DEPP LEGACY
Poisoncupcake21- MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It's always fun to freak my readers out; Edward and Willy will be okay… Sort of :D
VerucaBeyotch- My step dad has a temporary teaching position for home economics, and my mom teaches eighth graders that have autism and learning disabilities. It is pretty weird, because they both think that grades are the most important thing ever known to man when it comes to school stuff. Believe it or not, I have never called my teacher mom/dad during school, though I know plenty of children who have done that.
I'm sorry that you guys/girls were waiting for the next chapter, I was at a convention this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin and I couldn't bring my computer along. The convention went along fabulously; I went as Sweeney Todd and pretty much goofed around the whole time. I met a Jack Sparrow, sorry Captain Jack Sparrow and I threatened his life with my razor.
"That's new" Jack says to himself, he has somehow gotten separated from the group and has ended up in some sort of meadow. The meadow would have been normal except for the sheep that are roaming the sugary looking grass; the sheep instead of being a normal white are bright pink. Jack seriously considers if he's hallucinating, but when he shakes his emergency bottle of rum it's still full.
"Must be a weird dream" Jack mutters as he carefully and slowly, places his hand on the sheep that's closest to him. The sheep baas loudly and freaks out; the sheep's wool is sticky and sticks to Jack's hand.
"What ar' you?!" Jack yells as the sheep runs in circles, with the pirate still attached to him. Jack has no choice but to run along with the sheep and hope that he will eventually tire and stop running.
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"Those bloody vampires took Willy!" Tarrant screams and slumps against the door defeated, Tarrant feels that Willy was the one person in this group that understood him and both shared the love for top hats. Sweeney awkwardly places his hand on Tarrant's shoulder, and looks sadly at the door. Sweeney feels that because he wasn't able to open the door, that it's partially his fault that Willy was chocolatier-napped. Tarrant looks away from the door and stares at Sweeney's hand in shock, the barber is actually touching him, Sweeney suddenly realizes what he is doing and let's go of Tarrant as if he's on fire.
"We need to get to that star shaped button" Sweeney announces as if nothing happened, he then moves in front of the door as if the door is magically going to open up by him glaring cruelly at it. The door stays locked, outside the door there isn't one sound, which only causes the group to worry more for Willy.
"We best start looking for that button" Tarrant replies calmly and walks away from the door, glaring at the door isn't going to help them get any further. Sweeney stops trying to open the door with his mind and follows the hatter, Sweeney still doesn't trust Tarrant but he might as well see where the mad hatter is going.
"There has to be a way out of here!" Ichabod says angrily, the constable woke up about twenty minutes ago and is making up for lost time by pacing back and forth. Tarrant and Sweeney sit defeated against the door, they've tried every door in this hallway and all of the doors in this hallway are locked. It doesn't help one bit that each time they try to open a door, Willy's welcome song plays.
"Pacing a hole into the floor isn't going to help us" Sweeney finally says, speaking for the whole group. Sweeney is done with this century, and all of its weirdness, all he wants to do is go back to London and the century that he understands. Ichabod suddenly stops pacing and swiftly walks over to the first door on the right; he knocks on the door and smiles when a hollow sound fills the room.
"This door is made out of a wood that is weaker than the rest of the doors. Mr. Todd, would you be ever so kind to break this door down?" Ichabod asks politely, Sweeney stands up with Tarrant him. Without a word, and a demented smile, Sweeney rams his shoulder into the door. The door wobbles for a second, but finally breaks in.
"Excellent job, Mr. Todd!" Ichabod yells over the loudest version of Willy's welcome song that has played yet, the horrible mind scarring music fills the hallway as one by one, they enter the room. The music suddenly comes to a stop; the room is a plain white with nothing in it. The room easily resembles the inside of a white box, but when Sweeney enters the room, everyone changes.
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Willy is flying, well he's not flying, it's more like he is being held by Lucius and is being flown over the interior of his factory. The bird's eye view of his factory is certainly worth seeing; Willy at once starts making plans for some sort of flying contraption when Lucius enters the Nut Room.
"You better not have messed with my squirrels, I'll have you know it took me two years to train them to do their jobs" Willy explains angrily, as he's dropped near the garbage chute. The garbage chute is no longer a chute that leads to the incinerator; instead it's been turned into some kind of black, smoky portal. Willy growls with anger when he spots his squirrels, on the celling with vampire teeth and wings.
