Chapter 6 - tea meets captain dartz

Chapter 6

Varon: [whistling and waving a bone to a dog that has the keys to the prison in its jaws] come here, boy. Nice juicy bone. Come here. Come on

Marik: You can keep doing that forever, the dog is never going to come.

Varon: Oh, excuse us if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet.

[In the Rapheal's house; Tea's room] Mai: There you go, Miss. [puts a bed warmer between the sheets] It was a difficult day for you, I'm sure.

Tea: I suspected Commodore Seto would propose but I must admit I wasn't entirely prepared for it.

Mai: Well, I meant you being threatened by that pirate, sounds terrifying.

Tea: Oh, yes, it was terrifying.

Mai: But the Commodore proposed. Fancy that, that's a smart match, Miss, if it's not too bold to say.

Tea: It is a smart match. He's a fine man; he's what any woman should dream of marrying.

Mai: Well, that Yugi Moto, he's a fine man, too.

Tea: That is too bold.

Mai: Well, begging your pardon, Miss, it was not my place. [Leaves]

[Meanwhile Yugi is hammering a new sword, he looks out unto the deserted street]

[On top of the Fort] Rapheal: Has my daughter given you an answer yet?

Seto: No, she hasn't.

Rapheal: Well, she has had a very trying day. Ghastly weather, don't you think?

Seto: Bleak, very bleak.

Rapheal: What's that?

Seto: Cannon fire! [Tackles Rapheal] Return fire!

[In the jail] Marik: I know those guns. [Looks out of his little window] It's the Pearl.

Varon: The Black Pearl? I've heard stories. She's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.

Marik: No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?

[The Black Pearls guns are destroying the battlements, the pirates are now coming ashore in boats; Yugi takes up a sword, a hatchet, and a knife to fight the invading pirates; on the battlements]

Seto: Rapheal, barricade you in my office. That's an order!

[Rapheal's house; pirates are running through the gates an knocking on the door] Tea: [to butler] don't [the butler opens the door]

Duke: Hello, chump. [Shoots butler and the pirates swarm into the house]

Odion: Girl! [Elizabeth runs upstairs]

Mai: [they lock the chamber door] Miss Grander, they've come too kidnap you.

Tea: What?

Mai: You're Rapheal's daughter.

Tea: They haven't seen you. Hide and the first chance you get, run to the fort. [Distracts Joey and Duke as Mai runs out, hits Duke in the face with the bed warmer]

Joey: Gotcha! [Catches Tea and she releases ashes onto his head] It's hot! It's hot!

Duke: [to Joey] Come on! (Mai escapes; Tea is cornered on the stairs and while pirates are distracted by one of their own being taken out by a cannon she runs away; Tea tries to get a sword out but is unable; Duke and Joey break the door] We know you're here, Poppet.

Joey: Poppey.

Duke: Come out and we promise we won't hurt you. [Joey looks at Duke questioningly who only smiles] We will find you, Poppet. You've got something of ours and it calls to us. The gold calls to us.

Joey: Gold calls

Duke: [opens door of the closet] Ello, Poppet.

Tea: Parley!

Joey: What?

Tea: Parley. I invoke the right of parley. According to the code of the brethren, set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew, you have to take me to your Captain.

Duke: I know the code.

Tea: If an adversary demands parley you can do them no harm until the parley is complete.

Joey: To blazes with the code.

Duke: She wants to be taken to the Captain. And she'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code.

[Port Royal street; Yugi is fighting with Tristan]

Tristan: [to Yugi, holding him defenseless] Say goodbye! [Signs falls on him]

Yugi: Goodbye.

Duke: [to Tea, leading her to the Black Pearl] Come on!

Tea: Yugi.

Yugi: [spots them] Tea.

Odion: Outta my way, scum. [Knocks Yugi on the head, he faints]

To be continued

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Chapter 7

[in jail] Varon: [a hole is blown in a cell, to Marik] My sympathies friend, it's no matter of luck at all.

Marik: [picks up the bone and whistles] Come on, doggy. It's just you and me now. It's you and old Marik, come on. Come on, good boy. That's it, good boy, come on! Get closer, Get closer. That's it, that's it, doggy. Come on you filthy, slimy, mangy cad. [There's a crash downstairs and the dog runs away] No, no, no, no, no, I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it... [A crash as the prison guard is thrown down the stairs]

Yami Bakura: [looks a round] this aint the armory.

Odion: Well, well, well, look what we have here Yami Bakura Captain Marik Ishtar.

Yami Bakura: [spits] Last time I saw you, you were all alone on a godforsaken island, shrinking into the distance. His fortunes aren't improved much.

Marik: Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen. The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers. [Odion grabs Marik's throat; Marik sees skeletal arm] So there is a curse. That's interesting.

Odion: You know nothing of Hell. [They leave]

Marik: That's very interesting.

[Tea is rowed across with the pirates; on board the Black Pearl]

Yami Marik: I didn't know we were taken on captives.

Duke: She's invoked the right of parley with Captain Dartz.

Tea: I am here to negotiate [is backhanded by Yami Marik]

Yami Marik: You will speak when spoken to.

Dartz: [grabs Yami Marik's wrist] And yell not lay a hand on those under the protection of parley.

Yami Marik: Aye, sir.

Dartz: My apologies, Miss

Tea: Captain Dartz, I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal.

Dartz: There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; were not but humble pirates. What is it that you want?

Tea: I want you to leave and never come back.

Dartz: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request means no.

Tea: Very well. I'll drop it. [Dangles medallion over the sea]

Dartz: Me holds are burstin' with swag and that bit of shine matters to us? Why?

Tea: Its what you've been searching for. I recognized the ship. I saw it eight years ago on the crossing from England.

Dartz: Did ya now?

Tea: Fine, well, I suppose if it is worthless then there's no point in me keeping it. [It drops a bit, the pirates lunge forward]

Dartz: Ah. [Chuckles] You have a name, Missy?

Tea: Tea Moto. I'm a maid in the Governors household. [She curtsies]

Dartz: Miss Moto!

Duke: Bootstrap.

Dartz: And how does a maid come to own a trinket such as that. Family heirloom, perhaps?

Tea: I didn't steal it if that's what you mean.

Dartz: Very well, you hand it over and well put your town to our rudder and never return.

Tea: [she hands it over] Our bargain? [Dartz walks away from her]

Odion: Still the guns and stow em.

Tea: Wait! You have to take me to shore. According to the code of the order of the brethren -

Dartz: First of all, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirates code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Moto.

To be continued.

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