Disclaimer : After 12 Chapters of this story you'd think I'd own something... but guess what. NOPE! I own Cat and the Isle of Spirits, but I don't own Jack, Will, Elizabeth, the Pearl, the Revenge, Sparrow's crew, that blasted parrot (I miss him right now - can't wait to get the good ol' parrot back!!), ol' Blackey's cronies, or Blackbeard. Scraight up, yo. Pretty much what I am sayin' - just don't sue me. I'm broke and I ain't makin' no money off 'a this.
Wow - one loooooong disclaimer - onto the story!!
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Chapter 13 - Of Bites and Sightings
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"Ye scurvy swabs!" Jack got into a stance and twirled the sword around.
Catharine rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Is he always like this?" Xin asked as he motioned for the other skeletons to surround the two humans.
"Actually - this is him sober if you can believe it." Cat eyed a skeleton to her far left. He made a move and Cat stabbed him right through the middle. The skeleton looked down; the sword had gone between two bones of the ribcage. The skeleton looked back up and its eyes began to glow as if a fire had been lit in its eye sockets.
Catharine reared back, pulling the sword out from the grasp of the skeleton.
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"I resent tha' remar - Holy Mary o' the Seas." Jack's eyes opened wide as all the skeletons' eyes began to glow.
"Kill them..." Xin growled as he leapt forward. The skeletons all jumped in for the attack.
"I think they want ter dance, aye." Jack said calmly as he watched a skeleton throw a dagger aimed for his heart. He swished the sword across his upper body, knocking the dagger to the ground. The skeleton lunged, Jack rolled. And Jack became the victor with an extra weapon in his grasp.
"Sorry, mate. Bones slowin' ye down?" He, in turn, threw the dagger back at the skeleton. The skeleton lifted its hands up to its forehead, to block the dagger. The small knife went through three layers of bone into the head of the skeleton. The dagger went through both hands and into the cranium. The skeleton tried to yank its hands down but the dagger kept them in place. It began to run at Jack, who was already dealing with three other pirates.
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"DeVries... " A twirl and a block from the Master. "Wrong move, girl." He swung the weapon madly in her direction.
Cat winced as Master Xin came across her head with the hilt of the saber. She dropped her sword and watched as a skeleton picked it up. Its blazing eyes gleaming in delight.
"No fair!" Cat rolled from the attack of both Xin and the skeleton. She stood up and realized she had cornered herself. Cat made an abrupt 180-degree turn in the other direction and ran right into a pistol pointed between her eyes. A few more skeletons had joined in now that they had seen her without a weapon. A woman with no weapon and five bright-eyed skeletons equipped to the full. "Damn."
"Kitty. On my honor as a samurai - " Xin began.
"Former samurai." Cat corrected. She took a step back and sighed. There was no way out. The number of skeletons made it impossible for her to move.
Xin's eyes glowed even brighter as Cat shielded her eyes for a second. "As I was saying... on my honor as a samurai... we will kill you with one bullet to the head. Quick and painless."
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"Ye bloody idiot... do ye not see that that's me arm?!" Jack screamed at a skeleton that was biting his arm. He ripped away from the skeleton with its hands stuck to its head. Jack swung the sword and lopped off its head and along with its head came part of its arms below the elbows. He then turned on his heel and elbowed the closest skeleton to him and sliced him down the middle, cutting it in two. And the last few skeletons he grabbed by the skull and smashed them into each other. He looked around to see if any more were coming his way.
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"Oh, would you?" Cat smiled and cocked her head to the side.
"I think she's being facetious." One of the skeletons whispered.
"Hey Sebastian woulj'a be ever so kind as ta use words we all migh' understan'?" The skeleton that was holding the pistol to Catharine's head looked back to the skeleton that had just talked.
Cat saw her chance. She kicked the pistol out of the skeleton's hand, but not before it went off and began to bounce around the cavern.
"Sarcastic." Cat said as she ducked from the bullet. "Facetious. Sarcastic."
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Jack had hid behind a boulder as soon as he had saw that no other bone-bags were after him. He watched as the pistol went off and ducked just in time before it was he with the hole in the head. The bullet bounced off the wall behind him and as soon as Jack had sat back up, it hit him in the arm. A howl of pain escaped his mouth.
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Xin had Cat by the neck up against a wall when the sound of a dying animal shook the cave.
"Earth Spirits, master... they're comin'!" The skeletons all began to scatter, except for Xin.
