Siren Song: Curse of the Black Pearl

Chapter 18

"Gents... Take a walk!" He ordered, and Jack's grin vanished.

"Not to the boats?" It was Barbossa's turn to grin as the pirates left the cavern.

~- Night, Landing, Caverns, Isla de Muerta -~

The pirates filed out of the caverns and towards the boats, grinning menacingly in the dim torch light. As they neared the boats, they walked right past them. Except for Pintel and Ragetti, who were stopped by Bosun, who grinned as he held out a parasol to their chests.

-- Night, Cave Entrance, Isla de Muerta --

The marines outside the caves were anxious for something to happen. Anything at all. That's when they hear the gentle splashing coming from the cave. The marines on either side raised their rifles as a boat emerged from the darkness. They get ready to aim, some were shaking even, when suddenly, they stop and stare in confusion.

In the boat are two women, well, technically, it's Pintel and Ragetti in drag. How they got dresses in their size, we'll never know... A large parasol blocking their faces from the marines and the moon thankfully.

The men still had their rifles up, though they were mostly lowered in confusion.

"Hold Fire." Norrington ordered, and they all lowered their guns, watching as Pintel and Ragetti row past, and toward the Dauntless.

"This is just like what the Greeks done at Troy. 'Cept they was in a horse n'stead of dresses. A wooden horse." Ragetti mused to Pintel as he fanned himself, but quickly shut up when Pintel glowered at him.

-- Night, Main Deck, HMS Dauntless --

Governor Swann approached the door nervously, and nodded to the guard.

"A moment, please?" The guard departed, and Swann took a deep breath before knocking gently on the door.

"Roxanne?" He called, and waited for an answer. When he didn't hear one, he sighed, shaking his head slightly.

"I just want you to know, I believe you made a very good decision today... I couldn't be more proud of you in fact." He smiled weakly. "But, you know, even a good decision, if made for the wrong reasons... Could be a wrong decision."

Inside the cabin, Roxanne frowned at her adopted father's words. She made her decision, and she was going to live with it. As she always did with her decisions.

Behind her, Elizabeth was still messing around with the makeshift rope she had made out of the sheets, curtains, and other useful pieces of cloth.

-- Night, Underwater, Lagoon, Isla de Muerta --

Fish swam around lazily in the moonlight, oblivious to the strifes from the world above. Some scour the shallow waters and over the rippled sand floor, looking for food.

Suddenly all the fish scatter, scared off by something...

In the distance, a figure appears, slowly scuffling forward, kicking up clouds of sand. More dark shapes joining the lone figure, slowly moving through the water, moonlight glinting off their white bones as they moved, their faces fixed in never ending grins.

The lead skeleton stopped in front of a huge iron anchor, which was twice his height, even if it was buried halfway into the sand. The skeleton looked up the heavy chain leading up to the surface, and to the giant hull of the HMS Dauntless, silhouetted by moonlight.

The first skeleton put a knife between his teeth, started to crawl up the iron rings, quickly followed by the others as they crowded forward, soon clustering the anchor-chain with skeletons.

-- Night, Main Deck, HMS Dauntless --

Governor Swann frowned as he listened to silence.

"Elizabeth, are you there?" He tried for his daughter, but still got no response. "Are either of you even listening to me?" Swann asked, but got nothing but silence. So he pushed open the door, and saw several knotted bed sheets hanging from the cabin's window. He groaned, and hurried over to watch Elizabeth and Roxanne rowing towards the caves.

Why did he ever let them get so adventurous?

While Governor Swann was lamenting his parenting choices inside the cabin, Koehler had made it onto the deck of the HMS Dauntless, and was moving silently as he snuck up behind the first Sentry and slit his throat, grinning slightly as the man fell. Bosun came up next, and strangled another sentry, and he to fell to the deck. The pirates started to advance towards the stern of the ship, moving silently as they did so.

And in the water, Pintel and Ragetti were nearing the Dauntless, their parasols protecting them from the moonlight. They'd been spotted by one of the men on patrol.

"Uh... Lieutenant?" He called, and Gillette looks through a telescope while the crew are transfixed and puzzled at the bizarre sight.

"Yoo-hoo." Ragetti smiled, and waved, making the crew even more confused while behind them, Twigg gestured down to his comrades, and the followed him on board the Dauntless.

"Stop that! I already feel like a fool." Pintel hissed at Ragetti, who huffed.

"We look nice, though." Pintel took offense to that, and growled. He leaned forward and slugged him before dropping his parasol to throttle the skinny pirate, who in turn, drops his own parasol in an attempt to pry his friends hands off.

Unfortunately, this revealed them for who they really were... The two pirates, well skeletons in drag, looked at the crew, who stared back at them in horror. There's nothing more scary than immortal pirate skeletons in drag trying to kill each other...

Obviously.

Pintel made use of the moment, and pulled out his pistol, firing it toward the HMS Dauntless, and knocking Gillette's hat off, making him yelp. Gillette turned, and almost screamed in horror as the skeleton pirates attacked.

They dropped down from the rigging like spiders, their bones almost seeming to glow in the light of the full moon. Swords started to clash and gunshots rang out as the fight began. Governor Swann upon hearing the noise from above, opened the door...

Just as a body plummeted to the deck in front of him, he screamed, and slammed the door as quickly as possible, and began to barricade it.