"And finally," Will began as he and The Scooby's walked down a flight of stairs, led them through the crew's sleeping chambers and along to a wooden door, he took out Jack's bundle of keys and unlocked the door. Inside was where the all the food and firearms were kept; Will stopped them and three rows of metal fences, the fences had thousands of diamond shaped holes which held thousands of different shaped and sized bottles.
"This is where the rum and firearms are kept," Will exclaimed as he gestured toward the metal fences, both Faith and Spike smiled.
"I'm beginning to love this place more and more" Faith mumbled to herself as she gazed at all of the free rum in front of her, Spike 'Yeah' in agreement with her.
"Is that the only stuff to drink here?" Buffy asked Will, gesturing to the rum.
Will looked at Elizabeth and they both shrugged before looking back at Buffy, "When we port we do get fresh water but it doesn't last long so... unless you'd rather drink sea water then yes" Will explained apologetically.
Buffy just sighed and rolled her eyes then shrugged, she knew she was going to have to deal with all of the old fashioned stuff until she found away to get home. Faith pulled out one of the dirty rum bottles; it had a small, thin neck with a large bulbous bottom, dark red liquid filled the bulbous bottom; she ripped off the cork top and took a long hard drink, she sighed adoringly.
She held up the bottle and nodded at it, "This is quality rum... better than the rum you get at the Off-Licence" she told them.
Will laughed slightly, at Faith's love for rum, to himself before he coughed hard and told everyone that it was time to go back up stairs, as Will locked the door behind them bumped into Anya.
"Buffy can I speak with you for a moment" she said, it was more of an order than a question, Buffy nodded and told the others that she would meet up with them in a minute.
"I think I know how you'd be able to get that spell from Jack," she began as she and Buffy moved over to a hammock and slowly they sat down.
"How?" Buffy asked once she was sat.
"Well, earlier I was speaking to Jack and he told me that he was in trouble with some guy named Davey Jones and that got me thinking... If you help him with this Davey Jones then you can bribe him into telling you the spell that he did last night" Anya explained.
"Well, who's this Davey Jones?" Buffy asked.
"Apparently he's some Uber-demon that owns the whole ocean and Jack got into trouble with him and I think he needs help and what better help to get rid of a demon than a demon fighter, or Slayer, whatever you wanna be called"
Buffy thought for a moment before looked back at Anya, "Where is Jack now?" she asked eventually.
Buffy knocked on Jack's cabin before entering; Jack was sat at his desk, a map laid out in front of him with his compass beside him, he looked up when Buffy opened the door.
"Ahh, Miss Summer's," He smiled as he got up and walked over to Buffy, Buffy closed the door behind her then turned to face Jack, "what can I do for you? Have you come for that nodress I was telling you about?"
"I've come here to speak to you about Davey Jones," Buffy said ignoring his comment.
Jack arched an eyebrow questioningly before walking back to his table.
"Do tell Deary!" he said nonchalantly as he sat down.
Buffy came closer to Jack, he looked up at her; her face was set with no emotion, her lip's were set in a straight line and her eyebrows rose slightly as she spoke.
"I can help you" she told him.
Jack leaned back into his chair and propped his feet onto the table, he placed his arms behind his head.
"And how do you propose you can help me?" Jack asked.
Buffy sat slightly on the table and leaned closer to Jack, Jack quickly glanced down at her cleavage before looking up and listening to what she has to say.
"I know you're in trouble with Davey Jones and I can help you get out of it... I'll find this Davey Jones for you and kill him for you on one condition... afterwards you show me the spell you did last night and take me to whoever gave you it" she explained, she held out a hand for agreement.
Jack looked down at her hand and slowly took her hand to shake, "agreed" he finished.
"Good," Buffy said as she got up from the table and began to walk over to the cabin doors, "I'll go and tell The Scooby's the new pl-"
"-Exactly..." Buffy stopped and turned around to see Jack walking up to her, "Exactly how are you going to kill Davey Jones?" Jack asked.
Buffy looked at him confused, "What?"
"I don't think you will be able to kill Davey Jones, look at you - you're so small and thin-"
"-I'm stronger than I look, believe me"
Jack leaned in closer to her and looked her in the eyes; he raised an eyebrow and smiled sultrily.
"Persuade me" he told her.
"What? No, Jack, I am stronger than I look, trust me" Buffy told him, her voice rising with every syllable.
"Like I said," Jack leaned closer to her; they were now nose to nose, their eyes locked onto each other, their lips almost touching, Jack stroked a few blonde strands of her hair so lightly she could hardly feel it and he smiled again, "persuade me" he repeated.