"Looks like it's just you and me, dear Kitty." If Xin had had lips, there would have curved into a smile. "I think some of the boys got the Captain."
"Do you know what kind of luck that *Captain* has? Poseidon watches over Captain Sparrow - nothing can kill him." Cat struggled to breathe as the bony fingers scrapped against her throat, and yet she still got the words out.
"Well, he may not die, but you will." The fingers dug deeper into her flesh, cutting off her air supply. Cat tried to scratch at the fingers, but there was nothing to grab onto to pull the fingers away from her throat. Black spots began to slowly appear and Xin's voice began to slur. And as soon as the black spots appeared, they disappeared.
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"Get yer slimy hands off o' her." Jack used his good arm and came down onto Xin's upper arm with a sword. Xin looked at Jack in awe as Cat collapsed to the ground. "What's wrong? One bloody bullet isn't goin' ter scare ol' Jack away now is it." Jack motioned down at his bleeding arm. "But, ye need ter tell yer boys that bitin' isn't in the swordfightin' books."
"And I suppose you have read them all, Jack?" Xin looked down at his deformed arms. "That is ... if you *can* read." The skeleton's eyes glowed and looked down at Jack's bleeding arm.
"Thassit!! I can't take all these 'Jack can't read' insul's!" Jack stuck the end of the sword into the ground and leaned up against the hilt. "Guess I'm just goin' ter 'ave ter kill ye now, mate. My apologies ter such a wonderful sammy-rye." He lifted the sword and began to swing, chopping off a small bit of the Master slowly and surely. Xin could barely put up a fight without his hands.
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Cat slowly opened her eyes and looked up at Jack nursing a wound on his arm. She sat up and let her eyes slowly focus to the bits and pieces of bones scattered throughout the cave.
"What happened?" Cat mumbled, leaning against a small rock nearby.
"Would ye believe it but one o' them skeleton's bit me arm and then tha' bloody bullet hit in the exact same place. 'urts like bloody 'ell it does." Jack said as he showed off his battle scar.
Cat slowly turned her head and looked at Jack. "I didn't mean you. I meant what happened here? You beat Master Xin?"
"Thanks for carin', luv." Jack sighed and stood up.
"Any ol' time, Captain." Cat pushed herself up to a standing position as well.
"Sliced 'im up a bit, I did." The Captain said as he acted it out for Cat. Giving each tiny bit of detail.
"Have you found an exit, other than the one we used to enter?" Cat rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and yawned.
"Nay. Thinkin' we might 'ave ter go and visit the big sharp-toothed flounders again. And this time let me do all the talkin', aye?" Jack gave her a toothy grin. The gold in his mouth shining and his dark eyes sparkling.
"Right." Cat said with a laugh.
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"Luv! Come'ere! Light!" Jack's voice bounced over the walls and rang in Cat's ears.
"Coming!" Cat ran towards his voice and saw a ray of sun filtered into the cave. "A way out!"
"Thassa what I jus' said." Jack raised a hand and pointed a gnarled finger at her. "Don't be takin' my credit fer findin' it. Now I'm goin' ter 'elp ye out... watch me arm, luv, the arm." Jack lifted Cat up out of the cave. "Now, if ye'll be so kind as ter 'elp me. The arm! Ow!"
"Sorry..." Cat pulled him out. When they were both on soft ground again, they happily took in a breath of fresh air.
"Jack look!" Cat pointed across a cliff. "We're on the other side of the cliff!"
"And look down, luv. We're not welcome ter be on this side." Jack pointed down to his and her feet. The grass at their feet was a beautiful, lush green color that was slowly fading into a dull, gray dead color.
"Earth Spirits again." Jack muttered. He pulled himself and Cat off of the grass. The grass slowly turned back into its lush green color. "If we can 'elp it, let's not walk on the grass. Don't want another rockslide, do we?"
"No." Cat smiled, but her smile slowly faded when she looked behind Jack. A small green goblin, with pointy ears, was climbing in a tree. "Uh... "
"What is it?"
Cat just shrugged. The goblin looked at Cat and Jack and bared its small green teeth. "Doesn't look dangerous." The goblin pulled a branch from the tree and began to beat the tree with it, making a small smacking sound. After smacking it a few times, it pointed the branch at Jack and Cat and blew into one side. Shards of wood came flying towards them.
