Chapter 4- catching up
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The Pearl set sail for Cuba in search of the voodoo witch. Jack Sparrow had a Goddess in pursuit of him, but this time he didn't know of this 'key' thing. Angelica and the crew were not aware that they had an angry Goddess after them. Mr. Gibbs was the only soul who knew of it, except from Jack and Captain Teague.
Jack was at the helm thinking plus enjoying a bottle of Rum. Was he cursed? Why did he make enemies everywhere he went? Some months ago he thought everything was fine. Now it seemed like an enemy just came out of nowhere. His little vacation with Angelica was ruined. Why did the world deny him of happiness? Real happiness of being with the one he loved? Living the pirate's life.
Then Jack heard an ear-piercing scream. His bottle of Rum fell to the wooden floor, smashing to smithereens. He pinned his hands to his head. He whimpered. It was unbearable, it looked like the serene sounds of God's green earth were replaced, because it was the only thing he heard. It went on for half a minute and then it faded. Jack was panting. He looked around to see where it came from but everything looked normal.
It was noon and Angelica was nowhere to be seen on deck. Jack would go and try to check their cabin but it was locked. Everybody wondered where she was, the crew liked having her around; well they liked having something beautiful to drool over. They usually swarmed around her like bees on honey, she only let them do that because she found Jack getting jealous and chasing the men away hilarious. Mr. Gibbs would only laugh at him and would tell him that he will end up putting a ring on her finger one day, but Jack would always deny it.
Angelica finally went out of the cabin with Gibbs almost running into her.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Gibbs" she greeted.
But Gibbs froze and took in the view before him.
"Mr. Gibbs? Gibbs?" she raised her voice.
Then Gibbs snapped out of his 'fantasy sequence'. "Um...goo…G'afternoon miss" he replied and quickly ran away from temptations that would lead him to his demise.
Angelica just raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong with him?" she said to herself and continued her journey to the helm were she assumed Jack was.
"Ey! Jonathan! Jonathan! Heave-ho. Jonathan!" a crew member called him for he stopped securing a rope. Jonathan just nudged the man telling him to look to the right. The man did so. His face spelled astonishment.
It was Angelica.
All of the men stopped working and just stared at her hungrily.
She felt very uncomfortable. Maybe what she did was a very bad idea, she regretted. She quickened her walking to get away from the hungry eyes and climbed the stairs leading up the helm. Jack was there standing with his hands to the wheel.
"So, where are we going?" Angelica asked but there was no answer. She scowled. "Jack? Jack!" she shouted getting angry.
"Love, there's something I have to..."he said turning around but swallowed his words.
He looked at Angelica from head to toe, examining every part of her body with widened eyes and a hanging mouth. Jack felt heat surge up from his feet, through his legs and down from his head settling on his middle area.
She wasn't in her usual apparel. Angelica wore a slim black strapless, thigh-high slitted dress reaching down her ankles, hugging her curves perfectly. Red, golden and silver embroidery of flowers trailed the side of the dress. She had a velvet hat on, with a feather on the right-rear of it. Her hair flowed gracefully past her shoulders, a little bit longer than before. She wore new black boots, a sheath belt around her waist to hold her sword, it had some pockets on the other side of it and there she put her daggers and pistol.
She looked gorgeous. This was a style she learnt from her pirate Captain friend. She was a pirate but she still maintained her femininity. That was something Angelica forgot; she was a woman.
Jack's gaze ripped from her cleavage and pounced on her face. He started walking towards Angelica like he was in a trance, he leaned against her body.
"You look lovely" he whispered in her ear.
Jack trailed little kisses onto her neck and shoulder. That left a burning sensation on her skin. She let out little moans.
"I want you" he continued in between kisses. His voice was intoxicating. She felt hot between her thighs.
"Right now" he added, trailing more kisses on her body.
She moaned in pleasure.
The men looked up the helm. How they envied him, how they wished to be in their Captain's position.
Jack and Angelica's tongues kept battling, both aching in want.
