Sorry for the loooooooong wait. I hope this chapter's worth it.

Disclaimer: I don't own either "Danny Phantom" or "Pirates of the Carabbean". Most of the characters you see are either property of Nickelodeon or Disney. Some others are my own.

> > > > > >

The Spirit of the Ship

> > > > > >

Chapter 11: Battle of the Dead

> > > > > >

A deep night came to the sea. Gustavo was the only one awake, directing the ship to its destination while the others were sleeping. Adriana was using the only bed, while everyone else made themselves as comfortable as they can. A candle was his only light to see his compass. He yawned looking at it, making sure he was going the right direction. The hours were starting to get the best of him.

He was startled by footsteps coming up the steps to the wheel. Gustavo kept his sword ready, yet found it only to be Jack. Gustavo knew of what would lie ahead and had to keep himself aware. "You've been up here all night, mate," Jack said to him. "Knowing how long the day was, I'd we're pretty close to sunrise. We might've sailed clear over that underseas graveyard by now."

"I just have to keep sailing a little longer," Gustavo said. "We can't call..." Gustavo yawned before finishing his sentence. "...ourselves safe yet."

"You must be bloody tired, mate," Jack said, concerned. "Why don't you let me handle the ship the rest of the night while you go downstairs to get a well-deserved nap, savvy?"

"Not yet," Gustavo said, keeping his post. His heavy eyelids weren't fooling the captain. "We still have many knots to travel."

"You're a brave one," Jack said, "I'll give you that. Why don't you just keep watch around while I steer?"

"You do that," Gustavo drowzily said. He then finally walked away from the wheel to let Jack handle it and walked to the side of the ship. He sat and leaned back on it, as if making sure Jack doesn't pull anything.

> > > > > >

Below deck, Danny, Adriana, and Don were asleep, with Adrina using the one bed on the ship, Don sleeping in a chair and using another as a footrest, and Danny just leaning against the wall. Danny was suddenly awakened by a cold chill, followed by a stream of blue air emiting from his mouth.

"Oh, no," Danny said, knowing only what it could mean.

> > > > > >

"...And then they made me their chief," Jack said, telling a story to Gustavo, "which was nice." He looked over to Gustavo, and double-taked to find him sleeping soundly. "Dead asleep." Jack then let his attention to a creek in the ship. "That doesn't sound right." Most would find the creek normal when sailing, but a worthy sea dog, like Jack Sparrow, would know that sound as someone climbing on the ship from the outside, which was later followed by the sound of a limp body being dragged over from the inside. Jack stopped recognizing sounds and took action by diving to the side of the ship and grabbing Gustavo's ankle.

Gustavo was still sleeping, not noticing the tug-of-war for his life currently happening. As Jack was struggling to keep Gustavo and himself in the ship, he drew out his sword and thrusted down the skull of whatever started it. The thing's grip loosened when Jack did so, and after pulling Gustavo up, he observed his blade to find there was, indeed, a skull on it. Heavily shocked, Jack frantically shook the skull off his blade, which struck Gustavo in the head. Gustavo got up, shook his head, and in a peeved way, asked, "What did you do that for?"

"Oh, now you wake up," Jack said. Jack looked over to the side of the ship where Gustavo was being dragged out from, seeing skeletal pirates crawling up the ship. A frightened look came to a suddenly awoken Gustavo. Jack sneered and said, "Not these blokes, again!" Gustavo drew his sword out and readied for battle.

Just then, Danny phased through the deck with his blade. "Guys," Danny said, "we're being invaded by... ghosts?" Danny saw that his ghost sense detected something other than ghosts. "Those aren't ghosts."

"They're dead and they're moving," Jack said. "That's good enough for me!" Jack charged and yelled at the three skeletons in front of him, slashing and blocking wherever he could. As one went to thrust into Jack, he nimbly dodged, causing its blade into another's rib cage. Jack kicked that blade upward with the back of his foot, throwing skeletal parts everywhere. Jack then struck his blade into another's skull, while using his lifted foot to kick the other into the ocean. Jack looked over to his other crewmen, who were still in their same spots. "What are you waiting for! Gustavo, port bow! Danny, starbord! Go!"

As Jack was giving orders, more members of the deceased came aboard the ship. Danny and Gustavo made haste to there positions, with Gustavo toppling down the steps in his sleepiness.

> > > > > >

Don and Adriana were unaware of what was happening above deck. Adriana was slowly awakened by pounding on the door. She rose up to see it crash down with armed skeletons on the other side. She screamed in total fear, which startled Don from his make-shift bed. He then realized what had scared the girl and in a scared tone to himself said, "I morti sono arrivato!" Don took one of the chairs he was resting on and threw it toward the skeletons in his way, almost looking like an explosion of bones.

"Adriana," Don said, "we have to get out of here, now!" Adriana got up as told while Don ran over to the chair he threw and tore off one of the legs to use as a club to hit any more skeletons that come. They both ran out the exit, expecting the worse.

> > > > > >

Gustavo, at the front of the ship, had difficulties fending off the onslaught of the dead. He had yet to recieve rest at this point, and found himself narrowly escaping death. While facing four dead members at once, he took an oppertunity to arc up between one's legs. Since he was tired, he became a little disorriented and fell back. His blade was pointing away from, which showed how much luck he had as it pierced into another's skull. Gustavo pulled up, shocked to see that a skull was resting on his sword. This distracted him a short bit as one of the two remaining ghouls thrusted at him, with Gustavo nimbly moving his body away, then handspringing when the other tried slicing off his shins. Upon landing, Gustavo returned the favor, succeeding. The ghoul dropped face-first, catching the point of Gustavo's sword at the end. The remaining ghoul attacked Gustavo while he was still grounded. Gustavo successfully blocked two strikes, with the skeleton's sword hitting what was once the heads of its comrades. The flying pieces caught the skeleton off guard as Gustavo arced up once more, causing its head to fly clear off its neck. After hitting the floor, Gustavo stomped on it, shattering it, and taunted, "Las cabezas, gano."

