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Chapter Eleven: Tied up, Mermaids and Washed up.
The bright lights woke Flik up deeply from her sleep, her eyes stirred lightly and she groaned turning her head slowly around making her eyes open up to see several men staring down at her.
"AAAH!" Flik let out a small scream and shifted her weight backwards but she couldn't get far, curiously she turned her head towards her arms to see her wrists bounded by rope.
"Are you alright, Miss Felicity?" Scrum asked helping the woman to sit up right, her eyes drifted around the men still staring at her with a few lanterns in their hands then she looked up to see black water. She was in a boat with them floating in the sea, again she looked around and saw the outline of the lighthouse and a few people on shore fiddling around with the nets.
"Mermaids…." Flik muttered out, sighing out loud but she wasn't worried about them – all she had on her mind is why she was on this boat? Where was Jack?
"Tell me, gentlemen…."
"One of the quartermasters put on you on this boat…" Salaman told her, her eyebrows burrowed in the middle confused.
"Wait? What?"
"Tis true…" Scrum nodded and put a half smile on his face but before he could continue they heard shouts from the shore line.
"Lay them out flat! No tangles! Mend the holes; make them look purty for our guests!" Blackbeard's voice rang out, Flik squinted her eyes to the figures, she recognized a few men but then she saw Jack… with a black bag over his head and hands tied too.
"What is going on…" Flik said once again, wondering what was happening on the shore.
On The Shore.
"Take the bag off…" Blackbeard instructed to Angelica who pulled the bag off roughly to Jack shaking his head several times, the last thing he remembered was trying to find Felicity on the Revenge but no luck and then suddenly he ran into one of Blackbeard's men who hit him hard over the head.
"What… Where…" Jack tried puzzling the pieces back together and then he remembered
"Ah… Whitecap bay…"
"Indeed… Now, Jack are you willing to help us out…" Blackbeard came over smiling evilly.
"Firstly, where is my wife…I know you have something to do with her suddenly going missing…" Jack replied back, eyeing Blackbeard.
"Oh you mean her?" Blackbeard turned and one of the quartermasters shone a bright light over towards the long boat where Flik was being held with the other men.
"JACK!" Flik yelled loudly, as soon as Jack heard his name he began to go over but a dirty hand rested on his chest hard making him not move.
"WHY IS SHE OUT THERE?" Jack questioned angrily still looking at the boat.
"She's… how would you put it? Hostage." Blackbeard smirked, slightly laughing facing his back away from the boats.
"This is what is going to happen – you are going to help us catch a mermaid, if you don't… then things will not end well for her." Blackbeard explained next to Jack. Jack continued to stare at Flik who was staring at him back.
He sighed out loud and then nodded slowly looking away from Flik and then towards the
lighthouse.
"We are going to need light…" Jack whispered, going to the light house closely followed by
Angelica, Blackbeard and a few others.
"Hey you guys! A little help….!" Suddenly all three turned their heads around to see Maisie and Will struggling out of another long boat, but Maisie caught her foot in one of the nets and was trying to fight it off.
"Calm down, Maisie…" Will reassured her but his foot ended up in the net also, he grabbed Maisie hard and both fell onto the shore with a thud.
At the top of the lighthouse, all of them looked around the room inspecting it – In the middle of the room was a big mirror on some kind of mechanism which made it turn, the whole room was open too with 4 different open arches looking out to the sea and down below.
"Smell that? Whale oil. Stuff burns like a miracle from god" One of Blackbeard's crew men said examining the contents.
"Can you make it work?" Blackbeard enquired staring at the man.
"Made by the English, let's not get our hopes up."
Jack sighed watching the man for a minute or two fiddling with the mirror, turning it around trying to make it work – he stepped over to one of the archways looking up towards the moon in the sky, it was silver crescent one above the blue horizon.
"The old moon in the new moon's arms – First of the summer. Perfect for a mermaid hunt." Angelica came up next to him admiring the moon also.
"How s o?"
"Mating season…."
Longboats
"I need to get off this boat… UNTIE ME!" Flik demanded to the men around her but none of them were willing to do so.
"We had orders…"
"Orders…! From Blackbeard? You lot were willing to mutiny the ship and now suddenly your on his side?" She struggled once again with the rope on her wrists but they weren't loosing.
"You saw what he did, to the cook…." Salaman told her, then out of the blue a bright white light from the light house shone down on them making everyone groan and squint their eyes several times.
"We're doomed" Ezekiel said out loud, holding his pistol close to him.
"We're not doomed. Day we set sail, I spilled a glass of wine on the deck – that's good luck" Another pirate called Derrick told them.
"Ah but three days out, Scrum there handed a flag through the rungs of a ladder! Terrible bad luck" Ezekiel nodded over to Scrum.
"On the same day, a dolphin swam alongside the ship…"
"When the clothes…."
