Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Dead

Look Out! Here Comes The Bride!

When Maggie came to, she was dressed in a tattered peach colored dress, although it might have originally been pink, you could hardly tell from all the stains. She looked her fuzzy vision began to focus, but groaned when her head began to ache.

"When I find the guy who hit me, I'll make him wish he'd killed me while he had the chance" Maggie muttered to herself.

She looked up and gasped, the same guy who had knocked her out in the net was now to her right and had a pistol pointed straight at her. Maggie backed away scared, bumping into a lady in a white tattered dress... well, Maggie assumed she was a lady.

"Oi! Get off my train!" The woman barked, snatching her skirt out from Maggie's feet.

As she did, Maggie tumbled backwards and into two other kids around her age. A boy and a girl, both with matching carrot-colored hair, freckles and evil-looking eyes.

"Hello..." Maggie gave them an awkward wave.

"You better not start any fights with your new step siblings!" The woman in white said.

"Hey, they started it-- STEP SIBLINGS?!" Maggie did a double take. "No way, la-day! In order for that to happen, you'd have to be married to my Daddy!"

"In a matter of minutes, I will be" the Lady said, her fish-reeking breath wafting in Maggie's face.

"Wha..." Maggie looked around. She was in what appeared to be the remains of a beached whale's skeleton, all around her were people dressed in what they must've assumed to be finery. But the whole scene was twisted and wrong, the women all wore dress, but they were torn and filthy. The men wore hats with exotic feathers, but they were bent and askew. It looked more like a freakish nightmare than a wedding.

Finally Maggie spotted her father from across the whale skeleton. Captain Jack was still unconscious as some men were tying a noose around his neck

"Wake up, Sparrow!" A man told Jack. "It's time to pay your debt!"

Jack blinked awake and stared at the man before a look of realization crossed his face.

"Pig...? Pig Kelly!" His eyes widened as he chuckled nervously. "Me ol' mate!"

"Mate?" Pig Kelly snorted. "You hear that, boys? This lying pirate owes me a plunder of silver and luck has brought him to Hangman's Bay, where he can settle his debt here and now."

"And I will! I will pay, Pig!" Jack lied. "I've looked everywhere for you! I prayed for your safety after inadvertently paying those men to throw you in a sack. Name your price!"

"Her name is Beatrice... and she's my poor widowed sister" Pig Kelly told him.

Captain Jack turned and caught sight of the bride. "What is that?" He shuddered.

"She be looking for a respectable man, but you'll have to do!" Pig Kelly smirked.

"Right, let's get on with it!" Beatrice snapped

Jack gasped "No! Why? Why would we..."

"You'll make an honest woman of her, Jack!" Pig Kelly explained. "Congratulations, it's your wedding day!"

"We'll honeymoon in the barn!" Beatrice told Jack.

"Start walking, flower girl!" One of Pig Kelly's men ordered Maggie.

"No way! I don't want a stepmother!" Maggie told him. "Especially not a step-monster! I'm not letting this happen!"

The man shoved the barrel of his pistol in Maggie's kidneys.