oh my.it seems that some of my reviewers were rather angrified at Barbossa.nevertheless,I thank all of you for reviewing,and I wish that more of you would.as mentioned in the previous chapter,I hope to achieve 200+ reviews by the end of the story.if you help me do that,I'll give you a cookie…or something.
Warnings:as previously mentioned,this is chapter 25,so this will have a character death at the end.please no one kill me.
Disclaimer:I don't own the characters(except the four girls),movies,rights to sell merchandise;I've never met any of the actors and I don't harass them.shocking.
Shocking Update:as it would seem,I'm no longer unhealthily obsessed with POTC.nope.i've moved into a "Metalocalypse" phase,as it would seem.i'll still post POTC fiction cuz as of still doesn't have a "Metalocalypse" category.otherwise I'd attack it.
Note:this is chapter 25,so this is also the last chapter in Leah's POV.from chapter 26 to the end(chapter 31),the story will resume in Kennie's POV.also,please point out to me any spelling errors my spellcheck may have overlooked and i'll fix it as soon as i can.
Copyrights:I own the story and four girls.steal and I'll chop off yer manbits.if you're a girl and don't have manbits…I'll shoot mooses at you.so don't steal less you want to feel the wrath of my moose.
"Jack, NO!" I cried, trying to push him back below deck. "You're still recovering!"
"You're in no shape to be fighting, Jack," Will said. I noticed that the ships were very close together. Barbossa could easily lean over and slice Jack up if they were both standing by the side. (AN:I don't know if it's physically possible for ships to be that close together,but fly with me,okay?)
"Jack, don't do it!" Steffie said. "Kennie loves you!" He raised and eyebrow. Kennie looked shocked.
"I do not!" she said, crossing her arms.
"Oh yeah, so how did your meeting with Jack go?" I asked. Kennie shrugged it off.
"Always ends in heartbreak, as it would seem," she sighed. I hit Jack, harder than I had intended to. He grimaced in pain, but did not recoil.
"Jack!" I yelled. "Stop breaking Kennie's heart! You're such a horrible person!" Jack rubbed his arm on the spot where I had hit him.
"Pirate," he said. "Now, all of you girls listen to me. Go down to the lower deck and barricade yourselves in my cabin. If you look hard enough, you can find various weapons to arm yourselves with." (AN:actually the captain's quarters is located below the quarterdeck,platform with the helm on it,and wouldn't provide much protection if the pirates happened to be boarding.but I wrote the rough draft before I knew that.fly with me again.)
"We're not leaving you Jack," Monnie said. "Not again." Kennie still had not said anything since she last denied loving Jack, but even still, one might have thought that she'd try to stop him. Maybe she really doesn't love him…
"Let's go." It was Kennie. She moved towards the lower deck, but none of us followed.
"Kennie," I said. "You're just going to leave?" She shrugged.
"The captain's ordering us to protect ourselves," she replied. "So long as we're on his ship, we have to obey him, hypothetically. Right?"
"Right," Jack said. "And right now I'm ordering you to be safe. Now go." Kennie nodded.
"I want you to be safe too," she said. We had no choice but to follow her down to the lower deck, and she let us descend first. Before she followed behind us, she turned back to face him.
"You will be safe, right?" she asked. Jack glanced at her.
"No guarantees," he said, and forced a feeble smile. Kennie returned the smile as best she could and followed the rest of us to the lower deck. We all barricaded ourselves in Jack's cabin, as he told us to. Once we were all inside and the door was securely locked, we bombarded Kennie with questions.
"Why don't you love Jack? I thought you loved him." "What happened with your talk with him?" "I still think you love Jack. Don't you?" "Why did you say it ended in heartbreak?" –
"SHUT UP!" she yelled. She rubbed her forehead and sighed. "One at a time. Leah."
"Why do you keep denying that you love Jack? It's obvious that you do," I said.
"…Next question. Steffie."
"Hey!"
"Take what you get," Kennie replied. Steffie beamed.
"Okay, what happened with your meeting with Jack?" she asked.
"We talked." Steffie blinked.
