Chapter Five
In a dank and dirty cell, lit only by a few torches, Captain Jack Sparrow sat with her hat pulled firmly over her chocolate curls, listening to the pathetic attempts of the prisoners in the next cell and hoping her identity was still a secret.
"If ye keep doing that the dog is never gonna come." She calmly said, watching them try and entice the dog with the keys with an old bone.
"Well excuse us if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet."
She signed pulled, the hat further over her eyes and trying to get some sleep before she devised another plan for escape. For she was Captain Jack Sparrow, there was no chance she would be suffer a 'short drop and a sudden stop'. Hearing cannon fire she ran to the small barred window, searching for the cause of the annoying noise. Peering into the mist she felt a sudden jolt of recognition.
"It's the Black Pearl." She said with longing.
"The Black Pearl?" Her neighboring criminals asked. "I heard stories about her. She kills all, leaves no survivors."
"No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" Jack asked cynically, raising one perfect, dark eyebrow.
~~~
Elizabeth prepared for bed with the help of Savannah, giggling excitedly.
"I'm soon to be a married woman!" she exclaimed. "Sarah, please burn those garments I wore today. They have the filth of pirate and commoners upon them."
"And the medallion you wore Miss?" Savannah asked.
"No.give that to me now." Elizabeth said greedily.
She hung the medallion about her once more, enjoying the feeling of gold upon her skin. As she admired it in the candlelight a cool gust of wind blew out the fire.
"Sarah, go fetch me some matches."
"Yes Ma'm."
The room felt empty in the darkness of the fog rolling in through the windows. Elizabeth sat up, wishing her father was not up at the battlements, leaving her alone in the huge house. She wandered to the windows to shut them against the cold, and saw bursts of flames in various parts of the town. On the horizon a sinister black ship swayed. Pirates! She heard a thumping at the door and ran to tell the porter not to answer it. Too late, she realized, seeing the porter fall to the floor, a bullet- wound in his head. Screaming for her life she ran upstairs.
Savannah slipped quietly through the corridors, seeing what was happening, and decided it was time to take matters into her own hands. Stealing a chest of jewelry from her Mistresses dresser she ran from the house, escaping with enough riches to live the rest of her life in luxury and freedom.
Elizabeth ducked into a cupboard, hoping the ghastly pirates would not see her.
"We know you're here poppet." The pirate, known as Pintel, said.
"Poppet" echoed his companion, Raggeti, teasingly.
"You've got something that calls to us. the gold calls to us." He said with a wicked grin.
"Calls to us." Raggeti repeated, wandering about the elaborately furnished room.
"'Ello poppet." Pintel said, opening the door to the cupboard Elizabeth was cowered in.
"Parlay!" She said hurriedly, remembering something Will had mentioned in one of their boring conversations.
"What?"
"Parlay! I invoke the right of parlay. According to the code of the brethren you have to take me to your captain."
"I know the code." Pintel said menacingly. "If an adversary demands parlay you can do them no harm until the parlay is complete."
"To blazes with the code!" Raggeti said, reaching for the girl.
"She wants to be taken to the captain. And she'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code." Pintel said, restraining Raggeti.
~~~
Will Turner had spent another several hours practicing with his finely made swords, still amazed at what had encountered him during the day. He had met, and fought, the famous Jack Sparrow. And he had discovered her secret. She was a stunning, beautiful young woman. Unsure why, he had kept her secret, although how anyone could miss it amazed him now. Her full red lips, defined cheeks bones, smooth skin, fiery eyes and slender figure showed her for what she really was. Although she was not slender in all areas, Will thought with a blush, remembering how her baggy shirt had fallen open, showing ample cleavage.
Casting such thoughts from his mind he looked out the window to gaze longingly up at Miss. Swann's home. Instead of a glowing light he found deep mist and confusion. Seizing a hatchet and sword he hurried outside to be swept up in a roar of running people, among them filthy pirates. Throwing a hatchet he quickly killed one, and the Will ran off to protect the girl he loved. Elizabeth. He encountered another pirate.
'Say goodbye." The pirate said aggressively.
"Goodbye." Will said as a heavy sign fell on top of the pirates head.
He turned to continue the battle, only to see his fair Elizabeth being dragged onto the ship with the pirates.
'Miss. Swann!" He shouted, but was quickly distracted as the same pirate who he had just killed with his hatchet walk towards him.
"Outta my way scum." The pirate said, banging him on the head with the butt of his sword.
