Disclaimer : I don't own, nor do I claim to own anything that is not mine. Everything belongs to Disney.
A few of you will be very happy with this chapter. :) Not just two characters.
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Chapter 14 - The Red and Silver Temples
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"Argh, this be the second ter las' obstacle, eh, Jack? Think'a how well we've done ter not 'ave died... yet." Barbossa's eyes lit up and he began to laugh. The laugh chilled Jack to the core. His eyes opened wide and like a flash he turned to run up the red marble staircase.
*Cat 'as been Barbossa all along?* Jack's mind swam with all the thoughts that flooded it. He reached the double doors at the top of the stairs.
"Jack!" Jack paid no attention to Barbossa's voice as he pushed the doors open. He made a mad dash into the temple, but then like a bolt of lightening the heat hit him. It slowed him down and he had only made it two steps into the temple.
"Jack have you gone crazy!? Stop!" It was Cat's voice. Not Barbossa's. "What in God's name... oh... " The heat hit Cat too and she fell to the floor.
"You... Barbossa." Jack fought to breathe. The hot air was constricting his lungs.
"What?" Cat whispered as she moved back towards the door, the heat slowly dying. Jack followed her.
"You turned into me first mate, luv. Barbossa. Ye know - the mutinous one." Jack took a deep breath of the cooler air closer to the door.
"I did not." Catharine said defiantly. "I was talking to you and then you just-"
"They've started ter play tricks on us... " Jack looked at the inside of the temple. On all the walls, as well as the ceiling and floor, it was as if fire was just on the other side. The room gave off a red glow, and the heat was out of this world.
"Who?"
"Spirits. Playin' tricks with me mind. Just wait until I get a-holt o' one o' them Spirits. I'll cut 'em up-"
Cat didn't hear the many different ways Jack would kill the Spirits, she was too busy watching the small green goblins run up the marble staircase.
"Um, Jack?" Cat put her hand on the madly swinging arm of the Captain.
"And then after all that I'll... yes, luv?" Jack looked over her shoulder and saw what she saw. "We run, then?"
"First, help me shut the doors." Jack and Cat pushed the doors closed and as soon as the doors shut, the horrible heat hit them again. They slowly walked away from the door. The heat too thick and unmerciful to let them do much more.
Sweat began to bead up on Cat's brow. If she had had anymore energy, she would have wiped it off. And just as quick as the heat had came, it left as soon as they were right in the center.
"If thassall the fire temple's got-" Jack started, but was interrupted by the cracking of the floor underneath him. "Mm-hm. Think I angered it a bit, savvy?"
The floor began to crack even more, and Jack and Cat slowly backed away thinking that the floor would slowly crack open and drop them down.
They were almost right.
Instead of the floor slowly cracking open, it madly jerked knocking Cat and Jack off of its top.
Jack fell onto a ledge, but Cat did not have such luck. The heat began to grow as she saw the fire pit that she was about to fall into. But before her brain registered her death, a hand shot out from a lower ledge stopping her from falling into a grave of fire. She let out a whoosh of air and passed out from the fright.
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"Oh, she will be perfectly fine." The voice of a woman floated into Catharine's ears.
"Promise? It was different when she nearly got us killed by the fish; she's a woman-"
"Hmph!" The woman's voice was irritated, but amused nonetheless.
"But, 'ad I not made the mistake an' insulted the temple, she'd be alrigh'." The voice sounded familiar, but she was still lost in a deep sleep.
"Did you not see the sign? It was on the other side of the room - 'do NOT walk in the center of the room for fear of painful death' - plain as the nose on your face." Another familiar voice tsked. A male voice.
"Sorry, too busy feelin' like I was goin' ter die an early death from the heat ter be readin' signs in a fire temple, ye sappy whelp." Cat couldn't see, but she knew that the owner of the voice was getting flustered and not from the heat.
"Sappy whelp, am I? At least I'm not a drunken wench-seeker!"
"Been sober for the past week, mate, thank ye very much."
"And I am sure that it was hell for you, wasn't it?"
"Stop it!" The two male voices stopped instantly. A dead silence followed. "Look she's waking!"
