Okay so Chelsea and Elizabeth have spent a few days on the rank and disgusting ship so they're kinda friends now. Also Alexia starts hating her favorite character because he's not what she was expecting, Will thinks Alexia and Xio are oracles or something, and Chelsea's had just about enough of her dead entourage. Read and enjoy.
Don't Own Pirates. I have no snide remark to add this time. Sorry.
The Black Pearl made it to Isle de Muerta in record time. The storm was clearing and on the horizon was Isle de Muerta with its intimatingly steep cliffs which were being pounded by the rough slate grey sea . Chelsea and Elizabeth had been finishing off the last of Chelsea's food stash when Pintel and Ragetti came bounding in like a couple of sheep dogs.
"Time to go poppets." Pintel announced but Chelsea held up a hand.
"Hold on. I'm not done!" She stuffed another piece of bread in her mouth before heaving Elizabeth and herself up.
"Come on Elizabeth! It's boat riding time." She pulled Elizabeth forward but stopped cold outside the door. Barbossa stood there holding the gold medallion.
"Come on Miss Turner." Barbossa held out his hand. Elizabeth hesitated but continued forward when Chelsea nodded.
"Don't worry it will be over soon. And Will, Alexia, and Xio will save us." Chelsea stood behind Barbossa as he put the gold medallion around Elizabeth's neck. When he was done they boarded a small boat and Pintel and Ragetti paddled. Elizabeth turned to Chelsea.
"So tell me more about this Shane boy." Elizabeth asked Chelsea who smiled.
"Well I really like him and I think he feels the same way about me but sometimes it's hard to tell cause he and I always fight but everyone in a relationship fights right, but I'd feel a little better if he didn't yell at me so much." Chelsea said very quickly. Pintel and Ragetti looked at each other and rolled their eyes.
"I can't take this girl crap for much longer." Pintel groaned.
"That's too bad then huh fatty?" Chelsea snorted. Elizabeth laughed but covered her mouth and managed to turn it into a hacking cough.
"I'm not fat! I just have weight issues." Pintel said sadly, rubbing his bulging stomach.
"Don't make fun of him!" Ragetti shouted pointing his paddle at Chelsea.
"Whatevs." Chelsea shrugged and went back to talking to Elizabeth until they came up the bank where they anchored.
"It's nice to see weight issues existed in this time period too." Chelsea said to herself helping Elizabeth out of the boat.
"Hey! I thought we tied both your hands?" Ragetti pointed to their Chelsea's hands, she shrugged.
"Oh, your keen. You forgot to tie us up? What kind of pirate are you?" Chelsea looked Ragetti up and down like the sorry excuse for a pirate he was.
"But… I… well… I can't be trusted to do everything!" Ragetti shouted Chelsea's face hardened.
"Don't yell at me cause you messed up!" Chelsea snarled.
"Will both of you be quiet!" Pintel shouted tying Elizabeth's hands up. Chelsea crossed her arms.
"Ass." Chelsea hissed before allowing Pintel to tie up her hands too. When she turned around she almost ran right into Barbossa.
"AH! What the hell is wrong with you?! Popping out of no where like a friggin' jack in the box!" Chelsea shouted throwing her tied hands up in the air, which defeated the purpose of the gesture.
"Hello Miss Scott and Miss Turner." He smiled at her with those nasty rotten teeth of his. Chelsea smiled back at him but when he turned away she gagged. How much longer until she got out of this rank maggot infested pirate capture?
Alexia and Xio were sharing an apple on the ships railing. Under normal sea barding weather again they relaxed while the others looked over the sides of the ship. They seemed to be sailing into an eerie lagoon.
"Hmm kinda foggy all of a sudden." Alexia said looking out over the wreckage strewn around the Interceptor. Cotton's parrot screeched up above them.
"Dead man tells no tales."
