BLOOD RITUAL

Sabriell waited until everyone was either below deck or busy enough not to see what she was about to do. She walked up to one of the other boats and started getting it ready to make sail to the cave that Jack and Will sailed off to a few minutes earlier. She got everything ready and was about to lower the boat when she felt someone grab her wrist. It was a woman's hand. She sighed with relief.

"What are you doing?" Anamaria questioned.

"Is this of any importance to you what am I doing?" Sabriell asked back. "They might just need my help, who knows?"

"Are you going there for the Will boy, or Jack?" she asked.

Sabriell though for a moment, who was she going there for really. On some level she knew she shouldn't go because jack told her not to, but that was just the thing, when Jack told her she's not allowed to go she had a sudden urge to disobey his wishes and just do as she pleased.

"I guess...for Jack" she finally answered hesitant at first "but Will is my friend, so him too," she quickly added. To be absolutely honest, she has had some sort of feelings for Will on some level other than just a friend. She always though he was handsome. But he was head over heels for that Elizabeth girl. Look at him now, he's ready to risk his life and working with a pirate just to save her. There was no point in dragging out her feelings towards him just to have them crushed at the end.

"Don't,' she said shaking her head, snapping Sabriell out of her thoughts. "He doesn't love you," claimed Anamaria.

"What? Who?" Sabriell asked, clearly very confused.

She sighed, "Jack, he may tell you a lot of things just to get what he wants, he just ends up leaving women high and dry in the end." she confessed. Sabriell guessed he did that to her, and probably many others. Probably the reason for the women who slap him in constantly. That did explain a lot.

Sabriell giggeled at her comment "First off," Sabriell said while getting up from the boat "Anamaria, right?" Sabriell asked, Anamaria nodded, "I'm Sabriell. Second, I don't think that will happe-" Anamaria was about to interrupt but Sabriell held out her hand motioning to let her finish "I'm his daughter," she finished.

Anamaria was dumbfounded "oh...Well you have nothing to worry about then." she said with a smile "I just didn't want you to go through all that and get hurt in the end."

"I appreciate it, it's nice having someone looking after you."

"Well you know, women out at the sea have to look out for each other, this a man's world out here." Anamaria claimed. They both laughed.

"Not if we have something to say about it" Sabriell said "Now, if it's not too much trouble can you help me get this down?"

"Aye," she said and then helped Sabriell get the boat down. "Good luck!" Anamaria shouted from top of the ship.

"Defiantly going to need it," Sabriell worried silently while paddling in the direction of the cave. She approached a big rocky opening, assuming this was the entrance she swam to it.

Upon entering the dark cave she paddled slower, considering that she didn't know what awaits here inside she didn't want to make too much noise. The deeper she swam into the cave, the darker it became. Finally she had to light a lantern to see where she was going. The water wasn't as deep as she expected it to be. Leaning over the boat, she could see sparkling gold coins at the bottom of the sandy ground just below her. In fact, all around her, everywhere she looked there was treasure. Having lived a life of poverty, the sight of the treasure was overwhelming. Her pirate side tempted her to grab some of it and bring it with her, the logical side told her that it probably wouldn't be a smart choice. She tried keeping her focus on finding Jack and Will instead. At one point she saw a skeleton in the corner of the cave, later on, some raggedy, torn-up, blood stained clothes. "What did I get myself into,"

The boat hit the sandy shore of the cave and snapped her out of her daze. She lifted herself up carefully from the boat and stepped onto to the land. At first her legs felt very wobbly from the day she spent on the ship, quickly, she adjusted herself to land. Looking over, she saw Jack's and Will's boat. "At least I've gone the right direction, now came the matter of finding them."

They were no where to be found, she looked from one side to the other. All of a sudden she heard yelling coming somewhere near her. She followed the voices and came to an area overlooking an immense underground cavern with a lake in the middle. She was taken back by the amount of treasure the cavern held. There were pearls and jewels, chest with silver and gold coins, fancy silks and furniture, and much more, anything and everything she ever imagined pirate treasure was.

A large group of pirates were focusing their attention to the person who was standing by stone chest and announcing something to them. "That must of been the captain of the Black Pearl, that Barbossa Jack spoke of when he was in jail."

Some girl stood by him, she guessed it was Elizabeth. Sabriell very rarely ever saw Elizabeth back in Port Royal, even when she did it was from a distance, never really getting a good look at her.

Her eyes searched the crowd of pirate, checking if Will and Jack were somewhere in it. She took a step forward and tripped over one of the rocks. When she looked up from the ground, she saw a skull which now was right in her face. Her eyes widen and a urge to scream came over her. She quickly covered her mouth and crawled away from it. There were two daggers laying by the skeleton. Calming herself, she reached over and carefully picked one up to examined it. It was a fine dagger, sharp one too, with intricate carvings within the handle. Glancing over to the place where she found it, she spotted another identical one. She picked the second one up and though for a second, then looked at the skeleton, "I don't think you'll mind if I take these?" she sarcastically asked the skeleton "didn't think so." She put the two daggers in each side of her two boots.

A loud shot made Sabriell look up from the rocks. She saw Barbossa turn to Elizabeth, clearly angry at something. He then slapped her across the face and she fell down onto the rocks. Sabriell raised an eyebrow wondering what made him do so. All the pirates were also angry, they pulled out there swords and pointed them at Barbossa. One of the pirates looked up and saw her but she didn't notice.

She watched their argument for a few minutes then shook her head, "This is getting me no where" she thought. She got up from where she was kneeling and hurried down to the direction she came from. She turned a corner and bumped into someone, although it felt like she bumped into a hard wall. "Oh please let it be Jack and Will" she mentally wished.

