The Struggle Between Two Pirates

Chapter 9: Fallen

There was eeriness about the situation. But out of nowhere Jack elbows Koehler in the face and Sparrow's crew begins attacking Barbossa's crew. Barbossa and Katrina look around a little confused. Katrina grabs Barbossa and takes him where he can't be harmed. She takes him just outside the cabin.

"Barbossa, please believe me. I had nothin' to do with this."

But all Barbossa can do is look at her with uncertainty, not knowing what to do for the first time. And for the first time, he had an inner conflict, emotions were there battling each other out in his mind. The brawl between the two crews was almost invisible to Barbossa and Katrina. Katrina kept looking at Barbossa with hope that he would understand. Should he believe her after all they've been through together? Then again, he knew that Jack would lie to Barbossa and he has before.

The battle between the pirates rises and it's now getting unsafe anywhere on the ship. Jack comes charging at Barbossa with his sword out. Barbossa is still oblivious to everything, but Katrina sees from the corner of her eye that someone is coming fast. She quickly takes Barbossa's sword out of the cover around his waist and stops the sword that aims for Barbossa and there was Jack meeting eye to eye with Katrina. Barbossa now realizes what was happening. Jack and Katrina begin to quarrel with one another. Barbossa looks on at them in shock of what Katrina had done; she had saved him once again. Koehler had been stabbed but he manages to walk his way with a limp to Barbossa. Barbossa sees he is wounded.

"It should have been Jack!"

"Captain." Koehler falls to the ground and there he lay, dead. Barbossa walks away from the body. Pirates are fighting all around him. He sees Jack and Katrina still battling. All of a sudden, Jack has manages to push Katrina over board. Barbossa is stunned and Jack looks over and sees Katrina struggling to swim. Barbossa walks up to Jack and points his pistol at the back of his head. Jack hears that Barbossa is behind him.

"Admit that ye lied Jack." Jack turns around. His eyes wide open sees the pistol between them.

"I didn't."

"Jack, why should I believe you? We never get along nor agreed to anything the same and now ye want me to believe that you are in the clear?"

Katrina tries to reach one of the row boats near by but has difficulty doing so with the irons on her. She decides to bring the boat to her. On deck someone runs into Barbossa from behind and Barbossa ends up pushing Jack overboard. Jack splashes into the ocean. Katrina, now in the boat, hears the splash. She looks over at where it came from and then looks up seeing Barbossa looking down over to see Jack fall. Jack's head comes up out of the water and he takes a deep breath. Katrina tries to row away from him but before she could, Jack grabs the boat with one hand.

"Let go Jack!"

"No!"

"Jack, let go now!"

Just then a shot was aimed for Jack, but it was a miss. Instead the bullet hit the water by him, but it made Jack let go of the boat. And who did the shot come from? Neither of them knew. Katrina rowed over to the ship and began to yell up to Barbossa.

"Barbossa! Come!"

The pirates are still fighting. None of them knew what was going on with Jack, Katrina, and Barbossa. Barbossa looks back at the two crews in battle as if he was thinking about what to do. Katrina notices that he's not looking over anymore and how long he's taking to respond to her.

"Barbossa!"

Barbossa hears Katrina yelling his name again, but he does not move, just gazes at the battle. As Katrina waits, Jack reaches the boat and climbs in. Katrina feels the boat move and hears a thump. She looks back and sees Jack lying next to her as he tries to catch his breath. She moves away from him. He has no weapons and neither does Katrina.

"Barbossa!" Katrina yells for the last time.

Just after Katrina's cry, Jack smacks her so hard, the wind gets knocked out of her, and she falls over in the boat, and lies still. Barbossa looks over and sees the outcome. Just then he knew that Katrina wasn't lying and that Jack was. He calls out to one of his men.

"One of ye come with me to save Katrina! Jack has her again!"

Jack begins to row away from the ship and makes way to the Black Pearl. Barbossa, Pintel, and Jack the monkey get into another row boat near the ship. They begin to follow Jack and Katrina as Barbossa looks out to them with much determination.