DVD Malfunctions
Disclaimer: I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean, or any of the characters. And though this idea is cliché I like it anyway. for those whoare new reading the story. this is the revision. i read it later on wand was lik 'i wrote this? gah!' and so now it's being revised but i tried to keep it as origional as possible. if thatmakes sense in revision, and this is the first chapter!
Chapter One: A Pirate's Life For Me.
In a small town on the outskirts of nowhere stood a one-hundred year old victorian house. Just a quaint little house with three normal teenage girls having a Friday-end of exams bash. Pretty normal. There were, as I have already said three of them. The first by the name of Hayley.
"Hurry up and put the bloody thing in!" Hayley exclaimed, getting rather impatient about how long it took to hook up a DVD player. Hayley was the tallest at 5'5" with dark auburn hair that shown a deep purple in the light, her bright green eyes were glaring at the second girl who was hooking up the DVD player. Hayley was a tomboy, although when anyone commented on the eyeliner she said, "only real men where eyeliner!"
Janine gave a sigh of frustration, she hated being rushed, "I'm trying ok? It's not my fault that the TV doesn't recognize the out-put plug!" combing a lock of chestnut brown hair behind her ears she began switching the channels on the TV until a blue background held the words 'Samsung DVD'.
"ha!" she said triumphantly, her bright blue eyes sparkling. "Told ya I'd get it to work!"
"Whatever, will you just play the damn movie? Jeeze." Sam said slumping down on the couch. She rapped her perfectly manicured fingernails on her knee, her brown eyes turning to Hayley to give her a 'she's hopeless' look. Laughing, Sam pulled back her chin length dirty blonde hair and tossed Janine the DVD case, which she dropped. Hayley had to hold back a snicker. Sitting between the two Sam quickly snatched the remote.
"Gimme this!" and pressed 'play' tossing it back to Janine, "that's how we do it in the bronks."
"the what?"
"shut up! Jeeze" said Hayley. They sat there watching as Commodore Norrington came to little Elizabeth's side.
"I think it would be rather exciting to meet a pirate!" Norrington walked up along side her saying; looking out onto the water.
"Think again, Miss Swan. Vile and dissolute creatures the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag, or wears a pirate brand, gets what he deserves: a short drop and a sudden stop." Elizabeth frowns and looks over to Mr. Gibbs who helpfully mimes a man being hung. Elizabeth gasps-
"I'm getting a drink, want anything?" Janine asked looking at her friends, they scowled at the screen.
"We just started!" Hayley muttered.
"Fine then, just for myself." Janine got up from the couch and walked into the kitchen getting a Coca Cola from the fridge and opening it came to sit back down.
From out of the fog floats a Parasol. Surprised, delighted at this oddity, Elizabeth watches as it bounces off the hull as the fog drifts past, she then sees the body of a young boy emerge from the fog. Floating on his back, unconscious.
"Look! A boy! There's a boy in the water!" Elizabeth shouted to her father.
Norrington and Swann spot him and take immediate action.
"Man overboard!"
Elizabeth contributed with her own voice. "Boy overboard!"
"Fetch a hook haul him out of there!" Norrington shouted to him men. Sailors scramble to haul the boy aboard, lay him on the deck.
"He's still breathing." Norrington said to no-one in particular.
"Where did he come from?" Governor Swan asked to the wind.
"Mary mother of God ..." Gibbs said looking over the Port side of the H.M.S. Dauntless. His gasp turns everyone's attention from the boy to the sea … no longer empty. Wreckage from a ship litters the water along with the bodies of its crew. What remains of the hull burns; a ragged British flag hangs from the stern. The Dauntless slips past. The scene calls for hushed voices.
"What happened here?" Governor Swan wondered aloud. Norrington looks out at the wreckage and says:
"An explosion mishaps most likely the powder magazine. Merchant vessels run heavily armed." Gibbs looks at the crew then back out to the wreckage
"Lot of good it did them ..." Norrington and Swan give him a look that confirms his notions.
"Everyone's thinking it! I'm just saying it!-"
"Where's Jack?!" the three girls shout in unison. Laughing they didn't notice that the DVD had skipped to the harbor of Port Royal and froze. Their laughter died out as a pair of green and brown eyes look at Janine.
"Janine, what did you do?" Sam said joke-glaring at her. Janine was shocked.
"I didn't do anything why are you assuming it's me!!"
"Because it always is you, you klutz!" said Hayley smirking,"You're probably sitting on the remote and pressed skip then pause!"
"Did not!"
"You were the last one with the remote Janine!!" Sam said getting up herself and looking around the room.
"Well it aint under my butt!"
"Nor mine" Hayley said. Sam and Hayley looked at Janine. She stood up and turning in a full circle.
"I don't have it."
"Where the hell did it go?" Sam asked giving a roar of frustraion walking around the living room. For fifteen minutes the teens tore up the living room, lifting rugs and cushions only to be graced with nothing. They all looked at each other and sighed.
