Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of "Pirates of the Caribbean", the only character I own is John Kevins.
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Chapter 4: Battling the Kraken
The Silver Bullet was as fast as the Pearl, plus they were lucky. Wind was pushing them at great speed toward World's End, and soon they would be reaching the island where the souls of the pirates of the whole world went to rest after dying.
Ragetti was on the crow's nest to look at the horizon, and he was the first to spot a little boat rowing in their direction.
"There's a boat there!" he shouted, and everyone looked where he was pointing.
"Do you think it's him?" Elizabeth asked Will.
"I don't know, but I definitely hope he is, so we can go back to Port Royal" he said, pulling her close.
"Mr. Turner, you will share moments with your wife-to-be when the adventure is finished, now I need you to go work on those sails!" Captain Kevins snarled.
Will reluctantly left her and went to do his duty, till they finally reached the little boat. And inside, they could spot someone.
"For all the treasures on earth, it's Jack!" Gibbs shouted. Everyone on the ship cheered, and even Captain Kevins let a wide smile spread on his lips.
"So, I see you lot have come to search me, how kind of you" Sparrow said, looking at them. Then his gaze lingered on Elizabeth, who blushed.
"Miss Swann, I reckon you've become quite a pirate, as I already said you last time we saw each other" he said to her, before going to meet the captain.
"He's angry at me, and he has every right to do so" she mumbled.
"Angry? I've never seen Jack Sparrow angry, more than two minutes that is. And even if he was, a good bottle of rum would wash it away" Will said, to reassure her. He knew she felt guilty for doing such an act of, you must call things with their name, piracy.
Meanwhile, at the wheel presentations were in order.
"I reckon I should thank you, captain…"
"John Kevins" the other man said, shaking Jack's outstretched hand.
"This name sounds familiar...have I battled you before?" Jack said, mulling over it.
Kevins grinned. "Jack, we were together on the Pearl when your father was the captain!"
"Oh"
Then Jack grinned, patting the other man on the shoulder. "I find you quite well, John. This ship seems to be damn fast, for not being the Pearl."
"That could be because it is built to be almost a copy of it…look well at it, you'll find that just little things are different, for example the number of the cannons, and their dimensions. This ship is far better armed than the Pearl but for the rest it is almost identical. The sails are silver instead of black, but hey, that gives us an advantage, they don't think you're a pirate as soon as they see you" the man ended winking.
"Sorry to disturb your reunion" Will intervened, "But I was thinking that now we have rescued Jack, so we should go back to Port Royal"
"Not so soon, Mr. Turner" Kevins snarled.
"What do you mean? The mission was to rescue Jack, we have him now!" Elizabeth protested.
"Ah, but I fear that rescuing Jack was just a cover to the real mission" Kevins said, grinning. "I'm a pirate after all…"
"So, what do we have to do now?" Will said, clearly annoyed.
"Nothing we can avoid, Mr. Turner. I want to send the Dutchman to rest on the bottom of the ocean once and for all, and we should do it even if we didn't want to, because they are just some miles ahead of us, as you can see" the captain said, passing the telescope to the young man.
And there it was, the Flying Dutchman, coming right in front of them. Or, better, it seemed to be waiting for something.
"Everyone, go down in the cannon room, prepare to fire" the captain bellowed. "You too Jack. You're not useful here"
"What are we going to do if the Kraken attacks?" Gibbs asked.
A sinister smirk crept on Kevins' lips. "Let it come"
Everyone stared at him in confusion.
"Come on, take your positions, everyone!" he bellowed, and everyone ran to do his part.
On the Dutchman, Jones was looking the Silver Bullet through his telescope.
"What ship is that?" Hammerhead asked. "It resembles the Black Pearl, but the Kraken took care of that one…"
"It is the Pearl's almost twin. And at the wheel there is no one else that its captain, another one who's always been an opponent of mine's. John Kevins"
"THE John Kevins?" the crew asked. "The one who managed to rob Singapore all on his own?"
"Yes, exactly him" Jones snarled, throwing away the telescope with his tentacles. "Summon the Kraken, and let's see what the great Kevins can do against it" he ordered, and soon the sinister beast moved to attack the Bullet.
"He's coming! The Kraken's coming!" everyone shouted on the ship when they spotted the usual bulge in the water.
"Stay calm. Just fire at it with the cannons, I'm positive that you, Mr. Turner, can lead the crew in that operation" the captain shouted.
