Nora Raven in At World's End

Pirate Code

Barbossa went to get on the table and I stopped him. I stepped up and started walking across it. I made it to the end and finally I smiled. I took my pistol out and fired. I shouted. "Everyone! You WILL listen to me! Barbossa is right. We must free my dear friend Calypso!"

Barbossa smiled. "It was the first court what imprisoned Calypso! We should be the ones to set her free, and in her gratitude, she will see fit to grant us boons!

Jack looked at him in disbelief. "Whose boons? Your boons? Utterly deceptive twaddle speak, says I."

I facepalmed and Barbossa looked at him. "If you have a better alternative, please... share."

"Cuttlefish." He stated simply. I stiffled a laugh and Barbossa looled at his as if he was mad.

"Eh? Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends, the cuttlefish. Flippercanorious little sausages. Pen them up together and they will devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, innit? Or...fish nature." He started to walk to the end of the table.

"So yes, we could hole up here, well provisioned and well armed and half of us would be dead within the month. Which seems quite grim to me, any way you slice it. Or...ah...as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we can release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful. I rather doubt it." He stopped at a camp member.

He started walking back towards me. "Can we in fact pretend that she is anything other than a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no? We cannot. Res ipso loquitor, tabula naufragio, we are left with but one option. I agree with--and I can't believe the words are coming out of me mouth--...Captain Swann. We must fight." He pointed to Elizabeth.

Barbossa yelled at him. "You've always run away from a fight."

"Have not!" He protested.

"You have so!" Barbossa stated.

"Have not!" He argued.

"Have so!" Barbossa protested again.

"Have not!" Jack continued.

"You have so, and you know it." Barbossa finished.

"Have not, slander and calumny. I have only ever embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions." I looked at him and raised a brow. "I submit that is herenow what we all must do. We must fight to run away." He stated.

Several pirates along with Gibbs shouted in unison. "Aye!"

Barbossa smiled. "As per the code, an act of war--and this be exactly that--can only be declared by the Pirate King."

"You made that up!" Jack exclaimed

"Did I now? I call on Cap'n Teague, keeper of the Code." He smirked.

Akshay exclaimed. "Sri Sumbhajee proclaims this all to be folly. Eh! Hang the code--"

A double shot rung out, and the speaker fell down dead. I fired my pistol along with another pirate.

The pirate blew the smoke from his pistol. "The code is the law."

All the pirates sat down slowly. Teague walked down the stairs toward the table. Jack stood, looking uncomfortable.

"You're in my way, boy." Teague stated.

I thought for a while, and remembered thhe name Teague from when I was a young girl. Jack sidles out of the way, and Teague approaches the table. Two very old men carry a large book after him.

The two men set the book on the table. The title reads "Pirata Codex." Teague whistles, and a dog appeared with the keys to the book.

"That can't... How did...?" He questioned.
"Sea turtles, mate." Teague stated
"Sea turtles" Pintel confirmed