Answers to Reviews:

Dark Ice Dragon - Hehe, the sinking boat is my fav part of the movie too. Brillant entrance! ^^ I fell in love with the music, also. Basicly, I just fell in love with the whole movie ^^;; It was great.

Rory4 - That's what I was aiming for, an original plot that nobody has ever done before. This story was actually inspired by real events o.o; We have a haunted house about 10 to 15 minutes away from where I live. A guy really will pay you $50.00 if you stay the night there. I was to scared to go in it ^^;;; My sister said from what she has heard, screams are heard throughout the whole house and blood will suddenly appear on the walls and run down it. Everybody who has ever lived in that house has died. She also said that if you go in there you'll see like a ghost little girl that used to live there. The weird thing is, she actually wasn't making it up o.o;;;; Its true. I don't know if anybodys actually stayed the night there or anything, but that's how this story came about ^.^ So, thank my sister for scaring me half to death ^^;;;;;;

Serenity - Woop! Yay! You think I'm getting better at writing! ^.^ Lol, its called Rurouni Kenshin. Its an anime with a really really cute guy in it ::drools:: But, I think you could read it and still enjoy it. Its ok if you don't know the char's cause my fanfic will be an alternate universe type thing, so you'll get to know the char's as you read along ^.^ Thanks a bunch for the review! ^^

Krillball6 - Really? Your coughing too? Everybody in my house is sick (Well, alright.. There's only three people living here but still... ) My parents keep coughing too, sounds like you have the same thing that they do. I hope you feel better!! ^.^

Usagi Kou - Lol, glad you like it that much to say that ^.^;;

Niki - Don't worry, your doing just fine ^-^ ::Points up at the second review:: Read that and it'll tell you all about how I came up with this story ^^ I'm actually tempted to go into the haunted house.. Maybe I'll have the same fate as Lynn and meet Jack.. ::sighs dreamily::

Author Notes: Well, good news is I'm not sick anymore! ^-^ You guys must be lucky or something because all the people who said get well soon, I got better like one or two days after o.o;; ::Hugs all her reviewers:: thanks ya! ^^

Now, bad news is.. I got this chapter out late!! ;-; I don't get it.. every time I say I'll have it out by a certain time I never seem to get it out. But when I say nothing about it I get it out on time o.o;;; Weird…

Well, I hope you like this chapter!

A Hearty Life

Arriving at Port Royal

Chapter 7

By MoonLight Star

The ocean's waters were beating against the boat as they tried to make it to Port Royal causing it to rock gently back and forth. Lynn had her arms wrapped around herself as she shivered from the cold. The tempeture wasn't cold outside, but the water was. She was now in knee-deep water, their boat was sinking faster and faster, making Lynn shiver more and more.

'Oh, I really really hope we don't have to swim, the water's to cold!' Lynn thought as she let her gaze fall onto Jack. He was really trying to get them to land. Lynn almost wished she could start throwing the water out of the boat with a bucket again, even though she knew it wouldn't do any good, at least she felt like she was helping that way.

Lynn had only been on a boat one time, when she was thirteen. It was a speedboat though and it was nothing like this boat. She wanted to help, but she feared if she were to help, she would mess up and cause even more trouble for Jack then what she already had.

Jack must have felt her gaze on him because he turned around and looked right at her. "You ok, love?" Even though her face was pale from the cold and had almost no color in it, she blushed. She couldn't help it; nobody had ever really called her 'love' before.

Lynn nodded her head. With her teeth chattering like mad she said, "I'm fine." She had to wonder briefly if he had even heard her. Deciding to tell him again, in case he couldn't understand her, she nodded her head. Jack looked unconvinced but he turned around anyone.

Land was close now, she could see it. They were heading towards a secluded beach. There was a docking but she figured Jack didn't want to cause any more trouble then what he already had.

The water was way past her knees now. The boat wouldn't be sailing anymore in a few minutes. 'We're going to end up having to swim.' It wasn't really a surprise for Lynn, nothing really seemed to favor her, so she usually always did things the hard way. Sighing, Lynn waited as the boat sank more and more as they got closer to Port Royal.

It only took a few minutes for the boat to almost go completely under the water. Both Lynn and Jack were in the water now. "My god, it's freezing!" She doubt he heard that either, but he looked like he understood. 'Probley cause he's thinking the same thing to.'

Grumbling with her chattering teeth, they both swam as fast as they could to land, trying to get away from the freezing waters.

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'I should check one more time.' Tom knew Lynn wouldn't be in the Haunted house, but he had to try at least one more time before he went to go tell her parents what happened. It was night now, if Lynn wasn't there then he had no choice but to go to her house and tell her parents.

Tom walked into the house, now having been in there so many times looking for Lynn, that he almost wasn't scared of it anymore. Almost.

Tom followed the footprints on the heavy dust that Lynn's sandals had left behind, his own footprints adding to the collection of both Lynn's and Toni's. He followed them up the creaking cob welled stairs. A loud creek through the entire house followed every step he made.

He walked down the hallway, into the master bedroom, and in to that same corner that Lynn had been in. In frustration he sighed loudly and raked his hand through his hair, leaning his back against the wall.

That's when he saw it.

There were other footprints. Fresh ones right behind his own footprints. They stopped at the door though and didn't go any further. Tom's eyes widened in fright and looked around the room wildly. When he looked back to the door, more footprints were there.

With his eyes wide he watched as seemingly the air was marching towards him. The footprints were walking towards him like somebody was there. He clutched his gold wedding ring in fright, a habbit of his. He couldn't move at all, like his feet were stuck to the ground along with his back to the wall.

Then he realized something. He was against the wall where Lynn's footprints had stopped, and this was his first time in the house alone. It was Lynn's first time in the house alone, too. He couldn't ponder much longer. The footprints were just an inch away from his own two feet now.

His large hand gripped his ring as he waited.

And waited.

He must have waited five minutes of terrible fright. He had bent his wedding ring's metal now, causing it to be in a more overall shape. It was halfway off his ring finger as he continued to look around franticly, his heart beating wildly.

He looked in front of him, at the door; he was going to run for it. He didn't care if he got sued anymore, he just wanted out of the house.

But, somebody wouldn't let him. Before his feet had left the ground a ghost face appeared suddenly in front of him, glaring at him, almost growling even. "If I must be cursed, so be you!" The skeleton ghost said, the same one that Lynn had seen before.

Tom saw swirls of colors next and the feel of himself falling. Screaming at the top of his lungs as he waved his arms franticly, trying to see something, anything.

He hit the ground hard. He wasn't screaming, or even moving at all anymore.

Back at the Haunted house, the Skeleton ghost was still there. In his fright, Tom had dropped his wedding ring. The ghost picked it up with his bony fingers, a devilish smile appeared on his face as he came up with a devious plan.

Author Notes: Hehehehe… just what is his plan? You'll have to find out later!! I had so much fun writing this chapter… this is my favorite chapter by far ^^ Now things are starting to get really interesting.. I wonder where Tom ended up, hmm? Or did he die from the long fall? I wonder how Lynn's parents will react when they find out Lynn is missing, if anybody ever gets the chance to tell them? Hehehe…. So many questions, so many teases.. Heh ^^ Well, I hope you liked this chapter, I think this is my favorite chapter out of all them, so I hope you guys think so too! Review please ^-^