Chapter Twenty One: What else could possibly Happen?

"Girls! Will! WE'RE HERE!" Jack yelled, coming down the stairs from the wheel to where they were all sitting.

"Oh, joy…" said Lissie. "The first place I wanted to go after I came back was a town full of drunks—"

"What do ye mean?" asked Jack. "We're not goin' back to Tortuga, we're in Port Royal!"

"WHAT?!" said Lissie, Beth, and Will together, jumping up from their seats.

"Well, we're in Port Royal, that's what! I thought we should see how much it's changed—"

"Jack, do you remember when we first came back here, and you couldn't find the Black Pearl when it was right in front of you?" asked Will.

"Yes…"

"Do you remember what I said to you?"

"Ye called me an idiot—"

"And you've proved that again. You just probably landed us in the biggest trouble we could be in."

"How?" asked Jack. "It's just Port Royal…"

"You don't get it, Jack! You and I are both wanted men!"

"What? Oh no…"

"Oh no is right!" said Beth. "You and Will could be arrested!"

"Relax, you three… it's not like there's the entire king's navy surrounding our ship right now, waiting for us to come off…" said Lissie.

"Jack! We 'ave a problem!" said Anamaria, walking into the room. "The entire Royal Navy is surrounding our ship." (the irony just kills me… lol!)

Beth, Will, and Jack turned their heads and stared at Lissie. "Whoops…"

Cautiously, all of them walked up the steps and peered onto the deck.

Hundreds of soldiers surrounded the Black Pearl, and a ship with the name of The Interceptor II was behind them, and THAT was full of officers too.

They were in deep, and every single one of them knew it.

"Would Jack Sparrow and Will Turner step off the ship and come onto the deck!" came Norrington's voice.

"Not this idiot again," said Jack, rolling his eyes. "What could they do to us?"

"You have ten seconds to get off the ship or we shoot!"

"Eh, maybe we should get off, Will," said Jack.

"NO!" said Lissie and Beth together.

"Look, we can't fight all of these men!" said Will.

"Five seconds!"

"Come on!" said Jack.

Beth quickly kissed Jack as Lissie did the same to Will.

"We'll come back for you," whispered Lissie.

Jack and Will stepped into view of the soldiers just as Norrington and his men pointed their guns at the ship. With a quick glance back at the two of them, they slowly made their way to the dock, where soldiers immediately put chains around their wrists and walked them away to the jail.

"You two have an appointment with the gallows tomorrow morning," Beth and Lissie heard Norrington say.

"He still uses that ol' sayin', aye?" Jack whispered to Will, who quickly hid his snigger.

"What was that, Sparrow?"

"Nothin', nothin'…"

~*~

"Well, this is just dandy!" said Beth. "One week after we're all back together again, we're separated, and two other people might be killed!"

"What are we going to do?!" asked Lissie, who was pacing the room furiously. "We need a plan…"

"We need to think… come on… what happened in the movie?"

"Well, we could do what Will did," said Lissie. "Wait until the bottom has dropped out, throw a sword that they can stand on, fight off the executioner, drop him on Norrington's head, do some fancy flips, trip soldiers up with the rope, then jump off the fort and onto the Black Pearl where it is waiting and sail off into the sunset."

"Knowing our luck, that would totally backfire in our face."

"Yeah, you're probably right…"

Suddenly, beam of light came through the room and fell on Lissie's head. She collapsed to the ground… she didn't know what was happening…

Ariel appeared in front of her. "If you want to get back, use the medallion. But don't jump into the ocean, for it is deadly. Make a wish and it will take you there… if you just wish…"

"LISSIE!"

Beth was on the ground next to her, shaking her.

"W…What happened?" asked Lissie, sitting up.

"I don't know… a beam of light just hit you and you collapsed…"

Then it hit her. She jumped up off the floor. "I HAVE A PLAN!" she yelled.

"Really?" asked Beth, her face lighting up. "What is it?"

