Elizabeth had quickly discorded her bloody shirt as soon as she entered the captain's cabin.
Even in the darkness of the candle lights, the woman was still beautiful with well muscled abs among the sharp bloody cuts under her breasts. She kept her black pants on she want to search for something to drink.
After plenty of searching she found what she wanted within her desk drawer. A red bottle of a new type of drink she found on her previous travels before coming back to the West Indies.
Sake basically "rice wine" from the ever mysterious isolated nation known as "Japan", a drink that her tasted ten times better then cruel rum.
Her breasts swing back and forth as she begin her drinking, this was what her life had led her here. A insane madness that couldn't be satisfied of the worst kind, a madness that wouldn't stop until she truly get it. Something better then the gold that flowed from the stolen Spanish or Dutch galleons or the countless rules that stood before the pirates as the "articles" of the loosely connected Brotherhood...
...Revenge for all those years would be filled and Governor Beckett would still pay with his own blood on upon her steel
The Sake wine tasted like fire in her mouth as she lay upon a soft silk lined chair stolen from a Black Guard raid, her mind felt like that once the moment come...there would nothing else to do for the rest of her days. Such thoughts filled her with a deep sense of dread since she couldn't decide on what could "better" then revenge on her most hated enemy?...
...Rebecca!, a fair dream upon the eyes of a woman whose hope felt all but gone in the days spent in Tortuga planning and waiting. A woman different from her and all the more similar. The Irish fire who her own heart she had all the while turned away, nothing good ever come of it but misery.
Elizabeth Swann may have been the "Pirate King" the devil whose name strike fear into the hearts of evil around the Caribbean. Yet the same could said that she felt that heart had become just as reckless and evil as those that feared her...
...Once that was a different story...more happier one as well
In the Smith mansion overlooking the city of Dublin
"ELIZABETH...good man where the hell could that pretty daughter of yours be General Weatherby?" asked a older gentleman to a younger looking bearded gentleman.
"I could asked the same of YOUR daughter then, Major Smith.
After all there seems to be no end to troubles our own children give us" he answered lightly as the music grow loud as the grand party continued within the ballroom.
Meanwhile in the upper floor
Two young women dressed in fine golden dresses with high tower wigs begin to kiss passionately toward each other. As one of them quickly grabbed the other's breast as she yelp a bit surprised "AHAHAH don't that or else we will be caught or worst...my dear sweet lass!"
Elizabeth begin laughing as Rebecca did as well "You wish me to stop being soooooo wicked to you and go the rest of the night, bored and crying myself to sleep?..."
Rebecca turned her laughter into small giggle now as Swann moved her hands around her very dress "I think your're be more braver then cryin in your sleep!"
Elizabeth without much thought quickly uncovered Rebecca's left breast smiling wickedly as she answered "I'll take what i WANT and NEED without losing a single tear.
Both of our fathers don't know or understand what i wanted from YOU..."sweet lass". I can be a very wild animal if i wanted to be.."
Rebecca moaned as Elizabeth breathlessly touched her hardened nipple "I...i...ohh wish you don't STOP this..."
Elizabeth edged her lips toward Rebecca as she smiled widely and whispered her words
"As you wish"
There was a knock on the door to the cabin as Elizabeth turned from her near comfortable rest
Not bothering with ether modesty or fear of being a woman among pirates.
She come toward the door topless as she opened it to the surprised look on Rebecca's face
"I...ummmm a Mr. Tong said that we be nearing the city of New Orleans where one of your're number lives" Rebecca said as calmly as possible under the presence of nearly naked woman once again
Elizabeth seemed to have drunken smile as she eyed Rebecca "The Brotherhood has many sources within that city...am sure you would be more surprise by me?"
Rebecca turned a reddish pale as she turned away from the girl who wanted with all her heart...and seemingly forgotten
"MY SURPRISE IS THAT YOU FUCKING HAVEN'T CHANGED AT ALL "MADAME" SWANN!..." Rebecca intoned as she stomped away from the doorway before hearing Elizabeth's words...
"AS you wish"
Before closing it as she turned now even more surprised in terms of how she felt. She walked near the starboard side as the ever mysterious Anamaria come close to her "I'll believe you two have a..interesting history together in the few words spoken?"
Rebecca laughed bitterly as she folded her arms "WHAT HISTORY!?
One where i think that once loved that..."pirate king" with all my heart and would have given up my very fortune to be with!
...or the fact that she just LEFT ME standing in the rain with not but a word!"
