Norrington
After that little fiasco with my guns, I was told to wait and receive orders from the captain. I waited for an hour and the captain came to my cabin. "Welcome aboard the Nightingale sir. Please, have a seat." He did and I asked him, "Would you like rum, whiskey, or tea?"
"I would like tea please. I've had enough rum to last me a few lifetimes. What do you have?"
"I have Earl Grey, green tea, chai tea, and regular," I listed off.
"I'll take green tea. It helps your immune system."
"Good choice sir." I made it and in ten minutes it was done. "So, what orders do you have for me today sir?"
"I want you to sail as fast as you can to the coast of Tripoli, and get the Dauntless."
I nearly spat out my tea when he said this. "Orders from Beckett I presume?"
"No, they're from me. If what Emily told me is true, then we need Norrington on our side," Jones said taking a sip of his tea. "From what I hear, he hates Beckett as much as we do. So, I need you Adrian, to sail to the coast as fast as you can, get it, and return."
"How long do I have to do this?"
"In order for you not to be noticed, it's a long shot but, three days."
"That's cutting it close sir. But, if I can use Calli to pull the ship, we just might make it."
"Then let's call her shall we," he asked smiling.
My crew got on the capstan hammer I had below decks, and called up our beloved Calli. "Oh it's so good to see you again," I said hugging one of her tentacles. She gave an approving rumble at this like 'I missed you guys too.'
"Calli my dear pet," called the captain. She swam over and caressed his face with a tentacle. "I missed you too. Now, I have a job for you. I need you to take Adrian and his crew to the coast of Tripoli and retrieve the HMS DAUNTLESS. But, we need you there in a day and a half, so you can get back here unnoticed, so as to not raise suspicion. You got that?"
Calli raised one of her tentacles in a salute gesture.
"Good. Now Adrian is going to have to tie himself to your largest tentacles, so as to not get buffeted too much by the underwater currents, okay?"
She raised them both and swam to the front of the Nightingale. "Thank you Calli. Come on you lazy dogs! Tie us off good so we can get underway!" As some of them were doing that, I yelled to the others of my crew, "Tie off everything as best you can! With the speed we'll be going, I don't want anything flying off my ship. IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?"
"AYE SIR!"
"Step to it then!" I watched as they put the ropes around her. It took a few minutes, after that was done I yelled, "Down then!" We were under the waves and we were off. For the first few hours I just sat in my cabin. I was getting bored with just sitting there, so I ventured on deck. I looked to see if everything was secure, when I saw that all was well I decided to talk to Calli. "So, how was your nap?"
Growl.
"It couldn't have been that bad. We had to keep you safe."
Whine.
"I know it must have sucked. But, look on the bright side. We kept you safe, and after the next battle, you can eat as many people as you want."
Rumble.
"I knew you'd like that idea. There is one ship in particular I want you to stop though."
She did an impression of a whale. I took that as to mean 'Which one?'
"It's called the Endeavour. It's the one where a man named Cutler Beckett is on. He is the one who wants to hurt the captain."
Roar!
"I know, I know. When all of this is over though, I don't want you to sink it."
Growl.
"I know you're confused at this request. But, I have a plan for it."
Rumble.
"I can't tell you just yet. Just trust me okay?"
Rumble.
"Thanks. Oh, are we almost there by any chance?"
Rumble.
"How much farther?" She showed me 12 with her tentacles. "Twelve hours to go huh? We made good time." I walked along the deck checking and rechecking to see that everything was good.
Rumble.
"We're here good." I turned and called, "ALL HANDS ON DECK!" My crew assembled before me. "Alright, as you know we only have a few hours at most to find the Dauntless and bring her back to the Dutchman. So I suggest that we keep a weather eye for the remains. She was sunk by a hurricane. So, I'm hoping that she isn't too damaged. Calli," I got a rumble slash growl. "You are our biggest asset, and you have better eyesight than we do. I want you to find the Dauntless and report back to me if you find it. When you come back, show us the way and we'll follow. Okay?"
Rumble.
"Okay then. I want you lot to untie us and unfurl all the sail we have! We don't have time to lose here!"
"AYE CAPTAIN!"
In a few moments we were underway, and as per her orders, Calli went off on her own. "Now I want us to do a grid pattern to search for her. We turn every thousand feet, understood?"
"YES SIR!"
I took out my spy glass, and searched for her myself. Twenty and five minutes later, Calli came back. "I see you found it Calli. Show us the way girl." She turned and went off to the north east. "Follow her!" As she swam, she only made minor adjustments to her course. I did so accordingly. In what seemed no time at all, we found the remains of the Dauntless. She looked pretty good. A few cosmetic problems, but nothing I couldn't fix. "Good job Calli."