"Mood killer." Xio sighed looking down at their variety of sharks swimming about. She took another bite of her green apple, made a sour face, and handed it over to Alexia who did the same.
"Puts a chill in the bones how many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage." Gibbs said standing next to Will. Alexia tapped Will on the shoulder and offered him her apple but he shook his head.
"No thank you." He went back to working on the ship. Xio rolled her eyes and followed Will.
"Whatevs." Alexia shrugged her shoulders, leaped down to the deck, and bounded over to Jack. He was trying to hide his compass from Cotton when Alexia walked up. She smiled.
"So... how's it going?" She dawdled munching on her apple and shutting her eyes as the sour juices stung her tongue. Jack gave her a look.
"What do you want now?" He asked in a pissed off voice, moving his wheel to the left a little. Alexia sighed looking slightly hurt.
"Just cause I came to say hi doesn't mean I have a motive Jackie." Alexia said quietly, watching Will and Xio with a glassy stare. They seemed to be talking and laughing. Jack look surprised at her tone, which was much quieter than he had expected.
"Oh well sorry for…" Jack stumbled over his words. Alexia kept her head turned as she started in the direction of the stairs.
"Getting snippy? It's okay. I seem to have that effect on everyone." She made her way across the deck, towards Xio and Will.
"What's wrong Alexia? Is Jack being a Jackie again? Will go beat him up!" Xio shouted pointing at the Captain leaving Will more confused than ever. Alexia shook her head.
"Nah he's just not turning out to be the funny kick ass pirate I thought he was in the movies. Will hug me!" Alexia wrapped her arms around Will until he hugged her back. She sniffled.
"Thanks." Alexia wiped her eyes and started munching on her apple again. She sat on a barrel with Xio while Will and Gibbs got back to work.
"You girls could help us you know." Will suggested. Alexia laughed.
"Yeah… no." Xio explained since Alexia had gone into silent laughter mode.
"Breath Alexia!" Xio shouted shaking Alexia by her shoulders, making her laugh harder. She started coughing and gasping.
"Wow. I have no idea what came over me!" Alexia exclaimed while she searched her pockets for something. She pulled out a small card taped to a piece of tied string. The card read "Silent laughter means Alexia's dieing a little on the inside". Will raised an eyebrow.
"Since you girls know so much about me and Jack could you answer a few questions for me?" Will leaned on the barrel as casual as a camel with sunglasses. Alexia and Xio looked at each other, shared superior look, and then turned to Will nodding.
"How is it Jack came by that compass?" He said out of the corner of his mouth, Jack seemed to be looking straight at him.
"He got it from a friend, Tia Dalma. After that he went to Tortuga looking for a crew to sail with him to Isle de Muerta and find the treasure of Cortez. That was when he was still the Captain of the Black Pearl." Xio supplied gesturing to the apple in Alexia's hand. Alexia gave it to her and watched Will's face.
"What?" Will's head snapped sideways to stare at Xio.
"Don't you just love surprises?" She asked smiling. Will seemed to be lost in thought.
"He failed to mention that." Will said slowly, looking towards the wheel. Alexia raised an eyebrow.
"Why would he?" She gave him a look. Xio nodded.
"He doesn't trust anyone anymore." Xio leaned behind Alexia and laid her head on her shoulder so they looked like the Siamese twin cats from the other Disney movie Lady and the Tramp.
"Not since that night." They said at the same time. Will felt like he was in a different world.
"See three days out on the venture the first mate came up saying that if everything was an equal share then so was the bearings to the treasure." Alexia started.
"So Jack being the man he is he gave up the bearings. Not the smartest of things to do but hey what can you do." Xio shrugged smiling like the Cheshire cat.
"Course that night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die. Well not before he went mad with hate." Alexia hissed the last word. Will nodded his head in an all knowing way.
"So that's the reason for all the…" Will then did and impression of Jack's hand movements and swaying from side to side. He stopped and neither Xio nor Alexia laughed. Both girls shared a look before doing an even better impression of Jack, which was Jack's cue to cut his eyes towards the girls and glare at them.
