I was annoyed. Ever since we had been on this island the Pelegostos had made Jack their God. And when he wouldn't let go of me, I had been dubbed his pet.
His pet. Yes you heard me correctly. I was of course too scared to object seeing at these people were cannibals. Actual cannibals. They had painted all over our faces, so now we looked like idiots, but they liked it, and well an angry cannibal is not my friend.
I was sitting on Jack's lap, his arm around my waist, as he was being fanned. I didn't mind so much seeing as I was being indirectly fanned as well.
All of a sudden I heard a commotion come from the people, there was a group carrying someone tied to a stick. I rolled my eyes when I saw who it was.
William Turner. Of course, who else would it be.
Jack opened his eyes and looked as Will slowly opened his eyes.
"Jack? Becca? Is that you? I can honestly say that I'm glad to see you" We said nothing, but Jack nudged me to get up and as I did so, Jack walked down to stand in front of Will.
I was pushed forward by one of the fanners, seeing as I had to go wherever Jack went.
Jack poked Will's shoulder, which I poked as well, just for the sake of it.
"Jack it's me! Will Turner" He said.
"Way say kohn" Jack said, in the strange language that I had no idea how Jack knew. I think he was just making it up as he went along, wouldn't surprise me.
"Een dah-lah. Eeseepi" One of them replied.
"Eeseepi" They all repeated.
"Tell them to let me down" Will said.
"Kay-lay lam. Lam piki-piki. Lam meensy weensy. Lam say-say... eunuchy. Snip-snip." He made scissor motions with his fingers, and I almost laughed.
"Ahhh... eunuchy!" The crowd murmured. Jack grabbed my hand and I could feel the compass hitting my leg from where it hung on my waist as I hurried to keep us with him.
"Becca! The Compass! That's all I need, Elizabeth is in danger. We were arrested for trying to help you two. She faces the gallows!" Elizabeth is always in danger, we should tie her up somewhere so she can't get in any trouble.
Jack stopped and I almost ran into his back. He turned and went back over to Will, me following lest I be eaten for not doing my pet duties correctly.
"Say-say lam shoop-shoop sha smalay-lama shoo-koo. Savvy? Ball licky-licky" Jack said.
"Ball licky-licky" One of them repeated, then the crowd repeated.
"Boom-shoo-boo, boom-shoo-boo, boom-shoo-boo" The crowd repeated continuously.
"Save us!" Jack whispered to Will.
"Jack, what did you tell them? No! What about Elizabeth? Jack...!" Will shouted, as he was carried away over the bridge still tied to the bamboo stick.
We went back to the throne were I was once again lulled into boredom. I only snapped out when Jack was offered a necklace made of toes. Human toes.
What a lovely present. I'm jealous.
He looked at it and found something wrong with one of the toes, he bit off a small part of it and then re-examined it.
The cannibals started banging some drums, and Jack was getting nervous. I knew why, they were going to eat him. I wasn't entirely sure what they were going to do with me, but I was sure it wasn't going to be pleasant.
"No no! Oi! No no! More wood! Big fire! Big fire! I am chief! Want big fire! Come on!" Jack shouted.
"Oi! Maboogie snickel-snickel. Tout de suite! Come on! More wood!" The people standing behind the throne left to help put wood on the fire. I then made a run for it, hearing Jack behind me.
We ran across a foot bridge, and ran through some trees where we found some huts. Running past these Jack held out a hand to stop me falling down the edge of the cliff.
"Thanks" I said.
Jack found a bamboo stick but we were disappointed when we figured it was too small.
I followed Jack into the hut, where we found some rope, I walked out and stopped when I saw the whole tribe was there. Jack hadn't noticed and went back inside the hut and came out with a bottle of Paprika.
"Why'd you stop?" He looked up "Oh" He dropped the rope and sprinkled Paprika on his armpits, and then some in my face.
"Little seasoning Aye?" I glared at him, spitting out some Paprika from where it got in my mouth.
Jack was then tied up to a bamboo stick, apparently I was next to I was being guarded in case I tried to run. Jack was hung over the fire pit while the cannibals danced wildly around it.
Then a cannibal holding a torch ran across the bridge, and stopped near the fire pit.
"Ahh. Fye-fye" He shouted, while everyone cheered.
I was nervously looking at Jack as he gave me a pleading glance I was about to try something when another cannibal came along, and said something.
"Da latazo! Da leetozo! Hay la paka say-say" I had no idea what that meant. But the crowd went silent.
"Well, go on! Go get them! Hay alla!" Jack shouted.
"Hay alla!" The crowd repeated before running off. In their haste, the cannibal dropped the torch and it quickly set the wood on fire.
