Lives of the Dead

Author's Note
This story exists because I wanted to write some kind of submission for Ned's G-mod contest. This wasn't my first idea, as I deliberated for a few days over what kind of story to do. My original idea was to do a Minecraft story inspired loosely from the events of NeddehCraft. However, after struggling to think of ideas I decided that, perhaps, I could write another story about an old game most (if not all) of us cherished; PotCO.

This story was inspired by Weeping in the Waves in the sense that it focuses on the lives of the characters after the game's destruction. However, I have a very different idea of how to execute this, hence why I'm writing my own story about the idea.

I don't plan on writing any new PotCO stories after this, as the game has run its course, hence the title:  One Last Ride.

Characters
Christopher Crane: A very tall, dark-skinned man who is approximately 200 years old. He is partially immortal, with his only weakness being cursed weapons. He has an obsession with soap, particularly scented soap.

Prologue
It was the afternoon of September 19th, 1746. The air was filled with the desperation of hundreds of pirates, as Jolly Roger and his army of undead marauders stormed the beaches of Raven's Cove. Up until this point, Jolly Roger had never launched a full-scale invasion of Raven's Cove. Up until now, Roger had always invaded Port Royal, Tortuga or Padres Del Fuego in hopes of catching Jack Sparrow. This was not the case today; today, Roger wanted weapons. Jolly Roger had long sought cursed weapons, but never thought up until this day to go to Raven's Cove for himself to get them.

The pirates were not prepared for an invasion of Raven's Cove, and as such planned poorly. The barricades protecting the island were not built properly, not all of the important defense points had enough people guarding them, and, perhaps most importantly, nobody actually knew where the cursed weapons were; nobody except Roger himself.

When the time came for the pirates to fight, they desperately threw all of the manpower they had at Roger's army. The defense was difficult for the pirates, but Roger's army on the front beach was ultimately unable to advance. However, on the beach near the mine shaft on the other end of the island, where there were no choke points, Roger's army ran rampant. The less numerous pirate forces were easily overwhelmed and, as a result, Jolly Roger and his army were able to use the mine shaft and enter El Patron's Mine.

Inside the mine, however, Jolly Roger was met with a few dozen pirates that had been lying in wait. Roger fought these pirates for a period of time long enough to allow reinforcements to arrive. The fight dragged on for many minutes, allowing Roger to bring in reinforcements of his own. A pattern of bringing in reinforcements would continue from both sides until the pirates, and almost all of Roger's army, had been slain.

Roger stormed through El Patron's Mine and out to El Patron's Ship, where a tall, dark figure stood with his back to Roger, looking down at a chest. The figure turned around and looked at Roger. He held a World Eater Blade in one hand and a Behemoth Blade in the other, with various other cursed weapons on his weapon belt.

"To what do I owe the pleasure?" The man asked Roger sarcastically.

"Crane, I should have guessed you would be here." Roger said angrily. Christopher Crane, known to some as the "Hermit," had many encounters with Roger in the past, most of which resulted in Roger's defeat.

"Well, you know about my weakness to cursed weapons. Did you just think I'd let you get them without some kind of resistance?" Crane asked. With that, Roger and Crane began fighting.

"No worries... I know... your other... weakness... as well." Roger said, struggling during the fight with Crane. Crane looked bewildered as bars of soap began raining into the water around the ship. Jolly Roger laughed, as Crane not only struggled with fighting him, but fighting the urge to jump into the water after the soap. Eventually, Crane's urge became too powerful to resist.

"SOOOOOAP!" Crane shouted. Crane stripped himself of his cursed weapons and dolphin-dove into the water after the soap. Crane emerged from the water covered in bars of soap, rubbing them violently all over himself and even licking a few of them. Christopher Crane, coated in suds, looked up at the ship in horror as Jolly Roger collected the cursed weapons, realizing the horrendous error of his ways.

Jolly Roger absorbed the power of all of the cursed weapons and began concentrating it into an orb of voodoo energy in his hands.

"God dammit." Crane said. Crane watched as the orb of voodoo energy in Roger's hands were shot as a beam into the sky. Crane submerged himself in the sudsy water, fearful of what would happen next.