Chapter Thirty Four

Gifts

We finished loading all the supplies onto the ships when my crew came to me, "um, Captain" Crepsley said nervously, I turned.

"What?"

"We were thinking..." he trailed off

"Come on, out with it!" I demanded.

"Why don't we get another boat? I mean, we'd be more of a help with more guns and there's too many crew members on the Black Pearl"

"Well, crew," I said "we don't exactly have time for another ship right now, can't you see were being followed by Blackbeard? Not to mention that the Flying Dutchman has Captain Ching, and Adam is after me, so, I don't think now is the best time for that" I growled "off with you" I snarled and they all walked away.

"You know, it's not actually a bad idea" Pirate Lord Villanueva said, leaning on the Black Pearl.

"I know, but where am I going to find another ship in the next few hours?" I asked rolling a bottle of rum below deck.

"Not now" He said coming over to me "but we have to go through Port Royal to get to Singapore" he answered, sighed in frustration and pulled a rope, revealing beautiful black sails. I heard calls from the other Pirate Lords that it was time to go, "I'll take that under consideration...now, get the hell off my ship" I growled.

*Not long after we left the safety of the Brethren Court's glacier I spotted rubble floating on the ocean, remains of an old boat. Sadly, it wasn't The Cequntuara or the Queen Anne's Revenge. It was a East Indian Trading Company vessel. "Do you think there was any goods on that ship?" Kayla asked me as we both stared down into the water.

"Don't know, and if there was it would've been taken" I said leaning over the side, to get a closer look of the wreck.

"Ouch! Your mind is so troubled...it hurts to read it!" Kayla growled, grasping her temple.

"Karma finally got ya, huh?" I laughed, turning around and smiling.

"Aye" she growled, holding her head, but giving a small smile.

*It was dusk when I got the alert that we were approaching Port Royal. My stomach felt sick, and not because of the rising swells or the rising wind, because I saw the corpses of dead pirates hanging as a warning to all. We took our hats off and stood for a moment in silence. "Are you leaving my ship, love?" Jack yelled to me, walking over to me, but before I could say anything, people started yelling commands to come into port and Jack had to walk away.

For moments I stood there, feeling dumb. I didn't know what to do, do I stay aboard the Black Pearl with my love? Or do I take another ship and be more of a help to the Pirate Lords? While I was deep in thought, someone grabbed my arm. It was Kayla, Kayla is also the ancient sea goddess Calypso who is said to have broken Davy Jones's heart, so, Jones ripped it out and put it in a chest which is said to be in Singapore, which is where we're going.

To end Jones. "Come" she said and pulled me off of the Black Pearl, she pulled me away from the docks and to her house.

"Kayla! You know it's dangerous here! We need to go back!" I whispered angrily as she drug me towards her old home.

"No, it's fine, my parents won't know, they can't hear footsteps downstairs" she replied climbing up the rock to her bedroom. "Coming?" she asked.

"Aye" I said after a short pause. I had never seen Kayla's room before, It was huge! She had a dresser the size of my room! Her bed was made of birch wood and had fox fur as a blanket, she had two marble lamps on top of a golden lined table and a little, black jewelry box that was velvet and lined with silver. Out of that box she took a necklace, but not any necklace, it was a black velvet string with a Aztec coin and small black pearls on the sides.

"I was meaning to give this to you earlier" she murmured "Davy gave it to me two decades ago, and I want you to have it" she said putting it around my neck.

"Oh, how nice" I said as sweetly as I could, then I smiled.

"And this" she said handing me an engraved dagger, "I killed thousands men with that" she said with a small smile then before I could say 'thanks' we heard rapid footsteps up the stairs.

"Damn!" I yelled and quickly jumped out of the window, Kayla not far behind, we heard her parents yelling for her and I, but we ran off into the night, not stopping until we ran aboard the Black Pearl.

Chapter Thirty Five

"If I don't kill a man once in a while they forget who I am"

I was looking at the strange coin that Kayla gave me. I tossed it around in my hands, it looked like a normal Aztec coin, but I knew it wasn't. If Davy Jones gave it to her, I knew it wasn't normal. Or it was, and I was just over-speculating. We had just passed Tortuga from what I understood from the crows nest.

Singapore will be days of sailing away, that is if we don't get an encounter by fish face, the-pirate-that-all-pirates-fear or if we don't get caught in a sea squall. I knew one of the three would happen, it was inevitable. We were leading the pack of Pirate Lords. The other Pirate Lord's main concern was Pirate Lord Ching and his capturer Davy Jones. My concern was, stabbing the heart, and Adam coming after me.

My wondering about everything gave me a headache so I went out on deck to get some fresh air. I was staring off of the port side when Crepsley came up behind me. "What?" I asked calmly, not moving a muscle toward him. He said nothing but walked beside me.

"About getting another ship..." he said trailing off.

"For god sake's, I told yo-"

"The crew is angry with you" he quickly cut in. I looked at him strangely "look, I'm doing this for your own good" he said, then we both paused. If a crew got too angry with a captain, the crew would commit mutiny and over-throw a captain and make the first-mate the new captain. The captain would either leave the boat or become quartermaster.

