Hey all of you again! I'm so glad you all like my story, it's really
encouraging to get all those reviews! With Christmas so close it might take
me longer then usual to update but if your patient I'll get them up!
untypical: Kate's a pirate, not a Marysue! (the horror) lol! I know the whole gorgeous thing probably brought that on but don't worry I think it would ruin it too! She's just a kick ass pirate who happens to be pretty! lol! Thanx for the great reviews!
Spanisheyes: hey there! Johnny Depp is soooo hott!! I totally agree with you! Thanks for reading(and reviewing!)
Well here's chapter three! I hope you all enjoy it!
Chapter Three
Kate's brow was furrowed in thought as she traced a finger over the unintelligible sequences of numbers and letters on the treasure map. She knew that in someway they were all clues to finding the treasure but what they all meant she did not know.
"Kate," Pitney her first mate walked into her cabin. "Tis first light and Jack and his crew are already on land."
She straightened and nodded, "Start the crew ashore I'll join you in a minute."
Pitney left the cabin calling out to Mr. Jacobs to help her. Kate sighed as she picked up the map. It was so frustrating not knowing what it all meant. Reaching a hand up she pulled aside a board in the ceiling. Inside was a black box that she tucked the map into. After putting the box safely into the ceiling she joined her crew going ashore.
"How do we know that Jack will even help us?" Pitney asked.
Kate looked at her, "We don't. But I need his knowledge of the islands in the Caribbean and there's no one else. Trust me if there was I wouldn't be doing this right now."
Pitney shrugged her shoulders, "I never thought we had need of him in the first place."
"We might not," Kate said. "But for right now I want to find this treasure and Jack is the only one who can help."
Sensing that the conversation was going nowhere Pitney stopped arguing and turned her attention elsewhere.
"Finally decided to show up did you?" Jack shouted when they hit shore.
Kate raised an eyebrow, "A little impatient?"
"Just ready to have the deal final," Jack said and grinned arrogantly, "At fifty, fifty."
Kate smiled sarcastically, "Oh don't worry the deal will be final but I will have the last say in it, don't be thinking otherwise. It might be good for your ego and the boy's if I win." She laughed as she drew her sword.
Will spoke up indignantly, "We'll see who is the one laughing when this is over." The crews from both ships moved back forming a circle around Will and Kate. "I warn you I practiced sword fighting for years before I joined Jack."
"Oh really?" Kate said and grinned. "Then this should be over pretty quickly." She lunged sending Will flying backwards.
He caught his balance and met the blow that threatened to slash his face. The moved quickly around the circle, their footwork matching stride for stride. Kate forced Will back through the circle till they were close to the dense foliage that lined the beach.
"Not bad Turner," Kate said as she watched Will's gritted teeth and concentrated eyes. "You could still use some work but not bad." Will didn't respond but threw himself deeper into the fight. He lunged at her swiping near her neck so she had to dodge the blow. Straightening again she made a strong thrust that Will met with a low grunt. Attacking while he was getting his balance back she suddenly found her back pushed up against a tree as she fought Will. "Now who put that there?" she wondered aloud.
"Seems you've had a bit of bad luck," Will said his breathing hard. Kate came down hard only to have Will block it and throw her sword aside. "Now we'll see who has the last-"
Kate cut his last words off as she threw him a right hook in the jaw. Slipping under his arm as he recovered from the slight shock she picked up her sword and stood to face him again. "I have to say you might have had me there if it wasn't for that ego of yours."
She attacked him again and once more the air was filled with the crash and clang of steel. Kate brought the sword around to strike his left side. He just barely blocked the blow but lost his footing and stumbled backwards. Seizing the moment Kate moved forward to attack again and sent him sprawling on the ground. He landed with a muffled thud on the sand and rolled to get up but found Kate's sword inconveniently placed at his neck.
She sneered, "You lose Will Turner." With a quick swipe she cut through the sleeve of his shirt drawing blood from his upper arm. She turned to glare at Jack. "Now that that is over with can we get down to business?"
"Business is settled," Jack replied. "It's fifty, fifty."
Kate sheathed her sword and frowned at him, "What the hell are you talking about?"
He moved forward so they were face to face, "I have no guarantee that we will even find this treasure so if I'm going to put any effort into it I want to make sure I get paid for it. So it's fifty, fifty or no deal."
