As much as I wanted to put distance between me and Whitecap Bay, we had to guide all of the mermaid souls that had died over the centuries. A few of the slippery bastards tried to swim away, most likely to go and caught some people, but we managed to capture them all and finally give them peace. Emma-Codfish managed to stop glaring at me long enough to actually look sad. I guess she must have known some of them. If this was the universe's way of telling me that she was nothing like Emma, yeah I didn't believe it one bit. Even with her...unnaturally beautiful face and perfect mermaid body. Stop it, brain! You're supposed to hate Mermaid-Emma!

Anyways, once we were done collecting all those mermaid souls, we finally headed to Kyushu while remaining under the water. Still, I kinda wanted to see Emma-Fish flop around like a fish if we breached the surface. I wanted to see if mermaids could live outside of water, but I was too lazy to go and actually talk to said mermaid. That and she looked like Emma. Wait, I just said that.

Shaking my head softly, I grabbed my head. Ouch! I looked at my crab hand which poked me. I honestly should have been more surprised at my new mutation, but half of my face was shiny red, green and blue coral like bone now. I clenched the crab hand into a fist. I could still feel things which was good. My body shook slightly.

I must look like a monster. I kept staring at my crab hand. I had an eternity of gathering souls ahead of me. Would anyone appreciate me? There was no way I could actually be the hero I wanted to be when I was younger. Someone like Alexandria or Armsmaster! I'm sure people would be very thankful when I arrived to take their loved ones soul. The Dutchman smelled of death, and I was sure that I did too. I caused the death of Ekon's village, even if Norrington said that it must have been a coincidence.

Those dreams of being a hero were gone now. In its place was my duty, my job. Like the garbage man who held an unthankful job, who was looked down upon by society, I must do my duty. Maybe I could be a hero one day.

Not all heroes wore capes after all.

I looked up from my hand and stared at the organ in my room. I spent a lot of time here when my presence wasnt needed on deck. That happened a lot since Maccus and Norrington were more experienced at actually running an efficient ship. I needed to step up. I'm the Captain of the Flying Dutchman, not them. Yeah! I should go and see how smoothly everything was running instead of brooding in my room. Getting up from my bed, I threw on my red pirate coat, I still needed to find a hat, and I marched outside.

Only to accidentally bump into somebody.

"Oh I'm sorry."

"Don't worry. I should have been paying attention to where I was going." Said a very fishy voice. My eyes narrowed. It was her. Fishy started glaring at me once she saw who she bumped into. Yes, I was blaming her now.

"Oh, it's you." I said snarky. Now I wanted to take back my sorry. "What are you doing here?"

Fish-Emma gave me a deadpan look and pointed her thumb over her scaly shoulder to the door across from mine. "That's my room."

What. I was pretty sure I knew where everything was in all of the oceans and on the Dutchman. How did I not notice my busty rival move into the room across from me-

Stupid brooding time messing up my concentration. I had to cut back on the time I spent brooding, so I wouldn't be caught off guard like this again.

"I-uh…" I scratched the back of my head with my crab hand awkwardly. "It must have slipped my mind." Magikarp crossed her arms, which thankfully covered up the distracting part of her weird fish-human anatomy. Stupid hormones and puberty.

"I see." Phish Styx replied dryly. I wished I could form into the walls, but I wasn't mutated enough sadly. An awkward silence surrounded us as we glared at each other.

This became an epic battle of will! Who would blink first? Who shall assert their dominance over the other? The Captain of the infamous Flying Dutchman, or Sharkira the Mermaid Princess? Of course I was going to-

"Hey! Where are you going?" I shouted at Bubble Fett who started swimming away.

"Somewhere where there is less stupid." Anchovy shouted back, glancing over her shoulder. It was a nice shoulder too.

"Yeah? Well I'm glad you're taking all of it with you!"

Sushi immediately turned around and flicked me off. "Fuck you."

I opened my mouth ready to shout back, but I closed it in confusion. Where did that mermaid princess learn that? Didn't she spend her whole life at that mermaid city until literally a day ago? What should I do? Quick brain so something!

"No thank you. I prefer less scales." Oh shit. That was too far brain! Fishtachio's caramel skin turned a slight shade of red. I had no doubt that my own light green skin had turned a bit red too. Stupid mouth screaming stuff like that.

Swimming back up to me, Fincess leaned her face close to mine. Good thing we were underwater or I would have been smelling her fish breath by now.

"You and me, gun deck, one hour." Finessa gave me one last glare before quickly swimming away, leaving me alone in the hallway.

Did she just challenge me to a duel? Well, it was either that or Fishy was into some...pretty weird stuff that shouldn't be flowing through the mind of an innocent teenager such as myself.

Oh who am I kidding, I was about to die at the hands of the Fish Princess.

Just kidding!

A/N

Yeah, I wrote this when I was tired so Im sorry if Taylor sounds weird. My lack of sleep must have snuck in there somehow.

Me and my brother just got a go kart so I plan on driving around the neighborhood as Mario. I already cosplayed as him before.

Who is your favorite POTC character?

Yes, this chapter is goofy on purpose. Some people on SV seem pretty triggered as they seem to believe Taylor will be turning into a goofy lesbian pirate.

Yeah idk at the moment, but you're gonna need this fluff once we see the destruction of Japan.