Chapter 14

(Veronica's POV)

Lets just skip the boring bit of how we travelled. Lets get right to the point.

When we spotted the Isla Cruces, we made straight for land. The water stung our clothes with cold, and the places where I'd been whipped stung from the salt water.

We arrived on the beach, in the middle of dad's conversation. "I do that quite a lot. You people are always surprised."

"With good reason!" Will had his sword in his hand.

"Veronica?" I ran up to dad and hugged him. Then I gagged.

"You smell funny..."

"Will! You're all right! Thank God! I came to find you!" Elizabeth ran to Will and hugged him.

"How did you get here?" dad was surprised.

"Sea turtles, mate. A pair of them strapped to my feet" Will said. Liar. We swam.

"Not so easy, is it?" dad said, going along with it.

"But I do owe you thanks, Jack"

"You do?" dad looked around him, shocked, wondering if he'd gotten confused.

"You do?" I asked as well.

"After you tricked me onto that ship to square your debt with Jones..." I swear dad looked dead guilty. This was getting good...

"Ronny!" Something savagely attacked me, and I was shoved to the ground.

"Charlieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" I hugged my best friend.

"Thank God your ok..." then she looked over at dad. "I have something to tell you." She led me over, out of earshot from dad.

"It's your dad... I saw him... and heard him, with Elizabeth. They almost kissed." Charlie looked pale, as if she'd been sick recently. (she just told me, 'you have no idea')

"Are you sure?" I needed to know if this was some sick joke or serious. (sick joke...Hehehe)

"Yup" she said.

Dad had better start running...

When I turned round again, dad had his sword on Will. "Can't let you do that, William. 'Cause if Jones is dead, who's to call his terrible beastie off the hunt, eh? Now if you please, the key"

Will took Elizabeth's sword. "I keep the promises I make, Jack. I intend to free my father, and I hope your here to see it." Will was such a git.

"DAD! Is it true you and Eliza..."

"I can't let you do that either. So sorry" Norrington had his sword on Will too. How unlucky.

"Hello? Am I invisible?" I screamed.

"I knew you'd warm up to me eventually." Norrington pointed his sword at Dad as soon as he uttered those words, and spoke. "Lord Beckett desires the contents of that chest. I deliver it, I get my life back."

"Ah, the dark side of ambition" Dad nodded, as if he understood.

"FOR DAVY JONES LOCKERS SAKE, I AM HERE!" I fired a pistol shot at the sand next to dad. He didn't notice.

"Oh, I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption" contemplated Norrington.

"I see it as being a right old basta..." I began.

Then Will, Norrington and (Whoop, whoop!) dad started fighting.

"Will!" Elizabeth cried out.

"DAD!" I screeched.

"Guard the chest!" he replied, nice of him.

"No!" Elizabeth and I said at the same time. I glared at her, and she glared at me. We both started following the other three.

"This is barbaric!" she said.

"Bad parenting!" I joined in.

"This is no way for grown men to settle... oh fine!" she threw her hands in the air. "Let's just pull out our swords and start banging away at each other! That'll solve everything! I've had it with wobbly-legged rum-soaked... PIRATES!" she screamed.

"Oh sod this..." I ran up, and started with Norrington. We paraded. Thrust, dodge, dodge, step thrust. Parade!

"The little girls got a temper!" he spat.

"I am not!" I stood on his toe hard then pushed him. "LITTLE!"

"This is madness!" Elizabeth shouted in the background. "Enough! Oh! Oh! The heat!" I caught Elizabitch fainting in the background. Drama queen. Stab! Block!

Will grabbed the key from dad. He grinned, but dad snatched it off him and ran inland. Norrington kicked sand in Wills face, ditching me.

"By your leave, Mr. Turner!" he ran after dad.

We ran off after dad. I was still annoyed with what he'd done. How dare he! I mean, practically ask Elizabeth to marry him... ugh! He is dead meat hanging from the butchers.

