Author's Note: Yep, that's right. A SECOND chapter posted in one week
(this one is gonna be a long one too). I just want to make good progress
with this story over X-mas break because I want to get to the ending....
which I think will be quite surprising (hopefully). And I redid the end of
this chapter because I felt it needed something more...
And just to let you know (if you already didn't) to end any confusion, the chapter is split up into two parts because it's what the girls are doing at the same time but just in different places. Also, I've been told by more than one reviewer that Samantha and Danielle are very similar to themselves or friends... that's a good thing! I just wanted to make the characters a little more realistic. Anywho, read and review.
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Chapter 12: Everything Begins to Go Horribly Wrong
Samantha had fallen asleep during the storm and then later on, once the storm had subsided, Will came into her room and woke her up.
"Sammi, you've got to get up now. We're here." He lightly shook her shoulders, not really knowing any other way to wake her up without her yelling at him or becoming mad.
Samantha's eyes opened and she looked at Will. "The storm's over, right?" She looked at him, desperate for a "yes" answer.
"It is. Now come on, we're at the Isla de Muerta." Will walked away and Samantha stood up, stretched, and then followed close behind.
As they walked on deck, both of them saw that everyone on board was standing near the edges of the ship, looking at all the ship wrecks strewn in the water. There had to be at least a dozen, but Samantha was having trouble seeing any others because of the creeping fog that seemed envelope everything else in the distance. It was a cold fog that gave Samantha goosebumps as it wrapped around her.
Suddenly, Samantha heard Mr. Cotton's parrot say in a shrill, cracking way, "Dead men tell no tales."
Will and Samantha walked up next to Gibbs and stared at the debris of long lost ships with him. "Puts a chill in the bones how many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage." Gibbs said ominously.
Will turned around and watched as Jack, who was at the helm, quickly close his compass when Mr. Cotton was staring at him too much. "How is it that Jack came by that compass?" Will stood in front of Gibbs, blocking him off from the view of destroyed ships. Samantha, Gibbs, and Will stepped away from edge of the ship (which Samantha was kind of terrified of anyway) and they formed there own little trio away from the others.
"Not a lot known about Jack Sparrow before he showed up in Tortuga with a mind to go after the treasure of the Isla de Muerta." Gibbs began. "That was before I met him. Back when he was captain of the Black Pearl." Gibbs then took a sip of whatever alcoholic beverage (probably rum) that was in his canteen.
"What?" Said Will curiously. "He failed to mention that."
The older man's eyes became wide, as if he suddenly knew he shouldn't have said that, and he quickly put his canteen down. "Well, he plays things close to the vest now. And a hard learned lesson it was." Gibbs began to feel a little more comfortable with telling these two 'pirates' about Sparrow. "See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything's an equal share as should be the location of the treasure, too. So, Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die but not before he'd gone mad with the heat."
Suddenly, Will seemed to understand everything. "Ah. So that's the reason for the..." He stopped and did one of Jack's drunken staggers and movements.
That's when Samantha jumped in and completed Will's sentence. "drunken sways and the endless jiberish." Samantha should know all of this already, but remember, she never watched the movie.
"Reason's got nothin' to do with it." Gibbs said as all three sat down on a couple of barrels on deck. "Now Will... Samantha, when a man is marooned, he is given a pistol with a single shot. Well, it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of starvin' belly and thrist, that pistol starts to look real friendly." Gibbs pointed to his head to emphasize his point. "But Jack made it off the island and he still has the one shot. Oh, but he won't use it though, save for one man. His mutinous first mate."
Will seemed to know exactly what was going on (opposite of Samantha). "Barbossa."
"Aye." Gibbs said, shaking his head.
"How did Jack get off the island?" Will asked curiously.
"Well, I'll tell you." Gibbs leaned in closer to Samantha and Will and they leaned in closer as well. "He waded out into the shallows and there he waited three days and nights till all manner of sea creatures came and acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, harnessed them together and made a raft."
Will suddenly looked at him in disbelief. "He roped a couple of sea turtles?" He said indifferently. "What did he use for rope?"
Gibbs stopped for a moment and pondered that. It was like he never considered that before.
