I came back from vacation sooner than I thought.
Sage: Prehaps a little to soon.
What can I say? I was eager to post my new story and I missed hearing from my fans.
Sage: Whatever.
This is a crossover with Pirates of the Carribean. If you do not know what Yugioh is, don't read because you won't understand. Parings are: Will/Elizabeth and onesided Jack/Elizabeth. I got a laptop for my birthday and haven't been able to upload Word onto it yet. I've had to use WordPad which doesn't have spellchecker on it so I apologize for any mistakes.
Sage: DarkHeartInTheSky does not own Yugioh or Pirates of the Carribean.
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"That one." The brown-haired man said as his hand pointed at the gem sitting under the glass that stood before him. "It's perfect."
The merchant, an older man with yellow teeth and no hair, smiled as he took the ring out from the case and laid it on top so the man could examine it. "You have a good eye, lad. That gem be one of the most beautiful stones my old eyes have ever had the pleasure of seeing. A beautiful ring deserves a beautiful finger to rest upon, no?"
"Aye. She is beautiful. I want nothing more than to spend the rest of my life, however long it may be, with her and only her."
The merchant nodded. "Spoken like a true gentlemen. Tell me, son, what be your lady's name?"
"Elizabeth Swann, sir."
"The governer's daughter?"
"Aye, sir."
The merchant whistled. "She is a beauty. You did quite a fine job. There a lot of young men who would give anything to be her husband."
"Nonesense." Will scolded, "They are only intrested in the money her family has. I am in it for love. I owe her my life. She rescued me when we were children."
"I remember hearing about that. You're William Turner?"
"Junior, sir." Will corrected.
"What happened to senior."
Will looked down. "I don't know."
The merchant was quiet. "I'm sorry, lad."
"It's nothing." Will dug through a pocket that hung at his hip and pulled out a handful of gold coins. He put them out onto the counter and grabbed the ring. The merchant gave his thanks and grabbed the coins. He jangled them in his hands, then frowned. He picked one up and bit into hard. Will gave the man an odd look, to which he replied, "It's protocal, son. Pirates inhabit these islands and make a living forging money to get the real valuables."
"You've encountered pirates?"
"Aye, laddie. Some of them have been the worst of the worst."
"You mean the meanest?"
The merchant's jaw opened wide, and he shook his head. "No, lad. I'm being literal. Some of the pirates I've been encounterin' have been failuries!"
"Do you know any of there names?" Will asked, dreading the answer that was sure to come.
The merchant closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. "Lemme see..there was this one guy..what was his name?" He opened his eyes and looked at Will. "Oh, I remember now. The man called himself Captain Jack Sparrow."
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The man stood by the edge of the boat, looking out his telescope. He scanned the open waters. The were unusally calm and collected. He scoffed. The waters by Port Royal were exceptionally boring and dull. Where were the twenty-foot tall waves? Where was the green waters he had come to love and adore so much that he dared called home? He glanced up at the sky. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and the cries of seagulls echoed everywhere. A light breeze nipped at his skin.
Jack Sparrow slid his telescope back into place and hung it at his hip. Why had he come back to Port Royal?
"Jack!" Called a voice from the docks. The captain looked down from the Black Pearl and sighed as he saw Will coming up. Oh yeah, he remembered now. Will run up the ramp and stepped onto the pirates ship.
"Did you get what you need?" Jack asked sternly.
"Yes." Will dug through his pocket and showed Jack the diamond he had accuqurired. Jack picked it up and held it with his thumb and middle finger. He admired it as the sun's rays glistened off it. There wasn't the slight imperfection. Jack was impressed at his friend's finding. Not many men knew what the value of such a gem was.
"This is very beautiful." Jack commented as he handed it back.
Will looked at it doubtfully. "Do you think she'll like it?"
"I'm posistive she'll love it." Jack bit his lip and looked over the edge of the boat. He was sure that Elizabeth would love the ring. He may be a pirate, but that didn't mean he lied like one. But he also wasn't heartless. He was happy for Will, but another part of him, the predator part, wanted to lung at his throat. Jack heard a noise in the distance that intrigued him and he turned his head, forgetting his prior thoughts.