"I warned you, the punishment for messing with my squirrels is death" Willy says with a smirk as he stands up and wipes the dust off his coat. The vampire queen smiles evilly at the chocolatier; her teeth have changed in the last few seconds from just fangs to all fangs.
"I doubt you will kill me, William" Elizabeth says and reaches into the portal. Slowly out of the portal a scissor hand comes out, and then an arm, Elizabeth keeps pulling until Edward is out.
"Edward!" Willy yells and is immediately restrained by Alexander and Lucius, Edward is unconscious and has cuts all the skin that's showing. Edward is paler than usual; Willy's blood starts to boil when he spots two dime sized holes on Edward's neck.
"You bloody, no good monster! I'm going to kill you! I'll tear you apart and make you into starberry chocolate coated fudge! I'll light your hair on fire!" Willy screams, raving like a madman and thrashing around widely like a fish out of water.
"What nasty words from such a happy person" Elizabeth says calmly, ignoring the multiple death threats that Willy is screaming at her. Edward slowly opens his eyes, which are starting to turn a blood red color when Elizabeth gently rakes a claw against her arm, drawing blood.
Edward instantly becomes awake and active when he smells the vampire queen's blood, Willy stops screaming and watches in horror as Edward frantically licks the blood of her arm. All hope that Willy had for saving Edward turns into ash and blows away on the wind of broken dreams, Edward is slowly being turned into a vampire and there's nothing Willy can do to save him.
"I'm sorry Edward" Willy whispers and drops his head, so he doesn't have to watch Edward drain Elizabeth's veins. Willy feels that Edward is like a little brother to him, an innocent, vulnerable little brother that he failed to protect.
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"You bloody… Thing!" Jack yells, not being able to think of an insult at the moment. The pirate's hand is still stuck to the sticky pink wool of the sheep, and the sheep still hasn't stopped running around in circles. Jack tries a few more curses, begs a couple of times, but the sheep only continues to run. Jack gives a frustrated growl and whips out his pistol, without hesitation and one bullet, Jack aims and fires. The sheep finally stops running around and goes limp, now that the sheep has stopped moving, Jack can use his dagger to free his hand.
"Finally!" Jack yells out happily, and does Willy's adrenaline packed, gay victory dance for at least five minutes. A thin layer of sticky pink substance covers Jack's hand, which he is eager to get off. Jack decides to wipe his hand on the Swudge; he only manages to have the mint grass stick to his hand when he suddenly hears a high-pitched scream.
"Kill!" A deep voice cries out, Jack whirls around and sees that several Oompa-Loompas have discovered the dead sheep. The Oompa- Loompa that screamed, and is named Thomas Jefferson, points and glares at Jack.
"It wasn't me" Jack quickly answers and takes a step back from the Oompa- Loompas. It's just Jack's luck that these are the same Oompa- Loompas from the boat; they must have just gotten back from beating up Alexander for some of their oars have blood on them. Thomas Jefferson, the leader Oompa- Loompa signs some words to the others in Loompa-ish and raises his oar in the air. The other Oompa- Loompas quickly follow suite, Jack realizes where this is going and takes off running. There ae several loud war cries as the gang of Oompa- Loompas chase after the pirate.
Jack takes several sharp turns, gets whacked a couple of times, and runs into three sheep before he skids to a stop in front of a doorway. The door is a dark wooden door, Jack prays with all of his might that the door isn't locked as he runs into it. The door swings open just as Jack rams into it, Jack quickly closes the door as the Oompa- Loompas reach him. From outside the door, Jack can hear the Oompa- Loompas screeching with rage and running into the door with loud thuds.
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The room starts to change before the three men's eyes, the walls and floors start to shift, turning into something completely different. The floor turns into wooden floorboards, a slanted window grows on one of the walls and a barber's chair pops up in the middle of the room.
"It's my shop! It's my barber's shop in London!" Sweeney exclaims when he recognizes the demonized barber's chair. The others stare in wonder as the room finishes changing into Sweeney Todd's barbershop. At that moment, a door to the side of the room opens and Jack charges into the room as if the devil itself is chasing him, or in this case a herd of angry Oompa- Loompas.
"Greetings, Mr. Sparrow!" Ichabod says when he sees Jack; he is the only man that dares to greet Jack. The other men are all staring in confusion at the pirate, they're rather confused to how Jack got here and where he was. Jack brushes the dirt off him from where the Oompa- Loompas whacked him, and then notices the new environment.