"Why aren't they happy?" I asked training my eyes on the sea.

"It's too crowded on the Black Pearl...we need another ship...Brittney, I'm only trying to do the best...I don't want to commit mutiny against you a-"

"Belay" I whispered and walked away.

*The crew wasn't happy with me, eh? I'll show those- Stopping my ranting dead in its tracks, Jack's crew brought up someone from below deck. "Who in the name of Davy Jones is this?" Kayla growled.

"That's my job" Jack said "who is it?"

"Stowaway cap'in" Jack's gunner said, It was a man. He had torn trousers, and a blood stained shirt. He was very thin and his brown hair was stained with gun powder. His eyes red and wild along with shaking hands and he was murmuring something in a different language, Jamaican. He broke free from the crew members grasps ran over to me. He grasped my coat and whispered"he is coming, he will not stop until you are all dead, your sword is powerful but no match for him, he is coming faster then expected...he is coming, coming!" after a brief pause I sighed.

"I know, mate...belay" I whispered then shot him in the heart.

"Why'd ya do that?" Crepsley shouted angrily.

"If I don't kill a man every once in a while you'll forget who I am" I said grimly putting my pistol back in its holster and looking down at the dead body "throw it overboard" I commanded solemnly, walking away, into the kitchen.

Chapter Thirty Six

"Savvy?"

We were about half-way to Singapore when a huge sea-squall came upon the horizon. The sky grew dark and heavy with clouds, rain pelted the boat like a giant wet sheet, the wind blew with monstrous force and made the rain feel like tiny needles. The waves grew taller and more intimidating to the Black Pearl. I felt like the waves were going to swallow us whole, but the Black Pearl rode coolly on-top of the waves, avoiding being engulfed by the swells. Jack and I were barking out orders, soon the crew became confused, we had been yelling different things.

I became so irritated with the confusion I went and talked to Jack. "What are we going to do?" I yelled trying to hold my hat down from the rising wind.

"I say we go through it, love!" he yelled back, grabbing hold of me so I didn't fall.

"Go through it?"

"Yes! It's to late too turn around so we must go through it!" he explained. Soon I heard my crew members screaming for my attention. As I looked up from my hat a monstrous funnel cloud snaked down into the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, It was heading straight for us.

"What do ya say we do now, Jack?" I asked, hanging on to my hat and he.

"Hoist the bloody colours and go through it!" he yelled with a sly smile, kissing my cheek.

"Oh, this will not be good" I said to myself, gripping my hat tighter.

*The Black Pearl was tossed around like a giant rag-doll. Most of the crew became sick during the terrifying ride or had bruises the side of a baseballs. The only order we gave to the crew after our talk was to hang on! Soon after we gave the order the ship started to move in a circle...faster now...even faster...I was about to fly off of the ship and into the whirling death-trap when I grabbed a loose rope and hung on for dear life itself! After a few minutes of flying through the air in a circle high above the deck, the waves calmed, the wind died down and the sun started to shine upon the boat.

"The eye" Crepsley said breathlessly.

"Aye" I huffed, sitting down on the stairs and making a mental note to never do that again. "It's not over yet" I added shakingly.

"Is it ever?" Kayla asked coming over to me. Through the gloom of the hurricane I saw a figure start to arise from the water...not a human...not a animal...I didn't even think it was a boat...boy, was I wrong. Soon I saw tattered, blood red sails and heard eerie laughing. It was not the Flying Dutchman...it was worse... The Queen Anne's Revenge!

There was no escaping it this time. It was either fight or be sucked back into the whirling winds of hell. As I looked closer Blackbeard had an evil smirk on his face, that frightened me. "Does he ever have a nice smirk on his face?" Kayla asked with a laugh.

"I see that you're not frightened" I said with a small laugh.

"Honey, I've been with Davy Jones...no pirate with a flaming beard is going to scare Calypso" she said with a smile, I gave a small smile back and then glanced back at the oncoming hell-boat.

"Yeah...not all of us have that luxury" I added with a sigh. "What does he want?...Does he want the rum?" I asked quickly, Kayla just laughed.

"No, sweetie, he's got enough of that aboard his ship!" she said, still laughing.

"Does he want you?"

"I don't know, I can't read his mind...he also is a creature of magical being, he can put up a barrier that will keep me out" she explained.

"That's just peachy..." I said trailing off, I sighed and felt my hands begin to shake, why was I so afraid of him? In this moment I felt a desperation for Jack to hold me...but why?

*As the Queen Anne's Revenge came nearer our crew scrambled even faster to get to their battle stations. Jack was barking out orders twice as fast and I became more nervous. "Cap'n" someone said, I turned to find Crepsley "get ready" he said and handed me my gun. I nodded in thanks. I just watched as our cannons were loaded and pushed out of the port holes, our Flag was raised.

It was a skull with Jack's bandana and a red sparrow flying away next to it, then, to my surprise, they flew my flag as well! It was a skull with hair and instead of crossbones it had bloody roses underneath. I smiled to Jack, pulled out my sword and said "Savvy?"