Chapter 3-You could have chosen a better island!
Sorry it took so long to write this chapter I don't even know why it did, but in that time I have come up with some ideas for stories about Scarlet so you can get a feel of her life, between the time when she first met Jack up until The Curse of the Black Pearl story begins let me know what you think of that, anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter. I don't own POTC cause if I did I would work for Disney and I've just escaped school , but Scarlet is my pirate
I awoke to the sounds of Gibb's yelling and pushed my face deeper into Jack's chest trying to block out the world. It seemed like too early and I just wanted to pretend that everything was completely normal and we weren't running for our lives, but I knew I couldn't escape reality for long.
"Love," Jack spoke softly in my ear as he thought he was waking me up, "They have found some land. We need to get up."
I moved sluggishly out of the warmth of the bed and into the cold air around me. I was slow in my movements and Jack was getting fidgety next to me. When I was ready we walked out onto the deck and saw the island.
The high white cliffs stood tall over the ship, with a tropical rainforest spanning over the majority of the space that the eye could see. There was a large beach in front of us, with golden coloured sand. In the entire place was stunning and looked very inviting.
It took us all down onto the beach. The area seemed far too quiet for my liking, I could feel Jack's presents by the side of me.
"I think I've been here before," he whispered into my ear, "And if this is where I think it is we are in trouble."
I moved my hand more over my sword as we walked into the tall trees that were common in a rainforest environment. We stayed quiet as we creep through the jungle. I heard a rustling from behind the tree and as I turned I saw ten men come out of the trees, each was brandishing either a spear or a machetes. Just as they began walking towards us, Cotton who had been next to me dropped to the ground, a brightly coloured object hanging from his neck. So they also had drug darts, this wasn't looking good for us.
Each of the men looked like they had tribal marking all over their bodies, but it was from a tribe I didn't recognise. They also all looked like they had been into the Tortuga body piercing shop once too often.
I felt someone pull me backwards just as one of the men slashed their spear through the air, narrowly missing my shoulder.
"Bac ick ick," I heard Jack's voice yell from behind me. All the men surrounding us suddenly stopped, and turned to face him. Which made me realise he had pulled me out of the way.
They all dropped to the ground and began worshipping and bowing to Jack, saying stuff in a language I couldn't understand, but I understood the jist of it.
"They think you're a god?" I questioned Jack as I turned around to face him.
"Is it that hard to believe?" Jack asked back.
"They think you're their god," I said bursting out laughing and slapping him on the shoulder. It was only when I calmed down I realised the sounds from the worshipping men behind me had stopped. As I turned I felt a sharp pain in my neck, I reached up and pulled out a brightly coloured dart which was the last thing I saw before the world faded into darkness.
The pain was the first thing I noticed when I woke up, a throbbing pain in the back of my skull which didn't seem to want to stop. I groaned out as I opened my eyes trying to ignore the urge my body had to keep them tightly shut. The world took a few moments to come into focus, and when it did I let out a loud scream.
Standing right in front of me around a centimetre from my nose was a young boy, who skin seemed to be covered in yellow and white lines, he looked at me with an odd expression as if he didn't understand that my standing so close to someone you are likely to scare them.
"Bal liki liki," I heard a voice say to the left of me, just as I was calming my heart rate. The young boy ran away to go and do whatever he had been told to do.
I turned to my left and came to see a sight which made me want to both laugh and scream again. Jack was sitting there with a large sort of crown around his head, it had a horn and a tooth on it and some other random objects, but that wasn't what scared me. What did was the fact on his face Jack had three sets of eyes on his cheeks. They looked oddly real, seeming to be exact replicas of the originals which were staring straight at me.
"Hello love," he said smiling at me slightly nervous looking.
"Hello, what is going on?" I asked looking around. We seemed to be a lot higher than the last time I remembered, up into the mountains, there were a large number of wooden huts around us and some bridges joining the different areas together.
"I was right about the island," Jack replied simply.
"In what way?" I questioned suddenly getting what the nervousness was about.
"This is the Isla de Pelegostos," Jack said in a way of explaination.
"The cannibal island?" I exclaimed a bit loudly getting a lot of weird looks from the locals. I had heard of the Isla de Pelegostos, it was the island that the majority of sailors who avoid. The ones that did go there traded 'Long pork' also known as human's meat for the spices that were very rare on this island. I had always been told to avoid the island at all cost, as it wasn't a nice place to end up before dinner, "How are we even still alive?" I asked just as a cannibal walked over to us.
