Anchors Away!
Wow, its been a long time. Hopefully none of you have forgotten and such great timing for a pirate fiction...Still havent seen Pirates 2, argh! Wow, that was a horrible un-intended pun. Okay, on with the story, I have five minutes.
Disclaimer: I only own two of the characters, Brandi and this drunken dude at the end.
"Sango, Jakotsu, is everything on the ship?" Bankotsu checked off as they were ready to leave the town. Both pirates nodded back towards their captain. "Okay, is there anything else you need to do or get before we set sail?" He wondered.
"Mmm... Lets get a crate of rum to bring to the Ring." Jakotsu suggested, pointing off into the taverns. Bankotsu rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, whatever..." he muttered.
Sango playfully punched Jakotsu in the shoulder, chuckling. "Nice one, Jakotsu." She said. He looked at her strangely.
"What? Rum is a very good drink."
Sango laughed at him again. "What? I'm telling the truth!"
Bankotsu eyed them strangely from the street. "Are you ladies coming or not?" The two then noticed he was about forty feet in front of them. The friends shrugged at each other and caught up with their captain. As soon as they got to Bankotsu, Jakotsu whacked him over the head.
"I'm no woman!"
Sango stood behind the little act laughing as the two engaged in a playful fist fight.
"So, are you happy that you have yer rum?"
"Very."
Sango and Bankotsu smirked at their companion. Sango snatched a bottle of rum from a drunk pedestrian and took a long chug from it. "Yeah...what is the world without rum?" She asked both boys. Bankotsu looked around to see everyone was partying with rum flying everywhere.
"Boring." The Captain answered.
"Exactly." Sango said, tossing the empty bottle on the ground. "So, where we goin' now?" She asked. Bankotsu shrugged back towards her.
"I dunno... sail a few days, n' meet up with m' crew."
"How do they know where to meet you?" She wondered. Jakotsu came up behind her, trying to get the woman to carry the heavy crate. Sango eyed him as he elbowed her. She shook her head. "No way, you bought it."
He narrowed his eyes. "Fine. They meet us up at Isla Ryndo. Whenever we get separated, we wait there for a few days."
Bankotsu cut in. "I just hope they're still there. Renkotsu doesn't have much uva' patience...He'd rather help er' cook."
"So, nothing exciting?" Sango wondered. Both pirates shrugged, but Bankotsu kept talking.
"Well, I did hear from some town folk that The Phantom of the Sea raided the governor's port and abducted his granddaughter holding her as hostage for the capture of the Captain's long lost love."
"...That's a long sentence..." Jakotsu stated.
An older man, nearing his seventies, over head the conversation about the Phantom. He grabbed his cane and wobbled over to the three pirates. "Naraku, eh?" He asked, loud enough for them to hear. Bankotsu, Jakotsu, and Sango turned towards the old man that walked towards them.
"What...?"
"The Captain of the Phantom is not what you think of, kids. He's feared by all...he raids ports...even kills the women and the children!" The old man stated, earning a snicker and a laugh from the tallest pirate. Jakotsu leaned over and placed the crate of rum on the ground.
"Like we haven't already heard that before." Jakotsu giggled, but Bankotsu elbowed him in the stomach. "Hehe...ow." The old man glared up at the three and continued his story.
"E's got hair longer than eternity and as black as death. No man has stepped in front of him and lived to tell about it, mate. Bullets cant get past him. Swords, even the best folded steel in the port, cant touch him. They shatter like glass if you slash one at 'im. With a sword he is unstoppable. Its said he's driven by the rage of his lover. She was a healer, he was a wreckless drunk, pirate that just sailed for fun..."
Sango sighed dreamily. "He was so good back then. But, love drove him mad. He would do anything for her, as long as she loved him. He asked her to marry him, and the poor soul... She declined and said he was out of his league with his love. The Captain was so angry and heart broken, he took his rage out on her town and killed merciless. She cornered him in an alley and tried to rip out his heart with her dagger. Spectators said there was blood everywhere and he was lying in a dark pool of his own. His heart stopped."
