(COLLAB POST)<br/>BOLD text = Asterous<br/><br/>"Oi listen! I got no quarrel with you!" Antony tried to reason with her, only to have to dodge a sword strike to his noggin. "Listen I just-" another sword swipe, "Snuck aboard to-" dodged another one, "Borrow some apples and maybe a few oranges!" He dodged a flurry of them that time. "Scurvy is terrible with the crew!" Antony said defensively.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Natalie had no pity for the pirate before her, cutting him off each time he tried to explain himself. She had no love for his kind, and wouldn't tolerate them sneaking on her ship, scurvy or not. "A few less of your kind would do us some good." She said upon hearing his pathetic excuse, swinging her sword at him once again.</span><br/><br/>Antony brought up his sword scabbard and blocked the blow, a clang resonated throughout the supply room.<br/><br/>"Whoa..you're pretty tough for a girl!" Antony said excitedly.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Natalie narrowed her eyes at the pirate and scowled. She wouldn't be distracted by his words, bringing her sword around for another blow. But as much as she wanted to ignore the god forsaken words that had come from his filthy mouth, she knew it had gotten to her, she just had to hope it didn't show. Pulling her pistol from her belt, Natalie brought it up to the pirate's face.  "Get off my ship, now." She said through clenched teeth.</span><br/><br/>"I ain't leavin' without-" Suddenly cannon fire was heard and Antony grabbed her and yanked her to the ground just as a cannon ball blasted through the wall and had been primed to take off her head<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Feeling the pirate's hands on her as he pulled her down, Natalie heard the cannon ball shatter the wall, and felt the debris rain over them. She was also very aware of how close the pirate was to her, as well as his hand on her. Using her elbow, Natalie shoved him away and scrambled to her feet, glancing quickly from the hole, to the pirate, before turning to leave for the deck.</span><br/><br/>She felt Antony's hand grab her arm and yank her back. "Heyheyhey! Look!" Antony pointed out the hole to an enormous ship on the horizon. "That is the Queen Anne's Revenge. It's Blackbeard! You've heard the stories yeah?"<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Instinctively, Natalie tried to pull her arm back but was unsuccessful in doing so. He followed where he pointed but soon turned her angry gaze back on him "Of course I have!" She spat at him, tempted to cut off his arm right then and there.</span><br/><br/>"Listen, you loan me some fruit and it'll provide incentive for my crew to view you and your navy boys in a better light...therefore making it easier for me to assist you in handling Queen Anne. If you're familiar with the stories then you know this is probably your only chance to get outta this alive...."<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">She knew he was right, and hated him for it. Pulling her arm from his grasp, Natalie sighed. She couldn't believe what she was about to say. "Fine. But if you try anything I won't think twice about putting a bullet through you."</span><br/><br/>Antony nodded and gathered up some apples and oranges in a sack and leaped out of the hole in the side of the ship. When he was hauled back onto the deck of the Poseidon's Scream he showed them all what he had got. "The Commodore actually let me have them...in exchange for assisting them with the Queen Anne."<br/><br/>The crew roared with mocking laughter, "Why would we do that!? They're Navy! And that's Blackbeard over there! We ain't got a death wish!" one pirate said.<br/><br/>"Did you forget I said she LET me have these fruit?" Captain Anthony scowled.<br/><br/>Every pirate on that ship knew better than to argue...who knows....this may not be so bad afterall.