"Then we don't need your help," Kate said.
"Then we'll commandeer your ship and take your crew captive," Jack said matter-of-factly. "Sounds like fun to me."
"We'll go sixty, forty with you if we can have the map," Will suggested. Kate looked at him surprised and so did Jack. "Well think about it. That way we would be sure to find the treasure and she couldn't cheat us out of anything."
Kate shook her head, "I don't think it would help much as we still haven't figured out what the map says. It's encoded and we haven't deciphered it yet."
"Fifty, fifty," Jack said again. "Otherwise-"
"Fine damn it!" Kate growled so menacingly several people shot her odd looks. "Fifty, fifty but I swear on pain of death Jack that if you so much as try and pull something on me you will regret it!" Smirking in his face she stalked back to her boats to load her crew.
"And don't take that threat lightly either," Pitney added as she brushed haughtily past him and his crew.
Kate was outraged as they rowed back to the Night Flame. There was going to be no living with the man. He was rude, dishonest, uncooperative, and, and, a pirate. And everything that she needed to find her treasure. She scowled, but it still didn't mean she had to like him.
*******
The cabin was silent with an air of concentration. Kate, Jack, Will, Elizabeth, and Pitney were bent over the map studying it. In the middle of the map was an island there were no marks on it, no trail or paces or the like.
To the left and right of the map were two sets of a bunch of random letters. "Not random," Kate murmured. "There has to be some pattern or trick to reading it."
"But we've tried everything possible with a number sequence," Pitney said her brow furrowed. "The letters don't correspond with any numbers."
"Is numbers all you've worked with?" Jack asked.
"No," Kate said. "We also tried matching each letter with the letter before it or the letter after it but nothing seems to fit."
They were all silent again as their eyes went back to roving the map. Kate sighed and sat back in a chair rubbing her temples. She could feel the throbbing headache that was coming on.
"Maybe it would help if we wrote the letters out in a straight line," Elizabeth said. She reached for some parchment and wrote out the letters on the left side of the map. "There," she said when finished. "It still doesn't help much does it?" It read: GSVWVVKSLOWHNZMBHVXIVGHLMRG HUOLLIZMWRMRGHUOLLIGSVGIFGSRHWVVKRHDSVIVGSVBZIVULFMW.
Will shook his head, "They might as well have spelled everything backwards and jumbled them all together then at least we would know they had used real words."
"Backwards?" Kate sat up. "Backwards, that's it!" She reached for a separate piece of parchment and wrote the alphabet out. Then she wrote it out backwards underneath it. "See look each letter corresponds with another letter of the alphabet if you write it out forwards and then backwards. Let me see that Elizabeth." Taking Elizabeth's paper she wrote the letter that corresponded with the ones on the map. When she had finished it read: THEDEEPHOLDSMANYSECRETSONITS FLOORANDINITSFLOORTHETRUTHISTHEDEEPISWHERETHEYAREFOUND.
"That looks like it would make more sense," Will said. "But what does it say."
Kate didn't respond but let her eyes focus on it for a few minutes looking for familiar words. Suddenly she smiled, "It says, the deep holds many secrets, on its floor and in it's floor, the truth is the deep is where they are found."
Everyone looked around completely surprised that they had solved the puzzle, or at least part of it. "What is that supposed to mean?" Pitney asked.
"I don't know," Kate said. "Maybe if we figured out what the second part on the map said-"
Jack stopped her, "It says, past the dead man's threat, past the witch's eyes, past the blood red, there lie your secrets."
"It still makes no sense," Elizabeth said.
"What does it mean by "the deep"?" Will asked.
"It could mean the ocean," Kate suggested, "but it's awfully vague for that."
"Maybe it's the name of something," Elizabeth suggested.
"The tavern!" Jack and Kate both said simultaneously.
"What tavern?" Will asked.
"The one where my father died," Kate replied. "It was called The Deep. I don't even know if it's there anymore but if it is, it is the most likely place he would have left something like this."
"Well there's only one way to find out," Jack said.
***Well there went another chapter! This one was kind of long I hope no one minded! The next chapter you'll get more clues as to what it is they're after but until then you'll just have to suffer (hehe :evil laugh:() anyways lol!
