Cold As Glass

Sequel to Heart of Glass

Part Two of the Glass Trilogy

A Pirate Lord's Adventure

Chapter 28

"This is barbaric!" Elizabeth began to shout, making me look back up," This is no way fro grown men to act….Oh, fine! Let's just hail out our swords, and start banging away at each other. That will solve everything! I've had it!"

I laughed under my breath at Elizabeth sauntering, jumping, shouting, and acting, as she watched the men form a distance.

This was certainly priceless. Never in my mind, had I had so much fun watching groan men fight or listen to a woman complain.

"I've had it with wobbly-legged, rum-soaked pirates!"

Elizabeth then sat back down childishly, while Pintel and Ragetti both rushed up to my side. Elizabeth then threw a stone at the boys, but it clearly missed each one of them.

"How'd this go all screwy?" Pintel questioned me, and then glanced over at Ragetti who was there before him.

"Well," I began with a sigh," each wants the chest for himself. James is trying to regain a bit of honor, ole Jack's looking to trade it and save his own skin, then Will, there, is trying to settle some unresolved business with him and his twice-cursed pirate father, and Sirius…well he…he is out there for revenge on James. But if he wins, I'm taking the chest."

They both eyed me up, as I smirked at both of them.

"Sad." Ragetti shook his head in disappointment, as he crossed his arms.

"This is madness!' Elizabeth's voice echoed back into our ears.

Pintel then cleared his throat, and nudged my shoulder," That chest must be worth more than a shiny penny."

I nodded in agreement, as I let my eyes shift down to the chest too.

"Oh! Tsk-tsk-tsk." Ragetti lightly reminded, nudging my other shoulder. "Terrible temptation."

"If we was any kind of decent we'd remove temptation from their path." Pintel began to coo, obviously trying to brainwash both Ragetti and I into his scheme.

Little did he know, I was already there.

Ragetti looked over at Pintel and me in question, and I just simple smiled at the both of them. Ragetti chuckled, and instantly the two of them picked up either end, while I brought the musket up and held onto the top of it with one hand, making sure I had a grasp on it at all times.

"Back to the boat, boys." I smirked at them, and we took back off towards the boat, right behind Elizabeth's back and right in front of all the boys.

And you know, I did regret leaving Sirius behind…just a little. But there was one thing my mother said:

Sophie's Code of Conduct Number Seven-All Is Fair In Love And War.

Unfortunately, Elizabeth decided to tag along, making it look like a parade.

Yet I doubted anyone else noticed us, because the old abandon church's bell began to ring, signaling that our boys had already made their way down to their.

Well, luckily for me, it seems like Elizabeth doesn't seem to be that great of a long distance sprinter.

You know, that's a real shame. That means poor old Will won't have much of a lover in the bed…if you catch my drift.

We ran deeper and deeper into the jungle, eventually loosing track of all of our original crew members, except ourselves.

"We got it!" Pintel sung loudly, while Ragetti giggled," We got it!"

But I did not join in their song and praise, until we were in the boat, on the Pearl. Back on land, and away from all of this drama.

Suddenly Elizabeth jumped out of a bush in front of us, looking very dirty and exhaustion. Much unlike her usual pampered self.

She reached over to pull out a sword, only to find nothing there. Obviously not remembering Will had just taken it from her to fight his little fight.

Elizabeth let out a weak smile, while let out a small laugh of scorn at her stupidity. And I lifted up the musket and aimed it at her.

Pintel and Ragetti then pulled out their swords, dropping the chest down upon the ground behind me. "You mind if we have a go at her, Captain?" Pintel questioned out of the corner of his mouth at me.

I sighed and settled back onto the chest, sitting upon it, keeping my musket upon her. "I don't see why not, boys."

"Captain?" Elizabeth squeaked looking at me, then Pintel and Ragetti.

"Yeah, don't ya know," Ragetti smiled, looking slightly insane, with one of his eyes lopsided," we get amnesty for being part of her crew and Davy Jones can't touch us."

Pintel then sneered," And at this rate, it looks as if she'll be getting the Pearl too."

"Now where were we…" Ragetti smirked, as they both leaned closer to Elizabeth in a more menacing manor. "'Ello, poppet."

