A Few Good Years to Be Alive
Chapter 17: The Adventure That Came to an End Too Soon pt 2
- -- - - - -- - - - DAY 7- - - -- -- - - - - -
Jaden and Demeta fought to see from the tears that stung both of their eyes. This was a fight for life. They punched and kicked and pinched to get the other to let go as they got nearer and nearer to the edge. With each step one fate was about to be sealed and the other would see the light of day again. Their faces were bloody and scratched from each others nails and their hair was completely tangled. Jaden looked up towards where she saw Jack run off.
Jack was still trying to run up with Roberts running a few feet behind him. The coins and strings of pearls they ran over was soaked from the water from being submerged on the island and slipped easier than it normally would and provided no good friction to run on. Still he tried to reach the treasure.
Jaden continued to glare at Demeta though the blood on her forehead started to drip slowly into her eye, Demeta's mouth had swelled quite a bit from being punched so many times. Through clenched teeth Demeta screamed "What are you trying to prove! That you really are a pirate?! Why don't you just die with honor instead of hurting yourself further!" Jaden let one arm go from Demeta's neck and punched her right in the eye. "Because if I go," They were a few inches from the edge with both of them sideways trying to throw the other one off. "You're coming with me!" At that Jaden stepped the few inches towards the edge.
Not expecting Jaden's move, Demeta fell off too. The only difference was Jaden was smart, and lucky, enough to have enough sense to grab hold of the edge. Demeta, unfortunately, had sense enough to grab one of Jaden's legs and held on. Immediately, Jaden screamed for help. The edge was not a good thing to grasp onto. It was wet, rock, and it was curved. Jaden's grip was slipping fast. "Let go of me!" Jaden commanded Demeta, as she kept her other leg out of reach and was slamming the one Demeta held onto into the rock, hard enough to make herself bleed. Demeta realized, there was no way Jaden was going to go up with her on her. She finally looked at the bottom of where they hung. A few inches of water, not a good place to try to get yourself out safely. "Jack!" Jaden screamed.
Jack suddenly stopped hearing Jaden's screams. He turned and ran back to her. Then suddenly, he stopped and ran back to try to catch up to Roberts, then he turned and ran back. Then he ran forward then backwards again unable to make up his mind. And entire six months he had worked for, to try to find the location of the other necklace piece to find where the amulet was, and here was this girl he had fallen in love with in 7 days. He mumbled an obscenity under his lips and proceeded to run to Jaden's aid. He slid on his stomach to the edge as he saw her hands suddenly let go of the edge. He grabbed hold of her wrists as he tried to lift her up.
"God, you've gotten heavy. Wait a moment- you're not...Are you?" He asked her. Jaden was stunned. He thought she was pregnant. How dare he insinuate that she was fat!
"Jack, if I could, I'd slap the hell out of you. But I'm a little preoccupied." She kicked Demeta in the face with the other foot and broke her nose. Demeta suddenly let go and screamed as she plummeted to her death onto the rocks below. Jack and Jaden once they both got to their knees looked over at her broken and bleeding form. "Jack! The amulet! Why did you-" Jack cut her off with a kiss. Jaden's voice became softer "Why did you save me?" Jack looked into her violet-sapphire eyes and smiled.
"I really don't know, love." He said smiling at her. Jack heard Roberts maniacal laughter as he reached the amulet. Roberts reached the amulet and it was now his. The island began to shake as though an earthquake was taking place. Jack helped Jaden to her feet. "Time to go!" Jack yelled as they ran back to the entrance of the cave, grabbing Megan on the way out as she continued to cry, but ran all the same. They were out of breath as they saw Roberts running quite a few yards behind them. Boulders dropped from the top of the cave and claimed Roberts. The amulet peeked out in his palm and glistened. Jack was tempted to turn around and grab it, but he wouldn't have time to make it out of the cave then.
"Jack! What about Roberts?" Jaden yelled. Jack replied "He's dead! The amulet protects you from fighting things like if you're stabbed nothing will happen. But, Roberts was crushed! And the amulet doesn't help if you're not wearing it, savvy?!" He yelled back.
