Disclaimer: Don't own anything except original characters. All material (c) to respective owners.
Author's notes: The divider doesn't work for me so I will add a separating character when needed. I think I may have butchered Jack's language a little bit...ok a lot, but i'm not used to writing pirate. I've also probably over acted the characters personalities a bit, but it amused me to do so. This is my first fan fic of POTC there may be a spoiler or two from DMC. This story is a bit sappy but it does have its moments
Cute critters aren't they? (not really lol) R&R please.
Chapter 10: Raptor Island Part 2-Gates
"Fer once I'm goin to agree with ya." Muttered Jack a small gold tooth smile making its way across his face as we glanced back and forth to see if there was another staircase in sight. "There isn another way around it." He said as we glanced around realizing he was right.
"We're going to have to go through there even if we don't want to?" asked Elizabeth sounding like she was on the verge of a screech as Will, Jack and I flinched at her risen voice. "But…but…what if there's something worse on the other side then those lizard things?" she asked sounding about ready to start yelling at any moment.
"Well at least we can avoid those lizards and deal with whatever is on the other side more effectively." I said as she gave me an icy glare and looked as though she was about to start yelling at me instead of Jack this time around. "Elizabeth we really don't have much of a choice…somehow I don't think we will be lucky a second time around with those things back there." I stated as she sighed and nodded reluctantly.
I watched as Jack took out his compass again sighing slightly as it pointed at the gate and beyond and then he slowly walked up to it inspecting it more closely looking for some sort of trap or way of opening it. "This isn't going to be as easy as it looks." I thought startled as Elizabeth's hand wrapped around mine for comfort and I turned smiling at the woman I was fondly starting to think of as an adopted sister and best friend. Will was watching Jack's hands go over the gate cautiously and jumped as we all turned hearing a click sound. The gate slowly creaked open sounding like it was in desperate need of oiling as I flinched hearing the prolonged squeak. "That sounded awful…talk about assault on the eardrums." I thought seeing Elizabeth was vigorously rubbing her ears with both hands.
"That was extremely irritating and very loud." Muttered Elizabeth as I nodded in agreement rubbing my ears thoughtfully before flinching remembering my arm was still injured and that I hadn't put it back in the sling on our walk down as of yet. I place my arm gingerly back in the sling biting my lip hard to avoid yelling in pain. "Are you alright?" she asked softly seeing I was struggling not to yell. I nodded smiling weakly before I followed Jack stepping slowly through the gate.
"What is this place?" asked Will as we glanced ahead at what appeared to be ruins of some sort, odd carvings and carving of animals built around what was a large opening yawning before us into the ruins. "This doesn't look like any better of an option then those lizards were Jack." He muttered as I noticed the carved animals were the lizards we had faced of with but much more tribal and dangerous looking.
"I agree with Will…can we go back to the Pearl?" Asked Elizabeth as I turned seeing she was beyond nervous and down right terrified at the sight before us. I wasn't exactly thrilled with it myself as I stepped closer to Jack seeing his face was scrunched in concentration.
"Clearly we aren't leaving until Jack gets what he came for." I thought a sad smile on my face as Elizabeth and Will looked suddenly deflated and finally surrendered to the fact Jack had other plans for us. I glanced at Jack knowing my face was frozen in an annoyed look as he glanced at me his eyes widening only slightly in surprise before he returned his attention to the opening before us. "Torches would be good Jack." I thought eyeing the darkness in the ruins before I watched Jack step over toward the side of the ruins and somehow manage to find two torches. "Damn…I was hoping we could leave." I though a bit irritated at the production of the two torches.
"Let's go." Jack said without asking for anyone else's opinion as usual. We all followed him into the ruins and paused eyeing the carvings that appeared to tell a story carved into the walls of the ruins. It reminded me of the ancient Egyptians hieroglyphics and made me nervous as I glanced harder at them seeing people worshipping and appearing to sacrifice to the lizards. "Tha tis interesting." He said softly glancing over my shoulder at the pictures and sighing slightly.
