Chapter 5: Madame Yendel's Love Potion
Jaden, Megan, and Shavai watched as Jack ordered the small crew around. They had a few minutes before the real owner of the ship would be coming back to claim it. So they had to move fast. They checked supplies and rations and made sure they had everything they needed. Everything was good. They knew where they were heading, what they were searching for and why, but, something felt funny. It was way too easy to just commondear a ship and have the owner not there and have no trouble. Something just didn't feel right.
Shavai looked around grimmly as she gulped down some more rum from her flask and just stared ahead. Megan stood arms crossed and glaring at everyone. Jaden stared at her shoes and occasionally looked around. It wasn't long before the silence was broken by Shavai "So, anybody have an idea of something to do while we wait?" All three of the girls started looking around before Megan pointed to a small shop on the corner not far from the dock. They all stared for a second until realizing it was a magic shoppe. The symbols at the corner of the sign indicated gypsies owned the shop and they'd been settled down for quite sometime. Jaden could only wonder, out of anyplace in the world, why here? They all huddled into the tiny store. Jack looked over curiously wondering what they were up to, but he quickly got his attention back to the man trying to ask him if the sails were on correctly.
Once they stepped inside, they noticed how nice and cozy it felt. It had been a while since they had an actual place they could call home. The air smelled like burning cinnamon and there were candles lit all around. The girls stared in wonder at the little hand made bracelets for good luck, and the packages of incense. There were vials everywhere that had strange mixtures in them. Books that taught magic potions and spells, and then there were the pink bottles, no bigger than a person's pinky that were a dark red shade and looked like they contained blood. Shavai couldn't help but notice the odd treasure and read the label aloud "Madame Yendel's Breuvage magique d'amour." Shavai was puzzled by what it meant, but decided to ask later as she put it in her pocket. "Good afternoon, ladies." A heavy French accent said from a corner of the room. It was clearly male and made the girls jump. A man about six feet tall overlooked the girls. He had drab clothes on that consisted mostly of dark reds and oranges and black. He wore a plain red bandana with a skull over it and an eyepatch on one eye. "You scared us, sir." Megan spoke out trying to be as polite as possible, even though something inside her told her to take the guy's head off. When he spoke, a cold chill went up her spine and made her think about who he was for a second. The man went by Megan and looked her in the eye "Humble apologies, Miss. Now, what can I do for you?" Megan thought inside her head 'Now, what you can do for us is take your eyepatch and shuve it up your-' Her thoughts were cut off by the man. "Going on an adventure of some sort?" He looked at Jaden and saw the gold chain around her neck and once he caught sight- it seemed her would let go of it. Shavai took some of the bracelets and put them into her pockets and continued to appear to browse. Jaden spoke up, "Why, yes, as a matter of fact we are. How did you know?" the man looked around for a second looking at Shavai as he answered back "Just a guess. Plenty of people takin' off for some kind of treasure in the middle of the ocean. A big joke to me, but I couldn't help but notice your necklace and that gave me a clue." It was silent for a second as he continued to stare at it with admiration "So, how much would you be willing to let it go for?" The girls all got a chill and decided it was about time to get going. Shavai walked by the counter at the store as Megan and Jaden made their way to the front door to make their exit.
"Come on, Shavai. They're going to leave without us." Jaden called back to Shavai who by then, was investigating a peculiar smell coming from behind the counter. As she got nearer the smell grew stronger and smelled like rotting meat. Shavai was way into it so she couldn't back out now until she knew what it was. She reached the counter and peaked over it. Lying on the ground was a corpse with a few rags for clothes on. Blood was everywhere. Her insides twisted and she felt like throwing up. She let out a blood curdling scream and Megan and Jaden ran back. They unsheathed their swords and held them out as they looked for the man who looked like he dissappeared. Shavai stopped screaming. Megan and Jaden looked to the corner of the room and saw the man holding a dagger to Shavai's throat and he had his other hand over her mouth. "Now, give me the necklace or your friend's gonna be seeing you guys again vertically from a six foot hole in the ground." His accent faded and his skin appeared to be melting off his face. He was decomposing right infront of their eyes.
MEANWHILE AT THE SHIP
"Will, would you go and find your ladies-in-waiting before we leave sometime this year?" Will gave Jack a menacing look and Jack shook his head "Alright then, you blouse wearing commondearing fairy." Jack stumbled off to the shop muttering obsceneties. He stumbled and tripped to the shop. "Alright, girlies. We haven't got all day. Come out now." Jack waited for an answer and after an entire minute passed he held his hand to his ear. "Are you in there or what?" He walked in pushing the door out of his way as he almost fell in "Fee fie foe... wrong words.... um.... uh.... ready or not here I come. I guess." He saw the girls standing off with the walking corpse. "Oh. Well, I can see you're all busy and that I'm just getting in the way, so I'm gonna go..."
To Be Continued....
Author's notes: Mwahahahahahaha, and I'm back. this chapter wasn't really meant to be funny, I try to fit a little bit of eveything in the elements of my stories and this happened to have a little horror, comedy, and a few deep thoughts lol. Anyway, I'm suffering from terrible writer's block with bad ideas, in the next chappy, we'll see if they do defeat the corpsie-guy and whether or not they're going to make the destination in time. It's all just a matter of time now, isn't it? But we all have to keep in mind that time is fleeting and no matter how we try to hold onto it, one mistake can mess up everything, and we can't get the moment back.