Mr. Gibbs and the rest of the crew looked at the corpses that had fallen on the ground not too long ago. Katherine and Jacinda pulled the ship up onto the sand of the island and lowered ropes to get the crew onto it a few people at a time. Suddenly, they were all on board, but something wasn't right. Shavai and Will were nowhere to be found. Jaden rushed to the side of the ship looking for Shavai. Her friend was nowhere to be seen.
"Shavai! Shavai!" Silence on the island was the only answer. The sun had begun to set and gave the island a mysterious sky blue glow to it. "Where are you?" Jaden yelled searching with her eyes frantically. Mr. Gibbs walked up behind her.
"There were two of them, ya see missy. One infront, one behind. They had 'er cornered with no way to get away and they ran 'er through. I'm sorry, miss."
Jaden screamed as she crumpled onto her knees on the floor. A look of sadness ran over the faces and washed through the very souls of the weary crew. Shavai was gone. Megan got to her knees and held onto Jaden and they hugged each other, and Jack joined in. Just then, as if the day hadn't been weird enough, it began to get very cold and some snow flakes started to fall from the clear sky where the stars seemed to show themselves brighter than the moon itself. And as they all looked up, they thought they could see Shavai's smile.
Shavai looked up at the last circle of light on the water as she sank in the ocean of Death as the island she rested upon sank. There was no where else to go. She couldn't bear waiting on the dock for Jaden and Megan and watching them have happy lives for all of Eternity. It would pain her too much, and she couldn't bear waiting so long for all of them, especially Will. Pain coursed through Shavai's cold body as she thought of Will. She coughed, leaving a red cloud floating in the water.
Shavai's mouth filled with the bitter sea water as she closed her eyes. All she could do was breathe in water and let the never-ending sea engulf her lifeless body.
Suddenly, someone, or something, grabbed Shavai by the wrist. Shavai's eyes shot open as she was dragged out of the water and onto a lifeboat. She sputtered and coughed up water as she looked into a familiar pair of gray eyes. Standing up, she looked at the grey eyed person. She had lightly tanned skin, and micro braided hair just like Shavai. The strangely familiar woman embraced Shavai, kissing her on the cheek. Then the woman turned Shavai around, and shoved her towards a growing light.
Shavai held out her hand, and felt the warmth of Life on her palm. The light grew brighter, and began to seep over her arm, and over her body. As the light enveloped over the last of Shavai's body, she turned around to look at the woman. She was waving, and mouthed, "I love you" before Shavai vanished from Death. She blinked and saw the woman's figure and face had disappeared and all she saw was Will, crying pitifully. She reached out and touched his shoulder as light as a feather.
He lifted his head from his arms and shot up and hugged her, making the boat beneath their feet rock. Will breathed in her hair. She smelled like a fresh rose and he never wanted to let her go again. He had lost her once and couldn't bear it again. "If this is a dream, please don't let me wake up. If you're a ghost, please don't leave me." Shavai smiled as she hugged him back. She was completely soaking and the air was extremely cold and small flakes came down. They were in the Caribbean. How could it possibly snow out here? Shavai wrapped her arms tightly around Will's neck and closed her eyes as she mouthed silently "Thank you, momma."
Megan and Jaden and the rest of the crew tried desperately to get over today's events by crawling into bottles upon bottles of rum. Jaden and Jack hugged each other and danced as the snow flakes fell upon them, and yet, it wasn't cold. Megan stayed to the side of the ship over-looking the water as she saw a small lifeboat drift slowly in the water towards them. Megan couldn't believe her eyes as tears gathered and blurred her vision. She screamed with joy "Shavai!" She set her rum down quickly and grabbed a rope and sent it over board as they pulled Will and Shavai aboard. Everyone gathered near them as Jaden walked in complete disbelief towards Shavai. Suddenly she grabbed hold of her and hugged her and they both cried. Jaden wanted to know how Shavai could possibly be alive after being hurt so badly, but at this point, she didn't care. Megan and Jaden gathered around Shavai and hugged her and started crying together.
