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Chapter 9

Both Will and Jack were very surprised when the girls started fighting. For each of them were certain that girl he had taught would be the better sword fighter. It soon proved, however, that neither girl was better than the other one.
As soon as they began, Regina began using all the moves that Will had taught her and found, to her surprise, that Meg countered them as well as Will had. For her part, Meg did everything that had been taught to her by Jack, only to find Regina countering them as well as the pirate had. Their duel ranged all over the deck while the crew members jumped or scurried out of the way to avoid being hit. Though Gibbs did manage to be hit accidentally by Meg, and Regina unintentionally caught Cotton with the flat of her blade.
When they reached the main mast, Regina managed to put it between herself and Meg.

"Afraid?" Meg smirked panting and swung her sword at her.

"Not of you anyway!" Regina shot back dodging around the mast so that Meg's sword hit it instead.

Regina aimed her next blow at Meg only to find Meg had dodged around the mast as well and Regina's sword only hit wood.

She smirked.

"I might ask the same of you though!" She cried as Meg dodged around the mast once more.

"Same answer as you gave!" retorted Meg.

"Hey stop playing ring-around-the-rosy and fight each other!" yelled Jack getting annoyed watching the girls dance around the mast.

"Shh!" said Will staring intently at them.

The girls' swords had finally clashed, meeting on the right side of the mast and Regina twirled around to come out into the open. Meg twirled around the other side of the mast, however, just as fast and came up on the other side. Regina was caught off guard for a couple seconds and it looked, for a moment, like Meg might win. Will held his breath. But Regina recovered herself quickly and neatly and met Meg's attack well. Now they were out in the open again between the main and the quarter deck and both were quickening their attacks to try and end the duel. Jack and Will were both holding their breaths now. And now Regina was forcing Meg back towards the ship's side. Jack started forward but Will laid a restraining hand on his arm. Meg was in no danger she made her stand before she reached the side and did not move. They stayed there, neither one willing to give away an inch, until Meg began to edge Regina towards the other side. This time it was Will who started forward and Jack who laid the restraining hand on his arm. But as before, neither Regina nor Meg were in any danger of losing. But they were now getting tired of the duel and wanted it over with.
'Oh come on,' Meg thought desperately 'there must be some way to stop it!'
Suddenly she remembered the move Jack had taught her the evening Elizabeth had apologized to Regina.
'Ah.' she thought and smirked.

They were near the main mast again but as neither girl wished to play ring-around-the-rosy another time, so they did not go any nearer. It was then that Meg decided to try her trick. She twisted her hand around hitting Regina's sword at a peculiar angle. But suddenly, to her complete astonishment, Meg found her own sword, instead of her friend's, flying across the deck. Gasping, she heard Regina doing the same thing and saw that her sword was also flying across the deck. They looked at each other in complete surprise and then burst out laughing as they saw the crew, along with Jack and Will, ducking for cover from the flying swords.

"How..?" began Regina and stopped for Meg had started to ask at the same time.

They laughed again and then began to gasp and cough for air.

"Are you two all right?" Elizabeth asked running over to them.

"Yeah," Meg panted "Just…a little….out of breath." She turned to her friend. "I guess it's a tie?" she smiled.

"Yeah," Regina said with a deep breath "I guess so."

"Good job."

"You too."

"All right girls. Why don't you go wash up." Elizabeth suggested.

Both girls nodded, and together they walked over to Jack and Will.

"I'm impressed." Will smiled "You both did very well."

"I second that mate." Jack added "Well done girls but next time," he said handing Meg and Regina their swords back "Try not to kill us."

They all laughed.


I know. It was a little short...but that's why I posted 3 more chapters!!