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The Spirit of the Ship

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Chapter 6: Set Sail

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The port at night was an eerie place to be. The sloshing of the waves and the creaking of the ships could send tingles down anyone's spine. It didn't matter at this point, for three figures in the night, Danny, Jack, and Gustavo, were supplying on their ship, the Hairy Turtle. The name couldn't strike fear into many, and it's size couldn't do so either, but for now, it wasn't trying to strike fear into anyone.

"All right, mates," Captain Jack said to his crew. "Have we all that we'll be needing? Food, lighting, weapons, ammunition, powder, fresh water? Say, shouldn't Danny be here?" Jack looked along the port to see Danny struggling with a flat crate.

"What do you keep in here?" Danny panted. "I can barely lift this."

"Oh, apples, oranges, grapes," Jack listed off, "all those fruits that grow along here. You don't want to be catching scurvy around here. Nasty little illness."

"Are you sure you're not bringing bricks, too?" Danny asked.

"What do we need bricks for?" Jack asked, not fully understanding what Danny meant.

"Nevermind. Could one of you guys help me with this."

Jack and Gustavo looked at eachother, which lead to Jack nudging his head, signaling Gustavo to help the ghost-boy out. Shrugging, Gustavo went down to help Danny with the crate. After the crate was put down on the ship, Jack adressed his crew. "Alright, mates. We got a vase that leads us to Italy, enough supplies to get us there, a friend up in Italy bound to know whatever's on that vase, and, most importantly, a ship that'll get us there. If we leave now, we'll be unnoticed by dawn, or at least far enough for those guards to not care anymore. Danny, raise the anchors! Gustavo, ready the sails! Bring me that..." Before Jack could finish his order, a musket flew directly at him, knocking his hat off. He bent over to pick it up and notice the damage. "I really liked that hat." He looked up to notice an armed guard on the crow's nest of a ship not to far from his own.

"¡Ustedes no dejarán este puerto!" the guard yelled to the pirate.

"Well, you owe me a new hat!" Jack responded.

"He just said we won't be leaving here," Gustavo said to Jack.

"He's gonna fire again," Danny said quickly going into his ghost form and shooting an ectoplasmic beam at the guard. The guard collapsed to the deck below. Jack and Gustavo, who have never seen Danny in his ghost form, were quite shocked at his change.

"Did you just-" Jack started to asked.

"Stunned him," Danny answered. "We can still get out of here." At that, he phased below deck to raise the anchors. Jack and Gustavo quickly went to the sails to set them down. The moment the sails were set, a bell was ringing from the opposing ship.

"Come on, move," Jack was telling the ship, "move, move. Reinforcements are coming. Move!" The ship started moving slowly, but not fast enough. Soldiers were coming from the allies as soon as Danny had phased up from below deck, noticing the stormong troops.

"Ready your blades, mates!" Jack said to his crew, drawing his sword. "We're not going down so easily."

The ship moved far enough so not many guards could jump onto the ship. Four guards managed to successfully reach the ship. A fifth guard had managed to grab onto the edge, but lost his grip and fell to the cold ocean. The other guards had decided, after seeing that, it wasn't a good idea to continue.

"Four on three," Gustavo said. "Doesn't seem fair."

"You're right," Danny added. "There's not enough guards." The two groups collided with eachother to determine just where the Hairy Turtle will go.

Jack dueled one guard. At first crossing swords, the guard took to the offense first. A series of blocks lead to a horizontal slash, which Jack easily rolled under, swapping positions. Jack took offense, making his shots blockable intentionally, just to push back his adversary to the side wall of the ship. When the guard noticed he had little place to go, Jack disarmed him with a quick swing at is sword. Jack could easily do away with the guard, but instead, took several slices at the guard's hat, putting it in a total wreck. "A hat for a hat," Jack said to the guard, now in a nervous sweat. "Savvy?" He pushed the guard off deck afterwards, laughing in gloat and in victory.

Danny had little experience in sword fighting, as he had just started to learn it. He mostly played on defense with the guard he was facing. One would think Danny would have the advantage, since he was floating off the ground, yet he was disarmed quite quickly. Danny managed to escape a vertical slash by phasing through it, and through the guard. With the guard off guard, Danny grabbed him by his collar, flew to the side of the ship, and launched the guard into the ocean.

Gustavo had it differently. He was dueling two guards at once. Gustavo kept his defense up the steps to the captain's wheel. He found himself cornered at the main mast. The two guards both took a lunge at Gustavo. They got their swords stuck in the mast after Gustavo jumped up to dodge. Now on top of the caught blades, Gustavo kicked the guard to his left square in the jaw, making him let go of his sword to tend for it. Gustavo grabbed the blade the guard had left behind and, rather than stab him, gave a leapping kick to the guard, causing him to fly overboard. Gustavo looked back to see the other guard freeing his sword. Gustavo now had an advantage, since he was now weilding two blades. The guard proved no match for the double-bladed parchment man, as he was disarmed in a few moments. The guard had no further plan to battle with Gustavo and stepped back as his opponent edged in. "Salto justo adentro," Gustavo told the guard. He did so by turning tail and jumping in the ocean.

Gustavo laughed in delight as he tossed one sword over his shoulder. "We showed them, didn't we?" he said to his fellow shipmates. Their celebration was brought to an abrupt halt as the Spanish guard was firing at them from their own ship.

"¡Dé vuelta alrededor y entregúese!" one guard, likely the captain, yelled to the Hairy Turtle.

"What does he want, Gustavo?" Jack asked for a translation.

"They want to give up," Gustavo answered.

"Not on my watch!" Danny said, charging up to the back of the ship. Danny started forming a ball with his hands as a ball of ectoplasm was forming between them.

"Do something fast," Jack warned, "they're gaining on us."

As soon as Jack finished that sentence, Danny launched his shot at the bottom front of the ship. Direct hit. The ship quickly began to take on water water, and its crew took notice. Just to add insult to injury, Danny blasted two more holes into the opposing ship. It wasn't long before the Spanish guard grabbed whatever they could to keep balance.

"Gentlemen," Jack shouted to the sinking ship, "you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow and his rowdy crew!"

"Los caballeros," Gustavo shouted, providing as an interpreter, "¡ustedes recordará siempre esto como el día que usted casi cogió a capitán Jack Sparrow y su equipo loco!" The crew of the Hairy Turtle had a good laugh in victory as dawn came.

"So," Danny said, changing back to his normal form, "we're off on a treasure hunt for a treasure near Italy. Where's our first pit stop?"

"The Italian port town of Poca Città," Jack informed. "I've been there several times and know quite a number of people. One of them must know what those things on that vase means."

With a course set, the Hairy Turtle took sail to the east to Italy.