Author's Note: LADIES (and possibly gentlemen...) HERE WE ARE AGAIN AT SO MUCH FUN!! PLEASE SIT DOWN, RELAX, AND ENJOY THE READING BECAUSE NOW WE'RE GETTIN' TO THE 'GOOD STUFF.'

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Chapter 11: The Battle Begins

"Oh my GOD!" Danielle yelled. Her voice echoed and bounced off the walls. Everyone just continued to stare at each other.

Danielle's eyes darted from Will and Elizabeth to Pintel and Ragetti, her two buddies, to Ratner, who had this look of utter hatred and resentment plastered on his face.

Suddenly the whispers ensued. The Black Pearl pirates, including Pintel and Ragetti, spoke in hushed tones to each other, all of the staring or at least frequently glancing at Danielle. They never imagined they would ever see her again. Suddenly a man stepped out of the group of the pirates.

Twigg. The man who had punched Danielle the last time she made a little pit stop at the Caribbean. Danielle stared at him and slowly took a step back.

"You filthy wench!" he cried. "You disppeared and left us there ta die when you were the one who got us into this fix!" Twigg advanced on her.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy. You don't understand the circumstances!" Danielle said as she continued to back up. She put her hands in front of her in defense.

"I understand perfectly well..." he mumbled.

Before Twigg could do anything else, Ratner put his hand on the man's chest. "I suggest ya not touch 'er. She's my problem now and if anybody will be killin' her, it's me." Danielle found this odd. She thought she was always such a nice, decent person, yet so many people now wanted to see her dead. Simply unfair.

The whole congregation watched as Twigg knocked Ratner's hand away. Anyone close to Ratner heard him growl lowly. He then whipped out his sword and plunged into Twigg's abdomen.

Danielle gasped, stepped back, stumbled, and fell with yelp.

The boat with Samantha, Jack, and Rolland continued to float along the corridor in the cave. They stared at the endless amount of gold the littered the bottom.

Rolland forgot about the situation with Samantha and Jack and smiled slowly to himself. The gold that he and his crew members were supposed to be rewarded was right within his grasp. This was the promised land. "Finally." he whispered.

Jack whipped around. "Oh, finally what, Rolland? Finally reaching the Isla de Muerte? Finally getting the gold?" Jack turned around and chuckled softly. "I think not, my friend."

Jack quieted down and the three of them listened as the sound of metal hitting metal reached their ears. Sword fighting.

"Well, it seems we shall be encountering a bit of a problem then." Jack said jovially. He always loved a good fight. ...I never said fair, just good.

Samantha remained silent.

Danielle was scampering across the floor of the dirty cave. She was trying to make her way to Will and Elizabeth who were still struggling to get free from the ropes. She passed up Twigg while crawling to the newlyweds and she glanced at him. He was on the floor and a rather large pool of blood had formed around his torso. He was definitely dead. Danielle thought she was going to throw up.

Pirates everywhere were fighting. The Dark Knight against the Black Pearl. Danielle was on the floor, thank God, when it happened so she wasn't gutted like a fish before she even had the chance to run. Everyone just charged at each other when Twigg hit the floor.

No one even realized Danielle was down there. They were too busy fighting each other off to even notice she was alive anymore. They noticed her enough to jump over her when she was in the way, though. Even Ratner was more busy at this point fighting the new captain of the Black Pearl, some guy named Bo'sun.

The very second Danielle got to Will and Elizabeth she took the handkerchief form around their neck and untied the ropes.

"What are you doing here?" Will said suspiciously. He knew she was weird the minute he met her two years ago.

Elizabeth, on the other hand, reacted quite differently. "Oh thank you!"

Danielle smiled at Elizabeth. "Anytime." But she grimaced at Will. "That's what I get for saving you? Thanks a lot buddy." Will never responded.

The three then got up and tried to get the hell outta there.

Jack docked the boat and the three got out. Well, more like Samantha go out and then Jack dragged Rolland out.

The three walked through the cave until they came to the opening and saw the dozens of pirates clanging their swords together and spitting horrible insults at each other.

Several pirates stopped to stare at Jack, Samantha, and Rolland. More people they didn't expect. Shocking. The rest continued to fight and after a few moments the ones who were staring soon continued to fight their enemies. They had bigger things to worry about than a forgotten-about, raggad, old, used-to-be pirate captain.

It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, but Rolland then darted off away from Jack and towards Ratner, his captain. Jack just watched him, thinking that he would simply die in the fight, so he let him go.

Rolland had Ratner use his sword and cut through the rusty chains that bound his hands.

"I see yer back, Rolland. Where the 'ell were ye?"

"Jack Sparrow had me captaive for a while, but don't worry he'll be taken care of."

"Sparrow's 'ere??!! He better be dealt with."

Rolland nodded his head and ran off and grabbed the sword of one of the fallen pirates, and off he went to fight. Jack was on his list, but at this point the Black Pearl needed to be dealt with.

Jack and Samanta stepped back into the shadows, not wanting to get involved just yet. But something caught Samantha's eye. A young man on the opposite side of the cave. A young man who look familiar. A young man by the name of Jotley. He was up against one of the walls of the cave, not fighting anyone. He looked nervous and had his hand on the hilt of his sword, which was still sheathed. This whole piracy thing just wasn't for him.

Samantha then ran off around the edge of the cave to get the boy and the piece of her property he had. He was the whole reason she was here. She left Jack standing there, who actually continued to stand there for quite some time. This wasn't his battle just yet.

Author's Note: Ok, just as a side note, Bo'sun was in the movie. He was the big African guy that hit Elizabeth when she first got onto the Black Pearl. Ok, anywho, review!!!