Hi! Heres another chapter! Thank you for all the reviews!!! I'm so happy :-D
I'm sooo sorry I haven't updated in such a long time, I've been really busy for the last two weeks, sorry!!
Chapter 8
The next day, the sky was clear, and there was a little breeze, it was perfect for sailing. The day went on as normal as a day could be on a ship. It was a little harder since they didn't have a full crew, but they managed. Around noon time, clouds started coming in, dark clouds, clouds that didn't look to friendly. In less than five minutes the clouds covered the sky. It was almost dark in the middle of the day.
The clouds didn't worry Ari or Will, since they knew something that the others didn't. Last night, Ari said a spell while everyone was sleeping, she was out on the deck saying the spell that Gandalf told her to say when she wanted to return home. The clouds were because of her, and Will knew that.
Jack was going around preparing the ship for the storm, he knew the Black Pearl would be able to take the storm, but the little ship that Will got wouldn't last. He was getting worried, his crew would know how to take care of themselves in a situation like this, but he didn't have a crew, he had a bunch of friends, and he wouldn't be able to forgive himself if they died on a ship he was captain of. "Alrigh', listen up, this storm looks like it's gonna be bad, so we've gotta get ya'll ready," he and Will went to the others and tied a rope around the waste and the other end to something on the ship, so they wouldn't fall off.
The rain started to pour down, and all of Jack's orders were muffled by it. Nobody could here what he was trying to tell them, all they could do was watch Jack do a bunch of hand gestures and try to figure out what he was trying to say. Will didn't even bother doing anything, he just waited for them to get to land.
Suddenly, a huge waved swept over the ship, and before anyone knew what to do, they were all swept on land that wasn't there before….
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everyone, except Will and Ari, were lying unconscious on the shore of some strange land. There ship was nearby, lying in ruins, and the sun was setting.
By the time the moon came up, a fire was started and everyone was awake.
"What the bloody 'ell are we supposed to do now, we're marooned in some place we don't know, and our ship is in ruins. We're stuck here!" Jack yelled at all of the people that were sitting around the fire.
"Jack, there's no need to yell, the last thing we want is a wild animal to hear us!" Liz said, "There's a huge forest behind us, who knows what's in it,"
"Well, I'm not going in there. I think we should stay out here and wait for someone to find us!" Faith said, looking into the dark forest.
"Let's all just get some rest, we'll decide everything in the morning," Will said. Everyone agreed with him and laid down near the campfire. Will stayed awake as the watchman, he didn't really need to go to sleep.
They all woke up around the same time, since the sun was all in there eyes. The fire had gone out and Will went to get some food from the ship and he got all the weapons that he brought.
When he got back to the rest of them, Liz started making some breakfast and Jack was going on about how the ship was a horrible ship. "The Black Pearl would have made it through that storm easily. It's the best damn ship in the Caribbean!"
"Jack… what happened to the Black Pearl?" Will asked, realizing that he didn't see it when he came or when they left.
"I… I gave it up…" he looked sad at the thought of his ship, it was the best ship, and it was freedom to him.
"But Jack, you love that ship!" Liz said shocked.
"Well, I found something else that I love even more," he said looking at Ari, who was talking with Faith and Demitri. Will was happy with that answer, he knew that Jack really did love his sister.
After they all ate some breakfast, they started talking about what to do.
"So… what are we going to do? We can stay near the ship or we can go in there," Liz said pointing to the trees.
"Well, if we go into the trees, we might find a village or some people. When I was looking around I saw some footsteps heading into the forest," Demitri said.
"Well, that could have been people stranded here before, they could be bones by now," Faith said.
"Well, I don't know about ya'll but I think we should go look for people." Will said, lying because he already knew what was in those trees.
"I agree with Will, we should go look for people," Ari said, "Jack, what do you think?"
"Well, since we have no rum, we mind as well look for a place that does. I say we see where those footprints lead," he said.
"Well, that's the majority of us. So we're going to follow those footprints," Demitri said.
"Ugh, I don't think I meant it when I said I was ready for another adventure with Jack Sparrow," Liz said getting up with the rest of the group and started walking into the forest.
They've been walking for about an hour, and it wasn't a good hour. If it was a group of trained elves or rangers, they could've been miles ahead of where they were now. But these elves weren't trained to walk in the wilderness, Will taught his son and daughter how to fight and track, but there weren't any woods to walk through so this was there first time going through the woods for a long distance. In the first fifteen minutes they were fine, but then they started complaining on how they were tired. After an hour they were practically dragging themselves and Will and Ari had to stop.
"If you are going to be this slow, we are never going to get there," Will sighed and sat down.
"Get where? We don't even know if there is a place to get to!" Liz said.
"How can ye walk nonstop like that? That is why I like me ships, they're not that big," Jack said.
"You think this is bad? I had to run for almost three days straight once! And we've barely crossed three miles in an hour!" Will said.
"Three days?! Why would you ever run for three days?" Faith said, shocked.
"It was a long time ago, I don't like to dwell in dark times," He leaned back into the shade of the tree so they couldn't see the sadness in his face.
"Well, ye should tell us. I mean, running for three damn days is really impressive, mate. You should tell us your story, even if you don't like to "dwell in dark time"," Jack said, making the quotations with his hands (I love doing that, I don't know why ^_^')
"To make a long story short, me and two others were chasing a group of Uruk-hai that had captured two of my other friends. Uruk-hai don't usually need to rest so it was hard for us to follow them," he didn't really want to go into detail about the whole One Ring story.
"What are these Uruk-hai things you're talking about?" Demitri asked.
When Will didn't answer Ari spoke up, "They are… hard to explain. To explain them you need to explain a whole other thing and to explain that you need to explain another thing and you're not ready for that story!"
Everyone was pretty much confused by that but before they could say anything Will was making everybody get up and start walking again.
Ok, I will try to update sooner this time, I don't think I'll be as busy as I was the last couple of weeks.
Bye bye!!