TBP: All righty then. Control is mine!
Ekari: Wait a minute what happens in this chapter?
Furfaidz: Isn't it when Will and Emily meet the krak--*Is hit by a pillow*
TBP: Don't ruin the surprise!
Chapter 25
The Edinburgh Trader sailed in the water. But the ship wasn't the concern. It was the two new people aboard it. Will and Emily had both their feet in a large hot bucket and were covered in blankets, holding a mug of hot tea.
"S-so cold." Emily shivered. "Why was it so cold out there?"
"I swear, it's like a caribbean winter here!" Megan said, appearing behind Emily. Emily spun around, surprised to see her friend.
"Meg-!" Emily started
"AH!" Megan said, grabbing Emily's head to look at the captain. "Look forward and keep me a secret."
"Strange thing to come upon a longboat so far out in open waters." the captain said
"Just put as many leagues behind us as you can, as fast as you can." Will said
"And what are we running from?"
"Please. Don't ask." Emily said, holding up a hand. She took a sip from her mug when Will saw two dresses on a large barrel.
"Those dresses. Where did you get them?" Will asked, standing to go to the dresses.
"What dresses?" Emily asked. Megan smacked he forehead before moving Emily's head to the direction of the dresses.
"Oh.... Oh!" Emily said when it clicked. She stood up and threw off her blanket to see the dresses. Megan walked over to them.
"They look familiar?" Megan asked, a playful smirk on her face.
"They were found aboard the ship. The men thought they were an omen of ill fate." The captain said
"That's foolish." Will said
"I'll say." Emily said under her breath.
"Ah, yes, exceedingly foolish." Said one sailor
"They brought good fortune. The spirits told us pull in at Tortuga, and we made a nice bit of profit there." said the second, as if reminding the other two of what happened with the "spirits".
"Off the books, of course." The captain said
"That's cool." Emily said, nodding her head.
"... What?" the captain asked
"Nothing." Emily responded. Megan laughed at her friend. Will put the dress down.
"I imagine some of your crew may have jumped ship there." Will asked, turning back to face the captain.
"Why do you ask?" The captain asked
"None of your busin-"
"Emi!" Megan said, pulling down Emily's fist. "Wait for it..."
"Captain, a ship's been spotted." said a sailor stopping on the stairs.
"Colors?" the captain asked
"She isn't flying any." the sailor said, clearly afraid of what that meant.
"Pirates!" the captain aid, as if spitting on the word.
"Or worse." Will said, knowing full well what was worse than pirates. Emily moved to go up the stairs like the captain and the sailors but Megan pulled her back.
"We're the best of friends right?" Megan said
"Uh, duh!" Emily said. "We're friends til the end!"
"Awesome." Megan said. "I'll be right back!" With a snap of her fingers, Megan vanished.
MMMMM
Hiding behind the mob that held Bootstrap Bill, Megan stood back and watched as Davy turned from looking at the Edinburgh Trader to glare at Bootstrap. He then strode over to him and grabbed his head with his crab claw.
"You will watch this!" He growled. Megan got chills from hearing those words. Davy walked over to a railing where he overlooked his crew spinning a capstan, occasionally being whipped by the bo'sun. Slowly, the center of the wheel started to rise.
"Let no joyful voice be heard!" Davy yelled. "Let no man look up at the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake... the Kraken!"
"NO!!!" Bootstrap yelled. The center of the capstan fell, making a large pulse through the water. Megan looked away and snapped her fingers.
EEEEEMMMMM
Megan appeared on the deck of the Edinburgh Trader. The captain was there too, looking back at the Dutchman through a spyglass. She looked up to the rigging and Saw Emily and Will were both up there. Megan smiled and snapped her fingers. She grabbed a rope and kept her balance while Emily clung to Will.
"Afraid of heights Em's?" Megan asked
"Shut up you poofy headed freak!" Emily yelled
"I've doomed us all." Will said looking at the Dutchman.
"Yep." Megan said, nodding her head.
"It's the Flying Dutchman!" Will yelled down to the crew. There was a sudden jolt in the whole ship that made the crew fall to the deck and Will to fall off the yardarm. He grabbed onto a rope and was hanging onto it for dear life.
"Will!" Emily screamed when he fell. "Megan, tell me what's happening!"
"Just stay up here!" Megan said before snapping her fingers to appear on the deck.
"Mother Carrie's chickens! What happened?" said one sailor
"Must've hit a reef!" said another sailor. The two got up and went to their captain, who was at the railing, passing through Megan first.
"Famous last words." she said, shaking her head.
"Free the rudder! Hard to port, then hard to starboard!" said the captain.
"Free the rudder!" the first sailor said
"Hard to port!" The second sailor said. Nobody noticed the tentacle that reached out of the water and over the to pull the captain underwater. When the two sailors looked back, they saw a tentacle in the distance raise the captain out of the water before pulling him under again.
"KRAKEN!!!" the sailor yelled. That one yell sent all the other sailors onboard in a frenzy, running on the deck to grab weapons and ring the ships bell. Megan ran around the deck in circles, her arms waving wildly in the air.
"Rawr! I'm a tentacle!" she yelled. "I'm a tentacle! Fear me! I'm a tentacle!" Slowly the kraken's tentacles made their way onto the sides of the ship before going up and over the railing.
