"No! No no! Oy! No no!" Jack called, trying to catch their attention, though it was a futile attempt. Looking back down, he feels a sense of dread as the edge of the wood begins to catch fire.
"Not good." Jack said, and he started blowing on the embers, but the kindling lit anyway, ignoring his futile attempts to blow them out.
~-Day, The Cage, Cannibal Island -~
Victoria panted as they finally pulled the cage to the top. But she would have time to catch her breath later, right now, they had to move.
"Cut it loose! Find a rock!" James ordered, hastily snatching a sharp rock from Marty's hand.
"C'mon, C'mon!" Victoria urged as James hammered the cable with a rock, and helped the crew trying to pry open the bone cage.
"Got it!" James said victoriously, having severed the cable. The screaming in the distance made the crew pause, James jumped to his feet and dropped the rock.
- Day, The Throne, Cannibal Island -
Jack, still on the roasting pit, is bouncing the pole on the stand, trying to get off. Finally, he managed to dislodge himself from the stand, and landed with a thud and a groan next to the fire.
"That's going to leave a mark." He grumbled, and he started working one breaking the rope. It was easy enough to break the rope binding his feet. Wobbling as he stood, the long bamboo pole unbalancing him. Deciding: Screw it. He started running away from the pit and towards his freedom.
- Day, The Cage, Cannibal Island -
"Roll the cage!" Victoria shouted, and they started pushing the cage down the hill of underbrush. As they rolled, they were tossed around the cage, and Victoria was positive someone's face had been in her chest, but she had bigger problems, like how her head smacked painfully against one of the bone bindings.
"CLIFF!" She heard Marty, or who Victoria thought was Marty cry out. As they soared over the cliff's edge, Victoria screamed. James screamed. And Gibbs let out a particularly unmanly scream as the fell like stones down the cliff, and onto the other side of the short ravine they'd crossed over.
Victoria felt herself getting sick with all the bouncing and rolling inside the cage. When the cage rolled up the trunk of a palm tree, she was positive she was going to vomit. But that was stopped by the cage crashing onto the ground, and was unfortunately, left whole.
"Lift the cage! Hurry!" James ordered, and the men scrambled around, trying to gain a footing.
"Come on, men!" Gibbs barked. "Lift it like a lady's skirt!" Victoria hiked up the cage with the rest of the crew, and began running alongside the crewmen. The sound of the cannibals in the distance offering much needed motivation.
- Day, The Huts, Cannibal Island -
Jack sprinted across the plank bridge, the bamboo pole, which was still tied to his back, was murder on his back, but he was more focused on getting his hands free. Upon reaching the small village area he'd been in earlier he'd gotten his hands free.
Unfortunately, the pole was still on his back.
Looking around for something to cut the ropes with, his eyes landed on a native child, standing still with a knife and fork in hand. Jack scuttled over to him, and snatched the knife out of his hand, an begins furiously cutting away at the ropes. A small, almost silent grunt behind him stops him dead.
Turning, he sees the two native women staring at him. Deciding this was another "screw it" moment, a let out a battle cry and charged.
Which the pair of cannibal women easily side-stepped, and he ran pole-first into the pile of coconuts near the cliff edge. Frowning at the coconut stuck on the end of his pole, when he gets an absolutely genius idea. Turning suddenly, the coconut flung off the end of the pole aiming directly for one of the cannibal's face.
The cannibal who'd he'd aimed for slowly lowered the dripping coconut from her face, and scowled fiercely at Jack.
- Day, The Cage, Cannibal Island -
Focused more on the cannibals behind them than the terrain in front of them, the crew failed to notice the small chasm that they quickly approached.
Victoria let out a shriek as they fell into the river, the cage breaking apart upon impact. The shock of the surprisingly cool river frazzled her senses momentarily, but she managed to react fast enough and dived down to avoid the spears and arrows being thrown at them.
"This way, lads!" Gibbs shouted, and the crew followed him, taking cover under a rock ledge.
"Now what do we do?!" Marty scowled, clinging to a small ledge on the rock wall.
"We need a distraction of some kind!" Victoria said.
"That much is obvious." James drawled, watching the cannibal's as they continued to throw things at them. "But how do you plan on distracting them?!"
"This is what we usually have Roxanne for!" She scowled.
