Including Katrina
Disclaimer: I don't own anything about this movie presented in this story. I only own the character Katrina, Judge Banks, Charles Davenport, and any creative additions put into the original story.
Chapter 35
"Hold fire," Norrington whispered the order to his men in the row boats as a wooden boat appeared from the cave occupying what seemed to be two women with parasols.
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"This is just like what the Greeks done at Troy," Ragetti whispered to Pintel as they rowed as a distraction, "'Cept they was in a horse... instead of dresses. Wooden horse."
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"A moment, please?" Governor Swann asked the soldier standing guard at the captain's quarters on the Dauntlass, "Elizabeth? I just want you to know I, uh, I believe you made a very good decision today. Couldn't be more proud of you."
Elizabeth heard her father at the door, but ignored him as she finished lowering an emergency boat and tying all the linen sheets she could find securely together.
"But, you know, even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision."
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"Lieutenant?" a sailor questioned Gillette as he pointed out to the distraction.
Gillette pulled out his spyglass to take a closer look. As all the soldiers on board the Dauntless looked out to the row boat with parasols, Barbossa's skeletal crew began to climb onto the deck and silently kill the soldiers one by one.
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"Elizabeth?" Governor Swann asked a bit annoyed as he tried to look into the glass door of the cabin, "Elizabeth, are you even listening to me?"
Upon entering the cabin, the governor immediately noticed the makeshift rope leading out the window, "Oh, what have you done?"
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"Yoo-hoo!" Ragetti teased with his fan.
Hearing this, Pintel hit him, "Stop that! Already feel like a fool."
"You look nice, though," Ragetti tried to cheer his friend up.
Pintel, looking down at the dress he was having to wear, argued, "I look nice!"
Then, forgetting the plan, turned to grab Ragetti by the neck. As he did so, the parasols fell into the water, revealing their fleshless selves to all the soldiers.
Realizing the mistake when he heard Gillette gasp loudly, Pintel pulled out his pistol and took a shout that hit the lieutenant's hat. As some of the soldiers turned around to get Gillette's hat, Barbossa's skeletal crew was discovered.
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"I must admit, Jack," Barbossa smiled as he sat near the bottom of the golden mound, "I thought I had ye figured. But it turns out that you're a hard man to predict."
"Me?" Jack turned to Barbossa from observing a small statue figuring made of gold, tossing it aside, "I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."
With that said, Jack unsheathed a sword from one of Barbossa's few crew members that remained in the cave and threw it over to Will. Then unsheathing his own sword he began to attack Barbossa.
Getting his hands cut loose from the ropes that bound them, Will in turn began to fight against the trio of pirates from Barbossa's crew.
"You're off the edge of the map, mate," Barbossa said as he tried to corner Jack, "Here there be monsters."
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"Right. What would you pick to eat first?" a pirate asked another aboard the Pearl as Elizabeth passed a window as she climbed towards the deck.
"I think we should decide now. Just so we're ready when the time comes," the pirate continued.
Elizabeth ignored the men and continued to climb. When she climbed over the railing, Barbossa's skeletal monkey jumped at her, but she refused to let it interfere with her mission. Taking a piece of wood, Elizabeth flung the monkey overboard. As she looked over the railing, she noticed the monkey had landed on the head of a cannon, and to her horror, so did the pirates as they looked out their window at the monkey.
Quickly Elizabeth ran down the stairs and hid in a cabin just as the two pirates on guard headed for the deck. When the pirates were gone, she continued her way down to the brig.
"Shh!" Gibbs said to the crew when he heard movement from above, and then to his great surprise he spotted Elizabeth entering the gloomy place, "It's Elizabeth!"
"Elizabeth?" Katrina cried out from her lonely brig.
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"Make for the ship!" Norrington shouted at the top of his lungs when he heard the Dauntless ring it's distress bell, "Move!"
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"You can't beat me, Jack," Barbossa said calmly as he threw down his sword.
Jack gave Barbossa an odd look, then taking his sword, impaled him.
Barbossa, looking down at the sword sticking out of him, sighed. Then, before Jack could react, Barbossa pulled the sword out of his body and returned the gesture by stabbing it into Jack. Barbossa smiled as he looked at Jack's surprised face, but his smile quickly faded as Jack staggered backward into the moonlight, revealing a skeletal version of Jack.
"That's interesting," Jack said as he examined his bony hand, then pulling out the gold Aztec coin from his pocket began to play with it between his fingers, "I couldn't resist, mate."
Barbossa, angry that Jack was not dead because of the curse took up his sword again and charged forward. Jack pulled out his own sword from skeletal self and defended himself as they fought back into the shadows. Back and forth they fought, in and out of the moonlight. Will was doing the same with the trio of pirates.
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"So what now, Jack Sparrow?" Barbossa breathed out when Jack cornered him on a rock, "Will it be us two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound? Hmm?"
"Or you could surrender," Jack suggested politely.
"Arr," Barbossa growled as pushed off the rock and began attacking once more.
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"All of you with us," Elizabeth yelled to Jack's crew as they all arrived on the deck, "Will is in that cave and we must save him."
"As well as Jack," Katrina added, then she and Elizabeth, expecting the crew to follow their lead, walked over to pull on the ropes to lower a rowboat, "Ready? And heave!"
The two young ladies, finding out that they were the only ones doing anything turned to Gibbs and the crew, "Please! We need your help! Come on!"
"Any port in the storm," squawked Mr. Cotton's Parrot.
"Cotton's right," Gibbs acknowledged the bird, "we've got the Pearl."
"And what about Jack?" Katrina began to ask with anger drawing near, "You're just going to leave him?"
"Jack owes us a ship," one of the sailors replied.
"And there's the code to consider," Gibbs reminded them.
Katrina, now allowing anger to take over, shouted to the crew, "The code? You're pirates! Hang the code, and hang the rules!"
"They're more like guidelines anyway," Elizabeth agreed with Katrina.
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"Bloody pirates!" Elizabeth and Katrina scoffed as the rowed their way alone to the cave.
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"Hey," Ragetti moaned as he and Pintel boarded the Dauntless.
"What?" Pintel asked.
"Is it supposed to be doing that?" Ragetti pointed at the Black Pearl as it was sailing away.
"They're stealing our ship!" Pintel complained loudly.
"Bloody pirates!" Ragetti shouted.