Chapter ten: Welcome back…
Authors note: I wanted to thank those reading most specially Gollumfyringeggs I hope I spelt that right lol. I love hearing from you! YOU SUPER OOBER ROCK!
"Meira!" Barbossa and Will yelled frantically. Elizabeth looked left to right and saw the cloud no where.
"Where do you think she has gone Barbossa?" Elizabeth asked. Barbossa turned to her.
"I couldn't even see the thing, I forgot you have to be dead in order to see it," Barbossa said biting his lip, "making this task slightly more difficult… I remember hearing those things kill ye if you living… and take you to one of the other plains if ye dead…"
"Oh no so then she's…" Will couldn't bare to say it, "that's not possible…"
"It isn't possible is it? She saw t' thing did she not?" Anamaria said looking at them.
"What do you mean?" Elizabeth asked walking closer, "she did say something I remember that. She was asking Will about the large black hole…"
"She couldn't," Barbossa said looking at them, "she wasn't dead only t' dead can see things that have to d' with t' livin'."
"Do you not remember what Meira said right before she walked backwards into it?" Elizabeth said looking at them, " 'I'm sorry I'm so selfish, that I'm mad, that I mean little. I'm sorry I'm not pirate material, I'm sorry I wasn't enough for you… father' and that was right after you called her selfish for stopping. I think she did it to save us…"
"Ye are lying Ms. Swann! Ye are tryin' to make me feel guilty for what I said to her," Barbossa said biting his lip and actually feeling guilty for what he said. He didn't want to say it, but he didn't want it to seem he went soft.
"Will you ever be a human being? Will you ever care about anyone's feelings? If not your own flesh and bloods then who? She was your daughter and you couldn't even take it easy on her," Will said feeling rage boil inside him.
"Enough for ye Mr. Turner, enough from the lot of ya. We travel on, perhaps… perhaps she got lucky," Barbossa said in frustration, 'oh if there be a lord out there… save my daughter…'
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"She is not dead," Meira laughed, "nor am I…"
"You are not dead? Then why be you here?" the man in the white robes asked. Meira looked at him and shrugged.
"A dark cloud brought me to a place and then I fell through the ground to here…" Meira said not believing it her self.
"You saw the cloud of death? Only those who are dead can see the cloud of death," Duncan said looking at her, "it is hard for those to except when they are dead…"
"I'm not dead! I'm alive! Really and neither is Anamaria she is alive and here somewhere! They are going for the gates of purgatory to save a man named Jack Sparrow."
"Oh, but… wait I am hearing something," Duncan said closing his eyes and hearing, "they know you are here… you must go."
"What? Who knows I'm here? And how do I leave?" Meira said frantically, "you must come with me…"
"I cannot abandon my post," Duncan said seriously before looking at the holes coming from the ground, "you must go though…"
"How! You must come with me… for love. Anamaria will not rest until she bring you back with her please you must come… for love," Meira said desperately looking back at the men slowly coming up on ground, "if you don't go… I will never make it out alive. And Anamaria will never be alright…"
"Very well," Duncan said grabbing her hand and they disappeared. They fell into the ground and looked around, "where are we? How did we get here?"
"Didn't you do that?" Meira asked looking around, "this is the place I was before…"
"I did no such thing, I planned on running for the gate. I have no idea where we are. Oh bugger," Duncan said dropping his shoulders.
"It wasn't me either," Meira looked at him angrily.
"It had to be you, what are you? You can see things living people can't, you can travel between plains…" Duncan yelled backing up when a cloud came from the ground and engulfed Meira again. She choked and coughed while swinging at the black and green mist. Meira could feel something crushing her body and bones. Meira felt something warm radiating from above her slowly coming down towards her. The light engulfed her and she knew something was saving her. The light disappeared and she was alone in the cloud, she concentrated hard on getting out and a white light burst from inside her leaking out of her skin chasing the clouds away.
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The crew walked through the open gates of purgatory. They watched the men hunched back walk around in a sort of agony. They seemed so lost, so sad and lonely. Anamaria noticed something and tapped Will's shoulder. Will looked at her and then in the direction she was pointing. Cages of what seemed like men slowly being deteriorated. Men that were still men but being broken down into the creatures that walked around in purgatory. Barbossa was already heading in that direction. Will grabbed Elizabeth's trembling hand. She looked at him and gave him a weak smile.
