Slayers of the Caribbean
By Zel n Xel
Yo, me hearties! This be a cross-over of Slayers and Pirates of the Caribbean. Here be the list of characters so ye know who's who. Arr!
Will Turner- Zelgadis Graywords; Ragetti-Valgaav; Elizabeth Swan-Amelia Seyruun
Com. Norrington-Zangulus; Capt. Barbossa-Hellmaster Phibrizzo; Mr. Gibbs-Eris
Jack Sparrow-Xellos; Anna Maria-Lina Inverse; Governor Swan-Prince Phil
Pintel-Gaav; Dumb Soldier #1-Gourry Gabriev; Dumb Soldier #2-Sylphiel
Mr. Cotton-Rezo; Mr. Brown-Filia; Barbossa's first mate-Martina Xoana
DISCLAIMER: WE DO NOT OWN PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, SLAYERS, OR ANYTHING RELATED TO EITHER OF THEM. ALL WE OWN IS THE IDEA...
Chapter One
Fog Bound
The ship sailed through the icy waters of the Atlantic, wrapped in a dense and unnatural fog. A squeaky little voice sounded on the wind, singing a familiar tune...
"Yo ho, yo ho, a justice freak's life for me!" Well...sorta familiar. Little Amelia stared out into the fog, singing her stupid little justice freak song happily. That is, until someone roughly grabbed her shoulder and scared her quite nicely into silence.
"Shut up! Quit singing about justice, or we'll have loads of pirates on us proving that they're bigger than justice!" Eris commanded angrily, glaring at Amelia. Amelia's big blue eyes started to water and her lip quivered, but Eris was not affected by this attempt of cuteness.
"Knock it off, Eris!" a voice commanded, causing Eris to now glare at Captain Zangulus, who looked quite annoyed with her bothering Amelia. Immediately the little girl smirked and made a face at Eris, who glared and pointed a finger at her in warning.
"But captain, she was singing about justice! Do you wanna tell me something more annoying than that?!" Eris protested angrily as Amelia fumed behind her. Captain Zangulus rolled his eyes at them.
"You BOTH are more annoying than anything at the moment!" he snapped, causing Amelia to gasp and Eris to glare even more.
"But, I'm not annoying! I'm a cute little girl singing about justice happily in the gloomy fog!" Amelia protested. "How is that annoying?"
Eris turned angrily to face the girl. "It's annoying enough to make me want to toss you overboard!" she screeched.
"What-did-you-SAY!?" Amelia seethed, clenching her fists into tight balls and breathing quickly.
"You heard me," taunted Eris, pulling down the bottom of her eyelid and sticking out her tongue. "Besides, you're too young to need a hearing aid!"
With an unnaturally deep roar Amelia tackled Eris before the older woman could back away, and immediately all the sailors stopped their duties to watch the fist fight. Eris pulled Amelia's hair, who in turn kicked and punched every bit of Eris she could get her hands on.
Suddenly Amelia pulled away from a chokehold and held up her hands, her eyes blazing with fire. "Now be prepared to be smitten with the Hammer of Justice!" she screamed. A hammer suddenly appeared into her clenched hands, with the words Hammer of Justice inscribed on the handle. Eris stared, wondering just where that hammer came from in the first place. "I now crush you in the name of Justice!" Amelia lifted the giant hammer above her head and prepared to bring it down on Eris, who stupidly sat there, waiting for the attack.
"Huh?" Amelia jerked the hammer, but it was not coming down on Eris. And Eris was smiling, too. Why, how dare she smile in the face of justice! She tugged another time, yet no hammer fell. "The Hammer of Justice isn't working!" she exclaimed in anguish, then instantly turned her gaze to Eris. "Today you have been spared, but next time..." She trailed off as she looked up and saw her father's face looming above her, his hand stilling her Hammer of Justice.
"And just what do you think you're doing, young lady?" asked Governor Phil as his daughter sweat dropped and smiled innocently up at him.
"Nothing, Daddy! Just teaching a certain infidel to respect the power of justice!" she replied with a sweet voice. Phil's eyes began to water, and he burst into a huge grin.
"That's my girl!" he exclaimed, lifting Amelia up onto his shoulder while striking a justice pose. Eris and Captain Zangulus both sweat dropped at this touching moment.
From behind her the sailors began to gasp, and as Eris turned to see what they were gawking at instead of doing their work, she shrieked. Not just any shriek, mind. She emitted a sound so terrible and so devastating that any who heard it would cover their ears and quake in fear!
"KNOCK IT OFF, ERIS!" Zangulus exclaimed. "Why are you yelping like a scared puppy?" He turned to face her, and was met with a horrible sight. Besides that of Eris cowering on the ground in fear clutching the nearest sailor's legs and making them extremely uncomfortable, that is.
A once proud ship of the ocean was now sinking miserably into the dark depths, engulfed in flames! "What happened here!?" Zangulus exclaimed, gazing on the flaming ship in horror.
Gov. Phil smacked his face. "I should think that it's extremely obvious what happened here!" he snapped, causing Zangulus to sweat drop.
"Everybody always asks that when it's totally obvious, so I thought I'd give it a try..." the captain answered, twiddling his thumbs.
"An act against the name of Justice had been performed here today!" Phil declared dramatically, swinging his arms around. "We will find the perpetrators and—"
"Uh, Daddy, while you're busy talking about a burning ship and catching the evil people who committed this act against justice, there's an unconscious boy floating in the water!" Amelia chirped, pointing over the edge of the ship. Phil halted in mid justice speech and glanced down to where his daughter was pointing. Sure enough, floating on a wooden plank, there lay a boy!
