Heh, ok. I had this written out for a while but I'm stupid and forgot to post it! Bwaha! Anyways, here it is!
Amy blinked. She was suddenly sitting in a small rowboat. Her school uniform has vanished and had been replaced with a far too big white shirt, brown trousers and bucket boots. Glancing to the front of the boat, Amy saw that it was being rowed by Elizabeth Swann, who was singing softly.
Amy gulped. How would she explain how she got here?
No worries, Rose's voice suddenly rang in Amy's mind. You've been here the entire time. Or at least they think you have.
"Oh great." Amy grumbled. "Hearing voices, always a good sign."
They sailed smoothly under a small bridge, a catherine wheel suddenly sparkled and whirled as they passed under it. The small village was dark and quiet, joined with Elizabeth's singing and the forest of rickety stilts that held up wooden buildings, the whole effect was quite eerie.
"That's really creepy, you know." Amy said to Elizabeth.
"Pardon me if everything I do isn't to your liking." Elizabeth snapped back.
Amy was slightly taken aback though she wasn't offended.
"Harsh." She mumbled though she knew Elizabeth would be on edge with Jack dead and Will off somewhere.
"Might I remind you that it wasn't my idea for you to come with us to see Sao Feng."
"Oh yeah?" Amy replied, hardly surprised. "Who's was it then?"
"Barbossa's."
"Barbossa's?" She repeated. That had surprised her.
"Yes. He thinks that Sao Feng would never suspect foul play with a woman and young girl with him."
"Cunning."
The boat bumped to the edge of a platform.
"What was that song you were singing?" Amy asked as they got out of the boat.
"Hoist the Colours." Elizabeth began, "It's..."
"A dangerous song to be singing." Interrupted a new voice. Amy and Elizabeth looked over to see Tai Huang emerging from the shadows. "For anyone ignorant of its meaning. Particularly two women."
Amy scowled.
"Particularly two women alone." He said.
"What makes you think they're alone?" Said another new voice, this one familiar.
Barbossa swaggered down some stone steps towards them.
"You protect them?" Tai Huang asked.
Elizabeth whipped out a knife and held it to his throat. "What makes you think I need protecting?" She breathed.
"Ermm...I might...need..." Amy trailed off, scuffing her boot in the dirt. She had just realised her lack of weapons.
"Your master's expectin' us." Barbossa continued. "An unexpected death'd cast a slight pall over our meeting."
Elizabeth released him. Just then, some military men marched by. Barbossa pulled Amy backwards as the others slunk to the shadows. They stayed pressed against the wall until the men had passed. Tai Huang beckoned them forward. Amy took a step forward, looking back over her shoulder. A dark figure wheeling a cart stopped atop a bridge. Amy grinned as she recognised the parrot and monkey that sat on the cart, then hurried forward to catch up to the others.
"Have you heard from Will?" Elizabeth asked Barbossa as they walked down a stone street, passing stalls and merchants. It was busier and livelier here.
"I trust young Turner to acquire the charts and you to know your place in the presence of Captain Sao Feng." Barbossa replied.
"Is he that terrifying?" Elizabeth said bitterly.
"He's much like myself, but absent my merciful nature and sense of fair play."
Amy coughed to cover up a snort of laughter.
"And you," He rounded on Amy who raised her eyebrows. "Don't say anything about anyone...or anything...just don't speak at all."
"Speak no evil, gotcha." .
They approached the doors to a bath house. Tai Huang knocked on the door and spoke what must've been a password, since the doors opened and they were ushered inside.
The bath house was dark and stuffy. The humidity of the steam and the smell of what seemed like rot and mould made Amy splutter.
Barbossa and Elizabeth handed over their swords and pistols to the doormen Suddenly Amy felt much less vulnerable by her lack of weapons.
Elizabeth moved forward to pass them but Tai Huang held up his hand.
"You think just because she is a woman we would not suspect her of treachery?"
Amy's eyes flicked to Barbossa who gave a kind of grimace and said "Since you put it that way.."
"Remove, please."
Amy's eyes widened as she took off her coat to reveal a harness jam-packed with weapons. Taking the harness off, she handed over several more guns and a grenade. She held up a finger then reached behind her to take out a huge gun and put it on top of the pile.
Amy and Barbossa looked at each other with bemused expressions.
"I don't even wanna know..." Amy said quietly.
Elizabeth shrugged but apparently Tai Huang was not done.
"Remove. Please." He said, grinning. Elizabeth scowled and disappeared behind a screen.
Tai Huang turned his gaze to Amy.
