Lord of the Pirate Potthead: Volume one

by Merry Sparrow

HP, LotR, PotC crossover but other ideas come from other movies or shows. This is The first part of the series, The No Plot Plot it has a lot of ramdom things, some funny, some serious. You'll just have to read.

3. Book One: What Large Fangs You Have

Disclaimer is on the Prologue. That's where it'll stay, so if you want to know what it says, then that's where it's at.

I'm soooo sorry about the awfully long wait for this. . . that is if you have been waiting for this. I have been procrastinating like mad, then I started working and I procrastinated more. So, here's the chapter, the full chapter. And it's extra long for you as well. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Chapter 2: What Large Fangs You Have!

Pippin awoke to the thought that last night's discussion was only a dream. She looked around the room, not remembering right away where she was. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and surveyed the room that she was in.

He room was a bit dark as there was only one window to allow natural light to shine in. There was no carpet to soften the floor; there was only a hard wood floor. As Pippin surveyed the room, she noticed that there was not all that much decoration. The only thing that occupied the room was the furniture; a bed that she was sleeping on, a dresser that had her clothes in, and a writing desk that was, surprisingly, clear of clutter.

She slowly began to remember what had happened before she had fallen asleep. Mel had told her something shocking, but she could not remember it.

Mel, at hat precise moment, had come into the room looking very upset. He walked slowly into the room and he had his head hung. Pippin noticed almost immediately.

"What's the matter?" Pippin looked very concerned for him.

"I don't want to leave." Mel whined. "I like the fact that we are on a ship. It's quiet enjoyable." He didn't sound very convincing. Pippin just shrugged it off, but she did gawk at what he had said.

"You don't want to go home?" She was in utter shock.

Mel shook his head. He didn't trust his voice right now. He didn't want to tell her the reasons why he didn't want to return to the mansion, so he made up some excuse like liking the feel of a ship to keep his other reasons from her. He liked Pippin, but not enough to ask her to marry him. He saw her more as a friend then as a partner. He just wasn't ready to tell her right now, so he kept his head lowered.

Pippin became so shocked that she fainted.

Mel, though, was so depressed that he didn't seem to notice that his girlfriend had passed out form pure shock. It was either that or he just didn't seem to care.

Sunlight poured into the Captain's Quarters and shone right onto the bed where two figures seemed to be still asleep. One figure looked like a full grown man while the other looked like his child had crawling into his bed during the night. The light shining in seemed determined to wake one particular person in general.

Merry shifted and let out a soft groan as she realized that the sun was shining on her face. She opened her eyes slowly as her eyes were not yet adjusted to the bright morning light. As her eyes adjusted, she slipped her foot out from under the covers and looked at it. She wiggled her toes while just staring at it. As she stared at it, she came to the conclusion that she was just going to have to get used to the idea of being a hobbit for a while.

What brought her out of her thoughts was the movement of something around her waist. She knew it wasn't her moving because she had nothing that should be moving on it's own near her waist. She then realized that she felt something, like an arm, on her waist. She felt around her waist, and there was in fact a arm draped around her. She got a little nervous as to whom would have their arm around her.

She turned around slowly so she wouldn't wake the person beside her. When she finally settled on her other side, she was relieved to see Jack sleeping peacefully.

She really didn't want to wake him for several reasons. One being that he had been through quite a bit the last couple weeks, that and she thought he looked cute when he was asleep.

Several minutes pass as she watched him sleep. It seemed like hours to her as she watched him. As she watched him sleep, she seemed to realize how much she loved how he slept. (insert how he sleeps) Before she knew it, she found a pair of chocolate brown eyes open and stare back at her. She couldn't help but stare right into them; she found them hypnotic and beautiful. She didn't seem to notice the sleepy smile that spread across his lips.

"Enjoyin' tha view, luv?" Jack said with a groggy voice. He noticed that Merry was looking at him, confused. "Ye were watchin' me sleep." He said through a laugh.

"Couldn't resist. You're cute when you sleep." She said as she leaned in for a kiss. They broke apart long enough to smile at each other and for Jack to look over the appearance of his wife to make sure that yesterday's events were not just a dream. Soon after, they leaned in again for a much longer kiss. Jack stroked Merry's check as the kiss deepened.

Just then, the door was flung open and a small, brown haired person stood in the doorway. Her brown fox-tail flipped slowly behind her, the fox-ears at the top of her head twitched, and her gargoyle-type wings flexed. She tapped her long fingernails on the side of her face as she thought. Then, her green, with gold specks, eyes flashed with an idea.

"I'll go get the whipped cream!" She said as she spread her wings for a second. She turned on her heel and left the cabin without another word.

Both lay frozen in mid kiss, too shocked to move. Jack broke the kiss and turned onto this back in a bit of a huff. He wasn't to thrilled about being interrupted when he was sharing a rather nice moment with his wife. He sighed while he stared up at the ceiling and asked in a bit of an upset voice, "Did you know someone would be coming in here this morning?"

"No. Did you?" She asked, not liking the way Jack was acting at the moment. She just figured he was upset about being interrupted.

Jack just shook his head no and then turned back onto his side. He smiled a small smile while touching Merry's cheek. "Would you have any idea who that might have been?"

It was Merry's turn to shake her head. "But I'll try to find out. I can talk to Pippin. She might know. I know that voice was not familiar at all, so it has to be someone we've never met before." Merry muttered. She slowly crawled out of bed and patted towards the door as fast as she could. She couldn't go very fast since she was quite shorter then she used to be. Though it took her a lot longer to get out of bed since Jack kept grabbing a hold of her.

When Merry finally left the room, Jack rolled back onto his back again and drifted back to sleep unknowingly. After what seemed like only a couple of minutes, images started to flash before him in a random order. For a while, he couldn't make out the images that where flashing by. Soon, they started to slow down and one moving image started to move into his view. It was of two toddlers that looked identical except one was a girl and they other was a boy.

It seemed the little boy had caught his attention first. He was screaming at the top of his lungs. It was a wonder the child didn't go blue from the non stop screaming.

"MOMMY! I WANT MY MOMMY!" The child screamed for the billionth time in 5 minutes. The boy had jet black hair, blue eyes, and very tanned skin just like Jack. Then it dawned on him that these where his children. At that point, Merry finally came into the room and picked up the screaming child. Immediately, the child's screaming turned into whimpers.

He began watching mother and child when he noticed something off about his bonnie lass. She looked worn down, pale, and lacking sleep. This concerned him, but what started to worry him more was that he didn't see himself anywhere.

Another screaming voice broke him out of his thoughts and observations. He turned to where the voice was coming from to realize that the other toddler was there. Even though she was screaming, it wasn't in the same language as her brother was screaming. This one was screaming in ELVISH!

"ADA! IM ANIRONIN ADA!" the girl yelled with more volume and lung power then her brother.

"They lass can speak Elvish! Merry must have taught her that." Jack exclaimed with both shock and pride.

Since his girl was calling out for him, he knelt down to pick her up. Instead of being able to place his hands underneath her arms, his hands when right through her as if she were a ghost or a hologram. He started at her in confusion and disappointment.

"Why can't I pick up my own child?" He asked himself. As he was staring at her he noticed how similar they both looked. Even though he knew she probably would not hear him, he started to talk to her softly. "Do ye know 'ow much ye look like yer daddy?"

Almost as soon as the words left his mouth, a loud bang pierced the somewhat silent room. Jack instinctively threw himself over the girl in hopes she would not get hurt. But, as he raised his head when he thought it was safe, he saw that he was alone on what seemed to be a pirate ship. Another shot fired behind him which made him jump and turn around quickly. What he saw when he turned around was two teenagers that looked very familiar standing by a cannon. The two teenagers were boy and girl twins which, to Jack, looked to be the same twins that he just seen screaming.

The girl had long black hair in tiny braids and white highlights. She was wearing tight black cotton pants, silk shirt that cuts around the shoulders, a waist corset that ties in the back, and knee high boots. Her brother wore something close to what his father wears. The same dirty white shirt, same faded brown pants, and the same leather brown boots. There was no bandana on his head nor was there a vest. He did wear a sash, just not the same color as his father's. His was a dark green. . . or at least it would be if it wasn't faded. He also wore a jacket a lot like Will Turner's. Though, the boy's hair style was very strange for the time era that they where in, he was sporting it 200 - 300 years early. The boy's hair was fashioned in an afro.