Jack suddenly came up to them from no where and looked down on the three. "Human hair, from my back. Let go of the anchor!" Jack yelled.
"Oh my God. That's disgusting." Samantha said to no one in particular.
Jack walked away and Gibbs, Samantha, and Will quickly followed.
"Young Mr. Turner, Sammi, and I are to go ashore." Jack said to Gibbs.
"But Captain, she's a woman! It's bad luck and you know that too! And what if the worst should happen?" Gibbs said.
"She IS still coming with us and if the worst should happen, keep to the code." Jack said, looking out at the island nearby.
"Aye the code." Gibbs said quietly.
Samantha and Will looked at each other for a moment and then at them suspiciously as they walked away.
Jack, Will, and Samantha stepped into a small rowboat which was then lowered into the water. Jack began to row while Samantha and Will sat there, wondering what would happen next.
As they entered the cave, Will noticed a skull sitting on a small ledge. "What code is Gibbs to keep to if the worst should happen?" Will was curious and so was Samantha as to what Gibbs and Jack were talking about back on the Interceptor.
"Pirate's Code." Jack said as he continued to row. "Any man that falls behind... is left behind."
"No heroes amongst thieves, eh?" Will said sarcastically.
"You know, for having such a bleak outlook on pirates, you're well on your way to becoming one. That goes for you too, Sammi. Sprung a man from jail, commandeered a ship of the fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga..." Jack, Samantha, and Will all look down at the gold beneath the boat. "...and you're both completely obsessed with treasure."
Samantha (who at this point still insisted she wasn't a pirate) didn't have any comment on that because she really did like treasure, but Will, on the other hand, did have a few words about it. "That's not true. I am not obsessed with treasure."
All three stepped out of the boat and onto the hard, rocky ground of the cave. They walked towards a small opening with Jack leading the way. They all looked in on the pirates from the Pearl, who were standing around Barbossa and Elizabeth. To bad Samantha didn't see Danielle who was standing in the shadows with Pintel and Ragetti.
"Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate." Jack said.
Will's eyes became large when he saw who stood on top of the pile with Barbossa. "Elizabeth." He said quietly. Barbossa was then saying something, which Samantha wasn't quite paying attention to, but Will seemed to hear it and he scrambled up, upsetting some of the treasure. He didn't know that at that moment, Barbossa's monkey heard the noise and glanced over in their direction.
Samantha watched as Jack pulled Will back down and spoke to him in a hushed voice. "Not yet. We wait for the opportune moment." Jack got up and scrambled away with Samantha and Will following close behind.
Will was suddenly overcome with anger and completely forgot about what Samantha said to him the previous night about waiting to save Elizabeth first. "When's that? When it's of greatest profit for you?"
Samantha, who was on the other side of Jack, looked at Will and her eyes became wide and she put her finger up to her mouth to signal for him to be quiet.
"May I ask you something?" Jack said to Will. "Have I ever given you reason not to trust me?"
"Um, yes." Samantha said, interrupting Jack.
But he ignored her and continued speaking. "Do us a favor, I know it's difficult for you but please stay here... and try not to do anything stupid."
Jack turned around and walked away and he grabbed Samantha's arm and dragged her along with him. "Hey, wait! I'm coming with you but he can't? Why?!?"
"Because, now let's go." He continued pulling her along, leaving Will behind staring at Jack in a not-so-nice way.
Jack brought Samantha to another opening near by and they peered out. "Why did you leave Will there, Jack?" Samantha already had a feeling of what Jack was going to do, which was use him as leverage, but she wanted to hear it from Jack himself.
But before Jack could answer, Will came around the corner with an oar in his hands and hit Jack right in the back of the head... but consequently he hit Samantha as well, who was standing right next to him, and both of them went down.
Once more, Samantha blacked out and she knew that once again she would wake up with one hell of a migraine.
***
Danielle, on the other hand, was having quite a happy time. She stayed in the back of the group with Pintel and Ragetti and she was picking up coins and shoving them in her pockets. Now aren't we the greedy one...
