Caribbean Crusades

Chapter 6

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Hi guys. Sorry it's been a little longer for this update. I've been working. Cause it's summer holidays, my dad got me a job at his work doing data entry and stuff, and along with my proper job…it's all rather hectic.

StoryTellerJS - sounds funny. You're lucky you have the DVD. My mum's being a real dork and not letting me order it online…I got so pissed off at her. I really want to see it. She says she's worried about me being obsessed…hmmm…me, obsessed…never…

Chavi West-Wind - Wow, I think that's the longest review I've ever got. Thanks for your opinion. That's a really good idea. I think I might just do that. I'm trying to give her more of a personality and a background, but it's kinda hard, trying to basically stick to the storyline, and stuff. I'm writing a sequel, so I'll be able to throw things around a lot more in that.

To everyone else…thanks for reviewing! ^.^

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We were roughly shoved towards dinghies and taken to the Black Pearl. We were forced up onto the deck and waited there, pistols pointed at us, waiting for Barbossa to grace us with his presence.

Bored, I started to make conversation. "Lovely day, isn't it?" I said to one of the pirates.

He just waved his pistol closer to my face. Not a good thing.

"Not very conversational, are they?" I commented to Jack.

"Not too bright." Jack explained, tapping his head.

Suddenly, all noise and chatter between the pirates was ceased, and I felt an ominous cloud settle over the ship as Barbossa boarded and stalked over to us, straightening his rather large, almost comical hat. "Jack, you'll come with me." He growled. He turned to the crew. "Lock the lass in the brig. I have no use for her. We'll toss 'er overboard when we get the next chance."

"Hey!" I protested, but no one was listening. "Bloody pirates." I muttered to myself.

The barrel of a gun was poked in my back. I turned around and swatted it away. "Hey, none o' that." I said, allowing myself to be shepherded down into the hold. The floor was slick with water.

"Apparently you've got a leak." I mentioned. They ignored me and roughly shoved me into the cell.

"This seems awfully familiar." I muttered as they exited up the stairs.

I sat on a wooden box and leaned against the side of the cage, bored already.

I was joined soon after by Jack, who was being escorted down by some burly pirate with strange decorations on his face. He noticed the same thing I did. "Apparently you've got a leak." He said, but he too was ignored and shoved into the cell with me.

"Didn't miss me too much, did ya, luv?" he grinned.

"Get over yourself." I said, half-heartedly as I was busy looking out a small hole in the side. Barrels and other assorted items were floating past the ship. What the hell was happening?

Suddenly, we were thrown up against the side of the ship as we suddenly came to a stop and turned. Jack was thrown against me, squashing me against the wall. We slipped to the ground as the ship stopped turning. Jack was still on top of me, grinning. I rolled him over so that I was on top of him.

"Sorry, luv. Didn't know you liked the top." He said cheekily.

I rolled my eyes and got up, none too carefully. I made sure I elbowed him a couple of times just for that statement.

Then the unmistakable sound of cannon fire was heard. I looked out the little hole in the wood, and saw the Interceptor a couple of metres away from the Pearl. Both ships were firing the cannons at each other. I jumped back from the side just as a hole was blown in the wood, where I had been standing, flinging cutlery everywhere. I picked a spoon off the floor, looking at it curiously. Is this a new pirate thing, or had something happened to all the cannonballs?

Jack, however, was more concerned about his ship. "Stop blowing holes in my ship!" Jack yelled out the newly made hole. Then he noticed Gibbs' canteen on the floor of the cell. He undid the top and tried to drink some, discovering that it was empty. He gave the canteen a doleful look.

While Jack was worrying about his ship and drinking rum, I was noticing that we had a way out. A fork had embedded itself in the lock, successfully unlocking the cell. I pushed the door open.

"Come on, Jack." I said, grabbing his wrist, pulling him after me.

We made our way topside, after grabbing our belongings off a hook on the wall, and amongst all the fuss, we weren't even noticed. Jack led me to the rail and took the rope from a pirate who'd just swung back over to the Pearl. "Thanks very much." He said, as the pirate fell into the water. He pulled me over to the side of the ship with him. "Hold on." He said, as he grabbed the rope with one hand and me with the other and pushed off and swung over to the Interceptor.

We made our way over to Gibbs, where Jack handed him the canteen and commented "Bloody empty."

I turned to follow Jack, but I found myself face-to-face with a very ugly pirate. He grinned horribly and pulled his sword. I rolled my eyes and pulled out my own, giving him a threatening look. He grinned wider, probably thinking this'd be an easy victory. Not in your lifetime, buddy, I thought.

We fought for a while, and I let him drive me against the rail so I was pushed right up against it, letting him think he had the victory. I pushed him back a little, and then when he rushed toward me again, I tripped him in such a manner that he fell overboard. I looked over the side. He made a rather impressive bellyflop. I wonder if he could swim. He surfaced and shook a fist at me rather menacingly. I shrugged and smiled at him, and turned away.