Jack was utterly shocked to see that his two toddlers were standing right in front of him.

Soon enough, the cannon was fully loaded and the boy had fired it off grinning like the Cheshire cat. The cannon ball hit the enemy's ship and left a hole large enough that a fully grown man could fit through.

As he stood there, he discovered that he was shocked that his two children had become pirates. A mixture of pride and concern filled him. The more he watched his kids fire the cannon and laughing hysterically, the more concerned he became.

Then, suddenly, he felt himself being shaken and woke up with a start. All he saw was the blue and purple eyes of his wife's eyes since she was only 2 inches from his face. Instead of seeing Merry, he saw the face of Voldemort. He immediately pushed her off of him, jumped out of bed, and draws his sword on her. He started to lunge at her and yelled, "Die, ye villainous asshole!" But, before he could take one step, a loud rippling noise came form behind him.

He immediately turned around, looking for who or what had made the sound. But, no matter how many times he turned around, he didn't find anything that could have made the sound. "Wha' tha 'ell?"
"Jack!?" Merry exclaimed. "Did you just FART??" She asked as she tried to look stern. She failed as she cracked a smile.

The smell seemed to have reached Jack's nose. He began to gag and cough while he waved the air in front of his face. Merry was pointing and laughing hard enough that she almost fell to the floor. Before she died of laughter, the stench had reached her nose.

"Jeeze, Jack! What crawled up your ass and died?" She gagged. "I think you're gonna need to check you're pants or somethin' cause it smells like you crapped them." She said, disgusted and holding her nose.
"What?" Jack said, slightly confused.

"You cut the cheese." Merry tried to explained.

"I did not! There's no cheese in here to cut!" Jack said not quite catching on to what she was trying to tell him.

"No, you freak. It means you pooted." Merry tried to explain again.

"Huh?" Jack said growing more confused.

"Farted! You farted!" She nearly yelled.

"I still don't get it."

"Ok, that strange feeling that came out of your butt that felt like air passing through your butt cheeks?" For some odd reason, nonsense seemed to make sense to him, and that defiantly was nonsense.

Jack nodded, understanding. "Yeah. What about it?"

"That's a fart."

"Oh." Jack finally understood.

Merry just shakes her head and laughs.

"What?" He wanted to know what she was laughing at.

"Nothing, nothing." She laughed, shaking her head.

Jack, then, suddenly realized what he had said to her when she shook him awake and sat down on the bed as he continued to think. She didn't look anything like Voldemort. So, why did he think she was?
While in his musings, Merry sat down next to him on the bed and was looking at him strangely. He seemed to push that to the back of his mind.

"Um, Luv? I'm sorry I called ye a villainous asshole. I thought ye were someone else." Jack said holding her hand.

"Don't worry about it." She said unconvincingly.

He was about to open his mouth to argue when the same brown haired girl that had interrupted their good morning kiss barged into the room again holding a can of whipped cream. Jack was still on edge. With the sudden interruption, he jumped up and in a flash had the girl by the arm and his sword to her throat.

"Tell me who you are and I'll think about letting ye live." Jack said as he pressed the sword against her throat.

The girls eyes instinctively glazed over and nonexistent wind blew through her hair and her nails grew into claws. Her eyes also began to glow and her face began to change.

Out of surprise and slight fear, Jack moved his sword away from her throat. He moved away from her and in front of Merry in order to keep her from harm.

As if on queue, Pippin hurried into the room to see what was going on. Her eyes grew wide as she saw what was taking place. "Fox, NO!" She rushed over in front of 'Fox' and put her hands on Fox's arms in order to get her attention. "Calm down. No one is going to hurt you." She continued to say similar things until Fox was back to her normal self. "They weren't going to do such a thing. . . were you?" Pippin said as she looked over to Merry and Jack.

Before Jack could open his mouth to give a sarcastic remark, Merry had to blurt out a comment.

"You KNOW her?" Merry said, a bit surprised. Then, remembering the conversation with her about half an hour earlier, felt a little embarrassed. "Duh. I just asked you that earlier." She smacked her forehead. "Brain fart!"

Jack gave Merry a weird look.

"Yes you did." Pippin laughed as Merry continued to hit her self in the forehead. "Ok, quit that. You're giving me a headache just watching you do that." She, then, caught Merry's hand and held it so she wouldn't keep hitting herself.

Fox, on the other hand, kept herself quiet through this scene. She was waiting for the opportune moment to introduce herself and right now didn't seem like it. After a few minutes of waiting, she gets fed up and clears her throat.

Pippin looked at her, as did everyone else, and realized that no one had been introduced. "I'm so sorry, Fox." Pippin brought her further into the room. "Merry? Jack? This is Fox. She's half gargoyle, half fox demon. Or, at least, that's what she tells me. Fox? This is Jack and Merry. Jack is a pirate, but he isn't human. He's . . . um, . . . What are you again?"

"Elvish Demon!" Jack grunted.

"Oh. Well, anyway . . . " Pippin said. "This one," She turned and motioned to Merry. "is Merry. She may look like a child, but I assure you she is older then she looks."

"What is it?" Fox said as she began to poke Merry.

"That would be me wife!" Jack said as he narrowed his eyes in irritation.

"I'm curious. . . how do you kiss it?" Fox asked still poking Merry, which was just aggravating the hobbit.

"I'm a HOBBIT!" Merry yelled, jumping in anger. "And can you stop poking me!"
"I can't help it." Fox said, still poking. "You're interesting."

Jack really got aggravated with the site of this wife being teased about her heritage. He wasn't going to stand for it. He drew his pistol and pointed it straight at Fox.
"I don't wan' ta use this, but if ye keep carryin' on like tha', I may be forced ta."

A black staff appears in Fox's hand out of thin air and an evil grin spread across her lips. Though, before she could carry out her deviously evil idea, Pippin snatched the staff right out of it's owner's hands and hid it. Fox just looks at Pippin and pouts.

"Not fair, Pip. I wanted to do something evil to the bearded lady!" Fox whined, though Pippin just glared at her disapprovingly.

"I am NOT a lady!" Jack huffed whiled Merry tried to calm him down.

"You sure do look like one. Especially the way you walk . Swaying your hips and the way you use your hands. The EYELINER! Only a punker and women wear eyeliner. By the look of you, " she looked him over, "your no punker. So you've got to be a lady."

"I'm not a lady!" Jack nearly yelled, going red in the face.

Another staff appears in Fox's hands and an evil grin finds it's way back onto her face. "Don't make me use it."

The room goes silent as each demon waited for the other to attack. As Pippin and Merry stood there watching as the two demons tried to stare each other down, they heard whispering on the other side of the door. Merry put her finger to her lips in a signal to be quiet and snuck over to the door. She opened the door very quickly and just stood in the doorway . What she found was Handir and Septimius on there hands and knees and looked like they had once had their ears to the door. They stayed frozen in that position, but they were looking up at Merry with wide eyes and very frightened.

Merry, with her hands on her hips, looked down on them with a disappointed look. "Yes? Do you two need something?"

Instead of replying, Septimius and Handir took off in a dead run. Merry just closed the cabin door while laughing. When she turned around, the scene in front of her made her wonder if she should run and hide like Septimius and Handir did, or stay and help.

Jack, who was now on the verge of an explosion, now hung from the ceiling by his feet. His black hair was now bright pink and in pigtails. He wore a red cheerleader's skirt which hung over his torso, and his boxers where purple with continuous baby blue writing which said "I 'heart' Ponies". On the back of the boxers was a pony big enough to cover his rear end just by itself. The shirt he was wearing was not in the least any less terrifying. It was black with pink lettering which read "I 'heart' Nsync".

Merry's eyes grew wide with the sight of Jack and let out a frightful gasp.

The gasp made Fox turn to look at her and, reluctantly, let Jack fall to the ground. . . hard. Merry rushed over to him to help him up.

"Jack?" Merry asked soothingly, as she finally got him to his feet. "You're not gay, are you?"

Jack let out a girlish gasp as he put a hand to his chest in surprise and disgust. (A/N: I do not in any way mean to make fun of gay people. I am sorry if this part offends someone. It's not intended that way) "No! I am not gay." He stormed off, his hips swaying in a very girlish way.

Merry turned and gave Fox a look that said, "This is all your fault". Fox just shrugged and said "Oops." Pippin, though, was no where to be found.

