10. The Curse
We sail to the small island and stop there. They pull the plank and put Elisabeth right in front of it as to make her walk it. Will is tied up so he can't do anything and some pirates are holding me so neither can I.
They ten take out their swords and start pushing Elisabeth on the plank.
''Barbossa you lying bastard. You swore she'd go free,'' Will yells at Barbossa.
''Don't dare impure my honor boy. I agreed she'd go free but it was you who failed to specify when or where,'' Barbossa laughs at him.
''Are you throwing Melody there also?'' Will asks.
''Well that one I lied,'' Barbossa says and I can see Will's face paling. ''You see we can't feel women's touch because this curse but thanks to you we're about to lift it. And it would be such a shame to let this kinda beauty to walk free,'' Barbossa says as he takes my face between his thumb and forefinger. I then bite his hand. He groans a little and backhands my face. The force sends me to fall to the floor.
''Melody,'' Will yells. They then gag Will and grab me from the floor. Barbossa then forces Elisabeth to take her dress away and she throws it back at Barbossa with insults.
They then make Elisabeth fall in to the ocean. They then bring Jack to the plank. They give him the same pistol and threw him with Elisabeth. They start pulling us to the below. They throw Will to the cell and me after him. He grabs me before I hit the floor.
''Thanks,'' I say to him. I sit to the bench and Will sits beside me.
''I'm sorry,'' Will says.
''What for?'' I ask.
''For bringing you into this,''
''If I remember correctly I demanded that you take me with you. So it's my fault,'' I say to him.
''I honestly wish they would have thrown you to that island. You'd be safer there than you're here,'' Will says and puts his head in his hands.
''Now you listen to me William Turner,'' I say sternly and take his face to my hands and look at him in the eyes, ''I don't care what happens to me. I'm only worried about you. They might kill you so they can lift that damn curse. I told you I'd protect you but right now I don't know how to do it,'' I say and few tears fall to my cheeks.
To my surprise Will wipes the tears away.
''You don't have to protect me since I intend to protect you at any cause,'' he says to me. I smile at me and he returns that smile.
''Oi, love birds knock it off,'' we hear one of the pirates, the same one that tried to act tough before, yell at us.
''You knew William Turner,'' Will says to him.
''Old Bootstrap Bill. We knew him. Never sat well with Bootstrap what we did to Jack Sparrow. The mutiny and all. He said it wasn't right code. That's why he send peace of the treasure to you isn't it? He said we deserved to be cursed. And remain cursed,'' he said. I put my hand in Will's shoulder as to offer a little comfort.
''Stupid plighted,'' the one eyed pirate says.
''Good man,'' Gibbs says from the other cell.
''But as you can imagine that didn't sit too well with the captain,'' the pirate continued
''Didn't sit with well with the captain at all. Tell him what Barbossa did,'' the one eyed guy said.
''I'm telling the story,'' the pirate yelled at the other, ''so what the captain did he strap a cannon to Bootstraps bootstraps. And last we saw old Bill Turner he was sinking to crushing black oblivion on the Davey Jones locker. 'Course it was only after that we know we needed his blood to lift the curse,'' he told us.
''Now that's what you call ironic,'' the other one said.
''You deserve it,'' I said to them. They just laughed at me. Then Barbossa came to us and said,
''Bring him. And take the girl to watch.'' They tied us and started pushing us to the longboats. They rowed back to the caves and dragged us in.
''No reason to fret. Just prick on the finger, few drops of blood,'' the pirate, Pintel was it, said. Only a small cut. Few.
''No mistakes this time. He's only half Turner. We spill it all,'' one of the pirates said. Oh my god, Will.
They dragged us to the chest full of the cursed gold. Barbossa brought Will right behind it and I was left to the side to watch. Barbossa was ready to cut open Will's throat as the crew cheered him on to it. Then we saw Jack walking at us. Unbelievable. What is this guy? How did he get of the island? And where's Elisabeth?
''Jack,'' Will says.
''It's not possible,'' Barbossa says not believing his own eyes. But tell you the truth I was too doubting my eyes.
''Not probable,'' Jack says to him.
''Where's Elisabeth?'' Will asks as he tries to get free.
''She's safe. Just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington just like she promised. And you get to die for her like you promised. So we're all me of our word. Except Elisabeth who is in fact a woman,'' Jack says. Elisabeth marries Norrington. But she loves Will. At least that's what I thought.
''Shut up. You're next,'' Barbossa says as he points the men holding Will to bend him over the chest.
''You don't want to be doing that, mate,'' Jack warns him.
''No, I really think I do,'' Barbossa assures.
''Your funeral,'' Jack says. What is he up to now?
''Why don't I want to be doing it?'' Barbossa asks Jack.
''Well because… because the Tauntiles, pride of the royal navy is floating just off shore. Waiting for you,'' Jack tells us. That started commotion among the crew.
