Chapter ten: The pain
They had just got on the ship, and Jack was already telling Destiny what to do.
"Luv, I want you to stay in the cabin."
"why?"
"Because I said so, that's why."
"That doesn't mean I'm gonna stay," she said limping to the cabin.
"What was that?"
'Nothing," she said in a sweet voice.
Jack turned around and Destiny closed the door, but didn't go in.
"Where's the Commodore," Gibbs asked.
"He feel behind," Destiny said.
"What did I just tell you," Jack said clutching his jar of dirt. She just shrugged. "Fine,' Jack said.
Just then The Flying Dutchman popped out of the water by the Pearl. Everybody looked up in fright. Destiny hid behind Ragetti and Pintel. Jack pushed Gibbs out the way.
"I'll handle this, mate. Oi, fish face." He held up the jar of dirt. "Lose something, aye?" Jack was about to say something else but lost his footing.
The crew, "Ooh'ed," as Jack feel. Destiny hit her head in annoyance. Jack held the jar in the air. "Got it"
"Come to negotiate, eh, have you, you slimy git. Look what I got," Jack said holding it up in the air. "I got a jar of di-rt, I got a jar of di-rt, and guess what's inside it," he sang.
"Enough," Davy said. Then the canons slid out. (on Davy's ship)
Jack stopped smiling
"Hard the starboard," he said with the jar still in the air.
"Hard the starboard," Elizabeth shouted.
Gibbs turned the wheel frantically to turn the Pearl.
"Raise up the foreyard," Will said.
"What am I to do, what am I to do, what am I to do," Destiny said with her hands on her head, and running around. "I can't run and I can't walk well."
"Well, you look fine to me," Pintel said.
"What's because I'm in panic."
"Well, stay in panic then," Ragetti said.
"I can't stay in panic." Just then a cannon ball came rushing by Destiny. "Never mind," she said then started to run around again screaming.
"Destiny luv," Jack said grabbing her arms. "There falling behind. You can stop screaming now," he said shaking her. "Oh luv, your shaking."
"It's because your shaking me," she said trying to get Jack to let go of her.
"They've giving up," yelled Marty.
"My father is on that ship. If we can outrun her, we can take her. We should turn and fight," Will said to Jack.
"Why fight when you can negotiate? All one needs is the proper leverage," Jack said tapping the lid on the jar of dirt. Just then the Pearl shudders to a halt, making the jar fall and crash.
"Well, that's a waste," Destiny said following Jack down the steps.
"Where is it? Where's the thump, thump," he said shifting through the dirt.
"We must've hit the reef," a sailor shouted, pointing to the bubbling water.
"No," Will said to himself. "It's not a reef!" He grabbed Elizabeth. "Get away from the rail!"
"What is it?"
"The Kraken. To arms."
"Load guns, defend the mast," Destiny said going below.
"It'll attack the starboard, I've seen it before. Roll out the cannons and hold for my signal"
The crew started filling the cannons. Destiny tapped Ragetti and Pintel on the shoulders.
"What is it?"
She pointed at the porthole. "I see tentacles," she said.
"Easy boys," Will said.
"Um, Will," Destiny said.
"Steady. Steady."
"Will," Elizabeth said.
"Hold. Hold."
"I think we held fire long enough," Pintel said.
'Will," shouted Elizabeth and Destiny.
"Fire," shouted Will. All the cannons went off, making Destiny fall on her face. "Ow," she said not sounding like she was in pain. Ragetti and Pintel quickly helped her up.
The crew cheered that the kraken retreated.
"It'll be back. We have to get off the ship," Will said.
"There's no boats," Elizabeth said looking at the broken boats. Just then a barrel of powder rolled across the deck.
"Pull the grates; get all the gunpowder onto the net in the cargo hold." Will handed Elizabeth a rifle. "Whatever you do, don't miss."
"As soon as your clear."
"Will, We're short-stocked on gunpowder. Six barrel," Destiny said.
"There's only half a dozen kegs of powder," Gibbs said to Will.
"Then load the rum," Will said.
"He must be crazy," Destiny said.
After some hesitation, "Aye. The rum too," Gibbs said. The crew started whining over the rum.
Destiny looked at her hand. "It's worth it," she said then ran up on deck.
"Hurry men, hurry." she looked to the side to see Jack rowing away. "Better him then me," she said, then fell again. "This is not my day. My leg is already in so much pain."
"Not good," she heard Marty say.
She looked up. "Not good at all"
The kraken smashed its tentacles onto the deck on both sides.
"Heave," Yelled Gibbs.
"Heave like you're being paid for it," Destiny shouted rubbing the blood off her cheek and forehead. The kraken started throwing sailors left and right, and breaking everything down below.
Not to far away from the Pearl, was Jack in a row boat. Jack stopped. He looked at the ship, then at the island. He pulled out his compass, and the arrow spun to the ship. The ship with all the people he knew, and his most beloved treasure in the whole entire world. "How can I leave me own daughter like that," he whispered to himself.
On the ship, tentacles were every where. Destiny was trying so hard to keep the saltwater from her face. It was burning every cut and scratch on her face. Not to mention, her left side was really starting to bleed, and her leg were about to give out. She looked to see Elizabeth getting dragged away, and saw Ragetti sever the tentacle.
"Should've just let her go for the pain she just put me through.
She started to go toward Elizabeth, but just then a tentacle grabbed her left leg, she gave a surprise scream, and fell flat on her face.(I'm just letting her have it, aren't I?)
Ragetti grabbed her hands before she was taken. "I've got you," Ragetti said.
"I don't think I can hold on," she said. She felt like her arms were going to break, and she felt blood running down her leg. Her heart was beating fast. Her hands were wet and slippery, and so were Ragetti. She looked at her hand with the black spot. Then there was a blast, and it made Destiny lose her grip. The kraken's tentacle drug her in the ocean. She plunged face down, hard.
just one more chapter to go...
hoped you enjoyed this one.