Pirates of the Caribbean:

The Legend of the Alchemist

Chapter 4

That night as Blaine sailed them to wherever The Mutiny may be EvanLee woke. She grinned she had just had an idea. She jumped out of bed and quietly slipped out gripping tightly in her hands a long rusty sword that she had had years ago, and a decrepit piece of parchment.

Sneaking into her sister's cabin next to her she grinned to see that she was fast asleep and with the amount she had drunk she wouldn't be waking up. Moving silently towards her sister's bedside table where she kept her weapons, EvanLee stumbled on one of Joselyn's boots. She gazed up apprehensively at her sister and sighed when she realized Joselyn had not been awakened by EvanLee's clumsiness.

After finally reaching the table she set down the sword and the paper and as quietly as she could snatched up the belt of Joselyn's weapons (including the two straps Joselyn slid over her back that held her Katanas) a mischievous smile on her face and left the room to retreat back to her own stashing Joselyn's weapons in the big hole in her mattress; then falling asleep.

Joselyn yawned breathing in the fresh sea air of the Caribbean floating in through her open window. Sleepily she crawled out of bed and set her hand on the table by her bed to grab her weapons and situate them once again upon her hips as she did every morning only to feel a piece of parchment and a single sword. Knowing who was behind the rusty sword and the absence of her regular weapons she trained with each day, she read the letter. There was only a scrawled message on it: I dare ye.

Stepping out onto the deck EvanLee had no memory of the last night until she spotted Joselyn using her second belt with the rusting sword hilted in one of the loops. EvanLee grinned to herself and strode over to Joselyn who was navigating with Blaine. Joselyn turned back and grinned. EvanLee smiled back. Joselyn always loved it when EvanLee did these things rather than hate them; they gave her a challenge.

"Sooo." Joselyn said grinning to her sister. "Do ye happen to know what happened to me weapons?" EvanLee grinned mischievously.

"Me?" she asked innocently. Joselyn smiled and threw her arm around her sister's shoulder.

"Love ya Lee," she said glancing down at her younger sister.

"Me too Joss." she replied giggling with her sister as they had in Port Royal before they became pirates. EvanLee and Joselyn both jumped as they heard the call that sent all men to their stations.

"WEVE FOUND HER CAPT'N! MUTINY AHOY!" Joselyn and EvanLee rushed forward towards the wheel where Blaine stood pointing at the ship neither of them had noticed. The Brigantine The Mutiny. EvanLee watched as their crew scrambled to their places. Half the crew waiting below to fire the guns while the other half stood on deck waiting to storm onto their enemy ship.

"JACK!" EvanLee called for Sparrow who was on deck with the others. She watched as he scrambled up to her. "Take care of ya'self?" he nodded. "Sure?" he nodded again. "Ye aint had no training." he nodded for the third time.

"I know that. But I can take care of me self. I trained me self. Not good as ye but I can take them on." nodded towards the ship.

"Good." she nodded. "I hoped ye would. I want ya to find ye mother then get out. Savvy?" he paused she looked sternly at him. "Ye not strong enough to take 'em all on." he nodded solemnly then headed back down to the lower deck with the others waiting for The Mutiny to come close enough to swing aboard.

"She's in range capt'n." Blaine informed Joselyn. She nodded.

"FIRE!" then the thundering of cannons shattered the air. The Mutiny was coming closer; almost close enough to climb aboard. EvanLee spun around to meet her sister's eyes.

"Ready?" she asked with a challenging note in her voice.

"Always." she grinned. The challenge had just begun.

Jack uncertainly grabbed one of the ropes that hung down from the sails that Sanathe handed him. Sanathe gave him a friendly smile,

"I got yer back." he nodded. "Yer not ready to be goin' 'lone." Jack nodded.

"Thanks." Sanathe smiled. Jack watched as the first of the pirates swung aboard his mother's ship. He suddenly felt panic rise up inside him. Then he felt a reassuring hand on his back. He looked back to see Sanathe.

"K?" Jack nodded unsurely. A pit of fear had begun eating its way in. Then following the others he stepped onto the rail and swung forward with Sanathe behind him onto the ship.

EvanLee watched Jack board with Sanathe.

"Good man." she breathed.

"Aye." replied Joselyn amongst the blasts of cannons and the screams of pain. "How many ye reckon we lose this time?"

"Dunno. Don't want to think bout that."

"Uh huh." she paused glancing at EvanLee who was immersed in watching the fight happening below. "Lets go." EvanLee nodded and charged into battle with her only sister.

Kauri grinned as the two girls swung onto her ship. This time. She thought. This time we'll defeat them.

"Bradley!" she called out for the captain's assistant. She felt him at her side. She turned around to look at him.

"Take the elder if ye have to. But try the young one first. They stay close together so ye have to separate 'em. Savvy?" he grinned at her.

"Aye. Consider 'em taken care of." she watched him leave. She smiled to herself. She could take down the Alchemist with only one in charge. Even if that be the captain which she wanted to be the one she took down. They are both weak without the other one. She thought, but her thoughts were disrupted as she watched one man weaving his way around trying to avoid fighting heading steadily towards her. She watched in interest as he made his way up the stairs to meet her. Looking down at him he looked somewhat familiar. He grinned at her.

"Recognize me from somewhere?" his grin turned into a sneer as he spat out one cold word. "Mother." she stumbled back. Could this really be the boy she left on the island? Could this really be little Jack? But even as the questions came to her she knew the answers. Yes. She watched stunned as the boy made his way back down and onto his ship. Her enemy's ship.

Joselyn stared at her enemy as she tried difficultly to use the old weapon. She was used to her own blades but she could manage. She managed to sink the sword into the mans gut one more time and jerk it out before he crumpled to the ground. Then she heard a scream, one she would have ignored if there wasn't a familiar note to it. She knew who's scream it was. It was one she heard in her dreams all too often. It was EvanLee's scream. Her eyes darted around to find her sister but she saw no sign. All she saw was a crowd of enemy pirates around one person, and she knew who that was. She started moving quickly to the rescue but then stopped grinning.

She saw the many bodies that were soon falling around her sister. She saw a bad wound in her side but that was except the scratches and the long cut on her face letting out a small torrent of blood. She caught EvanLee's eye. She grinned at her. Then suddenly she saw the figure that EvanLee didn't see coming up behind her.

"Lee!" she screamed as she felt two strong arms behind her pulling her away from her sister who any minute would fall to the blow from the man behind her. Struggling against her captor she caught one final glance of her sister who had heard her warning and was finishing off the buccaneer.

EvanLee spun around after she had killed the man behind her to find Joselyn and thank her for the warning but all she saw was the back of a man holding onto a struggling woman who she knew was her sister. She glanced up to see Kauri sneering at her. She knew she would not get her sister back that night and yelled out to her crew.

"PULL BACK! PULL BACK! NOW IF YER COMIN'! PULL BACK!" she scrambled back on her ship with the surviving members on her crew. She jumped up to the wheel and retreated as the rest of the crew below deck continued firing and above deck killing off the last of The Mutiny's crew that was still on the ship. She felt Blaine behind her and backed up telling him that they were still headed for Port Royal. As she left for her cabin she knew Jack and Sanathe were following her. She let them follow her into her cabin.