Return to Me: Captain Jack Sparrow

Chapter 12

"To arms!" (Y/n) called.

"Load guns! Defend the mast!" Gibbs shouted to the crew.

"It'll attack the starboard. I've seen it before!" Will called as he drew a nearby sword. "Run out the cannons and hold for my signal!"

The girls grabbed a couple of spears on board and held them up as they heard the ship creaking. They looked to the edge and saw the huge tentacles climbing and slithering their way up the ship.

"Will..." Elizabeth called.

"Steady..."

"Will!"

"Hold! Hold!"

"I think we've held fire long enough!" Pintel made a point.

Both (Y/n) and Elizabeth shrieked, "WILL!!"

"FIRE!" he finally said, and the sound of the cannons echoed in the air as the cannon balls ripped through the Kraken's tentacles. One tentacle landed on a nearby longboat, but tilted off the edge of the ship. The Kraken shrieked as it's now injured tentacles sunk back into the water. The crew looked at the sinking limbs and cheered naively.

"It'll be back." Will said from beside Lizzie and (Y/n). "We have to get off the ship."

"There's no boats." (Y/n) said, looking at the now demolished dingy. Will looked at a rolling barrel of gunpowder, an idea forming in his head.

"Pull the grates. Get all the gunpowder onto the net in the cargo hold!" He ordered. He grabbed a gun from another man and handed it to (Y/n), knowing she could fire a shot. "Whatever you do, don't miss."

"As soon as you're clear." She said and grabbed the musket.

She watched as the crew grabbed their barrels of gunpowder and began loading it onto the net, but (Y/n) only counted six barrels. That wouldn't be even close to enough.

"We are short-stocked on gunpowder! Six barrels!" one member yelled up to Gibbs.

"There's only half a dozen kegs of powder!" Gibbs told Will who was passing down the stairs into the hold.

"Then load the rum!" Will ordered, and ran off once more.

It went dead silent in the ship as Gibbs looked at Will's back in shock. He looked to the crew who was watching the exchange. Gibbs had an inner turmoil with himself as he cried out, "Aye, the rum too!" He grimaced on the way back up to the main deck, hearing the protests of the crew.

(Y/n) ran to the edge of the ship, gave Cotton something to help and said, "Step to!". She happened to look out at the blue water and notice a shrinking figure, a boat, was rowing away towards the nearest island. Jack Sparrow was running.

"Jack... how could you..." (Y/n) whispered on the verge of tears, but fought them back for the sake of the situation. They still had a Kraken to kill. Another thump against the ship made her lose her balance slightly, and she held onto the rigging to keep herself up.

This time, the Kraken brought up its tentacles, and forced them through the cannon holds knocking aside everything in its path. The men screamed and cried as they were grabbed by the huge, slimy limbs.

"Haul away!" Will called.

"Heave! Heave like you're being paid for it!" Gibbs shouted to the men who were lifting the barrels into the air.

The Kraken destroyed everything in it's path as it coursed it's tentacles through the ship. Poor souls were being dragged into the sea, forced through the ship and into the mouth of the Kraken.
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