Danny's practicing was quite noticable as he was holding his own without going intangible, not to mention keeping himself grounded, through most of the fighting. His progress seemed to be slowing down at three certain boney pirates, as he was narrowly dodging and blocking their strikes. Danny dodged another attack by flying back a few yards to try a technique that suddenly popped in his head. He first chraged up his blade with ectoplasmic energy. As the ghostly pirates made their way toward him, he swung his sword horizontally at them, releasing a wave of ectoplasmic energy at them, severing them from the waist down. With surprise that it worked, Danny looked at his sword and said to himself, "Cool."

Jack found no trouble keeping his own. As the zombified pirates came towards him, he quickly did away with them as he grabbed the rope used to hoist things up to the crow's nest. Looking over his side of the ship, Jack found more coming up. Just what he wanted. Rope in hand, Jack leaped over and ran along the ship's outter wall using the rope to keep him up. He sliced at every pirate that came up at him, five in total, after reaching back up to the ship, Jack got some good airtime, enough to shoot a pirate with his pistol directly in the skull. He landed firmly on his feet afterwards.

As Gustavo was trying to keep steady with his deal of the dead, he backed into the door to the lower quarters. It was there he was knocked out when the door flew open and hit him in the back of his head. Don came out swinging with Adriana following shortly. After taking out the literally bone-thin pirates onboard, Don noticed the damage he'd done to Gustavo. He ran over to where he was to check on him. "Gustavo!" he said to his apparently limp body. "Are you alright?"

"El mirar en las estrellas," Gustavo said, clearly dazed. "Debo hacer una manía fuera de ésa." He then went to do what he hadn't done in hours. Sleep.

"What did he say, Adriana?" Don asked the closest Spanish speaker to him.

"No," she simply answered. "We have to get him someplace safer."

"Good advice," Don said after clubbing another undead pirate. Don then took quick notice of Danny on the upper deck and shouted to him, "Danny! Get over here!"

Danny heard the cry from across the ship. He looked over to see a knocked out Gustavo, a club-wielding Don, and Adriana in the face of danger. Danny flew over immediatly to defend the three. Danny and Don stood in opposite ends and circled around the most helpless. "What are you guys doing here?" Danny said.

"Well," Don started while clubbing another skeleton, "Adriana and I were just sleeping, these dead pirates appeared, we escaped, and now we're in even bigger trouble. That's all I know.

"But did you have to bring Adriana here?" Danny asked. It's too dangerous!"

"And leave her to the dead?" Don responded. "What else could I do? ...You like her, don't you?"

Danny quickly went wide-eyed and stammered for answers. "Well, I, er, uh..." Danny felt even more embarassed from that question remembering Adriana was right behind him. A cry for help gave him the thankfulness for not having to answer.

"Danny!" Jack shouted to the upper deck against a handful of undead pirates. "A little help here!"

"Just get Adriana and Gustavo to the crow's nest," Don told Danny, followed by backing towards Adriana and the limp Gustavo. "Adriana, you may find yourself using this up there." He then gave Adriana his chair leg club.

"But what about you?" Adriana asked.

"Don't worry," Don said, taking Gustavo's sword from his hand. "I'm sure Gustavo won't mind me borrowing this. Now get them up there!" At that, Danny grabbed Adriana and Gustavo and flew them up to the crow's nest. Don lookad at the blade and said to himself, "È stato un molto tempo poiché ho usato uno di questi."

Upon drop off, Danny told Adriana, "Stay there!" He flew straight back down to help out Jack, who was struggling to keep himself up from pirates forcing him down. He was unaware that another one was about to slice him clear in half. Danny blasted it before it could do so, then proceeded to cutting down one who was holding Jack down. Jack suddenly erupted back up to hack away at the remaining one.

The hefty Italian showed no rust in battle against the deseased opposition, slicing away at all who approached. Along the way of trading attacks with one skeleton, Don hacked its leg off, causing it to fall over. Taking advantage of this moment, Don disarmed it (literally) and used his big weight by falling back on the dead pirate, shattering it to pieces. He got back up and continued to take on any who opposed him.

Up on the crow's nest, the dead pirates knew life was up there. When they reached the top, they only got a face full of chair leg, curtisy of Adriana. She whacked at any who showed what was left of their faces. One of which whose head popped up next to Gustavo, who was recently regaining consciousness. Adriana only paid attention to one of those things. She whacked at the skeleton's head, which shattered, which left the remaining force to lead directly to Gustavo's temple. Gustavo went out like a light, with Adriana quickly realizing what she had done. "Me disculpo," she said to the once-again unconscious Gustavo.

> > > > > >

The battle lasted into the day, which was around forty-five minutes since it started. Three hours after the sun risen, the crew of the Hairy Turtle were still asleep from exhaustion. All but Gustavo, who was stretching on the deck.

"Están todos dormidos," he said to himself. "Ahora un buen rato de hablar con él." With that, he went below deck.

> > > > > >

Wow, that's a lame last sentence to end it with. Well, that's the end of the chapter. I swear the next one will take a shorter time to finish.