Chapter 27:
A/N: Thanks for the reviews! They're greatly appreciated! This is the battle, which I know has been deeply anticipated. So without further ado, I present to you the next chapter!
Disclaimer: No I don't own any pirates, big mysterious ships with evil sounding nautical names, really handsome pirate captains who sway to and fro from too much rum, annoying lads who can't seem to keep their lasses away from danger, and a stupid little monkey who is on a plot to kill the captain who sways to and fro because of too much rum!
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Salina pushed herself from the floor, hoping to get a sturdy grip of the chair as she stood she leaned forward and collapsed to the floor. "DAMN IT!" She pounded the floor with her fists before trying once more.
She could hear shouts being made and the ship felt like it was moving, when Salina could stand she made her way over to chair which her belt and dagger lay on. She promptly fasted her belt and hid her dagger within her boot.
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The ships were now pulled side by side; Jack had ordered the rest of his crew to stay calm until the opportune moment, he didn't want to rush anything that was certainly not in his favor.
Barbossa stood at the port side of his ship yelling over to Jack, "You surrender to me Jack, and Mr. Turner's lass here will go free!"
"Come now Barbossa you know I don't surrender!" Jack shouted back.
"Have it your way sparrow! Cann-." Barbossa paused his orders as he noticed something gleaming in the shadows of the other ship
Salina emerged on deck, no sign of weakness detected on her frail body. She stood there in silence for a moment, a smile creeping its way onto her face. She allowed herself to stay hidden as she grabbed a rope and swung over to the helm of the Pearl. Salina made her way up to the man who appeared to be steering and sliced his throat. When she had done so the last thing she had expected to see was the velvet red blood seeping from his neck, he was not part of the cursed crew.
She dropped the body and hid in a small corner as Barbossa stood directly over the corpse. "She's here! Find her and bring her to me! What's the matter with you cads? Fire the cannons! Prepare to board, take whatever it is they have in stock! Heavily guard the brig! Get a move on you filthy Dogs!" The moon had begun to show itself through the clouds now, the skeletal bodies of the cursed crew scattered in and out of the shadows of the deck as they prepared to board The Mystic Diver.
Barbossa made his way around the wheel and he was in visible sight of Salina's dagger, but she could not make the move, she wouldn't be able to defeat him by herself. The sound of the almost sudden cannon fire spooked her but lucky for Salina Barbossa had already left. Salina sighed in relief and scooted herself out of her hiding place so that she might make it down to the brig in hopes her crew were still alive.
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"Jack! What are they looking for?" Will asked as he fired another cannon.
"Not what, who. Who are they looking for?" Jack answered without hesitation.
"Salina?" Will loaded another cannon.
"That's impossible she's up in your cabin passed out I just checked twenty minutes ago," intervened Cat.
"That was twenty minutes ago. You two continue to hold em' off with the cannons, await my signal and then charge to the other ship."
"Jack that's crazy four against thirty some pirates, I know that I'm the newest one to this but those odds don't seem very well even for an experienced pirate such as yourself!" Cat protested.
"Who said it was just four? We still have a whole crew aboard that ship and that's what Salina's going for." Jack ran up the steps to the tope deck just in time to great part of Barbossa's crew.
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Salina made her way down the hall and down another flight of stairs and onto the platform where the door to the brig was. She waited, listening to the two guards on the inside of the room mumbling to each other.
"When she barges through the door I say we ave' a little fun with her before we turn her over to the Captain, aye?"
"Yeah, I heard she's a rough one, heard her scream was so loud it could make you deaf." The men laughed at their perverted jesters but soon found silence very peaceful.
Salina kicked open the door and left the two men to stare out into an empty hallway. She grabbed both of her pistols and waited from the rafters above the door. When they walked out she shot both in the top of their heads sending them to the ground with a loud thud. Their blood splattered onto her shirt and the walls of the hallway.
