Ok yall! We've made it to chapter 2! Sorry if it's going sort of slow, but please bear with me! I promise it's going to get better! ;3
Chapter 2
Jack blinked against the harsh sun that filtered through the grass and into his eyes. He couldn't help but managing to perk a solid black ear at the sound of his first mate's voice. "Cap'n! Cap'n! Are ye dead!?" "I think he is…" Came another voice farther up the slope. "Let's leave him!" Called another. "No! We've got to see if he's alive!" "Way to ruin the moment Jack!"
Groaning, Jack struggled to his paws in the springy grass. Gazing upwards he spotted the crew all wide-eyed above him. "Cap'n! Ye be safe!" "Heh! I be alive, but am I safe?" Jack replied loudly. Glancing over his shoulder, Jack peered at the landscape around him. He spotted a few spots where the ground gave way to smaller ledges as if the whole forest had been shakin up years ago. Trotting towards the edge of the first small drop, he leaped down to the next grassy stretch of land, then leaped to the next, then next, and then next. It was then when he heard another loud bark from Gibbs. "Jack! Ye just can't go off and leave us!" Jack stared a moment longer ahead, then turned to call. "Well why not come down here!? It seems much safer than where ye be standing up there." There were a few murmurs of hesitation before the sound of rattling stones and sticks as a loud thud landed squarely behind him. Turning Jack spotted Gibbs struggling to his paws. "Long ways down wasn't it?" He slightly mocked. Before Gibbs could answer there was a yelp of fear followed by another thud as Hadras fell right on top of his first mate. "Hey boy! Knock it off!" "S-s-sorry!" Hadras whimpered through a flurry of fur and claws.
Sighing Jack waited as the others slowly fell over the edge as well. "So now what?" Angelica asked in her Hispanic tone. Not wanting to meet her gaze, Jack slowly turned and smile at the sound of it. "Uh… Err… We go…-" He trailed off at the sight of smoke slowly rising beyond a few high rises of ground. The forest floor sloped upwards leaving a path of small divided landscapes above his head then met into a larger strip of ground. "Up there!" He yipped, bunching his hinds to spring to the first grassy ledge. Leaping to the next stretch, Jack glanced back to see the crew or now so called pack following him. Lunging, he leaped to the next, and next, and then next until he scrabbled over the peak to the wide stretched sort of island cliff. Making his way through the large grass he suddenly stopped dead at the sight of a silhouetted house against the sky. "Whoa…" He breathed. "Jack! Wait up!" He heard Will bark defiantly from behind. "No! You catch up!" Picking his way among the gnarled roots that stuck up from the ground, he gazed wildly up from behind a clump of heather at what seemed to be a log cabin, with a stone stair-case leading right up to the door and vanishing farther in.
Hmm… Making up his mind, Jack darted around the cabin until he came to a lone window. Springing up to the small ledge that hung outwards, he peered inside the dim-lit house. From the sound of snapping twigs and swaying grass he could definitely tell that the pack had caught up to him. "Jack! Why you be lookin inside there?" Gibbs questioned from below. "Because it's where we normally stay isn't it!?" He snapped back at him."Well we're not exactly normal in this case." Jack pondered for a moment then realized he was right. It was then when Scrum spoke up from among the grass. "Oi! But I'd find myself quite a fancy with that house. Rather be livin in there than out here." As he spoke, the orange fox flicked his tail to the house and forest in turn. Jack only gave a flick of an ear signaling he had heard what the young pirate or… fox had explained. "Quiet!" "Sparr-ah! If you be wanting to stay in this place-ah, then how do you suppose we get into it!" Davy Jones growled. "Fine then! We're going to commandeer the cabin." And with that he leaped off the window seal and bounded into a thick swath of bracken. "Come come!" He yelped at the bewildered foxes. "This is getting us nowhere…" Angelica moaned. Gibbs nodded, while Barbossa only narrowed his gaze on Jack. "This better be good."
"Alrighty! I shall organize two patrols. One to make some weird… Loud… Strange and ironic noises from outside to lure the poor soul out of his cabin, and the second will slip in and claim the cabin." No one looked satisfied. "Something wrong?" Jack urged, as Hadras looked up from scratching his ear. "Huh? W-what? Did you say something?" The others just deliberately sighed.
"Alright listen up!" He snapped.
"Barbossa will lead the forest patrol, and I will lead the cabin patrol." Barbossa immediately rose to his paws to growl at Jack. "And how do we know you won't just lock out the forest patrol eh? Ye better not assign all of ye worst enemies on it." "Such as?" Jack flashed at him. "DAVY JONES AND ME!" The large fox howled in rage, coming to stand against Jack. "There be no need for a fight mate." Jack suggested. "Oh shut up!" William yelled. "I agree! You should just back down Barbie!" Maccus yipped, but in an odd mockingly manner. "What did you just call me?" Barbossa swung his head in Maccus's direction, growling through clenched teeth. "Yeah you heard me!" "You wanna say it one more time just so I can be sure?" The fox challenged. "Sure? Why not? I said-" But before the young canine could finish, Barbossa had already leaped on him, pinning him to the floor, teeth bared. "Quit messing with my crew-ah!" Davy spat. "Shut up Jones! We all know you're too soft deep down." Jones only staggered back in disbelief. "DO SOMETHING!" Angelica snapped suddenly at Jack. "I'm trying!" He howled above the riots that clung in the air. "Doesn't seem like much." Will taunted. Scowling, Jack dashed towards a large pine and began climbing up its outstretched branches that hung over the foxes below. "Listen up!" He yelped.
Everyone's ears instantly shot up in alarm. "Who said that?" "I don't know?" "Could it be a skunk?"
Jack rolled his eyes at Hadras's idiot-like comment. "Up here you mangy furballs!" All eyes immediately shot up to Jack. "Alrighty now listen mates! Davy will come in my party while all of you other left over's shall divide equally. Barbossa you're patrol shall contain Maccus, Scrum, Calypso, and Hadras. Mine will contain Davy, William, Angelica, and Gibbs." "What about me?..." Came an odd voice. Jack looked around till his gaze met Elizabeth's. "Y-y-you Elizabeth?" "Forgot me again didn't ya… It figures." "Fine! You'll be in my party! Savvy?" She only snorted in disgust. "Alright let's move out!" The two patrols instantly went their own way. But as Jack lead his straight to the front door he wondered deep down. What will happen to the forest patrol?...
