Chapter 6: A Lost Sister
Both Karine and Evelyn turned around to see a man with dark brown hair to just about his ears, holding their sister by the arm and with his other hand he is pointing a gun at her. Instinctively Both Karine and Jessica place their hands on their pistols ready to draw them.
"I mean it, Get your arse's back on your ship and leave now."
"I am not leaving without my sister, ye idiot." Karine said as she widened her stance to brace herself for whatever came up next.
Next to her Jessica was glaring at the man and the rest of his men, just daring them to do something.
"Your sister shall stay here with me and you two will leave on your ship." The man tightened his grip on Evelyn's arm causing her to wince in pain. The few men standing behind him raised their pistols and aimed them at Karine and Jessica. Karine knew in her head that they could not take on all of these men to save Evelyn, but she knew that if it came down to it she would do whatever she could to save her. The same thoughts were going through Jessica's mind as well as they braced themselves for what ever happened next.
"Who are ye to demand that my sister shall stay here and we are to go?" Karine said as she pulled out her pistols and aimed it at the strange man.
" Fine, if ye must know I am Pirate Lord Captain Peacabo Tursaran, and you are on my island."
Jessica shifted her gaze from Peacabo to his man and back to him. "What do ye mean your island?" She said as she mocked him.
"Meaning I own it now get off." He stated as he broke his glare away from Karine and focused on Jessica.
Karine heard a rustling come from behind them and before she could turn around everything went black.
Karine attempted to open her eyes and shut them because the pain in her head was too much. Slowly she sat up and noticed that the deck was under them. It took only seconds for everything to register in her head what had happened. Despite her pounding headache Karine bounced up off the deck and drew her sword. Only to find out that she was on her ship sailing in the middle of the ocean. Panic struck her instantly as she remembered all that had happened.
She stood rooted to the spot and glanced over the deck to see if she spotted Jessica. Thankfully Jessica had been laying just a few feet away from her and was starting to stir. Karine walked over to her sister and sat down and waited for her to wake up while she rubbed her temples. A few minutes later Jessica slowly sat up as she held the back of her head.
"Karine?"
"I'm right here, does ye head hurt too?"
Karine looked over at Jessica to see a single tear slide down her cheek. In all their years she very rarely saw her younger sister cry and now she was. Karine leaned in close and pulled Jessica into a hug.
"It will be ok "
"We lost her …….. We lost Evy…… How could we loose her?" The tears were now rolling down Jessica's cheeks and it was all Karine could do to fight back the tears she wanted to shed.
"We will find her Jess I promise you that. We will not let that bastard keep our Evy." Karine said as she tightened her hug on Jessica.
Hearing her sister call him a bastard put a smile on her face. "Can we go kick his arse?"
"Aye, lets."
Karine stood up and offered her hand to help Jessica up. Both girls walked over to the wheel of the ship to try and figure out just where in the hell they were. The table where all the maps were laid out was all messed up. A couple of the maps were lying on the deck and one of the maps had been ripped in half. After Both women picked up all the maps and got them order Jessica noticed one map was missing.
"Karine, have ye seen the map I made of the island?"
"No, Jess now that I think about it, the map is missing."
"Shit!" Karine's eyes grew wide at hearing her sister cuss.
"Jessica, what the blazes has gotten into ye?"
"That bastard stole our map. Damn him! He took our sister and then took our map telling us how to save her."
Karine clenched her fists. "Damn….."
Evelyn wanted to scream as she saw both her sisters fall to the ground. Those two men snuck up behind them and hit them over the head. She was fueled with rage at she tried to take it out on the one man that she was closest to. Evelyn saw the gun lower to the ground and knew it was her chance. She rammed her elbow into Peacabo's side causing him to let go of her. Evelyn went to run towards her sisters but found herself at sword point.
"My dear you will not be going anywhere." Peacabo walked up to her and grabbed a hold of both her wrists. "Now don't make me bind you, you are far to pretty to be bound like a captive. You look more like a queen when you are unbound, which is what you shall one day be."