The woman pirate jumped down from the rafters into a puddle of blood surrounding the two bodies, she then placed one pistol back on her belt and unsheathed her cutlass in its place, "Thank god this part of the ship still has an unfinished ceiling." She entered the brig hesitantly.
"You've got to be joking, only two guards?" Salina peered around at the crew, noticing them all passed out and laying down with blankets over themselves. "Barbossa would never let his captured feel comfortable nor would his captured sleep on his ship for fear of death. Your not our crew!"
She backed up expecting to escape out into an empty hallway, away from Barbossa's crew who began to pour from the cells. Salina hit into a warm body behind her, whom thought in necessary to grab her by the neck.
"Heh, how's it feel now, wench? To be caught by a pirate younger than you?" The man said in a raspy voice and Salina squirmed trying her best to break away from the hold.
She let out an echoing scream as she felt the pressure of a bullet slicing through the pirates back and exiting through the front of his body out into the air where it fell, the warm blood cascaded onto her body as the pirate's body became limp and collapsed to the floor. The ten other pirates in the room watched the incident then unsheathed their swords ready to kill.
"Come on lass! We have no time for you to just stand there!" A familiar voice shouted from behind.
She turned and ran towards Gibbs while being followed by the men from the brig. "Am I glad to see you," Salina blurted out as they ran to the next floor, meeting up with the rest of their crew.
They dropped to the floor as Ana-Maria ordered the crew to fire at will towards the men running up the stairs. When all the smoke from the guns had cleared Ana helped Salina from the ground, "What took you so long?"
Salina smiled and hugged Ana, "thank you. Where's Elizabeth?"
"Up on deck," Salina tried to push passsed her but got caught by Ana's arm, "You can't just go up there, it's bound to be a trap."
"But I know if I don't she'll die and I can't let that happen," again she tried to shove passed and Ana stopped her.
"In life you sometimes have to make sacrifices to stay alive, I know she is with child but you can't go up there you'd die before you got to her."
"Well my friend, that's why I have you," Salina grinned and gave a slight wink before running up the steps to the top deck.
"She's daft! They're all daft! I should've never left Tortuga!" Ana followed suit.
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Up on deck there was a blur of fighting and brutality; Jack, Cat, and Will had all been pulled from their ship and brought aboard the Pearl and were being beaten. Cat winced in pain as she was tossed to the floor at Barbossa's feet.
"I remember you, you're the girl that I nearly sliced to pieces on Salina's darling ship. I thought for sure you would've died."
"Yeah well your assumptions seem to be a little off then, aye?"
Barbossa smiled grimly at her before thrusting his foot into her abdomen causing her to regurgitate whatever was in her stomach. She gagged and coughed for a minute before pulling herself up to a sitting position.
Cat screamed as Barbossa entangled his hands in her hair and pulled her from the ground.
"LET HER GO!" Turner bellowed out as Cat let out another fierce scream from the dagger pressing against her throat.
" Oh Elizabeth love, It seems you have a little competition with this pirate wench here!" Barbossa announced to the lass at the top of the mast. "Salina! I know you can here me you bitch! Come out here and show yourself and I'll let your friends go free but stay in hiding like a coward and I'll kill em' one by one." He paused a moment waiting to see if she showed herself. "I hope you enjoy their screams because it's the last thing you'll hear from them!"
Salina emerged from the captain's quarters a bow and arrow in her hand. "Oy! Barbossa! Where you looking for me?" She released the arrow sending it through the air until it found a home in Barbossa's neck.
"It's a pleasure to see you too," He dropped Cat to the floor and pulled the arrow from his neck.
"Barbossa, seems to me you've found one of my arrows! I'll be wanting it back when you're done with it!"
"It would be my pleasure to hand it back to you myself, have no fear of that!"
"Good, I'm glad to hear it. No what is this talk about offing my comrades one by one, you know how much I despise unfair play, so why don't we start with some of yours?" Salina pulled her pistol from her belt, her eyes still fixed on the hideous captain, and she fired the pistol at a pirate to her right who flew overboard, "All right now it's a little more even!"
