This is the... second to last chapter! But planning is already underway for
a sequel, if you guys want one! This chapter's slightly shorter than others
have been, but the last one will be longer, to round everything off nicely.
Enjoy!
Chapter 13 - The Battle of the Four Armies (and those guys)
Everyone in that battle had a different objective. Commodore Norrington's objective was to capture all of the cursed pirates and, even though he didn't make it clear, save the girls - that was his job, after all, and he couldn't quite believe that they were hanging out with pirates voluntarily. Jack and Will's objectives were to protect their crew and get them out of there as soon as possible. The cursed pirates' objective was to get rid of the crew of navy sailors and lift the curse, even though they weren't quite sure how to do so. And Mro, Mort and Tobias' objective was to fight on Jack's side, but not look like they were, which really was quite complicated. So they just settled for fighting the other crew of cursed pirates, as no-one seemed to like them.
The girls of the crew had picked up quite a bit of sword fighting skills, but it was Tanuki who excelled himself. He hadn't told any of them that he'd been having lessons from Will, but they all saw that he was fighting very well, and looking haughtily cool as he did so.
"This is like the Battle of the Five Armies in 'The Hobbit'!" said Frankie excitedly.
"Where's the fifth army?" asked Ariana.
"Uhh... those guys," she said, pointing at Mort, Mro and Tobias.
"Hey," said Catarina, meeting up with Mort, Mro and Tobias in battle, "Are you on our side or what?"
"Is it really that obvious?" said Tobias.
"Well," said Catarina, grinning, "Beware, because I am a woman and I know how to use a sword..."
By the looks on the boys' faces, they wouldn't be forgetting that for a while. Krystal and Mar, meanwhile, were venting their aggression on Barbossa's crew, remembering that they could turn into Legolae, and showing no mercy whatsoever. Will looked up and saw both Gemma and Elizabeth in trouble at once. He was greatly torn - if he saved Gemma, he could win the bet, but Elizabeth was his fiancee-
"WILL!! WHY ARE YOU HESITATING??" bellowed Elizabeth angrily. That made his mind up.
"Hey! Jack! Look over there!" he said quickly.
"At what?" said Jack.
"Uhh - just look! Can't you see it?" Jack turned and started squinting puzzledly at the wall. Will darted forwards and managed to carry Elizabeth behind the navy soldiers. He then ran back in front.
"I'll be buggered if I can see anything," said Jack sounding confused. He turned round and saw Will, and then saw Gemma. His and Will's eyes met and glared. Gemma was directly between both of them. The atmosphere was so tense, that all the pirates and sailors actually stopped fighting to watch. Jack's and Will's eyes continued to flick from each other to Gemma, and their hands twitched over their cutlass handles.
"Doo-de-doo-de-doooo," said Mako, trying to add to the atmosphere, "Bow bow bow." (That looks really odd when written, but it's the music they always play in Westerns at gunfights - I hope you know which I mean. Otherwise I just look stupid. Well, I do anyway, this is one of the longest author's notes in history...)
Gemma looked between them, looking baffled. "Look, guys, I don't know what's going on between you here, but can you postpone your gunfight at high noon and stop these pirates from lifting the curse with me?"
Both Will and Jack sprang towards her, so dramatically it went into slow motion with more dramatic soundtrack. They ran across the cave, glaring at each other, both aiming at Gemma. The pirates holding onto her looked terrified and let her go, leaving her standing on a rock pile, with both Will and Jack pelting towards her.
"EEEEK!" she shrieked, knowing the laws of momentum. Suddenly, a split second before both Will and Jack collided with her, Mro swung out of nowhere and grabbed onto her, swinging on a rope onto the far side of the cave. He landed and set her carefully back on her feet.
"Wow," she said, "Thanks."
"Always a pleasure," said Mro. They then turned back to the corner of the cave where a loud profanity had just been screamed, and saw Will and Jack had collided with each other and were now sitting on the cave floor clutching their heads.
"You bastard, Jack! Look where you're going!"
"I was going to get to her first, whelp!"
"I AM NOT A WHELP!"
"Yes you are! You're one of the most whelp-like eunuchs I've ever met!"
