The New Beginning
Chapter 1: The Charts
After entering Jack's cabin to talk in quiet Jack began explaining how The Fountain of Youth will make them immortal and how they can live forever. Elizabeth was still trying to process the information while she was staring at Jack's desk "So Lizzie what do ye say want to help on my quest," Jack asked watching her closely. " I don't know if I want to live forever I mean we will live but everyone else will die," Elizabeth said very quietly no longer happy about another adventure. Jack was now staring at her like she had another head, "Lizzie it is just a small price to pay in order to sail the seas forever… be free forever." Jack said watching her with those carefully guarded eyes willing her to give in and help him. Elizabeth looked up at Jack and tried to make another argument about it but Jack quickly cut her off "Lizzie do it for me just help and then when we get there if ye still don't want to be immortal then you don't have to drink." Jack said with a hopeful look on his face. Elizabeth sighed but gave in to Jack " Alright fine I will help how do we find it," Jack grinned at her very pleased with her choice he quickly jumped up and began going through drawers. Elizabeth watched him make a huge mess with all of his stuff "I wonder what he is looking for that he just has to dump things on the floor," Elizabeth thought. "Found it," Jack cried, Elizabeth rolled her eyes Jack then came over and dropped the same charts that were used to save him from the locker. Jack unrolled the map, "Alright Lizzie we need to figure out the riddle for starters then we can find are prize," Jack said. Elizabeth looked up from the charts to Jack "You didn't figure out the riddle?" "No but since I knew you would give into me I already have the course set," Jack said grinning slying at her. Elizabeth simply kept looking at him for another 2 minutes before looking back at the charts. After a devasting 4 hour thinking process they still came up empty handed with the riddle. "Jack this is hopeless we are never going to figure it out," Elizabeth said holding her head "Lizze never say never that is negative thinking we need positive thinking," Jack said once again in confusing Jack language which is what Elizabeth started calling it. "Alright then Mr. Postive thinking what is your answer." Elizabeth said looking up at Jack and challenging him. "My answer is Mrs. Negative thinking that what we need is a positive drink," Jack informed Elizabeth who in return stared at him blankly. "I need rum," Jack explained to Elizabeth, "Jack rum is not the answer to everything you know," Elizabeth said. "Is too it is the answer to all of my probmles." Jack responded childishly. Then he got up and moved to the door "Lizzie since I'm the rum getter why don't you sit and think on it," Jack said before Elizabeth had a chance to respond he already shut the door. Elizabeth sighed and looked back at the map she was studying the riddle before something on the map caught her eye, looking over at it she saw that it was 2 pictures when she looked at it closely she realized that they were pictures of her and Jack they were very detailed and exact drawings they looked exactly like them. Elizabeth was staring in shock at the pictures before she could examine them farther she heard a loud crash from below deck. She jumped and rushed out the door if she was not in a hurry she would have caught the words that appeared under the pictures "BOUND WITH EACH OTHER FOREVER". Elizabeth rushed below deck and to the noise when she wound up in the rum cellar the door was wide open she rushed inside "Jack you down here," Elizabeth called. "Lizzie is that you," Jack answered back in a small voice Elizabeth was sure she hadn't heard correctly after finding where his voice was she was shocked to find Jack huddled in a corner with lots of broken rum bottles around him. "Jack are you ok what happened!" Elizabeth demanded as she rushed to his side, "Nothing happened just thought I saw something that's all." Jack answered back to quickly for Elizabeth's liking "What did you see," Elizabeth watched his face slip back into that guarded mask he hide behide so well. "I saw a rat it just caught me off guard," Jack said. Jack got up and grabbed a rum bottle "Lizzie you need some sleep I will try to figure out the riddle." Jack said over his shoulder at her before swaggering out of the room leaving behide a very confused Elizabeth. Elizabeth went back up to the deck to find Jack only to find Mr. Cotton at the helm and Jack's cabin completely dark inside with a shut door. "How did he do that so fast," Elizabeth thought as she went back down to go to her cabin. "I wonder what he saw," Elizabeth just got finished dressing for bed in one of Jack's borrowed shirts when she saw a grey thing in a corner of her room. Elizabeth whipped around to it only to see the grey thing looked exactly like Jack. "Jack," Elizabeth whispered to the grey thing that all of a sudden disappeared. Elizabeth was then looking at empty space where it stood it left so fast that Elizabeth was positive there was never anything there in the first place "I must just be so tired from trying to find out what the riddle meant," Elizabeth thought glancing uneasily around the room before climbing in bed something in Elizabeth's mind told her otherwise. As Elizabeth drifted off to sleep the grey image of Jack appeared again by her it reached out to touch her only to be stopped by something it burned the Jack image's hand then it let out a hiss of pain before disappearing again. Meanwhile in Jack's cabin the charts that Jack rolled up before he went to bed all of a sudden snapped open and began to glow in an eerie red the parts of the map started turning by their self till a riddle in a different language stopped by Jack and Elizabeth's picture as soon as it happened the red died down again and the map was back to normal.