Anamaria was now curious to Rebecca's bitterness "She could have a thousand reasons for leaving you"
Rebecca stomped her fist on the wood as she looked on the endless sea "THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH! i give my very soul to a woman would rather play the part of a savior then think I WOULD BE EVER GOOD FOR HER and her family!...no this curse is better for me"
She opened her hand to see the red tattoo formed from her own blood, drawn in the shape of the skull ship
Maria shake her head in protest "Jolly Roger does NOT care for your're feelings or your're heart's desire.
He wants control over you and will destroy all you dear to be his and his alone!"
Rebecca was tears as turned to hug her tightly despised her hardened feelings growing within her
"What Jolly Roger wants is something that i'll never give him freely...
I will not give my heart to the woman who still burned me so bloody badly, i can not"
Elizabeth drink more of her sake as she jump back into her comfortable chair once again.
A mixture of thoughts and feelings come over as the warm candle lights give off a glow around her. The darkness from her soul lifted a little when ever she was near to Redd again. A lovely feeling that brought back happier times in her life, ones that don't dare involve the feelings of near hatred and fear that overwhelm her.
The love Rebecca offered was one that thousand pounds worth in gold and sliver that brought her more dashing pirate side out
They said she was the "devil" of these seas and love to hear fear in there when the Empress drew near. Yet this old flame was still more thrilling then any of that, a woman whose heart still beat in the presence of another girl who may have forgotten her.
Now found in the wildness of this untamed New World
Mare men wouldn't compare to such lust that build within her own heart
Bravely and drunkenly standing from her chair she grinned widely...this night would take back that love.
But just she neared the door the candle flickered as she passed the painting of her father. looking right at it suddenly another feeling overcome her...
...Guilt
A galleon in the South China Sea in the dead of night
"Must we father be in this horrible strange place?" Elizabeth questioned as Governor Weatherby smiled "We are here on the direct orders of the Crown and i can't deny a important mission"
He was strong in his answers as the massive ship moved slowly heading toward the port of Hong Kong
She just nodded as suddenly the sky was filled with thousand red flares lighting up the night sky
"THEY SPOTTED US SIR" yelled out the captain as Elizabeth watched in terror as hooks come from both sides of the ship.
As the Governor shot one of the invaders, a black coated man in poured wig "Damn it they wear the colors of the East India Company!"
The ship filled with the cry of anger as the soldiers were rushed by the Company troops as Elizabeth shriek in fear as they all overwhelmed.
The remaining sailors and soldiers were taken along with Elizabeth and her father, kneeling before the conquering East India Company troops. "Lord Beckett on deck!" yelled out the commanding officer as Beckett smiled widely before the defeated crew
"General Swann such a pleasant surprise to see here in the middle of the China sea" Beckett seemed to mock his words toward her father
"I thought i lost you in heading away from Nassau, Cutler after all the King knows you are a truly dangerous man.."
Beckett slapped Weatherby across the face as he screamed out
"THE KING KNOWS NOTHING!...and it would be wise to not mice words when it comes to his highness as well as the good of the people.."
"The very SAME people you wish to undermined and steal under?, your're truly losing your touch then because i think of your're the least good here!"
Beckett tried to his best to hold his temper by the looks of it. Elizabeth tried to free herself from her large captor as Cutler eyed her insanely "Enough of this...clash of words!, WHY IS THE RELIC!?"
He demanded as her father said nothing as Beckett suddenly pointed at a random sailor. Before a Company troop fired his rifle at him and then kept doing the same motion as more and more men dropped.
Then he pointed right at Elizabeth smiling widely "NOOOO I'LL TALK, have petty on my daughter" Governor Swann in panic
"Finally we're getting somewhere and was just becoming bored with this evening" Beckett said wickedly as Elizabeth shock in fear
"I know where the relic is.."
Swann's hands had been untied as he and a group of troops get to top of the warning bell near the helm of the ship. Lifting a loose floorboard, Elizabeth saw a golden crested box with strange writing and figures engraved into it.
Swann unlocked the box and handed one of the troops a weather torn paper as he warned "You know he always double crosses his partners, Lord Beckett"
"I can handle my partner in this case and seems funny that you would know of him and his affairs..."
Governor Swann smiled widely as spoke up again "...Like you said this evening is full of surprises"
As he quickly grabbed a flare from nearby solider and throw it down into the sails as everything begin to burn.
