That day god was on our side, and if it wasn't him than it was pure luck that we found the Pearl. Yes the dark man the treated me with so much respect had actually told us the truth and now here we were, looking at the Black Pearl that was beached just waiting for the next tide to be taken into open waters again.
"My brother will take you ashore" the captain of the ship told Will as he snapped his scope back together. I was a little frightened to go into a dingy with a strange man that I had no idea who he was, but Will seemed to trust him and I knew that whatever happened Will wouldn't let anyone hurt me. So I got in the boat.
It was a mostly silent trip; well that is until the man who was rowing the boat stopped when we were a few hundred feet away.
"What's wrong?" Will asked "The beach is right over there" he finished nodding towards the beach and the man shook his head.
"Ne bourgeois' pas, c'est beaucoup tres dangereaux!" the man said frantically in a foreign language, French I think. Quickly I looked over at Will who looked completely confused
"What?" Will asked voicing his confusion
"Je ne pas, c'est tres dangereaux! J' avais le dit!" the said frantically and I just sat there gazing at him until I felt the boat shift. Quickly I turned around to see that Will had stood up, and was obviously going to make me swim to shore. 'Great now I have to get wet' I thought bitterly.
"Bon voyage monsieur" the man said and Will nodded slightly before jumping into the ocean. Sighing I stood up as soon as Will had hit the water.
"Au revior monsieur, merci!" I said smiling thankful that I remembered a little bit of French.
Once I finally made it to shore Will was already searching for Jack or anyone familiar.
"Jack!" he yelled "Jack Sparrow!"
"Marty!" I tried walking up to the beached boat "Cotton?" I yelled next.
"Anybody?" Will asked semi loudly but it was obvious that he was saying it out of frustration. Shrugging I started walking towards the vastly jungle part of the island. That's when another miracle happened I saw Cotton's parrot
"Will look!" I exclaimed pointing at the bird. Will quickly ran over to where I was standing and smiled once he saw what I was so excited about.
"Ahh a familiar face" he said happily
"Awk don't eat me!" the bird squawked and we both tilted our heads in confusion
"We're not going to eat you" I told the animal calmly trying to reassure him, but again he squawked the same thing over and over again. While I was listening to him say this over and over I couldn't help but wonder what kind of god awful place we would have to be on to make this harmless creature say such a thing.
"Gibbs?" I heard Will mutter breaking my train of thought. Slowly I walked toward him, to find him with Gibb's canteen in one hand and a string in the other. As soon as I got close enough to Will he shoved the canteen in my hands and started following the string, and being that I didn't want to get lost I stayed right on his heels. Waiting for all hell to break loose.
A few minutes later Will found himself in a trap that brought him up by one leg. Jumping back wards so not to get hit by Will's body getting drug up by this rope, I managed to trip and fall onto something making me fall into a dense bush.
Huffing slightly after figuring out what had just happened I started crawling out of the bush, but I came to a stop when I saw Will with both of our swords drawn thrashing around with native island people surrounding him.
"Come on!" he yelled swing the swords "Let's go, who wants it!" he threatened again seeing how the natives were just looking at him quizzically. Shaking my head I couldn't help but think 'he is going to get himself killed one of these days', and just as my thought processes ended Will was shot in the neck with a dart. Making him go instantaneously limp, dropping both of our swords. Blinking for a moment trying to register what had just happened, when I opened them again the natives already had Will down from the tree and tied up like a piece of meat. 'How on earth?' I thought watching them march away with my unconscious protector.
Once I felt like they were further enough away that they wouldn't be a threat I crawled out of the bush. As I walked towards the spot where Will had dropped our weapons I glanced in the direction I had last seen the natives, noticing that I could no longer see them.
"Bugger" I cursed picking up both swords putting them in one of Will's old belts that loosely hung around my hips. Making myself trudge through the dense jungle forest in the direction that I had last seen the man who was supposed to be keeping me safe.
After I had made my way over what felt to be miles of harsh land the natives came to an abrupt stop. At first this terrified me but then I saw a large boulder that I could hide behind. Luckily enough for me it was just big enough to hide my body. Sigh with relief I started listening to what the strange people were saying.
"Kali kali ten dah dah!" One of the native men yelled and I furrowed my brows, 'Great they speak in some sort of native tongue' I thought.
"Jack?" I heard Will speak and I let out a breath that I did know I had been holding in. Will was still alive. "Jack Sparrow! I can honestly say that I am honestly glad to see you" Will said again and I furrowed my brows had Will just said what I thought he said I asked myself and took a great risk and poked my head out from behind the rock.