"I'd better go catch him before he embarrasses himself even more." Merry said and she turned back around and opened the door. She was about to walk through when Fox's voice stopped her.

"But . . . you can't." Fox said urgently.

"And why not!" Merry said, turning back around yet again and putting her hands on her hips.

"Because, well, you two don't seem right for each other." Fox attacked.

"What do you mean?" Merry said, not the least bit happy that some complete stranger was telling her who she should be right for.

"Well, he's a pirate and you. . ." Fox started, though had a grin on her face.
"I'm what?" Merry urged, clearly fuming. She then felt something tingle her tail bone. Before she knew it, she felt something flipping behind her.
"Since you're part wolf now." Fox grinned.
Merry lunged at Fox, but Fox had stopped her. Merry only sat on her knees and looked up at Fox with angry eyes.
"Is there a counter spell for this?!" Merry asked.
Fox shrugged. "Not sure." In fact, she did know. She just wanted to see the hobbit with a tail for a while longer before she reversed it.
"I can't be a wolf. It's just not possible." Merry whined. She was starting to get scared.
"You're not a full blood wolf, just half." Fox said, trying to sound apologetic.
"There's got to be a way to reverse this." Merry still whined, starting to pull on her tail.
"Nope. . . none yet!" Fox said smiling as she watched Merry continue to pull on her tail.
Merry then screamed in frustration, pulled on her tail one last time before letting it go, and stormed out of the room in order to find Jack.

Jack tied his bandana onto his head. He still felt anxious with it exposed. Then, as he picked up his hat, started to walk out of the extra room that he had stumbled upon. He still was fuming about the whole incident where he was forced to act as if he was a girl.
"A pirate with pink hair. Ha!" Jack said, just talking to himself. "Why am I the target of everyone's anger. It's just not right!" Jack picked his coat up off of the nearby chair and put it on.
As he was walking to the door, a dark figure appeared in the room behind him. It gently pulled his sword from it's sheath and hit him over the head with the hilt. The last thing Jack thought before he blacked out was "Not again!". He landed face down on the hard wood floor.
When he finally woke up, all he could think about was the throbbing at the back of his head. He sat up and rubbed his head as he looked around the room though couldn't make out anything. When his eyes finally focused, he noticed that he wasn't onboard a ship anymore but in a dungeon. He also noticed that no heat had made it down this far, the floor he was sitting on was stone along with the walls. The walls where mostly bare except for the candles and shelves full of jars hung on the walls.

'A Dungeon?' Jack thought. He looked around more and saw that there were rows of tables with holes in the top corners for ink bottles and chairs along with the tables. Up front, was what looked like a teacher's desk and a blackboard.

"What is taught here?" Jack asked aloud, as he stood up and walked over to the first shelf of jars. He gets half way through the jars when a hand grabs his shoulder. He whipped around with his gun pointed straight at the stranger's face. He looked at the man with terror on his face, as though something extremely evil had just found him.

Seeing the gun pointed toward his hooked nose, Snape started to scream like a banshee, though still pointing his wand at Jack's heart. With Snape screaming and a wand pointed right at his heart, Jack also began to scream. Only his scream sounded more like a terrified 5 year old.

They screamed for a couple of minutes before they dropped their weapons and grabbed each others shoulder to scream again. They screamed just for a couple of seconds before they realized what they were doing and released each other. They backed away from each other and screamed again for the third time. As they where backing away and screaming, they both tripped and knocked into separate walls.

The wall that Severus fell on had fell down into the next room, which somehow happened to be Professor McGonagall's room. (A/N: Don't ask me how a stone wall in a castle like Hogwarts could fall down just like that, but I just can in this story.) When he landed, he was on his back. His pants had ripped enough that when his robes fell up over his head, his underwear showed. The read: I 'heart' McGonagall. Somehow the sash that was keeping Jack's pants up had loosened, flew off and his pants fell down. When he had fallen back into the wall, he knocked it over and into the hallway. The underwear he had on were the very same that Fox had made him wear while on the ship. The kids that seen the spectacle had broke out in laughter, especially the kind of underwear that their Potions Professor was wearing. Professor McGonnagall blushed bright red or was just very angry at the embaressment at seeing the underwear.

No sooner did that happen when other students came running down the hall, looking terrified and screaming as if all of them were being murdered by a Muggle madman. As they ran, they nearly ran jack over, but Snape had pulled him out of the way by his feet.

**Meanwhile, Back on Voldemort's Ship**

Everyone able to sail a ship had gathered on deck to await orders from their Captain to sat sail. Pippin, on the other hand, had lost the ring Mel had given her and began to crawling the floor looking for it. After a while, Mel started looking for it as well.

Harry, who was sitting near the railing, reading a Quidditch book, saw something shiny not far from where he was sitting.

"Mel! I can't find it. Get down here and help me look for it." Pippin said, not realizing he was already looking for it.

Harry inched closer to it, stillnot s ure what it was. He gets closer and closer. As soon as he gets close to the piece of jewlery (Yes he fiqured out it's jewlery. He is a smart boy), someone grabbed his arm and started pulling him below deck. "Come on! We've got work to do!"

"But- But-" Harry began, looking at the lost jewlery.

"No buts, mister. Let's go!" The crew member said as he let go of his arm and rushed back down below deck.

Harry hesitated, not sure if he should pick up the object and return it or let the owner find it instead. Harry shook his head and walked over to the object. It was a ring, maybe the ring that the Pippin girl was looking for. Being the nice guy that he is, picked up the ring, and walked over the the two people still on there knees looking for the triket. He cleared his throat to get their attention.

Pippin and Mel looked up at Harry who was holding out Pippin's ring. She stood up and took the ring.

"Why thank you!" Pippin said before she kissed his check.

Mel immediatly got red in the face from jealousy. Pippin was his and his alone. He had to hold back the urge to attack Harry on the sopt.

Harry saw the jealousy on Mel's face and knew he should leave before he got himself hurt.

"Um. . . I've got to go now. You're welcome, by the way." Harry said, mainly to Pippin. He then hurried down below deck like a wild animal was after him.

That was about the time Merry came out of the Captain's Cabin, white as a ghost, and her tail nearly between her legs.

"What happened? Fox played a trick on you didn't she." Pippin said trying not to laugh.

"It's ain't funny, Pip."Merry said sternly. "There's something more important then my tail."

"Like what?" She asked not taking her eyes off of her best friend's new body part.

"Stop looking at my tail!!" Merry nearly yelled.

"Sorry. I can't help it." Pippin appologized. "What is it that you wanted to say?"

"Jack's missing again." She looked clearly devistated. Everyone on deck groaned at the statment and started mumbling amonst themselves about it.

"Merry?" Ron called from the other side of the ship. "There's something I think you need to see."

She made her way to where he was standing. "Yes? What's the matter?" She had her hands on her hips. He just held up a model ship baring black sails. "So? It's just a model ship."

"Of the Black Pearl?" he said. Merry just looked at him in confusion. "This was found stuck in the sand not far from where the Black Pearl originally was docked." He explained, hand the ship to her.

Merry couldn't help but think about who could do this, who would want to take the Black Pearl for their own.

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Down the corridor, Jack saw something he thought never exsisted and he was seeing alot. Though they look different then what he thought they would look like. They eyebrows look s if they are knitted and swollen, the eye color was yellow with hints of green, and the top row of teeth are sharp with two long fangs at the ends.

One spots Jack and desides to go after him. He runs at jack growling and teeth barred. Jack unsheaths his sword and readies himself for the attack. Before he knew it, he had cut off the vampires's head and the thing had turned to dust.

"That's interesting." Jack said looking at the clean blade. "That's very interesting."

The mob of vampires had seen what Jack had done to one of their own and they didn not like it one bit. They became infuriated with what had happened. They stated to advance wanting to avenge the death of their friend but was stopped by an invisible force. They looked at each other in confusion and then at the sheild. Soon, the sheild started to weaken and shrink.

"Oh great! The battery must be dying." Jack said as he banged on the sheld to make it work again. Instead of the shelf becoming strong again, it weakened more and then finally dies.

The vampires just laugh and advance so far that they are nearly on top of Jack. They were about to pounce when. . .

. . . . . . Jack pulls out a botle of rum, and uncords it with his teeth. He looks at the bottle, then at the vampires, then back at the bottle. He extends his hand to offer the bottle.