"Sam!" I heard my name being called. I looked around to see who it was, and spied Elizabeth over by the grate trying to pull the broken mast off it. "Will's trapped!" she cried.

I joined her by the mast and tried pulling it off, but the most we could do was lift it up a few centimetres.

"It won't budge!" I yelled down to Will. "Is there another way out?"

"No!" he yelled back.

Suddenly, I was grabbed from behind and lifted into the air. I let out a shriek of surprise. I started kicking my legs around, until my foot connected with something behind me. However, it mustn't have hurt my captor, because he didn't put me down.

Elizabeth had also been pulled away. "Will!" she yelled.

Will yelled "Elizabeth!" back. I swear, the only thing those two do is call each other's names.

We were carted over to the Pearl. I frowned. Typical, I was back where I started.

"If any of you as much as thinks the word parley, I'll have your guts for garters." One of the pirates, Pintel, growled at us.

We were suddenly interrupted as the Interceptor blew up. My stomach lurched. What if Will was still on there?

Elizabeth must have had the same idea, because she launched herself at Barbossa. "You've got to stop it! Stop it!" she yelled at him.

Barbossa pushed Elizabeth to his crew, who grinned evilly, scaring Elizabeth, who was struggling to get away from them. "Welcome back, Miss. You took advantage of our hospitality last time. It holds fair now that you return the favour."

Will suddenly appeared on the rail, holding a pistol. "Barbossa." He said.

Elizabeth looked relieved. "Will." She said. There we go again.

Will pointed the pistol at Barbossa. "She goes free." He commanded, it was obvious that he meant Elizabeth, not me.

"What's in your head, boy?"

"She goes free!" Will repeated.

"You've only got one shot and we can't die." Barbossa said, menacingly.

Jack put his hands together. "Don't do anything stupid." He pleaded with Will.

"You can't…I can." Will said, ignoring Jack's comment and pointing the pistol at himself.

"Like that." Jack said, dropping his hands, looking resigned.

"Who are you?" Barbossa asked, curious.

Jack broke free from the pack. "No one." He insisted. "He's no one. A distant cousin of my aunt's nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though. Eunuch." He dropped his voice on the last word.

"My name is Will Turner. My father was Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my veins." Will explained.

"He's a spittin' image of ol' Bootstrap Bill come back to haunt us." One of the pirates commented.

"On my word do as I say or I'll pull this trigger and be lost to Davy Jones' Locker." Will commanded.

"Name your terms, Mr. Turner." Barbossa said.

"Elizabeth goes free." Will insisted. Him and his one-track mind.

Barbossa rolled his eyes. "Yes, we know that one. Anything else?"

Jack started waving his hands around, pointing at himself.

Will pointed towards Jack and the crew. "And the crew, the crew are not to be harmed."

"Agreed." Barbossa said. That slime-ball. He's definitely got some trick up his sleeve.

Everyone was crammed in the brig, except for Will, Jack, Elizabeth and I, who were separated and put in the other one.

A while later, and after a lot of arguing between the four of us, mostly with Jack saying how stupid Will was, we were brought topside again. I blinked as the bright light assaulted my eyes.

The pirates started cheering as we came up. Pistols were pointed at us and we were waved towards the side of the ship. I could now see what they were going to do. A plank was placed over the side of the ship.

"The lady first." Barbossa said, waving Elizabeth towards the plank.

"Go on! Walk the plank." One of the pirates yelled.

"Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she'd go free!" Will yelled, as Elizabeth crept along the plank, towards the end. He was gagged by a pirate.

"Don't dare impugn me honour, boy. I agreed she'd go free, it was you who failed to specify when or where." Barbossa growled. "Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don't it lads?"

"Aye!" the pirates agreed.

"So I'll be having that dress back before you go." Barbossa continued.

Beside me, Jack was trying to get the pirate to let him go. "You know, I always liked you." The pirate ignored him.

Elizabeth took the dress off, and was left standing on the plank in her undergarments. She threw the dress at Barbossa. "It goes with your black heart." She spat.

Barbossa pressed the dress to his face. "Ooh, it's still warm." He taunted.

Bo'sun, getting impatient, growled "Too long!" and he stomped on the plank, making Elizabeth fall off the edge, splashing into the crystalline water, which would be perfect in any other situation.

Jack was dragged towards the edge. "I'd rather hoped we were all past this."

"Jack. Jack! Did ya not notice? That be the same little island that we made you Governor of on our last little trip." Barbossa pointed out towards the strip of land.

Jack frowned. "I did notice."

"Perhaps you'll be able to conjure up another miraculous escape. But I doubt it." Barbossa pulled out his sword and brandished it at Jack's throat. "Off you go."

"Last time you left me a pistol with one shot." Jack said, obviously stalling him.

"By the powers, you're right. Where be Jack 's pistol? Bring it forward." The pistol was handed to Barbossa.

