The Terrible Demise of Tortuga

Chapter thirty one.

On the shore of Tortuga the pirates had finally arrived. “Search the city!” Piranha said yelled. “Find the traitor!”

Behind the pirates the British were closing in on shore. Captain Shortstacks watched the pirates through his spyglass. He smiled. “Send word….to bomb the city." Captain Shortstacks said.

The citizens were perfectly oblivious to any danger of bombs. They were comforting the Peterson kids. Elizabeth and Justin ran to the bakery to get some stuff for the kids. “What are we going to do now?” Jack asked. “Where are we going to live now?” Jay wondered. Josephina and Jaquin clung to Emma, sobbing. Tears dripped down Emma’s face. She laid her head on Andrew’s shoulder. Just then something came falling from the sky. A huge bomb. It landed on a building. Then another landed. Then another. the last on landed on the bakery, then they all exploded. “Noo!” Amara cried. “My children!” Peter held her back, tears in his eyes. He knew there was no chance they were alive.

In the bakery just before the bomb had gone off Elizabeth had been searching for some food when she heard huge thuds coming from outside. She ran to find Justin. She finally found him. He was standing in the cashier room. He turned to look at her with his wide fearful eyes. “Lizebeth?” He asked dreadfully. Then something fell through the ceiling. A bomb. There was half a second that Elizabeth held eyes with Justin, then the bomb exploded. She was knocked away and she hit a wall, knocking all her breath out.

“Their exploding the city!” Josh Swan cried. “Everyone follow me! We need to head to the bunker under the city in the sewers!” Most of the people started following Josh but the rest were pushed around by the crowd. Jay,Jack, Josephina, and Jaquin got pushed to the side by the crowd.

The Buckleshoots headed for their boat, they could cut the bridge away from their boat so they could escape. Joe stood waiting in the doorway on the boat with Aaron. Aaron had a kitchen knife ready to cut the bridge. They were waiting for Olivia and Aaron Jr. Olivia tan up. She turned back to look at her brother. He was running toward the boat. The suddenly out of nowhere Captain Shortstacks came. The captain held out his sword and Aaron jr ran straight into it. He crumpled to the ground. “No!” Olivia cried. Tears rolled down her face as she looked at her brother. “Cut the rope!” She sobbed to her grandfather. Aaron sadly did so and their boat started to float away. “Olivia, where’s your brother?” Joe asked. Since he was blind he didn’t see what had happened to Aaron jr. “He-he d-didn’t make it.” Olivia sobbed. And so the Buckleshoots boat floated away, never to be seen again.

“We have to tell everyone else to head to the sewers!” Jack cried to Jay over the roar of bombs exploding. Jay nodded. “Ok. Here’s the plan, take Josephina and Jaquin and I’ll go tell the people in their houses while you go tell Mrs Lois.” Jay said. Some of the people had went home after the hanging and didn’t know what was going on or where to head. *Boom!* A bomb landed nearby and exploded. “Go!” Jack yelled to Jay. Jay hurried off to a nearby house while Jack took his younger siblings by the hands and lead them to Mrs Lois’ shop “Wait right here.” Jack told them. “What about the bombs?” Jaquin asked, sounding scared. “Don’t worry, you’ll be fine out here. The bombers are aiming for the houses.” Jack replied. “Stay here. Ok?” Jaquin and Josephina nodded. Jack darted in to Mrs Lois’ shop. “Mrs Lois?” He called. “Hello?” *Boom!* A bomb exploded nearby. He needed to hurry because the bombs were getting closer. Soon they would bomb this building. “Mrs Lois?!” Jack called again. No answer. She was not anywhere in the shop so Jack headed out. He went out the back door and went around the shop to the front. Where did Josephina and Jaquin go? At first he didn’t see them. But then he spotted them. Jaquin and Josephina were exactly where he left them, clutching each other. Josephina looked at him and gave him a faint smile. Something lay at their feet. A bomb.

-SunnyFox57.