It worked.
...Until it didn't.
For a whole good moment, the pirates who had been quarreling about why nothing was happening actually rejoiced! They were already imagining the kind of endless riches they'd end up with now that they'd managed to pull it off.
It was as if they had completely forgotten just how pathetic and stressed they were only moments ago, even going as far as to link up together because they figured the cause was one pirate's lack of spiritual energy.
"What kind of weakling—," they said.
And when nothing terrifying showed up... "Let me do it," they said.
And when something finally happened... "Shit! Finally!" they said.
And yet, even faster than that entire prelude to the fiasco were the mortified screams that immediately followed.
Because whatever ended up gracing their eyes was most definitely not supposed to happen…
The main issue was, for something started by a bunch of uninformed idiots, how come the innocents needed to pay?!
