Chapter 1: Look at me
Sea… Endless sea…
Nothing but water, water all around… Well, apart from a few clouds here and there, and let's not forget about the occasional seagull that kept on annoying him to no end. But other than that it was all water.
"Stupid bird…" He muttered after chasing away yet another one of those pests who were very persistent in trying to steal his last food.
Water, and lots of it… But not a single drop of that bloody stuff is drinkable, how much more worse could this get? Jack glanced down over the edge of his little dinghy. His little dinghy, which had been lost at sea for several days now, had only enough food and water to last him until this very day. So, what should he do now?
No more water, no more food… Only endless sea and endless seagulls… Pondering deeply, Jack lay back down. Staring at the blue sky above him he started thinking about his new plan of action, apart from basically staying alive. He found that lying down and seeing everything upside down improved his thinking.
All
right, step one: Find food. Yes, food
would be good. Food would be great and delicious and… No wait!
Water is more important, right? There is water in rum, so water is
good.
"Great thinking Jack me boy, just wonderful. Now,
obviously there is a lot of water around us, but none of it is very
good. What else contains water around here?" Jack conversationally
told himself, while waving his hands in a few vague directions as if
to indicate to himself where the sea was.
Another curious seagull sat down on the bench just above Jack's head, squawking and bobbing his head as he listened to Jack mutter on about water: "Wood? Well, I think trees need water… But I doubt this excuse of a boat actually was a real tree... What else have we got? Oh, look. Clouds! Clouds have a lot of water; they use it to make rain of. But it's not exactly in close reach, now is it? No, you're right Jack… How silly of me..."
Squawk?!?! The slightly confused seagull looked down; trying to figure out what kind of creature would flap his limbs around like that without any purpose.
"Ah look, it's a little birdie. Hello there birdie. Birdies don't have water, do they?" Silence.
"Well… it's worth a try."
"Squawk?"
Trying not to scare the bird away Jack slowly moved his arms up, looking at the seagull from an upside down point of view.
"Nice birdie, sweet birdie. Are you full of water birdie?"
Squawk!!!
"Gotcha… Aw bloody hell! Come back here you worthless chicken!!!"
The bird seemed to have been scared by something before Jack could grab a hold of it, making this the seagull's lucky day.
Jack jumped up; shaking his fist at the fleeing bird before seeing what it actually was that scared his precious flying water supply away.
"It's a ship! A real ship! Thank you birdies!" Jack started waving and jumping up and down in his little boat, causing it to rock dangerously.
"Oy! Over here!" But he did not get any reaction from the enormous vessel, it seemed as if they were about to pass him by.
"No, no… wait! Oy! Here! Look at me!" He took off his shirt and started waving it in the hope of getting the crew's attention.
When that didn't work he looked around frantically, in search of something that would be noticeable. The sails of the dinghy! But of course! Jacksmirked, his gold teeth glinting in the sun. He had a plan, one that couldn't fail. Blowing a kiss to the ship in the distance, Jack set to work.
A few minutes later Jack saw his plan working, the ship was coming towards him. He looked around, proud of this achievement. But the looking around also showed him the biggest flaw in his plan. You see, his plan was to set the sails of his little boat on fire. Surely, they wouldn't miss such a big fire now, would they?
And truth be told, they really didn't miss the fire and they really were coming to his rescue. But they were still a pretty good distance away, and the fire was rapidly spreading. Staring at the flames that were already eating away at the bench, Jack mumbled the first thing that came to mind.
"Oh bugger…"