"Look, pal, nothing you say is gonna make me do that." Amy grumbled, quite happy with her oversized white shirt. She patted herself down. "No weapons, see."
Tai Huang nodded and gestured them to come forward.
Elizabeth reappeared at Amy's side, desperately tugging the robe to try and conceal more. Amy winced in sympathy.
They moved farther into the bath house, passing men sitting in tubs. Amy saw that they were covered in growing fungus and felt a bit sick. They stopped walking as they approached a platform. Amy couldn't help but feel a little nervous as the man standing on the platform turned around to reveal himself as Sao Feng.
Barbossa bowed low and gestured for Elizabeth to do the same. He put a hand on Amy's back and forced her into a bow.
"Captain Barbossa." Greeted Sao Feng. "Welcome to Singapore."
They straightened up.
"More steam." He ordered. Amy raised her eyebrows. The room was already humid enough, surely.
"I understand you have a request to make of me." He continued once steam billowed from the gaps in the floor.
"More of a proposal to put to ye. I've a venture underway and find myself in need of a ship and a crew." Barbossa replied.
"Hmm..." Sao Feng scratched his head. "Is an odd coincidence."
Amy gulped.
"Because you happen to have a ship and a crew you don't need?" Elizabeth offered.
"That'll be the day." Amy said softly.
"No. Because earlier this day not far from here, a thief broke into my most revered uncle's temple and tried to make off with these." Sao Feng took a handful of papers off an old man sitting on a stool.
"The navigational charts."
Amy felt Elizabeth stiffen next to her.
"The route to the furthest gate." He continued. "Wouldn't it be amazing if this venture of yours took you to the world beyond this one?"
Amy looked at Barbossa.
"It would strain credulity at that." Barbossa replied.
Sao Feng paused. Amy just realised her heart was thumping rather fast. He nodded at two henchman standing near a tub. They pulled out a rod that was sticking out of the tub, tied to it was Will Turner who they had been holding underwater. Will gasped and choked.
Amy felt Elizabeth's hand grip the sleeve of her shirt very tightly. Amy couldn't help but let out a gasp when she realised how long he must've been underwater. Barbossa stepped on her foot.
"This is the thief." Sao Feng said, watching them closely. "Is his face familiar to you?"
They all shook their heads, Elizabeth frantically.
Sao Feng drew out a deadly looking knife, which looked more like a spike. Elizabeth gripped Amy's arm hard.
"Then I guess he has no further need for it." He thrust the knife towards Will's throat.
"No, don't!" Elizabeth screamed. She put her hands over her mouth, horrified.
"Well, crap." Amy said under her breath. They had been caught out. And, amazingly, she wasn't the one who blew it.
"You come into my city..." Sao Feng said. "And betray my hospitality..."
"Sao Feng," Barbossa began, "I assure you, I had no idea..."
"That he would get caught?" Sao Feng roared. Amy stepped back a little. "You intend to attempt a voyage to Davy Jones' Locker and I cannot help but wonder...why?"
Barbossa tossed a coin to Sao Feng who held it up to his ear as if listening to it.
"The song's been sung. The time is upon us. We must convene the Brethren Court. As one of the nine Pirate Lords, you must honour the call."
Sao Feng paused.
"More steam." He demanded. Amy rolled her eyes. Her hair was getting damp from steam and her shirt was starting to stick to her.
A serving woman tugged on a rope. She looked confused when nothing happened.
"More steam!"
She pulled it again. Steam was released from the floors below. Amy tugged at her shirt a little, now feeling slightly jealous of Elizabeth's skimpy robe.
"There is a price on all our heads." Sao Feng continued.
"Aye"
"It is true. It seems the only way a pirate can turn profit anymore is by betraying other pirates." Sao Feng gave a significant look to Will.
Amy looked down as Sao Feng and Barbossa carried on. Through a crack in the floor boards, she thought she saw the slightest flash of movement and heard whispers. Squinting, she could just make out the yellow eyes of Pintel who was starting up through the floorboards at Elizabeth.
"You can fight!" Elizabeth was saying as Amy focused again. "You are Sao Feng, the Pirate Lord of Singapore..."
Amy twigged what he and Ragetti were giggling about and stamped hard on the floorboards.
Barbossa looked at her.
"A bug." Amy said.
"Would you have that era come to an end on your watch? The most notorious pirates from around the world are uniting against our enemy. And yet you sit here cowering in your bath water!" Elizabeth finished
Amy stared. When had she learned to become a motivational speaker?