Jack yanked Cat down, and she fell onto his arm. "Yeow! Watch the arm, luv, 'ow many times do I - "
Cat pushed Jack over, rolling on his arm again. They just barely missed being hit by more splinters. "Stop it!" Jack yelled in agony.
"Do you want to get killed by wood?" Cat didn't wait for his answer. "Now shut that hole in your face!!" She yanked him up and stepped back onto the grass. Jack watched as wherever they stepped the grass began to die again.
"Luv, please... " Jack pleaded, not wanting to have to deal with anything except the pain in his arm.
"Shh!" Cat continued to run.
"What are we - "
"YOU'LL SEE!! If my memory serves me right... and all the stories that my father told me are true... then... aha!" Cat stopped dead in her tracks.
"Mother of Mary, what is it now, eh?" Jack whimpered running into Cat, knocking them both down, and hurting his arm more.
"The fire temple... " Cat whispered as she got up and brushed herself off. She then pulled Jack onto a red marble staircase and off of the dead grass. Jack's head slowly tilted back as he looked at the great structure in front of him.
The temple went up as far as the eye could see. The structure was built from a dark red stone that he had never seen before that was similar to marble. Smooth and cool. He ran his hand along the railing from the stairs leading up to the double doors.
"Why is the stone not hot?" Jack asked, as he began to walk up the stairs.
"The heat is all inside... " Cat followed the Captain up the steep stairs to the door.
"Can't wait." He turned back to face Cat. What he saw made him want to run in fear. What was supposed to be Catharine 'The Black Cat' DeVries, was now the laughing face of Captain Barbossa. Jack slowly backed away from the site.
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A/N : 'Eyes like the sea before a storm' is from The Princess Bride, eh? I just read the first chapter and there it was... lmao... I don't even remember what I write half the time.
I'm sorry that not all of my stuff is original (like I knew what I was doing about the left-handed sword fighting), when I get writer's block I read, listen to music, or watch a movie. And then when I start to write again, I find that I have some ideas and I just keep going ... I honestly don't remember that line being in the movie or book. So - if people don't like seeing things from different places - I am sorry - I swear that it is all subconscious (unless I intentionally put something in, and that is very rare).
Well... darn it... can't blame me for trying not to make this a cliffhanger. I promise that I tried to not make it one. I know that you all are probably getting rather angry with me for all the wonderful cliffies I am leaving you with. So sorry!!
But, hey, ye'll all get over it... right? Well - if not - it's off to the planks with ye!! ARGH! *cough* Sorry...
Wow - one loooooong disclaimer - onto the story!!
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Chapter 13 - Of Bites and Sightings
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"Ye scurvy swabs!" Jack got into a stance and twirled the sword around.
Catharine rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Is he always like this?" Xin asked as he motioned for the other skeletons to surround the two humans.
"Actually - this is him sober if you can believe it." Cat eyed a skeleton to her far left. He made a move and Cat stabbed him right through the middle. The skeleton looked down; the sword had gone between two bones of the ribcage. The skeleton looked back up and its eyes began to glow as if a fire had been lit in its eye sockets.
Catharine reared back, pulling the sword out from the grasp of the skeleton.
******
"I resent tha' remar - Holy Mary o' the Seas." Jack's eyes opened wide as all the skeletons' eyes began to glow.
"Kill them..." Xin growled as he leapt forward. The skeletons all jumped in for the attack.
"I think they want ter dance, aye." Jack said calmly as he watched a skeleton throw a dagger aimed for his heart. He swished the sword across his upper body, knocking the dagger to the ground. The skeleton lunged, Jack rolled. And Jack became the victor with an extra weapon in his grasp.
"Sorry, mate. Bones slowin' ye down?" He, in turn, threw the dagger back at the skeleton. The skeleton lifted its hands up to its forehead, to block the dagger. The small knife went through three layers of bone into the head of the skeleton. The dagger went through both hands and into the cranium. The skeleton tried to yank its hands down but the dagger kept them in place. It began to run at Jack, who was already dealing with three other pirates.
******
"DeVries... " A twirl and a block from the Master. "Wrong move, girl." He swung the weapon madly in her direction.
Cat winced as Master Xin came across her head with the hilt of the saber. She dropped her sword and watched as a skeleton picked it up. Its blazing eyes gleaming in delight.