Buffy's scowl changed to a huge smile, Jack leaned back and he raised his eyebrows in surprise and his mouth made a comical O shape. Buffy grabbed at Jack's white shirt, a handful of fabric in each hand, and she lifted him up a few inches from the floor; Jack looked down at the floor in amazement before he was thrown through the cabin doors, glass and broken wood spewed all over the deck as Jack came out, he landed on the floor with a thud before sliding to the centre of the deck at Will's feet. The Scooby's and the crew looked at Jack, who slowly propped himself onto his elbows and shook the glass and wood from his hair, until they heard Buffy coming out of the cabin. Buffy casually walked over to the centre the deck, keeping her gaze on Jack; Jack stopped shaking his head when he heard Buffy coming over to him and he looked up when she stopped at his feet.
"Do you need persuaded anymore?" She asked smiling and holding out a hand.
Jack smiled slightly before taking her hand for her to pull him up. Jack shook the rest of the glass and wood from his body while everyone else, except The Scooby's, looked at Buffy questioningly; their eyes wide and their mouth's bobbing up and down unable to say anything.
"Wow" Ragetti said in awe at the petite blonde before him.
"Now that's what you call an ideal woman!" Pintel smiled.
Buffy turned her attention The Scooby's, "OK, guy's there's a change of plan..." she began and told them about Jack's problem with Davey Jones, "... So Jack and I came up with a... arrangement... we will help fight Davey Jones and when we win Jack will give us the spell that he did last night so we can go home" she finished.
"Well, how do you plan on helping us fight Davey Jones? He's too strong for all of us-" Elizabeth was cut off by Buffy holding out a hand.
"-Well, here you have two Vampire Slayers, a three-hundred-year-old Vampire , a thousand-year-old ex-Vengeance Demon, a very powerful Witch and a bad-ass Carpenter"
"Yeah, this Carpenter will dry wall Davey Jones into the next century" Xander exclaimed proudly.
Jack and Will just smiled before Mr. Gibbs came running up to Jack and tapped him on the back.
"Cap'n, The Flyin' Dutchman's on our stern" he mumbled.
"Well then, here's your chance to see what you are up against" Elizabeth explained as she and Will pulled out their swords from their holsters.
Buffy looked at her friends, "Split up... Anya and Spike you guys guard downstairs, Willow you go with Jack up by the wheel thingy and try to do some kind of protection spell, Faith you stay and guard down here with me... and Xander..."
"I'll take Dumb and Dumber and guard the other end of the ship" he explained before heading down to the bottom, Dumb and Dumber meaning Pintel and Ragetti; the two just laughed not realising it was an insult as they followed after Xander.
"Ha! Dumb and Dumber! Good one!" Jack laughed hysterically before he and Willow went up to the cock-pit.
Willow looked out to sea, the turquoise water was calm and still with a slight breeze flowing through her auburn curls, she didn't understand.
"But... There's nothing here..." she mumbled to Jack as she pointed out at the calm ocean.
When all of a sudden Willow wished she could have taken those very words back.
Within seconds of her mumbling she, Jack, and the whole of the top deck, was drenched in water; the salt stung at her eyes but she opened them to see what they were up against. A ship that looked two times bigger and stronger than the one that she was on flew out from the sea below her and when it hit the water she was drenched again. The ship looked like it had been underwater for years; all different sea creatures and crustaceans began to form along the whole ship. Willow could barely make out the crew opposite her but she could sense that they weren't human.
Faith was mid conversation with Elizabeth, about how she and Buffy didn't need their backup, when they were all soaked with cold salty water; the impact of the water was so strong that Buffy and Faith fell to the floor. Buffy coughed, trying to regain her breath back, and she blinked repeatedly, trying to ignore the sting the salt caused them, and got straight back up again. She helped Faith up from the floor and both girls looked on at the ship ahead of them; again they were soaked when the ship hit the water again but this time they didn't fall.
"OK, now I'm pissed!" Faith spat angrily as she shook the water from her clothes.
Elizabeth came up behind them, Will stood over at the companionway, guarding Jack's cabin, and they all looked on at the ship in front of them. Elizabeth explained to Buffy and Faith that the crew weren't 'exactly what you'd call human'.
"Good," Buffy began as she removed her jacket and dropped it at her feet, "that means I can kill them" she finished in her fighting stance.
As Buffy spoke, Faith removed her jacket and waistcoat to reveal her white shirt, which was now see-through, with the black corset over it.
"I would take that off if I were you" Elizabeth said to Faith, meaning her corset, "I doubt you'd be able to fight in it, I can't" she finished.
Faith smiled sarcastically, "Actually I've patrolled in corsets before... hell I've even bumped ugliest in a corset before, so don't tell me what I can and can't do" she finished.
Buffy rolled her eyes at the two girls and watched for any movement on the other ship, Faith smiled at Elizabeth's face before kissing the air and going back into her fighting stance.
