All Bottled Up
By: Chica from San Diablo
Disclaimer: I do mot own any original Pirates of the Caribbean characters, places, things, etc.
Mädel from Heilige Engel's Note: I, in no way, shape, or form, had anything to do with this fic, and if you're sane, you won't read this tale from Chica's demented mind.
Chapter One: The Bottle
CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow walked into an antique shop on the outskirts of Tortuga. It was dusty and dark in the shop. A small, skinny, old man with oval glasses and wiry gray hair was at the counter.
"Can I help you, sir?" the man asked.
"I'm just lookin'," said Jack.
"All right," said the old man.
*~*
Jack passed rows of dilapidated lamps, yellowed once white togas, stacks of dusty leather bound books, and scrolls, and even a glass box with a scarlet and gold feather in it.
Phoenix Feather
388 B.C. A sign in front of the case read.
Jack found at the back, a curtained section with a sign at the top of the curtain reading:
Middle Eastern Goods
*~*
Being curious, Jack went behind the curtain. There were shelves filled with shatooshes, lungis, turbans, drawings of Chimæras, and at the very back, a tall, slender indigo glass bottle with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, pearls, gold, and silver decorating it. The top was a heart shaped piece of rose quartz on top of a cork.
*~*
Without thinking, Jack grabbed the bottle and went to the old man at the counter in the front of the shop.
"That's a genie bottle," said the old man.
"A what?" asked Jack.
"A genie bottle. You open the top, and a genie grants you three wishes, if you agree to set it free after your wishes are fulfilled," replied the old man.
"How much?" asked Jack, not believing the old man.
"Two shillings," the old man said.
Jack gave the old man the shillings and went back to the Black Pearl.
*~*
In his quarters, Jack admired the beauty of the bottle for a moment or two before pulling the cork off the top.
A/N: So, what do you think of it so far? Should I continue, or not? Is there really a genie in the bottle?
Mädel: I think you need to finish Silver and Gold, although I hate what's going to happen to Jack.
Chica: I know, I know, but you can't ignore the plot bunnies.
Mädel: I know.
Both: REVIEW!