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A/N: I gots reviews! Yey! Lol motivation. well anyways, more action, blah blah blah. Oh yes, more Jack! ;) lol that basically means more humor, so anyways I'll let ya read! (Oh, Mrs. Sparrow, don't worry if you're starting to talk like Jack :P I'm starting to WALK like him!)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Crown of Cortez

Chapter 3

Swift woke the next day at the sound of heavy footsteps on the deck above her. She was still half asleep and never realized what it was until the British officers were already thundering down the stairs. Her eyes widened, knowing she couldn't get out of bed to fight because she still only had her gown on. Great. She thought miserably, and then got out of bed, grabbing the hilt of her sword and yanking it out of the sheath. Raven, Jack, and Becca were already up as well. Raven and Becca had been up, so they had had time to put something on over their gowns.

The men looked at Swift and grinned, looking her up and down. They smirked when she, along with her three other people of the crew that they'd seen, stepped up to fight. "What is a woman to do in a sword fight with a nightgown on, hm?" One asked.

Swift muttered, but Jack answered in her defense: "As much as you men know how to shine your own shoes, hm?" He spoke the last part in a mocking way of the officer.

"And, as much as you are smart," The officer spat back at him angrily.

"Now, now, now." Raven spoke. "We aren't going to get all touchy here, alright? Let's just get this fight over with so we can go on with our sailing and pirating!" She gave the British officers a cheesy smile.

"Well, I'm sorry to inform you that we will not allow you to do that!" Another officer spoke up.

"Alright, will everyone just shut UP and make a move?" Jack said exaggeratedly, rolling his eyes. He gave the officer who came after him a mocking smile and blocked his lunge simply with his sword, making the two blades catch together. He made a quick flick of his wrist and elbow, leaving the officer's chest wide open to be stuck, and he took the opportunity, shoving his sword in the officer's chest.

The girls were doing very well until the larger, more built men came around. They were more of the type to use swords to strengthen their already massively powerful battle tactics. Eventually, each girl fell, but were only knocked out because obviously they were wanted alive.

Even Jack began to have problems with the officers ganging up on him now that the three girls were captured and taken away, so he was the only target. "How about a deal, mates?" He offered giddily.

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"Great." Becca mumbled. "Now we're stuck here in jail, probably about to get hung around about noon tomorrow."

Jack blinked. "Well.look at the bright side." He paused, making thinking noises and such for a few minutes.

"Okay, there is no bright side!" Swift concluded stiffly after the long hanging moments of Jack's humming.

"We're all in it together, right?" Raven spoke hopefully, raising her eyebrows.

Silence.

"Well.we won't have to listen to Jack anymore if we're hung?"

The girls all cheered.

"Aww.That wasn't nice." Jack whined, frowning

The four had been taken to Port Royal, and then delivered to the nearest jail-the jail with Jack's good ol' canine friend with the keys. Apparently not many people were jailed lately, because each of them, besides Raven and Swift, had gotten their own cells. They really didn't talk much, and they really didn't want to stay in there doing nothing.

"Blast it.Where is that dog bone when you need it?!" Jack mumbled when he noticed the keys dangling from the jail dog's jaws.

"You mean.this?" Swift spoke, holding the bone by the head of the bone, dangling it teasingly. She smiled cheesily at the look on his face.

Jack gave her a puppy-eye look and held his hands out. "Awww you would be so kind as to hand me that bone now wouldn't you?" He asked.

Swift looked at Raven and gave her an evil smile, and the turned back to Jack. "Under one condition."

Jack smiled and awaited the condition.

"Well.two conditions, really."

He nodded, raising his eyebrows and making circular motions with his hands as a signal to keep going.

"Well, when you get out you've got to get us out, of course." Swift spoke, and then Raven filled in next, "But the real thing you must do to get the bone is that you must dance around your cell like the drunken fool you are!"

Jack blinked, smiled again and leaned forward a bit. "Um, excuse me? I didn't quite get that." He added, "It's hell getting old isn't it?"

Becca smiled. "Well, we wouldn't really know anything about that yet, fortunately, Jack. We're still in our twenties." She spoke sarcastically.