Jack came over and hugged Will. Will stared blankly at him as Jack hugged him. He slowly rose one hand and padded Jack on the shoulder. Jack realized what he was doing and stepped quickly back from Will shaking his hand. "Good to see you again, Mate." Jack said. Will and Jack looked over as Jaden, Shavai, and Megan all stood huddled together hugging. "I guess you've finally found someone, Jack." Will said as he glanced over at Jaden.
"Don't think you're out of this either. You've fallen for a certain young lady of your own," Jack said motioning to Shavai. Shavai snorted as she laughed and Jack shook his head. "Though I can't imagine what you see in her." As he put one arm on Will's shoulder. Will stared at Shavai as though he was studying her.
"I see everything." Jack looked at Will's blank smiling face and then back at Shavai's, then back at Will's.
"Come again?" Jack said.
"I see my past, my reflection, and my future in her eyes. Her body's graceful movements in how she walks and runs remind me of how fragile and yet, unbelievably strong she is. The way her hair dances shows me her spirit and how it will move with mine as long as I don't force her to, and how she will always be wild at heart. I see everything she is, every meaning behind everything she does, and everything I've been missing my entire life and without her I'm nothing."
Jack wiped a tear away from his eyes. He felt like Will had ripped the words he had been trying to think of this whole time. Will looked over at Jack as Jack sniffled. "Go propose you hopeless, pansy." Jack said as he looked over at Will and silently wished him luck. Jack took a ring from his pocket and gave it to Will. Will didn't dare ask from where he got it.
Shavai chugged away as Megan patched Shavai's wound up. "I thought you said you were never going to drink again." Jaden said as she watched Shavai drink mercilessly from the half empty bottle. "Since when have I ever been a woman of my word?" Megan swiftly took her bottle of rum and poured some onto Shavai's cut. Shavai clenched her teeth. "Since now." Will said as he got on one knee and put the ring on Shavai's finger. Jaden and Megan gasped. "Shavai Hopkins, will you marry me?" Shavai fell over. Megan sighed and helped her up. Shavai was speechless for once. Jaden smiled and walked over to Jack.
Everybody rose their glasses "To the new couple" They all toasted with their bottles. Jack seemed to be depressed. He lost the one thing he wasted a few months of his life on now and had nothing to show for it. "What's the matter, Jack?" She asked softly. Jack shook his head. "I really wanted that amulet, Jaden. Can you possibly imagine all the things that could've gone right for us?" Jaden sighed. "Jack, I think whoever is in charge of this whole life we live didn't want you to have it." Jack looked questioningly at her logic. "I think we're only given so many years to be alive and we only get a few good years, and these are them." Jack held her hand and pulled her in for a kiss. "I know." He said under his breath. Jaden's speech had gotten the attention of the entire crew. Once again they all raised their glasses "To a few good years!" They all said and Mr. Gibbs stole another kiss from Jacinda and she slapped him quite a few times.
"That's it! Next time we go somewhere, I get to choose where we go and who goes with us!" She yelled. Everyone snickered at her.
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A few days later, they found themselves pulling into the harbor they had left only a week earlier. Everyone got off and scattered.
Megan looked out onto the quiet sea and listened carefully as though it beckoned her to reside in it once more. She sighed. She put a hand to on her cheek where Brandon touched her face just a few days earlier. She waited her whole life for the man of her dreams and just when it seemed they would never be together again, they were. Just for a second, no matter how brief. It didn't matter to her; she would've traded her life, to have him back.
She stood with her bare feet in the sand, wishing to have him back. She finally gave up. Wishes never came true before, so why did she expect them too now? She turned her back and made her way to the light that seemed to burn brighter than any other at the time that lit up the door to the tiny pub. Suddenly someone called her name. She turned around and saw nothing. She began to walk again and heard the same voice. But it was impossible. Brandon was dead, there's no coming back from that. And knowing that, she turned her back and made her way to the pub where her friends were waiting. She breathed a heavy sigh and tried to delay the walk as much as possible. But still she walked straight ahead, never looking back once. And all at once, someone grabbed her by her waist and whispered "I'll never leave you again."