"No fair!" Cat rolled from the attack of both Xin and the skeleton. She stood up and realized she had cornered herself. Cat made an abrupt 180-degree turn in the other direction and ran right into a pistol pointed between her eyes. A few more skeletons had joined in now that they had seen her without a weapon. A woman with no weapon and five bright-eyed skeletons equipped to the full. "Damn."
"Kitty. On my honor as a samurai - " Xin began.
"Former samurai." Cat corrected. She took a step back and sighed. There was no way out. The number of skeletons made it impossible for her to move.
Xin's eyes glowed even brighter as Cat shielded her eyes for a second. "As I was saying... on my honor as a samurai... we will kill you with one bullet to the head. Quick and painless."
******
"Ye bloody idiot... do ye not see that that's me arm?!" Jack screamed at a skeleton that was biting his arm. He ripped away from the skeleton with its hands stuck to its head. Jack swung the sword and lopped off its head and along with its head came part of its arms below the elbows. He then turned on his heel and elbowed the closest skeleton to him and sliced him down the middle, cutting it in two. And the last few skeletons he grabbed by the skull and smashed them into each other. He looked around to see if any more were coming his way.
******
"Oh, would you?" Cat smiled and cocked her head to the side.
"I think she's being facetious." One of the skeletons whispered.
"Hey Sebastian woulj'a be ever so kind as ta use words we all migh' understan'?" The skeleton that was holding the pistol to Catharine's head looked back to the skeleton that had just talked.
Cat saw her chance. She kicked the pistol out of the skeleton's hand, but not before it went off and began to bounce around the cavern.
"Sarcastic." Cat said as she ducked from the bullet. "Facetious. Sarcastic."
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Jack had hid behind a boulder as soon as he had saw that no other bone-bags were after him. He watched as the pistol went off and ducked just in time before it was he with the hole in the head. The bullet bounced off the wall behind him and as soon as Jack had sat back up, it hit him in the arm. A howl of pain escaped his mouth.
******
Xin had Cat by the neck up against a wall when the sound of a dying animal shook the cave.
"Earth Spirits, master... they're comin'!" The skeletons all began to scatter, except for Xin.
"Looks like it's just you and me, dear Kitty." If Xin had had lips, there would have curved into a smile. "I think some of the boys got the Captain."
"Do you know what kind of luck that *Captain* has? Poseidon watches over Captain Sparrow - nothing can kill him." Cat struggled to breathe as the bony fingers scrapped against her throat, and yet she still got the words out.
"Well, he may not die, but you will." The fingers dug deeper into her flesh, cutting off her air supply. Cat tried to scratch at the fingers, but there was nothing to grab onto to pull the fingers away from her throat. Black spots began to slowly appear and Xin's voice began to slur. And as soon as the black spots appeared, they disappeared.
******
"Get yer slimy hands off o' her." Jack used his good arm and came down onto Xin's upper arm with a sword. Xin looked at Jack in awe as Cat collapsed to the ground. "What's wrong? One bloody bullet isn't goin' ter scare ol' Jack away now is it." Jack motioned down at his bleeding arm. "But, ye need ter tell yer boys that bitin' isn't in the swordfightin' books."
"And I suppose you have read them all, Jack?" Xin looked down at his deformed arms. "That is ... if you *can* read." The skeleton's eyes glowed and looked down at Jack's bleeding arm.
"Thassit!! I can't take all these 'Jack can't read' insul's!" Jack stuck the end of the sword into the ground and leaned up against the hilt. "Guess I'm just goin' ter 'ave ter kill ye now, mate. My apologies ter such a wonderful sammy-rye." He lifted the sword and began to swing, chopping off a small bit of the Master slowly and surely. Xin could barely put up a fight without his hands.
******
Cat slowly opened her eyes and looked up at Jack nursing a wound on his arm. She sat up and let her eyes slowly focus to the bits and pieces of bones scattered throughout the cave.
"What happened?" Cat mumbled, leaning against a small rock nearby.
"Would ye believe it but one o' them skeleton's bit me arm and then tha' bloody bullet hit in the exact same place. 'urts like bloody 'ell it does." Jack said as he showed off his battle scar.
Cat slowly turned her head and looked at Jack. "I didn't mean you. I meant what happened here? You beat Master Xin?"
"Thanks for carin', luv." Jack sighed and stood up.
"Any ol' time, Captain." Cat pushed herself up to a standing position as well.
"Sliced 'im up a bit, I did." The Captain said as he acted it out for Cat. Giving each tiny bit of detail.
"Have you found an exit, other than the one we used to enter?" Cat rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and yawned.