Dad and Norrington fought on top of some old church ruins. Norrie, meh it's annoying saying 'Norrington' all the time, stole the key from dad, and pointed his sword menacingly at him. Dad looked behind him, and grabbed a rope, sliding down. I didn't see Will, at first. He grabbed the rope dad was sliding down on, and he shot up next to Norrington, and took the key off him.

I fought with dad.

"Come on Ronny, what's this all for luv?" he looked at me. "I mean... the key is up there!"

"Charlie!" CLANG! Our swords met. "Charlie said that you and Elizabeth... where FLIRTING!" I blocked, then swung it at his head, he ducked.

"Oh come on, luv! She must've been drunk, with ever sweet rum." He leaned backwards, my sword flying over his chest.

"She... Wouldn't... LIE!" Our swords formed an 'X', and I looked at him through it.

"Bye!" he turned and ran after Will and Norrie.

"Coward!" I roared, running after him. I balanced on the ruins. Norrie and Will thought, Norrie with the key. I was about to knock dad down, when Norrie turned on him.

"Do excuse me while I kill the man who ruined my life" Norrie said, looking at dad in absolute hate.

"Be my guest nodded Will"

"Let us examine that claim for a moment, former Commodore, shall we? Who was it who, at the very moment you had a notorious pirate and his daughter safely behind bars, saw fit to free said pirates, and take your dearly beloved all to hisself? So whose fault is it really that you've wound up a rum-pot deckhand what takes orders from pirates?" dad smiled.

"Enough!" yelled Norrington. Dad somersaulted off the roof, the key in hand. Norrie and Will looked at me.

I sighed. "Alright then." I slid down, and followed dad, practising with my sword on the way/

"Still rooting for you, mate!" Dad called back to Norrie. He turned around, and I saw a perfect opportunity. I shoved dad hard, and he fell into the hole.

"Oh! What was that for, luv?"

"Flirting with Elizabeth!" I retorted. "Now do excuse me, I will be going to fetch that mouldy key!" at that moment, a large wooden wheel came up behind me, and I jumped out the way. Dad wasn't so lucky. He got stuck in the wheel when it rolled over the grave and he had sat up.

I ran after it, naturally.

Norrie and Will where still fighting on top of the wheel, barely noticing what was happening. When I saw the right chance, I jumped in.

It's weird running inside a giant wooden wheel. You kind of lose focus of your surroundings. You just focus on running. Dad fell down from the roof beside me. I saw the key, hanging from a nail, and tried to get it. This was all happening while the wheel was spinning around. It confused you pretty well. Then dad hit his head, and fell out of the wheel.

I kept trying to get the key, and at one point I slipped, which lead to me being wheeled to the top of the... well, wheel. But I quickly regained my footing. I was sweating like a pig. I sniffed my armpit. Oh my heavenly... then I fainted.

When I awoke, I was in the sea, but still in the wheel. It must've tipped over when I was knocked out, and toppled over in the sea.

"Everybody! Don't fret! I'm fine!" I climbed out of the wheel, dazed. Then, still dazed, I had to help fight fish people, who wanted the chest which had the heart, which needed a key to open the chest which had the heart...

I saw Ragetti and Pintel shove the chest into the longboat. Next thing you know, dad had hit him with an oar over the head, knocking him out, and leaving him lying in the longboat. I sighed. Just like when he done it to me and dad...

"Leave him lie, unless you plan on using him to hit something with" dad told Elizabeth. I paraded with a puffer fish man... wait! He was the due playing the dice game which Bootstrap lost on the Dutchman. He didn't look too good.

"Were not getting out of this!" Elizabeth shouted.

"Not with the chest" Norrington grabbed it, and ran off inland with the chest, followed by Davy Jones Crew.

"I say we respect his final wish!" Dad hurried.

"Aye!" Pintel agreed.

"No heroes amongst thieves..." I whispered.

"I want cake" Charlie added dreamily.