She turned her head and kissed Brandon and suddenly everything fell into place as she hugged him tightly, afraid that if she let go, she'd fall. She smiled and cried at the same time as her joy was overpowering. She ran with him back to the pub and Shavai, Jaden and Shavai all gave their tearful hello's.
But that didn't keep problems away.
There was no money they had left. Jack, Jaden, Megan, Shavai and Will went into a bar. Will and Jack sat at one table to discuss man things, while the girls sat at the bar drinking rum. Shavai stared into the bottom of her mug and seemed to have gotten lost in it. Megan and Jaden looked at her. "What's the matter?" Megan asked. "We've got our lives." Megan added to defend her case.
"Yeah, and we've got each other!" Jaden added. Shavai continued to stare straight ahead "Yeah... and we're broke." She added as she took another gulp from her mug. She questioned whether or not she should return her tribe, where she would have all their treasure at her disposal, but, she could never leave. She could not be married to someone who was not of their tribe.
Over the next few days, things changed drastically.
Megan and Brandon went back to her village to find what remained of her past and see if anything survived. No one had, but she did manage to find an old rag doll her mother had given her as a child. Those times were long gone, but at least she found something to remember things by.
Jacinda drank alot....and that's about it. One night, she managed to drink her own bodyweight in rum and woke up with the worst headache in her life.
Katherine stayed with Jacinda and made her manage her drinking. She once got Jacinda down to two drinks a day... IT DIDN'T WORK.
Jaden stayed back in the port and worked by herself collecting from the wealthy and gave herself a Robin hood-type profile to the public and lived completely alone in an abandoned shop that she redid herself in gypsy symbols and bright colors that gave it a warm glow in the night.
Jack and Will went off on the seas and made themselves new personalities. Will became a ruthless cutthroat pirate, and in Jack's own opinion, stayed "the sexiest pirate on the seven seas." But he didn't take Jaden with him and Will let Shavai go her own way.
Shavai went to her tribe in South America, where she took over the tribe's leadership and had full usage of all their resources and wealth.
Slowly but surely, they all broke up and lost touch. The pirates that had gone on the adventure of a lifetime, actually one that comes along once every thousand years. They had all disbanded and left each other's lives.
Everyone stayed away for 14 days.
Shavai realized what a mistake it was without Will in her life. Her people felt a debt of honor to her mother, so they built Shavai a massive ship of her own and let her on her way-making her cousin their new leader. Shavai's friend died of a disease, and found herself caring for a boy and a girl who were 9 years old, overnight. She took them and went back to find Jaden.
Will and Jack also realized the mistake they had made and wasted no time in going back to correct it. Will married Shavai, and Jack married Jaden.
Brandon and Megan also tied the knot and came back to join the happy reunion.
Jacinda and Katherine met up with an old friend named Mina and tortured Jack with their stupidity and endless laughing and parties.
Mr. Gibbs never did lose his crush on Jacinda and went out with her. Quite a few times.
And the whole crew was back. Settling only for a little while until they felt the need to look for a new place of where ever the wind saw fit to send them. And it remained this way for many years. And they had many more adventures that extended their few good years to be alive.
But that's another story, entirely.
THE END.
Author's Note: Well, what can I say? That's the end. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Here's my thank you list:
Shavai, Megan, Elizabeth: Without you guys, this would've never existed most likely. Thanks for the inspirations for the charactors and such. I hope I got it where you liked it. Our friendships more than likely will never end.
People who originally made Pirates of the Carribbean: Thanks for giving me the biggest inspiration of all. lol
Um... My lil sis Darcie and her friend Katie: YOu'RE IN THERE! HAPPY NOW?!
Um... no thanks to the people who didn't review.
Anyone else who reviewed: thanks!
Most important thing of all to remember:
D.F.L.L.
D. ream an adventure
F. ind an escape
L. ove for a lifetime
L. ive forever.
Ya'll can go home now... BOOGAH BOOGAH!
OK.... I'm done...you can go now....
BOOGAH!