"That's it?" she questioned. "Then how did it end in heartbreak?"
"Oh, that," Kennie said. "Well, Jack was convinced that I'm in love with him, which I'm not, so naturally I kept denying it. I think he finally gave up on me, because he said that if that's truly what I fee, and I don't have to talk to him or anything anymore."
"Aww," Monnie said. "So do you or do you not love Jack?" Kennie raised an eyebrow. "The truth."
"Hon, I just said I don't," she said.
"The truth," Monnie repeated. Kennie bit her lip and didn't answer for a while.
"I'm not completely sure," she said, "but I think I do. Don't quote me on that or anything. Like I said, I'm really not sure." I squealed.
"I KNEW IT!" I said. "You keep denying it, but I knew you'd come through! All it took was a little heartbreak." I grinned and she scowled.
"Is that why you kept denying it?" Monnie asked. "Because he was being mean to you?"
"For the most part, I guess," Kennie replied. "Also 'cause I knew that if I did admit it to you guys, you'd probably try to set me up with me or something and never leave me alone about it. But now that you guys do know, I guess I'm pretty screwed now, aren't it?"
"Not exactly," Steffie said. "We'll try to be nice to you."
"Well," Kennie said, "I guess another reason of my denial would be that this was just my way of getting his attention…sub-consciously."
"Or something like that," Steffie said. Kennie shrugged.
"Something like that," she agreed. Guns were heard upstairs. Through the window, we saw pirates falling into the water.
"Did we cover everything yet, or are you going to smother me some more?" Kennie inquired.
"I think we covered everything," I said.
"YOUR TURN," Steffie said, slapping me arm.
"OOWWWW!"
"Do you love Will?"
"OF COURSE I DO!"
"Do you want to be with him forever?"
"OF COURSE I DO! YOU HIT ME!" She rubbed my arm where she had him me and smiled. I pouted at her.
"OH! I have a question for Kennie!" I squealed.
"Eh?"
"Do you want to be with him forever?"
"EH?" More gun shots. Kennie, distracted, ran to the window. Although I suspect that she was deliberately avoiding my question. She peered out the window and tried to see what was going on back up on the upper deck.
"Kennie, you're deliberately avoiding my question!" I said. "Do you really think that just by looking out the window that you can avoid me?" I got no answer, and Monnie began to sing "A Pirate's Life For Me", like she did when we were going through her washing machine.
"Now, Leah, when you said 'do you want to be with him forever', we were on the topic of Will. When you asked me your question, were you referring to Jack or Will?" Kennie asked.
"Jack, of course," I said. "Will's mine. Besides, you said you love Jack, not Will. OH! Do you still hate him?"
"Maybe." I huffed at her. More gun shots, and this time, the metallic clang of swords was also met. We all held our breath, because we knew that Jack, Will, and Connor were very outnumbered. But maybe, it was only Jack and Barbossa fighting.
My thoughts were cut short as we heard Will shout "NO!" and a thump came at our door. Steffie cautiously stepped towards the door, but just as she reached out for the door handle, the door burst open, swinging Steffie against the wall. A pirate rushed into the room, jumped on me, and pinned me to Jack's bed. I started screaming.
"NO! NO! LEMME GO!" Kennie grabbed a pistol from the bedside table, cocked it as she brought it up, and fired it at the opposite wall. The pirate ignored the warning, but stopped suddenly. He keeled over and fell on the floor. I looked up, straightening my shirt. Will rushed to my side. He was holding a pistol.
"Leah, are you all right?" he asked. I threw my arms around him, and he jumped slightly in surprise.
"It was really gross Will! He touched me!" I screamed. "I COULD HAVE DIED!" He hugged me back.
"It's okay, you have your friends here to help you," he said. "I have to go back and help Jack and Connor." He turned to go. "Oh, and Kendra, don't be afraid to kill them. If you have to, do it. they don't respond to warning shots like that."
"I'll keep that in mind," she replied, slightly annoyed.
"Wait, Will!" I yelled. He whirled around. "How are Jack and Connor?"