Jack then started suggesting what the pirates should do. He says after everything he would have the Black Pearl and Barbossa would have the Tauntiles and Jack would obey Barbossa as his commodore. He even promised to get Barbossa a really big hat. Barbossa then ordered his men to take a 'walk'.
Jack then looked Barbossa because he didn't use boats to get to the navy. The crew went away leaving Jack, Barbossa, Will, me and couple of the pirates to the cave.
Me and Will were just standing there as one of the pirates kept an eye on us as Jack went through the treasure.
''I must admit Jack, I thought I had you figured. But turns out you're a hard man to put dead,'' Barbossa said to Jack.
''Me? I'm just dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be among us. Honestly it's the honest one you have to look out for. 'Cause you can never predict that they're going to do something incredibly stupid,'' Jack says as he look at me and Will. He then grabs a sword from one of the pirates and pushes him to the water. He then throws the sword to will who uses it to gut his and my ties.
I then grab one of the swords from the treasure pile and start fighting with the pirates. I see Jack fighting with Barbossa and Will with some other pirtaes.
I kick one of the pirates to the water and continue fighting with a next one. Time to time the pirates stand in moonlight and they turn into their skeleton forms. I have to say they look disgusting. I then push the pirate to the water and ran to help Will.
I see him fighting with two pirates and I start fighting with the other one so it would be a fair fight. The pirate slashes his sword to my arm and I can see some blood spilling out of the wound.
''Hey! This was my favorite shirt,'' I yell at him. To be honest it was my only shirt but no matter. I kick him and he falls on to his butt. I laugh a little and then continue fighting when he gets up. I then see Barbossa slash his sword right throw Jack.
''Jack!'' I scream. He stumbles a bit and walks in to moonlight. There he turns into a skeleton himself.
''What?'' I say. I kick the pirate out of my way and run to Will who's also looking at Jack.
''What did he do?'' I ask him.
''He took the piece of the treasure out of the chest,'' Will says to me. Jack and Barbossa then continued fighting and me and Will were preoccupied by other pirates who came at us.
This fighting seemed endless. They couldn't die so even if we slashed throw them they just came back at us.
''Come on,'' Will yelled at me as he grabbed my hand and we started running away from the pirates.
''What can we do. They won't die. Believe me I've tried everything,'' I yelled at him.
''Don't worry I'll figure out something,'' he said to me.
''Well can you figure it faster. I'm pretty soon out of breath,'' I said. We then continue our fight with different opponents and honestly I was starting to get tired and the cut in my arm wasn't helping.
I see Will trip down and the pirate is right at him. I couldn't get to him even if I ran. Then I see Elisabeth hitting the pirate with an golden rod. I ran to them and see Jack and Barbossa fighting in moonlight.
''Whose side is Jack on?'' Elisabeth asks.
''At the moment?'' Will asks.
''I honestly don't want to know,'' I say to them. We then run back to fight and Elisabeth tries to use the rod as a weapon but most of the times Will have to help her. Will then takes the rod as he lost his sword when he fell and uses it as a weapon and I'm left to keep Elisabeth out of harm.
I ran to Will and we used the rod to clamp the pirates together. They try to move the rod but it's stuck. Will then put one explosion in the middle pirate and them we push the pirates out of the moonlight. And then they explode.
Will then runs to the chest for unknown reason. Jack then throws the coin to will and Barbossa takes out his gun and points it at Elisabeth. I ran to her and push her out of the way. I then hear a shot being shot but surprisingly I don't feel any pain.
I look at them and see Jack holding a smoking gun.
''Ten years you carry that pistol and now you've wasted the shot,'' Barbossa says.
''He didn't waste it,'' I hear Will say. I look and see that he has both coins in his hands covered in his blood. He drops them in the chest.
Barbossa then opens his jacked to see blood flooding out of his chest.
''I feel…cold,'' he says as he falls down dead.
I walk to Will who's looking Elisabeth from the distance.
''Go to her,'' I say to him. He looks at me and I smile to him, ''go,'' I urge him.
He smiles a weak smile at me and the walks to her.
''Shame. Isn't it,'' I hear someone say. I turn and see Jack standing behind me.
''What do you mean?'' I ask even though the tears are threatening to spill from my eyes.
''You two would have made a perfect couple. You're so similar. Plus you do have the looks of an angel,'' Jack says and for once I can hear sympathy in his voice.
''Will has always loved Elisabeth. Even before he met me. I was just the sister to him no matter how hard I wished to be something more special. But he deserves his happiness and if Elisabeth can give that to him I'm happy too,'' I say as tears started to spill out of my eyes.
''I hope he realizes how good friend he has beside him,'' Jack says as he walks to Will.
''Not for long. I'm predicting that my time as a human is coming to an end,'' I whisper as the tears are now falling to the ground.