Troops panic as the ship lit up around them as the governor watched Beckett get ahold of his scared teenage daughter
"Oh you insane BASTARD" Beckett as his knife pieced Elizabeth's right side...
Her father screaming out in pain as she fell into the sea as the ship's fire raged as she blacked out from the pain...
"Stop it"
Just as she was hit again with a bamboo stick before her teacher "Your're not focusing"
The teacher dressed in long white robes wearing a black fitting mask nodded in annoyance as Elizabeth attacked in anger
Blocking her attack and hitting her hard on the floor of there training grounds "I can beat you anytime i want.."
Elizabeth tossed her bamboo stick in a fit of anger as the black masked teacher stood silently. "Am fucking TIRED of you judging me"
The figure now laughed as there hand helped the still hot tempered Swann. "Come on we will get something to eat in town". Seemingly ignoring her angry outburst such was the usual sign that her teacher know something she didn't...again.
The figure watched as Elizabeth walked toward her garden room, there was no way that know where her behavior would turn.
The figure now walked toward there room and after closing there door, looked at the blood stained dress...
Since she was brought by the figure, her recovery was a hard one and the little anger here was just one of many. She would if the figure feared given into her hatred that kept bottle up it would destroy her mentally. She never really talked about how she even survived and the darkness of whatever happened to her couldn't be stopped by what the figure wanted if any.
Even if she did let it go what the hell else in life would she do?...
A few days later
EDO, JAPAN-A mysterious new empire
Elizabeth had on her regular dark red kimono as she looked sharply in the mirror at the small dinning area, she and her teacher usually eat at.
She had since completely shaved her head, getting rid of all the salt from the sea. She had the habit of holding her right side due to the infrequent pain that the knife had done to her. It been days since coming here unexceptionally.
This was a new culture entirely different from England or even the comforts that were given to her in Nassau
And basically Edo was so far from the Caribbean and that life she had was gone.
As she and her teacher were eating some type of hot soup, she can't even pronounce. A huge number of dutch soldiers and the warlord's own warriors matched right into the center of the town. Suddenly they stopped as a familiar voice filled the air
"Gentlemen and ladies of the city of Edo...I am Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company!"
Now get up from her chair in a fit of anger and was ready to walk up to him only to be stopped by her teacher "...What are you doing?"
As Beckett seemingly continued holding up a drawing "As a international guest to your're dear leader, i am here to hand out justice according to your're laws.
Also of a just reward in getting a hold of a dangerous criminal in your're fair haven. The criminal known as Elizabeth Swann!..."
Elizabeth wanted to go to him even as the taller teacher blocked her way "I'll kill him" she silently hissed
"He has an army and YOU have nothing" the figure grimly spoke
"...She is wanted in the destruction of a British war galleon and involved in the deaths of thousands of troops. Here fore i am offering a hundred "yen" to anyone who gives up this dark woman NOW...anyone please me a reason to come here!?"
She felt really annoyed by her teacher "I'll give him a GOOD reason.."
The figure grimly laughed softly "And get yourself ether captured or killed was this your're plan all along?"
Elizabeth basically calm down as Beckett turned on his horse meeting with silence from the crowd "Useless filth, come i will talk with your're Shogun now"
The figure suddenly know as they spoke calmly, resuming to there seats
"He is many and you are just one person..."
Elizabeth shake her head in anger "You have NO idea what i need..."
The figure looked into Elizabeth's tear filled eyes "I know perfectly well what your're going through.
He take something dear from you and you want to tore him for it, but he has power.."
She slapped her fist down at the table "There is nothing more you can offer me.."
Sliding back into the seat the figure giggled again "...Of course not just the mere fact that i know of a way to get what you want.."
"Which is what really?" Elizabeth annoyed at this and yet still interested said
"...Take the power away from him!"
"New training begins today..."
The figure spoke in a new exited tone that Elizabeth never heard before from them. The figure take the bamboo stick and drew circles on the ground all around the ground area of the figure's small modest home.
"This circle represents your're life...nothing else matters within it.."
Elizabeth looked on as she stepped into the dirt circle "Beckett.."
"...He's is NOTHING to you or you to him, a refection of darkness for which you just trust in your're very need for revenge!"
Elizabeth closed her eyes in that moment surpassing her tears of anger building within her "HE TAKE EVERYTHING FROM ME!
ALL I WANT TO DO IS KILL HIM AND GET BACK MY LIFE..."
