Finally! 4th Chapter is up and I'm not even complaining. Enjoy!
Chapter 4: The Black Spot
A shadow emerged behind the door and gave 3 loud knocks, startling the 5. Ben slowly and cautiously walked towards the door and quickly opened it, revealing a big red alien with a mouth on his body. "Billy Bones, it's me: Blind Mot." He called.
Shaw looked in shock at the face of the alien he thought he'd never see again. "I know you're here, Billy." Mot said stumbling in, being blind. "You sniveling coward!" Gwen, Kevin and Zed looked on from under their table. "It's some kind of blind fiend." Gwen whispered. Shaw tried quietly shushing them to keep them quiet. "I believe they prefer "visually challenged" fiend." Kevin whispered back. Shaw continued trying to shush them.
Unfortunately, Mot heard them. "I heard that! There's someone here!" Mot said, ramming into some shelves. "No? Then over here!" He slammed his poker's staff against the door. Ben flinched from behind it. He looked to Shaw, who shushed him. "Maybe over here." Mot walked to the left, hands up. He grabbed a Muroid head. "Oh ho-ho. Billy bones!" He said, thinking the Muroid was Shaw. "I know that scurvy mug of yours anywhere."
Ben slowly slid from behind the door towards Mot. "Excuse me sir, but the bar is closed-" Mot grabbed Ben's arm and locked it behind his back. Mot started feeling Ben's hair. "A pretty little girl is it? Yes, take me to Billy Bones, my pet!" Mot demanded, thinking Ben was a girl.
Seeing his chance, Shaw slowly drew his pistol from his belt and aimed it at Mot. "You've come to the wrong place! There's no Billy Bones here and I'm not a girl!" Ben said, struggling in Mot's grip. "Oh, I may be visually challenged, but I can see you're lying." Mot said.
Shaw cocked the hammer of the pistol back, but Mot heard it. He released Ben and swung himself over to Shaw, swinging his staff at the pistol as it fired. "Good evening, Billy." Mot said with Shaw's neck in his grip. "I know it's you. Yes, you thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Just take it all for yourself and leave your shipmates with nothing. Oh, we're not pleased with that Shaw, not at all. We want you to have THIS!" He placed something in Shaw's hand and stumbled towards the door, cackling like crazy. "Look where you're going, stupid cat!" He said, knocking over some barrels outside as a cat was also heard.
When Ben closed the door, he turned to Shaw, who held a small piece of paper with a black dot drawn on it in his shaky hand. "The Black Spot!" Shaw said in terror. Then he shrieked so loud, a seagull away from the inn.
The 5 went to his room and opened his sea chest. "But I don't understand. What is The Black Spot?" Ben asked confused. "The Black Spot's a pirate's death sentence!" Shaw said in a panic. Gwen shuddered. Kevin grasped his next in shock. "They'll be coming to kill me, tonight!" Gwen and Kevin started to help him pack. "It's my old sea chest them lubbers are after!" "Underwear." Kevin said. "But I'll trick 'em! I'll shake out another reef and daddle them again!" "Uh could you run us by that again in English there, Mr. Bones?" Kevin asked. "It's mine! I'm going for that treasure myself! And no squid-faced, son of a bilge rat, will-" Shaw started saying until his heart gave out and collapsed on the bed. "Captain Shaw!" The 4 looked on. "He died? And this is supposed to be a rated K fanfiction!" Gwen said, breaking the 4th wall.
Suddenly, Shaw's hand grabbed Kevin's hair. "Benny. Ben. Benny, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben!" Shaw weakly said, thinking Kevin was Ben. "You've always been a decent sort to old Shaw 'Billy' Bones." "But I'm not Benny, Ben, Benny, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben. He's Benny, Ben, Benny, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben." Kevin corrected the dying captain in pain.
Shaw then released Kevin's hair and grabbed Ben's shirt collar. "Ben!" He cried. "Yes, Captain." Ben said, giving his attention. "Ben, Benny, Benny, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben." Shaw repeated. "Yes, Captain. What is it?" Ben asked, getting impatient. "Take the map!" Ben got confused. "What map?" "The map to old Flint's treasure! Don't you understand what I've been telling you?! I was Flinty's first mate! We all were! Blind Mot and me!" Shaw explained in pain. "Oh, me old shipmates! They'll gully me for sure! And anybody else to get their mitts on that map!" Kevin stopped him at the word 'gully'. "And gullying hurts, right?" He asked. "Oh, aye! A lot!" Shaw answered. "So quick! Go to my sea chest! Get the map!"
Ben, Gwen, Kevin and Zed went to Shaw's sea chest and dug through it, looking for the map. "Hey, guys look!" Kevin leaned up, wearing gag glasses. "Kevin!" Gwen groaned at him as she pulled aside a book: Henry Kissinger/Diplomacy. They continued, until Ben found a rolled-up parchment. He unrolled it to reveal the map. "It is a treasure map." He muttered in awe. "We're gonna be rich!" Kevin said with $'s in his eyes. "Or we're gonna be dead!" Gwen said with X's in hers.
"Beware kids! Beware!" Shaw called to them. "What? The squid-faced man?" Ben asked. "Aye! But also, beware running with scissors or any other pointy objects! It's all good fun 'til somebody loses an-" Shaw screamed in pain again and collapsed, completely dead this time. "Captain?" Ben checked the body.
Kevin looked on in shock. Zed gulped. Gwen started to freak out. "We're standing in a room with A DEAD GUY!" She screamed. The others followed in screaming and ran out of the room. As they made their way down the stairs, a window smashed from the outside.
There you go, everyone! My writings and publishing of the next chapters are gonna be a little slow. Yes, I'm heading out again. I'm going to a wedding in Alberta. If you want, keep reading and leave a review.