***It might be a few more days till I update, or it might be only one day I never know so you'll have to have patience with me! Pleez review!
untypical: Kate's a pirate, not a Marysue! (the horror) lol! I know the whole gorgeous thing probably brought that on but don't worry I think it would ruin it too! She's just a kick ass pirate who happens to be pretty! lol! Thanx for the great reviews!
Spanisheyes: hey there! Johnny Depp is soooo hott!! I totally agree with you! Thanks for reading(and reviewing!)
Well here's chapter three! I hope you all enjoy it!
Chapter Three
Kate's brow was furrowed in thought as she traced a finger over the unintelligible sequences of numbers and letters on the treasure map. She knew that in someway they were all clues to finding the treasure but what they all meant she did not know.
"Kate," Pitney her first mate walked into her cabin. "Tis first light and Jack and his crew are already on land."
She straightened and nodded, "Start the crew ashore I'll join you in a minute."
Pitney left the cabin calling out to Mr. Jacobs to help her. Kate sighed as she picked up the map. It was so frustrating not knowing what it all meant. Reaching a hand up she pulled aside a board in the ceiling. Inside was a black box that she tucked the map into. After putting the box safely into the ceiling she joined her crew going ashore.
"How do we know that Jack will even help us?" Pitney asked.
Kate looked at her, "We don't. But I need his knowledge of the islands in the Caribbean and there's no one else. Trust me if there was I wouldn't be doing this right now."
Pitney shrugged her shoulders, "I never thought we had need of him in the first place."
"We might not," Kate said. "But for right now I want to find this treasure and Jack is the only one who can help."
Sensing that the conversation was going nowhere Pitney stopped arguing and turned her attention elsewhere.
"Finally decided to show up did you?" Jack shouted when they hit shore.
Kate raised an eyebrow, "A little impatient?"
"Just ready to have the deal final," Jack said and grinned arrogantly, "At fifty, fifty."
Kate smiled sarcastically, "Oh don't worry the deal will be final but I will have the last say in it, don't be thinking otherwise. It might be good for your ego and the boy's if I win." She laughed as she drew her sword.
Will spoke up indignantly, "We'll see who is the one laughing when this is over." The crews from both ships moved back forming a circle around Will and Kate. "I warn you I practiced sword fighting for years before I joined Jack."
"Oh really?" Kate said and grinned. "Then this should be over pretty quickly." She lunged sending Will flying backwards.
He caught his balance and met the blow that threatened to slash his face. The moved quickly around the circle, their footwork matching stride for stride. Kate forced Will back through the circle till they were close to the dense foliage that lined the beach.
"Not bad Turner," Kate said as she watched Will's gritted teeth and concentrated eyes. "You could still use some work but not bad." Will didn't respond but threw himself deeper into the fight. He lunged at her swiping near her neck so she had to dodge the blow. Straightening again she made a strong thrust that Will met with a low grunt. Attacking while he was getting his balance back she suddenly found her back pushed up against a tree as she fought Will. "Now who put that there?" she wondered aloud.
"Seems you've had a bit of bad luck," Will said his breathing hard. Kate came down hard only to have Will block it and throw her sword aside. "Now we'll see who has the last-"
Kate cut his last words off as she threw him a right hook in the jaw. Slipping under his arm as he recovered from the slight shock she picked up her sword and stood to face him again. "I have to say you might have had me there if it wasn't for that ego of yours."
She attacked him again and once more the air was filled with the crash and clang of steel. Kate brought the sword around to strike his left side. He just barely blocked the blow but lost his footing and stumbled backwards. Seizing the moment Kate moved forward to attack again and sent him sprawling on the ground. He landed with a muffled thud on the sand and rolled to get up but found Kate's sword inconveniently placed at his neck.
She sneered, "You lose Will Turner." With a quick swipe she cut through the sleeve of his shirt drawing blood from his upper arm. She turned to glare at Jack. "Now that that is over with can we get down to business?"
"Business is settled," Jack replied. "It's fifty, fifty."
Kate sheathed her sword and frowned at him, "What the hell are you talking about?"
He moved forward so they were face to face, "I have no guarantee that we will even find this treasure so if I'm going to put any effort into it I want to make sure I get paid for it. So it's fifty, fifty or no deal."
"Then we don't need your help," Kate said.