The figure in the shadows never stopped walking around her as Elizabeth just stood in place, throwing the bamboo stick to her in response
"I know all too well the need for vengeance, my land went through a long war that seemed like it would never end. There times when i wanted to go to the same simple life i once had before it. But then i find out that wasn't to be and that "simple life" wasn't even a goal in my ever changing life anymore..."
Elizabeth had sudden look shocked at her teacher, looking for a reason to get out of this strange place by accident been thrown into.
Seemingly she remembered one another name "Rebecca"
The figure drew still more circles "...In time you will forget that name because of.."
"Pain and thinking she is NOTHING" Elizabeth answered in a venomous tone but the figure nodded no
"...Because it would be better if even she thinks you are dead and at the bottom of the sea. Did ever love this "Rebecca?"
Elizabeth remained silent which meant the figure was right "She will found another and move on with her life.
You on the other hand will have the foreknowledge to make your're enemies hurt the most...NOW!"
Through rain... "Days will come and go but not your're anger...control that make it into another force entirely your're own"
Elizabeth begin kicking and punching dummies in the rain hard around her
"...They saw you as weak ahah let them think that after there teeth are knock from them.."
That evening the teacher and Elizabeth sit at there table and gripping a nearby cup, begin drinking then spit it out as her teacher laughed
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?.."
The figure seemingly answered "Sake, a taste not to your're English liking?"
Elizabeth nodded "More please"
Through fire...
Elizabeth had lit a group of candles around one part of the training area between two chairs. The figure back in there mask invited her in "This test will fun.."
"...Of course it would be" she answered nervously as before she could step forward
"...It would be a better test once you lose the robe"
This was going hard
Through steel...
The figure and Elizabeth now fought with dull bladed swords as she dodged the attacks they give
"Skill with the blade will be needed, attack them when there guard is done and hope they don't bring guns to the party.."
Sudden Elizabeth stopped after the figure said that "Well that's just really horrible to remember!? where the hell did you get that?"
The figure laughed as there blades clashed "...Personal insight and having a drunk duel with Shogun guards...funnest part is they never saw it coming"
Finally through wind...
"There would be times when brute force is not needed as would get you killed.
My friends here will prepare you for the final test!"
The figure spoke as Elizabeth watched as a group of 12 women dressed in makeup crowded around her "Geisha?
She questioned as the figure revealed a warm bath in the corner of the room.
"They will help with what is come and from there the home of our beloved Shogun"
"...THE SHOGUN!?" Elizabeth yelled out in surprise as the geisha undressed her
The figure sit out Elizabeth's new clothes along with a fake black wig and a white dish of makeup
"The Shogun and the East India Company have something that is supposed to bring about the fall of the Emperor to this land.." The figure intoned rather seriously as Elizabeth look on
"Beckett makes friends here...a obvious snake who needs power"
She looked on to see that the figure don't agree with her it seems "His power comes from someone else, a power with enough wealth to gain men like him.."
The figure throw something into her hand as she turned it "A Spanish piece of eight...what the hell is it doing here?"
The figure then give her another one as well "...That's a question my Emperor wants answered"
Several hours past as the full colorful troop of Geisha entered into the huge castle located on the dock of Edo
One of them eyeing a fabulously beautiful junk ship as there eyes turned toward the smiling armed guards surrounding them...
"My Employer feels that the city of Edo needs to be bleed dry or else they will pull out of your're little venture.."
Beckett threatened to the sitting Shogun in green robes as the old bearded man just laughed
"Your're employer DOESN'T get what he wants and you get back this relic like a nice pet.."
Beckett grinned his teeth as there food come out eyeing the Shogun showing off the box "He thinks it holds a untold secret"
The Shogun smiled as he pulled out a burned piece of paper as well "This was nothing just a useless distraction...one that i feel your're employer already know about"
Beckett know there was no more playing around as he eat "The box is said to once belonged to a queen from far away and her stupid pirate lover named Captain Drake.
You could never understand what the markings would mean.."
The Shogun raised his hands as the guards pointed there swords come near Beckett .
As he looked more closely at the box saw a word he know of..
"Treasure!, a vast fortune worth ten times that of a thousand yen of my "beloved" Emperor.
Truly this pirate"Drake" would be worthy to serve with me in overthrowing him.."
Beckett laughed at the old man "So sad then that you were born a year later given the fact that Drake has been dead a few years earlier!...My lord"
The Shogun stood from his throne as he walked toward Beckett
"This employer will indeed bring in help to my noble cause?"
Beckett looked directly at him "He has more then a enough resources to fund with plus a cut of the treasure once its found!..."