Willow stared down at The Dutchman crew trapeze down onto the ship, a few of these stuck out to her: One man was covered in different elements of the sea, his right arm was covered in mussels, he had a beard made of coral, and his left arm and right leg were more tentacles than human flesh; another were two men that had become stuck together, only two arms and three legs, and their whole flesh turned into coral. Willow walked back a couple of steps before bumping into Jack; he faced the other way and just stared out to sea, Willow realised he wasn't going to be much help so she decided to do a little spell to help things.
Buffy pulled a member of the crew from the rope and looked at him: he smelled of dead fish and salty water; half of his head was made of shell, his nose, lips and eye protruded out of the small gap in the shell like they were trying to break free; his clothes were covered in small crustaceans, shells, small crabs and sea weed hung from his arms and legs.
Buffy said as she looked him up and down.
The creature just screamed, took out his sword and whirled it in front of Buffy; Buffy ducked as he whirled the sword and she got up straight away, grabbed his arm that held his sword snapped it with her knee. Shell Head let out a wail before driving his other hand into Buffy's stomach; Buffy lurched back wards a little but blocked another punch and kicked him in the chest which sent him flying over the edge.
"Buffy behind you!" Willow called inside her head.
Buffy spun and ducked just as another Fish Man threw an axe, which hurtled into it's own crew member and killed him instantly, while Buffy was still ducked she put one of her legs out and kicked the Fish Man in the knee joint, which crippled him to the ground; Buffy got up, drew her sword and chopped off Fish Man's head. She looked around to see how everyone else was doing: Willow was stood next to the wheel and was watching the fight's below, as Willow was able to speak into Buffy's head she realised that Willow must have done a spell where she could speak to the crew in their heads; Faith was sat on a Fish Man and was pounding at his face, another Fish Man was creeping up behind her but before Buffy could do anything Faith, very sharply, rolled of the pounded and the other Fish Man drew his blade into his own crew member on the floor, clearly it showed that Willow had told Faith there was someone behind her otherwise Faith would be split in two; Will and Elizabeth were working together, swords clashing with their enemies, weaving around each other, fighting traditionally, not at all like Buffy and Faith, they both seemed to be handling it but Faith decided to step in anyway and decapitated the one Will was fighting and snapped the neck of the one Elizabeth was fighting.
"Be more imaginative, otherwise sooner or later their gonna know every move you make and will kill you, change your style every so often so they never know what'll hit 'em" Faith told them as she round house kicked another and sliced his torso off his legs.
Buffy smiled amusingly at Faith's speech.
"Buffy!" Willow screamed in her head.
But Buffy's smile faded when she was unable to breathe, an arm - which felt like a tentacle - snaked around her chest, holding her arms down, and squeezed tightly until she was gasping for breath, she tried to break free but was weakening with lack of breath; knowing that this arm was actually a tentacle and he smelled similar to the others that she had killed let her know that she could kill him too, with the free arm he drew out his sword and pointed it out in front of him, at Faith, Will and Elizabeth.
"Buffy!" Faith yelled, she began to run over but the Fish Man held his sword out so she stopped.
"If there be one more move fer you I'll be killin' yer friend" he said, his voice was deep, gritty and slightly gurgled, he brought the sword into himself and the point sat on Buffy's throat, just below her jaw line.
Buffy took in the deepest breath she could and was about to stand on his foot when there was a gunshot and the sword flew out of his hand, cutting Buffy's throat in the process, and the arm around her neck loosened; she unhooked the arm and flipped him over her shoulder, with his arm still in her hand she stood on his face and sharply pulled his arm which caused his neck to snap.
"B?" Faith called.
"I'm fine... get the rest" Buffy spoke, covering her cut with a hand to stop any bleeding, taking a breath after each word.
"Avast!" A Scottish voice called out from the other ship.
The Dutchman crew stopped what they were doing straight away and Buffy and Faith stopped and looked over to the other ship confused.
"I don't see anything" Buffy mumbled, her hand still on her neck.
"You two," The Scottish voice came again, another pirate with a cephalopod - an octopus type creature - for a head came through the side of the boat and stood in front of the two slayers: he had tentacles for a long beard, his left hand had transformed into a tentacle, his right hand was a large pincer and his left leg was now a claw. Buffy, and the others who didn't know him, could guess by his worse physique and fishier smell that he was Davey Jones.
"You two have power" Davey Jones pointed to them both with his pincer.
"TSS, obviously... We're Slayer's dumbass" Faith replied.
Davey Jones's eye's widened at this and he shook his head in disbelief, "Sorry, wha' are you?" he asked.
Buffy came closer to him, she stopped holding onto her neck, letting a small trickle of blood fall down her neck, "Vampire Slayer's... and I bet you're Davey Jones" She replied.
Davey Jones blinked a few times then growled slightly before turning around to leave, "Back to The Dutchman!" he ordered before going through the wooden wall again and stood on his own ship, the remaining crew joined him back onto their ship.