"Then we'll commandeer your ship and take your crew captive," Jack said matter-of-factly. "Sounds like fun to me."
"We'll go sixty, forty with you if we can have the map," Will suggested. Kate looked at him surprised and so did Jack. "Well think about it. That way we would be sure to find the treasure and she couldn't cheat us out of anything."
Kate shook her head, "I don't think it would help much as we still haven't figured out what the map says. It's encoded and we haven't deciphered it yet."
"Fifty, fifty," Jack said again. "Otherwise-"
"Fine damn it!" Kate growled so menacingly several people shot her odd looks. "Fifty, fifty but I swear on pain of death Jack that if you so much as try and pull something on me you will regret it!" Smirking in his face she stalked back to her boats to load her crew.
"And don't take that threat lightly either," Pitney added as she brushed haughtily past him and his crew.
Kate was outraged as they rowed back to the Night Flame. There was going to be no living with the man. He was rude, dishonest, uncooperative, and, and, a pirate. And everything that she needed to find her treasure. She scowled, but it still didn't mean she had to like him.
*******
The cabin was silent with an air of concentration. Kate, Jack, Will, Elizabeth, and Pitney were bent over the map studying it. In the middle of the map was an island there were no marks on it, no trail or paces or the like.
To the left and right of the map were two sets of a bunch of random letters. "Not random," Kate murmured. "There has to be some pattern or trick to reading it."
"But we've tried everything possible with a number sequence," Pitney said her brow furrowed. "The letters don't correspond with any numbers."
"Is numbers all you've worked with?" Jack asked.
"No," Kate said. "We also tried matching each letter with the letter before it or the letter after it but nothing seems to fit."
They were all silent again as their eyes went back to roving the map. Kate sighed and sat back in a chair rubbing her temples. She could feel the throbbing headache that was coming on.
"Maybe it would help if we wrote the letters out in a straight line," Elizabeth said. She reached for some parchment and wrote out the letters on the left side of the map. "There," she said when finished. "It still doesn't help much does it?" It read: GSVWVVKSLOWHNZMBHVXIVGHLMRG HUOLLIZMWRMRGHUOLLIGSVGIFGSRHWVVKRHDSVIVGSVBZIVULFMW.
Will shook his head, "They might as well have spelled everything backwards and jumbled them all together then at least we would know they had used real words."
"Backwards?" Kate sat up. "Backwards, that's it!" She reached for a separate piece of parchment and wrote the alphabet out. Then she wrote it out backwards underneath it. "See look each letter corresponds with another letter of the alphabet if you write it out forwards and then backwards. Let me see that Elizabeth." Taking Elizabeth's paper she wrote the letter that corresponded with the ones on the map. When she had finished it read: THEDEEPHOLDSMANYSECRETSONITS FLOORANDINITSFLOORTHETRUTHISTHEDEEPISWHERETHEYAREFOUND.
"That looks like it would make more sense," Will said. "But what does it say."
Kate didn't respond but let her eyes focus on it for a few minutes looking for familiar words. Suddenly she smiled, "It says, the deep holds many secrets, on its floor and in it's floor, the truth is the deep is where they are found."
Everyone looked around completely surprised that they had solved the puzzle, or at least part of it. "What is that supposed to mean?" Pitney asked.
"I don't know," Kate said. "Maybe if we figured out what the second part on the map said-"
Jack stopped her, "It says, past the dead man's threat, past the witch's eyes, past the blood red, there lie your secrets."
"It still makes no sense," Elizabeth said.
"What does it mean by "the deep"?" Will asked.
"It could mean the ocean," Kate suggested, "but it's awfully vague for that."
"Maybe it's the name of something," Elizabeth suggested.
"The tavern!" Jack and Kate both said simultaneously.
"What tavern?" Will asked.
"The one where my father died," Kate replied. "It was called The Deep. I don't even know if it's there anymore but if it is, it is the most likely place he would have left something like this."
"Well there's only one way to find out," Jack said.
***Well there went another chapter! This one was kind of long I hope no one minded! The next chapter you'll get more clues as to what it is they're after but until then you'll just have to suffer (hehe :evil laugh:() anyways lol!
***It might be a few more days till I update, or it might be only one day I never know so you'll have to have patience with me! Pleez review!