"No it's not interesting…it's downright immoral and I don't think we should be here." I muttered seeing Jack frown slightly as he eyed me curiously. "Jack…remember those lizards out there?" I asked pointing back the way we come. "What if there are much larger ones in here?" I questioned as Elizabeth made a startled gasp behind me and Will grabbed her hand in a comforting gesture.
"Aye…good point." Said Jack glancing back the way we had come then deeper into the cave. "We better hurry up then luv." He stated slowly leading the way deeper into the cave unaware that no one was following him until he turned and stared at us standing about three feet behind him still frozen to the spot. "Ye commin?" he questioned eyeing the three of us.
"What do you think?" I asked sarcastically ignoring the scowl I received in reply and sighing as we started to follow Jack into the ruins.
The pictures became much more detailed then I would have liked the farther we got into the cave. I finally tired of the chewed images of mangled people on the walls stared straight ahead at Jacks head, the scenery wasn't much of an improvement but it was better then those images flashing over and over again as we neared an opening in the ruins. The room was significantly large with the ceiling missing allowing sunlight to flicker into it lighting it up and as we looked around I saw the room appeared to be the sacrificing chamber that the images had represented on the way into the ruins. "Oh great now we'll see first hand what the natives used to do with the lizards." I thought crossly as I inspected the room seeing it was crumbling and hadn't been used in what appeared to be many years. I could have guessed the lizards finally killed off the natives since obviously they had worshiped them and that indicated they thought they were some kind of gods.
"The sacrificing chamber…Jack what are we doing in here?" questioned Elizabeth apparently having realized the resemblance to the images on the walls on our way in. "This place is horrid." She grumbled glancing around and staring hard at Jack who had clearly tuned her out as soon as we entered the room.
Jack had the compass and was moving around the room watching the needle apparently from what I could tell. After a few moments he smiled closing the compass and walked over to the sacrificing slab and bent down feeling around the slab for some hidden lever or opening from what I could guess. "I so don't want to be here." I thought glancing around and jumping as I heard a sharp hiss sound that sounded too familiar for my liking and then I saw out of the corner of my eye Will draw his sword carefully staring in the direction of the sound. Then there was an echoing sound as I turned staring hard at an opening behind the slab Jack was busily inspecting around. "This isn't good." I thought hearing Elizabeth take an intake of breath as another sound echoed behind us and she turned quickly her sword raised.
"Jack." I choked softly as he grunted clearly occupied with his current task. "Jack!" I said sharply as he whirled at my voice and glanced at me questioningly. "We have company." I said simply as he heard the echoing hisses and snaps finally realizing what was going on.
There were four lizards in the room with us and sadly as I had feared they were significantly larger then the rest we had encountered. Each lizard was probably close to ten feet long and five foot or so high and clearly they were hungry. I didn't like the odds against us and knew very well that we were in some serious trouble. "What…were the others just babies?" my mind questioned as I watched the four lizards start to slink into the room making all of us move up beside Jack and glance around for any way of escape.
"This is no good at all." Jack said drawing his pistol and aiming it at the closest lizard eyeing the other three carefully.
"No kidding." I muttered as Elizabeth and Will both held their swords high ready for an attack. "Don't shoot." I hissed as Jack cocked the hammer of the pistol ready to fire at the one lizard closest to us. "They might all attack at once." I finished as they all gave me a questioning glance.
There may have been four of them, but they were large and from what I knew about lizards, quick, short tempered and easily agile enough to take us out with just the three of them. That was mostly due to their size and the fact that Jack wouldn't have enough time to reload and fire again. Elizabeth and Will stood their ground as the other lizards made their way closer and closer to us but pausing just away from the weapons pointed at their heads sensing the threat.
"What are we going to do?" whispered Elizabeth as I shook my head thinking the same thing and stepping sharply back as the one behind us made a snapping gesture in my direction. "Look out." She said sharply as I dodge the one in front of us and carefully glanced around seeing they had us circled and trapped. "Clearly they aren't stupid." I thought wryly as Will jerked back avoiding one of the snapping jaws aimed his way.
"We ave any ideas?" asked Jack curiously as we all gave him dirty looks in response before each of us dodged snaps from the beasts before us. "Alrigh so it was a bad idea to come in ere anyway." He mumbled still holding his gun aimed at the thing before us even though I had warned him not to fire.