"Rum?" Jack offered, seriously. the vampires mjust looked more confused then wehen they hit the sheild. "No?" He shrugged. "Well, then. . ." Jack downs what was left of the rum and throws the empty bottle over his shoulder, which shattered on the stone floor. Just as soon as he had thrown the bottle, he unsheathed his sword quickly and killed the first rown of vampires, but instead of leaving less of them to kill, twice as many had apeared. With the new arrivals the creatures looked more dangerous and lethal then they did before. "Oh bugger!" Jack blurted alittle panicy. "This is not good, not good at all." He was getting more panicky by the second. He had no plan and frankly, valued his life. He stared at all the vampires ith wide eyes.

As the first rown of vampires closed the gap between them and Jack, a fiqure in a black, leather coat killed several vampires before standing behind Jack, both their back faceing each other. Jack raised his sword again, feeling alittle more confident.

Jack awokesome time later to a sore neck and a throbbing headache. he tried to sit up, but someone gently pushe dhim back down. He blinked the sleep from his eyes and tried to focus on the fiqure standing by his bed.

The person had short, dark brown hair that was spike in the front, wore a black t-shirt, black pants, and a black leather overcoat. His skin was pale and he bore a look as if he lost someone very dear.

This man looked very fimilar to Jack. He couldn't p lace it, though. he looked around the room and didn't reconize his surroundings. He became really confused. "Ok, what the 'ell is goin' on? What is this place? Who the 'ell are ye? And 'ow in the 'ell did I get 'ere?" He asked not very happy.

"Calm down, you're in the school's infirmary. You ended up with a nasty bite on your neck. Because of that, you started to bleed badly enough that you passed out. So I carried you up here. By the way. . . name's Angel." He said as he sat not far from Jack's bed. "Just out of curiousity, what was the last thing you remember?"

"Just some lass latchin' on to me neck and a very sharp pain." He said in a raspy voice as he unconsciously put a hand on the part of his neck that was bitten. He closed his eyes when a wave of dizziness and nausea. He became uncomfortable and hot. He threw off the sheets that were covering him.

Angel looked alittle worried and felt Jack's forehead. He was hotter then what was normal. He stood up and sighed. "You already begun to change. I give you 2 days, give or take a couple hours. I suggest you tell your loved ones goodbyes because by the end of the transformation, they will look more like a meal them anything else." He then turned and left the room.

Jack opened his eyes and sigh. He stared at the ceiling thinking about what he was now to become. His mind drifted to those he cared about most. How was he going to keep them safe while he was like that of a wild beast? Would he beabled to keep himself away from his friends and wife? Right then, then made a decision.

'I am getting myself out of here as soon as I am released. There is no reason to put Merry, Pippin, Will, and Elizebeth in danger because of me. I'll get as far away from them as I can so I am not making them suffer.' Jack declared to himself. He closed his eyes, falling into a fitful sleep, unaware of the pain that awaited him when he awoke.

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Merry sat the shrunken shop down on the desser, then opeened a drawer. She pulled out a glass bottle with a model ship inside. She uncorked the bottle, but before she could do anything else, a white blinking light erupted from the glass bottle.

Merry had at sheild her eyes from the light. when the light finally faded, she noticed that the ship in the bittle was replaced with the shrunken Black Pearl. Instead of trying to get the ship out, Merry just grabbed a book ans started reading.

She had only gotten past the first few pages of her book when the door burst open. Pippin rushed in, closing the door behind her quickly and looking terrified.

"What are you -" Merry bega, before being directed silently in the closet. Pippin clsed the behind them and truned in the direction she thought Merry would be.

"You need to be quiet. If we make noise, they will definately catch us." Pippin whispered. looking panicked.

"But -" Merry started, but was cut off again, though it wasn't Pippin this time. The door swung violently open, and there stood the same kind of vampire that had invaded Hogwarts. Both girls scream and tried to back up, but bumped into the back of the closet. The vampire hissed and inched forward every few seconds. a couple minutes later, the bedroom door closed loudly. The vampire turned but did not leave the spot that he was standing on.

"Now that's no way to treat a couple of young lasses."

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Several hours later in Port Royal, Will came home from a long day at the blacksmith shop to what he thought was an empty house. "Elizabeth?" he called as he walked into the enterence hall.

No one answered.

Will became uneasy as Elizabeth usually answered his call. He drew his sword ready for some kind of attack.

Soon enough, 5 vampires came down the stairs and stopped when they got a look at Will. He noticed two of them had to hold on to Elizabeth to keep her from screaming and running away.

"Elizabeth!" Will stated, becomeing releaves as she was fine. But that feeling soon was drowned out by the anger as someone had a hold of his wife and was intending to hurt her. In his fit of anger, he attacked without warning, trying to free his wife, but only managed to get himself captured as well. The team of five vampires dragged both adults out of the house.

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Jack awoke very sore. Every inch of him hurt. When he tried to sit up, he just ended up falling back onto his pillow he hurt so bad. He felt a bandage on the side of his neck where he was bitten. It felt a bit soaked from the blood. Ignoring the bandage for a moment, he tried to sit up, but just fell back into the pillow again. He tried again, but was just too weak to sit up by himself.

As if predicting he would be awake, Madame Pomfrey rushed out of her office. She walked over to his beside, saw his pained expression and immediatly checked him over. When she finished, all she could do was to administer posions that he needed. She handed him the first potion, but he just looked at her like she was going to posion him. She noticed.

"It's a pain reliever. Trust me."

Jack took the vial slowly while looking at her suspciously. He downed it in one gulp and, even though it tasted horrible, he felt the pain and stiffness go away almost instantly. He looked at the nurse in surprise and confusion. All she did was laugh while handing him another vial. She handed him 2 or 3 other vials before finally handing a a dreamless sleep potion.

He started to drift asleep, but just before he lost conciousness, some one had rushed into the infirmary and exclaimed someone had been taken. Before he could wonder who, he was sound asleep.

When he awoke, he didn't seem to know where he was. He looked around the infirmary and slowly began to remember how he had gotten there. Soon enough, he noticed a black figure hovering at the end of his bed. It stayed there for several minutes, not saying a word. It just looked on. Finally, deciding that the occupant was awake, it decided to speak.

At first he, yes a he, cleared his throat.

"Are ye jus' goin' ta stand there or say somethin'?"

The black clothed man just huffed, sneered, and then turned on his heel. He stored to the unopened doors to throw them open. But before he could, they where opened by and elderly man with half-moon glasses, brightly colored robes, and long white hair and beard. He stopped right in front of the black robed man and started to speak.

"Now, Severus. You did volunteer for this, remember? You can't possibly back out now." The headmaster said, his blue eyes twinkling.

'Severus' then screwed up his face as if in pain.

"Headmaster, please."

"I'm sorry, Severus."
"I don' mean ta pry, but, wha' in the hell is goin' on here?" Jack said, finally sitting up.

Severus sighed.

"Might as well hear it from a good source then from a rumor. Your wife and her best friend along with a couple have been kidnapped in the night." Severus didn't continue.

Although, the headmaster did.

"We are looking into wither or not a wizard tyrant named Lord Voldemort has anything to do with it. Though I don't understand by he would take anyone captive."

"I don't think that this 'Lord' Voldemort would have anything to do with it." Jack said, his eyes cast downward.

"And how would you know a thing like that? You're a muggle!" Severus blurted.

"Because I'm one of the ones that helped tear him apart and throw the pieces into the ocean."

The two wizards looked at him in either surprise or disbelief. Jack explained how that had come to be and finished off the story with how he, or at least what he remembered, got into the infirmary.

The two just stood there, one with crossed arms and a sneer while the other seemed to be in deep thought.

The silence had grown almost to be an awkward silence. Soon, Jack couldn't stand it.

"Merry, my wife. Is she alright? Her friend, what about her? Who were the couple?" Jack asked one right after the other. His concern for all of them showed. That and he was hoping the couple taken wasn't the two he was thinking of.

Just that moment, Jack could feel pain once again building up inside of him and before anyone had time to answer, the once calm, yet slightly hysterical, pirate was screaming in pain.

Madam Pomphery immediately rushed in carrying various potions.

"Move! Get out of my way!" She yelled as she pushed past them. "Someone hold him down while I administer the potions."