After a while, Pintel and Ragetti grabbed a large wooden chest. Danielle looked at it and tried to suppress her laughter because she knew that all that was in it were some ladies dresses and parasols.
"Ten years of hoarding swag." Pintel said.
"And now we're finally getting to spend it!" Ragetti squeaked. They both started laughing in happiness.
Danielle decided not to tell them what was inside the chest. She thought it would be better if they found out for themselves.
The two dumped the chest over and a pile of clothes came pouring out. Their laughing definitely stopped. They both grabbed parasols and Danielle grabbed a nice dress.
Pintel then spoke. "Once we're quit of the curse, we'll be rich men..." he looked at Danielle who was staring at him like he was a disobedient child, "and women." He then turned to Ragetti who had his parasol open. "And you can buy an eye that actually fits and is made of glass."
Ragetti put his head down. "This one does splinter something terrible." He began rubbing his eye and Danielle, who was standing next to him, patted him on the back.
"Stop rubbing it." Pintel said in a whisper.
A large man walked by and stopped as he saw the three. Pintel waved, Ragetti just stood there, and Danielle smiled a big happy smile that was almost frightening. The man rolled his eyes at them and continued on his way.
Pintel then hit Ragetti with his parasol and he flinched. "Hey, you hit me too!" Danielle said. She then dropped her dress and looked around, knowing that Jack and Will should be there any time now.
Then Barbossa began to speak. "Gentlemen, the time has come! Salvation is nigh! Our torment is near at end."
Danielle looked around and realized that all the pirates were cheering. They were so excited to finally get this curse undone. Too bad that wouldn't happen now... or in the best of ways either. That's when Danielle remembered that Barbossa might not be too happy that Elizabeth's blood wouldn't work and he might come after Danielle because she should have told him.
"For ten years we've been tested and tried and each man here has proven his mettle a hundred times over and a hundred times again!" The men cheered at his words but Danielle began to get a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"Suffered I have!" Ragetti yelled.
"Punished we were. The lot of us - disproportionate to our crime. Here it is." Barbossa said as he threw off the lid to the Aztec chest of gold. Elizabeth looked down on it with wide eyes as Barbossa ran his fingers along it. "The cursed treasure of Cortez himself. Every last piece that went astray we have returned." He paused for a moment. "Save for that one!" He whipped around and pointed at the coin hanging from Elizabeth's neck.
All of a sudden, Danielle really wanted to touch the gold. She was fascinated by the gold in the movie and now, in real life, she was less that 30 feet away from it. As these thoughts crossed her mind, she glanced at Barbossa's monkey, who was sitting on a ledge. The monkey suddenly turned around and so did Danielle as it heard the sound of coins being moved. Danielle smiled, knowing that Jack and Will were there, but she couldn't seem to find them.
But Barbossa continued speaking. "And who among us had paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods?"
"Us!" The pirates yelled.
"And whose blood must yet be repaid?" Barbossa said.
"Hers!" The pirates yelled again. Elizabeth was really terrified and was positive that she was doomed by now.
"You know the first thing I'm goin' to do after the curse is lifted?!?" Barbossa yelled to the pirates, but then he turned to face Elizabeth and whispered, "Eat a whole bushel of apples." He then turned back to the crew and grabbed his knife. "Begun by blood, by blood undone!"
Barbossa sliced the knife across Elizabeth's hand and she looked up at him, confused. "That's it?"
"Waste not." Barbossa said as he dropped the medallion covered in Elizabeth's blood into the chest. And all that was left was the silent, hopeful anticipation of the pirates.
Then Danielle ran up to the front of the group of pirates and Pintel and Ragetti followed close behind. She had planned on telling Barbossa that her blood didn't work but one pirate spoke and grabbed Barbossa's attention. "Did it work?" Danielle stopped in her tracks, knowing that it was too late.
"I don't feel any different." Ragetti said as he looked down at himself.
"How do we tell?" Pintel then said.
Danielle watched as Barbossa rolled his eyes and grabbed his gun and shot Pintel right in the heart. Danielle screamed and looked at Pintel. Samantha would've heard Danielle, but she had been out cold for a while now. Danielle expected the gun shot but it still scared her.