"Salina, always the hero?" Barbossa took a few steps closer the crew watching their every move.
"Well you know me Barbossa, I mean that's what this is all about really right? It's not about treasure or old enemies or even adventure but about pure jealousy. Wanting something that you can't have, wanting what Jack has."
"Jack, you think this is about wanting what Jack has? Sure I want his ship and his power to command but this is not about Jack," he looked over the woman's confused expression, "It was about you. I could give a damn about Jack, watch." Barbossa turned and aimed his pistol towards Jack.
"Do it and I'll remove your head from the rest of your body toss it over board and you'll spend the rest of your days searching for your head instead of a cure, savvy?" Salina pressed her cutlass further against his neck.
"Ah, so there is still love there, I knew once I had him I'd get you. It was the only way you'd come through, that is if you felt your loved ones were in danger."
Salina started to panic feeling as though he was going to do something but she was too weak at the moment to do anything to prevent his blow. Barbossa swirled around and forced his cutlass all the way through her body, he allowed it to stay lodged in her a moment before ripping it out. Salina grabbed her wound, the blood flowing freely from her body; Jack struggled to get free, it took five men to get him back on the ground.
"You were the one who turned the Pearl around, the one who made Jack soft, the one who made me love, you caused all of this you caused all of my pain! I want you dead, you're the last thing that's stands in my way of freedom. You're the only one who can send me away, I came back to kill you!"
"You had your chance when you were on my ship, why didn't you finish it there? But now it's too late," she dropped to the floor her blood staining the wood, "It's too late because I found your secret and I intend to use it against you."
"You won't live to use it against me, so why don't you tell me where the map is?"
"You had it, but you tossed it to the floor when you saw me," Barbossa turned and looked at Cat; Salina pulled her dagger out and dug it into his calf bringing him to his knees.
Salina stood, holding her wound with her blood soaked hand and limping to the mast, "Beth!"
Jack and Will began to fight with the crew and Ana and Gibbs charged in with the rest of the crew. The deck was turned into a war zone; Salina fought as much as she could but soon found herself trapped.
Salina stood between Barbossa and the mast, several feet above her was Beth a noose around her neck and one pirate to push her. Salina hesitated too long and the order was given, there was a loud scream and the feeling of weightlessness as Elizabeth was shoved from the mast.
"BETH!" Salina gripped the rope next to her and cut the bottom of it sending her up the side of the mast. Salina climbed onto the crow's nest and walked out past the running rigging to where the pirate who shoved Elizabeth was. Salina looked down at where Elizabeth was dangling and noticed the water just bellow her, "Forgive me Beth!" Salina brought her cutlass down on the rope strangling Beth and it unraveled dropping her into the sea.
"Now it's just you and me Salina," the pirate smiled showing all his rotted teeth and bobbing his half baldhead up and down in a pleased manner.
"Regetti, how many times have I told you to watch your step?" Salina pulled the remainders of the noose out from under his feet sending him down onto the floor of the deck.
Salina smiled still gripping her blood soaked close, she started to become very dizzy and everything blurred, she began to loose balance.
"Jack! Salina's going to fall!" Ana informed her Captain. Jack watched Salina loose her balance and fall backwards off of the sails; she was able to catch the end of a rope. But how long can she hold on?
Jack ran through the crowd of pirates watching her from above. Her grip weakened and she began falling, her weightlessness making her on the verge of death. Jack jumped into her landing area and they were both sent through the wood floor and onto the second deck. They lay there knocked out in the pile of debris; Salina's waist still draining her body of blood. The whole front of her body was drenched in her dark red blood her hair spread out around her face in a halo, and a death warrant waiting for her.
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A/N: so how was that? Yes I know another cliffhanger, please do not kill me! But do review and I'll post the next chapter soon! TA!
