Chapter 10

Medusa finally made her attack on Ursula in the kitchen. Ursula was cooking lunch when Medusa quietly snuck into the kitchen. Ursula turned around just as one of Medusa’s snakes struck her. Ursula dropped to the ground. Medusa then walked onto the deck where most of the crew was. Skully One-Eye spotted her and ask her what she wanted. “I am here to destroy you all, and make you into my slaves” said Medusa. Skully One Eye replied “your not a witch, we just dealt with one of those already, you cant make us become your slaves, your just some crazy lady with snakes on here head”. Just as Skully was saying this one of the snakes on her head reached out and bit Bella Dizzy. Lurg and Condi together attacked Medusa. But it was unless the snakes bit them both too. Chester shot a poison dart, but poison darts are useless against Medusa. Suddenly a large thunderous explosion went off and filled the ship with smoke. Finale had shot a cannon at Medusa, but when the smoke cleared Medusa was still alive and kicking. Medusa was now mad and went into a rampage attacking everyone who was still standing. Chester and Finale both struck. Maximo being the super jackalope that he is jumped into the air and tried to attack Medusa but he too was struck. Skully One-Eye, Hackin Eve and Vasca de Gama all ran into Skully’s cabin and locked the door. Medusa was unstoppable, poisons had no effect on her and no one could get close enough to get a good sword swing into her without the snakes biting them.

While in the cabin Vasca told Skully One-Eye about 3 wise men called “The Elders”, who were so knowledgeable that they know all of the seas evil and knew everything about pirates. The Elders were 3 once great pirate captains who no longer sail the seas but living in an old house up a murky river on an island, which the Judith Prosperous was just off the coast of. The elders were made up of Sid Cutler, Elmer Knifenose, and Tobias Brower. Vasca was once a mate on Sid Cutlers ship many years before. Skully One-Eye decided that he, Vasca and Hackin Eve must go and talk to the elders. The three of them jumped out of the cabins window and into the water. Together they swam to the island where they commandeered a small rowboat. “What happened on the ship tonite was fucked up” Skully One-Eye said to Vasca and Eve.

It was a creepy spooky ride up the river. Vasca and Hackin Eve rowed as Skully One-Eye directed them. Once they finally reached the house that the elders were at Skully One-Eye and his two mates slowly walked up the creaky duck towards the house. The crew found the men sitting in a dark room. They asked Skully One-Eye why has he come and Skully One-Eye said that they had an evil Greek who has come on his ship.

Elmer Knifenose spoke some mumble jumble that Skully nor the 2 mates understood, he was translated by Tobias Brower who started to talk to Skully One-Eye but then turned his speech into a drunken ramble. The both of them were translated by Sid Cutler who told the story of the evil Medusa. Sid Cutler told them that the only way too get to Medusa was to spread and cover themselves in a sea-jelly found on the ocean floor. The sea-jelly would make them immune to Medusa’s poisonous bite, and also weaken the snakes.

Skully One-Eye and his crew knew what they had to do in order to weaken Medusa and save their fellow mates. The pirates stayed awhile at the Elders house and they learned about the lives of the Elders and Vasca reminisced with Sid about their times sailing together. The next evening the pirates said goodbye to the elders. Skully One-Eye, Vasca de Gama, and Hackin Eve Bones’ set out to find the sea-jelly and save their ship!!