Catherine stood up and walked over to the fidgety, brown monkey. Cautiously putting her hand out, she tried to see if the monkey would be nice to her. She had never any good experiences with the animal before.
"Ow!" she yelped, her finger going straight to her mouth after it bit her. "Damn you, you stupid monkey!" The monkey screeched loudly and started jumping around the rock. It then jumped on to Catherine's head and pulled on the hair that was not covered by her hat. She grabbed the monkey and viciously threw it on the ground, after which it scampered off.
"Lass," Jack said as he walked over to her, a bottle of rum in his hand. "Barbossa never lets his monkey leave his side."
"So that means that Barbossa's here somewhere..." Catherine trailed off.
"Aye," Barbossa said, coming out from behind a large rock. His gray, wispy beard blew in the wind, and his hand held a gun, which pointed at Jack Sparrow. "After I knew that Jack was alive, I sent Jack here to find 'im. And here he be! I know that you tricked me, Jack. Right before we left with Turner, Tia Dalma showed up, and then she left soon after. We couldn't find Isla de Muerta anymore, and then we got sucked into a whirlpool. We ended up here, and I know you had somethin' to do with it, Jack. So now you're..."
"Where's Will?" Catherine interjected.
"Ah, the little lass. I thought we got rid of you with Jack here, but I guess you survived as well as him. You've already served your purpose. You'll be joining you father in Davy Jone's locker when I'm done with you," Barbossa said as he pointed his other gun at her.
"Now, now. Why don't we just talk 'bout this?" Sparrow said.
"As I told you before Jack, this kind of attitude is what lost you the Black Pearl. Pirates don't negotiate, they pillage and kill," Barbossa said.
"But why would you kill him now?" Catherine asked. "You just said that he was the one that brought you into this mess. So if you kill him now, then you won't be able to get back home. You know that we're not in the Caribbean anymore, right? We're in a different world, so if you kill him now, you'll never be able to get back home and to the Black Pearl."
"So now you got the lass trying to save you, eh Jack? Can't save you own skin anymore?" Barbossa said to Jack. Turning to the girl, his eyes held a malicious glint. "So then I won't kill Jack now, but what's stopping me from killing you?"
"I helped him," she said, the lie rolling off of her tongue. "If you kill either one of us, then you won't be able to get back."
"How do I know that you're tellin' the truth?"
"You don't," Catherine said as Barbossa's face turned into a snarl. "You're just gonna have to trust me, mate. Do you really want what happened with Turner and my father to happen to you again? If you're stuck here, you'll be dead for ever."
"If I found out that you tricked me, I'll have the whole crew of the Black Pearl come after you, you hear?" Barbossa threatened.
"Is the crew here?" Jack asked, walking up to the captain of the Black Pearl.
"Aye, Jack. And they're still hating you."
"I guess that can be expected," Jack said as he took a drink from his almost empty bottle of rum.
Barbossa scowled at Jack, and then turned around and started walking away from the group. He walked to the edge of a rock, and fired his gun at the air.
"What the hell was that for, Barbossa!" Catherine yelled at him.
He turned around and put his gun back in his pocket. "You didn't think that I'd leave my crew alone, did you? What kind of captain would I be if I did that? So I told them to come here. And since you are the ones that know this place, we will be going with you until we figure out where we want to go while you and Jack figure out how to get us back to my ship."
Catherine turned around and walked back to the fire, muttering obscenities. She plopped herself down and took a bowl of soup, shoving the spoon in the cold liquid and eating the food despite the nasty taste it now had.
Legolas walked over and sat down next to her. "Are you alright?"
"Oh, I'm just great!" she said sarcastically. "I've got a hostile crew coming that want to kill me and Jack, and then of course there's the messed up captain of the Black Pearl that wants to join us. Plus, I just gave Barbossa a lie, and when he finds out that I lied to him, he'll kill Jack. What could possibly have happened to make it seem that I wasn't alright, mate?" Her eyes clouded over and anger resonated from her.
"It will be alright, Catherine. Aragorn won't let anything get out of hand. He's a good friend, and he'll make sure that you are okay."
"I don't want to get Aragorn in this. He's already got enough on his hands with the ring and Arwen. I don't want him included in this."
"Well, then I'll help you. I'm sure that they can't be that hard to handle," Legolas said as he looked back and saw the approaching crew.
"Then you have obviously never known a pirate crew like that of the Black Pearl," Catherine said as she looked to where he was looking. "They are truly like no other."
"Then are you up for the challenge?" Legolas asked standing up. He offered her his hand, and she took it. After pulling her up, she turned to face him.
"Why not? Let's show this crew that they can't mess with the Fellowship."