"SHUT UP!" Flik interrupted them all, The men turned to her and they all suddenly grew quiet and all they could hear was the sound of the waves lapping at the longboat under them.
"They be drawn to man-made light…" Ezekiel spoke during the silence looking at the bright light shining directly at them.
"Sharks?" Flik turned her head and saw she was sitting next to the young cabin boy next to her.
"Not Sharks…Worse than that – Mermaids." Flik told him, the young boy suddenly look frightened and cuddled him body to the side of Flik's holding her.
"They will be here within the hour, mark my words. Sharks won't dare come near" Ezekiel continued.
"Hey! Could you possibly be quiet…" Flik asked him, eyeing the cabin boy cuddling her and then back to Ezekiel.
Again there was quiet again on the boat, all eyes were locked on the black water and other long boats with the men in.
"I heard it said a kiss from a mermaid protects a sailor from drowning. And sometimes, the song of a mermaid will lead a ship from the shores…" Derrick said, breaking the silence again making Flik shoot an evil glare at him.
"Don't be a fool! Mermaids are all female, son. And lovely as a dream of heaven. But when it comes time to churn the butter, so to speak, they snatch a sailor out of a boat or off the deck of a ship, have their way, then the sailors are pulled to the bottom making them drown and then eaten!" Ezekiel explained.
"Or sometimes the other way round…" Scrum pointed out, feeling excited at the idea of mermaid's and kissing.
Suddenly the gunner of the longboat pulled out his pistol pointing it straight at Scrum's head, clicking the barrel back.
"Sing"
"What?" Scrum asked wide eyed staring down the barrel of it gulping.
"They like to hear singing" Scrum gulped once again and looked at the other pirates and Flik sitting at the end of the boat with the cabin boy still attached to her.
"My name is Maria…a merchant's daughter fair…" Scrum began to sing quietly.
"Louder…!" Gunner said, pointing the gun closer.
"And I have left my parents and three thousand pounds a year…" Scrum continued to sing.
On the shore, Maisie could hear the voice of Scrum singing gently as she stood next to Will.
"Hold on… Is that Flik on that boat?" Maisie jumped and down trying to see the female aboard the boat.
"My heart is pierced by Cupid; I disdain all glittering gold…" Scrum sang, his hands gesturing towards the other pirates and nodding making them join in.
"There is nothing can console me but my jolly sailor bold – Come all you pretty fair maids, whoever you may be…who love a jolly sailor bold that ploughs the raging sea…" The song continued with the other longboats, the voices drifting over the black water.
As the song continued, Phillip looked out towards the water below him spotting something…
"And firmly pray arrive the day….." Scrum sung but suddenly he stopped noticing something also in the water, a small ripple appeared in the water but then it was gone.
Philip sighed but then his eyes widen to see something appear behind Scrum, he moved backwards and Scrum turned quickly around to see what it was.
"Oh my god…." Flik mumbled – There at the end of the boat was a mermaid. A real life mermaid smiling up to Scrum, her face was beautiful shining in the moonlight and her blonde hair sparkling in the light also. Scrum looked down her body and into the water to see the shining scales of her tail swishing in the water slowly.
"Lord save me…" Scrum mumbled gulping hard.
"Look there! Over there!" Philip pointed towards the side of the boat as more ripples appeared in the water and shadows were appearing, Scrum looked but his attention came back to the mermaid who suddenly wasn't there.
"You scared her off!"
"Good riddance!" Flik muttered, breathing hard – all of the sudden she wasn't feeling too good and felt light headed being on the boat.
"Look…" Derrick pointed and they watched the mermaid appear out of the water again, leaning her arms on the boat staring up to Scrum.
"Do…you…talk?" Scrum whispered, staring into her eyes.
"Yes"
"You're beautiful…"
"Are you the one that sings?" The mermaid asked, smiling softly.
"Aye…" Scrum replied, puppy dog look in his eyes – compelling him slowly.
"Are you my Jolly sailor bold?" She asked smiling more, Scrum started to lean in towards her…
"Aye…! That I be!"
"Scrum! Comport yourself!" Philip called over, making his way holding Scrum's arms back with a few other pirates trying to get him away from the female.
Scrum struggled in their grips breaking free and he turned to them out of breathe.
"Boys, there ain't much been given me in my brief, miserable life, there's the truth of it. But by God I'll have it said, Scrum had himself a kiss from a mermaid!" He cheered going back towards the mermaid leaning once again to her face, puckering his lips as she sang to him…
"My heart is pierced by cupid – I disdain all glittering gold…"
Flik watched and then to the side of her, she saw the shadows of the other mermaids swimming around and then one by one each of them appearing from the surface. Flik gasped at their faces – all of them were too beautiful, and their eyes were fixed onto their longboat looking at all the pirates who were staring at them back.