"Latazo, lum pe lom," the person said, sounding proud I waited until Jack had finished talking to them for him to translate for me.
"Apparently they have caught someone and they want me to see," Jack said with a shrug towards me.
"Why do they want you to see?" I asked.
"Because I'm there chief," Jack said gulping at the same time. I sighed heavy, it was as if the world hated us. I knew enough about the Pelegostos to know that there chief were considered gods in human form, and when they found one they 'Released' him, by burning them alive.
"So how did I end up here?" I asked, while trying to move my hands. Doing it made me realise that actually my hands were behind my back and seemed to be tied with some rope, "And what happened to my arms?"
"It's a long story love," Jack said. I was about to argue when I saw a body hung on a pole being moved up the hill, all I could hope was that it wasn't going to be lunch!
It took them a few minutes to get the person close enough for me to realise who it was. An unconscious William Turner was hanging down from the pole, he looked quite muddy and a little worse for wear but a lot better than he could have been.
Will seemed to just coming back to reality as his eyes slowly opened and he looked around, "Jack? Jack Sparrow! I can honestly say I'm glad to see you!"
Jack didn't reply instead he got up from his throne and walked slowly over to Will. Picking up on the way a sceptre, which was practically a load of feathers and pushed his finger into Will's shoulder as if testing his meat content.
"Jack! It's me! Will Turner!" Will yelled starting to get worried about what was going on.
"Wah-say kohn," Jack said.
"Een dah-lah. Eeseepi," Came the responds from one of the cannibals.
The rest of them seemed to be in an echoing mood, "Eeseepi."
"Tell 'em to let me down," Will interrupted the conversation trying to get Jack's attention,
"Kay-lay lam. Lam piki-piki. Lam meensy weensy. Lam say-say... eunuchy snip-snip," Jack said while making a scissor motion with his fingers. I tried not to burst out laughing, even when we were in danger for our lives Jack still couldn't resist making fun of Will.
"Ahhh... eunuchy!" The crowd echoed again.
Jack turned and walked off pretending to be disinterested in Will's existence, but Will interrupted yet again, "Jack! The Compass! That's all I need, Elizabeth is in danger. We were arrested for trying to help you. She faces the gallows!"
Jack stopped walking and turned to go back to the cannibal who he had first talked to, "Say-say lam shoop-shoop sha smalay-lama shoo-koo. Savvy? Ball licky-licky."
"Ball licky-licky!" Was also echoed back towards us, before more chanting filled the air, "Boom-shoo-boo, boom-shoo-boo, boom-shoo-boo."
Jack leant forward and whispered something to Will before he was taken off over the hill yelling, "Jack, what did you tell them? No! What about Elizabeth? Jack!"
It fell quieter after that, as if all the excitement for the cannibals had left again for the moment but this gave me some time to talk to Jack, "Why am I tied up?" I asked.
"As I said long story love, but it suits you," he said winking at me with a very suggestive look on his face.
"I will make you wish you had never said that Mr Sparrow unless you tell me why exactly my hands are tied behind my back," I said angry finally having enough of the statement 'long story'
"Okay okay love, and its Captain," Jack muttered under his breath, "I don't know if you can remember but you woke up just after they had caught us all and began having 'lunch' with some of the crew as the food. Before that I had been trying to convince them that you were a goddess and so therefore shouldn't be eaten but they weren't having it. Anyway you woke up got very angry and the sea rose up and took a couple of the cannibals out to sea, then you collapsed again and they got a bit scared of you, but believed you were a goddess so let you be with me but they tied up your hands cause they were scared of your magic."
"Great so more important question how are we getting out of here?" I asked as two of the cannibal women approached us and draped a necklace around Jack's neck, he nodded towards them in thanks, before looking at it. The necklace was made up of a large number of human toes, the sight of them made me feel sick.
Jack seemed to be examining them closely before biting off the part of one of the nails, causing me to gag. I had noticed that the longer we were sitting here the louder the drums surrounding us seemed to be.
