Bonus Chapters [5] - 800 Power Stones
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The following hours were spent examining the ship and throwing away the corpses and anything else that was useless.
Rigel was already in the captain's cabin, placing his coffin in a corner inside and then cleaning everything, his wand continuing to wave, wiping away everything in sight, he wanted to clean until not a single trace of dirt remained in that place.
He also threw away all of Blackbeard's bedding and clothes, well, he actually gave them to the pirates, what they did with them wasn't his problem.
Finally, after cleaning the room, with Jack already on the table eating a melon that he struggled to open and Salazar still wrapped around his neck, as well as some snakes hidden around the room, Rigel nodded contentedly, now this seemed like a place to live.
He also found Blackbeard's savings, it wasn't much for a pirate of his caliber, maybe a few thousand pounds sterling in treasure and some jewels. Perhaps he followed pirate tradition and hid the rest buried in a chest on some island, who knows.
After finishing everything, Rigel left the cabin and looked around, feeling satisfied with the size of the new ship. Now that he had finished cleaning his room, he would begin making changes to the ship.
He had both the Figurehead (Gold) and the Black Flag (Silver) to choose from.
Both the figurehead and flag designs would have to be decided before being removed from the book, the adventure book could even show how they would look with detailed drawings.
Thoughtfully, Rigel first considered the ship itself, he didn't care about the name. Although Queen Anne's Revenge was a legendary and well-known ship, the name itself had nothing to do with Rigel. He didn't even know enough about that queen to begin with.
In the end, just as Blackbeard changed the original name of that ship, Rigel would do the same.
Now the problem was what name to give it. Rigel sat thoughtfully on deck, looking around, he wanted to identify with the ship, something that truly felt like it belonged to him.
Rigel kept looking around, whether at the ship, the confused pirates, the sky, or the sea, as if searching the world for the answer.
At that moment, he felt Salazar move slightly, tightening his grip around his neck a little more, perhaps Rigel's constant movement had caused his to awaken.
Looking at the snake coiled around his neck, Rigel seemed to think of something. Smiling, he turned to the book and asked. "Black Flag, draw the figure of a white snake biting its own tail."
Rigel saw the flag's design appearing on the paper and nodded with satisfaction, Ouroboros, the serpent of creation and destruction, also representing cycles and eternity.
He was pleased with the design, confirming his choice.
[Congratulations on giving shape to "Black Flag(Silver)" Writer, the flag has been placed in your bag.]
Rigel didn't think twice, he took down the flag and shouted to Ragetti and Pintel. "Hey, you two, raise this flag!"
The two smiled and quickly grabbed the flag, going up to the main ship's mast to exchange the old Blackbeard flag for the new one.
Rigel didn't stop, he went to the bow and turned to the Adventure Book. He took some time to finalize his idea, but the moment he confirmed it, the skeleton that acted as the ship's Figurehead began to change. Its body grew and lengthened, gaining mass from nowhere.
It became a black snake's head, but that wasn't all, the snake's tail continued to lengthen around the ship, crisscrossing the wood, passing behind the boat before returning to where it began. The snake's tail finally stopped growing just below its head.
This was just the beginning, the ship began to change color, just like the color of the snake, its wood turning completely black. The damage to the ship over the years also began to repair itself, even the tears in the red sails and the broken parts of the glass window behind the ship were repaired.
The figurehead's head was a meter and a half wide, its head slightly above the bow. When it finally stopped growing, the snake didn't stand still, but turned its head towards Rigel and hissed. Rigel was surprised to discover that the figurehead had spoken in snake language!
"Master..." The snake greeted him.
Rigel smiled, and over the shocked eyes of the crew, Rigel spoke in Parseltongue. "Your name is Jormungandr."
The symbol of the Auroborus from Norse mythology, Jormungandr, Rigel thought the name was appropriate.
Jormungandr nodded, pleased with the name, before turning his head and continuing to look ahead, as if he were really just a figurehead.
[A/N: He looks like Jormungandr from God of War, but black]
Although Rigel was curious about the wooden snake, he wasn't finished yet. Looking at the ship, he spoke. "Ragnarok, that's the name of this ship."
Actually, Rigel wanted to give it a more direct name like "Twilight of the Gods", but he figured that if he sailed a ship like that in a sea with real gods, or even in a future world with gods too, he would only need one of them to get offended to mess with him.
Thus, Ragnarok would only offend the Norse gods, and Rigel remembered to stay away from the waters of the 'Norse countries'. Sure, he'd probably forget about it eventually.
While there was indeed some aspect of Rigel that chose this as a Chuunibyou, the central point was the overall meaning, Rigel, who had always been weak, wanted to rise to the point where he could kill "gods", and that's what the name was given with.
As soon as he said that, the name Queen Anne's Revenge on the stern changed, becoming 'Ragnarok' in cursive letters.
Rigel was pleased, he only hoped that future readers of the adventure book wouldn't be Norse gods who wanted to stone the "Writer" for appropriating their culture.
[A/N: Guys, what do you call breaking the fourth wall without breaking the fourth wall? That's what I just did, lmao. I've never seen that before, so I'll reserve the right to name it, I'll call it Schrödinger's Fourth Wall.]
[A/N: Regarding the names Ragnarok, Ouroborus, and Jormungandr, I've been thinking about the ship's name, flag, and figurehead for a while now. I had several ideas, but none of them truly appealed to me. In fact, this one was the least bad, in my opinion, since I'm sticking with the snake theme, let's continue with it until the end.]