"I guess we're just gonna have ta do it manually." Sam said walking up to the black DVD thing. She looked on the left side, on the top, on the other side.
"Janine, where the hell is the play button every DVD player has a play button?" She waved her hands to display it as if it were on a game show. "there's nothing here. Care to explain?!"
"My mom wanted an all in one sound system so the sound system IS the DVD player." They glared at her.
"Your mom sucks." Said Hayley, Janine opened her mouth to retort when loud ringing engulfed the room drilling into their eardums. The ground started shaking as well, pulling the teens to their knees hands over their ears.
"Ow! what the fuck?"
"Shit, Janine what's going on?" Sam yelled.
"How the hell am I supposed to know?"
"It's your house, Ding Ding!" they chorused over the loud ringing. Their eyes were shut tightly and they felt like they were on the Top Gun in Canada's Wonderland.
"I think I'm going to be sick!" Hayley screamed overtop of the ringing.
"You're gonna what?" Janine shouted over the …lapping of the waves against the shore? As quickly as it had come it was gone and the usual negative twenty of Canadian winters was replaced with the plus twenty-five of Caribbean spring, with the salt from the ocean licking the air around them. Mouths agape they stared at the town across the bridge.
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore…" Sam said standing up and dusting herself off, she looked around at the old fashioned buildings and cobblestone streets and ladies in eccentric gowns for everyday where.
"Ya think?" Hayley asked, deadpan.
"Okay I'm SURE we're not in Kansas anymore."
"…you know we were never in Kansas..." Janine said meekly Hayley gave her a slightly pissed off look.
"That's not the point-it was a saying of-gah!" Sam yelled frustrated then playfully put the palm of her hand in Janine's face. "Don't talk to me!!!"
"Um guys, ya might wanna think about um, lets see, I don't know." She paused for dramatic effect. "What we're going to do??!!!" she shouted causing a couple heads to turn. Janine looked at them and quickly patted Hayley on the shoulder as she spoke.
"Sorry, folks, my sister was just on her way to the hospital for some meds-"
"I'm not crazy!" she hissed in Janine's ear, Sam coughed.
"You might was well be seein' as you're starting a scene."
"I'm not starting the scene! The scene was already started I was just pulled into it!" she said glaring at Janine. Janine stuck her tongue out.
"Well you always said you wanted to be in the movies-"
"Well I didn't mean this way!"
"Ok let's just focus on what we're going to do." Sam said pulling back her hair thinking.
"Ok what part of the movie are we in."
"When Jack-"
"Captain Jack!" Janine corrected, Hayley rolled her eyes.
"Whatever. Where Captain-" She threw a look at Janine "-Jack Sparrow comes in on sinking on the sailboat he stole from Anna Maria." Somewhere in the distance they heard a loud 'SMACK!' but shook their heads and continued talking.
"Well where we are going to stay, I mean this evening is when Barbarossa and his crew go for the Medallion - "
"The Medallion!" Hayley and Janine butted in, Sam looked at them both.
"do you think we should try to take it away from Elizabeth?"
"She's a complete stubborn goat! We aren't gonna get anything outta her." Hayley said.
Janine shrugged "…well we have to get to the end of this movie, therefore we HAVE to go where Elizabeth goes. So in exactly 15 minutes into the movie Elizabeth should be falling off the Fort Charles-"
"I wish she hit the rocks-" Sam muttered so low that no-one could hear.
"So who should take what?"
"Or who should take whom?" Janine asked waggling her eyebrows in a very Jack like manner. Hayley laughed and Sam smiled.
"I'll take Will." Sam said, Janine and Hayley nodded. "And I'll take Jack" they said in unison, and then looked at eachother.
"No I get him!" they said again.
"Guys guys, just do rock paper scissors!" Quickly they threw their hands down, Hayley had Rock and Janine had scissors.
"Damn I get Elizabeth..."
"Ok guys. We shall all meet at the dock…not an option because we actually will meet in the dock…except for us two" Hayley pointed to Janine and herself.
"We'll probably be in prison."
They all pulled out their wrists to synchronize their watches when they realized that plastic hadn't been invented yet.
"Right…" Sam said slowly "synchronize our internal clocks."
"Oh is that the thing in feel in my chest?" they looked at her.
"That's your heart Janine..." Sam said, Hayley shook her head looking up into the sky asking 'why me?' Janine giggled.
"I know!" she said smiling. "I was just joking around." Hayley looked away smirking.
"Heh, ya sure you were."
"I was!"
"Uh huh, okay Janine" Sam joined in.
"Fine! Don't believe me." She pused then, her eyes shifting back and forth, Hayley and Sam looked at eachother, She then snapped back to life. "Problem." She stated simply.
They looked at her. "What?"
"What about clothes. It's not like we fit in. I'm going to need to get a dress of some sort, Hayley needs a pirate outfit and Sam needs a peasants dress or something-"
"Oi! You three!" they turned to see a woman twice their age; so in her mid thirties walk towards them. Her black hair was up in a messy bun and the apron tied around her waist was filthy, but she looked friendly. The trio turned to her and she gave them a smile.