"This is not good…" Flik said out loud, her wrists rubbing against each other trying to break free still.
"Philip! Get their attention!"
"MEN! DON'T FALL FOR IT!" Philip shouted to them but none of them were paying attention.
Scrum was still under the spell of his mermaid, his head getting closer and closer as she smiled sweetly up to him.
"There is nothing can console me but my Jolly sailor boy…." She sang, as Scrum's lips were nearly on hers but then suddenly her arms came up grabbing his collar making him scream loudly as the mermaid pulled him under the water.
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!" Flik yelled loudly, Ezekiel then grabbed an oar and pulled Scrum from the water and hitting the mermaid hard with the oar.
"You shouldn't of done that…!" Flik called, as she said that – the other mermaid's flung themselves forward grabbing the pirates off the other longboats pulling them under the water too, the screams filled the air and their boats turning themselves over and being smashed into bits of wood.
Philip grabbed Derrick suddenly before he was pulled under the water but as he did the longboat was shaking madly and then out of the blue, it flipped over making Flik and the cabin boy head straight into the cold icy water.
Jack heard the screams and headed quickly over to the other archway and he looked down to see the longboats smashed to pieces and then there was a loud boom from below making the water go sky high and the shrieking of the mermaids calling out.
"Felicity…!" Jack shouted out loud, heading pass Blackbeard and down the steps of the lighthouse and onto the shore, his eyes darting around trying to find her quickly.
"MAISIE! DO YOU SEE HER?" Jack called over to Maisie who was high on a rock also searching for the girl.
Before Maisie could reply back, Angelica appeared next to her and pushed her off the rock.
"NETS INTO THE WATER! QUICKLY!" She commanded to the other pirates on the shore as the loud bangs continued into the water making the mermaids head towards the shore and the nets waiting for them.
Jack was now worried, he couldn't see her and was about to jump into the water but another explosion hit near where he was standing, throwing him back into the rocks away from the water – he shook himself and stood up once again looking at the sea and then the lighthouse trying to think of an idea.
Flik gulped in the water as she struggled trying to get to the surface, she managed to get her wrists free and she held onto the cabin boy's hand pulling him first to the surface, he gasped for air and he started to swim towards the shore along with the other pirates escaping the explosions.
Flik started to swim to the surface but something was holding her back, her eyes looked down to below her and saw one of the mermaid's hand on her ankle trying to pull her down.
She tried kicking the hand off, her leg swishing around in the water but nothing was working – Then her body felt lifted, something or somebody grabbed her hand pulling her to the open air and gasping hard for breathe.
Philip held onto Flik, wrapping one of his arms safety around her and he started swimming to the shore – behind them the Revenge appeared, firing her front cannons full of flame, rolling across the water which made the mermaid's scream more.
Then… silence.
Whitecap bay grew suddenly quiet as the waters settled down and there was no mermaid in sight.
"What's happening…" Maisie asked, standing next to Will holding his hand tightly but soon she spotted something come to the shore near her.
"FLIK!" She yelled, which made Jack turn his head and head that direction to where Philip laid the woman onto the sand.
"Flik… oh my god, is she alright… Is she breathing?" Maisie asked getting on her knees looking over her friend's unconscious body.
"MOVE…MOVE!" Jack demanded and came next to Maisie, slightly pushing her away and he stared down at Flik, her brown hair stuck to her face as she lay there quietly.
"Felicity… wake up…" Jack whispered, wiping the hair gently from her eyes but nothing was happening.
"Do something Jack…!" Maisie told him, concerned.
Before Jack could do anything, Flik spluttered water out of her mouth, and she gasped out loud opening her eyes to see Jack's face smiling down at her in relief.
Flik opened her mouth to speak but Blackbeard's voice boomed across them all ruining the moment.
"A gold doubloon to the man who spots the first! Do not be greedy. We need but a single one!" Blackbeard shouted to the men with the nets, as he did – the other pirates from the sea were climbing the rocks trying to get free and the men on the shore with their nets getting ready.
"Get them away from the shore…." Flik managed to get out, Jack helped her up but then it was too late – they watched as one by one a pirate disappeared from the shore out of the blue.
"Come with me!" Jack grabbed Flik's hand and took her, running towards the lighthouse again.
"Retreat, all to land! For your lives!" Maisie told the men as she grabbed a nearby harpoon getting ready herself for the worst.
Jack and Flik reached the top of the lighthouse, Flik made her way over to the archway looking down at the scene unfolding – Jack joined her looking down too, the mermaids were attacking the mermaids but the pirates were losing badly but a noise drew them away from them and in the sea, more mermaids were swimming towards them at a rapid pace flinging seaweed string at the pirates pulling them to the water.
"Back to the waters! Cowards! There be no refuge on land! On my word!" Blackbeard yelled again.
