Welcome to the first chapter of my Pirates of the Caribbean series: Take What You Can and Give Nothing Back! Now it's going to be close to the films, only with my two characters Sarah Williams and Abigail Unger. You can call it a retelling if you want. I hope you all enjoy and don't forget to leave your thoughts!
Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to Pirates of the Caribbean. I only own Abigal Unger and Sarah Williams.
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Chapter 1:
The Beginning of the End
"How many times do I have to tell you, Abby. That movie does not go there!" The brunette sighed, clearly annoyed by her best friends' lack of knowledge of where her precious movies go.
"Then where do I put it?" Abigail exclaimed with the movie still in her hand. "Why do you have to organize them so much? Why can't you just throw them randomly on the shelves so when you're done watching a movie, you can just throw it on there!" She pushed her dark red hair out of her face, frustrated.
Sarah rolled her eyes and stood up from the place on the sofa. She grabbed the movie out of Abby's hands and put it where it belonged on the shelf. "For further reference, it goes next to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies."
"For further reference." Abby mocked her friend.
Sarah rolled her eyes once more and left the room to continue packing for their vacation. Abby stood in her spot and staring at the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. It would be so awesome to experience that adventure. Maybe even fall in love along the way too!
She shook her head. It was an absurd, unrealistic thought. Abby loved the films, while Sarah did not care for them. On the days where Abby came over to Sarah's, she always begged her friend to at least watch one of the movies, but Sarah always denied and asked to watch something else. It still a shock to Abby that Sarah even has the movies in the first place!
With one last look at the movies, Abby sighed and left the room to finish packing with Sarah. Sarah put the last piece of clothing in her suitcase and zipped it up. "I cannot wait to go Florida! So we can go to the beach, and maybe even meet some cute guys!"
This was their last vacation together before the two friends finally get to go to their universities that they had been dreaming of since they finished their two years of community college. Even though they would hardly see each other, Sarah and Abigail could finally afford to go and were ecstatic!
"Yeah, I'm absolutely sure that we would find guys that would actually talk to us." Abby said sarcastically, reminiscing about the time when they were thirteen at their track meet. Let's just say it was not an ordinary meeting. A boy had walked over to them trying to be casual and flirtatious. However it didn't go so well...especially when Sarah did her pterodactyl impression.
Sarah smirked at the memory. "Yeah, that was bad, but hey it was fun!" Soon, the two girls grabbed their bags and headed to the airport. The flight wasn't long, but the kid who sat behind Sarah kept kicking her seat. If it wasn't for Abby, she would have strangled him.
The plane landed after the tenth time the kid kicked her seat. Heading out of the airport, the salty air clung to their tastebuds. Sarah kept complaining about it in the taxi, but died off once she got use to it.
Abby and Sarah settled into their hotel rooms and decided to visit the beach to see what is was like. It was nearly sunset when the two girls made it to the water. The cool, gentle breeze rushed past the two as the ocean water washed over their feet.
"It's so peaceful." Abby commented, watching the sun set above the water. A cold splash of water hit her in the face, sending her out of her daze. "What the-" She looked up to find Sarah with a grin on her face kneeling down towards the water, her hands wet from splashing Abby.
"Well two can play at that game!"
Abby scooped up water in her hands and flung it at Sarah. Sarah screeched at her and fought back. They went at it until they were soaking wet where Abby had to call quits on the war. Sarah chased Abby down the shore laughing until she finally caught up to her and tackled her to the ground. As the water kept receding and coming back up, they wrestled each other until Abby cried out "Uncle!"
Victoriously, Sarah let go of her and stood up. "I told you I was stronger!" Sarah and Abby always had a debate on her would win in a fight. Up until now, they never really knew who would. Abby was about the reply until she heard a roar rip through the dark clouds above. She furrowed her eyebrows. When Abby looked at the weather not too long ago, she didn't remember seeing anything about a storm. Another loud roar came ripping through the air, but it was not from the sky. The ocean began producing tremendous waves that knocked Abby unexpectedly onto her butt. What the-
"Abby!" Sarah cried through the mixture of both the clouds and waves roars.
Abby looked back to see her friend being pulled into the water by the waves. "Sarah!" Abby struggled to stand but the force of the water pushed her right back down.
Lighting shot through the sky as rain started to pour. The waves pushed Abby more into the sea as she screamed, hoping someone would hear. It was no match against the storm though. No! This cannot be happening! Another wave formed and pushed her head into the water. Her limbs were scrambled in the water. The thought of the sharks that would usually lurk this close to the beach leaked into her thoughts. She had read up on that before the vacation to be aware.
Water pounded against Abby's eardrums, and she screamed from the pain. Abby's lungs ached for air, she was not fortunate enough to get a decent amount of oxygen before she was plunged into the dark.
Panicked, Abby tried swimming upward to reach the surface, but the water kept pushing her deeper. Not willing to give up the fight, she kept trying to swim up no matter how weak her body now was. She needed air to breath. She needed to know if her friend was alright.
After many tries, Abby had no more energy and determination. She could fight no more. She was the weaker one. She let out the little amount of air her lungs kept, and slowly sunk into the dark abyss.