"Ship to starboard side" a man exclaimed from the crow's nest.
Upon hearing that she abruptly broke the kiss, overcoming her desire and ran down the stairs, that almost made Jack fall for he was very lost in the kiss. He had an angry look on his face. Who the bloody hell ruined that moment? Now Jack was so keen on tearing that ship to splinters.
He strode down the stairs with clenched fists. He stood next to Angelica at the starboard side, took out his spyglass and looked to see who it was.
"The Royal Navy" he said, she looked him. "All hands to battle stations! Load the cannons ye barnacle bottomed freebooters!" Jack ordered and the men scampered on deck.
The ship got closer, and it looked like they were also preparing for battle.
"FIRE!" Jack shouted.
Cannon fire was heard. The two ships exchanged shots but the Royal Navy's ship was not as big compared to the black pearl. The pearl's crew was advantaged.
"Prepare to board" Gibbs shouted.
The men grabbed ropes and swung over to the other ship.
The clangor of swords and gunshots were heard. Accompanied by the roars of the fighting men, cries of pain and agony and the stench of blood.
Jack was fighting two men. He pierced one man in the chest and slashed the other one's leg.
Redcoats laid dead on deck and some of the black pearl's men.
"Ooh look here now, what good deed have I done for the dear Lord to merit me an audience with such a beautiful creature in the middle of sea?" a big not so good-looking Royal Navy man said looking at Angelica with a smirk and moving towards her.
But as the woman she was, she kicked the man in his stomach and pierced him in the abdomen and he fell to the floor; dead.
"You can now ask God himself that" she spat looking at him.
"You are handling them well, love" Jack said standing next to her.
"I learned from the best" she replied.
"I'll take that as a compliment" "Think whatever you want sparrow. But don't flatter yourself too much" And she went somewhere else. Jack remained smiling smugly.
"Jack! We need to find the Cap'n of the ship" Mr. Gibbs stated. "Aye, search the ship" Jack said. "Aye Cap'n" Gibbs turned around to go carry out the task but stopped. "Cap'n look" he pointed a finger. They looked in the distance and saw a man they assumed was the Captain rowing away in a longboat.
"Coward" Gibbs said "a Captain goes down with his ship" "Don't be too judgmental Mr. Gibbs, I would have done the same" and he walked off.
Gibbs wrinkled his forehead.
"Cap'n what should we do to the remaining men" Jonathan asked.
Jack walked towards the four men who were tied up and kneeling. Angelica and Gibbs joined him.
"I give you two options; whether to join the crew… or not to and face the consequences after." Jack announced to the kneeling men.
"Filthy pirate" one man spat.
Jack looked at the man, "is that so? Men, throw him over" he said.
The Pearl's crew cheered and three men lifted the man towards the railing, just as they were about to throw him into the water, "No! No please, I will—I will join the crew" he pled. And the men stopped and looked at Jack.
"You are not to be trusted" Jack said. "I—I will be the most loyal man on your vessel, I promise sir" the man reassured. Jack stayed quiet for a few seconds, "I will only be addressed as Captain not sir. Let him go" he said and the three men dropped the man on the wooden floor and he winced.
"Welcome to the crew, ye lily-livered sluggard" a man said kicking him in the ribs.
"Take all the loot on this ship. Clothes, food and wine. Also the Rum, don't forget the Rum. To simplify, just take all the things worth taking." Jack ordered.
They dropped a plank between the two ships. Jack handed Angelica a hand but she ignored it and walked across. Jack followed behind.
"I was just trying to be gentleman, Angie" Jack said.
They reached the pearl's deck.
"It doesn't suit you Jacques...and don't ever call me Angie again " "Only if you stop calling me that inferno name too"
She just scoffed. "I'm going to my cabin"
Jack caught her arm and turned her to him. "You mean...my cabin" "You mean our cabin" she said smiling and got out of Jack's grip and retreated to *their* cabin. Jack enjoyed the view of her luscious curves swaying.
