pulled away from the ship by a tentacle.
"Save me!" The pirate called so Gibbs shot him.
Tentacles smashed down on the wheel hauling up the net and net fell down a bit.
Elladan and Elrohir were working as a team, ducking and slashing whatever came near them. Aragorn was on his own, trying to stay out of the path of trouble and Legolas was mostly out of trouble, high up.
"Come on! Come and get me! I'm over here! Come On!" Will called, the net swinging up and own. The Kraken's tentacles caught onto the net making it turn upside down and Will's legs got caught in the netting. His sword, dropped, he took out his father's knife to cut himself free.
"Shoot! Elizabeth, Shoot!" He called. Aragorn lost sight of her when a tentacle grabbed her, but he was too far away to stop it. The ship tipped over and he saw Legolas slip from the mast, where he was trying to climb down. There was a muffled crash as the elf landed hard on his right side.
She reappeared a minute later, still alive. She started up the steps to grab the fallen gun, but before she could grab it, a foot was on it. She tried pulling it out, but saw who was on it and let Captain Jack Sparrow pick it up and shoot at the Kraken. Minutes before Will had cut himself free and fell onto the deck. The bullet hit a keg of gunpowder and it exploded lighting tentacles on fire. It retreated and the dazed survivors, only a handful walked on deck. Legolas walked over from where he had been knocked down, rubbing his sore and bruise arm, just before Jack grabbed the gun along with the Twins and Aragorn.
"Did we kill it?" Marty asked.
"No. We just made it angry. We're not out of this yet. Captain, orders?" Gibbs asked Jack who looked around.
"Abandon ship. Into the longboat."
"Jack, the Pearl."
"She's only a ship, mate," Jack replied.
"He's right, we have to head for land," Elizabeth said.
"It's a lot of open water," Pintel said.
"It's a lot of water," Ragetti added.
"We'll have to try it. We can get away as it takes down the Pearl," Will said.
"I'd rather take my chances on the ocean than fight the Kraken a third time," Legolas put in, heading to the boat, along with most of the crew.
"Abandon ship. Abandon ship or abandon hope," Gibbs said. The living crew members – Marty, Cotton, Cotton's Parrot, Pintel, Ragetti, Legolas, Aragorn, Elladan, Elrohir, Gibbs, Will, Elizabeth and Jack looked at the ship, some saying good bye, other's not.
"Thank you Jack," Elizabeth said. Legolas listened in. Something seemed off.
"We're not free yet, thought," Jack said.
Whatever she said next, was blocked by Aragorn's question.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," he turned back to see Elizabeth kissing … Jack? Something was wrong. Just before Elizabeth joined, he saw a hand cuff on his wrist locking him to the mast. He nodded. She was a smart girl, all right.
"Where's Jack?" Will asked.
"He elected stay behind to give us a chance. Go!" She ordered and the boat went off, a strange look on the young woman's face.
The survivors watched in silence as the ship went down pulled by the Kraken. Legolas and the Twins had the worse viewing of it, with their eye-sight.
"Where are we going?" Elladan asked.
"We need to find a safe place," Will said. "And on land."
"Tia Dalma's," Legolas said. "It's on land and safe."
Everyone nodded, before setting off that way. Elizabeth had closed her eyes, her face looking like she was in pain.
"We'll be fine," Aragorn said.
"Now that Jack's dead," Elladan started.
"Jones has no reason to go after us," Elrohir finished.
"That's not making her feel any better," Legolas snapped and gave Elizabeth a reassuring look. That got a small sad smile from her.
The rest of the trip was in silence.
tbc …
Well next chapter is the last. I got myself into the mood for writing this, by listening to the POTC 2 soundtrack on YouTube. I'm on Hello Beastie.
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