Evelyn glared at him as he held her wrists, just daring him to say something else.
"Your sisters will be placed back their ship unharmed and the only thing taken from it was a map showing my island, as long as you come along with me and don't fight." He lowered his hands but still kept Evelyn's wrists in his hands.
Evelyn looked from him to her sisters lying on the ground. She wanted no harm to come to them. Still glaring at him Evelyn straightened her stance and hid all of her emotion.
"You must promise me that no harm shall come to my sisters."
"I promise you and in fact I will make sure that you see that no harm will come to them." He motioned for his men to pick up the sisters and carry them to their ship as Peacabo and Evelyn followed closely behind. And just to make sure Evelyn did not try anything he laid a hand on the small of her back with the pistol held loosely in it. They followed the men onto the ship and she watched at the men laid Karine and Jessica down on the planks of the ship.
Peacabo turned to one of his men and said, "Ready my ship so that we may sail out there with them to see them off." Peacabo then walked toward the helm of the ship toward the ships wheel. Peacabo sifted through the maps that were laid out on the table. Finding what he was looking for he folded one of the maps and placed it into his pocket.
Evelyn feeling compelled to ask him. "What is it ye are taking?"
"The lovely little map your baby sister decided to draw of my island. I can't have them just sailing right back here now can I."
Evelyn fought back a gasp as she realized this man was actually going to take away her only thoughts of escape. He took the only chance of them finding her.
Peacabo noticed her thoughts so he strode over closer to him in order to distract her from them. "My dear, you mustn't let your mind wander to those terrible thoughts. Instead you must think of the wonderful years you are going to have by my side." He ran his hand softly down the side of her face taking her off guard.
"My sister's will find a way to come back here and find me." Evelyn said as she took a step back from him. "And what makes you think I will be by your side?"
"Because you have no other choice."
"My lord your ship is ready and the coast is clear for us to make sail, but are you sure you want to sail out there with us." Peacabo's deputy captain said as he walked toward them.
"Aye, I must make sure that our lovely lady here sees her sisters off to safety."
"Aye captain."
Turning to Evelyn his facial expression changed from a powerful one to almost a seductive one. "Now my dear will you come with me or will I have to take you with me at gun point?"
Evelyn stood there and crossed her arms daring him to point his gun at her.
" I shall take that as a no." Peacabo drew out his gun and pointed it at Evelyn. "I really do not want to harm you my dear but I will shoot at you and them have my healer see that you are fixed up nicely."
Evelyn turned and walked off the ship reluctantly leaving her sisters behind. Peacabo followed close behind her with the gun still in his hand and pointed at the small of her back. Evelyn marched her way all the off of their ship and onto his ship. She then stood there and a waited for another set of his orders.
"How's this?" She said placing both hands on her hips and glared at him.
"Now my love you mustn't look at me like that. It makes it hard for me to control myself. I must always look like a tough captain to my men." He walked over to her and wrapped an arm around her waist pulling her in close so that he could whisper in her ear. "We wouldn't want my mind to think other wise now would we."
Him being so close to her sent shivers down Evelyn's spine. She places both her hands on his chest and attempted to push him away. Feeling her try and push him away only causes him to pull her closer. "My darling you really shouldn't push me away like that, but if you wish for me to be cold then I shall." He walked toward the helm of the ship and left her standing there rooted to the spot.
"Hoist anchor, release the sails ye dogs lets get theses blasted ships out into some open water."
The same shouts could be heard coming from the other ship as well; as both ships headed out into open water. Peacabo took hold of the ships wheel as Evelyn walked to stand beside him.
"Ye are not really going to just leave my sisters out there are ye?"
"Of course not my love, we shall sail the ship out there, drop their anchor and sail away making sure they stay nice and safe right where I shall place them."
"That is still leaving them out there."
"You can see it as how ever you wish to see it love, but to me it shall be as I said it is."
"Stop calling me that." Evelyn said as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Stop calling you what love?"
"That!"
"What's that?"