Then started walking towards her, causing Elizabeth to step back, nervously. Obviously now at the mercy of my will.

Despite how much this girl's father has done for me, I think she deserves to know some of the bitter pain of loneliness and know what it feels like to be defenseless and useless.

I lowered my musket, letting Pintel and Ragetti continue towards her, until a huge wheel went rolling pass us, with Will and James upon the top. Sirius was hanging off of the side of it, and Jack, was running behind the wheel, obviously trying to catch up.

I couldn't help but laugh at the men, while Elizabeth, Pintel, and Ragetti exchanged looks of question and confusion.

But Pintel and Ragetti shrugged it off and resumed advancing upon Elizabeth, as the wheel rolled right on pass us.

Suddenly an axe hit the palm tree next to Pintel.

I jumped up with my musket, ready to fire.

But there in front of us, was Davy Jones's crew crashing through the bushes towards us. And just like I expected, Pintel and Ragetti passed their swords off to Elizabeth, and began making a run towards the treasure chest behind me.

I took a deep breath and murmured," Here goes nothing."

With that I let the fuse light, pulled the trigger and aimed at one of Jones's men. It knocked down a shark like man, but he popped right up again.

"Oh shit!" I hissed, and ran alongside Pintel and Ragetti, who picked up the chest.

And once again Elizabeth was running right behind us, with Davy Jones's crew right on her tail. It looked like a parade. Yet again.

"Come on, run!" Pintel urged Ragetti and I.

Suddenly Elizabeth began to scream, making Pintel and Ragetti look back, only to knock the chest right into a palm tree's trunk and drop it on the ground behind us.

We all skidded to a halt and looked at the chest then to the approaching enemy crew.

I couldn't help but growl to myself, and I pulled out my cutlass, charging forward towards that chest.

Yet oddly, Pintel and Ragetti ran right behind me-despite their lack of weapons.

"Swords!" Pintel shouted back at Elizabeth, who threw them at Pintel and Ragetti.

And with that we began defending our treasure.

"Sword!" Elizabeth called out, and I saw Ragetti pass his sword over t her, just in time for her to block a hit.

Ragetti then rolled across the ground dodging a hit, before shouting," Sword!"

I growled to myself and-against my better judgment-I threw my sword over to Pintel and I took out Sirius's musket and began using that as a bludgeon and way to stop weapons from hitting me.

And we went on like this, throwing swords at one another, and passing them back around, doing all sorts of aerobatics with the high roots, low branches, and odd formations of nature around us.

That's when I noticed a crew member of Davy Jones's with a shell shaped head running away with the chest.

"The chest!" I shouted, and began running after the shell headed guy, only to find myself pausing-fighting-running-pausing-fighting-running, and I continued that same pattern over and over again with Pintel and Ragetti, while Elizabeth tagged along like some lost puppy.

That's when I spotted the shell guy was lying across the ground, without a head, and I spotted the chest-locked, not too far away.

Pintel and Ragetti picked up the chest, and I received my sword back from Elizabeth, while Pintel and Ragetti passed their swords off to Elizabeth, as we began running once again. This time sure not to run into anything or turn around because of odd noises occurring behind us.

But we kept running to the boat, Pintel and Ragetti with the chest, Elizabeth and I with the weapons.

Yet once we were out of the forest, we were back on the beach and this time I spotted Jack by the boat fighting with a crew member of Davy Jones's.

He was going to leave without us!

With a new pump with adrenaline, I fought off the crew and rushed towards the longboat, before Jack had a chance to take off.

Pintel and Ragetti had also caught onto my thoughts and they began running in a new mad rush, right along side me-leaving Elizabeth alone to fight the crew off.

Well (dramatically yet sarcastically removes my hat in my mind), it was a pleasure making your life a living hell for the last few minutes of your life, dear. Pity I couldn't stay for the rest. Ta! Ta! (Puts my hat back on).

Then out of the middle of no where the huge wooden wheel comes barreling through once again. Yet this time, Sirius flew right out of the side and landed down in the water next to me, in a loud, and I bet painful, flop.

But I couldn't help but watch as the wheel went on a little further, before it just tipped over onto its side.

"Ugh…" I heard Sirius moan next to me, struggling to even hold his head straight or keep his body from wobbling from side to side.

