An: It´s a record I have posted inside the same month, well, two new stories that is. This time it will be a little longer than a one shot mostly because I thought it was good to end it were I did. As for a more descriptive idea of Harry´s outfit I will put it at the end of the chapter for those that have a hard time imagine his cloths with just my description in the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don´t own Harry Potter or Pirates of the Caribbean, if I did Elizabeth would not have been staying at home waiting for Will to return every ten years.
Chapter One: The tenth pirate lord
"I vote for captain Swan." Jack´s words rang clearly in the courts meeting hall, just right before the other pirate lords understood what he had said and started arguing with him to change his vote. Until he says
"Are ye not going to follow the code?" the string on his father's guitar broke. They all calmed down after seeing the Keeper of the code´s expression. They then turned to Elizabeth.
"What do you say, king of the brethren court." Was mistress Ching´s enquiry.
But before Elizabeth could tell them the raspy voice of Teague was heard
"Everyone has not voted." They all looked confused for a moment until some of them started looking around a rather, not frightened but wary look in their eyes. Gibbs even started praying looking up at the ceiling. Then the sound came, footsteps very light sounds of them. Elizabeth looked towards Barbossa and Jack, the question clear in her eyes. It was Barbossa that answered her
"It´s the tenth pirate lord, his name is Captain Harry, also known as "the master of death".
Elizabeth looked at him like he was crazy, nobody could master death, so she assumed it was a moniker for something he had done. But she was skeptical to that also, why would the pirates show such fear at the mention of him. Soon the footsteps could be heard much more closely and she looked behind her, there stood a boy, or at least she thought so because he was young but at the meantime he could be seen as a girl if not for the absence of female figure. The boy was short, just reaching to her chin, he had black hair looking like he had just traveled through a storm. It was short but on his right side it was braided in a thin braid that had all sorts of different pearls and gemstones woven into it. He had on a lose shirt, much like the one Jack had but instead of white it was grey, over it he had on a vest in pitch black with silver embroidery in such a complex design that it was hard to see what it was, the vest reached down to the middle of his thighs. He had on grey leather pants, so tight that they could have been painted on and on his feet was a pair black boots reaching about mid-calf and having a ruby each at the top. In his ears were two rings in silver and one stud in emerald green in his left ear. What was most eye-catching though was the five scars going right over his left eye, one was right over it the two next at the corners of his eye and the other rather close almost over the nose and the other over his temple. They continued down his neck and disappeared under his cloths. He also had belt around his waist hanging down by the sword sheath hanging at his left side, its handle was filled with rubies and it looked rather valuable.
Elizabeth thought that he was rather young for being a pirate lord, he could not be more than seventeen. But since he, apparently, were such an authority inside the pirate world she choose to wait until he showed more of his personality.
Barbossa sent Ragetti over with the bowl filled with the nine pieces of eight, Harry just smiled and took one of the rings from his finger and released it into the bowl. When Ragetti retuned Elizabeth got to see it and it looked just as rugged as the other things but out of all of them it looked the most like a valuable thing. It had gold band with small etchings around, the stone on the top was black with a symbol inside that she couldn´t see fully because the stone was cracked like someone had tried to slice it in half.
"Then what do you vote, Master of death?" was the question from captain Chevalle.
"I vote for Elizabeth Swan, it´s finally time for pirates to stand up." Harry´s voice was rather light and Elizabeth thought it was similar to a small bell.
Everyone once again turned to Elizabeth waiting for her orders.
"Prepare every vessel that floats. At dawn, we´re at war."
With the decision made they all started to break up to go back to their ships in preparation for the battle tomorrow. Elizabeth chose to go back to her ship for the moment, even if she had wanted to go to the Black Pearl she knew that she had responsibility now to her own crew and maybe they could give her some answers regarding Harry.
Once she reached the ship she was helped onboard by Tai Huang, her first mate. He had changed his attitude after she had made the choice of staying in the brig with her crew onboard the Dutchman, now he was seeing her as a good captain since he had seen how she had behaved during the trip to Shipwreck cove and he had liked what he had seen in her attitude and mannerisms.
Now she addressed the crew telling them what had occurred inside the meeting since only Tai Huang and her appointed bodyguard Lee Song had been present. At her mentioning Harry they all drew a breath looking around like they thought he was there. Once she was done she dismissed them saying that they would need to rest for tomorrows battle, but she asked her first mate to stay. She led him into the captain´s cabin and took seat by the window before she looked at him and asked
"Tai Huang, what do you know of Captain Harry?"
"I know the legend surrounding him, captain, but if it is the truth or not I am unsure of."
"Can you tell me what you know?"
"Captain Harry is known as the tenth pirate lord, it is said that he is immortal since the legend says he was present at the first meeting of the breathern court, the skeptical ones just think that Harry is a descendant of the Harry living then. His ship is called the Noctis umbra, Night shadow, it is much like the Dutchman, a ghost ship. "
"And what sea does he rule?"
"The sea inside Davy Jones' locker, the sea of souls."
Elizabeth gave shudder that place was terrifying.
"Thank you for telling me what you know." She turned away after he had bowed to her, she looked out the window and she heard Tai Huang leave the cabin. Her mind was whirling with this new information but the thoughts got pushed away in favor of her thoughts on the coming battle. Had she done right or was piracy doomed to go under tomorrow. She looked out the window hoping for some calmness to her mind by looking at the still waters in the harbor but what caught her sight instead was a ship on the other side of hers. It was a black ship much like the Black pearl, but it looked to be much more taken care of since the ship looked brand new. Other things she noticed about it was that it looked to be made for speed rather than canon power since she could only see three canons placed on the deck and no canon holes in the hull. The sails was in an early green color but with lines of brighter green it looked like the green flash that could be seen when a soul left Davy Jones's locker, and with the sails waiving in the wind the green color made it look like the flash was occurring on the sails. The flag at the top was not someone she recognized, it was a black background with a silver symbol, it was a triangle with a circle inside of it and a line splitting it in half. She looked over the ship again and now she saw a person approaching the gangway between the ship and dock. The moon shined through the clouds and she saw it was Harry. He went onboard, stopped to talk to somebody that she couldn´t see since they were obscured by the shadows on the ship. The person disappeared down the ship and Harry continued. With that Elizabeth knew what she wanted to do, so she put on her coat again and went out on deck. Her crew was all asleep except for the two on duty, they greeted her before she went on. Soon she was standing just beside the plank leading onto the Noctis umbra.
An: The end of the chapter. Hoped you liked it, in case you did favorite, follow and leave a review on the way out since I want to know what you think.
Description to Harry's outfit: like I said he has on the same shirt as Jack Sparrow just in a grey silk material instead of Jack's white. His west is pitch black in the same style as Elizabeth's red one she has this on the island they dig up Davy Jones' chest, but instead of the woolly material she has, his is done in the same material as her Chinese outfit she has on inside the pirate meeting. Harry's is black with silvery embroidery that is a mix of different alphabets and pictures of animals associated with death but since Elizabeth didn´t know any of these animals and the embroidery is such complex she can't see the patterns.