Authors' note: All CCS characters belong to CLAMP. All characters of Cardcaptor Torika belong to clowprincess223. The characters of Pirates of the Caribbean belong to Disney. This is a fan based project. If I did own the CCS characters then I wouldn't be here.
Cardcaptor Torika: the Movie
Chapter 13: The Curse
H.M.S. Dauntless - Main Deck
Elizabeth: But we have to save them!
Governor Swann addresses a very determined Elizabeth. Norrington and Jack look on. Gillette, Murtogg, Mullroy, others in b.g.
Governor Swan: No. I won't have it. Elizabeth, if anything had happened to you ... You're safe now, and we will return to Port Royal immediately, not go gallivanting after pirates.
Elizabeth: Then we condemn Will, Li, Torika, and Hana to death!
Governor Swan: Thier fates are regrettable ... But so were their decisions to engage in piracy.
Elizabeth: To rescue me! To prevent anything from happening to me!
Norrington reacts, re considering their motives. Jack notices, sees an opening, plays devil on Norrington's shoulder.
Jack: If I may be so bold as to treject my thoughts ... The Pearl was listing near to scuppers after the battle. Unlikely she'll make good time. Think about it, Norrington ... Barbossa, The Black Pearl ... the last real pirate threat in the Caribbean, mate. How can you pass that up?
Norrington: By remembering I serve others, Mister Sparrow, not only myself.
Elizabeth: Commodore, I beg you, please do this ... for me. As a wedding gift.
That takes everyone by surprise, even Jack. Norrington keeps his eyes on Elizabeth, weighing her words.
Governor Swan: Elizabeth ... are you accepting the Commodore's proposal?
Elizabeth: I am.
Jack: A wedding! I love weddings! Drinks all around! (off Norrington's look) No wait ... Clap him in irons, right?
Norrington: Mister Sparrow. You will accompany these men to the helm, provide us with a bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the remainder of the voyage contemplating all possible meaning of the phrase 'silent as the grave.' Do I make myself clear?
Jack gets it: Norrington is deadly serious.
Jack: Inescapably.
Gillette and several others escort Jack away. Norrington crosses toward Elizabeth ...
Governor Swan: Commodore, I must question the wisdom of this.
Norrington: With all due respect, Governor ... (checks himself; continues) Mr. Turner is a subject of the British crown, and therefore under our protection.
Governor Swan doesn't like it, but he knows it's right.
Governor Swan: Rightly so. Keep her safe.
Norrington nods. Governor Swann moves away.
Norrington: Elizabeth .. Miss Swann. I find myself ... worried that your answer is perhaps ... less than sincere.
Elizabeth: I would not give my word lightly.
Norrington: Yes I understand. But is it wrong for me to wish it given unconditionally?
Elizabeth: It is not a condition. It is a request. Your answer would not change mine. You are a fine man ... James.
For a brief moment, Norrington breaks into a wide, boyish smile. His military bearing reasserts itself, but only just.
Norrington: Well. Very well. Excellent.
Meanwhile, Tai and Maddy are greeted by a sight that they wanted to see. Sakura along with Kero in Norrington's office, they already know what is going on so they didn't have to have some conversation with her. But instead they decided to form a plan and they would pass it on to Elizabeth when they get the chance.
Black Pearl - Brig (later that day)
Pintel and Ragetti mop tar onto the interior of the hull. A few inches of water still stand in the brig. Jack's crew are crowded into Jack's cell (now repaired), including Cotton and his parrot.
Cotton's parrot: Shiver me timbers!
Gibbs helpfully translates:
Gibbs: Cotton here says you missed a spot. Don't want to be letting the damp in, do you?
Pintel slaps his mop against the cell. Gibbs takes the hint. Will, Li, Torika, and Hana, in the other cell, watching the pirates.
Will: (suddenly to Pintel) You knew William Turner?
Any excuse not to work. Pintel leans on his mop.
Pintel: Ol' Bootstrap Bill. We knew him.
Ragetti keeps on working.
Ragetti: Stupid blighter.
Torika and Hana frown at Ragetti. Pintel begins to explain:
Pintel: It never sat well with Bootstrap, what we did to Jack Sparrow. The mutiny and all. He said it wasn't right with the Code, and Bootstrap was always a man of the Code. That's why he sent off a piece of the treasure to you, as it were. He said we deserved to be cursed, and remain cursed.
Will never suspected this. He furrows his, brow, only half-listening now, as he considers his father in a new light.
Ragetti: Stupid blighter.
Gibbs: Good man.