"BELAY THAT! DON'T GO TO THE WATERS THEY ARE…." Maisie yelled over the top of Blackbeard but before she could finish, Angelica hit her hard over the head making the woman slump to the ground getting the attention of Will who ran over to her.
In the lighthouse, Jack suddenly made his way over to the tank holding the whale oil – Flik looked at him curiously wondering what he was doing and then she remembered.
"Help me…!" Jack asked her, Flik came straight over and began to kick the valve breaking it and the oil came spraying out.
Both watched as the oil started going towards the flame…Jack grabbed Flik's hand roughly bringing her to the edge.
"Jack… I don't feel so great…" Flik mumbled, her head was still feeling light headed and her body was suddenly weak.
"Can you jump?" Jack asked, turning his head to her and she breathed out, closing her eyes slowly.
"Yes…!"
Jack smiled and wrapped his right arm around Flik's waist and they both jumped high from the lighthouse room, the air whipped around them and they splashed hard into the water.
As they did, the lighthouse tower exploded loudly making the bricks fly through the air and hit the water and the pathway below.
Philip looked up, watching the explosion – wondering what happened to Jack and Flik, as he searched suddenly he was pulled hard towards the rocky pathway – he looked down and saw a mermaid trying to pull him to the water.
Underwater, Flik and Jack watched the mermaids dodge the rocks falling – but they resurfaced and caught their breathe and began to swim to shore.
They reached the shore and he placed Flik onto the sand first making sure she was okay then he turned around to see a mermaid looking right at him.
"Please… don't" Jack rolled his eyes but Flik came up behind him, hitting the mermaid hard with an oar.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM…" Flik told her, slapping her again and then the mermaid swam away with the others.
"We got one!"
Everyone looked over to the pirates, holding something in their net before placing it onto the sand – Angelica and Blackbeard rushed over as the net was untied.
But it wasn't a mermaid…
"I'm in love!" Scrum yelled out, arms waving in the air feeling like a school boy in love with his crush.
"Check the wounded! See if any can be saved…" Blackbeard rolled his eyes and told the other pirates, all of them scrambled around the shore looking for other pirates.
"Not us! Them! A mermaid! Find one still alive!" Blackbeard shook his head and came away from the shore.
Near the lighthouse, Philip woke slowly opening his eyes – his back against the wet, cold floor surrounded by the rocks of the tower.
He sighed but then he heard a sound… a splashing sound. He got up slowly and walked towards it but he was surprised to see what he did… there was a young mermaid trying to break free from the rock but it wasn't working and then the mermaid spotted him
The mermaid hissed at him, Philip pulled a small blade towards her but stopped – her eyes… they were filled with fear as she saw the shining blade.
He lowered the sword as their eyes connected – both of them not moving and staring… then the mermaid screamed – Philip broke from the stare to see a net was forced down on the female mermaid who struggled against the rope.
He turned to see Blackbeard standing there with a smile on his face and he looked to the quartermaster who was holding the net securely.
"Got one! Here – lend a hand…" Blackbeard smiled, as the other pirates came and helped with the mermaid.
"Good work, sailor…" Blackbeard placed a hand on Philip's shoulder and nodded.
"Look boys! We landed ourselves…"
"Did anyone see that? Me and my wife won't be doing that again!" Jack jumped in front of Blackbeard but he glared at him, making the man back away.
"Back to the ship! We make for the protected cove! And quick…" Blackbeard commanded once again.
Jack sighed and he made his way to Flik, who was sitting on a rock trying to catch her breathe still.
"Are you alright, luv?"
"I…I just don't feel so good at the moment…why was on that longboat Jack?" Flik finally asked and Jack explained if he didn't help that Blackbeard would of done something to her.
"Oh…"
"But, you are okay now…" Jack brought her into a hug and kissed her head, she looked over his shoulder to see Maisie starting to wake up.
"Ugh…" Maisie groaned and found herself in the arms of Will looking down at her half smiling.
"You're okay…" Will stroked her cheek, holding her still – Maisie smiled back and reached up pulling his collar down and smashing her lips against his sharing a quick kiss.
Then…
"OH MY FUCKING GOD! IS THAT SEAWEED IN MY HAIR?"
"Just calm down…"
"AH! IT'S DOWN MY TOP!"
Flik and Maisie frowned and looked at each other… both of them recognised the voice and so did Jack and Will.
All of them got to their feet and came over a small hill and looked down to the beach to see two figures standing there tied up in an net trying to break free…
"Oh my giddily goats…" Flik whispered, turning her head to Maisie…
"JENNA?"
Well there you go… Again – I am REALLY sorry for not updating it sooner and by the way.. and I hope it isn't too late! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR for last year! Let's hope this year will be brilliant and I hope this chapter meets your standards! :D
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Lady Electricity xx