Best Laid Plans

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Crossover with Pirates of the Caribbean. One possibility as to where the curse came from, and what the responsible parties think of it.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any part of either fandom, or the song lyrics that I snuck in there (I just couldn't resist). All I do is borrow the stuff.
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Teamwork

The curse was a joint effort of theirs, developed millennia before they had a chance to execute it.

It worked thousands of times better than they'd originally thought. Losing the ability to taste food and drink seemed to hit the pirates especially hard, and they were so caught up in killing people to end the curse that they never noticed the watchers.

War and Famine watched the Black Pearl dock in Tortuga, watched the crazed hunger of its crew, watched one messy death after another (and all over bits of gold), and toasted each other on a job well done.


These Apples

Barbossa noticed her once, in a marketplace, leaning against a stall and eating an apple red as her hair. It was almost like she was waiting for him to reclaim the coin the stall's owner had, and she watched with interest. (That had him wondering - women didn't normally take interest in violence.)

These apples are delicious? he asked, when the business was done, knowing he wouldn't find out from tasting. She grinned, almost knifelike in its sharpness, and a light seemed to go on behind eyes the color of smoldering embers.

As a matter of fact, they are, she said.


Heathen Gods?

Pestilence is busy on the mainland, watching the natives struggle against and eventually succumb to smallpox and other European diseases, when he hears the old plot the three of them cooked up so long ago is finally in action.

His contribution isn't so obvious, but surely being neither dead nor alive is a dreadful disease. It's a pity he can't be there to see it as well; all three of them would surely be in their element. Strange illnesses, hunger enough to drive people mad, and messy deaths... it's got everything, really.

Heathen gods? Well, one might call them that.