"Well, first, we…"

~*~

"And you're not coming back out!" said a soldier, throwing the Jack and Will into a cell.

"Well, at least not until tomorrow," said another.

The two of them laughed, then went up the stairs where they would guard the jail.

Will started pacing the cell.

"Hey, Will!" Jack whispered. "How are we gonna get out o' here?"

"Well, Lissie said that she and Beth would come back for us, but I have no idea how they are going to do that. And why are you asking me? You said yourself you're the master of plans."

"Aye, but ye were the one 'o came up with the plan that saved the girls," said Jack, grinning. "I have temporarily stepped down from me position."

Will rolled his eyes. "You and I both know that you're just saying that because you don't have a plan."

"Aye…"

~*~

Midnight came, and went. Will was looking through the bars of the cell window, a patch of moonlight shining across his face.

Where are you, Lissie? He asked mentally. I know you won't leave me…

A loud snore came from the corner of the cell, telling him Jack had fallen asleep. He didn't seem very bothered by this matter, after all, he had been in jail and escaped near-death situations one too many times.

He only hoped they'd be able to escape this one, too.

~*~

"An' then… an' then, 'e said… 'do you have any duck food?'"

The two guards laughed as they came back to their posts.

"So, how's the wife?" asked one of them as he almost ran into a nearby wall.

"Grumpy, as usual. Always complainin'… never givin' me a moment's peace…"

"Was there anythin' we was supposed to be doin', John?"

"Not that I remember," said John.

"Well, then, I'm awfully tired," his companion said, yawning. "I think I'm gonna take a nap…" he collapsed on the ground, asleep instantly.

The other fell right next to him, apparently unconscious.

"God, what idiots."

"Got the rope?"

"Yep."

Beth and Lissie stepped out of their shadowy corner, shaking their heads at the unconscious soldiers.

"You'd think they'd have more sense," said Beth as she tied ropes around one of them.

"Yeah, like Ron says, 'How thick could you get?'" (Harry Potter moment there! Couldn't resist, mates!) said Lissie.

They finished tying them up, then gagged them, and snuck down the stairs to the jail cells. Hopefully, there were no more guards lurking around.

Fortunately, there weren't any more, and they were able to get down quite safely.

"Jack, let's face it, they're obviously not coming—"

"SSHH!" said Jack. "Who goes there?"

Beth and Lissie stepped into the moonlight where they could see them.

"Girls!" Will and Jack breathed, running over to the door of the cell.

"I told you I'd come back," whispered Lissie as Beth got the keys she had taken from the soldiers out from her pocket.

"Hurry, we don't know what else is out here," said Beth as she opened the door.

Just as Jack and Will had gotten out of their cell, they heard footsteps. All four of them froze.

"I'll fire those two, drinking when they're supposed to be watching the prisoners! Who could have done this?" came an angry voice, which they all recognized.

"I don't know, sir, what about the girls they came here with the last time?"

"Good point," said Norrington. "Let's hope they're still in their cell, but just in case, get another one ready for the girls…"

Silently, all four of them pressed their backs against the dark wall so that they were out of the moonlight.

Sure enough, Norrington and his assistant came down the stairs to see what had happened and if Jack and Will had escaped, and sure enough, he saw the empty cell. He let out an angry yell.

"I finally capture Jack Sparrow, and he slips through my fingers AGAIN! What will people think about me?!"

"People still look up to you highly, sir," said the assistant.

"Shut up!" barked Norrington. "Summon the rest. Search everything in this bloody town, we have to find them!"

Lissie, who was squashed between Will and Jack, felt Jack stiffen up a bit and take a sharp breath. Beth, who was on his other side, gave him a warning look and put her finger under his nose. She and Will exchanged a nervous glance.

Jack relaxed his shoulders, and Beth removed her finger after a few seconds. Norrington and his assistant moved to the stairs, but no sooner than they had done so and no sooner after Beth had removed her finger, Jack let out a stupendous sneeze.

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