Pirates of the Caribbean 2: The Return of the Aztec Gold

Notes: The last chapter was really rather short compared to my other ones. So here's Chapter 7. I was kinda listening to this one song when I wrote this so it may sound a little weird.

Chapter Seven: The Ship From the East

As the moon came out, Elisabeth and Anna retreated to the cave. Will and Jack slept outside, although they didn't actually sleep.

"I plan on asking Elisabeth to marry me." Will whispered, so Elisabeth couldn't hear.

"Well when, boy?" Jack asked.

"I'm waiting for the opportune moment." Will said, mocking Jack.

"I'm not so sure you know when to look for the opportune moment." Jack replied.

"It doesn't matter. I believe I'll know. How long have you known Anna?" Will said.

"Since she was a child. Why the sudden interest in her?" Jack asked.

"Oh no reason." Will said.

"You still believe she's cursed, don't you?" Jack said, calmly.

"I might." Will replied.

"Well stop." Jack said, rolling his eyes over to look at Will, but still lying on his back.

"Do you hear that?" Will said, sitting up and looking out at the ocean. He could see nothing but he heard voices.

"I hear it. But I don't want to know where it comes from." Jack said. Will lay back down, still straining his ears to hear.

The sun came up over the cliff almost suddenly and Anna and Elisabeth came out of the cave to wake Will and Jack.

"Do you hear something?" Elisabeth asked.

"It sounds like when Jack talks in his sleep." Anna said. They both heard the voices.

"Will! Jack! Wake up!" Elisabeth yelled.

"Quiet! Do you want them to hear?" Anna said.

"What is that?" Will asked.

"Oh fine...send the pirate to find out what it is. The pirate doesn't matter..." Jack complained.

"Jack we never sent you anywhere." Elisabeth said.

"I know, love. I was just making for dramatics. I'll be back." Jack replied. He stumbled over the fire wood and over Will to go see what the voices were.

"I'm going to follow him." Elisabeth said.

"Elisabeth! Wait!" Anna called. Elisabeth paid no attention and followed Jack.

"You know you're quite brave for woman who can't breathe in a corset." Jack said.

"Why do you try one on sometime and see how difficult it is." Elisabeth replied.

"What makes you think I haven't?" Jack said. Jack spotted the ship and poked his head around the cliff just enough to see what was going on. There was a huge ship by the shore. Jack thought his eyes were deceiving him when he saw that pirates were getting off of the ship. Elisabeth saw the pirates as well.

"I thought there were no more pirates in the Caribbean except for you and your crew." Elisabeth said.

"There wasn't." Jack replied. He slowly stepped around the corner and casually made his way towards the other pirates.

"What's your business, men?" Jack called. The pirates were dressed rather similar to that of officers. Their clothes were clean-cut and they weren't as disgusting as the average pirate of the Caribbean.

"Who might you be, mate?" One of them said.

"I only answer that question after someone has answered mine." Jack replied, inching closer to them, Elisabeth right behind him.

"Aye. We're visitors to the Caribbean. Just passing through on our way to the coast of Africa." The pirate said.

"And what is it they call you, sir?" Jack asked.

"I'm Captain Christopher Angler. What might be your name in return?" The pirate said.

"Why mate, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." Jack replied.

"Pleasure to meet your acquaintance, Captain Sparrow. I see you have a female friend accompanying you." Captain Angler said.

"Aye. Miss Swann." Jack replied. Elisabeth made an uncomfortable gesture.

"What brings you to this island, on this day, Captain Sparrow?" Captain Angler asked.

"We've been marooned. My ship was caught in the storm. There are only four of us left." Jack explained. "Just our luck to find a spit of land with some rum buried."

"Aye. Are you so sure there were only four of you left? We picked up a group of lost pirates at the last island we stopped on just yesterday." Captain Angler said.

"Oh really?" Elisabeth mumbled.

"Aye. In fact, I believe they mentioned something about a Captain Sparrow." Angler added.

"Then I do believe they belong to us. Would you by chance have any rum?" Jack asked, realizing the rest of the rum was gone.

"Alas, we have no rum. But we do have ale." Angler said.

"That'll do!" Jack exclaimed. Elisabeth hit his arm and gave him an angry look.

"Uh...would you by chance have any room for four people on your ship?" He asked.

"Oh certainly, Captain Sparrow. We've got plenty of room." Angler said, this time with a suspicious tone.

"Oh good, that's wonderful. Elisabeth! Get the others, love." Jack said. Elisabeth glared at Angler and turned around to get Anna and Will.

Angler led Jack, Elisabeth, Anna, and Will on board the ship.

"Our ship's name is the Weldine." Angler said.

"Fascinating." Jack replied, uninterested and caught up in the bottle of ale presented to him by Angler.

"Follow me down here. Its where the crew stays when we aren't traveling." Angler said, leading them down a small staircase. They ended up in a stuffy room with prison cells.

"So you lock your crew up, then?" Jack said. Angler and two of his crew shoved Anna, Elisabeth, Will, and Jack into one of the cells and locked the door behind them.

"Welcome on board the Weldine, Captain Sparrow and friends!" Angler cackled. He and the two other pirates stomped off upstairs.

"I have reason to believe that man is going to leave us here." A voice said. Anna, Jack, Elisabeth, and Will looked over and saw five other people in the next cell. Annemarie, Paul, Mr. Cotton, Gibbs, and a man they didn't recognize were sitting on the floor of the cell.

"Its good to see you all alive and...well. Ale?" Jack said.

"That's the first time I've ever seen you offer alcohol to anyone, Jack." Anna said, in an unpleasant tone.

"And the last, unfortunately." Gibbs said.

"Anchors aweigh!" Mr. Cotton's parrot exclaimed.

"As Mr. Cotton says, that Angler plans on sending us straight down to join Davey Jones." Gibbs explained.

"Where exactly did this ship originate from?" Jack asked, one arm hanging out of the cell with the ale in his hand.

"The East. Its suspected they once had connections with the East India Trade but, since we seen the rest of the crew we figured that couldn't be true." Gibbs explained.

"And what exactly does their crew have to do with the trade?" Will asked.

"Any blood pirate can tell a crew's connections." Gibbs said.

"Which makes it ten times more difficult for the blood pirate to tell of its own connections because they're too busy looking for others'." Jack said.

"Aye. We've been wondering about you all. We thought you were dead as you probably thought of us." Gibbs said.

"Why do they want to kill us?" Elisabeth asked.

"Pirates. What other reason do they need?" Anna replied.

"They do want something out of it though." Paul said.

"And what's that?" Jack asked.

"They want to know where the treasure of the Isla de Muerta is." Gibbs said. Will, Elisabeth, and Jack exchanged looks.

"Then we'll tell him where it be." Jack said.