"You're not dead." Another pirate said.
"No." Pintel said as he looked down at his chest. Then he realized his captain just shot him and he pointed at him. "He shot me!"
The pirate named Twigg then spoke. "It didn't work. The curse is still upon us!"
Barbossa gave Danielle one of the scariest glares she had ever seen but then he turned to Elizabeth. "You, maid. Your father, what was his name!?! Was your father William Turner?!?"
Elizabeth looked at him defiantly and said, "No."
"Where's his child?!? The child that came from England eight years ago, the child in whose veins flows the blood of William Turner. Where!?!" All she gave him was silence and he backhanded her, sending her falling down the other side of the hill of gold.
Danielle knew that on the other side of the hill, there would be her wannabe-husband, Will. Danielle tried to go up the hill but Barbossa stopped her and grabbed her by her throat. "Why didn't you tell me this would happen!?!" His grasp became tighter and tighter and Danielle's neck was in serious pain.
Meanwhile, the pirates were arguing with Danielle's two friends, Pintel and Ragetti.
Finally, Twigg yelled at Barbossa. "You brought us here for nothing!"
Barbossa, who was still standing at the top of the hill with Danielle, looked at Twigg and his grip loosened slightly. "I won't take questions and no second guesses now, Master Twigg."
"Who's to blame?!" Yelled one pirate. Every decision you've made has led us from bad to worse!"
Then another pirate spoke. "It was you who sent Bootstrap to the depths!"
Then the large man that had rolled his eyes at Danielle yelled at the captain. "And it's you who brought us here in the first place!"
Barbossa stared angrily at his crew and he dropped Danielle on the ground. She laid there on the gold coins trying to catch her breath. She was getting a headache and her vision was blurry.
"Any coward here dare challenge me, let him speak! Hmm?!" Barbossa whipped out his sword and yelled to them.
"I say, we cut her throat and spill all her blood, just in case!" One pirate yelled.
Danielle looked up at the monkey pointing at where Elizabeth had once been and Barbossa looked as well. Elizabeth was no longer there and the look on Barbossa's face was of pure anger and hatred. "The medallion! She's taken it! Well, after her you ingrates!!"
Most the pirates ran off and then it was just Barbossa and Danielle. "You wench!! You lied to me!!" He picked her up once again and once again she was struggling for breath.
"No...no..." She choked. "I...didn't."
"Yes, you did! You told me someone'll be showin' up. And they never did! And you never told me her blood wouldn't work!" He was practically choking on his anger.
"Someone...will...show up. And you... told me... you... would... only throw me...in the brig." Danielle looked at the evil captain pleadingly.
Barbossa pondered this for a moment. "Yer right. I did say that." He threw her down on the ground once more. "You're goin' to the brig. I'll deal with you later." He then had Pintel and Ragetti grab her by her arms and take her to the row boats, which at the time didn't have any oars.
As she and the two pirates walked past an opening they saw Jack Sparrow. He seemed to be walking around in a daze and Samantha was no where to be seen. But it's not like Danielle even knew she was there to begin with and besides, Samantha was still out cold.
Pintel looked up at Jack. "You. You're supposed to be dead." He along with the other pirates were staring in disbelief whereas Danielle had a pleasant smile on her face even though her neck hurt like hell.
"Am I not?" Jack said drunkenly as he looked down at himself. He grunted and then began to walk in the opposite direction but was stopped by pirates who were pointing guns in his face. Jack spun around to face Pintel and Ragetti and when he saw Danielle he smirked and took his hat off and bowed to her slightly.
He then looked back at the pirates. "Puhluley, puhlulehvoos, parleli, parsmi, parsley, partner, partner..."
"Parlay?" Ragetti said.
Jack smiled. "Parlay! That's the one! Parlay! Parlay!"
"Parlay!" Pintel glared furiously at Ragetti who was still holding Danielle. "Damned to the depths whatever man thought of parlay!"
"That would be the French!" Danielle chimed in.
"Precisely." Jack said.
Jack was then taken deeper into the cave and Danielle was handed off to two pirates who were still heading to the Pearl. Their orders were to put her into the brig. And that's exactly where she went.
