A dead man tell no tales
Somewhere in the middle of the Sea, stars reflected to the calm water of the ocean, inside the pirate ship's jail, cold breeze; whistling in the ear, a man tell a tale.
"Have you ever heard about the tale," He said, breaking the silence of the other prisoners. "Of the unseen ship?".
"A little advice for you, do not speak about the tale, Alvs" said Volca, grinding his teeth in fear and stood up, walking towards Alvs.
"Stop running your filthy mouth!" Volca shouted, shaking the cell bars that seperated them apart using his hand. "Isn't it your mouth's fault that we're in here right now?".
"If you haven't provoke the captain of this ship," Volca said, making a crybaby face, heading back to where his seat are, while wiping his tears. "I would still be sucking my mama's tits--"
"Shut up, you're already in your 40s" An anonymous man lying on the floor said.
"How do you know that?" Volca asked, staring down at the anonymous man's face, covered in a pirate leather hat.
"Ha-Ha , no matter what angle, you looked like a half dead man" said Alvs, laughing hard at Volca, holding his stomach in ache.
"A hunch, mate" The anonymous man answered.
The anonymous man sits on the floor, put the hat back to his head, picked up his bottle of rum, and lasty, fixed his piratey clothes.
"Regarding that ship, eey, the Black Mary, a ship that is feared by both marine and pirates, they say, whoever have seen the ship is not spared," the anonymous man said, glancing at the ship's window, looking into the vast of an endless ocean. "If so, who told you the tales, mate?"
The prisoners widened their eyes in shock, leaned towards him, shivering down to their spine, and listening to every word he says like a gospel as he make sense.
"How do you know the ship's name?" Volca questioned the anonymous man. "I have not yet to mention the name of that ship."
"There are no man on the sea, who haven't heard the name of that ship, at least once in their life," The man said, staring at Volca's eyes. "Are there?" The anonymous man continued, questioning himself.
"Who are you?" Alvs asked, in a hesitant voice, waiting to his response, like a kid waiting for his candy to be unwrapped.
He unstably stand up, similar to a drunk man, chin up, and proudly said. "Just a captain, banished from his own ship." And then he took another sip of rum.
"..." The other two prisoners staring at each other in confuse.
"No?" He awkwardly said, looking to their faces left and right.
"Come on, I never heard or seen a captain who's banished from his own ship," said Volca, making a dissatisfied face.
"Well, mate," The anonymous man said, smiling at them, put his both arms in his waist "Today is your lucky day, because I am".
Volca did not bother to listen to him anymore, he turn his back on the man, and cleaned up the floor where he sleeps.
"Don't get involve with him Alvs, I heard he was caught, drunk in a junk full of holes boat--" Volca said, lying on the floor, persuading Alvs not to listen to the anonymous man.
"I beg your pardon," The anonymous man said. "She was a fine ship, faced a countless storms and battles before she sunk."
They are disappointed in him and goes back to sleep, without them knowing who is the man they were talking to.
THE NEXT MORNING
"We would not be able to get out of here." said Alvs, sitting in the a corner of his cell, scratching his index finger nails on the floor.
"We should tell each other's hidden treasure," Volca suggested, slowly walking towards Alvs bars, convincing him. "If one of is lucky enough to escape, will get it, do you accord?".
"That is an interesting idea," said Alvs second the suggestion, Volca proposed, they lean towards each other's ears, whispering the location of their hidden treasure. "I hid mine under the cross palm tree, in the Island of northeast in Barataria".
"What about yours?" Alvs asked, looking at him in the eyes, filled with excitement, as he have confident of escaping the ship alive.
"I have none." said Volca, deceiving Alvs, staring him on the eye with a serious looking face.
MEANWHILE ON THE SHIP'S DECK
"Prepare for battle!" Morgan shouted, raising a sword.
Morgan Lancaster,
Captain of the Lancaster Pirates,
Bounty: 500,000
A few seconds later, the pirates was loud, running footsteps, gunshots, and sword clashing was heard on deck.
BELOW DECK IN THE SHIP'S JAIL
BOOM!
CLING!
BANG!
CLING!
CLANG!
BANG!
BOOM!
"The deck is loud, are they having a pirate contest?" Alvs said, looking in the ceiling of the cell.
"Gentlemen," the anonymous man said, sitting in the cell's wooden chair, diverting their attentions to him. "We would not be staying here for long, eey"
"Do you have plan?" Volca asked, inserting his fake eye-ball, in his eye's socket.
"Nothing," The anonymous man answered, standing up, fixing his clothes, and take a sip of his rum from yesterday. "But, we will figure it out, mate."
"These cell bars--" The anonymous man said.
A cannon ball passed by, infront of him, hitting the cell bars open. The anonymous man looked at them for a moment to grasp the situation.
"Well," said the anonymous man, bowing down to take a peek to the hole, the cannon ball have made and stand straight right back. "Today is our lucky day, eey".
The anonymous man run outside the cell to look for his sword and pistol, above the barrels.
"Should we follow him?" said Volca, looking at Alvs to make the final decision.
"Do you want to stay here?" Alvs said, already running to follow the anonymous man.
The anonymous man, stopped running, picked up his sword and pistol.
"Take these barrel" said the anonymous man, inserting his pistol to his pants and sword to his side.
"What's the barrel for?" said the two, looking at him in wonder.
"For the sake of my grand plan," said the anonymous man. "Don't ask question."
"Aye, Cap'n" Alvs and Volca shouted, standing straight and saluting at him like he is their captain.
They goes to the ship's deck and they saw chaos at the door's step, pirates and marines are killing each other.
CLING! CLANG!
BOOM!
"Fight 'till you can't, we're the honorable Lancaster Pirates!" A crew from Lancaster Pirates shouted, cheering his fellow crew mate.
BANG!
CLING!
BOOM!
"Finish off the pirates!" said a random marine. "You can't escape us now!"
BANG!
CLING! BANG!
"Isn't a bit early for christmas?" said the anonymous man, running from the deck to the boat that is knotted in the ship.
The anonymous man jumped down to the boat, that is located in the right side of the ship, while the other two carrying the two barrels, panting reached the boat.
"Throw the barrels, mate" said the anonymous man, looking up to the, where the Volca and Alvs are standing holding a barrel.
"Aye, sir!" said the two, throwing the barrels one by one, while the anonymous man catch it.
The other two also jumped down to the boat and start paddling.
"Faster Alvs, paddle like your life depends on it" Volca shouted, sweating, panting, and his knees are trembling in both fear and excitement.
"Our life are already at its stake, mate" said the anonymous man, correcting the panicking Volca to calm him down.
They have finally escaped the Lancaster Pirate's ship and their next destination is the land, Would they be able to navigate to land? or be stranded at the sea?
-To be Continued.