Cat blinked her eyes open. Jack, Will, and Elizabeth were all staring at her. She closed her eyes and reopened them. Still with the staring.
Cat sat up and slid in the other direction from the three. They inched forward, not believing that she was awake. Cat leaned back. They leaned forward. Cat sat up straight. They straightened their backs as well.
"Are you all-" Cat slurred.
"Dead?"
"Drunk?"
"All right?"
Will, Jack, and Elizabeth said at the same time, respectively.
Cat just stared at the three. Maybe it was the heat making them go mad. It had happened before. Captain Jack Sparrow was living proof of that.
"How'd you two get here?" Cat eyed Elizabeth and Will.
"Well, after the Pearl picked us up we followed the Revenge-" Elizabeth started.
"Then when we saw the lightening hit the water, we realized we were too close. So we slowed down and instead of following Blackbeard we just went a different way." Will continued.
"That particular way led us to a different part of the Isle. Myself and Will 'abandoned ship' and went to look for you two. We just happened to be at the right place at the right time." Elizabeth finished.
"Ain't it grand, luv?" Jack said with a laugh, slapping Will on the back.
"Of course... and stop calling me that." Cat closed her eyes and relaxed back on the cool ground. She sat back up and looked around. They weren't in the fire temple anymore. "Where are we?"
"After Will caught your arm, we took you out of the temple. I watched over you while he went back in to find Jack." Elizabeth said with a smile.
"So you don't know where we are?" Cat yawned and stretched back out onto the ground.
"Well, looks like there is another temple - the last obstacle before the treasure." Will motioned behind him to the temple behind him that resembled the fire temple exactly with one small difference. It was silver instead of red.
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"Even 'as the double doors like the fire temple... " Jack turned around to look at Will, Elizabeth, and Catharine. A check to make sure that they weren't going to turn into Barbossa this time as well. He turned back around and began to fidget with the doors. "Locked..."
"He's rather nice sober." Elizabeth whispered to Will.
"Not so - " Will put his hands in front of his face and began to swagger. A perfect imitation.
Cat and Elizabeth began to laugh. Jack turned back around to see what was so funny, but he just figured that they were being stupid, so he turned back to the doors and began to pull. He then pushed. He kicked and he punched, too.
"If ye three would be so kind as ter help me with the stubborn locked doors to the temple, I'd be ever so grateful." Jack's voice was soft, holding back anger. He leaned up against the doors and they opened instantly, making him fall flat on his face.
"Jack!"
"Ha! Ha! Ha!"
"Are you alive?"
Elizabeth, Will, and Cat all said together, respectively.
Jack hopped back up and brushed himself off, his ego softened. "If I 'ad me affects... " He shook his fist at the door; a threat of death from the Captain.
Will, Elizabeth, and Cat all reached the top of the stairs and they continued into the temple. The doors slammed behind them and a soft click was heard. The lanterns on the side of the hall that they were now in lit themselves. The four all exchanged a look and took a step forward. The lights flickered and the walls became see-through.
"This must be the Temple of Air." Cat said as she watched a huge animal, with teeth the size of a human leg, look at them through the wall.
"If this is the Temple of Air, then how come that ... monster ... can't go through the wall?" Elizabeth clung to Will's arm.
The monster growled, it's silver fur glimmering from the light of the lanterns. It stepped into the hall with the four smaller beings. The monster eyed them hungrily with its beady black eyes.
"I think you spoke too soon, Dear." Will said calmly, considering that the animal was closest to him.
"Time to run?" Jack asked, even though he knew the answer. The four of them broke into a run, not looking behind them. They could hear the pounding footsteps of the animal closing in on them. They reached a fork in the hallway.
"Split up!" Cat screamed as she jerked the closest person to her. Jack didn't care which way he was pulled as long as he could keep running.
Will and Elizabeth went left, Jack and Cat went right. The monster stopped at the fork and sniffed both ways. It went left.
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A/N : Now that wasn't so bad of a cliffhanger now was it? See - I just can't write a non-cliff'd chapter.
And what did you think of that bit of Barbossa? Hehe...
Now - read and review or else I'll sick that silver-coated, beady-eyed, long-toothed monster on you! Mwahahahahahahaha!