"Shit. This is not good." She mumbled to herself as she was hauled away.
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Author's Note: We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Good tidings we bring to you and your kin. Good tidings for Christmas from the Caribbean!
And just to let you know (if you already didn't) to end any confusion, the chapter is split up into two parts because it's what the girls are doing at the same time but just in different places. Also, I've been told by more than one reviewer that Samantha and Danielle are very similar to themselves or friends... that's a good thing! I just wanted to make the characters a little more realistic. Anywho, read and review.
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Chapter 12: Everything Begins to Go Horribly Wrong
Samantha had fallen asleep during the storm and then later on, once the storm had subsided, Will came into her room and woke her up.
"Sammi, you've got to get up now. We're here." He lightly shook her shoulders, not really knowing any other way to wake her up without her yelling at him or becoming mad.
Samantha's eyes opened and she looked at Will. "The storm's over, right?" She looked at him, desperate for a "yes" answer.
"It is. Now come on, we're at the Isla de Muerta." Will walked away and Samantha stood up, stretched, and then followed close behind.
As they walked on deck, both of them saw that everyone on board was standing near the edges of the ship, looking at all the ship wrecks strewn in the water. There had to be at least a dozen, but Samantha was having trouble seeing any others because of the creeping fog that seemed envelope everything else in the distance. It was a cold fog that gave Samantha goosebumps as it wrapped around her.
Suddenly, Samantha heard Mr. Cotton's parrot say in a shrill, cracking way, "Dead men tell no tales."
Will and Samantha walked up next to Gibbs and stared at the debris of long lost ships with him. "Puts a chill in the bones how many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage." Gibbs said ominously.
Will turned around and watched as Jack, who was at the helm, quickly close his compass when Mr. Cotton was staring at him too much. "How is it that Jack came by that compass?" Will stood in front of Gibbs, blocking him off from the view of destroyed ships. Samantha, Gibbs, and Will stepped away from edge of the ship (which Samantha was kind of terrified of anyway) and they formed there own little trio away from the others.
"Not a lot known about Jack Sparrow before he showed up in Tortuga with a mind to go after the treasure of the Isla de Muerta." Gibbs began. "That was before I met him. Back when he was captain of the Black Pearl." Gibbs then took a sip of whatever alcoholic beverage (probably rum) that was in his canteen.
"What?" Said Will curiously. "He failed to mention that."
The older man's eyes became wide, as if he suddenly knew he shouldn't have said that, and he quickly put his canteen down. "Well, he plays things close to the vest now. And a hard learned lesson it was." Gibbs began to feel a little more comfortable with telling these two 'pirates' about Sparrow. "See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything's an equal share as should be the location of the treasure, too. So, Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die but not before he'd gone mad with the heat."
Suddenly, Will seemed to understand everything. "Ah. So that's the reason for the..." He stopped and did one of Jack's drunken staggers and movements.
That's when Samantha jumped in and completed Will's sentence. "drunken sways and the endless jiberish." Samantha should know all of this already, but remember, she never watched the movie.
"Reason's got nothin' to do with it." Gibbs said as all three sat down on a couple of barrels on deck. "Now Will... Samantha, when a man is marooned, he is given a pistol with a single shot. Well, it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of starvin' belly and thrist, that pistol starts to look real friendly." Gibbs pointed to his head to emphasize his point. "But Jack made it off the island and he still has the one shot. Oh, but he won't use it though, save for one man. His mutinous first mate."
Will seemed to know exactly what was going on (opposite of Samantha). "Barbossa."
"Aye." Gibbs said, shaking his head.
"How did Jack get off the island?" Will asked curiously.
"Well, I'll tell you." Gibbs leaned in closer to Samantha and Will and they leaned in closer as well. "He waded out into the shallows and there he waited three days and nights till all manner of sea creatures came and acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, harnessed them together and made a raft."
Will suddenly looked at him in disbelief. "He roped a couple of sea turtles?" He said indifferently. "What did he use for rope?"
Gibbs stopped for a moment and pondered that. It was like he never considered that before.