"I couldn't help hearin' that ye might need some clothes and my lady and my lord are getting rid of some things to give to our orphanage. You can come with me if you would like?' their eyes were wide with shock.
"Are you serious?"
"Yeh, jus' come wit' me lasses."
"Ohmygod thank you so much!" Sam squealed the woman smiled.
"Not a problem."
The four of them walked the twisted roads of Port Royal and came upon a large white house covered with vines and black shillings, the horse and carriage stood in the driveway, the horse at their stables and the large Ebony door looked down on them. The three of them looked up at it.
"It won't eat us right?" Janine asked Sam, then the Woman spoke.
"This is it. The lady or the house is Eleanor Callaway and her husband Jonathan Callaway." The girls repeated it under their breath and walked behind the woman. The large door swung open with a groan and the inside was deffinately more inviting the door. The floor was made from polished white marble, the walls of the foyer were high and domed a large chandelier hanging in the middle its crystals glinted off the candles that were perched on its stems. Ten steps into the foyer they saw an old lady and an old man sitting in the sitting room drinking tea, both had a book of some sort on their laps. The old woman turned her head.
"Oh, Margaret you have brought some visitors?" the one called Margaret bowed.
"Yes Milady." She said the next part the girls had rehearsed on the way home. Janine stepped forward.
"Good day Mrs. Callaway, my name is Janine DelRoma." Eleanor bowed her head slightly to her hazel eyes looking over her; Janine bowed to Jonathan as well. If Janine had to guess she would have thought they were in their seventies. Eleanor's white hair was pulled on top of her head in an elegant bun with pearl earrings and necklace.
"So what's your story?" Jonathan asked leaning back and taking a puff from his pipe, Jonathan seemed more aristocratic than Eleanor and his white whisps of hair formed a crown on his balding head, while his deep brown eyes were squinting ar them through his monocle. Sam stepped forward.
"My name is Samantha Silverthorne, Sam is fine. We were taken away from Free Port Bahamas when pirates raided our shores and we had just found away to escape onto your shores. We are in need of clothing and -" but before Sam could finish her stomach rumbled. Eleanor laughed.
"Food?" she asked, a smile playing on her lips. Sam nodded blushing profusely.
"And when we discussing our plans your maid; Margaret I believe- said that you were giving away some of your old clothes to the orphanage and so-"
"You needn't say anymore." Eleanor said. "And you are welcome to our clothes"
"That sounds weird" said Hayley, Janine and Sam shot death glares at her.
"What?"
"What's your name?"
"Oh uh, sup my name's Hayley." Janine and Sam mentally slapped themselves. Hayley nodded her head towards Jonathan and smiled.
"And uh thanks for hooking us up there with these clothes, Pops." Janine panicked.
"Pops in Freeport is a respectful way to refer to an adult, especially more then a generation or so higher than us." Sam nodded.
"That and she didn't take her meds this morning."
"I'm not crazy!" The Callaway's laughed for a long while.
"Pops, I like the sound of that!" Jonathan said smiling. Then Eleanor stood up.
"Come I'll show you to our clothes. Silently they walked behind her and up a flight of stairs, turning right into a room the size of a garage, filled with cloathes.
"Try on as many as you like. Although I must ask you to hang everything back up once you're done. With a nod she closed the doors and the girls looked at eachother laughing at their unbelievable luck. The trio tried on many pairs of clothes until they found the perfect ones. It took them several minutes, this was good.
Hayley was sporting in black pantaloons courtesy by Pops, a white cotton top and with a scarlet jewel corset and belt hung from left, right and centre for swords pistols and ammo. While Sam's dress was an emerald green silk dress with a square neck drop and gold insignia outlining the sleeves, bottom and top. They stood at the bottom of the stiars waiting for Janine.
"we're going to miss the whole scen if you keep taking this long."
"alirhgt I'm coming." Nearly tripping on the way down Janine's sky blue gown had managed to give her a sporty yet aristocratic look. Her too had a square neck, whith lace sleeves that drooped down in a somewhat medieval style. On the dress swirled streaks of gold and silver, and her hair was let down and hung at her waist but her bangs were pulled over to one side with silver bobby pins. Looking at eachother the girls coun't help but smile. They thanked the Callaway's and headed back into town once there they gathered.
"Alright. Meet at docks, we have to get that medallion, or at least one of us has to stay with her." Sam said. They put their hands in.
"Okay break." Their hands dropped. As they were walking in tree separate directions, Janine whirled around.
"Hey guys!" they all looked at her.
"Yeah what?" Janine smiled, straitening her back and pulling up from of the gown.
"Try not to get yourselves killed before the end!" Hayley smirked. Sam laughed.
"I don't think they'll be able to get rid of me!" Sam said, then waved to them and walked off. Janine and Hayley's eyes met. Yet again Hayley smirked.
"Ha! moi? Killed? I'd like to see them try." Janine laughed.
"Oh you will, we're only a few minutes in."
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Ciao ciao
Janine