Later…
The men sat on deck enjoying the alcohol they got from the Royal Navy's ship. Jack secretly got the good Rum and wine which he hid in his cabin. The deck was filled with laughter and singing accompanied by Scrum's mandola. Roars from men playing liar's dice and cries of sorrow from men who lost all their money.
Captain Jack Sparrow sat next to Gibbs each enjoying their second bottle of Rum but he didn't look very happy because Angelica hadn't talked to him, he was talking to a crew member named Sam. Jack boiled with jealousy and anger but he didn't want to show it, although he told her that he loved her and the crew was aware of their relationship, he still had a reputation to maintain and not go by the name of "the covetous Captain Jack Sparrow." Angelica laughed at what Jack assumed was a joke.
How did that whelp make her laugh?
Wait. He was Captain, he could do anything he wanted. So as Jack wanted to go were the pair were, Angelica walked off and headed in the direction of their cabin. He waited for a few minutes. "Gibbs, lock that whelp in the brig" he said and vamoosed.
Jack opened the door to the cabin and entered. Angelica was standing in front of the dressing mirror checking herself out with an unamused look.
"Fret not, love. You know you're beautiful "Jack said tenderly, wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Maybe not just enough?" "Dearest Angie, you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Where did this uncertainty come from?" he buried his face in the crook of her neck and took in the lavender scent of her hair.
Angelica chuckled. Then she turned around and their faces were inches apart.
"What did you do to that poor soul?" "What soul?"
Angelica gave him a knowing look.
"Maybe, I sent him to the brig"
She chuckled.
Then it turned into a tango dance just like back on the Queen Anne's revenge.
"As I said before, there's more to you than what meets the eye, you keep on surprising me"
He twirled her around.
"Meaning?"
"I never thought you were the type to get jealous"
Jack chuckled.
"Jealous? No. Rather just knowing what's yours"
They tango went on.
"I don't like to be owned, I thought you learned that already, Jack" "I know" "you didn't sound like you knew it"
"Where did you learn to dress like this? I never saw you as a person who would wear a dress" Jack asked changing the subject.
"It's been many years Jack, I decided to change some things" "You mean changing some things by getting married?"
She cut the tango and started pushing Jack slowly towards the bed with her hand on his chest "I was trying to achieve something every woman dreams about"
Jack fell on the bed and sat up. "And what be that?" "Never mind" she said sitting on top of his laps.
"Okay; and you've never actually told me what you've been up to these past years." He said and put his hands on her hips.
"Well, I got a passage off that island on some merchant ship, then we were attacked by a pirate ship." he narrowed his eyes. "But fortunately the Captain happened to be my friend, Esmeralda De Leon. I sailed with her for a couple years until I met Ignacio, things happened, and actually we were only engaged…"
"Oh?"
"Yes. We dated for two years and got engaged. Our wedding was in a week. I must congratulate you for the nice timing, Captain Sparrow" she put on a flirtatious smile.
Jack lifted her off his laps and put her on the bed. He went towards his desk, got his hat and put it on.
"Actually you must be thanking me for saving you from that life you almost got trapped into." He went towards her, lifted her chin and kissed her. He got lost in the kiss but regained himself and pulled away and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"Am on the night shift love, so that means you have the bed to yourself tonight, considering those nights I supposedly *fell* off the bed"
She glared at him and threw a pillow at him but he was quicker. He managed to escape the room unscathed.
Jack walked on deck happily. Unlikely for a person being hunted by a Goddess. He spotted a bottle of rum on a barrel, he got it and went up the helm. He stood there drinking his Rum. Footsteps came up the stairs. "Jack" "Aye Mr. Gibbs" "Does this fog look natural to you?" "Why that question?" "You being a person being hunted by a Goddess, things like this should be something to worry about" "There's nothing to worry about Master Gibbs, it's only the Caribbean weather"
Mr. Gibbs just raised his eyebrows. He had a very bad feeling about the fog. He just retreated to the celebrations and Jack continued with his bottle. But little did he know, some red eyes peered at him over the railing, then the being slowly dove back into the sea.
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