"Yes well Roxanne is back in Port Royal rotting in a cell with Elizabeth!" Victoria snapped back at him.
"Will both of you shut up!" Gibbs snapped, and Victoria and James both turned to glare at him, and Gibbs swallowed thickly.
Suddenly, the sound of the shouting cannibals stopped, and the crew could hear the voice of a child shouting at them.
"Manka! Ma estoto! Ma estoto!" Peeking out from the ledge, James watched in curiosity as the cannibals retreated away from the chasm.
"That'll work."
- Day, The Huts, Cannibal Island -
Jack was desperately dodging and blocking the fruit being thrown by the cannibals, when one papaya smacks him in the face, he decided he'd had enough.
"Stop it!" Jack snapped at him, and the two women froze, and stared at him. From their point of view, he looked like a shish-ka-bob. Jack, taking advantage of the pause, decided to make a break for his freedom. And with a battle cry, and started running for the cliff, lodged the end of the pile in the ground, and vaulted over the chasm, and landing upright just on the edge.
Jack grinned victoriously, until he felt the fruit start sliding down the pole, causing him to start tilting backwards. Throwing his arms forward in a desperate pitch to try and grab onto something, he started falling back over the edge of the cliff. With high pitched scream, he fell into the chasm.
Until the pole caught between two rocks, and the rope started unwinding, making him fall rapidly until his foot, which was still tied to the pole, went taught, and he jerked to a stop. Leaving him hanging upside down.
Above him, the two cannibal women looked down over the edge.
"A nif-nif" One mused.
"Aboogey" The other replied, and they walked off in disinterest.
Jack, who was still hanging from the rope, started reaching for the rope, when one side of the pole started slipping.
"Bugger." And as the pole slipped loose, he let out another scream. Only this time, instead of being attached to the pole as he fell, the pole was now aimed down like a spear towards him.
Suddenly, he felt a sharp smack to his back as he fell through a wooden rope bridge. This happened about six more times as far as Jack's back could tell, the pole, now free of fruit, was undeterred in following him down.
Finally, with a thud, he reached the ground. Surrounded by grass and foliage. It was surprisingly comfy, but he was busy with the impending doom of the bamboo pole headed his way.
As it falls, it safely impales itself directly next to his head. The fruit not far behind.
"That is definitely going to leave a mark." He groaned, struggling to get up. Nothing felt broken, thank the powers for small mercies, but he would probably feel it later if it was.
- Day, The Beach, Cannibal Island -
Victoria broke through the foliage, and felt relief wash over her as she spotted the Black Pearl, Pintel, Ragetti, and… The jail dog? Victoria sprinted down the beach, skidding to a halt in front of the dog.
Victoria could hear Pintel shouting: "Pull-loose the mooring lines! The mooring lines!", and she knew Ragetti had responded, but she was more focused on getting the dog to follow her.
Surprisingly, after a few tries, it did.
Scooping the dog up into her arms, she hurried towards the ship, the dog weighing her down greatly.
"Victoria, why in god's name do you have a dog with you?!" James shouted.
"Nostalgia!" She snapped back, and James rolled his eyes. Well, Roxanne had really been the one to have all the memories with him, since she'd been the only one who hadn't been intimidated by the jail and it's prisoners.
But Roxanne would also kill her if she found out that Victoria had left the dog on an island full of cannibals.
"Make ready to sail, boys!" Gibbs shouted, and Victoria jogged up to him, still holding the dog.
"What about Jack? We can't leave without him." James said.
"OI!" All their attention turned to Jack, who'd rounded the rock face, and was running towards them. Victoria feels relief wash over her. Only for that to be ruined by the appearance of cannibals chasing after him.
"Time to go." Victoria said, and Gibbs turned back to the ship.
"CAST OFF THOSE LINES!" He shouted, spurring the crew back into action.
Jack screamed as he ran down the beach towards his departing beauty of a ship, pure panic making his legs move, and the motivation behind him provided an excellent one-track mindset. Jack jumped into the water, and swam desperately after his ship. Finally managing to grab ahold of some of the rigging, he grinned as he climbed aboard the ship.
"Alas, my children," Jack said, gesturing with his hand to the lamenting cannibals. "This is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost–" He was cut off with a wave smacking his face, and absolutely drenching him front head to toe.
"– Captain Jack Sparrow…"