"Stop calling me love, it makes me madder each and every time you say it!" Evelyn uncrossed her arms and placed her hands on her hips.
"You really are beautiful when you're mad. Especially when the wind is blowing your hair behind you like it is now.
This caused Evelyn to get distracted by her hair and reach up and fix it. Peacabo took advantage of this and grabbed her wrist placing it behind her back pulling her closer. "And so easily distracted too. You are perfect my darling, it is a shame you do not feel anything for me."
Evelyn winced and struggled against his grasp. "You have no feelings just lust!" Evelyn said gritting her teeth at him.
"Ah, but how does a hopeless romantic like you not even consider the fact that I fell in love with ye at first sight." Peacabo smiled, as he pulled a little closer, still keeping one hand on the wheel of the ship.
"What makes you think that I am a hopeless romantic?"
"Ah, by the way your eyes change every time I pull you in close, the fact that when I whispered in your ear it sent shivers down your spine, and the fact that you keep coming closer to me rather than being all the way on the other side of the ship."
Evelyn again tried to pull away from him, but found his grasp too much for her to get away from. "You know nothing about me and neither will you find out. I will stop talking to you all together." At this Peacabo realized his grip just enough for her to pull away and turn her back to him.
That's fine with me love, but you will eventually have to say the words I do." He watched her wince as she walked away to go stand at the bow of the ship and wait for this terrible voyage to be over with.
Peacabo placed both hands on the wheel as his deputy captain walked to stand beside him. "Sir, are we out far enough to where the sisters can not find us yet."
"Nay, we need to be as far away as possible."
"Aye sir, but what about Jones?"
"As long as we keep lookout for Jones he can do us no harm."
"Aye sir."
"Jones and I struck a deal long ago and that deal shall stick as long as I obey my side and so does he."
"But ah sir you are no longer obeying your side of the bargain."
"I will soon enough as long as we get this other blasted ship out to see."
"Are you sure keeping the other sister is worth it, why not just keep them all and let two of your other men, maybe even myself have the others?"
"Because with the other two sisters gone her spirit shall be broken and then she shall have to see me as her savior and the person she shall come to love, with her sister there they will only try and escape my island and we can't have that now can we?"
"Ah, captain I am startin to see your logic there."
"Besides if it is wenches, ye all seek then you can simply take one of the ships and bring some back, but mind you to choose carefully time. I really did hated seeing them all having to vanish like last time."
"Aye captain"
"Besides by now ye and I have talked enough to where we have covered enough water to put some distance signal for the other ship to stop and drop anchor. We shall sail over and the pick up the rest of the crew."
"Aye captain."
"Oh and one more thing, would you be so kind and to bring our lovely captain to me."
With that the man turned away and was off to fetch Evelyn for his captain.
Evelyn did not like being so far away from the captain only because all of the crew kept staring at her and giving her all of the looks that made her skin crawl. She forced her gave away from them and out onto the open water. She glanced at the water trying to every thing in her power to draw her attention away from where she was. She shook her head however as she could have sworn she saw something as large as the ship swim just under the surface of the water. Evelyn jumped back away from the railing and bumped into someone.
"My lady, the captain has sent for me to fetch you." Seeing how wide her eyes were caused him to look where she was looking. "Ye look as if ye have seen a ghost."
Evelyn was stumbling for words. "There is something in the water that is no whale and is bigger than this ship."
The deputy captain's eyes widen as he realized that she had seen. "Come we must go to the captain right now."
Both people cleared the deck in now time in order to reach the captain. The deputy reached the captain first, seeing as how Evelyn could not move as fast in her dress.
"Captain!! Jones is close!!"
"Ye must be daft, we would know if Jones was close."
"Aye captain he does know the lady has seen his beast."
Peacabo narrowed his gaze and looked from him to her. "Ye must have been seeing things. What exactly did ye see?"
"I saw something bigger than this blasted ship and it was no whale."
Peacabo looked away from her to out in the distance then back to his deputy. "So Jones has sent his terrible beastie to look out for me and now has gone to tell Jones that I am out in the open water."