"Where ar' we?" Jack asks. After looking around the barber shop he is just as confused as the other men. The smile slowly fades from Ichabod's face as he realizes that he has no idea where they are either, yes Sweeney said this was his barber's shop but can they really believe him? Ichabod turns towards Tarrant for any help or clues of where they are, but Tarrant only shrugs and points to Sweeney, Sweeney is digging through one of his dresser drawers.
"It's all here. Every last thing" Sweeney mutters quietly to himself, he has a crazy look in his eyes and is running his fingers through his hair over and over again, making it stand on end. Ichabod turns away from Sweeney in fear when the barber starts ripping each drawer out of the dresser out, and dumping the contents of the drawers onto the floor.
"E's lost 'is mind" Jack says, for the first time in forever the pirate has an expression of fear on his face. Jack has been around mad people for the most part of his life and if it's one thing that Jack knows about mad people, it's that they're unpredictable. One never knows what the mad are going to do next.
"Losing your mind isn't that bad. You don't have to go to work and sometimes Charles the seal comes to visit, hello Charles!" Tarrant says waving to nothing in front of them. Sweeney is fiercely digging through the piles of stuff on the floor, when he sees Tarrant suddenly wave at him. Sweeney slowly waves back at Tarrant and returns to picking through his stuff.
"I believe that he was mad before we met him" Ichabod announces after a few moments of deep thought.
"If he was mad before we met him, then we are all mad!" Tarrant answers.
"I can guarantee Mr. Hightopp, that I am most sound of mind."
"It's no use denying what you are; you are the maddest constable that I've ever met!"
"What the devil do you mean by that? Are you suggesting that I am insane? What's next you'll be saying how I'm a witch, because my mother was one?"
"Your mother was a witch?" Jack questions, he never would have thought that this man of science and reason had a mother who practiced witchcraft.
"Stay out of this, Mr. Sparrow!"
"E'nuff with the formalities, its Capitan, Capitan Jack Sparrow.
"I shall refer to you as Mr. Sparrow, it's what is polite. If you knew of any etiquette you would know of the proper way to address someone by."
"Ar' you sayin' that I don't have etiquette as you say?"
"Gentlemen, there's no need to fight!"
"Shut it hatter. Now Crane, I imagine you want to argue your case with me."
"I-I'm… I'm not saying you do not have manners, I am merely suggesting that your manners are not up to date as they should be."
"You're braver then I thought Crane, I never thought you would dare question me."
"I-I'm not q-questioning you, I-I'm just g-giving you an s-suggestion."
"You 'are? Well my suggestion for you is that you loosen that neck cloth thingy and live a little!"
Jack, without another word, reaches over and yanks off Ichabod's cravat in one smooth movement. Ichabod gasps in horror and touches his bare neck, where he comes from it is most improper to not follow society's way of dressing. Sweeney stops digging through his stuff and stares at Jack and Ichabod, it's as if Sweeney can sense that stuff is about to get real. Tarrant catches Sweeney's attention once more and makes a hand gesture that Sweeney fails to see, Sweeney loves a good fight every so often and is focused on Ichabod and Jack. Tarrant tries again to wave Sweeney over to him, but again he fails for things are heating up between the constable and the pirate.
"Give me back my cravat, or I shall have to arrest you for insubordination!" Ichabod threatens Jack smiles as he loosely ties the cravat around his neck. Jack then stands up as straight as he can and makes his most serious face.
"I'm a constable! Look at me walking around with all my constable-ness!" Jack says, mocking Ichabod's clipped British accent and long stride. Ichabod growls and yanks off his overcoat; his anger grows to a boiling point as he rolls up his white sleeves. Sweeney and Tarrant take a seat as Ichabod tackles Jack to the floor; none of the men notice the pair of blood red eyes that are watching them all closely.
End of Chapter Nine
Will Willy ever rescue Edward?
Will Ichabod take a chill pill and stop going "fight me" to everyone?
Who's watching the Depp's?
Find out next time in DEPP LEGACY!
I'm just going to apologize in advance for any wait that's to come for the next chapter I love this story to death and this is the only story I'm working on but school is getting in the way. I have written all the chapters so far and more on paper, so when I type it up I'm copying it down from my notebook and that takes a while. I'll try my best to get these next chapters up in a reasonable amount of time, hopefully during this week (:
Do not worry, I am not abandoning this story or giving up anytime soon.
