· Marie*

Marie gazed around at the sky. The day had flown by so quickly , and it was already twilight! Millions of stars were beginning to glitter in the dark violet sky. She had been on the other side of the island all day long since she spotted the strange man.

Don't even think about it Marie!  She though viciously as she started to reluctantly walk back in the direction of her hut.

She lifted her face to the cool breeze, it was a beautiful night. The temperature was perfect and the breeze just cool enough to be refreshing and not chilly. She was nearing the hit now and everything looked to be in order.

" I'm so hungry " She said , and started thinking about a hot meal when she got inside. She opened the door and walked in, almost tripping over the leg of the chair in the now pitch black room. She ran her hands across the shelf beside her searching for flint.

"I can't see a bloody thing in here!" She cursed and tried her best to make it to the fire-pit a few feet away. She knelt and struck the kindle. It took a few tries, but she finally got a good flame going

At least enough to see by she thought.

She stood up and turned, planning on seeing what she had to eat, when she saw him!!! There…on HER pallet, laying with his hat over his eyes snoring softly was the man she had seen earlier. Apparently he had made himself at home!

Definitely a pirate! She thought vaguely. Then she screamed.

Jacks Dream~

        Go ahead Jack! Jump!" Balbosa sneered at him.

Jack looked around and realized he was standing on the edge of a long wooden plank that was overhanging the water. The sky overhead was a bruised black-purple color, and the clouds were boiling. Lightning flashed all around him. As he turned, he saw his crew on the deck, and every time the lightning flashed their faces and bodies flickered into skeletons. He looked down at his own body and was relieved to find that the lighting was not having the same macabre effect on him.

"Did ya hear what I said? This time were making no mistakes! We don't need you " Balbosa pointed to the water and Jack saw William Turner, otherwise known as Bootstrap Bill. one of his closest mates floundering in the stormy water, trying desperately to keep his head above the roiling waves.

"Help me Jack! HELP!" He screamed. The waves were getting higher and the lightning was turning William into a living corpse. The flesh was so rotted of in places that the bone glinted, pure white. Jack felt a wave of nausea hit him.

" I didn't want them to do it to you Jack! I told em' not to! Now they're getting rid of me also! " his voice was barely a whisper now. He stared straight into Jack eyes. A huge wave came crashing toward William, and Jack tried to warn him, but he found that he couldn't speak a word he was paralyzed. The wave washed over him and Bootstrap disappeared, but Jack thought he saw something glinting in the waves still. He leaned over and a strange looking coin popped to the surface and float there. It had the picture of a skull on the front, and surrounding the skull were markings that Jack couldn't identify.

Blabosa started walking closer. " It should have been you too, but you escaped…. But don't worry " He grinned at Jack, the mirthless death-grin of the skull " You'll get what's coming to ya…. Just wait!"

Everything slowed down to slow motion. Blabosa lifted a foot and stomped down on the board. Jack went flying into the air towards the water. The sounds of the storm had suddenly gone silent and he hit the water without so much as a splash. Then blackness. But the coin flashed up into his face, so close that he could see the grainy spots in the gold.

"We….are…cursed!" It rasped and then opened it mouth wide and screamed.