"But I'm NOT a EU-"
"A eunuch?" smirked Commodore Norrington. The rest of the soldiers tried not to laugh, and the cursed pirates didn't bother and laughed loudly and raucously.
"I'M NOT A EUNUCH!" screeched Will, setting them all off again.
"Not only that," said Jack quickly, "He was once a choir boy."
"And he used to wear his hair in a plait," added Krystal.
"His best friend in his childhood was a girl," said Mar.
"And Jack beat him hands down in a sword fight!" finished Catarina.
"But he cheated!" protested Will, but his claims fell on deaf ears. The pirates were now rolling around on the floor laughing. The girls in the crew quickly circled the cave, knocking out all the pirates, helpless in their giggles. Within a couple of minutes, all of the pirates were subdued. Jack waltzed over to Commodore Norringgton.
"Done and done," he said.
Norrington looked more than slightly bemused. "Be that as it may, you are still a pirate, Sparrow."
"Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please," said Jack.
"Jack, there's a time and a place," said Kathryn. The soldiers all pulled out their swords and pointed them at Jack. Jack surveyed them all with eyebrows raised.
"I think you make a valuable point, missy," said Jack. He stood there for a second, then pelted away down the tunnel. All of the soldiers immediately followed, leaving the girls, Tanuki, Mro, Mort and Tobias in the cave with Will and Elizabeth, who were having a 'reunion' at the back of the cave.
"Didn't Barbossa say that the whole cave was cursed?" said Yilantri.
"But that means that we're all cursed as well," said Danielle, "We'd better figure out how to lift it."
They all walked over to the pool of murky water at the back of the cave. "The instructions are at the bottom of there," said Becky, "Anyone volunteering to swim down there?"
Alex, however, was frowning. She got down on one knee and took a handful of the water. Sniffing it, and then drank it, and her eyes widened. "That's not water!" she said, "That's RUM!"
"How on earth did you figure that out?" said Mort in shock.
"Alex can detect any alcohol within a two-mile radius," explained Frankie.
"Never mind that, is it coconut rum?" said Tobias.
"Think so," grinned Alex. Everyone looked at the pool full of rum.
"Well, let's get started!" said Brandi happily, "Look, there's even tankards over there!"
"Whoa, whoa!" said Gemma, "We're going to drink ALL of it?"
"Or pass out trying!" said Ariana cheerfully, filling her tankard, "Cheers!"
*****
Stargirl14 - Sorry I can't give you more lines, I just have so many people to fit in! Glad you enjoyed it!
Im a Brandybuck - Course he did! It's a very cool phrase! Not that this has much to do with it, but I just watched 'The Haunting', and it has some of the fastest credits I've ever seen...
Tobias - Hee hee. Coconut rum. Do you think a poolful is enough for you?
Tanuki Yasha - Does EVERYONE like coconut rum? Am I missing something? And you find out in the next chapter! Hahaha, I AM evil!
Krystal&Mar - Huzzah for frying pans! Will thinks he looks so cool with the sword - OK, he does - but could he handle a frying pan? EH??
Archangel Genesis 9 - See? It wasn't icky water! It was RUM!
Reasonably Crazy - I'm not descended from a pirate, but I AM descended from Rob Roy MacGregor, who was a famous scottish outlaw, and also from Lord Nelson, who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar (wow, I know history!), and he was a sailor, so maybe they mix to make a pirate?...
Cat Youkai - Tight? How can a chapter be tight? Is that good? Haha, that ankles thing was hilarious... "Ankles all the way!"
Michaela - It is true! I downloaded the script off the Internet, and at one point the script just goes "Will... Will!" "Elizabeth!" "Monkey!" That last bit was Jack...
Theshiz - Um, I think it's slightly difficult to fit fire in EVERY chapter... sorry about that...
Aya - Thanks! I noticed that too, but luckily I have thought of a way to combat it... mwahahaha!
Mako - It's always cool to be a strange girl without classification... I should know...
Beloved Fool - Oh, that's so cool! I need to go to a pub and do that! Hmm, now which of the 46 pubs in my home town do I choose?... That's right, 46. FORTY SIX. I like the deleted scene with, "The immortal Captain Jack Sparrow has such a lovely ring to it... and it's not a bad look, really..." Oh, and, "Completely obsessed with raisins. Humiliated grapes, really. Think about it!" Raisins ARE humiliated grapes...