"Yes, how are they?" Steffie asked, emerging from behind the door.
"Doing poorly, unfortunately," Will replied. "Jack's fighting Barbossa again, and in his current state, I'd say the advantage is not with him. Connor and I are trying to keep Barbossa's crew under control."
"How's Jack?" Kennie asked.
"Doing bad again," Will said. "He can't use his arm still, so like I said, Barbossa had the advantage." He hurried towards the door. "I really have to go now. Connor needs my help. You four make sure you stay safe." He hurried back in and dragged the pirate body out before rushing out the door and closing it. Monnie walked up to the door and observed it.
"We have no more lock," she said. "A chair's not going to hold it either. What do we do now?"
"I don't know," I said, worried.
"Are you still worried about the door lock?" Kennie said, heatedly. "We need to help them! Barbossa's likely to kill Jack if we don't help them!"
"How?" I asked, urgently. "What can we do?" Kennie sat down on the bed and put her chin in her hand, obviously in deep thought.
"I've got it!" she said, jumping up. "Steffie, has Connor showed you around the ship at all?"
"Uh…yeah…" she answered.
"Did he show you the attack room?"
"No, he didn't."
"Then we'll just have to wing it," Kennie said. "Come on!" She grabbed a pistol and a dagger and walked out the door. We followed curiously.
"Kennie, where are we going?" Monnie asked, as the rest of us looked out for pirates. We heard some scuffling, but I didn't see anything.
"Attack room," she replied. "We're going to send Barbossa and his crew to that special circle in hell."
"The one reserved just for them!" Monnie said. Kennie nodded, grinning.
"Okay," Steffie said. "How?" Kennie stopped.
"I don't know," she replied. "Like I said, we're just going to have to wing it." She pushed open a random door, and low and behold, it was the attack room! A few pirates were in the room, but before they could even look up, Kennie pulled out her pistol and shot them. I screamed.
"KENNIE!"
"Will said to shoot them!" she retorted. "So if you're going to blame anyone, blame your boyfriend!" I blushed.
"Will's not my boyfriend!" I protested.
"Whatever," Kennie said. "Now shut up and help me load some ammunition into these cannons!"
"Is that your plan?" I asked.
"For now it is," she replied. She kicked aside the bodies and heaved a ball into the first cannon. Monnie loaded the second cannon. Now there was just the issue of lighting them. Kennie searched the dead pirates, and found some matches on one of them (AN:did they use matches?I'm not sure).
"Awesome!" I said. "Now light them!" Monnie took a match from Kennie, striked them against the side of the cannon, and lit each fuse. Seconds later, both of them went off. Holes exploded in the side of the Pearl, and I could hear Jack screaming at us.
"OIY! I TOLD YOU GIRLS TO STAY IN MY CABIN! NOW GO BACK AND STOP BLOWING HOLES IN MY SHIP!"
"Your fault," I said.
"Okay, didn't think of that," Kennie said. "Change of plans, follow me!" She searched the dead pirates until she found their guns and then rushed out of the attack room, and still not knowing what was going on, the rest of us followed. Turns out she had headed for the upper deck, and started helping Jack out by shooting the pirates on board the Pearl. We were shocked at her violent outburst.
Once all the gunfire had ceased, the rest of us emerged on the upper deck. Our first concern was Jack, and we rushed to his side immediately. He was badly injured, but still alive. We were victorious. Barbossa lay dead in the water. Jack had put a bullet in him.
But were we really victorious? Yes, the evil villain in the story was dead, but the rivalrous war had claimed one of our own. For amongst the numerous dead pirates on the deck of the Black Pearl lay someone we knew.
Connor, captain of the Firecrest, was dead.
End Chapter 25
please no one kill me.yes,the character death mentioned was connor.my friend "steffie" was really sad when I told her that I killed off her boyfriend.XD
oh man I did some major editing to this.a lot of the events that happened in this chapter were not at all like the events that happened in the rough draft.i changed a lot of stuff.oh well.i like it better.
Does anyone know if "rivalrous" is a word?I kinda just made it up as I was typing this.oh well.
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