Hagrid, at some point, had entered the hospital wing and helped the two professors hold down the still screaming pirate.

The nurse pinched Jack's nose, opened his mouth, and poured the potions into his mouth one by one. Soon, the screams became sobs and finally he fell asleep.

"That should keep him calm for a little while." Pomphery said as she stood up.

"Not that I care, but what was that all about?" Severus asked, not looking the least bit concerned.

Pomphery explained the medial reasons for Jack's fits while Dumbledore filled in the blanks.

"So, you're saying telling me that those . . . creatures where vampires?" Severus laughs, "Also, somehow this dunderhead -" gestures to Jack, "was attacked by them. Meanwhile, a stranger who claims to be a vampire 'with a soul' happened to be wondering Hogwarts and saves jackass' arse? Now since he has already been infected with this 'virus', he's going to become one of these things? Albus, that is the craziest story you have ever come up with!"

"Severus . . ."

"No, Albus!" Severus sternly said, "I'm not spending my time working on a potion to save his sorry ass." He threw his hands up in rebellion.

A soft snarl was heard from behind them, near the exit. They all turned and, low and behold, there stood Angelus in full vampiric form.

"My kind doesn't exist, huh?" Angel snarled. In a blink of an eye, Angel had closed the gap that separated them and lifted him up by his neck, slamming him into a nearby wall. While this occurred, Angel had his fangs bared. "I could just 'infect' you right now if I wanted." He could close enough to bit him, but didn't. He was just trying to freak the wizard out.

Severus began to squirm and pawed at the hand at his throat. His eyes where wide and he had gone more pale then he already was, which was surprising since no one really thought that he could go any more pale.

"That enough!" Dumbledore said sternly, a cross look on his face. The headmaster had used a voice that no one had heard before and, frankly, it was kind of scary. "If you would kindly let go of my Potions Master.

Angel hesitated, but finally let go. Severus fell to the ground and had to sit up. He rubbed his neck as he glared at the vampire. He finally picked himself up and dusted all the dirt off of his robes.

The potions where short lives as Jack's eyelids fluttered and opened. He made a face, as would someone who was rudely awakened, and moved his head toward the voices. He blinked the sleep out of his eyes, what was there anyway, and stared at the crowd.

"Wha' tha 'ell is all tha shoutin' 'bout?" Jack asked groggily.

Everyone immediately turned toward him and stared in surprise.

"Those potions where supposed to knock him out for a good few hours! How in the bloody world-" Severus said in surprised.

"Maybe his body is already starting to build an immunity to the stuff." Angel suggested.

"I don't bloody care 'bout 'potions'!" Jack said, pulling the covers off and swinging his legs over the side of the bed. He looked down at the cloths that he was wearing. "Wha' tha bloody 'ell happened ta my cloths?"
"They're right here." Madam Pomphery said sweetly. She opened the wardrobe and pulled out clean cloths. "They really were hard to clean. The house elves had to wash them several times to get all the dirt and grim out."
Jack just stared.

"Me cloths are clean??"

"Shocking isn't it? Someone actually cares enough to clean you're cloths." Snape remarked snidely.

Jack wasn't even listening. He just grabbed his clothes, quickly put them on, and ran out of the door. He had to get to Merry before it was too late.

Merry and Pippin where thrown into the brig of an unknown ship. After both had helped each other up and dust themselves off, they noticed that they weren't the only ones there.

"Will?" Merry blurted.

"Elizebeth?" Pippin asked, squinting her eyes.

Will lifted his head and blinked his eyes a couple of times.

"Merry? Pippin? Is that you?"

"Yeah." Pippin looked around while Merry found the wall and slide down into a sitting position. "How did you two get here?"
Will just shrugs. "Woke up here." He looked from Pippin to Merry and back to Pippin. "Um, what happened to Jack?"

"Well, that's a long story." Both Merry and Pippin said at the same time.

"We have the time." Elizebeth said as she leaned out of the shadowed corner.

Pippin looked at Merry, who just nodded. "Alright."

The story began with the small spat between Merry and Jack. Will just had to interrupt with a 'Aww. Your first row after being married. How sweet!" But Merry only told him to shut his mouth. They continued with what happened on Voldemort's ship, Merry's sacrifice, Jack's disappearance, and finally how they got there.

"So… you have no idea as to how he disappeared again? No clue to where he might be?" Will asked.

Merry only shook her head. "None what so ever. But…" She lifted up the bottled 'model' ship. Someone aboard the ship found this where the Black Pearl should have been docked. The weird part though is how it got in there. All I did was set the ship down on the writing desk and open the bottle. A white light then erupted and next thing I know, the Pearl is inside this bottle. There's no way that this ship can come out. I've tried shattering the glass every possible way and there's no breaking it. It's in there for good.

Will opened his mouth to say something, but the door opened and boot where heard coming down the stairs slowly.

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"Where do you think you're going?" Severus said as he caught up with Jack.

"I'm rescuin' me wife and our friends! I'm getting them away from all this madness . . . and me."

"Why would you want to distance yourself from the people you care about the most? Usually there's a reason for that; your scared something will happen to them."
"You're a real smart one, aren't ye?" Jack said sarcastically. "Yes, I am scared I will hurt them." Jack said as he began to walk faster. Although, a jolting pain erupted from his stomach and spread through his entire body. He fell to the ground, pulled his legs up to his chest and rocked back and forth. This usually helped with pain.

Severus reached inside his robes and pulled out a vial. He handed it to Jack who just continued to rock.

"Take it. It'll help with the pain." Severus said while shoving it into Jack's hands. Jack only shoved it back.

"It's not gonna work. The virus is too far along." Jack choked out. "I've got to get to her before it's too late. The process is almost complete." Several minutes pass before Jack is able to stand. When he does, he starts to walk at a fast pace.

They walk to the edge of the grounds and stop.

"Ok, where do we go from here?"

"Hold on!" Was all Severus said and held out a portkey.

The atmosphere on board Voldemort's ship was frantic. Not only was their captain missing, but also his wife and her best friend had disappeared as well. No one seemed to know what to do.

Out of nowhere, two figures just fell from the sky and right onto the deck of the ship. Everyone stopped what they were doing to look at the two new arrivals. They were surprised to see their captain and someone who looked a lot like Septimius only in black.

"Severus?" Came a voice from the crowd. Septimius stood at the edge of the crowd to stare at his twin.

"Sexton." Severus said with a sneer. He was not too pleased to see his brother.

"No wonder we got him confused." Harry whispered to Ron. "He has a twin."

Hermione hit her forehead with the palm of her hand. "Seriously, you two. I told you a thousand times already that he might have had a twin. But of course, you never listen to me."

Jack left the questioning crowd to find someone from the Black Pearl's crew. He made his way to the hold to find it empty. He then went to the forecastle (A/N: That's where the crew sleeps.) to find Gibbs asleep in one of the hammocks.

He walked up to his old friend quietly and shook him gently. Gibbs awoke with a start and looked at Jack groggily.

"Jack?" Gibbs asks rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Aye."

"Jack! It's good ta see ye. 'Tis been awhile."

"Aye, it has been a while. But I wish it were on better terms." Jack said looking gloomy.

"What's tha matter, lad? It's doesn't have anythin' ta do with yer lass of yers does it?" Gibbs asked, getting worried. He knew how devoted he was to his bonnie lass and her to him.

"No. It's not Merry. We could never be happier. Though," he sighs, "I'm afraid I can never return. I'm sick with a virus that requires blood to survive."

"Jack, what are ye tryin' ta tell me?" Gibbs questioned, very confused.

"I'm becoming a vampire."

"Out of all the bizarre things ye've told me, that one is the wildest one. Aye, but I believe ye. Ye've never lied to me looking that gloom." Gibbs said seriously.

"Aye." Jack gloomily said. "I've got a problem I've been meanin' ta have ye help me solve. I know Merry's missing and I need to find her. Would you 'appen to know where she is?"

"Hold it! How did you find out about that. The only one I told was that funny lookin' guy. Ye know, tha one with the greasy hair and the black dress."

Jack laughs. "That's Snape. He's a friend of Merry's. Besides, that's not a dress, mate. Those are 'robes'. He's a wizard."

"Aye." Gibbs said, not convinced. "Scary damn bastard, though."

"Yeah." Jack sighs again. "I heard it from him. Now, do you or do you not know who has me bonnie lass?"