Jack suddenly came up to them from no where and looked down on the three. "Human hair, from my back. Let go of the anchor!" Jack yelled.
"Oh my God. That's disgusting." Samantha said to no one in particular.
Jack walked away and Gibbs, Samantha, and Will quickly followed.
"Young Mr. Turner, Sammi, and I are to go ashore." Jack said to Gibbs.
"But Captain, she's a woman! It's bad luck and you know that too! And what if the worst should happen?" Gibbs said.
"She IS still coming with us and if the worst should happen, keep to the code." Jack said, looking out at the island nearby.
"Aye the code." Gibbs said quietly.
Samantha and Will looked at each other for a moment and then at them suspiciously as they walked away.
Jack, Will, and Samantha stepped into a small rowboat which was then lowered into the water. Jack began to row while Samantha and Will sat there, wondering what would happen next.
As they entered the cave, Will noticed a skull sitting on a small ledge. "What code is Gibbs to keep to if the worst should happen?" Will was curious and so was Samantha as to what Gibbs and Jack were talking about back on the Interceptor.
"Pirate's Code." Jack said as he continued to row. "Any man that falls behind... is left behind."
"No heroes amongst thieves, eh?" Will said sarcastically.
"You know, for having such a bleak outlook on pirates, you're well on your way to becoming one. That goes for you too, Sammi. Sprung a man from jail, commandeered a ship of the fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga..." Jack, Samantha, and Will all look down at the gold beneath the boat. "...and you're both completely obsessed with treasure."
Samantha (who at this point still insisted she wasn't a pirate) didn't have any comment on that because she really did like treasure, but Will, on the other hand, did have a few words about it. "That's not true. I am not obsessed with treasure."
All three stepped out of the boat and onto the hard, rocky ground of the cave. They walked towards a small opening with Jack leading the way. They all looked in on the pirates from the Pearl, who were standing around Barbossa and Elizabeth. To bad Samantha didn't see Danielle who was standing in the shadows with Pintel and Ragetti.
"Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate." Jack said.
Will's eyes became large when he saw who stood on top of the pile with Barbossa. "Elizabeth." He said quietly. Barbossa was then saying something, which Samantha wasn't quite paying attention to, but Will seemed to hear it and he scrambled up, upsetting some of the treasure. He didn't know that at that moment, Barbossa's monkey heard the noise and glanced over in their direction.
Samantha watched as Jack pulled Will back down and spoke to him in a hushed voice. "Not yet. We wait for the opportune moment." Jack got up and scrambled away with Samantha and Will following close behind.
Will was suddenly overcome with anger and completely forgot about what Samantha said to him the previous night about waiting to save Elizabeth first. "When's that? When it's of greatest profit for you?"
Samantha, who was on the other side of Jack, looked at Will and her eyes became wide and she put her finger up to her mouth to signal for him to be quiet.
"May I ask you something?" Jack said to Will. "Have I ever given you reason not to trust me?"
"Um, yes." Samantha said, interrupting Jack.
But he ignored her and continued speaking. "Do us a favor, I know it's difficult for you but please stay here... and try not to do anything stupid."
Jack turned around and walked away and he grabbed Samantha's arm and dragged her along with him. "Hey, wait! I'm coming with you but he can't? Why?!?"
"Because, now let's go." He continued pulling her along, leaving Will behind staring at Jack in a not-so-nice way.
Jack brought Samantha to another opening near by and they peered out. "Why did you leave Will there, Jack?" Samantha already had a feeling of what Jack was going to do, which was use him as leverage, but she wanted to hear it from Jack himself.
But before Jack could answer, Will came around the corner with an oar in his hands and hit Jack right in the back of the head... but consequently he hit Samantha as well, who was standing right next to him, and both of them went down.
Once more, Samantha blacked out and she knew that once again she would wake up with one hell of a migraine.
***
Danielle, on the other hand, was having quite a happy time. She stayed in the back of the group with Pintel and Ragetti and she was picking up coins and shoving them in her pockets. Now aren't we the greedy one...
After a while, Pintel and Ragetti grabbed a large wooden chest. Danielle looked at it and tried to suppress her laughter because she knew that all that was in it were some ladies dresses and parasols.