"What's wrong, Jack?"
Jack brought a finger up to Will's lips. "Quiet, boy. I hear something."
Both men looked over the edge of the ship and saw two men, nearly identical, running around the Port speaking an odd language. They stopped by the cargo area of the Port and began to speak with a man who was loading supplies onto a ship. One man was slightly taller, with red eyes that were full of confidence. His hair was tall and wild, sporting three different colors. His compaion was shorter and his eyes were violet and full of the kind of innoncence only youth could posses. He bore the same hair.
"Foreginers." Will commented.
"It's a shipyard, boy, of course they are going to be foreginers." Jack replied, feeling like he were scolding a child.
"But, they aren't the foreginers we are used to . Look at them.. They are not from the Americas, nor any of the islands in the Carribean. They don't even look French."
Jack pondered this for a moment. Will had a good point. Jack had sailed all the waters in the islands that made of the Carribean, seeing every culture that he had thought existed. These boys fit none of the charateristics he had come to understand. Their clothing was like none he had seen before and he had never heard the language that came out of their tounges.
"Wait," Will said, "They are speaking english now."
Jack squinted his eyes and watched the lips move on the older boy. He tuned out all other noises and focuses soley on the words that were coming out of the boy's mouth.
"-brother and I are looking for work. We are willing to work on ship and do not need to be paid with money. Food and board are all we need."
"Sorry kid," the man said, "we barely have enough room for our own crew."
The kid sighed, but nodded. "I understand." He looked at the younger boy. "Come on, Yugi. There has to be someone out here who would be willing to hire." He took the kid's hand and pulled him through the boat yard.
"Very intresting." Jack said.
Will looked at him oddly. "You could hear them?"
Jack nodded. "They want work."
"And you want to hire them."
Jack glanced at Will, then grined. "We need a crew."
"But what about Elizabeth? I cannot leave her to go out onto the seas with you again! I don't want to spend my honeymoon without her!"
"She can come with us. She did say she loved the pirate life." Jack gripped the edge of the boat and hopped over, landing in the waters with a splash. He swam to the docks and pulled himself out. Jack sat down for a moment to squeeze the water out of his messy dreadlocks, then shook his head like a dog. He stood up and ran into the boat yard. It was filled with various ships from all over the world, each carrying cargo from their native country.
Jack listened closely for the boy's voice. He picked it up from around the corner and saw the two boys sitting on top of crates. The younger one had his chin in his hands and looked very glum. The older boy was speaking in the odd language. Jack wasn't really paying much attention to what was being said, but instead tried to get their attention.
"Ahoy, matties!" Jack greeted. The older boy's eyes shot up and glared at the pirate. He spoke to the boy in the odd language and the boy nodded.
"Don't be like that. I hear you boys are looking for work."
They continued to be silent, and stared at him.
Jack, becoming frustrated, scowled. "I know you boys speak english. I heard you speaking to that man back in the shipyard asking for a job. It just so happens I have room for two young, strong men abroad my ship!"
The older boy raised an eyebrow and looked down, thinking an idea over. After a moment, he spoke. "What would we have to do?" He asked in perfect english.
Jack smiled. "Whatever we would need to have be done. You two look like you could make excellent cabin boys." Jack pointed out.
The older boy seemed to take offense to that, but the younger one pulled at his sleeve and spoke again in the odd language. The older boy looked at him. "Are you sure?" He asked. His friend nodded. The older sighed. "Very well." Looking back up at Jack, he said, "We accecpt."
"Excellent! If you have no luggage, come onto my ship at once."
The boys stood up and folllowed Jack. "What are your names?" The captain asked as he made his way back to his ship.
"I am Yami." The older said sternly. "This is Yugi, my brother."
"Hmm. What names would those be?"
"Japanese." Yugi said. "They mean 'Dark' and 'Game'. What is your name?"
"I," he turned to face his new employes, "am Captain Jack Sparrow of the Black Pearl."
Yugi's face lightened up with curosity.
"Your hat," Yami said cautiously,"is one of a pirate."