"They're here!" said a sailor, waving Cheyenne and Elizabeth's dress. "Take them, take them!" Emily clung to the mast and watched in fear at the people below her, running for their very lives from the tentacles, only to end up being captured and taken down into the water.
"Oh my dear sweet God." Emily said. Will grabbed Bootstraps knife and plunged it into the sail, letting go of the rope and sliding down. Before he could hit the deck, he grabbed a rope.
"Nice reflexes." Megan said, right below him. He put the knife in his mouth and started climbing up onto the yardarm to move to the ratlines. Emily reached out for him, in hopes it would make him get to her faster.
"Emily!" Will called out
"Will!" Emily yelled. "BEHIND YOU!" When Will reached the yardarm Emily was on, a tentacle wound its way up the ratlines. Will pulled out his sword and swung it, in hopes it would drive the tentacle away. It sliced into the tentacle, making it go away.
"As scary, as this is," Megan said, appearing next to Emily, "it's pretty cool." Then the two largest tentacles the kraken has, rose up, high above the ship. they stood still. But like the calm in the storm, it never lasts. They soon fell, cracking the ship in half and lifting the sides up so that those on deck would slide into the beasts mouth. When the ship broke, Emily lost her grip.
"Ems!" Megan yelled, Grabbing Emily's hand.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! Megs! Help me!" Emily yelled.
"I'm trying but you're heavy!" Megan yelled. The mast was then broken by a tentacle, sending the two girls falling into its mouth.
"AAAAH!" Emily screamed as she fell, Megan clinging to her. Then, Megan snapped her fingers. The two appeared under water. Emily burst through the surface and looked at the wreckage nearby. Will was coming to her,swimming with a large piece of wood. But Emily looked and didn't see Megan.
"Megs? Megan?" She said. She turned in time to see her bob on the surface before dropping below the small waves.
"Megan!" Emily yelled diving into the water to save her friend. She grabbed her hand and pulled her up and onto the wood.
"Megs, wake up." Emily said, shaking Megan and gently smacking her face.
"Emily, we have to leave." Will said, trying to pull Emily away from Megan.
"No, wait! Megan!" Emily yelled before being pulled away.
"... Nnghh?" Megan said, slowly coming to. What she did with her and Emily really took a lot out of her. She held her aching head as she felt something grab the back of her shirt and pull her onto a deck before dropping her on the ground. She looked to her left and through her haze saw the Trader's men on their knees, crewman from the Dutchman behind them, weapons at the ready. She tried moving her hands, but someone tied them together behind her back. Shaking her head, she looked over to Davy before looking behind her and seeing Will's head peck over the edge.
"The boy's not here. He must have been claimed by the sea." Maccus said, coming up to his captain.
"I am the sea." he said before going over to Bootstrap. Megan turned her attention back to the cursed captain. "You need some time alone with your thoughts. Brig!" Bootstrap was hauled off and out of sight. Davy walked by the captured crewmen, glancing at Megan as she turned her attention to the deck.
"What of the survivors?" Maccus asked. Megan looked up at Davy once more. This time with pure shaking fear.
"There are no survivors..." Davy said walking away before stopping, the Dutchman's crew's weapons in the air. "Except... her." Megan gasped and flinched as some splatters of blood from the slaughtered men nearby splashed on her jacket and face. Davy stood over her, his hat making him appear to have horns like the devil.
"Well..." he said. Megan looked down at the deck once more. "If you know so much, where is it? Where is my key?" Tired with Megan's silence, he grabbed her throat with his crab claw and lifted her up. "WHERE IS IT?"
"Please Davy, don't kill me." Megan said, the tears streaming from her eyes. He glared into her green eyes and sighed angrily before he opened his claw. Megan fell to her knees painfully. Davy turned his back to her. Megan took the time to try to calm her self down. Davy grabbed the sword that was at his hip and raised it up, bringing it down on Megan, almost. She snapped her fingers when she saw it up in the air and didn't want to guess what he was going to do with it. Davy glared at the spot where Megan was before he sheathed his sword, turning to the man that was part pufferfish.
"The chest is no longer safe. Chart a course for Isla Cruces. Get me there first or there'll be the devil to pay." Davy said
"First?" the man said, confused.
"Who sent that thieving charlatan onto my ship? Who told them of the key?" Davy said, before turning out to the ocean. "Jack Sparrow!"
CCCCCHHHHHJJJJJMMMMM
Megan appeared on deck. Well, she appeared above it and fell on her side onto it. When she yelled, it drew the attention of those who could see her.
"Hey Meg-whoooa." Janice said. "What happened to you?" Megan still had blood on her face and jacket, bloodshot eyes from her moment of crying, tear stains on her cheeks, incredibly wet hair, and her hands were still tied behind her back.
"I, uh... Don't want to talk about it." Megan said. "Just untie me."
Ekari: Is it just me, or does Davy really not like Jack?
Furfaidz: That's not all he doesn't like... Or-*is smacked by another pillow*
TBP: The drama levels seem pretty high... Review please!
Furfaidz: Do it! Or we'll sick the kraken on you!
TBP: Oh, and the I'm a tentacle thing Megan does was mentioned in the Dead Man's chest "making of" thing talking about the kraken.
Ekari: Apparently, Gore Verbinski actually ran around the deck doing that when the kraken was attacking.
Furfaidz: Whatever. Review!