The last thing a very confused Will saw before he passed out was the pirate who had just been killed by the falling sign get up and shake the wood chips off himself.
~~~
Jack looked wistfully at the pirates pillaging Port Royal. They had once been her family, and the Black Pearl her home. But the crew had turned against her and her mother, and cast them out to sea in a lonely rowboat with no oars - to die.
Hearing a tell-tale whistle she threw herself to the side, and a cannon ball blew through the wall to the left of her. The happy prisoners in the next cell crawled to freedom.
"My sympathies, friend. You've no manner of luck at all."
Jack lay back down and sighed. Her hopes of escape were slowly diminishing. She picked up a nearby bone and tried to lure the dog with the keys towards her.
'Come on doggy! It's just you and me now. It's just ole Jack, c'mon! That's it, good boy, good doggy. Bit closer, bit closer. Come on you filthy, slimy, mangy cad! No, no! I didn't mean it!" she said as the dog ran away with it's tail between it's legs.
She sat up with a sudden start, however, when the body of a guard slid down the steps.
"This ain't the armory Twigg." Said a pirate.
"Well, well, well. look what we have here, Koehler. It's little Jackie Sparrow, all grown up." Twigg said with a smirk.
"Last time I saw you, little Jacqueline, you were floating out to sea in a boat with your mother dying to sword wounds. Your fortunes haven't improved much." Koehler added.
"Worry about your own fortunes gentlemen, for the deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers." Jack said with disgust on her tongue.
"You know nothing about hell." Koehler spat, reaching through the bars and grabbing Jack by the throat.
A that moment a ray of moonlight filtered through the small window, illuminating the pirate and turning his arm to a rotting skeleton.
"So. There is a curse. That's interesting." Jack said calmly.
The pirates left hurriedly, determined to return to their looting.
"That's very interesting." said Jack, rubbing her throat.
Thanks for the reviews! Although some more would be nice. Anyway, nobody
get creeped out by Jack being a girl. I'm not saying that Johnny Depp's character in POTC the movie was female. I just loved the character so much that I wanted it to be a female pirate because then I could pretend it was me.. Lame I know. And I don't really hate Elizabeth, but she got will and I wanted Will and basically I'm a loser who's changing the movie to suit me!
In a dank and dirty cell, lit only by a few torches, Captain Jack Sparrow sat with her hat pulled firmly over her chocolate curls, listening to the pathetic attempts of the prisoners in the next cell and hoping her identity was still a secret.
"If ye keep doing that the dog is never gonna come." She calmly said, watching them try and entice the dog with the keys with an old bone.
"Well excuse us if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet."
She signed pulled, the hat further over her eyes and trying to get some sleep before she devised another plan for escape. For she was Captain Jack Sparrow, there was no chance she would be suffer a 'short drop and a sudden stop'. Hearing cannon fire she ran to the small barred window, searching for the cause of the annoying noise. Peering into the mist she felt a sudden jolt of recognition.
"It's the Black Pearl." She said with longing.
"The Black Pearl?" Her neighboring criminals asked. "I heard stories about her. She kills all, leaves no survivors."
"No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" Jack asked cynically, raising one perfect, dark eyebrow.
~~~
Elizabeth prepared for bed with the help of Savannah, giggling excitedly.
"I'm soon to be a married woman!" she exclaimed. "Sarah, please burn those garments I wore today. They have the filth of pirate and commoners upon them."
"And the medallion you wore Miss?" Savannah asked.
"No.give that to me now." Elizabeth said greedily.
She hung the medallion about her once more, enjoying the feeling of gold upon her skin. As she admired it in the candlelight a cool gust of wind blew out the fire.
"Sarah, go fetch me some matches."
"Yes Ma'm."
The room felt empty in the darkness of the fog rolling in through the windows. Elizabeth sat up, wishing her father was not up at the battlements, leaving her alone in the huge house. She wandered to the windows to shut them against the cold, and saw bursts of flames in various parts of the town. On the horizon a sinister black ship swayed. Pirates! She heard a thumping at the door and ran to tell the porter not to answer it. Too late, she realized, seeing the porter fall to the floor, a bullet- wound in his head. Screaming for her life she ran upstairs.
Savannah slipped quietly through the corridors, seeing what was happening, and decided it was time to take matters into her own hands. Stealing a chest of jewelry from her Mistresses dresser she ran from the house, escaping with enough riches to live the rest of her life in luxury and freedom.