See y'all soon!
Chapter 13 - The Battle of the Four Armies (and those guys)
Everyone in that battle had a different objective. Commodore Norrington's objective was to capture all of the cursed pirates and, even though he didn't make it clear, save the girls - that was his job, after all, and he couldn't quite believe that they were hanging out with pirates voluntarily. Jack and Will's objectives were to protect their crew and get them out of there as soon as possible. The cursed pirates' objective was to get rid of the crew of navy sailors and lift the curse, even though they weren't quite sure how to do so. And Mro, Mort and Tobias' objective was to fight on Jack's side, but not look like they were, which really was quite complicated. So they just settled for fighting the other crew of cursed pirates, as no-one seemed to like them.
The girls of the crew had picked up quite a bit of sword fighting skills, but it was Tanuki who excelled himself. He hadn't told any of them that he'd been having lessons from Will, but they all saw that he was fighting very well, and looking haughtily cool as he did so.
"This is like the Battle of the Five Armies in 'The Hobbit'!" said Frankie excitedly.
"Where's the fifth army?" asked Ariana.
"Uhh... those guys," she said, pointing at Mort, Mro and Tobias.
"Hey," said Catarina, meeting up with Mort, Mro and Tobias in battle, "Are you on our side or what?"
"Is it really that obvious?" said Tobias.
"Well," said Catarina, grinning, "Beware, because I am a woman and I know how to use a sword..."
By the looks on the boys' faces, they wouldn't be forgetting that for a while. Krystal and Mar, meanwhile, were venting their aggression on Barbossa's crew, remembering that they could turn into Legolae, and showing no mercy whatsoever. Will looked up and saw both Gemma and Elizabeth in trouble at once. He was greatly torn - if he saved Gemma, he could win the bet, but Elizabeth was his fiancee-
"WILL!! WHY ARE YOU HESITATING??" bellowed Elizabeth angrily. That made his mind up.
"Hey! Jack! Look over there!" he said quickly.
"At what?" said Jack.
"Uhh - just look! Can't you see it?" Jack turned and started squinting puzzledly at the wall. Will darted forwards and managed to carry Elizabeth behind the navy soldiers. He then ran back in front.
"I'll be buggered if I can see anything," said Jack sounding confused. He turned round and saw Will, and then saw Gemma. His and Will's eyes met and glared. Gemma was directly between both of them. The atmosphere was so tense, that all the pirates and sailors actually stopped fighting to watch. Jack's and Will's eyes continued to flick from each other to Gemma, and their hands twitched over their cutlass handles.
"Doo-de-doo-de-doooo," said Mako, trying to add to the atmosphere, "Bow bow bow." (That looks really odd when written, but it's the music they always play in Westerns at gunfights - I hope you know which I mean. Otherwise I just look stupid. Well, I do anyway, this is one of the longest author's notes in history...)
Gemma looked between them, looking baffled. "Look, guys, I don't know what's going on between you here, but can you postpone your gunfight at high noon and stop these pirates from lifting the curse with me?"
Both Will and Jack sprang towards her, so dramatically it went into slow motion with more dramatic soundtrack. They ran across the cave, glaring at each other, both aiming at Gemma. The pirates holding onto her looked terrified and let her go, leaving her standing on a rock pile, with both Will and Jack pelting towards her.
"EEEEK!" she shrieked, knowing the laws of momentum. Suddenly, a split second before both Will and Jack collided with her, Mro swung out of nowhere and grabbed onto her, swinging on a rope onto the far side of the cave. He landed and set her carefully back on her feet.
"Wow," she said, "Thanks."
"Always a pleasure," said Mro. They then turned back to the corner of the cave where a loud profanity had just been screamed, and saw Will and Jack had collided with each other and were now sitting on the cave floor clutching their heads.
"You bastard, Jack! Look where you're going!"
"I was going to get to her first, whelp!"
"I AM NOT A WHELP!"
"Yes you are! You're one of the most whelp-like eunuchs I've ever met!"
"But I'm NOT a EU-"
"A eunuch?" smirked Commodore Norrington. The rest of the soldiers tried not to laugh, and the cursed pirates didn't bother and laughed loudly and raucously.
