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Captain of the Night Splinter

by Xenny Diemes

To some members on board this cursed vessel, it is their punishment for her constant use as a weapon, cruel imprisonment and the target of perverted minds who wanted to get into her pants regardless of the danger. To others, it was their salvation from the cruel hand of their predecessor: A mad, evil captain. Either way, the "Splinter's" greatest and deadliest weapon is now their new captain. Leading them into a new and darker era of high-seas piracy the world will ever see. It all began with the mad captain's ambitions of capturing the Great Black Beast.

After the destruction of the town Jacqueline once called home, her mindless state still holds as she wanders aimlessly into the forests, struggling to control her rage and her new powers in the mortal world. What happened back at the town is the unleashed demon side of her, vanquishing those who wronged her and unfortunately along with the innocent fools who got in her blind rage. While in the forest, she had taken time to fight the demon and regain control of her mind again, even to begin speaking again from the growls and roars that define her as a monster in the beginning. To Jacqueline, it's a struggle for a frail soul to control such monumental power. Sometimes her practice to regain control, frustrates her to the point of re-surfacing the demon again and miles of land would be destroyed in her tantrums before she can calm down again. Months pass and the beast has eluded hunters and nature's prying eyes for so long only coming out to hunt or to wash down any remains of her clothes she has on her body.

The rumors and soon legend of her existence has spread, creating two groups of people: those smart enough to keep away, even to make up stories to scare the young ones from staying up too late and then there are those who are crazy enough to try in capture her. It was the latter that came to her domain as a group of pirates under the lead of the cruel captain of the Splinter, Captain Morgau. They chased her and Jacqueline did kill a few of his men either through her brute strength or her hell-bound powers. In the end, she was captured and bound by magical chains, made by a witch to capture and control demons by their jailer, as long as she is bound by the chains, Jacqueline is helpless and is under Morgau's control. For those years, under the chain's control, Jacqueline is forced to do horrible things, destroying villages and fleets, cementing her roles for the monster she is. Try as she might, she can't break free and her full control of her demon powers are still out of reach. When Morgau is done with her, she rests in her cell deep in the belly of the ship where she cries tears of blood instead of water.

In her captivity, she learned much of her captors from her cell. Somewhere basically broken goods, open to be abused and manipulated by Morgau or those who simply embrace his cruelty and become more strong-bodied miscreants. This captain is very intolerant of failure, even simple mistakes. In one month alone, he has killed three of his own men, one just for not filling his wine glass enough. The more she knows the better it is who she should weed out when the time comes. It was also during her time she is still even under such adversity to master her incredible powers. At no better time came the day the crew invaded an island village. They had taken all the women and children on board and most of the men where killed off by the crew. They spared the use of her to do their dirty work. They want to kill the rest just for kicks. Jacqueline can't stand for this and still struggles to break free but still the chains and the demon side do otherwise.

Already in despair, the black lioness hears a faint voice coming from beyond. It is the Heart of Demons, the entity responsible for turning her into this monster. The heart didn't make her into a monster, she did. The demon is the unleashed representation of her own hidden evils, desires and power, only magnified beyond her reach. Jacqueline's own struggle for her old good side to control it is what lead to her struggles to control it in the first place. How else did she know who to target when she was out for revenge. Mockingly, the Heart tells the lioness that when she fought the prince of darkness, there's no way of her denying that she loved every minute of it and wanted more. The only problem this whole time, was just embracing rather than fighting what should be her new true self. That is why Morgau keeps controlling her with those chains.

It's the heart that made her this way and her own will can break those chains and save those souls, but only if she lets go of the last bit of herself, that isn't her anymore. The seamstress is dead. The heart then leaves with that thought as Jacqueline begs the heart of what to do but the sounds were replaced with the screams of the villagers on the ship. The screams were too much to bare and she held her hands to ears to block it all, she wants it to stop. That's where her revelation came to her mind. She knows that she isn't a shattered soul and the demon has more power over those who are shattered. But she has more power than she can ever realize, and finally figures out how to take control, she has to drop any sense of her "goody-good" self and any sense of control and become the very thing she was trying to fight. Jacqueline takes deep breaths and concentrates into her deep past of all her little misdeeds before becoming a good staple of the community. Her attempts to fight the demon became points odd pure strength to her and through the full power of the heart, finally becomes one.

Her innocent soul vanishes and becomes her new identity. Opening her blood red eyes, She looks up at the deck and grows furious. As the crew surrounds the innocents with muskets and swords, their desire to killed was stopped cold by a thunderous roar. The deck door where Jacqueline was explodes, sending several men overboard and the black beast leaps out and lands on the deck before the villagers and the crew. Flexing her muscles the chains glowed and intensify to counter her resistance. Morgau who sees, this amped up the power, but she is too strong for the chains as her bugling muscles finally break herself free. Speaking her first coherent line in decades, Jacqueline furiously points her claw at the captain and demands to let the villagers go. But this is not without a fight, by his orders. The crew attacked her which was a big mistake as none of their guns and swords can't cut or pierce the black hide.

One of the crew has gone far to fire a cannon at her but the cannonball hits her in the chest and bounces off her massive breasts and comes back with enough speed to decapitate the shooter's head. The beasts then charges and cuts through each of the attackers with flaming claws, killing them instantly or setting them ablaze. The next thing she wanted to do was to use her powers to levitate several cannonballs and launches them in all directions, smashing the ship and killing more of the crew. The crew scrambles to fix the ship or to take this chance to flee for their lives. Jacqueline is now standing in front of her cruel captor who she watches his toughness turned to begging and sheer cowardice. Begging to spare his life and change his ways. But it was already too late to do that and the last thing the captain has seen was the sight of her tearing his throat out and biting down on his body like a savage predator to its prey. She throws the body overboard and takes the jacket as her prize, she then turns her attention to the huddled masses of the villages and looks down at them with a harsh scornful look and a growl through her voice telling them all to leave the ship.

As the last villager leaves the ship, Jacqueline roars again to get everyone's attention and out of fear without their captain, they are now under the command of what used to be their greatest weapon. Jacqueline spoke in her deeper voice and gives the crew a choice: Leave the vessel or become her crew. Not one of them decline and swore to her, may some out of fear and others who wouldn't see the difference. Under that choice, Jacqueline takes their soul energies, rendering them into semi-demonic beasts, undead soldiers in her new crew seeing her as their new master. But that was just the start, The Splinter also began to change, becoming darker, larger and more imposing than before. More so for the adventures this ship will go. The dark lioness deems the new vessel the Night Splinter. She promises to her new crew that the years that follow will be filled with fear, terror and new forms of plundering that would make sure that they will not be forgotten. On the other hand, unlike Morgau, she will keep her standards and morals that her old self still holds. She will never let harm fall on the weak and defenseless. The most valuable and impossible treasures are desired and she will never fall into the net of cruelty her now dead predecessor has done.

Before her freedom, the world has made a name for her during her moment of chaos and the songs and accounts that spoke of her name. One of them "The Bane of Darkness" for her devastating nature and her dark pelt. When she heard that name, Jacqueline decides to use it to solidify her personality. From those words and a bit of a twist. Now sailing the high seas, Jacqueline is just a name those she entrusts shall call her, but to the rest of the world. Whether she terrorizes the seas, vanquish great navies or crush any supernatural foe who is set to doom the world, they will know her name.

Darquebane, Captain of the Night Splinter.