"I'm not sure, lad. But I thought I saw a few from Barbossa's crew."

"T\hanks, mate. I think I know where they are." Jack rushed up and grabbed Severus by the arm and pulled him aside. "I think I know where she is."

Severus just looked at him weird.

"You sure she's here?" Septimius whispered.

Jack just nodded and signaled to be quiet. His boots were the first to sound as they descended the stairs to the holding cells.

A familiar voice gasped and cried out.
"Jack! Severus! Septimius!"

Jack's eyes lit up as he saw Merry and their friends all in the same holding cell. He made his way over, but before he could open the lock, someone grabbed his shoulder and turned him around.

There stood a fierce looking vampire. The only thing Jack did was ask Merry for her mirror, which she had with her, and proceeded to shine sunlight in the vampire in the face. It screamed until it turned to ash.

"That was interesting." Septimius said in surprise.

"You would!" Severus shot back.

"Oh just shut up." Jack said as he turned back to the locked cell, which opened with a click. He went in to make sure everyone was alright, especially Merry.

The sound of someone coming down the stairs caught everyone's attention. Slowly, someone began to emerge. Barbossa stood at the end of the stairway.

"Ye're dead!" Jack nearly yelled, growing angry. "I killed ye!"

"I'm not the only one ye've murdered."

"Jack?" Merry called.

"Don't worry, luv. I'll be fine. Though, I need ta discuss somethin' with ye when we get home." He whispered to her. He gently touched her face before getting up and exiting the cell. All Merry could do was watch in worry.

"I suppose you do remember the lass you've murdered?" Barbossa said with a smirk.

*Flashback*

Jack snuck through the large mansion that was almost completely dark. The sun had set about an hour ago and he knew they would be gone to hunt. But he did not expect her to still be there. All he wanted to do is see if he still had what it took to pillage.

'I'll show Will who's the better pirate!' Jack thought.

He entered the first bedroom he came too and lit a candle for better light. Almost immediately, he saw a large elegant dresser on the other side of the room. A expensive looking jewelry box set on top of it. Jack knew he would get some treasure tonight.

He made his way over to it as quietly as he can. He opened the box hoping that it wasn't a musical box just incase there was someone in the house that would hear it. He looked inside and found a beautiful necklace that would look more beautiful on his bonnie lass. He carefully picked it up and slipped it in his pocket.

Just when he started to look through more of the box, there was a tap on his shoulder. He turned around to find a very beautiful woman standing right behind him looking furious and hands on her hips. Her face then changed and she bared her fangs, lunging at him. He tried to move out of the way, but wasn't fast enough. He was slammed against the wall by the throat. He tried to squirm out of her grip, but it was too strong.

"I may let you live if you tell me what you are doing in my house!" She growled at him.

"I will if you let me go." Jack chocked.

She hesitated, thinking about it. Finally, she let him go. Though, instead of an explanation, he darted for a wooden chair and broke off a leg. He held it in front of him, but did nothing.

She lunged after him, not seeing the homemade stake pointed at her. She lunged right onto the stake and fell to the floor as ash.

Jack, in a blind panic, fled the house.

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Jack had a pained look on his face. He knew that he had no choice then to kill her, but it still haunted him. He had always had a hard time pushing it to the back of his mind.

"I hope that you realize that is the reason they are after you. I'm just here to help them get rid of ye." Barbossa just laughed, not realizing that a very blunt object was floating towards his head. Suddenly, it hit him in the head hard enough to knock him out. He fell to the floor with a loud thud.
"Wha' the 'ell?" Jack said with a very confused look on his face.

Septimius lowered his wand with a smug look on his face. "Mother always thought I was talented with wandless magic."

"Yeah, well, she always thought you were the more talented one." Severus snapped.

Jack just sighed. "Can we jus' get out o' here before we get caught again?"

"Too late!" Will said.

About 5 or 6 vampires rushed down the stairs and into the hold. They stopped to look at the intruders, all the while growling at them.

"Great!" Jack said as he unsheathed his sword. He turned and walked into the cell again and kneeled down next to Merry. "I want ye all ta stay in here."

"We can defend ourselves!" Pippin angrily said.

"I said stay in here!" Jack nearly yelled. "I don' wan' tha fact that I could 'ave protected ye an' know that I could 'ave prevented yer death."

"Alright, enough with the sappy explanation." Merry said sarcastically. "We'll stay here. But, if you get yourself killed, I'm bringing you back to life and killing you again!"

"I think tha's fair." Jack said smiling.

It was at that moment that the vampires attacked, fangs bared. One had knocked Jack to the ground and decided to go for the throat. Jack just laid there, wide-eyed and trying to push the vampire off.

Merry was the only one concerned for Jack. She tried to get to him but Will held her back. She was screaming and yelling for someone to help him.

Just as the teeth touched the skin, the vampire was thrown off and killed immediately.

Jack looked up, and there stood Severus with a sneer fierce enough to scare the bravest 7th years. He looked in utter shock at him.

"Don't look at me like that!" Severus said with embarrassed, yet scared look. He then rushed back up to the deck with his black robes billowing behind him.

"O-k," Pippin said, confused.

Merry, as soon as Will released her, rushed to Jack and threw her arms around his neck. She was hugging him tight and not wanting to let him go.

"I thought I was going to lose you." She whispered in his ear. "I was so scared." Her eyes where closed tight as she wanted to take in his scent, which was of spice and the sea.

"Um, luv? We have to talk." Jack said sadly, pulling away.

Merry didn't like the way he said that. Though, she's never heard him use that tone, she knew it couldn't be good.

"I think we'd better leave." Pippin said and began to leave the room.

Will and Elizebeth soon followed Pippin out.

"What's the matter?"

Jack looked down at the floor. He knew he had to tell her and it seemed to be the opportune moment.

"I've already been bit. I've got anywhere form a few hours to a day." Jack looked up, He found Merry sitting down in shock. A single tear fell down her face.

Jack fell to his knees in front of her and lifted her chin up. He looked in her eyes and spoke with pure sincerity.

"I know this is hard to take in. I'm still having a hard time with it. I just want you to do me one favor, luv. I don't want you to remember me by the thing I will become, but by the way I am now. Remember that I will always love ye. I love ye with all me heart. Nothing will change that."

"No! I don't have to remember!" Merry said angrily.

The sudden outburst started Jack. "I don' understand."
"There's a cure. Some half-blood vampire and a human scientist created it. I think Severus has a potion version of it."

Before she could explain more, Jack began the last stage of the transformation. He fell to the floor in pain. He tried not to scream, but the pain was too much and he began crying while screaming. Everyone came down the stairs to see what was wrong, and found Jack screaming and Merry on the floor frightened and crying.

Will went over to her, knelt down and put a hand on her shoulder. At first, it startled her, but she then realized who it was and hugged him while burying her face in his shoulder.

For nearly 20 minutes, the only noise was that of screaming. No one could do anything. When the screaming finally did stop, everyone became incredibly still and watched. Jack continued to lay on the floor with his face hidden from everyone. Growls and snarls began to sound from him.

Will instinctively tried to protect Merry and Elizebeth while Pippin ran behind Septimius.

Jack stood up and turned toward the group. Both Merry and Elizebeth screamed.

Jack's face had become the demonic face that of a vampire and fangs had also appeared.

"RUN! Run back up to deck!" Will shouted. He waited until everyone had filled out of the room before leaving himself. Merry was the only one that hadn't left and Will waited for her. Will realized soon that she was in too much of a shock and grabbed her by the waist and practically carried her up.

When they where back safely on Voldemort's ship, Will let go of Merry. Not a word was said as she turned and walked slowly to the Captain's Quarters.

Pippin started after her, worried, but Septimius stopped her.

"She needs time alone to fully adjust."

"We could try to get him to take the cure?" Severus suggested.

"And how do you suggest we do that?" Septimius said, pacing. "The only known cure is in the States. We are not going to have enough time. Besides, his wife is grieving as if he really did die! And technically, he DID!"

"Well…" Severus said, getting angry. "I have had a chance to get my hands on a cure several months ago and perfect it a little. All we need to do is make enough to make sure he gets it."

The next few days where spent getting and preparing the ingredients and then making the potion. When they finally got it done, they had 3 or 4 vials ready for use.

"Well, all we need is a plan." Will said. "Any ideas?"

