Hello guys, my new story. Let me know what you think
I looked down the road, watching people. Who knows what you can find on the streets of Tortuga. People watching has come to be one of my past times, since i'll be having a lot of that. This curse will never be broken, so i'll have an eternity to watch people.
My attention gets captured by a familiar figure walking down the road seeming to be looking for someone. I hop off the barrel I was sitting on and start walking towards the figure. "Gibbs, what brings you to my side of the town?" I ask getting his attention. A smile appears on his face as he sees me.
"Aella, I was looking for you. I need to ask you a favor." I raise an eyebrow waiting for him to continue. When he notices I paused, he seemed to realize what I was doing. "I need you to join a crew, for Jack." I burst out laughing and have to bend over to catch my breath.
"Now, let me make sure I got this right." I start as I wipe a stray tear from my eye from laughing. "You want me to join a crew, for the man that I was raised with. Who was an idiot and got himself marooned on an island. That same man?"
"Yes, he's after the Pearl."
"Now I'm intrigued."
"He's planning something, if the rumors are true that the crew is cursed, I believe he has someway to break the curse so he can take back the Pearl from Barbossa."
If he can break the curse, then I will be free of the curse. "Alright, I'll be apart of the crew."
"Great, meet at the dock. You'll know the ship when you see it."
Leaving him, I walked down to the docks. I saw a and there wasn't any body on it getting ready. That must be the ship Gibbs was talking about. I walked on deck and saw a couple people just standing around. I did recognize a couple of them. "Anamaria." I called catching her attention. She turned and looked probably to see who had called her name. I walked towards her as she saw me.
"Aella, long time no see." She said hugging me.
"You here on Jack's crew?"
"Yeah, I'm also here to make sure he gives me the ship that he took and never gave back."
"Don't worry, I'll make sure he does."
Speaking of Jack, I heard a couple sets of feet coming on the plank. "Captain on board!" I yelled making everyone get into a line. I waited at the end of the line just to watch Jack and NOT be the first one he sees.
"Feast your eyes, cap'n. All of 'em good seafaring men, faithful before the mast, everyone worth his salt, and crazy to boot." I rolled my eyes at what Gibs had said.
"You, speak." Jack said stepping in front of the man that has a parrot.
"Cotton here is mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out. So he went and trained the parrot to do the talking for him, nobody knows how. Nobody knows the parrot's name neither, so we just call it 'Cotton's parrot.'"
"Mr Cotton. Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true, in the face of danger, and almost certain death?" Jack asked very dramatically. I had to stop myself from laughing.
"Wind in your SAILS! Wind in your SAILS!" The parrot replied.
"Mostly, that seems to mean yes."
Jack nodded and moved on looking over the crew. He stopped at Anamaria and looked her up and down. "What are you doing here?"
"You owe me a boat. You stole it from me."
"Borrowed. Borrowed your boat, without permission. With all intentions of bringing it back."
"You still owe her a boat." I said jumping in keeping my head down so that the hat I was wearing was hiding my face.
"You'll get a new boat, a better boat."
"That boat." An unfamiliar voice said.
"What boat...that boat."
There was a pause and then Anamaria spoke. "Aye."
Jack seemed happy with himself, and then walked over to stand in front of me. "And who are you?"
I smiled and slowly looked up. "You don't remember your own sister, Jackie?" His eyes widened as he looked at me.
"Who let her on here?" He turned and looked at Gibbs and the rest of the crew.
"Cap'n, we needed her. She knows more about Barbosa than the rest of us."
Jack let out a sigh and then looked back at me. "Don't give me any trouble, savvy?"
"Savvy." I saluted him. Jack glared at me and then he kept walking. That gave me plenty of time to look at the man that was with him that I didn't know. He looked familiar, but I couldn't figure it out. He was also pretty attractive, for a landlubber which you could clearly tell he was.
"That goes for the rest of you! Danger and near certain death. For we are to sail for Isla de Muerta, to rescue the daughter of Governor Swann. An equal share of the reward shall be…" He heard some running making him turn back to the group. There were only a couple of us left.
"Stop talking or you'll lose them all!" The man said...more like yelled at Jack.
"These are the only ones worth having...And we're going to need them all." He said the last part looking at me. I just smiled at him and waved making him roll his eyes in annoyance and walking up to the wheel.
