Thanks: To my dearest translator Rita :)
Hot winds of the Caribbean 13
Next three days went quietly. For now Jack had left me in peace, which disturbed me a bit. A little offended I focused on working and practicing my footwork. A bit by bit I began to come quicker and more clever mover and I didn't stumble as much as in the beginning. I wished Jack would teach me something new soon.
"Land ahead! We're arrivin' to Blanquilla!" I heard Anamaria yelling. I turned to look in horizon and I saw an island in front of us. It was remarkably bigger than Claw Island, but it didn't seem any friendlier place.
I went to Jack and watched the island in front of us.
"What kind of place really is that Blanquilla?" I asked then.
"It reminds quite much Tortuga, but it's not equally big", Jack answered.
Oh, so he thought Tortuga was a big place? You could notice well Jack hadn't visited in the cities of 21st century. Tortuga was just a small suburb comparing to them.
"It's also more dangerous place than Tortuga", Jack continued. "Ye best stay on ship meanwhile, when me, Gibbs and Cotton're gonna go to look for Joe."
I smiled to myself. So Jack was worried about me. He had not wanted me to endanger myself. Just a thought made me feel well and warm. Then it crossed my mind that Blanquilla could be dangerous place to Jack as well. What if something would happen to him?
"Why don't you let Gibbs and Cotton go by themselves to look for that man?" I asked Jack.
"They don't know how One-eye looks like", Jack answered.
"But you can describe him to them!" I snorted.
"Luv, are ye worried about me?" Jack asked in an amazement and turned to look at me. He grabbed my chin and imprinted a light kiss on my lips. "Don't worry in vain, I'm captain Jack Sparrow after all", he said and turned to look in horizon again.
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When Pearl was anchored on shore, I noticed Blanquilla really reminding Tortuga. It was a small and untidy place also. Actually I didn't even feel great desire to land from ship. I turned my look to the sea from town and I saw Stardust sailing next to us. Captain Mary Garter was at the helm looking very grim.
Jack grazed my cheek with his finger and then left the ship with Cotton, and his parrot and Gibbs. I heard him yelling to captain Garter that she would get soon what she wanted. Then men disappeared to the streets of Blanquilla.
I hung around the deck for a minute not knowing what to do. Finally I decided to eat something and went below. Anamaria sat by table chewing dried meat and drinking something. In case I had learned anything about pirates, her drink was rum.
I fetched a piece of dried meat for myself and grabbed an apple as well. I had always loved apples and these were especially delicious. Then I sat next to table across from Anamaria. She smiled to me friendly, but didn't say anything.
"Listen, why this One-eye Joe killed Garter's son?" I asked then suddenly Anamaria making woman to look at myself.
"Ye can tell ye haven't been a pirate for long. Everyone knows that story", woman remarked. I shrugged my shoulders to her.
"I don't remember the half of my life before Pearl, so how could I remember some story", I snorted.
"Right. Captain Sparrow said ye've an amnesia", Anamaria stated.
"Has Jack talked about me to you?" I cried. What kind of things man really had told?
"Ye wanna hear the story or not?" Anamaria asked and winked. So she wasn't going to tell me about Jack's sayings. I nodded yieldingly. Of course I wanted to hear the story, but I was also interested in knowing what Jack had told about me.
Anamaria chewed last piece of meat and then drank a swig from bottle which was on table.
"Like everyone knows, captain Garter used to be the youngest captain in the whole Caribbean. She already got her ship when she was just thirteen after her father past away. In few years she became also the most feared captain. Actually she was it until Black Pearl appeared in these waters", Anamaria told. I nodded at her for the sign of interest and eagerly waited for her to continue.
"A little over 20-year-old she gave birth to a boy, who was called Kelsey. No one knows who's the father and captain Garter refuses to tell it. Accordin' to her Kelsey's father died before he was even born and that's why this's not worth to talk about", woman kept explaining. "One-eye Joe's also a pirate captain. Garter pillaged his ship many years ago, and when One-eye refused to sail under her flag, she sank it. Over than half One-eye's crew drowned, but man 'imself was saved by some miracle. 'imself he claims he rode on a dolphin to some coast."
"Sounds really believable", I muttered.
"Anyway he survived and swore a revenge to Garter. That moment came, when Garter sailed to Tortuga two years ago to get the leadin' instructions to captain Hook's treasure. She had heard they were in a possession of one man in Tortuga and she'd decided to get 'em to herself", Anamaria continued the story.
"What on earth is there on this captain Hook, who is attracted by everyone?" I wondered aloud.
