Pirates of the Caribbean:
Chapter 9: The Legend
By: Vipera berus
Disclaimer: I don't own PotC. Disney owns, but if they want to give me a naked Jack Sparrow, well, then they'll never get me off of him…mmmm…
Author's Note: I'm listening to Twista now. YAY!!! sings along to 'Overnight Celebrity' though don't know the words so it sounds like complete rubbish…
(Thanks for the review, Smartie-teri! Glad u liked! I hope Jack isn't too naughty in this chapter…you'll get to know why…)
(I hope u understand this chapter better, lil-blonde-pirate!!! thanks for the review!!!)
(U know a swear word in Spanish, RumRunner?!?!? Cool!!! heh heh… ;) Thank you for the review!)
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Enjoy the ninth chapter! I hate number nine…it's nearly ten but it's not so it drives me crazy…I want this to be chapter ten!!! I love number ten!!! kicks number nine and gives a happy number ten a huge hug!
;)
Jack entered 'The Faithful Bride' with a broad grin on his face, the Treasure map clutched tightly in his hand. No one seemed to notice the exceptionally happy Jack who swayed over to the table where a sober Elizabeth sat sulkily beside a drunk Will who was laughing at Gibbs when he fell off his chair as he noticed Jack return on his own.
Elizabeth looked up, half waiting for Tony to be walking back with him. But there was no Tony in sight. Had Jack killed her?
"Jack! Where is Tony?" she asked and glanced at the door with a concerned look on her face. She hated Tony Evans, but she didn't wish the poor woman to die. And to think if Jack had killed her, she would never have the chance to pay her debt which she owned her. Meaning the time when Tony saved Elizabeth's life…
The remaining pirates (only four of them was left; Gibbs, Anamaria, Matelot, Cotton) and Will, looked up at the question and they too noticed the absence of Tony. They looked very happy and threw each other grins and smirks.
"Evans?" Jack slurred as he sat down by the table and took a sip from the rum bottle he had in his free hand, the other still gripping the map under the table. He gave Elizabeth a toothy grin before he answered. "The pirate lassie is no longer part of this game, love." Jack said and when Elizabeth gasped, thinking that he had killed her, he added; "Let's just say she was on the loosing side an' she had to give up, savvy?" Elizabeth didn't understand what the man meant so Jack had to enlighten her even more; "I didn't kill 'er if that's what ye're thinkin', Elizabeth. But like I said, she is no longer with us! Although she gave me quite a nice present…" he said as a mischievous grin appeared on his handsome face as he lifted his hand above the table, showing the map to his comrades.
"What's that?" Anamaria asked but had a suspicion because of the grin on Jack's face. The others were in same thoughts.
"This is – " Jack glanced around the tavern to see if someone was eavesdropping on them. " – a Treasure map, love, an' the last owner was Tony Evans so – "
"Who owns it now, Captain?" The youngest member of Jack's crew, Matelot, asked with an eager look on his dirty, smiling face. Jack's gaze shifted to the boy.
"Me, o' course. Who'd ya think would be the owner if I 'ave the map, lad?" Jack answered clearly with raised eyebrows. The boy was thick as blood…
"Enough with the nonsense, tell us 'bout the Treasure map, Jack!" Gibbs said quietly, leaning over the table so he would hear Jack better. No other man or woman in the tavern noticed the eager behaviour in Captain Sparrow's table. Surely the music was replaced with snores and sounds of vomiting, but still there was no one eavesdropping on them. Half-Drunk-Jeff was behind his counter and was dealing with a practically shabby customer, an old deaf man with whom Jeff had difficulties to communicate with.
