Down With The Kraken || The Cursed Swann || Dead Man's Chest

PROLOGUE

The Black Pearl sits on the sea waves, waiting for Jack. He had been gone for days and he said he would be back in no time. I only engaged to him a few weeks ago he can't leave the world now!

"Fifteen men on an dead man's chest. Yo Ho, and a bottle of rum."
Gibbs sings walking across the deck drunkenly

I had no idea what he was going to get but he told us to wait at the docks where the dead prisoners were placed in a coffin and sent out too see. I suspected he would be hidden in one of the coffins to not be seen. A raven sat on one of the coffins and poked at it with its beak. It peeked it a few time and suddenly and arm broke through the coffin and shot it. I smile widely.

"Jack!" I say to Gibbs

He looks at where I was pointing too. Jack had broken through the coffin and used a skeleton's arm to paddle towards us. Gibbs helped him on board and we immediately rushed towards to each other and kissed each other deeply. We were in front of the crew but if he was gone for too long I didn't care. We pulled away and hugged each other.

"Not quite according too plan." Gibbs says to Jack

"Complications arose, ensued, were overcome."
Jack said holding my waist tightly

"You got what you went in for then?" I asked

Jack hummed as a reply of 'yes' and pulled out a old cloth and held it out so we could all see.

"Captain, I think the crew, meaning I and Aubrey aswell, were expecting something a bit more ... shiny. What with the Isla De Muerta going all pear shaped, reclaimed by the sea, and the treasure with it." Gibbs said honestly for all of us

Jack looked at me in confusion. I nodded at him he frowned and looked at the ground then back at us.

"And the Royal navy chasing us all around the Atlantic!"
A crew member cried

"And the hurricane!" Marty added

"Aye!" All the crew members agreed

"All in all, it seems some time since we did a speck of honest piracy." Gibbs said with a nervous smile

"Shiny?" Jack asks me

"Aye, shiny." I answer

"Is that how your all feeling then?" A pause. "Perhaps dear old Jack is not serving your best interests as captain, then." Jack said

I frown.

"Awk! Walk the plank!" Cotton's parrot says

Jack quickly grabs a gun and points it to the bird saying
"What did the bird says!"

I put my hand on his shoulder gesturing for him to calm down. He frowns at me and directs his hand at the parrot. I point at it as well and give an amused look.

"Do not blame the bird!" A crew member says

I stared at him angrily.

"Show us what's on that piece of cloth there!" He said again

Before Jack can show us Jack the monkey snatched the cloth and scampers of with it.

"Ohhh!" Jack shouts and grabbed his gun in attempt to shoot it

He missed and shot again. The gun misfire again asnthe monkey was too fast. He took my gun and raced forwards too shoot again while the monkey is on deck. It dropped the cloth but it was still unharmed. It scurries to stay on top of my shoulder. I stroked it and frown at Jack.

"That monkey was my father's!" I say quietly to him

"I only wanted to scare it so it would give it back, darling!"
Jack say protectively