"Reasons got nothing to do with it." Xio murmured she then closed her eyes and left Alexia to tell the rest of the story.
"Now Will." She said softly as not to wake Xio.
"When a pirate is marooned he's given a pistol with a single shot. One shot. Ahh well, that's no good for hunting or being rescued. But after three weeks of a starving belly and thirst that pistol starts to look real friendly." Alexia made a gun shape out of her two fingers and her thumb. She pointed it at Will then at her own head as a silent explanation.
"But Jack escaped that island and he still has that single shot, but he won't use it." Alexia raised an eyebrow.
"Probably why he told you what he did in your Black Smith's workshop. This shot is not meant for you." Alexia repeated in an almost perfect Jack voice, grinning from ear to ear.
"Yeah he's saving it for his mutinous first mate." Xio said slowly opening one of her eyes.
"Barbossa." Alexia whispered so softly Will had to lean in to hear it.
"Okay so how did he get off the island?" Will questioned
"Well, apparently" Alexia did air quotes when she said this just incase Will didn't pick up her sarcasm.
"He got drunk, fell asleep in the shallows, and stayed there for three days and nights. By the fourth day the sea life was already trying to eat him so he decided to rope himself a couple a sea turtles and make a raft." Alexia and Xio simultaneously rolled their eyes. Will raised an eyebrow.
"Sea turtles?" He asked in a disbelieving tone. Alexia nodded.
"Yep. Sea turtles, if you choose to accept it as the true." Xio said mockingly.
"The real question is what he used for rope." Alexia said sarcastically, she turned slightly to gaze at a point beyond Will's shoulder. Will turned around coming face to face with Jack.
"Human hair… from my back." Jack stood proudly. Alexia made a disgusted face while Xio wrinkled her nose.
"GROSS!" Alexia screamed covered her eyes with her hands.
"I will never be able to get that image out of my head now." Xio said blinking slowly. Jack shook his head.
"Why don't you let the anchor go Jack and leave us alone, hmm? No one wants to talk to you cause you're such a son of a motherless peasant." Alexia snapped, glaring at Jack until he squeaked like a mouse being stepped on and left.
"So Will why haven't you asked us how we know all this?" She tilted her head to the side looking genuinely confused. The sun was right behind head giving off a radiance that seemed to stun Will.
"I trust you. I know you wouldn't lie to me." Will said touching Alexia's shoulder. Her face softened.
"Aww you're so naïve." She smiled, patting his cheek tenderly before pushing his head away from her face. Xio jumped down from the barrel and stood before the Jack.
"Alexia, Will, and I will are to go ashore. You may come if you want to." Xio announced. Jack raised an eyebrow.
"Why does Alexia have to come?" Jack whined like a five year old.
"How about you shut up Mr. Maturity!" Alexia snarled, getting right in Jack's face. Xio sighed and turned to Mr. Gibbs.
"Mr. Gibbs prepare the boat." Xio said turning back to Jack and Alexia.
"And you two!" Xio pointed a finger at both of them in turn.
"Stop it right now! I swear to GOD! We still have to save Chelsea Alexia, so restrain yourself." Xio narrowed her eyes at Alexia who looked ashamed.
"Fine." Alexia crossed her arms. Jack stuck his tongue out at Alexia.
"And Jack, stop being a Jackie and start acting like a Captain and not a whiny five year old!" Jack's smiled disappeared.
"What if the worst should happen?" Alexia asked smirking.
"Keep to the code." Xio grinned.
"Now let's go find Elizabeth and Chelsea!" Will exclaimed pointing to the boat waiting for the four of them over the edge of the Pearl.
There's just something about that "son of a ..." stuff that gets me think. Like son of the POPE! See the Pope doesn't have a son but it's still hilarious right? Yeah it is. Read and Review.