"What shall we do captain?"
"Get our men on this ship make sure the other one is stuck, and get us the hell out of here. I intend to keep my deal with Jones."
The deputy ran down to the main deck shouting orders to all of the men and then to the others at the other ship.
"Peacabo, what is that thing and what deal with Jones are you talking about." Evelyn said taking a step closer to him.
"Ah, love there shall be time for me to fill ye in just say by my side and ye shall be fine and don't go near the railing." Peacabo did not look at her however he kept his eyes on the open water. Evelyn took another step closer to him and looked out in the distance where he was looking. Peacabo knew what Jones was capable of and there was no way he was giving in.
His deputy came running back. "Captain we are all set to turn this ship around."
"Turned around she shall be then. Deputy Get Lady Evelyn a chair so that she may sit down I don't want her standing in sight.
"I don't need to sit" Evelyn said looking at him.
He broke his gaze away from the see long enough to look at her. "It is either that or ye go into my cabin where you will stay there until we have reached land again."
Evelyn weighed her options and then turned to the deputy. "I think the chair will work."
"Aye my lady." He ran to find a chair for her.
"Why do you insist on treating me this way."
"Because you are mine and no one including Jones shall have you, so I am keeping you either under lock and key or right here beside me."
"But I have told you that I am not yours."
Peacabo looked at her out of the corner of his eyes. "Would ye rather be mind or Jones'?"
Before Evelyn could answer a ship shot out of the water next to theirs. This ship was the same ship she had seen weeks ago and belonged to none other than Day Jones himself. Jones' crew was shouting at Peacabo's ship egging them all on. Evelyn moved closer to Peacabo feeling safer the closer she was.
"What happened to keeping with our deal Mister Tursaran?"
The voice coming behind them cause Evelyn to jump and turn around while grabbing Peacabo's arm. Peacabo however calmly just turned to face the man. The man, or what was supposed to look like a man had tentacles growing out of his face, one huge lobster claw for a leg and a crabs leg in place of one of his own. Evelyn was sure had to be standing in front of Davy Jones himself.
"Ah, Jones so nice to see ye again."
"Tursaran ye were supposed to stick to the land for twenty years, it has only been ten. Surely ye have not forgotten what shall happen if ye sailed into the open ocean.
"Ah, ya see Jones I have not forgotten I was merely dropping off some cargo and a ship and then was heading back to land with my lovely new bride here.
Jones looked from Peacabo to Evelyn and raised an eyebrow. "Ye have no bride, why do you lie, this woman is only clinging to ye because she is scared of me." Jones laughed at Peacabo and at the fact that he had tried to trick him. Evelyn had an idea that just might help out the situation even if she didn't like saying it.
"Peacabo is not my husband as of right now; we were going to wait until after this cargo trip was taken care of before we made it official." Evelyn loosened her grip on his arm and placed another one on top of his arm to act possessive.
Jones looked from Evelyn back to Peacabo. "Well Master Tursaran, it seems that you have in fact found yourself a bride. But our deal still is in effect, I shall let ye slide this time but my beat shall follow ye and if ye do not step foot back on land it has orders to take down ye lovely ship and your bride. Jones laughed again and Peacabo. "Congratulations are in order then." Jones then vanished off of the side of the deck.
Evelyn felt herself able to relax now that Jones was gone, but there were still many questions that Peacabo would have to answer. Evelyn looked over as Jones' ship vanished down into the depths of the ocean.
Peacabo let out a sigh and then laughed. "Love ye put on quite a show for old Jones, if ye hadn't we might be in the ocean right now."
"I might have saved your arse with my worse, but if ye think any of them were true then ye are mad." Evelyn said pulling away from him. She was still scared Jones was going to show up but she wasn't going to put on that lovey dovey act anymore. "Ye need to tell me what in the hell all of that is about and why ye aren't supposed to set sail for another ten years."
"Ah my love, as soon as we are back on land I shall fill you in on everything while we are on our way back to my lovely village that you happened to stumble onto the first time." He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her in close. "Agreed?"