A/N: Thanks for the reviews! They're greatly appreciated! This is the battle, which I know has been deeply anticipated. So without further ado, I present to you the next chapter!
Disclaimer: No I don't own any pirates, big mysterious ships with evil sounding nautical names, really handsome pirate captains who sway to and fro from too much rum, annoying lads who can't seem to keep their lasses away from danger, and a stupid little monkey who is on a plot to kill the captain who sways to and fro because of too much rum!
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Salina pushed herself from the floor, hoping to get a sturdy grip of the chair as she stood she leaned forward and collapsed to the floor. "DAMN IT!" She pounded the floor with her fists before trying once more.
She could hear shouts being made and the ship felt like it was moving, when Salina could stand she made her way over to chair which her belt and dagger lay on. She promptly fasted her belt and hid her dagger within her boot.
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The ships were now pulled side by side; Jack had ordered the rest of his crew to stay calm until the opportune moment, he didn't want to rush anything that was certainly not in his favor.
Barbossa stood at the port side of his ship yelling over to Jack, "You surrender to me Jack, and Mr. Turner's lass here will go free!"
"Come now Barbossa you know I don't surrender!" Jack shouted back.
"Have it your way sparrow! Cann-." Barbossa paused his orders as he noticed something gleaming in the shadows of the other ship
Salina emerged on deck, no sign of weakness detected on her frail body. She stood there in silence for a moment, a smile creeping its way onto her face. She allowed herself to stay hidden as she grabbed a rope and swung over to the helm of the Pearl. Salina made her way up to the man who appeared to be steering and sliced his throat. When she had done so the last thing she had expected to see was the velvet red blood seeping from his neck, he was not part of the cursed crew.
She dropped the body and hid in a small corner as Barbossa stood directly over the corpse. "She's here! Find her and bring her to me! What's the matter with you cads? Fire the cannons! Prepare to board, take whatever it is they have in stock! Heavily guard the brig! Get a move on you filthy Dogs!" The moon had begun to show itself through the clouds now, the skeletal bodies of the cursed crew scattered in and out of the shadows of the deck as they prepared to board The Mystic Diver.
Barbossa made his way around the wheel and he was in visible sight of Salina's dagger, but she could not make the move, she wouldn't be able to defeat him by herself. The sound of the almost sudden cannon fire spooked her but lucky for Salina Barbossa had already left. Salina sighed in relief and scooted herself out of her hiding place so that she might make it down to the brig in hopes her crew were still alive.
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"Jack! What are they looking for?" Will asked as he fired another cannon.
"Not what, who. Who are they looking for?" Jack answered without hesitation.
"Salina?" Will loaded another cannon.
"That's impossible she's up in your cabin passed out I just checked twenty minutes ago," intervened Cat.
"That was twenty minutes ago. You two continue to hold em' off with the cannons, await my signal and then charge to the other ship."
"Jack that's crazy four against thirty some pirates, I know that I'm the newest one to this but those odds don't seem very well even for an experienced pirate such as yourself!" Cat protested.
"Who said it was just four? We still have a whole crew aboard that ship and that's what Salina's going for." Jack ran up the steps to the tope deck just in time to great part of Barbossa's crew.
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Salina made her way down the hall and down another flight of stairs and onto the platform where the door to the brig was. She waited, listening to the two guards on the inside of the room mumbling to each other.
"When she barges through the door I say we ave' a little fun with her before we turn her over to the Captain, aye?"
"Yeah, I heard she's a rough one, heard her scream was so loud it could make you deaf." The men laughed at their perverted jesters but soon found silence very peaceful.
Salina kicked open the door and left the two men to stare out into an empty hallway. She grabbed both of her pistols and waited from the rafters above the door. When they walked out she shot both in the top of their heads sending them to the ground with a loud thud. Their blood splattered onto her shirt and the walls of the hallway.
