A/N Sorry it's been taking me forever to update.
Four days later, we spotted another ship. Of course it's the undead pirates! Why do you even have to ask? What else would it be?
By the time that we had seen the skeleton caption in the telescope, everyone on deck was on red alert, readying for battle.
Caspian started shouting orders while he, Peter, and Edmund went to suit up.
"Lucy?" I called after her. She stopped walking away, and met me half way, near the mast. "Lucy, I really want you to be in this fight, because it'll be good experience. However, someone needs to stay with Gael." I told her, moving us off to the side while men ran past.
"Well, duh. I was already planning on it. We'll go find a good hiding place and stay there. I'll take my weapons, just in case." She nodded and ran off to find Gael, yelling, "Good luck," over her shoulder.
I ran into the State room, right into Caspian. He caught me before I fell backwards.
"Sorry, my armor was in here." He explained, steadying me.
"That's alright; it is your room, after all." We heard the men out on the deck shout that they were closing in. "You should be out there—I'll be suited up in a minute." I said, trying to step away from his arms. He didn't let me go though. Instead, he pulled me in and kissed me fiercely.
"Be careful," He said, before heading out the door. I stood there for a second before I started getting on some of the smaller pieces of armor.
It wasn't long before I was out next to Edmund, Peter, and Caspian. I stood ready, but I hadn't pulled out an arrow. The other ship cruised up next to us, and the boney caption leaned against the railing of his ship.
"Fine sailing weather, isn't it?" He called, breathing in deeply—even though he had no nose.
"Yes, the winds are being kind." Caspian called back, tensed. I relaxed a little, sensing no real threat.
"That they are… Well, it was nice to see another ship out here, haven't in a while!" The caption shouted. "Especially a fine ship like yours… or, one with women." The caption finished, sounding slightly confused.
"Yes, well, the ship was built by Dryads. They do fine work…" The ships were slowly going past each other, and it looked like if Caspian kept up the conversation, we might not have a fight.
"Aye," The caption didn't say anything else, he just ran his boney fingers through his thin grey/white beard. The front of their ship was just passing the back of ours when the caption called to his men to overthrow our ship. Ropes were thrown up around the back of our ship, which curved up to make the dragon's tail. It pulled our ship back a little, and pulled theirs a little more forward. Caspian cursed under his breath, and Peter shouted for our men to be ready.
As the other men came crawling slowly up the rope, I pulled out Peter's sword, and ran to the ropes, cutting them free of our ship. Peter was behind me, and took his sword back after Reep came to cut the rest of the ropes.
The other men fell into the water and I shot an arrow at one that I saw climbing up the side of our ship.
It went through his mouth, and caused him to fall back. I thought I had killed him, but the man/skeleton crawled back up the side, accompanied by others with my arrow still through his mouth.
"Oh boy," I muttered.
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S.R.M.