"Alright, all hands on deck, get to your stations, we need to get moving!" I yelled as kind of a familiar thing. They all looked at me wondering what I was doing and then looked at Jack.
"Do what she says."
I walked over to the edge of the ship just letting the wind whip in my hair. It has been too long since I last had this feeling. I heard footsteps come up to me, but I kept my eyes closed as I felt the storm coming.
"My names Will." I opened my eyes and saw the man that looked familiar.
"Aella."
"So you're Jacks sister. That would make you Aella." I turned and looked at him leaning backwards on the edge of the ship.
"Aye, and what is your name. Your full name."
"Will Turner."
"Son of Bootstrap Bill Turner?"
"Apparently. Or at least that is what your brother believes." That would makes sense as to why he looked so familiar.
"And are you the reason that my brother has gone on this escapade that he normally doesn't do. In search for a woman that he has, hopefully no connection to. Also wanting to get back to the man that marooned him on an island with nothing but a single shot. Hoping to find the treasure that was supposed to be his, that has cursed the whole crew on that ship and putting them in a sort of hell where they can't eat or sleep or even drink?" I rambled looking from Will to Jack a couple times.
"Yes, I believe that is true. What kind of curse?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know. Now what is your connection to this woman?"
"I am in love with her."
"I see. I guess that leaves nothing for me then." I joked and walked away just as the storm started coming down on us.
"These sails won't be able to take much more time." Gibbs yelled up to me and Jack.
"She's right there." I pointed and said only so Jack could hear me.
"She can hold a bit longer." Jack yelled down to Gibbs. I looked at Jack and he looked at me as we both smiled. We were getting back into our 'sibling mood'.
"What's in your head to put you both in such a fine mood?" Gibbs asked walking up to us.
"We're catching up."
"She's just off the port bow." I said. Almost immediately we heard Marty call down to us from the crows nest.
"Isla de Muerta! Isla de Muerta, off the port bow!"
Anamaria came over and took the wheel as Jack stepped forward with his compass. "Bear three points starboard." I felt the ship turn as she did. "Six points port!"
"How do we expect to find an island no one can find, with a compass that doesn't work?" Will asked.
"Now lad, just because it don't point north don't mean it don't work. That compass gives bearings to the Isla de Muerta, wherever it may lie."
"Really? So..what's the story on the pistol that Aella told me about." I stopped on the top of the stairs and listened to the story."
"I'll tell ye. Now, Jack Sparrow has an honest streak in him, and that's where the whole problem starts. This was when he was the Captain of the Black Pearl and Aella was a part of his crew."
"He never told me that. And Aella was apart of his crew, what happened to them?" I looked down ashamed of what had happened, even though I knew no one would see me.
"Ah….he's learned them. Plays things more close to the vest. See, Jack was a cartographer, back in Old England and Aella was a maid. Somehow they came by the money to commission the Pearl. He hired a crew while she got supplies, he promised each man an equal share." Gibbs paused for a minute and I saw Will lean in even more. "So they're forty days out, and the First Mate says, everything's an equal share, that should mean the location of the island, too. So Jack gave up the bearings. When Aella heard what Jack had done, she was furious. She didn't trust the First Mate at all, knew he was up to something. She and Jack got in a fight, but Jack didn't believe anything Aella told him and warned him. That night, there was a mutiny. And Aella didn't do anything. Jack gave himself up for the sake of his loyal crewmen and his sister. He was marooned on an island, left there to die."
"How did he get off the island?" Will asked.
"I didn't!" Jack yelled as he walked up on them. Probably listening like I was. "My body's still there, rotting away, and I am but a ghost!"
"How did you get off the island?" Gibbs asked emphasising did.
"Ah, tied 3 turtles together and rode them."
"Wait, what about the pistol?' Gibbs and Jack both went to answer, but I beat them to it.
"When a pirate is marooned, Will, he's given a pistol with a single shot. No good for hunting, or surviving really. But after weeks of starvation and thirst, the option of that pistol begins to look good."
"But I survived. And I still have that single shot. It's meant for one man. My mutinous first mate.." Jack finished.
"Barbossa." Will said.
"As is mine." I looked at Jack who looked at me confused. "I was mutinied by my own crew, but they were generous enough to leave me at Tortuga instead of an island. But that's also because I told them to mutiny." Without another word, I turned and walked away from them. I walked to the front of the ship looking out to see if I could see Isla de Muerta. I couldn't wait to put that bullet through Barbossa's skull.