"Seeing as there's three of us, a gentleman would give us three shots." Jack tried to negotiate.

"It'll be one pistol as before and you can be the gentleman and decide which lady to shoot." Barbossa growled, and threw Jack's pistol and the rest of his effects into the water.

"Now for Jack's lass." Barbossa said as I was pushed towards the plank. I stopped and stared Barbossa in the eye. "I think you're forgetting something." I said coldly.

"What be that?"

"My sword." I stated in my very best 'you're-an-idiot' voice.

Barbossa laughed. Not a very pleasant thing. "Bring the lass's sword, if she thinks she can handle it."

My sword was handed to me and I snatched it off the pirate, then turned and dived off the plank, in much the same way as Jack had done.

"Good riddance." I muttered, as I swam towards the beach, not far behind Jack and Elizabeth.

We regrouped on the beach and Jack gazed out at the ship disappearing into the distance."That's the second time I've had to watch that man sail away with my ship." He said, then turned around and walked up the beach, obviously on a mission for something.

Elizabeth and I followed him. Elizabeth was bugging him about escaping off the island. I was more curious about what Jack was looking for. Hopefully something good.

"But you were marooned on this island before, weren't you? So we can escape in the same way you did then." Elizabeth protested.

"To what point and purpose, young missy? The Black Pearl is gone and unless you have a rudder and a lot of sails hidden in that bodice, unlikely, young Mr. Turner will be dead long before you can reach him." Jack countered.

He turned around and knocked on a couple of trees, then from one tree, he took four very large, comical steps and jumped up and down on a springy patch of sand, not interested in what Elizabeth was saying. He knelt down and started brushing the sand away from where he had been standing.

"But you're Captain Jack Sparrow. You vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company. You sacked Nassau Port without even firing a shot. Are you the pirate I've read about or not? How did you escape last time?" Elizabeth pushed.

Jack took a deep breath. "Last time…I was here a grand total of three days, alright? Last time…" he started, before disappearing down a trapdoor in the sand. Well what do ya know? "…The rumrunners used this island as a cache. Came by and I was able to barter a passage off. From the looks of things, they've long been out of business. Probably have your bloody friend Norrington to thank for that." Jack emerged from the hole with three bottles of rum. Yay, it wasn't so bad as I thought. Now we can drink ourselves into a stupor and forget about this whole being marooned thing.

"So that's it then? That's the secret grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow? You spent three days lying on a beach, drinking rum!?" Elizabeth said, disbelieving. What's so wrong with that, I wondered. Three days on the beach drinking rum don't sound so bad. As if reading my thoughts, Jack passed me one of the bottles of rum then turned to Elizabeth.

"Welcome to the Caribbean, luv." Jack said, doing a little shoulder-shake thing and he handed Elizabeth a bottle before walking back down to the beach.

I shrugged at Elizabeth and followed Jack down to the beach, where we could eat, drink and be merry…well drink and be merry, seeing as we had no food. But we had rum! And that's all that counts, right?

I sat next to Jack on the hot sand, drinking my rum. Elizabeth had decided not to join us at the moment. Probably she'd gone off to vent her frustration. I could understand that. I've found it necessary to do that sometimes in my life. Especially when I was living with my parents.

I looked at Jack. I could tell he was frustrated at losing his ship again. "Don't worry, mate, we'll get your Pearl back." I assured him. He looked at me and grinned. Nothing could keep him down for long. "Of course, luv. I've already got somethin' figured out." He tapped his head knowingly.

I grinned back at him, getting an idea. "How 'bout I give you something else to think about in the meantime?" I said, giving him a sly smile.

"I wouldn't complain."

I leaned over and gave him a kiss on the lips. I went to pull away, but he put his hand behind my head and kept me pressed up against him. I lifted a hand and ran it through his hair. I always wanted to do that. He deepened the kiss. Finally, he pulled away and we both breathed in a breath of fresh air.

"Mission accomplished." Jack said, licking his lips.

"Yeah, well don't get any ideas. You only get that when you really need it." I told him. Although I wouldn't mind doing it more often…

"I think I need it again." Jack told me, he put his arm around me and I lay back on the sand as he leaned in again.

We were just about to kiss, when who should come walking in, but Elizabeth herself. Talk about bad timing.

She didn't acknowledge what we'd been doing and we didn't ask what she'd seen.

She slumped down on the sand next to us and took her first sip of the rum. She coughed a bit on the first few sips, but kept on drinking anyway.

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And we come, yet again, to the end of another chapter…

I saw Benny and Joon yesterday. It was so funny. I was almost rolling around on the floor when Sam did his thing in the park with the handkerchief and with the hat. Heh heh. What's some of Johnny Depp's other really good movies? I'm really getting into his stuff. I read in someone's story that he says 'savvy' in another one of his movies. Which one's that? If someone could tell me, that'd be great!

Thankee!

~Rhi