Pirate101 IV- The Grim Reaver
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A/N: Sorry about the delay, I've been busy recently so I haven't had a chance to finish this chapter till now.
Chapter 8- Vengeance Bill
"That's some mighty fine iridium you got there, partner!" exclaimed Shipwright Jackie Jackson, from Tumbleweed in Cool Ranch, "If you're looking for me, then you're obviously wanting ship armour to enter even the toughest storms!"
Dustin nodded, "Make it quick, Quacky Quackson. Or yer head be on me witchdoctor's staff."
The duck ran off to get his tools, frightened.
James leant over to Ratbeard, "I can think of a worse fate than that."
"What?" Ratbeard asked.
James chuckled, "Making Emma angry!"
They both started laughing their heads off, as if they were never going to stop laughing. Suddenly, they heard footsteps behind them. They turned around to see a buccaneer with a three cornered hat, holding a long spear with a diamond shape blade standing there. He wore a fancy navy coat, very uncommon for pirates unless they are extremely successful, brown trousers and a white belt. He had brown hair and brown eyes, similar to Nathaniel, and an average skin tone.
"Jimmy Stinkbag... that isn't you is it?" he asked James.
James' eyes widened with surprise, then he nodded, "Makoto..."
The pirate named Makoto smiled slyly, "That's what Wang and the others in MooShu called me. I left the clan two years after you began your Samoorai Training with the trashy birdbrains and did some...er... research. I found out that my father was named Thomas Andrews he and his crew were sucked into the Flotsam Maelstrom and died. His legendary and awesome son Morgan, however, was being looked after by a friend of his in MooShu- Chun Yamato- a ninja pig, and the hog I called my father."
"NEVER CALL YOUR PARENT A HOG!" Emma shouted at him and swung a boulder (how she got it, nobody knows) at him.
"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GETTING ANGRY ABOUT THAT?!" everyone except Morgan shouted back at her, but she didn't listen and continued to beat him up.
Morgan pushed the boulder off but he had lost a lot of blood. However, if you lose something, you should gain something. In his case, it will be a case of Emmaphobia. After Morgan got up and recovered, he decided to tell James what he was doing in Flotsam Skyway.
"After I found that my father is inside the Flotsam Maelstrom, where his ship may not be sunk, I decided to find a way into the vortex. I wanted to identify my father and bury him, next to my mother's grave in Big Sky. And so I did more research and found that I could get into the vortex if my ship had iridium armour on it. That's why I came here, because I figured out that you'd be here, with iridium."
"How?" James asked curiously.
"Vadima," Morgan answered, "She told me where to go."
The Shipwright came back and fitted the armour onto the ship. James paid him twenty gold coins and boarded the ship.
"Tie Morgan to the side of the ship," James whispered to Emma, "I can't trust him on my deck."
Dona Angela crashed through the vortex's barrier and charged towards the galleon ahead of them. The Grim Reaver was there. Everyone aboard the ship, besides the unconscious Morgan tied to the side of the ship, got into battle stations. The Captain strolled down the ship's stairs.
"Bobby Bones," Scratch muttered to himself.
Bobby Bones called out to James, "We meet again, James Hawkins! The second time we met was indirect, as I was controlling my Maelstrom to capture your crew and add to my power. This was the same as the first time, in Valencia, sixteen years ago. I am a skeleton, reincarnated from a body part of the sky squid that ate your mother. True, you were on your father's ship at the time, but that ship was present," Bobby Bones chuckled, "In fact... your mother has been in terrible pain all sixteen of these years. Scratchy! Bring 'er out!"
The skeletal witchdoctor named Scratchy waved his wand and the cabin door opened. After that, a glass box with no way out if you somehow get inside, came out. Inside the box was a woman familiar to James. This woman was completely naked, and James knew why. He could tell from her hair, her eyes, her figure that she was his mother- or the only part of her that isn't in the spirit world. The part that was not yet digested when Bobby Bones was carved out from the dead bone of the sky squid. One part of her had been enough to recreate her soul and trap it into a glass case, where she will be tortured for eternity. James stared at his mother. He could barely watch as the blades cutting her arms could not cut them off for good, meaning that they will continue to cut... unless The Grim Reaver were to sink and Bobby Bones were to die.
Suddenly, a burst of anger rose to the surface from deep within James, "ATTACK!"
Nanu Nanu threw the grappling hooks and the pirates slid down them, boarding and fighting the crew of The Grim Reaver. A skeletal corpse, with no eyes, lay next to Anne's feet as she ignored it and continued to fight a skeletal swashbuckler. The corpse grabbed her leg and pushed her to the ground.
"Nice one, Fred," the swashbuckler said as he placed his sword to her neck.
"Thank you Joe," Fred replied, "Oi, Captain! Joe's got one down! I can't see 'ho it be, but you'd be able to! Pirates, surrender to us, or the fox dies!"
"If yer blind, how do ye know I'm a fox?" Anne asked.
"I could tell from the feel of the fur on your legs," answered Fred.
The pirates surrendered and agreed to join Bobby Bones' crew in return for Anne's life. Well, all except James.
"This is a shame, Captain," Bones said, "To think I would have to kill you. Fred. Joe. Tie 'is 'ands up. Bosun McGee, kill 'im."
Fred and Joe tied James' hands behind his back as Bosun McGee took aim.
"Now remember," Bones began, "Even if you survive, you won't be going to Cooper's Roost Skyway. The vortex will blow you to Celestia, so there's no chance of survival. Goodbye."
Bosun McGee pulled the trigger. James fell off the side of the ship and fell to Celestia.
"Right, newcomers," Bones told the pirates, minus James and plus Morgan, who they had saved from the side of the ship, "Time to meet the main crew. After the fight, this is all that's left, but we'll find more ships and rebuild my crew. The Bosun here is named Bones McGee. I call him Bosun McGee, but he likes to be called Bonesy. The one with no eyes is Dead Fred. The swashbuckler 'ere is Slain Joe. The one-eyed skeleton is Dead-Eye Tom, aka Thomas Andrews. Master Morgan, I believe he is your father. Anyway, moving on, the witchdoctor is Scratchy Ol' Bones. 'Ere are the non-skellies. This boy is Jack Kennit, I believe 'e was the reason ye came in the first place. The others are William Nichols, Brody Bristol, Scurvy Jack, Desiree Devereaux, Disdainful Desdemona and Keira Moone. All from The Octavius, where Bristol was the Captain. Anyway, chop chop, we have a visitor in two days. Her name is Morganthe and she is bringing her pirate friend she picked up. His name is Vengeance Bill- mysterious but tough. Very tough. For that reason we need to prepare. We don't want him angry."