Interested like children in story time, the three pirates sat down.
"And after that matter, she grabbed his pistol and stole a horse drawn carriage. She drove it away from town and stood over a cliff. She took that pistol and fired one right into her heart, and she fell to the depths of the sea...But Naraku wasn't dead. When she killed herself, a pulse ran through his body and her maid's scream woke his body. He was in a coma for about seven months, and when he woke, he demanded where she was. He still believes she lives, and whenever he kills, he shouts: This is for you, Kikyo!" The memories of that day ran through the old man's eyes. "His destine is to kill her...but, I saw im'... a psychopath is he. 'Lacks sense of right and wrong. Poor bastard...
"But, when I saw him, he was sobbing angrily over the body of a child he had slit throat to. E' caught me watching and I lost me leg." He stated, revealing the wooden steak and boot. There was a silence as all three stared at the rotting wood. Nervous, the man took his leg back and flipped out his pocket watch. He stared at it. "Oh, best be goin'. Me wife is makin' smoked pork tonight. Y'know how women get when you're a bit late..."
The pirates stood. "I got lotsa stories. Come back sometime, I might tell you somethin' else worth while, eh?" The old man laughed and limped away.
"Okaaaaayyyyy...that was kinda creepy..." Jakotsu said, earning a nod from his friends.
The woman grabbed his arm. "Hey, what happened to your accent?" Sango noticed his change in speech.
"Brandi told me drop it."
"It was sexy." Both Sango and Bankotsu said at the same time. Then, they stopped and stared at each other strangely.
"Yeah, I know." Jakotsu pretended to sniff.
The other pirates had spotted the Eagle before the temporary stay at the cove had expired. Bankotsu, Jakotsu, and Sango left the Eagle in an island of caves and mountains, hidden as they went back to the Ring of Fire. Of course, like always, Renkotsu yelled at his minor Captain. "We had to wait two extra days without food! Without water! Ye could've killed us all for waitin' so long!"
Bankotsu snatched his hat away from Renkotsu. "Alright, Renkotsu. Next time I'll let you do whatever you want, but remember its not impossible for me to lodge a bullet in your head." He smiled, and walked away. Renkotsu sent glares at his Captain, and heard laughter from behind him.
The older pirate quickly turned around, and punched his annoying companion in the stomach. "Fuck off, Jakotsu."
Through the pain of the punch, Jakotsu continued to laugh. Renkotsu glared at the other pirate. "If anyone asks, I'm in the kitchen." He stomped off, and down into the hull.
"Sounds like Jakotsu's back to normal." Bankotsu commented.
Sango looked around the deck of the Ring of Fire. "So this is what its like to be on a real pirate ship." She said to herself, noticing one of the pirates picking his nose, another scratching his but, and another picking leeches off of his foot. Bankotsu smirked back at her, almost laughing. "I think I'll get used to it..."
"You haven't seen anything yet..." he commented, looking around too. "To tell ya the truth, I've kinda missed this place cause there's everyone to entertain you." Bankotsu noticed that his best friend had already run off to help pull a heavy net onto the ship. "Well, I guess I'm going to be your tour guide today."
Sango smiled. "I don't mind." He smiled back at her and grabbed her forearm to make sure she didn't wander.
"Well...lets get started." Bankotsu said, pulling her along with him around the ship's deck. He pointed to the boxes stacked near the railing. "That's where every man's dream drink is. Four different kinds of rum are in those crates. We only open em' when there's a party goin' around." Sango nodded.
He pulled her around more, then stopped, pointing down. "See that stain?"
"Yeah?"
Bankotsu laughed at the red spot. "It's my father's. E' blew a hole in mouth and that's where he lay." She noticed how casual he acted about it as if his father was just like a pupil in a crowd. "Damn asshole." He pointed at it.
