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The sun started to set, and there lays an unconscious Aiden on hard packed dirt, his clothes stained and filthy . His lower lip and chin stained with dried blood, as his busted lip seemed to have recovered slightly.
"Ugh…" Aiden groaned in slight pain, but no one seemed to either care or notice.
Aiden's grubby hand comes up and lands on his face, groaning as he finally awakens.
Feeling light headed, he gathers all his strength to sit up and wipe off any dirt from his face. His face wrinkles up from the small aches and pains still left in him, rather than the foul filth under him.
A small gasp makes him come to a realization of his guitar being taken right before being unfairly pummeled.
"I've got to find that bloke who took it…" Aiden scowls, fist tightening from anger.
He slowly tries to stand up, patting himself down, sword and pistol luckily untouched.
Aiden's first train of thought was where the man could possibly sell a guitar. The market street is no place for only selling one small item, back alleys and secretive places made much more sense.
The thought of his mother's guitar being taken, and sold for only pocket change made Aiden's blood boil as he set out to search the streets of Tortuga…
Jack, Will, and a now completely awake Gibbs sit down for drinks at the Faithful Bride. The place is bustling with all sorts of individuals, from citizens to the worst of pirates, all settling their difference over some hard rum, sweet mead, and fine ale.
"So what'dya think of the man who did the waking now, aye mate?" Jack says with a grin as he eyes all the well-shaped waitresses.
"Depends if ya skip out on the bill like ye used too." Gibbs smiles as he raises his tankard.
"Pirates promise savvy." Jack does the same and then drinks it down, sighing from the satisfying refreshment.
Jack turned to Will with a serious face. "Keep an eye out."
Will hesitated but left out in peace, guarding the door, leaving the two pirates to their discussion and rum.
After Jack checked the boy was indeed out the room, he turned back to Gibbs, who had an eyebrow raised in speculation.
"So what brings you back to Tortuga, Jack? Can't just be for seeing ol' me."
"You wound me, mate. Can't a pirate drop by to pick up his dear ol' mate?" Jack tries to cover up his lying face by taking a chug from an already empty cup.
"And it hits me right in the soft spot every time, but we all now there's more to it."
"Well you see, mate…" Jack turns his head to the side and looks around the bar interestingly, but actually his eyes shimmered with adventure, mischievousness, and classic Jack.
"I'm going after the Black Pearl."
Gibss, who was once drinking from his tankard choked and spat at the absurd thought.
" I know where it's going to be, and I'm going to take her."
Gibbs looked at Jack like he had no sense. Which at the time sounded pretty accurate.
" Jack , it's a fool's errand. Why, you know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl." Gibbs said at Jack's proposition.
Jack looked even more determined than before at Gibbs' hesitation.
"That's why I know what Barbossa is up to. All I need is a crew." Jack said intently.
"From what I hear tell of Captain Barbossa , he's not a man to suffer fools, nor strike a bargain with one." Gibbs said, knowing all that goes around on the seas.
"Well, then I?d say it?s a very good thing I?m not a fool then, eh?" Jack said cheekily with a smirk, drinking from Will's unattended tankard now.
"Prove me wrong. What makes ye think Barbossa will give up his ship to you?" Gibbs said, almost waiting for Jack's comeback, or a choked response about not thinking that far into the plan.
"Let's just say it's a matter of leverage, eh?" Jack says slightly hushed, as he nodded discreetly at the young man guarding the door.
Gibbs only looked confused, and Jack tried again, looking more like he had a twitch rather pointing out the only continued to look confused until he followed the Captain's gaze and saw Will Turner guarding the door.
"The kid?" Gibbs says even more skeptical at where Jack was leading with all of this. What did the boyt have to do with Barbossa wanting him and the Black Pearl?
"That is the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner. His only child, savvy?" Jack said with a smile.
It all made sense now. Gibbs knew that Barbossa was on the search for the spawn of Bootstrap Turner. Apparently they were under a curse and needed the boy to set them free.
Gibbs smiled, "Is he, now? Leverage, says you. I think I feel a change in the wind, says I. I'll find us a crew. There's bound to be some sailors on this rock crazy as you."
"One can only hope, mate. Take what you can-" Jack raised up his tankard, Gibbs clinking his up in a toast to his new Captain and long time friend.
