Chapter One; Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone and welcome to my first Pirates of the Caribbean story! Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy it along with this very first chapter.

It was October 31st, Halloween. Now of course it wasn't anything like it is today where the children dress up and go trick-or-treating. However, even back then they loved telling ghost stories to each other. Captain Jack Sparrow had just gotten back on his voyage to the fountain of youth, and of course he celebrated his arrival back inside Tortuga with getting a bottle of rum at the bar. "Ah, there you are Jack. I was wonderin' what had become of ya and when you would be showin' up around here." His first mate Joshamee Gibbs said as Jack sat down on top of the stool in front of the table.

"You work 'ere now?" Jack asked him with uncertainty. "Well yeah what else can I do? We lost the Pearl." He pointed out. "On the contrary we haven't lost it, it's just been temporarily misplaced." Jack told him. "Now give me what I came here for. You know what I want." He told him. "Ah, I see, you're still thinking about Angelica." He began as Jack just simply stared up at him. "That is why you came here to get drunk isn't it? So that you can forget about her." He said as he started wiping out one of the glasses.

"Is it really that obvious?" Jack asked him back. "I mean she has been the only one that I've remotely ever cared about." He said. "What about Elizabeth?" Gibbs asked him. "I don't know what you're talking about." He answered even though he knew that it had been a lie. "Oh come on Jack you can't fool me, you loved her didn't you?" Gibbs said. "Just shut it and do your job like you're bloody being paid to do!" Jack snapped at him.

"Alright fine if you're going to be this grouchy about it." Gibbs told him as he placed the glass beside him and started pouring him a glass of rum. That's when suddenly Captain Teague sat down beside him. "'Ello Jackie." He said. "And what do you want?" Jack asked him. "I just thought that I'd drop in. It's all over town that you have finally made it back from the fountain, and I was just wonderin' what you planned on doin' next." He explained. "Get my Pearl back." Jack answered without a moment's hesitation.

"Well it just so happens that I have a way of doin' that." Teague told him. "Oh really?" Jack questioned. "Well you also told me that you had a way that I could be immortal and live forever, but look what good that's done me. I almost got killed tryin' to do it!" Jack snapped at him as he rolled his eyes. "Alright jeeze I'm sorry! Honestly, you act like you never made a mistake before." He said. "Alright fine, I'm listenin' how can you help me get my beloved Pearl back?" Jack asked him.

"Well, it's very simple. Whoever controls the sea makes the rules." He answered. "You mean Will Turner Lizzie's husband? That no good son of a bitch who stole my woman right from under my nose!?" he yelled angrily as Teague simply looked up at Gibbs. "Don't mind him, he's got some anger management issues." He said. "Or rather lack of." He added. "Uh, well yes, technically he is." Teague began. "Wait, what do you mean by technically?" Jack asked him.

"Well you see he's only the ruler of the sea if he has the trident of Poseidon, that's where he gets his power. However two evil witches stole it from him and have hidden it somewhere in England." He answered while Jack lifted his glass of rum and slowly looked down at it. "You know maybe Lizzie was right, I've got to lay back on the rum,.. it does things to ya." Jack said as he slowly sat it back down. "I'm serious, I'm not drunk, I am as sober as they come. Haven't you ever heard the story of the black wolf?" he asked him.

"What does a black wolf have to do with it or any wolves for that matter?" Jack asked him. "Because a long time ago there were these two people who fell madly in love with each other. One of them was a sailor and one of them was a mermaid, and that's what the song Jolly Sailor Bold is based off of." He explained but Jack shook his head. "I'm still not followin' it." He said. "Well the mermaid named Maria told Daniel that he could go and live with her as long as she had the trident. However what she didn't tell him is that it was owned by the devil himself, and so he unknowingly made a deal with him that if he could give him the trident back by the next full moon, he would have all of his powers and live for all of eternity.

However if he didn't he would be cursed to live the rest of his life and afterlife as a black wolf as punishment." He explained. "Oh I see, it's just another ghost story. Well I think I had enough of those to last a lifetime." He said but Teague shook his head. "It's not just a story Jack, I've seen it." He told him. "What? The trident or the ghost?" he asked him. "Both, I was almost attacked by the wolf until it got scared away by the witches. However I admit that I didn't see all of it, only saw the devil redness of its eyes."

"Alright let's just say for the sake of argument that all of this hocus pocus nonsense is true." Jack began waving his hands. "How am I ever goin' to find the bloody thing?" he asked him. "The only person who know it's true location is the true ruler of the sea." His father told him. "Oh no, you got to be kiddin' me." Jack said shaking his head. "Yep, William Turner."