"Ten years of hoarding swag." Pintel said.
"And now we're finally getting to spend it!" Ragetti squeaked. They both started laughing in happiness.
Danielle decided not to tell them what was inside the chest. She thought it would be better if they found out for themselves.
The two dumped the chest over and a pile of clothes came pouring out. Their laughing definitely stopped. They both grabbed parasols and Danielle grabbed a nice dress.
Pintel then spoke. "Once we're quit of the curse, we'll be rich men..." he looked at Danielle who was staring at him like he was a disobedient child, "and women." He then turned to Ragetti who had his parasol open. "And you can buy an eye that actually fits and is made of glass."
Ragetti put his head down. "This one does splinter something terrible." He began rubbing his eye and Danielle, who was standing next to him, patted him on the back.
"Stop rubbing it." Pintel said in a whisper.
A large man walked by and stopped as he saw the three. Pintel waved, Ragetti just stood there, and Danielle smiled a big happy smile that was almost frightening. The man rolled his eyes at them and continued on his way.
Pintel then hit Ragetti with his parasol and he flinched. "Hey, you hit me too!" Danielle said. She then dropped her dress and looked around, knowing that Jack and Will should be there any time now.
Then Barbossa began to speak. "Gentlemen, the time has come! Salvation is nigh! Our torment is near at end."
Danielle looked around and realized that all the pirates were cheering. They were so excited to finally get this curse undone. Too bad that wouldn't happen now... or in the best of ways either. That's when Danielle remembered that Barbossa might not be too happy that Elizabeth's blood wouldn't work and he might come after Danielle because she should have told him.
"For ten years we've been tested and tried and each man here has proven his mettle a hundred times over and a hundred times again!" The men cheered at his words but Danielle began to get a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"Suffered I have!" Ragetti yelled.
"Punished we were. The lot of us - disproportionate to our crime. Here it is." Barbossa said as he threw off the lid to the Aztec chest of gold. Elizabeth looked down on it with wide eyes as Barbossa ran his fingers along it. "The cursed treasure of Cortez himself. Every last piece that went astray we have returned." He paused for a moment. "Save for that one!" He whipped around and pointed at the coin hanging from Elizabeth's neck.
All of a sudden, Danielle really wanted to touch the gold. She was fascinated by the gold in the movie and now, in real life, she was less that 30 feet away from it. As these thoughts crossed her mind, she glanced at Barbossa's monkey, who was sitting on a ledge. The monkey suddenly turned around and so did Danielle as it heard the sound of coins being moved. Danielle smiled, knowing that Jack and Will were there, but she couldn't seem to find them.
But Barbossa continued speaking. "And who among us had paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods?"
"Us!" The pirates yelled.
"And whose blood must yet be repaid?" Barbossa said.
"Hers!" The pirates yelled again. Elizabeth was really terrified and was positive that she was doomed by now.
"You know the first thing I'm goin' to do after the curse is lifted?!?" Barbossa yelled to the pirates, but then he turned to face Elizabeth and whispered, "Eat a whole bushel of apples." He then turned back to the crew and grabbed his knife. "Begun by blood, by blood undone!"
Barbossa sliced the knife across Elizabeth's hand and she looked up at him, confused. "That's it?"
"Waste not." Barbossa said as he dropped the medallion covered in Elizabeth's blood into the chest. And all that was left was the silent, hopeful anticipation of the pirates.
Then Danielle ran up to the front of the group of pirates and Pintel and Ragetti followed close behind. She had planned on telling Barbossa that her blood didn't work but one pirate spoke and grabbed Barbossa's attention. "Did it work?" Danielle stopped in her tracks, knowing that it was too late.
"I don't feel any different." Ragetti said as he looked down at himself.
"How do we tell?" Pintel then said.
Danielle watched as Barbossa rolled his eyes and grabbed his gun and shot Pintel right in the heart. Danielle screamed and looked at Pintel. Samantha would've heard Danielle, but she had been out cold for a while now. Danielle expected the gun shot but it still scared her.
"You're not dead." Another pirate said.