"I don't ever want to die, if this is the place you go to," Elizabeth said her eyes filling with tears.
"You are to pure hearted to go to such a place my love," he said kissing her cheek before walking past the green sickly men and women who seemed to be nothing but energy, and no life form. Elizabeth's hand covered her mouth to keep it from dropping to much. Barbossa saw Jack sitting on the floor of a cage just humming. Barbossa tapped the cage and gave a fake cough. Jack sat up and looked at Barbossa. Jack looked slightly shocked.
"Now I did not expect to see you here," Jack said smiling tilting his head in an amused way, "I thought they'd send ya straight to ol' Davy Johns or perhaps even hell… where the ocean be made of fire."
"Ah, figures ye would know what it be like down there Jack Sparrow… hell must have spat you back out. And as for ol' Davy you'd know a lot about him now aye?" Barbossa smiled a rotten teethed grin. Jack just nodded and put his hat over his eyes and laid back.
"Here's t' thing, we be here to save ye Sparrow, ye crew and I made an accord," Barbossa said making Jack sit up and look at him with his own black lined eyes, "aye tis true. Now I must spring you from this cell and we will head to me ship where ye be obeying me rules until ye are off me shit. Got tat?"
"What is in it for you Barbossa?" Jack asked watching Gibbs appear with Ragetti and Pintel. He watched as Elizabeth and Will slowly made an appearance and his mouth dropped at the sight of Elizabeth, just the person he wanted to rings neck, "what she be doin' here?"
"Ms. Swann came for ye? I know what she did Sparrow, it ain't right… but that doesn't mean the lass doesn't feel sorry," Barbossa said smiling at him, "now time to get you out…"
"Good luck Barbossa," Jack said laying back and watching the other men crowd around, "ye don't think I tried to break out?"
"I think ye tried, but ye didn't succeed, obviously…" Barbossa laughed pulling out something none had seen. He placed inside of the strong iron lock and lit it, "ye might want to be getting' back there Jack…"
"What?" Jack asked walking back as far as he could before there was a loud explosion. Every one screamed and a loud noise starting blaring around the place making the see through green people run.
"Aye we best be gettin' out o' here Barbossa, good to see ye again Jack," Gibbs smiled before turning. Jack pushed open the door and walked out.
"Not plausible, these were made of the strongest metal," Jack said looking at Barbossa.
"I found thee strongest powder," Barbossa smiled, "now let us make a run for our hides…"
"I agree," Jack smiled before running after the others. The door to purgatory was slowly shutting to keep everything concealed, "HURRY!"
"We are!" Will yelled holding Elizabeth's hand as they ran. They made it through the gate just before it closed. They stopped a second to give their aching muscles a break.
"Good to see you Mr. Turner," Jack breathed heavily, "thanks for springing me from my cell…"
"Like old times," Will said panting heavily.
"We have to leave now we must hurry," Gibbs said getting ready to walk foreword.
"Not without Meira," Will said making Barbossa for once thankful of the kid and his relationship with his daughter… "she is practically my sister and I will not leave her. Barbossa we must stay…"
"I s'pose I agree with young Mr. Turner," Barbossa said looking down, "we shouldn't leave behind thee fallen."
"She is gone Barbossa! Gone you said yourself they kill the living!" Gibbs yelled making Jack look at him curiously. Who was Meira? Jack and Will fell to the floor when something hit them, and then fell on top of her. Barbossa and the others looked at the thing that fell from the sky. Meira slowly got off of Duncan. They both were dirty and looking around.
"Meira?" Barbossa asked looking at her. Meira looked at him then to the others.
"I DID IT!" Meira yelled jumping up and down. Will looked at her after getting up, he then quickly pulled her into his arms.
"Are they…?" Jack said looking to Gibbs who shook his head no, "Will never told me he had a sister…"
"That not be his real sister. Nearly a close friend," Gibbs said, "now may we leave?"
"Yes let's get out of here… before t' underworld is sent to catch us," Barbossa said smiling at Meira before walking foreword. Finally they were at the entrance where the water was flowing down.
"How do we get out?" Elizabeth asked clinging to Will. Anamaria hadn't even noticed Duncan yet.