"Maybe if we could figure out which of the four was the leader it would be a distraction." I thought allowed as they all glanced at me curiously. "They seem to follow one of these lizards and if it was to be killed maybe it would confuse them long enough to get away or take the other three out." I said softly as they realized just how far fetched an idea it was, but as fate would have it, it was the only way out we could see. "At least I think it would." I offered a small forced smile as they all glanced at the lizards trying to see if any of them appeared to be more aggressive or different then the others.
"That one over there has a yellow shape on its head." Pointed Elizabeth as we glanced in the direction she was pointing hearing her yelp in surprise jerking her finger back quickly as one of them made a go at it. "Bloody beast." She growled aiming her sword at its mouth cautiously.
"That's got to be the leader." I said as Jack turned aiming his gun at the lizard with the mark and eyeing us curiously as I crossed my fingers and nodded the go ahead.
A loud echoing bang rang through the room as we all heard a loud unnerving yelp come from the creature before glancing at the other lizards. Instantly the other three lizards leaped at the now dead lead lizard and to our disgust started to eat away at the beast. "So much for leadership." I thought looking away from the grizzly sight as Jack grabbed something from the alter and we made our way around the back side and out the back of the temple hoping for a way to safety. When we got outside the temple though we came to a dead stop seeing nothing but a cliff in our way and no way around it. "This is not happening." I thought sadly as we all chanced a look down seeing that it was farther down then any of us would survive if we jumped to the water below.
"Now what Jack?" asked a very irritated sounding Elizabeth as Jack glanced up and then back down a clear look of agitation on his face at this new aspect. "We can't very well jump across." She stated sarcastically.
"I see tha Elizabeth." Jack replied a bit snippily as I waited flinching for a yell or screech of hers in reply, but nothing came. I turned to see her staring behind us her mouth frozen in a look or horror. I turned seeing the other three lizards had apparently finished and was making their way toward us. I gently tugged on Jacks shirt getting his attention and pointing behind us. "Bugger." He muttered seeing the lizards were coming from the opening directly blocking our way of escape.
"We aren't going to get out of this one." I thought sadly as I saw Jack's reloaded pistol aimed at another one of the lizards which had apparently taken charge of the situation. If Jack fired at this one I had a feeling the others would go for us instead this round, since clearly they were smarter then they appeared. I could see the others were thinking this as well as I saw swords drawn and ready to fight for our lives again.
"There's a bridge down there." Said Will in surprise as we glanced farther down the way from the temple and saw a swinging bridge across to the other side of the island. "It doesn't look very safe though." He observed as Jack and I looked down at the bridge and then at the lizards.
"Tis much better then bein with them Will." Jack said staring at the lizards and then at us. "We ave to try." He said and then we were off running as fast as we could in the direction of the vine choked bridge.
The lizards didn't react just then but soon I heard their hissing and growling noises not far behind us and chanced a look back seeing they were easily gaining on us. "Bridge." I thought with a small smile as we came to a halt eyeing the bridge, the lizards not far behind us. "Doesn't look safe." I thought miserably as I felt an arm wrap around me and lift me over a shoulder seeing Jack was going to lead the way across the bridge and hearing Elizabeth protest in surprise as Will followed Jacks gestures lifting her over his shoulder and too following him across the swinging creaky bridge. "God it's such a long way down." I thought closing my eyes as I heard a snap sound and felt the bridge give ever so slightly hearing Elizabeth squeak in surprise. "We're not going to make it across." Was my first thought as I heard another snapping sound and felt Jack pause slightly hearing him muttering and cursing but then he continued across. The lizards I had noticed had been smart enough to stay on the other side of the bridge, which had only slightly concerned me until the bridge gave again but we were still on it and going across at a snails pace. There it was again another snap and this time I noticed Jack and Will both stumble as I opened my eyes chancing a look down, instantly regretting it as I heard another snap and Jack cursing again.
"Jack…we're not going to get to the other side at this pace." Said Will as I heard Elizabeth whimper only slightly at this deciding it was better to be here then over with the carnivorous lizards. "Idea's?" he inquired as I sighed knowing exactly what would happen next.