"Nay. Thinkin' we might 'ave ter go and visit the big sharp-toothed flounders again. And this time let me do all the talkin', aye?" Jack gave her a toothy grin. The gold in his mouth shining and his dark eyes sparkling.
"Right." Cat said with a laugh.
******
"Luv! Come'ere! Light!" Jack's voice bounced over the walls and rang in Cat's ears.
"Coming!" Cat ran towards his voice and saw a ray of sun filtered into the cave. "A way out!"
"Thassa what I jus' said." Jack raised a hand and pointed a gnarled finger at her. "Don't be takin' my credit fer findin' it. Now I'm goin' ter 'elp ye out... watch me arm, luv, the arm." Jack lifted Cat up out of the cave. "Now, if ye'll be so kind as ter 'elp me. The arm! Ow!"
"Sorry..." Cat pulled him out. When they were both on soft ground again, they happily took in a breath of fresh air.
"Jack look!" Cat pointed across a cliff. "We're on the other side of the cliff!"
"And look down, luv. We're not welcome ter be on this side." Jack pointed down to his and her feet. The grass at their feet was a beautiful, lush green color that was slowly fading into a dull, gray dead color.
"Earth Spirits again." Jack muttered. He pulled himself and Cat off of the grass. The grass slowly turned back into its lush green color. "If we can 'elp it, let's not walk on the grass. Don't want another rockslide, do we?"
"No." Cat smiled, but her smile slowly faded when she looked behind Jack. A small green goblin, with pointy ears, was climbing in a tree. "Uh... "
"What is it?"
Cat just shrugged. The goblin looked at Cat and Jack and bared its small green teeth. "Doesn't look dangerous." The goblin pulled a branch from the tree and began to beat the tree with it, making a small smacking sound. After smacking it a few times, it pointed the branch at Jack and Cat and blew into one side. Shards of wood came flying towards them.
Jack yanked Cat down, and she fell onto his arm. "Yeow! Watch the arm, luv, 'ow many times do I - "
Cat pushed Jack over, rolling on his arm again. They just barely missed being hit by more splinters. "Stop it!" Jack yelled in agony.
"Do you want to get killed by wood?" Cat didn't wait for his answer. "Now shut that hole in your face!!" She yanked him up and stepped back onto the grass. Jack watched as wherever they stepped the grass began to die again.
"Luv, please... " Jack pleaded, not wanting to have to deal with anything except the pain in his arm.
"Shh!" Cat continued to run.
"What are we - "
"YOU'LL SEE!! If my memory serves me right... and all the stories that my father told me are true... then... aha!" Cat stopped dead in her tracks.
"Mother of Mary, what is it now, eh?" Jack whimpered running into Cat, knocking them both down, and hurting his arm more.
"The fire temple... " Cat whispered as she got up and brushed herself off. She then pulled Jack onto a red marble staircase and off of the dead grass. Jack's head slowly tilted back as he looked at the great structure in front of him.
The temple went up as far as the eye could see. The structure was built from a dark red stone that he had never seen before that was similar to marble. Smooth and cool. He ran his hand along the railing from the stairs leading up to the double doors.
"Why is the stone not hot?" Jack asked, as he began to walk up the stairs.
"The heat is all inside... " Cat followed the Captain up the steep stairs to the door.
"Can't wait." He turned back to face Cat. What he saw made him want to run in fear. What was supposed to be Catharine 'The Black Cat' DeVries, was now the laughing face of Captain Barbossa. Jack slowly backed away from the site.
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A/N : 'Eyes like the sea before a storm' is from The Princess Bride, eh? I just read the first chapter and there it was... lmao... I don't even remember what I write half the time.
I'm sorry that not all of my stuff is original (like I knew what I was doing about the left-handed sword fighting), when I get writer's block I read, listen to music, or watch a movie. And then when I start to write again, I find that I have some ideas and I just keep going ... I honestly don't remember that line being in the movie or book. So - if people don't like seeing things from different places - I am sorry - I swear that it is all subconscious (unless I intentionally put something in, and that is very rare).
Well... darn it... can't blame me for trying not to make this a cliffhanger. I promise that I tried to not make it one. I know that you all are probably getting rather angry with me for all the wonderful cliffies I am leaving you with. So sorry!!
But, hey, ye'll all get over it... right? Well - if not - it's off to the planks with ye!! ARGH! *cough* Sorry...