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TBP: And us...

Furfaidz:... Up to date with the happenings so far, last chapter, the battle in the maelstrom started. But in this one, it only gets better.

TBP: On with the chapter!

Chapter 25

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Jones and Jack fought incredibly well for balancing on a mast, and holding onto a chest. Davy managed to kick at Jack's arm that held the chest. Megan reached for it, but it fell too quickly. She watched and waited for her right moment tko take the chest for her own. Then she realized she was very high up and closed her eyes.

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The storm was vicious. Water fell fast, the wind blew hard, cannons were fired from both ships to destroy each other in the whirlpool. Janice and Emily met each other on the deck near the railing. They shook hands, noticing the ropes above them with the other ends being held by sailors and the cursed crew of the Dutchman.

"It was nice being friends." Janice said

"It ain't over yet." Emily said. Other pirates from the Pearl swung across as sailors and fishmen swung toward them. Janice pulled out her pistols and shot in the faces of two fishmen who fell back from surprise, falling and falling into the whirlpool. A sailer was running toward her. She spun her pistols in her hands to hit him with both pistol butts.

Emily fought fiercly. It seemed every anger that she had every frustration, every betrayal... It was taken out on whoever dared to step up to face her. The small redhead sliced and stabbed anything that moved, be it foe or friend. Luckily, she caught herself before she did any real damage to her fellow pirates.

There were the few moments of fighting where an arrow would appear somewhere on the enemy, courtesy of the sharpshooter Cheyenne. (TBP: Try saying that five times fast) One of Jones' noticed the arrows and scowled up at her. She then aimed and fired two arrows into his eyes. He flailed his arms and fell off the ship.

Will and Elizabeth both fought valiantly. As if the fight was rehearsed, in synchronization they stabbed and sliced at their foes. They pinned one of Jones' men to the mast and stabbed him with both of their swords. As Elizabeth moved to continue the fight, Will grabbed onto her arm.

"Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Will you marry me?" he asked. There was stunned silence between them, even with the battle around them.

"You really want to do this now?" Emily shrieked, pushing back against a sword at her neck. A fishman sliced at them, and they both blocked the blow.

"I don't think now is the best time!" Elizabeth shrieked. The man pulled back for a second try, only to get shot in the head by Janice.

"I third that statement!" she added in. The lovers turned away to continue fighting.

"Now may be the only time!" Will said, before finishing off the creature he was fighting. He hurried up to Elizabeth to grab her arm once more.

"I love you." he said. They pushed away from each other to fight once more, before meeting again, grabbing on to one of the other's arms.

"I've made my choice. What's yours?" he asked

"Barbossa!" Elizabeth yelled, "Marry us!"

"I'm a little busy at the moment!" Barbossa yelled back, fighting his own battle at the helm with regular man and fishman alike. Will and Elizabeth continued fighting.

"I'm coming!" Janice yelled, turning to her friend, "Emily, sword!" Emily tossed her a spare sword she carried with her. With it, Janice began fighting her way up to the helm.

"Barbossa! NOW!" Will yelled. Janice stabbed a man in the back who Barbossa was dealing with.

"Fine then!" He yelled. He climbed up on a table in front of the helm, putting a hand over his heart. Will had his arms around Elizabeth looking up at him.

"Oh for crying WE don't have time for that overdramatic junk!" Emily yelled

"Dearly beloved, we be gathered here today..." Barbossa started, before a fishman charged up to fight him, "To nail your gizzard to the mast, you poxy cur!" He kicked the man in the face, before he was shot by Janice.

"Elizabeth Swann, do you take me to be your husband?" Will asked, stopping in their sudden fighting.

"I do!" she replied excitedly.

"Great!" Will replied with a smile on their face. They both fought together in unison once more, being one perfect killing machine.

"Will Turner, do you take me to be your wife, in sickness and in health, with health being the less likely?" she asked. They stopped once more.

"I do." Will said

"As captain, I now pronounce you," Barbossa said, swinging his sword, fighting two men at once, before killing them one at a time. Elizabeth and Will continued their own fighting.