Rrrr.
"You deserve the praise. You did well." I turned to my crew and told them, "I want this ship tied off to her tentacles you swabs, step to it!" Before they even had a chance to Calli did something weird. She descended upon the Dauntless and when she moved again, it was gone. "Where's the ship Calli?" She moved a few of her smaller tentacles and revealed the ship. "Good thinking girl. I want you swabs to tie us off, NOW!" In under five minutes we were tied off and heading back to the captain. I stayed out and enjoyed the fast moving current around me. It was like being above water with the wind in my face. In no time at all, or so it seemed, we were underneath the Dutchman. "Untie us boys, and raise the ship."
"Aye sir!"
'When this is all over, they'll be getting a pay raise,' I thought to myself. I teleported over to the captain's cabin and he was nowhere to be found. 'Must be on the Endeavour,' I thought. I looked behind us and we were towing Sao Feng's ship. 'Elizabeth must be here then.' I went ot the brig and found Emily coming up. "She's here isn't she?"
"You mean Elizabeth? Yeah, she's here. She was looking for Bootstrap."
"That figures." I looked on her shoulder and saw a little crab there. "And who's this here?"
"This is Mr. Claw. I found him wandering the ship," she said petting him.
"You get sword fighting lessons from Maccus yet?"
"How? Wait, I remember what you told me now. And yes I am." She was staring at something that must've been behind me. "Speak of the devil and he shall appear."
"You didn't forget about your lessons today did ye?"
"No Maccus, I haven't. I bumped into Adrian here, and we were talking. Sorry if I made you wait."
"That's okay. Oh Adrian?"
"Yes Maccus?"
"The captain wants to know, did you get it?"
"Aye, that I did. Now, you two better get to training." As they sauntered off, I watched them. It looked like Emily was a natural. She was letting her instincts dictate her actions. Next thing I know there was a commotion on deck. 'Great, Norrington let them out.' I went to the disturbance and got there just before Bootstrap.
"Stand down sailor!"
"Don't worry about it James. I won't raise the alarm."
He had a perplexed look on his face when he asked, "Why not?"
"You, the captain, the crew, Jack, Elizabeth, my crew, and I have the same common enemy. We all hate Beckett. Some more than most, but just the same, we have a common enemy. Now, if you let me speak, I can tell you how we can get rid of him."
"I'm listening."
"Well then, it's a good thing I got here before Bootstrap Bill did. Cause if he was here, he would have raised the alarm and you would be dead. But, since I'm here, I can tell you that if you joined us, you could help us get rid of the biggest thorn in our sides. Just to let you in on a little secret. Beckett doesn't have a hold on Jones anymore."
He blanched.
"Don't worry about it. We still have to act like we're under E.I.T.C. control so Beckett doesn't know what we're up to see? You see, while you guys captured Elizabeth and the crew of the Empress, I was out getting the Dauntless from the bottom of the sea. You James Norrington are essential to my plan to right the wrongs that little prick wrought. Right now, she's right underneath the Dutchman waiting for her captain to return."
"What do you want me to do?"
"I'm sorry to have to do this James."
"Do what?"
I stabbed him through his gut. "This. Now, I have to ask, do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you, an escape. One hundred years before the mast! Will ye serve?"
He nodded his head.
"Welcome to the crew!" I turned to Elizabeth, "You better get moving. The Brethren Court is waiting."
"You just killed him! What the hell were you thinking?!"
"He's going to be fine. Now, pardon me. ALL HANDS! PRISONER ESCAPE!"
Elizabeth got on the rope that tied off the ships, and I fired at it with Norrington's pistol.
The crew got there just as James was getting up. The captain appeared moments later.
"Welcome back Mr. Jacobs. I hear that you got it."
"Yes sir, with a little help from Calli."
He turned to Norrington then. "I see Adrian gave you the choice. You with us then?"
"Aye Captain Jones."
"We're going to have to say that you're dead mate. That's a part of the plan."
He just looked at me.
"I'll explain later. For now, we have to get you off the ship."
"You said my ship was underneath the Dutchman right?"
"Aye. Captain?"
"Get this corpse off my deck!"
Norrington took that as his queue, and jumped overboard.
"Guys," I asked.
"The Admiral's dead? Admiral James is dead?"
"To the captain's cabin," I shouted. There was pandemonium and we reached the cabin with Mercer holding the keys.
"The Dutchman is under my command."
"For now-uh."
"That was great sir. Now all we have to do, is wait for the Brethren."
