Shavai and Will turned their heads quickly towards the side of the ship in the direction of the whistle. It sounded like it was getting closer, when suddenly, Will grabbed both of Shavai's shoulders and pulled her down with him as they both croutched down on the deck, while a cannon ball flew overhead and knocked into part of the ship, almost hitting a crew member who stopped one step short.
"Cannonball!" He yelled and ran off in the opposite direction to find the rest of the crew. Jack, and Jaden ran from the opposite end of the ship. Jacinda practically fell down from a mast, screaming from the rope burns on her hands. Her two friends ran up from below deck with their pistols in the air. The rest of the crew ran around on the deck, dragging and positioning the cannons and proceeded to load them as the opposing ship reloaded and fired once again.
"Hurry you bill's rats! Ye mangy good-for nothing scoundrels! Hurry! Come on, move!" Jack and Mr. Gibbs yelled and rampaged at the crew, but practically did nothing themselves. Mr. Gibbs untwisted the cap from his flask and raised it to his lips when something made a loud clang and he opened his eyes to see someone had just shot a bullet through the flask. A sense of rage filled him inside and his eyes seemed to light up with a type of fire, never seen before. As he grabbed his pistol in one hand and ran flailing with his sword in the other, unafraid of death it seemed.
Shots rang through the no-longer silent ocean and rampaged the sea with sounds of the cannon's fire as another ship approached advancing on each other. People could simply throw things to get them across to hit someone else. Jaden crawled her way to Shavai and Will, completely forgetting Jack momentarily.
"We have to get Megan out here!" Shavai shook her head in agreement, pecked Will quickly on the lips and got up, half-croutching along with Jaden to Megan's room. Once they reached where they were heading, they got in quickly and Shavai closed the door behind them only to have a cannonball go through it a moment later. Shavai yelled through the hole.
"Do ye mind!" And hit her fist against the door.
Megan still lied in the same position; sitting on her knees leaned over the bed with her head on Brandon's chest.
"Come on, Megan!" Jaden yelled and began pulling her friend up by her arm. Megan simply pulled her arm away and continued staring broken-heartedly at her husband, who laid lifeless and still infront of them. Jaden and Shavai stared unbelievingly at each other for a moment.
"Megan. They're invading the ship." Shavai said as she lowered the sword in her left hand. "If we don't do something, they're going to kill everyone and take the ship." Megan let out a sigh that was broken up into little sobs.
"I don't care." She managed to say in one breath. and shut her eyes on his chest again, letting a tear fall.
"Did you not hear me? They're going to take what little things we have left. I've lost both of my children and I'll never get them back, but they wouldn't want us to just give up because they weren't here. That's no reason for us to die at the hands of them. We go when we're ready, but if they get to this ship and we don't do anything," Shavai said, now beginning to think no matter what she said, nothing was going to get through to her. "They'll kill us; they'll kill us all."
Megan simply sobbed. "We're all going to die anyway." Jaden thought of the heart that spoke behind it. She knew it must've been hard to lose him again and this time not have anything to save him with. Save him with, she thought.
"Then you didn't hear what we found." Jaden said as a shot went through the door. "We can save them all."
"What?" She turned around and wiped at her face with the back of her hand.
"Captain Robert's has some type of treasure, that's enchanted and it can bring back the dead. They say he stole it from some aboriginees or something like that."
"Lets get it." Megan said as she stood up and practically ran outside the door. Before following her out, Jaden turned back to Brandon's corpse and spoke quickly "I'm sorry, but you would've wanted it this way."
With that, Shavai and Jaden ran out to see the chaos laid out before them and turned towards the right and saw Megan hacking away at a few of them. It was a sight to see her reanimated with a certain burning fire, almost like killing them was her passion. Shavai ran down to the prisoner's cell where Persephone was supposed to be waiting, but saw nothing. She ran back upstairs to see where she had gone to and wanted to alert the others. Once she got up there, panting and exhausted, she saw an unwelcome sight for even the most sore eyes. Captain Roberts stepped aboard the ship and was being shot numerous times and not even stumbling backwards. It's like the bullets went straight through, blowing some holes through the clothes he was wearing but nothing. Not so much as a scream of pain, or even acknowledgment. And off in the distance, Jack was hiding behind a barrel of ale. With Jacinda kicking and screaming at him.
"Why are you hiding!" She yelled. He simply held his hat between his hands and replied
"Who's hiding? I'm merely trying not to be seen by a certain enemy who at the moment is impervious to bullets and would probably kill me if he saw me by stringing me out then peeling my skin off and then ripping my toes off then bleeding me dry and letting the vultures have me or throw my bloodless, lifeless, mangy corpse to the sharks for his amusement." Then Jacinda took it into deep consideration.
"Move over." She said as she croutched down beside him. Shavai shook her head. Through all the turbulence she saw laying waste all about her, she saw nothing of the now vanished nun. She looked just in time to narrowly avoid a sword going through her neck and into a piece of the wooden ship getting it lodged in because of the blunt force pushed into it. Shavai thrusted her sword through him and was on her way. One by one, the corpses began rising back to life, just as before and were taking out their crew. Shavai shouted above the crowd for them to chop off their heads, but no one heard. They had to learn for themselves. Then Shavai took notice of the few normal humans who remained and noticed the zombies outnumbered the regular human crew. They were going to lose the ship, if the odds did not change quickly.
Suddenly a group of zombies encircled Shavai, Megan, and Jaden as they all fought back to back. Will valiently fought his way through whoever was infront of him, while Jack did his best to make them chase him in a circle and hope they magically fell off the ship, hands flailing infront of him.
One zombie in a red bandana raised his sword above his head and was measuring where in Jaden's neck to put it. Jaden clenched her eyes shut and her sword in her hand and waited. But nothing happened. She opened her eyes and the zombie was stuttering over his own words.
"Wh-wh-what was that?" He asked looking past Jaden to Shavai.
"Parle'." She repeated, although Jaden hadn't heard her the first time. Jaden thanked whatever force was out there.
"Wh-why d-do you wanna speak wit' the cap'n?" He asked, making it appearant he had a serious speech impediment.
"Because he's attacking our ship." Shavai answered simply. The almost skeletal creature made his way over to Shavai, half-limping. Shavai felt a twinge of fear go through her bones and a chill crept up her spine as she stared into the eyes of this creature that was maybe a foot taller than her. He looked clueless. "We want him to stop." She clarified.
"Well, step this way, miss." He said pointing out the direction with both his arms. Once Shavai stepped passed him, he raised the hild of his sword and bought it clashing down on the back of her head, knocking her out. The other zombies took notice and did the same to Jaden and Megan. Just then. Jacinda waltzed over.
"Hey, they said parle'! You can't harm them once they declare it! Don't ye know ye'r pirates code?" She clicked her tongue, ashamed.
"And, uh, uh, M m miss? Did you happen to declare 'Parle'?" Jacinda thought for a moment about it and came to her conclusion.
"No?"
"And what be the punishment for b-b-bring harm to the ones who declared parle'?" He asked her.
"Uh, nothing. But you have to live with a shame you just put on your mother." With that, the zombie did the same to her and knocked her out cold.
"Then that makes no reason for me to follow the rules now does it?" They all gathered around the bodies and began transporting them to the other ship. "Besides, I loved me mother." He wiped an invisible tear from his eye and another zombie padded his shoulder.
And after a few moments, the girls woke up to an explosion. Once they looked outside the window, the ship was gone in a swirling cloud of fire and smoke hovering among debri in the silent water. Once the smoke cleared, they looked for any sign of life. But Will, Jack, Mr. Gibbs and the rest of the crew were down in Davey Jones' locker.