"I-I don't mean to be nosy, but do you have any idea why?"
"No. Nobody knows why he killed himself. All I know is that he faced off with Naraku's first mate, Sesshomaru and fled. My conclusion is that he was a bloody coward."
"I'm really sorry..." She muttered.
"Its fine! Really!" he started lie, and wave his hands in front of her face. "I never liked me father, so its good!"
Sango stared up at him. Guess everyone has a story here.
Suddenly, the sound of water crashing onto the deck and the sounds of the crew brought the two's attention to the stern. They ran to the commotion and saw that the net had pulled in an eight foot long bull shark. It flopped around the deck as angry as a bitch having her pups taken away.
Each of the crew members were about ten feet away from it as it tore up the net. Sango and Bankotsu walked up to Jakotsu. "He looks pissed." was the only thing that the taller pirate said. Then, a stupid pirate, almost obese, jumped in the middle of the circle and tackled the slippery thing.
The shark twisted and turned angrily. Everyone on the deck flinched as a gun shot was heard and a pirate with a bandana around his bald head staggered up to the sight. He carried a long pistol and shot at the beast.
Jakotsu smirked. "Renkotsu returns."
The fat one holding the shark jumped up and away from the bullets. "Jesus, Renkotsu!" He yelled at the one with the gun.
Renkotsu walked up to the shark and fired his gun nine times into the beast's head. He laughed down at the shark as it stopped moving. A crater of blood pooled in its head and onto the deck. "I hope you clean that up, Renkotsu." Bankotsu said.
The bald pirate mumbled to himself and pulled a hook out of his belt. He kneeled down and jabbed the hook through its jaws, dragging it away. Bankotsu looked over and saw that Sango and Jakotsu were giggling.
Before Renkotsu disappeared below the deck, he shouted. "KYOKOTSU! I got dinner for ya! Looks like we're not gonna have chicken tonight!"
The entire crew groaned, but Sango was still laughing. "That is just wrong!" She exclaimed. Then she noticed something. "Whats wrong with 'im cookin'?"
"E' only thinks es' good." Another pirate came up from behind her, placing a hand on her shoulder. The pirate had shoulder length, shaggy, brown hair and hazel eyes. Unlike the other pirates who mostly wore worn colors, he had a blue shirt and new boots.
"Sango, meet Suikotsu. Half pirate, half doctor." Bankotsu introduced the two. The woman stared at Suikotsu confused.
"What do you mean by half?"
Jakotsu sighed. "He's a schizo."
Suikotsu did not exactly like being called a schizophrenic and growled at the younger pirate, who immediately defended himself with his arms. "Whoa. Bad Suikotsu. Baaaad."
Sango quietly giggled to herself. These aren't pirates...they're clowns...
The three had noticed that the Captain had disappeared from the conversation. Suikotsu stopped growling, and Jakotsu stopped cowering. They found him at the bow of the ship, looking out to the horizon as if he had spot something. The tallest pirate shrugged, leaving Sango, Jakotsu, and the Captain.
"Bankotsu?" Jakotsu came up, tapping Bankotsu's shoulder. The Captain handed his friend a small telescope.
"Look out north east from right here." He stepped away, letting Jakotsu see what he had found. Sango stared in also. Both gasped.
"Bankotsu...that's it..." Jakotsu couldn't continue, he handed the object back to Bankotsu. The Captain nodded.
"Yeah... it is." He placed the telescope back into his front pocket, and gripped the wheel of the ship hard. "You and Sango go tell the rest. Get the resting up. Pull up the anchor, alert the gunmen, ready the cannons, and release the sails. These ain't our normal pirates, mate."
(sigh) FINALLY tying everything up and going into a cliffhanger like in POTC 2. Hehe. I have to see that movie, like, so bad. Yeah. If you're extremely bored while you wait for me to update again, go to my profile and click on my youtube link if you wanna watch some videos featuring hard rock, punk, pop, electronic, and soundtrack AMVs.
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