"Ever heard o' the Legend of Captain Redd's Lost Treasure?" Jack started with a low voice, looking at each one of them. The faces of Gibbs, Cotton and Anamaria lit up and they beamed with excitement. Will, Elizabeth and Matelot were looking at Jack in confusion as they shook their heads. "Well, let me tell ye the tale of Captain Redd, aye…" Jack said and placed the map in front of him and looked down on it and took a huge chug of his rum before he started telling the legend;
"Around a hundred years ago, a man named Marcus Redd sailed these waters with his ship called the Midnight Rose. He was known fer his cruelty, especially when it came to women." Elizabeth gasped, knowing what Jack meant. "Aye…He was mostly plunderin' ships tha' passed by the coast an' looked like royal vessels. Sometimes he even attacked pirate ships he knew were filled with loot. I guess he was quite unpopular amongst us scallywags, savvy?" he said with a smirk. "He didn't give a damn about the code, killed his opponents without mercy even if they were from his own crew or not. The man was a bit power-crazy, I s'pose bu' he was one hell of a pirate Captain."
"One fine day he was prowling about fer a prey, when a heavily guarded merchant vessel, a fleet of six ships, passed his cave. O' course the man became highly interested at the party so large that one would've thought it was taking the King and Queen themselves to the next sophisticated town." Jack took a sip of his rum. "Well, Captain Marcus Redd sailed forward and attacked the ships."
"But he couldn't have survived a battle against so many ships, could he?" Elizabeth asked, interrupting the story.
"Ah, but he did!" Jack exclaimed with wide eyes and a finger in the air. "Some say it was luck and some say that the God's were favouring him the day he won that bloody battle. He was rewarded greatly, the ship was bursting with swag to his liking. Largest Treasure ever passed the Caribbean, they say." Jack said as grins spread on all of their faces. "Aye…Bu' he was never able to spend them, 'cause a few weeks later after his great find, he got a tip tha' he was being followed by the Navy an' he ran fer it without his ship, bu' only after he hid the Treasure and drew a map upon the place. Ye may be wonderin' why he escaped the navy in such a hurry, eh? He would 'ave killed every redcoat if his wench (raped of course) wouldn't have been pregnant with his kid and told him to run fer it." Jack said nodding as the others looked wide-eyed at him with slightly open mouths.
"What a great father!" Elizabeth cooed sweetly. Jack snorted.
"Nah…He wasn't much o' a father," Jack continued. "He killed the poor lassie an' the kid when they were safe, see. I think it was because of the Treasure he had to leave behind that he did such a thing, savvy? He valued gold more than crying babies. Well, Redd was alone once again. He returned to his crew and ship, they wanted the Treasure and soon the Captain was going after his gold. Once he was out in the seas, a storm brew upon his ship and the Midnight Rose ran aground outside the Treasure island. The ship was never found, bu' days later, twenty-six bodies floated ashore to the nearest island cut into pieces, most of them headless, including the legendary Captain Marcus Redd!" Jack finished, draining his rum and slamming the empty bottle onto the table.
"That's horrible!" Elizabeth whispered.
"Ye know what killed them, then?" Will asked and glanced at Elizabeth who was hanging onto his arm with her hand on her mouth.
"Sea monsters!" Gibbs grunted before drinking his rum with a gloomy expression on his face..
"No one knows. Yet some say the place is cursed. Too bad he had to hide his Treasure to the island at that bloody spot. Only bad tales come from that territory." Jack said gloomily.
"I've heard that Redd is still haunting that place. Trespassers float ashore headless and stuff…It's scary…" Anamaria said and shivered. Jack nodded but then a grin spread on his face.
"Aye, tha' may be true, bu' tha's nothing! This map right here is something." Jack said, pointing at the parchment piece in front of him. "Think about it…The largest Treasure in the whole Caribbean…"
"And you're are going to get that Treasure, Jack?" Elizabeth asked with a hint of fear in her voice. Jack gave her a toothy grin and nodded.
"Aye!"
"But – but it's too dangerous! If people are headless and Captain Redd is ghosting around that island, you can't go scurrying to that place, Jack!" she said, her eyed wide of concern. Jack's grin did not fade. He nodded and the trinkets in his hair jingled.
"I'm not goin' to scurry over to that place, dear Elizabeth. I'm goin' to sail there with me Pearl! She'll handle any kind o' ghosts! Another new adventure fer us all, y'know!" Jack exclaimed in excitement. Elizabeth still looked uneasy. She was tapping her foot to the floor impatiently and glanced at the door.