Jack's hand uncounciosuly went up to his head and felt the cottton head piece he wore. He swallowed.
"Well?" Yami said impatiently as he began to tap his foot. Jack looked down at the shoes the man wore. The were skinny and went up to his ankles. They looked like they were made of leather and they made a clank clank clank as they hit the wood of the Port. Jack foucsed on them as he made up a liable excuse for his dress.
"Of course it is. I stole it from the the infamous Davy Jones! He tried to bring me down into his Locker, but I fought him to the death! And my reward for slaying the dreaded pirate was taking his hat!" Jack lied, mentally praising himself. He thought it was impressive that he could come up the story so quickly and it made sense and flow evenly. The younger boy's eyes were filled with amazement. Jack smirked. This kid would be easy to fool.
"Are we suppose to believe that?" Yami asked.
"You're free to believe what you want, laddie, but the fact remains that you are working for me and I don't have to tell you anything I don't wish too."
"A secretive employer? I don't think we're intrested in someone who's afraid to confide in us the truth."
"I have a first mate you can take that up with. But for now, let us be off to my ship!" Jack continued towards the Black Pearl.
Yami and Yugi looked at each other, then followed the man. He lead them to the edge of the Port where they docks were. They looked up at the ship with awe. It wasn't very big, but it stood in it's own galore. It had a large sail that moved with the light wind. The front of the ship was large and held a sense of confidence. They moved to the ramp and walked up it.
"Jack!" A voice called. Yugi turned a saw a another man coming at them. He had brown eyes and brown hair. Dark whiskers were growing out on his chin and he look enraged.
Jack turned to face them. "My apologies, gentlement. This is William Turner, my first mate."
Will looked at Jack confused, but before he could speal, Jack continued, "You have to excuse him. Poor lad is lovesick and is dearly awaiting the arrival of his beloveled. He plans to ask for her hand tonight and his fear of rejection has him all wound up."
"Nice to met you, William." Yami said and put out his hand. Will took it and shook it.
"Call me Will. Listen, I'll have to talk to you later. Right now, the captain," he said the word with slight disdain, "and I need to talk." Will took Jack's sleeve and pulled him to the back of the Black Pearl. Once he was sure they were out of earshot from the other two, he spoke.
"What the hell are you thinking?" He whispered, the words came out raspy in his voice along with some spittle.
"I was thinking we could use some extra help on the Black Pearl. These boys needed a job and I offered them one. What's the harm in having another two pairs of hand on deck?"
"How are we suppose to sustain two more mouths when we can barely feed ourselves?"
Jack rose a finger to speak and opened his mouth to speak, then paused. He brought the finger to his lip and looked down at the deck. "I never thought about that." He mummbled.
"Yeah, Jack, you tend to not think about a lot of things."
Jack snapped his fingers together. "I know. We're pirates! We're pilage this lousy town and take all supplies we'll need."
Will laughed slightly.
"What's so funny, boy?" Jack asked sternly.
"I was talking to the merchant who sold me the ring. He said he met Captain Jack Sparrow once and that he was the worst excuse for a pirate he had ever seen."
"He said that? Oh yeah..I know who you're talking talking about. That old scum bag still owes me six gold coins.."
"For what?" Will shouted, surprised.
Jack waved the question off like it was a gnat. "Don't worry about it. He and I, we used to gamble together back in the day, but that was years ago."
"Excuse us."
Jack and Will turned to see Yugi standing in front of them, with a curious look on his face.
"Um, how long have you been standing there, laddie?" Jack asked as his eyes locked with Will's.
"Not very long. There's a lady who wants to come up. She says her name is Swann."
"Elizabeth!" Will shouted. He left Jack and ran past Yugi, shoving the boy to the side. Yugi hit the edge of the boat and cried out in shock. The boy fell to his knees as he grabbed his shoulder.
Jack came to his aide. The pirate put an arm around the boy's unharmed shoulder and helped him to his feet. "You okay, kid?"
Yugi nodded, still unable to speak. He took a moment to collecct himself and inhaled deeply several times. "I'm fine. That was just so unexpected, you know?"
