Captain Cakebeard

by Marcibel

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Tragedy, Adventure, Alternate Universe
Length: 402

Captain Cakebeard, a sculpted white Alicorn with an august mark of the daytime star, and her crew take to the romantic seas to find the relics of a fallen goddess of concord, battling a chaos-driven admiral and a mutinous former first mate.

A white Alicorn that bears the mark of Helios’ chariot upon her flanks has sailed the waters of both the New and Old Worlds, sighting the evils of life with her own scarred eyes. Some may see her as a simple pirate, traitorous to her country and family—that is, if she had any family; to the ponies employed by any of the "His majesty's" she is an ungodly, merciless mare of fortune that deserves naught but a rope around her neck; but to a band of a few ne’er-do-wells she is their faitheful leader and captain.

But upon receiving word from a friend that she had acquired the log of an infamous swashbuckler named Buccaneer Blue, including the instructions to the treasure of the goddess of concord, the white captain commands for the sails of her caravel to be hoisted as the start of one of her most fantastic voyages in her life, challenging a lively chaotic admiral of a king’s navy and a mutinous former first mate to complete her only personal goal.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-09-29 19:22:11 UTC

Cast of Characters

CAST OF CHARACTERS

CAKEBEARD:

A stern-looking, scar-eyed captain, the moving marble statue of a goddess, seemingly birthed from the white foam of Poseidon’s seas. She bears both the wings of Pegasi and the magic of Unicorns, but the events of her past only the sun and the Dread Pirate herself shall know.

SPARKLE:

The bookish first mate of the schooner christened as Devil’s Food, wise with words but naïve with the world’s mechanics, who doubles as the quartermaster. She had known the captain for three years and the Dread Pirate’s origins eluded her even then. She is the spinner of this romantic yarn.

PINK’MENA:

A pink Earth mare bathing in the endless cascades of joy and excitement. She has appointed herself the ship’s jester—a title she holds in high regards—and enforces her unofficial rule of “only smiles aboard this ship.” To her, life is a cup full of chocolate rain.

SKITTLES:

The extraordinarily loyal and colorful second mate of the crew with a lurid and self-righteous disposition. A life on the high seas, for her, equals life in constant adventure. She is nicknamed after the polychromic state of her mane and tail, and pray for those that have tasted the rainbow.

DISCORD:

A creature with a scrambled body, a chaotic mind, and the saber of a commodore. From the way he speaks, he has known Cakebeard longer than anypony still drawing a breath, but the way he wields his unique magic suggests that he is merely pulling everypony’s leg.

SHIMMER:

The latest predecessor of Sparkle, who became a captain by breathing a word to the rest of the crew. Her head is always calculating something, and the world is a chessboard to this Unicorn. But her desire of control begs the question: was Cakebeard really the traitorous one that night?

CENDIO:

A spitfire of a Pegasus mare and an acquaintance of Cakebeard with an aggressive nature and a no-nonsense attitude that has made her a feared Neightalian name upon the stretches of blue water. Unfortunately for Captain Shimmer, she holds onto grudges as if they were made of unblemished diamond.

APPLEJACK:

Proprietor of the Adam’s Apple, a hotel and tavern in the bay city of Port Canterlot that caters especially to maritime ponies, so it is no surprise that she knows a few privateers, both with and without letters of marque, and found the old journal of one.