"Is that implying something?" Jack whined in protest, jutting out his bottom lip and pouting.

"Nothing your simple mind could understand, Jack Sparrow." Raven spoke, smirking when Jack corrected her saying "Captain Jack Sparrow!" She then began, "But anyways, get to the dancing!"

Jack mumbled and got up from where he was sitting in the corner of his cell and began to do a very strange skip-hop-turn kind of dance. He ignored the girls' laughter, but after five roundabouts in his cell, he stopped. "Alright, give me the bone."

Laughing, Swift nodded. "I think we embarrassed you enough!" She spoke, shoving the bone through the bars of his cell, and then started laughing again.

"Love, you are a horrible pirate!" Jack exclaimed, grinning mischievously. He quickly lowered the bone to the ground, stepped on the other end of it and then tried to pull the other end up, breaking the bone. "Ah, yes, I shall be getting out of here.and you three shall be hung!"

"You cheat!" Swift growled.

Jack smiled and held up a finger. "Pirate!" He looked at the broken piece of the bone and went over to the lock on his door, testing it to see if the end was small and sharp enough to fit. "Ooh.good, it fits!" He began working at the lock, and then mumbled with a roll of his eyes, "Now it's a matter of opening the bloody lock!"

"Ladies and.Gentleman." The governor's voice came down the hall to them, forcing Jack to take the bone out of the lock. "May I have a moment or two to question you four?"

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The four pirates next found themselves in a small office room in front of a wooden desk, awaiting the governor. On the far left was Becca, on her right was Raven, on Raven's right was Swift, and then Jack sat on the far right.

After what felt like an hour, the governor finally came in, the two guards that came with him standing by the door, and sat down at the chair behind the desk. "So." He began. "I notice that Mr. Sparrow did come to Mr. Turner's rescue, only he brought three women with him?" He smiled. "I thought you would know better than give yourself bad luck and take women aboard your ship."

"Well, I don't believe in that myth, Governor Swan." Jack countered, giving him a narrow-eyed smile.

"Oh, Mr. Sparrow must have a weak spot for women, surprisingly." Governor Swan shot back. "Who are these women, then?"

Raven spoke, "We're just normal citizens. Jack found us afloat on a lifeboat while he was sailing along so he decided to take us in. Becca, to my left, is my servant. And. Well, to my right is my prostitute sister. Though after meeting Jack she's chancing her ways, aren't you sister?" She explained, nudging Swift into Jack with a smile, a few small glints of evil in her eye.

"Oh, yes." Swift spoke, giving Raven a very quick glare, and then scooting closer to Jack, locking her right arm in his left and ran her left hand up and down his chest and arms lovingly. "Such a great man." She managed to choke out.

The governor winced at the sight of the woman feeling Jack up in front of him and nodded. "I really don't need to see that, I got the picture the first time." He muttered. He glanced questioningly at Jack when he noticed him glancing behind him at the window, mouthing words and such. He turned, and saw no one there. "Oh, Jack, what was that?" He spoke in interest.

Becca cut in, "Jack is very delusional. He drinks too much rum; it's really getting to his head." She frowned. "Terrible, it is."

"Yes." Swift spoke. "In bed, he just.keeps calling other women's names.It's just so sad for me." She pretended to start crying, sniffling and whipping her eyes a bit.

The governor's eyes widened in disgust, and he nodded a bit. "Uh. I'm sorry.to hear that.I think I've heard enough from you four." He spoke, shooing them out and ordering the guards to take the four pirates back to their cells.

When they were alone, Swift glared at Raven. "You cannot imagine how much I hate you right now." She spoke angrily.

"Well, can't say you didn't like the idea of it, love!" Jack joked, gaining himself a furious glare. "See, you're blushing!" He pointed out, grinning.

Swift muttered, "If we weren't in two different cells right now, I would smack you."

"Ooo.Touchy, touchy." Jack muttered, and then grabbed the bone, continuing to try to pick his lock. His cursing and swearing for hours kept the girls up, but annoyed. It was going to be a very long night.