Estella stories - episode 004 - The beginning of Estella

part 33 The black spot

The woman paused for a second.
She then said something that made Estella got to her feet pushing the chair back in shock "say that again" "what do you mean?" "I need to hear that again" "Quinn! My name is Quinn! Why?" Estella reached forward removing the sack to see it was indeed Quinn, it had been a few years since they'd met each other, but she looked the same but a little thinner with more scars. Estella felt a tear fall down her face, she rushed forward hugging Quinn who looked confused not yet recognizing who she was "err what are you doing?" Estella went back "you haven't seen me in a few years, so you probably don't know me" Quinn looked confused looking her up and down "did I ever threaten you? I used to be in a gang a long time ago, I'm not entirely sure how long ago time works weird out here" "yeah I was in the same gang... you saved me I saved you... remember? I'm Estella, the red-headed badass" she looked shocked "oh my god, you're alive!" "Well I think so, I don't die easily. Get up we'll get you out of those clothes... not like that" they took her to her area and got her dressed, she was also able to get a shower for the first time in 4 years and also got food and water "you can be one of my helpers, with Nicole" she looked delighted "It's been such a long, time how did you survive?" she explained "I was placed on an island for a year, the natives seemed to like me and got me addicted to bell peppers, I was picked up by pirates, and I've been sailing the world ever since" "Jesus I haven't seen Salvador do the island tradition in years" "yeah I did kind of piss him off, and it's lucky he didn't do his research on the island if he did he would have seen the natives and not put me there, so everything was on my side" "are you going to kill him?" "He gave me a gun with a shot to kill myself on that island... I didn't use it yet, I know who to use it for so yes I am going to fucking kill Salvador if it's the last thing I ever do" she smiled "I wanna help you with that" "we'll do it together"
Estella looked out the window.
She saw night was falling over the place causing a beautiful sunset. She grabbed her pistol loading it just in case the ship had a problem. She went upstairs waking up the night crew with a bell then went on the deck with them. Estella ordered them to set the sails and assigned them roles "you boys clean the ground look at wood, clean that, now, I should be able to eat my fucking dinner off that and if I think I can't, you will" she told another man to "get on the crows nest and look out for ships and ice burgs if we become a titanic I am holding you personally responsible, if you see one ring the bell" She went up the stairs to the captains' office drinking fine tea with him like normal discussing the goings-on in the ship "so who was the prisoner and where is she now?" "She is a friend from a while ago, she will be my second helper" the captain nodded "okay, if you think that's best" "I saved her life, we want the same thing with Salvador" "good"
As they spoke to each other.
A man downstairs, was scrubbing the ground when he felt a strange burning on his hand almost like someone was pressing a hot poker against his palm. He turned his hand overlooking at his palm seeing a dark spot he tried to rub it off, but it wouldn't work, it was like a tattoo, he panicked so naturally wanted to get help with this. He went to the captains' office knocking. The captain put his cup down looking angry "what!?" the door opened "sir, miss, I have a strange mark on my hand" they looked at it. The captain shrugged "just wash your hand and get on with your job" "I can't" the captain turned to Estella seeing she weirdly looked terrified "what is it?" she paused "well... when I was a small child my grandfather told me the story of the kraken, it would put a dark mark on the victims hand to let them know they were going to die" the captain frowned "but the Kraken hasn't been seen for almost a thousand years" "when I first joined the pirates I said mermaids weren't real and what happened?" "Shit" "exactly, me being a pirate has now convinced me every sea story and legend are real. Thankfully I know the solution to that little problem" the man smiled in relief "thank God" Estella turned to the captain "sorry about the mess" they both frowned "what mess?" she swiftly whipped out her sword slicing his hand clean off. It landed on the ground spitting blood everywhere. The man began to scream and whimper holding his now stub of a hand yelling how that wasn't really a solution to any issue. Estella kicked it out the door, it slid out and off the bottom of the railing landing in the ocean. The captain kicked the man out "don't worry, I'll get someone to clean this up" they laughed clinking their glasses.
Meanwhile, below the ship,
the hand fell down into the water leaving a line of blood following. Before it could make contact with the bottom of the ocean it was scooped up by a giant something which began to follow the boat. After her dinner and tea with the captain, she went to her area, where Quinn and Nicole were talking and laughing together beginning to get along. Estella took off her hat putting it on a hook "good to see you 2 getting along" Quinn nodded taking a swig of rum "yeah this has been the last time I've laughed in... 5 long, horrible years" Estella sat down popping open a bottle herself "well trust me Quinn, on the Flying Raven, everything will always be fine. Nothing ever happens when we have the best captain in the ocean and the wheel of fate" suddenly like it were fate the entire ship shook like it had hit a rock, that caused them to fall off the beds spilling rum everywhere. Estella quickly got to her feet "what are those idiots doing?! They've got us to crash into a fucking island!" she ran out her area just as a massive hole was forced into life directly in front of her sending splintering wood everywhere that caused her to know that it was no island they had hit, they had hit something so much worse. She thought at first it was a cannonball, or maybe it was some blind hope it had been a cannonball, but it was much worse than that. It was a massive red slimy tentacle covered in suction cups that were constantly opening and closing like they were feeling for things which disgusted Estella, considering they were the size of dinner plates the rest of it had to be huge. Estella saw a lot of slime or water falling from the creature which immediately made it hard to walk because they kept slipping around, Estella knew she either had to fight it or run.
She swiftly cut it in half.
She heard a loud screeching and saw it retract spreading green blood everywhere. Estella took a sniff of the air and gagged "EW, that is... disgusting!" she ran upstairs cutting 2 more tentacles as she went. She got upstairs tripping a little as she went but stayed on her feet. She saw the deck was being destroyed by hundreds of tentacles. The captain was yelling "fire the cannons you cack-handed deck-apes" she heard the cannons firing, but it was no use against that thing. The others came up as Estella cut tentacles in half. They started fighting the tentacles, however they were outnumbered ten to one. Estella fought them on the deck, slicing and dicing from all sides she hoped that cutting enough of them would make the creature run off, but no it only seemed to make it angrily which to her seemed fair. She began fighting with Quinn and Nicole to make sure they were both protected until, Quinn looked behind Estella looking shocked and worried "err Estella!" Estella looked at her cutting a tentacle in half "what?!" she lifted a shaky hand pointing behind Estella. She frowned turning her head to the side, then slowly turned around lifting her sword from high to low opening her mouth slightly at the horrific sight before her. Her eyes opened to the size of dinner plates in horror "well... that is extremely very not good" before her was a massive hole full of spiralling teeth running down its large throat. Estella looked into its giant mouth "hi!" it produced a massive explosive roar which blew her hat back it felt like she was in a wind storm in December.