Ah.. forget it.
Chapter 17: The Adventure That Came to an End Too Soon pt 2
- -- - - - -- - - - DAY 7- - - -- -- - - - - -
Jaden and Demeta fought to see from the tears that stung both of their eyes. This was a fight for life. They punched and kicked and pinched to get the other to let go as they got nearer and nearer to the edge. With each step one fate was about to be sealed and the other would see the light of day again. Their faces were bloody and scratched from each others nails and their hair was completely tangled. Jaden looked up towards where she saw Jack run off.
Jack was still trying to run up with Roberts running a few feet behind him. The coins and strings of pearls they ran over was soaked from the water from being submerged on the island and slipped easier than it normally would and provided no good friction to run on. Still he tried to reach the treasure.
Jaden continued to glare at Demeta though the blood on her forehead started to drip slowly into her eye, Demeta's mouth had swelled quite a bit from being punched so many times. Through clenched teeth Demeta screamed "What are you trying to prove! That you really are a pirate?! Why don't you just die with honor instead of hurting yourself further!" Jaden let one arm go from Demeta's neck and punched her right in the eye. "Because if I go," They were a few inches from the edge with both of them sideways trying to throw the other one off. "You're coming with me!" At that Jaden stepped the few inches towards the edge.
Not expecting Jaden's move, Demeta fell off too. The only difference was Jaden was smart, and lucky, enough to have enough sense to grab hold of the edge. Demeta, unfortunately, had sense enough to grab one of Jaden's legs and held on. Immediately, Jaden screamed for help. The edge was not a good thing to grasp onto. It was wet, rock, and it was curved. Jaden's grip was slipping fast. "Let go of me!" Jaden commanded Demeta, as she kept her other leg out of reach and was slamming the one Demeta held onto into the rock, hard enough to make herself bleed. Demeta realized, there was no way Jaden was going to go up with her on her. She finally looked at the bottom of where they hung. A few inches of water, not a good place to try to get yourself out safely. "Jack!" Jaden screamed.
Jack suddenly stopped hearing Jaden's screams. He turned and ran back to her. Then suddenly, he stopped and ran back to try to catch up to Roberts, then he turned and ran back. Then he ran forward then backwards again unable to make up his mind. And entire six months he had worked for, to try to find the location of the other necklace piece to find where the amulet was, and here was this girl he had fallen in love with in 7 days. He mumbled an obscenity under his lips and proceeded to run to Jaden's aid. He slid on his stomach to the edge as he saw her hands suddenly let go of the edge. He grabbed hold of her wrists as he tried to lift her up.
"God, you've gotten heavy. Wait a moment- you're not...Are you?" He asked her. Jaden was stunned. He thought she was pregnant. How dare he insinuate that she was fat!
"Jack, if I could, I'd slap the hell out of you. But I'm a little preoccupied." She kicked Demeta in the face with the other foot and broke her nose. Demeta suddenly let go and screamed as she plummeted to her death onto the rocks below. Jack and Jaden once they both got to their knees looked over at her broken and bleeding form. "Jack! The amulet! Why did you-" Jack cut her off with a kiss. Jaden's voice became softer "Why did you save me?" Jack looked into her violet-sapphire eyes and smiled.
"I really don't know, love." He said smiling at her. Jack heard Roberts maniacal laughter as he reached the amulet. Roberts reached the amulet and it was now his. The island began to shake as though an earthquake was taking place. Jack helped Jaden to her feet. "Time to go!" Jack yelled as they ran back to the entrance of the cave, grabbing Megan on the way out as she continued to cry, but ran all the same. They were out of breath as they saw Roberts running quite a few yards behind them. Boulders dropped from the top of the cave and claimed Roberts. The amulet peeked out in his palm and glistened. Jack was tempted to turn around and grab it, but he wouldn't have time to make it out of the cave then.
"Jack! What about Roberts?" Jaden yelled. Jack replied "He's dead! The amulet protects you from fighting things like if you're stabbed nothing will happen. But, Roberts was crushed! And the amulet doesn't help if you're not wearing it, savvy?!" He yelled back.