The woman pirate jumped down from the rafters into a puddle of blood surrounding the two bodies, she then placed one pistol back on her belt and unsheathed her cutlass in its place, "Thank god this part of the ship still has an unfinished ceiling." She entered the brig hesitantly.
"You've got to be joking, only two guards?" Salina peered around at the crew, noticing them all passed out and laying down with blankets over themselves. "Barbossa would never let his captured feel comfortable nor would his captured sleep on his ship for fear of death. Your not our crew!"
She backed up expecting to escape out into an empty hallway, away from Barbossa's crew who began to pour from the cells. Salina hit into a warm body behind her, whom thought in necessary to grab her by the neck.
"Heh, how's it feel now, wench? To be caught by a pirate younger than you?" The man said in a raspy voice and Salina squirmed trying her best to break away from the hold.
She let out an echoing scream as she felt the pressure of a bullet slicing through the pirates back and exiting through the front of his body out into the air where it fell, the warm blood cascaded onto her body as the pirate's body became limp and collapsed to the floor. The ten other pirates in the room watched the incident then unsheathed their swords ready to kill.
"Come on lass! We have no time for you to just stand there!" A familiar voice shouted from behind.
She turned and ran towards Gibbs while being followed by the men from the brig. "Am I glad to see you," Salina blurted out as they ran to the next floor, meeting up with the rest of their crew.
They dropped to the floor as Ana-Maria ordered the crew to fire at will towards the men running up the stairs. When all the smoke from the guns had cleared Ana helped Salina from the ground, "What took you so long?"
Salina smiled and hugged Ana, "thank you. Where's Elizabeth?"
"Up on deck," Salina tried to push passsed her but got caught by Ana's arm, "You can't just go up there, it's bound to be a trap."
"But I know if I don't she'll die and I can't let that happen," again she tried to shove passed and Ana stopped her.
"In life you sometimes have to make sacrifices to stay alive, I know she is with child but you can't go up there you'd die before you got to her."
"Well my friend, that's why I have you," Salina grinned and gave a slight wink before running up the steps to the top deck.
"She's daft! They're all daft! I should've never left Tortuga!" Ana followed suit.
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Up on deck there was a blur of fighting and brutality; Jack, Cat, and Will had all been pulled from their ship and brought aboard the Pearl and were being beaten. Cat winced in pain as she was tossed to the floor at Barbossa's feet.
"I remember you, you're the girl that I nearly sliced to pieces on Salina's darling ship. I thought for sure you would've died."
"Yeah well your assumptions seem to be a little off then, aye?"
Barbossa smiled grimly at her before thrusting his foot into her abdomen causing her to regurgitate whatever was in her stomach. She gagged and coughed for a minute before pulling herself up to a sitting position.
Cat screamed as Barbossa entangled his hands in her hair and pulled her from the ground.
"LET HER GO!" Turner bellowed out as Cat let out another fierce scream from the dagger pressing against her throat.
" Oh Elizabeth love, It seems you have a little competition with this pirate wench here!" Barbossa announced to the lass at the top of the mast. "Salina! I know you can here me you bitch! Come out here and show yourself and I'll let your friends go free but stay in hiding like a coward and I'll kill em' one by one." He paused a moment waiting to see if she showed herself. "I hope you enjoy their screams because it's the last thing you'll hear from them!"
Salina emerged from the captain's quarters a bow and arrow in her hand. "Oy! Barbossa! Where you looking for me?" She released the arrow sending it through the air until it found a home in Barbossa's neck.
"It's a pleasure to see you too," He dropped Cat to the floor and pulled the arrow from his neck.
"Barbossa, seems to me you've found one of my arrows! I'll be wanting it back when you're done with it!"
"It would be my pleasure to hand it back to you myself, have no fear of that!"
"Good, I'm glad to hear it. No what is this talk about offing my comrades one by one, you know how much I despise unfair play, so why don't we start with some of yours?" Salina pulled her pistol from her belt, her eyes still fixed on the hideous captain, and she fired the pistol at a pirate to her right who flew overboard, "All right now it's a little more even!"
