I Do Not Own Any Pirates of the Caribbean Movies


"Pardon me, excuse me," Jack said as he rolled his barrel out into the bazaar.

While balancing on the side of the barrel he walked backwards, making the barrel move forwards. He was trying to go as fast as he could on the barrel. Jack demolished stalls that lined the clay streets. People screamed and jumped out of the barrel's path. Chickens clucked and jumped out of his way. The chaos in the crowded bazaar just got worse.

Luxora came out next, also balancing on a barrel. She was dressed in dark trousers and a loose cotton shirt. Her brown hair was put up on the top of her head with a shawl covering it. She followed Jack's lead. Last, but not least, François came.

As he came over a bump in the threshold of the bar he lost his balance momentarily. He rushed after Luxora and Jack on his barrel, trying to keep his balance. Jack cleared the way for them. Already Jack had a throng of people running ahead of Jack in the small streets, attempting to escape his path.

"This is why you don't cheat in a game of poker," François yelled ahead of him in his heavy French accent.

Jack replied, "Don't lecture me about it. I cheat in poker all the time."

François looked behind him, and saw they were being chased by the angry men Jack swindled. They waved their sabers at François and barked at him in Arabic. Even though it was François that they were yelling at, Jack had their money. Jack saw ahead of him another group of men coming towards him. He saw a side street and turned. Luxora followed.

François panicked. He couldn't turn his barrel. Instead, he advanced on the men.

"Sortez de la route! Aidez!" He screamed.

The three tanned men in front of him had second thoughts on taking out François. They started running in the other direction. François grabbed on a low overhanging rope and slipped off of the barrel. The barrel crashed into the men and recoiled, knocking over the pursuers behind him. François made his way towards a wall, clutching the rope tightly.

Then he grabbed onto the building's side, not wanting to look down. He inched towards a window and jumped in, startling a girl. She screamed at him and whacked him with a pillow as he ran through her room and out another window.

"Désolé!" François uttered.

Jack and Luxora had stopped rolling around in the streets. The barrels had crashed and were leaking wine. The two of them were gone. François eventually got down near the barrels, looking around him to find where the pair had gone. Suddenly he was pulled by the collar of his shirt into a small tunnel under a wall. It followed the wall and ran off towards a collection of water.

Wine dripped down into the small tunnel. Jack tried to catch a drop in his mouth. Luxora ignored him while François stared.

Jack glanced at François and said, "What? Didn't your mother tell you not to stare? It's quite rude. Did you take notes, Luxora?"

"It's not like you're going to be testing me on it."

Jack stared at her for a moment before starting up, "You cheat at a game. Three men are holding you at gun point and you don't have a gun. What do you do?"

Luxora hushed Jack as the five men Jack swindled came down the alley and inspected the broken wine barrels. They talked amongst themselves in Arabic before running off. Jack strutted out of their hiding spot, stretching his arms. Luxora and François crawled out, soaked in wine. Jack smiled to himself, weighing his money in his hands.

His companions gave him unfriendly looks. Jack looked back at them.

"What?"