"Yes, we've done it last time, but it didn't work…"
"Do it. Haven't I said that the cannons of this ship are more powerful than the ones of other ships? I'll take care of the rest" Kevins ended mysteriously.
Wondering what he was thinking, everyone readied the cannons to shoot.
Slowly the tentacles of the giant squid started moving up the sides of the ship, and Will kept the men calm enough to follow his orders.
When he reckoned the moment was right, he shouted.
"Fire!"
All the cannons shot simultaneously, and the sea was filled with squid blood, and pieces of tentacles.
"We've defeated it! Without tentacles it can't sink the ship!" Ragetti shouted, just to be shut up by the ship being shaken violently.
"It seems it still can sink us" Jack said, with his usual calm demeanour. "John, what do you plan to do to get rid of Beastie?"
But John Kevins did not respond. When they emerged from the cannon room, the deck was completely deserted.
"Where has he gone?" Will asked, while Elizabeth cursed. "Pirates! Never trust them!"
"You should have more faith in your captain, Miss Swann" a voice reached them.
Looking up in the sky they saw him in the crow's nest.
"John, what are you doing there?"
"We have cut off almost all his tentacles, but not the biggest one. It keeps that one as the last weapon to sink the ship, because it really is impossible to cut. It is too thick, so it is the beast's strength. But, it is also it's weakness"
They noticed the captain had a sword in his hand, and it was extremely lucent.
"This, Mr. Turner, is something only a master blacksmith like you could be able to do" Kevins told him, seeing his curiosity. "I got it from a Chinese, some years ago. It will kill the Kraken if I manage to slash its biggest tentacle with it. It's made of 100 pure silver, and I know for sure that the beast can't suffer that material. Pure silver is venom for it, and in the biggest tentacle the beast has its most important arteries. So, slicing it with this blade will bring the venom directly to its heart, savvy?"
Everyone was speechless.
Soon later, the Kraken attacked again, this time an enormous single tentacle emerged rapidly from the water, rising high in the sky, and just when it was ready to fall back on the ship, captain Kevins lunged for it, using a rope to reach the beast, then he proceeded to quickly cut through it more than once, passing between the tentacle and the ship three or four times, every single one effectively hurting the animal with circular blows that cut deep in the Kraken's flesh with the silver sword.
An extremely loud howl of pain could be heard, and as quickly as it had come out, the tentacle fell back in the water.
"Let's go!" John shouted. "Everyone, make the ship move as fast as you can, we're not safe yet!" he bellowed while reaching the deck again.
"How can we know we killed it?" Elizabeth asked.
Captain Kevins didn't respond, merely ran at the wheel and quickly turned the ship starboard.
Almost at the same moment the ship moved, where they had been the enormous body of the Kraken came to the surface, lifeless.
"I guess that answers your question, Lizzy" Jack said.
On the Dutchman, Jones was positively fuming. "You'll pay for this, Kevins!" he snarled, while looking with the telescope at the other ship. That was the moment he spotted someone that made him even angrier.
"Jack Sparrooow!" he growled. "I'm coming to take back my heart!"
Jones and his minions had searched the Pearl once it had been sunk, but there was no sign of the heart. They had assumed Jack had it on him when the Kraken had swallowed him, so that was the reason why they were heading to Dead's End. Jones knew even too well that it was the place where the dead pirates rested for the eternity, their souls wandering on the island.
Fate wanted that they met the Bullet, and now they found out Jack Sparrow was, after all, still alive. Jones didn't lose another moment, and immediately went on the deck of the other ship.
"Give me my heart" he hissed to Jack' while his crew kept hostage Will and the others.
"I don't have it" Jack said. "I thought I did, but someone stole it from me"
"Bullocks! I know you have it, who else could?" Jones shouted, almost choking Jack so hard was his hold on his neck with his crab hand.
"See, Jones, this has always been your fault. You always jump to conclusions" Kevins sneered. "And more than once you've been wrong. Do you really think if Jack had your heart the Pearl would have been sunk? He would have killed you before you could summon the Kraken"
"Stay out of this, Kevins!"
"Enough, Jones. I won't allow you to come on my ship and command me and my crew around" Kevins said, freeing himself from one of Jones' crewmen, his eyes hard and determined.
He took his sword and started duelling with the other captain, and from there hell broke loose as the rest of the crew did the same and started battling the ones of the Dutchman.
Many of the half human half sea creatures were killed, and Jones retreated with the ones still alive.
"I'll be back, and this time the two of you won't escape me" he threatened Jack and John before vanishing as quickly as he had arrived. But before he did, he managed to take Elizabeth with him.