//I am unbearably bored/sleepy so here’s a random drabble... clip... piece thing?
“Now that’s done with...” Sea Cat mumbled to herself, nursing her wrists as she discarded the last of the ropes that once tied them and stood from the bottom of the bulkhead. She moved swiftly, but quietly towards the door and crouched low, peering out through the crack she made as she pushed it open slightly, smiling when she spied exactly what she needed.
She slipped out of the hold quietly behind Scarblade’s crew, keeping low and out of sight, thanks to the darkening sky above, and over to the cannon that sat on the deck. She checked it carefully; the fuse was primed, and the barrel pointed across the deck, rather than out over the ocean as it usually would be. Rather an odd position, but anyone with experience would know that a cannon left like this was meant for something other than sea battles... and given Scarblade’s reputation, it wasn’t hard to figure out what. She ducked behind the cannon and reached up carefully for a torch that lit up the deck, then, with a confident smirk, stood up to full height, hiking a leg up to prop against the back of the cannon and looking across from her as the mass of pirates that had just exited the hold below... right into her line of fire.
“‘Scuse me, gents!” she hollered to get their attention, and they turned, freezing at the sight of her, standing with cannon ready to fire directly at them. With a simple smile, she dropped the torch to the fuse and they scattered to all different sides, screaming out in terror, making her smile grow.
She dropped the torch, suddenly jumping up atop the cannon and running down the barrel, jumping off the end and landing right in the path of the cannon, to everyone’s shock! Then she ran, still right in the cannon’s line of fire until she reached the opposite side of the deck and jumped over the side, which would have been impossible with the pirates in her way.
“What the?!” Benny stammered, looking from where she had been to the cannon she had fired... or they thought she fired? The fuse had burned out but there was no explosion, only the hiss of smoke from the burnt up powder. “Wait a moment...” he said in suspicion, then ran to the cannon and wrapped his knuckles against the barrel. “The damn thing wasn’t even loaded!!”