Disclaimer: ...Uggg. Victoria is mine, not the others.

Here you have it, the next Chapter. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and Santa brought you what you want ;) tehe j/k Just read. Lyrics are Rakim y Ken-y Amigo. -tear- sad song. Rakim and Ken-y you are the best!!

Amigo, ya que al cielo tu haz partido
solo una cosa a mi Dios yo le pido
que entre sus brazos te encuentras dormido
Amigo, para nosotros siempre serás amigo
te haz marchado pues lo quiso el destino
en nuestra mente siempre estarás vivo,
amigoooo, amigoooo

Ch: 9 Possession and the Waterfall

Someone hit Victoria forcefully in the back of her head, and she sat up quickly. Looking frantically over the side of the longboat, she saw that Tia had stopped rowing. The calm blue water licked at the sides like it normally did. No swirling or massacred hands or anything out of the ordinary.

"We 'ere," Tia announced, looking at Victoria with a worried expression. "Ya ok? Ya was screamin' and hollerin' dat something was 'ere."

"Yeah," she said slowly, completely perplexed by what she had just encountered. Hadn't they seen it? Who could have missed the giant bloody hand or the swirling whirlpool? Am I dead? She pinched herself lightly. Ow. No I'm alive. But how didn't they see it?? "I'm fine." She sat against Jack. Maybe I fell asleep. "Did I fall asleep?"

"Aye. Ya was watching da sunset an' ya rested ya 'ead on Jack and drifted off." Tia still looked worried.

"Oh." So maybe it was just a bad dream. Yeah, that's it. I'm not going crazy or anything, I know I saw something, but it had to be just a weird dream. But it looked so real! She looked up at Jack, who yawned sleepily, and she smiled. "Did he fall asleep too?"

"Aye. Now tell me what ya saw," Tia demanded.

The baffled girl looked back down at the water, and then started going on about the powerful waves and the swirling whirlpool. "And there was a hand that came out from the whirlpool and it started shaking the boat," she concluded.

"What kind o' 'and it be?" Tia asked urgently.

Victoria remembered the protruding finger bones and the hanging, gory flesh. "It looked as if it were fed to sharks. That's the only way I can really describe it."

Tia sighed. "We need t' find Jones, and quickly." She stepped out of the boat and onto the sugary sand. Everyone followed her into the thick green forest of palm trees, Victoria fighting to keep her eyes open in Jack's arms.

"Why don't you go to sleep, everything will be better then…"

Demonic whispers hissed and swarmed around her head, and the urge to let her eyelids droop was too much.

"No. Go away. I'm not tired. Leave me alone." She swatted the air around her head with her hands, almost hitting Jack in the jaw.

Talking back to them was no use. She became too tired to fight it, and stabbing pains stuck into her brain like a sharp knife, cutting off all other thoughts. Her body writhed and squirmed as she cried out for the pain to end, but it just emptied into the rest of her struggling being, stronger then she had ever experienced. The only thing she felt was the cool sand on her back, and she only heard urgent yelling over the demon's hissing. They cackled and whispered evil, and her eyes rolled to the back of her head, making everything slowly fade away. The edges of her view became crinkled and blurry, and then nothing but darkness could be seen.

"We've got her Master… We've got her…" Their buzzing faded away just as her vision, and she could feel herself being lost to them, her awareness and her life slipping away just as quickly as the demons had come…

Jack put his lips to Victoria's, desperate to revive her. At this point she wasn't breathing, and only the faintest thump of her heart could be heard. He tried CPR, but that was no use either. Looking down at her face, he could think of nothing more to do, and he kissed her passionately.

"Aye Jack, she's gone. Kissing her ain't gonna help." Barbossa said, watching Jack's desperate attempts, but of course he didn't listen. Elizabeth held Will's arm and watched, trying to keep her breathing steady as Jack tried CPR again. She felt sorry for him and his fruitless attempts, and she could sense that Will was feeling the same. Tia just stood there, muttering some kind of incantation under her breath while Barbossa shook his head, feeling not the slightest bit pity.

The demons hissed angrily inside Victoria's head.

"We will bring you down, and next time he will be brought along…" Their whispering and evil snickering died away, and her eyes fluttered open. Jack's mouth was to hers, and everyone gasped as she looked around. Slowly he pulled away from her and stared into her dazed blue eyes before throwing his arms around her and squeezing her tight. Tia was lost in deep thought.

"Told ya it would work Barbossa," Jack said, muffled slightly by Victoria's shirt as he held her tight. Barbossa just rolled his eyes and muttered something.

"What happened?" Elizabeth asked, just as dazed and confused as Victoria.

"Demons… Had me…Want… Jack," She choked weakly and buried her head into his shoulder.

"What do they want with me?" He rubbed her back gently as she wept uncontrollably into his shirt.

"I don't know…"

"I knew dis would come…" Tia said, still in her trance. "I thought we 'ad more time…"

"What would come?" Will asked, becoming nervous himself. What if they want me next?

"Dey want ya as a sacrifice." Tia stared foreword when she spoke, her eyes blank. "I don' know why dey want Jack tho'… She started walking but stopped. "Ya got da 'eart Barbossa?"

"Aye." He held up the wooden box.

"Good." She continued walking through the trees, and Jack lifted Victoria up lightly and followed. They brushed against branches and crunched over palm ferns, traveling deeper into the forest in silence, listening to a low rumble up ahead.

"Ya 'ear dat?" Tia made her voice louder so she could be heard over the rumbling. "Ahead dare be a waterfall, 'ere Jones makes port."

Walking on, they came to a clearing, and just as they had heard, a majestic waterfall stood. Its water was crystal clear and it emptied into a beautiful crystal lake. Behind the waterfall, enveloped in thick green vines, was the entrance to a cave, half submerged by the lake. The rocks surrounding the waterfall were covered in a fuzzy green moss, and the lake wasn't very deep. It was shallow around the edges, but it only looked about nine feet or so in the center.

"Jones be in dare," she pointed to the opening of the cave, and everyone looked.

"So come on, lets get the heart to him so the demons leave us alone." Jack walked around the lake until he came to the cliff where the water fell. He started sloshing into the water and looked back at the others, seeing that they hadn't moved.

"Come on!" he said impatiently, but still they didn't budge.

"Why don't you leave the girl on land?" Will suggested. Jack looked down at her, seeing that she was sleeping. He smiled and walked out of the water, sitting down on a grassy patch and resting her in his lap and stroking her cheek.

"Why don't we do this tomorrow Tia?" he said, yawning and snuggling against Victoria. Tia smiled and sat down against another tree.

"Dat be good." She yawned. "I be a little tired meself."

Seeing everyone else lay down, Elizabeth and Will got down to the sand and lay there, falling asleep close to each other. Barbossa too fell asleep in the sand.

In the trees, yellow eyes burned through the green leaves, watching the people sleep. It stayed at its perch all night, watching intently, until the early hours of dawn approached. Then it flew down quickly, a pair of reptilian wings propelling it through the air and to the lake, where it folded them against its ugly back and dove, disappearing under the waterfall with a splash.

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