Pintel lifts the mop in threat; Gibbs backs away.
Pintel: Well, as you can imagine, that didn't sit too well with the captain.
Ragetti: Not too well at all! Tell 'im what Barbossa did!
Pintel: I'm telling the story! So what the Captain did, he strapped a cannon to Bootstrap's bootstraps, and last we saw of Bill Turner, he was sinking to the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones' locker.
The Crew all look a bit sick at the idea of it.
Pintel: 'Course, it was only after that we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse.
Ragetti: That's what you call 'ironic.'
The pair glance at each other and laugh, gallows humor. Barbossa appears behind Pintel, flanked by several other pirates. He regards Will for a moment, then:
Barbossa: Bring them!
Dauntless - Helm (night)
Passing through the graveyard of ships. Jack stands on the bridge. Elizabeth appears, dressed in sailors clothes, to excellent effect. She moves beside him. Conspiratorially:
Elizabeth: You didn't tell him about the curse.
Jack: I noticed neither did you. For the same reason, I imagine.
Elizabeth: He wouldn't have risked it.
Jack: You could have gotten him drunk. (off her look; reassuring) Don't get me wrong, love. I admire a person willing to do whatever is neccessary.
Elizabeth: You're a smart man, Jack ... but I don't entirely trust you.
Jack: Peas in a pod, darling.
Norrington strides up. Notes Elizabeth's clothing with dismay.
Norrington: Trousers?
Jack: Scandalous isn't it?
Norrington: With me, Sparrow.
Norrington gives Elizabeth a brief backwards glance and he's gone.
Isla de Muerta - Lagoon
Throgh a spyglass: The Black Pearl. Apparently abandoned. Norrinton lowers the spyglass. He and Jack share a boat along with ten sailors.
Norrington: I don't care for the situation. Any attempt to storm the 'cage' could turn to an ambush.
Jack: Not if you do the ambushing. I'll go in, and convince Barbossa to send his men out in their little boats. You and your men return to the Dauntless and blast the be Jesus out of your little cannons, eh. What do you have to lose?
Norrington: Nothing I'd lament being rid of.
Jack: I'll be honest with you, though ... there's still a 'slight' risk for those aboard the Dauntless, which includes the future Mrs. Commodore.
He watches Norrington as he considers that.
Dauntless - Cabin
Elizabeth struggles as she is hustled inside by Gillette and two marines.
Gillette: Sorry, miss, but it's for your own safety!
Elizabeth: I don't care what the Commodore ordered! I have to tell him ... the pirates ... they're cursed! They can't be killed!
Gillette: Don't worry miss, he is fully informed of that. A little mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story.
Snickering with the marines, he shuts the door. Elizabeth turns away, angry.
Elizabeth: This was Jack Sparrow's doing. (notices Maddy, Tai, Sakura, and Kero) What's going on?
Kero: We came up with a plan to get Torika, Will, and the others out of there.
Elizabeth: How can we? The pirates are cursed.
Tai: But this is where the plan comes in. Barbossa would leave about eight or nine members of his crew in the cave because of Torika, Li, and Hana. Will on the other hand doesn't have magic, so there would be only one or two pirates to guard him.
Sakura: If we can sneak off the boat and help my daughter, Li, Will, and Hana if they decide to turn the tables on Barbossa.
Elizabeth: But the pirates are cursed. They are immortal.
Kero: Well, if that's the case, then we will have to go for plan 'B.'
Isla de Muerta - Lagoon
Jack smiles as he rows a small boat away from the Dauntless.
Isla de Muerta - Cavern - Main Cavern
Lit by torches and shafts of moonlight. The pirates move through the caves, climbing over rocks and through water, toward the center. An air of grim anticipation. Will, Li, Torika, and Hana, hands bound behind their backs, are shoved along.
Pintel: No reason to fret. It's just a prick of the finger and a few drops of blood.
Twigg: (moving past) No mistakes this time. He's only half Turner. We spill it all.
Pintel finds a good amount of delight in this.
Pintel: I guess there is a reason to fret.
In the center of the cavern, with Li, Torika, and Hana in line, Will is pushed close to the stone chest by Koehler and Twigg, then shoved to his knees. Koehler pushes Will's head forward directly over the chest, the medallion hanging below his throat. Barbossa takes the stone knife from atop the chest of gold. He thumbs the blade: sharp enough.
Barbossa: Begun by blood. By blood un-
Jack emerges from the crowd of pirates. Barbossa stares.
Torika, Li, and Will: Jack!
Barbossa: It's not possible.