"What about a type if interjection. Like a needle or a tranquilizer dart." Pippin suggested.

"Blood? Like through a donation." Septimius said. "It could be through a small animal or what you could get form the Red Cross."

"I think then you would need a volunteer." A voice came from the darkened doorway. Angel emerged from it and entered the room. " I don't think though any of you should go near him. He's rather hungry since he hasn't fed for a couple of days."

"He's still himself then." Will said, thinking.

"I'll give it to him." Angel demanded.

Merry sat in the Captain's Quarters looking at a photo of the both of them. She smiled as she remembered the day they took it.

Then, a rapping came for one of the windows near her. She jumped and started to look around till she looked at the window it came from. She got a terrible shock. There at the window was Jack. His face was pale, but you couldn't tell really since his skin was still dark. Also, white fangs glistened in the moonlight as he smiled.

Merry was hesitant to open the window, but finally decided to let him in just to see what he wanted. He tripped slightly over a chair as he came in.

Instead of embracing him like she wanted to, she kept her distance since she didn't know if he was safe to approach.

"What's the matter, luv? Aren't ye glad ta see me?" Jack said, looking sincerely hurt by her actions.

Merry nodded as she didn't trust her own voice. She wanted to hold him and kiss him till he couldn't see straight. Though, she didn't want to risk death either.

"Luv?" Jack asked, getting closer. He got close enough to touch her face. He felt awful for putting her through this and couldn't hold or touch her.

"No, Jack."
"Please, luv."

"Only for a little while." She gave in.

They slowly got closer and embraced. Her head rested on his chest while his chin rested on the top of her head. It felt nice for the both of them to be close to each other again. With him gone for days, to was hard.

After a while, the hunger was taking over.

'No! Not now. Not when I have her in my arms.' He tried to resist but, soon, he found himself inching toward her neck. Her blood smelled so good.

Before any damage was done, Jack tensed. Pain again erupted through his body. He only held on to her still. Merry could feel how tense he was.

"Jack?"

"Don' worry, luv. It's just that the cure is kicking in. Angel gave it too me about an hour ago." He had gotten a pained look on his face, but still continued to hold her.

Soon, the pain was gone.

"That's it?" Jack said, looking surprised. He run his tongue over his teeth to see if the canines where still there. "Damn, still there."

"Maybe it will take a little longer to completely reverse."

"I hope you're right." Jack said as he looked out the window. He noticed that the sun was rising. "Luv, I need a dark place to sleep… now.

"I think the closet is big enough." Merry said as she looked at the closet.
"Thanks." He kissed her on the cheek and opened the closet door. "Yeah. It's big enough." He climbed in and got settled.

"Mmm hmm."

"Yeah," he sighed. He grabbed the handle and pulled the door shut.

Merry yawned and figured it was time she went back to bed. She tossed the covers aside and limbed in. Soon, she was asleep. What she didn't realize, though, was that there was a full moon that night.

Jack awoke the next night with no pain. He had, however, woken up during the day with very bad stomach craps, but just went back to sleep.

Now that he was fully awake, he noticed that he felt weird. He was hungry, but not for blood. He was hungry for regular food.

He got up and popped his head out of the door, just to make sure it was safe. He saw that Merry was still asleep and that no one else was in the room so he stepped out and closed the door as quietly as he could. Though, as he turned around, there stood an elf that he had never seen before.

'That's funny. I thought that no one else was in the room.' He looked to Merry's bed to find it empty. He looked back at the elf and realized that the elf was Merry.

"Merry? Is it the nearly time for the full moon already?"

Merry looks at him in wonder. "I don't understand. What are you talking about?"

"You haven't seen yourself recently have you?"

Merry shook her head. "I've been too stressed to even think about grooming."

"Come on. Ye need ta see yerself." Jack said as he pulled her to the bathroom and in front of the mirror.

Merry just gasped. She didn't realize how much she had changed. Her hair had grown to an unbelievable length, which was to her waist (it was just at the middle of her back.) and was straight, both eyes where the brightest purple and where the big innocent type, she had gotten high cheek bones, a slim small nose, and an hour-glass figure. She had also grown several inches and was now slightly taller then Jack (half-an inch to a full inch). "Is that really me?" Merry asked in shock. She just had to check herself over. "Yep! That's me!" She wasn't quite sure what to make of all this. "What do you think Jack?"

He didn't answer.

"Jack?" She turned around to find him gawking.

In fact, Jack was in a bit of a shock. He really didn't think that the woman whom he thought couldn't be more beautiful could become something that rivaled a goddess. (A/N: I've got this image of the elvish race to be somewhat almost perfect and very beautiful. I believe they are the closest thing to being gods. So don't go yelling at me about this.)

"We're going from one shock to another, aren't we?" Merry asked, mainly talking to herself.

Jack hummed his response, not quite sure what she said. He was in deep thought and only heard a couple of words. "Luv, wha'da say we go back ta tha Pearl and-" Jack raised his eyebrows and smiled. "-ya know, have some fun."

"Is sex all you think about?" Merry said, not he least bit surprised.

"No," Jack paused. "I think about rum, too."

Merry huffed.

"And ye too, luv. I think about ye, too." Jack hurriedly said, getting offensive.

"Oh, you think about it and you know it." Merry said teasingly.

Pippin, who had come in just a little after the conversation started, just blinked and turned to leave.

Merry saw her.

"Pippin!" She whined.

"Hey, you don't need an audience. I'll be back later after you're done here. That should be about, oh-" She looked at her imaginary watch, "-15 minutes."

Jack went to say something, but Merry covered his mouth and rolled her eyes. Instead of the steady use of profanity and insults he uses, it was 5 minutes of just Jack's muffled yelling. Merry finally uncovered his mouth, but Jack got a last word in.

"And that's why it takes us longer then bloody 15 minutes!" Jack finished his rant.

In a blink of an eye, Pippin began to change into a strange creature. Her skin was a redish purple color. Both Jack and Merry where looking at her as if she had grown two heads. Pippin grew curious as to why they where looking at her funny, so she looked at the back of her hand to see if he had green skin or something. She was close. Her skin had completely changed to the redish purple color and was now forming scales. It started on the back of her hands and spread from there. Soon, a tail formed and began flipping back and forth, and eventually smashed into the closet. She grew in size slowly, all the while, transfiquring into some type of mythical creature.
"Um. . . Pip? We may need to get you out the door now or after too long, you won't be able to even fit in this room." Merry said, momentarily coming out of her shocked state.

Merry and Jack began to help the partically transfigured Poppin out of the door that nearly was too small to fit her through and out on deck.

As soon as they had gotten her on deck, she rapidly grew and didn't stop until she was fully transfigured into a adult Dragon! She stood 20 feet tall, wing span was 145 feet and her tail was nearly 10 feet long. With that size, she really couldn't fit on the deck of the ship, since she was so big. She tried to keep her tail on the ship so she wouldn't take out a rail. With her size, the ship was nearly under water.

Pippin crouched down and layed her head on the deck so she could somewhat look Merry in the eye. They just stared at each other for a moment before Pippin leaped into the air and gently landed a couple of feet away from the ship. As soon as she had flew off the ship, it immediatly sprung up and rocking violently enough that a few people were nearly thrown over board. Most nearly lost their balance, but only a few actually fell over.

"Sorry." Pippin hummed in her now lower voice.

As soon as Merry had steadied herself, she felt something hit her in the arm. She turned to see who or what had hit her but couldn't see anything. She looked at Jack, who was staring back at her with wide eyes.

"What's the matter with you?" Merry asked confused.
"Um. . Luv? Go like this." Jack said as he raised a hand to his nose.

Merry tried to do that, but instead of touching her nose, she hit the underside of something hard. She tried it again and hit the same thing. She was about to ask for a mirror, but someone had beet her too it. What she saw shocked her.

"Is the a BEAK where my mouth and nose should be??" Merry nearly yelled, clearly very alarmed.

Before anyone could answer, the same feeling that had hit her a minute ago had hit her in the chest. That second, she had rapidly transfigured into a penguin. Everyone's mouth fell open and their eyes grew wide.

"My WIFE hs been turned into a PENGUIN!" Jack exclaimed, quite alarmed.

Every single person on deck looked like fish out of water as they were opening and closing their mouths without a single sound coming out of them. The only one not looking like that was Ron, who was looking very embarrased.

