Chapter 31
Family
"Fire the cannons," Jack yelled as he reached the deck, making everyone turn and stare at him in shock.
"Dad," Jessie said softly, walking to him and embracing him tightly.
"I love ye all too, now fire before we're food for the sharks." Jack gave his daughter a tight, quick hug and without further warning the cannons fired. The Paradise, sitting next to the Pearl in the water, took their cue and began to fire as well.
A loud crash was heard, followed by creaking and cracking. Six cannon balls had simultaneously hit one ship, it was sinking. Cheers rang out followed by her father's shout to reload the cannons, and Davin's shout calling for the same.
"One down, four to go," Alan smirked, making Jessie laugh.
"Aye girl, they'll regret messing with us," Jessie answered with a smirk.
"Course they will," Jack scoffed as if any other idea was ludicrous.
A cannon was fired from one of the remaining four ships, and the crew all pointed and laughed as it hit the water a few hundred feet to the left of the Pearl.
"Fire," Jack yelled and both ships fired, an ear splitting crack echoed as the cannon balls hit their target yet again, taking down a second ship. The fourth ship dropped anchor, as the fifth had done, and began loading the boats with men to escape the death trap that could become their watery grave easily. The other three continued on their course, heading straight towards the Pearl and the Paradise.
Alan turned to her father, who was smirking magnificently, and she smiled and turned her attention to the ships that had almost reached them.
"Prepare to board em, take prisoners," Jack yelled, loud enough for the men on the Paradise to hear.
"Aye," the chorus of shouts came from both ships and heartened Alan, Davin had told his men to follow her father. One ship was almost touching them now, and Alan pulled her katabos from her belt.
"Board em," Alan yelled and ran at the first ship, she was followed by most of the crew, though she knew some would stay on the Pearl and pick up and straggler that made their way onto the obsidian deck.
She grabbed a rope and swung onto the strange warship and was immediately met by two men wearing the garb of a Spanish Navy officer, her brother had gone all out for the occasion. Alan struck as the men pulled their cutlasses from their sheaths. They fell to the deck with a thud, unconscious, and three more took their place. She didn't think, she simply fought, some died by her hand, those she couldn't help, but she tried not to kill.
She felt a presence at her back and whirled ready to fight, only to meet her fathers smirk. "Careful darlin," he mumbled and pushed her behind him to take on a foe that had been attacking her unprotected back.
"Thanks fa," she murmured and for the first time in a while looked around. The ship was mostly empty of conscious Navy men, and the second ship had been attacked by Davin's men some time ago. Running to the starboard side she grabbed a rope hanging from the rigging and swung onto the second ship, anchored right next to the first, and began attacking the Navy on this ship. The Paradise didn't have men as seasoned as the one's aboard the Pearl, and while they weren't losing, they weren't exactly winning either.
Alan let her instincts take over and simply attacked the men, broken arms, broken ribs, unconscious and dead men were left in her wake as she moved from one to the next in a macabre dance that was almost enchanting to watch.
The crew of the Pearl had followed her lead as she hopped ship and soon the second ship was empty of all conscious men, leaving only the third ship to deal with. It had stayed back from the battle, just out of boarding range, Alan had known since the ships appeared that her twin was aboard one of the ships, when the first four had attacked she knew it was the last that he was aboard.
She needed no more thought then that, she stuck her katabos into her belt and without warning jumped into the water and began to swim to the ship sat docked a ways away from the battle.
"Alandra," Davin called behind her and she ignored him, and the sound of him jumping in after her. A few more splashes followed in her wake, she just kept on swimming. Alan made it to the ship quickly and climbed up the hull like a monkey, jumping over the rail and onto the deck where she was quickly surrounded.
"I don't want to kill you all," she yelled, pulling out her katabos, "but I tell you now I will kill any man, woman, or child that gets in between me and my brother."
A few men stepped back from her as she smiled a feral smile, others balked, one ran away, the rest attacked.
"Same goes fer me, anyone that gets between me and my son will die," Jack yelled as he pulled himself over the rail, water dripping from him onto the deck. Alan smiled to herself as he sister, her lover, Jon, and Gabby pulled themselves over the rail too, a wild gleam in their eyes. The Navy men hesitated between death before them and death from their King if they failed. Their King turned out to be the one that won, they attacked her family. Alan fought hard, not caring anymore if she killed them, she was beyond caring anymore.
It was in the middle of fighting a young man that it hit her, she wasn't her brother, she did care if these men lived or died, and she preferred they lived. She broke the boys arm and moved on to the next one, fighting to disable instead of kill, she would never turn into her brother. The men were down within ten minutes, they had never had a chance.
"So you've killed everyone and now you have come for me," a voice spoke. They turned as one to see Demetrius leaning against a woman, his arms and ribs bandaged tight and hung in slings, the woman supporting his weight.
"No, they're not dead, we're not you Demetrius," Alan growled as she stalked up to him, her family on her heels.
"Ah I see, the pirate I paid to kidnap you, no wonder you escaped," Dem purred as he looked from Davin, to Alan.
The woman stood rigidly, her eyes filled with tears. "What are you going to do to us?" She whimpered. Alan smiled softly at the woman.
"To you, nothing, but apparently my brother hasn't learned his lesson."
"Please don't hurt him any more," the woman said helplessly. Alan looked at her, pity in her eyes, she loved this monster.
"If he promises to leave me and my family alone forever I won't harm him, and neither will father."
"The word of a pirate," Dem scoffed.
"Is better than your word dear brother," Alan growled.
"Fine, go rescue that rat that you call your brother, but the only promise I make is this, never return to Spain and I will leave you be, cross our borders and you will not." Alan nodded and turned, leaving him in the arms of the only person that loved him. He wasn't her family, nor would he ever be again.
Alan took Davin's hand and together they walked to the ships rails, her father, sister, Jon, and Gabby following them as they walked past the dead and broken bodies of her brother's crew.
"It's time to get Logan," she murmured and dove into the water to swim back to her ship, the Paradise.
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