"I'M NOT A EUNUCH!" screeched Will, setting them all off again.
"Not only that," said Jack quickly, "He was once a choir boy."
"And he used to wear his hair in a plait," added Krystal.
"His best friend in his childhood was a girl," said Mar.
"And Jack beat him hands down in a sword fight!" finished Catarina.
"But he cheated!" protested Will, but his claims fell on deaf ears. The pirates were now rolling around on the floor laughing. The girls in the crew quickly circled the cave, knocking out all the pirates, helpless in their giggles. Within a couple of minutes, all of the pirates were subdued. Jack waltzed over to Commodore Norringgton.
"Done and done," he said.
Norrington looked more than slightly bemused. "Be that as it may, you are still a pirate, Sparrow."
"Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please," said Jack.
"Jack, there's a time and a place," said Kathryn. The soldiers all pulled out their swords and pointed them at Jack. Jack surveyed them all with eyebrows raised.
"I think you make a valuable point, missy," said Jack. He stood there for a second, then pelted away down the tunnel. All of the soldiers immediately followed, leaving the girls, Tanuki, Mro, Mort and Tobias in the cave with Will and Elizabeth, who were having a 'reunion' at the back of the cave.
"Didn't Barbossa say that the whole cave was cursed?" said Yilantri.
"But that means that we're all cursed as well," said Danielle, "We'd better figure out how to lift it."
They all walked over to the pool of murky water at the back of the cave. "The instructions are at the bottom of there," said Becky, "Anyone volunteering to swim down there?"
Alex, however, was frowning. She got down on one knee and took a handful of the water. Sniffing it, and then drank it, and her eyes widened. "That's not water!" she said, "That's RUM!"
"How on earth did you figure that out?" said Mort in shock.
"Alex can detect any alcohol within a two-mile radius," explained Frankie.
"Never mind that, is it coconut rum?" said Tobias.
"Think so," grinned Alex. Everyone looked at the pool full of rum.
"Well, let's get started!" said Brandi happily, "Look, there's even tankards over there!"
"Whoa, whoa!" said Gemma, "We're going to drink ALL of it?"
"Or pass out trying!" said Ariana cheerfully, filling her tankard, "Cheers!"
*****
Stargirl14 - Sorry I can't give you more lines, I just have so many people to fit in! Glad you enjoyed it!
Im a Brandybuck - Course he did! It's a very cool phrase! Not that this has much to do with it, but I just watched 'The Haunting', and it has some of the fastest credits I've ever seen...
Tobias - Hee hee. Coconut rum. Do you think a poolful is enough for you?
Tanuki Yasha - Does EVERYONE like coconut rum? Am I missing something? And you find out in the next chapter! Hahaha, I AM evil!
Krystal&Mar - Huzzah for frying pans! Will thinks he looks so cool with the sword - OK, he does - but could he handle a frying pan? EH??
Archangel Genesis 9 - See? It wasn't icky water! It was RUM!
Reasonably Crazy - I'm not descended from a pirate, but I AM descended from Rob Roy MacGregor, who was a famous scottish outlaw, and also from Lord Nelson, who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar (wow, I know history!), and he was a sailor, so maybe they mix to make a pirate?...
Cat Youkai - Tight? How can a chapter be tight? Is that good? Haha, that ankles thing was hilarious... "Ankles all the way!"
Michaela - It is true! I downloaded the script off the Internet, and at one point the script just goes "Will... Will!" "Elizabeth!" "Monkey!" That last bit was Jack...
Theshiz - Um, I think it's slightly difficult to fit fire in EVERY chapter... sorry about that...
Aya - Thanks! I noticed that too, but luckily I have thought of a way to combat it... mwahahaha!
Mako - It's always cool to be a strange girl without classification... I should know...
Beloved Fool - Oh, that's so cool! I need to go to a pub and do that! Hmm, now which of the 46 pubs in my home town do I choose?... That's right, 46. FORTY SIX. I like the deleted scene with, "The immortal Captain Jack Sparrow has such a lovely ring to it... and it's not a bad look, really..." Oh, and, "Completely obsessed with raisins. Humiliated grapes, really. Think about it!" Raisins ARE humiliated grapes...
See y'all soon!