Chapter Forty
"The Kraken!" She shrieked and did a funny dance..
People everywhere! I almost got my head taken off by two men carrying water bowls on a long pole. Children were putting up some type of stone wall and I stopped to watch, but the woman that came and got me out of the hut grabbed my arm and pulled me along with her. I was looking behind me at the sight of four women washing and hanging clothing when we came to a sudden halt. "Whoa!"
I yelled as I tried to balance myself from the short-stop, a man herding goats walked in front of us and thanked us in a different language. She answered. "By the way" I said struggling to keep pace with her "what's your name?" I asked catching up with her.
"Shinaiqua" she replied, quickly looking both ways and crossing what looked like a muddy street. "it means flower" she clarified, I nodded in understanding, and ran behind her as a cart full of watermelons wheeled dangerously close to my backside. I turned around from making sure the cart didn't take anything off and saw a giant brownish-yellow structure, It was covered in ivy, it had what looked like a giant steeple on the top and a grand door. The blocks of the building went inside each row, like the pyramids. Except, behind this structure was a jungle, and before I knew it I was being pulled inside.
What once was a sunny day was starting to turn sour, dark clouds started swirling in the sky indicating a storm wasn't far off. Shinaiqua was pulling me in the structure by my arm, when we entered it seemed that there was a type of festival going on. Laughter, games, strange types of food, and dancing. Almost all the women were wearing what Shinaiqua was, colorful dresses, the men wore some type of colorful suit. The couples dancing were doing some type of dance they called "the elephant dance" we walked right through the dancing people and straight to another woman.
She had black hair and green eyes, also black and around the same height as I was. She wore a brown dress with red and purple squares sewn into it. She looked at me as if she had seen something disgusting. I admit I probably don't look the best but I just spent hours swimming then, fell on my butt, give me a break! Shinaiqua started talking to the woman in the same language that they all had. "You're not from here" the new woman said.
"Obviously" I said, it came out a little harsher than I expected, getting stabbed in the stomach gets me cranky! She looked at me, head to toe.
"Pirate" she mumbled and I flashed a smile.
"We found her floating in the ocean and the wigama said we could save her" Shinaiqua said quickly(Wigama= Witch doctor).
"You escaped death...many times" the new woman whispered to me.
"I guess I'm just lucky, mate!" I said with a smile.
*We returned to the hut I woke up in after we got the new woman. The town wasn't as busy as before because it was almost night-time the sky appeared as if it was ready to rain. "You already know my name" Shinaiqua said "but this is-"
"I can introduce myself!" The new woman snapped "I'm Watamicia, It means power in resources" she explained, glaring at me.
"What's your name?" Shinaiqua asked cheerfully.
"Captain Brittney Turner" I said with a half smile.
"What ship did you Captain?" Shinaiqua asked, I sighed.
"The first...The Bloody Rose...the second. I co-captained the Black Pearl with Jack Sparrow" I murmured.
"Why were you in the water?" The new woman asked.
"The Kraken attacked the ship I was on" I growled, memories of that horrible monster floating to my mind's eye.
"The Kraken!" she shrieked and did a funny dance.
"Oh, calm yourself Watamicia! You're on land, remember?" Shinaiqua snarled. "Wait, you said Jack Sparrow right?" Shinaiqua asked interrupting Watamicia's dance.
"Yeah...why?" I asked. Next thing I knew found myself being tied to a pole and placed over a stack of wood. "What in the bloody hell is going on?" I screamed.
Chapter Forty One
I hope they don't have boats I thought,
"What in the bloody hell is going on?" I screamed again as people danced around me. I was tied to a pole over a growing pile of wood.
"Jack Sparrow betrayed this tribe...over nothing...a myth of a sword that grants ultimate power...turns out, there was no such thing...he took all our ale, rum, and treasures" Shinaiqua growled.
"That sounds about like Jack" I murmured to myself as I looked down at the wood and tried to think of a way out of this.
"So, this tribe has vowed to kill anyone and everyone in contact with the dreaded pirate, especially co-captains" she snarled then spat on the ground close to me.
"And my parents say I can carry a grudge" I said with a snicker, then a skinny female emerged from a hut and they all got on one knee, I think she was the princess. She had brown hair and beautiful blue eyes, she was black, she wore a long purple cape with a light blue skirt and a lime green shirt with curly toe shoes, her hair was in a side pony-tail, and she had a no funny business look on her face. Soon after her came a small child wearing a sunny-yellow dress, with blonde hair and green eyes, she was clutching a fabric doll close to her chest. The taller woman told the child something in a different language, then the child scurried off to my right side.
"Pirate" the princess growled, then she looked at Shinaiqua, stood stiff for a moment, then slowly and cautiously turned back towards me. Now the princess looked frightened. I was confused, so I smiled at her. Then I noticed she was looking at my left arm, The pirate lord mark! I thought she's afraid of me because I'm a pirate lord!
I realized I still had my cutlass with me, and gave an wicked grin. I tapped my holster and felt a jolt inside of it, I pulled it toward the rope and gave a motion for it not to make any noise. As my cutlass worked through the rope, the princess stared at my wrist as if she was in a trance. "Is she ok?" I asked, Shinaiqua glared at me but walked in front of the princess and waved her hand.
"Princess Quanisha are you alright?" Shinaiqua asked concerningly.
"Yes, yes! I'm fine" the princess growled, still starring at my wrist. A few quiet moments later I heard my cutlass cut through the last rope, I had to hold onto the pole to make it look like I was still tied. Everyone that had been in the circle was now standing by the princess, trying to figure out what the hell she was looking at. I figured I needed a distraction so I tapped my cutlass and pointed upward, naturally doing as I say, it shot out and up into the air, changing different colors, giving me a chance to escape.
