blueteamnovel Chapter 77 The Dread Pirate Nigel (2)
Chapter 77 The Dread Pirate Nigel (2)
"Ok, so how do we do this? Do we go out to the center of the room and fight? Is it just me and you fighting? Or are my friends fighting too? Speaking of, this one hasn't woken up yet," I said as I gestured at Chad still hanging over my shoulders.
"He looks kind of dead," Nigel said.
"He is," I said, "but he always comes back to life. Oh, wait I think here he comes."
Chad's eyelids fluttered and opened. He gasped a breath and resumed breathing. "How long was I out for?" He asked.
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"About thirty minutes," I said.
"It seems like it keeps getting shorter and shorter every time I die. I don't know if that's a good thing or not," he said.
"I think its good," I said.
"Can you put me down now?" Chad said.
"Oh yeah. Sorry," I said as I set Chad down on his feet.
"Who's this?" Chad said, gesturing at Nigel, the skeletal pirate.
"Oh that's the dread pirate Nigel. He's been guarding his treasure for a really long time, and he wants to fight me to see if I can make him take a dirt nap," I said.
"Yep. Pretty much," Nigel said. "So shall we get on with it? I have places to be."
"You do?" I said, giving him a confused look.
"No. I just thought it would be funny to say," Nigel said as he started walking towards the center of the room.
As my airway healed, I sat on Nigel and threw his remaining guns away. I also threw his swords away. He was unarmed. Then I ripped his arms off and he was really unarmed.
Then I tore his head off and said, "I win!" into his skeletal face.
I expected that to be it, but Nigel's head responded, "Yes, you won. Good job. Congratulations, you beat a skeleton. Wow. I'm so impressed. Wait. Why am I still talking? I should be dead. You dismantled me."
"Yeah, that's weird," I said. "I guess you really are immortal. In that case, I can only think of one way to end it."
"What's that?" He said.
"Stealing from you." I grabbed a nearby coin from one of the huge piles of gold and put it in my pocket. "I'll take that."
Then, Nigel went silent. He didn't say anything after that. I guessed the curse really did work the way he said it would. If someone stole from him, he'd die. I got up off the ground and dusted myself off.
Three chests appeared on the ground. They all looked the same. I assumed they were rewards for each of us. Since it was three chests and there were three of us. I couldn't figure out which one was for me, Victoria, and Chad though.
So I knelt next to each of them to see if they said anything on them, and when I got to the chest on the right, it lit up with a golden light. That must be mine.
"I'm assuming this one is mine. You two, stand next to the other chests," I said.
Victoria and Chad stepped up to one chest each. Nothing happened so they switched spots and then the chests lit up. The chest in front of Victoria shined with a red light. The chest in front of Chad shined with a green light.
I took the dungeon key that I still had in my possession because I never went anywhere without it, and unlocked all three chests one by one. No one opened their chests yet.
"Open them on three!" I said. "One, two, three!"