Madness
After a while, Jack, Will, Marana, and James had all come deep into the foliage. They were under the ruins of an old church. Jack shoved Will back and gained the key. Marana tried to get it back from him, but he ran into the church. Jack ran up the creaky old stairs, with Marana close behind him. They parried back and forth over the stairs. James came up from behind and grabbed the key from Jack. As Will tried to get it, Marana pushed him back. Instinctively, he grabbed the rope that controlled the bell.
He went up and down, ringing the bell. On his way up, he grabbed the key from James.
Eventually, they all ended up on the roof. They all balanced on the ridgepole, trying to get the key from Will. James struck Jack's sword to the ground and pointed his own at his throat.
"Do excuse me while I kill the man who ruined my life," he said to Marana.
"Be my guest!" she stepped back.
Jack quipped, "Let us examine that claim for a moment, former commodore, shall we? Who was it, that at the very moment you had a notorious pirate and an innocent lady safely behind bars, saw fir to free said pirate and said innocent lady, and take your dearly beloved all to hisself? So whose fault is it really that you've ended up a rum-pot deckhand what takes orders from pirates?"
"Enough!" James yelled. Jack ducked as his sword slashed above his head. He jumped down from the roof, doing a couple somersaults before landing on the ground.
Back up on the ridgepole, Marana and James were in a heated duel, since Marana had the key. She gasped breathlessly, "James…please…we can settle this…without…fighting!" His sword swung right next to her head. Unfortunately, she didn't move in time, and the blade slashed her face, cutting off some of her hair and leaving a long bloody cut across her cheek. Angrily, she fought even harder, holding the key tightly in her free hand. She advanced on him, causing him to jump back onto a giant mill wheel.
Will jumped on as well as the wheel's supports broke and it rolled off onto the ground. It rolled freely toward where Jack was standing. He was caught up in the giant spokes. Marana lost her grip on the key, and it fell onto the inner part of the wheel, where Jack was. Marana jumped down onto the inner wheel and dueled with him. She grabbed the key, and Will snatched it by the string. After a bit of tugging, the string broke and Marana got the key. But then she was hit in the forehead with a metal bar, sending her rolling onto the ground. Jack jumped down next to her. The key had fallen into the wheel again. "Damn it!" she spat angrily.
She stood up quickly, and the two of them ran after the wheel.
When they caught up to it, they jumped into the wheel, where Will and James were still fighting. Marana ripped the key from Will's grasp. She and Jack climbed onto the top of the wheel. Taking his hand, she grabbed a broad leaf from a tree and let the wheel pass underneath them.
She let go and landed on the ground. Noticing one of Davy Jones' crewmen running with the chest in hand, Jack grabbed a coconut and heaved it at the creature, causing its head to fall off. The crewman dropped the chest. Marana kneeled in front of it. Jack sat next to her as she inserted the key into the lock and turned. With a click the chest opened. Inside lay a beating red heart. Thump-thump thump thump-thump.Jack lifted it gently. He stared at it for a while. Then Marana noticed some of the Flying Dutchman's crew running at them.
She grabbed the heart from Jack and stuffed it into her pocket. She ran to the boat as fast as she could. When she got there, out of breath, she fumbled around the boat until she found Jack's jar of dirt. She opened the lid and poured some out. Marana dropped the heart in and covered it back up. Just as she closed the jar, it was knocked out of her hand by a sword. She turned and started dueling with a crewman of the Dutchman.
As she fought him, Elizabeth, Pintel, and Ragetti came running down the shallows, followed by the rest of the crew. They all joined into one group. Marana's bangs mixed with seawater and the blood on her face. Just as she was about to get stabbed, the mill wheel crushed the crewman she was fighting with. The wheel toppled over onto its side. Will and James staggered out, extremely dizzy.
After a while, Jack, Marana, Will, Pintel, Ragetti, Elizabeth, and James were all cornered near the boat. Will lay unconscious against the boat, having been knocked out by Jack.
The crew moved in on them. "We're not getting out of this," said Elizabeth.
"Not with the chest…into the boat," Marana grabbed the chest.
"You're mad," said Jack.
"Don't wait for me," she replied, running off through the circle of crewmen. James ran after her.
They ran through the thick foliage. Marana tripped and fell flat on her face. She quickly stood up and grabbed it. She faced a tall crewman.
"Your bravery is wasted," the creature said. "I shall pry the chest away from your cold…dead…hands."
"Here you go!" she threw the chest to him, as she and James took off, Marana to the beach.