"I still don't like the idea of going to a haunting island…what's it called anyway?" Elizabeth muttered.
"It has no name at all! Because of all the ghosts and curses, no one likes to speak of it!" Jack answered and they all fell silent.
"How did Evans get that map?" Gibbs asked after a while. Jack averted his gaze to the grey haired man.
"I 'ave no idea. Bu' tha' doesn't matter! She gave me the map – "
"Gave? Surely she didn't gave it to you? The wench didn't seem like a lassie who would give things as valuable as Redd's Treasure map willingly to another pirate, Jack!" Anamaria said at once.
"I swear she gave it to me! She took it out o' her boot and gave it me!" Jack protested with lowered eyebrows.
"Boot?" Matelot asked disbelieved. Jack nodded slowly.
"Aye.. but enough of that girl now. All it matters that I 'ave the map and I'm going to get the Treasure, savvy?" Jack said to the others and they nodded. "I want ye to tell the rest of the crew this morning, 'cause we're leaving at noon. An' I want me ship ready to go, meaning; fill the hold with rum!" Jack said to Gibbs, Anamaria and Matelot as they nodded understanding.
"What about Tony?" Will asked Jack.
"What about her, Will?" Jack asked back, starting to think about her situation. Was she still hanging on the wall like a rag doll? Yelling curses after him and screaming for help? A smirk formed on Jack's lips hastily. I want to leave as soon as possible, 'cause I bet she won't be hanging there for long… Jack thought.
"I'm pretty sure she does want a part of this. She is a pirate after all." Will said and glanced at the door, as if he was seeing a fuming Tony running at them. But the door did not swing open. The tavern had emptied by now. There was only a few snoring customers under the tables and Jeff was no longer behind the counter. There was no sight of Half-Drunk-Jeff only two young whores standing by the door.
"I've taken care of her, don't ye worry, boy." Jack said mysteriously with a smirk. "Well then, let's take a look at this map, shall we?" Jack said, bending over the map. He noticed the whores by the door and gave them a smirk, which they returned with seductive smiles and winks.
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"What are you going to do, Captain?" a dark shadow asked another aboard the dark ship. The moon was hastily obscured by a thick cloud and the light vanished.
"Evans is going after it. I know it. Because I know…her." The Captain answered in his manly voice.
"You mean she's going after the Treasure?"
"Aye. I doubt she has the Treasure already if she was arguing with somebody about it. She must've planned this for a long time, too bad it's me who's going to ruin this for her…just like she did the last time for me…" the Captain said, hatred filling his voice as he walked across the deck and stopped in front of the helm.
"She doesn't know that you know about her return, does she?" the man asked the Captain who gave a hollow laugh and smirked at the man.
"No…she doesn't know it." the Captain said. "and I'm going to keep it that way because I want to surprise her…"
"How? We don't know how she's going to go and get it!"
"Easy. You follow her around Tortuga." The Captain said wickedly. "Don't loose sight of her, but make sure she doesn't see or hear you, understand?!"
"Aye…" he said and disappeared into the night….
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The sun rose early that morning. The bright rays shone upon Tortuga, illuminating the streets that were filled with sailors and pirates, passed out among bottles and pigs and other dirty things. The town was quiet but the harbour was filled with smelling pirates, loading the cargo aboard the Black Pearl. The crew knew about the plan as it was going to be done the very same day. With the help of the map, they would probably find the Treasure in few weeks time.
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Jack awoke with a slight headache in a bed when it was nearly midday. He knew he was not aboard his ship because nothing was rocking in that soothing way he loved to wake up to. The sun shone through dirty curtains in front of an open window and he could hear the faint sing of Caribbean birds. The salty sea air floated inside with a breeze and he inhaled deeply. Then he felt weight on his both arms. When he raised his head he could see two sleeping girls, resting their heads on his chest and abdomen, naked chest and abdomen for the matter. (A/N: Don't hate me because of this…Jack is a pirate and he's a bit naughty! What can I say…) He couldn't help but smirk. What a pity to leave Tortuga once the fun had only started, but these two girls would find someone else to satisfy…even if he satisfied them more…
Well, he would have to leave soon to catch up with his Pearl. The headache was blown away at the thought of the Treasure… Yes, he would be rich very soon. He slowly raised himself to sit and removed his arms from under the girls' backs. Jack grinned to nothing in particular and jumped off the bed. He must be in a whorehouse. The room looked very similar to a room he had once been in, and then it had definitely been a whorehouse. He just happened to love Tortuga because of this. Rum, company and nice rooms to wake up in…Well, he did favour his ship but still...