Mr. Gibbs and the rest of the crew looked at the corpses that had fallen on the ground not too long ago. Katherine and Jacinda pulled the ship up onto the sand of the island and lowered ropes to get the crew onto it a few people at a time. Suddenly, they were all on board, but something wasn't right. Shavai and Will were nowhere to be found. Jaden rushed to the side of the ship looking for Shavai. Her friend was nowhere to be seen.
"Shavai! Shavai!" Silence on the island was the only answer. The sun had begun to set and gave the island a mysterious sky blue glow to it. "Where are you?" Jaden yelled searching with her eyes frantically. Mr. Gibbs walked up behind her.
"There were two of them, ya see missy. One infront, one behind. They had 'er cornered with no way to get away and they ran 'er through. I'm sorry, miss."
Jaden screamed as she crumpled onto her knees on the floor. A look of sadness ran over the faces and washed through the very souls of the weary crew. Shavai was gone. Megan got to her knees and held onto Jaden and they hugged each other, and Jack joined in. Just then, as if the day hadn't been weird enough, it began to get very cold and some snow flakes started to fall from the clear sky where the stars seemed to show themselves brighter than the moon itself. And as they all looked up, they thought they could see Shavai's smile.
Shavai looked up at the last circle of light on the water as she sank in the ocean of Death as the island she rested upon sank. There was no where else to go. She couldn't bear waiting on the dock for Jaden and Megan and watching them have happy lives for all of Eternity. It would pain her too much, and she couldn't bear waiting so long for all of them, especially Will. Pain coursed through Shavai's cold body as she thought of Will. She coughed, leaving a red cloud floating in the water.
Shavai's mouth filled with the bitter sea water as she closed her eyes. All she could do was breathe in water and let the never-ending sea engulf her lifeless body.
Suddenly, someone, or something, grabbed Shavai by the wrist. Shavai's eyes shot open as she was dragged out of the water and onto a lifeboat. She sputtered and coughed up water as she looked into a familiar pair of gray eyes. Standing up, she looked at the grey eyed person. She had lightly tanned skin, and micro braided hair just like Shavai. The strangely familiar woman embraced Shavai, kissing her on the cheek. Then the woman turned Shavai around, and shoved her towards a growing light.
Shavai held out her hand, and felt the warmth of Life on her palm. The light grew brighter, and began to seep over her arm, and over her body. As the light enveloped over the last of Shavai's body, she turned around to look at the woman. She was waving, and mouthed, "I love you" before Shavai vanished from Death. She blinked and saw the woman's figure and face had disappeared and all she saw was Will, crying pitifully. She reached out and touched his shoulder as light as a feather.
He lifted his head from his arms and shot up and hugged her, making the boat beneath their feet rock. Will breathed in her hair. She smelled like a fresh rose and he never wanted to let her go again. He had lost her once and couldn't bear it again. "If this is a dream, please don't let me wake up. If you're a ghost, please don't leave me." Shavai smiled as she hugged him back. She was completely soaking and the air was extremely cold and small flakes came down. They were in the Caribbean. How could it possibly snow out here? Shavai wrapped her arms tightly around Will's neck and closed her eyes as she mouthed silently "Thank you, momma."
Megan and Jaden and the rest of the crew tried desperately to get over today's events by crawling into bottles upon bottles of rum. Jaden and Jack hugged each other and danced as the snow flakes fell upon them, and yet, it wasn't cold. Megan stayed to the side of the ship over-looking the water as she saw a small lifeboat drift slowly in the water towards them. Megan couldn't believe her eyes as tears gathered and blurred her vision. She screamed with joy "Shavai!" She set her rum down quickly and grabbed a rope and sent it over board as they pulled Will and Shavai aboard. Everyone gathered near them as Jaden walked in complete disbelief towards Shavai. Suddenly she grabbed hold of her and hugged her and they both cried. Jaden wanted to know how Shavai could possibly be alive after being hurt so badly, but at this point, she didn't care. Megan and Jaden gathered around Shavai and hugged her and started crying together.