Elizabeth ducked into a cupboard, hoping the ghastly pirates would not see her.
"We know you're here poppet." The pirate, known as Pintel, said.
"Poppet" echoed his companion, Raggeti, teasingly.
"You've got something that calls to us. the gold calls to us." He said with a wicked grin.
"Calls to us." Raggeti repeated, wandering about the elaborately furnished room.
"'Ello poppet." Pintel said, opening the door to the cupboard Elizabeth was cowered in.
"Parlay!" She said hurriedly, remembering something Will had mentioned in one of their boring conversations.
"What?"
"Parlay! I invoke the right of parlay. According to the code of the brethren you have to take me to your captain."
"I know the code." Pintel said menacingly. "If an adversary demands parlay you can do them no harm until the parlay is complete."
"To blazes with the code!" Raggeti said, reaching for the girl.
"She wants to be taken to the captain. And she'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code." Pintel said, restraining Raggeti.
~~~
Will Turner had spent another several hours practicing with his finely made swords, still amazed at what had encountered him during the day. He had met, and fought, the famous Jack Sparrow. And he had discovered her secret. She was a stunning, beautiful young woman. Unsure why, he had kept her secret, although how anyone could miss it amazed him now. Her full red lips, defined cheeks bones, smooth skin, fiery eyes and slender figure showed her for what she really was. Although she was not slender in all areas, Will thought with a blush, remembering how her baggy shirt had fallen open, showing ample cleavage.
Casting such thoughts from his mind he looked out the window to gaze longingly up at Miss. Swann's home. Instead of a glowing light he found deep mist and confusion. Seizing a hatchet and sword he hurried outside to be swept up in a roar of running people, among them filthy pirates. Throwing a hatchet he quickly killed one, and the Will ran off to protect the girl he loved. Elizabeth. He encountered another pirate.
'Say goodbye." The pirate said aggressively.
"Goodbye." Will said as a heavy sign fell on top of the pirates head.
He turned to continue the battle, only to see his fair Elizabeth being dragged onto the ship with the pirates.
'Miss. Swann!" He shouted, but was quickly distracted as the same pirate who he had just killed with his hatchet walk towards him.
"Outta my way scum." The pirate said, banging him on the head with the butt of his sword.
The last thing a very confused Will saw before he passed out was the pirate who had just been killed by the falling sign get up and shake the wood chips off himself.
~~~
Jack looked wistfully at the pirates pillaging Port Royal. They had once been her family, and the Black Pearl her home. But the crew had turned against her and her mother, and cast them out to sea in a lonely rowboat with no oars - to die.
Hearing a tell-tale whistle she threw herself to the side, and a cannon ball blew through the wall to the left of her. The happy prisoners in the next cell crawled to freedom.
"My sympathies, friend. You've no manner of luck at all."
Jack lay back down and sighed. Her hopes of escape were slowly diminishing. She picked up a nearby bone and tried to lure the dog with the keys towards her.
'Come on doggy! It's just you and me now. It's just ole Jack, c'mon! That's it, good boy, good doggy. Bit closer, bit closer. Come on you filthy, slimy, mangy cad! No, no! I didn't mean it!" she said as the dog ran away with it's tail between it's legs.
She sat up with a sudden start, however, when the body of a guard slid down the steps.
"This ain't the armory Twigg." Said a pirate.
"Well, well, well. look what we have here, Koehler. It's little Jackie Sparrow, all grown up." Twigg said with a smirk.
"Last time I saw you, little Jacqueline, you were floating out to sea in a boat with your mother dying to sword wounds. Your fortunes haven't improved much." Koehler added.
"Worry about your own fortunes gentlemen, for the deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers." Jack said with disgust on her tongue.
"You know nothing about hell." Koehler spat, reaching through the bars and grabbing Jack by the throat.
A that moment a ray of moonlight filtered through the small window, illuminating the pirate and turning his arm to a rotting skeleton.
"So. There is a curse. That's interesting." Jack said calmly.
The pirates left hurriedly, determined to return to their looting.
"That's very interesting." said Jack, rubbing her throat.
Thanks for the reviews! Although some more would be nice. Anyway, nobody
get creeped out by Jack being a girl. I'm not saying that Johnny Depp's character in POTC the movie was female. I just loved the character so much that I wanted it to be a female pirate because then I could pretend it was me.. Lame I know. And I don't really hate Elizabeth, but she got will and I wanted Will and basically I'm a loser who's changing the movie to suit me!