-What are we looking for, Bones? The ship is ours, we should be celebrating -said Ratchet.

Bones ignored him completely and kept searching, relentless, until in one of the drawers of Captain Fuego's massive desk he found what he was so desperately looking for.

Bones left the cabin, Ratchet and Kaleb following him in confusion.

On his way out, Bones held up a key and with a victory cry, which sounded immeasurably more passionate than when he had shouted the victory of the mutiny, exclaimed:

-The treasure is ours!

The other officers, along with most of the crew, shouted in an ovation of overflowing jubilation and joy.

-The treasure? -Ratchet asked Bones-. The huachi treasure?

Bones turned slowly towards Ratchet and Kaleb.

-It's th only thing they were looking for... -Kaleb said, disappointed.

-Do you know how difficult it is to endure hunger? -Bones said, his expression and his way of speaking having changed drastically-. Being tempted to possess the one thing that satisfies you without being able to touch it? -Bones moved closer to Ratchet and Kaleb.

-It's amazing how quickly a man gives in to temptation, hunger, and devours everything even though he knows its the end. Luckily, the regret is also strong... most of us have devoured all our treasure, we only have one or two doubloons left. But the damned captain hid half of his on an island near the beast's pit, just to avoid the temptation.

-That's why the first officers did nothing to defend the captain, they planned it together with Bones -Kaleb said.

-You lied to us... -Ratchet complained to Bones.

-No, I didn't lie when I told you that we were fed up with the captain, it was his fault that we have this curse. It was more than fair that we took his treasure so we could eat it without risking our own. Besides, he was the one who had the most.

The other officers laughed.

-So will you let us go free? -said Ratchet.

-Oh, sure, we'll give you the purest freedom there is -Bones said, as the pirates drew their weapons-: death.

 

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