Pirates of the Caribbean: Live Dog's Quest

Balto was standing on the aft deck. He was looking out over the ocean taking in it's beauty. The slight creaking of the helm (the large steering wheel on ships) was the only thing that broke the silence. The majority of the crew was lounging around on the deck soaking up the sun.

Balto was a cabin boy of 11 years of age and currently had nothing to do. He had been on this ship his entire life and had never known his parents.

“Hey boychick. What is you doing?”

Balto turned to the goose who was standing beside him. “Nothing right now. Just enjoying the view.”

“It is beautiful. I could stay at sea my whole life.”

Balto chuckled. “I didn't know you liked the sea that much.”

“I don't. It seemed like the right thing to say.”

Boris had found Balto as a pup eleven years ago in the streets of London. Boris had felt sorry for Balto and managed to convince the captain to let him bring Balto along with him.

Balto looked back out over the water. One of the other vessels in the convoy caught his attention. Balto was on board a vessel in a convoy of three trading vessels. The boat he was on was in the middle and there was a boat to the right and left of him.

Balto pointed towards the one on the left. “I wonder what the crew on that boat is doing.”

Boris looked over as well. “Probably the same thing we're doing right now.”

“And what about the other...”

Balto turned his head just as a loud cracking noise reached his ears.

He saw the entire ship get pulled underwater in a spray of water. He was too startled to speak.

Boris quickly shouted as loud as he could to their crew as well as to the sailors on the other boat “KRAKEN!!”

The sailors started jumping up and looking for spears or rifles. Anything they could get their paws or wings on.

Balto stood at the edge of the deck looking into the water. At first it looked like ordinary water, but then he saw something moving down there. And he saw it very clearly.

The first thing he saw were tentacles. A lot of them. Then the rest of the Kraken came into view. Balto had never seen anything so big in his life. It seemed to take an eternity for the thing to swim by.

Then he saw it's eyes. And they actually stared right back at him. Balto realized with horror that only a very small section of the Kraken had actually swam by. He heard shouting from the other boat and when he turned to look, the Kraken had it's tentacles wrapped around it and was dragging it to the bottom. Then he felt his own ship shake. He heard the sound of wood splintering. The deck pitched downward and Balto started to roll down the deck. “Grab my wing!”

Balto looked and saw Boris holding his wing out. Balto reached out and grabbed hold. He looked down and saw the front of the boat going under. All of a sudden he knew what was happening.

The Kraken had grabbed the boat by the front and had started to pull down, lifting the back of the boat out of the water. Balto looked at the front of the boat again. The whole front end was under the water.

“Why isn't the boat going down?” he asked Boris.

Boris looked at him grimly. “The Kraken is holding us. And...” Balto watched theimpossible. Boris turned whiter than he already was. His eyes bulged and pointed at something. “Don't look Balto.”

Balto looked, and wished he hadn't. A huge thing of greenish flesh burst out of the water. It went up and up and up. Then Balto saw the thing that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

The mouth of the Kraken.

At first it was around five or six over sized teeth. Then the mouth opened fully and Balto was greeted to the most horrible stench imaginable. But the view was even worse. Row after row of teeth went down the beast's throat. Balto wished he could close his eyes but for some reason, he couldn't. He saw almost the entire crew roll down the deck and into the Krakens maw. When the Kraken realized that nothing else worth eating was going to roll in, it closed it's mouth and submerged.

Balto voice shook as he said “Is it g... gone?”

“I don't know” Boris replied. Then the ship shuddered again. Boris shouted to Balto “Hold on tight Balto!”

“What's going on!?”

The Kraken answered his question. The entire shipraised up out of the water. The Kraken then threw the whole ship. It sailed thru the air for a few seconds, then crashed onto some rocks. Balto opened his eyes for a second. Then he fell intounconsciousness.

“Hey come on Balto, wake up!”

Balto opened his eyes and was surprised to see that it was night. “How long have I been asleep Boris?”

“I'd say around five hours. You hit your head pretty hard. Listen, there's a ship out there! I'm going to try and get it's attention.”