"Man overboard!" he cried out, drawing the eyes of the sailors from the ship to the boy below.
"Boy overboard would be more accurate," noted Eris as the sailors fetched rope to lift him aboard. Phil cast her a withering glance that quickly shut her up.
"Ack! The rope broke! Chains, CHAINS! He's so heavy!" the sailors exclaimed, drawing Phil's attention from Eris to them.
"What are you talking about? There's no way a little boy can be heavy enough to break that rope!" he exclaimed.
The sailors held up the busted rope. "Well look if you don't believe us!" they shouted as Phil regarded their evidence.
"Ah, I see. Okay, bring in the chains!" he commanded as Zangulus and a sailor came running from below decks with a heavy chain between them.
Instantly they threw the chain over the side of the boat into the water and promptly began heaving the boy aboard. "Pull men, put some strength into it!" Zangulus shouted as the sailors tried their best to lift the boy from the water.
"Maybe you should help!" one shouted irritably, and after a moment's consideration Zangulus stepped in and grabbed a section of the chain.
Ten minutes later the boy lay on the deck, surrounded by panting sailors and a very annoyed Zangulus. "Dammit! After all that work he's DEAD! Look, his face is totally BLUE!" the captain raged, kicking what he assumed to be a dead body. "OUCH!" He screamed as his foot met with the boy's leg, which was quite solid, for Zangulus was bouncing away with a broken big toe.
Phil watched him with a look of disgust. "What's your problem?" he asked as the captain continued his pained bouncing.
"He-feels-like-he's-made-of-rock!" Zangulus answered between squeals as he continued bouncing, cradling his foot in his arms. Suddenly he lost balance and collapsed in a twisted heap on the deck, squealing pitifully in pain.
Eris laughed joyfully at this. "Now who's whimpering like a scared puppy?" she gloated as she strutted by, purposefully stepping on his injured foot. Zangulus's eyes popped ten times their normal size and a strange wailing sound came from his mouth.
While this was taking place Amelia knelt down by the boy and tapped on his face. "He is made of rock, Daddy!" she exclaimed in surprise, continuing to tap on his face.
"That's nice dear," Phil answered absently as he rushed over to the help the captain untangle himself.
As Amelia continued happily tapping on the boy's face, suddenly one of his eyes popped open and scared her to death. "Do you mind?" he asked groggily. "I'm trying to sleep!" Amelia, recovered from the initial shock of having his eye pop open at her, merely blinked.
"S...sleep?" she repeated, staring at his drenched clothes. "What do you mean, 'sleep?' You were floating in the water!"
"No I'm not, I'm on...the...BOAT!" he exclaimed, catching sight of the fiery ship nearby. "That's the boat I was on! That's my boat! What? What!"
Amelia calmly endured his brief tirade before the boy flopped back onto the deck, staring expressionlessly into the sky. "Boat...gone...no..." he muttered stupidly as Governor Phil, having heard his outburst, walked over to Amelia.
"I thought he was dead," he said curiously as the boy continued to look up at the sky and mutter incoherent things about boats.
Amelia shrugged. "He said he was trying to sleep," she replied. She noticed her dad was giving the boy a strange look. "Oh, don't worry, Daddy! He isn't retarded! He's just in shock about what happened to his boat!" she told him happily.
"If you say so," Phil said, glancing doubtfully at the boy. "I'll send some help to bring him below deck. I want you to go with him, okay?"
"Okay!" Amelia chirped as her father went to go fetch some sailors. She then turned back to the boy. "By the way, I'm Amelia. What's your name?" she asked politely, hoping that he would speak.
"...It's Zelgadis..." he replied dully. "Zelgadis Graywords..."
"Okay!" Amelia said, then she stared as he closed his eyes once again and lay still. "Uh, Zelgadis?" she asked, poking his face once again. When he failed to respond, she sighed and was about to turn away when a gleam caught her eye. Curiously she reached over and pulled a gold medallion from underneath his shirt. Excitedly she looked it over, noticing quickly the skull on the front.
"You're a pirate?" she gasped, knowing that pirates were enemies of justice. Would she have to dump him back into the ocean to punish his evil ways? No. What if she had it all wrong and he wasn't a pirate and he was just wearing it for some strange reason?
"Amelia!" her father called from behind, making her jump. She quickly tore the medallion from Zelgadis's neck and crammed it into her pocket before turning to face Phil.
"Yes Daddy?" she asked sweetly, hoping he wouldn't notice the bulge in her dress.
"They're ready to take him down below," Phil said as twenty sailors gathered around Zelgadis and attempted to lift him up. Eventually they managed to get him off the ground, but then were faced with the problem of actually moving him below decks. Amelia sweat dropped as they dropped him at least four times before finally managing to get him safely below deck.
"Did he say anything while he was awake?" Phil asked as he watched the sailors make their way below.
"Yes, Daddy!" chirped Amelia. "He said his name is Zelgadis Graywords."
Governor Phil nodded and told her that he would be waiting for her below decks when she was ready to join him. She chirped "okay" after him and immediately brought out the medallion hidden in her pocket.
"Pretty..." she said as she let it dangle from her fingers. Suddenly she noticed a faint image of a black ship with torn black sails floating nearby. As she watched the flag unfurled, and there in the breeze blew the skull and crossbones!