"That's a whole another story", Anamaria answered to me. "Also One-eye was in Tortuga at the same time. Somehow he was able to catch Kelsey and slaughtered the boy in front of Garter's eyes. He escaped and Garter has looked for 'im ever since."
The story told by Anamaria was creepy. How anyone can kill a little and innocent boy just like that? Now I understood much better why Garter had been in such a hurry to make way and why she had wanted to come with us after all. I did not feel any longer so much loathing than before towards her. Actually I felt sorry for her a bit. To lose own child must be one of horrible things in the world.
"That... That is awful", I said with a low voice.
When Anamaria said nothing, I rose from table. Just when I passed her by, she rosed too and laughed.
"Ann, what's that?" she asked standing right beside me.
"What?" I wondered, when I noticed her staring my neck a smirk on her face. I put my hand quickly on a spot where she had stared and blushed.
"Nothin'..." Anamaria muttered laughing and went up to deck. I rushed also there and ran straight to Jack's cabin. I had a mirror there and now at this moment I felt needing it.
I found my mirror on Jack's table and lifted it looking at my neck. Oh, bloody hell! I cursed Jack to the lowest hell on my mind. Now everybody would see there really was something going on between us. A dark hickey was decorating my neck and it was able to see too well in a dark cabin also. How on earth I hadn't noticed it before at all?
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After fretting the hickey my time and trying to cover it even somehow I went back to deck. I had pulled my collars up and put my hair to cover my neck, although it was not much of use.
It was quiet on deck. Many of Jack's crew probably had gone to shore. It also was likely Jack had commanded some of them to fill up rum and food supplies.
I stood there idle in the middle of deck, when I noticed Jack, Gibbs and Cotton returning to port. They had dirty, badly drunken man with them, who had just one eye. You obviously could tell the man had not come voluntarily. Cotton and Gibbs half dragged, half carried him along them. I walked to railing to watch the events.
Captain Garter landed from her ship and walked briskly to men. Behind her came two members of her crew, which names I had no clue. These men took One-eye Joe from Gibbs and Cotton and forced man to kneel down. However, Jack stepped between them and Garter.
"What the hell, Sparrow?" woman hissed.
"I'd like to have those instructions", Jack answered.
Garter gave such a threatening look to Jack that my heart jumped over one beat. Then she, however, rummaged pockets of her jacket and took a scroll out. It looked like the same as captain Hook's map, and I thought it also was human skin. Thought gave me a shudder. Garter held out the scroll to Jack, who rolled it open, glanced it, rolled it back close and then politely bowed to woman.
"Thanks very much, captain Garter", he said. "Now, on my behalf ye can do whatever ye wanna to that man."
Jack stepped away between Garter and One-eye Joe and then walked to Gibbs and Cotton. He showed the piece of skin to these as well, and a satisfied look came on their face.
"Wind in the sails! Wind in the sails!" Cotton's parrot shrieked briskly.
In the meantime Garter had drawn forward a sharp blade and taken it on One-eye Joe's throat. Man did not struggle anymore to get free, because one wrong move could have been fateful.
"Did ye really think ye could escape from me?" Garter laughed mocking against man's face. "Did ye think I'd never capture ye and avenge?"
One-eye Joe spat on the ground despite the blade on his throat.
"Ye're just a filthy little whore! Ye think ye're a big captain, because ye sank me ship, but ye're really nothin'", man hissed, and all I could do was just wonder his attidude. In his position I definitely would have begged mercy. "Ye can freely kill me! But me crew will hunt that pitiful ship of yers forever after it! Me death only knows more trouble for ye, and it won't bring back the bastardwhelp of yers!" man continued despising.
Although I was quite far away from the center of events, I could clearly see a flame in captain Garter's eyes. Slowly she drew the blade along One-eye Joe's throat. First blood was flowing with quiet streams on man's chest, but when the blade cut neck arterys it started to spurt out so much I couldn't believe my eyes. One-eye Joe's look was immovable. Like he felt no pain at all. His eye stared straight up full of contempt, when he fell down on his stomach. Blood was flowing down dock and made a spot under the man.
I stared the sight upset not realizing the situation at all. Next I felt a feel of sickness attacking my stomach and a vomit coming up to my throat. I pressed my hands over my mouth and ran quickly to other side of the ship. I threw up over the side to sea and my head was spinning. I felt weak and dizzy and vomiting shivered my whole body. I had never been capable of seeing blood, but this kind of sickness was new for me too. Suddenly it all went black in my eyes and I sank down to deck.
Actually I have no clue what kind of island Blanquilla is. I just picked the name from map of the Caribbean. So, please forgive me if it is full of itself what I have told.