I glanced around me, and spotted Pintel and Ragetti fighting off the two guys following behind us. Elizabeth was fighting four on her own, and Jack was still fighting the one guy he was with before.

I groaned, and reached down and hooked my arms under my husband's underarms, pulling his back against my stable body, and allowing me to keep him up right, as I began to pull him towards the boat.

Sirius rolled his head back against my chest, looking up at me, looking like a young lad who just had his first time out at sea and hadn't quiet developed his strong stomach or strong knees.

"'Bout time I saw you again." He smiled widely, completely oblivious to the fighting going on all around us.

Suddenly something happened within me. I felt myself crack, yet again. Being that cold person I was without him, only showed how much I needed this man, if I was to be anything but a moral person.

"It's okay, Sirius," I cooed to him, trying to steady him, even though he weighed me down. "But right now, sweetie, I needed to get you in the long boat, before Jack takes off without us. And I don't think I can lift you in there by myself."

Sirius smiled and nodded in understanding, and began to stable himself a little better, and was actually beginning to take a couple steps on his own, but still used me as a support, with one arm wrapped round my shoulders.

So with that, my husband and I ran-mixed with a wobble-towards Jack's boat-which was left unguarded-, with Pintel and Ragetti closing in right behind us, obviously unable to fight their two matches.

Yet, as we arrived with the chest, Pintel and Ragetti tossed the chest in, while Sirius shakily lifted me up into the long boat.

Sirius then joined Pintel and Ragetti at the bow of the long boat, pushing it out towards sea.

"We've got it!" Pintel praised happily, while I tiredly leaned back against the wooden planks for seats and noticed the split dirt and how Elizabeth's pack looked to have been trifled with.

Suddenly something cold was pressed against my neck. A cutlass.

Sirius's eyes went aflame, while Pintel and Ragetti, reached for their swords, only to find them gone, and in Elizabeth's hands. So they grabbed the net and paddle as weapons. "Come on, Turner!"

Sirius then pulled out his cutlasses, and stood ready to defend me.

That's when I noticed something.

"Stop!" I shouted to the four men around me, and pushed out from behind Will's blade and lifted up the chest. The key was in it.

I glanced at Will, then at Sirius, then to my faithful crew. They just starred in shock, while Jack, Elizabeth, and James were pushed back to the longboat by their opponents.

Sirius took the chest out of my hands, and glanced down at it in shock. Then I saw where his eyes went. His father.

Yet, Jack had other plans. Sirius was suddenly hit in the head (with a wooden paddle) and locked over into the boat, along with the chest.

"Sirius!" I shrieked, and I scrambled to pull him into the boat.

"Leave him lie!" Jack shouted at me. "Unless you plan on using him to hit something with."

"Why you…" but I trailed off, and I noticed we were surrounded. Pintel and Ragetti were bravely standing up front, while James, Elizabeth, Will, and Jack were pressed up against the side of the boat, obviously nervous about the outcome.

"We're not getting out of this!" Elizabeth declared in a high pitched squeal.

"Not with the chest." James declared, pulling the chest from besides my husband's limp body, accidentally hitting Will in the face and knocking him out, so he laid next to my husband now, unconscious.

"You're mad!" Elizabeth declared, not just at his action against her soon-to-be husband and how he was going to give up an EMPTY chest. He knew. He had to have known.

"Don't wait for me." James bid farewell to her, while Pintel and Ragetti continued to fight of Davy Jones's crew.

Suddenly James bolted right through the crew, distracting Davy Jones's crew and making them chases after him.

"I say we respect his final wish." I gulped, trying to pull my husband back into the long boat.

"Aye!" Pintel, Ragetti, and Jack all shouted in unison, instantly jumping into the boat. Then followed by a reluctant Elizabeth.

Pintel and Ragetti besides me, while Jack and Elizabeth were besides Will. Pintel helped me pull Sirius in and propped his unconscious form next to mine, while Jack let Elizabeth to struggle pulling Will in herself.

As Pintel and Ragetti began to paddle back to the Pearl, I found myself resting against my husband's limp body, and actually breathing evenly, and I was finally calm and…at peace.

I just hoped Jack had the heart, or else…well pardon my French, but we were all going to be screwed.