" An' Give nothing back." Both said, chugging down their rum…
Aiden makes his way through yet another back alley. He's lost track of time, but it's at least been an hour or so since he made circles around town, searching for his prized guitar. If it gets any darker, it'll be harder for him to search, as well as even more dangerous. Out of exhaustion, he looks up to the sky and sighs, but suddenly spots a small trail of smoke rising up in the distance.
It made Aiden think of campfires, and reminded him the times he would play music for Lily around one when they were younger.
"Maybe…" Aiden said to himself, suspicions rising inside him as he runs to where the smokes coming from.
The smoke eventually leads him to a small pit, almost outside of town. Aiden hides behind a thicket of trees , the small campfire burned brightly, illuminating just enough for him to spot the same man who stole his guitar, along with 2 others, sitting around the fire.
"Ya should've seen his face when I brought 'em down to his knees, didn't even see it comin'."
The tall man exclaimed while the other laughed.
" 'You cheated.' " He mocks Aiden's last words in a weak high voice, bursting into laughter, the others laughing loudly.
"Oi, who even plays that dumb thing? Saps better off widdout it."
"We might as well be better off without it. Who'll pay a cent for this? Probably made outta scrap wood." The tall man tosses the guitar just over the fire to one of the men, and then it breaks out to a game of catch between the three.
Aiden watches in the distance, in an unimaginable blind rage. He maneuvers his way toward their little circle, getting his pistol ready, approaching the target holding his guitar.
"If you're better off without it, why make a thievery out of it?" Aiden lashes out, pointing his pistol at the man's head with a click. The other two are taken by surprise, but start to get serious as they stand up.
"Move, and the bloody bits of his head will be blasted and cooked in the fire." Aiden swears, his words full of intent, making them back off warily.
"Hand it over, now." He reaches out his hand, ordering for the guitar. The man slowly gives it to him and then raises his hands.
Aiden snatches it back, holding the guitar by its ornate neck.
Aiden starts to back away, gun still aimed and ready. He then turns his back, being the worst mistake he could've done, as the trio of men make their move.
He quickly notices this and puts his guitar down, sliding it to the side with his foot, as it slid across the soft dirt.
They rush in from both sides and the front, Aiden tackling into the tall man who was in front of him, bringing him down and locking him to the ground. He raises up his fist to give him a good face-pounding, but one of the men grabs his arm, and with the help of the other, lift Aiden off of him.
Aiden is now standing up and unable to break their grip on him, while the tall man gets up with a grin on his face. He throws a punch for Aiden's head, but he quickly moves his head out of the way. He stomps on the man's foot with his hardened boot, making him holler out in pain, and then gets enough force to break the grasp on him.
Aiden takes the chance to grab one of them men, and push him into the taller and more intimidating one, making them tumble into the fire, completely putting it out once they crash down, yelping in pain as their exposed skin took the heat of the flames.
The last one standing looks on in fear. Aiden turns to him and stomps down on the ground and raises his fist menacingly, and out of panic, causes the man to toss his wallet at him and run off.
Aiden tries to calm down with deep breaths and gain back his posture, picking up the wallet and his guitar.
"It looks like drinks are on them." He happily says as he finds quite a few coins, enough for a good days drink.
He stashes the coin purse in his pocket, and makes his way to the closest tavern around…
As Aiden rounded the corner he became completely lost. He had already been there for only a few hours and was nowhere near a recognizeable place.
"Oi, sir." Aiden took his chances at being punched again and turned around a pirate with mutton chops and a friendly face.
"Who ye? Do I know ya?" Gibbs said ready to fight if this beaten up lad wanted to fight. Looks like he had already went through hell already.
"I ain't here ta mug, I'm just lost, hopin' ye help a friendly pirate out. Just want a drink from a tavern, just have no bloody idea where it is." Aiden said as friendly as he could.
An Idea sparked in Gibbs mind.
"I'll tell ye where the Faithful Bride, if you accept my proposition."
Aiden looked at him warily.
"And what would that be, if I migh' ask."
"Ya see I'm recruiting a crew for me friend, sail the seas under Captain Jack Sparrow."
Aiden just looked at him. " So you want meh to join his crew… alrigh'. Although one thing, who's Jack Sparrow?"
Gibbs looked at him wide eyes and shocked at the boy's ignorance.
"And ye call yerself a pirate. He's the best pirate alive! One thing, if yer gonna join, always remember the 'Captain' in front o' his name…" Gibbs said clasping Aiden's shoulder as he led him to the Faithful Bride as promised.
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