"I should be going back now," Duncan said making everyone turn around in surprise. No one had even seen him, no one could see him.
"Who said that?" Anamaria asked looking around, "the voice sounds familiar."
"YOU can't see him?" Meira asked looking to the others shaking their heads now, "why can't they see you and I can?"
"Why can you teleport places?" Duncan asked making them look around again, "your gifted Meira… you can do things the living can do and the dead can do. That white light that erupted from you was something from the heavens… something angels can do. You are unique, you've been gifted by an angel. You must have been sent to earth or something I cannot explain only the man upstairs can. Use your gift wisely…"
"I still don't understand," Meira said lookg around grabbing his wrist. Anamaria's mouth opened when the shimmering image of Duncan appeared.
"Duncan?" Anamaria asked her hands covering her mouth. Duncan looked at Anamaria feeling his eyes water.
"Anamaria?" he said walking towards her slowly he began to look like a mortal man again, "you can touch me…"
"Duncan, it's really you," Anamaria cried wrapping her arms around the handsome saint, "Duncan… your going back with me aren't you?"
"I don't know Anamaria… I don't know how you even see me," Duncan said looking over to Meira who smiled she knew she did it but she didn't know how she did it, "you have a gifted friend Anamaria… am I mortal Meira?"
"I believe you are I wished you were human again and when I touched your wrist… you came visible to the rest of them. And you no longer are glowing with the heavenly light…" Meira said smiling at him, "I believe you have a choice to make now. Be the gaurdian of the sleeping… or choose love…"
"I," Duncan knew he had a duty but holding Anamaria in his arms again was like being in paradise, a paradise he got to enjoy this time, "I choose love…"
"Duncan," Anamaria cried before his lips fell upon hers. Barbossa rolled his eyes as Gibbs snickered softly, they had never seen Anamaria so mushy.
"Enough of the love, we need to find our way out," Ragetti sighed before looking up at the water pouring down, it didn't reach them but they could see it falling.
"I don't have my wings anymore," Duncan said holding Anamaria's hand, "I just gave them up for a good cause…"
"How good is tat cause when ye dead lad?" Barbossa snapped.
"Hang on," Meira thought a moment, "everyone hold hands…"
"What dis be about now?" Gibbs asked not wanting to hold Jacks hand.
"Just do it!" Meira yelled grabbing Elizabeth's hand and then Barbossa's.
"Since when did you start taking orders from a women Gibbs?" Jack laughed. Gibbs gave Jack a frown before grabbing his hand. They sat there while Meira closed her eyes.
"Did anything happen?" Meira asked looking around they all looked at her like she was crazy, "what? Why didn't it… I wished for it."
"Meira I don't think you get what you wish for, but something makes what you want to happen. You have to learn to use the gift given to you…" Duncan said seriously, "try again and concentrate…"
"Fine," Meira said closing her eyes and opening her mind. She saw the ship in her mind and when she opened her eyes they were by the boat. They all looked around curiously laying on the ground.
"How'D we get here?" Elizabeth asked wiping the sand off of her.
"I don't know I remember blacking out and waking up here," Will said looking around.
"Same here," the others agreed. Meira smiled.
"I did it!" she yelled throwing her hands up in the air, "I did it I did it!"
"Not possible…" Pintel said looking at her like she was insane. Meira ran to her boat and pushed it out before climbing in. Jack smiled as he really got a look at her. He walked to her boat and pushed her further out before climbing in. Will grabbed the boat before Jack grabbed a paddle. Jack smiled and Will frowned. Will helped Elizabeth in and they began to row back. The others went in the other boat. When they were on the ship they decided to have a crew meeting. They all patted Jack on the back. Meira did not attend and neither did Elizabeth. They both agreed to go and cook the dinner. Meira walked passed Barbossa, Gibbs, and Jack. Jack turned to Gibbs.
"Who is she? All I know is that's the finest Pirates Bootie I ever saw," Jack said making Gibbs laugh. Barbossa frowned.
"Keep your eyes off that bootie, she be me daughter," Barbossa said making Jack's mouth drop and Gibbs laugh harder.
Authors note: How'D you like this chapter I started feeling sick in the middle of writing it so I just tried to hurry and get it done. Sorry there wasn't much creativity to the creativity. I'm going to start working on the next chapter lol!