Boris sucked in a large breath and shouted “Hello! Over here! Ahoy!”

No response.

Boris tried again. Still no response.

He turned to Balto and said “Come on. Lets get closer.”

He helped Balto up and the two of them started walking towards the ship. “Where are we Boris?”

Boris said “We are on a rock formation. When we were attacked by the Kraken, it threw the ship and it crashed on these rocks. That ship over there must have seen the wreckage and came over to help.”

As they got closer, Balto started to feel uneasy. He couldn't explain why. They finally got close enough to the ship to see who it was. It was a British frigate that must have been patrolling the area.

Boris tried yelling to it again. “Ahoy! Over here!”

Balto could see the sailors on the boat look over and they started pointing towards Boris and Balto. Then it looked like the Captain of the ship walked up on the deck and shouted back.

“Are you all right? What happened?”

Boris said “We were attacked by the Kraken! It destroyed three ships.”

The Captain actually started to laugh. “There is no such thing as the 'Kraken'. I'm sure there is a logical explanation as to what happened.”

Boris was about to argue with the Captain when he heard something. By the look on the Captains face, he heard it too.

It sounded like rushing water. And it sounded as if there were masts creaking. “Boris, what is it?” Balto asked, afraid that the Kraken was coming back.

“I don't know Balto.”

Just then the water over to the left of the frigate exploded loudly and as hard as it may be to believe, a ship came up out of the water. It was larger than the frigate.

As it came closer, Balto saw the name of the vessel.

'The Flying Dutchman.'

The legendary ghost ship under the command of Davy Jones, ruler of the ocean.

The Captain of the frigate began shouting orders to his crew but it wasn't soon enough.

Two cannons popped out of the front of the Flying Dutchman. Each cannon had three barrels on it and they started to speak.

Within seconds, the frigate was being bombarded with cannonballs. These cannon balls must have been made of some new material because they ripped thru the frigates wooded hull as if it was paper. The ship began to sink rapidly.

Boris had pulled Balto out of view and they watched as a boarding party materialized onto the frigates deck. But they were not ordinary sailors. They looked like they were part fish or something. One had the head of a hammerhead shark, another one was covered in coral. The crew of the frigate quickly surrendered.

Balto began moving closer. He actually got close enough that he could see the deck of the Flying Dutchman as well as the prisoners that the crew lined up. He took a closer look at the ship. It was unlike anything he had ever seen. Barnacles encrusted the hull, the wood was rotten, the cannons were rusted over, and perhaps the oddest thing was that the sails had stuffgrowingon it. Balto was wondering what was about to happen when he heard something that made even the ocean go quiet.

Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!

It sounded like someone with a peg leg. Then Balto saw the man.

If you could call him that.

The,thing, was around 6 feet 10 inches tall. It wore a large hat, coat, and pants. With only one boot. The left leg didn't need one.

It was a crab leg.

It's left arm was that of a crab pincer and it's right hand had five fingers with an extremely long index finger. And they were all tentacles. The same as his 'beard'.

The face was hard to describe. It had the texture of a squid or octopus but it was very much a mans face. Except for the tentacles hanging from it. As far as Balto could tell, it had one time been a man but a man no longer. It was a creature of the sea.

It was Davy Jones. Captain of the Flying Dutchman and ruler of the seas. And not supposed to exist.

Davy Jones leaned in front of one of the prisoners smoking his pipe.

He took his pipe out and said “Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare? Are ye ready, for your final judgment? I can offer, an escape. One hundred years of service, before mast and ship. What say ye?”

“Don't listen to him!” one of the prisoners said.

Davy Jones whirled around and walked over to the prisoner. He looked at him for a second, then turned to one of the crew standing behind the prisoner. “To the depths” he said.

The crewman picked the prisoner up and threw him over board. Davy Jones turned back to the prisoner he had been talking to and said “Well?”

The prisoners voice shook a little bit. “I...I will sir.”

Davy smiled “There!”

Davy then started to go to each prisoner giving them the exact same offer. Balto

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