Jack nodded. "The boy really loves this girl. When he sees her, it's like they're they only two people on Earth."
Yugi nodded. "I understand."
"You have a girl?"
Yugi blushed at the question and looked down, pulling a strand of hair out of his face. "Uh, no. Yami's more of the lady's man, not me."
Jack said nothing. He choose to observe the boy. He seemed relucatnat to answer a simply question. He recalled just a few moments ago when Yami accused him of being of secretive, but it seemed that Jack wasn't the only one with a secret. This boy and his brother, whoever they were, had a secret of their own as well. All Jack knew about them was their names and that they came from Japan. He didn't know what they were doing so far from home or why they even left in the first place. He didn't know why they were willing to take a job with someone they don't even know and why the older brother seemed so protective of the younger one. It wasn't just some simple brotherly protection; Jack had only known them for a few minutes, but he cold read Yami's body language. Yami wasn't trusting at all, and seemed to take every measure to see to Yugi's safety. Why though? The boy had to be at least fiftten, a man by even the slave keepers standards.
They were keeping their own secrets. The question remained what were they?
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They sat on the docks with their bare feet hanging over the edge, gently swinging underneath the cool waters. Elizabeth had her head ontop of Will's shoulder and her right hand sat ontop of his knee. They two didn't speak. They sat comfortable in the silence as the sun began to fall over the horizon, setting the sky on fire with colors of pink and red. Elizabeth was in her large, ballroom gown, not caring that by sitting on the docks she would forever ruin it. She hated wearing dresses anyways. They made her feel girly and vulnerable. She was not vulnerable. She had recently gone on the adventure of a lifetime, proving her worth as a person and not just another woman.
She shifted her head into a better posistion. Her soft eyes glanced up briefly at Will's and she smiled. Will was so perfect. He was strong, respectful, and loving. Elizabeth knew she was in love with him, but her father had different ideas. The Governer wanted his daughter to marry someone royal, not a blacksmith his ship had plucked from the ocean years ago. Elizabeth had tried to plead with her father; insisting that if she were to marry it would be for for love, not for to keep her own father happy.
She sighed quietly so Will wouldn't hear her. She remembered seeing two strange men on Jack's ship. She wondered who they were and where they came from. They weren't Carribean and they didn't look French. She decided that Will would know who they were.
"Will?" She asked, breaking the silence that had fallen over them.
"Hm?" He asked, as though he were lost in a world of his own.
"Who were those two men on the Black Pearl? I've never seen them around Port Royal before."
"Jack hired them to work on the Pearl. He says we need some extra hands on deck."
Elizabeth took her head off Will's shoulder and looked at him. "What does Jack mean by, 'we'?"
Will sighed. "I'm going with Jack. You know him, how he gets. He can't possibly take care of himself long enough to survive more than a few days. You are free to accompany us if that is your wish."
Elizabeth bit her lip, then smiled. "I don't care where I am as long as I have you by my side."
"Aye. I could be in Davy Jones' locker, but if I went there to save you, then it would have been worth it."
"And I would do the same for you."
Will placed his hands on the back of Elizabeth's head and brought it close to his head. Their foreheads were touching and each turned their own head to their right. Their lips were puckered when they touched and when they released, she felt Will's hot breath on her neck.
"I love you Elizabeth." He said softly as he went in for another kiss.
"I love you, William." Their foreheads were still touching and they each got lost in the other's eyes.
Will reached for his pocket slowly so Elizabeth wouldn't see. He dug out the small ring that would bound them together forever in love.
"Elizabeth," Will said as he pulled himself away. "I would do anything you asked me. Can i trust that you would do the same for me?"
"Of course, Will. I'll do anything for you."
"I want you to come with me and Jack. Together, we can sail the seven seas and hopefully keep Jack from getthing himself killed."
Elizabeth laughed. "Yes. I will join you in your quest to keep Jack alive."
Will smiled. "Good. Can you do me one more thing?"
"What is it?"
Will showed the diamond ring and Elizabeth's mouth dropped. Tears of happiness swelled in her eyes.
"Will you marry me?"