I quickly swung to the left and ran in the direction of the sea. By the time my sword plummeted back towards me they had no idea of what trickery I had used on them. But, soon afterward, through my huffing I could hear the wild screams of the tribe as they came after me. Now I was out of ideas. Then, I remembered my cutlass can fly since it has the stone of Rasputin in it!
I smiled as I ran, then I looked down and tripped, thankfully I did, because I was going to run right off the edge of a cliff! As I looked over I could see the beach not even a mile away from where I was laying! But the plummet down to the ground would surely kill me...I gave a smile and turned around to find the entire tribe to find that they wore war paint and carried arrows. I gave a sly smile and repeated one of Jack's most famous lines. "Alas my...well I wouldn't call you friends but, this is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost caught Captain Brittney Turner!"
Then I fell backwards...grabbing onto my cutlass as I plummeted down to the beach, "just get me the hell out of here!" I yelled at it as we dodged arrows from the furious tribe. I hope they don't have boats I thought, the thing I forgot to mention to my cutlass was for it not to bring me to a port.
Chapter Forty Two
"You're not making any sense at all mate" I said
The smell of rum and sweat heavily coated the air, torches lit the streets and brawls broke out every few minutes. Yep, I'm in Tortuga.
*As I wandered the streets of Tortuga I noticed that the boats were left unattended. I do need a ship I thought but, then I need a crew I thought then sighed and walked into a crowded bar. Men were drinking and laughing, between a few men a fight broke out, but no one noticed, fights here were as common here as a guard in a castle. I sighed and sat at the bar, "hey that was m-" a man started to confront me about a seat, but when I looked up at him his tone grew small and he shrunk away with his friend.
"Now, what is a charming young woman such as yourself doing in a horrible place like this?" Someone asked, I smiled and glanced up to find a smiling Captain Ching. "Ching!" I yelled and threw my arms around him "how did you escape Jones?" I asked as I freed him from my arms.
"I swam" he said with a smile, I looked down to find that he was soaked from head to foot. "But, why are you here? Shouldn't you be with Jack on the Black Pearl?" he asked, I sighed...my Jack...
"Here's the long-short of it, we got caught in a hurricane with the Queen Anne's Revenge and The Cequntuara, they both attacked at the same time, Blackbeard came to the Black Pearl and stabbed me, then I blacked out. I woke up on my parents' ship which got attacked by the Kraken, then I was almost drowned by a current, I woke up in a hut, then, once I told them I co-captained the Black Pearl they tied me to a pole over a fire. I distracted them with my cutlass, and my cutlass flew me all the way here." I explained with a sarcastic smile, Ching's eyes bulged and he laughed.
"Well, you've had a ride that a normal pirate usually gets in ten years" Ching said with a small smile as he sipped on a brown drink. "Unless you're Captain Jack Sparrow, of course" he added "So, what are ye going 't do?" he asked, sitting down on a stool next to me.
"I plan to get a crew and steal a ship" I said with a smile as I sipped rum from a large, cold glass.
*Ching set up a table with a book that people wrote their names in if they wanted to be part of my crew. Ching manned that while I went to the docks and looked for a suitable ship. "No...no...no...no" I said as I went down the line "no...oh, hell no...no...no...n-yes!" I cried as I finally found the ship I was looking for. It had gray sails and a black hull with the name The Purple Gun written on the back "The Purple Gun" I read "good enough for me!"
I ran back to the bar where Captain Ching was waiting. "Pirates couldn't sign up fast enough!" he said to me "they all want to sail under a Pirate Lord...especially a female Pirate Lord!" Ching said with a wink, I rolled my eyes as my new crew followed us out of the bar and to the docks.
"Do you want to come along?" I asked Ching before we headed out to sea.
"No, I think I'll stay here and enjoy the rum and ladies before I face again" he said with a crooked grin. I nodded understandingly and stepped back onto my new ship.
"Where are we headed, Captain?" Someone asked.
"Singapore" I answered with a smile.
"What exactly are we looking for Cap'in?" another one of my crew asked.
"The chest of Davy Jones" I said with a smile as I unfurled a scroll that had the picture of the key to the chest of Davy Jones. When the other Pirate Lords and I were going to raise Calypso we stopped at the magic shop and the owner had that scroll on display. I thought we might need it later so I swiped it. I was also going by the pirate "guidelines" take what you can and give nothing back.
"Excuse me for questioning, Cap'in but what exactly are we looking for again?" one of my crew asked coming up to me. He had a short beard and one hazel eye and one green eye with holes in his smile where teeth should be.
"Ah!" I said and showed him and the rest of the crew the scroll.
"A key?" one of them asked, I smiled.
"Yes! and gentlemen, what do keys do?" I asked, hoping for a good answer.
"Unlock things?" one of them asked.
"Yes!" I cried.
"So we're looking for whatever this key unlocks?" the cabin boy asked.
"No...lf we don't have the key, we can't open whatever we don't have that it unlocks, so, what purpose would be served in finding whatever need be unlocked, which we don't have, without first finding the key one uses?" I asked, rolling back up the scroll and placing it in my coat pocket.
"So, we're looking for the key?" the cabin boy asked. I sighed.
"You're not making any sense at all, mate" I said "any more questions?" I asked "Come on, then! Snap to it! Make sail, you know the drill...come on...oy! Oy!"
I cried as they parted the way to my quarters. "Ah, captain again" I said with a smile as I put down the scroll of the key on the table.