The Exhibit

Pirates Defeated?

Onyx 🤐
I decided to stay in the disgusting room with the bodies. I mean, why not? At least the corpses were company.

Maybe not GOOD company, but company. Honestly, I was shocked about what the pirates said after eavesdropping.

I hovered over to study the glass in which the dead bodies were trapped in.

I knocked on it, trying to break it. No luck. I floated around and grabbed one of the empty treasure chests and threw it at the tube.

Still no luck. Not even a crack. I hovered and flew around and I found a sword.

I picked it up after multiple attempts to because it was heavy and floated over to the tube again.

I swung it at the glass, expecting it to shatter. But guess what?

It didn't. I let out a frustrated groan. "Why does it have to be indestructible?!"

Then, in my head I came up with a plan. I smirked to myself.

I always came up with great plans. I hovered over to my bed and fell asleep peacefully, knowing that my group would like it.

The next morning, I went to find the others. I found them all in Kendra's room, talking gravely about the pirates.

I smiled at them when they noticed me. "Hi!" I exclaimed.

Hannah tried to smother a disgusted expression, but I could still see it, but I didn't mention it. "Hey," she said, bored.

Kendra slipped me a smile and Josie
nodded at me. "So... I have a plan."

Kendra perked up. "Really? Tell us!"
I nodded and informed them about it. "We battle the pirates. If we kill them, they'll become spirits again, like when we first met them. Then, we trap them in the tube by luring them with treasure. Somehow, we trap them. We leave them in there, in the ship, trapping them with no way to get out. And finally, we blow up the ship with cannonballs!"

Kendra blinked at me once, and then twice. "Seriously?" she finally said.
I shrugged. "It's worth a try, right?" Josie nodded. "Yeah, and if it doesn't work, then we'll come up with something better."

Hannah cracked her knuckles. "I'm up for anything violent."

I flashed her a grin and she just looked away from me, probably weirded out. "So..." I said. "What're we waiting for?"

We entered the dining area (well, I was invisible so...).

But my group didn't arrive to eat breakfast with them. They were there to give them bloody deaths, or at least turn them into spirits.

Their swords were concealed so the pirates would be caught off guard.

At the sight of Kendra, Josie, and Hannah, Blackbeard stood up. "Good morning, lassies!" he boomed.

Kendra scrunched up her nose, obviously not pleased with him.

But she hurriedly fixed her expression. She stepped up to him and cocked her head slightly. "Goodbye."
She took out her sword and slit Blackbeard's throat. He fell to the ground and his spirit rose out of his body.

He immediately saw me. He bared his teeth at me. "YOU!!"

I spread my arms and smiled dazzlingly. "Me."

He lunged at me, but passed through me, not yet knowing how to shift the density shift.

As for the other two remaining pirates, Hannah for some reason decided to throw her sword into Black Bart's heart.

A lance would've been better for her, I thought.

Josie went up to Long Ben and stabbed him in the stomach repeatedly.

He fell to the ground, clutching his stomach. "Ow..." he whimpered.

All of the pirates' spirits floated around me, angry expressions etched onto their faces.

Hannah smiled. "Yes!! That was SO fun!"
I nodded and grabbed Long Ben and Blackbeard's wrists, pulling them behind me into the bedroom with the tube. Black Bart was being forced to follow me by Josie's menacing sword.
I made it to the room and the treasure lying right behind the tube, seen from the front of the glass. At the sight of it, all three pirates' faces lit up. "TREASURE!" they all screamed in unison.

They floated over to it with such alarming speed I subconsciously hovered backwards. And then, the magic happened. As they flew towards the treasure, they got sucked into the tube, as I suspected. The pirates banged on the glass from the inside. "HEY!" I heard Long's Ben voice shout, muffled. "LET US OUT!"

"You tricked us!" wailed Long Ben.
Kendra giggled and turned to me. "It worked!" I shrugged. "Hey, did you ever have any doubt?"

Hannah raised her hand. "I did."
I rolled my eyes playfully until Josie waved her hands in front of everyone's faces. "Hello, we still have to blow up this ship, don't we? The cannonballs are all outside. They're ready. Let's go!"

We all nodded and followed the theater girl outside. She stood at the cannonball and motioned at it for me to look at. "I suppose you should fire the first cannonball, Onyx. You're the one who came up with the plan, afterall."

I grinned at her and stepped behind the contraption.

And then the mouth of the device made a loud popping noise and a dark metal ball hurtled out of it, the first cannonball headed straight for the middle of the ship.