Blackbeard dropped the knife to the ground.
"Look! The knife. It moved by itself."
"It's the curse of the treasure. It's a message from
Blackbeard."
No one could see the ghost except for Queen Alliana. She
had her great-grandmother's eyes, and those eyes would
always be able to see him. She walked towards him, away
from the other men, who were preparing to take the pirates
to the Queen Anne as prisoners.
"When you return to this island, you always bring unhappiness
to a woman's heart. First, it was my great grandmother's, and
now it is mine. Have you thought of this in all those years
while watching that treasure ?"
"How could I forget? I can never die and be peaceful. I
always remember what I did by looking at that treasure."
"But you can do something good now. You can keep
others from touching it and making the same mistake you
did."
"How? I can't keep people from coming onto my ship and
taking my treasure ."
"You could if you wanted. If there was never any
treasure, you would have lived happily with Queen Hanzani.
Now, you still have the treasure and you are still unhappy."
"But that is what I was told to do, watch the treasure to
pay for my mistake."
"Have you ever thought of what it is that will end this
punishment and let you die in peace?"
Blackbearcl had no answer. He was quiet. Captain Scott
came to say goodbye to Queen AJliana.
"Your Highness, we are ready to leave your island. I'm
sorry for the trouble we brought with us, but I want to thank
you for giving us what we need to sail again."
"Remember Captain, you must find the ship you got the
treasure from and put it back. It's the only way to keep peace
on these isla nds."
"We will try."
"I think you will succeed. And remember the story I told
you about that treasure. Taking what is not yours can never
bring you or the ones you love any happines"
Captain Scott and the others rowed back to the Queen
Anne, and soon it was sailing again through the Bermuda
Triangle. Blackbearcl was standing at the ship's side. He was
looking across the wide, blue sea, thinking of everything
Queen AJliana said to him before he left Rum Island. He was
always saying the same thing to himself:
"If there was never any treasure, I would be happy now."
Suddenly, Blackbearcl's old empty ship appeared sailing
along the shining blue sea. The man in the crow's nest
shouted to the Captain, and he put his telescope to his eye.
"Stubbs, sail straight for that ship. We're going back on
board ."
Blackbearcl was walking nervously back and forth as the
men put the treasure chest into a small row boat. He sat on
top of it when they were ready to leave and row towards the
empty ship.
Captain Scott told the men to leave the chest where they
found it. Before the sailors left, Captain Scott looked around
the old pirate ship."
And this is what you get for wanting all the riches of the
world."
Blackbearcl was standing next to him listening. It was the
last thing that was said on that ship.
The Queen Anne began to sail away when one of the
sailors shouted "Look!" Everyone turned to see Blackbeard's
chest rising in the air over the sea. They thought it was
moving by itself, but it was Blackbeard moving it. He threw
the chest into the sea, ending the curse he had to live with.
The sailor.s of the Queen Anne saw the shining gold on top of
the water for one last moment, then it sank into the sea below.
When the chest disappeared into the water, Blackbeard's
ship began to break apart and sank into the sea. The sailors'
eyes all grew wide as they saw the ghost of a pirate in a long
blue coat, with a black beard and a reel scarf around his head,
fly up into the clouds of the sky.
"Captain, what in the world was that?"
"It was the ghost of Blackbearcl . It seems that he has finally
found his peace."
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