Sisters in everything but blood

| Chapter 4 |

An armed search party moves along the street. They look arround for the trio of pirates and after not spotting him they continue on searching. A moment, and then Jack walks out from behind a statue of a blacksmith,  Diana and Julia following close behind. He still wears the manacles and the girls are looking arround. They enter a forge above which is a sign with a black anvil and name 'Brown'. Jack slips through the door, gorls following,  they look arround the forge.  No windows. The forge is dark, lit by lanterns. Many finelly made swords and various weapons are scattered about. Every tool is in it's place, the work bench is tidy and neat. The trio is startled by a noise or rather a snore. An old fat man with wild gray hair , in a blacksmith's apron, snores in the corner, cradling a bottle. This must be Mister Brown the man who is suposedly,  the blacksmith. Jack gives him a hard poke. Diana gives another,  making Julia look at her weirdly.  Brown snorts, turns away. Satisfied, Jack sheathes his sword and Diana stivks her tongue out at her sister, who takes a hammer from its place on the wall. And gestures Jack to move to the anvi. He nods and rushes over,  putting the chain on the anvil and Julia begind to bang the hammer on the manacles, she manages to bend them but they don't break. Diana grabs a hot iron rod and places the tip and donkey's backside, the Donkey is startled and begins to move, also moving the gears he is attatched to. Jack puts the chains in the biggest gear successfully breaking it in half,his hands are free. Then someone opens the door and the Trio dives for cover leaving  Jack's hat on the anvil along with the hammer. A young man,  strangely familiar to the trio, enters the forge, he had long brown hair in a low pony tail and a lift stubble. He was pretty handsome too,  maybe the other blacksmith? He shuts the door behind him and spots the drunken Mister Brown in the corner."Right where I left you." Will smiles. Something catches his eye, the hammer is still on the anvil. "Not where I left you." Will looks at the hammer worried and ratherly alert. He moves  toward the anvil.And they spot Jack's hat. Will reaches for it but the flat of a sword blade slaps his hand. He jumps back and looks up  Jack stands there, sword leveled at Will,  the sisters behind him. Swords drawn. He backs Will and up, toward the door. Will glares at him. "You're the ones they're hunting. The pirates." He looks at the two young women behind him. Frowning. Women and pirates? Jack acknowledges it with the tip of his head and the girls give kocking bows ... They they all frown, regarding Will. "You look familiar ... Have we ever threatened you before?" Jack asks curiously. "I've made a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates." Will glares. "Ah. Then it would be a shame to put a black mark on your record. So if you'll excuse us ..." Julia begun only for the familiar boy to grab a sword.  "Do you think this is wise, boy? Crossing blades with a pirate,  let alone three of them?" Diana asks.

" You threatened Miss Swann. "
Jack grinns slightly.
"Only a little." In response, Will assumes an en garde position  Jack appraises him, unhappy to see Will knows what he's doing. Jack attacks. Diana and Julia keeping on lookout. The two men stand in one place, trading feints, thrusts and parries with lightning speed, almost impossible to follow. Will has no trouble matching Jack. "You know what you're doing, I'll give you that ... Excellent form ... But how's your footwork? If I step here-" He takes a step around an imaginary circle. Will steps the other way. "Very good! And if I step again, you step again ..." They continue to step around the circle
... They are now exactly opposite their initial positions. " Ta!" Jack turns and heads for the door, now directly behind him along with Julia and Diana.  Will registers with angry surprise and then with a vicious overhand motion, he throws his sword ,the sword buries itself into the door, just above the latch, barely missing Jack. Jack registers it, then pulls on the latch, but it won't move up  the sword is in the way,stuck. Jack rattles the latch. Tugs on the sword a few times, it is really stuck in there. Jack mouths a curse, but when he turns back to Will, he's smiling. "That's a good trick. Except, once again, you are between us and the way out." he points his sword at him "And now you have no weapon." Eyes on Jack, Will simply picks up a new sword from an anvil. Jack slumps in dismay- of course they are in a forge! Diana and Julia curse silently. Grabbing theory swords. "Leave it to me!" Jack tells them sternly. They hesitate but nod,  still not letting go of theorbswordss.  He leaps forward. Will and Jack duel. Their blades flash and ring. Suddenly, Jack swings the chain still manacled to his left hand at Will's head. Will ducks it, comes up wide-eyed. Then Jack's chain smashes across Will's sword, disarming him. Will quickly picks up another sword. Jack becomes aware that the entire room is filled with bladed weapons: swords, knives, boarding axes in various stages of completion. "Who makes all these?" he turns to Will. "I do." They exvhange some blows. "And i practice with them. At least three hours a day." Will tells Jack, rather angry."You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or maybe the reason you practice three hours a day is you've found one but can't get her?" A direct hit and Will coils even more tightly with anger. "No. I practice three hours a day so that when i meet a pirate ... i can kill it." He explodes, kicks a rack, causing a sword to fall into his hand; uses his foot to bring his dropped sword into the air, catches it  and attacks Jack, both blades flashing. Jack parries with sword and chain. The girls are still watching closely. Waiting.  Jack's chain wraps around Will's sword, Will twists the handle of his guard through a link, and stabs the sword up into the ceiling . So Jack's manacled left arm is now suspended from the ceiling. He glares at Julia and Diana when he sees them about to intervene. The girl's glare but stop. He looks at the chain.  Not good. He parries using one hand, twisting and dodging around.Jack compresses the bellows, blowing a shower of sparks from the furnace into Will's face. Jack grabs the chain, hoists himself up, kicks with his feet, knocking Will back. Jack uses his full weight, yanks the sword from the ceiling. Hurls a wooden mallet at Will, then a second, hitting Will on the wrist. Will drops his sword, falls down before getting up. Jack's pistol is aimed directly between Will's eyes. Will steps back, directly in front of the back exit. Glares, rubbing his wrist gingerly. "You cheated"
Jack inly smiles. " Pirate."
Jack steps forward. Both girl's following. Will takes a step back, fully blocking the door.
"Move away."
"No."
"Move!"
"No. I can not just step aside and let you escape."
Jack cocks the pistol. "This shot's not meant for you." Suddenly, Mister Brown SLAMS his bottle against Jack's skull. Jack crumples to the ground. Diana and Julia stare and are too late to react and they were both grabbed by the guards. Struggling.