"Salina, always the hero?" Barbossa took a few steps closer the crew watching their every move.
"Well you know me Barbossa, I mean that's what this is all about really right? It's not about treasure or old enemies or even adventure but about pure jealousy. Wanting something that you can't have, wanting what Jack has."
"Jack, you think this is about wanting what Jack has? Sure I want his ship and his power to command but this is not about Jack," he looked over the woman's confused expression, "It was about you. I could give a damn about Jack, watch." Barbossa turned and aimed his pistol towards Jack.
"Do it and I'll remove your head from the rest of your body toss it over board and you'll spend the rest of your days searching for your head instead of a cure, savvy?" Salina pressed her cutlass further against his neck.
"Ah, so there is still love there, I knew once I had him I'd get you. It was the only way you'd come through, that is if you felt your loved ones were in danger."
Salina started to panic feeling as though he was going to do something but she was too weak at the moment to do anything to prevent his blow. Barbossa swirled around and forced his cutlass all the way through her body, he allowed it to stay lodged in her a moment before ripping it out. Salina grabbed her wound, the blood flowing freely from her body; Jack struggled to get free, it took five men to get him back on the ground.
"You were the one who turned the Pearl around, the one who made Jack soft, the one who made me love, you caused all of this you caused all of my pain! I want you dead, you're the last thing that's stands in my way of freedom. You're the only one who can send me away, I came back to kill you!"
"You had your chance when you were on my ship, why didn't you finish it there? But now it's too late," she dropped to the floor her blood staining the wood, "It's too late because I found your secret and I intend to use it against you."
"You won't live to use it against me, so why don't you tell me where the map is?"
"You had it, but you tossed it to the floor when you saw me," Barbossa turned and looked at Cat; Salina pulled her dagger out and dug it into his calf bringing him to his knees.
Salina stood, holding her wound with her blood soaked hand and limping to the mast, "Beth!"
Jack and Will began to fight with the crew and Ana and Gibbs charged in with the rest of the crew. The deck was turned into a war zone; Salina fought as much as she could but soon found herself trapped.
Salina stood between Barbossa and the mast, several feet above her was Beth a noose around her neck and one pirate to push her. Salina hesitated too long and the order was given, there was a loud scream and the feeling of weightlessness as Elizabeth was shoved from the mast.
"BETH!" Salina gripped the rope next to her and cut the bottom of it sending her up the side of the mast. Salina climbed onto the crow's nest and walked out past the running rigging to where the pirate who shoved Elizabeth was. Salina looked down at where Elizabeth was dangling and noticed the water just bellow her, "Forgive me Beth!" Salina brought her cutlass down on the rope strangling Beth and it unraveled dropping her into the sea.
"Now it's just you and me Salina," the pirate smiled showing all his rotted teeth and bobbing his half baldhead up and down in a pleased manner.
"Regetti, how many times have I told you to watch your step?" Salina pulled the remainders of the noose out from under his feet sending him down onto the floor of the deck.
Salina smiled still gripping her blood soaked close, she started to become very dizzy and everything blurred, she began to loose balance.
"Jack! Salina's going to fall!" Ana informed her Captain. Jack watched Salina loose her balance and fall backwards off of the sails; she was able to catch the end of a rope. But how long can she hold on?
Jack ran through the crowd of pirates watching her from above. Her grip weakened and she began falling, her weightlessness making her on the verge of death. Jack jumped into her landing area and they were both sent through the wood floor and onto the second deck. They lay there knocked out in the pile of debris; Salina's waist still draining her body of blood. The whole front of her body was drenched in her dark red blood her hair spread out around her face in a halo, and a death warrant waiting for her.
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A/N: so how was that? Yes I know another cliffhanger, please do not kill me! But do review and I'll post the next chapter soon! TA!