Hoist The Colors

You're the Captain Now

    Chapter 1
    It is December,30,1659,we are off the coast of Espanola. Today the captain has been at the helm of the ship more often. I wonder what he's thinking. I thought with curiosity. "Hey D'angeloo."The captain said, while taking a glance at my bandage rapped around my head.The captain had a triangular hat a long black leather coat,wearing a baggy shirt and a long scraggly bearded. "Huh oh yes Captain." I said with a sense of urgency."Ya know I won't be here forever,so-"

  INCOMING ENEMY FIRE!!!"John yelled at the top of his lungs.He was the lookout,he wore a baggy white shirt and brown shorts,with a bandanna wrapped around his head. In a flash we heard a loud crack,and smoke risen from the distance we had no chance of knowing. At that instant wood and splinters where flying everywhere.
 
  Captain yelled with a inch of his life "MAN THE GUNS!" The crew raced to the cannons. I exclaimed nervously "Captain what is it?! what's attacking us!? Who should attack the fastest ship on the sea!?" He drew his sword,while grabbing the wheel trying to keep the ship on a steady pace. "Look damnit." He said with a vicious tone in his deep voice.
I looked starboard my eyes widened and it felt like my heart had stopped completely, I trembled as I screamed with all the courage I had left "MAN OF WAR ,BRACE THE GUNS !!!" I can't believe it a Man of War was starboard of our ship,the huge ship had light brown color with yellow ,was massively huge,had at least twice as many cannons our Fallen Angel had I thought.
   
  Both of the ships was at two points stopped in their tracks. The men ready at the Cannons awaiting for orders. "Fire!!!" The captain howled. All at once the only thing you could hear was cannon fire. The smoke risen ,both ships firing away.  Our ship was getting blasted to shreds; cannons where getting blasted off the racks ,and giant holes formed in the hull from cannon fire. Then at one moment a dashing sphere came towards the captain and I. I quickly braced for impact. CRASH!! The Canon ball went through the side of the ship and zoomed right passed me. I looked back with a smirk."Hehe, that was a close one, huh Captain? Captain...."I turned around I couldn't believe my eyes. My heart stopped at that moment,i had a look of horror on my face ,as I looked down to see a giant plank of wood stabbed through the captain's chest.
 
The one was a dark brown wood was now stained in crimson with his blood. I ran to him and got on one knee. "D... D'angeloo ..."He said quietly like a mouse, and  looked up at me with blood running down his chin and chest. "Yes Captain."I said while tears formed in my eye. He pulled his sword out of its holster. The sword had a snake hilt and a red gem for the eye. "Listen to me D'angeloo. Here take it and hold it up to the mast....it..I..it's the wind in our sails..." He said trying to breath while coughing up blood."wha-"He cut me off from finishing my sentence." Just do it.. y...your the captain now..."He said crisply with his last dieing breathe. His word echoed in my head like a drum your the captain now. His body rested on the deck his arms at his side's as I close his eyes, and I  stand up straight.
  
   I wipe my eyes, and draw the sword thrusting it in the air pointing it at the mast. All at once the sails dropped from two points to full sails. Then the wind fiercely thrusted forward up into the sails pushing the ship forward. I quickly grab the railing at the side of the ship to catch myself. I thought to myself it controls the winds.

  The Fallen Angel rushes infront  of the man of war.  I look back the other ship was starting to try and chase us. The crew start to yell and laugh that most of them survived. I look at the damage done to the hull ,and the lifeless corpses of our crew lieing on the ship.

  I raise my flintlock pistol up in the air and I fire it to catch the attention of them all." Look at the ship ,look at your friends DEAD. Is it something to celebrate . That ship is still after us and it knows what we can do. Now I can't promise we'll live but I can promise we take those royal navy basterds to Davy Jones's locker with us. To the captain, the strength in our back men, Hoist the colors. The crew starts to whisper hoist the colors. Then John swings down from the crows nest like a monkey."The wind is on our side boys that's all we need."John exclaims. The crew yell and shout yeah. I take the helm and shout for all my soul is worth "HOIST THE COLORS!"  Two crew mates one short the other tall raise our flag that had two pointed  X's and a skull with fangs.

   I turn the wheel with courage. The ship quickly turns in the way of the man of war. John stands next to me. " You think we can do it"He says concerned. "If we don't we're dead anyways ,right?" I smirk with sarcasm in my voice. "Yeah I guess so"He says consciously.  "Load the cannons,brace the sails!" I yell getting ready for a fight. Both ships coming up fast.I turn the ship to its side before the man of war got to its side "FIRE!!"I yell with hatred.

    Ka-boom!!! ,the our cannons fired each cannonball digging into the mast ,bow and front of the royal ship. Then at that moment we thought they would turn around.CRASH, they ran the front of their ship into our side and to make matters worse; our hull starts to crack. "Captain she can't take much more!!" One of the men yell. Everyone has looks of desperation on thier faces even the captain of the man of way looked worried.

"I gotta plan"I smirked ,as I raised my sword again an as before a humongous gust of wind filled the sails.Thier ship rubbed against The Fallen Angel in the process making a huge hole in the middle of the ship.
Everyone held on to the sides of the ship.

"FIRE ,AS MUCH AS YOUR LIVES ARE WORTH.FIRE." I howled the way Captain would.All in a instant the Cannons fired over and over; the cannonballs driving into the mast ,hull everything getting shredded to bits. The other ship's men tried to get to the cannons but the couldn't our cannonballs had already destroyed most of the Cannons.

As quickly as the fight started there was silence as the man of war started to sink. The amount of happiness and gratitude I felt that day was like no other...

One day later, they made it to Espanola ,and Newly Captain D'angeloo and John are trying to get Intel  about something well at least that's the lie the told everyone else so they can get drunk off of cheep whiskey

"Eyy get captain D'angeloo the captain of The Fallen Angel another drink!."John yells excitedly as he took a sip of his whiskey.  D'angeloo is sitting quietly thinking to himself.

I'm the captain now...