"Sorry, I've got the hiccups" Ron explained, going red in the ears. "and I lose control of my magic." Just as he closed his mouth, another hiccup excaped and hit Jack square in the chest, which immediatly turned him into a butterfly.

Everyone took one look at Jack instantly started laughing hysterically at his new form. Some even fell to the floor, they found it so funny.

"Wha' are ye all laughin' at?" Jack asked, not fully realizing what he had been turned into.

Everyone started laughing harder when they heard his squeeky voice. Even Pippin, who's voice was low and rumbling, and Merry, who's voice was not quite as high but equally as squeeky, were laughing at him.

"Now that voice fits your middle name, love." Merry giggled as she pointed a fin in his direction.

"Can we stop laughin' at me and find a way ta get tha lad ta stop his hiccups." Jack squeeked, clearly quite irrated.

"Scaring him is way to cure him." Pippin suggested as she accidentally shot fire from her nostrils. The fire sped past Ron. He jumped back with eyes wide and about to start screaming.

If Jack had eyebrows, he would have raised one in surprise.

"Well, ye did a good 'nuff job wif that, lass." Jack squeaked.

Harry tilted his head as he staired at the dragonized Pippin. "Is it just me or does she look like a Hungarian Horntail?" He asked, which no one answered. "I guess it's just me."

Ron must have been the only one that agreed since he was still wide-eyed, paled, and looking as though as he was about to faint from pure fright.

"You did it Pip!" Merry declaired. "You got rid of his hiccups!" As she said that, she started to jump up and down in joy.

Pippin smiled a toothy smile and she emitted a rumble, which was humming. Then she got a thinking expression on her face and began to think aloud. "I wonder what these forms mean?"
"Don't they have something to do with innocence, brother?" Septimius teased.

Severus sneared at his brother before he answered. "The forms mean a certain level of innocence. For insteance, Ms. Elfhelm's form is obviously the dragon. That means she has a very high level of innocence. On the other hand, Mr. Sparrow is the butterfly. His innocence level is very low."

"And Merry?" A voice called out.

"Well," Severus began. "her's is the penguin. Her level of innocence isn't very high, but it's alot higher then Mr. Sparrow's."

"I wonder who is responcable for that!" Merry stated while glaring at her husband.

"You're not supposed to let someone like him drop you innocence like that." Ron blurted.

Merry got angry at the comment and charged at Ron. Her little penguin wings where outstreched and she was squawking like something was killing her. When she reached Ron, she bit him in the leg. She bit him hard enough that she drew blood.

"Bloody hell! She bit me!" Ron exclaimed, jumped back from the angery penguin.

"You've deserved it." Merry said, glaring at him. "Jerk!" While waddling back to where Pippin was resting her head. Merry suddenly changed into a huge black panther with a big white puff. She stopped walking, sat down, and looked around. "Is it just me or did eveything shrink?"
"It's not you." Said Harry. "You've turned into a panther!" He stated.

"Really?" Merry questioned, looking at a paw. "FINALLY! I knew I was more innocent then a penguin."She purred as she rubbed up against Ron's legs.

Jack, on the other hand, became jealous. He was so jealous that nothing but thoughts of murder came to mind. And now, because of that thought, he progressed downward to a pile of dust.

The only thing different about the pile of dust was that he still had eyes and a mouth; everything else was dust.

A low growl emitted from Merry before she yelled. "Jack you dumbass! The whole point of this is to regain our innocence and get back to our normal selves. It's not about loseing it all-together and regress into a pile of dirt." She finished with one last growl while showing her teeth.

Jack's eyes lowered, as if in shame. "I'm sorry, luv." His voice was filled with hurt and genuine shame. that shame mush have been enough, because within that second, another pop sounded along with a big white cloud. The cloud disappeared to reveal Jack back into his butterfly form. He looked at himself and exclaimed with a grin, "I'm a butterfly again!"

"Yeah, well don't ruin it by going back to being that pile of dirt." Pippin said sarcastically. With that statment, she down graded into a mountian lion. She lifted up a paw and her eyes grew wide with shock. "I think I dot alittle to mean."

"What did you say?" Merry asked knowing full well what Pippin had said.

"I said I think I was alittle to mean. . ." Pippin repeated, starting to catch on to what Merry was trying to get at. ". . . Oh." Pippin said realizing what Merry was getting at. "Let's see what else I can say to 'dear ol' Jack'."

Jack's eyes grew wide with fear and was about to hide behind Merry when he himself upgraded into an ostrage. Instead of trying to hide behind Merry now, he immediatly started looking for a place to bury his head.

"Now I know how to get him to behave." Merry commented, grinning. With a pop, Merry was back to a penguin. She looked down at herself and was not happy. "Shit." Another pop and she was downgraded to a goldfish with her own bowl of water. "Ok" She tried to say, but couldn't talk underwater. She poped her head out of the bowl and repeated herself. "Ok, this is just ridiculous." She started to huff.

Jack finally quit trying to bury his head and lowered it so he could look Merry in the eye. "Now, luv. Try to calm down."

"Yeah, that helps coming from someone who just tried to buy his head in the wood!" Merry shot back. Jack just glared at her. "Alright." She tried to take deep breathes, but since she was a fish, it wasn't working. She popped her head back under the water and tried it again, and surprisingly, it worked. She raised her head back up. "Thank you." She said genuinelly. That was enough to bring her back to the panther. She was so happy to have skipped the penguin all-together and back to the panther that she started to rub up against Jack's leggs.

"Hey!" Jack laughed. "Stop that."

"Why?" Merry teased as she continued to rub up against his leggs and start to purr.

"Because it tickles." He said just before he gently nipped her ear.

"Are you two trying to stay like that or would you like to get back to normal?" Severus said, getting very aggitated.

"Oh, come on. They're acting innocent. Actually, they're acting alot like they did when they first fell in love." Pippin stated.

"And if you would quit being an -" Merry directed toward Severus but didn't get to finish her sentence since Jack had bit her in the ear, only hard this time. "Ouch. That hurt." She stated as she glared up at Jack.
"Do you want to downgrade into a goldfish again?" Jack asked, getting annoyed.

Merry lowered her head in shame. ". . . no . . "

"Then behave!" Jack stated

"Look who's talkin'!" Pippin growled. With that, Pippin was completely back to normal. She looked at herself in surprise then dancing and singing around the deck in joy.

Merry sighed and frowned when she looked at Pippin. She decided that she needed to think more like Pip since she was the most innocent out of all of them. With the thought of being innocent came the all fimiliar pop. Merry was back to normal. Pippin saw and they both danced and sang like a couple of hyper geeks.

Jack looked at both of the girls with the most saddened expression he could muster. Why was it that they could pop back to normal so easily and he couldn't?

"Well it's because you've lived your lifestyle for so long that you forgot how to be innocent. But us?" Merry looked to Pippin and back to Jack. "We really haven't let go of our inner child." Merry had explained.

Jack had a shocked look on his face. He didn't realize that he had thought aloud. "Could you help me?" He asked genuinelly.A small pop and Jack had moved up to a tiger.

"Well, there you go. No help from us." Pippin said with a smile while Merry hugged her husband around the neck. "One or two thoughts and you'd be back to normal."

"I'll still need help." Jack pleaded.

"Well let's ask some obvious questions like 'What would you do if you found someone's wallet laying on the ground?' " Merry asked.

"Huh, keep if for myself?" 'pop' Back to an osterage.

Both Merry and Pippin hit their foreheads.

"No! You're supposed to return it or turn it into the police." Pippin explained.

"Oh." Jack replied.

"What about drugs?" Merry asked.

"Don't do them?" Jack asked, hoping to get this one right. Another pop and he was back to a tiger.

"Yay!!" Merry and Pippin cheered.

Another pop and Jack was back to normal.

"What did you do?" Merry asked as both her and Pippin looked at him in shock.

"I just thought about how lucky I am to have you. . ." Jack said, touching Merry's check. "Both of you."
"Why thank you." Pippin said smiling.

"Where you really thinking about us?" Merry asked, not quite believing him. He just nodded.

Pippin, Mel, and the rest of the crew sneeked off before they where yelled at to leave.

Merry led Jack back into their cabin with a mischievious smile. A few things were heard that no one wanted to hear, and the couple were not seen again untill moring.

End Chapter Two

Next Chapter: Aftereffects of Tainted Blood