Next chapter, but short I know.
It has been about 6 months to a year since my story Dead Man Merlin.
The Black Pearl smashed into the rough waves of the ocean. It had been a day since Jack and the others had all set sail to find Morgana. Arthur and the knights (once again) had been seasick.
Monkey hung from the mast and looked at the world upside down. It was easier to look at the world upside down as it somehow made more sense. Sense. The one thing that Monkey's owner is going to need if he wants to live. Monkey dropped from the mast, the air whipping at his face as he fell. He skilfully landed on a rope and zip-wired down it, until he let go and dropped on the floor of the ship. The little monkey scurried off to the captain's cabin, where Jack and his master sat, along with shiny knights.
They hadn't noticed that he had walked into the room.
"We need to know who took Morgana first," Jack said. "Any ideas?"
"They weren't the navy, but could easily be working for them," Merlin said across the table. He leaned in. "However, their sword work was quite bad, so I guess they are from the third or second sea, meaning that they have high chances of working with the navy. And if they are, then they might be in the sixth sea."
"Why the sixth?" Arthur questioned.
"Because, it's far away from the first sea, so no one will suspect it, but it's not as far as the seventh, meaning it is easier to get to and from."
"No one will suspect? You suspected it," Leon commented. Monkey run up and jumped on Merlin's shoulder.
"That's because I'm no one."
"Right, well, I had a good chat with some drunks in the first sea and I know exactly where she is now, thanks to Merlin's words, as well." Jack said, happily knocking back his rum. "To sum it down cuz I'm slightly drunk. She's in the sixth sea, on an island, in a castle, guarded by navy men and we are all going to die trying to save her," he said, slurring his words slightly. Arthur raised an eyebrow.
"Die trying to save her? Who did you chat to?" Arthur asked, a little too aggressively Merlin thought. Unknown to Merlin, Jack noticed that.
"Just a couple of drunken navy soldiers that had tried getting to that island before. The words I heard the most were: Death, monsters of hell, nothing but blood, evil, mad man and – my personal favourite – needed a good rum," Jack said, taking Merlin's and drinking it. Jack noticed Arthur look away.
"Why do you think they said that uncle?" Merlin asked. Arthur gritted his teeth at the way Merlin said 'uncle'. Jack looked at him. Jack jumped up and started searching around his cabin. He threw things across the room. He then came back and spread a map across the table.
"We are here," he said, tapping on bit of the map. "And we need to be here," he said tapping another part of the map. "Now look at what we have to go through to get there." Everyone looked at the map.
They had to go through Sinking Waters, Shadow Break Island, had to get off the ship and walk across King's Resting Place and then walk through the Crystal Eye Cave.
Just as they had read their route, Mr Gibbs, stormed into the cabin.
"Jack Sir..." He trailed off when he saw the map and where they had to go.
He sighed.
"...We're dead."
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