Jack: (correcting him) Not probable.
Will raises his head, but it is immediately shoved back down:
Will: Where are Elizabeth and the others?!
Jack: They're safe, just like I promised. Elizabeth's set to marry Norrington and live happily ever after, just like she promised. (brightly) And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word, really. Except for Elizabeth and Torika who are infact women.
Pirates surround Jack; Barbossa points a knife at him.
Barbossa: Shut up! You're next!
He again puts the knife to Will's throat ...
Jack: You don't want to be doing that, mate.
Barbossa glances back at him.
Barbossa: No, I really think I do.
Jack: Your funeral.
Barbossa presses the blade to Will's throat .. he wants to do it .. goddammit! He whirls back on Jack.
Barbossa: Why don't I want to be doing it?
Jack shrugs away from the pirates. He steps forward.
Jack: Because the H.M.S. Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating right off shore, waiting for you.
Barbossa hesitates.
Koehler: I don't trust him. He's up to something!
Barbossa: Of course he is. (locks eyes with Jack) He wants the Pearl.
Jack: I want the Pearl.
Isla de Muerta - Cave Entrance
Seven long boats full of marines are positioned on either side of the cave mouth. Murtogg and Mullroy are in Norrington's boat, directly behind him.
Mullroy: (a whisper) What are we doing here?
Murtogg: (whispers back) The pirates come out, unprepared and unawares. We catch 'em in a crossfire and send 'em down to see Ol' Hob.
Mullroy: I know that's why we're here ... I meant, why aren't we doing what it was what Mr. Sparrow said we should do? With the cannons and all?
Norrington: Because it was Mr. Sparrow who said it.
A beat...
Murtogg: You think he wasn't telling the truth?
Mullroy: He doesn't tell the truth even when he's telling the truth.
Isla de Muerta - Main Cave
Barbossa listens as Jack argues his case:
Jack: Norrington believes he's facing normal pirates ... cruel, demented and vicious pirates to be certain, but cruel, demented, vicious pirates who can't be killed? (shakes his head: no way)
Ragetti, offended, mouths the word Demented? to Pintel. Pintel thinks it suits him.
Barbossa: That's a lot of brass your hauling, Jack. It's liable to drag you under.
Jack: So you order your men to row out to the Dauntless, they do what they do best. Promise your Uncle Phanty your aunt, and there you are with two ships. The makings of your very own fleet. Of course, you'll take the grandest as your flagship, and who's to argue? But what of the Pearl?
Jack smiles and spreads his hands: me. As he talks, he strolls toward Will and the chest.
Jack: Name me Captain, I sail under your colors, I give you ten percent of my plunder, and you get to introduce yourself at tea parties and brothels as 'Commodore Barbossa.' Savvy?
Barbossa: (re: Will, Torika, Hana, and Li) I suppose in exchange you want me not to kill the welps?
Jack: No. By all means. Kill the welps. Just not yet. Wait to lift the curse until the opportune moment.
Will and Li scowl when they recognize the familiar phrase: 'until the opportune moment.' Jack gives them a shrug, then continues:
Jack: For instance: (grabs a handful of coins) after you've killed Norrington's men ... (drops the coins into the chest, punctuating his words) Every ... Last ... One.
Barbossa gives the proposal some thought.
Will: You've been planning this from the beginning. Since you learned my name.
Jack: Please. Do I really seem that clever?
Torika: No. You're that stupid. Hana admires you and you just throw away our lives.
Jack then gestures: 'get with the program'
Barbossa: I want fifty per cent of your plunder.
Jack: Fifteen.
Barbossa: Fourty.
Jack: Twenty five, and I'll buy you the hat. A really big one, 'Commodore.'
Barbossa: (smiles) We have an accord.
He and Jack approach ... and shake hands. Jack turns toward the pirates, says in grand fashion:
Jack: All hands to the boats!
Barbossa shoots him a glare.
Jack: (off Barbossa's look) Apologies, faux pas, mea culpa. You give the orders.
He indicates 'Please, go ahead.' Barbossa steps forward as Jack grins, knowing that Barbossa is going to repeat what he said.
Barbossa: Gents ... Take a walk!
Jack's grin vanishes.
Torika: (thoughts) Uh oh.
Jack: Not to the boats?
Barbossa's turn to grin as the pirates leave the cavern.
Isla de Muerta - Cavern - Landing
Pirates toward the boats, and then past them. Pintel and Ragetti are among them. Suddenly, Bo'sun snaps across their chests, stopping them: A parasol. Bo'sun smiles.
To Be Continued...