A few of you will be very happy with this chapter. :) Not just two characters.
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Chapter 14 - The Red and Silver Temples
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"Argh, this be the second ter las' obstacle, eh, Jack? Think'a how well we've done ter not 'ave died... yet." Barbossa's eyes lit up and he began to laugh. The laugh chilled Jack to the core. His eyes opened wide and like a flash he turned to run up the red marble staircase.
*Cat 'as been Barbossa all along?* Jack's mind swam with all the thoughts that flooded it. He reached the double doors at the top of the stairs.
"Jack!" Jack paid no attention to Barbossa's voice as he pushed the doors open. He made a mad dash into the temple, but then like a bolt of lightening the heat hit him. It slowed him down and he had only made it two steps into the temple.
"Jack have you gone crazy!? Stop!" It was Cat's voice. Not Barbossa's. "What in God's name... oh... " The heat hit Cat too and she fell to the floor.
"You... Barbossa." Jack fought to breathe. The hot air was constricting his lungs.
"What?" Cat whispered as she moved back towards the door, the heat slowly dying. Jack followed her.
"You turned into me first mate, luv. Barbossa. Ye know - the mutinous one." Jack took a deep breath of the cooler air closer to the door.
"I did not." Catharine said defiantly. "I was talking to you and then you just-"
"They've started ter play tricks on us... " Jack looked at the inside of the temple. On all the walls, as well as the ceiling and floor, it was as if fire was just on the other side. The room gave off a red glow, and the heat was out of this world.
"Who?"
"Spirits. Playin' tricks with me mind. Just wait until I get a-holt o' one o' them Spirits. I'll cut 'em up-"
Cat didn't hear the many different ways Jack would kill the Spirits, she was too busy watching the small green goblins run up the marble staircase.
"Um, Jack?" Cat put her hand on the madly swinging arm of the Captain.
"And then after all that I'll... yes, luv?" Jack looked over her shoulder and saw what she saw. "We run, then?"
"First, help me shut the doors." Jack and Cat pushed the doors closed and as soon as the doors shut, the horrible heat hit them again. They slowly walked away from the door. The heat too thick and unmerciful to let them do much more.
Sweat began to bead up on Cat's brow. If she had had anymore energy, she would have wiped it off. And just as quick as the heat had came, it left as soon as they were right in the center.
"If thassall the fire temple's got-" Jack started, but was interrupted by the cracking of the floor underneath him. "Mm-hm. Think I angered it a bit, savvy?"
The floor began to crack even more, and Jack and Cat slowly backed away thinking that the floor would slowly crack open and drop them down.
They were almost right.
Instead of the floor slowly cracking open, it madly jerked knocking Cat and Jack off of its top.
Jack fell onto a ledge, but Cat did not have such luck. The heat began to grow as she saw the fire pit that she was about to fall into. But before her brain registered her death, a hand shot out from a lower ledge stopping her from falling into a grave of fire. She let out a whoosh of air and passed out from the fright.
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"Oh, she will be perfectly fine." The voice of a woman floated into Catharine's ears.
"Promise? It was different when she nearly got us killed by the fish; she's a woman-"
"Hmph!" The woman's voice was irritated, but amused nonetheless.
"But, 'ad I not made the mistake an' insulted the temple, she'd be alrigh'." The voice sounded familiar, but she was still lost in a deep sleep.
"Did you not see the sign? It was on the other side of the room - 'do NOT walk in the center of the room for fear of painful death' - plain as the nose on your face." Another familiar voice tsked. A male voice.
"Sorry, too busy feelin' like I was goin' ter die an early death from the heat ter be readin' signs in a fire temple, ye sappy whelp." Cat couldn't see, but she knew that the owner of the voice was getting flustered and not from the heat.
"Sappy whelp, am I? At least I'm not a drunken wench-seeker!"
"Been sober for the past week, mate, thank ye very much."
"And I am sure that it was hell for you, wasn't it?"
"Stop it!" The two male voices stopped instantly. A dead silence followed. "Look she's waking!"