"No." Pintel said as he looked down at his chest. Then he realized his captain just shot him and he pointed at him. "He shot me!"
The pirate named Twigg then spoke. "It didn't work. The curse is still upon us!"
Barbossa gave Danielle one of the scariest glares she had ever seen but then he turned to Elizabeth. "You, maid. Your father, what was his name!?! Was your father William Turner?!?"
Elizabeth looked at him defiantly and said, "No."
"Where's his child?!? The child that came from England eight years ago, the child in whose veins flows the blood of William Turner. Where!?!" All she gave him was silence and he backhanded her, sending her falling down the other side of the hill of gold.
Danielle knew that on the other side of the hill, there would be her wannabe-husband, Will. Danielle tried to go up the hill but Barbossa stopped her and grabbed her by her throat. "Why didn't you tell me this would happen!?!" His grasp became tighter and tighter and Danielle's neck was in serious pain.
Meanwhile, the pirates were arguing with Danielle's two friends, Pintel and Ragetti.
Finally, Twigg yelled at Barbossa. "You brought us here for nothing!"
Barbossa, who was still standing at the top of the hill with Danielle, looked at Twigg and his grip loosened slightly. "I won't take questions and no second guesses now, Master Twigg."
"Who's to blame?!" Yelled one pirate. Every decision you've made has led us from bad to worse!"
Then another pirate spoke. "It was you who sent Bootstrap to the depths!"
Then the large man that had rolled his eyes at Danielle yelled at the captain. "And it's you who brought us here in the first place!"
Barbossa stared angrily at his crew and he dropped Danielle on the ground. She laid there on the gold coins trying to catch her breath. She was getting a headache and her vision was blurry.
"Any coward here dare challenge me, let him speak! Hmm?!" Barbossa whipped out his sword and yelled to them.
"I say, we cut her throat and spill all her blood, just in case!" One pirate yelled.
Danielle looked up at the monkey pointing at where Elizabeth had once been and Barbossa looked as well. Elizabeth was no longer there and the look on Barbossa's face was of pure anger and hatred. "The medallion! She's taken it! Well, after her you ingrates!!"
Most the pirates ran off and then it was just Barbossa and Danielle. "You wench!! You lied to me!!" He picked her up once again and once again she was struggling for breath.
"No...no..." She choked. "I...didn't."
"Yes, you did! You told me someone'll be showin' up. And they never did! And you never told me her blood wouldn't work!" He was practically choking on his anger.
"Someone...will...show up. And you... told me... you... would... only throw me...in the brig." Danielle looked at the evil captain pleadingly.
Barbossa pondered this for a moment. "Yer right. I did say that." He threw her down on the ground once more. "You're goin' to the brig. I'll deal with you later." He then had Pintel and Ragetti grab her by her arms and take her to the row boats, which at the time didn't have any oars.
As she and the two pirates walked past an opening they saw Jack Sparrow. He seemed to be walking around in a daze and Samantha was no where to be seen. But it's not like Danielle even knew she was there to begin with and besides, Samantha was still out cold.
Pintel looked up at Jack. "You. You're supposed to be dead." He along with the other pirates were staring in disbelief whereas Danielle had a pleasant smile on her face even though her neck hurt like hell.
"Am I not?" Jack said drunkenly as he looked down at himself. He grunted and then began to walk in the opposite direction but was stopped by pirates who were pointing guns in his face. Jack spun around to face Pintel and Ragetti and when he saw Danielle he smirked and took his hat off and bowed to her slightly.
He then looked back at the pirates. "Puhluley, puhlulehvoos, parleli, parsmi, parsley, partner, partner..."
"Parlay?" Ragetti said.
Jack smiled. "Parlay! That's the one! Parlay! Parlay!"
"Parlay!" Pintel glared furiously at Ragetti who was still holding Danielle. "Damned to the depths whatever man thought of parlay!"
"That would be the French!" Danielle chimed in.
"Precisely." Jack said.
Jack was then taken deeper into the cave and Danielle was handed off to two pirates who were still heading to the Pearl. Their orders were to put her into the brig. And that's exactly where she went.
"Shit. This is not good." She mumbled to herself as she was hauled away.
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