Chapter 32: Armageddon Part III
The HMS Leviathan and Jupiter were the first ships to enter the battle. The enormous ships charged the Ravager. The cursed ship turned to open fire on them, but maintaining fire on five targets—the Dauntless, Britannia, Leviathan, Jupiter, and Tortuga—was a mite difficult.
Then the Leviathan fired one perfect shot, and the Ravager's powder magazine blew.
On the deck of the Doomgiver, Will was still in the weirdest fight ever; a duel between he and a pair of disembodied legs. And the legs were winning. They hopped over his blades, and then kicked him in the shins. If this keeps up, I am going to get mad.
Then the legs kicked him in the crotch.
In the red haze of pain and anger that followed, there was a singing frenzy of two blades slicing at something.
The legs stood for a moment, and then collapsed like a house of cards, sliced into pieces no bigger then a slice of cheese.
Finally victorious, Will replaced his blades, and, grabbing a rope, swung back over to his ship, and got it away just moments before the Doomgiver exploded.
Onboard the Red Dawn, there was a creature of menace beyond comprehension. It was the Bo'sun from Barbossa's Black Pearl. He gave orders to the hellish crew. "Send men in boats to the Leviathan! I want her dead!"
The Leviathan was swamped by hellish creatures that just. Kept. Coming. The crew fought valiantly, but in the end, the creatures felled as many Navy men as they lost among their own. The decks were a swamp of carnage and bloodshed, and there was not a soul left alive.
Until two people from the Black Pearl swung over.
Meanwhile, in the Armageddon of Tortuga, Jack Sparrow and Barbossa still dueled. They had actually headed past the town itself to a watermill. In a vicious swing that missed Jack, Barbossa severed some ropes. Jack kicked Barbossa down a level, then crawled out onto the wheel. It was his plan to then go on the roof, but Barbossa was fast, and they soon re-engaged.
They continued when the wheel came off the building and started to float downstream.
In a tree down the river, a man marveled at the sight of two pirates battling it out on a wheel floating down the stream. As they floated past, he swung from his branch, and knocked them both to the banks as the wheel continued its track downstream.
Jack had stabbed at Barbossa, and was about to be stabbed himself, when—
Someone kicked him and Barbossa off the wheel. Then Barbossa rose, and said the first words he'd spoken since his return to this Earth. "I'm going to teach you the meaning of pain, Sparrow!"
"Oh, you like pain, eh?" Then Barbossa was kicked in the face "Try having your nose gauged out." It was John Depp. John pulled two swords from his back, and Jack picked up his sword by twitching his foot, and decided to have fun.
Jack advanced as Depp spun the blade 'round in his hand so he held one right, one upside-down. Then he lunged at Barbossa. Barbossa stabbed as John turned 'round and blocked with his upside-down sword. Then he spun 'round again with the other, and tried to stab, but Barbossa moved his blade just enough to block it. Barbossa's blade was freed, and the duel continued as, unbeknownst to Barbossa, he was slowly driven backwards by Jack and John towards a cliff edge.
Depp's weird blade deflected a blow, then another thrust with the other that locked blades together. Then Jack kicked him in the gut to launch him away from him. He advanced, blocking an attack, then launched his own spinning assault with both blades upright. There was a crazy swarm of thrusts from John and Jack and parries from Barbossa. Then John twitched his hand, catching Barbossa's blade in the handle of his left. Then a kick with both feet, sending Barbossa off the edge. Then John followed and, flipping both blades upside down, threw one at Barbossa, hitting him in the side, and trapping him.
Then Depp came down and stabbed the man through the heart.
He died almost immediately. Then, John stood, seeing something that Jack did not that paralyzed him with fear. Jack hopped down after him, and saw—somewhat—what John saw.
John saw some crazy seven-foot tall Inuit bloke, while Jack saw Barbossa.
"Nooo! This is not possible!"
"Not probable, mate," Jack said, smirking, to the Devil.
"You're not free of me yet, Sparrow! One day, your number will come up, and then we'll see who's laughing!" Then the Devil vanished.
The ghostly ships suddenly stopped firing. Their crews vanished—back to Hell. The fleet joined the Doomgiver and Ravager on the Tortuga port floor. The Red Dawn was the last to sink, slowly descending rear first.
The Leviathan was crewed by only two women now.
The Royal Fleet was hit by an incredible gust of wind, blasting them far into the open sea. They noted the conspicuous absence of the Leviathan only briefly, but then they remembered naught at all of their defense of Tortuga.