"We are escaping in a second, get ready to run," Jack told me before getting up and walking towards the cannibals and the fire, "Oup! No no! Oi! No no! More wood! Big fire! *Big* fire! I am chief! Want big fire! Come on! Oi! Maboogie snickel-snickel. Tout de suite! Come on! More wood!"
As the cannibals left to get more Jack grabbed hold of my arms and pulled me backwards off my seat before dragging me away from the fire. It was only a few seconds after that the sound of the drums went deadly silent.
Jack managed to drag me backwards across a foot bridge then through some smaller trees, and between some huts. I was pulled left and right until we came to a sudden stop, I turned my head at an awkward angle to see why we'd stopped and came face to face with a very large cliff drop. Jack moved very slowly backwards before bending down to look at something, pulling my arms to a very dodgy angle.
"Jack let go of me," I begged as I felt my bones rebelling against the angle they were at.
Jack quickly let go of my arm at which point I walked slowly over to one of the hut it seemed to be empty but I was careful anyway. As I walked in I saw a knife lying on the side, which I picked up and went to work on the rope that had my arms tied together.
It only took a few seconds to get loose, obviously the Pelegostos needed to send more time on their rope making skills and less time munching on people.
It wasn't until then I realised that I hadn't seen Jack in a while, I made my way to the window of the hut and saw Jack standing there surrounded by what looked like the entire tribe who were standing there in silences just staring.
"Oh bugger," I heard Jack mutter under his breath before he dropped the coil of rope he was carrying and began sprinkling paprika onto his armpits. The Pelegostos looked at each other in confusion not that I could blame them, "Little seasoning. Aye?" Jack explained.
One of the Pelegosto stepped forward and grabbed Jack by his arms before dragging him away. I knew I should follow them but unlike Jack they were more likely to kill me.
I waited until all the cannibals had left taking Jack with them before I quickly ran out of the hut and grabbed the rope Jack had left behind. There was only one way to get out of this and that would be down.
Making a fast pray that this rope would be stronger than the one I had cut from my arms, I tied one end around a tree which was placed close to the edge of the cliff and the other end was tied around my waist. I took the knife that had been left for me before carefully climbing over the edge of the cliff face.
I used the rocks to make my way slowly down the edge trying not to look at the skulls littering the area below. It took a good few minutes to reach the bottom of the pit, where I cut the rope that had been holding me to the cliff and began to edge my way around the spikes and skulls that laid not too far away from my feet.
There was a river running below a short drop from the end of the pit, which I made my way into, everything seemed very quiet. I stood there for a moment listening out for any sounds at all.
Then suddenly there was a large splash followed by a cracking noise. I ducked under the water and swan over to the sound. Meeting up with Will and Gibbs plus some of the crew.
"I have never been happier to see your face Captain Jones," Gibbs smiled at me.
"Same back, where are the rest of the crew?" I questioned looking around.
"We are the only ones left," Will said in a sad voice.
I wasn't sure how to responded after that, but I heard the cannibals running above us, trying to reach us.
"This way," I called before diving back into the water, the rest of the crew quickly followed.
I moved quickly swimming passed the rocks and skulls lining the river bed, until I reach a pond at the end of the river.
The crew followed me as I ran as fast as possible through the forest, onto the beach and towards the Black Pearl.
As we got closer I began hearing voices coming from on the ship, "unloosen the mooring line."
When we reached the side of the ship I noticed that somehow Pintel and Ragetti had managed to escape their jail time and had got onto Jack's ship.
Gibbs pulled himself up onto the Pearl first, "Excellent half the work done!"
"We done it for you! Knowing you'd be comin' back for us," Ragetti excuse fell onto deaf ears.
"Make ready to case off boys," I yelled as everyone ran manically around the ship.
"What about Jack? I won't leave without him," Will said getting into my face.
"'Ey!" the word echoed from the distance as me and Will both turned to look out you could just see Jack running down the beach towards us, the only trouble was there were a large crowd of cannibals following him.
"Time to go," Will said suddenly changing his tune and running over to help the crew.
"Cast off those lines!" I screamed as I walked Jack running down the beach getting closer and closer.
"Make ready to cast off!" I yelled as I watched Jack grab hold of some of the rigging on the side of the Pearl as we began to depart.
"Alas, my children! This is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost-" Jack began before a large wave came splashing down on him, "-Captain Jack Sparrow."
I have the next two chapters almost done so they should be published in the next two days.
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