The Shogun gripped Beckett's shoulders and smiled widely "...Then bleeding yen from the proud people of Edo is a note worthy cause indeed...
YAMO BRING IN THE GIRLS!
Tonight we celebrate the birth of a new era to Japan!"
The Geisha come in through the doors as Beckett and the Shogun sit on the floor as they begin there dance
One of them seemed to be wearing a false grin as around her went near the guards as the main girl danced more to the joyful fast music. She seemed somewhat different as she was taller and leaner then the other girls around her.
Beckett had the strange feeling of knowing her but that was impossible
Her form was very sexual and curvier almost dangerous to the old Shogun as she danced near him
And then as the tune neared its end, the main dancer pulled up her robe to him...
Reveling a hidden knife as she shouted "...SURRENDER!"
Suddenly the guards were surrounded by the girls with a mixture of knifes and swords
Angrily the Shogun shouted out "WHO WOULD DARE ATTACK ME LIKE THIS?.."
"...I would be happy to my dear sweet uncle"
Answered a voice from behind the curtain reveling a costumed figure dressed in black.
The Shogun grinned his teeth and nodded "The Wako...i thought i had get rid of you in Osaka!"
The Wako laughed as there blade went right near his neck
"Uncle, your're planning to throw Japan into a crisis all to make yourself ruler...hadn't this city seen enough of that?" they question in a deep voice as the Shogun answered
"THIS CITY WILL SOON HAVE PEACE THROUGH ME AND THIS TIME MY DEAR SWEET NIECE I WILL KILL YOU!"
Quickly the Wako grabbed a knife and before the old man could act, she stabbed him through the heart "I bleed you dry..rest in hell uncle"
Beckett went for his pistol as Elizabeth slashed at his hand dropping it. The guards and geisha warriors fought as he fled from the chaos within the small throne room
"BECKETT! WE ARE NOT DONE" she shouted as she chased him as suddenly the castle was being fired upon nearby ship
He turned toward her as they were on the upper walkway overlooking the castle garden
"Useless filth, i am under the protection of the Crown!" as he grabbed a dead guard's sword as the white makeup Swann pulled out her own
"It couldn't protect you here...filth" as they clashed there swords
They were a even match as Elizabeth had a few days training compared to the years of learning Beckett gain
Even as his right hand bleed but his sword still felt solid as he laughed looking at his opponent
"Such a savage you become..my dear beautiful Elizabeth!"
She grinned in anger once again "...Try saying that to MY FATHER!"
With a enough rage in her she slashed his left cheek and kick the sword from his hands
Laying pretty much beaten as Elizabeth held the sword triumphantly
"This time you will face justice.."
As the back of the nearby wall exploded out and knocking her into a deep pool in the garden.
The cry of victory echoed in the night air
As Elizabeth had failed in her own quest for revenge...
The masked Wako found her as she slowly awakened
"...BECKETT!"
"...Is gone along with his company of troops"
Elizabeth tried to clutch her fist in anger but couldn't given the sudden feeling of pain, as well as every bone in her body ached
"I am sorry for thinking i could ever trust you in the needs of revenge and its power.."
Before Elizabeth could answer though
"Captain!, it seems Lord Beckett is heading northward..."
Suddenly she realized something in what he said "..He is heading back home...toward the Caribbean"
The Wako walked around the cabin as Elizabeth and the young crew member watched
They turned to give there answer "I am heading back to report to my Emperor.."
Elizabeth smiled bitterly as the Wako unmasked "...But that does not mean that YOU can take over as captain of this very vessel once we reach port in the morning"
The woman who been the Wako throw her mask on the bed as the crew member smiled happily but Elizabeth was confused
"I don't get it, i failed in facing him"
The Wako laughed once again to her own puzzled amusement
"What is failure but to try again and besides i don't leave the castle empty handed"
As she pulled out the mysterious box for which this whole mess started for her "Go back to your Caribbean but not as the same person you once were!"
Elizabeth was now the one laughing bitterly toward her "I can't be the Wako!, i can found my own passage back to...to England possibly and.."
The Wako once again nodded no "...Do honestly think you want Rebecca to see you other then a changed young woman who can't see past her own reflection of revenge like a mirror? Its best that she will think you dead here and not getting in the way of your're goals.."
Elizabeth looked into the black mask given to her as she raised her head toward them
"This very night Elizabeth Swann is dead...
Long live the Pirate King!"
Next Chapter:The city of Redbeard