Jack came over and hugged Will. Will stared blankly at him as Jack hugged him. He slowly rose one hand and padded Jack on the shoulder. Jack realized what he was doing and stepped quickly back from Will shaking his hand. "Good to see you again, Mate." Jack said. Will and Jack looked over as Jaden, Shavai, and Megan all stood huddled together hugging. "I guess you've finally found someone, Jack." Will said as he glanced over at Jaden.
"Don't think you're out of this either. You've fallen for a certain young lady of your own," Jack said motioning to Shavai. Shavai snorted as she laughed and Jack shook his head. "Though I can't imagine what you see in her." As he put one arm on Will's shoulder. Will stared at Shavai as though he was studying her.
"I see everything." Jack looked at Will's blank smiling face and then back at Shavai's, then back at Will's.
"Come again?" Jack said.
"I see my past, my reflection, and my future in her eyes. Her body's graceful movements in how she walks and runs remind me of how fragile and yet, unbelievably strong she is. The way her hair dances shows me her spirit and how it will move with mine as long as I don't force her to, and how she will always be wild at heart. I see everything she is, every meaning behind everything she does, and everything I've been missing my entire life and without her I'm nothing."
Jack wiped a tear away from his eyes. He felt like Will had ripped the words he had been trying to think of this whole time. Will looked over at Jack as Jack sniffled. "Go propose you hopeless, pansy." Jack said as he looked over at Will and silently wished him luck. Jack took a ring from his pocket and gave it to Will. Will didn't dare ask from where he got it.
Shavai chugged away as Megan patched Shavai's wound up. "I thought you said you were never going to drink again." Jaden said as she watched Shavai drink mercilessly from the half empty bottle. "Since when have I ever been a woman of my word?" Megan swiftly took her bottle of rum and poured some onto Shavai's cut. Shavai clenched her teeth. "Since now." Will said as he got on one knee and put the ring on Shavai's finger. Jaden and Megan gasped. "Shavai Hopkins, will you marry me?" Shavai fell over. Megan sighed and helped her up. Shavai was speechless for once. Jaden smiled and walked over to Jack.
Everybody rose their glasses "To the new couple" They all toasted with their bottles. Jack seemed to be depressed. He lost the one thing he wasted a few months of his life on now and had nothing to show for it. "What's the matter, Jack?" She asked softly. Jack shook his head. "I really wanted that amulet, Jaden. Can you possibly imagine all the things that could've gone right for us?" Jaden sighed. "Jack, I think whoever is in charge of this whole life we live didn't want you to have it." Jack looked questioningly at her logic. "I think we're only given so many years to be alive and we only get a few good years, and these are them." Jack held her hand and pulled her in for a kiss. "I know." He said under his breath. Jaden's speech had gotten the attention of the entire crew. Once again they all raised their glasses "To a few good years!" They all said and Mr. Gibbs stole another kiss from Jacinda and she slapped him quite a few times.
"That's it! Next time we go somewhere, I get to choose where we go and who goes with us!" She yelled. Everyone snickered at her.
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A few days later, they found themselves pulling into the harbor they had left only a week earlier. Everyone got off and scattered.
Megan looked out onto the quiet sea and listened carefully as though it beckoned her to reside in it once more. She sighed. She put a hand to on her cheek where Brandon touched her face just a few days earlier. She waited her whole life for the man of her dreams and just when it seemed they would never be together again, they were. Just for a second, no matter how brief. It didn't matter to her; she would've traded her life, to have him back.
She stood with her bare feet in the sand, wishing to have him back. She finally gave up. Wishes never came true before, so why did she expect them too now? She turned her back and made her way to the light that seemed to burn brighter than any other at the time that lit up the door to the tiny pub. Suddenly someone called her name. She turned around and saw nothing. She began to walk again and heard the same voice. But it was impossible. Brandon was dead, there's no coming back from that. And knowing that, she turned her back and made her way to the pub where her friends were waiting. She breathed a heavy sigh and tried to delay the walk as much as possible. But still she walked straight ahead, never looking back once. And all at once, someone grabbed her by her waist and whispered "I'll never leave you again."