"Elizabeth Swann..." Sao Feng walked towards her. "there is more to you than meets the eye. And the eye does not go wanting."
Amy rolled her eyes. This remark angered Will, who struggled against the people holding him.
"But I cannot help but notice you have failed to answer my question." Sao Feng pointed at Barbossa. "What is it you seek in Davy Jones' Locker?"
"Jack Sparrow." Will answered at once. "He's one of the nine Pirate Lords."
The two serving women giggled at the mention of Jack's name. Amy felt a rush of guilt.
"The only reason I would want Jack Sparrow brought back from the land of the dead is so that I could send him back myself!" Sao Feng said furiously.
Amy thought Jack must've had this effect on a lot of people.
"Jack Sparrow holds one of the nine pieces of eight. He failed to pass it on to a successor before he died. So we must go and get him back." Barbossa said.
Amy wondered how all this new information came about and how much of it she could actually remember.
Sao Feng paused, looking at the man in front of him. Amy saw it too, the paint from the man's tattoo was dripping down his back
"So you admit you have deceived me. Weapons!"
The men that were sitting in the bath tub all stood up revealing the weapons they were holding under the water.
Amy took a step backward.
"Sao Feng, I assure you our intentions are strictly honourable..."
Suddenly, five swords flew into the air from under the floorboards. Barbossa and Elizabeth caught one in each hand. Amy's hit her in the wrist and clattered to the floor. Barbossa grinned smugly.
Sao Feng grabbed the man with the leaky tattoo and held a sword to his throat.
"Drop your weapons or I kill the man!"
"Oooh, there's a threat." Amy said sarcastically, reaching down to pick up her sword.
"Kill him, he's not our man." Barbossa said, confused.
"If he's not with you, and he's not with us...who's he with?" Will asked.
Just then, there was a giant explosion as military men from the East India Trading Company burst through the bath house. Amy ducked as shots were fired and fights broke out. It was complete chaos, Amy wondered how on earth anyone knew who they were fighting.
The sound of someone shouting her name, made Amy look up. Clambering to her feet, she took a running tackle at a military man who was about to take a shot at Will. Amy took out her sword and snapped off the straps that bound Will to the pole. Elizabeth handed him a sword and he fought off a couple of oncoming military men. Mercer took aim at Elizabeth but Will pushed her out of the way. Elizabeth got shoved into Amy who tumbled to the ground. One of Sao Feng's women fell next to her. Amy looked over to see a bullet hole in her forehead. She shrieked and got to her feet as fast as she could.
"Come on!" Will yelled, pulling her towards the door. They skidded to a halt as all the military men were facing them, taking aim.
"Oh sh..." But Amy was interrupted by a huge explosion. The explosion created a giant crater in the middle of the floor. Gibbs, Pintel, Ragetti and Cotton clambered out of the hole.
"Let's go." Amy said, tearing towards the door.
The fights were still in session on the streets of Singapore. They tore through the streets, knocking stalls and people out of the way.
"Get out the bloody way!" Amy grumbled, slashing at a couple of military men that got in her way. She got pushed head over heels over a pile of debris by someone hurrying past. Hurriedly wiping the blood from a small cut in her lip, she picked herself up and rushed on.
Amy started to run over a rickety bridge as a firework wooshed past her, inches away from her face. Momentarily distracted, Amy ran headlong into a figure on the bridge. The man lost his balance and tumbled into the river, revealing Barbossa who was fighting with him previously.
"Oh sorry, did I interrupt?" Amy panted. Barbossa looked surprised but half impressed at the same time. Members of the group were reappearing out of the chaos of exploding fireworks.
Amy raised her eyebrows as Will approached them with a group of chinese pirates and the charts under his arm.
"You have the charts?" Barbossa asked.
"And better yet: a ship and a crew." Will replied.
Amy narrowed her eyes.
"Where's Sao Feng?" Elizabeth asked.
"He'll cover our escape and meet us at Shipwreck Cove."
"This way. Quickly." Tai Huang lead them away.
"And...no-one finds this suspicious?" Amy asked incredulously.
"There's no place left for Sao Feng to cower." Elizabeth said to Tia Dalma, as they sailed away from the burning wreck of Singapore. "Do you think he'll honour the call?"
"I cannot say." Replied Tia Dalma. "There is an evil on these seas that even the most staunch and bloodthirsty pirates have come to fear."
"Great." Amy grumbled. "Just what we need."
Mmk, watching the whole movie...we have quite a task ahead, don't we?
Next chapter should be up before Christmas.
Until then, please keep reviewing because I lurve getting them!