Was Jack Sparrow really here after all this time? I asked myself peaking around the corner to see the man that made my heart flutter. Captain Jack Sparrow. Quickly I tucked my head back in, I had waited so long for this moment to see this man, and yet here I was hiding behind a rock.
"Jack it's me Will Turner!" Will called, I wanted to see what was going on but I was too afraid to look.
"Pah se koh?" I heard the voice that my ears had been longing to hear say. Not realizing what he was saying, or understanding for that matter, but I didn't care.
"Teen dada, eeseetis!" a native said and then the whole group say in unison "Eeseetis!" they all agreed and I shook my head what on earth was going on just a few feet in front of me.
"Tell them to cut me down!" Will demanded
"Kele lam" Jack said "Nom piki piki, nom minsi winsi" he continued with authority in his voice like he was addressing the crowd of Native peoples "Lam seisei, eunichi. Snip, snip" he ordered and that's when it clicked in my brain he was ordering these people around!
"Ahh eunchi" the natives murmured in unison. I could feel my blood boil, if Jack could control these people then why he wasn't helping him. Once again I looked out from behind the rock I could see Jack walking back to a massive throne with skulls and bones on it.
"Jack, the compass, it's all I need!" Will said suddenly "Elizabeth and Rebecca are in danger! We were arrested for trying to help you. They both face the gallows!" Will pleaded and Jack stopped in his tracks before turning back around to face Will. The expression on his face was priceless.
"Seiserom shup shup sha smame mame shuku, savvy?" he told the natives, who just stood there dumbfound "Maliki liki" Jack said with a wave of his hand.
"Maliki liki!" one shouted sending them all in to a frenzy, as they started to drag Will away, and just as they passed by jack I saw him bend down and say something to Will.
"Jack, what did you tell them?" Will yelled sounding terrified "No! What about Elizabeth! What about Rebecca! Jack!" Will yelled with all his might. After Jack had sat back down, and was given some sort of gift that was now hung around his neck, I stood up from behind the rock.
'What ever happened to Will I'm sure my punishment won't be as bad' I thought as I walked over to the throne that was made out of bones and skulls.
"Jack Sparrow" I said icily. I was beyond mad at that point not only had he not helped Will, but seeing him was bring up feelings that I thought I had long ago buried.
"Becca?" Jack asked shooting straight up from his chair
"The one and only" I said coldly and I crossed my arms over my chest.
"I thought the whelp said that you faced the hang man's noose along with you sister" he said and I glared at him.
"I do" I spat and Jack blinked at me looking confused. "I was sent on this mission with Will by Lord Cutler Beckett as leverage" I said ad his eye brows furrowed and I sighed closing my eyes. A massive head ache was coming along. But suddenly I felt I warm encircling my body. It felt wonderful, like all of the problems of the world had melted away. Slowly I opened my eyes to see that Jack had come over to me and now had his arms around me.
"I'm glad to see that you are alive" he whispered and I smiled a little before pulling out of the hug. I was supposed to be mad this man. He promised me that he would come back for me but he never did.
"So what have you been up to these last few months Jack?" I asked and he smiled.
"Oh you know love" he said waving his arms around and I blinked at him. I had no idea what he had been up to and frankly I really wanted to know. "Searching for treasure and other piraty stuff like that" he said not really explaining anything to me. Crossing my arms over my chest I looked at him harshly.
"So what on earth are you doing hiding on here?" I asked and Jack blinked at me, seeming taken aback by my question.
"I'm not hiding from anyone, love" he said smiling putting an arm around me "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow" he said coyly and I groaned pushing his hand off of my shoulders.
"I know who you are Jack" I said bleakly "But I know you are hiding here because you wouldn't have left the Pearl beached like that in plain sight if you weren't" I told him in my matter-oh-fact voice.
"The Pearl is perfectly safe love no one is going to take it from this god for saken island" he said and I rolled my eyes. Leave it to this man to think even when he is not watching his precious ship that people will leave it alone.
"No! No, no. Oi no, no!" I heard Jack yell and I looked over to see that he was no longer standing with me but addressing a few of the natives that were building some sort of fire. "More wood. Big fire. Big fire! I am chief" he said pointing to himself "Me want big fire! C'mon then! Oi maboogey snickle, snickle. Toute suite!" he barked shooing the natives around to get wood. Which most of them frantically ran off to go and do. While they were doing this Jack was slowly backing up towards me again. "C'mon! More wood!" he shouted before taking my hand making me run.