She turned her head and kissed Brandon and suddenly everything fell into place as she hugged him tightly, afraid that if she let go, she'd fall. She smiled and cried at the same time as her joy was overpowering. She ran with him back to the pub and Shavai, Jaden and Shavai all gave their tearful hello's.
But that didn't keep problems away.
There was no money they had left. Jack, Jaden, Megan, Shavai and Will went into a bar. Will and Jack sat at one table to discuss man things, while the girls sat at the bar drinking rum. Shavai stared into the bottom of her mug and seemed to have gotten lost in it. Megan and Jaden looked at her. "What's the matter?" Megan asked. "We've got our lives." Megan added to defend her case.
"Yeah, and we've got each other!" Jaden added. Shavai continued to stare straight ahead "Yeah... and we're broke." She added as she took another gulp from her mug. She questioned whether or not she should return her tribe, where she would have all their treasure at her disposal, but, she could never leave. She could not be married to someone who was not of their tribe.
Over the next few days, things changed drastically.
Megan and Brandon went back to her village to find what remained of her past and see if anything survived. No one had, but she did manage to find an old rag doll her mother had given her as a child. Those times were long gone, but at least she found something to remember things by.
Jacinda drank alot....and that's about it. One night, she managed to drink her own bodyweight in rum and woke up with the worst headache in her life.
Katherine stayed with Jacinda and made her manage her drinking. She once got Jacinda down to two drinks a day... IT DIDN'T WORK.
Jaden stayed back in the port and worked by herself collecting from the wealthy and gave herself a Robin hood-type profile to the public and lived completely alone in an abandoned shop that she redid herself in gypsy symbols and bright colors that gave it a warm glow in the night.
Jack and Will went off on the seas and made themselves new personalities. Will became a ruthless cutthroat pirate, and in Jack's own opinion, stayed "the sexiest pirate on the seven seas." But he didn't take Jaden with him and Will let Shavai go her own way.
Shavai went to her tribe in South America, where she took over the tribe's leadership and had full usage of all their resources and wealth.
Slowly but surely, they all broke up and lost touch. The pirates that had gone on the adventure of a lifetime, actually one that comes along once every thousand years. They had all disbanded and left each other's lives.
Everyone stayed away for 14 days.
Shavai realized what a mistake it was without Will in her life. Her people felt a debt of honor to her mother, so they built Shavai a massive ship of her own and let her on her way-making her cousin their new leader. Shavai's friend died of a disease, and found herself caring for a boy and a girl who were 9 years old, overnight. She took them and went back to find Jaden.
Will and Jack also realized the mistake they had made and wasted no time in going back to correct it. Will married Shavai, and Jack married Jaden.
Brandon and Megan also tied the knot and came back to join the happy reunion.
Jacinda and Katherine met up with an old friend named Mina and tortured Jack with their stupidity and endless laughing and parties.
Mr. Gibbs never did lose his crush on Jacinda and went out with her. Quite a few times.
And the whole crew was back. Settling only for a little while until they felt the need to look for a new place of where ever the wind saw fit to send them. And it remained this way for many years. And they had many more adventures that extended their few good years to be alive.
But that's another story, entirely.
THE END.
Author's Note: Well, what can I say? That's the end. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Here's my thank you list:
Shavai, Megan, Elizabeth: Without you guys, this would've never existed most likely. Thanks for the inspirations for the charactors and such. I hope I got it where you liked it. Our friendships more than likely will never end.
People who originally made Pirates of the Carribbean: Thanks for giving me the biggest inspiration of all. lol
Um... My lil sis Darcie and her friend Katie: YOu'RE IN THERE! HAPPY NOW?!
Um... no thanks to the people who didn't review.
Anyone else who reviewed: thanks!
Most important thing of all to remember:
D.F.L.L.
D. ream an adventure
F. ind an escape
L. ove for a lifetime
L. ive forever.
Ya'll can go home now... BOOGAH BOOGAH!
OK.... I'm done...you can go now....
BOOGAH!
Ah.. forget it.