"Next time I'll be back for Jack," Davey Jones told Buffy.
"Then next time I'll kill you" she replied to him before The Flying Dutchmen went underwater.
As soon as the other ship had gone Buffy sighed in pain and held her hand back over the cut on her neck. Everyone that were below deck came up and came over to where Buffy and Faith were, Xander and the rest that were at the opposite end came over and Willow came down from where she could see everything. Nobody had major injuries except Buffy's cut throat; Xander had a deep cut on his arm, the material around it was bloody; Faith had a small cut on her forehead; Spike had a gash on his chest which ran diagonal but it seemed to be healing already; Will had a deep gash on his arm and hand; everyone else, except some crew members, were unhurt.
"That was easy" Buffy mumbled after a moment of silence, taking her hand away and looking at the three tips of her fingers covered in crimson blood.
"You sure no how to make a fella hungry, Goldilocks," Spike mumbled, staring at Buffy's crimson fingers.
"You call that easy?" Will asked, ripping part of his shirt in two halves - he folded one half into a thick rectangle and got Buffy to hold it over the cut while he wrapped the other half around the rectangle and tied it together to stop the bleeding.
"Well once you've killed countless numbers of Vampires and demons; stopped three apocalypse's; charred a giant snake; staked Dracula; ripped the heart out of a smart angry bio-techno-demonoid-thingy and driven a sword through your own boyfriends chest because he was going to let hell loose - literally - things like half-men-half-fish pirates aren't so hard for Buffy" Xander explained as the Scooby's all nodded.
"Well it's about to get worse if we don't start moving" Elizabeth exclaimed.
"Why, what'll happen?" Faith asked.
Will and Elizabeth looked at each other and sighed before looking back at Faith.
"Squid? A... Giant Squid? Bollocks!" Spike said once the Scooby's were filled in about The Kraken.
the Scooby's, Will, Elizabeth and Jack sat in the cabin; Willow sat crossed legged on the floor with her attention on Will and Elizabeth; Spike sat on the ladders which led up to Jack's bunk, a cigarette in his hand; Faith sat on the box which held Jack's affects next to Will, leaning slightly forward so people could see her cleavage and smiling flirtingly; Xander sat on the long bench-like seat next to the huge window with Anya on his lap dressing his wound; Will and Elizabeth sat on the chairs around the huge wooden table, Will sat by Faith and Elizabeth sat between Will and Jack; Jack sat in the 'captain chair', a big wooden chair with dark red pillowing for comfort and two huge arm rests, and he sat very smugly at Spike's comment; Buffy sat on the table next to Jack and above Willow who rolled her eyes at Spike.
"A cephalopod, actually," Willow corrected him; thanking God that she aced biology.
"Yes, The Kraken is a giant squid - or cephalopod - as you put it but no matter how many times we fire off it's tentacles it comes back and almost wipes us out completely" Elizabeth explained.
Willow stopped listening to the conversation going on around her and sat looking at the floor, frowning and moving her lips but not speaking - like she was trying to remember something.
"Well can't we just do what we did to the Mayor...? Blow him up into iddie biddie pieces?" Xander explained, mainly to Buffy.
"No, I don't think so... it sounds like they've already tried that" Buffy shook her head.
"They haven't tried to control it" Willow mumbled, looking up at Buffy.
Willow got up from the floor, "Reville" as soon as Willow spoke a piece of paper flew onto the table next to Buffy out of nowhere; Willow picked up the paper, scanned at the words and smiled.
"What?" Buffy asked.
"I-It's a sort of mind control spell but what happens is the spell kills the object then brings it back so it's in your power... it's a tricky spell, it needs ingredients I've either never used or never heard of but I'm certain I can do it" Willow explained to everyone.
Everything was quiet for a while until Buffy spoke.
"Another spell? Willow; look around... if it wasn't for one of your spells we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place... I don't like the sound of this spell... I think we should try something else"
"Well I think it's a good idea... so what if Willow messed up earlier, she could do this" Faith exclaimed.
"It's too dangerous Faith, who knows what may happen"
"It's probably more dangerous not to try Goldilocks... I think you should give Red a chance" Spike said, cigarette still in his mouth, cleaning his nails.
"Yeah, either way we would probably die so why not try the one where we might actually survive" Anya explained, Xander laughed and kissed her on the head.
Buffy looked around the room at her friends and the three people she didn't even know.
"So that's it then? I'm out-voted?" Buffy asked as she got up from the table," Willow, this spell better work" she said before leaving the cabin and sitting on the stairs out in the companionway.
"So would you be able to do it?" Will asked Willow.
"Yeah, pretty sure... there's just a few ingredients I need to get... do pirates happen to have a magic shop by any chance?"
Will and Elizabeth nodded, "Looks like were off to see Jack's old friend again" Elizabeth mumbled to herself.