Once Jack had picked up his clothes from the floor and put them on again, he slowly sneaked to the door and opened it with a creak while he placed his hat above his head. He walked the corridor and finally after a few minutes, he was out on the sunny road, hurrying down to the harbour in his characteristic sway.
"Captain!" Gibbs saw Jack approach and yelled to him. "She's ready to leave!" he said as Jack came into a halt in front of him and the Black Pearl. The sails were fluttering in the strong wind and the weather promised good sailing.
"Excellent! Do we 'ave enough rum aboard?" Jack asked.
"Aye, we have the rum, Cap'n. And the Pearl is just waiting for ye, Jack." Gibbs said and they both walked aboard the ship as Jack nodded with a toothy grin, the sun glittering on his gold teeth. The crew said their hellos and waved to the newly arrived Captain as he walked to the helm.
"Jack!" Came Elizabeth's voice and Jack saw her running up to him with Will trailing after. "Are you sure you are doing the right thing? I mean going to that...place. That haunting island?" she said looking exactly like at the taverns the night before. He could see that she didn't like going to a place with no name and was known for ghosts and curses…
"I am always doing the right thing, love." Jack replied curtly with a smirk. Will shook his head in disbelief but decided not to comment on that.
"Have you been there then?" Elizabeth pressed on.
"No. Bu' I've heard enough o' tha place an' those headless ghosts don't frighten me much, Elizabeth."
"Give it up, Elizabeth. You don't get him to change his mind." Will said and put his hand on her shoulder. Elizabeth sighed and turned to him.
"Alright…" they leaned in for a kiss when Jack interrupted.
"Please don't start with anythin' like that in front o' me or the crew, savvy?" Jack said with a grimace. Will and Elizabeth rolled their eyes.
The Black Pearl was quickly out of the bay and was soon heading for the dangerous waters for a new adventure! The wind carried her swiftly forward upon the blue waves as Jack steered his beauty in happiness. Will and Elizabeth stood beside him, watching as the new horizons opened in front of them. The crew was working hard for they knew what kind of Treasure lie ahead. Nothing could go wrong. They had the map, so one could almost say that the Treasure was theirs…
"CAPTAIN!!!" came a loud manly shout from below. Jack and the others snapped out of their thoughts very quickly and searched for the source of the voice. "CAPTAIN, WE HAVE A STOWAW – " the yell was cut off by the sound of a punch and some angry muttering.
"Shut your mouth and never call me a stowaway! (Well, you can't call me a stowaway if you shut your mouth!)" came another voice who seemed to be the puncher. This was a feminine voice. "Oh and go tell your lovely yet very violent Captain that he has a visitor, 'cause that is exactly what I am!"
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To Be Continued…
Author's Note: Whoa! That was short…Sorry 'bout that, but I didn't want to confuse you anymore what I think I already did, so no more for today…besides I'm super tired… I haven't slept for a few days…zzzzzzzzzzzz…
Uh oooh…I'm even confusing myself… but there's so much I have to explain and I'm not into writing very, very, very, very long chapters…
I promise that next chapter will have more of Tony innit!!! And I'm trying to post it ASAP!!! ;) just hang on there…
I'm also going to make this a bit more romance, so sweet stuff is on the way! OK, not that sweet exactly because I couldn't imagine Tony and Jack like sweet lovers…urgh!!! hmmmmmmmm……..I don't know what's on the way!!! oh no…Aha! Yes I do!!! I always know what's coming next!!! unlike you, hahahaaaa!!! just joking…you'll know soon as well, if you're still reading this.
Yep. hope u liked the chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!!!! ;)
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