Chapter Three: Rum and the Well

"So what are we looking for Jack?"  Will leaped of the dingy and walked toward the pirate.  He knew that there was no way that Jack wanted to just pick up and go to Japan.  There was something there that sparked his interest.

"Well Mr. Turner, have you not heard the stories?" Jack asked as he picked up a bottle of rum and uncorked it.  As he was about to take a swig from the bottle he knew that he must explain for the look on Will's face was as empty as the hole on the Pearl, " here in Japan there is a hidden place that leads to a hidden land.  There was one jewel that would make any half-demon human or full-demon, for those who do not have demonistic powers they become powerful.  But the jewel was shattered and the shards were placed in all different places in this land, I plan to look for these shards, mate."  When he was finished with his speech he lifted up the bottle of rum and took a long swig, recorked the bottle and set it down in the sand.

"So you want to be powerful jack, is that why you want them?"  Will asked with his tone quite defensive.

"No, I want them because all the people in this world are looking to be more bloody powerful and will pay anything to become that way, I'm only in it for the money, not the power," Jack glared at Will for a second then turned around and picked up his rum bottle when he heard a scream from behind him.

"Help, help! Daddy! Mr. Captain Sparrow, anyone!"  Jack and Will ran to see what was amiss and saw Jacklyn hanging on the edge of what looked like a dried up well. 

"I got ya love," Jack garbed her hand and tried to pull her up.  Her little hand was slipping through his fingers, there was too much condensation on his hands from the bottle of rum he had.  All at once her hand slipped out of his and she fell to the bottom of the well.  The two men listened for her voice but they heard nothing.  They stood in silence for a moment then Will burst out "Elizabeth is going to kill me!" 

"No she will just yell at you a ton and have another kid with you mate, I'm the one she'll kill," Jack said as he rubbed his neck and thought of how the noose felt last time, "I'll go get her, you go guard the boat and make sure no Japs get there hands on it."

"Get her back, please."

"Oh, don't worry about that, my neck depends on it."  Jack gulped and jumped down into the well, he fell just a few feet and fell on something soft and somewhat hairy.