"Becca help!" Jack shouted. I tried to lift the pole but it was too heavy.
"It's too heavy, your gonna have to try and bounce off" He did as I said, and the flames quickly grew. But he managed to get the pole of its hooks, I helped him get the ropes off his feet.
"Sorry Jack but that is too tight, your just gonna have to run with it" So we set off with Jack hunched over and me directing him where to go.
We came across the same huts as earlier, only this time there was a small boy holding a knife and fork. I snatched the knife away from him and tried to cut through Jack's rope.
We both looked up to see two cannibal women watching us, carrying bowls of fruit. Jack charged forward and I quickly followed him, he was halted as he got stuck in a bunch of coconuts, he flung one at the women and she caught it, lowered it, looking angry.
The women threw fruit at Jack until he shouted for them to stop and by then he looked like he was part of a kebab. They had forgotten about me so I slowly backed away, as Jack jumped over the chasm.
I ran down the hill, hearing Jack's screaming and just following that down, in the end I fell over and rolled the whole way down.
I noticed when I stopped rolling that there was a dull thud near my feet and I saw Jack lying there, groaning. All the fruit landed around us and I got a coconut to the stomach.
Then the pole that Jack had previously been tied to landed about three inches away from Jack's head.
"That was lucky" I said, as I removed the infuriating fruit from my person.
"Your forgetting who we are love" I smirked.
"Ah yes, the infamous duo Captain Jack Sparrow and Becca Partridge" He slung his arm around me as we walked in a random direction hoping it was the way to the beach.
I heard something behind me and saw the entire tribe running towards us.
"Uh-oh" I said as I sprinted past the trees, Jack had obviously spotted them as well and we ran for our lives.
We got onto the beach, rounded a corner to see the rest of the crew ready to make sail. I sighed in relief to know the were still alive.
I screamed while running down the beach, Jack as well. If I didn't know any better I would have laughed.
"Good Doggy" Jack said as we ran past a random dog, with keys- wait a minute. The sound of the tribe behind me reminded me I didn't have a minute and as I waded into the sea all I could think about was that I was never coming back here again.
We grabbed hold of some of the rigging on the side of the ship, I climbed straight up, leaving Jack to do his 'dramatic' farewell, that he had the need to do every time we run away from something.
So pretty much everyday.
"Let's put some distance between us and this island, and head out to open sea" Gibb's said to a very wet Jack once he was on board.
"Yes to the first, yes to the second, but only insofar as we keep to the shallows as much as possible" Jack replied.
"Uh, that seems a bit contradictory, Captain"
"I have every faith in your reconciliatory navigational skills, Master Gibbs, now where is that monkey? I want to shoot something" Speaking of which I punched some random sailor in the face. Much better.
The monkey screeched and dropped Ragetti's eye, Jack got ready to shoot it.
"Jack, Becca?" Will asked.
"What?" I asked.
"Elizabeth is in danger" I rolled my eyes.
"When is she not?" He glared at me.
"Have you considered keeping a more watchful eye on 'er? Maybe just lock her up somewhere" Jack suggested. Sounded like a good idea to me, that way she couldn't burn me rum!
"She is locked up, in a prison, bound to hang for helping you!" I still wasn't seeing how this was our problem.
"There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes" Jack said calmly.
Will nicked someone's sword at pointed it at us. I was not impressed.
"Oh yes, Will. Threaten the life of the Captain who's vessel your currently on. Very smart" I said.
"I need that Compass of yours, Jack. I must trade it for her freedom" My hand went to where the compass was still hanging at my waist as Jack pushed Will's sword aside. Apparently he just had an idea, my eyes lit up when the same one came into my brain. Smart. Very smart.
"Mister Gibbs" Jack called.
"Captain?" Gibb's asked.
"We have a need to travel upriver"
"By "need," d'you mean a... trifling need, uh, fleeting, as in say in a passing fancy?"
"No we mean a resolute and unyielding need" I said, raising my eyebrows at Gibbs.
"What we need to do is make sail for Port Royal with all haste" I sighed, I had forgotten how annoying he was.
"William... we shall trade you the Compass, if you will help us... to find this" Jack took out the cloth and showed it to Will.
"You want me to find this?" I rolled my eyes.
"No we want you to find another piece of cloth. What do you think?" I said sarcastically.
No. You want you to find this. Because the finding this finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating and your discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle ol'... what's-her-face. Savvy?" Jack said, ending with a flourish.
"This... is going to save Elizabeth?" Will held the drawing up to get a better look, as if it would change if he looked at it hard enough.
"How much do you know about Davy Jones?" I asked.
"Not much" He replied.
"Yeah, it's gonna save Elizabeth"
AN: Woohoo! What a chapter. So did you guys like it?
