User:Jack Pistol/Z-Story12



Reluctant Arrival 

Upon arrival in Port Royal, which was one of the primary islands of , I was confronted by two Navy guards. I thought I would be arrested but they simply asked me several questions, trying to see if I was a pirate, but I managed to deceive them. Unfortunately they confiscated my Executioner's Pistol, which was perhaps a bit too close at hand. I learnt that the Navy were paranoid and from then on I carried all my weapons hidden under my vest or jacket and avoided them where possible.

I stumbled across town, not sure where to go and then met with the Governor's daughter by chance. She was not at all interested in having me arrested for being a pirate, which she had somehow deduced, but was instead eager to help me. She agreed to have the shipwright alter the light sloop I had arrived in to be undetected and to give me a new one in exchange for the other. She advised me to leave Port Royal and make for Tortuga to meet Jack Sparrow if I wanted to be safe from the authorities and make my name for myself as a pirate.

I took her advice and set off on my new vessel towards Tortuga. I was surprised at the amount of traffic there were on the waters of this part of the Caribbean. I could see many British Royal Navy, EITC, pirate and flagless ships sailing all about. I had done nothing to make myself identified as a pirate and I flew no flag, but I was uncomfortable about being in the middle of so many Naval ships, so I decided to land and wait a few hours for nightfall.

Roughly halfway between the two large islands was a smaller one with a large flat top and sharp edged sides. I anchored there and walked across the shallows to the beach, where I found hordes of crabs and giant scorpions. I slew a handful of them, but started taking way too many stings and attacks to the body. I realized that my time spent in jail had greatly reduced my skills and so I fled for cover inside a small cave.

Inside the cave, I found a grotto not to deep in. I was met by a tall eerie man and his seemingly skeletal monkey. If he had not spoken, I would have raced out of there and faced the large pests instead.

"Welcome to Devil's Anvil! I am the devil that rules this little speck o' land."

"You're the devil?" I asked timidly.

"No, but close. I am Captain Barbossa, Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea and rightful Captain of the Black Pearl." he grinned menacingly. "You seem new here, boy. Perhaps you need something to help you on your way through the Caribbean?" He tossed me a single shot pistol. "The hand-cannon, try it on my undead monkey."

I shot a bullet straight into the monkey's chest, causing it to screech and jump.

"You seem to have a connection with that weapon. I fancy pistols myself. What's yer name, lad?" he asked me.

"I am Ja..." I hesitated. I could not use the name I had gone by when I lived on Port Fraggue, so I adopted a new, similar alias. "I am Jack... Jack Pistol!" I said with determination. From then on that became my name.

Barbossa twitched when I said 'Jack', but his usual facial expression returned when I added 'Pistol'.

"It's an honor. Now leave this place before my simian enacts his revenge upon ye." he said with a sick grin.

I exited the cave and saw that nightfall was close.

"Close enough!" I muttered as I saw scorpions and crab heading my way.

I ran towards the water and then began my trek through the shallows back to my ship. I boarded the vessel and set sail for Tortuga.