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Chapter 7: Handguide on How to Commandeer a Ship

Our three heroes (and heroine) boarded the Dauntless, after Will got that stupid cage thing off his foot, of course.

They slowly creeped onto the deck without the crew knowing and they came up right behind them. How sneaky of them...

"Everyone stay calm. We are taking over the ship." Jack stated nonchlantly, holding out his sword, as the crew of the Dauntless turned to look at him. They all looked a bit shocked.

Will pulled out his sword and yelled, "Aye! Avast!" The crew laughed at him. Jack just stared at him in annoyance while Samantha, who stood behind Jack and Will, whispered to Will, "Perhaps you shouldn't say that anymore..."

"This ship cannot be crewed by two men. You'll never make it out of the bay." Said Gillette, one of the crew members. Samantha moved inbetween Jack and Will. "And don't forget me. I'm part of this new crew too." Hey, that rhymes.

But Jack just smiled at Gillette and said, "Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?" He couldn't forget his two new crew members, now could he? "And these ere' are my first mates William and Samantha. So, this ship will be crewed by two men AND a woman."

Soon after, Jack, Will, and Samantha forced the OLD crew of the Dauntless into a rowboat and pushed them off. Samantha didn't feel to comfortable with doing that, but I don't think she really had much of a choice. One of the navy officers aboard the Intercepter saw the rowboat and called for Commodore Norrington.

Commodore Norrington looked over the edge of the Intercepter and Gillette began yelling to him. "Sir, they've taken the Dauntless! They've taken the ship! Sparrow and Turner and a young woman, they've taken the Dauntless!"

Commodore Norrington whipped out his spy glass and looked out towards the Dauntless and saw Jack, Will, and Samantha. "Rash, Turner, too rash. He is without doubt the worst pirate I have ever seen. And who is that woman they're with? She's not a pirate, is she?" Our Sammi? A pirate? Naw.

Back on the Dauntless, Jack and Will went below deck for a moment while Samantha hid behind a barrel on deck. Jack and Will quickly came back up and then saw the Interceptor set sail towards the Dauntless.

"Here they come." Will said.

"This could be bad." Samantha said in reply.

In the small rowboat where Gillette and the rest of his crew sat, Gillette called to them, "Bring her around, bring her around!"

Once the Interceptor got close enough to the Dauntless, Norrington and his men boarded the Dauntless, unaware that Jack, Will, and Samantha were in hiding and about to swing themselves onto the Interceptor by ropes connected to the mast of the Dauntless.

Samantha was terrified. She wasn't scared of heights or anything. And she wasn't scared of falling into the ocean, either (well, kind of). She just didn't want to get caught. She didn't want to go to the gallows. She didn't want to die. She just wanted to go home and get her paycheck from work and then life would be all peachy keen. But no. Samantha was never that lucky.

"Search every cabin, every hold, down to the bilges!" Norrington yelled to his men.

"What the hell are bilges?" Samantha whispered to herself. Samantha made a mental note to herself to ask Jack later.

Jack, Will, and Samantha hurled themselves over onto the Interceptor, which no one was on becasue they were all on the Interceptor. Samantha was more than just a tad scared. She just wanted this all to end.

But Norrington noticed them and yelled to his men, "Sailors! Back to the Interceptor. Now!"

Norrington and his men tried to get on the Interceptor but it was too late. It sailed away from the Dauntless and Norrington.

Jack looked to Commodore Norrington as he, Will, and Samantha sailed away. "Thank you, Commodore, for getting us ready to make way. We'd have a hard time of it by ourselves."

Samantha waved at the Commodore and smiled and then watched as the Dauntless crushed the small rowboat that once held Gillette and his men, who jumped off only moments before.

And then they were off. The new crew of the Interceptor... Jack and his new crew of boat-stealing, jail-breaking pirates...

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Danielle just continued to play Go Fish with Pintel and Ragetti.

"Hey! ye've won this ere' game FOUR times already!" Pintel said to Danielle, standing up and knocking the barrel and cards over. "Are you cheatin'!" "Yeah!" Ragetti agreed.

"I've actually won this game five times." Danielle began to calmly pick up the cards, knowing full well that Ragetti and Pintel would not hurt her because if they did Barbossa would have their heads. "But of course I'm not cheating. I'm winning because I've played this game a lot longer than you have and I'm good at it."

"Oh. Right." Pintel said and both Pintel and Ragetti shrugged and then helped Danielle pick up the barrel.

"Shall we play another game of Go Fish, boys?"

"Aye!"

"O' course!"