With Every Heartbeat

Chapter 1

Nothing hardly ever happens in the small town of Beldrom. Ocassionally, you would see a pirate, but once he saw the pitiful little town of Beldrom they would leave.That would all change in one day. People called it The One Day because it was truly amazing how much can really happen in one day.

Will Turner put on his boot and started to look for the other one. "I'm gonna need the other one" he said knowingly. Suddenly his boot was propped up on the rock beside him. Will stared at the boot then up at the person wearing the boot. It was his wife Elizabeth, the woman he had married only hours before. Will moved so he was sitting in front of her. He then took the boot and pressed his lips to Elizabeth's bare leg [sorry,that slipped while Will thought.

He knew he had to treasure every moment with Elizabeth but feared it would end all too quickly. Now that Will was captain of the Flying Dutchman, he would only see Elizabeth once every ten years for on day only. He would have to return to the Dutchman at sunset. With the thought of that, Will turned to see the sun starting to set. "Nearly sunset" Will pointed out, still staring at the horizon. Elizabeth looked too as Will got up and walked over to a large rock

Elizabeth walked forward a few steps, still leaving distance from her and Will. She could see Will's jacked propped over something. Finally, Will lifted his jacket reveling the Dead Man's Chest now containing Will's beating heart. "It's always belong to you" Will said softly. He picked up the chest and turned to face Elizabeth. "Will you keep it safe?' Will asked hopefully. "Yes" Elizabeth answered immediently. She walked right up to Will and took the chest in her arms. "Yes" she repeated.

They both rested their foreheads against one anther and waited for a kiss goodbye but it never came. It was just too painful for Will to say goodbye because there was so much he wanted to say to her. He turned and walked away to the water's edge. Elizabeth watch him walk away filled with regret and then she knew she couldn't let Will go that quickly. "Will!" she called, running up to him for one final imbrace. With that, Will gave Elizabeth a kiss to last those lonely years that awaited them.

When they broke apart,Will said smiling, "Keep a weather eye on the Horizon" With one last smile, Will turned and was aboard the Dutchman. Elizabeth stared sadly as the Dutchman saild towards the beautiful sunset. As the last rays of sunlight disappeared, the Dutchman disappeared with it. The last thing Elizabeth saw on the horizon was a green flash, leaving Elizabeth in darkness.

Elizabeth was not the only one to see the Green Flash. At the sight on the horizon, the people of Beldrom stared in complete awe and lots of excitment started to happen. Within a hour, everyone knew about the Green Flash.

During that hour, a woman came in to town clutching a chest. With her short black dress and bare feet, she appeared a stranger to this town. Word began to spread and people went down to the beach where she had come from to investigate. However, all they found was a rowboat and two swords crossed in the sand. Folks began to question one another about tis unexplainable mystery. Then, a group of people began to think that the woman was spending her one day with her husband, the captain of the Flying Dutchman. Many People thought that they were crazy at first until they thought about it. That would explain the chest she was holding, and the Green Flash! It was later known that the woman's name was Elizabeth Turner. Even though she was perfectly aware that she was the talk of the town, Elizabeth never really seemed to mind.

As the years past, men, women, and children of all classes made up the town of Beldrom. The small, quite town of Beldrom had turned into a large and social community for some of the wealthiest people known to man. Everyone who lived there knew this was caused by the one day

20 years later

20 years have past and the town is still loud and busy, yet no one talks of the One Day anymore. If someone did it would be out of the blue. Even if the town did not know, today was the day was the day Will Turner could come ashore for one day. Elizabeth was there waiting on the beach and Will and the Green Flash appeared too, but something wasn't right. There was someone running, followed by a loud gunshot as someone fell to the ground. When the person fell something else fell and landed with a thud on the white sand. It was the Dead Man's Chest. When the chest fell, a man's voice laughed cruelly, his voice filling the air. Everything went to darkness as Nicole Capry sat upright in her bed, her heart ponding madly inside her

Nicole tried to relax but found she couldn't. Everything was moving so fast her heart, her breaths, her mind. Who had been murdered? Who was the man laughing? Who had shot the gun? Why did they shot the gun? And who had had the chest?

Nicole's mind stopped filling with question as her breathing returned to normal. It had only been a dream. Right? Nicole looked around her bedroom and stopped when her eyes saw the gleam of the candle on her bedside table. She pushed back the blankets of her bed to scoot closer to the table. As Nicole went to grab the candle, she noticed a ring with a large diamond laying on the table as well. Oh, everything was coming back to her now. She was engaged to Andrew Dracone, the richest man in town. The Engagement Gala was tonight and Andew was sure to spoil her, especially because today was also her Birthday. Uhh, how could she forget her own Birthday?

Nicole exhaled and as she did she could hear a low thumping noise. Startled, Nicole's head whipped around in the direction of her closet. Cruiously, Nicole jumped out of her bed, carefully taking the candle in her hand, and walked to her closet. She slowly turned the door handle and pushed the door all the way open. As Nicole sat down on the cold wooden floor, she could clearly hear the thumping grow louder. The closet was dark but the light from the candle was enough to make out items.

Nicole's closet contained all of her mother's possessions that were past down to her when Nicole's mother died. She had died when Nicole was 15 and lots had changed since then but because it upset both Nicole and her father they never talked about her.Nicole shock off the thought of her mother as she crawled to the back of the closet.

Sure enough, there was her mother's dress wrapped tightly around something. Nicole picked it up and as she started to unravel the thumping thing, Nicole saw her hands shacking.When she was done unraveling the heavy dress fell to the floor which caused the candle to blow out.

Nicole didn't need candle light to know what had been thumping, what she now was holding in her trembling hands. It was The Dead Man's Chest