"You may kiss," Barbossa started, before he shot somebody, laughing. The couple tried to kiss, but were interrupted by the fighting.

"You may kiss," Barbossa tried again, but then had to fight a fishman with Janice at his side. With all of the fighting they were doing, Will and Elizabeth briefly lost contact with another, actually striking blades with each other in the end.

"JUST KISS!" Barbossa, Janice, and Emily all yelled. Will pulled Elizabeth closer and the two kissed. The world dissolved around them as they were lost in the bliss of the one moment. Pintel, Ragetti and Jack the monkey, watched from a secluded area, smiling. The men looked at the monkey before taking it down below.

Above in the crow's nest, Marty used his hand cannon to blast away those who were swinging from the Dutchman to the Pearl, while Cheyenne kept shooting arrows down below them. Heather had Cheyenne's spyglass out, keeping a close eye on everybody while the two were busy. She watched Will and Elizabeth's kiss with a smile on her face and small tears in her eyes. She rubbed them away before deciding to look at the Dutchman. By the crow's nest. Where Jack, Davy, and Megan were.

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Megan's eyes were squeezed shut, not wanting to watch the battle below or the swirling waters around her. She opened them a bit to look down. She closed them again.

"Don't look down, you can do this Megan." she whispered to herself. She carefully walked on the yardarm, hand hovering over the rigging. She walked away from it, focusing only on the chest. Jack and Davy had their blades locked, standing close to one another.

"You can do nothing without the key!" Davy said

"I already have the key." Jack replied

"No, you don't." Davy said, ending with a short laugh with one of his tentacles holding up his key.

"Oh, that key." Jack said. They pushed away from each other. With one slice, Jack managed to cut away the tentacle that held the key. With a scream from Davy, it fell to the deck below. Seeing this is a perfect opportunity, Megan grabbed the chest and pulled on it slightly. When Jack swung his sword, it landed in Jones' crab claw. He snapped it, breaking off majority of the metal.

"Let go!" Jack yelled to her, backing away from Jones.

"You let go!" Megan yelled back. The boat lurched. The Pearl did too. They leaned together before their masts crashed into eachother. Jac and Megan lost their footing. With a shriek from Megan, they fell.

"No!" Davy yelled out, reaching down. Her grabbed Megan's arm. She still held the chest, and Jack still held the other end of it.

"Oh god Jack your heavy!" Megan yelled. He lifted her up high enough for him to see Jack. The pirate capatain smiled before Davy heaved Megan and the chest. Jack let go and was flying through the air. He was caught by one of Davy's men, Clanker, swinging on a rope. Davy let go of Megan who was clinging to the chest as if her life depended on it.

"I made a deal and a promise." she said, giving him the chest.

"You owe me more than this after everything." Davy said to Megan, holding onto the chest with one hand.

"But..." Megan asked, a concerned expression on her face, "We had a deal!" Meanwhile, Jack noticed Clanker had a pistol that was his. He took it from him.

"Oy! My pistol." he said before he hit Clanker with his pistol. Clanker fell off the rope. Jack then shot chest out of Davy's hand. It fell down to the deck.

"Ah come on!" Megan yelled out. Davy grabbed Megan's arm with his crab claw, squeezing tightly. Megan grabbed and clawed at him with her free hand. With her struggling, she didn't notice he had moved her off of the mast and held her high over the deck.

"Get. It. Back." he said. He let her go, falling, screaming.

"MEGAN!" Heather screamed, having witnessed the whole thing. Megan clawed at the air for anything to grab onto. She managed to grasp on the sails to help slow her descent. She rolled off of them and landed on top of somebody else on her back. She moaned and held her side, hurrying to a spot where there wasn't fighting to rest for a moment, however brief that moment was.

Furfaidz: Do you think the girls will forgive Megan yet after that happened to her?

TBP: Talk about a major drop in the climax. (rimshot :D )

Furfaidz: ... I don't get it.

Ekari: That was just Thunder trying to be funny.

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