Pirates of the Caribbean: Heart of the Gauntlet

Chapter 13

Zeb unsheathed his sword and held it up to Wedge's neck. There was a bit of a standoff over possession of the heart of the Gauntlet. The standoff broke when Ezra turned his sword onto Kanan's pistol. Kanan quickly drew his sword and began to duel against Ezra. Sabine and Hera put their pistols away and drew their own swords and began dueling. Wedge also drew his sword and began to duel Zeb.

From onboard the Ghost, Caesar was watching what was going on through a telescope. Rex saw only small objects moving on the beach. 

"What's going on?" Rex asked Caesar.

"Well," Caesar said, "from what I can gather, Ezra wants to destroy whatever is in that chest for some reason and Sabine is with him. Kanan, Zeb, and Hera want whatever it is in tact, while Wedge wants it, too, but for his own reasons."

"Do you think we should go down there," asked Kallus, "and help them?"

"Nah," Caesar said, "they'll be fine."

The three men then heard a massive splash from far off the aft (back) of the ship. They looked and saw a red and black ship in the water. It was the Gauntlet.

"Karabast," Caesar said, "now we should get to them."

"You've been saying that for a while now, Caesar," said Kallus, "do you have any clue what it means?"

"Hey," Caesar said, "Captain Zeb said it first, you didn't ask him what it meant."

The three got into a rowboat and went as quickly as they could to the island. They arrived and tried to get them to stop fighting each other for just long enough to tell them that the Gauntlet was there. It wasn't exactly working.

"Ezra?" Caesar asked, "Kanan? Hera? Zeb? Wedge? Sabine?"

They kept dueling, clearly not paying attention to them. Rex and Kallus convened and whispered something to Caesar. He nodded and pulled out his pistol and cutlass. Rex and Kallus pulled out two pistols and the three aimed at Hera, Zeb, Ezra, Sabine and Wedge. Caesar whistled a high loud shrill that finally got everyone to stop.

"Finally!" he exclaimed, "just thought that--" he then noticed the heart of the Gauntlet in the chest, "so THAT'S what you were fighting over-- anyway, just thought you should know, that the Gauntlet is here."

He gestured behind him and they saw the large ship which had deployed several boats.

"GET BACK TO THE GHOST!" Kanan shouted.

They ran to shore and Wedge, who was holding the chest with the heart, said that he would take the Pilgrim back. The chaos was severe, so when he shoved off, no one really noticed. The eight remaining people piled into the boat and left the island behind.

It was then they noticed that Wedge and the Pilgrim were sailing away from the Ghost. Once they were onboard the Ghost, they began to pursue the smaller boat. However, the Gauntlet wasn't following, which gave some of the crew, namely the captains, a bit of concern. The amount of shouting that was going on made it impossible to hear Kanan's orders to stay near the shore. Everyone did calm down when they heard a massive roar. Their pursuit stopped.

"What was that?" Saw asked the Captains, "Was it the Kraken?"

"No," said Kanan. "Worse."

Out of the sky descended an massive serpent. Black in color, spewing fire out of its mouth. Fog, of the Ghost's making, quickly rose to conceal the ship.

"That is Maul's pet," said Hera, "the Leviathan."

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