It has been over two years since this story was posted and it has been in need of a dramatic update. The old chapters have been deleated and the new ones will be posted. Instead of a chapter story like it used to be, this will be much like the stories later in my line-up. It will consist of an intro and two parts, much like an actual episode. Many details have been changed, others have been recovered or deleated altogether, but the story is basically the same, just much more compact. Hope you enjoy.

The calm of the ghost zone was broken when one of Youngblood's pirate crew members appeared. "ARGH!" he bellowed as he raised his sword high over his head. The view zoomed out as he and three others grabbed onto ropes with their free hands and jumped over the railing of Youngblood's ship. They swung out and over empty space before they swung over the railing of a black pirate ship with severely tattered sails; both ships floated next to each other through the ghost zone.

Three more skeleton pirates with ghostly glows, these guys more skeleton than they were zombie like Youngblood's crew, met them as they landed on the deck and began sword fighting. Swords clashed and bones were severed; but Youngblood's crew easily overpowered the defending skeleton crew.

With the defending pirate crew retreating out of view, more of Youngblood's crew swung over the railing and onto the black sailed ship. Some chased the retreating crew out of view while others stayed behind to greet their captain as he came aboard. Youngblood's wooden peg leg stomped down onto the blackened planks of the enemy ship.

"Avast yee!" he shouted cheerfully before he dulled down. "Oh to heck with it," he groaned. "Plunder the ship, cause havoc and mayhem, you know the drill," he ordered his crew as he waved them away with a flick of his hand.

"Ayy ayy, Captain," one of them responded as they all saluted him. They raised their swords and shouted as they ran out of view.

Youngblood jumped with surprise when he was confronted by the captain of the ship he and his crew were plundering. An older man, he wore a large pirate hat several feet across and a long blue coat. He had a large hole in his face where his nose should have been, long shaggy hair and a ruffled beard graying with age. He removed his sword from its sheath at his side and held it out, its point aimed at his childish enemy.

"Well, well, well; if it isn't Captain Kid," he said with a wicked grin. "Back for another lesson from a real pirate?"

"Well if it isn't Captain Barbossa," Youngblood mocked him. "You must have me confused with Captain Hook because I do believe I beat you the last time we met," he said as his hook retracted into his arm before being replaced with a serrated sword.

"Ye may mock me Youngblood," Barbossa growled. "But I will defend me payload to the very end!" he yelled as he raised his sword high.

"Bring it on old man," Youngblood challenged him, a sinister grin growing.

To match his height, Youngblood hovered in the air as they exchanged swings with their swords, blocking each other time and time again. All other fights on the ship's deck ceased as both crews watched their captains battle it out. They cheered for their captains and some even got into brawls with the others as if they were at a football game.

High above the fighting, a skeleton parrot and a skeleton monkey sat perched on the ship's mast before Youngblood's skeleton parrot flew in and rested next to the monkey. He looked suspiciously as the other two before he grinned. "Psst," he whispered, leaning closer to the monkey. "I've got several doubloons bet against the stupid one," he whispered secretively.

"Brock!" the other skeleton parrot squawked. "Which one's the stupid one?" it asked. All three of them snickered away before the entire mast shook wildly.

The view panned down as Barbossa desperately tried to pull his sword free from the ship's mast after he had swung it and sunk it deep into the wood. Youngblood smirked and retracted his sword before replacing it with his hook. "All too easy," he snickered, much to Barbossa's displeasure.

"Captain!" he heard one of his crew members calling out to him. He turned from Barbossa, who was still struggling to free his sword, and eyed one of his crew members as he ran through the throng of others skeleton pirates who had returned to sword fighting with one another after Youngblood's and Barbossa's had come to an abrupt end. "We've got the booty you've requested," he informed the kid captain as he held up a brown sack with what appeared to be a box hidden inside.

"WHAT!" Barbossa shouted with fury, his eyes burning with disgust.

"Excellent!" Youngblood shouted with delight. "Phase one of my plan is complete," he said sounding quite pleased. "Return to the ship at once you swags!" he ordered his skeleton crew. They all cheered and took flight back over to their glowing green ship. Once back on board his ship, Youngblood turned around and rasp-berried at Barbossa.

Barbossa turned back to his sword and returned to trying to pry it from the wooden mast. When Youngblood's ship turned and started to fly away, one of Barbossa's skeleton crew ran up to him as he struggled with his sword. "Captain, what do we do?" he asked almost desperately.

Barbossa finally pulled his sword free of the mast and pointed it at the fleeing ship. "Give chase ya scurvy dog!" he ordered him. "And ye be walking the plank if'n they get away with me most prized possession," he warned him. The skeleton pirate fled to carry out his order, but Youngblood's ship suddenly rocketed away, disappearing far off in the Ghost Zone's vast emptiness. "NOOOOO!" Barbossa howled, raising his arms high over his head as he fell to his knees in defeat.

Back on Youngblood's ship, he removed a metallic box with red and blue trimming and opened it, removing two ruby ear rings and a syringe with a bubbling red liquid inside. He snickered to himself as his skeleton parrot landed on the ship's railing near him. "Don't mind me asking Captain," he pardoned himself. "But, why did we just raid an enemy ship for some jewels and a hypodermic needle?" he asked.

"Because for too long now that Phantom dude has foiled each and everything single one of our plans to pillage his town as well and countless other places," Youngblood ranted. "I need someone on my crew that stands a chance against him one on one," he explained.

"Ahh, so you're planning on recruiting a new first mate?" the skeleton parrot realized. "So, do you have someone powerful enough in mind, someone that can hold him off while we pillage as we please?" he asked with a scowl.

"Yup, but they won't come willingly," Youngblood informed him. "They'll have to be forced and kept under my control; otherwise they'll simply retaliate against me. Can't have that; so these little babies will play a nice roll in her conversion to a pirates life," he said with a wicked sneer as he held up the ruby ear rings and the red liquid filled syringe.

"Wait," the skeleton parrot said curiously. "Her?" he asked with a raised eye brow.

"The only one I've found that is powerful enough to give Phantom a run for his money," Youngblood said with a wicked grin. "And with her on our side, Phantom won't stand a chance."

He opened his waist coat and pulled out a photograph of a girl flying through the night sky. She had white hair pulled back into a pony tail and wore a black and white two piece suit that showed her stomach. In the center of her shirt was a very distinguishable white DP symbol. Dramatic music played and the view zoomed in on the ghost girl before the scene blacked out.