Cat blinked her eyes open. Jack, Will, and Elizabeth were all staring at her. She closed her eyes and reopened them. Still with the staring.
Cat sat up and slid in the other direction from the three. They inched forward, not believing that she was awake. Cat leaned back. They leaned forward. Cat sat up straight. They straightened their backs as well.
"Are you all-" Cat slurred.
"Dead?"
"Drunk?"
"All right?"
Will, Jack, and Elizabeth said at the same time, respectively.
Cat just stared at the three. Maybe it was the heat making them go mad. It had happened before. Captain Jack Sparrow was living proof of that.
"How'd you two get here?" Cat eyed Elizabeth and Will.
"Well, after the Pearl picked us up we followed the Revenge-" Elizabeth started.
"Then when we saw the lightening hit the water, we realized we were too close. So we slowed down and instead of following Blackbeard we just went a different way." Will continued.
"That particular way led us to a different part of the Isle. Myself and Will 'abandoned ship' and went to look for you two. We just happened to be at the right place at the right time." Elizabeth finished.
"Ain't it grand, luv?" Jack said with a laugh, slapping Will on the back.
"Of course... and stop calling me that." Cat closed her eyes and relaxed back on the cool ground. She sat back up and looked around. They weren't in the fire temple anymore. "Where are we?"
"After Will caught your arm, we took you out of the temple. I watched over you while he went back in to find Jack." Elizabeth said with a smile.
"So you don't know where we are?" Cat yawned and stretched back out onto the ground.
"Well, looks like there is another temple - the last obstacle before the treasure." Will motioned behind him to the temple behind him that resembled the fire temple exactly with one small difference. It was silver instead of red.
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"Even 'as the double doors like the fire temple... " Jack turned around to look at Will, Elizabeth, and Catharine. A check to make sure that they weren't going to turn into Barbossa this time as well. He turned back around and began to fidget with the doors. "Locked..."
"He's rather nice sober." Elizabeth whispered to Will.
"Not so - " Will put his hands in front of his face and began to swagger. A perfect imitation.
Cat and Elizabeth began to laugh. Jack turned back around to see what was so funny, but he just figured that they were being stupid, so he turned back to the doors and began to pull. He then pushed. He kicked and he punched, too.
"If ye three would be so kind as ter help me with the stubborn locked doors to the temple, I'd be ever so grateful." Jack's voice was soft, holding back anger. He leaned up against the doors and they opened instantly, making him fall flat on his face.
"Jack!"
"Ha! Ha! Ha!"
"Are you alive?"
Elizabeth, Will, and Cat all said together, respectively.
Jack hopped back up and brushed himself off, his ego softened. "If I 'ad me affects... " He shook his fist at the door; a threat of death from the Captain.
Will, Elizabeth, and Cat all reached the top of the stairs and they continued into the temple. The doors slammed behind them and a soft click was heard. The lanterns on the side of the hall that they were now in lit themselves. The four all exchanged a look and took a step forward. The lights flickered and the walls became see-through.
"This must be the Temple of Air." Cat said as she watched a huge animal, with teeth the size of a human leg, look at them through the wall.
"If this is the Temple of Air, then how come that ... monster ... can't go through the wall?" Elizabeth clung to Will's arm.
The monster growled, it's silver fur glimmering from the light of the lanterns. It stepped into the hall with the four smaller beings. The monster eyed them hungrily with its beady black eyes.
"I think you spoke too soon, Dear." Will said calmly, considering that the animal was closest to him.
"Time to run?" Jack asked, even though he knew the answer. The four of them broke into a run, not looking behind them. They could hear the pounding footsteps of the animal closing in on them. They reached a fork in the hallway.
"Split up!" Cat screamed as she jerked the closest person to her. Jack didn't care which way he was pulled as long as he could keep running.
Will and Elizabeth went left, Jack and Cat went right. The monster stopped at the fork and sniffed both ways. It went left.
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A/N : Now that wasn't so bad of a cliffhanger now was it? See - I just can't write a non-cliff'd chapter.
And what did you think of that bit of Barbossa? Hehe...
Now - read and review or else I'll sick that silver-coated, beady-eyed, long-toothed monster on you! Mwahahahahahahaha!