Looking up, she saw a unknown to her pirate who was smiling wickedly at her. He grabbed her wrists forcefully, "Well, well, who might you be?" he asked.

"No one." she simply said, hoping he will let her go free.

However, he smiled once more and took out his gun then pointed it to her head.

Jack drunkenly made his way through one of the paths in the cave.

"You!" said Ragetti while pointing at Jack.

"You're supposed to be dead!" said Pintell.

"Am I not?" asked Jack. He then turned around and started walking away but pirates surrounded him. They pointed their guns at him. He turned again, the same thing happened.

He thought for a second then started mumbling "Palulay, palu-li-la-la-lulu," Jack went on with his nonsense "parlili, parsnip, pasley, par – partner partner…"

"Parley!" shrieked a loud, yet familiar to Jack voice somewhere within the cave.

"Parley!" said Jack. "That's the one parley! Parley!" he narrowed his eyebrows at the familiar voice "Sabriell?" he though.

"Parley? Down to the depths whatever man that thought up Parley!" exclaimed Pintell.

"That would be the French," Jack answered his rhetorical question.

"What?" asked Bo'sun who was still holing Sabriell's wrist.

"Parley," she repeated, now much more quietly, "you have to-"

"I know what parley is!" he yelled at her furiously.

"Oh good, because I don't" she thought.

"If you want to be taken to the captain, then so be it," he smiled deviously.

"Noted: parley means be take to the captain without being harmed." she mentally noted.

A few minutes later, Bo'sun dragged her on one of the many boats which were now heading back to the Black Pearl. Her eyes searching each boat that was near in hopes of finding Will or Jack, she saw neither. She looked up at the enormous ship that they were approaching. Her throat became dry upon seeing the huge vessel, "Really, what did I get myself into?" she though while shaking her head in disbelief.

"So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word, it's the one I need and watch you sail away in my ship?" repeated Barbossa, laughing at what Jack was trying to propose to him.

"No" Jack declined "I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship and then I'll shout the name back to you, savvy?" Jack said, trying to corrected and convince Barbossa.

"But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it's the one I need."

"Of the two of us," Jack started while looking through the bushel of apples on Barbossa's table, before picking one up, "I'm the only one who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although I suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse, same as you. In the end I ended up surviving, with no curse, and so has me daughter." Jack said while taking a bite into the apple, "funny old world, innit?"

Barbossa scrunched his face at what Jack has said. "I killed that little bastard of yers when I threw her overboard," he claimed.

"Aye, that's what you think," Jack said pointing the apple at him "but what you don't know is that she's safe aboard the Interceptor," Jack said gladly while slouching in his chair.

Just then the door swung open with Bo'sun dragging Sabriell in by her wrists, completely stepping on the point Jack just made. Jack, completely surprised, abruptly straighten himself up, making Barbossa look at him. Bo'sun brought her before Barbossa, her eyes showed much fear towards the captain. Jack slowly slouched back in the chair, looking away from Sabriell trying to pretend he doesn't know her so that Barbossa won't harm her.

"She demanded the right to parley, sir," said Bo'sun, letting her go and pushing her towards Barbossa.

Barbossa looked at Sabriell, then at Jack who was looking away while eating his apple, then back at her again. He smiled wickedly "What be yer name, lass?" Barbossa asked as he got closer to her.

Sabriell blinked nervelessly a few times, looked at Jack who was completely ignoring her present, and then at Barbossa. When she didn't reply, Barbossa took another look at Jack, who still refused to look at her.

"Let the crew do what they want with her, after they're done, tie her up and throw her overboard," Barbossa commended as he went back to his seat. Her eyes widen shock at his words.

"Aye, sir," Bo'sun started taking her away by her wrist.

"Jack you bastard!" she shrieked, making Bo'sun look at Barbossa, Barbossa at Jack, and Jack back at her. He got up and took her by the shoulders. Bo'sun didn't let go of her wrist so Jack slapped them as if commending to get them off.

"I was just bout to say something, luv," Jack stated.

She slapped him hard on the cheek making his face turn to the side "but you didn't!" she shouted.

Jack looked back at her irritated by her slap, then at Barbossa. Jack sighed heavily "You've met Sabriell?" asked Jack, pointing at her.

"Aye," he chuckled. Barbossa motioned for Bo'sun to leave but then a a different pirate came through the door

"Cap't, we're coming up on the Interceptor," he informed Barbossa then left the room with Bo'sun and the other pirate. He went pass Sabriell and Jack. A monkey screeched and jumped down onto the table and followed the the three pirates.

Jack looked at Sabriell in annoyance "I told you to stay on the Interceptor."

"Yea, like I was going to do that,"

Jack left the room with Sabriell right behind, they headed to the helm where Barbossa was already standing, looking through his telescope.

"I'm having a though here, Barbossa, what say we run up a flag of truce, I scurry over to the Interceptor and negotiate the return of your medallion, aye? What say you to that?" Jack suggested.

Barbossa looked at Jack in amusement "Now you see Jack, that's the exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easy to search when they're dead." He claimed "Lock them in the brig!" Barbossa ordered. Just then, two pirates grabbed Jack and Sabriell and did what they were ordered.

Barbossa looked at the apple that he took from Jack in annoyance, he then threw it away. All the pirates on board the Black Pear were now preparing for battle against The Interceptor.

Author's note: So here was ch.6 hope you guys liked it. On with ch. 7 and I will/might have it up today. My goal for this story to be finished by Sunday, since I have this week off and next I will be working and won't have time to update. A while back I wrote 2 ch for dead man's chest and 3 for AWE so I'm really getting ahead of myself, but w/e. Thanks for the reviews and keep them coming, I love reviews :) gracis for reading :)))