Chapter 5

I climbed up to the deck of the ship. As soon as I got there, I saw Aqua, trapped in the net. I ran over to get her out, but just before I made it to her, a kid wearing pirate clothes jumped at me saying in a pirate accent, "Ye be leaving the maiden alone." Behind me was the guy who trapped her in the first place. "Eye," he said in his own pirate accent, "we have direct orders, to punish her for her loss." "But she's just a girl," I said, "besides, the other two guys weren't punished for losing to me." The small kid said, "What makes ye so sure of that?"

I had to do something. I saw that they had game disks on their arms. Then, I got an idea, "How about this? We have a little match. If I win, you let Aqua go unharmed." The older pirate said, "Eye, and if ye lose." "Well," I said, "Isn't that your job? To make sure that I do." The pirate said, "Ye make a good point. I think that you should know the names of who ye are going to lose to. Me name is Stark, and that over there is me brother, Hall." I looked at them and said, "Well, which one of you are Sora and I going to have to crush?" Stark said, "Both of us of course. Me brother and I always work as a team." "That's not very fair. It's two against one!" I said. Stark replied, "Then who would ye have for a partner then. Ye can't choose Aqua, she being our prisoner after all."

Sora said to me, "Come on Hikaro, we can take them alone!" I looked at Sora out of the corner of my eye. I looked at Stark and Hall and said, "Fine. I won't have a partner. Just give me two minutes to set up." Stark said, "Eye. Ye got two minutes."

Sora said to me, "Why did you ask for some time?" I answered, "Because I need to set up a new deck." "Why?" Sora asked. As I was setting up, I answered, "Because, I need certain cards to take on them. It's a good chance that since they're pirates, one of them will be using Captain Hook as their character, and Barbossa for the other. So, need a deck that can take on both of them."

"Ye two minutes are up." Hall said. I was ready. We activated our world cards. Then, we were in Port Royal. We activated our character cards. Sora was ready to go. For Stark, it was Barbossa. And for Hall, it was Capitan Hook. 'It's a good thing I set up my deck the way I did.' It was time for my first move, "I activate, Follow the Wind." The Follow the wind key appeared in Sora's hands. He lunged at Barbossa. Stark said, "I play Pistol Shot." Barbossa then pulled out a pistol. He first shot at Sora's keyblade. The Follow the Wind key disappeared. Then Barbossa made a direct shot at Sora. Trying to shake off the pain we were both feeling, I played my second card, "I play, Fairy Harp." This time the Fairy Harp key appeared in Sora's hands. He directed his attack at Hook. Hall said, "I activate, Present." Hook threw a gift at Sora's keyblade. The gift exploded, breaking the Fairy Harp key. 'This isn't good,' I thought. 'With two opponents, they can break both the cards I play on my turn.' This was going to be one of our more difficult battles.

By some miracle, we had managed to survive, and do a healthy amount of damage to our opponents.

SCORE:

Sora:15

Hook:26

Barbossa:53

I drew my card. In that instant, I had come up with a strategy. "I activate my sleight card, Team of Flight." Next to Sora appeared Donald and Peter Pan. Then, a light flew all around them. It was Tinker Bell, loading them up with pixie dust. Sora and Donald started to fly along side Peter. And for some reason, Tinker Bell decided to load me up with dust as well. I too began to fly. It was incredible. The feeling of weightlessness. The wind hitting my face.

Looking down on the battle field, I watched as Sora, Donald, and Peter attacked Captain Hook. With a total of 30 damage dealt to him, Hook was defeated. Just then, Hall had disappeared. Stark looked at me with anger as I floated back to the ground. He yelled, "Ye are going to pay dearly for taking out me brother!"

It wasn't that big of a deal. Hall was just sent back to Earth. Stark made it seem like he was gone forever. Maybe he didn't know.

The battle continued. We were evenly matched. Our HP hadn't changed the entire time. "It is time for ye to be sent to Davey Jones' Locker," Stark said, "I activate, Moonlight." Then, up in the sky, the clouds parted, revealing a full moon. We looked at Barbossa, as he started to change from a man, into an undead skeleton. "This card doubles the level of all of Barbossa's cards," Stark explained. We were doomed. I was just barley able to break his cards before. Stark finished his turn, "I play, Cutlass." Barbossa drew his sword and attacked Sora. He was down to 10 HP.

It was my turn. I had to get a sleight on my next draw. I saw my card. "I activate, Pirate Attack." Then, Goofy and Jack Sparrow appeared to Sora's sides. Follow the Wind once again appeared in his hands. Sora and Goofy went on to attack Barbossa, while Jack laid back for a bit. Stark said to me, "There be no way that sleight could do enough damage to Barbossa to defeat him." I said, "You're right, normally that is. You forgot about the side effect of Moonlight. Sure, it doubles your cards' levels. But it also doubles the amount of damage Barbossa takes. With this card normally doing 30 damage, that will be more than enough." Sora and Goofy finished their attack on Barbossa. They jumped far to the sides in different directions to reveal, Captain Jack Sparrow, pointing his pistol at Barbossa. He pulled the trigger, and a bullet shot right into Barbossa's heart.

For some reason he still stood. Barbossa said, "Allow me to explain. For ye see, I am a cursed man. Only the medallion can decide whether or not I die." Just then, a gold coin appeared, floating in the middle of the field. One side was marked with blood. Stark said, "The coin is flipped. If it lands on the blood marked side, Barbossa dies. But, if it lands on the clean side, he lives." So it was a 50:50 chance. 'Lets just hope luck is on our side,' I thought. The coin flipped. As it hit the ground, it was shown as blood marked. Barbossa and Stark looked at it in disbelief.

Barbossa went from his undead form to being a regular man. Suddenly, blood started to flow from Barbossa's chest. He said in a whisper, "I feel,………… cold." Barbossa fell to the ground. As soon as he hit, he disappeared.

We were back on the ship. Stark was so mad that he lost. But when he saw that his brother was okay, it didn't matter to him. Stark said, "A deal's a deal. Hall, release the maiden." Hall took the net off of Aqua. The two brother's gave me their enemy cards. Stark said, "The organization won't be needing losers like us. We'll give a ye ride back to shore." Aqua gave me her Ursula card and said, "Here. It's going to be the last time I work with a sea witch. And, thanks for saving me." After saying that, she kissed me on the cheek and dived back into the ocean.

I noticed Sora standing near me, looking at his feet. I knew that he saw what happened. I said to him, "I know who you're thinking about." Sora said, "I don't know what you're talking about," while trying to cover up his red face. I said, "Don't worry Sora, you'll see Kairi again."

We had returned to shore. I wished the brothers happy sailing as they cast off. Sora turned to me and said, "I noticed that you got the chance to fly today. Did you enjoy it?"

I said with a smile, "It was amazing."

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