"What on earth are you doing!" I shouted as he dragged me across a rickety bridge.
"Well love if you must know, these lovely people are cannibals" he said coolly as we once again stepped on solid ground where there were many huts.
"What!" I shrieked "How on earth did you get mixed up in this?" I asked breathlessly. I was already exhausted from me just hiking over that treacherous terrain to follow Will and this wasn't helping the fact.
I never got an answer to my question however, because we came to an abrupt stop.
"Bugger" Jack cursed turning us around and taking us in to one of the little huts.
"I don't think we should be doing this" I said as he dragged me in. Once I was fully into the hut I was disgusted. There were bloody butchering knives hang all around us. "Oh my god" I whispered feeling sick and Jack just grunted picking up a rope. "Jack?" I asked quietly. I wanted to know what was going on through his crazy head, especially since at the moment my safety depended on it.
Jack however seemed to be in a different place entirely looking at some sort of metal can filled with what I could assume was a type of seasoning.
"Jack?" I tried again trying to get his attention but this time he started walking out. Sighing I followed him, but once he was out the door I saw that his shadow had stopped so I stopped to and started to listen. I had to know what I was getting into.
"A little seasoning, eh?" I heard him say and I froze. Perfect, Jack was once again captured.
For a few minutes I just stood inside the disgusting hut, after I saw Jack's shadow be forcefully moved. I wanted to make sure that it was safe for me to go out. I mean surely all of the cannibals would be at the feast. Once I was certain that it was safe I peeked y head out the beaded door. The hutted area was clear.
That's when I made a run for it. I had made a plan as I was standing around waiting. It was that I would run back to the shore and stand by the Pearl and wait for Will. I was certain that Jack hadn't told the cannibals to kill him. As for Jack he was witty enough to get out of his own problems.
Once I was on the beach I decided to wait for everyone, whoever everyone was, to get back to the ship.
When I got back to the beach where the Pearl was I was greeted with an interesting sight. Pintel and Ragetti, two of the old crew members, were getting the ship ready as if to set sail.
"What on earth are you two doing?" I asked harshly standing behind the two men with my arms crossed, the sound of my voice making them turn around.
"Well never thought I'd be seeing you again poppet" Pintel said and I nodded in agreement
"I could say the same for you two" I stated "Now answer my question what are you to doing?" I asked again.
"Saving" Pintel said in a way that made it sound like an inside joke. Furrowing my brows I turned to look at the younger pirate to see if he would make any sense but when I turned around he was climbing a rope that lead up to the ship's deck. Huffing I made my way to a different rope and started climbing up myself. I wasn't going to let these to steal this ship. Not if it was my only way out of here.
I got up to the deck shortly after Ragetti did, only I wasn't huffing and puffing like he was, I was only slightly out of breath, and for the first time I was happy that Will, Elizabeth and I trained for hours.
"Hello Ragetti" I said sweetly and Ragetti straightened up at the sound of my voice.
"H-how did you get up here" I rolled my eyes
"The same way you did just more efficiently" I told him and he furrowed his eyebrows, which made me smile. "So Ragetti how has life been treating you since the curse was lifted?" I asked
"Q-quite well Miss Swann" he said and I smiled and nodded
"Very good, but I was hoping that since the curse was lifted you and Pintel would lead more truthful lives than this" I said and he frowned
"I-I have been working on persevering out immortal soles" he said and I cocked my head to the side
"By stealing a ship?" I asked sweetly and he bowed his head. When he did this I saw Jack the monkey coming up behind him "Well it looks like you have an old friend that wants to see you" I told him walking away just as the monkey made Ragetti's fake eyeball pop out starting a great chase. Laughing I went to go and stand by the edge of the ship waiting for Will to come with the crew, and waiting for Jack to show up safe and sound.
Authors Note-
I know it's been a long time since I have updated! It's just that I have been having such a hard time writing the story, and I knew that whatever I put out wouldn't be the best, but I felt bad for not updating. So here you are. However I am thinking about putting this story on stand by for a while or at least until I get the craving to write this story again. Which I hope does happen again and soon. Anyways I will try and update every 2-3 months now. If I don't well then I am sorry, but something else came up, or I just have had writers block like I have been having with story. That and I have so many different story ideas bouncing around it makes it hard to write, especially this story. Hope you enjoyed, happy reading
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