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"Cap'in, we hate little children, why are they on board?" a scrawny man asked the dark Captain. The Captain leered,

"Because!" he pinched the scrawny man's ear, "Then The Black Pearl will follow us…" he whispered,

"Why do ye want 'em to follow us?" the scrawny man asked, he was not very bright.

"Because we're going to a island where no one knows, so there is no hiding! And I have a few questions for Jack Sparrow…" he smiled cruelly, "and… I think I may have a few things to settle with his bonnie lass…"

"Ah ha… Brilliant Cap'in!" the scrawny man laughed.

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"Ellie it smells in here," Peter complained from the inside of a cage, Ellie nursed her wound on her head,

"I know." She said from inside of another cage opposite him. Peter rattled the door, Ellie sighed, "It's no use, I tried before. The hinges are fitted, then welded again. Uncle Will told us if it's done like that, you'd need a key." Peter sat on the ground, and reduced to pushing bits of straw around. Their new swords were taken from them, so they had no weapons, or so Peter thought. Ellie pulled a long hair pin out of her hair, and a knife out of her boot, "Pete!" she whispered, and pointed at her knife, Peter's face lit up for a while,

"But that's two against…"

"Many, I know. But first, we could get out of the cages…" she thought positively, and pushed the hair pin into the lock, Pete crossed his fingers, and they heard a click. Ellie's cage unlocked, she crawled out and unlocked her brother's cage.

"Why are ye so smart?" he grinned, Ellie smiled slyly,

"I listen to mother."

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